Chapter 368: The Return of the King
Where has the Emperor gone?
Didn't Deng Guogong already say it!
Wuyang Pass.
"Your Majesty, after passing this level, it will be the control area of the imperial court!"
Lu Liuliang said in a low voice.
The curtain on the carriage next to him was lifted, and the Longxing Tianzi inside was expressionless, and in front of this carriage, Qian Qianyi had already led a team of Japanese slave cavalry to knock forward. On the mountain road behind them, the vassals who accompanied them and the Japanese cavalry who protected them formed a long line, and the Jinbu infantry stationed in Suizhou in the mountains and forests on both sides were scattered to protect them.
Of course, it is impossible for Jin Shenghuan not to know.
This matter is actually the mastermind of Qian Qianyi, Ding Kuichu, and Mao Qiling, who want to play with the east and the west again, and completely get rid of Gan Hui, a dangerous element like a maggot attached to the bone. But the king of Tang refused to give them the order to change the lead, because this would mean that he was also involved in the conspiracy, and finally in order to force him to give the order, Ding Kuichu directly ordered the Japanese slaves to solve it by force, taking advantage of the fact that the king of Tang was not enough to guard against them, and raided the king of Tang and those staff officers. Because of the sudden enough and the absolute superiority in numbers, the latter barely had time to really resist, and then Tang Wang and Mu Tianbo were taken down by the Japanese slaves, and their house slaves and several staff officers were either killed or captured, and then the Tang King was forced to execute those captured and wrote a warrant.
The rest is to force him to cooperate with the two house slaves to act.
In this way, Gan Hui's department was transferred.
Jin Shenghuan just knew about this plan, so he couldn't wait to leave Xiangyang, after all, he was still not so bold to really participate in it, but to say that he didn't want Long Xingtianzi to go to Nanjing would be false......
Of course he wanted to!
Did he like this kind of flattery?
He is just self-aware and knows that he is a piece of in front of Yang Qing, but if there is no demon like Yang Qing, he actually has a little strength, at least it is enough to maintain the separation. Although his territory is not large, but all the troops are elite veterans who followed Zuo Liangyu back then, and the gentry are united with him, and there is the top fortress of Xiangyang......
What's wrong with selling moe?
If you don't have the strength, you are not qualified to sell cute.
So he also hoped that the emperor would go to Nanjing to fight Yang Qing.
But he didn't want to go against Yang Qing openly, so his best choice was to avoid it.
As for the consequences......
At least it has to be after the emperor and Yang Qing have come out with the results, if Zhu Cihong wins, then he is a dragon hero, if Yang Qing wins, then he has enough reasons to explain, and then behave to grovel, basically Yang Qing is too lazy to bother with him. After all, if Yang Qing wants to kill Zhu Cihong, he must first appease the forces of all parties, and at the same time complete his great cause of usurping the throne, and before these are completed, as long as he behaves groveling enough, he will tolerate him to continue to divide the territory.
In the end, he didn't threaten Yang Qing.
Yang Qingzhen killed Zhu Cihong and usurped the throne, I am afraid that he would first have to face Li Zi to establish a new emperor, as well as the two clans of King Gui and King Jingjiang.
He's not worth mentioning here.
In this way, with his cooperation, when Gan Hui's troops went south, Shui Tailiang and his gang took the emperor to complete the sneak, leaving those Japanese slaves in the palace to create the illusion that the emperor was still there, and spread rumors that the emperor was ill repeatedly. Then they crossed the Han River with the emperor and joined the Japanese cavalry stationed in Dongjin, and were supported by some horses of Jin Shenghuan's troops, and finally gathered 2,000 horsemen to escort the emperor to the east, and sneaked all the way with the cooperation of Jin Shenghuan's subordinates......
It's a sneak indeed.
They didn't make it to any cities along the way.
Even if their 2,000 cavalry rushed five miles outside the gate of Zaoyang City, it would be a sneak, and the soldiers of the Jinbu in Zaoyang City would not be able to see it.
What kind of blindness?
Standing on the tower of the city dozens of meters high, thousands of miles away can't be seen?
Well, although this is not easy to explain, there are also examples of tens of thousands of rides! There is such an example, what is strange that the Zaoyang defenders can't see thousands of horsemen, in short, they did sneak like this, and they sneaked through Zaoyang and Suizhou in succession to reach Wuyang Pass.
That is, Wusheng Pass.
Their destination is simple......
"You're forcing me!"
Zhu Cihong sighed.
"Your Majesty, you don't know everything, this matter is all done by the ministers, even if it is not the responsibility of the ministers, Your Majesty, you need to make a break with Yang Qing after all, are you willing to sit back and watch this Ming country fall into the hands of this traitor? Now is the only opportunity, if His Majesty enters the southern capital, it will be difficult to turn over.
His Majesty has seen it now.
Whether it is in this army or Jinyiwei, it can be said that from top to bottom, Yang rebels are henchmen, and ordinary means can no longer get rid of this rebellion, and they must be ruthless to get rid of it by extraordinary means!
What the ministers did was also for His Majesty's country. ”
Mao Qiling said.
Zhu Cihong was silent.
