Chapter 780: Linzi Chaos (II)
Qi Palace is majestic, located in the southwest corner of Linzi City, embedded in the big city in the form of a small city, the internal building pavilion is tall, majestic, and the decoration is magnificent. The outer fortifications were also fully built, the city was higher than the outer wall, and the walls were thick.
But what seems to be the most impregnable place is also the most dangerous place, where there have been countless coups and murders over the centuries, and no matter how much the wall is strengthened and raised, it cannot prevent it from falling from the inside.
Standing tremblingly in the main hall, waiting for the outcome of the battle outside, Childe Shou experienced the journey from the joy of becoming the crown prince to the death of his father, and then to the horror of the coup d'état at the palace gate.
The coup d'état happened suddenly, although he had only entered the Qi Palace for a day, he seemed to regard himself as the master here, and was discussing with Uncle Zong how to organize the funeral and how to give the first monarch a suitable nickname, when the putschists suddenly arrived, hundreds of soldiers stormed the palace gate - Gongzi Shou didn't even know how they got in, he only realized afterwards that the first monarch's wife Yan Ji was gone!
Although the army of the Qi State Office was buried on the south bank of Wenshui, it still retained a certain defensive capability, and Li Mi organized a thousand people to be distributed on all sides of the palace, but they were caught off guard by five hundred Chen dead soldiers, and they quickly rushed through the square in front of the palace and went straight to the palace of the Marquis of Qi.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Li Mi asked Gongzi Shou to hide in the morgue of Qihou Pestle, while he took the tiger Ben to defend against the enemy. Among the more than 100 people who rebelled against the party at the front, he saw the faces of many acquaintances of the Chen clan, and his heart immediately sank, knowing that today's chaos was caused by Chen Qi.
"Plough Sima, the palace gate has been mastered by me, put down your weapons." Sure enough, after they were surrounded outside the temple gate, Chen Qi, dressed in military uniform, came over and began to persuade the plough to surrender.
"Is the secretary going to rebel? Do you want to learn Yi Ya, Erect Diao, or learn Cui Zhu? "The ancestor mutinied before his bones were cold, which made the anger in Limi's heart uncontrollable.
Chen Qi said with a smile: "Sima Yan has passed, the establishment of Gongzi's longevity is the selfishness of the Gao family, not the wish of the ancestors. Sima Chang served the first monarch left and right, you should know that the monarch has always wanted Gongzi Tu to succeed to the throne, and I am here to fulfill the wish of the first monarch, so that he can look under the Yellow Spring! ”
Li Mi scoffed at this high-sounding reason, "The monarch has a system, the Qing must not have more than five hundred private soldiers in the city, and the doctor must not exceed two hundred, although the secretary is lucky to attack the palace, but in fact, in Linzi City, your strength is not superior to the country and Gaolai." ”
"Really?" Chen Qi showed a meaningful smile, it seems that Sima wants to wait for Gao Zi to come to the rescue? It's a pity that now even he can't even save himself! “
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Chen Qi was right, because it was a joint operation of Chen Bao Erqing, so they divided labor and cooperated, Chen Qi knocked on the palace door, and Bao Guo was responsible for intercepting the Gao soldiers who came to the palace to support.
At this time, it was already dawn, Gao Zhang hurriedly gathered 500 retainers and soldiers and rushed to the palace, hoping to keep the heir alive, but when he arrived near the West Market, he was entangled by the Bao family's soldiers, and a street battle broke out in the West Market.
For street fighting, the people of Qi have become commonplace. As early as more than 100 years ago, after the death of Duke Qi Huan, with the support of Yi Ya, Ji Diao and other traitors, the five princes fought together and fought for more than 60 days, beating Linzi to pieces. When the person was almost dead, he had time to rest and collect the corpse of Qi Huan, but at that time, the corpse insects that crawled out of the window of the palace were all about to turn into cocoons and flies, and they flew all over Linzi.
After that, the Cui Qing Rebellion, Chen and Bao's expulsion of Erhui, all took Linzi as a battlefield and fought inextricably. Bao Mu and Chen Qi were the witnesses of the year, these two seasoned coups had no intention of calculating, and waited early on the road to pass, and beat the Gao family by surprise, among which Wang Sunsheng, who Bao Mu barely brought with him, was even more brave, using the sword skills learned in Wu Guo, which can be one enemy ten.
The battle was originally one-sided, but as Xiao Guoshu also arrived with the only remaining soldiers of the national clan, there were faint signs of a turnaround, after all, the soldiers of the Bao clan were not known for their good fighting, but there were many technical attacks among the soldiers of the country and the Gao clan.
At this critical juncture, some Chinese people joined the war group.
In previous coups, the people of the country were basically neutral parties, but this time they heard the sound of fighting and went out to look, but they happened to hear the people sent by each family shouting for help.
They scoffed at the request for help from the state and Gao Erqing, who had always regarded themselves very highly and looked down on the common people, and they were also indifferent to Bao's request for help, but to Chen, it evoked some of their memories.
