Open the door! Open the door! Open the door!

The cries in the city continued.

Ruan Qingzhi seemed to have returned to the battlefield where the bandits were suppressed a few days ago, listening to the soldiers shouting in unison, listening to the sound of horses' hooves, listening to the footsteps, and listening to the blades sweeping the world like a storm.

Yes, that's the sound of thousands of troops coming!

Ruan Qingzhi hurriedly looked back at Ye Han. Sure enough, he had put down his hand holding his sword aloft, his eyes looked at the city gate that was still closed, and a smile appeared on his grim face.

"Here we go." He said.

At this time, the soldiers guarding the city tower had long since lost their previous domineering posture. Obviously, they still condescended to occupy the advantageous position, but they were all like rabbits surrounded by wolves, except for trembling and trembling, and the little thought they had left was all used to plan to escape.

"It's the other way around, it's the other way around!" A soldier muttered.

It's really the other way around. The situation in the city is out of control.

Who would have thought...... Who would have thought!

A soldier suddenly threw a knife and pulled off his military uniform fiercely: "Damn, don't do it!" ”

"Liangzi, you're crazy!" A companion next to him was so frightened that he hurried over to stop him.

The soldier known as Liang Zi raised his hand and pointed to the city: "It's not that I'm crazy, it's that they're crazy, and everyone in the world is crazy!" ”

I don't know if the people in the world are crazy or not, anyway, the people in Beijing are crazy. Many soldiers on the castle tower thought at the same time.

Someone took the lead, and someone next to him immediately followed suit, and in the blink of an eye, a small half of the dozens of guards actually took off their uniforms and threw their weapons, and ran out to blend into the crowd.

Of course, there are also companions who try to stop them, but the general is dead, and the rest of these officials are no higher than others, and in the end, of course, no one can stop anyone.

After such a while, the voice of the city has already reached the door.

The soldiers below finally couldn't resist it, and were pounced on and pressed down by the surging crowd, miserable like a few crabs on the beach that were slapped by huge waves.

The gates opened.

The surging crowd did not pour out of the open gate, but stopped, separated, and prostrate in an instant, calm as the sand after the tide had receded.

"Welcome His Royal Highness King Li back to Beijing!"

"Welcome His Royal Highness King Li back to Beijing!"

"Welcome His Royal Highness King Li back to Beijing!"

The same content, different sounds, and like the tide of the sea, slowly swayed from the city gate, overlapping and overlapping, and then overlapping and back, shocking.

The whole street, more than ten miles long, is densely packed with people.

Men, women, young and old, rich and poor, crowded and kneeling on the ground, looking at the endless piece, all people.

The few remaining soldiers who were still willing to hold on to the city wall had numb scalps, and after standing sluggishly for a long time, they finally ripped off their uniforms, sneaked down the city wall, and fled.

King Li reversed.

King Li is the opposite!

The emperor and the crown prince have always been guarding against him, so dozens of assassinations were arranged along the way, thinking that even if he couldn't kill him, he could force him to take out all the killer weapons hidden in the shadows.

I didn't expect him to really only bring so many thirty people all the way back to Beijing, and I didn't expect that-

His killer weapon is not in the northwest, not in the team he led to suppress bandits, but has long been hidden in Shangjing, living openly under the noses of the emperor and the crown prince.

Commoners!

The people of Shangjing, whether men, women or children, rich or poor, are all his comrades, and they are all the killer weapons he used to subvert the Southern Qi Dynasty!

This, how is this possible?

The soldiers who fled couldn't figure it out, and neither did Ling Shuang, who had just received the news and smashed a table of tea bowls in anger.

He knows how greedy the people are for life and fear of death, and how stupid and difficult it is for the people to convince him even more. He has been working hard in Beijing for more than ten years, if this popular will can be used, will he not be able to think of it?

This Ling Han, he has obviously been in the northwest! He has only been back in Beijing for a few months, how could he ......

Ling Shuang was cold all over his body.

The cheers at the gate of the city continued, and the content changed from "Greeting His Royal Highness King Li to return to Beijing" to "Qingyang County Lord Chitose Chitose".

This is really a big rebellion, but Ruan Qingzhi didn't feel panicked at all.

