Chapter 504: Lu Cong's death
Qiu Yan was imprisoned for several days, and lost half his life under torture.
On the fifth day, it was late at night.
The jailers in charge of guarding the cell were drowsy, and the cells were eerily quiet.
Another team of jailers arrives in the cell and wakes up for a changing of the guard.
After the handover was completed, the new arrival was replaced by a jailer, and one of them quickly came to Qiu Yan's cell, took out the key and opened the door.
Hearing the movement, Qiu Yan, who had been tortured a lot, was covered in injuries and couldn't move, and turned around.
It turned out to be Qiu Yan's subordinates, another young eunuch, who entered the cell. Qiu Yan was left by Lu Cong's side, and he was also a little powerful, and he privately encircled other eunuchs to establish his own connections. The person in front of him is the one who has received a lot of benefits from Qiu Yan and is the most loyal to him.
The young eunuch's name was Hu Fan (Hua), and when he came in, he saw Qiu Yan's tragic situation, and couldn't help gritting his teeth: "These damn prison officials, how dare they treat you like this?"
When Qiu Yan saw Hu Xuan, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief and replied softly: "It has nothing to do with them, they are all instigated by Taichang Lu Lian!"
Hearing this name, Hu Xuan was immediately deflated, because Lu Jian was Lu Cong's younger brother. The emperor's own brother, how dare he complain? So he whispered to Qiu Yan: "The little ones have already been beaten, and these are our people outside. Later, one of our men will bring a death row inmate of your size and replace you with you. When you get outside, you'll burn him in prison under the pretense of taking water, and you'll never recognize it!"
"You're too bold!" Qiu Yan's eyes widened when he heard this, "Also, how can you have the connections and money to buy off so many jailers?"
"I don't know!"
"What do you mean you don't know?" Qiu Yan asked him suspiciously.
"You're in a big prison these days, and the little ones are in a hurry, but there's nothing you can do. Hu replied, "Who expected that the night before yesterday, someone suddenly knocked on the small window and threw in an envelope. Inside the envelope was a list and a treasure map. There are names and a stamp on the list that say that villains can visit these people and get their help. As for the treasure map, a large amount of gold and silver were dug up, and this thing was dug up!"
Hu Fan took out a gourd from his arms as he spoke, and handed it to Qiu Yan.
Qiu Yan took the gourd tremblingly because of the pain all over his body, opened the lid and found that it was full of gold pills, and instantly understood: "Is there a rumor about this matter?"
"The little one is not stupid, how can such a secret be told to outsiders?" replied Hu Fan, "except for the villain, no one knows." ”
"Very good!" Qiu Yan relaxed, "What about the list, who are available?"
Hu Fan fumbled around for a while, took out a list and handed it to Qiu Yan: "To be honest, the little one was shocked to see these names! ”
Qiu Yan took the list, carefully examined it by the light of the torch, and showed a look of joy: "Great! If the list is correct, the situation can be reversed!"
"What do you mean......?"
"If these people can really help, we can easily rescue Your Majesty!" Qiu Yan said excitedly, "With Your Majesty here, you would rather administer justice for me." ”
"Then what are you waiting for? please leave here with me, and the death row prisoner will be here in your place. Hu Fan glanced back outside.
"After the death row inmates are in, don't rush to do it yet. Qiu Yan commanded, "If I can rescue Your Majesty, I will be fine." If this matter can't be successful, Lu Jian won't let you and me go, and when the time comes, you should use a stand-in to fake your death to escape!"
"The little one understands!"
With Hu Fan's help, Qiu Yan successfully left the cell and replaced himself with a death row inmate.
After coming out, Hu Fan hid him in his home, and then according to Qiu Yan's instructions, he went out at night and quietly contacted the people on the list.
The list turned out to be true, and seeing Hu Fan hand over a secret letter printed in the shape of a dragon's claw and only writing an address, these people quietly rushed to Hu Fan's house to meet Qiu Yan.
Those who came here were all officials of the Liang State and had a place in the imperial court.
Among them, the highest status is the prime minister's chief official, who assists the prime minister in handling various government affairs, and it is really surprising that such a person is involved.
The other officials were civil and military, and they had their own identities in the DPRK and China, and they were distributed in different positions.
Qiu Yan was actually quite surprised to see these people, but he didn't expect that all the officials on the list were really secretly formed.
Surprised, he said to the officials: "You must be strange, why I should have been in prison, and why I came here and summoned you so late at night! However, there are very important things to discuss with you at the moment, and I would like to ask you to put aside your prejudices and work with me to rescue Your Majesty!"
These officials looked at each other, and the highest-ranking prime minister stood up: "Although I don't know why you are here, this secret letter is from you?"
As he spoke, he took out the secret letter thrown by Hu Fan.
"Exactly!" Qiu Yan replied weakly as he lay on the bed, raising his head.
"In that case, I have something to say!" the prime minister nodded and said, "Although I don't want to be with you, we have no choice." ”
Obviously, these civil and military officials with reluctance on their faces must have some trick to be caught. The one who secretly casts the list will secretly control them, so that they cannot resist.
If I didn't guess wrong, those people belonged to the same forces as the people Qiu Yan knew.
Qiu Yan doesn't care who those people are, what their origins are, as long as they are beneficial to themselves and can help them turn the tables, the rest doesn't matter!
