Chapter 164 The paper enters the lake and the fish moves, and the sleeves open and the people die
It only took one night, and the people who came down from Dadong Mountain dealt with everything, and for the first time in the history of Qingguo, the rebellion in the daylight ended miserably, at least the murder of the monarch, and there were no more waves, but everyone, including the emperor, was a little cold-blooded and slightly nervous waiting for the changes in Kyoto after a dozen rì.
The emperor was already very tired at that time, and getting rid of the two great masters of Kuhe and Sigu Sword was certainly the most gorgeous page in his life, but it also consumed too much of his strength and jīng god, especially after this long plan became a reality, some of the influence on jīng god made him at this time far less powerful than people looked like.
The current stage of his life was actually the weakest and most easily defeated time in his life, and yet no one noticed this, and no one dared to take advantage of it. Because in addition to surrounding Dadong Mountain and blocking the news, tens of thousands of state troops are also desperately chasing and killing the two forces of Dongyi City and Northern Qi that have infiltrated the border.
The tiger was napping, but he forcibly squinted his eyes, shining a cold light, and scared those characters who dared to offend him into the prey of the wolf bèi and fled, Uesugi Tiger was alone, but he wanted to take the bitter lotus north, naturally he was unable to do anything, and Yun Zhilan, who was temporarily presiding over the affairs of Dongyi City, although he was also a generation of swordsmanship, was not a master of the art of war, and he couldn't imagine that he could fight back at this time and seek some earth-shattering effects, which had nothing to do with courage.
The Supervision Yuan has also taken action, and the figures of the Three-Way Inspection Division, which had been transferred in advance, have been densely packed on every road from Higashiyama Road to Kyoto, and although Chen Pingping is in Kyoto, these subordinates under him still give full play to the powerful and glorious tradition of the Supervision Yuan, and have demonstrated extremely terrifying information blocking capabilities.
Whether it is Uesugi Tiger or Dongyi City, even if they can release a message on the way to inform the eldest princess who is far away in Kyoto, it is impossible to do it within a few rì, plus they take a detour to avoid pursuit all the way, and the truth of Dadong Mountain reaches Kyoto, which is ten times slower than usual.
The information transmission is inconvenient, but it brings great convenience to the emperor Chen Pingping.
At this time, Fan Xian was in the depths of the mountains and Yan Xiaoyi in the final battle, he didn't know what happened on Dadong Mountain, and when he successfully killed Yan Xiaoyi, entered the Song Kingdom, and then went south from Yanjing, the people who escaped from Dadong Mountain stood out from the mountains and broke into the sphere of influence of Dongyi City.
Fan Xian's luck was not good, he left Song a few days early, so he didn't hear the news, and not long after he entered the border of Qingguo, the commander of the Yanjing camp had already received a secret decree and secretly took over the leaderless expedition to the north camp, and at the same time forcibly cut off the border between the three kingdoms.
And what's even more amazing is that the people who went back from Northern Qi or Dongyi seemed to have subconsciously closed their lips, the little emperor of Northern Qi was already very late when he received the news, even if he sent a message to the eldest princess of the south, it was too late to change anything, and Dongyi City's four swords ...... This madman, who was seriously injured and about to die, for some reason, did not try to inform Li Yunrui in Kyoto.
The reason is actually very simple, once the news of the emperor's death reaches back to Kyoto, I am afraid that the civil strife in Qingguo will end before it starts, and Qingguo's national strength will not suffer any losses, which Sigu Jian is very unwilling to see.
In order to delay Emperor Qing's domination of the world, it may be more in line with the interests of Dongyi City to let the eldest princess know the news that the emperor is not dead - if the eldest princess can make a big fuss in Kyoto, Qingguo's national strength will be damaged, and the war will be a big one, without two or three years of hard work, Qingguo will not be able to recover his vitality and go out to fight.
Of course, Yanjing and Cangzhou have been strictly banned, and not long after Fan Xian entered Beijing, Kyoto was already closed, and even if Sigu Jian wanted to inform Li Yunrui, it was not so simple. The most terrifying thing is that Emperor Qing seems to even have a clear idea of Si Gu Jian at this time, and the hearts of the great masters are really so connected.
