Outside the Changxin Palace, one hundred Changyi Lang had already been waiting for the dormitory of the Empress Dowager Shangguan.

The leader of these Changyi Lang was the one sent by the Son of Heaven to prepare the temple to prepare Yu Wuwu.

Weiyang Palace has Weiyang Guard, and Changle Palace also has Changle Guard.

In the Changle Palace, there are guards and Lang guards who are on duty: they are now temporarily arranged to be on duty on the periphery of the Changxin Palace.

Because the titular Changle Weiwei is none other than Fan Mingyou, the general of Duliao who is "suspected" of rebelling in Beidi County.

In the past few months, Pham Minh Woo was first busy with military affairs, and then led the army to go on expeditions, and Wang Jilai was also in charge of all the practical tasks.

Although Wang Ji has removed some Huo Dang in Changle Palace, because Fan Mingyou is the captain of Changle, he can't sweep them away.

Therefore, this Changle Palace is naturally not as safe as Weiyang Palace, and the Baichang Yilang brought by Yu Wuwu is very important.

Three hours ago, Yu Wuwu led his troops to Changle Palace.

But he did not enter the palace to meet the queen mother, but only took the guards to guard under the eaves outside the palace.

First, in the dead of night, the ministers dared to enter the queen mother's dormitory, after all, they were a little disobedient; Second, more than ten days ago, the Empress Dowager Shangguan said that she would not let Yu Wuwu come to Changle Palace again.

Yu Wuwu didn't understand what he meant, but he could only do it a little woodenly and rigidly.

Changle Palace is much larger than Weiyang Palace, but there are many fewer people living in it, so it is even more silent.

Yu Wuwu, who had stood outside the hall for a few hours, would look in the direction of Weiyang Palace from time to time, for fear that he would hear something unusual from there.

Fortunately, a few hours have passed, and Yu Wuwu has not received any bad news.

This means that the Son of Heaven has already taken the lieutenant of the middle base and the ruling kingo.

Once these two places are taken, the general will be in name for the time being, and he will not be able to set off a bigger storm if he loses his military power.

The Son of Heaven will not immediately imprison Huo Guang, because it will still be at tomorrow's court meeting. Wait for Huo Guang to emerge with the remnants of the Huo Party.

At this time, Yu Wuwu couldn't help but think of the Empress Dowager Shangguan again.

In addition to the extremely respectful identity of the queen mother, a weak woman of fifteen or sixteen years old has to keep getting involved in the bloody wind of Chang'an City, which is really a little pitiful.

The thin face of the Empress Dowager Shangguan appeared in front of his eyes, and in addition to pity, some other feelings grew in his heart.

As for what this affection is, Yu Wuwu doesn't dare to delve into it.

When Yu Wuwu outside the hall was thinking nonsense, the Empress Dowager Shangguan in the hall did not fall asleep, but sat on the phoenix couch in the front hall and read "Zuo Chuan" with a lone lamp.

At the end of the night, the Son of Heaven sent a secret letter to her, explaining clearly the cause and effect of tonight's events.

On the eve of this storm, how could the Empress Dowager Shangguan sleep?

However, the Empress Dowager Shangguan couldn't sleep, not only because she was afraid, but also because she was a little excited.

Maybe it won't be too long after today, and she will be able to see the Huo Family Mansion in decline.

Of course, maybe it may be that this Weiyang Palace has a new emperor.

No matter which result it is, in the final analysis, it will not affect the status of the Empress Dowager Shangguan.

She is the current queen mother, no matter what the Huo family thinks of her, she is the supreme queen mother - from the moment Emperor Xiaozhao made a big trip, no one can shake her position.

The Son of Heaven can be abolished, and I have never heard of the abolition of the Queen Mother.

In addition, the Empress Dowager Shangguan also believed that the person guarding outside the palace was there, and no one could hurt her tonight.

It's just that after all, they can only be one outside the temple and one inside the temple.

Separated by a thin temple door, but people from two worlds.

……

As soon as Yin Shi arrived, the chickens in all corners of Chang'an City began to crow.

