Li Longji put his hands behind his back and walked around the Xingqing Palace.

Yang Yuhuan's face was frightened and he sat in a corner.

"I don't know what's going on...... Li Longji thought in his heart, at this moment, he heard a sound outside, and then a guard said outside the hall: "Princess Shou'an asks to see you." ”

"Let Shou An in." Li Longji said after a slight groan.

Shou An appeared at the door of the main hall wearing a tight-fitting suit, with straight eyebrows and a short sword pinned to his waist. Seeing her like this, Li Longji's face was slightly gloomy: "What are you messing around?" ”

"My daughter heard that there was a riot in Beijing, so she came to protect Aya." Shou An patted the hilt of the sword on his waist: "Aya rest assured, there is a daughter here, and the thief will not be allowed to come here"

Hearing her words, Li Longji was both angry and funny: "If thieves rush into Xingqing Palace, what is the use of you here...... You're a girl, and you're not afraid."

"At the beginning, the father and the emperor were not afraid of the chaos, and the daughter is not afraid now," Shou An said.

Li Longji's spirits perked up, and his thoughts couldn't help but drift away, thinking of the two coups he had launched in the first place. The memories of the past brought him back to some of the feelings of his youth, and he smiled and said, "Take my sword."

A little eunuch brought the sword, Li Longji grabbed the sword, his heart suddenly calmed down, and he didn't turn around in the Xingqing Palace. He moved the brocade stool to Yang Yuhuan's side, and said with a smile: "Shou An will carry a sword to protect me, and I will carry a sword to protect my concubine."

"Sage ......" Yang Yuhuan smiled reluctantly: "The concubine can only rely on the saint's protection." ”

Li Longji still saw the horror in her eyes, and reached out to pat her shoulder. Looking up at Shou An standing in front of the main hall with a sword guard, he couldn't help but smile: "Shou An is quite similar to me back then, bold, wild, and not afraid of anything."

Speaking of this, he was a little sad: "There is chaos in Beijing, dozens of my children, and the only one who comes to defend with a sword is Shou'an."

"Don't worry, saints, the rest of the princes and nobles, unlike Shou'an, have always served the saints, but they don't know it at this time, if they know, they will come to protect it." Yang Yuhuan said reluctantly.

Li Longji is talking about Shou'an, but in fact, he also refers to Ye Chang. There are so many officials in Beijing, but when they are in danger, they can see the traitors, but it is Ye Chang, who is gradually suspicious of him.

Yang Yuhuan also knew this, she was also very anxious, after hearing the news, she immediately sent someone to send a letter to Yang Zhao, so that Yang Zhao would come here to escort him quickly, but listening to the sound and watching the smoke, there was a lot of chaos outside, I was afraid that Yang Zhao would not get the news for a while.

But even if you can't get the news, as an important minister, the first thing to do when you see the chaos in Beijing should be to find the Son of Heaven

Just when Yang Yuhuan was thinking wildly, he heard Chen Xuanli's voice outside: "Sage, Chen Xilie and Yuan Highway came to protect the holy car"

"Chen Xilie is here?" Li Longji was overjoyed: "Okay, good, let him convene a hundred officials to discuss the matter and Yuan Qing, and let him act with Chen Qing." ”

Chen Xilie, who was standing outside, was trembling, he, the prime minister, took advantage of the lack of presence, and when the king arranged for people to isolate China and foreign countries, he did not send anyone to stop him, so he was able to come over in time. He didn't have much courage, and he came here not so much as a guard to find the protection of Li Longji's guards. Hearing Li Longji's voice in the hall, he was determined, and then responded loudly, "Obey the order".

Yuan Highway secretly couldn't help laughing, he was notified by Ye Chang, so he was able to arrive so quickly, this is a great opportunity to show loyalty, those who come early and those who come late leave a different impression in the emperor's heart

After another moment, the ministers from all sides rushed one after another, and even the crown prince Li Heng and the prince and grandson in the courtyard of the Ten Princes' Mansion and the Hundred Grandchildren rushed to the news. This made Li Longji feel at ease, and he was no longer nervous, and said to Yang Yuhuan with a smile: "I expected that the rebels were powerless, and they couldn't isolate me from the ministers, which proved that the traitors were understaffed, and the number of rebels was not large, and it wouldn't take long to think that there would be good news." ”

He thought for a while, and patted Yang Yuhuan's face again: "Ai Concubine, wait here for a while, and wait for me to meet the ministers."

Shou An followed him out with his sword, Li Longji looked at those princes and grandsons again, and was about to shake his head, but saw one of them, who also followed with a sword.

Jianning County Wang Li Zhen.

This is Li Longji's grandson, the son of the crown prince Li Heng, who has always been heroic. Seeing him like this, Li Longji smiled and nodded, among his children and grandchildren, there are heroic people after all.

