The outer city of the Great Chu Palace and the inner city are also full of lights, a joyful scene, although the apocalypse is thrifty, but the annual festival of the New Year is still not to be ignored, and the ladies of the Tailin Palace are also elated, and the New Year not only means that they can get double share of the money, but also the rewards of each master will be extraordinarily more.

Apocalypse set up a family banquet in Xihe Palace, harem concubines, princes and princesses gathered together to celebrate the festival, between a year, it is rare to have such a time to get together, Apocalypse is in a good mood, the harem is below the queen, dozens of concubines are seated one by one according to their positions after saluting to Apocalypse. Apocalypse is very strict with herself on the female color, and it is more difficult for the child, except for a prince and two princesses, there is nothing to do, and the harem concubines are also trembling in front of the apocalypse except for the queen and the more favored concubine Lu, and they dare not go beyond the slightest.

The various dishes in the imperial dining room were served at a high price, and Tianqi lifted the silver chopsticks, tasted them, and then smiled: "Everyone feel free!" ”

The crown prince sat on the right side of the apocalypse, although he was just in his early tens, but his every move was already quite a little adult, his eyes did not squint, chewing slowly, and the two little princesses on the other side were still young, and when they saw the table full of delicacies, they couldn't hold back and devoured a lot of food, obviously they rarely ate these things, and they couldn't help but feel a little sad when they saw the apocalypse.

"Eat slowly, eat slowly, and many more!" Apocalypse glanced at the two little princesses lovingly, lifted the silver book for the first time, and gave the two little princesses a little food.

The two little princesses also knew etiquette very well, so they quickly stood up and said in a milky voice: "Thank you, father!" Apocalypse smiled and nodded, "Sit, sit." ”

It was already the beginning of the lanterns, the eunuchs rushed in, the huge ox candle illuminated the Xihe Palace, and the outside, the entire imperial city was also lit up at this moment, a golden wall of splendor.

The family banquet has ended, Tianqi and the concubines are sitting in the palace, talking and laughing at will, within a year, there is a rare family fun, the prince is sitting on the side of the apocalypse, listening to the conversation between the father and the queen mother, and the two little princesses are still childish, running around in the palace, laughing and playing.

There was a rush of footsteps outside the hall, Tianqi was slightly surprised, and in surprise, King Lu, who succeeded the allure city as the commander of the palace guards, appeared at the door of the palace with a panicked face, and behind him, the great eunuch Wang Bao hurried over.

Tianqi's heart sank, something had happened, why King Lu couldn't even wait for the eunuch to report, so he broke in.

"Your Majesty!" King Lu walked in quickly, saluted Tianqi and the concubines, and didn't care that breaking into the palace like this was already a big exceedance, and asked urgently: "Your Majesty, the Imperial Forest Army in the outer city suddenly moved on a large scale, I don't know if Your Majesty gave an order?" ”

Apocalypse stood up: "What did you say?" ”

"The Imperial Forest Army in the outer city suddenly moved on a large scale, and the minister did not receive the edict, I don't know if it was ......" Speaking of which, King Lu saw the face of the Apocalypse, and already understood that the emperor did not know, and the eyes of the Apocalypse were opposite, and the sky became pale.

"Wang Bao, pass on Xiao Yuanshan!" Apocalypse snapped.

Although the concubines in the palace are not familiar with political affairs, but such a change, they also know what it means when they live in the deep palace for a long time, and the death-like silence in the palace shows a panicked look on everyone's face.

"Queen, you and a group of concubines go to the Zhonghe Hall to wait!" Tianqi commanded: "King Lu, mobilize the palace guards to guard the inner city." ”

"Your Majesty, if it is the Imperial Forest Army that is in turmoil, then it must be Xiao Yuanshan, the palace guards have just added 1,500 people, all of whom are selected from the Imperial Forest Army!" King Lu's voice trembled.

Tianqi took a deep breath and forcibly suppressed his mood, "Then mobilize the 1,500 people from the original line to guard....guard the Taihe Palace, the Zhonghe Palace, King Lu, and immediately order someone to ring the alarm bell and call the left and right guards outside the city, and announce that they will enter the city to escort." ”

King Lu hurried away, and at this time, Wang Bao rushed all the way, "Your Majesty, I can't find the commander of Xiao Yuanshan, and the leader of Xiao Tong is not in the palace." Outside the city, outside the city, the minions can't get out. ”

Apocalypse already knew what was wrong, "Traitor! He scolded hatefully, "Let's go, let's go to the Taihe Palace!" ”

Anguo Mansion, the wine banquet is happy, a lot of people have a slight sense of alcohol, these people who can come to Anguo Mansion, most of them are old friends of Anguo Mansion for decades, a group of people while drinking, while reminiscing about the past years, the hall erupted from time to time bursts of laughter or sighs.

When, when, when! The dull bell suddenly rang in everyone's ears, and the hall instantly froze, Qiu Zhi was stunned and said: "Guogong, did I drink too much, why did I hear the startled bell?" ”

The faces of the people were shocked, they were all powerful people, and of course they knew what it meant to ring the alarm bell. Seeing everyone's looks, Qiu Zhi immediately knew that he was not listening.

He jumped up all of a sudden, "There are people in the capital who are in turmoil, Guogong, we..."

"Sit down!" Li Huaiyuan slammed his wine glass on the table and shouted.

Everyone looked at An Guogong in amazement, Guogong's move was obviously aware of this conspiracy, Qiu Zhi pointed at An Guogong, "Guogong, it's you, you..."

