Chapter 25 Catching a Turtle in an Urn
"Hehe, Your Majesty, let your concubine Mi Guifei answer this question." Ji Yucheng took a sip of tea, and suddenly said this, his eyes indifferent.
Concubine Mi was frightened by Wu Jinggong's intimidating eyes, and sat in place with her fists clenched, not daring to say a word.
"Concubine Niangniang, if you really feel that you have hidden something back then, and you have apologized to Concubine Yun in your heart, this is the only chance for you to make up for your sins." Seeing that Concubine Mi was hesitant, Ji Yucheng deliberately mentioned Concubine Mi's name.
After hearing her name, Concubine Qi stood up tremblingly and said: "Then, that night, Your Majesty slept with me, I, when I was hazy and asleep, I heard Your Majesty say to He Ji that Sister Concubine knew that the first emperor did not die violently, but that His Majesty killed the first emperor with a bowl of poison, so she could not be allowed to live........ deliberately created rumors and killed people for legitimate reasons. β
"Huh? How could this be, it was His Majesty who killed the first emperor? β
"I said how the emperor could have made a second son king, it turns out that there is really a secret in it."
The civil and military officials below exploded as if they had opened a pot, and they spoke for a while.
"I was so scared at the time, so after Sister Yunfei was put in prison, she didn't dare to speak out about it....... I, I'm sorry for her......"
Before Concubine Mi could finish speaking, a sharp blade pierced her chest from behind.
"A mere maid dared to come and slander me." In Emperor Wu's sharp eyes, he completely lost his usual amiability, and faintly revealed the light of licking blood.
Wu Jinggong pulled his sword out of Concubine Mi's body, and then kicked Concubine Mi off the phoenix throne with one kick.
"Mother!" Ji Jingchen jumped up from the table below and flew to catch Concubine Mi, but she was no longer breathing.
"Ladies and gentlemen, these people want to plot a rebellion and cause chaos to the dynasty, so they made up these rumors. How can the one-sided words of two rebellious ministers and thieves be used as evidence......"
"You want evidence, right?", Ji Lianmei took out a scroll of edict from her cuffs and held it high, "This is the evidence." β
The sharp-eyed old minister immediately saw what Ji Lianmei was doing.
"This is the edict left by the emperor! When the emperor wrote the edict, the old man was by his side. One of the generals present burst into tears and took the lead in kneeling down to show respect for the emperor.
"Fake, this must be fake!" Wu Jinggong, who was still extremely calm, instantly panicked when he saw this edict.
"Oh? Your Majesty, since you said that this is false, which old minister present is willing to come to verify the truth of this edict? Ji Lianmei asked.
Among the civil officials on the right side of the main hall, a middle-aged man with a mustache walked out. He said: "The old man was a bachelor of the former emperor, so let the old man come to test it." β
Ji Lianmei handed over the edict to him.
Although she appeared to be very calm and had a chance of victory, if you looked closely, you could see that her hands were shaking nervously.
Of course, this is not the edict of the first emperor, but the edict that Ji Yucheng found a cloth of the same color and forged it according to the handwriting of the first emperor.
Please, don't let the problem be seen, I don't want to explain it here.
"Ah....... This, this is really the handwriting of the former emperor. The old minister burst into tears instantly, and then shouted at Wu Jinggong, "The emperor's will back then was to make the eldest son Ji Heng the king, get down, you unfilial son, the emperor treated you well, you actually did such a rebellious thing as killing your father and killing the king.......
"Get down, get down......." For a while, the shouts of hundreds of officials continued.
The literati of ancient times were very interested in a person's teachings, filial piety. Wu Jinggong's murder of his father and killing the king will definitely not be accepted by the hundred officials.
"In addition to this, I also have in my hand a handwritten manuscript of Concubine Yunniang, which clearly records the process of what happened."
The secret of this book is that Ji Lianmei accidentally knocked over the candlestick on the desk, and the paper showed words when it was hot, and Ji Lianmei knew that this was a manuscript written with lemon juice, although it was written in modern Chinese, but most of its characters were still close to ancient characters.
The ministers circulated it one after another.
"Hahahaha, do you really think ..... Will that bring me down? Naive, hahahaha, so naΓ―ve. Someone! β
With this order, the Praetorian Guards waiting for an opportunity in the palace, and the killers secretly organized by Wu Jinggong, all appeared from all corners of the hall in full armor, surrounded everyone, and cut down anyone they saw.
"Kill, kill them all for me, don't let any of them go!" At this time, Wu Jinggong was no longer the same as he used to be, like a beast that had completely lost his mind.
When the sword-wielding Praetorian Guard heard the order, he immediately rushed into the crowd and began to kill, Ji Yucheng stepped forward and pulled Ji Lianmei behind him, stepped back to the side, and calmly looked at the current situation.
The civilian officials who were powerless were hacked to death by the killers, and the military attachΓ©s without weapons were defeated after a short time by hand-to-hand combat.
Seeing that the situation was about to be counterattacked, Ji Yucheng blew a loud whistle, Xiao Yige led nearly 10,000 elite soldiers from Liu and Song to break into the palace and confront Wu Jinggong's Praetorian Guards.
"Hi Yucheng! How can you be a mere civilian widow, how can you hide so many elite soldiers! This can't be, this can't be! β
"Then thank you, Your Majesty, for underestimating me and only treating me as a star official who divides the celestial phenomena for you, an ordinary person with no power and no power, and no eyeliner by my side. My plan went so smoothly. Ji Yucheng bowed his head slightly and chuckled.
