Fan Kang had just arranged these things and was about to send someone to deliver the holy decree to Jia Ke, when he saw a soldier who looked like a soldier running in.

As soon as he entered the main hall, he came to Xiao Kun's ear and whispered a word, Xiao Kun changed suddenly, and his face changed greatly.

Fan Kang saw clearly from above, and immediately asked, "What's the matter?" Is the emperor a moth again? ”

Xiao Kun didn't answer immediately, waved his hand to let the soldier go down, and then walked a few steps in front of Fan Kang, and whispered: "Sir, the big thing is not good, the Emperor Taishang has just died in the Qianqing Palace." ”

Fan Kang breathed a sigh of relief after listening to Xiao Kun's words, he also thought that the emperor was unwilling to make something wrong, if it was just the death of the emperor, it would be nothing.

Fan Kang thought for a while and said: "You sent someone to inform Zhao Shu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and asked him to take someone to the palace to deal with the affairs of the Emperor Taishang, and he is the best at these etiquette matters." ”

After Fan Kang finished instructing Xiao Kun, he said to Zheng Kai and Xiao Yue: "You two should go out of the city immediately, and you can't leave for a moment in the army, you send someone to inform Ma Zuo, and let us put the marshal's mansion in advance, so that he can go out of the city first to control the army." ”

Zheng Kai and Xiao Yue listened to Fan Kun's words and knew that the situation was serious, so they bowed their hands and went out of the yamen to lead the infantry and go out of the city with their own soldiers.

Since Fan Kang had all left, he issued an order in the infantry commander's yamen to block the nine gates of the capital from now on and not allow anyone to enter or leave.

Fan Kang was also a little annoyed now, he didn't expect this Emperor Taishang to be so useless. Originally, I thought about waiting until Jia Ke came back before making a decision, but I didn't expect him to leave first.

It doesn't matter if the emperor is gone, he is afraid that the world will talk about it, and it won't be long before there will be rumors among the people that Jia Ke killed the king, and those princes and nobles and the royal clan will make trouble if they don't get it right.

It doesn't matter if there are a few generals in control of the army outside the city, but they are afraid of unrest in the city.

So Fan Kang did not dare to slack off, and immediately ordered the infantry to lead the yamen, immediately go to the streets to block the nine gates, and at the same time impose a curfew in the capital, no one is allowed to go to the streets without the consent of the infantry commander yamen, if there is a violation, arrest immediately, if you dare to resist, you will be executed on the spot.

After Fan Kang finished these things, he sent his henchmen to carry the emperor's holy decree, and hurried out of the city to meet Jia Ke, delivered the holy decree to him, and wrote a letter to him, explaining the situation in the capital and the news of the emperor's death, and asked him to rush back to the capital immediately.

But in the capital, as Fan Kang thought, there was undue turmoil, originally because of the resistance to the blockade of the capital, it made the people in the capital panic, and suddenly the emperor died, which made people think more and more.

Ordinary people are just happy at home, but those royal clansmen are not only happy, they also take action in secret.

These people connected with each other, gathered dozens of high-powered, respected old men, they wore court clothes and drove their own ceremonies, and before Fan Kang could react, they gathered at the noon court gate on the grounds of entering the palace to hang filial piety to the emperor.

After Fan Kang got the news, it was too late to stop these people, so he could only take the people to the Wu Chaomen.

When he arrived, he saw that these people were each making loud noises there, and the small servants under their hands also kept helping, threatening the guards in the gate of the Wu Dynasty, asking him to let go of the city gate and let him go in to pay homage to the emperor and the emperor.

After Fan Kang came, he was also very angry when he saw that there was no general in charge at that time, and those forbidden army guards who guarded the city gate saw Fan Kang coming and hurriedly came over to salute him.

Fan Kang asked angrily, "What about your commander Xiao Kun?" Why didn't you see him come to the town? ”

The general bowed his head and bowed and replied, "If you go back to your lordship, our general is now stationed in the imperial city, so I ordered the last general to come here." ”

Fan Kang could only nod helplessly after listening to it, after all, there were still not enough manpower in Fan Kang's hands now.

And those princes and nobles saw Fan Kang coming, and knew that he was a person in charge, so they rushed forward to surround Fan Kang in the middle, and each of them made a noise.

"It seems that you are a leader, now hurry up and order them to get out of the way, we will attack Emperor Chaojian and Emperor Taishang."

"We got the news just now, such an important event as the death of the Emperor Taishang was not allowed to let us from the royal family, isn't there some ghost in it?"

Fan Kang was surrounded by them in the middle, and he couldn't get out for a while. And the Zhongjun Ding next to Fan Kang, you see where this situation can make Fan Kang dangerous, so he rushed up and snatched Fan Kang out of these people.

Fan Kang was protected by the Chinese soldiers to the back, so he breathed a sigh of relief, and then sorted out the clothes that were caught by these royal relatives.

Fan Kang was still there constantly trying to storm the city gate and the royal clan of the army, and his face immediately sank, he knew that if he didn't suppress these people, more people would come to make trouble.

So Fan Kang was not polite, and directly ordered the troops behind him: "Immediately surround these people." ”

The soldiers behind Wan Kang have been waiting for this sentence for a long time, these people don't understand what kind of prince and nobleman you are, and your blood is noble. It was a crowd that surrounded these people in the middle, and these palace nobles still wanted to resist, and ordered their subordinates and servants to drive the officers and soldiers here.

