Chapter 147: Powerful Minister【16】
When the emperor heard Eunuch Li say that the ninth prince was coming, the anger on his face faded immediately, and he said, "Xiaojiu is here? Hurry up!"
An eight-year-old child walked into the imperial study, with a serious look on his lovely face, and his movements were very standard and rigid when saluting the emperor, but when the emperor smiled and waved at him, he immediately showed a lively and cheerful smile. Sticking to the emperor's side, he shouted coquettishly, "Imperial Father!"
The emperor likes the ninth prince, who is usually cute, smart and steady, but when he is coquettish and cute, he takes him in his arms and asks with a smile, "What's the matter with Xiaojiu coming to see the father today?"
The ninth prince glanced at the mess on the ground. The palace servants were already cleaning it up. He asked, "Is the father still worried about the Duke of Zhenbei?"
The smile on the emperor's face suddenly cooled down, and his anger surged. Now, as long as someone mentions 'Zhenbei Gong' and 'Meng Yuanjia', he can get angry.
The ninth prince was not afraid of the emperor's anger. He leaned on the emperor's ear and whispered a few words, and soon saw the anger on the emperor's face turn into a happy expression, he hugged the ninth prince and laughed: "My dear son, Xiaojiu You are really my smartest son! If the plan is successful, I will make you the crown prince!"
The ninth prince's face was filled with a happy smile, but his eyes were full of ridicule.
The ninth prince coaxed the emperor into a happy mood, and before he left, he did not forget to tell the emperor, "Father, please don't let people know that it was my son who gave you the idea."
The emperor nodded perfunctorily. Anyway, he didn't intend to tell others that he was relying on his eight-year-old son to come up with such a wonderful way to eradicate traitors. Of course, such a good way was conceived by him as a prosperous emperor.
When the emperor was secretly planning how to transfer the Zhenbei Army stationed outside the capital, Yuan Jia had already made contact with the generals in the local army, and the bribing operation went well.
In fact, in recent years, apart from Queyuguan in the frontier, which had to face the attack of the Hulu, the rest of the dynasty had no battle to fight.
The local generals are really not taken seriously in the imperial court, and they will be robbed of the credit for the bandit suppression by the civil servants. If there is a black cauldron, they will take the credit, and the credit will be robbed. The matter is brought to the front of the emperor, and the emperor who wants to gather military power is unconditional. .
When Yuan Jia focused his energy on controlling the local army, the people who were sent to investigate the forces under the Ninth Prince sent back the secret letter.
Yuan Jia opened the secret letter and looked at it. On the surface, the forces under the name of the ninth prince were all merchants' chambers of commerce that were not on the table, and they were run by the uncle of the ninth prince in the name of the ninth prince.
On the surface, it seems that the ninth prince's uncle was just greedy for money and borrowed the ninth prince's name to participate in the chamber of commerce to make money. In fact, Yuan Jia saw that the ninth prince arranged the court through the merchants.
Those businessmen from the Chamber of Commerce have frequently funded the imperial examinations for underprivileged students recently. When the ninth prince grows up, many of those underprivileged students should enter the imperial examination and become the mainstay of the court. Isn't it his natural team by then?
With such a layout, Yuan Jia can basically be sure that this ninth prince should be the rebirth of this world.
Yuan Jia will devote some of his energy to the Chamber of Commerce prepared by the ninth prince, thinking about how to break up this huge capital group that has just begun to take shape.
However, before he could act, the men who were in charge of staring at the person sent by the emperor outside the capital to ask for help urgently sent a secret letter: "My lord, a fish that slipped through the net escaped our fishing net."
This means that the emperor's people are likely to have passed on the edict for help.
Yuan Jia didn't care much. Many generals in the local army chose to join him, and the people sent by the emperor might not be able to come back alive.
Since there were already fish that slipped through the net, Yuan Jia simply evacuated the people and let the emperor ask for help. If he was afraid, he would lose.
What Ling Yuanjia didn't expect was that the local army did not receive the emperor's secret edict. It seems that the fish that slipped through the net did not go to summon the local army to **** King Qin in Beijing.
What is the emperor doing?
Yuan Jia had a bad feeling in his heart.
"It can't be delayed any longer!" Yuan Jia's bad premonition made him attach great importance. He wrote dozens of secret letters one after another and sent them out.
Then he asked the old lady to go to the Jincheng Hou Mansion in person and pass on his intentions to the old Hou Ye.
As for himself, he couldn't act rashly, so he stayed in Zhenbei Gongfu to accompany his wife Chu Wenlan to enjoy the flowers and play chess, which seemed very leisurely.
In fact, under his dozens of secret letters, the entire court was surging.
A month later, when everything was ready, Yuan Jia changed into a suit of armor, and took the long sword that had slashed many Hulu people on the battlefield when he had just crossed over.
Seeing his outfit, Chu Wenlan felt something in her heart, and looked at him worriedly, her unfinished words near the worry in her eyes.
Yuan Jia comforted: "Don't worry, no matter what, I will come back alive."
Chu Wenlan pursed her lips and didn't speak. She walked in front of him, stretched out his hand and pulled his big hand over her abdomen, and said softly, "I'll wait for you to come back with the baby."
Yuan Jia looked at her quietly, suddenly smiled slightly, and said, "Okay, when I get back, our family will be reunited."
