It is different from the undercurrents surging in the imperial city.

At this time, the entire city of Beijing, and even the entire land of Gyeonggi, had fallen into madness.

Although only three hours have passed since the decree of 'the emperor hangs the arch, and the affairs of the world are determined by the ministers' to come out of the palace.

But everyone knows that the sky of the Ming Dynasty is about to fall.

"Liaodong Wang Qi imprisons the emperor in the Inner Palace!"

"Qi Guogong wants to be self-reliant!"

"Daming Wuqu is about to ascend the throne !!"

All the gossip has been rushing towards the craziest road.

Shuntianfu has put Beijing under martial law, and the thirteen gates are closed, and no one can enter or exit.

Although there are nearly one million people living in Beijing in the Ming Dynasty, at this time, as soon as the thirteen city gates are closed, even if you have the ability to reach the sky, don't think about going out of the city.

Shuntianfu and Jinyiwei have fully fallen to the Duke of Qi.

This is the most intuitive feeling of the people in Beijing.

Early this morning, the capital Donglai Shunmi Xing opened the door, announcing that a bucket of rice had risen by seven coins of silver, and in less than a quarter of an hour, the shopkeeper of Donglai Shunmi Xing was raided by Jinyi Wei and thrown into prison, and all his belongings were confiscated. Therefore, the most important thing so far is that the shortage of rice, flour, grain and oil has not yet begun, and the price is quite normal.

There are a lot more people on the streets of Beijing than usual, but most of them come to inquire about the news and exchange for supplies, but there is no imaginary riot and panic.

But everyone knows that this kind of calm is only temporary, and the name of Qi Guogong will not be able to resist for long in the face of reality, if Wang Qi can't solve the external opposition in a short time, then this coup will face a complete failure.

Beijing City, Huanghuafang.

"Is the Imperial City still inaccessible?" Shi Kefa found Jiang Yueguang, who had just returned from the Yamen: "Aren't you a member of the so-called parliament?" If you want to meet the emperor now, can't you? ”

didn't have time to sit down, picked up the herbal tea on the table and drank it down, and after calming down a little, Jiang Yueguang turned his head to look at Shi Kefa: "Xianzhi, the Duke of Qi has surrounded the entire imperial city like an iron bucket, and only a few three or two people can go in, and you can't do anything if you look for me!" ”

"The emperor's life and death are unknown! We and other loyal ministers are powerless outside, Jiang Juzhi, you have the face to call yourself a Ming minister, the backbone of Donglin! Shi Kefa was blushing and his neck was thick at the moment, and he couldn't see the demeanor of Donglin's handsome talent.

"What I do is a hundred times more important than going to see the emperor!" Jiang Yueguang ignored Shi Kefa's anger and just shook his head.

At this time, another guard came to Jiang Yueguang.

"My lord, nearly 100 people have gathered in the SF warehouse under the jurisdiction of the Yamen of the Ministry of Households, claiming that there is no rice at home, and they want to enter the Yamen to find the grain warehouse, otherwise they will demolish the warehouse!"

"Where's Xiong Tingbi?" Jiang Yueguang frowned and asked, he just calmed down the troublemakers there from Chongyoufang, and there was an accident in SF Cang again?

"Lord Xiong personally went to the firearms factory to sit down, there are thousands of tons of gunpowder there, it is extremely urgent, Lord Xiong is not worried about others, so he went by himself"

"Lead the way, take the official to the SF warehouse!!" Jiang Yueguang poured another bowl of herbal tea, poured two sips and was about to leave with the guards.

"Hey, hey, Juzhi, don't you really care about the life or death of the Son of Heaven?" Seeing this, Shi Kefa hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed Jiang Yueguang's sleeve: "You are still not a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty?" ”

"The emperor has food and drink in the inner palace, at least for a short time, the Duke of Qi will not embarrass him! You can rest assured that now I have more urgent things to do, and you can go with me? Jiang Yueguang was anxious in his heart, so he could only say good words and Shi Kefa.

"The emperor is gone, what do you care about the life and death of the people?" Shi Kefa scolded: "Disloyal and unfilial!" From today onwards, Shi will part with you! ”

After that, he flicked his sleeves, crossed Jiang Yueguang, and went first.

"Your Excellency, do you see?" Looking at Jiang Yueguang in person: "Where is SF Cang?"

"Go quickly!" Jiang Yueguang no longer paid attention to Shi Kefa and left with his relatives.

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Just after the 27th day of April in the third year of the Great Tomorrow Apocalypse, the sky was dark and cloudless, and not even a star could be seen in the gloomy deep sky.

At this time, two days had passed since the coup.

"This is the secret passage that no one knows about?" Shi Kefa looked at the bottomless culvert under the imperial city, and from time to time there was the sound of rodents squirming, and there were bursts of pungent stench, and his heart was furious.

"My lord, except for the small one here, no one in the whole city of Beijing knows," the old eunuch leaned forward, as if he was afraid that Shi Kefa would not believe it, and continued: "This culvert connects the clean room in the palace, and even the emperor's decorating filth is also transported from there, we have been in the palace for forty years, and Lord Wanli was still there."

"Get !!" Shi Kefa endured the nausea in his heart, took a silver ingot from his sleeve and threw it to the old eunuch: "Today's matter, don't talk about it to anyone!" ”

"Don't worry, our mouth, it's notoriously tight."

"Get out of !!"

After a while, after driving the old eunuch away, Shi Kefa squatted down and looked at the sewage tunnel that was constantly emitting foul odors and rustling movements in the dark, and did not move for a long time.

After a while, there was a thud in the night sky, as if something had fallen into the water.

But apart from a few rats, no one cared about the filth.

Emperor Tianqi was grounded in the Qianqing Palace at first, but later Wang Tiqian felt that the Qianqing Palace was too big and inconvenient to guard, so he pressed the emperor and empress and several other people to the Fengxian Palace.

Fengxian Hall is close to Wenyuan Pavilion, and it is not far from the Jinyi Guard Yamen outside the imperial city, at least psychologically, Wang Tiqian feels a lot more at ease.

And in the past few days, Zhu Youxiao has gradually calmed down from the initial fear.

Waiting, waiting for King Qin's army to rescue him, or waiting for Wang Qi's internal disintegration, is the goal of Zhu Youxiao's survival.

Today, the food sent by Wang Tiqian was a little greasy, and Zhu Youxiao couldn't sleep in the middle of the night.

So he called the eunuch to serve him.

Zhu Youxiao squatted on the barrel, and saw that the eyes of the little eunuch outside the door were staring at him without blinking, and in the dark, he looked at the young emperor with a burst of hair: "Get out!" ”

There was a creak, and the door was shut.

Zhu Youxiao pursed his lips tightly, his expression was a little sad and indignant: The dignified emperor of the Ming Dynasty, how did he fall to such a point?

In the midst of grief and indignation, Zhu Youxiao suddenly saw that not far in front of him, the wall was lowered and beside the small walkway, and the stone slabs were gently arching.

One click, very beat-rich.

Zhu Youxiao was a little stunned for a while.

Click!

There was a crunch.

The slate was suddenly lifted up, and a squirted head emerged from under the slate.

Under the dim candle flame, the monarch and the minister looked at each other, and in an instant, everything was silent.

(End of chapter)