The Mongolian female official kept her head down.

The queen said again: "You have come back safely, but Sister Shen is even more pitiful...... Alas, this palace would never have imagined that such a thing would happen, King Mu Wu dared to rebel, the ironclad army dared to mistreat the saint, and the war and chaos together affected you female dependents......"

"Shen Zhaoyuan?" Lin Yuan looked up in shock.

"Yes, the Shen family rode out of the camp with King Zhao yesterday, and there has been no trace until now." The queen said and wiped the corners of her eyes: "The Shen family is just that, I only pity my emperor, he is the only son of the emperor...... Originally, the emperor wanted to look for them with all his might, but King Mu Wu turned back, it was really eventful...... Guiyi, you're tired too, so let's go back and rest first. ”

In fact, the queen didn't have time to talk to Lin Yuan. News had just come that most of the rebels had been killed or wounded, but King Muwu had fled. The situation is still undecided.

Lin Yuan saluted the queen and said goodbye, and when she turned around, her face was already gloomy as water.

And the Mongolian female official left across the horse after the golden tent, and she didn't even have time to accept the thank you gift that the queen wanted to give her.

Lin Yuan sighed, a person who met in Pingshui was naturally unwilling to stay to help her testify - the queen's tongue was very poisonous, and it was indeed not easy for the female dependents in the chaotic army to survive, but it was more likely than to die.

Judging from the behavior of this female official in front of the queen, she knows Chinese so she can understand the queen's words, but she is unwilling to talk to Lin Yuan. When the queen asked, she kept her head down and didn't say anything, just because she didn't want to be involved. Lin Yuan was helpless about this, the other party had helped her enough.

After Fan Yu appeared, Lin Yuan suspected that the person who wanted to take his life was the queen. It's just that the investment in using the jungle as a trap to murder her is too big for the queen, and she is not worth it.

But now she was already sure of being the queen. When she was rescued by Yuan Lie, there were no soldiers from the Qin State around her, and the queen was able to know that her real life-saving benefactor was not this female official, but the king of Mongolia, which only means that the queen sent someone to keep an eye on her.

That dense forest should have been prepared for Shen Yunrong and King Zhao, and she and Fan Yu were both unlucky people who strayed into it...... In fact, it was not by mistake, they existed in the queen's plan from the beginning, not as a hunting object, but as an experiment.

The two of them were killed and the Shen family and Zhao Wang disappeared, just one day apart, which was an experiment conducted by the queen for the Zhao family and the Shen family. King Zhao is the only son of the emperor, and it is too risky to kill him, so in order to prevent the matter from being revealed, the queen first sent Lin Yuan and Fan Yu into the dense forest to wait and see what happened. Then King Mu Wu rebelled, and the enclosure was in chaos, and she saw that the timing was just right before she sent Shen and King Zhao in again.

For this pair of unlucky mother and son, Lin Yuan just wanted to send them seven words - greed is not enough to swallow elephants. If King Zhao could honestly stay in the back camp instead of following the hunting team on horseback, where would the queen have the opportunity to start? Shen Yunrong patronized his son to compete for favor in front of the emperor, and he deserved to be calculated.

***

Lin Yuan fell ill after returning to his account.

She has always been squeamish, and after being forced to play in the wilderness for two days to survive, her body really collapsed. She had a fever in a daze, Chu Xue wiped tears on the side of her bed, Concubine Wen came to visit her once, and the emperor didn't even show a shadow - to be precise, Tuoba Hong stopped paying attention to her when he learned that she had returned completely, and now Tuoba Hong himself was in a state of anxiety and had no time to talk about his children's private affairs.

Lin Yuan slept unsteadily, not because she was scared into nightmares, but because it was too chaotic outside.

In the midst of the war, Fan Yu, who had intersected with Lin Yuan but had no conflict of interests, was never missing, and Lin Yuan met her in Pingshui and was afraid of being troubled by her, so naturally she couldn't ask around. Shen Yunrong and King Zhao are also unlucky enough, there is a sudden war, no matter where the defenders are not enough, in order to protect the emperor and empress, where can they divide their forces to search for them. If they are really unlucky and trapped in the deep mountains and old forests somewhere, it will be really hopeless to drag on for three or five days.

Lin Yuan patted her chest, it was so dangerous, she was the only one who escaped from under the queen's claws.

At dawn, two days after she was dazed and sick, she forced herself to get up and go outside. The sound of war drums was so close, and the smoke was in front of me. Beisai was originally a place where soldiers fought, and now there is no Xiongnu attack, but it is a battlefield of civil strife in Great Qin. She saw Tuoba Hong standing on the highest city wall, and the majesty of the emperor was even thicker in the smoke of war.

Lin Yuan also climbed up holding Chu Xue's hand.

The Zhulu Enclosure is a true border fortress, with tall walls watered with white iron. Lin Yuan was shocked by such a scene, the soldiers under the city wall were fighting, and the defenders on the city wall shot a dense rain of arrows, and blood splashed.

At this time, following Tuoba Hong to stand at the head of the city is naturally the most confidant and most respected person, Prime Minister Zuo, General Shangguan, Shangshu of the Military Department and the Criminal Department, and several generals of Beisai. The queen stood a foot behind him, dressed in the most grand vermilion court dress; Concubine Wen followed, holding a bow and arrow in her hand and offering it to Tuoba Hong.

