Chapter 323 Hongmen Banquet, See the Poor Dagger (II)
"The slave family still thinks that you can't venture into the palace. You can call yourself sick and wait and see what happens. If they really want to take advantage of you, they can advance and retreat freely. Hua Nu'er looked worried and continued to persuade.
Zhang Xuān sighed, "If I really escape from Chang'an, they will take the opportunity to bewitch Li Heng, give me a hat of rebellion, and even raise troops to pursue us...... I am moving slowly with so many family members, and it is difficult to say whether I can return to Lingzhou safely. ”
"Don't worry, I have my own opinions. I still come and go freely in Tubo, not to mention the Xingqing Palace! Zhang Xuān smiled coldly, a trace of coldness flashed in his eyes, "Since they want to make me have a hard time this year, then I have nothing to be polite about." ”
"The right guard leads the house, hehe...... I'm afraid that few people in the palace now know that I was in charge of the leading guard of the East Palace back then. A strange sneer slowly rose at the corner of Zhang Xuān's mouth, and his voice became illusory.
Hua Nu'er's eyes lit up.
"Since you have been prepared, then the slave family will not say anything. But," Hua Nu'er gritted her teeth lightly, "The slave family wants to enter the palace with you, with me and Kong'er by your side, if something really happens, we can at least try our best to protect you and Princess Cui." ”
Zhang Xuān smiled, "You can enter the palace with me." It's not enough to be prepared, but I have heard a little about Li Yu's thoughts and movements. It's just that I didn't expect that Chen Xuanli would have the courage to come in and mobilize Yu Linwei......"
"Let's go, follow me into the palace to watch the play." Zhang Xuān waved his hand suddenly.
The two of them walked out of the study and walked all the way to the main gate of the palace.
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Cui Ying and Li Tengkong waited anxiously outside the gate of Xingqing Palace.
After waiting for more than half an hour, I saw Zhang Xuān and Hua Nu'er galloping on horseback surrounded by more than ten guards.
Cui Ying and Li Tengkong greeted them.
Zhang Xuān turned over and dismounted, Cui Ying stepped forward and held his hand tightly, although he didn't say anything, the anxious worry in his eyes was overflowing.
Zhang Xuān smiled and said softly, "Ying'er, it's okay, let's go, let's go to the palace." ”
Zhang Xuān was in the front, Cui Ying and Li Tengkong were behind, and Hua Nu'er followed closely as a maid.
Entering the gate of Xingqing Palace, this way, in the faint night, Zhang Xuān found that the original palace forbidden guards of Xingqing Palace were indeed replaced by the people and horses of the right guard and the mansion. Of course, whether it is the palace ban or the guard, or the right guard leading the mansion, they are all armed forces in the palace, if it is not for a person with a heart like Zhang Xuān, I am afraid it will be difficult to detect this invisible change.
In front of the Mingde Palace, the two captains of the right guard led the house with more than 100 soldiers on duty, and when they saw Zhang Xuān coming, the two captains walked side by side together, bowed down and bowed, "Meet the prince of Yongning!" ”
Zhang Xuān stared at the two of them deeply, and suddenly said with a smile, "Hu Er, Meng Ju, the two of you have now been promoted to captain, it's really gratifying!" ”
Hu Er and Meng Ju suddenly raised their heads and said in surprise, "Does the prince still remember the villain?" ”
Zhang Xuān laughed, raised his hand and patted Hu Er's shoulder, "Why don't you remember, when this king purged the palace and established the Right Guard Mansion in this palace, there were less than 100 people at the beginning, and every one of you people in this king remembers it clearly!" ”
"Good job." Zhang Xuān walked forward, and out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at Shi Gongsun You, the head of the Right Guard Command, who was standing quietly in the shadow of the entrance of the Mingde Palace.
A little eunuch bowed down, and his thin voice suddenly resounded - "King Yongning has arrived!" Princess Yongning has arrived! Mrs. Yanningjun has arrived! ”
With the paging of the eunuch, Zhang Xuān slowly walked in with Cui Ying's three daughters.
In the main hall, the lights are bright, and the melodious music of silk and bamboo echoes euphemistically. And more than 100 seats, already full of Chang'an magnates and royal relatives, the people who should come are basically here.
Zhang Xuān looked around, and even Yang Yuhuan and the three Yang sisters had already arrived. Yang Yuhuan and Third Sister Yang stared at Zhang Xuān and the four of them almost at the same time, and their eyes were full of hidden tenderness.
Li Heng had not yet arrived, and the hall was originally full of people, but because of Zhang Xuān's arrival, it suddenly became silent.
In the eyes of everyone, Zhang Xuān's expression was calm and calm, his steps were light, and he walked all the way to the seat of himself and others.
Wan Chundi sat beside Yang Yuhuan and looked at Zhang Xuān quietly.
And Yang Guozhong, who was opposite, smiled and said, "King Yongning! ”
"Yang Xiang!" Zhang Xuān also returned the salute.
As soon as Yang Guozhong took the lead, Chen Xilie and others also immediately got up and exchanged greetings with Zhang Xuān.
The princelings, led by Chen Xuanli, sat silently, and none of them got up.
Zhang Xuān smiled and talked to everyone one by one, and finally cast a clear gaze on Chen Xuanli's body.
Chen Xuanli was silent, but there was a slight uneasiness in his heart. He suddenly discovered that Yang Lian, the other controller of the military power of the Beijing Division, Yang Lian, the general of Yulin Wei's right guard, was not present.
Why didn't Yang Lian come?
Chen Xuanli's heart suddenly burst.
However, he and Li Yu had already arranged it properly, and they felt that they were foolproof, and even the retreat of defeat had been arranged, and they had to send it when they were ready to go.
