Chapter 307: Rebel Ministers and Thieves
In the palace of the imperial mausoleum, the emperor Haoxing Xiaoqi faced a table of sumptuous dinner, but he felt that it was difficult to swallow.
During the day, the good news of the Song father and son's quelling of the rebellion reached the imperial tomb. After a moment of joy, for some reason, Haoxing Xiaoqi suddenly felt dazed.
Although this rebellion was initially triggered by his eldest son, King Ji, it was his majesty the emperor who was the biggest driving force behind it.
It can be said that from beginning to end, he has been watching from the sidelines, and even adding fuel to the fire, deliberately creating opportunities for him, and finally contributing to this incident.
However, to his complete surprise, his eldest son was not as shallow and stupid as he imagined.
In fact, this time, King Ji can be said to have deceived everyone.
Whether it is the calculating Haoxing Mingrui, or the sinister and cunning Zheng Yong, as well as the suspicious and jealous Emperor His Majesty, no one expected that King Ji would actually use Xing Chengbiao's fatal move!
In this way, things are completely out of everyone's control.
Zheng Yong in the capital escaped, and His Majesty the Emperor in the imperial tomb could only sit in the city and wait for help.
While regretting it, Haoxing Xiaoqi really felt a trace of despair in his heart.
However, at this moment, a miracle actually appeared!
I thought that I would have to go through an unprecedented bloody battle to decide who would die in the end, but suddenly it ended almost quietly!
Although this battle was won, Haoxing Xiaoqi felt that winning was inexplicable, even a little weird.
Song Qingfeng, the commander of the forbidden army, challenged Yan Jiwu, the Marquis of Dongping, and subdued the fierce 100,000 Eastern Navy. This move is indeed heroic, heroic, and magnificent!
But how did the 100,000 Western Route Army, which surrounded the capital and the imperial tomb, surrender?
And how did the commander of the Western Route Army, Fuyuan General Xing Chengbiao, die?
The answer to these questions was that no one had ever told him about His Majesty the Emperor.
It was not mentioned in the brief good news presented by the Song father and son, and in the mouth of the spies sent by Zhu Mo to inquire about the news, they were not able to ask why.
And what made Haoxing Xiaoqi feel most disturbing was that in the whole counterinsurgency, from the beginning to the end, no one came to ask him for orders and receive orders.
Therefore, this sudden victory also seemed to have nothing to do with him, His Majesty the Emperor.
The King of Ji, the Empress and the Yan clan who started the rebellion have been detained, and the rebels have been disarmed and confined, and order in the capital has gradually been restored......
All this happened as a matter of course without the permission of the emperor.
Haoxing Xiaoqi felt that he had become an outsider, and no one came to greet him, let alone welcome him back to the palace.
Now in this huge palace, except for those inner prison servants who don't know anything, they can no longer see anyone else.
He, His Majesty the Emperor of Great Wealth, seems to have been completely forgotten!
At this time, he suddenly missed Zheng Yong, the old slave who followed him all day long. If Zheng Yong was here at this moment, nothing he said would have made his majesty the emperor fall into such a situation of no one paying attention to him!
Just when Haoxing Xiaoqi was thinking more and more wrong, and the more he thought about it, the more annoyed he became, Zhu Mo, the commander of the guards who had not seen anyone for a long time, suddenly appeared.
"Your Majesty, Prince Ding is back, and he has brought 30,000 Gyeongju troops!"
Haoxing Xiaoqi was stunned for a long time, and Fang asked in a trembling voice, "How could he...... Will be back...... So fast?"
Zhu Mo looked up at the emperor's face, which had changed a little, and replied in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, the person who led the 30,000 Qingzhou troops is Prince Ding, Haoxing Xiaoyu!"
"What did you say?!"
Now Haoxing Xiaoqi is already shocked!
He stood up from the dragon chair tremblingly, and saw four people rushing in from outside the temple gate, and walked calmly towards him.
The person in front was dressed in military uniform, although he was already full of gorgeous hair, but he was strutting forward, his shoulders and back were straight, and his whole body exuded a heroic aura.
I saw him come to Haoxing Xiaoqi, and laughed loudly: "After more than 20 years, the imperial brother is still fine?"
Haoxing's gaze lingered on the man's face for a long time, as if he was trying to find some traces of the past, but in the end, all he found was a vague outline left after the vicissitudes of time.
"Haoxing Xiaoyu?" he asked, somewhat uncertain.
The man shook his head and said: "There is no such person as Haoxing Xiaoyu in this world, only me, Xiao Tianjue!"
Haoxing Xiaoqi suddenly sank his face and asked, "Before the tomb of the first emperor, you disobedient and unfilial person, don't you even want the surname of your ancestors?"
When Xiao Tian heard this, he just smiled disdainfully, "The person who should repent the most before the tomb of the first emperor is you Haoxing Xiaoqi! It is precisely because of people like you who disgrace the ancestral surname that I don't want to have anything to do with the Haoxing clan again!"
Although Haoxing Xiaoqi was extremely angry in his heart, he had realized that the situation was not good at the moment, so he decided to put up with this breath for the time being, and first figure out the situation he was facing.
So, he turned his gaze to the person standing behind Xiao Tianjue's right.
I saw that the man was thirty years old, with eyebrows and phoenix eyes, and his appearance was extremely handsome.
After looking at this familiar face for a long time, Haoxing Xiaoqi's eyes suddenly narrowed slightly, and he said coldly: "You are not Haoxing Xiaoyu, let alone Li Jin, who are you?"
Haoxing Mingrui, who had recovered his original appearance, only smiled slightly, but did not answer his question from His Majesty the Emperor.
Haoxing Xiaoqi couldn't help but be even more annoyed, turned his head to look at Zhu Mo who was standing silently on the side, sneered, and said, "Zhu Mo, don't you want to betray me?"
Zhu Mo hurriedly bowed down and replied, "Don't dare, minister! At this moment, the five thousand guards and soldiers are already guarding the outside of the main hall, and they will never let anyone who wants to make trouble break into the hall." ”
Haoxing Xiaoqi couldn't help but sneer again, raised his hand and pointed at the four people standing in front of the hall, "Then how did these chaotic ministers and thieves come to me?"
"Back to Your Majesty, the minister has confirmed that Prince Ding is not going to make trouble this time, let alone intend to do anything unfavorable to Your Majesty. They are here only to ask Your Majesty for the truth of the Yongwang case more than 30 years ago. ”
"King Yong?"
Haoxing Xiaoqi's momentum suddenly weakened, and then he asked angrily: "The truth, what is the truth? King Yong broke into the palace to rebel and was shot by the order of the emperor, this is the truth!"
He suddenly pointed his finger at Xiao Tianjue again, "It's him, Haoxing Xiaoyu, who was ordered by the emperor to personally lead the forbidden army and shoot King Yong inside the Donghua Gate——"
"But the word—"
Xiao Tianjue glared at Haoxing Xiaoqi, gritted his teeth and said word by word: "But it was conveyed by you, the eldest son of the emperor who has always been by the emperor's side! I have never seen the face of the emperor at all, and I have never heard this edict from him with my own ears!"
"So what? Do you still want to falsely accuse me of falsely passing on the Emperor's edict?"
Xiao Tianjue suddenly smiled coldly, and said loudly: "Not only did you fake the emperor's edict, but you also tampered with the emperor's edict, because you Haoxing Xiaoqi ——, you are not the prince of Dayu designated by the emperor at all!"
"You're talking nonsense! I've never—"
Hao Xingxiao screamed inwardly, but when his gaze unexpectedly swept over the face of the other person beside Xiao Tianjue, his voice suddenly became mute.