After leaving the court, Li Mingcheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, was walking outside the palace, and met several ministers who were usually relatively close, and they all complained.

"Master Li, look at the current situation, how is it good?"

"Yes, yes, if you don't think about it, this North Vietnam is in danger."

"Isn't it, when we supported her to be in charge of the government, we hoped that she could have a way to resist the army of Western Chu, but now it's good, they have all come to the capital."

"Yes, this queen is a woman after all, and she shouldn't have been put in charge of the government in the first place."

Everyone is talking to me and discussing in a whisper.

At this time, Tobe Shangshu suddenly remembered something: "I had something important to see Your Majesty a few days ago, but I was stopped by Xiao Chunzi beside Your Majesty, and before I could talk to Your Majesty, I was reprimanded by him and kicked out. ”

"Could it be ......" Li Chengming sensitively sensed that there must be something in this.

Another minister then speculated: "Could it be that Your Majesty has been placed under house arrest by the Empress?" ”

"Shh......h Don't dare to talk nonsense. When Lord Kang returns, he will know. ”

Everyone looked around and saw that there was no suspicious person, so they were relieved.

And Kang Yuanda, the secretary of the military department, asked to see Han Xun in his bedroom in the name of war. Xiao Chunzi, who was beside Han Xun, hurriedly stopped him at the door: "Lord Kang, Your Majesty is not feeling well, please go back." ”

With Bai Yixuan's orders, no one could let him enter the emperor's bedroom. If someone breaks in, his head will have to move, and Koharuko doesn't dare to let him in.

looked left and right, and Kang Yuanda, who was silent, grabbed Xiao Chunzi and walked to the side. He grabbed Koharuko's neck, lowered his voice and asked, "What's wrong with Your Majesty?" You'd better tell the truth, or I'll break your neck if not. ”

Saying that, he used his hand hard, so frightened that Xiao Chunzi hurriedly begged for mercy: "Lord Kang, the slave really doesn't know anything." Lift up your noble hands and let go of your slaves and maids. ”

Seeing that Xiao Chunzi still refused to tell the truth, Kang Yuanda let go of his hand, and Xiaozhi said with emotion: "Do you know what the situation is outside now?" If Your Majesty does not come out to preside over the overall situation, not only you and me, but even the entire North Vietnam may cease to exist, and your family and parents will suffer with it. ”

Although she has been in the palace since she was a child, Xiao Chunzi does not blame her parents, she only blames her bad life, she gave birth to the wrong family, and her family can't afford to support so many of her brothers and sisters. He still often sends some money to his parents in the countryside so that they can live a better life.

Thinking that his family would be displaced by the war, Xiao Chunzi was also very frightened, and finally said: "Lord Kang doesn't know, this dormitory lives ...... Not Your Majesty at all. ”

"What? So where did Your Majesty go? Was it murdered by the queen? Hearing Xiao Chunzi say that it was not Han Xun inside, Kang Yuanda suddenly felt that the sky had fallen. Everyone has been speculating that His Majesty was put under house arrest by the queen, but they don't want to, His Majesty in this palace is a fake at all.

"Your Majesty left the palace by himself, and he has never come back since, as for where he went, this villain really doesn't know." Xiao Chunzi said helplessly, and no longer resisted.

Only then did Kang Yuanda let go and warned him not to inform the queen of the matter, so he quickly left the palace and went to join the ministers.

"How?" As soon as Kang Yuanda appeared, he was surrounded by a crowd of people and asked in a low voice what the result was. When he said everything, everyone gasped.

At this time, a guard ran in a panic at the gate of the palace, and everyone stopped him and asked him what had happened.

"The Western Chu army has captured Anqing City, and is looting the rich merchants and officials in the city, I am afraid that within three days, it will reach the capital." After the guard finished speaking, he didn't bother to salute the adults, so he hurried to tell Bai Yixuan.

Leaving a group of ministers, their faces pale and stunned in place.

Anqing City is the largest of the three large cities in Puning County, and it is richer than the other two cities. At this time, the noise of the past has long disappeared, and every house is closed, lest one accidentally anger the army that has just invaded Anqing City.

Because the terrain is close to the capital, this is also a throat existence in North Vietnam. Everyone knew that once An Khanh fell, the whole of North Vietnam would be in jeopardy. Nalan Ye also took a fancy to this, so after capturing Anqing, there would not be much movement and repair the army in Anqing City.

Early this morning, Nalan sat firmly in the house of the city lord Yang Shida, playing with the coral trees on the table, and looked at Yang Shida very coldly.

"City Lord Yang, I heard that your family has collected a lot of rare treasures from the south and the north of the world, and this king has just rushed all the way to Beiyue to have a long experience, you refuse to let this king out of the door, and now that the guests have entered the door, shouldn't the Yang city lord show some sincerity and let this king open his eyes?"

Nalan Ye said it implicitly, but a discerning person knew at a glance that this was to make Yang Shida take the initiative to hand over his property and serve as a military salary for his soldiers.

The people of North Vietnam know that the richest person in the entire Anqing City, that is, the city lord Yang Shida, especially likes to collect treasures. If you want to ask him for something, no matter how much money you prepare, he may not pay attention to it. But if you can find a rare treasure and send it to him, then no matter how difficult it is, he Yang Shida will definitely try his best to help you get things done.

"Lord King Chu, you see that you have come to my Anqing City thousands of miles away, and I haven't received it well, why don't you stay in the Xiaguan Mansion tonight for dinner? The contemptible people then ordered to go down, let the subordinates prepare wine and food, and entertain the king of Chu and the generals, you see that it is good. Yang Shida's eyes flickered, and he deliberately diverted the topic from the left and right.

