When Fan Hua stepped out of the gate, Fan Kuan had already instructed the coachman to drive the carriage to the door, Fan Hua was about to step into the carriage, when he heard a burst of neat footsteps, and a team of royal forest soldiers appeared in his field of vision, his heart shrank sharply, and his hands trembled involuntarily.

"Let's go!" Fan Hua instructed Fan Kuan.

An officer of the Royal Forest Army also saw Fan Hua, saw that he was about to get into the car, trotted all the way to Fan Hua, gave a military salute, and said loudly: "Lord Fan, please stay!"

"What's the matter?" Fan Hua asked with a gloomy face, and the prime minister's momentum completely exploded at this moment.

The Imperial Forest Officer shuddered involuntarily, but he still puffed up his chest and said loudly: "Lord Shoufu, the last general has received an order, there are assassins entering Xuancheng tonight, and they want to do wrong, and the upper guard is afraid that it will be unfavorable to all of you, so please don't leave the mansion for the time being." ”

Fan Hua sneered, "Assassins, jokes, I'm an auxiliary minister, how can I make a few assassins scared and don't dare to go out? Go away, this official has urgent official business, and it has delayed this official's major business, be careful of your head!"

The Imperial Forest Officer's head shrank, obviously forced by the other party's momentum, and took a step back, but he still said: "I'm sorry, Lord Shousuke, the order I received is to protect Lord Shousuke, and I must not let Lord Shoufu go out!"

"What do you want to do?" Fan Hua was furious, "Protect me, or imprison me?" Who is your boss, I'll let him get out of here immediately!"

The Imperial Forest Officer stood upright: "I'm sorry Lord Auxiliary, the soldier takes obedience to orders as his duty, please return to the house!" With a wave of his hand, the soldiers of the Royal Forest Army rushed up, and the carriage was already tightly surrounded.

Fan Hua closed his eyes heavily, two lines of old tears flowed, and now, he finally knew, what were these people waiting for?

"Master!" Fan Kuan called out in fear.

Fan Hua staggered out of the carriage and returned to the mansion step by step with heavy steps. Outside, the Royal Foresters had already surrounded the door.

Back in the study, Fan Hua didn't say a word, waved his pen, wrote several letters in a row, and then wrote them one by one. handed it to Fan Kuan and said, "Fan Kuan, find an opportunity to send these letters out, I have written the recipient on the envelope, I'm afraid it will be difficult for us to get out of the house." ”

After receiving the letter, Fan Kuan cautiously asked, "Master, what happened? How dare those Imperial Forest Soldiers come to block our door?"

Fan Hua leaned weakly on the back of the chair and spit out two words: "Mutiny!"

Xuancheng Imperial Palace outside the city and inside the city, is also a lantern, a joyful scene, although the lord of the country is thrifty, but the New Year's Festival, which is only once in a hundred years, is still not to be ignored, the Tailin Palace ladies are also elated, the New Year not only means that they can get double money, but also the rewards of each master will be extraordinarily more.

The lord of the country set up a family banquet in Xihe Palace, the harem concubines, the prince and the princess gathered together to celebrate the festival, between the year, it is rare to have such a time to get together, the lord of the country is in a good mood, the harem is below the queen, dozens of concubines and concubines are seated one by one according to their positions after saluting the lord.

The various dishes in the imperial dining room were served at a high price, and the lord of the country lifted the silver chopsticks, tasted them, and then smiled: "Everyone feel free!"

The imperial grandson sat on the right side of the lord, although he was just in his early tens, but his every move was already quite a little adult, his eyes did not squint, chewing slowly, and the two little princesses on the other side were still young, seeing the table full of delicacies, but they couldn't hold back, gobbling up a lot of food, obviously they rarely eat these things, and the lord couldn't help but feel a little sad.

"Eat slowly, eat slowly, there's a lot more!" The lord of the country glanced at the two little princesses lovingly, and lifted the silver book for the first time and gave the two little princesses a little food.

The two little princesses also knew etiquette very well, so they quickly stood up and said in a milky voice: "Thank you Grandpa Huang!" The lord of the country smiled and nodded, "Sit, sit." ”

It was already the beginning of the lanterns, the eunuchs rushed in, the huge ox candle illuminated the Xihe Palace, and the outside, the entire imperial city was also lit up at this moment, a golden wall of splendor.

The family banquet has ended, the lord and the concubines sit in the hall, talk and laugh at will, between the year, there is a rare family fun, the emperor is sitting on the side of the lord, listening to the conversation of everyone, and the two little princesses are still not childish, running around in the hall, laughing and playing.

There was a rush of footsteps outside the hall, the lord of the country was slightly surprised, and when he was surprised, Xuanhe, the commander of the palace guards, appeared at the door of the palace with a panicked face, and behind him, the great eunuch Wang Bao hurried over.

The lord's heart sank, something had happened, why did this Xuanhe not even wait for the eunuch to report, so he broke in.

