Chapter 138: Hidden Murder

The carriage galloped in the rainy night, the wide carriage was like a hut, the doors and windows were closed, the carriage was dark, Jing Niang took out the pearl lamp from the leather bag, and the carriage suddenly became clear.

Su Han smiled: "You are still careful, I forgot about this." ”

Jing Niang was a little embarrassed and said: "The main reason is that I have been poor since I was a child, and I always feel that there are some valuable things around me." ”

Su Han nodded and said with a smile: "This lamp is not only valuable, but also very practical, with it, there is no need to light candles in the carriage at night." ”

She saw that there was a long wooden box next to Jing Niang, which was quite bulky, so she smiled and said, "Just bring a little soft, what are you doing with this stupid box?" ”

Jing Niang hurriedly handed the wooden box to Su Han, "Mastermother, this is the most important thing for the son, you can't forget it." ”

"What is it?" Su Han asked curiously.

"I don't know, it seems like a weapon."

Su Han saw that there was a lock on the box, so she gave up her curiosity, she opened the thick curtain and looked out, just as Wu Jin was next to the car, and smiled at her.

Su Han saw that it was raining quite heavily outside, Wujin had no rain gear, and his clothes were soaked, so he couldn't help but feel distressed: "Husband, you can also get in the car!" ”

Wu Jin shook his head and smiled: "No need, I will go to the Upper East Gate immediately, go out of the city, and soon arrive at the military camp." ”

He saw that the city gate was a mile ahead, and said, "Put down the curtain and don't open it!" ”

Su Han hurriedly lowered the curtain, and the carriage accelerated and drove towards the city gate.

......... The city gate of the capital is closed at night, and the next five watches are opened, during this period, unless there are special circumstances, the general city gate is not opened, especially the four main city gates of Dingding, Changxia, Jianchun and Yongtong, it is strictly controlled, and it is not allowed to open for any reason.

In addition, there is a waterway, Luoshui crosses the capital, although the waterway is also a path, but there are water villages on both sides of the river, and it is difficult to enter and exit during the day.

But if there is an emergency, you can still enter and exit from several other small city gates, such as Houzai Gate, Upper East Gate, etc., emergency refers to the holy decree and military situation, in addition, there are very few people who have the right to go out of the city at night, generally the prince and the prince, but the internal guard supervisor Jiang Ge Lao also has a gold medal that can go out of the city, which is used by Huangfu Xuande to mobilize troops out of the city.

At this time, this special gold medal out of the city was in the hands of Wu Jin, and gradually, the carriage approached the upper east gate, and in addition to Wu Jin following the carriage, there were more than a dozen palace guards.

"Childe, look ahead!" Liu Qingyi, the leader of the guards, pointed to the city gate.

Wu Jin had already seen it, the city gate was illuminated by torches, and a team of hundreds of people was leaving the city, with three wide carriages in the middle, and Wu Jin recognized the logo on the carriage at a glance. It's the King of Qi.

As soon as he swung, the carriage stopped, and watched King Qi go out of the city from a distance, at this time, he didn't want to be discovered by King Qi.

King Qi has a special token and can go out of the city, and he left in a hurry, taking Princess Qi with him, packing up some soft and leaving in a hurry. He is not like Wu Jin, he is safe when he flees to the military camp outside the city, he only has three hundred guards around him, and he is only safe when he flees to Yanshi County, where there are his three thousand garrisons.

The news of the emperor's accident was still under strict sealing, and the guards of the Upper East Gate did not know about it, so they only briefly checked the gold medal of King Qi and let him go.

When the Qi king's team left the city, they did not dare to stay, and rushed eastward, and soon disappeared into the rain and mist.

After waiting for a while, Wujin's carriage slowly came to the city gate, a team of soldiers stepped forward to stop, the captain guarding the city gate was surnamed Fang, he walked up quickly, he felt a little strange in his heart, he rarely went out at night, why did two batches come at once today?

He stepped forward, recognized Wu Jin at once, and hurriedly arched his hand: "It turned out to be Liang Guogong, may I have a token to go out of the city?" ”

The news of Wu Jin's change to the title of Hei Liang Wang has not yet spread, and the soldiers defending the city do not know, Wu Jin took out the gold medal given to him by Jiang Yan and handed it to the captain, "Is this okay?" ”

Captain Fang glanced at it, it turned out to be the gold medal of the internal guard, he was in awe, and waved his hand from afar, "Open the city gate!" ”

He returned the gold medal to Wu Jin, "This gold medal can go out of the city, general, please!" ”

The gate rumbled open, and the coachman drove the carriage toward the gate, when the sound of horses' hooves came from behind him, very clear in the rainy night, and heard from afar, as if someone was shouting something.

Wu Jin secretly screamed in his heart that it was not good, he drew his sword and slashed at the cart horse, pulled the horse and suffered pain, accelerated suddenly, and galloped away outside the city, Wu Jin also followed the carriage closely, and instantly rushed out of the city gate, at this time, a team of horsemen appeared in the rain curtain behind, and they shouted: "Close the city gate, General Tian has an order, no one is allowed to enter or exit!" ”

The lieutenant was stunned, he looked at the carriage and a dozen knights who had already left the city, it was impossible to chase them back.

The cavalry team arrived in an instant, and when the captain saw that the carriage had gone out, he whipped it at Captain Fang and scolded: "Bastard! I'm shouting from afar, why don't I listen? ”

Captain Fang didn't dare to resist, and held back the pain and said: "I can't hear clearly in the rainy night, and when I hear clearly, they have already gone out, and they don't have time to stop it." ”

Seeing that the carriage out of the city had disappeared, the lieutenant had no choice but to ask, "Who is the person who went out of the city?" ”

"General Hui, first the King of Qi went out of the city, and then the Duke of Liangguo, he has a gold medal for the internal guard to go out of the city."

