Faced with Zhao Zhen's death, Zhao Zongquan was really a little unbelievable for a while.

But soon Zhao Zongquan reacted, Empress Cao and Zhao Zonghan must not run away.

Otherwise, once they run away from the palace, Zhao Zhen's death will definitely be planted on his head, saying that he killed his father and killed the king for the throne, and he can't afford this crime.

But now Shen Congxing has already led people to chase him, so he doesn't have to be too anxious.

The most important thing to know now is where the jade seal is, because no matter what he wants to do next, Zhao Zongquan needs a succession edict to justify his name.

This edict may not be written by Zhao Zhen himself, but it must be stamped with a jade seal, otherwise I am afraid that those who want to say that the edict is true with a clear conscience will find it difficult to speak.

The question now is whether the jade seal was taken away by Empress Cao, or is it still in the Funing Palace.

For this reason, Zhao Zonghan asked Zhao Ceying to go down and gather all the eunuchs and palace maids in Funing Hall for interrogation one by one.

In the end, I learned from a chamberlain that the jade seal had been carried by Empress Cao these days, and it was not handed over to Fu Baolang to manage.

In this case, the jade seal must have been taken away by Empress Cao, and there will be nothing to treat here.

So Zhao Zongquan and Zhao Ceying also went to lead people to chase Queen Cao, and went to check the situation nearby.

And Li Hao's side, in fact, was noticed by Li Hao when the palace was just on fire.

The first reaction was that Li Hao felt that Zhao Zongquan had already entered the palace, and now Li Hao was even more anxious.

But Qing Haibo on the other side didn't let them, and they were desperate to stop Li Hao.

By the time Li Hao's side completely defeated the oncoming enemy, the palace was already full of flames.

Li Hao didn't care about anything else at this time, so he reorganized his soldiers and horses to enter the palace to rescue him.

As a result, before he set off, he was stopped by the British public, saying that he had something to say to Li Hao, and asked Li Hao to retreat.

Li Hao looked puzzled after hearing this, but he still did as the British public said.

After there were only two people left, Li Hao asked, "Father-in-law, why are you in such a hurry, and didn't you go to inquire about the situation?" What's going on over there?"

The British Duke was silent for a while in the face of Li Hao's questioning, and then replied, "What I want to say to you is related to them."

After that, the British Duke told Li Hao all the plans of Su Xian's people, and also told Li Hao the conditions he gave Li Hao to fight, and asked Li Hao to choose what to do next.

This condition is really tempting for Li Hao.

Because the participants are basically military generals, if they take the lead, it will inevitably be a little eye-catching.

So when the British public proposed to hand over the matter to Li Hao, everyone present directly agreed and promised to persuade others to join him.

In the long run, the benefits of doing so will be too great for himself, after all, Han Qi didn't rely on his two merits to monopolize power for more than ten years.

And compared with Han Qi, he has more advantages, after all, Han Qi is the person chosen by the previous emperor, and he does not contribute much.

How can you be like yourself, and you can carry someone up stiffly, and it is the kind that is justifiable.

Anyway, the palace is about to go in later, and whoever you want to set up at that time, taking advantage of the fact that the hundred officials did not react, wrote an edict and covered the jade seal by yourself.

I have all the formats myself, but according to the one Zhao Zhen originally gave, just change the name.

And as a later generation, Li Hao did not discriminate against military generals, so Li Hao didn't feel that there was much wrong with the idea of improving the status of military generals.

Moreover, based on real history, improving the political status of military generals in order to enhance armaments may not be the shame of Jingkang in the future.

As for whether improving the environment for military generals will lead to preventing the division of feudal towns and the recurrence of chaos in the five dynasties and ten kingdoms, Li Hao is not worried.

After all, now is different from the past, and the Great Song Dynasty may not do well in other aspects, but the centralization is very good, even if it is given to him a little

If they loosen their ties, the generals will not be able to turn the sky.

It's just that Zhao Zhen has the grace to promote himself after all, if he lets himself just sit idly by, or even fall into the ground, Li Hao is always a little reluctant to go.

Regarding Li Hao's psychological struggle, the British Duke can probably guess it.

After all, Li Hao is not a child of a family, and he has not been in the officialdom for a long time, so he may not have a good grasp of the ability to be thick-faced and black-hearted.

So the British duke said, "The situation in the palace is still unclear, and if you rashly attack, you may be afraid of others.

In this way, first send some people to the palace to inquire about the situation, and you and I will lead a large team of men and horses to fight steadily and steadily, and go outside the Xuande Gate to see the specific situation before making plans."

