The ministers turned so quickly that even Song Kuan was a little surprised.

According to the plan he originally discussed with Sun Tongren, he was ready to kill half of the ministers in the court in order to achieve the goal of coercion. Unexpectedly, just killing one Cai Feng turned the situation around in one fell swoop.

Zhao Yingqi was at the end of his rope at this time, so he had to agree to abdicate.

Luo Qihua took out the abdication edict that had been prepared, and Zhao Yingqi drew a pledge on it and stamped the national seal, even if the abdication procedure was completed.

As for the new emperor, it was a surprise to most ministers.

Originally, people thought that Song Kuan would manipulate this matter and it would be succeeded by King Dongping, but in fact it was Han Tiandou, King of Nan'an, who succeeded him.

However, it is not surprising that people think about the previous rumors about Han Tiandou slaying the white snake.

It turned out that at that time, the three feudatories were already preparing for Han Tiandou's succession.

According to the arrangement of Song Kuan, Luo Qihua and others, the ministers dispersed. Return to his yamen and appease the officials.

Hou Xiaolian temporarily took over the post of secretary of the military department, and issued official documents to various places, ordering the soldiers and horses to stop resisting and surrender to the army of the three feudatories.

Jia Yucun left in a hurry, returned to the Yamen of Shuntian Mansion, and issued a notice to reassure the people.

The Military Aircraft Department issued official documents to local government offices, ordering local officials to abide by their duties, protect the territory and the people, and wait for the new emperor's will.

As for the official positions of the various ministers, Song Kuan may have made a promise to wait for the new emperor to ascend the throne. In view of the merits of the ministers in supporting the new emperor, they will be rewarded for their meritorious deeds when the time comes.

Naturally, the ministers didn't have to leave Chang'an, so they returned to their old posts one after another, fulfilling their duties, and working harder than before.

The guards of the palace have all been replaced by brocade soldiers. The original palace guards, except for a few who were killed, were all incorporated into the Imperial Guards.

The Imperial Forest Army was originally guarding the periphery of the Imperial City, and now it is performing the duties of the original Jinyi Army.

The responsibilities of the Jinyi Army and the Imperial Forest Army are exactly reversed.

The gates of the city, which had been wide open for people to escape, were still open.

As the news of Tianyou's abdication spread, the flow of people who fled almost disappeared. It turned out that those who wanted to leave did not leave.

When the dynasty changed, the bloody battle of the imperial capital, burning and looting, fighting everywhere, corpses everywhere and slaughtering the city did not happen.

The officials still do their own errands in the yamen, and the common people live their lives as usual. Except for a change of emperor, nothing has changed.

In the Palace of Nourishing the Heart, the abolished emperor Zhao Yingqi passed the last imperial meal here, and it was Song Kuan who ate with him.

Not long ago, it often happened that the two of them ate together like this.

At that time, the two were still brothers, at least on the surface.

Going any further, there are even more such cases. More often, there are two more people, one is Han Qi and the other is Li Gan.

However, at that time, Zhao Yingqi's identity was still the crown prince.

"Song Kuan, when did you want to rebel?"

Zhao Yingqi's emotions have calmed down now, and the tone of his voice is as if he is talking about something that has little to do with him.

"I've thought about it since my grandfather."

"Why is it delaying so long?"

"It was impossible to succeed in rebellion before."

"Why did you make up your mind this time?"

"This time it will work."

"Why?"

"Because you're the emperor."

"You mean I'm ......, you're saying I'm incompetent?"

"It's not all, the main thing is that no one will help your family, and your family has offended everyone."

"My family treats you well, why do you have to rebel?"

"Because your family doesn't trust us, they could kill us at any time."

"Actually, we are also very jealous of you, and we have long wanted to withdraw the domain, but we haven't withdrawn in the end. Actually, you don't have to rebel, I didn't want to kill you. ”

"I believe your words are true. However, we don't dare to risk your life on your mind. The taste of being a hostage is not pleasant. You didn't even think about attacking the six national mansions, didn't you do it in the end? There are some things that you can't do on your own. ”

"What are you going to do with my family?"

