Chapter 283: Chang'an Rebellion

Chang'an, which had just calmed down, became turbulent again for a while because Jiang Chong met Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty again. Captain Sili's men began to find clues to witchcraft in some inconspicuous places. At first, the witch Gu that these clues pointed to was nothing, because these witch Gu were only aimed at some powerful people, and then some of the important ministers of the court gradually appeared.

In fact, all this was not enough to alarm Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty who was far away in Ganquan Palace, and even Jiang Chong didn't care much about it at first, even if it was some witch Gu who targeted important ministers in the court, it was just a private grudge, and he didn't bother to care about it. However, it wasn't until a witch Gu against Liu Ji, the king of Changyi, appeared, that Jiang Chong had to pay attention to it, and Jiang Chong started to investigate it secretly, but under this investigation, another person was inexplicably involved, this person was Mrs. Gou Yi.

There is also Mrs. Hook Yi's unborn child......

Even this child, who did not know whether it was a man or a woman, was cursed, so Jiang Chong had to report the matter to Emperor Wu of Han.

When the joy of the new prince had not faded, Emperor Wu of Han was furious by the news brought by Jiang Chong. When his last prince arrived, someone told him that this prince had been cursed by others, and Emperor Wu of Han's anger could be imagined.

This anger almost made the aged Emperor Wu of Han lose his mind, and he immediately ordered Jiang Chong to investigate the matter thoroughly. When Jiang Chong returned to Chang'an again, an even bigger storm descended on Chang'an City again.

Chang'an City was once again noisy, people closed their doors one after another, and in addition to the soldiers of Si Li, who arrested the suspects, there were soldiers digging around. From ordinary people to high-ranking households, almost all of them were searched, and only a few mansions did not dare to go. Except for Prime Minister Liu Quyu, Yushi Dafu Sang Hongyang, and Anyang Hou Huoguang, almost all the others were patronized by the people of Sili Lieutenant without exception.

Princess Liu Xijun of Jiangdu stood in the courtyard with a gloomy face, and even her mansion was searched by people from the lieutenant Si Li, although these people were not of high rank, but they had the emperor's order, she could only watch these people search the mansion indiscriminately, and even picked up some stone slabs in the yard and rummaged in the soil.

"Your Royal Highness, Princess, offended...... The lowly rank is also acting on orders......" A junior officer who looked like a lieutenant bowed his head in front of Liu Xijun and said.

"You dare to even check on me? Could it be that Bowangyuan and Weiyang Palace will also go to investigate? Liu Xijun asked with a gloomy face, she asked herself if she had done anything wrong, but she was not afraid of these people.

The captain bowed his body, and said with a smile on his face: "Naturally, no one dares to go to Weiyang Palace, but it seems that Si Li went to Bowangyuan.....

Although Liu Xijun is not a genuine princess, everyone knows that she is a disciple of Huo Guang, the governor of the capital, and has a very good relationship with the emperor's eldest grandson.

"Captain, nothing unusual has been found...", the lieutenant's subordinates reported beside him.

"Wrap up... Closing ..... Her Royal Highness the Princess was offended..... The villain will retire ....." The captain bowed and bowed, and left with someone without waiting for Liu Xijun to say anything more.

Looking at the already messy courtyard, Liu Xijun said to the servants in the house with a gloomy face: "Clean up here, I'll go to the palace." ”

Liu Xijun walked out as she spoke, and the palace she said was naturally to go to Weiyang Palace to find Liu Jin. She always felt unsure, and just now the captain said that Jiang Chong went to Bowangyuan, which made Liu Xijun even more uneasy.

The gate of the Jiangdu Princess's Mansion slowly pushed open, and a carriage was already waiting at the stone steps under the gate. Liu Xijun stepped out of the mansion and was about to walk down the stone steps, but saw a middle-aged man in his early forties beside the carriage holding a sheathed long sword in his arms, just standing there staring at him.

