After Hu Qingyan finished sorting out the situation of today's meeting with the warlord, he was about to go to the imperial study to report to His Majesty.

Since the palace change, Hu Qingyan, King De, Zhang Bangli and other courtiers have become more and more respectful of the new monarch.

Of course, this is indispensable, and it means to show his attitude to King Ming.

At the same time, there is also the expectation of appeasing Xinjun, hoping that he can cheer up and not give up on himself.

In short, at present, Hu Qingyan and others are doing their best to maintain the current situation.

The effect is still there, after Lao Jiu experienced the first few days of lifelessness, he finally slowly adjusted, and under their kindness, his face has eased a lot in the past two days.

However, it was in this situation that the news of Qu Guochang's death came.

The first person to get the news was Hu Qingyan, and almost the moment he heard the news, Hu Qingyan's face changed suddenly.

At this moment, he only felt a bang in his head, and his whole body trembled uncontrollably.

It was really too sudden and untimely for Qu Guochang's death, and he was not prepared at all.

He had no idea what he was going to think about at this moment.

Can Xinjun ignore it, will he turn his face immediately?

Can the Qu Guochang party accept it, and will there be chaos?

What does King Ming want to do?

At the moment when the new monarch ascended the throne, at this moment when the world's heroes gathered in the capital, how much chain reaction Qu Guochang's death would cause, even he, who had always been scheming, did not dare to predict.

It can be said that even when the first emperor died, he did not have such a big reaction today.

Hu Qingyan forcibly suppressed his mind that was about to explode, supported his chair with his hand, and stood up with difficulty, his old face was pale and bloodless, and his lips trembled several times before he was finally able to make a voice: "Does anyone else know about this?" ”

"The matter is serious, the forbidden army blocked the scene as soon as possible, and immediately reported it to the palace, except for His Majesty's side, the lord was the first to know." The subordinate replied.

Hu Qingyan immediately said: "Immediately block the news and don't spread it." ”

"Yes!" The subordinate hurriedly answered and ran out quickly.

Hu Qingyan took a few deep breaths, and after his eyes flashed several times, he immediately called a subordinate, explained to him, and walked out quickly.

Of the four auxiliary ministers, Hu Qingyan is the head of the cabinet and Zhang Bangli is the chief of the palace, and the two originally had their own offices in the palace.

King De and Duke Qu Guogong are relatives of the emperor, and they originally had no specific positions in the palace, but now they have hung up the errand of the minister, and the palace has specially allocated an office location for the two of them.

Among the four, except for Zhang Bangli in the inner palace, all three of them are in the outer palace.

Hu Qingyan did not go to the imperial study for the first time, but came to find King De first.

He couldn't handle such a big matter alone.

As soon as he arrived at the door of his class room, he saw King De hurriedly going out, and the two faced each other, almost bumping into each other.

This made the officials under King De stunned, these two are both people in power in the court, and they are majestic on weekdays, how can they see such a hurry?

The two stood upright, just glanced at each other, ignored the gazes of others, and entered King De's office together.

As soon as the door was closed, King De lowered his voice and said urgently: "Elder Ge, Qu Guochang is dead." ”

Hu Qingyan looked directly at King De, with scrutiny in his eyes, without beating around the bush, and it was too late to beat around the bush, and asked directly: "Where did the prince get the news?" ”

"Of course, it was reported from the Qu Guo Mansion." King De was full of anxiety, and he didn't have the heart to talk to him about this, so he hurriedly said: "Your Majesty is afraid that you already know, let's hurry over." ”

Along the way, Hu Qingyan seems to have calmed down a lot.

Hearing that King De said that it was reported by the Qu Guo Mansion, his eyes suddenly narrowed.

This matter was reported by the forbidden army on duty in the Qu State Mansion, and there were only two lines.

One is that the forbidden army will report to the cabinet of the national dynasty and go directly to him.

The other is an internal report from the forbidden army, which goes straight to the imperial study.

On the side of the country, he blocked the news as soon as possible, and it stands to reason that only he knows about it at present.

And on King De's side, if he said that His Majesty informed him, it would be nothing, but King De said that it was reported by the Qu State Mansion.

Does this mean that the hand of the king has been inserted into his territory?

Hu Qingyan's mind turned, pressed this in his heart in advance, and said in a deep voice: "Let's discuss first, how to deal with this matter, otherwise, it will be useless to go to see Your Majesty so rashly." ”

When King De heard this, he also had to suppress the panic in his heart, and Hu Qingyan was reasonable, so he asked, "What does Elder Ge think should I do now?" ”

Hu Qingyan looked up at King De and said in a deep voice: "The matter is in front of us, whether Qu Guochang died of illness, we know in our hearts, and Your Majesty also knows in our hearts." If Your Majesty can endure it, then Qu Guochang will die of illness, and he will be mourned when he should be mourned, and His Majesty will ascend the throne as usual. ”

"Of course it's good if you can do this, but what if Your Majesty can't bear it?" King De said bitterly.

"Then we only have two ways left, either on Your Majesty's side, Your Majesty wants to kill King Ming, and we will do everything we can to carry it out. Either stand on King Ming's side and try your best to help him stabilize His Majesty. Hu Qingyan said calmly, but his face became more and more ugly.

King De's color changed, and he said angrily directly: "What are you talking about, Elder Ge, to help Your Majesty kill King Ming?" At the beginning, His Majesty took advantage of King Ming's unpreparedness, and the sudden killers failed to succeed. If you come back now, you can guarantee that you will succeed? If we still can't get it, can we still end up like we did at the beginning? Now that the heroes in Beijing have gathered, has the elder ever thought about what the consequences will be once the fight starts? ”

Of course, Hu Qingyan could think of this, and he didn't think about taking this road.