In addition to loving money, Yang Shida has a more significant characteristic, that is, stingy, Anqing people call it an iron rooster, even if the wild goose flies over his roof, he has to let the wild goose pluck a feather.

Of course, this statement has been exaggerated by the people, but this Yang Shida is indeed a veritable iron rooster, and Nalan Ye wants him to contribute his treasures, which is no different from asking for his life.

When Nalan captured several other cities at night, when he wantonly looted the finances of wealthy merchants and officials in the city, he instructed his family members to move some valuable things to his secret room early, but the secret room was too small, and there were still many treasures that had not had time to be collected.

Regarding Yang Shida's perfunctory, Nalan smiled instead of being angry, raised his eyebrows and said: "We Western Chu people are not used to eating your North Vietnamese food, or this priceless treasure is so appetizing." ”

Saying that, he looked at Yang Wenzhao on the side, and said sarcastically: "This is the eldest son of the Yang City Lord, I have heard for a long time that the eldest son of Yang in Anqing City is only eight buckets high, and he is a talent, if he dies young, and is still shown to the public, it is a pity." ”

As soon as these words came out, Yang Shida's face turned pale, and at the same time, he was scared into a cold sweat. This Yang Wenzhao has a bad brain, which is well known to everyone in Anqing City, but after all, he is his only son, and he was born to his wife. Later, because he became the lord of the city, he accepted five concubines in a row within three years, causing his wife to die depressed, leaving Yang Wenzhao alone with a son-in-law.

Yang Shida was ashamed of his wife, and although there were many concubines, none of them gave birth to a son and a half daughter, so he treated Yang Wenzhao as a treasure.

Hearing that Nalan Ye was going to move his own single seedling, he was immediately flustered, and repeatedly compensated Nalan Ye: "The King of Chu doesn't care about the villain, so the contemptible person will order the family to pack the treasures for the adults, send them to the barracks, and hope that the King of Chu will spare the dog's life." ”

Yang Wenzhao, who has been well protected by Yang Shida since he was a child, when has he ever seen his father so low-voiced? Angrily ran to Nalan Ye, and said viciously: "You are the prince of Western Chu, what kind of majesty did you come to our North Vietnam?" My father is the city lord of Anqing City, how can you, a king, command him at will? ”

In his eyes, his father Yang Shida is the heaven of this Anqing City. Whatever he says is what he says, and no one has ever been able to contradict his father. But now the prince of Xichu in front of him not only didn't listen to his father's words, but asked his father to do things for him, isn't this a big deal.

Being accused by Yang Wenzhao like this, Nalan Ye looked indifferent, and only slapped his palm lightly on the table, and a sturdy table suddenly fell apart. A good pot of coral trees on the table also fell to the ground and scattered, and it had long lost its original appearance.

"Wen Zhao, you step down for me!" Yang Shida was afraid that Nalan Ye would be excited and kill Yang Wenzhao directly, so he pulled his son over and wanted to push him out of the door.

Unexpectedly, the pro-soldiers and Yuan Xing, who rushed in after hearing the movement, stopped them on the spot, and Yang Shida had to nod and plead at Nalan Ye: "The king of Chu is angry, the dog is offended, please bear with me." In the future, in this Anqing City, if there is any use to get contemptible, you will never give up. ”

Yang Shida, who was originally thinking about perfunctory, was really forced to a dead end by Nalan Ye this time, so he had to completely submit to him, listen to the dispatch, and just ask to spare his only son.

And Yang Wenzhao, who was still majestic just now, knew no matter how stupid he was at this time, the man in front of him was a figure he couldn't afford to provoke, and he was so frightened that he hid behind Yang Shida with a pale face.

As a reward for Nalan Ye's mercy, Yang Shida led Nalan Ye and the others to the entire Anqing City, the second richest family after himself, and let Nalan Ye plunder their property to their heart's content.

Thinking that he could not be spared, he longed to let everyone follow him, all of them have nothing, so that he even had a sense of schadenfreude under the sympathy of the same disease.

Watching the soldiers move their belongings in and out, Yang Shida's eyes flashed with a sneer, and he introduced Nalan Ye with great interest: "This is the home of Kang Yuanguang, the younger brother of Kang Yuanda, the secretary of the military department, because of his brother, he appointed a prison in Anqing City. ”

"During his tenure, as long as you have money, even if it is a capital crime, he can find a way for you to release it. Similarly, if you want to kill anyone, as long as you give money, he will not be merciful. With his brother as a backstage, the people dare not speak out against him. ”

At this time, Yang Shida seemed to forget that he and Kang Yuanguang were the same thing, as if he regarded himself as an honest and honest magistrate, and began to count Kang Yuanguang's non-coming, forgetting that he was as good as the people.

Seeing the soldiers escorting Kang Yuanguang over, he even had a feeling of being superior, as if he was still the city lord of Anqing City. The difference is that today he pulled down this Kang Yuanguang, who had never dared to move, and his mood was still a little excited.

"Kang Yuanguang, I never thought that you would have today, right?"

Kang Yuanguang returned a resentful look to Yang Shida, and before he could scold him angrily, he was pulled down by the soldiers.

When Kang Yuanda, the secretary of the military department in the capital, received the news that his younger brother was raided by Nalan Ye, and hanged him on the wall of Anqing City to show the public, he was so angry that he spurted out a mouthful of old blood.