In the noisy exchange of swords and soldiers, a high-pitched shout suddenly appeared under the city wall: "The first emperor clearly passed on the throne and the three kings ......"

The sergeant's gruff voice came to an abrupt end. When Lin Yuan looked over, he saw a curved bow held by Tuoba Hong himself. The flaming feathers of the arrows that shot out quickly dyed the city walls into a sea of fire, and the people on the walls were still pouring oil down.

The hole card in King Muwu's hand is actually just a thin piece of paper, the so-called edict of the first emperor. What is written on it has never had a chance to be read out, but anyone can guess - the old emperor of the year favored Li Guifei and the third son of the emperor, and it is also possible to abolish the heir and establish the concubine in the end. Unfortunately, the paper was easily incinerated.

Lin Yuan knew that she didn't need to look any further. The outcome was decided, so that she had no surprise. King Mu Wu no longer has this hole card, he has changed from a righteous army to a real rebel thief, whether he is captured alive or executed on the spot.

The only thing that was unexpected was Takoba Hiroshi. Lin Yuan thought that King Mu Wu had forged the edict to pass on the throne, but when she saw that the person who was ordered by Tuoba Hong to present the "real" edict to the temple was the right prime minister, she knew that the edict in Tuoba Hong's hand was forged.

According to Tuoba Hong, in order to obtain the edict, he ordered his confidants to hurry back to Kyoto five days ago...... But only Lin Yuan knew that five days ago, the right prime minister was sneakily hiding in the valley mouth on the west side of the birch forest, exchanging news with a harem concubine, and at that time he didn't even know that King Mu Wu was going to crusade against Tuoba Hong in the name of the first emperor's edict.

Lin Yuan didn't think there was anything wrong with Tuoba Hong, but he just felt that Tuoba Hong's father was too unreliable, and it turned out that he still had to pass on the throne to the third prince in the end.

With such a father, rebellion is due.

When Lin Yuan turned to leave, the voice of Wen Concubine behind him was a little sharp: "Why is the right prime minister offering the edict to the sky?" The emperor actually put the most important things in his hands. ”

Lin Yuan suddenly remembered that Concubine Wen's father was the head of the Hanlin Academy, and things like edicts, national documents, and historical materials should be in charge of the Hanlin Academy. The official position of the bachelor in charge of the academy is the same as that of the right prime minister, and he has no real power, but his official position is high, and he is known as a nobleman.

Interesting. It turned out that many people had the idea of wanting to play a role in King Muwu's affairs.

It's a pity that the right prime minister's reaction is the fastest. When King Mu Wu first arrived in the paddock, he wrote a book to participate in his rebellion, and Tuoba Hong just took advantage of the topic to play, forcing King Mu Wu to rebel.

As for why there was a fight in the end? Originally, Tuoba Hong planned to take down King Mu Wu on the spot, but the other party took out the things of the first emperor and threatened Tuoba Hong to usurp the throne in front of the Beisai soldiers and countless civil and military generals. The courtiers were all frightened, and many people thought it was real when they saw the gilded silk.

Therefore, King Muwu justifiably raised the banner of justice.

But in fact, such a thing as a posthumous edict did not work after all, and the real reason for King Muwu's defeat was that his 100,000 army that had rushed over from Qizhou was intercepted and killed halfway.

Lin Yuan didn't need to think about such a thing, and she didn't even think about what to do if it was Tuoba Hong who lost. Those are all areas that she can't set foot in, and she can only be at the mercy of fate.

Lin Yuan felt that she could go back. She really had a fever, and she didn't want to stay like the queen - as a concubine, she had better stay away from the strife of the previous dynasty, on the surface.

This mutiny, known as the "Beigong Rebellion" in later generations, was not a major rebellion in the entire history of the Great Qin Dynasty. As the victor, Tuoba Hong, his prestige will not be lost in the slightest, and no one can doubt whether he is really the successor of the first emperor.

Win or lose, but that's it.

***

Five days later, in Zhulu City, the smoke of war has disappeared without a trace.

King Mu Wu was corrected on the spot on the day of his defeat, of course, he can no longer be called King Mu Wu, he has been deposed as a royal family. Tuoba Hong also gave him a posthumous title - rebellious Shuren.

After cleaning up the battlefield and repairing the railings and tents in the North Palace, Tuoba Hong carried out a grand ceremony to worship the heavens. The reason is that the royal family of Daqin has not come to Beisai to hunt for ten years, and this time I want to inform the ancestors, so that the ancestors know that the younger generations have not forgotten the training of winning the world on horseback, and "by the way" to inform about the eradication of traitors and the suppression of rebellion.

The royal family did the thing of worshiping the heavens is really a magnificent scene, the horn shook people's ears and the smoke burned brightly to reflect half of the desert sky, purely to show the majesty of the imperial power. In the patriotic shouts of the Beisai sergeants, everyone understands that the power of the emperor standing at the top of the Shang stage will only become more and more stable, and where can anyone still remember the unclear and false edict of the emperor in the hands of King Mu Wu.

I don't know how Tuoba Hong's father felt when he listened to it in heaven.