"The minister knows that His Majesty has been held hostage by the female ministers, so he has to speak ill of the minister, and asks His Majesty to stay in the city for a while, and the minister will swear to save His Majesty."

After speaking, Zheng Zhuo did not forget to threaten: "The forbidden army at the head of the city listens, your family is in the city, if you are willing to set things right, glory and wealth will be close at hand."

Cui Ming laughed angrily at Zheng Zhuo's shamelessness, and didn't understand how he could mistakenly trust this guy before.

It's just that when Cui Ming still wanted to reprimand Zheng Zhuo, a rain of arrows had already shot up.

Seeing this, Wang Qin hurriedly pulled Cui Ming back and took him to the city gate tower.

"Zheng Zhuo is about to start the siege of the city, and please leave the city quickly, and the ministers can come to command the enemy."

Cui Ming had agreed to this before, and Cui Ming himself was not a general who could charge into battle, so he got off the donkey.

"Okay, then I'll go to Jingxiang Palace, and be sure not to let anything happen in the palace, so as not to affect you."

After Cui Ming got off the city, he originally intended to go directly to Jingxiang Palace, but when he was halfway through, he still took a detour first and rushed to Zhengyang Palace.

Wang Yi didn't know about Zheng Zhuo's rebellion at this time, and the palace in Dasu was still much larger than the palace in the Song Dynasty.

Zhengyang Palace is located in the back garden, and the movement on the city wall cannot be heard, and can only know that the situation has changed from the replies of the eunuchs and palace maids, but they don't know what it is.

However, Wang Yi was not too worried, because she believed that if things were really irreparable, someone would come to her.

Of course, Wang Yi didn't wait, but summoned the palace people of Zhengyang Palace as soon as possible, and asked them to assemble and guard the main hall of Zhengyang Palace, so as not to mess up.

As for herself, she is also sitting in the main hall of Zhengyang Palace, in order to stabilize people's hearts.

When Cui Ming arrived at Zhengyang Palace with a gust of wind, he saw this scene, and he couldn't help but feel a little relieved.

The palace people naturally wouldn't stop Cui Ming, and helped him report loudly all the way.

After hearing this, Wang Yi got up to greet him, and just wanted to salute, he was helped up by Cui Ming and introduced the situation.

"Queen, Zheng Zhuo and Ming Song have raised troops to rebel and besiege the imperial city, but you don't have to worry too much, Wang Qin is now resisting at the head of the city, and I have issued an edict ordering the large battalion outside the city to raise troops to rescue them.

It's just that there are people who resist this external enemy, but we still have to deal with this internal trouble."

Wang Yi understood what Cui Ming meant when she heard this, she had been dissatisfied with Concubine Zheng over the years, but now that Cui Ming had opened her mouth, she naturally agreed directly.

"Okay, the concubine will order all the maids in the palace and go to Jingxiang Palace with Your Majesty."

Wang Yi has been in charge of the harem for many years, and this power has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

With Wang Yi's words, the palace people of Zhengyang Palace began to act one after another, and the palace people they met in the middle were also ordered to join in.

By the time they arrived at Jingxiang Palace, the entire team had already reached the size of hundreds of people.

Contrary to Wang Yi's situation here, although Concubine Zheng Guifei also gathered the palace people when the incident happened, in order to give herself courage.

It's a pity that the effect is mediocre, and in the end, it was only taken down by a few words from Cui Ming and Wang Yi.

For this reason, Concubine Zheng Guifei also wanted to threaten Wang Yi to let go of herself, so that when her father and brother broke into the door and the new monarch ascended the throne, Wang Yi's mother and son could still be left alive.

When Wang Yi heard this, he smiled contemptuously: "Don't say that your father and brother can't come in, even if they really come in, you think you can see them alive."

As for the safety of my son, you don't have to worry about it, because you rebels and thieves will definitely die in the end."

After speaking, he didn't bother to listen to her nonsense, and directly asked people to shut her mouth, tie it up and throw it aside.

The treatment enjoyed by Concubine Zheng was not an isolated case, and then the Ming family, the Cen family and others were involved in this rebellion against the concubines, and all of them were tied up by Wang Yi and thrown together.

Cui Ming looked at Wang Yi's clean and neat disposal along the way, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, the one he married was really a virtuous helper.

When the enemy is cleared in the palace, the offensive and defensive battles on the palace wall are also

Officially launched.

This time, there was no need to test again, Zheng Zhuo started to attack with all his might, so the firearms of the firearms battalion were used normally, and the bronze artillery also began to bombard the city wall.

However, fortunately, the artillery of the firearms battalion was not very powerful at this time, after all, Li Hao had not used artillery in other places in the previous battles, except for the sneak attack on Shuofeng and Huliu.

In order to conceal the true strength of the artillery, the deterrent effect of the shells smashed on the city wall at this time is far greater than the actual one.