Chen's three measuring instruments, beans, districts, and kettles, have all been increased by a quarter, and the capacity of the bell is even larger. Starting from Chen Wuyu, whenever he encountered a loan from a Linzi person, he would use a large number of private vessels to lend food, and use a small amount of public utensils to recover it. The timber on Gaotang Mountain is transported to Linzi Market, and the price is not higher than that in the mountains; The price of seafood such as fish, salt, clams, etc. in Dongrai is not higher than that of the seaside. At the end of the reign of the Marquis of Qi, the people divided their labor income into three parts, two points to the government, and one point to maintain their own food and clothing. The wealth of the king has rotted and grown, but the old people are cold and hungry. Coupled with the proliferation of punishments, shoes are cheap and prosthetic legs are expensive in various markets in the national capital.
The people of Linzi had a painful illness and could not be appeased by the monarch and the state and the second secretary of the country, and only the Chen family was willing to contribute money and efforts to settle them. Doing this kind of thing once or twice can be said to be hypocritical, but after 30 years of doing it day out, it becomes a real good, and it is a great good that benefits two generations! Before his grandfather died, he would tell his grandson that Chen's was good, and after his mother was buried, his son would wipe his tears and say that thanks to Chen's help, he would not have been able to hold a one-sided funeral.
So in the past 30 years, although the people of Linzi are called the gentlemen and gentlemen of the country, those at the bottom of them support the Chen family like their parents, and they belong to the Chen family like flowing water.
If the Chen family dies, who will compensate the poor people in Linzi who are suffering?
Qi Hou can die! Chan can't pour!
So under the call of the Chen banner, they quickly found their camp.
Gao Zhang was dumbfounded, Bao Mu didn't know why, and a scene that made Wang Sunsheng's memory still fresh happened. When the war was in full swing, the people of Linzi took out farm tools and weapons from their homes, and fell to the side of Chen, Bao and the doctors, all of them were soldiers, gathered more than 10,000 people, and half of Linzi was in an uproar, this was no longer the struggle for power and profit of the four families, but the votes cast by the Qi people with the weapons in their hands.
As a result, the few remaining soldiers of Gao and the country were outnumbered, and they were defeated and retreated one after another, until they were defeated from the west market to the east market. The more people on his side fought, the fewer they fought, but the enemy gained the support of more and more Linzi people and became unstoppable.
"If you lose, we lose, and whoever wins the country will win the country." Gao Zhang doesn't need to think about it to know that the general trend has gone, if he can't win in Linzi, out of Linzi, in the face of the intact Chen family, the country, Gao is defeated and invincible!
"Let's go!" Gao Zhang turned the head of the car and yelled at the sluggish Guoshu: "I go to the south gate, you go to the east gate, I enter Lu from Jiagu to ask for shelter, you go to Mulingguan to find Yan Yu!" We need his Southern Army! ”
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"Plough Sima, do you see? This is the water can carry the boat, the water can overturn the boat......" Chen Qi felt after listening to his subordinates' report on the situation outside, this sentence was heard from the coup d'état of Cao State, everything Duanmu Ci did in Taoqiu taught him a good lesson, Chen has been sticking to the benedicture and currying favor with the people of Linzi, for this day!
Those who avoid war and collude with the same interests at the top are conspiracy, and they can give benefits to the people and gain their support, which is a conspiracy.
Yin and Yang are used together, with the right combination, and with the odd victory, Chen Qi seems to have the essence of his brother Sun Wu in seeking the country, even when the country and high strength still exist, it can't withstand the raging people.
The outcome of this infighting was already doomed as early as thirty years ago when Chen Wuyu began to fight and borrow small fights! It's a pity that he didn't get to see this scene himself.
With the defeat of Gao Zhang and Guoshu respectively, and as his nephew Chen Wei led 5,000 people into Linzi to suppress the unconvinced, everyone knew that the general trend had been decided. The doctor's family close to Gao Zhang either ran or fled, and the other families were busy joining the Chen family's side, lest they fall behind and be suppressed as dissidents.
Li Mi also understood this truth, he didn't resist more, obediently let go of the way of the dormitory, Chen Qi and Bao Mu, who arrived later, both went in and cried to the corpse of Qi Hou Pestle, so that Gongzi Shou, who was kneeling next to him, was not kneeling, and was embarrassed.
At this moment, Yan Ji, the wife of the first monarch, appeared again, she brought the most beloved son of Qi Hou Jiujiu before his death, Gongzi Tu, Chen Qi and Bao Mu also concocted a "testament" stamped with the great seal of the monarch, as if to expel the traitorous ministers, turn the tide of the minister, and press the young son in front of the tomb of the first monarch, and kowtow three times.
Subsequently, the pseudo-prince Gongzi Shou was also forced by the sword to surrender to his younger brother Sanji.
His experience in the past few days was like a dream, and this dream ended with a broken wine a few days later. The other sons of the Marquis of Qi did not want to end up in this fate, so they fled one after another, or fled to the nearest Qi country, or the Ju country on the southeast coast, but more chose the Lu country, the Zhao family, and now the princes of the Central Plains, the only thighs left......
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At the same time, just as the Linzi Rebellion was coming to an end, the head of the Zhao family, who resolutely went out to fight with illness, finally arrived at Yiguan...... (To be continued.) )