On the night of July 8 in the fifth year of Shaoxi, at the beginning of the year, the gates of Lin'an City were still guarded by a large number of forbidden troops, and the streets that should have been extremely lively were immediately deserted since the beginning of the period.

On weekdays, because of the street vendors, pedestrians, carriages, and sedan chairs, it does not feel spacious, but tonight it is extraordinarily spacious, as if it is a street in Lin'an City, which makes the patrol forbidden army a little surprised, and the royal street that looks crowded on weekdays is so spacious.

However, with the implementation of the curfew in Lin'an City, under the order of Lin'an Mansion, the lively scene outside the city is more noisy than in the city, especially outside the Wulin Gate, where the peddlers and pawns like to gather the most on weekdays, they have not been affected by the curfew in the city at all, and they also turn a blind eye to the patrol of the forbidden army.

A carriage passed in front of the Wulin Gate, and the patrol forbidden army didn't even have time to go over to ask, so he was scolded by Zuo Jiao, who was riding high on horseback, and was so frightened that he hurriedly shrank his head in the helmet, and then trotted all the way to the city gate and began to open the city gate for this pedestrian.

Under the sporadic firelight, the peddlers and pawns outside the martial arts gate peeked curiously from time to time, and the soldiers in armor who passed by them began to talk secretly again one by one, what happened today?

The curfew has been imposed in the city since the beginning of the day, and now a team of soldiers and horses are entering the city at night, is it all because the emperor has returned to Lin'an today?

The carriage just paused at the Wulin Gate, and then entered the deserted Lin'an City on the street unimpeded.

The carriage curtain was opened, Zhu Ye'er looked at Zuo Jiao, lowered his eyes and thought for a while, and said: "General Zuo, please also send someone to Tongbing Criminal Department Shangshu Master Li, and then wait for Li Shangshu with the slave maid in front of Xie Shenfu's mansion." ”

Zuo Jiao, who was riding on horseback, nodded, and then began to dispatch his subordinates without hesitation according to Zhu Ye'er's instructions.

This afternoon began to return to Lin'an from the lonely mountain, and the queen specially explained that whether it was his Zuojiao or Qingqiu, after returning to Lin'an, everything must be done according to Zhu Ye'er's orders, and no one or anything should disobey her orders.

Therefore, just like Zhu Ye'er, who holds the queen's will, every word she says after entering Lin'an is just like the will of the queen Li Fengniang.

After a few horsemen took it from Zuo Jiao's hand, Zhu Ye'er handed it to Zuo Jiao's queen's handwriting, and immediately rode his horse on the empty street towards the mansion of the criminal department Shangshu, and Zuo Jiao, the former commander of the apse, took the rest of the people, escorted the carriage, and turned into the alley to Xie Shenfu's mansion from the top of the royal street.

It was only a moment's effort, and the carriage had stopped in the alley where Shi Miyuan was the night before, and after Zuo Jiao began to greet the forbidden troops patrolling around, the area that the forbidden army was originally patrolling was completely handed over to Zuo Jiao's palace front division to guard.

After the people in front of the palace surrounded the Xie Mansion from front to back, Zhu Ye'er's carriage started again and slowly stopped at the gate of the Xie Mansion.

Lifting the curtain again, Zhu Ye'er quietly looked at the gate of Xie Mansion with lanterns burning at the door, biting her lip from time to time, her eyes were also slightly dim, even with a hint of sadness.

The crisp sound of iron hooves was from far to near not far away, but Zhu Ye'er was still in a daze at the gate of Xie Mansion.

Time passed in a daze of Zhu Ye'er, and after Zuo Jiao hurriedly whispered a few words to the soldiers on horseback who had just galloped, he threw down the sentence: "Probe again, report in time", and walked quickly to the curtain opened by Zhu Ye'er.

Looking at the stunned bamboo leaves who looked at the gate of Xie Mansion, Zuo Jiao called softly: "Sister Ye'er......." ”

"Huh......?" The bamboo leaves who came back to their senses blinked their eyes and looked at Zuojiao.

"There is no movement in the palace for the time being, Lord Ye...... The jury is still out. I only know that after having dinner with the Emperor Taishang in Shoukang Palace, I went to Dianjiangtai together. Zuo Jiao truthfully played the situation of this incident in the palace.

