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"Your Majesty was assassinated last night, the eldest princess was in charge of the palace, assisted by Shao Junqian, the king of Jibei and the third brother stayed around, and the lady asked the queen mother to send me out of the city, tens of thousands of forbidden troops were stationed outside the city, and they were originally scheduled to march with Your Majesty today."

Lou Ji used a few words to describe the situation in the eastern capital, stepped aside, and waited for his father to make a decision.

The general folded the edict, placed it in his bosom, and asked, "Who is the assassin?" ”

"The assassin committed suicide on the spot, it is said that he was originally from the Liang Kingdom, sold himself into slavery, and mixed into the third brother's mansion......"

"I see." Lou Wen didn't look surprised at all, and didn't even ask about the relationship between the assassin and his son, "Get in the car." ”

Although the general was defeated, the carriage was still luxurious, the carriage was wide and comfortable, pulled by eight horses, and he walked like a fly on the main road.

Lou Wen didn't speak for a while, sat there panting, and the haggard that had just disappeared returned to his face, "What do you think the Lou family should do next?" ”

Lou Ji didn't expect his father to ask for his opinion, he was slightly stunned, and immediately said: "Enter the palace, apologize, support the new emperor, and ask to suppress the Hegong Rebellion with the body of sin, tens of thousands of forbidden troops outside the city, and those who get it will get the eastern capital." ”

"Hey." Lou Wen laughed softly, was in a daze again, and said after a long time: "Am I really old?" I can't keep up with young people. ”

"The ambition is not over, the heart is not old, the father is ......"

"I sent the assassins."

Lou Ji had a premonition, and when he heard the general admit it himself, he was still taken aback, "Guo Shifeng persuaded his father to do it?" ”

Lou Wen nodded, "He said that the three of you made a plan, and the people used were all found by the person surnamed Ma." I thought it might work, so I sent Guo Shifeng to find the man surnamed Ma, but he ran away, and the assassins were still there, Guo Shifeng continued to advance the plan, but he didn't expect it to be successful. ”

"Guo Shifeng didn't go to Qinzhou?"

"One day after setting off with me, he turned around and went back to Luoyang, and the day before yesterday he went out of Beijing to meet me, saying that everything was planned, not saying that it would be yesterday."

"Your Majesty temporarily decided to leave the palace yesterday, and no one could have expected it in advance."

"Well, so when Guo Shifeng suggested that he and Liang Shengzhi take the prince back to Beijing in advance, I agreed."

Lou Ji was still puzzled, and looked at his father silently.

Lou Wen was also silent for a while, "The prince was frightened and seriously ill, Guo Shifeng said that it was better to let the prince die next to me...... In short, everything is too fast. ”

"What was my father's original plan to do when he returned to Beijing?"

"I left those brothers and nephews of yours in Qinzhou, and I came back to ask Your Majesty for my guilt, and at the same time questioned Lan Sui in person, this bastard. If Guo Shifeng's plan can be realized, I must show up in time, but I didn't expect it to be a step too late. ”

Lou Wen became stern inexplicably, "You are my son, but you have never told me all the truth, but an outsider revealed the assassination plan to me. ”

"Outsiders tell the truth, but when they encounter something, they may run to others, and children don't tell the truth, no matter what, they run to their father's side."

Lou Wen said with a smile: "It's running, it's ...... It may be late. ”

"It's not too late." Lou Ji said eagerly, "There will be a few days in the palace where the woman will be in charge, and the mother and princess will be by the side of the queen mother......"

Lou Wen shook his head, "I'm not talking about the Eastern Capital, I'm talking about Qinzhou." ”

"How is Qinzhou?"

"Lan Sui told a big lie, Qinzhou has already been in chaos, even if 100,000 troops enter Guanzhong at the same time, it may not be able to be extinguished quickly, the court lures the people with grain, and the river workers in the east rebel, which is even more chaotic."

