The ominous military situation flew into the palace like a funeral.

On February 28 of the fourth year of Honghua in the Ming Dynasty, the rebels captured Handan.

On March 5, the fourth year of Daming Honghua, the rebels invaded the Central Plains.

On March 31, the fourth year of Honghua in the Ming Dynasty, the traitors occupied the Central Plains.

The whole of Gyeonggi has completely changed its atmosphere.

Eerie atmosphere.

In the past, the people of Gyeonggi looked at people from other provinces with the expressions of their masters and slaves. For example, in the Ming Dynasty, when praising a person, he will say that he is really like a person with the roots of the imperial city.

But now, after the Lianghe Army eliminated the royal family, the people of Gyeonggi looked at the people from other provinces like slaves looking at their masters, or like dogs looking at their masters, in short, they were flattering and frightened.

The whole road was full of soldiers who had lost their armor and fled for their lives.

If you see a figure in the barracks, it's probably a bandit picking up a leak, and it's unlikely that it's a soldier, because the soldiers have all fled.

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On the nineteenth floor of the Imperial Palace, Chang'an City, Gyeonggi Province, in front of the large table of the Imperial Secret Office, Liu Xingchao, the head of the inner court, hummed a cheerful little song, crossed Erlang's legs, and looked at these military information.

He said to the head of the secret service: "The military situation is urgent, and there can be no delay. I'm most annoyed by those sycophants who report good news but not bad news, so I've never reported bad news but not good news. Give me this information to the Emperor. ”

When the people around him were gone, Liu Xingchao said to me, Wang Yuquan, and Zhang Kangning who were standing on the side: "You really have the ability, not only to complete the task, but also to be able to come back from Yanjing without injury." Now my inner court is really talented, and I will definitely reward you a lot! ”

Wang Yuquan and Zhang Kangning were promoted two levels in a row, from major of the forbidden army to colonel of the forbidden army, each commanding 5,000 men.

My imperial rank was promoted to the third rank, and I officially entered the Royal Intelligence Department, and directly became a colonel of the forbidden army.

I counted it, in our session, only Zhao Yuyang and I are under the third grade, and the rest are all below the fourth grade.

Counting the old people, I am now one of the few high-ranking officials in the palace.

- and Zhao Yuyang became the liaison between Liu Xingchao and the Council of Elders.

What the hell is a "liaison"? What are Zhao Yuyang's exploits? How could he climb so fast? Was it cleverness or luck? Or is it to make it bad?

A short time after returning to the palace, I found that in the three months since I left the palace, the relationship between the chief of the inner court and the senate had become very complicated - it was said that the senators would be at odds with the emperor and the outer courts, and the chief of the inner court had been at odds with the emperor and the outer courts, and many middle and upper-class imperial officials were forced to side with each other.

It is said that Liu Xingchao did not go to the senate meeting.

Moreover, in the past, Liu Xingchao asked his henchman Li Feiyu to pass on the news to the Senate, Li Feiyu was a second-rank official, and he was also among the top few in Daming.

But now let Zhao Yuyang contact the Senate, and Zhao Yuyang is just a third-grade person.

I guess the senators must be unhappy, and Liu Xingchao actually sent a miscellaneous army to deal with them.

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I quit and met Zhao Yuyang on the way back to the dormitory.

After greeting him, he suddenly said, "Dongfang Ju, are you the celebrity in front of the manager now?" ”

I pretended to be confused: "Ah, I don't know why, I've only been the director of the Central Plains Intelligence Bureau of the Forbidden Army for a few months." ”

He said, "It seems that I want you to take care of me more in the future." ”

I'm angry, and I've earned it with all my heart and risk. You didn't do anything, you actually got along with the senators, and you are still talking to me here.

Although I was very angry, my face was still unresponsive, and I said, "Actually, I envy you the most, and I especially want to go to the Senate Library, because the Royal Library is already annoyed by me." By the way, what's in the Senate Library? ”

As soon as I said this, Zhao Yuyang immediately became excited, and he kept telling me about the scene of the Senate Library.

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It's a court meeting again.

Emperor Zhu Honghua sat on the dragon chair, and the prince Zhu Hongfeng stood at the front of the hundred officials.

The prince's stomach became even more angry, and the beard on his face was dried up and split into forks.

He said to the emperor: "The provincial armies are all rubbish, and the forbidden army will not come to help." And the thief army actually has explosives and poison gas, this must be an internal ghost! I heard that Zhao Zhengbao's military advisor is called Ma Xingcai, he used to be a high-ranking official in the inner court, and many of the current high-ranking officials in the inner court are old acquaintances, maybe it was someone from the inner court who betrayed the emperor! ”

Liu Xingchao, the head of the inner court, was on his right, looking at him with his chin.

At this time, Sun Haomiao, the head of the military department, stepped forward and said to the emperor after bowing three times and bowing nine times: "Your Majesty, the prince has made the heavens and people angry in the Central Plains, and he has started another war with Hebei, so that today's situation cannot be controlled. Today, I ask Your Majesty to execute the prince and correct the emperor's law. ”

Several high-ranking officials next to him also played like this.

