Chapter 53: The Enemy Country (1)

The assassin who assassinated the two Imperial Concubines appeared very close to the villa. Before the assassins could make their move, Empress Shangguan received a secret report that several princes and princesses from Huanxiu Villa were secretly sent to the Shangguan Clan's mansion. Now the highnesses are all right.

In the inner palace Yuzhao Palace, Zhaoyuan Niangniang was assassinated in the dormitory. The assassin stunned Niangniang, but fortunately, the palace forbidden army discovered it early and saved Niangniang.

In the south of the capital, some people made rumors, and the rumor that "the epidemic is hopeless" gradually spread. Prime Minister Zuo promptly mobilized the Military Aircraft Department and beheaded all the rumors, and the rumors had been stopped at this time.

Because of the appearance of a large number of northern assassins, and the horrific incident of the assassination of the concubines and the princes of Huanxiu Villa becoming the targets of assassination, the two prime ministers on the left and right felt that the situation was urgent, so they had to light the beacon fire first and invite the emperor back to the palace.

Only then did the emperor realize how much had changed on the day he left the palace.

He didn't have time to rush back to the inner palace to settle the assassinated concubines, but immediately sat in the Jianzhang Palace, and leaked the liquid to the cabinet of the Military Aircraft Department to enter the palace to discuss politics.

The reports of the courtiers at the bottom listened to the complicated situation, but Tuoba Hong only paid attention to two sentences - first, before he returned to the palace, the left and right prime ministers had already dispatched forbidden troops to suppress rumors and arrest assassins. Now the palace is seriously ill and guarded; The people of the capital are doing business as usual, nothing happens, and the whole situation is not that serious.

Second, there were a large number of Assassins from the north around the court. So far, the right prime minister has reported two hundred and thirty-one corpses, five people alive, and these people are extraordinary, and the forbidden army in the palace has been damaged several times. The large number of Assassins, and the discovery of the blood of the plague virus, is a very dangerous signal, and the epidemic in the capital is probably the work of the Assassins.

In fact, the deployment in the capital is very thorough and rigorous, and it will not be chaotic because of an epidemic. Tuoba Hong also made all preparations before leaving the palace, he had long suspected that this plague disaster would cause such a big incident, and he was afraid that it was the means of the enemy country. Everything was precautioned in advance, and the defenders in the capital and the palace totaled more than 100,000, and there were a number of confidants and courtiers to take care of them, so it was determined that nothing bad could happen.

After a little thought, he issued an order to lift the queen's grounding, and ordered the queen to sit in the six palaces, support the emperor, and calm the situation.

The palace was full of sleepless nights.

The lights of the Jianzhang Palace were lit up all night, and the emperor consulted with several cabinets, during which it was also rumored that Commander Liu escorted several assassins to the main hall for personal interrogation.

In the inner palace, the palace rooms are also brightly lit. What happened that night terrified these noble ladies of the deep palace: the plague had killed many people, and everyone was like frightened birds, and this night, Concubine Jing and Concubine Jing were carried back covered in blood—when they were first rescued, Concubine Jin was still angry, and died an hour later. And none of the 300 forbidden army guards brought out of the palace by the two imperial concubines were alive.

Concubine Jing was the only one of them who survived.

What a terrible assassin that was. More Assassins have been found around the palace, and the Imperial Guards are still searching the palaces. Hui Zhaoyuan in the Yuzhao Palace was almost assassinated, and no one knew if there would be an assassin in his palace.

After the holy driver returned to the palace, some female officials in front of the palace went to Chonghua Palace to pick up Empress Shangguan out.

Different from the turmoil of the previous dynasty in the inner palace, the silence in the Chonghua Palace is as dead as ever.

The Empress was imprisoned here for thirteen days by the Empress Dowager's decree. She obeyed the holy order, and in these thirteen days, she did not leave Chonghua Palace for a single step.

She looked good. Due to the chaotic and urgent situation in the inner palace, she didn't have time to dress up and change into a solemn and luxurious phoenix crown, so she only wore a cherry-purple Ruicao golden Hui Zhai robe, covered with a heavy fox fur cloak, and hurriedly ordered to prepare the chariot.

She instructed Feng Yuan to go to Huayang Palace first. There was a very cold night in March in the capital, Shangguan Li's body was tightly wrapped, he held the delicate Moyu Ding furnace in his hand under the tip of his nose, and asked the people around him casually: "Is Concubine Jing really seriously injured?" ”

In fact, what she really wanted to ask was why Concubine Jing hadn't died yet.

Mu Shuang and the rest of the palace have been released from the court. She knew that her master had a bad temper, so she said carefully: "Concubine Jing is also hard-fated...... Three slashes, one in the neck, and one through the ribs! Blood spilled all over the ground......"

Shangguan Li tugged at his lips and chuckled. Okay, she's served! She has tried her best, but the king of Hades will not accept Concubine Jing!

It's hard!

Chu Huashang is also a waste, a hundred dead soldiers against three hundred forbidden troops, and he can still lose! The sergeants raised under Emperor Xinrong are certainly difficult to deal with, but those people are the dead guards of the Chu family! What are you eating? Ahh......h

It's just a little bit perfect.

She gave Chu Huashang the prescription for the epidemic, indeed because she didn't want the emperor to know that she had a prescription in her hand, so she doubted herself even more. However, the more important purpose is Concubine Jing.

