No matter how fiercely Xu Chi and Han Qing, as well as the rest of the generals in the Zhenbei Army, the queen mother was just calm, but she refused to change her mind, and insisted on taking the six princes back to Chang'an.

The generals really have no choice, now that the Golden Horde has invaded the south, and the northern frontier of the Tang Dynasty is in danger, it is impossible for them to send a large army to escort them, and finally decided to send five hundred elite horsemen to accompany them.

The early morning before leaving the camp in Beida, Ning Que found Xu Chi again and said, "The queen mother and I have brought back a team of tens of thousands of people for you, I think we are qualified to find a few people for you." ”

Xu Chi thought for a while and said, "The number of five hundred cavalry is indeed less. ”

That's not what I said. ”

Ning Que said: "I don't want a living person, I want a dead person." ”

Xu Chi understood what he meant, frowned slightly and said, "Those two generals committed suicide on the spot after the assassination failed, even if you ask for their corpses, it is useless." ”

Ning Que said: "Those two generals are dead, but the hundreds of cavalry who participated in the assassination have not been punished, and I know that these people are now disarmed and locked up in the barracks by you." ”

Xu Chi's brows furrowed even deeper, and he said, "Mr. Thirteen wants to make a big trip?"

"If it is usual, dare to alarm the body of His Majesty and assassinate the queen and the prince, these people are capital crimes, I know what are the considerations for you to be reluctant to kill them now. ”

Ning Que said: "So I won't ask you to kill all these hundreds of cavalry, but I want you to promise me that these cavalry must be sent to the forefront and the most dangerous battlefield." ”

"Years later, when the battle is over, if there are any of these horsemen who are lucky enough to be alive, then I will not pursue them, and if they die, it will be atonement. ”

With that, he turned and left.

When I was about to leave, I encountered another difficult problem.

The heavy loose coffin.

It's clear to all. Ning Que returned to Chang'an with the queen and the six princes, what he wanted was time and secrecy, and if the heavy pine coffin was accompanied, it would bring great inconvenience.

Xu Chijian temporarily left His Majesty's coffin in the Beida camp, which could also motivate the soldiers to take their lives.

The queen shook her head and said softly, "Your Majesty wants to go back to Chang'an, so I want to bring him back." ”

"Burn it. ”

She said, looking at the heavy ash coffin.

There was a shock.

The queen smiled and said, "Your Majesty, how can such a dashing person care about this." ”

Ning Que remembered the incessant scolding of idiots in the palace back then. He smiled and said, "That's true." ”

The pine coffin gradually burned on the pyre.

The bark crackled and sparks flew away.

Eventually, it turned into a box of ashes.

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......

The house leak coincided with the overnight rain, which is far from enough to describe the continuous blows suffered by the current Datang, and the wind and rain are not enough to describe its danger.

If we talk about the battle of Chengjing. It was a great shock to the Tang people, but it still had no effect on their self-confidence, and the Golden Horde's southward movement could be regarded as a real wake-up call for all the Tang people.

The edict of the Xiling Temple called on the world to destroy the Tang Dynasty, which made the Tang people really feel the possibility of losing the country for the first time, and the recent news of Qinghe County's treason and self-reliance has become the heaviest blow.

Angry because of uneasiness, angry because frightened, angry because angry. The entire city of Chang'an fell into an atmosphere of anger, and the ministers of the queen's faction, who had forcibly forbearance for the sake of the overall situation of the country, could no longer bear the current situation, and blamed the new emperor and princess in the palace in the court and public opinion.

The officials questioned why the Empress Mother and the Six Princes in the palace had not returned to Chang'an, why there was no news of Helan City for a long time, and why Qinghe County, an ally of Her Royal Highness the Princess, would make such a shameless act at the most critical moment of the imperial court, and asked His Majesty and His Royal Highness what face they had to go to see the first emperor.

After the closure of the college. The new batch of students in the front yard was sent home. or enter the various ministries of the imperial court to do volunteers, and they and young students from Taixue and other places. It was the most enthusiastic and excited group of people in Chang'an City, and when the Tang Dynasty was shrouded in dark clouds, they finally took to the streets and gathered in front of the imperial city to start petitioning.

As for the specific content of the petition, in fact, these students are not very clear, but in short, they want to change the current situation, and they want to see change.

I don't know where the news came from, but it began to circulate among the petitioners, and Xu Shi, the general of Zhenguo, who was supposed to return within a few days, had been assassinated by the Xiling Temple in the southern Kunshan area!

General Xu Shida's whereabouts were betrayed to the Xiling Temple by a nobleman in the palace!

As for why that noble man did this, it was obvious that he had come to the wrong position, and he was afraid that General Xu Shida, who had always been known for his uprightness, would return to Chang'an and remove him from the throne!

When the news spread from the petitioners to all parts of Chang'an City, more and more people took to the streets to express their anger and suspicion, and the entire Chang'an City seemed to become a river of anger.

