The prince came to Jianyancheng to greet the whole city, the officials and people were full, and the morning he left the city, he also had to make a scene, the red forging paved a long way from outside the palace, and the high-ranking officials who should have arrived arrived and waited early.

After waiting for more than an hour, the guard of honor also came out, and the prince should have come out of the palace, but everything was arranged according to the rules, and a carriage came out of the palace, which looked ordinary and light, as if it had been prepared temporarily.

The crowd was amazed, and they saw the prince come out in his robe, he covered his lips with a brocade handkerchief and coughed lightly, his face was not as pale as when he came, and the attendant helped him to bend down and enter the carriage.

Xu Yan lowered the curtain of the car and said loudly: "Spread the prince's command, the body is slightly ill and inconvenient to brave the wind, but the itinerary has been decided, leave the city today, I hope you will continue to be diligent as officials, you must bow down to your relatives, be loyal to the king and love the people......"

After a passage of words was spoken, everyone looked at each other, it was not more appropriate to stay for a few days when they were unwell, even if they had to leave, why didn't they sit in the big carriage pulled by eight horses?

The guards had already moved, and the carriage was moving slowly, and the officials and civilians who had been waiting for a long time followed on both sides of the road, and it was not long before they were even more surprised that the carriage did not go out of the city by the road of the east gate, but took the nearest west gate.

This unusual move provoked all kinds of private discussions, but by April, some unfounded rumors had also spread, stirring up an uneasy commotion.

It is said that Emperor Kang'an has already mastered Bintian.

At this time, in the imperial palace of the capital, with the sound of heavy pushing and pulling, all the palace doors that had to be wide open during the day were closed, forming a barrier separating the inside and outside.

The Praetorian Guards all gathered in the imperial city, guarding the gate of the city, the gate of the palace, and the gate of the courtyard - the gate of Changxin Garden, and no one entered or exited for several days.

Shen Tingnian hadn't dreamed for a long time......

In the dream, she didn't call the name given to her by the Shen family, but her real name was Shen Yuan, sixteen or seventeen years old, because she didn't want to get married, she relied on raising flowers and selling paintings all day long to support herself.

After a few years, Emperor Kang'an died, the storage position was contested, the Great Zhou Dynasty was in civil strife, and Beirong took the opportunity to invade with the country's troops.

Then came a long period of chaos until a new emperor ascended the throne.

The dream shattered instantly, and he woke up suddenly.

Shen Tingnian opened his misty eyes, and his heart suddenly hurt irrepressibly, and he couldn't react for a long time.

A cold sweat.

Shen Tingnian couldn't lie down anymore, and sat up from the bed suddenly, startling Yuezhu, who was keeping vigil.

"Mother, what's wrong?"

"Is there any news from the prince?" Shen Tingnian put on his coat and walked quickly to the window door with embroidered shoes.

Yuezhu lit the wall lamp in the room and replied no.

Soon there were footsteps outside from far and near, it was Mama Liu who came to see the main hall with the headlights on, obviously no one could sleep soundly.

Shen Tingnian felt that her dream was too ominous, she stared at the night sky for a long time, returning from Jianyan City, she would be able to reach Beijing within ten days of traveling by water, why was there no news for a month.

When the sky was bright, someone hurriedly entered Changxin Garden, and there were not many people who could walk freely in the palace at this time.

"Mother, there's news."

The person who came was Chen Luo.

There is double bad news, one is that the news of Emperor Kang'an's sudden death has spread - King An and others led troops into Beijing to force the palace, and now they have arrived at Cangcuishan outside Beijing.

One is that the prince returned to Beijing on the way back to many twists and turns, because he took Gongzhou to return to Beijing by boat, and it was the flood season, the southwest continued heavy rain all day long, first was trapped in Gongzhou, and then heard that the flood of the Jialing River surged, there were many river weirs bursting, and the people in the jurisdiction of the river were in dire straits, so they turned the bow of the boat overnight and returned to Gongzhou.

And on the day of his return, the largest stone weir in the Jialing River collapsed, flooding all the towns within a hundred miles in an instant, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and tens of thousands of refugees were trapped in the Wuling Mountains of Gongzhou.

I stayed in the mountains for four or five days.

"That stone weir has stood for a hundred years, and it costs a huge amount of money to build it every year, how can it fall!" Shen Tingnian was anxious and angry, this is not a natural disaster at all, but a man-made disaster, this group of inhumane guys even disregarded the lives of tens of thousands of people in the Great Zhou Dynasty in order to fight for power.

"Don't worry, Your Royal Highness Jiren has his own heavenly appearance, and when he learned the news that he was trapped, the Hunan army from all over the country rushed to the aid of Gongzhou......"

"How can he not be in a hurry, his temperament will bow down to rescue the people when he sees them in distress," Shen Tingnian walked back and forth in place, his mind spinning quickly, "There is no food and clothing between the mountains and fields, and the trapped people are very easy to panic, if someone with a heart instigates a mutiny-"

All kinds of dangers can happen, and even those people have already thought of all kinds of methods, and she suddenly remembered, King Ping!

Gongzhou was the fief of King Ping.

"Did Concubine Ke send someone to watch?"

