Chapter 62: The Emperor Takes Turns (1)
In the forty-third year of Xingguo Heshun, Emperor Weide used the excuse of King Jingyue Chu Jinlin to intercept Chu Yuan to trap King Jingyue and his son, and Zhong Lixiang, the concubine of King Jingyue, contacted important ministers in the court, including General Ma Shifang, who was in charge of Gyeonggi Guard, and decisively decided to break into the palace and rescue her husband. The history is known as the "Zhong Rebellion".
Ma Shifang was instructed by Zhong Lixiang to immediately send troops to the East Palace and the Forbidden Palace, and was ambushed by the Weide Emperor Yulin Army and the Qimen Army, and the battle was fierce, but Chen Zuo, the general of the Qimen Army, was killed, causing the Qimen Army to have no leader, and the soldiers turned against each other, and the balance of victory began to tilt towards Zhong Lixiang.
The prince of the East Palace was seriously ill and was carried to the forbidden palace, Zhong Lixiang ordered not to be killed, and let him enter the forbidden palace, and then secretly ordered people to spread rumors in the market, saying that the prince saw that the situation was urgent, and wanted to coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes, and Emperor Weide had been held hostage and needed to be rescued.
The morale of the Gyeonggi Wei and Jimen troops was greatly boosted, and the Yulin army was difficult to support alone, and even more, the forbidden palace was attacked by unknown Jianghu people, and the destruction of the palace was a matter of overnight, and Emperor Weide knew that his defeat was decided. In order to ensure the purity of the royal family of Baoxing Kingdom, he passed a secret edict to the crown princess Ji Ying, and passed the throne to Chu Yuan, the son of the East Palace.
The crown prince Chu Jin and returned to the light, opened his eyes from the coma, saw the haggard old father, learned that the civil strife had been born, the defeat had been decided, he was full of guilt, and in pain, he vomited blood and died in the arms of his father.
Emperor Weide ordered the prince to be buried in a coffin and placed on the dragon chair in the main hall of Qian'an Palace, while he took off his dragon robe, pretended to be a soldier, and escaped from the forbidden palace under the protection of personal guards.
Out of the palace gate, they immediately changed their clothes, dressed as ordinary people, and the guards found carriages and horses for Emperor Weide, and after Emperor Weide got on the car and sat down, he said slowly: "Go to Min Qingzhi's mansion." ”
What Emperor Wei De did not expect was that they could not approach Min Qingzhi's mansion, and the streets near the mansion were guarded, and the guards belonged to the Gyeonggi Guard.
Emperor Weide sighed, and once again admired Zhong Lixiang for his thoughtful work, Min Qingzhi's prestige in the court was extremely high, if he came out to raise his arms and shout, there would be courtiers to respond, but he was under house arrest, if he came out to see him, he would definitely die.
Emperor Weide didn't know that this arrangement was not because of Zhong Lixiang, but because of Zhen Hui, who was leaving a way for Min Qingzhi and Min Shi.
The strange behavior of Emperor Weide and his entourage was seen by Min Qingzhi's family, who was standing on a tall tree and paying attention to the movement of the street at any time, and reported it to Min Shi, who hesitated again and again, but still went to the study to report to his father Min Qingzhi, Min Qingzhi looked at Min Shi for a long time after knowing the situation, and asked: "Can I still go out of this mansion?" ”
"If Dad wants to go out, he can naturally go out." Min Shi looked at Min Qingzhi, "The child respects his father's choice. ”
"But you don't agree, do you?" Min Qingzhi said, "As the son of the prime minister, you don't want to share your father's worries, you must be dissatisfied with today's saints, especially his dissatisfaction with the bloody massacre of the remnants of China, right?" ”
"What the father said is that the child works hard to learn medical skills in order to cure diseases and save people, and the child will never forget the tragic scene he saw when he was young." Min Shi lowered his eyes, "But if the father is determined to be loyal to the current emperor, the child will follow, the child's life is saved by the father from the pile of the dead, and the child's life belongs to the father." ”
"Then now Dad asked you to go to Chu Hui and tell him to show mercy to the current saint's subordinates, are you willing?" Min Qingzhi sat behind the bookcase and looked at Min Shi deeply, "You followed Chu Hui for the past few days, although you were in a hurry to find Chu Yuan, but Dad could see that you admired Chu Hui very much, and Chu Hui also trusted you." ”