There is also one of the most critical issues, that is, Fan Xian's safety, as long as Fan Xian can successfully break through the pass of Yan Xiaoyi and return to Kyoto...... Sigu Jian thought about the future of Dongyi City, so he couldn't let Fan Xian die so early.
In the last rìzi of life, the great grandmaster needs to consider more, farther, and deeper, they lost the most crucial battle at the hands of Emperor Qing, but they left their hope in the future, and left it at that time, it seems that it cannot be what Dongyi City hopes for...... Fan Xian.
These are all things that will only happen after a dozen or so years, and Emperor Qingguo is not a computer of jīng secret, and he can only deduce the approximate possibility, but fortunately, the development of events is not too far from his analysis.
After disposing of the Dadongshan incident, he did not stay at the foot of the mountain, but went to the northwest overnight, arrived in Luozhou, entered the city in the early morning, and entered the governor's palace of Hou Yongzhi, the governor of Dongshan Road.
It was rì, the whole city of Luozhou was strictly banned, and the Jiangbei Luzhou army, which followed His Majesty to the north, was ordered to take over the important task of defense from the local state army, and more than a dozen ministers and eunuchs in the inner court controlled the entire governor's mansion.
The people of Luozhou City looked at Yiqiē in front of them in amazement, I don't know where so many soldiers with unfamiliar faces suddenly came, and the eyes of these soldiers were very unkind, they looked like wild beasts, and there was a faint smell of blood on their bodies, obviously they had just come down from the battlefield.
The soldiers patrolled the streets of Luozhou City, looking at the surrounding Qiē with jǐng timidity, bringing a sense of solemnity to the largest city on Dongshan Road, oppressing the ordinary people who no longer dared to whisper in the streets, and most of the time retreated into their rooms in fear, except for some necessary things.
In the Governor's Mansion on Dongshan Road, the Governor Hou Yongzhi knelt in front of the emperor, not so frightened, his face was just like ashes, and after kowtowing two heads, he didn't say a word, because he knew that he would die, but he didn't know whether he was going to be cut by a thousand knives or split the corpse of five horses, and from joining the plan of the eldest princess, he knew what the fate of failure was.
It's just that he didn't expect that His Majesty would crack the situation of Dadongshan so lightly, and before everyone had time to react, like a sharp arrow feather, pierced into the governor's palace and descended in front of him.
The emperor did not look at him, nor was there any disappointment on his face, because he knew that this minister, kneeling at his feet, would surely become the first governor to be executed in office in the thirty years of Qingguo, and he just counted the rìzi indifferently to see if he could leave enough time for his sister.
Luozhou City has become a dead city, no one can leave, even if the eldest princess buried her eyeliner in Dongshan Road, she didn't know what was going on in the Governor's Palace, and some people outside the city noticed the vision of the city and began to pass the news to Kyoto, but every time they traveled only a few dozen miles, they were killed by secret agents disguised as all kinds of characters by the Supervision Yuan.
Chen Pingping invested as much as forty percent of the manpower of the Supervision Yuan in these three directions, and it is no wonder that he was forced to lead the Kyoto garrison to fight guerrillas around Kyoto.
In this way, he waited silently in Luozhou City, estimating the time, the news of the emperor's death on Dadong Mountain should have been transmitted to Kyoto, and Fan Xian should have received the will, and the emperor's face in the governor's mansion of Luozhou City was slightly better.
After a few more years, the imperial court sent an urgent secret report from Kyoto to the Governor's Mansion of several roads in the world, especially the secret report to the Luozhou Mansion on Dongshan Road, which arrived at the fastest speed and began to question the truth of Dadongshan in order to confirm it.
The emperor went through the formalities of the governor's palace as a matter of course, confirmed his death, and then waited for the arrival of the imperial court's procession.
Second, the imperial court reported that the court was coming again, talking about the prince's affairs, and the matter of Yan Fan Xian's assassination, the major governors wrote one after another, and began to fight against the imperial court. Except for the governors of Jiangbei and Jiangnan, who knew the inside story well, the rest of the governors were purely from the perspective of a feudal official and a loyal minister of His Majesty.
Although the emperor did not receive the letter from the other governors, he probably knew what they would say, and at this time, he ordered someone to bring out Hou Yongzhi, the governor of Dongshan Road, and slowly spoke: "I chose seven of you to guard the world for me, and the six of them did not disappoint me, but you are the only ......."