There are Shou'an and Li Zhen as examples, and the rest of the older sons and grandsons also want to follow, Li Longji ordered them to stay, as long as Shou'an, Li Zhen and Yongwang Li accompany them. When he arrived outside the hall, he saw dozens of civil and military people standing in the courtyard in front of the palace. When the ministers saw his figure, they all shouted long live, and they were all happy.

"Is Yang Zhao here?" Li Longji asked after scanning his gaze among the crowd.

"The minister is here, the minister is here"

The voice of the response was not among the ministers, but at the door, and then Yang Zhao was seen holding a sword in one hand and twisting the corner of his official robe in the other, and hurriedly ran over. The ministers originally looked at him with some schadenfreude, after all, as a saint's cronie, he came so late, but when everyone found out that there were blood stains on his body, and there were also blood marks on the sword in his hand, they couldn't help but change their expressions.

Li Longji also noticed this: "Qing, what's going on? ”

"The traitors surrounded the minister's house, and the minister was in a hurry to protect the saint after breaking the siege, so he didn't clean it up, and asked the saint to forgive his sins." Yang Zhao looked Li Longji up and down, and when he saw that Li Longji was fine, he let out a sigh, turned over and knelt down, and almost cried: "The minister is late, the saint is frightened, and the minister is guilty."

"What do you have to do with you, Qing is a civil servant, and it is great to be able to kill rebels." Li Longji said comfortingly in a harmonious voice

The ministers were secretly annoyed when they heard it, why didn't they think of this trick, when they came, they should also stain some blood stains on their bodies, and then kill a few chickens and dogs, so that they can have a double effect when they run to show their loyalty

"The minister has already asked, the traitor is the king, the minister asked the sage to give an order, Xu Chen and the general of Longwu Chen Xuanli, together with the guards, to capture the king" Yang Zhao said again.

"No need, I guess the king has been captured now." Li Longji said.

Chen Xuanli sighed silently, although Yang Zhao was shrewd, when it came to pleasing Li Longji, he was still a long way from Ye Chang.

It seems that he is very loyal to take the guards of the Longwu Army to capture the king, but doesn't this mean that the defense power of Xingqing Palace will be reduced? Ye Chang just said that he would capture the king, but he only brought his own personal guards, and Li Longji asked Chen Xuanli to allocate troops to him, but he refused

"It turns out that His Majesty has a thousand miles of knowledge, and there has already been an arrangement" Yang Zhao lowered his eyes, hiding the surprise on his face, and exclaimed: "The king is a thief, and he is rebelling against the sky and causing chaos, but he is bringing about his own destruction"

"Wang, Wang......" Li Longji sighed.

Before today, Li Longji had always believed that the king should be one of the courtiers who was both loyal and able, otherwise, he would not have been promoted to such an important position.

He also knew that Wang and Yang Zhao were almost incompatible, and he and Ye Chang were also enemies, to a certain extent, he connived at and even promoted the deterioration of the relationship between these three important ministers, but he didn't expect that Wang would use this way to respond to his scheme.

"I wonder who the saint sent to capture the king?"

Yang Zhao's eyes swept through the crowd, he did not meet the envoy sent by Yang Yuhuan, so he was still unclear about some situations, but when he saw that there was no Ye Chang in the crowd, he asked carefully.

"Ye Chang." Li Longji replied slowly.

There are many generals in the court, and there are a few with frontier experience, but it was Ye Chang who reacted first

When Yang Zhao heard this name, he almost paused. He suddenly remembered that on the Chunming Gate, the dispute between Ye Chang and Wang, when Ye Chang attacked Wang with a rebellious intention, he also temporarily agreed, at that time he felt that this was just Ye Chang's dizzy move, and now it seems that that kind of move, isn't it prescient?

While pondering, I heard the guards outside: "General Gao and Ye Zhongcheng captured the king, and they have arrived in front of Xingqing Palace."

Hearing that the king was captured, Li Longji suddenly felt that there was no trace of worry in his heart, and he looked at the ministers with a smile: "How, I just said it, it won't take long"

After finishing speaking, he was a little curious: "How can Ye Qing and Gao Lishi be together...... Chen Xilie, Yang Zhao, and ...... Yuan Highway, the three of you will go out to meet each other for me."

When the ministers heard this, their eyes immediately focused on Yuan Highway, and the jealousy in their eyes could almost turn into knives.

At this time, there is no doubt that those who can go to greet Li Longji on behalf of Li Longji are all important ministers that Li Longji relies on. Chen Xilie is the prime minister, Yang Zhao is the head of the household department, and he will soon be promoted to the prime minister, and Yuan Highway is just an idle official in the imperial history

Thinking that the Imperial Doctor King was bound to be finished, it was almost certain that Yuan Highway would take over this position.

