A generation of Dayan Renjun passed away like this, which has to make people sigh.

When Ji Qingchen walked out of Ji Wen's bedroom, Pei Wenju, Bai Jin and others, who were staying outside, already knew that Ji Wen had died, so they knelt in front of the palace in pain.

In the middle of the ring, Bai Jin got up and said to everyone, "Everyone, Your Majesty has died, and the current situation in the court is unstable, we must immediately summon hundreds of civil and military officials to the Taiji Hall to read the edict of Your Majesty, and let the new monarch ascend the throne and preside over the overall situation is the top priority!" ”

"That's right! That's how it should be! Pei Wenju said, agreeing with Bai Jin's suggestion, he summoned an inner attendant to his side and said to the inner attendant, "You immediately go and convey the holy decree to the civil and military officials, and let them immediately go to the Taiji Hall to discuss the government!" Let Xu Zizhang come to the Taiji Hall again! ”

"No!" The chamberlain was ordered to leave.

Prime Minister Pei Wenju and Governor Ye Qingzhi began to arrange specific matters in the palace, while Bai Jin, Li Muzhi, Liu Pingyuan and others moved to the Taiji Hall on the side.

When Xu Zizhang came to Pei Wenju, he already knew that Ji Wen had died.

Pei Wenju ordered him to block the palace gate, only allowed to enter and not to leave, and to ensure that the news of Ji Wen's death could not be leaked out before the new monarch ascended the throne, Xu Zizhang took the order and strode away.

After dealing with these affairs, Pei Wenju and Ye Qingzhi came to the Taiji Hall and waited for the ministers with Bai Jin and Li Muzhi and other six Shangshu.

But everyone waited for half an hour and didn't see anyone come to the Taiji Palace.

In the past, when the early dynasty was discussing politics, officials not far from the palace could definitely rush to the Taiji Hall within half an hour, but now none of the officials were present, which made Ji Qingchen, Bai Jin and others have a bad premonition in their hearts.

Is it?

No one dared to think further in their hearts.

But at this moment, I saw Xu Zizhang hurriedly walking into the Taiji Palace.

"Zizhang, what happened, look at your hurry?" Pei Wenju asked. Xu Zizhang is his student, he knows his student's character very well, and seeing Xu Zizhang's current expression, Pei Wenju was shocked.

"Your Royal Highness, Prime Minister, Marquis of Jin, something is wrong, a group of soldiers and horses appeared outside the Suzaku Gate, the number is about 100,000, they say that someone in the palace deliberately murdered His Majesty, wants to usurp the throne, they want to enter the palace King Qin." Xu Zizhang said eagerly, "At this time, I'm afraid I've already fought with the defenders of the Vermilion Bird Gate." ”

In the past, the guards of the imperial city were Yulin cavalry, and since Ji Wen ascended the throne and became emperor, the guards have become the 100,000 iron cavalry he trained. Therefore, Xu Zizhang, the commander of the 100,000 iron cavalry, naturally became the chief general of the Imperial City Guards. However, it didn't take 100,000 iron cavalry to defend the imperial city, so Ji Wen transferred the 60,000 army to the Kunshan military camp outside King's Landing, and now the number of troops guarding the imperial city is less than 40,000, and it is indeed very stressful to the 100,000 rebels outside.

"Could it be that Ji Ping really wants to usurp the throne and seize power?" Liu Pingyuan was a little incredulous.

"What would he not dare?" Bai Jin snorted coldly and said, "Maybe this assassination of His Majesty is his conspiracy and trickery, wanting to take this opportunity to usurp the throne and seize power." ”

As soon as Bai Jin said this, everyone thought that Ji Ping was not present at Ji Qingchen's wedding today, and when they saw the content of Ji Ping's letter about Ji Ping's fornication and leaving the country and the Lingnan Yi clan in Ji Qingchen's study, they suddenly understood. It seems that this qiē is all Ji Ping's strategy, his real purpose is to take this opportunity to kill Ji Wen, and then put the blame on Ji Qingchen, and then take the opportunity to usurp power and seize me!

Suddenly, everyone moved their eyes to Ji Qingchen.

Because they knew that they could think of these Ji Qingchen must have thought of it.

"Your Highness, what should we do now?" Pei Wenju asked. Since Ji Wen passed the emperor to Ji Qingchen, as Ji Wen's confidant minister, he naturally had to abide by Ji Wen's will and decided to let Ji Qingchen succeed him.

"Don't dare to do anything with His Highness, Xu Zizhang will be the head of His Highness!" Xu Zizhang was the first to speak. When he was in Northern Liao, he did not fall to Ji Qingchen because of the relationship between his teacher Pei Wenju and Ji Wen, but he also let his younger brother Xu Dachun follow Ji Qingchen. Now that his teacher has made a clear statement, with the understanding of Ji Qingchen in Northern Liao, he naturally chose Ji Qingchen between Ji Ping and Ji Qingchen.

"Your Majesty already has an edict, let His Highness inherit the throne of the Great Yan Kingdom, we should naturally abide by His Highness's edict, how can we lose our duty as a courtier because of the threat of force from the traitor?" Ye Qingzhi said righteously.

His words couldn't help but make everyone nod slightly.

Only Li Muzhi's expression was a little unnatural, and he was seen by everyone.

"What does General Li think?" Suddenly, at this moment, Tang Jian on the side asked.