Although it was still pitch black around the sky, it also meant that the sky was about to dawn.

At this time, a messenger hurriedly came and reported to Yu Wuwu: "Yu envoy, someone outside the palace is in a hurry to see the queen mother." ”

"Huh? Who? ”

"It's the general's wife, Huo Xian."

Yu Wuwu was a little surprised, the Son of Heaven actually calculated that Huo Guang would come, but Yu Wuwu didn't expect that it was Huo Xian who came.

Huo Xian and the Empress Dowager Shangguan's "old feud", Yu Wuwu has actually heard of it for a long time.

In addition, Huo Xian's arrogant and vicious "good name" is widely spread in Chang'an City, so Yu Wuwu dislikes her very much.

However, although he was reluctant, Yu Wuwu had no right to refuse Huo Xian to come to see the Empress Dowager Shangguan, he came to the outside of the Changxin Hall and knocked on the door of the palace a few times.

He asked for someone who really had the power to deal with the matter.

What came out of the door was the personal maid of the Empress Dowager Shangguan, Lu Ping.

After bowing slightly, Yu Wuwu asked in a low voice: "The general's wife is asking to see the Queen Mother outside the palace at the moment, I don't know if the Queen Mother is sleeping or if she is willing to summon her." ”

"The slave maid will go and ask, and then come back to the envoy."

"I'm tired."

Without too much delay, Lu Ping walked out again and said to Yu Wuwu: "The Queen Mother said, let the general's wife come in." ”

"If the Queen Mother doesn't want to meet with the general's wife, Weichen can block her and prevent her from entering the palace." Yu Wuwu lowered his voice and said.

From the half-open and half-hidden crack of the door, Yu Wuwu could see the vague outline of the Empress Dowager Shangguan.

Yu Wuwu wanted to persuade again, but suddenly from the depths of the main hall, the cold voice of the Empress Dowager Shangguan came.

"Yu worry-free, the general's wife is my grandmother, she came to visit late at night, there must be something important, I have to see it."

Yu Wuwu didn't expect that his words would be heard by the Empress Dowager Shangguan, and he couldn't say anything more, so he hurriedly responded with a "promise".

The Queen Mother's edict was passed down all the way, and about a quarter of an hour later, Huo Xian, who looked gloomy, came to the outside of the Changxin Hall under the guidance of several servant maids and internal officials.

Huo Xian had followed Huo Guang to the Changxin Hall a few times before, but he had never seen such a heavily guarded appearance.

Thinking of all the things that happened in Chang'an City tonight, although his face was calm, he couldn't help but feel uneasy in his heart.

Especially when she walked under the eaves outside the door of the main hall and saw the cold gaze of the Lang official beside the Son of Heaven, she felt even more palpitations.

However, Huo Xian is not an ordinary woman after all, when she comes here today, she has the courage to break the cauldron and sink the boat, how can she retreat without a fight?

What's more, after a few hours, there is really no conclusion about who will live or die in Chang'an City.

Under the gaze of Yu Wuwu's murderous gaze, Huo Xian raised his feet and stepped into the Changxin Palace.

The hall is very spacious, and although the two rows of palace lamps have just been lit, the light emitted by them still does not fill the empty space.

On the phoenix couch above the jade steps in the hall, there is the thin Empress Dowager Shangguan.

Wrapped in heavy darkness, she seemed even more lonely and helpless.

Except for the Empress Dowager Shangguan, only some internal officials and maidservants stood quietly, not like living people, but like wood carvings.

Huo Xian stood far away, and he didn't dare to walk over for a while.

She didn't expect that the Changxin Hall at night would be so terrifying.

It is not easy for the Empress Dowager Shangguan to live here, and she has not gone crazy yet.

It's just that the source of Huo Xian's idea is not sympathy, but cynicism: she can't wait for the Empress Dowager Shangguan to go crazy.

"Who made you unable to give birth to a prince, forcing me to do that terrible evil thing, it was simply self-inflicted."

The grandmother of the Empress Dowager Shangguan is Huo Guang's original wife, and the appearance of the three generations of grandparents and grandchildren is a little similar.