Li Huaiyuan's face was gloomy, and he said angrily: "What nonsense are you talking about? How could I, Li Huaiyuan, be this kind of chaotic life? The Xiao family, do it. ”

"It's Xiao Haoran!" Qiu Zhi exclaimed.

Li Huaiyuan closed his eyes and said, "Fifty thousand imperial forest troops, more than a thousand palace guards, Qiu Zhi, do you think the palace is still in the hands of the emperor at this time?" At this time, outside Luoyang, nearly 100,000 troops from the Xiao family, the Xiang family, and the Fang family gathered, and this rebellion has been planned for a long time, although I got the news, I couldn't do anything. The reason why I brought you all here today is that I am afraid that you will give your life in vain on impulse. ”

Qiu Zhi said loudly: "Guogong, the people of us here, as many as the family in the house, can get thousands of tigers and Ben, kill the imperial city, maybe even kill into the palace, rescue the emperor, as long as the emperor is safe, tomorrow tomorrow, climb the heights, and the rebels will inevitably disappear." ”

Li Huaiyuan sneered: "Fools talk about dreams." Qiu Zhi, if you don't believe it, you can go out of my house at this time to take a look, there are already heavy soldiers on Juxiang Street. Let's do our best, even Orange Street may not be able to go out, talk about how Qinwang rescues, everyone don't act rashly, stay here with me, wait for the situation to change!

Outside Luoyang City, the left and right guard battalions guarding Gyeonggi heard the shocking bell in the palace almost at the same time, and the calm camp suddenly boiled, and Feng Wanhua, the general of the left guard battalion, quickly gathered 30,000 horses and horses of the whole army and pounced on Luoyang, almost at the same time, Guan Xinggui, the general of the right guard battalion, also came out with swords, and the two guards came to Luoyang City after two hours. But at this time, the gate of Luoyang City was closed, and they were greeted by tens of thousands of royal forest troops in the city.

The majestic Luoyang city wall is also a moat that blocks the life-saving straw of the apocalypse. Feng Wanhua and Guan Xinggui had already understood that it was the Imperial Forest Army that was causing the rebellion at this time, and the two were shocked and angry, and joined forces, but they could only look at the city and sigh.

In the palace, the outer city has completely fallen into the hands of the Imperial Forest Army, half of the palace guards have given up the defense of the inner city, 1,500 people have all shrunk to the Taihe Hall and the Zhonghe Palace, and the two halls are surrounded by layers, King Lu holds a spear, standing on the high steps of the Taihe Palace, behind him, is the Emperor of the Apocalypse, here, is their last reliance.

The sound of horses' hooves is urgent, knocking on the stone slab outside, making a crisp sound, at this time, it has become a life-destroying talisman for everyone here, and soon, a team of soldiers appeared in everyone's field of vision, dense, countless royal forest troops have surrounded this place, a crossbow of eight bulls, the strong crossbow was pushed up, Rao is more than a thousand palace guards are brave soldiers, in the face of such a formation, but also show panic.

The rebels were separated on both sides, and Xiao Haoran, the head of the Xiao family, Xiang Dingsong, the head of the Xiang family, Fang Yueran, the head of the Fang family, and Xiao Yuanshan and others appeared outside the Taihe Palace.

Xiao Haoran walked out of the crowd, looked at King Lu on the steps, paused word by word, and said slowly: "Lord Lu, put down your weapons, or go to death, you choose, right?" ”

Xiao Haoran's hand was raised high, the Eight Bull Crossbow, the Strong Crossbow began to tighten with a tooth-sour sound, King Lu's forehead fell with big drops of sweat, he knew that when Xiao Haoran's hand fell, it was when the crossbow arrows of the Eight Bull Crossbow were shot. Looking back at the closed gate of the Taihe Palace, King Lu let out a long sigh, and the spear in his hand fell to the ground with a thud, and as the spear in King Lu's hand landed, the palace guards' will to fight was completely disintegrated.

Xiao Haoran smiled proudly and strode towards the Taihe Palace, and with his steps, the palace guards dispersed. The door of the hall was wide open, Xiao Haoran stood at the door, inside, the Emperor of the Apocalypse was pale, holding the crown prince in one hand, standing in the center of the hall.

In the early morning, a eunuch carried the edict to the outside of Luoyang City, ordering Feng Wanhua and Guan Xinggui, the generals of the left and right guards, to immediately withdraw their troops and return to the camp, and the two generals returned to Beijing to face the saint. Immediately, the two generals who returned to Beijing were imprisoned for treason.

Three days later, the Emperor of the Apocalypse died violently. Xiao Haoran, the Duke of Qi, King Lu and others supported the crown prince to ascend the throne, and the country name was Zhaoqing. Ordered the whole country to mourn and hold a funeral for the apocalypse. At the same time, Emperor Zhaoqing crowned Xiao Haoran, King Lu was the auxiliary minister, Xiao Tianci was the commander of the Imperial Forest Army, Xiao Yuanshan was the general of the Beijing Left Guard Battalion, and Fang Jing was the general of the Beijing Right Guard Battalion. Chen Xiyan, the former chief assistant, was imprisoned pending trial because he was suspected of being related to the case of Feng Wanhua, the former general of the left and right guards, and Guan Xinggui's rebellion. All of a sudden, the situation in Luoyang changed, and the people of Kyoto, who had just finished celebrating the New Year, hung white lanterns on every household and began to bring filial piety to His Majesty the Emperor of the Apocalypse.

Countless spies with all kinds of information from the capital to the four directions of the empire, Da Chu, ushered in a year of violent shock.

(To be continued)