Chapter 297: Rebellion in the Imperial Court

The ministers turned their backs to the gate, and they were still noisy, and so many people were talking together, and it was impossible to hear what they were saying.

This scene was similar to what Sima Hongyan expected, but Yan Hong's face was full of anger, his hand was tightly clutching the hilt of the sword, his eyes showed a cold light, and his murderous aura increased.

The two slowly approached each other.

The few Wenchen who were at the back seemed to feel a different aura behind them, and when they turned their heads in shock, they saw two people covered in blood, and they were immediately frightened and panicked, exclaimed, and stepped back.

They bumped into the others, and when they heard their screams, they turned their heads and stopped shouting.

The sound in the main hall slowly died down, and finally silence returned. Everyone saw Yan Hong and Sima Hongyan at this time, and they retreated to both sides, automatically letting out the middle.

Sima Hongyan did not squint, and followed Yan Hong to the front of the high platform. Yan Hong hugged his fists and saluted Emperor Yanzhen, Sima Hongyan was slightly blessed, and also gave a salute to everyone surnamed Yan on the stage.

Emperor Yanzhen saw that Yan Hong and Sima Hongyan suddenly arrived at the same time, and he didn't know what was going on in front of the imperial city gate, so he asked nervously: "Hong'er, aren't you resisting the rebels at the palace gate?" Is something wrong? Sima Hongyan, why are you here, aren't you missing? ”

Yan Hong replied: "Father, rest assured, the fighting has stopped at the palace gate, and the rebels will not attack again for the time being!" ”

Emperor Yanzhen was overjoyed and hurriedly said, "What? Are they going to retire? Or, or did Yan Hao's traitor have some accident? ”

Sima Hongyan took it and replied, "Go back to the emperor!" Prince Yan Hao is safe and sound, it was the courtiers who asked him to suspend the dispute! ”

"You?" Since Emperor Yanzhen knew that Sima Hongyan had disappeared with his sisters and female soldiers, he immediately guessed that Sima Hongyan was running away from him. What kind of thief who went out of Beijing to investigate the misdeeds is simply an excuse. I felt extremely disappointed in Sima Hongyan in my heart, and at the same time, a wave of hatred rose.

No one had ever dared to tease him like this!

Sima Hongyan said: "Yes, the emperor, I went to see the sixth prince when I entered Beijing, and I asked him to suspend the fighting!" ”

Emperor Yanzhen was a little puzzled and asked, "Why did he listen to you?" He has besieged this imperial city for more than ten days, and if Hong'er hadn't sworn to resist, I'm afraid that the people here would have been in a different place long ago. ”

Sima Hongyan said: "Not bad! The reason why the six princes truce was to let the courtiers bring a message to the emperor, and he asked the emperor to write an edict of abdication and pass the throne to the six princes! ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone was shocked, and the ministers who had just stopped began to shout again.

Someone shouted: "It turns out that this woman has already colluded with the traitor king, and she is here to coerce us!" ”

Someone said: "I have long watched this woman have ill intentions, and today she really showed her true colors, this kind of thief who is a disaster to the country should have been killed a long time ago!" ”

There is also a humanitarian: "It seems that this Sima Hongyan has long colluded with the Six Kings in private, you see that these two people are charming and evil, they are really a match!" Maybe they've already hooked up. ”

There are also people who directly said to Emperor Yanzhen: "Your Majesty! The minister did not agree to this woman's entry into the court at the beginning, but now this Sima Hongyan wolf son is ambitious, and he has also cultivated his own army power, and now he is colluding with the six princes to conspire to force the palace, which is really a big crime of punishing the nine clans, please the emperor must not be tolerated! ”

For a while, the quiet hall began to boil again, and it was a mess.

Being troubled by these people, Emperor Yanzhen's face was very ugly, and he stared at Sima Hongyan with compassion, and a trace of murderous intent appeared in his eyes!

Sima Hongyan saw Emperor Yanzhen's eyes, and his heart suddenly cooled.

For the sake of Yanling, Sima Hongyan originally stayed out of the matter, but now he ventured back to try to rescue him, and went to see the sixth prince at the risk, but the two younger sisters were arrested, and the steel knife was on the line.

Before she came to the palace and said anything, she was accused by the ministers for no reason, and a false hat was pressed against her out of nothing, and she was not given a chance to speak at all.

And what made Sima Hongyan feel the most chilling was that Emperor Yanzhen had no trust in him at all, and even showed murderous intent.

Sima Hongyan really felt worthless for everything he had done, whether it was Yan Hao, the sixth prince, or Emperor Yanzhen, they were all raccoon dogs, they only had themselves in their hearts, and they could give up anything for their own power. They are all just ruthless victims of power in the end!

Originally, Sima Hongyan thought of a few ways, no matter what, to solve the current crisis first. Her original intention was that Emperor Yanzhen was still a Ming monarch, and Yanling would not decline with him. Therefore, Sima Hongyan made up his mind and would never let Yan Hao's conspiracy succeed.

But at this time, Sima Hongyan suddenly hesitated, and she found that no matter who she helped, I was afraid that she would not end well. Emperor Yanzhen won, and he will definitely control her, because the emperor is the most taboo of uncontrolled courtiers, and the result of Sima Hongyan is to be forced to marry into Dongning to become a victim of marriage. If Yan Hao wins, he won't let her live, because Yan Hao also understands that he can't control her at all.

