Tuoba Hong deeply felt that the situation was serious, and at the current moment of the external enemy, internal troubles were born. The people are uneasy, and it is not impossible for the dynasty to overthrow.

So on the eighth day of the third month, he ordered the city to be sealed off, and no one was allowed to enter or leave the city gates - which meant that those who had fled were cornered. His approach is right, compared to the life and death of the people in the capital, the lives of the people in the world are of course more important, the plague has spread from the palace to the outside of the palace, and it can no longer spread out of the capital.

At the same time, he and the Queen Mother helped out of the palace to the imperial tomb twenty miles away, and held a grand ceremony to worship the heavens, praying to heaven to appease people's hearts.

After the news of the sacrifice to heaven was released, it really ignited hope in the hearts of the people - people in this era are very superstitious, especially when they saw the emperor personally worshipping and praying for blessings, they felt that God would definitely be moved. There was a little stability in the capital, but Tuoba Hong understood that this method could only be delayed for a while.

The palace on this day is no different from the previous days. The concubines were all cowered in their palaces and did not dare to go out, and at breakfast, medical officers searched all the palaces, and no matter if the masters and subordinates found any symptoms of infection, they were all tied up and taken away. In those palaces that were fortunate enough to be uninfected, people trembled when they listened to the tragic shouts from the outer palace.

Lin Yuan is in a high position, and he is ordered by the emperor to be in charge of the six palaces, so he naturally took care of his own Yuzhao Palace first, and there was no infected person for a few days.

Zhao Zhaoyi was still making trouble in Changle Palace, "If Changning dies of illness, he will die", but fortunately, Concubine Jing of Huayang Palace also began to stand up for the sake of the overall situation. This time, she and Lin Yuan both understood how serious the matter was, and the two gave up pinching each other as never before.

There is a simple lunch in the Yuzhao Palace. Lin Yuan sat steadily, Qiqi had been taken to Huanxiu Villa by order of the Queen Mother, Lin Yuan knew that he would be fine now, but his heart was still unstable.

What annoyed her even more was that there was no news from Chonghua Palace. If the queen really committed suicide, she should soon announce it to the world.

Could it be that Shangguan Li refuses to die?

It's all been pushed to this point, if you don't die now, do you have to wait for the humiliation in the future to die? Whether it is as a hostage of rebellion, or as a deposed queen who robbed her family and exterminated her family, she will only be worse than dead.

Impossible, no matter how strong a person is, he can't overcome such a difficulty! Lin Yuan didn't believe that Shangguan Li would be calm as usual!

At this moment, a frightened and terrible scream came from somewhere on the west side of the palace wall. It was a woman's voice, I don't know if it was a palace maid or a concubine, and the voice was full of despair.

Lin Yuan didn't pay attention to it, she had heard too much in the past two days, and she had already become numb.

However, before she could eat, the door of the front hall was smashed open.

Lin Yuan stood up. She tried to see what was happening, but before she could react, she saw dozens of sergeants with sharp blades and heavy black armor burst in.

In the next moment, Lin Yuan was crushed to the ground by someone with his hands cut back. Yuzhao Palace screamed, the first snow was tied up, and there was a rough palace maid who struggled so hard that her head was cut off with a knife.

There are assassins! Lin Yuanfang wanted to shout, but then his voice was muffled in his throat - no, he was not an assassin. The two sergeants twisting her had lotus flowers engraved on the hilts of their swords, which were the emblems of the capital garrison.

"This palace is from the second rank Zhaoyuan!" Lin Yuan gasped: "Let go...... Let go of this palace! ”

Her words were not half intimidating. The commander of the forbidden army led by him tied her hands and feet with hemp rope with his own hands, and then took out a Xuanxi token from his chest: "Fengzhong Palace Notebook, put Hui Zhaoyuan in Yuzhao Palace!" The outbreak of the plague is different from the past, and if you disobey, you will be summarily executed! ”

Nakanomiya note?

Lin Yuan's brain buzzed.

Shangguan Li, you big bastard!

She was indeed cornered. But what she did was not to die, but to die with a large group of cushions.

Now Lin Yuan already suspects that the queen is really going to rebel. Because if the Shangguan family is innocent, and the queen privately orders the execution of the concubines, the emperor will inevitably be furious.

The queen is the rightful master of the palace and the emperor's wife. So she has a supreme authority, and that is the middle palace notebook.

Whether the queen has a seal in her hand or not, whether the queen is imprisoned or convicted, as long as she is still the queen - she can make a note.

The only person in the world who can dismiss the Zhonggong Jian watch is the emperor, not even the queen mother.

In this era of male superiority and inferiority of women, the middle palace note does not have much significance, and it is no different from the queen's daily decree - the queen's decisions are naturally subject to the emperor, and no matter how powerful the authority of the note is, it must pass the emperor's pass. And the reason why the note sheet was set up was to be used by the empress after the emperor's death.

If the emperor dies and the new emperor is not established, and the important ministers of the court and the royal family seize power, or even the concubines and the queen take the throne, and the queen mother and the queen take the throne, at this time, the queen can issue a note and execute all those who rebel. If the emperor dies before he has time to establish the prince, and the princes and princes take the throne tragically, the queen can also play a role of checks and balances, and set up a new emperor with a note to prevent the princes from killing each other.