Therefore, every time Huo Xian saw the Empress Dowager Shangguan, he would always think of the scene where he fed "Mrs. Huo" and drank poison.

The scene breeds a sense of guilt and fear, which eventually turns into resentment.

Although there was endless resentment in his heart, Huo Xian was very disciplined at the moment.

Bow down, salute, say hello...... In one go, I can't find any faults.

Although the Empress Dowager Shangguan, who is in the top position, has been the empress dowager for so many years, it is actually the first time she has met Huo Xian alone.

She remembered very well that the entire Shangguan family was killed cleanly, and it had a lot to do with the woman in front of her.

After so many years, the Empress Dowager Shangguan has changed from a child to a girl, but this hatred has not been diluted, but it has been hidden deeper.

"Mrs. General, it's windy at the door, come to the front." The Empress Dowager Shangguan said subtly.

"No." Huo Xian replied, and walked forward a dozen steps to the jade steps of the phoenix couch.

Huo Xian stood here, and the two could clearly see the subtle emotions between each other's eyebrows.

"Give a seat."

"Empress Dowager Xie."

Naturally, there was an internal official who prepared the couch and let Huo Xian sit down well.

"You all go down, the general's wife wants to say a few words to me."

"No!"

After a sound of rustling, the maidservants and officials all left the room.

All of a sudden, the front hall of the entire Changxin Hall was even quieter.

Two women who hate each other, two women separated by two generations, there is no need to greet each other, and getting straight to the topic is the best result.

"The general's wife visited the Changxin Hall late at night, I don't know what's going on?" Empress Dowager Shangguan said.

"A lot of things happened in Chang'an City tonight, and the general asked the concubine to ask to see the Queen Mother."

"Oh? I see, no wonder I've been restless and sleepless. The Empress Dowager Shangguan said lightly, "Madam, please say, why does the general want to find me?" ”

"The Son of Heaven is crazy and stupid, he reuses the traitor Cai Yi, and wants to seize the power of Fan Mingyou and others, and the army is now raising the flag in Beidi County and is on the way to enter the side of the Qing monarch in Beijing."

Huo Xian's lie had already been drafted in advance, and now it is said as if it was the real thing, without any stuck.

"I don't even know anything about it." The Empress Dowager Shangguan was still very indifferent, but it didn't look like she knew nothing.

Huo Xian didn't care about this detail, she just told herself what happened in Chang'an City tonight.

It can't be made up, but the angle changed slightly, and the Son of Heaven "killed traitorous ministers" and said that "punishing loyal ministers".

The Empress Dowager Shangguan listened quietly, feeling more and more disgusted.

Before Huo Xian finished speaking, the Empress Dowager Shangguan interrupted the other party's "interpretation".

"Madame doesn't have to beat around the bush, whatever the general wants me to do, just say it."

"The general wants the queen mother to issue an edict, reprimand the Son of Heaven for his disobedience, affirm that Pham Minh Woo and others are soldiers, and then order the Son of Heaven to hand over the government to the general."

The Empress Dowager Shangguan smiled, sure enough, this was the case.

"The county official is already in charge of the government, and I am afraid that the county official will not listen to my decree." The Empress Dowager Shangguan politely refused.

"The first emperors of the Han Dynasty valued the reputation of benevolence and filial piety the most, and the queen mother issued an order, and the county officials would not dare to disobey." Huo Xianjin took a step forward and said.

"But I live in this Changle Palace, far away from the court and politics, and never go out of the palace, I am afraid I can't tell the truth of this military event."

Huo Xian heard the doubts in the words of the Empress Dowager Shangguan, and the apparent pretended respect was immediately ripped off.

At this critical juncture when every second counts, she doesn't have the time to play dumb riddles with this little Empress Dowager Shangguan here.

"These words were all brought by the general and told the queen mother to be brought by the concubine, does the queen mother not believe the general, or does she really see my Huo family as a rebellious minister and thief?"

"Don't forget the Queen Mother, you also have the blood of the Huo family in your body, I'm afraid you can't stay out of it."

