Chapter 228: The Last Day of the Birthday Feast
In the middle of the Luanhe Palace is Yelu Hongji's dormitory, and about a mile to the right of his dormitory, there is a huge palace, which is where Yelu Chongyuan rests, last night Yelu Chongyuan was drunk and was carried back, and he woke up after sleeping all night, just as soon as he opened his eyes, he saw a young man with a broken leg sitting in front of the bed looking at himself.
"Nerugu, why are you here, didn't you ask you to organize people?". Seeing the young man in front of the bed, Yelu Chongyuan immediately sat up and asked, this young man is his son Yelu Nerugu, before he deliberately designed an accident to break his leg in order not to go to Liaoyang Mansion with Yelu Renxian, and he still can't walk.
"Father, rest assured, the two thousand guards and two thousand Xi people have already been assembled, and they are waiting in the mountain col ten miles south of the palace, as long as we give an order, these four thousand people can kill the palace in half an hour, and then the entire Liao country will be ours!" Yelu Nerugu's face was fanatical when he said this, and he quickly said to Yelu Chongyuan with an eager face, "Father, I can't wait to order the army to besiege the palace immediately, why do you have to wait until the last day of the birthday banquet to act?" ”
Seeing his son's anxious look, Yelu Chongyuan showed an old and cunning smile and said: "Nerugu, there is a saying called 'the lion fights the rabbit and also uses all his strength', not to mention the major event of a coup d'état, although we have a certain advantage in terms of troops, but the guards around the palace are not vegetarians, especially for major events such as holding a birthday banquet, the guards around the palace will only be more vigilant." However, they can be vigilant for a day or two, but on the third day, when the birthday feast is about to end, these guards will be relaxed, and then our sneak attack will be more likely to succeed. ”
Hearing his father's explanation, Yelu Nerugu sighed and said, "Thank you Daddy for reminding me, in fact, I also know this truth, but in this case, it is really difficult to calm down, so I sneaked into the palace today." Want to see how it goes? Also, I would like to ask. If we take down the palace, Yelu Hongji and Yelu Jun, the princes and princesses, will definitely die, but what will happen to the rest of the people who attend the birthday banquet? ”
"Hehe, almost more than ninety percent of the nobles of Daliao came to attend Yelu Hongji's birthday banquet. The reason why I chose this time to carry out a coup d'état. It is also on this good opportunity. At that time, as long as we kill Yelu Hongji after we accuse Zhan Xinggong and kill him, and then announce that Yelu Hongji will give me the throne before he dies, and force those nobles to recognize me as the emperor of Da Liao. Then the rest is much easier. Yelu Chongyuan said with a smile, in fact, he was more anxious to win the throne than Yelu Nerugu, but his age was relatively old, which also made him learn to forbear.
"Father has a good plan, as long as he is recognized by those nobles, then his father can rightfully take over the power of Liao, even if a few people oppose it, I am afraid it will not become a climate." At this time, Yelu Nerugu praised when he heard it, but he quickly thought of one more thing, so he asked, "Father, if we succeed in raiding the palace, those envoys from various countries who come to celebrate our birthday will definitely fall into our hands, and the other envoys will be easy to do, and then they will be sent out of the country directly, but what should the two princes of the Great Song Dynasty do?" ”
Hearing his son's question, he saw Yelu Chongyuan smile and said: "Nerugu, I heard that on the way to meet the Great Song Dynasty, you didn't get along very well with the two princes, but these are trivial matters, and for the country composed of cowards in the Great Song Dynasty, my father didn't pay attention to it at all, so after I successfully sat on the throne, I temporarily suppressed the two princes, and then attacked the Song Kingdom on a large scale after completely calming down the domestic situation. It's also a breath out for you! ”
Yelu Nerugu was also extremely excited when he heard his father's treatment of Zhao Ji and Zhao Yan, if it wasn't for the injury to his foot, I'm afraid he would jump up happily. Yelu Chongyuan's father and son were the hawks of the Liao State in the words of later generations, especially on the issue of the Great Song Dynasty, they have always advocated a tough solution to it, if their father and son grasped the power of the Liao State, it would definitely be a disaster for the Great Song Dynasty.
It was also when Yelu Chongyuan's father and son discussed the matter of the coup, Zhao Yan and Su Shi sent Zhao Ji away, yesterday he took Zhao Ji to visit the things he used to escape, and finally persuaded the other party, so this morning, the people sent by Huang Wude finally arrived, on the grounds that there were important matters on the mission side that Zhao Ji needed to go back to deal with, and the people in the Liao State Palace were not easy to stop, so Zhao Ji was ready to leave.
