Chapter 242: Will? Edict?

It is said that there is only one sun in the sky, but this is not the case in the northwest of Great Xia.

At least in the eyes of the people, this southern heaven is a kind old man, gentle and kind dedication to his light and heat, while in the northwest, the sky is a shy big girl, about a dozen days, either continuous rain or dense clouds, as if I have not seen the brilliant gold in the sky for a long time.

Early in the morning, when Sun Dezhang rushed to the Qingcheng Palace from the house, there was a cold drizzle in the sky, and the outside of the small courtyard wall of the palace was surrounded by soldiers, looking like soldiers and horses from Xi'an.

The big red lacquered wooden door of the courtyard was tightly closed, and there were two little eunuchs dressed as internal officials standing at the door, standing outside the door with low eyebrows and hanging hands.

And Jiang Shang, Jiang Yun and Zhao Lingfeng had already arrived outside the palace, but together with a team of personal soldiers they brought, they were all blocked outside by these two little eunuchs, no matter how you opened your mouth to ask, the two little eunuchs just stood silently.

Zhao Lingfeng saw Sun Dezhang rushing over here, so he hurriedly pulled Jiang Shang and Jiang Yun, who were still playing the piano to the cow, and the three of them bowed their hands towards Sun Dezhang in unison.

Without the official position of the governor of the capital, of course, it is not easy to call it anymore, so according to the civil official title of the prince and the Taibao, he said to the lord.

"What's the matter? Why is the gate of the palace closed? What is the situation of Your Majesty now? ”

Sun Dezhang got off the horse and asked them one question after another, but this brother can't answer any of them now.

"Lord Sun also received an urgent letter from the palace? We are the same, as mentioned in the letter, the emperor suddenly had a bad illness at night and asked all of us to go to the palace, but when we arrived here, we were like such an iron general guarding the door. ”

After listening to Jiang Shang's words, Sun Dezhang couldn't help but have a few more ravines on his face,

This thing sounds strange, the emperor suddenly fell ill, and if he didn't summon the imperial doctor, what was the use of summoning these generals over?

Thinking of this, Sun Dezhang looked at the two little eunuchs at the door with low eyebrows and pleasing eyes, and just wanted to go up to ask, but Jiang Shang stopped him,

Jiang Shang shook his head at him: "Don't waste your tongue, my lord, the two of them won't say anything." ”

"It's nonsense!"

Sun Dezhang listened to Jiang Shang's words, shook his wide sleeved robe angrily, and said with a sullen face: "What about Liu Biao? What about Xu Liang? Now the courtiers want to see the emperor but are blocked from the door, and they don't even know the emperor's safety, what kind of system is this! ”

Jiang Yun, who was standing behind Jiang Shang, glanced coldly at the soldiers around the palace, he recognized that there were many people and horses from the border army of Gansu Town, and interjected with a cold face: "Liu Biao, I'm afraid that he has already gone in, and now he is in Lanzhou City with one hand to cover the sky, even this royal palace, I am afraid that he will surround it if he wants to." ”

After listening to Jiang Yun's words, Sun Dezhang felt more and more ominous premonitions in his heart,

In his opinion, now is undoubtedly a very sensitive and eventful autumn, especially in the past few days, his military power has been relieved and Xu Liang's sudden change of course has undoubtedly made the situation on his side take a sharp turn.

All of this seemed too coincidental to this old courtier.

And what worries him the most now is the situation of Chongzheng, what caused the emperor to suddenly fall ill? Wasn't it okay a few days ago? According to the worst-case scenario, if this lord of Great Xia is really on the verge of dying, now there is only Xu Liang by the emperor's side in the palace, Chongzheng said what he did, and even left what will they didn't know, wouldn't it be what Xu Liang said when the time came?

Thinking of this, the old minister really couldn't help it, stepped forward in two steps, pushed away the two little officials, raised his arm and slammed it three times towards the lacquered wooden door, and shouted loudly:

"Prince Taibao Sun Dezhang, come to meet the saint!"

"Prince Taibao Sun Dezhang, come to meet the saint!"

After shouting twice, there was no reply from the palace.

