Seongyo, the Imperial Palace's Imperial Study

Emperor Liyang sat weakly on the dragon chair, staring at the commander of the Long Xiao School in front of him, Ling Hu Ying, and asked in a hoarse voice.

"Have you found out, where did the rumors start to spread?"

Linghu knelt on the inside of the hall, cold sweat oozed from his forehead: "The minister is incompetent...... For the time being, the mastermind behind it has not been identified......"

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Before he finished speaking, an inkstone smashed on his head, causing Fox Ying to stumble, ignoring the blood flowing from his hair, and grabbed the ground with his head.

"If you have the kindness of Your Majesty, you will die."

Emperor Liyang ignored Ling Hu Ying, who was kneeling, he turned his head to look at the old eunuch who was waiting next to him, and ordered.

"Go and invite the left and right phases into the palace."

The old eunuch went away in response to the order, and Emperor Liyang turned his head and looked at Ling Hu Ying gloomily: "No matter what method you use, within three days, give me this rumor to wipe out, otherwise you won't have to see me, you can find a way to kill yourself." ”

"Obey."

Ling Hu Ying's expression was firm, and he gave Emperor Liyang a salute, turned his head, and went straight to the palace with a murderous spirit.

It is foreseeable that this enraged leader of the biggest spy in the Northern Jin Dynasty will set off a bloody storm in the capital............

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After Linghu won away, Emperor Liyang's momentum declined directly, his chest rose and fell at an abnormal speed, and the emperor, who was over fifty years old, coughed vigorously a few times, and finally coughed up half a mouthful of blood.

Stretching out his hand to stop the eunuchs and palace maids who were about to run over with a big change in face next to him, Emperor Liyang took out a yellow brocade from his arms, calmly wiped the blood stains remaining at the corners of his mouth, and then shouted in a deep voice.

"What I saw just now is rotten in my stomach, and whoever goes out to spread the word will punish the whole clan."

"Slaves don't dare."

All the eunuchs and palace maids in the imperial study knelt down one after another, their faces frightened, but they didn't know what they thought in their hearts.

Emperor Liyang looked at this scene with some sadness.

The emperor is a lonely person, even if you are about to come to the end of your life, no one cares about you, all they think about is the end of the old dynasty, their future in the new dynasty, or how to benefit themselves between the old and the new.

"Ahem, cough, ............"

Emperor Liyang coughed even more, and the eunuch in charge sent someone to ask for a doctor at a trot, and he quietly let his henchman Yizi go to a certain place to deliver the message of "Your Majesty is seriously ill".

After a while, the imperial doctor arrived and used acupuncture to barely stop Emperor Liyang's cough, but it was difficult to revive the emperor's former majesty.

The pale-faced Emperor Liyang ignored the dissuasion of the imperial physician and insisted on waiting for the second phase to enter the palace, and then on the grounds that he was recuperating from his illness, he ordered the left and right ministers to temporarily manage the government, assisted by the general Di Yi and the six Shangshu.

After announcing the news, Emperor Liyang returned to the palace with the support of the eunuchs and palace maids, and only the two prime ministers who came from outside the palace in a hurry were left in the imperial study, and then they were blown up by the news for a long time and did not return to their senses.

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The right minister Shangguan Ye was bold, and he was the first to react from the shock and wake up the left minister Bao Huaiwei, who was still in the circle.

"Old Bao, why did Your Majesty suddenly fall ill, I saw that his face was not very good just now, or the two of us should go to the Tai Hospital to ask, Your Majesty's condition is not serious."

Bao Huaiwei hesitated a little: "The courtiers asked His Majesty about the dragon body, it is not in accordance with the rules." ”

"Elder Bao, you can't be rigid in doing things, if it's usual, I don't want to risk peeping into the Holy Body to inquire about His Majesty's condition.

But you also saw the sick and vain footsteps when His Majesty walked, to put it disrespectfully, this is not a posture of a small illness or a small disaster, Your Majesty's dragon health is related to my Great Jin Guoben, you and I are the head of a hundred officials, and we can't be treated with caution. ”

"This ......... Anyway, for the sake of the court, the old man made an exception. ”

Bao Huaiwei was successfully persuaded by Shangguan Ye's words, and the two of them went directly to the Tai Hospital, found the Tai Hospital, and asked Emperor Liyang's condition.

At the beginning, the Tai Hospital was dead and alive and did not speak, but later, under the coercion and temptation of Shangguan Ye, he finally told the truth about Emperor Liyang's illness.

"In the past two years, Your Majesty has been too tired in handling government affairs, and the older you are, the dragon body has been in dire condition.

The previous drought in Jizhou, His Majesty was worried about the drought, and he had not slept and eaten normally for more than ten days, and he was almost to the limit, and when he heard about the meteor, His Majesty was shocked and angry, and his body collapsed all of a sudden.