"My father won a hundred battles, as long as the imperial court gave him the right to ...... soldiers"

Lou Wen still shook his head, "It's different, it's different." ”

"The defeat of Qinzhou was secretly designed by the emperor to lure the people with grain and grass, and the crime is not in the officers and soldiers, why is my father so depressed?"

Lou Wen patted lightly on his huge belly, "I'm still old, I was stabbed by someone, I think back then, even ten lances, a hundred lances, and I couldn't get to me, and now I was actually stabbed by an unknown person." ”

The building was shocked, "Father ......"

"I won't be able to die for a while, no matter what, I will arrange a way out for the descendants of the Lou family."

Lou Ji was still uneasy in his heart, the place where the emperor and the general were stabbed were in the abdomen, and it seemed that this was done intentionally.

"Just do as you say, go to the palace to apologize, support the new emperor, and then find a way to fight for military power......"

Lou Ji felt that he couldn't hide it anymore, "Last night's assassin injured His Majesty, it was me, Shao Junqian, and Zhang Shiyu, the prince of Jibei...... Together, they killed His Majesty. ”

Lou Wen didn't get angry, but asked, "Which of the three of you comes first and who comes last?" ”

"The child is the first, followed by Shao Junqian and Zhang Shiyu."

"It is worthy of being my son, and it is not worthy of being born to the princess of Wu Kingdom, your mother and son finally killed a Tiancheng Emperor with their own hands, should you be satisfied?"

The building was speechless.

"If it was in peacetime, I would be the first to kill you to thank the court, but now, Taiping is about to end, the Lou family needs a son who can survive in the troubled times, your third brother can't do it, and neither can the other brothers, maybe you can do it, maybe."

"Father, the world is not in turmoil, and everything can still be recovered."

"If you see the rioters with your own eyes, you will understand...... It's useless to say this, don't fight with me, I want to rest for a while. ”

Although the wound in the abdomen was not obvious, it had an immeasurable impact on the general, and the ambition accumulated for many years leaked uncontrollably.

The vehicle stopped suddenly, and a lieutenant said outside: "General, there is a holy decree ahead." ”

Lou Wen moved his body, "Let him come over and announce the decree." ”

Lou Ji lifted the curtain and jumped under the car to stand by.

A eunuch ran over, saw that the general was still sitting in the car, and couldn't help but be stunned, did not dare to make a request, but bowed to the general, and then got up and took out the holy decree.

The decree was written on silk cloth, which was very formal, unlike the edict brought by the building foundation, which was written on paper temporarily.

The eunuch was about to speak, when the general said, "Don't read it, show it to me." ”

Such a request is not in accordance with the rules, and the eunuch hesitates and obediently sends it.

The building was taken and handed over to his father.

Lou Wen looked at it and said with a smile: "The prince has succeeded to the throne in front of the coffin, and the first holy decree is to order me to stay at the post station and not to enter the city." Go back and tell the new emperor, and say...... The old minister obeyed. ”

The eunuch should have run away in a hurry, for fear of being called back again.

"How far is it from the station?" Lou Wen asked the captain with the car.

"It's over, it's a few miles back."

"Well, let's turn around."

On the basis of the building, he got into the car, "Father really doesn't go into the city?" This decree is not the crown prince...... The meaning of the new emperor. ”

The carriage slowly turned around, and Lou Wen said, "Don't worry, wait for Guo Shifeng's news." ”

"Guo Shifeng is accustomed to seeing the wind and making the rudder, and he and Liang Shengzhi are even more untrustworthy."

"Hey, he's your friend."

"He's not my friend, it's Marvila who joins ......"

"It's impossible to break into the city, let's stay in the post station first, let me be quiet."

Lou Wen closed his eyes and recuperated, but Lou Ji couldn't be quiet in his heart, thinking about the current situation repeatedly, and the more he thought about it, the more uneasy he became.

