Chapter 768 End of the road, fight to the death

The emperor's "human favor" is in place, and the empress dowager indeed began to pay attention to Huang Tao. In view of the fact that Yu has not returned to the dynasty, the task of secretly monitoring the prevention was entrusted to the Xianwang, who was temporarily in charge of Tianchawei. In fact, about this work, Yu Yu and Wei Guogong's son-in-law had been carried out in private, so the Empress Dowager soon have to report to Huang Tao. He has quietly promoted many confidants to occupy important positions in various departments. Even if they are shaken and can't instruct such official positions, they all know that in the absence of the general flags, it is still easy to install some of the 100 households.

The Empress Dowager was shocked, and the undercurrent of Qianming Palace and Ci'an Palace gradually surged sharply.

In October, the war report was reported again by naturalization. The Duke of Wei transferred more than 20,000 border troops, together with Yulinwei, personally led nearly 60,000 troops of 30,000 Jingwei, and fought head-on with the Beiyuan army. After five days, he finally recovered the naturalization, killed 20,000 troops in the North Plains on the spot and killed its generals alive.

The remnant army of Beiyuan withdrew, and the Duke of Wei chased after him, went straight across the Yinshan Mountain, and took the Beiyuan border pass with one breath. At present, he is besieging the Beiyuan border city.

The emperor was overjoyed and praised. For a while, the civil and military courtiers all felt that they should raise their eyebrows and exhale, and strongly admonished them to adhere to the siege of the city, and the hatred of the northern original invasion and the slaughter of the city.

Of course, the Empress Dowager has no excuse or reason to stop it.

After this, the emperor was full of excitement and waiting for news of naturalization. At present, the lost territory has been recovered. It doesn't matter anymore. It's time for Zhong Guangzhao to act according to the plan, assassinate the Duke of Wei, and let him die in the territory of Beiyuan. Who is the one who is the people of the North Plains?

The emperor is not an impulsive person. He knows that it is difficult to control all the Beijing guards by relying on the Qin Party and Huang Tao alone. Even if the Duke of Wei is transferred, the chance of winning the coup is still less than 50%.

He planned to wait for the Duke of Wei to "die in battle" and order Zhong Guangzhao to move his troops back to the court, and then order You'an to guard the naturalization and restrain the ten-city guards.

At that time, they will march again and force the empress dowager to hand over power. Without the suppression of the Duke of Wei, Jingwei's hearts are bound to fluctuate, so that most of them can be controlled in their hands. Even if those people are just waiting, it doesn't matter. They can use the courage to attack Miyagi.

With the key place of Qin's power, the imperial historian dominates public opinion, and it is not difficult to pour the sewage of the traitor to the enemy to the Yan family. Even if the empress dowager has the imperial edict, as long as she loses the military charm and has no Beijing guard and is suspected of being guilty, the emperor can regain sovereignty in name and detaining the empress dowager in the harem, making her angry attack her "sleeping disease" under her heart. "Can't afford to die" in the end.

The pillar of the Su family has fallen. Even if there is a force of the King of Xian, he can't compete with his orthodox emperor. Once the King has a desire to rebel, the old local department will be afraid. How many people are willing to bear this serious crime?

If the father and son know each other, they will repent and surrender to sincerity, which is more good.

The key is that the Duke of Wei must not return and must die on the battlefield.

The emperor believes that Zhong Guangzhao still has a good chance of winning, because the Duke of Wei is in the Ming Dynasty, how can he prevent his subordinates from assassination.

Although the Duke of Wei is brave, he may not be resourceful, especially the scheming scheme makes people unable to guard against it.

Both the emperor and Qin Huaiyu were looking forward to good information. They did not realize that the Empress Dowager had been deployed. They kept a close eye on the other garden of the Qin family who placed Zhou Zhong's father, and were also waiting for Lv Jian to settle down as soon as he arrived in Beijing.

In fact, the emperor did not expect that Zhou's father was still alive in the world. In his opinion, the death of King Fu has been closed. Even if there is a living existence, nothing can be changed. When the situation in Jinyang is certain, there is no need to worry.

This is also the reason why the emperor was worried, but he did not feel much anxious after Zhou Zhong disappeared.

Since the former emperor knew that King Fu had harmed him, he was willing to pass it on to him. Even if the empress dowager held this handle, she could not announce it rashly. Otherwise, he would also question the decision of the late emperor.

After the success of the coup, the Empress Dowager was banned from the harem, and Zhou Zhong was not threatened.

And Qin Huaiyu had already left Zhou's father behind. This person was nothing more than to prevent the emperor from crossing the river and tearing down the bridge. At present, it has no effect and will not distract Qin Huaiyu at all.

However, if he could contact Qin Ziruo, he would probably realize that something was wrong. Unfortunately, whether it was Qin Huaiyu or Tianzi, at this junipotent, he did not think of the "female Zhuge" trapped in the court at this time.

After the cold clothes festival, the weather is getting colder and colder. Winter clothes are added and charcoal is warm.

It is already late October, but it can be naturalized but there is still no secret report to the emperor's case.