This has happened in history. Emperor Zhang Ming of this dynasty died of a sudden illness. When the empress dowager put the pregnant queen under house arrest and controlled the government. At that time, the empress of Zhongzong made a note. Unfortunately, that note did not help the queen win the political battle, and in the end the queen was poisoned by the queen mother. 【1】

This note was handed over to the queen, which illustrated the partiality of the Great Qin royal family to the queen. If there is a dispute over imperial power, someone must stand up to end the dispute and reduce the cost of the conflict. Compared with the queen mother, concubines and courtiers, the queen is the emperor's wife and the existence closest to the royal family.

Similarly, the crown prince also has the East Palace notebook in his hand.

Wars between the East Palace and the Middle Palace are also common.

It's a pity that Qianwu didn't set up a prince.

The ancestors who made the rules at the beginning must have thought that there would be a rebellion by the queen.

But what if you think about it, the queen mother, the crown prince, the concubine, and even the emperor, anyone can rebel. There's no way around it.

Now Empress Shangguan has rebelled - Lin Yuan thinks so.

She found that she was always underestimating Shangguan Li, and Shangguan Li could always make a move that surprised her. The bold woman, desperately, took advantage of the day when the emperor and the queen mother left the palace to worship the heavens, and made a note to pull the former enemies together to die.

In doing so, she pushed her mother to a dead end, and her two sons to a dead end. Because even if the queen rebelled, the third prince, the fourth prince, and Emperor Zhaochun were all the emperor's heirs, and they should not be executed. However, if the Empress goes too far, the Emperor will do even more in a fit of rage.

It was precisely because she knew that Shangguan Li had scruples that Lin Yuan dared to force her to death.

She didn't expect Shangguan Li to let go of the two princes.

Something is wrong, is there something wrong with this that has been overlooked? There must be, there must be, Shangguan Li shouldn't do this......

But I can't think of any reasonable explanation. Lin Yuan's temples hurt terribly.

No one in the world would dare to do that! That woman is insane!

Do you think I'm going to die alone?

Lin Yuan seemed to hear the other party's ridicule.

The terrible sound of the collision of knives kept ringing in my ears. Lin Yuan didn't have any strength on her body, and in a trance, she remembered that the screams she heard from the northwest direction a quarter of an hour ago should have come from Huayang Palace.

Concubine Jing of Huayang Palace!

Oh, they're the unlucky bunch!

Lin Yuan was already in a daze and almost wanted to die, but a bright light suddenly flashed in his mind.

Wait a minute...... Xiaoqi!

Oh, my God!

She struggled desperately against all odds. She first pulled out a small golden hairpin that had been hidden in her sleeve all the year round, and stabbed it fiercely in the hand of the sergeant who was pressing her. The other person immediately came to grab her hand, and was also slashed by the tip of the hairpin on the arm.

The two sergeants collapsed in the blink of an eye, their skin turning blue.

"Zhao Yuan has drugs in his hands!" Someone shouted, "Tie her up!" ”

Lin Yuan didn't want to die. She knew that these warriors obeyed the Nakagong note, and if she resisted, she could be killed on the spot, just like the palace maid who had been beheaded just now. But there is no way, she has to save Kiki.

I originally thought that Huanxiu Villa was full of the Queen Mother's people, and Qiqi, the Five Princes, and Emperor Zhaochun were all settled by the Queen Mother, so there would be no danger. But if Shangguan Li had fought hard, who would have expected what would happen?

Shangguan Li is the queen.

In terms of etiquette, she is only the younger generation of the Queen Mother, and her status is not as noble as the Queen Mother. But politically, she is higher than the Queen Mother.

Lin Yuan used to think that Tuoba Hong was ruthless, but now he only feels that he is not ruthless enough. As the emperor discovers the signs of misdeeds in the queen's mother's family, whether it is found out or not, the queen should be abolished immediately! Only after the abolition can the queen lose the note!

And now? The queen took advantage of the day when the emperor left the palace to slaughter the harem!

She didn't even let go of the concubines, let alone the imperial heirs.

In order to prevent the epidemic, Huanxiu Villa has long been hooped into an iron bucket by the Queen Mother. However, if the queen mobilizes all the forbidden troops, it is not impossible to attack.

What's more, there are also the defenders left in the capital by the Shangguan clan.

Lin Yuan didn't panic. She looked coldly at the rushing warriors, hurried to the door, and threw a flint stone onto a thousand-year-old golden locust in the front yard of Yuzhao Palace.

The tree was on fire for a moment, emitting yellowish-white smoke and a very pungent smell.

Lin Yuan didn't expect that he would have to use this last hole card so soon.

That was the promise between her and the right prime minister. In the future, if there is an accident in the palace, the yellow-white smoke will be used as a letter, and the right prime minister will be asked to enter the palace to support the six princes to seize the throne.

However, now Lin Yuan just wants to save Xiaoqi's life.

Shangguan Li, do you think I'll be caught! Do you think you're the only one who can mobilize the Forbidden Army?

Remarks: [1] Taken from Qing history. After the death of Emperor Tongzhi, Empress Arut was pregnant with a posthumous son. The Empress Dowager Cixi put her under house arrest and cut off food and water, and finally killed the empress's mother and son and established Guangxu as the new emperor.

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