Seeing that the people inside had no intention of opening the door at all, Sun Dezhang turned to Jiang Shang and asked, "General Jiang, is there a siege ladder in the army?" ”

Jiang Shang was a little puzzled, and asked him: "Yes, yes, but what do you want this ladder for?" ”

Sun Dezhang pointed to the not-so-high courtyard wall of the palace with his face, "The old man wants to turn over!" ”

"My lord, this ......"

"Whether the general borrows or not!"

Jiang Shang couldn't twist him, so he had to order the soldiers behind him, and after a while, he took a small ladder from the army.

I saw Sun Dezhang pointing towards the courtyard wall in front: "That! Give the ladder to the old man! ”

The two pro-soldiers carrying the ladder were obedient, and they carried the ladder forward, but the sergeants in front of the courtyard wall did not agree, holding the crotch knife at their waists, looking like they were about to pull it out.

"Humph! You're really good at it! ”

Sun Dezhang's face looked quite bad, Jiang Shang, including An Yi, it was really the first time they had seen this old minister's angry look.

"Let go, let me come!"

Sun Dezhang took two steps forward, snatched the ladder in the hands of the two personal soldiers, and walked towards the courtyard wall alone, pointing at the sergeant in front of him while walking, and said angrily like a bell: "I see which of you dares to stop me!" ”

The original Governor of the Five Armies, the ministers of the elders in the court, these big-headed soldiers really didn't have the courage to stop them, they just made a show to block in front of Sun Dezhang, and when he pulled them with his big hands, they all dodged to the side.

Just when Sun Dezhang put the ladder he was carrying on the courtyard wall, intending to really turn it over,

"Squeak~"

The red lacquered wooden door of the palace was slowly opened.

A small internal official wearing a blue-bottomed eunuch uniform ran out of it on tiptoe, bowed his hand deeply to a few people outside the door, and said respectfully: "Ladies and gentlemen, General Liu, please come in to receive orders." ”

"Order?"

Hearing this word, Sun Dezhang's heart chuckled for a moment, and he felt that something was wrong.

Later, Jiang Yun snorted coldly and teased: "A treacherous person is a general." ”

However, Jiang Shang cautiously made a silent gesture towards him, signaling him not to say much at this juncture, and to be careful of the trouble coming out of his mouth.

Sun Dezhang walked in front, and when a few people walked to the courtyard of this palace, they saw two people standing on the steps of the main hall, a person on the left who was sprinkled with brocade and pleated clothes, it was Xu Liang, the eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor Bingbi, and a young general in a dark pattern black robe on the right, which was Liu Biao, the mighty general of Lanzhou.

On both sides were lined up a few imperial guards holding golden gourd guards, and there were many officers and soldiers like outside the courtyard, so much so that they seemed to surround Sun Dezhang and a few people in the middle.

This Xu Liang was standing in the right room, just blocking Sun Dezhang's vision of being able to see the situation inside the main hall, he could only vaguely see the darkness inside the main hall, if Chongzheng was inside, it must be clear and transparent.

It's just that before he could see it, Xu Liang spoke first:

"Listen to the people!"

I saw him pull out a scroll of holy decree tied with yellow silk from behind him, slowly unfold it in front of him, and read aloud:

"The edict of the first emperor has never ruled the world by emperors, and he has never taken respecting the heavens and ancestors as the first priority. Respect for the truth of the ancestors, in the soft and far away, recuperate the common people, a total of the four seas for the benefit, the heart of the day for the heart, protect the state in the future, to rule in the chaos, sleep diligently, sleep in, for the long-term national plan, close to it.

This summer and the Liao affair is not over, for the sake of the common people, it is advisable not to secret, so that the eunuch Xu Liang, the eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor Bingbi, and the mighty general Liu Biao of Lanzhou will return to Beijing, and the rest of the people are all waiting in Lanzhou, and they must not act rashly without a new holy decree. ”

When reading this, Sun Dezhang raised his head and stared at Xu Liang deadly, as if he felt that he already knew the following answer, the eyelids of his left eye jumped suddenly, and the green tendons on his head were almost bursting out of the boiling blood with anger in his body.

