Under the city gate, as soon as the front foot of Huantong and his party arrived, Teng Ziying's personal guard arrived with a team of people on the back foot. Dressed in armor and armed with sharp blades, they appeared to have come to purge the refugees. Huantong thought that this kind of disturbing thing would be carried out secretly at night, but he didn't expect that he was actually ready to do it with great fanfare during the day.

Teng Ziying's personal guards were quite humble, and they didn't rely on their master being the prince to see no one in their eyes, and when they saw that Huantong was there, they saluted and said hello.

"What instructions does His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince have?" Phantom Tong was still sitting on his horse, looking at the guard condescendingly.

The guard smiled, looking very respectful, but his tone was very arrogant: "Joining the army is responsible for the inside of Kyoto City, and my Royal Highness is responsible for the outside of the city, as long as this refugee does not enter the city, he will not worry about joining the army." ”

To put it bluntly, it's telling Phantom Tong, whether you are, don't meddle with rats.

"But if this matter is not handled well, there will be chaos in the city, and helping each other at this time is also to prevent trouble."

The conversation between the two sounded kind, but their eyes were fierce to each other.

"Please also rest assured that Your Majesty has praised His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince for doing things safely."

Huantong looked at this smiling guard, and naturally understood that he was putting pressure on the emperor to tell him not to interfere. However, after coming to Kyoto for so long, although I have found some eyebrows, I have not yet established a solid foundation in the imperial court, and some things are difficult to do. And this flood is his own opportunity, so naturally he can't retreat with a few words from a personal guard.

"Then I don't know what kind of trick the Seventh Prince has come up with?" Although Phantom Tong has already gotten some news, he can't reveal that he knows a lot at this time, and he doesn't know if the news released by the Seven Princes on purpose.

The guard didn't answer immediately, he obviously felt that Phantom Tong came here to meddle in this matter, so he didn't want to answer easily, but if he kept it secret, it was easy to fall into the handle, and after thinking about it again, he still decided to tell Phantom Tong a part.

"His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince has picked a piece of land outside the city, and we have come today to bring them over and place them there."

Phantom Tong glanced at the team behind the guards, no one brought food tents. The refugees arrived half an hour ago, and it was almost impossible to quickly prepare supplies and arrange them in advance in such a short time. Then their so-called "placement" is extermination. No wonder it was chosen to be held during the day, and this reason is not appropriate to be placed at night. Although this avoided immediately arousing public indignation, it was inevitable that it would be exposed, and besides, the materials that had been prepared so long in advance could not be useless.

"I see you're in such a hurry that you didn't even bring food or tents." As soon as Phantom Tong said this, the guard really looked at him defensively, Phantom Tong pretended not to notice, but the corners of his mouth rose slightly, and continued, "It just so happens that I am ready, then let me do some small work." Meng Qi, bring the things up. ”

As early as when he saw Teng Ziying's personal guards coming over with his troops, Huantong sent someone to inform Meng Qi and asked him to bring him to the city gate of the East and West Dao. And not long ago, Meng Qi arrived.

Hearing this, the guard's face turned pale, he never thought that this soldier would really come prepared, and he was speechless for a while.

This flood is an opportunity for Huantong to show, and it is also an opportunity for Teng Ziying. As a prince, although he has no intention of taking the throne, he is also a member of the camp of the three princes. But now he has been in the Red Fox Camp for a few years, but he still has no merits, he has no right to speak in the imperial court, and he can't really help the three princes in government affairs. Even at the New Year's banquet, the third prince came to him for help, but he couldn't help, and he didn't want to go. One has been secretly competing with Phantom Tong and wants to make some contributions.

"This ...... I'm afraid that's not right. "The guards suddenly lost their bearings, and they didn't know how to stop them.

Naturally, Phantom Tong would not give the guards a chance to refuse him, and directly ordered Meng Qi to follow behind their team, and even told Meng Qi to organize everyone to help set up a tent when he arrived at the camp.

"I have prepared a lot of tents and food this time, so I think it will be enough. I bothered to tell His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince that there was no need to bother to prepare. ”

Although the place is found by the Seven Princes, everything is from Phantom Tong, so in the future, the people can only remember the good Phantom Tong.

The guards were stunned again, thinking that the plan had changed, but the idea was that of His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince, and that Huantong was at most generous, and the head was still the Seventh Prince. But some of the Phantom Tong have prepared everything, which is completely free of room for the Seven Princes to play. The guards understood that they had come not only to settle the victims, but also to help the Seven Princes establish an image in the court. But with such a sideways intervention, Phantom Tong completely excluded the Seven Princes.

"Everything is behind, His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince is personally supervising the shipment, we might as well wait, converge and then go together." The guards wanted to delay as much time as possible, and had already arranged for someone to inform the Seventh Prince to come over with his things.

But of course Huantong couldn't let him get his wish, "It's not good to ask the victims to wait, since there is something, it's better to transport it out first and tell them to settle down." ”

As he spoke, he shouted to the soldiers who were guarding the city, "Please open the city gate." ”

"The Seventh Prince has not arrived, I see which of you dares to open the door." The guard pulled out his saber with a bang, stared at the soldiers guarding the city fiercely, and then instantly regained his smiling face, and said to Huantong, "Is it so urgent to join the army, Your Highness will be here soon, you better wait." ”

Although they are still smiling, the threat is already obvious, and at this moment, there is no need to pretend to be kind.

Huantong was not in a hurry, and said to the guard with a smile: "The people outside may be freezing and starving, I don't think the Seventh Prince will mind if I send the supplies out first." ”

The guard didn't want to go around in circles with Huantong, so he said directly: "If the Seventh Prince is not there, the city gate will not be opened." Outside the city, the Seven Princes are responsible, and if the city gate is opened, they will naturally listen to the Seven Princes. ”

The two were at a stalemate, and a woman's voice came from behind them: "The military order is here, open the city gate." ”

Everyone followed the sound and looked over and found that it was Li Wanzhu, the daughter of the secretary of the military department, holding a token and standing on the carriage.

The military order is in the hands of Li Chenghong, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and the army cannot be mobilized, but it is specially mobilized to protect the city, that is, these guards and even the soldiers of the White Tiger and the Red Fox must obey this token. Huantong thought to himself, Li Chenghong must not be willing to participate in this incident, and the token must have been stolen by Li Wanzhu. But no matter what, opening the gates and going out is the most important thing at the moment.

The soldiers looked at each other, not knowing who to listen to.

Seeing that the soldiers defending the city had not moved for a long time, Li Wanzhu jumped out of the carriage with the token, and asked loudly while walking towards the city gate: "Seeing the token but not taking action, do you want to be punished!" ”

The soldiers, who were still hesitating, trembled when they heard the word punishment, and they were still struggling with whether to listen to the Seventh Prince or the second lady of the Li family, but since they had tokens, the blame for the accident could not fall on their heads, so they opened the city gate quickly.