Chapter 535: The Imperial Capital is in turmoil
The bad news from the palace is that the empress dowager in Shouning Palace has collapsed!
The new emperor is established, and the Empress Dowager Rong has been promoted to the Empress Dowager. She has been waking up and fascinated from time to time these days, and she doesn't know what happened to the front court, and she doesn't even know that her son Emperor Jingxing has collapsed.
The decrees jointly issued by the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager were just Zuo's decrees.
Now, the woman that Emperor Changtai really loved back then has come to the end of her life. When she collapsed, no royal person was around, only the loyal palace maid Shuzhi was accompanied.
People are dying, and their sanity is clear, and the Empress Dowager Rong smiled when she saw Shuzhi, but this smile made the thin face look very weird.
"Shuzhi, after the mourning family goes, you will leave the palace. Palace, don't stay any longer......"
Shuzhi has accompanied her for most of her life, whether it is the glory of Zhongcui Palace or the cold silence of Shouning Palace, Shuzhi will never give up.
Shuzhi held back tears and nodded. At this time, the Empress Dowager Rong has any orders, and she will accept them.
Seeing Shuzhi nodding, Empress Dowager Rong seemed to breathe a sigh of relief. She didn't ask Emperor Jing Xing why he didn't come to see her, and she seemed to know the reason.
Mother and son are connected, even if no one tells her, she is no longer there.
Shuzhi looked at her gray hair and thin face, and tears couldn't help but fall. Empress...... I'm not even forty years old.
If it weren't for someone who poisoned her, how could Niang Niang become like this? If it weren't for someone trying to seize the power of the harem, Niangniang would have been fine.
"The mourning family doesn't care about anything, the money of Shouning Palace is in your hands, and when you leave the palace, take it all......"
Empress Dowager Rong explained intermittently. Shuzhi spent more time with her than Emperor Changtai and Emperor Jingxing, and at the last moment, he was by her side. Or thinning.
They are called master servants and sisters. Empress Dowager Rong is in the world, and there is indeed nothing to worry about.
She has gone from being a slave in the court to becoming a noble woman in the world. When it came to death. But that's how it is. I don't know if this is a blessing or bad luck.
They are all scattered......
Shuzhi covered his lips, afraid that he would cry, and finally fell to the ground, his body trembling because of the depression. - Empress Dowager Rong's eyes have been closed and will never be opened again.
When the news of Shouning Palace was sent to Zuo's ears, Zuo was a little stunned, and then his face sank in displeasure. Questioned Chunxi on the side.
"Didn't you tell the imperial doctor to hang her life well? Why did you go?! ”
Emperor Jingxing has collapsed, and the existence of the Empress Dowager of Shouning Palace is just a tiger skin of the Zuo family. The Zuo family also wanted to hang the life of the Empress Dowager Rong, making the will from the harem more prestigious. If the courtiers have an opinion, she can also take out the Empress Dowager Rong to block it.
Who would have thought that she would not be able to survive so soon.
"Imperial Doctor Zhang did his best to heal, but the Empress Dowager's body had already been hollowed out. So I can't support it. ”
Chun Xi briefly said the words of the imperial physician of Shouning Palace, and he was a little apprehensive in his heart, not knowing how Zuo would react when he heard these words.
Since Zuo became the queen mother, Chunxi felt that he couldn't understand what his master was thinking. Perhaps, she never understood.
"Bad luck! I have to go to Shouning Palace. makes people optimistic about the emperor. The emperor is too young to go to that kind of obscure place. ”
Zuo didn't pay attention to what Chunxi was thinking, and only told him to be optimistic about the new emperor, so he asked Chunxi to call someone to change his makeup.
At this time, there was a funeral in Shouning Palace, which was of course unfortunate for the Zuo family. Yan Luzheng and Guan Neiwei have already lost to Jiang Bowen. Now that the royal family has added this funeral, no matter how you say it, Zuo's heart feels uncomfortable.
In Shouning Palace, after all, it is the empress dowager of Dayong, and now she has collapsed. There will be funeral rites that should be there. And Zuo, of course, will also play a miserable royal daughter-in-law with all her might, crying in Shouning Palace.
Shuzhi looked at the mourning and painful Zuo family, a trace of hatred flashed in his eyes, but he comforted in a low voice: "Niangniang, please mourn, the Empress Dowager has a spirit in the sky, and she can't bear to be like this." ”
"Aunt Shuzhi, please also mourn." Zuo's teary eyes were hazy, and the sobs slowly stabilized. Shuzhi is an old man in the palace, and he has served Emperor Jingxing, and the Zuo family doesn't want to do anything about Shuzhi.
It's just that there is one more idler in the palace, and the palace is not bad for this money.
Shuzhi also followed, and said that after the Empress Dowager's funeral affairs were completed, she would go to Cining Palace to listen to the intersection of Niangniang Yunyun - Zuo's is the Empress Dowager, and she has moved to Cining Palace.
The funeral of the Empress Dowager was presided over by the Ancestral Department under the Ministry of Rites. The Ministry of Rites has handled a lot of royal funerals in recent years, and the funeral is a skilled job, and there is no need to ask for instructions, so the funeral of the Queen Mother will be handled properly.
