On the second day of December in the first year of the Guardian, the sky was as gray as lead, there was not a ray of sunshine in sight, the snow was blowing and falling for several days, and the pedestrians on the road were almost extinct; Seeing that the sky was about to get dark, Song Qilang, the postman of the Huayin County Military Station, shrunk his neck, stood at the door of the post station and stomped his feet, stretched out his head to look out, except for the flying snow, there was indeed no one on the road, and even the majestic Huashan not far away was only a gray shadow.

Song Qilang was about to close the door and go in for dinner, when suddenly a string of impatient horses' hooves came from the direction of Jingzhao Mansion, due to the heavy wind and snow, when Song Qilang heard the sound of hooves, a fast horse was less than ten zhang away from him.

The knight on the horse was wrapped in a furry fox fur coat.

Song Qilang saw that the other party was not wearing messenger clothes, and immediately raised his vigilance, and the fast horse rushed to the front, and suddenly the person stood up, and let out a big gulp of hot air with a long neighing; Song Qilang was about to scold, when he suddenly saw the knight on the horse stretching out a tooth tag, on which were written the words "Staffing Pavilion".

The person who came was Li Dafeng, a spy officer sent to the northwest by the Staff Pavilion, who was originally a strong man in the rivers and lakes, because of his martial arts skills and ingenuity, he was favored by the Staffing Pavilion and was selected as the first batch of spy personnel sent to Western Xia.

Li Dafeng liked this exciting job very much, and because of his outstanding performance, he was promoted twice in a few months, and now he is the head of the Hexi Group of the Staff Pavilion.

This time, the Hexi Group made a great breakthrough, the Western Xia Zhuo Luo and the Southern Army Division were all unified army Qili Gang a few months ago, and were ordered to lead the army to attack the Xiangli Qiguang who had seized the Yan Military Division of Heishui Town, but the result was not only not to destroy the Xiangli Qiguang, but was defeated, and the losses were quite heavy; Empress Dowager Liang was furious, reprimanded Qi Ligang, demoted him to deputy commander, and Qi Ligang's family was also taken to Xingqing Mansion like hostages, for which he was extremely dissatisfied; In response to his situation, the Hexi Group sent people to rebel, and now Qiligang has agreed to join the Great Song Dynasty, but put forward two conditions, one is to rescue his family, and the other is to give him the right to lead the troops after joining the Great Song Dynasty.

Unable to call the scene, these Kasai groups had to send information to Tokyo and ask the imperial court to decide.

Originally, the pigeon station from the capital to Lanzhou has been initially established, but in this kind of snowy weather, the pigeon is easy to have problems, such a major matter, Li Dafeng did not dare to be careless, so he personally went out to quickly transmit the news to Tokyo as quickly as possible.

"Immediately change me to a fast horse, and hot steamed buns!"

Li Dafeng obviously didn't plan to stay longer, jumped off the horse and ordered loudly, and the post guard Song Qilang saw the tooth card of the staff hall, and did not dare to slack off at all, and hurriedly trotted to prepare according to what Li Dafeng said.

At this moment, the war horses in the post house neighed one after another, and then there was a huge rumbling sound in the direction of Huashan, and there was thunder in winter? No way?

Before Li Dafeng could figure out what was going on, they felt the ground begin to shake, and Li Dafeng shouted in a lost voice: "The earth dragon turns over!" The earth dragon rolls over! ”

A dozen or so post guards in the post house ran out in a panic, screaming with pale faces one by one, and the ground shook a few more times, shaking the wooden gate of the military post down; Fortunately, soon everything returned to calm, Li Dafeng looked at Huashan, and saw that there was like a snowstorm, surging endlessly.

Li Dafeng was not fortunate enough to be promoted to the head of the Hexi Group so quickly, he immediately thought of the seriousness of the matter, snatched a war horse from the post house, and rushed towards Huashan, ten miles away.......

"Huashanlan?" Yang Yi asked in surprise.

Ma Hanqing nodded calmly and said: "My lord, it will definitely not be wrong, Li Dafeng from the Hexi Group personally went to the foot of Huashan to inspect it." ”

"Who else knows these two messages besides you?"

"Not yet, the news was sent by Li Dafeng from Xijing with a carrier pigeon. A carrier pigeon was sent over as soon as possible. ”

"Han Qing, you hide the landslide in Huashan first, you don't have to report it, the local government will report to Beijing in two days, you go back immediately, send a message to Li Dafeng to Hexi quickly, pay close attention to Qiligang's movements, do you understand what I mean?"

"My lord, I understand."

"Okay, if Qi Li is willing to join him, he will report it to Xu Shumi and Zhang Xianggong according to the normal procedure, and there is no need to delay."

"Yes!"

After Ma Hanqing left, Yang Yi tried to calm himself down, calm down, calm down, calm down!

Perhaps, there are some things that don't have to wait any longer!

After thinking about it for a while, Yang Yi walked towards Yanchun Pavilion with firm steps. When he came out of Yanchun Pavilion again, everything that had been secretly arranged for nearly a year would be launched in advance on this night.

Xiao Ju, a female official of Kunning Palace, went to the imperial dining room to prepare a banquet, and Jasmine, Bao Yi, Yu Xing, and Lu Zhen took action one after another.

That night, the wind and snow stopped, and the cold was still pressing, but the Qingshou Palace was harmonious, and Empress Shaosheng, Zhao Bi, and Song Guifei went to the Qingshou Palace to ask Concubine Zhu for peace.

At the dinner, the palace's self-brewed daughter red made everyone a little overwhelmed with wine, Empress Shaosheng hurriedly proposed to change the wine, Xiaoju got the order, and took a few palace maids waiting in the palace to fetch wine.

