047: The battle for the throne
The apocalypse is a long way to Yueguo, and if you want to send spies to Yueguo again, it will take half a month at the earliest.
The city of Kyoto is still as lively, but the gate is heavily guarded, and cars and horses can only enter the city after being checked.
Rong Qing and Chen Jinlin did not enter the city after arriving in Yueguo, but stopped in a town ten miles away from Kyoto City.
Because it is not far from Kyoto City, the town is also very lively, and a team of officers and soldiers will come to the town every noon to check around.
Three days later, the Emperor was born, and the guards and killers who had been arranged in the city earlier were already lurking all over the city.
At the border of the Yue Kingdom, 100,000 Chen Guo's army pressed the border, and the army of the Apocalypse was already less than a hundred miles behind Chen's army.
Chen Guoda's general Yang Xiaoping has been on the border for many years, and his son Yang Jingyu is the vanguard, and he is leading a team of men and horses to stand by at the forefront of the army.
"Report!"
A small soldier ran into Yang Xiaoping's military tent in a panic and knelt on the ground.
"What?"
"The army of the Apocalypse is less than a hundred miles away from our army."
Yang Xiaoping waved his hand and motioned for the soldiers to retreat.
"General, fortunately, Rong Gongzi is clever, if the Apocalypse army sneaks up when we are fighting with the Yue army, our army will definitely be attacked before and after."
"There will be no fighting." Yang Xiaoping turned his back and looked at a map behind him.
Talking to him was his subordinate who had followed him for many years, Captain Lu Feng and Lu.
The secret letter that Yao Lie ordered to be sent to the border general of the Yue State was indeed ordered to join forces with the Apocalypse Army to exterminate the army of Chen Guo.
It's just that the secret letter has not yet been delivered, and the spy who sent the secret letter was intercepted by the killers of Lechuan Pavilion, and now the secret letter is in the hands of Rong Qing.
"What is Childe's plan?" Yuan Mo saw that he had been holding the secret letter for a long time and had not spoken, and asked.
"Please come Mr. Li." Rong Qing put the secret letter in his hand on the table.
Mr. Li is the shopkeeper of a calligraphy and painting bookstore under the name of Lechuan Pavilion, and he is very knowledgeable and can recognize the paintings of famous artists.
His greatest strength is his ability to easily imitate other people's handwriting, as well as engraving seals.
Yuan Mo went out for less than a pillar of incense, and took an old man who was about sixty years old. Wearing a green cloth robe, he looks ordinary, just like an old man in an ordinary family, and there is nothing special about it.
"The old man has seen the child!" After he entered the house, he respectfully saluted Rong Qing.
"You're welcome, sir."
Rong Qing handed him a piece of paper on the table, on which was written what Rong Qing wanted him to imitate, and there were two other secret letters.
One of them was written by Yan Yunluo to General Tianqi, and the other was written by Yao Lie to General Yue, and the content of the two secret letters was almost the same.
At night, Rong Qing stood alone by the window, the moonlight outside the window was bleak and cold, and the silence was a little terrifying.
Both secret letters have been delivered, using the falcon that is specially used to transmit messages in the Lethe Pavilion. The falcon is fierce and flies extremely fast and can prey on carrier pigeons.
In previous years, some secret letters from heaven in various countries were also lost in this way.
Both letters were sent to the barracks by spies disguised as spies by the secret guards of the Lechuan Pavilion.
The content was not what Yan Yunluo and Yao Lie had discussed before, but asked General Tianqi to hold his troops for the first time, and wait for Chen Guo and the Yue State army to reap the benefits of the fisherman when they were both defeated.
And what General Yue Guo received happened to be the same.
The reason why Yang Xiaoping said that he would not fight was because no one would make the first move, and everyone was waiting for the praying mantis to be a yellow finch after catching the cicada.
On the day of the birthday of the first emperor of the Yue Kingdom, the place where the Taimiao is located is heavily guarded, and there are guards everywhere, but several guards are pretended to be spies from the Lechuan Pavilion.
Yao Lie was very guarded, he was worried that something would happen today, so he had already ordered the people of the Imperial City Division to surround the Taimiao, and those who entered must be strictly checked.
However, there were originally some little eunuchs in the temple who had been doing sprinkling and sweeping here for a long time, except for major festivals or ancestor worship, almost no one would come to the temple, so even if it was changed, no one would find out, and no one would know that there was always a secret passage in the temple.
