Now the saber rattling in the palace was about to start fighting, when suddenly there was a sound of footsteps outside the hall.

Then Niu Jizong broke into the main hall of the Qianqing Palace with hundreds of personal soldiers.

It turned out that Niu Jizong was originally dealing with the deployment of troops in the capital outside, but he suddenly got a report from his own soldiers that it was in the Qianqing Palace, and the four kings and eight dukes and other upstarts and members of the royal family had already had a fight. Even Liu Fang, the grandson of the Duke of Liguo, was beheaded on the spot by King Zhongshun.

Niu Jizong was a little annoyed after hearing this, when was this, they were still fighting for power there, so Niu Jizong hurriedly came to the Qianqing Palace with his men and horses.

As soon as Niu Jizong entered the Qianqing Palace, he saw two groups of people and horses, each holding a sword shouting there, and in the main hall of the Qianqing Palace, there was a headless corpse, which kept bleeding, and it should be Liu Fang in costumes.

Niu Jizong hurriedly ordered his own soldiers to break into the temple and separate the two groups of people.

When these two groups saw that so many soldiers had come in, they did not dare to continue, but they were able to retreat to each side.

Niu Jizong was relieved to see that these people were finally separated, and then came to the palace to look at King Zhongshun and said, "Lord Wang, what's going on?" Why kill Liu Fang? ”

King Zhongshun is still on fire until now, he carried his sword and said to Niu Jizong: "You four kings and eight princes, now think that I am a rebel, want to take me, ask Jia Ke for credit, what do you think, what do you think?" Don't you want to come and get me? ”

After Niu Jizong heard this, he turned around in his heart and asked Sun Xuan, the grandson of the king of Nan'an County, the leader of the four kings and eight princes, "Grandpa, what's going on?" ”

Sun Xuan glanced at King Zhongshun with a gloomy face, and then said: "Liu Wan came over just now to remind us that Jia Ke set us up this time, just waiting for us to make trouble, we are just doing this to protect ourselves." ”

Niu Jizong was also shocked when he heard this, he turned around and found Liu Wan in the crowd, and then asked, "Lord Liu, please analyze the matter for me again, what is going on." ”

Niu Jizong is now also starting to beat the drum in his heart, to say that he is not afraid that it is a lie, after all, this time it is the life of hundreds of people in the whole family, if it fails, I am afraid it will be impossible to protect himself.

Liu Wan had already hid far away when these people were in conflict just now, and now that Niu Jizong was in control of the situation, he asked himself again, so he moved to the center and handed over to Niu Jizong, and then re-said his judgment just now.

After listening to this, Niu Jizong pondered silently for a while, and he felt that what Liu Wan said was probably true.

According to his observation of Jia Ke over the years, almost Jia Ke has never done anything that has made a major mistake.

When he was leaving this time, Jia Ke actually transferred all the soldiers and horses in the capital, such an obvious hint, he didn't realize that this time it was really dangerous to increase his life.

And King Zhongshun stood aside and watched Niu Jizong ponder there, and couldn't help but grasp the sword tightly. Because he knew that Niu Jizong was now actually in control of all the forces in the capital, if he stood on the side of the four kings and eight princes again, then he might not have a chance to turn over.

And Niu Jizong thought about it for a while and felt that things were very dangerous, the current set of loyalty and patriotism was thrown out of the clouds, there was no need to take it seriously, so he gritted his teeth and stomped his feet and turned to the emperor and said: "Long live, the crime of rebellion launched by the king of loyalty is not forgiven, please send a decree to arrest the king of loyalty, and wait until the prime minister comes back to make a decision." ”

Niu Jizong was also scared now, he didn't expect that these actions of theirs could only be carried out with Jia Ke's connivance, if he had known that he had ten guts, he would not have dared to get involved.

The emperor has now understood the danger of form, and this time he re-emerged from the mountain, which is simply a sea of fire on the sword mountain.

At this time, the emperor looked at the king of Zhongshun with bad intentions, and it seemed that it was time to sacrifice this younger brother.

And King Zhongshun stood on the palace and looked at the expressions of the emperor above and the nobles below, and knew that he was about to be abandoned by them.

The emperor looked at King Zhongshun with an unbearable face, and then ordered Niu Jizong: "King Zhongshun is plotting against him, intending to rebel, and will send King Zhongshun into the prison, and wait for the prime minister to come back." ”

Niu Jizong nodded after listening, the emperor is not completely confused, at this time, if he cares about family affection, I am afraid that he will lose a big one because of a small one.

Niu Jizong turned around and said to the soldiers he had brought into the main hall, "Take down the rebel of King Zhongshun." ”

After listening to Niu Jizong's order, these soldiers immediately rushed up to arrest King Zhongshun.

At this time, the old prince of righteousness and filial piety suddenly came to the front of the king of Zhongshun in three steps and two steps, and stretched out his arm to block these soldiers.

These people didn't dare to use the wall when they saw the old prince blocking in front of them, so they all looked back one after another and asked Niu Jizong to give him an idea.

