Kasugaden.

"Your Majesty...... The concubine still thinks it's not good. ”

Zhang Shaoguang sat next to Chu Rui, and the emperor, who was so thin that he could even see his bones, was lying on his wife's lap, playing with the queen's palm.

"This is the last time I pave the way for the crown prince. He had to go on his own. "Chu Rui's health is indeed very poor, but it is not as few days as the imperial doctor predicted.

Zhang Xuanji and Zhang Xuan, who had already attained enlightenment, both thought that he could hold out for at least half a month. Because Chu Rui's own merits are indeed a lot, plus there is luck, even if he can't eat at all, he can still survive for half a month.

Chu Rui didn't know if he should listen to the imperial doctor or the two Taoist masters. But in the end, he still chose to listen to Zhang Xuanji's words and began to arrange according to his remaining half a month.

Forcing the people behind the prince to push him to force the palace is the first step.

As he spoke, the prince flashed into the room and knelt in front of his father.

"Father, the Jiang family, the Wang family, the Zhang family, and the fourteen ministers have all assembled, and they will enter through the east gate, and then go straight to the Kasuga Palace." Chu Chengxuan couldn't help but tremble, not knowing if he was excited or afraid. "Father, you'd better retreat. Just put a puppet in the Kasuga Temple. ”

Chu Rui shook his head.

"To make a play, you have to be like, who knows if there are any of them in the Spring Palace? Anyway, I'm dying too, so I'm naturally going to do it for you one last time. He looked at his son, who had been trembling on the ground, and felt a little strange in his heart, but he still said firmly:

"Ever since Li Mao confided to me that the Yin Dynasty also had remnants in the palace, I have not been at peace for a moment. However, the Yin Dynasty has been established for 200 years, and the Great Chu has only been more than 20 years, and it is normal for there to be various forces in the palace. This is the only chance to identify the traitors, and although it is dangerous, you already have a rough idea of the dark line behind the ministers, and I have arranged it properly, and Kasugaden will not be lost. Your mother and I will be fine. ”

"Even the Inner Servant Province has remnants, and the child is worried that the guards of the Spring Hall will not be able to protect you......"

Chu Rui shook his hand and motioned for him not to say more.

"Huang Shen Chunzhen has already asked someone to cut it. He can betray me today, and he can betray you tomorrow. He is a man of loyalty and ability, but he is only subject to the most powerful, and I cannot leave him to you to sow trouble. ”

“…… Erchen understood. ”

"Cheng Xuan, until the end, the clan will never show its secret hand. Now that you may be deposed, these people will put their bets on you, and in order not to let the previous efforts go to waste, they will definitely use all the dark lines. In addition to the ones that are placed on the surface, you have to pay attention to yourself, how many people in the palace are involved. The Jiang family has a big problem, and it must not be reused. That Jiang Qingling, when you inherit the throne, let her 'die of illness'." ”

"Father's ......"

"Answer me."

Chu Chengxuan's hand clenched and let go, let go and squeezed tightly, wanted to speak several times and stopped, and finally only turned into a sentence in front of his sick and weak father:

“…… Be. ”

As soon as Chu Chengxuan's words came out, Zhang Shaoguang immediately turned his head and wanted to cry loudly.

When did their children become like this!

Why did Chu Rui test him at this time!

Li Rui's identity is embarrassing, but the whole Xinguo Mansion doesn't know about it, and the Zhang family is even more ruined because of this. They all have a common enmity with the Yin Dynasty thieves, and you must not destroy your foundation. ”

"Yes."

"Li Rui's identity is a good handle, after the palace is cleaned, the defenders must be weak, I am ready to let him and Qin Bin rebuild the defenders for you, you just re-appoint reliable people, so that you can sleep peacefully under the couch. If Li Rui has the slightest change in the future, you take this secret letter from the Duke of Xinguo to me and go directly to prison. ”

"Yes."

