Chapter 763: Soldiers are coming to the city
It was almost dawn before Teng Xiu returned.
"Guo Ling's affairs have been arranged...... Fortunately, we listened to Lord Song's words, the original hiding place, the surrounding roads were all blocked, and the suburbs of Beijing were still like this, and the capital was even more house-to-door investigation, which was called to search and rescue King Min......"
Teng Xiu roughly explained the situation, and then learned that there was an uninvited guest in the small courtyard and Dabao was sent away overnight.
I was stunned for a while.
"You don't have to ask me where I sent people. He's only safer there than here. ”
Although Ji Yu didn't explain anything in detail, Teng Xiu knew her intentions after a little thought.
But the wood is already in the boat, what else can he say.
But he still has something to say about Ren Yingzhu.
"Mrs. Song is afraid that she won't be able to go back in a short time."
"Why?" Ji Yu was taken aback, "Song Jing had an accident?" ”
Teng Xiu's expression was slightly heavy.
"Two days ago, someone in the Yushitai touched the pillar and died, which caused public anger, more and more officials stood up against Zheng Dang, seeing that the situation was out of control, Zheng Guifei also wanted to deal with the culprit to calm down the situation, Zheng Guogong's patience has run out, and he wants to use force to break those officials who ask for their lives to bow their heads. In the face of a group of colleagues who were reprimanded by the cane, Lord Song stood up and reprimanded Zheng Guogong in public, accusing him of stealing the sky and changing the day and causing trouble to the dynasty......"
"And then? What did they do to Song Jing? ”
Asking like this, the brain can't help but think crankily.
It won't be, it won't be......
"It's just that Lord Song was put in prison, and Zheng Guogong is arrogant no matter how arrogant he is, and he doesn't dare to kill civil officials at will at this stage."
Ji Yu let out a sigh of relief, and hurriedly asked, "Then has the Song Mansion been affected?" ”
Ren Yingzhu came here, but Meng was still at home. If something happened to the Meng family, it would inevitably hit Song Jing hard.
"This is not clear, there is limited information that can be heard now, and the minions are in a hurry to come back...... It shouldn't be, no matter how you say it, it is also the in-laws of the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Rites is ...... "Teng Xiu seemed to mock him," and has always remained neutral. ”
This can only be said as comfort.
The so-called gun shot the first bird, Song Jing was fine if he was just one of many people, but he stood up alone and faced Zheng Guogong.
His words were tantamount to pointing at Zheng Guogong's nose and scolding.
With Zheng Guogong's usual style, even if he can't kill Song Jing for the time being, he won't be happy. There are many ways to not make a person feel better, either personally or for his family.
"Mrs. Song hasn't gotten up yet, this matter ......"
Ji Yu originally wanted to tell Teng Xiu not to tell Ren Yingzhu about this for the time being. After hesitating, he took the words back.
Ren Yingzhu is Song Jing's wife, she has the right to know about Song Jing's affairs, and outsiders are not qualified to make decisions for her.
I'm afraid that she will ignore it when she finds out......
Sure enough, Ren Yingzhu learned that Song Jing had been imprisoned, and she was obviously panicked.
She didn't care about her foot injury or the dangers she might face when she returned, and she was about to leave immediately. Bai Kou and Bai Shao were useless to persuade her, seeing that she was coughing and wheezing, and her emotions were getting more and more excited, it was still Roland who slashed at the back of her neck with a knife.
When Ren Yingzhu woke up again, she cried silently for a long time, and finally calmed down.
She first apologized to Ji Yu for her ignorance, and then said that she would not cause any more trouble. She is waiting here, waiting for the day when she will be reunited with Song Jing and his wife. If something happened to Song Jing, she wouldn't live alone.
Ji Yu was ashamed, and felt that she shouldn't have been suspicious before.
As Roland said, if Ren Yingzhu really had a problem, they would have been wiped out long ago. What's more, Dabao has been transferred elsewhere, and Ren Yingzhu neither proposed to leave, nor did she inquire about the news.
When night came again, Ji Yu was lying on the ground and tossing and turning.
Zheng Guogong was born as a military general, although he did not have many achievements, but his daughter became a concubine by mistake, which gave him the soil for his ambition to breed.
This plan should have started a long time ago-
The Imperial City Forbidden Army, the Admiral of the Nine Gates, the Terracotta Division of the Five Cities, and even the Gyeonggi Garrison, almost all of them have people placed by him in key positions.
If it weren't for Zheng Huaheng's defeat, the hundreds of thousands of troops in Liaodong would probably also become his foreign aid, and in that case, Dabaozhen would have no chance of turning over.