She even felt that "Chitose" was a bit less, and secretly said in her heart that the county lord might have lived tens of thousands of years old, and these stupid children could be regarded as calling us young.

Ye Han didn't feel panicked.

He smiled and gestured to Nguyen Thanh Chi, and then the two horses entered the city gate at the same time and walked slowly past the kneeling people.

Everywhere he went, there was a chorus of joy.

After more than 30 soldiers behind him entered the city gate, Ye Han reined in the horse's head, stood up on horseback, and said loudly: "You must already know: the fifth son of the emperor, Ling Shuang, held His Majesty hostage, controlled the court, and forced his father to take the throne, wanting to fool and bully thousands of people in my Southern Qi Dynasty, like pigs and dogs!" Now that the Southern Qi Dynasty is in danger, it is the duty of this king to occupy the throne, and he is willing to eliminate treachery and evil for the Southern Qi Dynasty, uphold the dynasty, and support the orthodoxy! ”

"Eliminate treachery, uphold the dynasty, and support orthodoxy!" All the people echoed in unison, and the voices were heard on top of each other as before.

The whole city shook. Even the old dust on the carved beams and paintings in the palace seemed to be shaken down.

The emperor was shocked by the news, pushed down the chessboard and stood up: "That son of a scumbag...... That son of a! He did the opposite! I know! I know!! ”

"Your Majesty," Xue Wanyi, who had just entered the palace, hurriedly knelt down and persuaded her, "Your Majesty is angry, maybe things are not what Your Majesty thinks?" Didn't King Li say, 'Eliminate treachery and evil, and uphold orthodoxy', he may just have some old grudges with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, not against His Majesty......"

"What old grudge can he have with the prince?" The emperor slapped the table, "He has an old grudge against me!" ”

Xue Wanyi saw that he was furious, and immediately did not dare to speak, and timidly knelt on the ground and pretended that he did not exist.

The emperor walked around the ground angrily, stepping on the ground through the thick velvet blanket: "Who is the 'treacherous evil'?" Who is 'Orthodox'? He wants to 'support orthodoxy', who does he want to 'support'? Who else is he willing to put in his eyes now? It's clear that he's coming to take over the country himself—he's been thinking about it for twenty years! ”

Xiao Anzi stood respectfully beside him first, and finally couldn't help but remind at this moment: "Your Majesty, do you want to summon the prince?" ”

Xue Wanyi was overjoyed when she heard this, and she hurriedly followed suit: "Yes, Your Majesty, call the prince here!" The prince is smart and benevolent, there will definitely be a way! ”

"Smart? Benevolence? The emperor sneered, suddenly became furious, and even the small table on the couch was lifted down: "Get out! Get out of here! ”

Xue Wanyi didn't hesitate at all, and immediately retreated with the palace maids and eunuchs.

Xiao Anzi didn't leave, he bowed forward and persuaded in a low voice: "The more angry Your Majesty is, the more you can't let the villain do anything wrong." Now that King Li is only inciting the people at the gate of the city, and the court has not reacted for the time being, does His Majesty want to immediately summon all the adults into the palace and at the same time order Jin Wuwei to escort him? ”

The Emperor looked back at him.

Xiao Anzi didn't notice it, still bowed his head and waited respectfully for the show.

After a long time, the emperor snorted coldly and sat down heavily: "In the palace and in the court, is there one that can be used?" He can incite the people of the whole city to kneel at the west gate to welcome him without saying a word, how do you know that he can't incite the Manchu Dynasty to force me to abdicate! ”

Xiao Anzi thought for a moment and shut up.

The emperor grabbed a few chess pieces scattered around his hand and threw them out: "Spread my message!" Close the palace gate now! No clan courtiers are allowed to enter the palace, otherwise they will be punished for rebellion! ”

Xiao Anzi hurriedly agreed to withdraw with the order, and when he retreated to the door, he heard the emperor add sharply: "If that son dares to come back, he will not be allowed to enter!" Didn't he want to invite people to buy people's hearts and say, 'Kuang Fu Orthodoxy'? Tell him that if he really came back to support orthodoxy and not come back to force the palace, he would first kneel outside the palace gate for three days, and then take off his armor and strip off his clothes and kneel into the palace gate! If he will do it, I will believe in him! ”

The little eunuchs outside the door were trembling with fright, and Xiao Anzi had agreed to retreat without changing his face.