When they arrived at the post station, the soldiers went in to arrange food and lodging, Lou Ji went down first, and reached out to support his father, but Lou Wen handed over a thing and put it in his son's hand, "This is my private seal, you take it with you, immediately go to the forbidden army camp, ask to see the king of Xiangdong, as you promise, I will admit it all afterwards, in short, I want to win the support of the king of Xiangdong." ”

"Xiangdong King ......"

"I have some old friendship with the king of Xiangdong, and I have just been married...... You must convince him that as long as I can enter the forbidden army, the Lou family will not fall. ”

"Isn't there still 80,000 people in Tongguan in the Western Expedition Army?"

"Far water does not quench the thirst of the near, and the 80,000 people are controlled by different generals, not all of them are my people, so it is more troublesome to deploy. Although the king of Xiangdong is not the commander of the forbidden army, he has some prestige in the army, and if the king of Jibei is reused in the palace, the king of Xiangdong is likely to be dissatisfied. ”

"Understood, father, I'll go."

"Wait, take Qiao Zhisu with you."

Staff member Qiao Zhisu followed at the back of the team, his forehead was injured, and he looked quite embarrassed, Lou Ji invited him to see his father, and the general confessed: "Mr. Qiao has a lot of guidance for my son." ”

Qiao Zhisu pondered, "The seventeenth prince is very smart, I will follow left and right, pick up the missing and make up for the shortcomings." ”

The general waved his hand and motioned for the two to leave.

The two rode to the barracks, and Qiao Zhisu handed over the reins, "I'm ashamed, I've always regarded myself as a strategist, but I didn't expect the imperial court to ...... Alas, His Majesty acted really unexpectedly. ”

Lou Ji briefly explained the situation again, of course, not mentioning that he was one of the assassins, and finally said: "Mr. Qiao has asked me to contact the King of Xiangdong before, but I have not been able to do it, and I am ashamed. ”

Qiao Zhisu said: "The seventeenth prince is trapped in the palace and has no time to take care of himself, and I think too simply. However, this persuasion should be successful. ”

"Is the king of Xiangdong at odds with the king of Jibei?"

Qiao Zhisu wanted to laugh, but as a result, the wound was pulled and turned into a strange expression, "Although the two kings are uncles and nephews, they don't have much contact, but they have no grievances. The king of Xiangdong and the queen mother - now it should be the queen mother - once married, but the queen mother finally married the first emperor, what happened in the middle, outsiders do not know. ”

"Then the king of Xiangdong should be very supportive of the empress dowager."

Qiao Zhisu shook her head, "On the contrary, when she was still the queen, she tried to persuade the first emperor to get rid of the king of Xiangdong, but there was a lot of uproar at that time, and she was finally suppressed by the first emperor." At the beginning of today's son-ah, too-the first emperor-, the queen mother made a fuss again, but His Majesty didn't listen, and ordered the king of Xiangdong to defend the south. Now that the new emperor is young, the king of Jibei was born to the queen mother, and he is likely to be in power, and he is likely to obey the queen mother's wishes. ”

Lou Ji finally understood why his father wanted to contact the king of Xiangdong.

"Was the battle of Qinzhou tragic? After my father was injured, it seemed to ...... Somewhat lost. ”

Qiao Zhisu squeezed out a smile, "It stands to reason that I shouldn't say these things, but...... Let's talk about it, it's all this time. It was the brothers and nephews of the Seventeenth Prince, who were originally the personal soldiers of the general's side, but when they were ambushed, they were the first to fall into chaos and flee separately, so that the army's morale collapsed, and even the general couldn't stop it. finally escaped back to Tongguan, and the general wanted to kill a few people with his own hands, but in the end he couldn't do it. The general was extremely disappointed, and often said that the Lou family had no pillars, and he was afraid that he would fall, but he still attached great importance to the seventeenth prince, otherwise he would not have handed over such an important task to the seventeenth prince. ”

"If the general can't regain his spirits, even if he convinces the king of Xiangdong, I'm afraid it won't help." Lou Ji muttered, and found that there was no way to explain his father's changes with the study of name and reality.