"The Jin Mansion is your uncle's house, and this time the party is cut, and it will not be a climate in the court in the future. He is still loyal to you, even if he was promised to become a minister of the auxiliary state, he still spoke up for you, and when I wanted to put him under house arrest, he cried bitterly and asked to protect the foundation of Dachu first. He's powerful, but he's still available. When tonight is over, you will be gracious to him, he is the minister of the humerus of Da Chu, the war situation in the north is undecided, and he has to rely on him to stabilize the government. ”

"Father...... Father, don't talk about it, you can rest. Wait until tomorrow is over, and then come and command......"

Chu Rui's general advice to explain the future made the prince's heart suffocate for a while, it was obviously a play that his father, mother and him had been planning for a long time, but all kinds of ominous omens still made his hands tremble all the time.

"I want you to promise me that as long as there is a day of Da Chu, you will not make peace, do not cede land, do not pay tribute, and do not surrender."

"Father, you better rest first, it's about to be a child. Wait for the retainers to make arrangements here......"

"Where can I sleep! You promise me. ”

"Yes, the sons will make these four points a national policy, not to make peace, not to cede land, not to pay tribute, and not to surrender."

"Go ahead. Remember my words. ”

Chu Chengxuan was taken out of the team that was "loyal" to him, tonight was the most critical night, as long as tonight passed, the ghosts in and outside the palace would jump out.

It was true that he could not stay here for long, and after receiving the emperor's order, he got up and walked to the secret door.

Just halfway through, Chu Chengxuan still stood still and asked hesitantly:

"It's so dangerous today, little emperor brother ......"

He didn't see his brother at Kasugaden.

Chu Rui was helped by the queen to sit up, leaned on Zhang Shaoguang's body and gestured to him to go out.

"Your brother I have other arrangements, he is in a safe place."

Chu Chengxuan nodded embarrassedly and left according to his words.

Chu Rui looked at the back of his son's departure, and had mixed feelings in his heart.

It was the last time he helped him.

After tonight, if the crown prince withstands the overall situation according to what he thinks and clears the many hidden piles in the palace, then he will not be worried about the throne being handed over to him.

Even if he carried this black cauldron, he was happy.

If he is a heroic man, he simply takes the opportunity to make an accident and really forces him to get an edict, he will also write the edict to him, and he will also smile at Jiuquan.

If the prince had such decisiveness and scheming, he would have been gratified.

At least in the way of "forbearance", he is qualified.

What I am most afraid of is that I can't control the situation, and I don't dare to attack him, and it will eventually become a farce.

But if this is the case, he is not afraid, he has a back hand, and if this is the case, he will not be able to help him.

What he said to Jin Guogong was not all acting.

The prince can kill his wife and son today, and he can kill his brother tomorrow.

Jiang Qingling had been pregnant for more than three months in his womb, and they thought he didn't know, but in fact, he already knew.

This kid can promise in front of him and the queen that he will really give up everything to protect the throne.

Those who have achieved great things have to do something and do nothing, and they can kill outsiders in any way, but they have to teach their own families a lesson behind closed doors.

Just like what he's doing right now.

"Shake the light, you'll always be on my side, won't you?"

Zhang Shaoguang stared at Chu Rui for a while and nodded.

"Yes, Chu Rui, no matter what you do, I will be on your side."

"I won't hurt the children." Chu Rui looked at the door of the Spring Sun Hall and the hidden guards in the hall.

"I'm all for their good."

At this moment, he did not use "I".

As soon as the hour passed, the east gate where the east palace was located was quietly opened, and a large group of people entered the palace silently. These people were all ministers who supported the crown prince's ascendancy, and most of them were private soldiers. The crown prince also had a thousand guards guarding the East Palace, and these horses gathered together, and soon formed a mighty procession, heading in the direction of the Kasuga Palace.

"Stop! Someone broke into the palace! Someone has broken into the palace, someone is coming! ”

"Kill it! Don't let people out of the palace! ”

"But...... There are a lot of them......"

Jiang Daoqi glared at the person who spoke.

"If there are many of them, are we few? The Chinese army is not here, what are you afraid of! ”

According to the news from the Duke of Jin, it will take at least two days for the Chinese army to reach the capital. By then, the wood has been completed, and the crown prince has already succeeded to the throne!