The prince was so frightened that his face turned white.

More high-ranking officials next to him also stepped forward to bow down, and then asked for the execution of the prince. I took a look, and most of them were the Forbidden Army faction, the Royal Army faction, the Shi clan faction, and the Jiangnan Party.

The prince was furious: "Traitor! Traitor! You are all traitors! What's wrong with me?! ”

Sun Haomiao: "Who is going to go to war with Hebei?!" ”

Lord: "I'm going to war, but don't you all agree?!" One by one, I said I would win! ”

Sun Haomiao: "Didn't you sign a military order, if you are defeated, you will commit suicide and apologize!" ”

Lord Wang: "This ...... I'm royalty! I want you to take care of it! ”

Sun Haomiao shouted: "Royal?!" You don't deserve it! ”

People shouted: "Remove him!" ”

Sun Haomiao: "Kill again!" ”

People shouted, "Kill him!" ”

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The prince looked at his father-in-law, deputy prime minister Guo Dingguo, and several of the scholars he married, all of whom lowered their heads and did not speak.

Now more people are demanding that the prince be executed, and hundreds of imperial officials are shouting: "Execute and put to death!" Execute and execute! ”

I've been here for a few years, and I haven't seen this formation!

Emperor Zhu Honghua stood up from the dragon chair, and he looked a little flustered.

The prince Zhu Hongfeng didn't know what to think, he actually wanted to run.

Several people surrounded him, and some even rolled up their sleeves to beat him.

What's going on?

The prince failed because of me. If there is no me, the prince is the greatest hero; With my case, the prince is the biggest minister.

What can this roll out? The prince didn't do anything, how could he become two kinds of people? Isn't that reasonable? There's no logic to this! What does this mean? What are the lessons learned?

Thinking about this, my head hurts again.

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Liu Xingchao, the head of the inner court, shouted at this time: "Your Majesty! ”

There were echoes in the Qixia Palace, and there was no noise at all.

Liu Xingchao: "The hundred officials asked for the execution of the prince, but I want to plead for the prince." ”

The prince Zhu Hongfeng was stunned.

Liu Xingchao continued: "Since ancient times, the punishment of the royal family has not been broken, and this tradition cannot be broken. I think it's better to tell the world the sins of the prince, and then cut him off his title, demote him to a scholar's family, and put him under house arrest in Chang'an City. In this way, we can appease the wrath of the world and stabilize the situation in the future. ”

The officials had nothing to say.

The prince was also discouraged.

Emperor Zhu Honghua looked at the people below, sighed and said, "Okay." ”

So the emperor's imperial army took the prince away.

He was placed under house arrest in a building in the city of Chang'an.

The building was one of countless identical buildings, eight stories high, made of reinforced concrete, without even a yard. In fact, Liu Xingchao wanted the forbidden army to take care of him, but the emperor had to let his imperial army take care of the prince, so Liu Xingchao had to give up. I guess if it's the people of the forbidden army who guard the prince, then the prince doesn't have to eat every day!

By the way, the prince has changed his name, and his name is "Sun Hongfeng".

It is said that when the prince Zhu Hongfeng was forced to change his surname, the people in the inner court brought "Hundred Family Names" for him to choose.

He said: "I choose 'Zhao', and I will be called Zhao Hongfeng in the future." ”

The people in the inner court pouted: "Damn, you are also worthy of the surname Zhao?" I think you're a grandson! ”

As a result, the prince Zhu Hongfeng became the scholar Sun Hongfeng.

In fact, Liu Xingchao wanted to call him "Gou Hongfeng", but he was afraid of making things bigger, so forget it.

Such an awkward name was unanimously agreed upon by all officials, in order to punish the prince to appease the world.

The emperor was very unhappy, but there was no way, who let the prince provoke the anger of the public.

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In fact, these are small things, and what is outside Tongguan is a big thing - the Two Rivers Army has begun to attack Gyeonggi!

The Battle of Baoding a few days ago is called the "Second Battle of Baoding" or "Baoding Armageddon" in the forbidden history - of course, in the history of the Ming Dynasty and in the news of the King James Dynasty, this matter does not exist.

Still, the non-existence of this event frightened everyone.

The scholars and commoners of Gyeonggi began to flee for their lives to Xiliang and Sichuan, and even eunuchs and palace maids in the palace began to clean up.

The vacancy in the Royal Army is extremely serious, I don't know if it is because there are many deaths in the Battle of Baoding, or if they are already eating empty salaries, anyway, almost every barracks are empty.

The major scholars began to gather their own soldiers and government troops, and they were finally going to use them for a while.

The "court eagle dogs" in the martial arts of the rivers and lakes, such as the eunuch gang and the beggar gang, have a hard time, and the territory has been robbed a lot by many evil sects.

Those illegal gangs such as the "Salt Gang" and the "Sugar Gang" began to become active, and even dared to attack the troops of the Ministry of Commerce!