"The concubine asks the Queen Mother to think twice, don't delay this major event in the world and shake the foundation of the Han Dynasty."

Huo Xian bowed down after speaking, but there was still a trace of respect in his words, but he was more aggressive.

How could the Empress Dowager Shangguan not hear it, she only felt a little resentful and unfair, this Huo Xian never took her seriously.

Xu is a little bit of the girl's rebelliousness, and the Empress Dowager Shangguan, who could have continued to be false with Huo Xian, suddenly became tough.

After a moment of silence, the Empress Dowager Shangguan opened her lips lightly and said slowly: "I should not meddle in this matter, although there is a precedent for the harem to interfere in politics, but the Empress Dowager is stronger than the Tianxian officials......"

"Although I am the queen mother, I have never participated in political affairs, let alone the county officials, and I don't even know where the northland county is, how can I be ...... in vain"

Before the Empress Dowager Shangguan finished speaking, Huo Xian, who had lost all his patience, suddenly stood up regardless of the courtesy of the monarch and the minister.

She stood in the shadows, staring at the Empress Dowager Shangguan with the most vicious gaze, and even interrupted the Empress Dowager Shangguan's words directly.

"I'm afraid the Queen Mother has a mistake, the general doesn't want to discuss with the Queen Mother now!"

"The Queen Mother doesn't know about the government, but the general knows that the Queen Mother can do what the general says."

Huo Xian said even more firmly.

"But ......"

Huo Xian didn't let the Empress Dowager Shangguan finish the words behind the "but", so he took a step forward arrogantly and came to the front of the jade steps.

"There is no 'but' in this matter, the Queen Mother can give an order, and you don't have to worry about the rest of the things."

"If this decree is made, the Queen Mother can still live in this Changxin Hall in peace; If you don't make this decree, after Chang'an City is broken, I am afraid that it will attract the hatred of the Han army! ”

"The Queen Mother is still young, I'm afraid she hasn't seen the appearance of crazy soldiers, and when the time comes, they will attack Changle Palace, and no one will be able to stop them."

"The soldiers who launched the madness, but it doesn't matter if you are the queen mother or not, they only know that you are a woman......"

The more Huo Xian spoke, the quieter his voice became, but the more vicious and ruthless it became.

She rummaged through many tragic things that she had seen in the people when she was young, and put them in front of the Empress Dowager Shangguan bloodily.

used the experience brought by the age difference of more than 20 years to intimidate the Empress Dowager Shangguan.

Huo Xian said that, and walked a few steps up the jade steps, and soon saw the Empress Dowager Shangguan's lips trembling slightly because of fear.

Under this hazy light, the Empress Dowager Shangguan and Huo Chengjun looked a little similar, but Huo Xian did not have the slightest soft-heartedness and mercy, she only wanted that will.

"The Queen Mother made an order, as long as you make this decree, you are still the Queen Mother who is high in the Han Dynasty, and no one will be able to hurt you."

After a moment of silence, the girl sitting on the imperial couch seemed to be crushed by fear, and she nodded numbly like a lifeless clay puppet.

……

After a quarter of an hour, Huo Xian walked out of the gate of the Changxin Hall with the queen mother's will in his heart.

The Empress Dowager Shangguan was very obedient, and the content of the edict was exactly the same as what Huo Guang had explained in advance.

When passing in front of Yu Wuwu, Huo Xian stopped, and had the urge to go over to humiliate and ridicule the other party, but in the end he held back and just cast a contemptuous look.

With the will of the Empress Dowager Shangguan in his arms, Huo Guang Tianliang will regain power in the court, at least he can exonerate Fan Mingyou.

This little Tianzi Langguan will not be majestic for long.

Huo Xian didn't worry about Yu anymore and left arrogantly.

Watching Huo Xian leave, Yu Wuwu wanted to enter the main hall to see how the Empress Dowager Shangguan was, but in the end he stopped in front of the wide open door, hesitating and not daring to move forward.

"Yu worry-free, come into the hall, I have something to say to you." The Queen Mother's voice reverberated from the hall in bursts.