"What the new emperor means is to crown you as the king of You, hand over the palace and property, and move your family to Yunnan. You can rest assured, food, clothing, and everything will be provided for you. However, it is impossible to maintain the original rules and etiquette. ”

"Actually, you can kill me, and you can also ascend the throne and start a new dynasty. Why do you have to give in? ”

"There are virtuous people in the world, which can allow us to collect the people's hearts as soon as possible and make a smooth transition. Killing too many people is not a good thing after all. If you take the initiative to abdicate, you can make the people of the world forget about the previous dynasty as soon as possible. After all, the new emperor also needs the support of the world. ”

"Why did Han Tiandou become the emperor, I thought it was the king of Dongping who became the emperor?"

"First, the Han family has the largest number of troops and the most financial resources. Second, the new emperor has the highest reputation in the southwest. Third, twenty years later, it will be my family's turn, my family will be doing it for twenty years, and it will be the Li family's turn. ”

"This is what the emperor did in turn, so you are not afraid that he will do it for twenty years and not do it for your family?"

"Twenty years from now, who knows what will happen? I had to take one step at a time. ”

"I really regret that I didn't get to know Luo Qihua and Sun Tongren as soon as possible. The true face of Jia Yucun and his ilk. However, now that I have dumped them at you, you will be the ones who will have a headache in the future. ”

"Don't worry, they won't be the same in our hands."

The two were eating and chatting, really like old friends.

Sun Tongren came over with a team of brocade clothes, and Zhao Yingqi put down his chopsticks.

"Shouldn't I go?"

"I'll send Brother Zhao."

Song Kuan also stood up.

There was already a team of carriages and horses waiting, and the queen, the crown prince, and several concubines and palace maids and eunuchs, a total of forty or fifty people, were sitting in the carriage.

They are about to depart, and the Jinyi army will escort them to Yunnan.

Out of the Forbidden City, Zhao Yingqi stopped.

"Brother Song, let's stay."

"Have a nice trip, take care."

After Song Kuan finished speaking, he turned to the leader of the Jinyi Army who was escorting.

"Treat each other politely along the way, and don't be embarrassed."

Zhao Yingqi glanced back at the Forbidden City, sighed in his heart, got on the horse and left.

Song Kuanmu sent the convoy away, and only then did he turn around and walk towards the palace until he disappeared from view.

A dynasty ended like this?

He felt like a dream.

"I'm fine, you can go back and do your thing."

Song Kuan stopped and said to Sun Tongren, who had been following him.

"Yes, son, retire from your duties."

Sun Tongren bent down and bowed, turned to leave.

Song Kuan stood for a while, then got up and walked towards Cining Palace.

After the death of the first queen of the Son of Heaven of Yuanheng, there was no queen later, so after the Son of Heaven blessed the throne, there was no living queen mother.

Not long after the death of the emperor of Yuanheng, the imperial concubine also died of illness. After Zhao Yingqi ascended the throne, he named Zhou Guifei as the imperial concubine.

Because Jia Guifei has passed away, he named Wu Guifei, who was left by the emperor, as the imperial concubine.

The royal family, such as Prince Zhongshun, had already fled first, and the rest were originally going to follow Zhao Yingqi this time, but they didn't expect the incident to happen suddenly and they became prisoners.

Fortunately, Song Kuan left them a way to live and sent them to Yunnan, so they were sent to Yunnan in batches.

Zhao Yingqi was the first to leave, and the other members will also set off one after another.

The concubine of Emperor Zhou is the one who will leave in the future.

Concubine Zhou is actually very young, only in her thirties this year, not a few years older than Song Kuan.

What outsiders don't know is that Song Kuan has known Emperor Zhou and Concubine Zhou for 20 years.