As Chu Rui expected, the prince led people all the way to the direction of the Spring Palace, and there were many people who dutifully resisted, but there were also many who seemed to be desperately resisting, but in fact they quickly gave up resistance and made way.

Countless eunuchs and palace maids on the road were alarmed, and most of them ran in a hurry, lest they should see what they shouldn't have seen and be killed. There were also a few eunuchs who came out and scolded the "thieves", but they were all tied up by Chu Chengxuan and thrown aside.

The road from the East Palace to the Kasuga Hall was chaotic, but the strange thing was that there were not too many people blocking it, and there were even eunuchs, palace maids and guards watching coldly.

Chu Chengxuan became more and more flustered as he walked, and finally stopped.

"Your Highness, why don't you leave?"

Several of his confidants' guards stood behind the prince and asked him anxiously.

Now time is precious, if there are soldiers and horses outside the city to rescue, then the palace will not be forced.

"Something is wrong......"

Isn't it that my father wants to use this excuse to directly abolish himself?

Yes, he originally had no evil deeds, as long as he forced the palace, he really had it.

At that time, the father can not only clean the palace, but also abolish him justifiably.

No, no, no, my father wouldn't do that.

The queen mother is also there, and his father will not let him fall into a situation where the palace is abolished.

Something must have gone wrong.

"Your Highness, Your Highness, a large group of people have come out, saying that you are going to force the palace and come to escort you!" A soldier covered in blood rushed over from the direction of the East Palace, and was stopped by Chu Chengxuan's men three steps away, kneeling on the ground and anxiously reporting it.

"Can you tell where it is?"

"It's also wearing Da Chu's armor, but no one knows who the leader is!"

"How many people are there?"

"About a thousand. While they were slashing and killing our people with the guards on duty at night in the palace, they shouted the slogan of 'escort', and the situation became more and more chaotic, and now the situation was a little unstoppable. Everyone in the palace rushed to tell each other, and they all said......"

Chu Chengxuan's face was bruised, and he gritted his teeth and asked:

"What do you mean?"

"It is said that His Royal Highness intends to kill the king and seize the throne, and they want to clear the king's side."

"Bastard!"

"Your Highness, these people and the palace guards are combined, and the number is superior, what should we do now?"

A subordinate official beside Chu Chengxuan said in a low voice: "It's better to go to the Spring Hall first, and then talk about it when it's done." ”

What it will become, it is self-evident.

Chu Chengxuan's heart was flustered, he didn't know where the "loyal minister" came from to learn the news early, and really regarded him as an unfilial son who forced the palace.

Now that the layout has become chaotic, he is also difficult to ride, and he doesn't even know which side of the third team is!

It will never be the Chinese army, and the Chinese army will not be only a thousand people. There will be no one who knows the people of the Chinese army.

No family in Beijing can quietly mobilize more than 1,000 people to break into the palace, unless many families ...... together

Could it be that the whole city knows that he is going to force the palace today?

What the hell is going on?!

Yes, go to my father first! No matter where the loyal ministers came to escort them, as long as the father went out to let them go back, they would know that it was a misunderstanding.

Just go to your father......

Chu Chengxuan figured it out and immediately strode forward. The subordinate officer behind him put his heart into his stomach, and hurriedly ordered the person who reported the news to be sure to drag the palace guards and the unknown people, and hurriedly followed the prince to the Spring Palace.

The guards who struggled to resist the prince's men and horses along the way left their lives, but the guards who begged for mercy, retreated, and fled were all cut down by the prince's personal guards, and the inexplicable eunuchs and palace maids who came to "surrender" were all cut down.

I don't know how many of them are real spies, and how many are just afraid of dying and stand in line first, but the prince's personal guards are nominally led by the prince, but in fact, they have all been ordered by the emperor, and they can directly attack the palace people who have the slightest traitorous identity.

For a while, the palace became a sea of blood, and the palace people who saw it avoided one after another, and no one dared to provoke the prince.

On weekdays, he is so gentle and generous, it turns out that it is all fake!

Command people to kill, like a rakshasa!

Chu Chengxuan's men and horses were only halfway through when an unknown army from the other side caught up.

