"That's right!" Sima Hongyan continued: "It's easy to kill people, but the goal of the sixth prince to be the emperor will never be achieved." He doesn't care about the lives of these people in the palace, but he has to take into account the judgment of the world. He must have made up a lot of excuses and reasons why he should be the emperor, and then forced the emperor to abdicate automatically. ”

Ban Lingruo said: "This is unlikely, who would believe the one-sided words of an idle prince?" Besides, the emperor would not agree to such a ridiculous request. ”

Sima Hongyan thought for a moment and suddenly asked, "Have you not experienced a mutiny?" ”

The four sisters looked at each other and shook their heads. Sima Hongyan said in his heart: No wonder they make such a fuss, it turns out that they haven't experienced it, although I haven't experienced it either, but I've heard too much.

So Sima Hongyan said to a few people: "The capital is strong, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the Yanling army can't do it if you want to attack it for a few months." Moreover, all the officials in the capital are trapped in the inner city, and basically the inside and outside of the capital are considered to be leaderless. As long as the six princes stick to the gates of the inner and outer cities, and then cut off the supply of the inner city, they will use the emperor's family and civil and military officials as threats to force the emperor to abdicate voluntarily, taking advantage of the time and place. ”

Zhong Liying asked: "If the emperor doesn't agree, is it possible that this sixth prince really dares to starve the emperor to death?" ”

Sima Hongyan said: "This can be regarded as a psychological battle. If the emperor insists on not agreeing to the conditions, it means that his family and officials will accompany him to the funeral, and outsiders will think that the emperor can sacrifice anyone for power, even the lives of his family members. So even if such a king subsides from this turmoil, he has lost the trust of the people of the world, and I am afraid that he will not be able to become this emperor. And once he agrees, he will give the throne to others, and he will admit in disguise that his throne is not justified, and he will still be despised by the world. At that time, the emperor himself may not have any good end, but he can exchange the lives of his family and officials. The lives of one person and thousands of people depend on how the emperor makes this choice. ”

The four sisters all said: "So that's the case, this trick is really vicious!" ”

Sima Hongyan said again: "As for what the emperor and the sixth prince had back then, I'm afraid no one outside will know." If the emperor refuses to give way, then he is the culprit who killed thousands of lives. To give way is to admit that one's name is not right, and to deceive the people of the world. None of the results are bearable! ”

I didn't expect Sima Hongyan to be able to analyze it so thoroughly through some information, and even guessed what methods and means the Six Kings would use to rebel, and the four sisters even doubted whether Sima Hongyan had the intention of rebelling, otherwise how could she know so clearly and in detail?

His own explanation was exchanged for the suspicious eyes of several sisters, Sima Hongyan smiled slightly, and didn't bother to explain. said to them: "Now that the siege has passed for ten days, it is estimated that there is not much to eat in the palace, after all, there are still hundreds of ministers and thousands of forbidden troops, and it will not take a few days for the palace to change." ”

"Will there be changes in the palace?" Shi Jinyan asked in surprise, "Someone will die?" ”

Sima Hongyan shook his head and said, "No! Even the ministers inside will also begin to force the emperor to abdicate, even at the cost of killing the emperor! Don't forget, ministers are also human beings, they may not be loyal enough to accompany the emperor to die, in order to save their lives, they are likely to rebel on the spot. Besides, the forbidden army is also a human being, and it can still hold on without eating for a day or two, and if it has no strength for a long time, can it still hold the city gate? If the six kings promise not to be held accountable at the right time, maybe the forbidden army will rebel first! ”

Shi Jinyan felt cold for a while, and couldn't help but say: "If the time, place, and people are really on the side of the six kings at that time, I'm afraid the general trend has gone." This method is really vicious! It's a shame that you think about it. The last sentence was said to Sima Hongyan.

Sima Hongyan smiled coldly and said, "Actually, this is not unusual, this is the best way to force the palace." It doesn't cost a soldier to capture the throne, and as long as these ministers are removed and demoted, the soldiers will all be replaced by their own people, and then it will be announced to the world that it is the advent of another dynasty! ”

Thinking of their family's future, Shi Jinyan and Ban Lingruo both showed anxious looks, and Shi Jinyan asked, "Then what are we going to do?" If the emperor is really forced to abdicate, there will be no good end for all of us. Especially Hongyan, you still directly rejected the pull of the six kings at the beginning, and he will never let you go! ”

Sima Hongyan suddenly asked with a strange expression, "What do you want me to do?" ”

Ban Ling hurriedly said: "Of course, I am trying to find a way to save the emperor and calm the civil strife!" ”

Sima Hongyan said: "Have you ever thought about it? In the past, the emperor must have taken strict precautions against the six princes, but why could the six princes still win over the garrison and rebel? It's impossible for the emperor not to notice such a big movement, right? But the strange thing is that this civil unrest went exceptionally smoothly without warning in advance, which is what makes me most curious! ”

Xiao Hongying has always been ignorant of these infighting in the imperial court, and she is not very interested, and when she heard Sima Hongyan ask everyone, she replied without thinking about it: "Someone must be doing internal response, do you still need to guess?" ”