Now that Chang'an is in a hurry, even walking on the street will make people worry, and ordinary people don't dare to go out with a blade at this time. Liu Xijun found that this person was wearing a coarse cloth and short brown, and he was definitely not a person with an official position, and his momentum would not be that of an ordinary soldier.

"Who are you?" Liu Xijun asked condescendingly.

The man holding the sword did not answer, but took out a bamboo tube only the size of a finger from his arms, and then threw the bamboo tube to Liu Xijun in the air. Liu Xijun stretched out his hand to catch the bamboo tube, and looked at the person holding the sword with an inquiring look, but this person ignored Liu Xijun and turned around and left.

Liu Xijun looked at the bamboo tube in his hand with a puzzled expression, and then carefully opened it, and a roll of paper inside was easily poured out. Liu Xijun unfolded the note and looked at it at the door of the mansion.

There are only four simple words on the top of the "speed to Dunhuang" note, and below is the mark of Qingluan. Liu Xijun had seen this mark at Huo Tang, and she knew that this note was given to her by Huo Tang, but why did she tell herself in such an obscure way in this Chang'an? Liu Xijun couldn't figure it out for a while, she held the note in the palm of her hand, turned around and returned to the mansion.

Liu Xijun, who returned to the mansion, did not go to Weiyang Palace to find Liu Jin again, but hurried out of the city with a few entourages when the gate of Chang'an was about to close.

"Miss, Princess Jiangdu has already left the city." In the inner courtyard of the Hou Mansion, Huo Tang stood in the courtyard, holding a long object wrapped in brocade in his hand. Behind her, her confidant maid was reporting to her the news of Liu Xijun's departure from Chang'an.

"Got it, send someone to protect the son, I'll go see Madame." Huo Tang turned his back to the maid and walked out as he commanded.

Huo Tang was holding the brocade in one hand, as if he was carrying a sword, at this moment Li Yan and Huo Chengjun were talking in the room, and Zhuo Wenjun and the golden bottle were also there.

"You all go down." Huo Tang walked quickly to Li Yan's room and said to the servants and maids around him. These people did not find it strange either, and bowed down one after another.

Pushing open Li Yan's door, Huo Tang walked straight in.

The people in the room all showed curiosity when they saw Huo Tang holding something like a sword weapon in his hand.

"My sister is here....." Li Yan greeted Huo Tang with a smile on her face.

"Sister-in-law, pack up your things, we're going to Dunhuang tomorrow night." Huo Tang had a serious face, without any prior news, and suddenly said that he was going to leave Chang'an and go to Dunhuang.

Going to Dunhuang can be said to be something that Li Yan and the others have always hoped for, but none of them know that this is really just an extravagant hope, without the emperor's will, once they get out of Chang'an, I am afraid they will be regarded as a rebellion.

"This ...... Without His Majesty's will, and there has been no news from the Hou Ye, will leaving rashly at this time cause His Majesty to misunderstand? Li Yan was surprised in her heart, and she was even more undecided. He didn't want to cause any trouble to Huo Guang because of his own reasons.

"There will be great changes in Chang'an, which is also what the second brother means. This is our only chance. Huo Tang said with a serious face, but did not elaborate on the reason.

"Mother, can you finally reunite with your father?" Huo Chengjun thought that when he went to Dunhuang, he would be able to see his father, whom he hadn't seen for several years, and he seemed a little happy.

"Since it is the meaning of the Hou Ye, then it is all up to my sister to arrange it." Li Yan nodded and said, she knew that it was not so easy to leave Chang'an, and everything had to be arranged by Huo Tang.

"Without further ado, go and prepare!" Seeing Huo Chengjun's cheering appearance, Zhuo Wenjun also showed a kind smile on his face.

"Auntie isn't with us?" Li Yan felt that Zhuo Wenjun's tone was a little strange, and it seemed that he had no intention of going to Dunhuang together.

"Although I don't know how you plan to do it, the old body knows that the Hou Mansion must leave some people. I'm too old to stand such a long journey, so I'll stay with me! Zhuo Wenjun stood up, but his eyes looked at Huo Tang and said.

