Chapter Seventy-Four: Palace Changes
Mu Yunzhen looked at Wu Min who was kneeling on the ground with an angry face, but what he was thinking about was not how to deal with him, but Mu Yunche.
Since giving Yuan Xiu's granddaughter to him, this Manchu Dynasty official has made him toss all over again, and now when the two countries are at war, the most indispensable military department Shangshu has a problem, and he still has any scheming methods that have not been used, is this a sincere desire to kill my night river?
However, every minister who has an accident is an unavoidable capital crime, and it is difficult for him not to let them go.
At this time, it is the time for the DPRK and the Central Committee to employ people, and to get rid of those who have made mistakes, and just to promote some officials who are neutral, upright, and dedicated to the people, so that they can be considered clean, but these people still need a period of screening when they take office, which is a great headache......
Then Mu Yunzhen looked at Wu Min on the ground and said, "Say, who instructed you?" ”
"Yes, the minister was confused for a while, and no one instructed him!" Although Wu Min knew that the death penalty was inevitable, he was still reluctant to say what was behind the scenes.
"Don't you want to say it? Raising private soldiers with the intention of rebellion, but the great crime of the nine clans, do you really want to gamble with the lives of your own clansmen? Mu Yunzhen looked at Wu Min who was kneeling on the ground with a sneer.
"Don't think that if you don't say it, I won't know, the person who instructed you is the queen, right?"
"This ...... I...... The emperor, the ministers deserve to die, please let the emperor let go of the ministers' family...... "Wu Min has been disillusioned since the death of his only son, and he has made up his mind to die, but he also does not want to involve his family.
"Did you say it?" Mu Yunzhen seemed to have lost patience with this, and there was a faint anger burning in his eyes.
"It was the queen mother who asked her ministers to get close to Mu Yunjing, the former Huaiyuan Wang, and raise private soldiers in his name, and they could also frame him in case of an accident." Wu Min was bent on death, so he no longer cared about anything else, and told everything that had happened.
"Over the years, the minister has pretended to be close to the former King Huaiyuan, but in fact, he has been ordered by the queen to monitor King Huaiyuan's every move to restrain the power of Concubine Zhang Guifei's side."
"Then why does the queen want to raise private soldiers, in order to rebel?" Mu Yunzhen continued to ask, he never thought that the person next to his pillow would harbor evil intentions.
"I don't know this, I just act on orders......"
"The officials who died in accidents in the DPRK over the years......" Mu Yunzhen really didn't want to say the rest of the words, because he still didn't want to believe his wife, who had already got everything, actually had different intentions for himself.
"It is true that private soldiers are sent to fight against the party...... If the officials of the DPRK and China disobeyed, they sent private soldiers to assassinate them, and then disguised as accidents...... "Wu Min knelt on the ground and told the officials who had died under the hands of the private soldiers over the years, and explained which ones were meant by the empress and which were meant by Zhang Guifei......
Mu Yunzhen listened, a chill felt in his heart, his fists clenched, and his knuckles crackled by him.
At the same time, Mu Yunqing, who was hundreds of miles away, received a summons from a palace eunuch.
Because the army was divided into two places, the march was slow at the same time, and the battle ahead was imminent, so Yang Zhenliang asked Mu Yunqing to follow up with 150,000 horses in the rear, and he rushed to the scene with 50,000 soldiers first.
At this time, Mu Yunqing, who was preparing to rest in the camp, heard that he came to see him with the emperor's personal token in his hand, so he hurriedly let him in.
Mu Yunqing saw the little eunuch covered in blood and wounded, and he had a faint bad premonition in his heart.
At this time, I only heard the eunuch say: "Spread the emperor's message, Mu Yunjing is dissatisfied with the emperor's demotion to his throne, imprisons his biological mother, beheads his biological father, leads 5,000 private soldiers, and jointly guards the palace's Xiaocai battalion to launch a palace mutiny, intending to rebel, and now he specially orders the king of Yanbei to lead his troops back to the palace Qinwang!" ”
"What?" Mu Yunqing heard the words and stood up, and looked at the eunuch with a look of disbelief.
"Mu Yunjing dares to do this? What is the situation in the palace now, is my father okay? How did you get out? Mu Yunjing saw that the token was indeed real, and he did not doubt him in his heart, but he still asked cautiously.
"Back to the prince, the slave sneaked out of the palace after fighting for his life, and was chased and killed by a team of soldiers from the cavalry camp just now, fortunately the brothers in the camp rescued him, so that the oracle can be passed on to His Royal Highness, Your Highness should go back to the palace with me, if it's too late......" said the eunuch and suddenly fell to the ground.
The entourage next to Mu Yunqing hurriedly stepped forward to check, only to see that the eunuch was out of breath, so he shook his head at Mu Yunqing, saying that he was hopeless.
Mu Yunqing picked up the token on the eunuch's body, looked at it carefully, and confirmed that the token was the emperor's personal token.
Then Mu Yunqing asked the soldiers of the Xiao Cavalry Battalion who were caught, at first they talked about him left and right, and only said that there was nothing in the palace, this eunuch was just a thief who entered the palace to steal, stole the emperor's token, and came here to falsely pass on the order, so that he should not believe it.
But Mu Yunqing had a plan in his heart at this time, because Mu Yunjing's matter was a family scandal, his father declared that it was only a crime of rebellion, and only a few people knew the truth, how could this person who entered the palace and steal know so clearly.
The more these people denied it, the more it made Mu Yunqing feel that something was wrong.
At this moment, one of the soldiers of the Xiao Cavalry Battalion, who could not withstand the torture, said: "The palace is really fine, don't believe the words of this fake eunuch!" ”
A trace of unnaturalness flashed on the soldier's face, but he was caught by Mu Yunqing, and he ordered his subordinates to check whether the eunuch was real, which could not deceive people!