In the teenage years,. The concubine of Emperor Zhou is a dream of Song Kuan.

Empress Zhou's concubine has a very poetic name, called Zhou Xue makeup.

Now, Song Kuan can finally come to see his snow makeup sister with a victorious identity.

When I entered the courtyard gate of Cininghong, I saw a beautiful woman standing in the small garden.

The white and red face looks very eye-catching in the garden that has withered flowers.

Now, this face is the only flower in bloom in the garden.

Zhou Xuexiang slowly walked towards Song Kuan, and stood a step away from him.

The two palace maids in the courtyard, I don't know when, have disappeared.

Looking at the peerless demeanor of the woman in gorgeous clothes in front of him, Song Kuan couldn't help but think of the situation a few days ago, when they met at the guest house in Dashilar.

At that time, Zhou Xuexiang quietly slipped out of the palace and met him. Tell him that Cho Young-ki is going to escape.

In fact, this news is of little value to Song Kuan, because he has known it from other channels for a long time.

However, Sister Xue ran out of the palace secretly to tell her the news, which still made him ecstatic.

At that moment, Song Kuan felt that Sister Xue Makeup was still the same as she did more than ten years ago, and she always cared about him like that.

Song Kuan always thought that if it weren't for Sister Xue Makeup who entered the palace later, he would have married Sister Xue Makeup.

"You've finally succeeded, and that's the end of a dynasty?"

"I didn't succeed, but this dynasty is indeed over."

Zhou Xue's well-maintained Qianqianyu hand gently stroked Song Kuan's face.

"Actually, you did a very good job, entering the palace alone and laying the overall situation in one fell swoop."

"They are not afraid of me, but of the 400,000 army behind me. More precisely, it was Won Heng and Tian You themselves who ruined their dynasty. We're just pushing behind the scenes. ”

"Don't be so presumptuous, in fact, there are countless people who envy you."

"They don't know my suffering, I'm actually a failure in this life, I didn't get Sister Xue, everything about me is meaningless."

"You won't say that it was for me that destroyed this dynasty, right? Are you taking revenge on the Emperor for taking me away from you? ”

"I sometimes console myself with this reason. Actually, no. All we want to do is protect ourselves. Maybe no one else believes it, but that's what I think. ”

"In another twenty years, when you become an emperor, you won't think like that."

"I won't be an emperor, it's hard to be an emperor. Sometimes, I really want to be like Jia Min. You can do what you want. ”

"I don't want to hear the name Jia Min, it reminds me of Jia Guifei."

"She's been dead for a long time."

"Yesterday I dreamed that she was asking for my life. For my sake, get rid of Eunuch Zhou. Now he's the only one in the know. ”

"I'm also an insider, and Zhao Yingqi is also an insider, can we get rid of it together?"

"Who has what it takes to get rid of you? Zhao Yingqi will not say anything about it. ”

"And what are you afraid of?"

"Jia Min is still alive."

"I don't want to be an enemy of Jia Min, and if it's possible, I want to reconcile with him."

"I know, my sister can't control you now. Forget it, let's go in and sit down. ”

"There are so many people that I don't go in. I'll do it for my sister about Eunuch Zhou. ”

"Will we meet again?"

"Probably not."

"Is it because I'm old?"

"My sister is still so young, full of charm, and peerless."

"Then why?"

"The current Concubine Zhou is no longer my original sister with snow makeup. The past can never come back. Take care, sister. ”

After Song Kuan finished speaking, he resolutely turned around and left. Out of Cining Palace, a gust of autumn wind blew, unconsciously, leaving a line of tears.

Looking at Song Kuan's distant back, Zhou Xuexiang hoped that Song Kuan would turn around and let her take another look at that handsome face.

A dynasty is over, and a beautiful story is over. All that is left is regret and sentimentality.

The autumn wind blew, and Zhou Xue gently wiped away her tears.