The "favor" of the Maharaja is very in place, and the Empress Dowager really began to pay attention to Huang Tao, in view of the fact that Yu Feng has not yet returned to the court, the task of secretly keeping an eye on the prevention was entrusted to the Xianwang who was temporarily in charge of Tianchawei, in fact, about this work Yu Feng and Wei Guogong A pair of Weng sons-in-law had already been carried out in private, so the Empress Dowager quickly got Huang Tao to quietly promote a lot of henchmen to occupy important positions in various ministries, even if it was shaken and could not be divided into guards to command such official positions, the same as the government, in the absence of the general commander, it is still not a problem to install some of the general banners.

The Empress Dowager was ashamed and frightened, and the undercurrents of Qianming Palace and Ci'an Palace gradually surged.

In October, the naturalization and then the war report, Wei Guogong transferred more than 20,000 border troops, together with Yulin Wei, personally led 30,000 Jingwei nearly 60,000 troops, and the Beiyuan army fought head-on, after a full five days, finally recovered and naturalized, killed 20,000 Beiyuan soldiers on the spot, and captured its generals alive.

The remaining troops of the Northern Plains withdrew, and Wei Guogong pursued behind, crossed the Yin Mountain, and took the Beiyuan Border Pass in one go, and is now besieging the Beiyuan Border City.

The Son of Heaven was overjoyed and praised, and for a while, the civil and military courtiers all felt that they were proud of their eyebrows, and urged them to insist on attacking the city.

Of course, the Empress Dowager has no excuses or reasons to stop it.

After this, the Son of Heaven is full of excitement waiting for another news of naturalization, now that the lost domain has been recaptured, the rest does not matter, it is time for Zhong Guangzhao to act according to the plan, assassinate Wei Guogong, and let him die in the territory of the Northern Plains.

The Son of Heaven is not an impulsive person, and he understands in his heart that it is difficult to control all the Jingwei by relying only on the Qin Party and Huang Tao, and even if Wei Guogong is transferred, the chance of winning a coup d'état is still less than fifty percent.

His plan was to wait for the Duke of Wei Guo to "die in battle", and ordered Zhong Guangzhao to move his division back to the dynasty to hand over the soldiers, and then ordered You'an to guard and naturalize and control the soldiers of the Ten Cities.

At that time, and then march to admonish, forcing the empress dowager to hand over power, without the suppression of Wei Guogong, Jingwei will inevitably fluctuate people's hearts, so that most of them can be controlled in hand, even if those people are just waiting, it doesn't matter, the use of the army is enough to attack the palace city.

Even if the Empress Dowager has the edict of the first emperor, as long as she loses the military talisman, and there is no Beijing guard, and she is suspicious, the Son of Heaven can justifiably regain sovereignty and detain the empress dowager in the harem, so that she will be "bedridden" and finally "die of illness" under her anger.

The pillar of the Su family has fallen, even if there is a faction of King Xian, but he is unable to compete with him, the orthodox son of heaven, once King Xian has the heart of rebellion, the local old department will also be afraid, and a few are willing to bear this rebellious crime?

If the father and son of the king know each other, they will be more good if they repent and surrender to each other.

The point is that Wei Guogong must not return, and must die on the battlefield.

The Son of Heaven thinks that Zhong Guangzhao still has a good chance of winning, because Wei Guogong is in the Ming, how can he prevent his subordinates from assassinating him.

Although Wei Guogong is brave, he may not be resourceful, especially the treacherous plan is already unguardable.

The Son of Heaven and Qin Huaiyu were both looking forward to good news, and they never noticed that the Empress Dowager had been deployed, and they were keeping a close eye on the Qin family's other garden where Zhou Zhong's father was placed, and they were also waiting for Lu Jianmi to arrive in Beijing and liquidate immediately.

In fact, the Son of Heaven didn't expect that Father Zhou was still alive in the world, in his opinion, the death of King Fu has been closed, even if there is a living mouth, it can't change anything, and when the situation in Jinyang is certain, then there is no need to worry.

