"Is he afraid that the emperor will come back to life?" The adjutant general muttered, his eyes full of impetuousness, "What about coming back to life, the world will already be yours by then." ”

Qin Zhuang said coldly: "Our troops, it is easy to force the palace and difficult to defend the palace, once the emperor's army comes back, our reinforcements will not have time to arrive, and what will happen to Shen Zhe, can you see through it?" Now I will not leave the imperial city easily, after all, this is a golden opportunity, but you must not do it casually, you must calm down, we take a little step beyond the thunder pool, it is a sinner who spurned ten thousand people and killed ten thousand. ”

The adjutant clenched his fists: "General, do you know why the emperor can get the world?" He never cared about these reputations, when he led his troops to the capital, he had only one belief, he could only win and not lose, general, your courage did not lose to him! ”

Qin Zhuang's heart trembled suddenly, Xiang Ye's groundbreaking momentum was indeed to throw everything aside, and take his soldiers to walk out of a bloody road with their heads in their hands, but he lacked this courage, too forward-looking, and now his opportunity is in front of him, just across a city wall to the palace gate, he does not have the courage to make a desperate bet to seize the throne on the Xuanzheng Palace.

"Stand down." Qin Zhuang's expression was a little dazed, he didn't seem to remember what his original purpose was, as if all of a sudden, he had come to this point, at first his ambition was expanding, but along the way, it seemed that the emperor had forced his ambition to be huge, as if it would break at any time.

Outside the tent, there was the shouting of soldiers drilling, and the current Kishu army was as majestic as it was back then.

He Qin Zhuang, whether he led the troops or governed Jizhou, he did not lose Xiang Ye, their Qin family was only a slightly decent family in Jizhou City in the past, and they were not as noble as the Jizhou Royal Mansion for generations, and they could not enjoy the glory, wealth and excellent upbringing of Xiang Ye as soon as he was born. His sister Qin Wenyue used to envy the palace he looked up to, and Qin Zhuang also looked at it with the same eyes, he always felt that if he could have Xiang Ye's background, he would definitely be stronger than him. But that person turned out to be the emperor.

"Someone!" Qin Zhuang shouted, and immediately a soldier flashed outside the door. Qin Zhuang sat back at the table, spread paper and splashed ink, wrote a letter with enthusiasm, and ordered someone to send it to Qiangshui Pass quickly, but there was nothing else in the letter, it was to urge Shen Zhe to guard Qiangshui Pass, and he would desperately defend the imperial city.

In the blink of an eye, it is September, since the founding of the Great Qi Dynasty, for the first time to experience such a depressed autumn, the delicate autumn day has become a remnant sun in the eyes of people, and the autumn wind can not see the fallen leaves, the dry and fragmented appearance, which makes people tremble. Will this prosperous and rich capital soon fall into strife, will it become devastated? But outside the city, the Kishu army was guarded, and the people wanted to escape, but they didn't dare to escape.

Everyone, ministers, people, royalty and everyone in the harem were trapped in this city, and the news of the front became the last hope, but the light of hope was getting weaker and weaker. The atmosphere in the court is getting more and more weird, and some people even don't take the queen in their eyes, and loudly ask the queen to set up a prince or support the new king, and there will be ministers who will stop it, so there will be a dispute, and the Xuanzheng Palace is angry, but no matter how chaotic it is, the queen sits firmly on the top and does not say a word.

It's just that with the passage of time, Min'er's figure has become more and more obvious, and she knows that she can't hide it anymore, so on this day, Yunshang came to tell the Queen Mother in despair that Shen Zhe no longer replied to her flying pigeon biography, and when she didn't reply to the letter, Min'er chose to tell the Queen Mother and Yunshang that she had been pregnant for nearly six months.

The queen mother looked at Min'er's bulging belly in amazement, her mother-in-law didn't find out for a few months as if she was blind, and then thought back to the past few days, the queen faced the courtiers alone, faced all the pressure, and she only hid in the longevity palace crying and sad, she lived three times the age of Min'er, and lived in vain.

"I'm a useless person, but no matter what, even if you take your last breath, my mother will accompany you." The Queen Mother took Min'er's hand and said, "Even if you risk this life, I can't let anyone bully you, if Ye'er really can't come back, I can only do this last thing for him." ”

Min'er had red eyes, endured her sadness, and smiled slightly: "The emperor will definitely come back, Queen Mother, the most important thing you can do for your sons is to take care not to fall." I am the queen of Daqi, and I will never fall until the last moment. Although the emperor's life and death are uncertain at the moment, even if the hope is getting smaller and smaller, it is better than no hope, at least for a year and a half, the queen mother, you have to support me, no matter what, you can't set up a new monarch, let's wait for the emperor to come back. ”

The Queen Mother nodded again and again: "Min'er, I listen to you, I listen to you for everything." ”

In the Anle Palace, Concubine Shu drank the medicine and recovered a little bit of spirit, only to find that no matter how deep the sadness and pain will disappear with time, it has only been half a month, Concubine Shu is already stronger than at the beginning, she does not know how to deal with the minister, and she has no leisure to take care of the Queen Mother, the most important thing at the moment is to keep the two sons. The queen did not let go of the crown prince or support the new monarch, Concubine Shu understood her wish to look forward to the emperor's safe return, and she also hoped so, but if it was delayed any longer, it would mean different.

Concubine Shu sighed slowly, she silently set a deadline for herself in her heart, but she didn't expect that Er Zhen would come to tell her at this moment that the queen was pregnant and would be six months old.