Yuan Jia didn't say goodbye to the old lady and the Yan family, but put on his armor, put on his weapons and walked out of the mansion. His personal soldiers were already standing in line at the door with their horses waiting for him. He got on his horse and looked closely. He closed the gate of Zhenbei Gongfu, and then rode his horse to the direction of the palace.
Running all the way, there are sounds of swords fighting and galloping horses everywhere.
The 200,000-strong town north army stationed outside the capital had already attacked.
As for the guards guarding the city, Yuan Jia only needed to bribe some of them, so that the guards from Zhan Wuzhe would react a little slower, and no one could stop the Zhenbei Army from breaking into the city.
The tall capital city wall did not form an effective barrier at all. Under the cooperation of the inside and the outside, it drove straight in and surrounded the palace.
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The emperor has just received the good news that the confidant flying pigeon he sent has returned. The people he sent have already mixed on the northern grassland, and are going to find the king of Hulu, and discuss with him to break through the Queyu Pass and kill the border pass. That 100,000 town north army.
The idea of the ninth prince to the emperor was that if the northern army of the 100,000 town of Queyuguan was killed by the Hu prisoners, Meng Yuanjia would definitely lead the 200,000 town north army outside the capital to attack the Hu north to avenge the bitterness.
If Meng Yuanjia was unwilling to avenge the 100,000 Zhenbei Army, he would definitely lose his military heart, and the 200,000 Zhenbei Army would be nothing to worry about.
It has to be said that this plan is extremely vicious.
However, Yuan Jia acted too fast. He did not wait for the emperor's people to contact the Hulu King, and did not give them a chance to cooperate with each other, so he directly led his army to surround the palace.
The emperor was still dreaming of beheading the entire palace of Zhenbei Gongfu and putting Meng Yuanjia to death to vent his hatred, when he heard a panicked noise outside the palace.
"Come on! What's going on outside?"
Eunuch Li ran in in a panic and shouted to the emperor: "Your Majesty, the big thing is bad! Duke Zhenbei led the army to surround the palace, and he turned against it!"
The emperor was so frightened that his face turned blue, he sat down on the ground and couldn't believe it: "What? He actually turned back?!"
Although the emperor always felt that Meng Yuanjia was threatening him, he was definitely trying to rebel, but subconsciously he knew that the Dukes of Zhenbei in all dynasties were loyal to the royal family. Meng Yuanjia held 300,000 Zhenbei troops, of which 200,000 were stationed in Outside the capital, he has not really rebelled in recent years. In his heart, he has a fluke mentality: maybe Meng Yuanjia is still loyal to the royal family, just wants to be a powerful minister, and does not want to rebel.
Now that he really got the news of Meng Yuanjia's rebellion, the emperor's inner fear far exceeded his anger.
Eunuch Li was not as frightened as the emperor, so he hurried over to help the emperor up, and said in a panic, "Your Majesty, let's run quickly! Keep the green hills here, not afraid of running out of firewood. Let's go to the south, there are still more Many troops are loyal to His Majesty, and we can retake the capital and kill the rebels."
The emperor recovered from his fear and nodded again and again: "Yes, yes, you are right. I want to live, I can't die, I still have a chance to make a comeback..."
But how to run, the emperor didn't have any regulations, or Eunuch Li faithfully helped him change into a eunuch's clothes, shaved his beard, painted his face with ashes, and disguised the emperor as a disgraced little eunuch, Eunuch Li himself They also changed into the clothes of the little eunuch, and the two escaped quietly.
At this time, the palace was in chaos, the sound of fighting was clearly audible, and everyone panicked. Except for some extremely loyal eunuchs, most of the maids fled for their own lives. Who cares about the master.
Even the emperor who escaped with Eunuch Li disguised as a little **** didn't want to save his queen concubines and princes and daughters.
Anyway, the most important thing is that he is alive. The queen and concubine can marry later, the prince and princess can be reborn later, and his dragon life can be one.
The ninth prince, who had just moved from a remote palace to a palace closer to the emperor's bedroom because he was favored by the emperor, hid in the Gong's room, pinched his nose and pricked his ears to listen to the movement outside, his face full of panic and unwillingness. color.
Damn Meng Qi is really useless!
In the last life, Meng Yuanjia was still able to kill Meng Yuanjia, help him recruit the former department of Zhenbei Gongfu, and help him ascend to the throne.
In this life, he was actually thrown out of the Zhenbei Gongfu by Meng Yuanjia. Even asking him to pass a little fake news to Meng Yuanjia could mess things up, causing Meng Yuanjia to turn against him in advance!
Thinking that he was a good emperor in his last life, but he was cut off by the Hulu who broke through the capital, and he died very miserably.
It was hard to be reborn, but found that many things have changed. It is very likely that Meng Yuanjia of Zhenbei Gongfu was reborn like him. The North Army of 100,000 Towns was stationed outside the capital and could force the palace to rebel at any time.
Before he could get rid of Meng Yuanjia, Meng Yuanjia actually entered the palace directly. What can he do now as an eight-year-old child facing the fierce 200,000 Zhenbei Army?
The ninth prince could only pray that he would not be found by hiding in Gong's room for the time being, or that Meng Yuanjia would be willing to push him to become a puppet emperor after finding him.
Afraid that Meng Yuanjia would want to be enthroned as emperor by himself, the prince of him could only be slaughtered and eradicated.
When the ninth prince was praying in secret, he heard the footsteps outside getting closer and closer, his face became paler and paler, and finally the screen in front of him was violently kicked open...