It was in response to them that it was a mess of sticks, beating these family members to the head, and even those who rushed more to the front of the royal center were beaten a few times, and this time they were honest.

Fan Kang saw that the situation had been brought under control, and those people did not dare to make another attempt, so he stepped forward and said to them again: "The Nine Gate Admiral's Mansion has ordered that a curfew be implemented in the capital, you go back now, I can not blame the past, otherwise, An Lu will be executed on the spot." ”

And those princes and nobles looked at Fan Kang not joking, and these soldiers under Fan Kang's hands had already unsheathed their swords one by one, waiting for their reply, so they all began to retreat.

In the end, they elected the eldest to come out and negotiate with Fan Kang.

"This Lord Wei, we just heard that the Emperor Taishang died and wanted to go in to pay homage, and we didn't mean anything else."

Fan Kang listened to this person's tone and knew that they were already wilting.

So Fan Kang cheered up and replied loudly: "The death of the Emperor Taishang has been handled by the Ministry of Rites, you go back and wait for the news, according to the etiquette, there will naturally be a time for you to visit the shrine." ”

These people below looked at each other, and finally discussed it in a whisper a few times, knowing that they could not enter the palace, and finally had no choice but to retreat.

Fan Kang was relieved when he saw them retreating, because Fan Kang was not Jia Ke after all, and he didn't have the courage to kill, if these people were strong enough to break in, Fan Kang was really not good.

This is also the difference between Jia Ke and Fan Kang, in ancient times, in many cases, those ministers and generals under the monarch were more capable than their lords, but they did not have the determination and will of their lords, so they were subservient.

Besides, Jia Ke has now returned to Miyun with his men and horses, and their team of men and horses has just arrived in Miyun, and Hou Sheng, who is guarding Miyun, got the news, and he hurriedly brought his own soldiers to the road to meet Jia Ke.

At this time, Jia Ke marched towards the capital with hundreds of thousands of horses, and also erected big flags on both sides, with three words written on the side of Qingjun.

When Jia Ke was advancing with the team, suddenly his own soldiers came over to report that Hou Sheng, the garrison of Miyun, had been waiting on the side of the road for a long time.

Jia Ke came to the front of the team with his own personal team, and sure enough, he saw that Hou Sheng had already dismounted and was waiting on the side of the road.

Jia Ke urged the horse to come to him and said, "You are not guarding the city in Miyun, what are you doing here?" ”

When Hou Sheng saw Jia Ke, he quickly knelt down on his knees and clenched his fists and said: "I know that the lord is returning to the master, so I specially came to greet the lord and invite the lord to enter the city to rest, and it is not too late to leave tomorrow." ”

Jia Ke said unhappily: "Now that the military situation is urgent, I don't know what happened in the Beijing Division. How can I have the heart to continue, you don't have to persuade anymore, the army can't stop and go back to the capital directly through Miyun. ”

While they were discussing here, he saw a fast horse flying in the distance, and he saw that Jia Ke's army not only did not stop, but ran towards him.

Jia Ke stood there and didn't move, and the soldiers behind him, seeing this person coming straight to Jia Ke, immediately rushed up to separate him from Jia Ke, and pointed at this person with a knife and gun out of their sheaths, as long as he made a slight movement, he immediately went up and cut it into pulp.

When the man who came saw that he was surrounded by Jia Ke's own soldiers, he immediately turned over and dismounted, and there he fell on one knee and shouted, "Commander, I am a subordinate of Lord Fan, and I have sent you a decree and a letter on his orders." ”

Jia Ke heard him mention Fan Kang's name, which was right, Liu Yu next to him was a look, and asked him to step forward and take a look.

Liu Yu came to this man, dismounted and came to his side, and then said, "Where are the holy decrees and letters?" Just give it to me. ”

The man who came on horseback hurriedly opened the package from behind, delivered the stool to Liu Yu, and then took out a letter from his bosom and sent it to Liu Yu.

Liu Yu took the letter from the Holy Decree and Fan Kang, turned around and said to a few soldiers next to him: "Search him to see if there is anything wrong with him." ”

After Liu Yu finished giving the order, he hurriedly ran a few steps to Jia Ke's horse and handed the holy decree and letter to Jia Ke.

Jia Ke first took Fan Kang's letter, opened it and looked at it, he was immediately shocked, he didn't expect that Fan Kang had already raised troops to blockade the capital before him, forcing the emperor to divide himself into the Duke of Yanguo, and the prime minister led the military generals, and then the emperor died. It seems that Emperor Taishang's originally bad body was completely lost by Fan Kang's blow.

Jia Ke couldn't help but be silent when he saw this, and his mind couldn't help but recall the kindness of the Emperor Taishang to himself, if it wasn't for the Emperor's trust, he wouldn't be where he is today.

After being silent for a while, Jia Ke put the letter in his bosom and opened the decree again. Seeing the handwriting on the holy decree, it was indeed the same as what Fan Kang said.

Jia Ke thought for a while and said to Liu Yu: "Pass my general's order, the army will be stationed next to Miyun City, and after the army camp is completed, order the six Jiedu envoys and the general soldiers to meet me in the big tent." ”