Emperor Jingxing has collapsed, the new emperor is so young, or in such a situation, the empress dowager's grief is naturally average.
The Ministry of Rites only follows the basic regulations, and it is really impossible to say how grand it is; Besides, even if the Ministry of Rites wanted to hold the funeral of the Empress Dowager in a grand manner, the Ministry of Household did not have so much money.
Just when the Zuo clan was crying bitterly for the Empress Dowager in Shouning Palace, Jiang Bowen led nearly 200,000 Longyou guards to step into the Guannei Road, and they were getting closer and closer to Jingzhao.
This situation made Zuo Liangzhe uneasy, especially when he learned that the number of troops in the Zhigu area was only more than 30,000, and he felt cold sweat in winter.
There are more than 70,000 Jin Wuwei, and more than 30,000 Zhigu soldiers, with a total of more than 100,000 people, how can they fight against 200,000 Longyouwei?
"I have issued another order to transfer troops, ordering the soldiers from Jizhou to come to Jingzhao, there are about more than 30,000 soldiers, I hope they can come before Jiang Bowen."
Zheng Diheng said. Now that the situation in Jingzhao is critical, troops can only be transferred from these places, and this is already the closest force to Jingzhao. Now, I only hope that the soldiers of Guannei Dao can still delay Jiang Bowen's footsteps.
Wei Yanqing's opinion is also the same, in case Jiang Bowen really besieges Jingzhao, the strength of only 70,000 Jin Wuwei is not enough to fight against Longyouwei, and reinforcements must be used.
It's just that the difficult thing is that Dayong originally had millions of troops, but at this difficult moment in Jingzhao, there were not many troops that could be transferred to rescue him!
Only for now, it is as many troops as it can be transferred.
The nervousness of the upper echelons of Jingzhao. directly affected the atmosphere of officialdom, and many well-informed officials already knew about Jiang Bowen's approach to Jingzhao. Knowing this, panic is their first reaction.
Lingnan Road and Longyou Road are the two major battlefields. Of course, these officials will know. They also knew very well that Dayong's soldiers were almost all lost on these two battlefields.
Now that Jingzhao is in danger, does the imperial court still have troops to defend Jingzhao? This is the question of the officials, and they cannot get an answer from the mouth of the military department and Jin Wuwei.
Without an answer, it's uncertain. In case Jingzhao is breached, what will happen to these court officials? I have heard that Jiang Bowen does not leave troops to surrender, so isn't the court official a dead end? !
In such speculations, many court officials were fluctuating, and they fully considered the serious consequences that might occur. The choice was also made in advance.
For a while, especially the people below the Jingzhao Five-rank Official, they were packing up their belongings and planning to send their families away from Jingzhao, no matter what. Preserving your life is the first priority.
There are many officials below the fifth grade of Jingzhao, and there are many old in-laws and servants in the family. Not to mention not one official's house, but several!
After the officials moved, the big merchants of Jingzhao also began to move. Some of these big businesses have money. What they are most afraid of is turmoil, because turmoil means that their business cannot continue, and it also means that their goods will be looted by the people. If this happens, it will be fatal for big merchants.
Tianyi Pavilion, Zhenbao Zhai these big businesses. A sign such as "The proprietor is happy, not open for the time being" has been hung out, and secretly all the goods and inventory are shipped out of Jingzhao in case of accidents.
The movements of these officials and big businessmen cannot be hidden from ordinary people. Until this time. The people knew that the rebels had approached Jingzhao, and the officials and rich people were preparing to flee, and staying in Jingzhao would be more than lucky!
At this moment, Jingzhao was like a frying pot, and the people all followed behind the official lord and the big businessman, hurriedly packed up their belongings, and prepared to flee Jingzhao.
Xianghe Street, Beidao Lane, Xifang East Market, these most prosperous streets in Jingzhao, most of the businesses have closed their doors, and even the lively stalls on the street are empty.
Everyone is just running for their lives, where do they still have the heart to do business?
On the street, I saw people with bags on their backs, dragging their families and mouths, queuing up at the Jingzhao City Gate to wait to leave the city. In front of the wide gate of Jingzhao City, it was crowded with people, all shouting and preparing to leave the city.
Everyone is afraid of falling behind, unable to get out of the city, pushing and shoving, Jingzhao City Gate is in chaos. Crying and quarreling rang out constantly, and some people even fought with the rest of the people in line in order to get out of the city gate one step earlier, and blood kept dripping in front of the city gate.
Seeing that, the front of Jingzhao City was about to get out of control. Before Jiang Bowen was besieged, Jingzhao began to be in chaos.
Shangguan and Jingzhao Mansion soldiers stood guard in front of the city gate, maintaining order! These surging fleeing civilians really made the Shangguan rank and the soldiers of Jingzhao Mansion feel numb.
However, what frightened them even more was the will of the imperial court. In response to the flight of officials and people, the imperial court has already issued a clear order: no one is allowed to leave Jingzhao without permission! Violators, beheaded!
In order to stabilize the situation in Jingzhao, the imperial court used a strategy of ten thousand jun, wanting to use thunderous means to calm Jingzhao's commotion.
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