Zheng Zhuo has been fooled for a long time, and he also thinks that this is normal, so in order to cooperate with the attack of the firearms battalion, the Tiger Banner battalion also began to climb the city, vowing to attack the palace as soon as possible.

The first battle was a decisive battle, and the two sides were in full swing in an instant.

When Zheng Zhuo tried his best to supervise the battle below, Ming Song finally came over from the East Palace.

"What, you said that the East Palace is already empty."

Hearing Zheng Zhuo's question, Ming Song replied, "Yes, there is no one, and it's not just the East Palace, I also went to Wang's house by the way, and there was no one there."

Zheng Zhuo couldn't help but fall into silence, and his heart was like Ming Song before, and there was a haze.

But Zheng Zhuo understands that others can be discouraged, but they can't do it themselves, otherwise they will lose the morale of the army and it will be completely over.

After thinking about it again in his heart, he said, "Whether this is a plan or a coincidence, anyway, there is no signal from outside the city, which means that the forbidden army camp has not been dispatched, and we only need to take the palace as soon as possible, and we can still win."

Now you take people back to arrest people, and go to the homes of those commanders of the forbidden army, I don't believe they can all disappear.

As long as their families are in our hands, whoever dares to lead the troops over, I will let his family be ruined."

Ming Song also felt that this was the best way now, so he immediately took people away again.

But just like this, Zheng Zhuo was not at ease, so he found Cen Fa again and asked him to go to the flag camp to sit in the town and stare at the movement outside the city.

But in fact, what was waiting for Zheng Zhuo could only be disappointment, because most of the people he wanted to arrest would really disappear, and it was in the short hour that they entered the city.

As for being able to do this, it is to rely on the strong control of Jinyiwei in Sudu.

You must know that in the past few years, the key development force of Jinyiwei is Andu.

Although it is impossible to empty the people of each prefecture on a large scale, it is still very easy to take away the main people in the prefecture secretly.

As for how to make them cooperate smoothly, it depends on the seal of each master.

……

Back on this morning, Chen Xi left the East Palace early in the morning, came to the forbidden army camp, and informed Gongyegu of the news of Zheng Zhuo's rebellion.

Gongye Gu was a little unconvinced at first, although he did feel that something was wrong with the situation, but he didn't feel that it was so serious.

It wasn't until Chen Xi came up with the evidence that he had prepared a long time ago that Gongyegu understood.

At that time, Gongyegu planned to gather soldiers and horses to suppress Zheng Zhuo and them first, but was stopped by Chen Xi.

Gongyegu didn't understand the reason, but then he thought of something: "Father-in-law didn't go to Qidu with His Highness, why did he suddenly appear in the capital."

Obviously, Gongyegu also guessed that from the beginning to the end of this matter, could it be that Chen Xi was planning it, and maybe even Li Hao was behind it.

After all, why did this news come so coincidentally, I want to test it first.

Chen Xi also understands this, in fact, for Gongyegu, it is okay to make it clearer.

But this forbidden army camp is full of people, and there are still things to be done by Gongye after that, and I don't want him to have a psychological burden.

"It's not because the crown princess is pregnant, Your Royal Highness really can't rest assured, so she asked me to stay and take care of it secretly, and the queen mother also knows about it.

Otherwise, if I were in Qidu, how could I let His Highness be injured, but fortunately, it would allow me to find out the wolf ambitions of Zheng Zhuo and the others in time, which can be regarded as a lost corner and a harvest."

Gongyegu didn't try anything, and returned to the topic: "What is that father-in-law?"

If you want to stop me, if you wait for Zheng Zhuo to make a move, won't you make Your Majesty and Niangniang frightened."

Chen Xi said: "There is a forbidden army in the palace, even if the rebels arrive, they can't enter for a while, and the safety of Your Majesty and Niangniang is not a problem.

Now His Highness is often under suspicion, and all the good governance proposed in the court is not adopted, so that he cannot carry out his ambitions.

This matter may not be an opportunity for His Highness to take control of state affairs from now on and lead me to rise from here."

Hearing this, Gong Yegu seemed to be unfavorable to Cui Ming, and he couldn't help but feel a little chilled in his heart: "Is this the intention of His Highness?"

Chen Xi thought that he would take the blame, so he said, "This matter is sudden, Your Highness has not received news yet, but you and I are both ministers of Your Highness's humerus, so you should take the initiative to share your Highness's worries."

Gongye Gu took a long breath, looked at Chen Xi with deep eyes, and began to weigh it in his heart.

Seeing this, Chen Xi continued to strengthen his tone: "What, if General Gongye still has any doubts, you can say it for details.

It's just that General Gongye should not forget, His Highness is the future of Suguo, and His Highness will see all this you do."

Gong Yegu heard the threat implied in Chen Xi's words, and his heart couldn't help but be a little shaken.

At this moment, someone outside the tent suddenly came to report, saying that Wang Kun had arrived outside the tent.