The palace door closed one after another, and there was a dead silence inside the door, and the wind and clouds were surging outside the door.

Hearing the news, countless officials hurried out of their homes and rushed to Miyagi.

Those clan sons and daughters invariably chose to wait and see, and the doors were closed, and only sent a small servant to disguise himself to the street to listen to the news.

Shangjing fell into chaos, but in the chaos there seemed to be a hidden law, and it was progressing in a busy and orderly manner.

Ye Han and his entourage walked slowly surrounded by thousands of people, and it took nearly two hours to reach the gate of the palace.

The civil and military officials waiting outside the palace gate were like tourists on the beach watching the tide sweeping in, shocked and frightened.

They all stood up in unison, standing against the wall on both sides, looking at the more than thirty soldiers covered in blood, and at the incalculable number of people behind them.

Nanqi became too fast this day.

Only the little girl's smile remained.

After being frightened of the dark red, jet black and gray color, the ministers invariably moved their eyes to the little girl wrapped in a cloak and smiling beside Ye Han.

This child said that she was missing a few years ago, and in order to find her, the whole city was jumped, and the year was not good. After hearing the news, the people of Yangcheng rushed into Shangjing like crazy and searched door to door, but they didn't dig three feet into the ground.

After tossing for more than 20 days, news suddenly came from outside, saying that she had gone to the north to find King Li.

At that time, the king of Jin had become the crown prince, and a few days later he said that the emperor wanted to take the throne, so Shangjing was suddenly busy, everyone only remembered that the king of Jin was the future son of heaven, and the teahouses and restaurants in the streets and alleys were all talking about the world's major events of the emperor's throne replacement, who was willing to put his mind on a naughty county lord with a foreign surname!

In the unintentional or intentional neglect of the people of the city and even the whole world, everyone seems to have forgotten a very important thing:

That Qingyang County Lord claimed to be destined by the Heavens, and even the master of Guanghua Temple seemed to acquiesce to this statement.

And at this moment, this girl who is "destined to be a phoenix" is still by King Li's side, and it seems that she has no intention of holding the pipa.

That's not right.

The old foxes, who were shivering from the cold of the spring outside the palace gate, quickly woke up and raised their legs to meet them: "The ...... of the county lord of Qingyang"

Ruan Qingzhi greeted everyone with a smile, and then raised his hand and pointed at Ye Han: "Ladies and gentlemen, King Li is also here!" ”

Although you are old and dizzy, you are really not blind, of course you know that King Li is also there.

However, as an official of the imperial court, isn't it good to take the initiative to greet the thief?

Everyone was a little hesitant.

There was silence in front of the palace gate for a moment, and then more than a dozen important ministers such as Luan Zhongcheng, Pei Shangshu, and Jing Bianhou suddenly stood up and bowed: "Welcome His Royal Highness King Li back to Beijing." ”

The sound was not loud, but many officials were so frightened that they shivered.

But that's not all. Only a moment later, thirty or forty people stood up in the ranks of officials below the third grade, and even among Jin Wuwei, and their voices were many times louder than those old ministers before: "Welcome His Royal Highness King Li back to Beijing!" ”

Ye Han raised his hand on the horse, and the Jinwuwei soldiers returned to the team without saying a word, but several young officials greeted them with joy: "It's great that Your Highness has returned to the court in time!" Is His Highness's suppression of bandits still going well? ”

"It went very well." Ye Han smiled, "We'll talk about this later." What are you waiting at the gate of the palace at this moment? This is not the time of the dynasty, is it? ”

Look at the sky, the sun is almost touching the top of the mountain, and it is really not the time to go to the court.

An official smiled: "It's not waiting for the court. We heard that His Royal Highness was triumphant in suppressing bandits, and guessed that His Majesty would go out of the palace to greet him, so he came to the gate of the palace to wait, but he didn't expect the gate of the palace to be closed, and I don't know why. ”

An official standing at the front couldn't help but glance back when he heard this.

Today's young people, the ability to open their eyes and tell nonsense is really getting more and more powerful, and the world is really declining.