And Xu Liang also looked at Sun Dezhang very tacitly, but his eyes were full of a hint of victor's playfulness, at this moment he felt that what he was holding in his hands was not a roll of yellow paper, but the entire world of Great Xia.

"Prince Yong's fourth son, Gao is kind and valuable, and he will be able to inherit the unification and succeed me to the throne, that is, the emperor. That is, to comply with the canonical system, hold the service for 27 days, and release it. Announce to the world, and make the salty envoy known. ”

Jiang Shang and Jiang Yun, who were kneeling behind, listened to Xu Liang's entire holy decree, and they hadn't recovered from their surprise yet, this emperor, just ...... So it's gone?

Especially Jiang Shang, when Chongzheng reactivated his father as the commander-in-chief of Liaodong in the eighteenth year, he also saw Emperor Chongzheng, who was still young at the time, but he didn't expect that today he would return to heaven overnight, and he didn't seem to have heard that the emperor was sick before, why did he suddenly die of a vicious disease? Epidemic? If it is an epidemic, why are there soldiers and generals around this palace, and there is no shadow of Zhao Yuan's envoy.

They were still puzzled in their hearts, but Sun Dezhang was already like a mirror, he was so angry that he didn't wait for Xu Liang to let them accept the order, so he stood up from the ground with a "rub", pointed at Xu Liang and Liu Biao and said angrily:

"Nonsense! The emperor also summoned the old ministers a few days ago, how could he suddenly drive the crane west? What the hell has happened to the Holy One? Tamper with the emperor's edict! You nine clans should be punished! ”

"Boom!"

didn't wait for Xu Liang to speak, Liu Biao beside him pulled out the saber on his waist, pointed at Sun Dezhang, and shouted: "You are presumptuous!" Emperor Daxing spoke nonsense before Lingjia, without respect, left and right! Take down this madman with me! ”

"Who of you dares!"

Sun Dezhang's face was not angry and arrogant, so that after listening to Liu Biao's order, the few sergeants who were about to step forward retreated in fear.

Where is Liu Biao willing to see this situation? The reluctance was immediately in his heart, and he pointed to the sergeants, "I asked you to take him, did you hear it?" ”

On one side is a member of the imperial court, and on the other side is the mighty general of Lanzhou, who listens to whom on these two sides? The sergeants who made it became angry at both ends, neither advancing nor retreating, and they were frozen on the spot for a while.

Xu Liang saw all this in his eyes, he had long expected that Liu Biao would definitely not be able to hold Sun Dezhang, including the will in his hand, he also knew that Sun Dezhang would definitely not accept it.

Putting aside the real or false for the time being, as long as the words Gao Cixiang, the fourth son of Prince Yong, are read out in the end, Sun Dezhang will be the first to stand up and point out that this holy decree was fabricated by them, and King De is fighting for an orthodoxy, and this is going to be lost, then it is really nothing, so of course he will be the first to stand up and point out that the cause of Chongzheng's death is vague and the edict is fake.

Xu Liang did not look at Sun Dezhang, but turned his eyes to Jiang Shang,

He lifted the decree high,

"Aren't the generals going to take orders?"

Jiang Shang and the others didn't know what An Yi was calculating in his heart, and in line with the principle of not wanting to cause trouble for An Yi, he still turned his head to stop Jiang Yun who wanted to help Sun Dezhang speak, and then leaned down and bowed to the ground.

"The ministers obey."

Xu Liang's hand is still very beautiful, Jiang Shang and their obedience, it seems that Sun Dezhang has some intention of not obeying the will, and he turned the holy decree held high above his head to Sun Dezhang with his eyes,

"Did Lord Sun insist on going against the sky?"

is still the same sentence, no matter what you say, it is impossible for Sun Dezhang to accept the order, if he kneels here today to receive the order, it will be no different from kneeling on the execution ground waiting to be beheaded.

Sun Dezhang still snorted heavily with an angry face, and said coldly: "The minister is pretentious! Forgive the ministers for not daring to accept the order! Leave! ”

After saying that, he turned around and left the palace......