This is also the reason why after Zhou Zhong disappeared, although the Son of Heaven was worried, he didn't feel much anxious.

Since the first emperor knew that King Fu was harmed by him, he was willing to pass it on to him, even if the empress dowager held this handle, she could not rashly announce it, otherwise, it would also question the decision of the first emperor.

When the coup was successful, the empress dowager was banned from the harem and could not be free, and Zhou Zhong was not a threat.

And Qin Huaiyu has long left Zhou's father behind, this person is nothing more than to prevent the Son of Heaven from crossing the river and demolishing the bridge, but it has no effect at the moment, so it will not distract Qin Huaiyu at all.

However, if he could contact Qin Ziruo, he would probably realize that something was wrong, but unfortunately, whether it was Qin Huaiyu or the Son of Heaven, at this juncture, he didn't think of the "female Zhuge at all" who was trapped in the court.

After the Winter Clothes Festival, the weather is getting cooler, winter clothes are added, and charcoal fire is warmed.

It was already late October, but there was still no secret report to the Son of Heaven.

The silver charcoal in the pan mantis carving furnace swallowed the fire, making the hall warm, but it made the Son of Heaven more and more impatient.

He had no intention of reading the stack of government affairs notebooks on the case, and after using the seal, he directly sent them to Ci'an Palace.

Counting the time, more than 20 days have passed, it stands to reason that Zhong Guangzhao has already started, if Wei Guogong enters the border city of Beiyuan and returns to Beijing, Zhong Guangzhao should return to Yulin Wei immediately, how can he have a chance to get off.

Could it be that something has changed?

Thinking of this possibility, the Son of Heaven was full of cold sweat, but the generals of the Northern Plains were taken captive alive, and it was difficult to guarantee that they did not know the true identity of the naturalized inner Ying, and if they were escaped by the Duke of Weiguo, they would be escorted back...... The consequences are unimaginable.

This is the key to a desperate victory, but there must be no accidents.

"Holy!" Suddenly, a voice came from afar, it was the voice of the confidant Eunuch Li.

The Son of Heaven stopped wandering and rushed out, and the porcelain bottle on the side of his clothes fell to the ground and shattered, and the Son of Heaven seemed to be unconscious.

"But there's a secret report from naturalization?"

Outside the high threshold, the Son of Heaven couldn't wait to ask Gonggong Li, who ran out of a hot sweat.

But without waiting for Gonggong Li to catch his breath, he snatched the wooden letter in his hand, turned around and went back to the study, opened the key cabinet with a "bang", took out the corresponding key and poked it open three or two times.

Tearing open the fire paint, the Son of Heaven almost held his breath and scanned the letter.

Slumped down.

Li Gongcheng looked at the pile of broken porcelain on the ground and was stunned, hesitating whether to let people enter and clean it, and suddenly heard a loud noise, but it was the Son of Heaven who swept the floor with pen and ink and paperweights on the imperial case.

Gonggong Li only felt a cold in his chest, and he regretted that he was too attentive, so he followed him in person.

Fortunately, the Son of Heaven didn't have time to get angry at this time, raised his blood-red eyes, and stared at Gonggong Li fiercely.

But before his henchmen knelt on the ground in panic, he gritted his teeth and ordered: "Edict, the right man will come and see you quickly." ”

Gu Yuwen and Chen Xiang "agreed", and after the time was free to persuade the Son of Heaven to be at peace and not to be impatient, he was gradually snubbed by the Son of Heaven, but fortunately, Gu Yuwen did not have dealings with the Ci'an Palace, and the Son of Heaven did not suspect that he was half-hearted, in fact, he was also overconfident that he held the handle that could make Gu Yuwen infamous, and he only thought that Gu Yuwen was too conservative and did not fit his mind, so the naturalization incident and the subsequent coup d'état seized power, the Son of Heaven excluded him, he was a civil official, in fact, he could not help the key, as for the public opinion orientation after the fact, There are many Qin parties, and it doesn't matter if you add or subtract one.