After Li Hao pondered for a while, he didn't speak again, which was tantamount to acquiescing in the matter.

So the British Duke stood up and began to take over the army, and drew some men to the palace to investigate.

The other is to spread the news to several other places, so that they will also go out to the gate of the palace and block the palace.

lest any important people escape, and the situation will not end well.

Soon, the four walls of the palace were taken over by four armies in turn, and all the gates were sealed.

But that was the end of the operation, and after the ministries took over, they did not march inward.

But if they don't go inside, it doesn't mean that the people inside don't want to go outside.

For example, Zeng Chaosheng and Empress Cao and their entourage, after they rushed out of the Funing Palace, they went all the way through the Huangyi Palace, the Huangyi Gate, and the Right Chengtian Gate, and wanted to leave the palace from the Xihua Gate.

But when I got to the gate, I saw the closed city gate, and the soldiers and horses stationed on the city.

At this time, on the city wall, it was Su Xian and them, who also saw someone rushing towards Xihua Gate.

Su Xian and the others naturally didn't want the people in the palace to go out, whether it was Empress Cao or Zhao Zongquan, they were all treated equally.

So in the face of the coming, Su Xian directly ordered to shoot a bow and arrow, and asked Queen Cao to stop quickly.

At this time, Zeng Chaosheng and Empress Cao didn't realize that the people on the city were wrong, and thought they were Zhao Zonghan's people.

Even if your heart is cold, after all, there are people stationed at Xihua Gate, who can guarantee that there will be no one at the other city gates.

But now there is no way but to block it.

Not far behind him is the pursuers led by Shen Congxing, if you turn around and walk in the direction of Donghua Gate, I am afraid that you will run into it.

Go north to the old Yanfu Palace, pass through the back garden, go to the Gongchen Gate out of the palace, the road is too empty, not conducive to hiding.

You can only go south, pass through the Yimo Gate, and go out of the palace from the direction of the Xuande Gate, which is the outer court, there is room to move in the middle, and there should be fewer enemies there.

After thinking quickly, Zeng Chaosheng thought of a route in his heart and came to ask Empress Cao's opinion.

Empress Cao didn't have any other opinions at this time, and directly agreed, and the group turned around and left.

As soon as Empress Cao and the others left, Shen Congxing rushed over from behind, and then he was greeted by a rain of arrows.

This scared Shen Congxing, after all, Queen Cao didn't know, but he knew.

They simply don't have any extra manpower to place here at the city gates, so the people they encounter here must be enemies.

This made Shen Congxing not understand, why the people on the city gate guarded the city gate but did not enter the palace, could it be that the troops were insufficient.

In addition, it stands to reason that these people didn't come here to save Queen Cao, why did Queen Cao come just now, but they didn't save them.

This kind of strange phenomenon makes Shen Congxing not quite understand, but anyway, now that Empress Cao is not saved, he has to seize the opportunity to seize Empress Cao.

So he turned around and chased in the direction where Empress Cao left, and sent another person back to inform Zhao Zongquan of the situation.

After Shen Congxing left, Su Xian and the others also came back to their senses, after all, the two waves of people chased and fled, and it was obvious that they were the two opposing parties.

In addition, Shen Congxing, as Zhao Zongquan's brother-in-law, is still the person he has seen in Bianjing

There were quite a few of them, so they were recognized.

As soon as everyone summed up, the one who could be hunted down by Shen Congxing himself must be an important person, so he also planned to send someone to follow him.

As a result, before the soldiers and horses were gathered, they suddenly found that someone was running towards Xihuamen.

Su Xian and the others were still wondering why there was a third wave of people in the palace, and they found that it was Zhao Zongquan who was leading the team.

Now Su Xian and they are even more sure that this first wave of people is definitely a big shot, and it may even be Queen Cao and Zhao Zhen, otherwise it is impossible for Zhao Zongquan to personally bring people to chase them.

Now that the main characters have already appeared, Su Xian and they started to act, and the first step is to take down Zhao Zongquan first.

Taking advantage of Zhao Zongquan's approach, Su Xian ordered people to open the city gate, and let the men and horses gathered outside the city go directly to Zhao Zongquan.

In addition, the city wall was also divided into two groups, and they surrounded Zhao Zongquan from the head of the city, wanting to intercept his back road.

This change in the situation was completely unexpected by Zhao Zongquan, because he was bent on chasing after him with his men and horses, and missed the people sent back by Shen Congxing to report the situation in the middle.

So Zhao Zongquan didn't know that there was a team of people of unknown origin in Xihuamen.