Fortunately, it is not the person of the prince, and the general said again: "General Tian has an order, from now on, no one is allowed to enter or leave the prince, the prince, or the holy decree, especially the army is not allowed to enter the city, and the door must not be opened at dawn, when can the door be opened, wait for the general's military order!" ”

"Yes!"

Captain Fang hurriedly ordered the city gate to be closed, and the gate slammed shut.

General Tian refers to Tian Xingwen, the general of the Nine Gates, who is the backbone of the Chu royal family and one of the armies under the control of Uncle Shen, which is an emergency countermeasure taken by Uncle Shen when he realizes that the army of the East Palace may have to enter the city.

In the palace, the situation of Emperor Xuande of Daning Emperor has improved, his breathing and pulse have gradually stabilized, but he has not yet woken up, and he still makes the important ministers waiting outside the palace worry tightly, because the rain is too strong, everyone is invited to the side hall to rest and wait.

At the critical moment of interest, the hypocritical harmony between Uncle Shen and the crown prince has disappeared, the crown prince Fu Heng is pacing back and forth outside the emperor's bedroom with his hands behind his back, he has just asked the imperial doctor in detail, the father will have three situations, one is to wake up, gradually return to normal, the second is to be in a coma, it is difficult to wake up, and the third is that the condition deteriorates sharply and finally dies.

The possible surnames of these three situations are the same, each accounting for three percent, and Huang Fuheng has to consider the countermeasures after the last two situations occur.

If his father is not governed, then he has a great chance of ascending the throne, although he and Uncle Shen control the same army strength, he has 20,000 Donggong troops, while Uncle Shen controls 20,000 Jiumen Army, and the other hundreds of thousands of troops are loyal to the emperor, of course, he is orthodox, and the army is more likely to support him.

He is most worried about the second situation, and it will be difficult for his father to wake up, what should he do at that time? He ascended the throne or supervised the country, so he was afraid that his father would wake up again in the end, and whether he ascended the throne or supervised the country, he would be extremely embarrassed, thus annoying his father.

Huangfu Heng walked to the door of the main hall with his hands behind his back, looking at the rainy and misty sky worriedly, his heart was full of anxiety, the 20,000 Jiumen army controlled by Uncle Shen Guo was deployed in the city, and his 20,000 Donggong troops were outside the city, in case of an emergency, Uncle Shen Guo could strike first.

Uncle Shen Guo was sitting in the side hall, he seemed to be indifferent to the outside affairs like an old monk, but in fact, he had already issued three orders in a row.

The first is an order issued in the name of the empress, the palace is blocked from the news, the news of the emperor's illness is not allowed to leak out, the palace gate is closed, and no one is allowed to enter or leave.

The second is to secretly order Tian Xingwen, the general of the Nine Gates, to close the city gate and not allow anyone to enter or leave the capital, mainly to prevent the prince's East Palace army from entering the city.

The third is to inform the Nanshan faction of the imperial family, and let them inform all the royal families in Beijing to gather in the Taimiao, once the emperor dies, the imperial family will agree on the succession to the throne, of course, Uncle Shen will not let the crown prince ascend the throne, especially in the case that seventy percent of the royal family supports the king of Chu, let the royal family decide the succession to the throne in his favor.

Uncle Shen Guo is calm on the surface, but he is still very nervous in his heart, he hopes that the emperor can recover and improve, the king of Chu is now at the bottom of the battle for the throne, even if he has a hundred clever plans, it will be difficult to defeat the orthodoxy of the prince, otherwise the day the prince ascends the throne, it will be the time when his Shen family is destroyed.

He was praying silently, hoping that the emperor would wake up as soon as possible.

........ Outside the Dingding Gate, a black army drove to the city, although the rainy night was not far away, but the outline of this army still surprised the defenders of the city, and at least 20,000 people came from outside the city.

The officer on duty at Dingdingmen, surnamed He, was a general who had received an order from General Jiumen Tian that no one should be allowed to enter or leave the city, especially the Donggong army.

Hearing that there were 20,000 troops, He Duwei immediately reacted, this must be the East Palace Sixth Mansion army is about to enter the city, he was very nervous, on the one hand, he sent someone to inform the general Tian Xingwen, and on the other hand, he ordered all the defenders to go to the city.

'When! While! While! The bell rang at the head of the city, and a group of heavily armed soldiers rushed up to the top of the city, and soon more than a thousand soldiers gathered at the head of the city, all of them with bows and arrows, and watched nervously below.

"We are the East Palace Army, on the orders of the crown prince, enter the East Palace to guard!"

The army under the city was calling the door, but no one in the city answered them, and after a while, seeing that the city did not respond, a sergeant immediately went to report to Fan Xu, the general of the Sixth Rate.

Fan Xu is a nearly sixty-year-old veteran, loyal to the prince, he just received the prince's Tianlong gold medal, which surprised him, this is the prince has used this gold medal since entering the East Palace, the prince told him that if this gold medal appears, it means that there is an emergency, so that he must enter Beijing to escort.

Fan Xu was very anxious at this time, and he urged him to step forward and call the door in person: "I am Fan Xu, the general of the East Palace, if you want to enter the city immediately, please open the city gate quickly!" ”

The city was silent when he answered.

(To be continued)