Thinking of this, he said to everyone: "The queen and Taichang Lu Jian imprisoned Your Majesty, and the following crimes were committed! We must not sit idly by and watch them seize power and be disrespectful to Your Majesty! I hope that you will be able to do your best to help your Majesty, make concerted efforts to rescue Your Majesty, uphold the right government, and uphold justice! Although the Empress is too often to confuse the officials for a while, the majority of the ministers in the court and the central government will inevitably obey the emperor's orders. As long as Your Majesty is out of control, you will certainly be able to reverse the situation! This matter is not difficult to say, but it is not easy to say, but you dare to give it a try? If it is successful, it will be all thanks to Your Majesty, and the future will be immeasurable!"
These ministers of civil and military affairs thought to themselves, "How can we have a choice?" and they agreed.
Everyone draws up a plan together, taking into account the role that their respective positions can play.
Those who have connections can persuade several guards of the palace to help, those who have the right to enter the palace can secretly bring others into the palace, and there are other conveniences in various departments, as long as they are useful for the plan, all are properly arranged.
The main thing is that the palace did not know that these people would unite.
After the plan was formulated, Qiu Yan was unable to participate because of his injury, so he was replaced by Hu Fan.
Everyone was in place and moving overnight.
Lu Jian didn't expect that this kind of thing would happen at the feet of the Son of Heaven in Miliang City.
I thought that the palace was very safe, and including the queen, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty supported themselves, and really wanted to save the imperial brother and help him get rid of drug addiction.
But I didn't expect such a show.
While he was asleep at home, these officials took advantage of different conditions such as position convenience and connections to successfully infiltrate the palace and find the palace where Lu Cong was placed under house arrest.
A military general pretended to pass on Lu Lian's order, deceived the general guarding here, stunned him while he was unprepared, and quickly controlled the scene with his soldiers and horses.
All went well, Hu Fan pushed open the door and entered the palace, and soon came to the bedroom bed.
Lu Cong fell asleep very soundly after taking the medicine, and he couldn't wake up when he called it.
So Hu Fan asked people to wrap him up and carry him out carefully.
Through the joint efforts of all the officials, the sleeping Lu Cong was soon sent outside the palace and hidden in Hu Fan's house.
They also controlled several key places in the palace to ensure that the news would not leak, at least not be known to outsiders before dawn.
As for after dawn, as long as Lu Cong wakes up, everything is easy to say.
Even if the Empress and Lu Chuan were furious when they learned about this, these people would have confidence by Emperor Lu Cong's side.
After all, Lu Cong was the real emperor of the Liang State, and his prestige was very high. Being treated like this by the queen and Lu Jian must have been quite angry.
Now that he is free, and with the support of so many civil and military officials, when the time comes, he will confront the empress and Lu Lian, how dare other civil and military ministers in the DPRK and China openly oppose the emperor?
The final result must be that Lu Cong regained control of the situation, and they who assisted the emperor in regaining power must be reused.
Qiu Yan was also relieved when he saw that Lu Cong was rescued.
The civil and military officials present did not dare to go home to rest, and each summoned his subordinates and private soldiers to surround Hu Fan's house, even if there was an emergency, they could ensure that the other party could not easily take away Lu Cong.
Several key places inside the palace were also controlled, and others didn't know what was happening, and the general who was in charge of guarding Lu Cong was knocked unconscious, and his subordinates were controlled together, and they couldn't ventilate the news.
It wasn't until the early morning of the next day that the queen went to visit Lu Cong's palace early in the morning and found out that something was wrong.
Immediately summoned Lu Jian and told him that the emperor was missing, that the general and his soldiers who were in charge of guarding him were imprisoned, and that another army was guarding here.
Lu Jian hurriedly appeared with his own soldiers and confronted the other party. Later, he learned that Lu Cong had left the palace at night, and as for where he went, the other party avoided answering. The two sides were at a stalemate, and the palace was soon divided into two forces, and the confrontation became even more serious.
The queen ordered the other party to lay down her arms in her capacity and explain where Lu Cong was. The other side said that they only obeyed the emperor's orders, so the confrontation went further.
On the other side, Lu Cong woke up at Hu Fan's house and couldn't figure out the situation.
After seeing Qiu Yan, he knew that he had been rescued from the palace, and there were many civil and military generals who did their best to help. These are not what made him the happiest, when Qiu Yan took out the gourd and handed over another batch of gold pills to Lu Cong, the emperor who had been cut off for several days was so excited that he was unimaginable, while praising Qiu Yan's loyalty, as well as the loyalty of the civil and military officials present, he hurriedly devoured the gold pill to make up for the "loss" caused by the broken gold pill these days.
Qiu Yan and the civil and military officials on the scene thought that he would only eat one, and when the medicine was over, he would be able to do so, and then take everyone into the palace to control the situation and reverse the situation.
No one thought that Lu Cong had not taken Jindan for several days in a row, and this time was very difficult. Now that I finally got the golden pill, I thought that after being broken for so many days, if I can't make up for it all, what if I can't build a foundation in 7749 days?
As a result, I ate five or six pills in a row according to the number of days in one go, and my subordinates couldn't stop it.
Later, because of the effect of the drug, he gradually fell into hallucinations, and the situation was completely different from before, almost insane.
Everyone was frightened and hurriedly sent someone to summon the imperial doctor, but when the imperial doctor arrived, Lu Cong had already bled and died.
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