Xingyang County Wang Huang Fu Ji this year more than 60 years old, is one of the few royal families left in Luojing, in the era of Emperor Yong'an, he was once a glorious time, once served as Taichang Temple Qing, but in the Huangfu Xuande era has been left out in the cold, did not enter the office, he was born greedy for money, especially good to occupy land, for decades he occupied more than 3,000 hectares of land, is a famous tyrant in Luojing.

In the raid on the night before yesterday, he suffered the worst loss, not only was nearly 500,000 stone of grain from the four grain depots confiscated, but also 200,000 taels of silver were stolen from the cellar, which made him extremely resentful.

Last night, after his butler told him about the rumors outside, he came to Huangfu Heng early in the morning to complain.

"Your Majesty, it has been said outside that it is very reasonable, the old minister thinks it is very reasonable, that Zhang Jinjie's two sons are in the south, and the second son Zhang Rong is still a high-ranking official of Huangfu Wujin, I heard that his wife is also in Jiangning Mansion, but he himself is alone in the capital, everyone says that he has actually surrendered to Huangfu Wujin, just on the order of Huangfu Wujin to defend the capital, but he is generous, and he buys and sells officials, and is greedy for the treasury, Your Majesty don't think that he is loyal, everything he does is to serve Huangfu Wujin."

Huangfu Heng's face was gloomy, he had already read the report on military expenses written by Zhang Jinjie to him, and the expenses in it made him feel extremely shocked, a soldier had to pay five taels of silver a day, one person was killed in battle, and he was paying one hundred taels of silver, these are simply incredible, no wonder his treasury was depleted, no wonder he still had to raid his house, even the royal family did not let go, who gave him the power?

Huangfu Heng is not ready to investigate Zhang Jinjie's responsibility for exhausting the treasury, although he is extremely annoyed in his heart, but after all, he gave the gold medal, and Zhang Jinjie also guarded Luojing for him, but the rumors outside aroused his vigilance, and he also thought it was reasonable, the reason why Zhang Jinjie did not leave was most likely that he had surrendered to Huangfu Wujin and took the initiative to defend the city, in order to drag Huangfu Chen's army in Luojing and unable to return to Qizhou, so Huangfu Wujin could calmly succeed in Qizhou, linking these details together, Zhang Jinjie was very suspicious.

Huang Fuheng thought again that Zhang Jinjie was not his confidant in the first place, and it was indeed very abnormal for him to stay when all the officials, even his own henchmen, had fled.

Huang Fu Heng's suspicion is extremely heavy, once he identifies the matter, no one can persuade him, when he is the crown prince, Huang Fu Heng's suspicion is still restrained, but after he ascended the throne, his suspicion began to get heavier and heavier, and he always felt that everyone could not be trusted, at this time Huang Fu Heng no longer wanted to listen to it, he comforted Huang Fu Heng a few words, and persuaded him to retreat.

Huang Fuheng was pacing back and forth in the imperial study with his hands behind his back, he was thinking about how to deal with Zhang Jinjie, he would definitely not use him again, even if he lacked people again, he would not be able to use him again, Huang Fuheng had already decided, he was just thinking about what excuse to use to remove Zhang Jinjie, after all, he guarded the city for himself, if he was dismissed like this, he would be said that he could not tolerate meritorious heroes.

At this moment, a eunuch reported at the door, "Your Majesty, Taishi Yang is asking to see you outside the palace!" ”

Yang Taishi is Huang Fuheng's grandfather Yang Sheng, and he is also his most trusted person, he always thought that Yang Sheng was still sick, but he didn't expect him to recover, Huang Fuheng was immediately overjoyed, and said repeatedly: "Come in!" ”

Huang Fuheng dismissed Yang Sheng at that time, but also just a gesture, in order to appease the serious dissatisfaction of the ministers, in fact, he knew in his heart that the fundamental reason for Yang Sheng's defeat was that the Qi army broke through the Xingyang defense line from the east road, and Luo Jing was in a hurry.

The ministers all said that Yang Sheng was mediocre and incompetent, but Huang Fuheng took a fancy to his loyalty, and Huang Fuheng also knew that at this time, it was necessary to appoint an old and stable and experienced general, so he still decided to let Yang Sheng be the commander and lead the army to meet the Yongzhou army, although the final defeat and the whole army were wiped out, but Huang Fuheng did not think that Yang Sheng was guilty in his bones, and now he decided to remove Zhang Jinjie, and when he was worried that no one was useful, Yang Sheng came, which made him overjoyed.