After a while, the guard in charge of the inspection came back and told Mu Yunqing that the identity of the eunuch was certain.
Only then did Mu Yunqing completely believe that what the eunuch said was true, and immediately gathered the soldiers and hurried to the palace!
Mu Yunqing came to the palace gate with 50,000 soldiers, and the guards hurriedly stopped him, but Mu Yunqing felt that the palace had been controlled, and he entered the palace with tens of thousands of troops.
Mu Yunzhen, who was interrogating Wu Min in Shouyang Palace, saw a guard running in in a panic, knelt on the ground and said to Mu Yunzhen eagerly: "Your Majesty, the King of Yanbei is leading troops into the palace, we really can't stop it, please evacuate quickly!" ”
Mu Yunzhen heard this, and said angrily: "Whoever gave him the guts, he really has to go against him!" ”
At this time, Mu Yunzhen was even more convinced of the intention of the queen and the king of Yanbei, Mu Yunqing's rebellion.
After all, Mu Yunzhen had experienced a life-and-death battle on the battlefield, and he was not in a hurry to follow the soldiers to escape at this time, but sat in the dormitory and waited for Mu Yunqing's arrival.
At this time, Mu Yun Qingqin Wang was anxious, and took the soldiers to fight all the way, and he also hung colors on his body, and when he led the troops to the Shouyang Palace, he saw that the Shouyang Palace was heavily guarded, and there were layers of soldiers guarding it, and he was not suspicious in his heart.
I saw him step forward and shout loudly: "Mu Yunjing, you thief, come out quickly and die!" ”
His voice did not shout out the Mu Yunjing he imagined, but it was his father Mu Yunzhen who came out.
Seeing this, Mu Yunqing shouted: "Father, the son is here to save you!" ”
"Huh, help me? Mu Yunqing, you are so bold, you dare to lead troops to force the palace, intending to rebel? Mu Yunzhen didn't believe Mu Yunqing's words, and snorted coldly at him.
Seeing this, Mu Yunqing realized that he had been deceived, and there was no Mu Yunjing forcing the palace at all!
Knowing that he had made a big mistake, he hurriedly threw down the weapon in his hand, knelt on the ground with weak legs, and said in a trembling voice: "My father is angry, and my son has been calculated so far......"
But Mu Yunzhen didn't believe his words at all, and snorted coldly: "Hmph, you secretly hid troops with the intention of rebellion, and at this time, knowing that the truth was revealed, the dog jumped over the wall in a hurry, right?" ”
"Father, someone went to the barracks with his father's personal token, and pretended to pass on his father's oracle, saying that Mu Yunjing led troops to force the palace to ask his sons to enter the palace Qinwang......" Mu Yunqing knelt on the ground and said tremblingly.
"My personal token?" Mu Yunzhen frowned when he heard this, and seemed to have reacted to the strangeness, and said to Chen Quan beside him: "Where is my token?" ”
Hearing this, Chen Quan hurriedly walked to the house, and after a while, he hurriedly ran out, knelt on the ground, and said in horror: "Old slave, damn it, I didn't look at the token, the token is gone!" ”
Mu Yunzhen was shocked when he heard this, what kind of person was so bold that he actually stole in the palace, and could steal his portable token without knowing it?
So Mu Yunzhen didn't care about pursuing Mu Yunqing's fault in forcing the palace, but said to him: "You get me in and explain what happened!" ”
Mu Yunqing hurriedly got up when he heard this, and followed Mu Yunzhen into the dormitory.
But after entering, I didn't expect to see Wu Min kneeling on the ground, and I couldn't help but be stunned, and vaguely guessed what happened.
Mu Yunqing knelt on the ground and handed Mu Yunzhen's personal token to Mu Yunzhen with both hands.
When Mu Yunzhen saw the token, his face was gloomy, and he said to Mu Yunqing: "What's the matter?" ”
Hearing this, Mu Yunqing slowly spoke, narrating what happened tonight one by one, but he didn't expect that at this moment, Chen Quan on the side suddenly took out a dagger from his sleeve and instantly slit Mu Yunzhen's throat!
Blood splattered, Mu Yunzhen covered his neck and turned his head, staring at Chen Quan in disbelief.
At this time, Mu Yunqing reacted and shouted, "Chen Quan, what are you doing?" ”
At this time, he heard Chen Quan say in horror: "King Yanbei, the old slave has served the emperor all his life, and he can't betray the emperor, so don't embarrass the slave!" ”
Saying that, Chen Quan didn't react to Wu Min on the ground, and flashed forward and stabbed him!
Mu Yunqing was shocked when he saw this, he didn't expect this Chen Quan to be a master! So he hurriedly stepped forward to capture him.
But Chen Quan didn't panic at all when he saw this, and while stuffing the knife into Mu Yunqing's hand, he shouted loudly: "Come on, come on, Mu Yunqing killed the emperor......"
All this happened between the lightning and flint, and when the soldiers outside reacted and rushed in, Mu Yunzhen and Wu Min on the ground had already lost their breath, only to see Mu Yunqing holding a knife and wanting to kill Chen Quan, and the "old and weak" Chen Quan was holding Mu Yunqing's hand and resisting at this time, and the soldiers didn't know what to do when they saw this.
At this moment, one of the guards said, "Mu Yunqing plotted to usurp the throne, we have all seen it today, if he is allowed to ascend the throne in the future, there will be no way for me to live, quickly capture him, King Yong'an will make the decision for us!" ”
After everyone heard the words and glanced at each other, they rushed up, Mu Yunqing and the civil officials, how could they parry, and they were soon caught by the guards.
At this time, Mu Yunche also happened to arrive, looked at Mu Yunqing who was captured, and said, "Second brother, why are you so troubled?" ”