Lu Qi changed guards with the Imperial Horse Supervisor and arranged these horses under his command to various places in the palace.

To be honest, it was very difficult to subdue all the officers and men in the whole battalion in just a few days.

Fortunately, as a soldier of the Beijing camp, the treatment of the Shenji Battalion is much higher than that of the local guard, and with the assistance of Wang Dusi and others, Lu Qi ran down for half a day and felt that these people had good military discipline.

At the very least, there will be no soldiers blocking the door to ask for money, or conflicts with the eunuchs and palace maids in various palaces and prisons, but the implementation of orders is a little rigid.

But Lu Qi thought that rigidity also has the advantage of being rigid. After all, the Forbidden City is under martial law at this time, and Emperor Hongzhi transferred the camp outside to guard the Great Interior, so there should also be considerations in this regard.

In the past few days, the Lei family has found a few close craftsmen, and in the camp next to the Shenji camp, the manufacture of firearms has been in full swing, and a new batch of flintlock guns has assembled a small half of the right sentry camp.

Although the practice time was not long, the Shenji Battalion was originally an army famous for its use of firearms, and compared to the original three-eyed guns, the flintlock guns were more convenient to use, and they quickly conquered this group of warriors.

With such an army stationed in Ouchi, no matter how stupid people with ulterior motives are, they will not be stupid enough to disturb Zhu Houzhao's succession at this time.

Lu Qi was wearing heavy armor, led Cheng Yanshan and a few other personal soldiers, and walked to the high place with a sigh of relief.

At this time, the news of Emperor Hongzhi's fainting finally reached the people, looking outside the noon gate, those low-level officials who had not been summoned were guarding the door, from morning to night.

There are also monks and Taoist people holding pearls and jades, spontaneously gathering at the gates of the imperial city to pray for blessings and chant scriptures.

Lu Qi couldn't help but sigh in his heart, sure enough, Emperor Hongzhi's reputation in the government and the opposition is extremely high, and many officials and people love him from the bottom of their hearts, is this the state of benevolence recorded in the history books?

Looking back at the direction of the dormitory, the eunuchs and palace maids entered and exited at the palace gates, and everyone's movements were more solemn than before.

Lu Qi let out a long sigh and continued to patrol forward.

……

Inspecting the palace every day, time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it had been two days since Ouchi was stationed.

Lu Qi patrolled to the Huangji Gate as usual, and it was quite peaceful everywhere.

It's just that the palace is too big, and wearing such a heavy armor in midsummer weather, Lu Qi's sweat every day is enough to take a shower.

As soon as he took the handkerchief handed by his own soldiers and wiped his sweat, Lu Qi listened to the voice of Cheng Shan behind him: "This adult, please stay!" ”

Another familiar voice cleared its throat: "Get out of the way, I am the Marquis of Jianchang, I want to see your general." ”

Jianchang Hou?

The idiot who stole the crown and was discovered by the future emperor?

Lu Qi pursed his lips behind his back, turned his head and showed a business-style smirk: "Oh, isn't this the Marquis of Jianchang?" I don't know what to do with the last general? ”

"General Lu." Zhang Yanling looked very similar to his brother Zhang Heling, and bowed to Lu Qi very politely: "The day before yesterday, thanks to the general's help, Yanling was able to die, thank you!" ”

"The last general didn't do anything." Lu Qi returned the salute sincerely.

Zhang Yanling nodded: "Yes, it must have been the eldest nephew who was angry at that time, so he did such a thing...... Thanks to General Lu, he gave him the steps down. ”

“……”

Lu Qi didn't expect that this person's heart would be so big. He really thought that Zhu Houzhao wanted to kill him just on impulse, and then continued to chase and slash just because he couldn't pull his face?

Come on! You are a native of the Ming Dynasty, a relative who is guarded by the royal family!

What kind of self-confidence can keep you thinking like this? Do you have a good relationship with your nephew?

Since ancient times, there has been no family affection. Flipping through the history books, there are countless fathers and sons who have enemies and brothers who have turned against each other for power, not to mention that you have never even made credit, can only eat, drink, prostitute and gamble, and are good at causing trouble?

"In the future, you and I will be officials in the same dynasty, and we should also support each other, if there is any difficulty, the general can say it!" Zhang Yanling was still chattering.

When he looks at Lu Qi now, how he looks at it is pleasing to the eye, he only feels like he is old at first sight, and he has become a friend who has forgotten his year. I hate that I don't have a little daughter under my knees, and I can marry this little general to marry Qin and Jin.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yanling remembered that his brother Zhang Heling was still in prison, although he ate and drank well every day, and he was fatter than he was when he visited him last time, but he was locked up.

He had to beg his brother-in-law to release him.

So the two sides exchanged a few words of greeting, and Lu Qi hurriedly left the scene under the excuse of patrolling the palace.

It is best not to have anything to do with a troublemaker like Zhang Yanling, otherwise it will be easy to implicate himself when thunder strikes him the day in the future.

It was another two days like this, and Lu Qi fulfilled his duties.

In the past two days, officials have been summoned one after another, most of them are cabinet ministers like Liu Jian and Li Dongyang, or the three princes and nine secretaries, the families of the nobles.

There was another large group of people gathered outside the palace gate, either saluting or praying, and Lu Qi was used to it.

Today's weather is gloomy, like a storm is coming.

The sound of wheels entering through the door was an ordinary-shaped one-wheeled carriage, which was hurrying towards the inner city after showing its token, followed by the eunuch.

Lu Qi looked at the back of the carriage and wondered, the palace never let the carriage outside drive in, who is sitting here?

Suddenly, a gust of wind swept through the hat, carrying beads of sweat and a chill.

Behind him, there was a thunderous explosion, and the light of the moment illuminated the gloomy Beijing, and also woke up Lu Qi's contemplation.

There was a smell of earth rising from under his feet, and then the rain hit Lu Qi's armor quickly, and the hula wind and rain were urgent, and the crust crackled.

"Let's go under the eaves of the end door and take shelter from the rain."

has an iron-armored poncho, Lu Qi is not afraid of wind and rain, but he is bored for no reason.

Before leading a few people from Chengshan Mountain to the end gate, they heard the irritable thunder and startled, echoing the Forbidden City one after another, endlessly.

"Knock...... Boom...... Knock ......"

"Wait!" Lu Qi's eyes widened and he turned his head suddenly!

That's the bell.

It was a bell masked by thunder, coming from far away from the Forbidden City.

Through the heavy palace, through the heavy rain curtain, it knocked on everyone's hearts one by one.

It's obviously not yet time, why did the Bell and Drum Division ring the bell?

Palace maids, eunuchs, guards, forbidden soldiers.

All those who heard it, whatever they were doing, stopped what they were doing, and just fell silent and bowed down in the direction of the dormitory.

The thunder roared even more frantically, purple lightning crawled all over the darkening sky, and beyond the pouring rain, there seemed to be some crazy sound coming from outside the palace.

The sound was small at first, then louder and louder.

It was as if countless people were crying.

It was as if countless hands were banging on the palace door.

It seems that there are countless prayers, countless chimes.

The rumbling thunder, the rumbling bells, drowned it all out.

With only a drop of hot tears falling down his cheeks, Lu Qi bowed deeply in the direction of the dormitory.

Ming Dynasty.

At this moment, the mountain collapsed.