Chen Luo nodded, and said again, "Don't worry, the palace is under the control of the queen, and there are people watching from all palaces, so there is no chaos." ”

At this time, Shen Tingnian was really just in a hurry, she had no power in the palace, no prestige, and no one available, so it was enough to protect herself in the protective circle drawn by the prince.

Shen Tingnian was worried about the safety of the crown prince, and it was difficult to sleep and eat, but when he heard Chen Luo talk about the queen, he was even more irritable, "Gonggong Chen, you tell the truth clearly, Emperor Kang'an's violent death-" Does it have anything to do with the queen? She herself didn't really care about the truth of this matter, but she was afraid that the prince would make it difficult for this matter.

This time, Chen Luo did not answer immediately, but first said that Emperor Kang An had always been worried.

There is a medical scripture: the frightened, the heart is restless; Those who are palpitating are afraid of being frightened when their hearts are beating; Those who are frightened are restless in their hearts, and they will be caught when they are vigilant.

Emperor Kang An has been the crown prince for more than 30 years, his personality is cowardly, incompetent, extremely afraid of his father Emperor Renwu, and has been subject to Emperor Renwu's wife for him to marry, physically and mentally tortured, the more painful the more wanton the concubines to obtain pleasure, perennial months, tossed out of the sickness.

At the age of forty-three, he finally ascended the throne, but he found that he still had no rights at all, his son controlled the outside, and his wife controlled the inside.

Once a person loses his spirit, he will soon collapse.

In the final analysis, his violent death was not an accident.

……

"Niangniang, the armor soldiers mobilized outside have already guarded the vertical arch hall," Qi Mama hurriedly entered the main hall, "All the ministers in Beijing are here, and the prince has also been accepted into the palace, and all the officials respect him as the head, and now they are arguing in full swing, but most of them are not in a panic." ”

The queen put on a plain dress and had no decoration on her body, it was for Emperor Kang'an's dress of filial piety, she stood upright in the main hall of the Qianqing Palace, and greeted the unpredictable wind and rain with the attitude of the mother.

"Did Elder Qi spread anything?"

"No, I think it's better to look at the steps now," Mama Qi worked hard for a month, still in good spirits, "The prince is popular with the people, and today hundreds of officials in the palace have condemned King An's behavior of forcing the palace, especially the imperial historians, who are impassioned and foaming......"

The prince was in Gongzhou for disaster relief and was besieged by floods, but King An was in a hurry to take the opportunity to force the palace, and the hearts of the two were high.

Don't say that the hearts of hundreds of officials are towards the prince, and the common people are also indignant.

The queen did not speak, and looked at the vast sky from the open palace gate, and in the rainy season, the capital was gray, and the direction she looked at was the southwest.

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Gongzhou Riverside Fishing Fire, silent lonely boat in the middle of the night.

The water hits along the riverbank, and people come at night in wind and rain.

A small boat that was speeding forward was about to dock, and someone lifted the curtain from the inside, and the prince, wrapped in a black cloak, jumped off the boat with an expressionless face, and the person who answered quickly opened an umbrella for him, and the night wind blew a light rain to blur people's vision.

As soon as he entered the carriage waiting on the shore, the coachman who drove the carriage quickly whipped his whip, and the prince almost hit the small ones in the carriage.

"Temple...... Next, what's wrong with you? ”

The commander of the receiver who had been following him in looked worried, and helped him with his hands and feet, secretly wondering how could the prince's body be unstable by this bumpy.

"Ahem, Commander Wu, find a doctor...... Ahem. ”

The prince lay down on the couch, coughing incessantly.

Xu Shi, who had only climbed up to the carriage on the side, explained to Commander Wu that the prince was in a hurry, wading through the water many times, and was also soaked in water when he went down the river, which inevitably worsened his illness, and he got bad news in the capital, which was even more painful.

Commander Wu saw that his face was pale, and he was suddenly a little panicked, the prince was a little sick, so he immediately turned around and went out to spread the word.

The prince rarely gets sick, and when he suddenly falls ill, he startles the man who has lost his heart.

All the officials gathered from all over the vicinity of Gongzhou were even more panicked, the prince came down from Wuling Mountain and did not show up for several days, and when he appeared, there was news that he was sick.

Compared with the construction of Yancheng, Gongzhou Suining City is a little stingy, because of the side of the mountain, the houses are built are small courtyards crowded one after another, there are few spacious mansions, and the residence of the prince is also a low building and narrow courtyard.

The prince only used a pair of medicines, forced a sweat, and that night was much better, so that those who had been waiting for a day could finally see the real person.

After everyone finished the salute, the prince covered his lips and coughed lightly, his face was not good-looking, most of the illness was not cured, he coughed badly, and his voice was extremely hoarse, and he said a few words routinely, and then sent them all away.

Only General Bai, the protector of Jianyan City, was left.

Although it is in a hurry to escort the car so as to grab a big credit, the disaster relief cannot be delayed, and the large number of people who come can naturally minimize the disaster. There are also people who gallop for the people in the starry night, and General Bai, who gathered 10,000 elite soldiers from Jianyancheng, was the first to rush to Gongzhou against the water.

General Bai is fierce and good at fighting, but he is an elegant general, known as "Dusk Jun", who smiles when he sees people, and is known as an elegant name for being like a spring breeze.