Entrance to the Royal Palace.

"Duke Lu, why are you here with a large army?"

The leader of the guards guarding the palace looked at the thousands of elites in front of him and asked cautiously.

Lu Zhi looked at the head of the guard in front of him expressionlessly, and said calmly, "The old man came to announce the decree today, so let's wait for the decree." ”

"This ......," the leader of the guards looked surprised.

He is an old man in the palace, so he naturally knows the rules of the palace, and the palace sends orders to the guards, usually sending an inner servant here, why bother Lu Zhi this time?

Although he couldn't figure it out, the leader of the guards didn't dare to slack off, and took his subordinates and respectfully saluted Lu Zhi and said, "I'll listen to the holy oracle, there is Lao Lu Gong." ”

"Hmm," Lu Zhi nodded expressionlessly.

Then, he took a letter of edict from the side, spread it out, and read, "Zhao said."

Captain Liu Jie guarded ineffectively, and ordered thieves to enter the palace many times.

Lu Qing led the people of the headquarters to guard the palace, and no one else was allowed to stop him, if there was a violation, he would be punished for rebellion!

Erqi Qin. ”

After reading it, Lu Zhi looked at the trembling head of the guard in front of him and said, "Get the order." ”

"Minister... The Ministers are grateful. The leader of the guards hesitated for a long time before he trembled to receive the order.

Of course, he could see that there were many strange things about this holy decree.

But he was a lowly official and didn't dare to do much, so he could only pretend not to find out.

After seeing the order of the leader of the guards, Lu Zhi waved his hand to the army behind him, "Enter the palace to change the defense." ”

After Lu Zhi entered the palace with thousands of troops, a chamberlain hurriedly walked over and shouted loudly at Lu Zhi, "You are waiting for someone to dare to break into the palace privately?!" ”

Lu Zhi looked at the person in front of him, and said expressionlessly, "Zhao Changshou is reasonable, the old man is ordered by His Majesty to take over the palace guards, and I hope that Zhao Changshou will not stop him, otherwise, Hugh will blame the old man's men for being ruthless!" ”

"Nonsense!" When Zhao Zhong heard this, he retorted loudly, "Our family was serving Your Majesty just now, why don't you know about the Holy Decree?"

You must be waiting for you to rebel and make trouble! ”

Zhao Zhong knew what Zhang Rang had done, and he had already boarded Zhang Rang's ship.

He came here to stop Lu Zhi, just to delay time.

Before that, he had already sent someone to inform Zhang Rang.

"Rebellion?" After Lu Zhi pondered for a while, he nodded, "It's not wrong for you to say that, for the current "Your Majesty", what the old man is doing is plotting rebellion. ”

After speaking, Lu Zhi waved his hand behind him, "Catch this helper first!" ”

"Who dares?!" When Zhao Zhong heard this, he shouted loudly, "Our family is the middle servant Zhao Zhong, without His Majesty's order, whoever dares to touch our family is a great crime of rebellion!" ”

"This ......" was about to arrest Zhao Zhong's guards, but they were stunned when they heard this, and after hesitating for a moment, they turned their gaze to Lu Zhi.

Seeing this, Lu Zhi pulled out the sword on his waist with a "brush", pointed at Zhao Zhong with the sword and said, "Do you recognize this sword?" ”

"Goo-toot!" After Zhao Zhong swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty, he said cautiously, "Could this sword be the snake sword?!" ”

"Humph! Count you as having eyesight. Lu Zhi nodded, put the sword on Zhao Zhong's neck, and threatened, "Since you know this sword, you must know it too."

If the old man kills you with this sword, even if it goes to His Majesty, the old man will not be punished in any way, do you still want to stop the old man now? ”

"Hehe......" Zhao Zhong smiled hard, "What did Lu Gong say, isn't our family afraid that there will be thieves sneaking into the palace!"

Of course, our family is not suspicious of Lu Gong, as long as Lu Gong can come up with the holy decree, our family will never care about this matter again. ”

"Humph!" Lu Zhi snorted coldly, then took the sword off and returned it to the sheath, took the holy decree from the side, and threw it to Zhao Zhong, "Take a good look!" ”

After Zhao Zhong took the holy decree, he opened it cautiously and looked at it carefully.

The more he looked at it, the more ugly Zhao Zhong's face became, because he, as a regular servant who had been in contact with the Holy Decree all the year round, didn't see where this Holy Decree was fake.

He originally thought that this matter was Lu Zhi's false transmission of the holy decree, and as long as he could point out the flaws in the holy decree, he could delay the time.

But he never thought that the holy decree in Lu Zhi's hand turned out to be true, so it would be difficult to do.

"Alas......" After looking at it for a long time, Zhao Zhong breathed a sigh of relief, and respectfully returned the holy decree to Lu Zhi, "Duke Lu, please forgive me, it was our family who misunderstood." ”

After finishing speaking, he slowly stepped aside, saluted Lu Zhi, and made a gesture of please.

Seeing this, Lu Zhi snorted coldly, and then led the army towards the palace quickly.

The matter was urgent, Lu Zhi didn't dare to have any delay, after all, Li Zhi was still trying his best to drag Zhang Rang, if Zhang Rang reacted, then the matter would be really bad, so he didn't have much time.

Looking at the army marching towards the palace, Zhao Zhong let out a long sigh and muttered to himself, "Gong Zhang, what you can do, our family has already done it, whether you live or die depends on yourself." ”

After finishing speaking, Zhao Zhong turned his head and left, he wanted to go back and prepare for the big changes in the future.