"Your Majesty!" Xuanhe walked in quickly, saluted the lord of the country and the concubines, and didn't care that breaking into the palace like this was already a big exceedance, and asked urgently: "Your Majesty, the sudden large-scale transfer of the Imperial Forest Army in the outer city, I don't know if Your Majesty gave an order?"

The lord of the country, Huo Di, stood up: "What did you say?"

"The Imperial Forest Army in the outer city suddenly moved on a large scale, and the minister did not receive the edict, I don't know if it was ......" At this point, Xuanhe saw the face of the lord of the country, and he already understood that the emperor did not know, and his eyes were facing the lord of the country, and the sky became pale.

"Wang Bao, pass on the Xiao family master!" the country lord said sharply.

Although the concubines in the palace are not familiar with political affairs, but such a change, they also know what it means when they live in the deep palace for a long time, and the death-like silence in the palace shows a panicked look on everyone's face.

"Queen, you and a group of concubines go to the Zhonghe Hall to wait!" The lord of the country ordered: "Xuanhe, mobilize the palace guards to guard the inner city." ”

"Your Majesty, if the Imperial Forest Army is in turmoil, then it must be the Xiao family master, the palace guards have just added 10,000 people, and they are all selected from the Royal Forest Army!" Xuanhe said in a trembling voice.

The lord of the country took a deep breath and forcibly suppressed his mood, "Then mobilize the original palace guards, guards....guard the Taihe Palace, Zhonghe Palace, Xuanhe, and immediately order someone to ring the alarm bell to the left and right guards outside the city, and announce that they will enter the city to escort." ”

Xuanhe hurried away, and at this time, Wang Bao rushed all the way, "Your Majesty, I can't find the head of the Xiao family, and the commander of the Praetorian Guard is not in the palace." Outside the city, outside the city, the minions can't get out. ”

The lord of the country has already understood what is going on, "traitor!" he scolded hatefully, "Let's go, let's go to the Taihe Palace!"

Ling Mansion, the wine banquet is happy, a group of people have a slight sense of alcohol, these people who can come to Ling Mansion, most of them are old friends of the Ling family master for decades, a group of people while drinking, while reminiscing about the past years, the hall erupted from time to time bursts of laughter or sighs.

Dang, dang, dang! The dull bell suddenly rang in everyone's ears, and the hall instantly froze, and a minister was stunned and said, "Master Ling, did I drink too much, how did I hear the sound of war drums?"

The faces of the people were shocked, they were all powerful people, and of course they knew what it meant to beat the drums of war. Seeing everyone's expressions, the man immediately knew that he was not listening in vain.

He jumped up all of a sudden, "There are people in Xuancheng who are making trouble, the Ling family master, we..."

"Sit down!" Ling Yuan slammed his wine glass on the table and shouted.

Everyone looked at the Ling family master in amazement, his move was obviously because he knew about this conspiracy, the man pointed at the Ling family master, "Family master, it could be you, you..."

The head of the Ling family had a gloomy face, and said angrily: "What nonsense are you talking about? How can I, Ling Yuan, be this kind of chaotic person? Xiao family, do it." ”

"It's Xiao Zhi!" everyone exclaimed.

Ling Yuan closed his eyes and said, "500,000 Imperial Forest Army, more than 10,000 palace guards, Qiu Zhi, do you think the palace is still in the hands of the lord at this time? At this time, outside Xuancheng, the Xiao family and the Wang family have millions of troops, this rebellion has been planned for a long time, although I have received the news, I can't do anything. The reason why I brought you all here today is that I am afraid that you will give your life in vain on impulse. ”

That Qiu Zhi said loudly: "The master of the family, we here, as many people as we are in the house, can get tens of thousands of elite people, kill the imperial city, maybe we can also kill into the palace, save the lord of the country, as long as the lord of the country is safe, tomorrow tomorrow, climb the heights and shout, the rebels will inevitably disappear." ”

Ling Yuan sneered: "Idiots talk about dreams. Qiu Zhi, if you don't believe me, you can go out of my house at this time to take a look, the street is already full of heavy soldiers. We are doing our best, even this street may not be able to go out, talk about how King Qin rescues, everyone don't act rashly, stay here with me, wait for the situation to change!

Outside Xuancheng City, the left and right guard battalions guarding Gyeonggi almost heard the shocking war drums in the palace at the same time, and the calm camp suddenly boiled, and Feng Hua, the general of the left guard battalion, immediately gathered 300,000 horses and horses of the whole army and pounced on Xuancheng. But at this time, the gate of Xuancheng was closed, and they were greeted by hundreds of thousands of royal forest troops in the city.

The majestic Xuancheng city wall is also a moat that blocks the life-saving straw of the lord of the country at this time. Feng Hua and Guan Xing had already understood that it was the Imperial Forest Army that was causing the chaos at this time, and the two were shocked and angry, and joined forces, but they could only look at the city and sigh.