Of course, the most powerful person who talks nonsense is King Li himself. I saw him urging him to stand in front of the palace gate a few steps forward, and said with a worried face: "The blue sky and white sun palace gate is closed, it is really unprecedented, and there may be great changes in the palace!" ”

Isn't there a big change in the hearts of several old ministers, Your Royal Highness King Li has led the people of the whole city to rebel!

Before he could say this, he heard King Li snap his horsewhip and said hurriedly: "We can't wait like this!" The palace door is closed and it is difficult to communicate the news, and the father is trapped inside, and I don't know whether he lives or dies - how can this be done! Soldiers, break in with this king and rescue your father! ”

"Break into the palace! Rescue the Emperor! More than 30 soldiers who exuded blood shouted in unison.

The ministers in front of the palace gate hurriedly retreated, and finally someone stood up and blocked the door: "Your Highness, please stay!" There has been no drastic change in the palace, and His Majesty's safety has not been threatened! In front of all the people, please do not deceive people! ”

"No threat?" Ye Han looked at the palace gate and looked puzzled: "Since there is no threat, what are you doing with the palace gate closed?" ”

Without waiting for the official to answer, Ye Han suddenly raised his voice: "Since the threat is not from outside the palace, it is a problem in the palace!" So my father was really kidnapped by my fifth brother, right? It was the fifth brother who held his father hostage and forced his father to pass on the throne, right? I knew ......"

Before he finished speaking, the people not far away were already in an uproar.

A few loyal and upright ministers were angry and anxious to beat people, but they clearly knew that a hundred of them were not enough to beat the king, and they suddenly despaired.

At this time, two little eunuchs finally came out of the narrow door for slaves to enter and exit in the distance, and ran to the front, holding their trembling legs to make a domineering appearance, and sang loudly: "Your Majesty's command: If King Li wants to enter the palace gate, please kneel outside the door for three days, and then undress and kneel naked into the ......."

"What?!" Ruan Qingzhi screamed before he could finish speaking, "Let His Royal Highness King Li kneel outside the door for three days?" Let His Royal Highness King Li take off his armor and strip naked and climb into the palace gate on his knees? Are you crazy or do I have broken ears? His Royal Highness King Li has made great contributions to Sheji in suppressing bandits and saving the people, I don't believe Your Majesty will humiliate him like this! ”

The people in the front row were in an uproar when they heard this.

Lao Cheng's voice was particularly outstanding in the midst of the noise: "Father and son nature, of course Your Majesty is reluctant to humiliate our great commander!" But others are willing to do it, and some people wish that our commander would die! Hey, those two little eunuchs, isn't your master the prince? We encountered twenty or thirty interceptions on the way back to Beijing, but they were all sent by the prince! Is your grandfather's blood left behind by the thief? No! These are all left behind by being intercepted and killed on the way back to Beijing! ”

The people were shocked again, and under the anger of the crowd, they also forgot that Tianwei could not be offended, and that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince could not be provoked, and they all roared angrily with all their might.

"It's too bullying!"

"How can you treat His Royal Highness King Li like this! How can you treat our heroes like this! ”

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince gives me an explanation!"

"Is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince really rebelling?!"

"Has the crown prince already held the emperor hostage? Who is in charge in the palace now? ”

"How can a person who can even do black things with his own father and brother be an emperor? We don't admit it! ”

……

The crowd in front of the palace gate was turbulent, and the roar was like a stormy wave, forcing the civil and military officials to retreat again and again, and finally almost completely stuck to the palace wall.

The two little eunuchs who delivered the decree saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly turned around to escape.

Ye Han waved his hand and ordered them to be tied up, and then drew his sword from its sheath.

did not cut off the heads of the two people, but raised his sword and pointed at the sky, and said loudly: "If it is not that this king refuses to give the edict, he really can't give the 'edict' from an unknown source!" The door of the Blue Sky and White Sun Palace is closed, how can this king know if his father is okay? How can we know who you are here for? At this moment, my father may be waiting for help in the palace, how can this king waste time in front of the palace gate! - Soldiers, follow the king and break into the palace! ”

"Order!" The sound of response and thunder was like thunder, of course, not only from the more than 30 soldiers of the Northwest Army, but also from the Jin Wuwei who was on duty in front of the palace gate.

