Lei Yue Longmen

Chapter 346 The Change of Seizing the Palace

In May of the third year of Jianchun, he went south and went south to make an agreement with Jiangnan grain merchants to raise 300 million shi of grain to fill the national treasury.

In the same month, Marquis Wen Song went up to play, and Cheng Gongjiang, Marquis of Zhennan, took in the remnants of the Yan Luo Gang and conspired against him.This is nothing new, because since leaving Beijing to quell the rebellion, Marquis Wen Song has issued a memorial almost every three days, accusing Marquis Zhennan of treason, asking him to let go of the southwest plank road, and accept imperial soldiers and horses to enter the southwest hinterland for search.The two sides insisted on their own opinions and talked about it for more than half a year, but the officials had already seen each other? No wonder.But this time Lan Lie's performance was slightly different? He claimed to have captured the assassin sent by Zhennan Hou to assassinate Cen Zheng.

At the same time, Cen Zheng in prison suddenly retracts his confession and shows Qin Liang's autographed letter, claiming that the Yan Luo gang's rebellion was actually controlled by the Southwest Cheng family.After the failure of the uprising, the Southwest Cheng family wanted to blame everything on the Yan Luo Gang, so they killed Qin Liang to silence him, and everyone in the Yan Luo Gang knew about it.And she almost died at the hands of the opponent.

There was an uproar.

Of course, the Zhennan Hou Mansion knew that she was deliberately framed, and wanted to label Southwest as a rebel.But it is a fact that they assassinated Cen Zhi, and this handle is now in the hands of the court. If you don’t want to admit treason, you can only admit that they participated in the frame of Cen Zhi, and because they were worried that the case would be revealed, they decided to kill them.

No matter how you choose, the Cheng family will be determined.

But they no longer have a third choice, the lesser of two evils, admitting to frame Cen Zhi is better than admitting treason, it is much better to have no way out.

Only then did the Cheng family think of the Iron Deed of Danshu from An Guohou.Come to the mansion in a hurry to ask for it.Who knows, Wu Jingchai looked puzzled, "This...the iron block is still there, but I thought that uncle didn't need it, so I used the authority from above. This iron block can still be left for you... commemorate."

"What? Used up? When was it used up?"

The steward of Cheng's mansion was dumbfounded. A Dan Shu iron deed without rights is equivalent to a piece of scrap iron.

"It was half a month ago? Right? Didn't I send someone to the mansion to inquire specifically to make sure that you don't need it? Could it be that uncle...does he need it again?" Speaking of Wu Jingchai, he had no intentions at all. Burdened, but despise the other party's changing orders day and night, words don't count at all.

The butler suddenly remembered that what he said was true.It's just that at that time, the Cheng family refused to admit to framing Cen Zhi, and they were confident that no one would find out about them, so there was no need for this iron contract for the time being.If they were willing to walk down the steps at that time, perhaps they would not have the passive situation they are in now.

Framed Cen Zhi is a serious crime, at least with the iron deed of Dan Shu, it can be done comprehensively.If not, the result will not be much better than the rebellion exposed.The imperial court might use this as an excuse to sweep the Cheng family out of the southwest.

This is a dead end.

On the surface, it seemed that the imperial court had done their utmost to benevolent, and even granted them the iron deed of the alchemy. In fact, every step they took accurately stepped into the trap set by the empress.

At this point, Cheng Gongjiang knew that it was no longer possible to not rebel, and he could only be slaughtered if he didn't rebel.

Therefore, in June of the same year, the Cheng family raised troops in the southwest, declaring that they would depose the empress and support the third son of the former emperor, Cheng Wang, as the king, so as to clear the source.

King Cheng has been missing for several years. It is rumored that he died in the rebellious army. Now he suddenly appeared in the southwest. It is unknown whether it is true or not. People in the court are inevitably panicked.

But the Queen had been prepared for a long time. At the same time, she announced the despicable deeds of the Southwest Cheng family's conspiracy to frame Cen Zhi, and took this opportunity to win the hearts of the people all over the world.