This is a secret passage that the emperors of the Yue Kingdom only knew, and the first emperor told Yao Yi before his death. At first, Yao Yi thought that building a secret passage in the temple seemed to be useless, but now it seems to be quite useful.
At this time, Yao Yi and Kang Zhishan hid in the secret passage with a team of killers from the Lechuan Pavilion, waiting for an opportunity to move.
As noon approached, Yaolie's car drove through the royal street and stopped at the gate of the Taimiao.
The civil and military officials followed closely into the Taimiao Temple, lined up in the courtyard in turn, and Feng Nianyan and Changxin Hou were also among them. The steward in the temple lit incense and distributed it to the officials by two little eunuchs.
The emperor can worship in the hall, and the officials do not need to enter the hall, they only need to kowtow outside the hall and then insert the incense in the incense burner at the entrance of the main hall.
Yao Lie knelt down in the hall, bowed down, and the little eunuch beside him brought the lit incense to him, and he got up and took it and was about to walk to the incense burner.
"How is the royal brother doing?"
Yao Lie heard the sound and looked at the door leading to the backyard on the right, it was Yao Yi. Several guards in the hall stepped forward to block Yao Lie, and an old eunuch shouted in a shrill voice, "There are assassins!" ”
There was a commotion after hearing this, and a few sharp-eyed people saw from the side door that the so-called "assassin" was Yao Yihou, and silently muttered, "Yes... It's the emperor. ”
The rioting crowd fell silent for a moment, and the ministers crowded to the entrance of the palace to look inside.
Yao Lie frowned, as if he didn't expect Yao Yi to appear in the Taimiao. He handed the incense in his hand back to the little eunuch beside him, and said with a smile: "It seems that my father has passed on to you not only the country, but also the way to escape if you lose the country." ”
There is a secret passage in the Taimiao, and his own son does not know it, but it is passed on to a wild seed. Yao Lie's heart ached, Father, Father, if you know, will you regret passing the throne to him?
"Imperial Brother..."
"You're just a wild seed of the Cao clan, isn't it a bit ridiculous to call me the emperor's brother?" Yao Lie interrupted him.
"You also have Cao's blood in your body." Yao Yi was a little sad, in the past, he loved his younger brother the most. Even if he became the emperor, the honor given to him was second only to himself.
"Do you think I'm willing?" Yao Lie was a little excited, his eyes were full of anger, and even his eyes were red, "Whenever I think of Cao's blood flowing on my body, I feel disgusted!" If I had a choice, do you think I would be willing to keep Cao's blood? ”
Yao Yi was silent, in fact, he didn't necessarily have to take the throne, if it was out of affection, he was willing to let him be the emperor, it would be regarded as compensation.
But since Yaolie ascended the throne, his mood has become increasingly violent, and some of the court and the court mentioned that taxes should not be overpaid in the previous court, and he actually drew his sword and beheaded that person in front of hundreds of civil and military officials.
Otherwise, when Feng Nianyan and Marquis Changxin said that they would support Yao Yi to seize the throne, there would not be so many courtiers to support it.
"If you are willing to work diligently and love the people, and be a good emperor, what if you let it be given to you? But you..."
"Let? Hahaha..."Yao Lie seemed to have heard some big joke, raised his head and laughed a few times, but his eyebrows and eyes were full of sadness.
Turning to look at the shrine in the hall where the tablets of the emperors of the Yue Kingdom were placed, "The world of the Yue Kingdom should be mine, why do you need to let it?" You're just a dove occupying a magpie's nest, and you really think of yourself as a true dragon emperor? ”
Yao Yi was silent.
"You have been inferior to me in everything since you were a child, but the queen mother never waited to see me. She helped you succeed to the throne just because you were the wild seed she had with Cao Fengrong... Hahaha, do you laugh at that? He turned his head to look at Yao Yi violently, and the anger in his eyes seemed to burst out of his eyes, as if he would burn all the filth he saw in front of him in an instant.
When the courtiers standing at the gate of the hall heard this, they were silent.
"If the name is not right, it is not right! You are not of the blood of the first emperor, how can you inherit the throne of the first emperor? He hooked the corners of his mouth, showed a mocking smile and said, "What do you say?" Cao Yi! ”
Yao Yi looked at him in disbelief, wanting to refute, but seemed to feel irrefutable.
"What if he is indeed of the blood of the Emperor?"