Gongye Gu was overjoyed when he heard this, it was a good thing to be able to discuss with many people at this time, especially Wang Kun was still Li Hao's uncle, at least when he was back in the back, there was a high top, so he hurriedly asked people to invite Wang Kun in.

However, Chen Xi's face was a little wrong, he didn't understand how Wang Kun appeared here at this time, and he didn't know if Wang Kun would ruin his plan.

That's right, at this time, he still didn't dispel the idea of taking the opportunity to solve Cui Ming.

After Wang Kun came in, Gong Yegu hurriedly pulled it to explain the situation, and directly asked Wang Kun's opinion.

Wang Kun glanced at Chen Xi and said, "What Gonggong Chen said is also right, at this time, even if the evidence in our hands can prove that Zheng Zhuo has the intention of rebellion, it will be suspected by His Majesty that it is deliberately planted.

It's better to wait for the incident to happen and then raise troops to quell the rebellion, although there will be some losses, but it can help His Highness clear the obstacles, which is also a good thing."

Chen Xi was overjoyed when he heard this, thinking that Wang Kun was supporting him, but he didn't expect Wang Kun to have something to say.

"Actually, regarding Zheng Zhuo's rebellion, I have also sent someone to inform Wang Qin, and he will protect His Majesty and Niangniang from the palace at a critical time.

At that time, we only need to go into the city to meet and protect Your Majesty, and Your Highness will make your own arrangements for the rest."

Chen Xi frowned and said, "What does Wang Shangshu mean by this, and what does this matter have to do with His Highness."

Wang Kun said: "Your Highness said that Gonggong Chen's heart is good, but His Highness can't go this way, and General Gongye is worth believing, so there is no need to deliberately hide it, it's better to make it clear, so it's easy to do things."

Then Wang Kun took out a letter from his hand and handed it to Gongyegu.

Gongyegu stretched out his hand to take it, and immediately opened it to see that this letter was indeed Li Hao's handwriting, and it had an exclusive monogram.

The content of the letter is actually basically the same as Li Hao's explanation of the situation to Wang Kun, which was sent with it at that time, but it omitted the matter of Chen Xi's self-assertion.

In it, it is mainly clarified that this time it is to take the opportunity to clear the obstacles and urge Cui Ming to abdicate.

After reading the whole letter, Gongyegu also has the bottom, he is not a timid person, and he was just afraid of being used as a gun before.

"Okay, then wait a little longer, and after Zheng Zhuo leads his troops into the city and turns the city upside down, I will gather all the generals to enter the city to quell the rebellion."

Wang Kun smiled and said, "It's good that the general understands, and I'll accompany the general here."

After a pause, Wang Kun said to Chen Xi, "It's just that the generals are in charge of the forbidden army, and Your Highness is worried that after Zheng Zhuo enters the city, he will capture the families of the generals for blackmail, so this matter needs to be arranged in advance.

Gonggong Chen, His Royal Highness once said that this matter has been handed over to you to deal with, I don't know what arrangements you have made."

Chen Xi at this time

I was still a little hesitant, I didn't know whether I should listen to Wang Kun or not, but I still had to insist on myself.

Wang Kun also discovered this and said, "Gonggong Chen, His Royal Highness is already on his way back to the capital now, and he will be there in a few days, so you can't be confused at this time."

Chen Xi thought about it again and again, and finally relented: "Your Highness has already instructed this matter, and the slaves and maids have already made arrangements, but they will need the cooperation of the generals' families at that time, so it is best to have a seal to win the trust of others."

However, in order to make all this true, so as not to be discovered, this time to inform the generals of the situation needs to wait until Zheng Zhuo sets off with his troops.

I have sent someone to keep an eye on the firearms battalion, and as soon as it leaves, I will inform General Gongye."

The three of them waited in the camp tent until nightfall, and Zheng Zhuo began to march towards the capital with his soldiers and horses.

Gongyegu then summoned his generals and began to explain the situation.

For a while, the generals were in an uproar, but fortunately, Gongyegu's prestige was enough, and he quickly controlled the situation, and asked them to quickly gather their troops and horses, ready to raise troops and enter the city at any time.

At the same time, he also explained to them that Zheng Zhuo might kidnap their family members, and asked them to hand over the seal letter so that they could notify the people in the city to rescue them.

Although the generals did not know why, they still obediently handed over the seal.

After the seal letter was in hand, Chen Xi immediately sent it into the city through the prepared flying pigeons, so that Jinyiwei began to act.

The assembly of soldiers and horses takes time, and Wang Kun and Gongyegu are both skilled in this regard, so they can naturally roughly estimate it.

When the assembly here was almost completed, the edicts sent by Wang Qinrang before had arrived here, and the two letters arrived together.

Because when Wang Qin gave the order, he specially instructed that he should be sent directly to the camp of the forbidden army, and there was no need to run to Qidi at all.

The edict to save the driver, Wang Kun didn't care about it after taking a look, but carefully looked at the edict to Li Hao.

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