Cheng Gong Jiang Gou jumps over the wall in a hurry, and his true face of rebellion and self-reliance is revealed. For a while, the people in the country are outraged, and everyone in the world complains.

But the more so, the Southwest lost its psychological burden and became more and more reckless with its military force.

So Li Jingzhu decided to go on a personal expedition, leading three armies to conquer the southwest.

"I'm going to let the people of the world see what it means to get back to the original!"

July of this year was the most stalemate in the Southwest War.Although Cen Zhuo has intellectual confidence in Li Jingbai, longing is like the moss on the bricks, which can break down the strongest brick wall and create cracks.She regretted it very much. If she had known that the parting was so long, she would not have left so happily in the first place.There was never a moment when she wanted to be by her side so much.She put her thoughts on paper, always writing at night and throwing away during the day.In the end, he could only sigh against the cage-like brick wall.

That night, she still couldn't sleep, wrapped in a cloak and stared at the small window in a daze.Suddenly, I heard a dense sound of beating drums, which came from the west, very hurried.She immediately raised her vigilance and got down from the cot, only to hear that the sound became more and more chaotic, and there were many hurried footsteps and shouts, a bit like the movement of a private house on fire.Finally, a sharp "Killed! Officers and soldiers killed!" completely tore up the pretentious quiet of the whole night.

Mutiny? !

Cen Zhu's heartstrings tightened, and he immediately realized that something was wrong.Now that Li Jing is far away from the capital, if there is a mutiny in the court, it will be a major blow to the morale of the front line.

Amidst the fragmentary shouts outside, Cen Zhu slowly pieced together some clues. It seemed that someone opened the west city gate at night and let the thieves enter the city!Now the rebels have controlled more than half of the capital city, assembled soldiers and horses and went straight to the palace.

"Nobody is allowed to move!"

Around the time of Chou, Cen Zhu heard that a group of soldiers and horses broke into the yamen of the Ministry of Criminal Justice in a disorderly manner, and they killed everyone they saw, and came straight to the heavy prison.The guards guarding the prison fought fiercely with the thief.Probably the number was superior, and the thieves broke in quickly.Hearing a ferocious jackal sound, Cen Zhu checked the prison doors one by one, and asked the jailer, "Where is Cen Zheng?" Because the other party was too late to answer, he swung his knife to kill the man, and grabbed him again. Another person said, "Tell me, where is Cen Zheng Pass?!"

"I know, I can take you there!"

Cen Zhu's heart was pounding, and the palm holding the pen was wet with cold sweat, and he could barely hold the pen.Hearing the aggressive footsteps coming from the aisle, she forced herself to calm down, finished writing the last word, folded the paper and stuffed it into an extremely deep crack in the brick, grabbed a handful of moss and stuffed it.Leave the wall and stand behind the iron gate.Breathing and violent heartbeat, is it so decisive and powerful? She took off the cloak, hugged it in her arms, took a deep breath, caressed it lovingly, and couldn't bear it? It was stained with blood, so she let it go Back to bed.Turning around, he quietly listened to the footsteps approaching, stopped in front of the iron gate, and slowly inserted the key into the lock...

In July of this year, the very famous seizure of the palace took place in Yurui's history.

This mutiny started from the west city, quickly swept through the center of the inner city, broke through the palace at one point, and placed King Lian, who had become a monk, on the throne.

The main forces that launched the mutiny were Queen Lian's family and some old parties that opposed the Queen's ascension to the throne. They took advantage of the Queen's unfavorable frontline battles, and cooperated with the hidden piles of the Nanhou Mansion in the town of Chengzhong to kill the commander of the Xicheng Infantry Army. Captured the west city gate and went straight to the imperial city.Cui Yunliang, the commander of the Shenwu Army, led his troops to suppress the rebellion, but was accidentally assassinated by an assassin, which directly caused the imperial city to be lost to the enemy for twelve hours.