As the person who reported the news said, the people who came were wearing the armor of Da Chu, well-equipped, and had terrible weapons such as the "Divine Crossbow" in hand.

"Protect the Prince!"

"It's a crossbow! Chinese Army! The Chinese army is coming! ”

"It can't be the Chinese army!" Chu Chengxuan gritted his teeth. "The Chinese army has just passed through Tongzhou. It was the Yin Dynasty's group of thieves who got the magic crossbow. ”

"Yin Dynasty remnants?"

"Wang Taihe once got a batch of divine crossbows, but later he was defeated and took away those divine crossbows. The Chinese army will not be so stupid, use a divine crossbow to shoot me, is the whole army waiting to be punished by the nine clans? ”

Chu Chengxuan felt that they were the remnants of the Yin Dynasty, but the guards in the palace who didn't know the situation thought that the Chinese army had come back to escort them.

The Shenji crossbow is the most elite weapon of the Great Chu, which can fire ten arrows in a row, is loaded quickly, and is powerful, and has always been the most coveted weapon of the Great Chu soldiers, except for the most elite teams of the border army, all equipped with the elite of the Chinese army.

It was these people who spontaneously converged together as soon as they saw the divine crossbow to resist the prince's troops "forcing the palace".

King Xiang Cheng and the second prince didn't know that these people brought by Yin Tianyi actually had such an effect. Wang Taihe's subordinates were originally the border army of Da Chu, they were familiar with the rules of the army, and they had their own organization, so there was no doubt that the Chinese army pretending to protect the emperor was stunned.

Poor Chu Chengxuan only now felt that someone had colluded with the remnants of the Yin Dynasty to break into the palace, but the situation changed so quickly that there was no way for him to react, so he could only retreat to the Spring Hall behind the guards, while thinking about what went wrong.

It is impossible for the remnants of the Yin Dynasty to enter the palace so simply, unless there is an internal response in the palace. Or someone revealed the news that their father was about to die, and let them strike first.

But the remnants of the Yin Dynasty are different from these princes fighting for power, they want to subvert the regime, and it is impossible to leave a living mouth in the palace. And the ministers of the court are not dead people, could it be that if the remnants of the Yin Dynasty killed their Chu family cleanly, they would support the Yin family?

Who did the internal response? Huang Shenchun?

No, if you can hide so many people in Beijing and bring so many weapons over, there must be people in Beijing to support them, and there are quite a few of them.

These people must have been staring at the palace for a long time.

When the prince ran to the Kasuga Hall in embarrassment, there were less than a hundred guards left around him.

The power of the salvo of the Divine Crossbow is so great that it can be called a killing weapon. Chu Chengxuan was almost blocked by his own guards with a human wall before escaping to the Spring Palace.

The guards of the Spring Palace were all instructed, and seeing that the prince was so embarrassed, and was chased and killed by a large number of Great Chu's troops and guards behind him, he hurriedly sent someone to report back to the dormitory.

At this time, Chu Rui and Zhang Shaoguang were waiting for news.

There are three thousand elite Yi guards hidden in the Spring Palace, which is almost all the Gyeonggi divisions that Chu Rui can mobilize.

"What? Only a few dozen of the prince's 1,000 guards were killed by the guards, and now they are fleeing here? Chu Rui almost couldn't lift it in one breath, so he could only point at Yiwei and say to the door:

"Go, go and protect the prince! Escort him in! ”

"Yes!"

"When did my guards become so brave?" Chu Rui looked out of the door in disbelief, while Zhang Shaoguang on the side squeezed her husband's palm tightly and muttered: "I know this is not good, this is not good, there are too many variables, Your Majesty is gambling with Xuan'er's life!" ”

"I've even gambled my life!" Chu Rui gritted his teeth, "Don't worry, the Queen can rest assured, there is a tunnel in the Spring Palace that leads directly to the outside of the palace, do you remember the many baths in the Spring Palace?" There is a spring vein that dried up, and was later made into a tunnel by the emperor. The Chinese army's cavalry battalion has already traveled to the capital, and now they are all hidden in the tunnels, Xuan'er is foolproof, and you are foolproof. ”

"Your Majesty......"