For him, this is a dead end, not to mention the overall situation of the country, just talk about himself, he has betrayed Lao Jiu before, and now even if he helps Lao Jiu kill King Ming, Lao Jiu will not forget the previous events, and he will not let him go in the end.

Hu Qingyan said in a deep voice: "According to us, we can only stabilize Your Majesty first." ”

"How stable?" King De asked after a slight pause.

"If you can be stable, you must be stable, and if you can't be stable, you must be stable." Hu Qingyan's eyes condensed slightly, word by word, and said heavily.

"You mean...... King De's face changed again, of course he already understood what Hu Qingyan meant.

The so-called stability must be stable if it is not stable, which clearly means that no matter whether His Majesty can bear it or not, he must let him endure it.

Whether it is persuasion or coercion!

To put it bluntly, it's really not going to work, so let's do another palace change and directly erect Your Majesty.

"No way!" How could King De want to see the power of his ministers forcing the imperial power, and directly denied it: "This is absolutely not good, if you do it again, Your Majesty will definitely not accept it, even if we can temporarily forcibly stabilize Your Majesty, what about the accession to the throne?" If Your Majesty had been in trouble at that time, wouldn't the situation have been even worse? ”

Hu Qingyan's voice was bitter: "Lord, I can't manage so much, the situation is urgent, we can only come step by step, if we can't stabilize Your Majesty first, I'm afraid we won't be able to get over it now, let alone ascend the throne?" ”

Hu Qingyan is also reluctant to take this road.

How could he not know that another palace change would be tantamount to completely deviating from the new monarch, and it would be impossible to check and balance the Ming king with the new monarch.

At that time, he Hu Qingyan can only stand on the side of King Ming.

Looking at today, King Ming dares to kill a minister like Qu Guochang.

This kind of ruthlessness and resoluteness, unless it is absolutely necessary, no one is willing to be a minister under him?

Now, he really regrets it, if he had known that King Ming had a backhand, he should not have asked the queen mother to come out of the mountain, and completely offended the new monarch, so that he is so passive now.

But it had happened, and it was useless for him to regret it, and now he could only look forward.

In any case, it is too risky to stand with Xinjun to deal with King Ming, and if one is not good, he Hu Qingyan will die of illness like Qu Guochang.

He can only choose to help King Ming, fortunately, he is still a little comforted, even if he completely offends the new monarch, or even changes the emperor, for the time being, it is not King Ming who is on the throne.

King De looked at Hu Qingyan's equally blue face, and began to think in his heart.

Although he returned from the Ming Palace, he had already made a choice and was mentally prepared, but when the real thing came to an end, it was still difficult to make a decision.

At this moment, there was a sudden knock on the door.

Both of them looked out of the door at the same time, and they both knew that this knock must have come from the imperial study.

Hu Qingyan turned his eyes to look at King De: "It's too late to think about it, it's useless for me to think about this matter alone, we must unify our opinions." ”

King De's heart was pounding, and his face was full of bitterness: "I don't know Chief Zhang's opinion on this matter." ”

"It's too late to discuss with him slowly, as long as the two of us can agree on it, as long as Zhang Bangli is not stupid, he will not do anything with us." Hu Qingyan said.

What can King De do, the so-called thinking is just a hurdle in his heart.

In the end, he could only choose to suppress Xinjun.

Of course, neither Hu Qingyan nor King De wants to make the situation tense, and still hopes that it can be resolved in the most peaceful way.

After the two discussed it again, they did not go to the imperial study together, but the king took the lead.

Hu Qingyan turned to Zhang Bangli and talked to him first.

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Zhang Bangli also received a summons from the imperial study, he got up calmly, held a stack of documents, and went out towards the imperial study.

After walking a short distance, he was stopped by Hu Qingyan, who was waiting on the road.

Hu Qingyan immediately whispered to him, told him what he had discussed with King De, and finally said in a deep voice: "King De has taken the first step to communicate with His Majesty, and we must be firm and consistent in the meeting, otherwise the general will know the consequences." ”

Zhang Bangli remained silent and did not interrupt Hu Qingyan's words.

His face seemed calm, but he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

As he expected, the attitude of Hu Qingyan and King De has proved that even if King Ming personally kills Qu Guochang, it can only be His Majesty who will be humiliated in the end.

Zhang Bangli's footsteps paused slightly, and he turned his head to look at Hu Qingyan: "The death of Duke Qu has nothing to do with King Ming. ”

"Of course I know that the death of Qu Guogong and the Ming King have no ...... Well? Hu Qingyan nodded subconsciously, and halfway through speaking, he suddenly looked stunned and looked at Zhang Bangli, "What did you say?" ”

"Qu Guogong was not killed by King Ming." Zhang Bangli repeated again.

The two of them were not far from the imperial study, Hu Qingyan was silent, the two of them stood there without moving, Hu Qingyan's eyes never left Zhang Bangli's face, his eyes were fixed on Zhang Bangli's face: "How do you know that it has nothing to do with King Ming?" ”

Hu Qingyan could be sure that Zhang Bangli didn't have time to investigate this matter at all, and Hu Qingyan's eyes began to be suspicious.

"Qu Guochang was killed by me." Zhang Bangli met his gaze.

ps: The toothache is not good yet, and the time is reversed, and today is still a chapter.