Hou Yongzhi was imprisoned for many days, he didn't know what to eat, he was already exhausted, he heard His Majesty's words, he didn't dare to beg for mercy in the slightest, knowing that His Majesty's departure from Luozhou was his own death, but he just kowtowed desperately, wanting His Majesty to spare his wife, children and mother.
The emperor looked at him indifferently and said nothing.
Before leaving Luozhou, Hou Yongzhi was given to death, his three sons and daughters were beheaded, and the entire governor's palace and the officials at all levels who were accused from the top to the bottom of the Dongshan Road were all hanged.
The emperor was not a person who was lightly angered, nor did he bother to torture Hou Yongzhi, who betrayed the imperial court, with those harsh punishments, and in his opinion, letting a person lose his life was only a necessary means for the king to grasp power, and had nothing to do with punishment.
On the sixth day after receiving the report of the crown prince's enthronement and Fan Xian's crime, His Majesty the Emperor, who was slowly marching from Luozhou to Kyoto, finally saw the procession that had come to greet him, of course, the original purpose of this procession was to welcome his body and soul.
After making contact with the imperial court's procession, the emperor indifferently ordered, and the brigade sped up a little and continued to approach Kyoto.
After a few more years, Kyoto was still far away, and the emperor did not know what the situation in Kyoto was today, Chen Pingping and his two monarchs and ministers, like two lonely ghosts on the field of Daqing, were constantly floating, and did not invest in the collection of intelligence.
It's just that these two lonely souls and wild ghosts cooperate too perfectly, and they seem too powerful.
A certain rì, the emperor passed by outside Xinyang City, looked at the strange city in the distance, was silent, and after a while, he looked back at the hearse dragged behind the team, and the big coffin in the car that he didn't know how heavy and how many layers there were, and the corners of his lips showed a hint of self-deprecation.
"Sue sù Yunrui. The Emperor spoke.
Eunuch Yao rode a horse and waited beside him, and quickly took out a pen and paper and listened carefully.
"I'm back. ”
The emperor spoke indifferently, then grabbed the belly of his horse, and rode through Xinyang before the brigade, heading for Kyoto in the distance.
―――――――――――――――――――― the strings have been broken, the flowers and trees have been broken, and Her Royal Highness the eldest princess, who is dressed in a neon dress, is standing by the lake of the Taiping Courtyard in a daze at this time, looking at the information he has just received in his hand, in a daze, and he didn't pay attention to Fan Xian, who was sitting not far from his feet.
From the beginning of the plan, she had gradually moved her forces from Xinyang to Kyoto, and this process took two years, including the dead Huang Yi and the still alive Yuan Hongdao, all from Xinyang's palace to Kyoto. However, after the thunderstorm night a year ago, the emperor and Chen Pingping only took half an hour to sweep away the power of the eldest princess.
Today's eldest princess is basically hidden behind the scenes in the rebellion, formulating the overall situation, and persuading the strong people in the world to make a move, on the one hand, because she is good at such a corner, and on the other hand, because she has to choose this corner, she controls the prince and the second prince, so if she controls the Ye family and the Qin family, she is skillful and extremely free.
But her own intelligence system had already received an extremely fatal blow, and in two or three years, she couldn't recover at all, so when she received the intensified report from Xinyang, she couldn't help frowning and feeling a little surprised.
This information is fake, Li Yunrui, who is the lord of Xinyang, naturally recognized it at a glance, but this information is true, or it is said that Xinyang has been completely controlled, so he can use his own channels to send himself an urgent secret report, who is it?
Li Yunrui was a little surprised, a little curious, and a little expectant, tore open the cover that was pressed with fire paint, glanced at it lightly, and then fixed his eyes on the letterhead.
There were only four words on the paper, but these four words made her look at them for a long, long time. The love contained in her eyes is very complicated, very complicated, these four words seem to be reflected in her dark and clear eyes, word by word, typed out, becoming the shrinking and opening of the pupils, the intensity and lightness of the eyes.
Her eyes were first intensely shocked, then faintly disappointed, then unprovoked anger, which immediately turned into a faint self-deprecating laugh, and finally fell like a stone into a lake, gradually turning into a calm.