She ordered the palace defenders to break into Yuzhao Palace and Huayang Palace—only these two palaces. In the Yuzhao Palace, she issued a death order to trap Lin Yuan, and she sent the most people over. And Huayang Palace, she ordered someone to pretend to be negligent and let Concubine Jing escape under her nose.

Conspiracy? It's a bit of a joke.

The Shangguan family is no better than the brainless Shen family. Who doesn't like to be an emperor? But if you calculate this account, the imperial power is stable, and the rebellion has a small winning face.

Shangguan Yue is still loyal to the front line, and Shangguan Li also wants to continue to be her queen.

She didn't dare to really kill Lin Yuan and Concubine Jing! However, he wanted to make a false appearance of rebellion, so that Concubine Jing would believe it.

She had already found out that Concubine Jing had surrendered to Concubine Jing.

Concubine Jing has no children. She cares very much about the five princes who are now raised in the name of the concubine, but are actually caught by herself.

When she realizes the greatest danger, she will definitely escape from the palace - to rescue the five princes, and to deliver a message to the emperor. She can choose to take advantage of the chaos to kill the rest of the princes, or she can save them and ask the emperor for credit.

Concubine Jing did believe that the queen was rebelling. Helplessly, Lin Yuan also believed it.

Different from Concubine Jing, the sixth prince is Lin Yuan's parent. Even if she had doubts, she lost her cool in the face of the life and death of the six princes; Even if she felt that what the queen was doing was not quite right, she had to save the six princes at all costs.

Shangguan Li felt a lot of headaches for Lin Yuan. She knew that this woman was not as simple as she seemed.

Her fears turned out to be completely correct. If the guards on the side of Yuzhao Palace are a little looser, Lin Yuan will really have the ability to escape. She had already sensed that this woman was colluding with the courtiers - Chu Huasheng's side would face a very terrifying enemy, and those dead soldiers of the Chu family were not enough to see at all, and the assassination of Concubine Jing would eventually be mixed into a puddle of mud.

If you just do it to Huayang Palace, with Lin Yuan's connections in the palace, you will be able to know the news in less than a quarter of an hour.

The two palaces could only work together and trap Lin Yuan in the Yuzhao Palace.

Chu Huasheng's order was to assassinate the queen. Naturally, she would have arranged for the safest people to do this.

It's a pity that on the official road leading from the palace to Huanxiu Villa, the person sitting in the sedan chair is not the queen, but the two unlucky eggs, Concubine Jing and Concubine Jin.

Shangguan Li's choice to use Chu Huashang to achieve his goal was after the most thoughtful consideration. Chu Huasheng's mother clan is powerful, she dares to poison the prince and assassinate the queen, and the manpower sent will not disappoint.

When he was in Yangzhou City, Shangguan Li found out that the Chu family secretly raised a group of northerners as dead soldiers.

Those people are probably from Mongolia. No matter how bold the Chu family was, they would not dare to collude with the Xiongnu.

But in terms of appearance, it is difficult to distinguish between the Mongols and the Huns.

Sure enough, this assassination brought this group of northerners to use. This is too risky, and if it is found out in the future, it can also be pushed to the head of the Hun Assassins - now that the effect has been achieved, the Emperor does not know who the assassin of Concubine Jing is, but he has put this group of people in the same category as the Assassins found around the palace.

The dead soldiers of the Chu family held boxes filled with poisonous blood in their hands, and they were posthumously identified as enemy assassins. This incident directly caused Shangguan Li to turn over, and the real culprit of the epidemic was someone else, so she naturally cleared her grievances.

Therefore, everything Chu Huashang did actually achieved three goals for Empress Shangguan - to offer medicine to the emperor to quell the plague turmoil, assassinate Concubine Jing, and wash away the stigma!

Naturally, Shangguan Li knew that Chu Huashang had the intention to poison Huanxiu Villa - her three children were there, and she was also a mother, so it was impossible to really put her children in danger. Before giving Fang Zi to Chu Huasheng, she had already sent several princes and princesses in the villa to hide in the Shangguan Mansion.

In the middle palace note, there are two orders written on it, the first is to send the prince and princess in Huanxiu Villa away; The second is to grounding Concubine Jing and Zhaoyuan.

In fact, when Lin Yuan chose to force her to death desperately, she was really frightened, she thought that the Queen Mother was going to kill her.

She even tore off the sleeves of her phoenix robe and prepared to lift it on the beams of the room. It was the strong unwillingness in her heart that made her refuse to commit suicide.

Even if life is better than death in the future, and she suffers humiliation, she can't die in her own hands.

Unlike Lin Yuan's mind, she chose to assassinate Concubine Jing instead of Lin Yuan.

Maybe she is more willful than Lin Yuan. She has been pampered since she was a child, and after entering the palace, she favored the sixth palace, and her domineering temperament was originally shown to the emperor, but after doing more, her heart slowly changed.

She has had a good time for so many years. Can you be unhappy when you are held all day long and bullied on the other hand?

So when she found out that it was indeed Concubine Jing who framed her by means of the epidemic, she was angry and decided to take Concubine Jing's life.

The beginning of everything has to start with the draft of the 12th year of Qianwu. Lin Yuan provoked the incident and pointed out that Concubine Jing's sister Wei Xiunu was the cousin of Miss Jiang's family.

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