Huo Tang and Zhuo Wenjun looked at each other, and didn't say anything, just nodded slightly. Although the golden bottle was reluctant, he still obeyed Zhuo Wenjun's arrangement.

Chang'an at night should be brilliantly lit and splendid, but tonight's Chang'an is only chaotic. When Jiang Chong led people into Bowangyuan, he never came out, and the army under the command of the crown prince began to move frequently in Chang'an City.

When the prince walked out of Bowangyuan and came to Weiyang Palace, news that people didn't know whether it was true or false began to circulate in Chang'an. Some say that the prince rebelled, and some say that Jiang Chong wanted to frame the prince and was killed by the prince, and the emperor was also under house arrest in Ganquan Palace by traitors.

According to the ..... You're confused..... This matter is full of suspicions, you just need to explain it to your father, but if you kill Jiang Chong, you will confirm your intention to rebel, and now it is difficult to distinguish between you. How is this a good ......," Wei Zifu in the Jiaofang Palace said bitterly. She already knew that her son had killed Jiang Chong, and now she had blocked the four gates of Chang'an, and was mobilizing Chang'an's army in the name of the prince.

"The queen mother, first the prime minister, and now the son-in-law. It's all done with witchcraft, and they're going to put me to death! Erchen suspects that his father has been placed under house arrest by the rebels, and now he asks his mother to give his son a letter to the queen, and when Erchen leads the troops to rescue his father, everything will fall into place! Liu Ju calmed down a lot at this moment, and when he killed Jiang Chong in a fit of rage, he listened to Shi De's opinion and announced to the public that a rebel had imprisoned the emperor and framed him. At this moment, he is the empress seal letter of Wei Zifu, as long as he insists that the emperor is imprisoned, with the seal of the queen and the crown prince, he can justifiably mobilize the army, and when the time comes, he will directly kill the Ganquan Palace, whether it is really rescuing the emperor or ascending the throne in advance, the initiative is in Liu Yi's own hands.

"And who are the rebels in your mouth?" Wei Zifu's heart was already very chaotic, she knew that the prince's step was already doomed, but after all, it was her son in front of her. Coupled with the execution of his two daughters not long ago, Wei Zifu also has hatred in his heart.

"Prime Minister Zuo Liu Quyu, this old man has escaped from Chang'an City, and I'm afraid he is on his way to Ganquan Palace." Liu Ju must be famous in the army, Jiang Chong has already been killed by him, and Liu Quyu is the best choice for the rebel as the prime minister.

"There is no turning back from the bow....... You can take it......" Wei Zifu took out a gold seal from his arms with some helplessness, which was the seal that symbolized the Empress of the Han Dynasty. Now that Liu Ju has shot the arrow, even if Wei Zifu is unwilling, he can only stand on his son's side.

When Liu Ju took the queen's seal letter to the various battalions in Chang'an to mobilize troops and horses, a team of more than 20 princes and guards from outside Liu Jin's palace on the east side of Weiyang Palace hurried over.

"I am here to protect His Highness on the order of the crown prince, and I ask His Highness to move the Jiaofang Palace." At this time, the crown prince Liu Ju had not forgotten Liu Jin's son, and sent a team of people to protect Liu Jin and send him to the queen's Jiaofang Palace.

"Madame is about to give birth, and I will not go anywhere." Liu Jin also knew the news of the prince's army, but at this moment, Wang Wengxu in the palace was also about to give birth.

Just when these guards didn't know what to do, dozens of figures suddenly flashed down from the high wall, these people were dressed in black, their movements were like ghosts, and after they appeared, they killed all the guards who came to protect Liu Jin in just a few moments.

"You ...... Who are you......" The man in black stepped on the corpses all over the ground and surrounded Liu Jin. At this time, behind Liu Jin, his wife Wang Wengxu was also making her last effort, and the little life that belonged to her and Liu Jin was about to come to this world.