After Lu Zhi came to the harem with the army, he waved his hand to the army behind him, "Go and surround the harem, don't let anyone go!" ”

"Whoa!" Guan Yu, who was following behind Lu Zhi, responded and strode towards the harem.

Guan Yu was on duty in the Northern Army today, and after hearing the summons of his own teacher, he immediately rushed over.

But he didn't expect that Lu Zhi was looking for him to control the palace.

If Lu Zhi hadn't explained this matter to him, he would have really dared not be presumptuous in the palace.

After Guan Yu surrounded the harem, a reprimanding voice came from inside, "Bold!" Who do you dare to trespass into the palace?! ”

When Guan Yu heard this, he stroked his beard and said proudly, "This general is a captain of the Northern Military Academy, and he is ordered by His Majesty to take over the harem guards.

Wait to open the door of the inner palace as soon as possible, otherwise, don't blame the general's subordinates for being merciless! ”

"Humph!" As soon as Guan Yu's words fell, a delicate female voice came from inside: "What a big breath!" ”

Hearing that it was a woman inside, Guan Yu was stunned for a moment.

Then, his face became serious, because he knew that there were only a few women who dared to speak loudly in this palace, either the queen mother or the queen, and the others really didn't have the courage to scold a school captain loudly.

After thinking about this, Guan Yu hurriedly saluted inside, and asked softly, "I don't know ......."

Speaking of this, Guan Yu paused, he didn't know what to call the people inside, so he said in general, "I don't know which noble person is inside?" ”

"Humph!" After the woman inside snorted, she said, "The mourning family is the queen of the Han Dynasty!" ”

When Guan Yu heard this, he was shocked, and hurriedly clasped his fists and saluted, "It turns out that the queen mother is coming, and the last general is in armor, so it is inconvenient to salute, and I hope that the queen will forgive her sins." ”

"It's okay" After Queen He heard this, she didn't speak.

After a long time, she replied, "Go back, you don't need to guard the mourning family here." ”

"This..."Guan Yu immediately frowned when he heard this, he was now in a dilemma, he was ordered to come and take over the palace guards.

If you turn around and leave, you will be disobeying Your Majesty's will, and it will be a crime of deception.

However, this is a harem, under the control of the queen's mother, if you don't listen to the queen's words, it is also a big crime, so Guan Yu is also a little at a loss.

When Guan Yu was in a dilemma, Lu Zhi hurriedly walked in and asked loudly, "My disciple, what happened?" Why don't you take over the harem in a hurry? ”

Seeing that Lu Zhi came here, Guan Yu breathed a long sigh of relief, it would be easy to do when Lu Zhi came, Lao Tzu was an old minister of the court, and he was qualified to talk to the queen.

Thinking of this, Guan Yu hurriedly told Lu Zhi in detail about the matter.

After listening to Guan Yu's explanation, Lu Zhi thought for a while, and said towards the gate of the inner palace, "Old minister Lu Zhi, I have seen the queen mother. ”

"Why is Gong Lu here too?" Hearing Lu Zhi's voice, Empress He asked in surprise, "Could it be that Your Majesty really ordered you to take over the will of the palace guards?" ”

"Exactly" Lu Zhi didn't care about his morality in order to rescue Liu Hong, and the lie came when it came, "The old minister didn't dare to deceive the queen."

His Majesty did give the old minister a decree to let the old minister take over the palace guards.

I hope the queen can open it

Open the gate of the inner palace, don't make it difficult for the old minister. ”

"This ......" Empress He pondered for a while, then said, "The mourning family can't be the master of this matter, it's better for you to wait here for a while, and the mourning family will go and ask Your Majesty." ”

"No!" As soon as Empress He's words fell, Lu Zhi stopped her loudly.

Subsequently, Lu Zhi also knew that his tone was a little too anxious, and he was afraid that Queen He would be suspicious, so he said softly, "Excuse me, Queen Mother, Your Majesty is the king of all things, don't worry about him for some small things."

If the queen still doesn't trust the minister, the minister has something enough to win the trust of the minister. ”

"Oh?" When Queen He heard this, she asked curiously, "What is it?" ”

Hearing this, Lu Zhi took off the snake sword from his waist and said respectfully towards the gate, "Queen Qiyu, the sword in the hands of the old minister is the snake cutting sword left by my dynasty Taizu, and this thing is enough to prove it for the old minister." ”

"What?!" When Empress He heard this, she was taken aback, "Your Majesty even gave you the sword of slaying snakes?!" ”

"Exactly" Lu Zhi answered, and said to Queen He inside the door, "If Niangniang doesn't believe in the old minister, the old minister can hand this sword over from the wall, and the mother will know it at a glance." ”

"Okay," Empress He nodded and said, "In that case, you can hand over the sword." ”

Hearing this, Lu Zhi nodded, handed the sword in his hand to Guan Yu, and asked him to hand the sword to the wall.

After Guan Yu stepped on the ladder and handed the sword into the wall, Queen He grabbed the sword and watched it carefully.

After a long time, Empress He let out a long sigh, "It's really a snake sword, that's right, come on, open the door." ”

"Squeak...... With the sound of the door opening, the door of the inner palace slowly opened.

At this moment, a small chamberlain ran in the distance, shouting as he ran, "Your Majesty has an order, don't open the door, there is a rebel ...... outside the door."

(End of chapter)

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