"Third brother, although you have a life-saving hot air balloon, you have to be careful." Zhao Yan said to Zhao Yan again, and then turned his head to Su Shi next to Zhao Yan and asked, "Brother Zizhan, are you really not leaving with me?" ”。
The thing that Zhao Yan used to save his life is the hot air balloon that was popular in later history, the technical content of this thing is not high, but it is a cross-era Ming, because it marks the beginning of human footprints into the sky, before Zhao Yan thought of hot air balloons, so let Cao Yan and those Taoist priests help make it for the final escape, as long as Zhao Yan can fly in a hot air balloon, then even if there are 100,000 troops surrounded, he is not afraid.
"No, the county king also needs someone to help here, and as the deputy envoy of the mission, if I leave with His Royal Highness King Ying, it is likely to arouse the suspicion of others, so I should stay with the county king!" Su Shi also opened his mouth when he heard Zhao Yan's words, after seeing the hot air balloon prepared by Zhao Yan before, he also changed his mind and planned to stay in the palace with Zhao Yan, but Zhao Yan and Zhao Yan persuaded him several times but failed to make him change his mind, and finally had to agree.
"Big brother, you also have to be careful, if something happens, you must also put your own safety first, you must think twice before doing things, and you must not be rash!" Zhao Yan also told Zhao Yan at this time, he also knew Zhao Ji's shortcomings very well, and knew that the other party was an acute child, so this made him think twice.
"Well, you have to take care too!" Zhao Ji said a word of advice again at this time, and then glanced at Zhao Yan with some reluctance, then turned the carriage, and then left with a group of guards to beat the horses, and with their departure, only Zhao Yan and Su Shi were left in the Great Song Mission, and Zhou Dong with two guards, adding up to only five people.
Looking at Zhao Yan and the others who were drifting away, Zhao Yan and Su Shi glanced at each other at this time, and then saw Su Shi salute Zhao Yan and said: "King of the county, the life of the lower official will be handed over to you, if your hot air balloon is not good, then the lower official will have to be buried with the king of the county." ”
"Haha, Brother Zizhan, don't worry, you also saw the hot air balloon yesterday, there is absolutely no problem." Zhao Yan patted his chest and reassured, with a confident expression on his face.
But in fact, Zhao Yan didn't have a bottom in his heart, after all, although this thing was made by Cao Yan and them, and it can indeed fly, but because of the limited time, Cao Yan and they didn't do real people, Zhao Yan didn't know whether the hot air balloon could be successfully manned, he confidently exaggerated the role of the hot air balloon to Zhao Ji before, just to let the other party leave with peace of mind, but he didn't expect Su Shi to really believe it, and stubbornly stayed, which made Zhao Yan also a little crying and laughing, at this time facing Su Shi's question, He can only slap his swollen face and become fat, otherwise it will not be good to scare this Su scholar.
After sending Zhao Ji away, Zhao Yan and Su Shi attended the birthday banquet on the second day as usual, speaking of which, in addition to not having as many ceremonies as the first half of the birthday banquet on the first day, the rest of the people almost did not change, almost all the people who participated in the banquet yesterday came, and then everyone got together to eat and drink, and when they were drunk, they were sent back, which can be described as a drunken dream.
On this day, Zhao Yan still spent it in fear, what he was afraid of was that Yelu Chongyuan chose the day of the coup d'état today, but fortunately, there was still nothing to do on this day, and like yesterday, Yelu Chongyuan was also drunk before going back, which also made Zhao Yan and Su Shi finally relieved.
After Zhao Yan got up, he went to the backyard to see the hot air balloons on the two cars in the backyard, the reason why he prepared two hot air balloons was mainly because Zhao Yan was worried about preparing one in case of problems, so he still prepared two insurances, of course, if both had problems, then Zhao Yan could only accept his fate.
After carefully checking the hot air balloon again, there is no problem now, Zhao Yan is relieved, at this time Zhou Dong and the two guards left behind are also guarding the car, Zhao Yan thought about it for a while, and decided to let Zhou Dong follow himself and Su Shi into the palace, after all, no one knows when Yelu Chongyuan will move the coup, in case the coup is too late to rush back, there will definitely be a big chaos in the palace, and then a guard will be needed to protect him, with Zhou Dong's skills, he should be able to protect him and Su Shi back safely, as for the remaining two guards, Each person guarded a carriage, and Zhao Yan also specially explained that he was absolutely not allowed to leave half a step.
After making the above arrangements, Zhao Yan and Su Shi took Zhou Tong to the main hall for the banquet, just like the previous two days, the hall was still singing and dancing, and after the first two days of drunken life and death, all the people who participated in the banquet were completely relaxed, plus this was the last day, so many people had the idea of having fun in time, and they never thought that danger would come at any time. (To be continued......)
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