After finishing speaking, Zuo Jiao could clearly feel that Zhu Ye'er's expression was instantly much more relaxed, and his eyes, which were originally a little dim, seemed to light up a lot in an instant.

Zuo Jiao has followed the queen for the same many years, and the two brothers Zuo Yu and Zuo Jiao, almost the same as Zhu Ye'er, have been serving by Li Fengniang's side when the queen was still the crown princess.

So he didn't feel strange at all about the strangeness of the bamboo leaves today.

Over the years, especially Zhu Ye'er, she has participated in many queens' major affairs, which can be described as the queen's shadow, she knows almost all the queen's secrets, and it is precisely because of this that Zhu Ye'er's heart does not know from which year, month, and day, she has quietly lived in a man, a man who makes her unreachable, and even can only wait and see from afar, and can never be approached.

"Don't worry about the affairs in the palace, when Lord Shangshu arrives, he will enter the Xie Mansion with the will of the Holy Lord to get people." Zhu Ye'er lowered her eyes, her eyes moved from the gate of Xie Mansion to the ground, and she said in a soft voice.

"Yes, I see. Sister Ye'er, don't worry, I promise that nothing will go wrong. Zuo Jiao looked at Zhu Ye'er's somewhat gloomy expression, and sighed helplessly in his heart, the three of them had served by the queen's side for so many years.

Except for the queen, it is Zhu Ye'er who has been in contact with Ye Qing for the longest time, so ...... is the so-called long-term love, and now even Zuo Jiao can see that the man who lives in Zhu Ye'er's heart is Ye Qing, who is ordering the Jiangtai in the palace at this time, and may never see him again after tonight.

Zhu Ye'er nodded silently, and then lowered the curtain and began to wait for Li Lifang's arrival, and the whole carriage instantly seemed to have a touch of sadness, slowly blending with the night.

At this time, in the Xie Mansion, Xie Shenfu had just taken off his court clothes and changed into civilian clothes, and he was in a position to pacify him, and he began to prepare for tonight's curfew after the next court, so after tossing for a day, he felt hungry at this moment.

Because of today's events in the court, Xie Shenfu, who made his heart faintly happy, has even begun to look forward to what kind of waves Ye Qing's rebellion will set off tomorrow once it spreads in Lin'an City.

Looking at the several forbidden troops who followed him in the mansion, Xie Shenfu suddenly asked, "By the way, have you sent the forbidden army out of the city?" But have you already connected with the Zhaoqing Army and the Sui'an Army? ”

The forbidden army next to him frowned, thought for a moment and replied: "Hui Xie, not yet, but the forbidden army and the people of the guard department have already gone to the official roads of Tongjiaxing and Shaoxing in the afternoon to wait." Presumably, as soon as there is news, they will immediately report to the adults. ”

"It's a careless matter, it's better to be cautious." Xie Shenfu refused to be helped by his subordinates to make tea, but instead made tea by himself with some enjoyment, his expression was full of lightheartedness, as if he was talking to himself, and it seemed to be talking to the forbidden army next to him: "Ye Qingcheng Mansion is definitely not a person, the Emperor Taishang has been planning for this for a long time, and we must not go wrong at this critical moment." There are still his 8,000 elite soldiers outside the city, since Ye Qing brought back to Lin'an from the north, they must all be Ye Qing's henchmen, they are only loyal to Ye Qing, and they are soldiers who are willing to cut off their heads to Ye Qing, once the news of the city spreads, they will inevitably rescue Ye Qing, even if Ye Qing is dead by then, I am afraid they will not give up and surrender, no wonder Ye Qing can lay a great foundation ...... in the north. ”

"My lord, there are only 8,000 of them, and there are 50,0......00 or 60,000 people in Lin'an City, including the forbidden army, the palace front division, and the guard division." The forbidden army on the side said with some disapproval.