Therefore, at present, Gu Yuwen has "taken a back seat", and Qin Youcheng is the confidant of the Son of Heaven.

However, in view of the influence of Gu Yuwen and Su Ming on Hanlin Shuchang, they will have to rely on them to fight the Qin Party in the future, and the Son of Heaven has not completely given up on the two.

Even Senator Chen, the Son of Heaven actually has expectations, when the Empress Dowager falls, these people can only be used by him, the Chen family is the mother family in the end, the reputation is still there, and it has to be used more than the Qin family.

From this point of view, in fact, the Son of Heaven is not completely ignorant, let alone biased to listen to and believe, but it is a pity that he has a wrong mentality, deviates from the general direction and derails, and mistakenly underestimates his opponent - he didn't find the right opponent at all, and his threat is not Ci'an Palace at all, let alone the Weiguo Mansion, but Yu Feng, the king of Chu who has always been regarded by him as being able to be reined in.

Suspicious and overconfident, arrogant and arbitrary, too eager to take power alone, as a monarch, but the military and government are regarded as child's play, leading thieves into the house, trapping Zhongliang, the Son of Heaven has gone astray, doomed everyone to rebel and leave their relatives, and fall into a desperate situation.

If the Son of Heaven had been in step with the Ci'an Palace from the very beginning, and had listened to the last words of the Emperor Feng to govern steadily, Mo said that Yu Feng would not have two intentions for self-preservation at all, even if he was really ambitious, it would be difficult to cause the Ci'an Palace and the Son of Heaven to turn against each other, and it would be impossible to shake the throne of the Son of Heaven except for raising troops to rebel.

But it is also because of the suspicious and self-dictating nature of the Son of Heaven that he is destined not to allow others to get involved in power, even if that person is a grandmother and is under the edict of the first emperor.

Such a result is actually predestined early on.

At the end of October, when the days were shortened, and when Qin Youcheng hurriedly left the palace, it was already twilight and cold all around.

Qin Huaiyu did not notice that the end was approaching, and was "looking forward to the future" with several protégés and former officials, and he was still dreaming of leaning towards the government and the opposition.

You Cheng sent people away without saying a word, closed the doors and windows, and under the lights, his face was pale.

Qin Huai was foolish.

"Something is wrong!" You Cheng sighed: "Guangzhao secretly failed to assassinate Wei Guogong, but he was pretended to be Wei Guogong instead...... There is also Lu Jian, who actually followed the secret order of the Empress Dowager to investigate the case of naturalization and loss, and the general of the Northern Plains was forced to surrender because he was taken captive alive, and he confessed to You'an, and now our people are all captured by Lu Jian and escorted to the capital! ”

You Cheng didn't even finish speaking-Wei Guogong had already broken through the border city of Beiyuan and captured more than 30,000 soldiers and civilians, just waiting for the order of the imperial court and was about to return to the court.

Qin Huaiyu coughed violently, grabbed the placket of his clothes, rolled his eyes, and fell down directly.

The rescue was timely, and he was not directly scared to death, but he suffered a stroke and was inconvenient to walk.

There was chaos in the Qin Mansion.

And Zhong Guangzhao was detained, since the Son of Heaven can still get the secret report, of course Ci'an Palace learned the inside story one step earlier, the Empress Dowager has no doubts, and is sure that the loss of naturalization is caused by the Son of Heaven, it is simply beating her chest, and she can't immediately escort the Son of Heaven to the temple, and ask the ancestors and the ancestors for the guilt, so it is easy to be persuaded by the King Xian, and wait for the crime to be escorted to Kyoto before the public trial, such a thing happens, it can no longer be covered up and shamed, otherwise it will not be able to explain to the world!

If the Son of Heaven is still in power, of course he can't be punished, at most, the Qin clan will be wiped out, and the rule will be the first priority.

At this time, King Xian no longer "hid his secrets", and knelt down to deliver a direct advice: "The minister is only worried that the saint not only does not repent, but also does unrighteous things again, Huang Tao mobilizes his cronies to defend the nine gates, and he must have a plan." ”

"The mourning family is waiting for him to see how crazy he is, whether he is really disloyal, unfilial, and moral." The Empress Dowager gritted her teeth.