"Six months?" Concubine Shu can hardly remember what has happened in the past half a year, she will see the queen almost every three or five days, the palace people in the Shangyang Palace have come in and out, and no news has been revealed for six months, how is it possible?

"Liar, nonsense." Concubine Shu Guifei trembled coldly, and looked at Er Zhen a little sluggishly, "Then the emperor should have known that she was pregnant before he set out on the expedition, and the emperor left her to go to war?" ”

But for no reason, Concubine Shu Guifei could not convince herself and anyone to believe that this was a lie, Er Zhen said that the palace people in the Longevity Palace had seen the queen's belly, and the queen mother even touched the child in the queen's belly churning, and the queen mother was now in good spirits.

Outside the door, Xiangwei stood under the window with tea, and could vaguely hear the movement inside, she continued to wait under the eaves with tea, and then Er Zhen went out to see it, and didn't feel inappropriate, just ordered: "You don't have to send it in, Niangniang doesn't want to eat anything now, you stay here carefully, I'll come when I go." ”

Er Zhen is going to the Tai Hospital to inquire and see what the situation of the queen is, in her opinion, there is no need to do this, but Concubine Shu wants to know, and she can't do it. After Er Zhen left, Xiangwei glanced into the door, and saw Concubine Shu sitting at the table, holding the edge of the table tightly with one hand, and her slender nails made hideous marks on the lacquer.

This kind of situation passed around to Qingya's ears, and she calmly passed it to the queen, sure enough, Concubine Shugui couldn't accept that the queen was pregnant, but this is also normal, she has been working hard for her son's future, and now that the emperor is gone, she has to keep the future for them.

However, if the queen gives birth to a prince......

The news of the pregnancy spread, and many ministers who supported the establishment of the second prince expressed their suspicions that the queen was probably deliberately fabricating lies in order to continue to delay time, how could it be that the six-month pregnancy had just been discovered, but now the queen blocked the road of the queen mother, and several Xiang royal relatives who were used by the ministers couldn't even enter the door of the Longevity Palace.

Unconsciously, the court changed from the sad atmosphere of the emperor's disappearance to another situation, several forces twisted together and difficult to distinguish the winner, the queen seemed to be alone and helpless, but her momentum sitting on the Xuanzheng Hall could not be shaken.

But in the end, some people can't stand this aggrieved and distorted situation, the day before the Double Ninth Festival, in the autumn rain and bleak night, the capital is in chaos, the imperial city is in chaos, nearly 2,000 soldiers and horses broke into the imperial city, seeing people killing people and splashing blood in the palace, even if the palace guards resist to the death, they will soon occupy the Xuanzheng Palace.

The majestic city was unexpectedly vulnerable, Qin Zhuang, who woke up from a dream outside the capital, learned the news, and hurried to stop it, but it was too late, his lieutenant stood in front of the palace gate covered in blood to greet him, and his hand stained with human blood pointed to the golden throne and shouted: "Long live the emperor!" You see that this matter is not difficult at all, I will say that Xiang Ye has withdrawn all his troops, and the entire palace is an empty shell, otherwise why would he want us to travel thousands of miles to protect the capital? ”

Your Majesty, just two words shocked Qin Zhuang's heart, he didn't expect that he would not be able to bear the weight of these two words, he said coldly, "Shut up, it's not time yet." ”

The deputy general smiled hideously: "We haven't attacked the harem yet, lord, I heard that the emperor's women are like immortals." ”

Qin Zhuang said solemnly: "Enough, you must not act rashly." ”

Things have developed to this situation, Qin Zhuang has no way to retreat, and after piercing this layer of paper, he seems to have no scruples. Holding the sword tightly in his hand, he looked at the night sky of the black hole, and said coldly: "Hold all the exits of the imperial city, but you are not allowed to touch a person in the harem, and you are not allowed to kill the palace maids and eunuchs again, I will not spare the violators." ”

After that, he sent people to arrest a few ministers who opposed him on weekdays, and spread the news to cover up the truth of his soldiers forcing the palace, lying that someone was trying to rebel, and he came to the side of the Qing monarch, and he came to protect the palace.

But the bloody breath has already spread to the harem, the concubines have already been in chaos, the queen mother's longevity palace is closed due to news, Min'er has long told the palace people not to scare the queen mother at will, and it is still stable.

Min'er sat in the Shangyang Palace, holding the tiger talisman that Xiang Ye had left for her early in the morning, he said that the person who saved her would fall from the sky, and he said that she would never fall into danger.

Qingya has experienced the affairs of other people's lives in this life, watching the fall of the Zhao imperial court, watching the rise of the national fortunes of Great Qi, watching the love and harmony of the emperor and queen, and watching their children be born. Now, she will accompany the queen to face the fate of a country and the royal family.

She calmly arranged for the palace people to deal with the disturbances outside the Shangyang Palace, carefully prepared the fetal medicine of Imperial Physician Chen, and brought it to the queen steadily. Min'er drank it silently, wiped the corners of her mouth with a handkerchief and asked, "Has Qinzhuang arrived?" ”

Qingya nodded: "I am already in the Xuanzheng Palace, I just sent someone to ask if the queen is okay, saying that it is late at night, and he should not enter the palace." ”

Min'er said coldly: "Are the guards of the Forbidden Palace really so vulnerable? Qingya, don't you think it's strange? ”