In the end, it was Princess Kangde who was ordered to supervise the country, with the assistance of Ningbei Hou Zhou's family, assembled the army in Beijing and launched a counterattack against the rebels, and successfully suppressed the rebellion day and night.Although the rebellion lasted only two days, it caused great damage to the center of the imperial court and the six yamen.

Many important officials of the imperial court headed by Qiu Jianben, because they refused to surrender to the bandits, scolded the rebellious officials and bandits.

The Metropolitan Procuratorate was also bloodbathed and retaliated by the Zhennan Hou Mansion. Except for Zhao Chen who was seriously injured and escaped by chance, many imperial officials including Song Zhian were brutally slaughtered.And Shen Xi's whereabouts are unknown, it is said that he was thrown into a mass grave.

The most unbearable thing for the world is that Cen Zheng, the daughter of King Pingyin, was also murdered by rebels in prison.He was tortured when he died, and his eyes were gouged out, which is extremely tragic.

Perhaps it was for revenge. On the day of suppressing the rebellion, Princess Kant raised her sword to the palace, pulled King Lian from his throne, lifted him to the gate of the palace, and threw Huafeng gate in front of everyone, turning him into a puddle of meat.Lian Wangmu and concubine Zhou Taifei went crazy in an instant, and fell down.

Princess Kangde ordered that the house of Queen Mother Lian and the residence of Zhennan Hou should not be left alive, and the corpses of the dead should be exhumed and tombs destroyed, and abandoned in the wilderness.For a while, the old party in the DPRK and China was like a frightened bird, and the few years they had obtained from the Queen's hand were lingering, and they were completely cut off in this seizure of the palace.

According to legend, in order to prevent such incidents from happening again, the remaining princes and princesses who became monks for the late emperor in Qixia Mountain were also secretly executed.It is hard to argue whether this is true or not, but what is certain is that these princes and princesses have never appeared in any of Yurui's historical records since then.

In fact, one day before the rebellion, Li Jingchen, who was far away in the southwestern border, was cooperating with the generals inside and outside, staged a good show of pretending to be defeated to lure the enemy out of the cave, and wiped out the main force of the southwestern rebels near the plank road.This battle of Dingding not only severely dampened the morale of the Southwest Army, but also wiped out the vitality of the Cheng family.Li Jingchen was never soft on those who were about to die, and immediately sent his troops westward, not giving the enemy the slightest chance to breathe.At this rate, it will be just around the corner to flatten the Southwest lair within a month.

When she stepped onto the tower of the Cheng family's main city, she touched the crenellations of the city wall that had been carved out by swords and soldiers, recalling how passive and controlled she was when she first came to the Southwest to join the army.Now there is no place in the thousands of miles that is not under her control.

"It's a pity that Yuezhong will never have the chance to see it again. I promised back then that if he leveled the southwest in one day, he would be the pioneer."

Yun Zhong comforted her and said: "Yuezhong will not miss this excitement, he? He must be watching from the sky with all the brothers now!"

But Li Jingchen became more and more sentimental. In order to get this great country, she lost too many old people who were willing to die for her, and also defeated many seemingly invincible enemies.Long-cherished and sleepy at night, there is today.However, the moment she got it, she was so lonely.

The mountains never get too high, and the sea never gets too deep, but the highest mountain and the deepest part of the sea are often the coldest places in the world.

Has she touched the Dragon Gate now?

She had a slight hunch that perhaps only time could bear her answer.

At this moment, she received news of the mutiny in Beijing.Not too surprised, "It seems that those people in Beijing can't sit still."

She is confident that she has left enough strength for Li Jingxi to quell the rebellion within a day.

However, when she saw the rebels attacking the six government offices, her mood was still flat, "How could it be?"

Immediately called Lan Lie and Meng Ran, and entrusted them with the important task of stabilizing the southwest, and returned with the cloud seed and starry night.

Sometimes, people's intuition can often precede the senses.When she approached the foot of the capital, a strange but familiar thought filled her heart with fear. Just like many, many years ago, this city has become a purgatory for the living and a tomb for lonely souls.