In the palace, the outer city has completely fallen into the hands of the Imperial Forest Army, half of the palace guards have given up the defense of the inner city, and the 10,000 palace guards have all shrunk to the outside of the Taihe Hall and the Zhonghe Palace, and the two halls are surrounded layer by layer, Xuanhe holds the spear, standing on the high steps of the Taihe Palace, behind him, is the lord of the country, here, is their last reliance.

The sound of horses' hooves is urgent, knocking on the stone slab outside, making a crisp sound, at this time, it has become a life-destroying talisman for everyone here, and soon, a team of soldiers appeared in everyone's field of vision, dense, countless royal forest troops have surrounded this place, Rao is these 10,000 palace guards are brave and brave, in the face of such a formation, they are also panicked.

The rebels were separated on both sides, and Xiao Zhi, the head of the Xiao family, Wang Song, the head of the Wang family, Lan Xiuhua, the head of the Lan family, and the commander of the Praetorian Guard appeared outside the Taihe Palace.

Xiao Zhi walked out of the crowd, looked at Xuanhe on the steps, paused word by word, and said slowly: "Commander Xuanhe, lay down your weapons, or go to death, you choose?"

Xiao Zhi's hand was raised high, and the strong bows began to tighten with a tooth-sore sound, and Xuanhe's forehead was dripping with sweat, and he knew that when Xiao Zhi's hand fell, it was when the arrow was shot.

Although these strong bows in the hands of the Xiao family are not stronger than Qin Wuling's strong crossbows in terms of power, they are used by merger-level martial artists, and they are not something that ordinary people can resist, especially in such a small space, in the face of such a dense strong bow, even ordinary Hou-level martial artists are basically only falling. Looking back at the closed gate of the Taihe Palace, Xuanhe let out a long sigh, and the spear in his hand fell to the ground with a thud.

Xiao Zhi smiled proudly and strode towards the Taihe Palace, and with his steps, the palace guards scattered one after another. The door of the palace was wide open, Xiao Zhi stood at the door, inside, the lord of the country was pale, holding the imperial grandson in one hand, standing in the center of the hall.

In the early morning, a eunuch carried the holy decree to the outside of Luoyang City, ordering Feng Hua and Guan Xing, the generals of the left and right guards, to immediately withdraw their troops and return to the camp, and the two generals returned to Beijing to face the saint. Immediately, the two generals who returned to Beijing were imprisoned for treason.

After three days, the lord of the country died violently. Xiao Zhi, the head of the Xiao family, Xuanhe and others supported the emperor's grandson to ascend the throne. Ordered the whole country to mourn and hold a funeral for the lord of the country. At the same time, the new lord of the country was crowned Xiao Zhi, Xuanhe was appointed as an auxiliary minister, and all other important positions were replaced by members of the Xiao family. Fan Hua, the former auxiliary minister, was imprisoned pending trial because he was suspected of being related to the case of Feng Hua, the former general of the left and right guards, and Guan Xing's rebellion. All of a sudden, the situation in Xuancheng changed, and the people of Xuancheng, who had just finished the National Day, hung white lanterns on every household and began to bring filial piety to His Majesty.

Afterwards, Ye Qing learned from the hands of Jin Yiwei that it turned out that the Xiao family dared to launch a mutiny because of the help of Ye Qing's other opponent, Luo Guo, that Xiao Di After surrendering to Luo Guo, he actually relied on that charming little white face to get the favor of a princess of Luo Guo and recruited him as a concubine, but it was also difficult for Xiao Di.

The princess of Luo is not only in Luo country, but also in several nearby vassal countries, she is also very famous, of course, it will not be a good reputation, although the people in the royal family of Luo are generally glamorous, but only this princess is an exception, she looks like a ghostly workman, her waist circumference is about the same as her height, although her facial features are not too ugly, but if she is matched with her body, it can be used to ward off evil spirits.

This time, after Xiao Di and Princess Naluo got married, under Xiao Di's repeated requests, Princess Naluo agreed to let him go home to have a look, and at the same time, he also brought people to support the Xiao family, and the people led were not ordinarily strong, but there were two Hanlin and ten Jinshi, such a lineup, even if it was Xuanguo with five hundred years of accumulation, it was difficult to resist, not to mention that the original strength of the Xiao family was not weaker than the royal family, so this mutiny could succeed so easily.

And the old dean saw that he couldn't do anything, after successfully sending Xuanyue out of Xuancheng, he actually returned to the palace, and before he died, he also pulled a Luo Guo Hanlin as a back, perhaps it was the old dean's example power, after the royal masters could not see the hope of breaking through, they all started to fight without life, pulling the enemy to die together, causing the fall of many masters of the Xiao family, and the Luo Guo support team also sacrificed a lot, five of the ten Jinshi died, two Hanlin died and one was seriously injured, and there was no strength in the battle at all, after the new lord ascended the throne, he ignored the Xiao family's retention, and took Xiao Di back to Luo Guo。

In short, the high-level strength of Xuanguo can be said to have weakened by more than fifty percent, and it has also reduced a lot of obstacles for Ye Qing's next campaign.