The silver charcoal in the carving furnace swallowed fire, making the hall warm, but it made the emperor more and more impatient.

He had no intention to look carefully at the high-level administrative report on the case and sent it directly to Ci'an Palace after printing.

It has been more than 20 days. According to this, Zhong Guangzhao has taken action. If the Duke of Wei enters the northern border city and then returns to Beijing, Zhong Guangzhao should return to Yulinwei immediately. There is no chance to do it.

Is there something wrong?

Thinking of this possibility, the emperor sweated coldly, and the general of Beiyuan was alive. It is difficult to guarantee that he did not know the true identity of the naturalization. If he was dodged by the Duke of Wei and escorted him back... The consequences were unimaginable.

This is the key to a desperate victory or defeat, but there must be no accident.

"Holy!" Suddenly, a voice came from afar, which was the voice of his confidant, Eunuch Li.

The emperor stopped wandering and rushed out. The porcelain bottle beside him fell to the ground, and the emperor seemed to be ignorant.

"But has there been a secret report sent back from naturalization?"

Outside the high threshold, the emperor couldn't wait to ask Grandpa Li, who ran out in a hot sweat.

But without waiting for Grandpa Li to gasp back, he grabbed the wooden letter in his hand, turned back to the study, "swung" open the key cabinet, took out the corresponding key and stabbed it three taels.

Tore open the fire paint, and the emperor almost stopped breathing and scanned the letter.

Fadently.

Li Gong just stared at a pile of broken porcelain on the ground and hesitated whether to let people go inside to clean up. Suddenly, he heard a loud noise, but it was the emperor who swept the palace case with ink and paperweight sleeves.

Eou Li only felt a chill in his chest and regretted being too attentive. Why did he follow in in person?

Fortunately, the emperor didn't have time to get angry at this time. He raised his blood-red eyes and stared at Grandpa Li fiercely.

but in front of his confidants kneeling in panic, he clenched his teeth and ordered: "Zhao, come and see you quickly."

Since Gu Yuwen "achieved an agreement" with Chen Xiang and advised the emperor not to be impatient to follow the Ci'an Palace and gain trust, he was gradually ignored by the emperor. Fortunately, Gu Yuwen did not have anything to do with the Ci'an Palace, so the emperor did not doubt that he had two minds. In fact, he was too confident that he held the handle that could make Gu Yuwen notorious, only He thought that Gu Yuwen was too conservative and did not agree with him, so the naturalization incident and the subsequent coup to seize power, the emperor himself excluded him. In fact, as a civilian, could not help the key. As for the public opinion orientation after the event, there are many Qin parties, and it is even more irrelevant to increase or less than one Gu Yuwen.

Therefore, at present, Gu Yuwen has "retired to the second line", and Qin Youcheng is the confidant of the emperor.

However, in view of the influence of Gu Yuwen and Su Ming on Hanlin Shuchang, they will have to fight against the Qin Party in the future, and the emperor did not completely give up the two.

Even Chen's proposal, the emperor actually had expectations. When the Empress Dowager fell, these people could only be used for him. After all, the Chen family is the mother of the family, and its reputation is still there, which is more useful than the Qin family.

From this point of view, in fact, the emperor is not stupid, let alone biased. Unfortunately, he has a bad mentality, deviated from cheating in the general direction, and wrongly underestimated his opponent - he did not find his opponent at all. His threat is actually not Ci'an Palace at all, let alone the Duke of Wei, but has always been regarded by him as able to close it. Yu Yu, the king of Chu.

He is suspicious and overconfident, arrogant and arbitrary, and is too eager to hold power alone. As a monarch, the general and government is regarded as a child's play. He leads thieves into the house and kills loyal people. The emperor has gone astray and is doomed to betray their relatives and fall into a desperate situation.

If the emperor has unified his pace with Ci'an Palace from the beginning and listens to the last words of the former emperor to govern steadily, don't say that Yu Yu will not have a second intention at all to protect himself. Even if he is really ambitious, it is difficult to cause the Ci'an Palace to turn against the emperor. Except for raising troops to rebel, it is impossible to shake the throne of the emperor.

But it is also because of the emperor's suspicious nature that he is destined not to allow others to get involved in power, even if that person is his own grandmother and has been edicted by the previous emperor.

Such a result is actually doomed early in the morning.

At the end of October, the days were shortened. When Qin Youcheng hurried out of the palace, it was already dark and cold around.

Qin Huaiyu is still unaware that the end is approaching. He is "looking forward to the future" with several former officials and is still dreaming of power.

You Cheng sent the man without saying a word, closed the doors and windows, and his face was pale under the lights.

Qin Huaiyu is worried.

"It's not a big deal!" Youcheng sighed: "The light Zhao secretly failed to assassinate the Duke of Wei, but was disguised by the Duke of Wei... What's more, Lv Jian actually ordered the Empress Dowager to investigate the case of naturalization. The general of Beiyuan was captured alive and forced to surrender, and handed over You'an. At present, all of us were arrested by Lv Jian and escorted to the capital!"