So he endured it until the Son of Heaven received a secret report from his cronies and knew that he was defeated.

has been cornered, and the Son of Heaven is also gritting his teeth and clenching his fists - even if the odds of victory are not good, he must fight hard!

He had no other way back.

It was necessary to master Kyoto before Wei Guogong returned to Beijing.

As long as he succeeds in this blow, he can be regarded as taking the lead, without Ci'an Palace, he is the only orthodox, even if Wei Guogong has a military talisman in hand, without a holy edict, he has no right to command the army, unless he wants to rebel.

The Son of Heaven sat on top of the empty main hall, in the dragon chair, his face extremely hideous.

Qin Huaiyu suffered a stroke that night, and the Son of Heaven was sick and bedridden the next day, and only the Empress Dowager presided over the Qianming Gate in the early dynasty, announcing the great victory of the border city of Weiguo Gong, but temporarily concealing the truth of the case of the naturalization of the courtiers.

The Empress Dowager obviously wants to wipe out all the traitors in the court.

He even took the initiative to care about Qin Huaiyu's illness, and allowed Youcheng to take leave to serve at home, of course, secretly ordered the Tianchawei to strictly supervise it, and not let the people in the Qin Mansion leave Kyoto privately.

There was even a secret order to let the old departments of Tianchawei, Su, and Chu take action to immediately arrest the clansmen and in-laws of the Qin clan who were local officials.

The Empress Dowager also expected that the Son of Heaven would not delay, the coup d'état was just around the corner, and the situation in Jinyang had been decided, and there was no need to be hypocritical and polite with the Qin clan's henchmen, so they would be directly arrested and punished on the spot.

Of course, when the Son of Heaven was ill, the Empress Dowager also cared for her, and strictly ordered the medical officers of the Tai Hospital to carefully diagnose and treat the dragon body.

Most people breathed a sigh of relief at the great victory of naturalization, not realizing that there would be a bloody storm.

Some people even rejoiced, thanks to the courage of the Duke of Weiguo, how long has it been, not only to capture the return, but even to capture the city of Beiyuan, seeing the Queen Mother so happy, the next New Year's Festival can also make people breathe a sigh of relief.

It's winter, and it's been closed for nearly a year, and whether it's a military official or a commoner in the market, they all hope to return to peace.

And the Son of Heaven is not seriously ill, which makes the hundred officials breathe again.

However, the weather is cold, and the Son of Heaven needs maintenance, so he asked the Quasi-Empress Dowager to temporarily take care of state affairs, and he himself wanted to move to Lingshan Tangquan Palace to live temporarily.

The Queen Mother was not worried about the Son of Heaven's illness, so she had to take care of it.

There are also concubines including the queen, and those with slightly higher grades will also go together.

There is nothing strange about this, the first emperor was so diligent, and in previous years, there were times when he went to Tangquan Palace to recuperate.

Now that the Empress Dowager is in the court, she is not worried about delaying state affairs.

The excuse is so reasonable, the Empress Dowager has no reason to refute it.

The Son of Heaven got his wish, "dragging the family with the mouth" and "the golden cicada came out of its shell".

Of course, at this time, he also thought that the Empress Dowager had already learned the truth about the loss of naturalization, but she couldn't bear it, and easily allowed him to leave the palace, she should have other plans, maybe she wanted to take him away, so as to plan a conspiracy.

Even if the Empress Dowager guessed that there would be a coup d'état, the Son of Heaven was ready to send an arrow at this time, otherwise when the Duke of Wei Guo returned, he would be even more dead.

It is necessary to fight head-on and fight to the death.

Even if you need to be cautious to ensure a successful blow, there is no need to be timid.

It's just that the Son of Heaven expects that the Empress Dowager will not notice that he has "secretly crossed Chen Cang" and is ready to force the palace.

If the Empress Dowager is defenseless, she has a chance of winning with one blow.