Seeing this situation, Niu Jizong took a few steps forward and said coldly to the Prince of Yixiao: "Old Prince, do you want to protect the King of Zhongshun?" ”

The old prince didn't look at Niu Jizong, turned around and said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, the matter has come to this point, you can't be weaker anymore, Jia Ke's usurpation of the throne is obvious, even if you sacrifice the loyal king, you can't keep peace for a while, it's better to fight to the death, and you can still leave the wisdom of the ages." ”

After hearing this, the emperor's hand, which was holding the handrail made of jade, had turned pale.

Prince Yixiao saw that the emperor was a little hesitant, and hurriedly made persistent efforts and said: "Your Majesty, we are now doing our best to recruit troops and horses, and we will not fight with Jia Ke in the capital, let's take these horses and the silver accumulated over the years to retreat to the south of the Yangtze River, and there is still a glimmer of hope for Jia Ke." ”

The emperor's eyes lit up when he heard this, what Prince Yixiao said may not be unreasonable, as long as he retreats to Jinling, where Emperor Taizu started, the local gentry and people still have great respect for the imperial court, and may be able to compete with Jia Ke with this foundation.

So the emperor turned his eyes to the four kings and eight dukes, and wanted them to make a choice.

And at this time, as soon as Gongsun Xuan waited, his heart began to live, if he really retreated to Jiangnan, it would also be a world of flowers, and the annual taxes paid there accounted for 35% of the country, and he may not be able to make a comeback.

So this Sun Xuan immediately glanced at Niu Jizong, and then stood up and said to the emperor: "Long live Lord, this plan is very good, it is better for us to straighten out the people and retreat to Jiangnan." ”

The four kings and eight princes are now also starting to whisper, and they are all discussing, if they go to Jiangnan, what will be the situation, but the more they talk, the more excited they become, it is simply a panacea to crack Jia Ke.

However, Chen Ruiwen, the grandson of Chen Yi, the grandson of the Duke of Qi, was the first to stand up against it.

"Your Majesty, this is a plan to destroy the country, and it must not be done."

After hearing this, the emperor couldn't help but change his face a little, he was already a little bit of a snake shadow now.

"What does Aiqing say, just say it."

"Your Majesty, these people we have recruited are untrained, and they are short of weapons and lack of food and grass, how can they rush all the way to Jiangnan?"

After Chen Ruiwen asked this sentence, the cultural relics of the Manchu Dynasty were a little hesitant.

Prince Yixiao couldn't see it well, if he really let this person talk about it, then the king of Zhongshun would have to be in a different place.

"Your Majesty can't listen to this person's nonsense, although we are recruiting new soldiers, but in addition to the tens of thousands of people in the provinces, we are all the way south, although the grain and grass are a little poor, but when we go to the past states and counties, we will avoid the big cities when we encounter them, and attack them when we encounter small cities, replenish the grain and grass, and recruit soldiers so that they will roll bigger and bigger, and when we get to the south of the Yangtze River, we are afraid that there will be hundreds of thousands of soldiers."

In fact, Prince Yixiao said these words, but he opened his eyes and said nonsense to deceive the emperor, and it is simply nonsense to keep recruiting soldiers on the road.

There is no food and no money, and those peasant children are not crazy, they really go to exile with you, and sacrifice their lives to protect you, the emperor.

Prince Yixiao's current purpose is just to protect King Zhongshun, because in Prince Yixiao's opinion, the only one in the current royal family of Zhongshun Wang has some blood, if even he is finished, then their family's country will be here.

After listening to this, the emperor said to Chen Ruiwen next to him: "Aiqing, you also heard, according to the words of the old emperor's uncle, we still have a glimmer of hope, it is better than sitting here and waiting to die." ”

When the emperor said this, he sighed again, and said to the civil and military ministers below: "If you wait for Bao Zhen to go to Jiangnan to ascend the throne, I will not treat all Aiqing badly, and when you get to Jiangnan, all the losses will be made up." ”

The four kings and eight princes below still had a glimmer of hope in their hearts, so they did not refute the emperor's words.

King Zhongshun looked at them below, discussing lively, but showed a sneer.

In the heart of King Zhongshun, where is there any place to be stable now, do you think that there is no Jia Ke's manpower in Jiangnan now, the soldiers and horses in the world are all under Jia Ke's command, they take these old, weak, sick and newly recruited ruffians and hooligans, and want to break out of the heavy siege to reach Jiangnan, it is simply a fantasy.

It's better to desperately defend the city in the capital, and then negotiate the conditions with Jia Ke, maybe there is still a glimmer of life.

But the king could not explain, because his life was now in the hands of these people, and he might be able to save himself for a while, but if they were completely desperate, he would die immediately.

After the emperor thought clearly on the throne, he ordered his subordinates: "Niu Jizong immediately recruits soldiers and horses, distributes weapons, and organizes these people to train and prepare them to leave Beijing." ”

Niu Jizong immediately knelt on the ground to receive the order, and then stood aside.

Then the emperor ordered these people present to go back immediately to pack up the softness, and immediately set off for Jinling three days later.

After these four kings and eight princes and princes and nobles all retreated.

And now there are still in the main hall, in addition to the two royal families of King Zhongshun and Prince Yixiao, Liu Wan is left.

Only then did the emperor look at Liu Wan, who was standing next to him.

"Liu Aiqing, how much grain is in the treasury now?"