Wu Jinggong caught a glimpse of a piece of white jade pinned to Ji Yucheng's waist, and was suddenly shocked.
"This piece of jade, you, are you a member of the Great Song Dynasty? These armies are also brought by you. Wu Jinggong couldn't resist at all.
He sat down on the dragon chair in embarrassment, his hands still grabbed the golden dragon on the side of the dragon chair, and muttered as if crazy: "I am the Son of Heaven, I am the Son of Heaven, you, and you, don't want to rob me of the throne." Those are all trying to stop me from ascending to the throne, they deserve it, they all deserve it! β
Ji Yucheng slowly climbed the steps, watching Emperor Wu muttering to himself as if he was obsessed, holding his sword against his neck, his voice cold.
"If it weren't for the filth of your soul that disgusted me, it would have been cheaper for me to kill you like this."
Suddenly, a hidden arrow shot from behind impartially at Ji Yucheng's calf. Ji Yucheng was in pain and slowly knelt on the ground.
"Hi Yucheng!" Ji Lianmei exclaimed in surprise and was about to rush forward, but was stopped by Xiao Yige.
"What do you do?"
"You go up, Your Highness still needs to be distracted to protect you, you will only put him in a more dangerous situation. Besides, if His Highness hadn't sent a secret guard to protect you, he wouldn't have been injured. Xiao Yige looked at her coldly, "Without His Highness's instructions, no one should rush up." β
"Hahahaha, good! His Royal Highness Bai Yucheng sang this piece of catching turtles in the urn, which is really wonderful. A man in armor with a scar on his face clapped his hands and slowly stepped into the inner hall from outside the door, followed by almost all the soldiers of the Wu Kingdom, covering the inside and outside of the hall.
"But Your Highness Bai, you shouldn't have thought that I would catch cicadas with praying mantises, and the yellow finch will follow. The kind of chronic Western Regions strange poison you gave me, after being improved by the Great Wizard, only needs to be taken once, and within an hour, the human body can turn into pus. And this medicine, I have long ordered someone to mix it in your soldiers' water bottles. β
At this time, some of the people brought in by Xiao Yige were already holding their heads in pain, their eyes were crimson, and they were foaming at the mouth, looking very painful.
"Oh? Looks like it's working....." Ji Ziqiu nodded with satisfaction.
"You, you rebel. Come on, come on. β
"Father, you can save your strength, now this is all my people, even if you scream and cut your throat, no one will come to save you."
"You, you're killing your father and killing the king."
"Yes, Father, I'm just walking the road you walked back then. When you killed the emperor's grandfather, why didn't you think that this was killing your father and killing the king? Hahaha. β
Taking advantage of this chaos, the people brought by Ji Ziqiu waited for the opportunity to kill nearly 100 people from the periphery, plus the civil and military officials defected. At this time, the strength of Ji Yucheng's side was no longer as good as the enemy's.
Ji Ziqiu seized the opportunity and shot Wu Jinggong in the heart with an arrow. Then he drew his bow and tried to shoot a second arrow.
"Your Highness Bai, the reason why I didn't shoot you with an arrow just now is because I want to personally solve this vicious father, of course, I also want to see how Bai Yucheng, who has always been clever, will solve the deadlock, it seems that I still think highly of you. With this arrow, let's say goodbye completely. β
Ji Ziqiu drew his bow, and the black iron arrows were full of bloodthirsty light, ready to attack.
Ji Yucheng was ready to dodge, but at this moment, his legs seemed to be frozen and couldn't move.
Damn, how to get sick at this time ....
Ji Ziqiu's arrows were already hungry wolves pounced on Yu Cheng. It was too late to dodge, and Ji Yucheng instinctively blocked his arms in his heart.
When he opened his eyes again, there was already a person in front of him. A well-defined face, peach blossom eyes, and slightly frowning eyebrows. The arrow, impartially stuck in his right arm.
"You ......."
"Look at what I'm doing, I just want to show off that my martial arts are higher than yours." Ji Jingchen said hardly.
"Anyway, thank you." Ji Yucheng patted him on the shoulder.
Ji Jingchen looked at him and thought: It's just that if you die, Ji Lianmei will be very sad.........
"Second brother, you actually helped this traitor, well, Lone will clean you up together." Ji Ziqiu's third arrow has been bowed.
Suddenly, there was a sound of blade handover outside the door, and the heavy soldiers guarded by Ji Ziqiu were wiped out in less than a quarter of an hour.
Holding the Tiger Talisman in her hand, Asai Bena led the elite troops of the Xianbei tribe into the main hall.
The Xianbei people are fierce, and everyone in the elite army is a warrior who crawled out of the pile of the dead, how can these pampered soldiers of the Wu State be able to match?
Asai Beina smiled freely and said to Ji Yucheng: "For the sake of you returning the tiger talisman to me, I will help you again." β
As early as the day when Ji Lianmei arrived at King Cheng's mansion, the moment Asai Bena grabbed Ji Yucheng's arm, Ji Yucheng had quietly stolen the tiger talisman from her purse.
This is Ji Yucheng's last hole card to save his life. But the night before he left, he handed the tiger talisman to Xiao Yige and said to him:
"This talisman, you return it to Princess Asaibena before you enter the palace tomorrow."
"Your Highness, this is our last resort to save our lives."
"She is sincere to me, I used her to persuade Tuoba Han this time, it is already unjust, I have already failed her, I can't, no matter how ruthless I am....... If the time comes, the situation is really irreparable, I have my own way to get out, you just need to take Ji Lianmei away safely. β