Zheng Guogong thought that as long as the little prince inherited the unification, the current opponents would submit, but he ignored a crucial issue - as far as the entire military system of the Great Zhou was concerned, Zhong. The position occupied by the central army in it had its advantages but was not strong enough, at least not strong enough to forcibly ascend the throne despite the opinions of the people and the opposition of the ministers, and after ascending the throne, it controlled the development of the situation, and then suppressed the potential resistance forces in various places, including the border generals.
Think that if you master the center, you can hold the world hostage?
As everyone knows, Emperor Wande has been unpopular with the people for many years, and all parts of the world are waiting to fish in troubled waters.
Zheng Dang dared to forcibly push the little prince to the throne, and ambitious people dared to raise troops to rebel - the death of Emperor Wande and the life experience of the little prince are all places that can make a big fuss.
At that time, Zheng Dang will find that the Central Army is really only a small part of the military strength in the world. Once you fall into the situation of a group attack, it is only a matter of minutes to be destroyed.
Maybe Zheng Guifei and others have also taken this layer into account, but the arrow has been wound, and ascending the throne is the top priority, and it is not too late to reward those arrogant soldiers and fierce generals after ascending the throne. Even if you will be ripped off at that time, why not give a few more sweet dates.
No matter how sweet the dates are, can they be as sweet as the world?
People are ambitious. If there is a general with a heavy army and an absolute deterrent on the side of the court, this ambition will not break ground. On the contrary, it will inevitably be the end of "Qin loses its deer and the world chases it together".
In contrast, ascending to the throne is the simplest part of this series of processes, and the difficulty is how to ensure that the throne is secured after ascending the throne.
The current situation, although bad, is not too bad.
Although the Zheng Party controlled the capital, Dabao still had a number of border generals to support him, such as General Han Wenguang and General Kan Hu, and also related to the mountain......
It's just that the distant water can't catch the thirst of the near, and whether Guan Shan can arrive in time.
If it's late, I'm afraid ......
Ji Yu turned over, stared at the faintly lit sky outside, and sighed silently.
A few days later, the capital shook again.
The cause of the incident was that a concubine in the Zhongqin Bo Mansion accused Zheng Guifei of exchanging her son for a freak.
According to the confession of the concubine, King Lao An checked them one by one and found that they were all matched, and even the body of the freak was found.
It is said that when the dead baby was carried in front of everyone, Zheng Guifei's face was pale, and she accidentally rolled down the imperial steps.
The reaction was so big, some people said that it was because she was frightened, and some people said that the concubine was a thief......
There are all the witnesses and evidence, and it is obvious that it is the latter.
In other words, the little prince in Jingyang Palace is not the imperial heir at all.
The whole dynasty was in an uproar, and the officials were shocked.
Even Zheng Dang was stunned by this sudden news.
Concubine Zheng refused to admit it, but everyone knew the news in a blink of an eye.
With such a stain on his body, the little prince is completely out of the throne, and the call for King Min to be found as soon as possible is getting higher and higher.
Seeing that he was cornered, Zheng Guogong actually broke the jar and detained all the civil and military officials in the imperial city, and then issued a decree in the name of Zheng Guifei that only the queen mother and the queen could issue.
The content of Yi's decree is very simple - the life background is suspicious, and the little prince will ascend the throne in a few days, and those who dare to disobey it will be regarded as disobedience and beheaded!
Just one day before the little prince ascended the throne, a guard came to report that the army attacking Dongyue had returned triumphantly and had arrived outside the East Water Gate.
"I didn't expect it to be a big victory?! Hahaha, God wishes me the Zheng family! ”
Zheng Guogong was overjoyed before he could doubt, but he thought that he had come to help again.
"Open the gates! The concubine and the little prince are going to welcome our general Kou with hundreds of officials! ”
The person who reported the news looked panicked.
"Kou, General Kou is, is ......"
Concubine Zheng's intuition was wrong.
Since the recapture of the two cities of Weiyuan and Chuyang, no matter how urged by the imperial court, Kou Changqing has not made any major moves, and the occasional few encounters with Dongyue have been petty fights, and the military newspaper has even been suspended for a period of time.
At first, I thought it was a decision, but then I heard that it was recuperating from an injury, and the red card issued by the imperial court was ignored, and at the end of October, I finally couldn't hold it back, and persuaded Emperor Wande to send a new general to take over, and the new general didn't have time to send back the news, why did Kou Changjing return to Beijing silently?
What is he doing when he comes back at this time, and no one has reported him along the way?!
The messenger was sweating profusely, and he did not follow up for a long time.
Zheng Guogong was very impatient: "What do you mean?!" ”
Zheng Guifei said: "You just have to say that this palace forgives you for your innocence." ”
The little eunuch's eyes were closed, and his heart was horizontal, and the words blurted out.
"General Kou said that he wants to clear the king's side!"