Sima Hongyan smiled and said: "I don't think it's very likely to be internal, on the contrary, the possibility of foreign aid is not small!" ”

Shi Jinyan was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said: "I don't understand what you say, the six kings have never been out of the capital, where did the foreign aid come from?" ”

Sima Hongyan said: "Have you forgotten the Dongning people who have stayed in Yanling and never left?" I think their participation in the Five Nations Competition is fake, and the suggestion to be with their relatives is fake, and running to encourage the Six Princes to raise troops and make trouble is the real purpose of their coming to Yanling this time! ”

This civil strife turned out to be related to Dongning again, and everyone was shocked and couldn't believe it for a while.

Sima Hongyan said: "At the beginning, I remember that when the female army was investigating the details of the envoys of various countries, she accidentally found that Shen Caijie, the first army division of Dongning, had also arrived in Yanling, and it seemed that she often went out. The emperor and I both thought that he had taken the opportunity to privately buy off the minister of Yanling, intending to steal information about Yanling. But now it seems that we all guessed wrong, the goal of the Dongning people from the beginning was very clear, that is, to come for the six princes who were under house arrest in the capital. Do you still remember when we first established the Women's Army, there was an incident when the Six Kings arrived at Sima Mansion for no reason? ”

Shi Jinyan and Ban Lingruo naturally remembered that it was the day when the three of them returned from Tianling Mountain, and the sixth prince went to Sima Mansion in advance to wait for everyone, and let the three of them kneel for nearly an hour, how could they forget! Shi Jinyan and Ban Lingruo nodded naturally.

Sima Hongyan continued: "At that time, I think the Sixth Princes had already come into contact with Dongning, and it could even be said that they were already plotting to seize power. The establishment of our female army, which specializes in collecting intelligence, invisibly made the Sixth Prince feel threatened, because he was afraid that his conspiracy with Dongning would be discovered by us. So he kept sending people to spy on us, and personally came to Sima's Mansion that night to woo us, but I refused to do so in person. ”

Ban Lingruo said: "But after you refused, the sixth prince didn't do anything?" ”

Sima Hongyan followed and said: "He didn't do anything, but I was accidentally arrested by Dongning, I'm afraid it has a direct relationship with this sixth prince!" ”

The four sisters were suddenly startled, and suddenly they understood what they had been feeling that they had been unable to figure out. They have always wondered why the people of Dongning went to great lengths to arrest Sima Hongyan, and asked Sima Hongyan about the female army, it seems that what they really want to know is how much Sima Hongyan knows about the rebellion of the sixth prince!

Speaking of which, the things that everyone thought were strange before can be explained.

Sima Hongyan had a thoughtful expression, and said to a few people: "Now that I recall the vicious eyes that appeared behind me many times, I guess it's none other than this Sixth Prince." I always felt that the cold look in his eyes was familiar, and now that I think back on it, the last resentful look he gave me when he left Sima Mansion that night was so similar. ”

Ban Lingruo suddenly said: "It turns out that he was the one who always had bad intentions towards you in the school martial arts field!" ”

Zhong Liying said at this time: "Eldest sister, if you say it like this, I'm afraid that Dongning's proposal to marry you as a relative seems to be a ploy?" ”

Sima Hongyan said: "There are two purposes. If I honestly agreed, then even if I was a person from Dongning for the rest of my life, it would be too easy to control me when I arrived in Dongning, and it would not be impossible to even convince me to work for Dongning. If I don't agree, I will definitely find a way to escape the marriage, then I have only one way to escape the capital. I guess the reason why they did this was because they knew about the fact that the fourth sister was secretly investigating officials who had dealings with Dongning in the capital. ”

Zhong Liying said with a clear face: "I see, so when we left the capital and the female army withdrew, they rebelled." ”

Shi Jinyan said: "Then what are we going to do now?" You can't watch the conspiracy of the Six Kings succeed. Dong Ning is willing to help the six princes so much, there must be an agreement between them, Dong Ning has been peeping at Yanling for many years, if he is replaced by a puppet emperor, then Dong Ning will do whatever he wants in the future. ”

Sima Hongyan was silent, she was thinking about how to resolve this political turmoil, whoever loses on both sides will die, so she will definitely do things to the extreme and unscrupulous.

"I'm going to the palace!" Sima Hongyan thought for a long time and suddenly said: "Only when I enter the palace can I act at the opportunity!" ”

"Absolutely not!" The four younger sisters objected together, and the tone was absolutely unanimous.

Shi Jinyan glared and said first: "Do you want to mess around again?" The capital is guarded at all levels, and the six kings hate you to the bone, and you have no other role except to send you to death. Not to mention entering the palace, if you can't even enter the inner city, I'm afraid you'll be slaughtered. ”

Ban Lingruo also said: "Sister, this is different from the past, there are tens of thousands of soldiers and horses fighting, and there are dangers, if you go, you will definitely be more auspicious, you must not go." ”