After a while, Yang Sheng walked in, in fact, Yang Sheng had been waiting outside the palace for a long time, he was waiting for Huangfu Mustard to come out, judging from Huangfu Mustard's expression was very pleasant, Yang Sheng knew that he had succeeded seventy percent, and the emperor was already suspicious of Zhang Jinjie.

Huang Fuheng is Yang Sheng's grandson, Yang Sheng knows him very well, knows that he is extremely suspicious, Zhang Jinjie has gone too far this time, even if he makes a great contribution, Huang Fuheng can't tolerate him.

Yang Sheng knelt down and cried: "I heard that Your Majesty is anxious and helpless, and the minister only hates his guilty body, and he can't share His Majesty's worries. ”

Huangfu Heng hurriedly stepped forward to help him up, "Taishi, you are my grandfather, how can you kneel down for me, please get up quickly!" ”

He immediately ordered the eunuch, "Bring a chair to Master Yang!" ”

Yang Sheng sat down, and Huang Fuheng looked at him again, and saw that although he had lost a lot of weight, his complexion was quite good, and his spirit was also strong.

"Is Taishi in good health now?"

"Thank you Your Majesty for your concern, the minister is in good health now, he can eat a bucket of rice a day, drink wine and eat meat, there is no problem at all."

Of course, this is an exaggeration, but Yang Sheng just wants to let the emperor know that he can still be of great use.

Huangfu Heng sighed slightly, "The last time I dismissed the Taishi, I was also under pressure, I actually knew in my heart that the defeat of the Michi army had nothing to do with the Taishi, it was the critical situation in the Jingshi, which made the Taishi feel wronged." ”

Yang Sheng hurriedly bowed down and said: "In fact, the minister is indeed a shallow learner, and the only benefit of the minister is to obey the holy order, and will never do anything that violates the way of the minister, let alone complain about His Majesty, but the minister said yesterday that he was humiliated by the villain in the market, and his heart was very uncomfortable." ”

Huangfu Heng was stunned, and his face was angry, "Who dares to insult the Taishi!" ”

Yang Sheng told him what happened to him when he went to the teahouse yesterday, and finally sighed: "A businessman, it is his duty to contribute to the country, and His Majesty actually sealed him to the pillar country, hey!" How many scholars have been harmed. ”

Yang Sheng is extremely cunning, he knows Huang Fu Heng, he knows, saying that Zhang Jinjie was corrupt and bribery, saying that Zhang Jinjie was fornicating with Huang Fu Wujin, these lethalities are not big enough, what really makes Huang Fu Heng unbearable is that Zhang Jinjie is good at doing monarchical things, and the lords of the Pillar State and the Shangzhu Kingdom can only be awarded by the emperor, Zhang Jinjie actually did it without authorization, this is the killer weapon to bring down Zhang Jinjie.

Sure enough, Huangfu Heng suddenly changed color, his face was terrifyingly gloomy, and murderous intent burst out of his eyes, he finally couldn't bear it anymore, "Taishi, can you take charge of the city defense army again?" ”

Yang Sheng replied proudly: "Although the minister is dull, he is better than a scholar!" ”

Huang Fuheng nodded slowly, this is very right, no matter how bad Yang Sheng is, he is better than Zhang Jinjie, a scholar, but he does not dare to forcibly abolish Zhang Jinjie's military power, for fear of causing Zhang Jinjie to rebel.

He thought about it for a while and said: "Spread my will, seal Zhang Jinjie as the pacification envoy of Yuzhou, that is, go out of Beijing." ”

Huangfu Heng wanted Zhang Jinjie to go to Chuzhou on his own, so that Zhang Jinjie would be convicted of fornicating with Huangfu Wujin, not that he was jealous of the heroes.

．．．．．．．．． In Xingyang County, the King of Qi did not go far, he garrisoned the Xingyang granary, patiently waiting for the Luojing Incident.

There are spies under Shen Guo's uncle in Luojing City, and he told Shao Jingwen everything that happened in Luojing City, from what Zhang Jinjie did, Shao Jingwen knew that Huang Fuheng would definitely not tolerate him, but the war was tight, and he had to be used, once the war slowed down a little, he would definitely be dismissed, and Huang Fuheng had no one available, it happened that Yang Sheng had recovered from his illness, so it was logical for Yang Sheng to replace Zhang Jinjie, and Shao Jingwen set up a bureau to lay out this counter-plan.