The angry rivers are often muddy, so some people began to take advantage of the muddy water to fish, and some people tried to take advantage of the muddy water to turn into fish and slip away, Xiling Temple spent hundreds of years, in Chang'an City buried those secret sentinels and lurkers, began to move, ready to take this opportunity to become more chaotic.

Chao Xiaoshu received the will, with the Xiao cavalry battalion to the east to resist the invaders, the Yulin Army has gone north, joined the battle line against the cavalry of the Golden Horde, and now Chang'an City seems to be still impregnable, but in fact, there are only more than 800 Yulin Army and hundreds of palace guards, plus the officials of Chang'an Mansion, can maintain law and order, suppress riots, and the situation is precarious.

The Qinghe County Hall is located in a prosperous area of Chang'an City, before the news of the lords surrendering to the enemy, this is the place where the imperial court focuses on monitoring, and now it is heavily guarded, and the children of the lords trapped in the hall have bleak faces, waiting for an unknown fate, but there are several people who look at the gradually chaotic situation and have some other thoughts.

Li Hunyuan was also angry, and he even felt that he was even more angry than the crowd of petitioners in front of the imperial city.

He felt that he was very innocent, the kind of pain that was not understood, like a poisonous snake that kept biting his heart, yes, General Xu Shi's whereabouts, he made He Mingchi spend a lot of effort to find out, and it was indeed the big man who asked He Mingchi to find a way to contact the Xiling Temple.

The situation at that time was completely different from now, at that time, it was just the destruction of the northeast border army, and the Tang Dynasty still looked strong and unshakable, and when the news of the southern invasion of the Golden Horde court reached Chang'an City, he ordered He Mingchi to terminate the plan at the first time, and even at the expense of exposing his insidious deeds, he had to find a way to inform Xu Shi.

However...... The big man of the Xiling Temple didn't listen to his words, He Mingchi and the military department didn't contact Xu Shi, Xu Shi really died like this, can I be blamed for this? If that old guy really regarded me as the emperor, how could he leave the Zhennan Army without a will? If he stayed in the Zhennan Army, how could he die? As a result, why is everyone blaming me now? Blame me!

The main hall in the palace looked particularly lonely and cold, Li Huiyuan sat on the chair, looking at the night outside the palace in a daze, countless thoughts quickly passed through his mind, and then flashed back again.

The eunuchs and maids were now afraid of him because he was angry. This made him even more angry, because he clearly saw indifference, alienation, and contempt in the eyes of these eunuchs and palace maids.

I am now the emperor, and when I was the prince, you could all look at me so closely, worship, and awe, why do you dare to leave me so rudely now?

Li Huiyuan couldn't bear it anymore, from yesterday to tonight, he had secretly killed several eunuchs and palace maids, but even so, he still couldn't see the look he wanted to see in the eyes of these people.

So he grew angrier.

He suddenly felt that this lonely cold hall was not a place for people to stay, Huo Ran stood up, waved his hand and pushed one of the eunuchs who begged him to the ground, and took Xu Chongshan, who had always been guarding outside the hall, to the depths of the imperial garden.

It was late autumn, and the imperial garden was also bleak, but fortunately, there were still several kinds of flowers in full bloom, showing coquettishness in the night, looking at the beautiful flowers and trees, Li Huiyuan's mood finally calmed down.

"Why don't you think these people understand me?" he said with a frown.

Xu Chongshan glanced at the eaves beast on the eaves of the palace in the distance, and after a moment of silence, he said, "Because you are not a person who is easy for people to understand. ”

Li Hunyuan didn't notice that Xu Chongshan was disrespectful to his title, and asked puzzledly, "What do you mean?"

Xu Chongshan said: "No matter how your throne came about, but in short, you are now the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, as long as anyone with a normal brain will not do these things you do, but it is very strange that you always seem to be able to find some reasonable explanations for what you do, so your brain is actually very normal." Normal people are always doing abnormal things, who do you think can understand?"

When he said the first sentence, Li Huiyuan woke up, but there was no reaction, and he continued to listen to him in silence, but his face became more and more gloomy.

"It seems that you are going to rebel too. He looked at Xu Chongshan and said in a cold voice.

Xu Chongshan leaned forward slightly, bowed, straightened his body and turned into a mountain peak.

"Your Majesty has a great kindness to me, and I have some psychological obstacles to kill you, but these days it looks like it's long gone, because you live in this world, which is the biggest shame for Your Majesty. ”

Li Huiyuan's expression was slightly nervous, but he didn't turn around and run away. Screamed: "You have been in the palace for many years, don't you know that you can't kill me here?"

"So I didn't do it until you came to the Imperial Garden. ”

Xu Chongshan said: "You may not know, this is the farthest place in the palace from the palace, and those eaves beasts in the palace can no longer protect you." ”