"If it's really dangerous, go out of that tunnel. Go to the Xinguo Mansion to find Li Mao. I entrusted Ping'er to the Li family. ”

"How can Ping'er be outside the palace!" Zhang Shaoguang was finally shocked, "Didn't you say that it was put in the Queen Mother's place!" ”

"It was Seunglie who sent it to the Palace of Mercy and Grace."

"You...... You sent the third prince to the Ci'en Palace, but you sent Ping'er to the Xinguo Mansion......"

"I have left my henchmen to protect me, and no one will think that the little prince is in the Li family."

There is a secret room in the Ci'en Palace where the Queen Mother is located, the Queen Mother has dementia, almost a fool, the emperor said that he will guard the little prince in the secret room of the Ci'en Palace, Zhang Shaoguang is relieved.

The Palace of Mercy and Grace is the deepest part of the harem, and not all the people in the palace are dead, and they can't move there.

As a result, now the emperor told him that his youngest son had been sent to Li's house!

Li Mao has no power to restrain the chicken, what's the use!

In the tunnels.

Qin Feng, who was waiting alone at the entrance of the bath, finally waited for someone to come.

"Your Majesty has an order, please take the cavalry battalion to escort you."

"Is the prince here?"

"Yes."

"I see."

Qin Feng nodded, suddenly stepped forward, covered the eunuch's mouth and nose, and twisted his head.

"Don't blame me, when the crown prince succeeds to the throne, General Ben will give you a thick burial." Qin Feng checked the eunuch's snort pulse and confirmed that he was dead, so he found a place to hide him and went down to the tunnel to inform his subordinates.

The emperor actually transferred Li Mao to another important position, otherwise he really didn't know how to hide from Li Mao's eyes.

"General, who are we now?"

Although it is now the wax moon, there is still some stuffiness in the tunnel. Thousands of people were hiding underground, wearing armor and carrying weapons, tired and hot, and a little unbearable.

They originally traveled back to Beijing quickly, and the hardships they endured on the way can be imagined, and now they don't know what task they received from His Majesty, and they have been waiting in this tunnel for more than two hours.

"Go back to the other side of the tunnel, withdraw from the palace, guard the entrance over there, and no one is allowed to come out." Qin Feng ordered everyone to retreat.

"Yes! The general has an order, withdraw! ”

As the elite of the Chinese army, the elite of these cavalry battalions have long carved obedience into their bones.

The Emperor often had tasks for them to do, and it was not for nothing that there was something stranger than this. Therefore, many people had some doubts in their hearts, but they quickly dispelled them and withdrew out of the tunnel in an orderly manner.

Qin Feng glanced at the tunnel entrance at the other end of the palace, and felt a little unbearable in his heart, but he still turned around and left.

No one knew that he was on the side of the prince.

It is true that his father is a lonely minister who is only loyal to the emperor, and he used to be on the emperor's side. But all this changed from the death of my father.

He voluntarily asked Ying several times to go on an expedition to fight the thieves, drive out the thieves, and avenge his father, but His Majesty refuted again and again.

The emperor even asked his Chinese army, the most elite division of Great Chu, to guard Juyong Pass, and let a group of miscellaneous troops go to the Northern Expedition.

Qin Feng felt very humiliated.

The Duke of Jin once promised him that if the crown prince succeeded to the throne, he would push him to be the "general of Zhenbei" and lead all the soldiers and horses to conquer the rebels. The Chinese army was taken over by his younger brother.

Now Yuan Xi is trapped in the north, and it is not known whether he is alive or dead. Zhang Zhi, who suddenly rose up in the north, lost his grain road, and what was waiting for him was also the situation of losing his official position and losing his military power.

He has enough hope, is old, and is a general, and his son is still a subordinate official by the prince's side.

When the crown prince succeeds to the throne, it is not difficult to lead the troops to the battle.

The emperor prevented the prince from forcing the palace and asked him and Li Mao to return to Beijing to escort him, so he helped with this.

When the dust settles, he will have a merit in any case.

Jin Guogong, the crown prince, I just hope that you will move quickly and don't let Li Mao notice.

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