Huangfu has already received news from Luojing, Zhang Jinjie was reappointed as the pacification envoy of Yuzhou, and fell ill in a fit of anger, Yang Sheng took over the Luojing defense chief horse envoy, and Li Mi was transferred to Luojing security envoy to arrest thieves.

Huang Fu couldn't help laughing, he had to admire Shao Jingwen's power, and he actually saw through Huang Fu Heng's suspicion of heroes, they pretended to withdraw from the army and implemented countermeasures, Huang Fu Heng really destroyed the Great Wall.

At this time, a soldier rushed over and held up a letter, "Your Highness, Prince Shen of Yongzhou has a letter coming." ”

The three words "Shen Wangye" made Huangfu hear very harshly, but now he didn't care about his disgust with Shen Ji, took the letter and opened it and read it, the letter agreed that on September 20, the two armies would re-attack Luojing, that is, tomorrow.

The emperor was overjoyed, nodded and ordered: "The whole army is ready for battle!" ”

．．．．．．．． On September 20, four days after retreating, the Yong and Qi armies re-emerged, surrounded Luojing, and launched a fierce attack on Luojing again.

This time, the 400,000 Yongqi coalition troops all pressed on, and attacked the two cities in the east and west of Luodong day and night, the cloud ladder was elevated, the battering ram slammed the city gate, the arrows above and below the city were like a torrential rain, stones and wood fell like hailstones, the dead and wounded were heavy, the corpses were piled up, and the blood stained the moat red again.

The new commander Yang Sheng was in charge of fighting at both ends, he was very busy, he was old, and he was recovering from a serious illness, his physical and mental strength could not keep up, and he fainted in the city three times, ironically, in order to encourage the three armies to fight, Yang Sheng actually appointed twenty generals without authorization, and he used this article to impeach Zhang Jinjie.

However, spiritual encouragement was useless at this time, and he denied all the reward system of Zhang Jinjie, and reduced the military salary of five taels of silver per day to one tael per day, and at the same time changed the name of the knot to the monthly end, and the pension for the deceased soldiers was also changed from one hundred taels of silver to ten acres of land, and there was no longer a reward for killing an enemy soldier.

This caused strong dissatisfaction among the soldiers, and the officers also scoffed at this kind of title of general, the morale of the defenders was low, and they were unwilling to die in battle, and the officers were all self-preservation, coupled with Yang Sheng's poor command, at noon, the outer city of Luojing had been breached.

The outer city, which was killed by 100,000 people and took half a month to be captured, was captured in one morning, and the morale of the coalition troops outside the city was greatly boosted, and the momentum was like a bamboo, but the defenders in the city collapsed and began to flee on a large scale, and the soldiers defending the city were sharply reduced from 30,000 to less than 6,000, and the general trend of Luojing was gone.

Yang Sheng was stunned and looked at the Yongzhou soldiers who attacked the inner city like an ant colony, he couldn't figure out why the soldiers refused to be loyal to the emperor and refused to give their lives?

In the end, he came to the conclusion that it was because Zhang Jinjie used silver to feed the soldiers, and they only recognized the money, and the responsibility was not for him Yang Sheng, but for Zhang Jinjie, and all the responsibility was his.

A soldier stumbled over, "Commander, the Yongzhou army has attacked Xicheng, and the brothers can't hold it!" ”

Yang Sheng let out a long sigh, and the last emperor Fu Heng who had given it couldn't accept the order no matter what.

"Order the three armies, lay down your arms and surrender!"

．．．．．．．．． The gate of Luojing was wide open, and the defenders had all been replaced by soldiers of the Yongqi army, and the Yongzhou army commander Shen Ji and Qi Wang Huangfu were escorted by 200,000 troops, and entered Luojing City, and the Dongning Dynasty, which had lasted only half a year, collapsed.

Ziwei Palace is deserted, the palace maids, eunuchs and guards have fled, the palace is depressed, in the imperial study of Huang Fuheng, a small eunuch is stealing a little valuable things, most of the valuable things have been stolen, and the rest are bulky items that cannot be taken away, at this time his eyes fell on a small house, which was the emperor's map room, and he suddenly remembered that a national map was inlaid with gold.

The little eunuch immediately ran to the map room, and with great difficulty it took a lot of effort to push open the door and feel into the room, when he suddenly felt something, he raised his head and looked at the beams of the room, and suddenly he screamed in fright, and ran away with a crawl.

"The emperor has collapsed! The emperor has collapsed! ”

The frightened voice of the little eunuch echoed in the empty hall.

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(To be continued)