Chapter 299: The chaos has subsided
Gu Tingjun stood on the city wall, looked at the soldiers below, and said loudly: "Li Changlong has been captured alive, and your leader Qi Shitong has also been captured alive, you don't have to resist stubbornly, Your Majesty doesn't know about Li Changlong's viciousness, you are completely unaware of it, Your Majesty has an order, and anyone who surrenders will be spared from death!"
The soldiers below looked at each other, and as the first person threw away the weapons in his hands, then all the weapons in the hands behind him were thrown away!
Gu Tingjun nodded, and then the gate of the east gate was opened again, and the forbidden army ran out with spears in hand, collecting all the weapons of the surrendered defenders, and the defenders held their heads in their hands, waiting for the next move.
Seeing this, Gu Tingjun came down from the top of the city tower, glanced at Li Changlong coldly, and said, "Your Highness, at this point today, you are self-inflicted, and you can't complain about others!"
"I am willing to lose the bet, this palace has nothing to say!" Li Changlong sneered, "If it weren't for you villains surrounding your father's side, how would this palace be where it is today? But this palace doesn't understand, why do you know about this palace's plan, how do you know that this palace will go through the east gate, and how do you know that the gate of the east gate will be opened? Could it be that Qi Shitong betrayed this palace!"
"Your Highness has misunderstood. Gu Tingjun smiled faintly, "Qi Shitong said to you that you are loyal! In the second half of last night, I sneaked into the palace with Tang An, and it took a lot of effort to capture him, he is worthy of being a general in the hands of His Majesty, a good kung fu, but unfortunately one wrong step is wrong, and that good kung fu is no longer useful!"
"Since Qi Shitong didn't betray the main palace, how did you know about the plan of the main palace?" asked in a cold voice.
At this time, the King of Chu pressed Qi Shitong and walked out slowly, Li Changlong's eyes widened in surprise, and he gritted his teeth and said: "It's you! You actually betrayed the palace, and all the plans of the palace were leaked out!"
"Your Highness is wrong!" Gu Tingjun said, "The King of Chu has never betrayed His Highness, because the King of Chu has never known Your Highness! Back then, His Majesty gathered several young people and entrusted the future of the Great Zhou to us, one of which was the King of Chu, and following His Highness was just part of our plan." ”
"I see! I see!" Li Changlong sneered, "It turns out that this palace is not a bad move, and this palace has already lost!"
"If His Highness hadn't been so impulsive to kill Marquis Xuanyuan, maybe His Highness wouldn't have been defeated so quickly. Gu Tingjun said lightly, "I have already said that everything is your own doing, Your Highness!"
Li Changlong's eyes rolled, and he suddenly raised his eyes and said, "All this is your conspiracy! That Xiangxue, that Xiangxue is your person, right!"
Gu Tingjun nodded and said, "If it weren't for His Highness's deep grudge against Zheng Peiquan, all this would not have happened at all. ”
"Gu Tingjun, you are good, you are good!" Li Changlong's lips flashed with a sneer, "Father, this palace wants to see him!"
"Let's go, Your Majesty is also waiting for Your Highness now!"
The Temple of Nourishing the Heart.
Su Tang'an accompanied Emperor Zhou's side, the queen knelt on the ground with her hair scattered, and although the corpse of the Heart Cultivation Hall was carried down, the blood stains had not yet been cleaned up, and there was a faint smell of blood floating in the air.
Just when the queen estimated that Li Changlong was about to lead troops to break through the palace, the queen came to the palace of Yangxin to ask to see Emperor Zhou.
Emperor Zhou didn't plan to see her, but she claimed that she had something to report about the Great Zhou Jiangshan Sheji, so Emperor Zhou let her in.
After the queen entered, she first cried, reflecting on what she had done over the years and was not worthy of being the mother of a country, and then talked about everything the prince had done wrong, and she burst into tears.
Emperor Zhou was not a ruthless person in the end, and personally helped the queen to get up and speak, but he didn't expect the queen to want to assassinate, because it involved the secret affairs of the royal family, there were no guards around.
What the queen didn't expect was that although there were no guards in this house, there was a person hidden behind the screen, and this person was Su Cheng'an.
Seeing the queen's assassination, the silver needle in her hand shot out, the dagger in the queen's hand fell to the ground, and Emperor Zhou let the guards in with a cold face.
"Do it!" the queen screamed.
As her words fell, there was a sound of shouting and killing outside, the queen has not done it for nothing all these years, and naturally she has cultivated a lot of her own henchmen. The queen expected that things might not go so smoothly, so she wanted to use her hidden power in the palace to kill Emperor Zhou by surprise.
"Since I have been prepared for a long time, you know that your conspiracy will not succeed, so why do you want to kill more?" Emperor Zhou said coldly.