The three of them walked out of Xingqing Palace under the attention of the ministers, until outside the palace, they saw Gao Lishi and Ye Chang coming side by side, and the two talked and laughed and were very affectionate. Seeing this, Yang Zhao's heart moved, and he secretly cursed a few times.

The king is finished, Chen Xilie no longer has the help to compete with him, and he is too close to the king, it is difficult to say whether he can get out this time. Then, the most important enemy in front of Yang Zhao is only Ye Chang. Therefore, Yang Zhao was very worried that Ye Chang and Gao Lishi colluded together, after all, although Gao Lishi was not very sharp, he was a character that Li Linfu couldn't deal with back then.

"Gao Weng, Ye Gong, the two of you have worked hard, the two of you have worked hard, and the saint has ordered a certain person to come out to greet you"

Yang Zhao was thinking about how Gao Lishi and Ye Chang could get together, and Chen Xilie had already greeted him with a smile on his face, his expression was extremely affectionate, and the words of praise were sentence after sentence, as if he didn't want to saliva.

Everyone knows what he means, with the end of the king, Chen Xilie's position is once again in jeopardy, in this case, he must seize every opportunity to save himself as much as possible.

Ye Chang and Gao Lishi glanced at each other, and both of them laughed.

"How dare there be Lao Chen Gong" Gao Lishi said: "The king of the eternal rebels is here"

Chen Xilie didn't even look at the ashen Wang, at this time, he had to keep as far away as he could from the king. He said another flattering remark, until Yang Zhao couldn't hear it anymore, and urged: "The sage is still waiting, what does Gong Chen have to say, let's talk about it after today's events."

Chen Xilie smiled, but he was thick-skinned, and nodded again and again: "Yes, yes, I almost forgot about this business, but fortunately there is Yang Gong...... Alas, people can't do it when they're old, and in the future, I will ask Yang Gong to take care of it, so that the old man can be secretly idle. ”

As soon as he said this, Yang Zhao knew what he meant when he heard the song, and immediately understood what he meant.

Chen Xilie admits defeat, and he wants to be like Li Linfu when he was in power, being a tablet prime minister with no sense of existence at all, just begging Yang Zhao not to deal with him.

Yang Zhao's thoughts changed sharply, if it could really be like this, it would be good. It is impossible for the imperial court to let a person be alone for too long, and after Chen Xilie, another person will come up, and the new person may not be as honest as Chen Xilie

"Ha Lu Ha, Ha Lu Ha ......"

The king, who was watching this scene with cold eyes, suddenly laughed.

"Shut his mouth, don't let him talk nonsense, if the foul language disturbs the saint, no one can afford it" Chen Xilie heard Wang Dalu laugh, frowned, and commanded the palace guards.

He played the banner of Li Longji, and no one dared to slack off. Wang didn't struggle, just sneered, staring at him with cold eyes, Rao is Chen Xilie was thick-skinned and black-hearted, and his hair stood on end.

led Ye Chang and Gao Lishi, and everyone stepped into the gate of Xingqing Palace together.

"Two of you, please go first." When he arrived in front of the Xingqing Palace, Chen Xilie stepped aside, he gave way, Yang Zhao had to get out of the way, and Yuan Highway followed behind Ye Chang.

"This ......" Ye Chang hesitated a little, and let the prime minister and Shangshu make way for him, it looked glorious, but it was a little too ostentatious.

"Ye Gong is in charge of leaving, the first contribution to today's rebellion and chaos, if there is no such scenery, how can it reveal the wisdom of today's Holy Son of Heaven" Gao Lishi pulled Ye Chang and said.

He also let Ye Chang shoulder half of his shoulder, which was not only humble, but also to express his gratitude to Ye Chang.

When Yang Zhao saw this, his brows twisted again, and then quickly unfolded and changed to a smile.

How did these two get together?

He didn't know that after Ye Chang left Xingqing Palace, he immediately sent someone to Gao Lishi's Mansion to inform Gao Lishi to come and meet him. Ye Chang knew very well that he had the credit for capturing Wang Ping's rebellion alone, and there was no practical benefit except for attracting jealousy for himself, so it was better to use this credit in exchange for some actual support.

For example, the support of Colliers.

Although Gao Lishi is Li Longji's most favored eunuch, he has his own mansion outside the palace, Ye Chang didn't see him in Xingqing Palace, so he knew that he would definitely go back to the palace today. Failing to catch up with the chaos will be a heavy blow to Gaolishi's position in Li Longji's heart, which is also intolerable to Gaolishi. And dividing half of the credit for quelling the chaos with Gao Lishi can get a certain degree of support from this eunuch, which not only repairs the relationship between the two sides that are estranged because of Li Linfu, but also can reach a certain tacit understanding.

To deal with Yang Zhao, this Gao Lishi can still be of great use

With this thought in mind, Ye Chang finally stopped refusing and walked into the courtyard gate in front of the Xingqing Palace.