Seeing that Concubine Zhu was in a slight trance, Empress Liu hurriedly asked with concern, "Mother-in-law, are you okay?" ”

"It's okay, it's okay, it's rare that you're all here today, the old body and mind are happy, just drink two more glasses, it's not in the way! Come, let the old man hug his grandson. ”

Empress Liu sent the sleeping Zhao Jie over, Concubine Zhu had just hugged the child, and Queen Liu's two tears slipped down, and said sadly: "The first emperor died early, leaving our orphans and widows helpless, and there are many rumors outside, saying that the daughter-in-law has the intention of murdering the official family, mother-in-law!" The daughter-in-law is wrong, she shouldn't have made Jie'er the prince, the daughter-in-law begs you to come and hang the curtain, and the position of the prince of Jie'er is abolished, and the daughter-in-law is willing to take Jie'er to Gongxian County to guard the tomb of the first emperor......"

When Empress Liu turned over her poignant cry, she heard that people's hearts were sour, and everyone couldn't help but think of Zhao Xu...... At this moment, a ball of golden light slowly floated into the outside of the palace gate, Zhao Bi, Concubine Zhu, and Song Guifei turned their heads to look, and saw Zhao Xu wearing a red crown robe, exuding golden light all over his body, and slowly walked in...... This strange scene, in an instant, I saw that Concubine Zhu and the others all had their eyes wide open, and they were terrified, especially Zhao Yi, who almost fainted with fright, wanted to scream but couldn't scream, and her throat seemed to be blocked by phlegm; Fortunately, Zhao Xu did not approach, and stopped after two steps into the hall, and bowed to the head of Concubine Zhu and said: "The child meets his mother, the mother is above, the thirteenth brother has a weak personality, and he is not the appearance of a human king. ”

Zhao seemed to tremble, and was about to kneel down, the golden light behind Zhao Xu suddenly flourished, and only a ball of white light was left in front of people's eyes, and in an instant, the white light flashed, everything disappeared without a trace, and the hall was dark again.

Concubine Zhu forgot to be afraid, stuffed her grandson into Empress Liu's arms, and rushed to the palace gate crying, looking around, but in addition to a faint pine fragrance in the wind, where was Zhao Xu's shadow!

"Son!"

Concubine Zhu called out for a long time, and the outside of the hall was quiet and silent, and the sky was full of stars...... That night, Concubine Zhu led Zhao Yi, Empress Liu and others to worship Zhezong in the palace.

This incident caused a huge uproar the next day, and Zhao seemed to officially propose the Zen position at the court meeting.

This matter came too suddenly, the officials of the court and the central government were stunned and at a loss, although they did not dare to refute Zhao Xu's manifestation in the court, but they did not think so, although there were Concubine Zhu, Song Guifei and others to testify, but everyone was still skeptical.

But the matter did not end here, and the remarks of Shen Qingzhi, the young eunuch of Si Tianjian, pushed the whole thing to another **; According to Shen Qingzhi, according to his observations, the celestial phenomena in the past few nights are very different, such as the nine palaces and the moon, comets hitting the moon, etc., and asserts that within ten days, there will be solar eclipses, earthquakes, or landslides.

Shen Qingzhi's remarks were immediately refuted by many people, and some people even directly bewitched the public, but Shen Qingzhi did not defend himself, his expression was indifferent.

After the dispersal of the court meeting, the political affairs hall held a ruling meeting again, and the specific content of the discussion is unknown to the outside world, but everyone knows that it must be related to the matter of Zhao Yi's proposal for the Zen position at the court meeting.

However, public opinion in Beijing has long been boiling, a large number of middle- and lower-level officials have rushed in tandem, and some bold officials have begun to write books, quoting scriptures and classics to discuss the ancient examples of the Zen position, and praising Zhao's behavior of asking for the Zen position.

A few days ago, the court was purged very cleanly, influential people such as Han Wei and Fan Chunren have been demoted or transferred out of Beijing, and middle and lower-level officials are really aware that the matter has become irreversible, so officials who see the direction of the wind have written one after another.

However, many people in the Great Song Dynasty jumped out and strongly opposed the matter of the Zen throne, and some people even alluded to the conspiracy of Empress Shaosheng.

This is a fierce political earthquake, where is the Great Song Dynasty going?

That night, Prime Minister Zhang Dian invited Yang Yi and Cai Jing to come to the house, and no one knew what the three were arguing about; After Yang Yi left the Prime Minister's Mansion at the second watch, he also went to Li Qingchen and Su Song's Mansion respectively.

After two days of heavy and oppressive atmosphere in the whole of Tokyo, on the third day after the Qingshou Palace incident, a report of the Huashan landslide came from Huazhou, Shaanxi.

This report can be described as a stone that stirs up a thousand waves! completely stirred up the entire Great Song Dynasty to the brink of collapse.

People once again remembered Shen Qingzhi's prophecy based on celestial phenomena, and even those who did not believe in ghosts and gods could not explain this phenomenon.

Mount Hua is one of the five mountains, the same as Mount Tai of Dongyue, these mountains are like the backbone of the Central Plains, in the minds of the people are sacred, the former dynasty of those promising monarchs held a grand ceremony again and again, early to leave an indelible hint in the hearts of people.

Now that Huashan has collapsed, isn't this a clear hint from heaven? From the hundreds of officials in the court to the common people, they are all worried.

On this day, Zhao seemed to officially issue the edict of Zen.

On the same day, Liu Wu, who was originally stationed outside the capital, led 10,000 Northwest Army to defend the capital in accordance with the imperial court's edict.

Yang Wei, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, was promoted to the secretary of the Ministry of Rites.

(To be continued)