In this completely unprepared situation, Zhao Zongquan and the others fell into a bitter battle in an instant, and suffered heavy losses.

And as Su Xian and their people became more and more, Zhao Zongquan and Zhao Ceying had no palace walls to rely on, so they tried to concentrate their forces and rush out.

But after several attempts, they all ended in failure, and seeing that there were fewer and fewer people around him, Zhao Zongquan was completely panicked.

But even so, Su Xian and the others were still not satisfied, after all, they still had to chase the people who fled in front of them, and they didn't want to spend too much time here.

So Su Xian and the others ordered the surrounding soldiers to shrink back, exposing the position of Zhao Zongquan in the middle.

Seeing this situation, Zhao Zongquan thought that the leading general wanted to talk to him about the conditions, and he was secretly happy in his heart, feeling that there might be room for things to turn around.

He stood up and said, "I don't know who is leading the troops in front, can I come out and meet Zhao."

Hearing this, Su Xian and the others exchanged glances, and then Su Xian really walked out and said to Zhao Zongquan:

"The eldest prince wants to see me, I don't know if he plans to say something to me."

Seeing Su come out first, Zhao Zongquan immediately replied, "It turned out to be Commander Su, I don't know what you plan to do when you lead the troops to the palace?"

Su Xian replied, "Of course, I was ordered to enter the palace to quell the rebellion, otherwise what else could I do.

But the eldest prince, why are you with so many people, it seems that the people behind you don't look like the people of the Imperial City Division and the Imperial Palace."

Zhao Zongquan replied: "Naturally, I also came to set things right, and I got the news earlier that the queen mother was deceived by gangsters, and wanted to pretend to be the crown prince, and it was not good for the official family.

So I thought about bringing people and horses to rescue the driver, and now the rescue has been successful, but the thieves have taken the queen away.

At this critical juncture, the official family appointed me as the crown prince and asked me to take someone to rescue the queen.

As a result, I happened to meet you here, and this misunderstanding occurred.

But that's good, with your help, it will be much easier to rescue the queen mother.

After rescuing the queen mother, I will definitely help Commander Su ask for merit in front of the official family."

Su Xian listened to this, and he really couldn't help but sigh in his heart, Zhao Zongquan has a lot of eyes, and he is really fast to make up nonsense.

Just a few words, first put your own position, and then clear up the original conflict.

It just so happened that Su Xian also wanted to test Zhao Zhen's situation, so he answered: "I see, that's really hard for the prince.

But you just said that the official family has appointed you as the crown prince, so I don't know where the edict is, but let me take a look."

Zhao Zongquan replied: "The edict is still in the Funing Palace, and I didn't carry it with me, and now the matter of rescuing the queen is the most important.

After rescuing the queen mother, I will hand over the edict to Commander Su to read."

It didn't sound like a loophole, but Su Xian still felt that Zhao Zongquan was not telling the truth.

But it doesn't matter, anyway, Zhao Zongquan will die soon, and it doesn't matter if what he says is true or not.

As Su Xian turned around and signaled, a team of archers who had already been prepared emerged from the city wall and shot arrows at Zhao Zongquan.

Zhao Ceying's eyes were quick, and he immediately stepped forward and pulled Zhao Zongquan behind him, and tried to block the arrow with the spear in his hand.

But obviously Zhao Ceying overestimated himself a little, and this shot was not just one or two arrows, and Zhao Ceying was not Changshan Zhao Zilong.

And even if it was Zhao Yun, it was estimated that he couldn't stop the piles of arrows, so it was no surprise that Zhao Ceying and Zhao Zongquan were shot at arrow targets.

Seeing this situation, all the people behind Zhao Zong's body were stupid, they didn't expect Su Xian to be so decisive.

As the surrounding soldiers and horses besieged again, these people came back to their senses.

After that, except for some diehards who came from Yuzhou, such as Lao Geng, Xiao Duan and others who were still trying to kill, everyone else had lost their fighting spirit.

So the place quickly calmed down, and then Su Xian and they got an important piece of information.

It turned out that before Zhao Zongquan entered the Funing Palace, Zhao Zhen was already dead.

In addition, I also knew that the first fugitive was Empress Cao and Zhao Zonghan, and the jade seal was also on Empress Cao.

What else to say now, Su Xian immediately took the soldiers and horses to kill in the direction they left, as long as they were solved again, this matter would be solved today.

At this time, Empress Cao was indeed in trouble here, and when she passed by Chongxiao Gate, she suddenly bumped into a wave of people she didn't expect.