It's just that in an instant, the most beautiful and ruthless woman in Qingguo, so many changes have occurred in her eyes.
Fan Xian watched her quietly, watching the changes in her pupils, not seeing the madness that frightened him, and his heart was a little relieved, but then he sighed and guessed what was written on the letter.
Even if the Ye family turned against the water and controlled Kyoto by themselves, it didn't make Li Yunrui so out of shape, then there is only one person in the whole world who can make her what she is now.
Li Yunrui lowered his head again and carefully tasted the four words on the letterhead: "I am back." ”
The handwriting on the letter paper is extremely strong, it is the handwriting of the emperor Xià, but Li Yunrui can see at a glance, this is the ghostwriting of the eunuch Yao, although His Majesty Xià is a very diligent king, but to lead such a large country, to deal with so many movements, there will still be some jīng divine shortcomings, and some harmless chapters are often handed over to Yao Gonggong for approval, over time, Yao eunuchs will also learn the handwriting of His Majesty Xià ninety, enough to hide from the ministers in the court and those imperial historians.
However, how much thought Li Yunrui put into his emperor brother, how could she not see the difference, but she did not suspect that this was a lie, and someone was using Eunuch Yao's handwriting to disguise that His Majesty was still alive.
Because she knew that four words like this were so simple and powerful, no one could have imagined that they would say such a thing except for His Majesty.
The meaning of these four words is very simple: I am back, I am still alive, you can do it yourself.
Two lines of tears slipped down from Li Yunrui's eyes for no reason, this is an indescribable emotion, which stimulated her tear ducts and made this woman who loved to cry in front of the Queen Mother cry out in this lonely Taiping Courtyard.
This is probably Emperor Qing's last message to his sister, the last words, Li Yunrui thought sadly in his heart, and didn't bother to write the last sentence himself?
His Majesty the Emperor definitely didn't expect that these four words would make Li Yunrui have so much affection, he just announced his return as an emperor, like a lion, and told the four fields that he had the supreme right to rule over the territory.
Fan Xian didn't understand why the eldest princess was crying, this crazy woman didn't have half a crazy look on her face, she just blindly sad, no matter what, he couldn't imagine that the eldest princess was angry and sad because the emperor didn't write these four words himself.
The Emperor and Fan Xian were undoubtedly wise people, but they still couldn't understand women, and for men, women were undoubtedly a completely different species, strangers from distant and unknown spaces.
............ Li Yunrui let go of her fingers weakly, and the paper fell from between her fingers, and was blown by the early autumn wind, and fell on the small lake in the middle of the Taiping Courtyard.
At a glance, Fan Xian saw those four words clearly, and his heart was shocked, although after the Ye family rebelled, he thought about the possibility that His Majesty was still alive, but at this time, he saw it with his own eyes and confirmed it with his own eyes, but he still couldn't stop being shocked, because he didn't know what was going on Dadong Mountain.
Since Her Majesty is still alive, the eldest princess is naturally defeated, although she said so before, but Fan Xian knows that if she can destroy all the powerful men in the world in one fell swoop, she will be most satisfied with her thoughts.
This news is the good news that Fan Xian has been looking forward to, if His Majesty dies, he is really worried about whether the Ye family will continue on this path.
Fan Xian clenched his fists excitedly, slowly stood up, and looked at Li Yunrui's back, worried about whether this woman would give any crazy orders under the stimulation of this news.
Li Yunrui clapped his hands lightly, and many masters poured around Xiaohu, Fan Xian glanced at it, and was not very afraid, these Xinyang recruits may be very terrible in the eyes of ordinary people, but they are not in his eyes at all, he is just worried about Wan'er and Dabao.
To Fan Xian's surprise, and to the shock of those subordinates, Li Yunrui looked calm and said slowly: "You all go, you are no longer needed here." She paused for a moment and said, "Hide your name, spend the rest of your life in peace, and don't think about ridiculous things like revenge." ”
Those subordinates were in an uproar, looked at the eldest princess with disbelievable eyes, and said bitterly: "Your Highness!"
From the moment Fan Xian stepped into the Taiping Courtyard, these people knew that there was a great problem with the rebellion in Kyoto, but they still had strong confidence in the eldest princess.
Li Yunrui just smiled indifferently, waved his hand, and said nothing more.