Youcheng didn't even finish his words - the Duke of Wei had broken through the border city of the North Plains and captured more than 30,000 soldiers and civilians, waiting for the order of the court and was about to return to the court.

Qin Huaiyu coughed, grabbed his clothes and rolled his eyes, and fell down directly.

The rescue was timely and was not directly scared to death, but it was not convenient to have a stroke.

The Qin Mansion is in chaos.

And Zhong Guangzhao was detained. Since the emperor could still get a secret report, Ci'an Palace certainly learned the inside story earlier. The Empress Dowager had no longer had any doubts. She was sure that the loss of naturalization was caused by the emperor's hand. She simply beat her chest and stamped her feet. She wanted to immediately take the emperor to the temple and plead guilty to her ancestors. It was so easy. I was persuaded by King Xian to go to Kyoto for a public trial. If such a thing happens, I can't hide my shame, otherwise I can't give it to the world!

If the emperor is still in his position, of course, he cannot be punished. At most, he will destroy the Qin clan and take it as the top priority.

At this time, the apparent king no longer "hidden his privacy" and knelt down and directly said, "I am only worried that the emperor not only does not repent, but also does injustice again. Huang Tao mobilizes his cronies to defend the nine gates, and there must be some plans."

"My family is waiting for him to see how crazy he is, whether he is really unfaithful and unfilial, and morally." The Empress Dowager gritted her teeth.

So he couldn't bear it until the emperor received a secret report from his trusted friends and was defeated by the governor.

has been forced into a desperate situation, and the emperor is also gritting his teeth and clenching his fists - even if he has little chance of winning, he must fight!

He has no other way out.

We must master Kyoto before Duke Wei returns to Beijing.

As long as this blow is successful, it is also a pre-occupied opportunity. Without the Ci'an Palace, he is the only orthodox. Even if the Duke of Wei has a military charm in his hand and no holy edict, he has no right to order the army unless he wants to rebel.

The emperor sat on the empty main hall, and his face was extremely ferocious in the dragon chair.

Qin Huaiyu had a stroke that night, and the emperor fell ill in bed the next day. In the early morning, only the Empress Dowager presided over the Qianming Gate and announced the victory of the Duke of Wei, but temporarily concealed the truth of the case of the loss of naturalization of the courtiers.

The Empress Dowager is obviously going to catch all the traitors in the court.

He even took the initiative to care about Qin Huaiyu's illness and allowed Youcheng to take leave to serve his illness at home. Of course, he secretly ordered Tianchawei to strictly supervise him and not to let the people of Qin's family leave Kyoto privately.

There is also a secret order to ask the old parts of Tianchawei, Su and Chu to act and immediately arrest the Qin clan and in-laws who are local officials.

The Empress Dowager also expected that the emperor would not delay, and the coup was in front of her. When the decree was issued, the situation in Jinyang had been decided, and there was no need to arrest Qin's party members directly and be punished in place.

Of course, the emperor is suffering from illness, and the empress dowager also cares about it. She strictly orders the medical officers of the imperial hospital to treat it carefully and must protect the dragon's body.

Most people are relieved for the naturalization victory and don't realize that there will be a bloody storm.

Some people are even glad that thanks to the bravery of the Duke of Wei, how long has it not only won the return and even captured the city of Beiyuan? Looking at the empress dowager with such joy, the next New Year's holiday can also make people breathe a sigh of relief.

It is already a winter month, which will be closed in recent years. Whether it is a civil and military official or a citizen in the city, they are looking forward to returning to peace.

And the emperor's illness is not heavy, which makes all officials sigh again.

However, the weather is cold, and the emperor needs to be maintained, so please allow the Empress Dowager to temporarily handle state affairs. He will move to Lingshan Tangquan Palace for temporary residence.

The Empress Dowager is worried about the sick body of the emperor and wants to take care of it.

There are also all the concubines including the queen, and those with slightly higher grades should also go together.

This is nothing strange. The former emperor was so diligent. In previous years, he also went to Tangquan Palace to recuperate. Of course, the harem should accompany him.

At present, there is an empress dowager coming to the court, and there is no need to worry about delaying state affairs.

The excuse is so reasonable that the Empress Dowager has no reason to refute it.

The emperor wished to "draw the family with his mouth" and "the golden cicada took off the shell".

Of course, he also thought that the Empress Dowager had understood the truth about the loss of naturalization, but she did not bear it, and easily allowed him to leave the palace. There should be other plans. Maybe she was trying to send him away to plan a conspiracy.

Even if the Empress Dowager guessed that there would be a coup, the emperor had to shoot an arrow on the string at this time. Otherwise, when the Duke of Wei returned, he would be a dead end.

You must be positive and die for the rest of your life.

Even if you still need to be cautious to win the blow, there is no need to be afraid of the head and tail.

It's just that the emperor's expectations, I hope that the Empress Dowager will not notice that he has "crossed the warehouse" and is ready to force the palace.

If the Empress Dowager is unprepared, she will have a chance of winning with one blow.