"Now in Lin'an City, the Guards Division, the Palace Front Division, and your forbidden army are only twenty or thirty thousand people, and they are said to be fifty or sixty thousand, but they are just for Ye Qing and his party. When the saint and the queen went to Gushan, they took away most of the people from the front division of the palace and the guard division, and the rest were about ten thousand people, even if they added your forbidden army ....... Xie Shenfu sighed, his original good mood suddenly felt a little melancholy for some reason, and said with emotion: "The Xia soldiers have always been brave and good at fighting, and my Great Song Dynasty has suffered defeats in front of the Xia people, and Ye Qing has 5,000 elite soldiers, and he has 20,000 elite soldiers who have resisted the Xia people, and he can finally fight his way out of the encirclement, from which it is enough to see how brave the soldiers under Ye Qing's command are, and how loyal they are to Ye Qing." And now outside the city is 8,000 people, and the soldiers of the Guard Division and the Front Division of the Palace have not fought for many years, as for your forbidden army...... That's not to mention, so if you really have to rely on you to deal with the eight thousand soldiers under Ye Qing's command, it's hard to say that you can win. ”

"The last general understands, so as long as the Zhaoqing army and the Sui'an army arrive at Lin'an City tonight, then Ye Qing will ......?" The forbidden army suddenly realized that the city seemed to be ready for battle, but in fact, the real key was still outside the city.

"Let's just put it that way." Xie Shenfu picked up the teacup, sniffed it with some enjoyment, and then put it down and said, "But no matter what, Ye Qing is in a catastrophe tonight." However, at such an age, he already has such a status and influence above my Great Song Dynasty, so that in order to deal with him, in addition to using the officials of the entire court to put pressure on him, the Emperor Taishang also had to transfer a large army to suppress the formation. From this point of view, Ye Qing, who is a hero, even if he dies tonight, he will not live in vain in this life, after all, how many people in this world can reach such a high position and have such influence at his age? ”

"Actually...... In fact, the last general is really not very clear, the imperial court ...... Why did the imperial court kill Ye Qing? Isn't he the hero of my Great Song Dynasty against Jin? Not only fought against Jin, but even fought with the Xia people, seized half of the Xia country and entered the territory of our Great Song Dynasty....... The forbidden army frowned and was a little puzzled.

Xie Shenfu seemed to have known for a long time that whether it was the soldiers of the forbidden army or the north, or the soldiers of any of the great armies of the Song Dynasty, they did not understand this matter, and he also took the doubts of these generals as a matter of course because they did not read the books of sages.

He only knows how to fight and kill, and he is brave and ruthless, but he never knows what loyalty is, but he thinks that as long as he kills the enemy on the battlefield, he is loyal to the court, but he doesn't know ...... The object of their life has nothing to do with the imperial court.

"Back to the emperor, the minister thinks that the reason why the military and people in the north can have today's situation is not because of the prestige of my Ye Qing, but because they know that behind the minister is my Great Song court, so they will support and respect the minister. And the minister in the north, has never forgotten the court's grace to the minister, no matter when and where, the minister is proud of his position as a Song minister, and he does not dare to have the slightest idea of betraying my Great Song Dynasty. Ye Qing kept standing, while the Emperor Taishang sat on the chair, staring blankly at the bottom of the stage in a daze.

"The court has its own law, and as a minister, it is insurmountable, and Ye Qing ......." Emperor Taishang looked up at Ye Qing, with an expression of indescribable regret, and said heavily: "I believe that Qing is loyal to the court, but I also have difficulties, the court impeached you every day to support troops in the north, and to establish yourself as the king, just like the snowflakes in the north to the lonely mountain, if I connive at you in the north, the court will be chaotic, I am also very embarrassed, and I can't ......sleep at night for this reason." ”

"So, ...... has been trying his best to avoid repeating Yue Fei's mistakes back then, even if it is a failure. Ye Qing asked with a wry smile.

"I don't know...... What is the reason why Ye Qing stationed 8,000 soldiers in the Imperial City Division outside the city, aren't you going to rebel when you return to Lin'an this time? Zhao Yan looked at the Jiahui Gate, and suddenly lit up many torches, and suddenly asked directly.

"Minister...... Conspiracy? Ye Qing asked as if he didn't believe his ears, but the Supreme Emperor Zhao Yan didn't say a word and didn't answer Ye Qing's question immediately.