The queen slumped to the ground, and laughed maniacally: "Do you know how long I've been waiting for this moment? Do you know how long I've been patient with you? Even if I know that the end is death, even if I know that I am not your opponent, so what, even if it is a 1 in 10,000 chance, I will try! Don't be too happy, my son is about to come to save me! When the time comes, none of you will be able to escape, and you still have your daughter with that slut!"
Su Tang'an smiled disdainfully: "If you mean that Li Changlong and Qi Shitong should be together, then you may be sorry, Qi Shitong has already been taken down by us!"
"What!" the queen's face changed drastically, white as a piece of paper, "then what to do, my son, my son is in danger!"
She got up and hurriedly ran outside, wanting to inform Li Changlong that there was danger here, the plan had failed, run, leave the capital quickly, leave this dangerous place!
But as soon as she opened the gate, two guards stopped her, and one by one her people outside were killed by the Forbidden Army, and fell to the ground covered in blood.
The queen's face turned pale and retreated, she collapsed to the ground, she suddenly knelt in front of Emperor Zhou like crazy, kowtowed and begged for mercy: "Your Majesty, everything is the fault of the concubine, it is the concubine who instigated the prince to act, and the prince is forced to be helpless! Your Majesty wants to kill or chop, the concubine has no complaints, beg Your Majesty to spare the prince's life for the sake of the love between father and son!"
"I've told you I've been giving you a chance, but unfortunately, you've never cherished it. Emperor Zhou said coldly, "Everyone should be responsible for what they do, and you should anticipate the bad outcome when you are doing this, so you should be clear about what will happen to you." ”
"Hahaha!" The queen sat on the ground and smiled bitterly, "Haven't our mother and son been forced by Your Majesty to this day?" Your Majesty asked yourself, why did Your Majesty give our mother and son a chance, isn't this the only way out for us? Your Majesty has already decided in your heart that the abolition of the crown prince will be abolished, and Your Majesty knows better than anyone what will happen after the abolition of the crown prince, if we don't let go, our fate will be just as miserable, maybe there will be a chance......! Your Majesty! All of this is caused by you, and it's all your fault! Not that you have never been a good husband and father, or even a good emperor! Falling in love with you is the most wrong thing I have ever done in my life!"
At this time, I saw Gu Tingjun and King Chu pressing Li Changlong inside, Li Changlong saw that the queen was already here, hurriedly entered, knelt down and said: "Father, all this is the fault of the son, the son will not argue for himself, but this matter has nothing to do with the queen mother, she doesn't know anything, please don't anger the queen mother!"
"What a mother and son!" Emperor Zhou smiled coldly, "Because of the ambition of your mother and son, I don't know how many innocent people died today!
"Father!" Li Changlong laughed miserably, "Since I was a child, when did you ever treat me as your son? The second brother will be praised by you no matter what he does, and I, no matter what I do, I will not get your approval! Why! I am the eldest son, and the position of the crown prince should have been mine, but father, you want to train a second brother to compete with me for the position of the crown prince, do you know that I have been living in fear of being defeated and replaced? I have never been at peace! Even though I became the crown prince, my father had the idea of abolishing the prince in his heart, and he gave it to me and took it back, do you know that this makes me even angrier than you never made me the prince!"
He smiled and said, "So far, I am willing to gamble and lose, I will lose, and I will be convinced." But I killed the Marquis of Xuanyuan, and I got rid of the big trouble for your father, and I can be regarded as doing something for my father, I only need a son, he was not born to Zheng Peilan, but to one of my servants, the child is innocent, I beg my father to let him live, let him be an ordinary person for the rest of his life. ”
"I will allow you. Emperor Zhou said in a deep voice, and then returned to his position, "Come on, the prince and the queen have rebelled, the crime is current, the crime is unforgivable, take away all the titles on the two of them, go to the prison, and wait for the fall!
"Yes!"
The queen and the crown prince were taken down, Emperor Zhou sighed heavily, father and son cannibalism thought of the tragedy that everyone did not want to see, he took a look at the three people present, and said: "This rebellion can quickly quell the chaos, the three of you have made great contributions, I will talk about meritorious deeds again, you go down first, I want to be quiet." ”
"Yes. Gu Tingjun hugged his fists, and then the three of them walked out of the gate of the Heart Cultivation Palace.
"I didn't expect that the King of Chu would be His Majesty's person. Su Tang'an said, "If there is no King of Chu this time, I am afraid that we will not guess that Qi Shitong will collaborate with the enemy to betray Your Majesty, if the east gate is really opened, I don't know how many people will die in this dispute." ”
"Everything is for the sake of the Great Zhou. The king of Chu said, "Although this king is His Majesty's person, but when he follows the prince's side, he is also sincere, if he is a person with great ambitions, this king will always assist him, but it is a pity that he is arrogant, arrogant, and narrow-minded, and it is difficult to take on a big responsibility, if this country falls into his hands, for the people of the world, I am afraid that it will be a disaster." ”