The thoughts in her heart changed, Sima Hongyan swallowed back what she was going to say, and she had to reweigh what she was going to do!

The noise in the main hall was so noisy that Sima Hongyan couldn't concentrate his thoughts at all, and these ministers seemed to completely ignore the anger on Emperor Yanzhen's face, and hysterically expressed their opinions.

When the eldest prince Yan Qi entered the palace from Sima Hongyan, he couldn't help but focus his eyes on her. She is still so beautiful, so proud, so special. When the ministers accused Sima Hongyan together, Yan Qi was very annoyed in his heart, he wanted to tell his father that Sima Hongyan would never collude with the sixth prince secretly. But when he saw the fierce appearance of the hundred officials and heard those vicious words, he hesitated again, and he didn't dare to move for a long time.

The second prince Yan Ze always stood at the back, looking at everything that happened in front of him coldly, Sima Hongyan's sudden arrival surprised him, he didn't expect that all the people here wanted to go out, but she came in anyway. He felt that he couldn't understand Sima Hongyan more and more.

If she continued to be so noisy, Sima Hongyan felt that she couldn't speak at all, and she only had twelve hours, no matter what, it was important to save the lives of her two sisters first.

"Shut up!" Sima Hongyan was lucky dantian, and he shouted loudly, covering all the voices and drilling into everyone's ears.

Sima Hongyan's boldness and presumptuousness shocked everyone, and the civil and military officials all looked at Sima Hongyan with shocked faces, and the hall was quiet again.

The soft sound of metal friction made the ministers present all shocked, and they saw Sima Hongyan pull out a short sword with cold light from his waist, and looked at them with a cold face.

Sima Hongyan swept them over, and said in a deep voice: "Now that the rebels are besieging the imperial city, the enemy is currently only roaring and screaming here, and if you have the ability, go out to quell the rebellion, otherwise you will keep your mouth shut for me." I now have two sisters who have been taken hostage by the rebels, and the knife is on their necks, and if anyone dares to talk nonsense and delay my rescue, I will immediately make him a ghost under the sword. Seeing that everyone's faces were full of anger, he added: "If you don't believe it, you can try it!" ”

Since the founding of Yanling, Sima Hongyan, who dared to threaten the minister of the dynasty in such a face-to-face, was the first one. Everyone was intimidated by her cold killing intent, and dared to be angry and no longer dared to speak.

Sima Hongyan put the sword into the sheath, turned to Emperor Yanzhen and said, "Your Majesty! The top priority is to solve the siege of the rebels, and now there are more than 100,000 Yanling troops besieging the city outside the capital, but they are at a loss like headless flies because they have no general to command, and they cannot confront the tens of thousands of rebels who occupy the capital alone, and ask the emperor to arrange a countermeasure as soon as possible. ”

In fact, Emperor Yanzhen had been thinking about countermeasures for a long time, and after listening to Sima Hongyan's words, he also felt that now was not the time to pursue other matters, so he said to Sima Hongyan: "I mean to gather all the forbidden troops in the imperial city and stay until late at night to protect everyone and kill everyone out of the capital." As long as they can get outside the city, with more than 100,000 troops, they can annihilate the rebels in one fell swoop. ”

Sima Hongyan said: "Your Majesty! The courtiers had also thought of this method before, but now that the situation has changed, I am afraid that this method is not appropriate. One reason why the courtiers just said that two sworn sisters were held hostage by the rebels, and they said that if I could not go back with the emperor's edict of abdication, their heads would be cut off in twelve hours. Besides, if the emperor leads his troops out of the capital, let alone whether he can succeed or not, but thousands of soldiers are afraid that they will die in the hands of Yanling compatriots, isn't this kind of sacrifice worthless? ”

Sima Hongyan regarded the life and death of her two sisters and soldiers as more important than the dignity of the emperor, and Emperor Yanzhen was slightly displeased, and said coldly: "Then according to your meaning, do you still want me to write the edict of abdication?" ”

Sima Hongyan said: "Then what if the emperor doesn't escape from the capital?" The rebels must have at least 30,000 horses in the capital, and there are less than 5,000 forbidden troops in the imperial city, and they have to protect these powerless ministers, I am afraid that before they reach the city gate, the forbidden army will be killed! ”

Emperor Yanzhen said: "Then I will only take the princes out, the target of these rebels is me, after I leave the palace, the rebels should not embarrass these courtiers, right?" ”

Sima Hongyan immediately said: "Then what if the rebels capture the ministers to blackmail the emperor?" ”

Emperor Yanzhen was stunned, he didn't expect this, and he hesitated for a while and couldn't answer.

This hesitation immediately made the officials present understand a truth, the emperor would not care about their life or death at a critical moment.

When the officials in the main hall were noisy, Liao Ziling, Li Mingzhong, Shi Hanhai, Ban Jingchong and other ministers always hid to the side without saying a word, quietly looking at the clown faces of these people who were greedy for life and afraid of death.

When Sima Hongyan came to the main hall, Liao Ziling, Shi Hanhai, and Ban Jingchong couldn't help but start to feel guilty. It's just that Liao Ziling is worried about Sima Hongyan, and both of them are worried about their daughters.