"But now is the time ......"

"This matter is very important, and I will forgive you for all the things before and in the future."

"Yui!"

Yu Wuwu stood under the door, because there was a light reflecting, his shadow was cast far outside the door, he had some resistance, unwilling to enter this Changxin Palace.

However, he finally walked into the main hall with his feet raised and came to the bottom of the jade steps.

"Wei Chenyu worries about asking the Queen Mother."

"Excuse me."

"No!"

"I haven't seen you for a long time, Yu Qing is all right?" The Queen Mother asked softly.

"I'm tired of the Queen Mother, everything is fine with Weichen." Yu Wuwu cramped.

"That's good." The Queen Mother seemed to say to herself.

May you be all right, and may you not be too good.

Yu Wuwu seemed to feel a little strange, he looked up at the Empress Dowager Shangguan, and saw a line of crystal tears on that delicate cheek.

The tear stains were shallow, and they would not have been visible without the dim light.

Yu Wuwu wanted to ask what happened in this hall just now, but he couldn't open his mouth for a long time.

One of them is the queen mother, and the other is the general's wife: whether they are friends or enemies, they are not something that Yu Wuwu can ask at will.

"Yu Wuwu, just now, Mrs. General, forced me to do something......"

A forced word clearly explained the endurance and humiliation of Huo Xianbahu and the Empress Dowager Shangguan.

This made Yu Wuwu, who already valued the way of the monarch and minister, angry, and bit his cheeks tightly.

"In the name of the general, I was forced to make an edict, and the content of this edict may be unfavorable to the emperor."

After saying this, the Empress Dowager Shangguan read the content of the decree word by word, and then she said what had just happened without reservation.

Yu Wuwu listened carefully, and his face became more and more serious.

This decree will not only make the Son of Heaven fall into passivity in today's court discussion, but will even make the Son of Heaven fall short!

"When the emperor asked you to come to Changle Palace, did you say that if I was not good to the emperor, I would let you ...... Let you finish me off. The Empress Dowager Shangguan asked with a miserable smile.

Put it in the past or elsewhere, Yu Wuwu heard such a question, I am afraid that he would immediately make a big gift and ask for sin.

But today, he is very calm, it seems that the Empress Dowager Shangguan is not the Empress Dowager, just an old friend.

"Returning to the Queen Mother, whether the Queen Mother believes it or not, the county official has never given me such an edict."

"Really?" The Empress Dowager Shangguan was a little unconvinced.

"Seriously, Weichen once wanted to kill an innocent person who was a threat to the county official, and the county official almost drove me back to Changyi."

The county magistrate also said that if you love the people of this world, you should first love the people around you; If you want to save the people of the world, you should also save the people around you first. ”

Yu Wuwu said unabashedly, some of these are the words of the Son of Heaven, and some are his own words.

"Yu Qing still kills people, is it really unseemly?" Empress Dowager Shangguan asked.

"I wanted to kill, but I didn't."

"Did the county magistrate say that how do you deal with today's situation?" The Empress Dowager Shangguan asked again.

"The county official said that the Queen Mother understands righteousness, and naturally knows what is right and what is wrong, and everything is determined by the Queen Mother."

It's an absolute trust.

The Empress Dowager Shangguan and the Son of Heaven were nominally mother and son, but in fact they were political allies.

Betraying political allies is a common occurrence, but it is never a wise move.

"Yuqing, I already know what the emperor means, there is still an hour to go, I have made a decision just now, I hope the emperor can understand what I have done and what I want to do today."

As soon as the Empress Dowager Shangguan's words fell, a high-pitched and loud rooster crow came from Shang Guan in the west.

The starry sky had already fallen, but the dark clouds that had hovered over Chang'an City all night had actually dispersed at this moment.

A star and a crescent moon echo each other to welcome the dawn.

Ask for a subscription! If you don't imprison Huo Guang, you can also lure the snake out of the hole, of course, it is for the Empress Dowager Shangguan to appear. Of course, I also had a bit of a problem with the arrangement, and the plot was too tight.

(End of chapter)