"The old man respects His Highness's will!" Li Muzhi said in a trance. But everyone can see that Li Muzhi was not sincere when he said this, and it seemed that he had no choice but to say this.

"Is there any agreement between General Li and Ji Ping?" Ji Qingchen suddenly asked.

"Why does Your Highness say that?" Li Muzhi was taken aback, he did have an agreement with Ji Ping, but the two of them were very secretive, why did Ji Qingchen suddenly know?

"Before, in the king's study, when the king asked you about whether the new army outside the city could be used by us, you hesitated, this is too different from your style, and then think of Ji Ping's attack on the imperial city, this king judged that you might have any agreement with Ji Ping." Ji Qingchen analyzed.

"Hey! No matter what the old man does, he still can't hide it from His Highness! Li Muzhi sighed and said, "There is no agreement between us, that is, no matter what Ji Ping does, he asked the old man not to let the new army participate in it." ”

"Even if he framed His Majesty, do you have to abide by this agreement?" Pei Wenju said menacingly.

"Li Muzhi, why are you so confused, you did something wrong!" Bai Jin also said regretfully. He didn't expect that an old minister like Li Muzhi would have an agreement with Ji Ping.

However, at this time, everyone didn't ask why Li Muzhi had an agreement with Ji Ping, and the top priority was to solve the threat of Ji Ping.

Now Ji Ping controls King's Landing City, if he is allowed to attack the palace and then control the imperial city, he can say whatever he wants at that time, maybe he will really retreat Ji Wen's death to Ji Qingchen's body, and then I'm afraid-

"The only way now is to hold the imperial city, and then mobilize the army outside the city to enter the city, and annihilate Ji Ping's rebel army in one fell swoop is a good strategy!" Bai Jin said.

Because Ji Ping has the upper hand at this time, he will not compromise with everyone.

"Yes, there are 60,000 Praetorian Guards outside the city, plus 600,000 new troops, which is enough to destroy Ji Ping." Xu Zizhang said, "It's just that since Ji Ping controlled the city guards and made 100,000 government troops serve him, it cannot be ruled out that he has no chess pieces in the new army, and if he rashly uses the new army, I'm afraid there will be problems." ”

Everyone nodded slightly, this is indeed the case, and some kind of agreement was reached between Li Muzhi and Ji Ping, which made everyone dare not use the new army lightly, because the combat effectiveness of the new army is not very good, but the number of people is 600,000, this is a force that will be difficult to control at that time!

"The Imperial City will be handed over to General Xu!" Ji Qingchen said suddenly, "As for the army outside the city, let this king convey the military order!" I wonder if there is a secret exit inside the Imperial City that leads to the outside of the city? ”

In fact, a secret passage has been built in the imperial city of each national capital to lead to the outside of the city, otherwise why did many emperors in history escape safely after the capital was besieged?

Isn't that why!

As the commander of the Imperial City Guard, Xu Zizhang naturally knew about this passage, so he nodded slightly to Ji Qingchen.

"In this case, without further ado, this king will go out of the city now, but I also ask the prime minister and Liu Shangshu to give this king a paper order to transfer troops on behalf of the political hall and the military department!" Ji Qingchen said, "As for the mobilization of the Praetorian Guards outside the city, you need General Xu's order!" ”

Pei Wenju and Liu Pingyuan nodded slightly, Xu Zizhang also agreed, and handed a token on his body to Ji Qingchen, as for Pei Wenju and Liu Pingyuan, they immediately wrote a paper order, stamped the seal letter of the political hall and the military department, and handed the order to Ji Qingchen.

"General Xu, let's invite General Li to the side hall!" Before leaving, Ji Qingchen said to Xu Zizhang that since Li Muzhi and Ji Ping had something to do with him, he should be imprisoned to avoid more trouble at this time.

Xu Zizhang received the order and said a few words to his subordinates, and a team of ten internal guards took Li Muzhi away. Bai Jin and Pei Wenju in the main hall didn't say anything about Ji Qingchen's approach, in fact, they also thought so.

When he arrived at the secret passage of Ji Qingchen's leadership, and transferred ten guards to Ji Qingchen, Xu Zizhang returned to the main hall.

He consulted with Bai Jin, Pei Wenju, Liu Pingyuan and others, and after discussing for a long time, everyone felt that the imperial city was too big and the troops were scattered and difficult to defend, so it was better to shrink the defense line and shrink the main force of the army into the inner city of the imperial city.

Therefore, Xu Zizhang gave an order, and the Praetorian Guards abandoned the outer city of the imperial city and retreated to the inner city. And Ji Ping's army, which attacked the outer city, broke through the outer city defense at once and rushed into the imperial city.

At this time, Ji Ping was riding on a horse, walking in the imperial city, and his face was not very good-looking. Because even if the outer city is breached, but the inner city is not breached, it is still useless.

But it was clear that his desperate plan had succeeded, and he was happy.

Because this is a plan he has been planning for a long time, he has been holding back until now, and he is really surprised that he can work in one blow. From this, he couldn't help but begin to admire the middle-aged scribes around him.

Because it was the plan that the middle-aged scribe who did not say a word in his study in the morning came up with for him that made him have today's plan and today's success.

Thinking that his plan was about to succeed, he would be the Ninety-Five Emperor in a few days. Ji Ping, who was riding on a horse, laughed wildly, and immediately gave an order to the guards beside him, "Order them to attack the city with all their might, and this king will step on the gold brick floor of the Taiji Hall between dark!" ”