The Demon Cult also raged, and it is said that hundreds of "Divine Sons" and "Prophets" appeared in the vicinity of Chang'an alone.

According to the usual situation, these things are capital crimes, and the army of the imperial court - the forbidden army, the imperial army, the government army, and the ministry army will kill them in a minute.

However, now the royal army near Gyeonggi has been annihilated, and the remaining royal army is far away, and the forbidden army and the government army do not necessarily listen to the emperor's words, and the army is all a little gangster who bullies the weak and is afraid of the hard, so the imperial court has nothing to do about these illegal acts.

Besides, the rebels outside Tongguan are the big trouble!

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Mingde Hall is another court meeting.

Hundreds of high-ranking officials were discussing how to defend themselves against the enemy, but the highest official, Liu Xingchao, the head of the inner court, was closing his eyes and recuperating.

Those high-ranking officials discussed and discussed, and they all turned to the forbidden army.

And Liu Xingchao, the commander of the forbidden army, is still closing his eyes and recuperating.

Everyone looked at Emperor Zhu Honghua.

The emperor had no choice but to say: "Liu Xingchao Aiqing-"

The first time I saw the emperor call the minister "Aiqing", I didn't know that I thought it was tens of thousands of years ago.

The emperor said: "What does Liu Xingchao Aiqing think about this? ”

Liu Xingchao opened his eyes and arched his hand and said: "Originally, the forbidden army did not go out of the customs, but for the sake of His Majesty's eternal foundation, the forbidden army decided to make an exception. I will now order the forbidden army to set off and immediately bomb the rebels! ”

The voices of the hundred officials rose again, but this time they were all admiration for Liu Xingchao, some people gave a thumbs up, and some people asked the emperor to commend the head of the inner court on the spot.

The rest of the time was all compliments from the hundred officials and the emperor to the forbidden army, and even I blushed when I heard it.

Emperor Zhu Honghua praised the loyalty of Liu Xingchao, the head of the inner court, and Liu Xingchao immediately expressed loyalty to the emperor, and the emperor praised his loyalty even more, and Liu Xingchao showed even more loyalty.

Then the cycle continued, and the relationship between the monarch and the minister was finally repaired.

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Emperor Zhu Honghua decided to take the expedition himself, but this time he did not take the imperial army (because the imperial army near Gyeonggi was lying on the snow outside Baoding), but the forbidden army, which was very small.

Because the emperor also knew that the main force this time was not the forbidden army, but the air force in the forbidden army, and their station was the forbidden army airfield in the west of Chang'an City.

On April 4, the fourth year of Honghua in the Ming Dynasty, the emperor and hundreds of officials came to Tongguan again.

Inside Tongguan was a pitiful army, while outside Tongguan was a vast number of two rivers army.

The imperial army all fled, and it seemed that everyone thought that the Ming Dynasty was going to die, so they must line up in the new dynasty.

There was a roar from the west.

People follow prestige.

More than a dozen bombers emerged from the clouds to the west.

There were horrified expressions on people's faces.

I recognized those bombers, they were the Royal Guards who bombed Hanzhong County more than three years ago, and they were also five-clawed black dragons coiled around the fuselage.

If it were my first time seeing this, I would have been shocked and I would have to write a long paragraph describing my feelings.

Unfortunately, this is not the case.

These are just a fraction of the last time I saw them.

These odds and bits are enough to scare the uninformed people out of their mouths.

Next to me was full of people who couldn't close their mouths, some of them drooling on their clothes.

The dozen or so bombers swept over Tongguan, and flashes, loud noises, and thick smoke were immediately heard outside the pass, accompanied by a scream of crying father and mother.

As the flashes grew brighter and brighter, the explosions became louder and louder, the smoke grew louder and louder, and the ground trembled more and more, and the expressions of the emperor and the hundred officials became more and more happy.

The dozen or so bombers circled and bombed for dozens of minutes before returning to the west.

People look up at them with their heads up, and they can't give up.

The door of Tongguan slowly opened again.

On the opposite side are all huge craters one by one, and the edges of the pits, which are several meters deep and dozens of meters wide, are blown limbs to shreds.

Further west was the black-pressed and routing Army of the Two Rivers, and it was clear that they were all frightened and stupid.

I wonder why Liu Xingchao didn't blow up all the Lianghe Army, which has not yet exerted one-tenth of the power of bombing Hanzhong County.

I think of the word "unloading the mill and killing the donkey", probably the head of the inner court does not like to be a donkey.

There are too many things to take revenge on, and the forbidden army is not stupid.

Liu Xingchao, the head of the inner court, said to everyone: "The world is stable!"

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At this time, someone came over in a panic and said to the emperor: "The big thing is not good, there are traitors who occupy Chang'an!" ”

The man was the royal herald in the palace, wearing a yellow uniform and carrying a pass.

The ministers were in an uproar.

The emperor was a little untenable.

Even Liu Xingchao, the head of the inner court, was stunned.

He rushed forward, grabbed the man's neck by the collar, and shouted: "Tell me quickly, who dares to occupy Chang'an?" Did the Forbidden Army mutiny? ”