"Your Highness!" the subordinates knelt down at her up and down the hill and around the lake, refusing to leave, and some of them even cried.
Fan Xian looked at this scene in shock, although he knew that Li Yunrui had already had the idea of isolating himself from heaven and earth after the defeat, so he would send his subordinates away, but he really didn't expect that these subordinates would be so loyal to her.
He has very little contact with Xinyang, and he doesn't know how the eldest princess controls his subordinates, with the connivance of the emperor and the help of Chen Pingping, in the war against the eldest princess in the past two years, he has won more and lost less, and he can't help but have a little contempt for Li Yunrui.
But at this time, seeing those subordinates who wept bitterly and refused to leave, and felt everyone's loyalty to the eldest princess, Fan Xian vaguely understood something, such as why Her Royal Highness the princess could have so much power in the court, why she could persuade Kuhe and Sigu Sword to make a move, why she could control the crown prince and the second prince, and why...... This is just a feeling, he still doesn't know where the eldest princess's magic comes from, but he knows that this is definitely not an effect that can be achieved by peerless beauty, but unfortunately, Fan Xian didn't know it before, and now it seems that there is no chance to see the true ability of the eldest princess.
There was a cry all around, but the eldest princess who was by the lake frowned slightly, looked a little bored, and waved her hand again.
A leading official, looking at this scene, knew that the big thing was gone, wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, knelt down and kowtowed, and resolutely turned to leave. If one person leaves, many people will leave, maybe these people are not greedy for life and afraid of death, but since Li Yunrui has given an order, and His Royal Highness obviously doesn't like it, they have no other way than to leave.
In this way, only the eldest princess and Fan Xian were left in the entire Taiping Courtyard, although it was the same before, but Fan Xian knew that there were many people outside watching him, and at this time, knowing that those people had left, his heart felt even more lonely, looking at the thin shoulders of the eldest princess, he felt slightly confused.
Li Yunrui turned around slowly, his two hands were placed on his abdomen very elegantly, and his wide sleeves hung low, falling into beautiful and luxurious lines.
Her face is still smiling, but her eyes are exceptionally clear, she is no longer the ruthless character in front of the enemy, no longer the pseudo-coward who is often slapped and cried in front of the Queen Mother, and no longer the stubborn, angry, and sad sister under the iron palm of the emperor.
She is the eldest princess, she is Li Yunrui, the only one in heaven and on earth.
Li Yunrui looked at his son-in-law with a smile and said, "Knowing that Your Majesty is still alive, you don't seem to be as happy as I imagined." ”
Fan Xian bowed his head slightly and said, "Recently, a lot of people have died, and I can't be happy." ”
"So that's the case, it seems that you and your mother are really like ......" Li Yunrui laughed after being slightly stunned, stopped the topic with an inexplicable feeling, and asked lightly: "Have you ever thought about why the Qin family is opposed?"
Fan Xian frowned, she didn't understand the meaning of this sentence, and she didn't know why she suddenly mentioned the Qin family who had been driven out of Kyoto by the Dingzhou army at such a moment.
The eldest princess glanced at him with a slightly mocking gaze, then sighed, looking at the paper that had sunk to the bottom of the lake, the lake water of the Taiping Courtyard was extremely clear and shallow, and the white paper gradually spread out in the lake water, like a steamed bun sliced in the bubble, provoking countless red carp to come to fight for food, and the water was tumbling.
She watched this scene quietly and said, "Actually, we are all fish, but the things we are fighting for are not quite the same. I didn't get anything this time, I thought I would be angry and disappointed...... And I was really angry and disappointed, but in the end I found out that he was alive...... I'm happy after all. ”
Fan Xian was stunned for a moment, and then thought slightly, according to what the eldest princess said before, her life goal has been achieved, as for whether the emperor dies or not, what about it?
Then he saw a scene that frightened him.
Li Yunrui's face was calm and tranquil, and he slowly lowered his arms, and the wide sleeves of the light palace dress naturally hung down and spread out, as if a big drama had ended, and the actor walked out of the curtain for the last time to express his gratitude to the audience.
The final actor was not only herself, but also a black sè quenched dagger, which was deep in her lower abdomen, deep into the handle.
Fan Xian's heart trembled, and the whole person flew sideways, threw her to the ground, and reached out to her lower abdomen.