The civil and military officials posted on the palace wall already understood the situation at the moment, but a considerable number of people were still undecided.

This is a real rebellion.

So what should they do? Can you still protect yourself at this time?

An old minister who stood up to speak earlier took two steps forward and stopped in front of Ye Han: "King Li, please stay!" The crown prince is not in the palace at the moment, how can he hold His Majesty hostage! The angels in the palace preach that if Your Majesty is there in person, you will disobey in person, and conspire to rebel! Please think twice, Your Highness! ”

Ye Han reined in the horse's head and looked at the palace gate: "If you break into the palace gate today, it will be a rebellion, and this king is not afraid to bear the name of this 'rebellion'!" In any case, this king must confirm that his father is safe and sound in person! After knowing that the oracle just now was really passed by his father, it will not be too late for this king to give the edict! - Open the door! ”

The soldiers did not hesitate for a moment, and rushed forward to bang on the door. Some of the people in the Northwest Army who were good at attacking the city even climbed the wall three times and jumped in, but the Jin Wuwei who was guarding the wall did not stop them.

In fact, before the soldiers of the Northwest Army entered, Jin Wuwei inside had already opened the palace gate.

The old minister in front of the palace gate narrowly avoided the horse's hooves, leaned against the palace wall, his face turned pale, and muttered: "It's over, it's over...... It's really the other way around! ”

The Northwest Army team had rushed into the palace gate in the blink of an eye, and they were bloodless all the way.

The thousands of people who followed behind them did not make a mistake, and when they reached the palace gate, they stopped and looked nervously and curiously, but none of them took a step towards the threshold.

There was a lot of noise in front of the palace gate, and all they talked about was how the prince's position as prince came from and how it was wrong, and how the behavior of holding his father hostage and forcing the palace to seize the throne was wolf-hearted.

After all this turmoil, no one present no longer believes that the prince is innocent, and of course no one believes that the emperor really wants to pass on the throne to the prince.

Everyone remembered that the prince's literary and martial arts achievements over the years were mediocre, and it was only recently that a few old cases were investigated, which was considered meritorious, but such a merit was completely negligible compared with King Li's military exploits in guarding the border for many years.

Moreover, who knows what the truth is about those old cases he investigated?

Not to mention anything else, just talk about the Liu family of Anguo Gong, Grandpa Liu was also a figure who made great achievements in war and made the enemy country fearful ten years ago! Although he later returned to Beijing because of a leg disease, from the court to the people, he still had to give a thumbs up and praise the "hero" when he mentioned Grandpa Liu.

I'm afraid that it's not Grandpa Liu who collaborates with the enemy and betrays the country, but someone who wants to eradicate dissidents!

The people passed from mouth to mouth, telling all their previous doubts, uneasiness, and speculations, arguing, discussing, and complementing each other, and the cries of curses and grief were overwhelming.

Some of the officials trembled and stuck to the wall, only to feel that the chill of the palace wall seeped into the cracks of the bones, like a knife cut.

At this time, Luan Zhongcheng and Pei Shangshu had already adjusted their court clothes, shook off the sleeves of their robes, lined up in two teams, and stepped into the palace gate.

There were people behind him who kept following, and it didn't take long for even those petty officials who were not in the middle of the stream to follow in.

The few who had been attached to the palace wall before were still hesitating, and it was not until there were only about twenty people left around them that they suddenly woke up, and they all lifted the hem of their clothes and quickly moved their legs and ran into the palace gate.

Behind him were the exclamations and angry scolding of thousands of people, like the howling of the tide of the sea, forcing people to speed up their pace and run for their lives.

But no one knows if they can escape by running in.

It was as if nothing was happening in the palace at the moment. Except for the disappearance of the palace maids and eunuchs walking on the side of the road, everything was calm as usual.

But no one dared to believe those Jin Wuwei who were still standing like pines.

These old ministers chased all the way to the Taihe Palace, but they didn't see anyone, so they had to turn back and find the Fu'an Palace, and sure enough, they saw those old and young officials standing outside the hall, as well as more than 30 horses that were too ugly to distinguish the color.

Of course, the more than thirty killing gods who disappeared immediately had already entered the temple.