As soon as he thought of this, Chen Xuanli slowly raised his head and glanced at Zhang Xuān, calmed down, and sneered in his heart, "Stay for a while, see how arrogant you are!" ”
Chen Xuanli was willing to take this risk from Li Yu, firstly, because he was coerced by Li Yu in disguise, and secondly, because he wanted to gamble. He knew very well that Li Heng's personality was a little weak and indecisive, and if he carried out the military advice and immediately took down Zhang Xuān, resulting in the established facts, Li Heng could only admit the reality.
And because this matter was handled by Li Yu, in the eyes of the ministers, this was Li Heng's instructions.
In this way, Li Heng has no way out.
In the planning and design of Li Yu and Chen Xuanli, they used thunderous means to take down Zhang Xuān to carry out military advice, and forced Li Heng to cut off Zhang Xuān's prince and a military position in disguise, and then let Zhang Jiyong take up Longshuo, and Chen Xuanli replaced Yang Guozhong into the prime minister.
Correspondingly, the princelings immediately supported Li Heng to ascend the throne as emperor, and Li Heng had to issue an edict to canonize Li Yu as the prince of the Eastern Palace.
This series of plans can be said to be seamless, and it really ticks Li Heng's pulse.
But what Li Yu miscalculated was that Zhang Xuān was a person who started his family by palace change after all, and he knew more about these disgraceful means in the palace than anyone else. And he has always done things in a balanced manner, and when he entered the palace to show off with Li Heng, Zhang Xuān had already considered the worst consequences, the best and the worst.
And Li Yu ignored Zhang Xuān's influence and control in Chang'an City. You must know that before Zhang Xuān took up the domain of Longshuo, the Jingshi Yu Linwei and the palace forbidden guards were all under his command, not to mention that there were many ears and eyes, at least there were some dark chess.
The only thing Zhang Xuān didn't expect was that Chen Xuanli would use Yu Linwei. Because of the transfer of a large number of troops and horses of Yulin Guard, there will definitely be rumors, and it is impossible for Yang Lian not to know about it.
It can be seen that Chen Xuanli and Li Yu already have the determination to break the kettle, and it seems that this time it is not just a fish to death.
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Prison Kingdom has arrived! Zhang Liangdi arrived! The King of Chu has arrived! King Jianning has arrived! ……”
With the shouting of the eunuch Huo Changqing, Li Heng wore a brand-new dragon robe crown, smiled, strutted forward, and strode into the Mingde Hall with Zhang Liangdi and his own children.
Yang Guozhong and Zhang Xuān looked at each other and smiled, and then led the ministers to get up and bow down, shouting loudly, "The ministers will meet Your Highness!" ”
"All the ministers are flat!" Li Heng laughed and helped him with a weak face.
Li Yu stood behind Li Heng and glanced at Zhang Xuān first, and then met Chen Xuanli in the audience and exchanged a look.
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Chen Xuanli's henchman Zhonglang General Meng Xun was ordered by Chen Xuanli to lead two thousand forest guards to surround Xingqing Palace in the name of guarding the palace ban, and controlled the left and right palace gates in and out of Xingqing Palace.
The heavy palace door creaked and slowly closed.
Meng Xun looked back at the palace gate and closed it, let out a sigh of relief, and was about to order his subordinates to guard strictly and wait for the news in the palace, when he suddenly heard the movement of soldiers and horses, he turned his head to look, and saw that in the dark night ahead, the torches formed a long dragon of light, and from the direction of the Vermilion Bird Gate of the Imperial City, a black pressure on the feather forest guard that could not be seen at a glance was moving forward rapidly.
At present, there are more than 10,000 people in Jingshi Yu Linwei, half of whom are under the command of Chen Xuanli, and half are under the command of Yang Lian.
"Big things are not good!" Meng Xun's heart tightened, a layer of fine beads of sweat oozed from his forehead, and his hand was tightly clenched on the saber at his waist. And the Yulin guards behind him were also on standby.
"Who's coming?" Meng Xun shouted, he had already seen that it was Cao Biao, the Zhonglang general under Yang Lian, who led the army.
Cao Biao smiled indifferently, turned over and dismounted, waved his hand and ordered the military horses to line up in place, and then stepped forward and hugged his fists, "General Meng, Cao is here." ”
Meng Xun gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice, "General Cao, this general was ordered by His Highness to lead the army to guard the palace ban, why did you come here?" ”
"Hahaha! Coincidentally, Cao Mou was also ordered by General Yang to come over to protect the safety of the palace ban......" Cao Biao laughed, his eyes bright.
The order Yang Lian gave him was to hold back Meng Xun's main force, and there was no need to clash with Meng Xun's subordinates.
And Yang Lian himself personally led an army of 1,000 to the right gate of Xingqing Palace. In Yang Lian's army, Xiao Shisanlang and Nan Jiyun also went with Zhang Xuān's more than 100 guards.
Meng Xun clenched his teeth, and his heart was like numbness. Without Chen Xuanli's order, he didn't dare to act rashly, and even if Chen Xuanli's order was issued, with Cao Biao's two thousand people here, what else could he do?
Although he is only a middle-level general in the army, far from reaching the level of participating in high-level power struggles, he is not a fool, what Chen Xuanli and Li Yu want to do is self-evident, and the sudden arrival of Yang Lian's subordinates obviously means that Chen Xuanli and Li Yu's affairs have been leaked.
For a while, Meng Xun felt cold all over, and stood there, his face becoming more and more ugly.
Cao Biao waved his hand, and the Yulin guards under him quickly dispersed according to a certain formation, putting on a posture of holding Meng Xun's soldiers and horses hostage.