Now, the severity of His Majesty's condition is beyond the human power to stop, and if you are lucky, you can survive until winter, and if you are unlucky, I am afraid that you will ............."

That's all there was to it, but Bao Huaiwei and the others understood what he meant.

Zuo Xiang's face was a little worried, now that His Majesty is seriously ill, the East Palace has not yet been decided, it seems that it will not be long before the imperial court will have more waves because of that position.

And unlike Bao Huaiwei, the worried left minister, just like Shangguan Ye's heart, there were more surprises.

Emperor Liyang is seriously ill, and time is running out, but King Jing's biggest opponent is not in the capital, isn't this the best opportunity for King Jing.

Shangguanye's concubine married King Jing as a side concubine, if King Jing became the emperor, then he would be the abbot, plus the identity of the right minister, he can be said to be above ten thousand people under one person.

Even if her daughter gave birth to a prince to King Jing and was supported by the Shangguan family to become the emperor in the future, then the Northern Jin Dynasty would also be regarded as part of their Shangguan family.

Thinking of this, Shangguan Ye's heart was full of excitement, taking advantage of the great opportunity for Emperor Liyang to let him and Bao Huaiwei manage the government, he wanted to support King Jing to the throne, and even if King Duan came from Qingnan, the overall situation had been decided, and he would not be able to turn over any turmoil.

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Shangguan Ye was about to move, but the others were not stupid, Emperor Liyang acted so abnormally, who didn't mumble twice in his heart when he saw it.

Soon, Wen Heng, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites who noticed that the Jingwang Party was beginning to be active, immediately contacted the Empress Dowager Kong in the harem, and after learning about Emperor Liyang's illness from the Empress Dowager Kong, Wen Heng quickly wrote a letter to King Duan.

In the letter, he asked King Duan to return to the capital as quickly as possible, otherwise King Jing would have the upper hand, and it would be too late.

In the seventeenth year of the calendar, May 23

Duanwang, who was in Qingnan, received a letter from his teacher Wen Heng in an urgent delivery of 800 miles, and in a panic, he hurriedly packed his luggage and prepared to return to Beijing, but before he left the city, he was blocked by the right general Sha Qianying.

It seems that Sha Qianying, who knew that King Duan was going to return to Beijing, thought that King Duan had a holy order, and was responsible for supervising the training of the navy, but now that the navy has not been completed, King Duan must not leave Qingnan without permission.

Subsequently, Sha Qianying directly commanded his soldiers and horses to surround Duanwang and his party, and put Duanwang under house arrest in a courtyard in Pinghu Mansion City with an attitude of treating prisoners, and Duanwang's personal guards and entourage were also detained elsewhere by him.

Now, if King Duan still can't see that Sha Qianying is King Jing's person, then he doesn't need to fight for the throne.

It was at this time that King Duan understood why after he came to Qingnan, Sha Qianying was so cold to him, and even repeatedly deliberately made things difficult, and his feelings had long been won over by King Jing.

However, his fourth brother is also endurable enough, and he has won over a military giant with an army of 200,000, and he can not show his mouth at all, and now he has given himself a fatal blow at a critical moment, which has put him in an unprecedented difficult situation.

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Duanwang admired King Jing's wonderful move!

But what he didn't know was that Sha Qianying was not co-opted by King Jing in advance, and the two only had some contact before, but they couldn't talk about being the same party.

The reason why Sha Qianying has such an attitude towards King Duan is mostly because Emperor Liyang is unhappy that Emperor Liyang has sent such a prince to supervise the army, so he has an arrogant personality, so he will repeatedly make it difficult for King Duan.

As for today's events, they were actually done by Shangguanye.

When he came out of the palace that day, Shangguan Ye didn't even have time to go to King Jing, so he first wrote a letter to Sha Qianying, in which he truthfully informed Emperor Liyang's illness, and then analyzed the current situation of seizing the crown to Sha Qianying.

Then, Shangguan Ye told Sha Qianying that he knew everything Duanwang did for himself during this time, and asked Sha Qianying:

Do you think that if King Duan ascends the throne, he will have a good impression of a person who repeatedly disrespects him?

Sha Qianying was shocked by Shangguan Ye's words.

Yes, since King Duan and himself are not in harmony, the best result is that King Jing ascends the throne, if he can detain King Duan, so that he can't go back to the capital and compete with King Jing for the crown, then King Jing in the capital will succeed to the throne smoothly without any waves.

not only hindered the enemy, but also curried favor with the future new monarch and obtained the merit of the dragon, no matter how you look at it, this business can be done.

As a result, the bold Sha Qianying secretly transferred troops to control the area around Duanwang's residence, and when Duanwang, who received a message from the capital, was about to return to Beijing, he was directly forcibly detained and placed under house arrest.