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The counterattack of the remnants of the Zhang clan came as suddenly as the storm of last night, and it came so violently and so carefully planned that it was really much beyond the emperor's expectations.

He stayed up almost all night, and hurriedly moved to the Yanying Hall early the next morning, ordering a group of close officials to be summoned to discuss countermeasures.

Xie Liangchen and Wu Bi stood beside the emperor on the left and right, looking at the emperor who was crooked in the dragon throne with his eyes closed, he was so nervous that he didn't dare to take another breath:

Last night, just after the time of the lantern, dozens of assassin soldiers divided into two ways and raided the Yaohua Palace and the Hanbing Palace, not only disturbing the holy driver, but also killing the proposed Zhaoyi Xia clan, who had just entered the palace and had not yet reached the face of the monarch, in the Hanbing Palace. Such a shocking event has happened in the palace, if it is seriously investigated, the two of them will bear the brunt, and they will inevitably be guilty of dereliction of duty, and the emperor may be considering a replacement for the two at this moment.

However, Wu and Xie both guessed wrong this time.

The emperor, who was waiting for Li Jinzhong, Jing Yuncong, Liu Yi, Zeng Qingze and others to come to the Yanying Palace meeting, had another thing in mind at this time: two years ago in the East Palace Ning Xiangxuan, the concubine's will that Mama Xia relayed to him could not be realized after all.

Two years ago, why did Mama Xia go and return and hide in the East Palace as a florist for many years? In addition to herself, I am afraid that the only person who really understands the reason is the original prince and the current emperor.

Liu Yi and Zeng Qing only said that she was entrusted by Concubine Wu Xian. secretly supported the prince, but he didn't know that when she returned to the East Palace, she was still burdened with the heavy responsibility of the Yang family's comeback.

The emperor still remembers it vividly. In the inconspicuous ear room behind the main hall of Ning Xiangxuan, Mama Xia tearfully told him that the former crown princess Yang had a cousin Yang Tang'er, and in order to avoid the harm of the Zhang family, she was now hiding in the assassination mansion of her son Xia Cunxin in Yunzhou as the daughter of the Xia family. According to Concubine Wu Xian's instructions before her disappearance, if the crown prince Dengji becomes the emperor in the future, he must appoint the daughter of the Yang family as the queen. Now the Yang family is the only one who keeps this woman, hoping that the prince will try to summon this woman into the palace after ascending to the pole. Queen.

Truth be told, the emperor was not very reluctant to do this at the time. He secretly thought in his heart that the Wu family and the Yang family were close relatives. Naturally, there is also the blood of the Yang family flowing in his body, and if the Yang family wants to make a comeback, he only needs to pin his hopes on himself, why bother to compete for the back position?

So. He didn't take Mama Xia's words very seriously. Especially now that there are two concubines in the harem, Jing Xuan and Wanrong. If Yang Tang'er is rashly summoned into the palace as the queen, not to mention that it will attract the criticism of the courtiers, just a graceful person, I am afraid it will be difficult to be obedient in his heart, and the palace is not at peace at the moment, he doesn't want to make any extraneous branches and make waves again. So, although he told Jing Xuan in advance. asked her to list Yang Tang'er above everyone when she was discussing the rank of the newly elected concubine, but she had no plan to immediately make her the queen.

Until I saw the sudden crazy counterattack of the remnants of the Zhang clan this time. The target seemed to be the emperor himself, but now that they really wanted to put it to death, it was the poor Yang Tang'er, and the emperor began to realize that in the eyes of the remnants of the palace loyal to the Zhang family, the Yang descendants entering the harem were even more terrible and intolerable than he himself being the emperor.

The emperor closed his eyes slightly, allowing scenes of the past to pass through his mind: since the late period of the dynasty when his grandfather was beaten, the Li family was nominally in charge of the court, but as big as the military, finance, employment and other important affairs of the court, as small as the palace construction, dance and music choreography and other harem chores, all of them were ordered to come from Zhang and Yang.

First of all, when the grandfather Bingguo, the Yang family started from Hanjie, and with the strong internal support of the Yang family's concubines, the power of the entire family rose rapidly and expanded, suppressing and squeezing the Zhang family, who was originally a high-ranking family, into the palace with little to no place to stand, and even forced the then Empress Dowager Zhang to death.

However, less than three years later, the Yang family suggested to the emperor that they relax their vigilance on the northern border because of their gullibility, thus causing a catastrophe.

The danger was not complete since Youyan rebelled, and only a few months later, the rebels broke through Chang'an. Soon after the fall of Chang'an, under the threat of mutiny by the forbidden army, my grandfather had to order the execution of the Yang brothers and sisters, and only the Yang family's mother, Wu, remained in the royal family as the side concubine of his father who was in the East Palace.

In the past few years, as his father took the opportunity of leaving alone in the north to quell the rebellion, Zhang Liangdi and Zhang's protégés also occupied an important position in the court because of their support, gradually controlled the dynasty, and unscrupulously retaliated against and framed the so-called Yang forces, including him and his younger brother King Jianning. His father was far less wise and martial than his grandfather, and he was both grateful and afraid of Zhang, so he could only secretly protect his position as the prince, until he was dying, he borrowed the hand of Li Jinzhong to launch a palace change, and risked passing the throne to his own hands.

Now, although he has become the emperor, he can't quell the rebellion outside, and he can't calm the palace ban inside, and he is helpless to see the remnants of the Zhang family making waves under his nose. Thinking of this, the emperor's heart suddenly struck with a depression that he had never felt before.

"What, haven't they arrived yet?" The emperor opened his eyes in distraught and asked Xie Liangchen in a low voice.

Xie Liangchen's face was embarrassed, and he replied cautiously: "If you go back to the master, it has just arrived at the beginning of Mao, and the Danfeng Gate has not yet opened at this time." If you rest for a while, the old slave will send someone to urge. ”

The emperor lifted his eyelids, looked at Wu Bi who was standing on the other side, raised his finger and pointed to the seat under the stairs and said, "Uncle has also worked hard this night, go down and sit, you don't have to stand and stand up." After that, without waiting for Wu Bi to respond, he changed his posture in the seat and closed his eyes again.

Let's go back to the present. The emperor muttered to himself in his heart.

He was surprised but not pessimistic to find that over the years, under the continuous pressure and pressure of Zhang and his party, his mind was often in a state of tension, and he would always overreact and make irreparable mistakes:

From the New Year's Day two years ago, after the poisoning of the Wang family, as soon as he returned to the East Palace, he was anxious to instruct Shang Jing to hire someone to take the blame, and after hearing the news of Yang Tang'er's death last night, he couldn't help but say that he ordered someone to immediately kill all the palace eunuchs who were sent to serve Yang Tang'er in the Ice Palace.

Although Zhang herself has been dead for many days, she has successfully planted fear and violence deep in her heart, and if she does not take drastic measures to eliminate the remnants of the Zhang family in the palace as soon as possible, and let them stir up trouble unscrupulously, I am afraid that sooner or later she will be forced by them to act more rebelliously.

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