"Your Majesty, even if you return to Chang'an, will you be able to keep it for a long time? Yang Qing just hasn't completely controlled Jiangnan yet, and King Gui and Dolgon echo north and south, he can't win two battlefields at the same time in a short period of time, so he tolerates Li Zicheng, once he solves King Gui and Dolgon, the next one must be Li Zicheng. When the time comes, will he continue to retain His Majesty after regaining Chang'an? Everything is possible in the chaotic army, even if he kills the king, it is just Li Zicheng who killed His Majesty in the twilight, or His Majesty is nowhere to be found in the chaotic army, and His Majesty will only survive for a few years when he returns to Chang'an, why not fight for a long time at this time? ”
Mao Qiling said.
"Your Majesty, you must first understand that he will eventually usurp the throne, and who has not been like him since ancient times? Cao Mengde, Sima Zhongda, one of those emperors of the Northern and Southern Dynasties is counted as one, which one is not like this? To get to the point where he is now, the world has actually fallen into control, and the last step of what is missing, Cao Mengde and Sima Zhongda are too old, and finally have to be solved by their children and grandchildren, but he is now in the prime of life, why should he leave his children and grandchildren? Even if he is still hesitant, then Zhao Kuangyin still has a yellow robe!
Gan Hui and these people are not necessarily instructed by him, this is indeed a fact, after all, this is too blatant.
But that's even scarier.
Because it meant that even if he didn't want to usurp the throne, his generals would have to force him to usurp the throne.
Then does Your Majesty still want to survive when he goes to Nandu?
On the territory of Li Zicheng and Jin Shenghuan, His Majesty can't guarantee safety, let alone Yang Qing's lair like Nandu? There are only 5,000 people of Gan Hui here, and there are countless of them, although there are indeed all virtuous ministers in the southern capital, and there are indeed 100,000 scholars, but they are not as good as Yang Qing's military power after all! Tens of thousands of guards and hundreds of thousands of militiamen outside the southern capital, these are all Yang Qing's henchmen, and they don't need him to give an order, they only need the encouragement of his cronies, and these people will put on a yellow robe for him.
So do you think he will refuse? ”
Ding Kuichu said.
Zhu Cihong continued to be silent.
"Your Majesty, the ministers are indeed guilty of arbitrariness, but the ministers are really for Your Majesty! Tang Wang didn't know the true face of Yang Qing at all, he had been presiding over the reform of the guard in Yunnan all these years, and he had never set foot in the southern capital at all, he just saw the prosperity on the surface! But this prosperity is not Your Majesty's! The prosperity of Jiangnan is the prosperity of Yang Qing, what does it have to do with Your Majesty?
Even if Your Majesty returns to the Southern Capital, it is only like Chang'an and is confined to the palace, what does everything outside have to do with Your Majesty? Could it be that the public society outside Chang'an City cheered for His Majesty?
But it should have been His Majesty's!
This country is all Your Majesty's!
Back then, this rebel did not hesitate to use His Majesty to feed the tiger to get out, did His Majesty forget how he treated you? Do you still believe in his loyalty? ”
Mao Qiling said.
Long Xingtianzi's expression changed slightly.
Mao Qiling and Ding Kuichu exchanged glances, and it was obvious that Zhu Cihong's city gate had been opened.
"Your Majesty, back then, he used His Majesty to feed the tiger, so that you were placed under house arrest by Li Zicheng for six years, and even had to bend the knee to this traitor who killed the Empress Xiaojielie, and at that time the disobedience was revealed. Later, when Li Zicheng's army was defeated in the northern capital, he could obviously fight with Dolgon to welcome back His Majesty, but instead he helped Li Zicheng to take His Majesty hostage to the Western Capital, and then used money and food every year, the purpose of which was only to let Li Zicheng continue to put His Majesty under house arrest and facilitate his control of the government in the southern capital. Now that he has been forced by his ministers and loyal men to welcome back the Holy Driver, does Your Majesty think that this traitor who has harmed you twice will not harm you a third time? ”
Ding Kuichu said.
"As for the princess......"
Mao Qiling sneered: "The princess is already Yang Qing's person, Yang Qing now regards the queen as his own home, and the ladies in the palace are not allowed to be defiled." Not to mention that the princess has already been defiled by him, even the Empress Dowager Yi'an, and his filthy rumors have been circulating in Nandu for many years, and almost everyone knows about it, even if Concubine Yuan is not innocent. ”
He's just spewing blood!
Concubine Yuan and Yang Qing really have an innocent relationship between men and women, and Yang Qing still has this bit of discipline, but she is also Chongzhen's widow, and she is theoretically the stepmother of Princess Kunxing.
But Zhu Cihong may not know this.
The emperor's face changed significantly.
"Your Majesty, King Tang and the others just thought that there was a princess who could stop Yang Qing, but who cares about women who has been a big deal since ancient times? What's more, isn't there less of a princess who helps the horses rebel? How can being a princess be better than being a queen! Is the love of brother and sister comparable to turning a family into a country? ”
Ding Kuichu said.
"Enough!"
Zhu Cihong suddenly said angrily.
Ding Kuichu immediately shut up, then lowered his head and never spoke again.
Mao Qiling showed a hint of a smile.
It is clear that they have found a breakthrough, His Majesty the Emperor has been shaken, after all, he is only in his early twenties, and he has been imprisoned for another six years, and he is still far from being mentally detained.
He wasn't a match for these old foxes after all.
At this time, Qian Qianyi had already entered Wuyang Pass under the greeting of an officer, but the soldiers guarding the city gate immediately closed the city gate, and hundreds of musketeers were waiting on the gate, vigilantly looking at the team that suddenly arrived outside.