Li Dequan went to look again, only to find that Emperor Hongjing had fallen asleep.
This was not the first time he had experienced this situation, and he still couldn't help feeling flustered until he stretched out his hand to touch his breath, and he finally felt relieved.
He sat down on the ground, and began to think about the secret passage of Jingren Palace in his mind.
Jingren Palace has always had a secret passage leading to Qianqing Palace.
The secret path was built by Emperor Gaozong during his reign. It is said that Emperor Gaozong had a concubine who seemed to be indifferent and never top-notch in the harem, but she was the most beloved woman in Gaozong's life.
This concubine was a legend throughout her life, she did not give birth to the most heirs, and her appearance was not top-notch in the harem. During the Daqian dynasty, elections are made every three years, and every three years is a reincarnation for the women in the harem. During this period, there will always be various favorite concubines, which will make this one look dull.
But if you look at it from a long-term perspective, you can find that those concubines have gone nowhere for decades, and this one is the only one who is evergreen. It has remained unchanged for decades, no matter how old or decrepit, in the end, although he did not become the queen mother, his son became the emperor.
This man is the first emperor.
Empress Xiao Yide was posthumously named Empress Dowager after her death. She could have continued to enjoy the ultimate wealth in this world as the Holy Mother Empress Dowager, but she went with Gaozong after his funeral.
This secret road was built by Emperor Gaozong to see Empress Xiao Yide, and almost no one in the palace knew about it. The reason why Li Dequan knew it was because Emperor Hongjing had used this secret passage before. Only then did he know why His Majesty deliberately moved Concubine De from Zhongcui Palace to Jingren Palace.
And the reason why Emperor Hongjing mentioned this secret path just now was not because he thought of Concubine De, but because there is a branch of this secret path that can lead to the outside of the palace.
To be correct, it should be said that there has always been a secret passage in the palace leading to the outside of the palace. Only every emperor knows that the secret passage of Jingren Palace is actually a branch added from this secret passage.
Li Dequan didn't think any more, and returned to the outside by the same route.
The sleeping hall was the same as when he left just now, still making people feel so quiet.
But Li Dequan remained calm, he was thinking about how to use that secret passage to get out of the palace.
This battle lasted for a whole afternoon, because the guards of Yanshan Mausoleum attacked from behind, and the people of the Fifth Army Battalion were beaten to pieces.
Some of them died, some were injured, some were captured, and some fled towards the palace. The Yanshan Mausoleum Guard and King Jin's men took advantage of the victory and pursued them until they reached the palace, where they had no choice but to stop.
King Qing was dressed in armor, his face was full of wind and sand, his armor and weapons were still stained with blood, it was obvious that he had fought fiercely for a long time. He drove his horse up to King Jin who was in black armor, cupped his hands and said, "Fifth brother, it's a good luck not to disgrace your life."
King Jin was dressed in black, making his face whiter and paler, but it was very cold, like an iceberg that would not melt for a thousand years. He stared darkly at the palace gate not far away, with frost on his face, he nodded slightly: "Thanks for your hard work."
King Qing choked speechlessly, but it was clearly not the time, so he could only swallow thousands of words into his throat.
"My brother is not working hard."
The rebel army fled into the palace. Although the army of suppressing the rebels won this battle, it was not completely won.
In the end, King Jin's goal was not to defeat the rebels, but to break into the imperial city, capture King Qing, rescue the trapped courtiers, and find out what happened in the palace. The palace wall blocks all this.
When the Forbidden City was built, it was originally built according to the city. Which emperor is not afraid of death, of course his lair must be built invincible.
It's not that the king of Jin has never fought a siege battle, but at that time his troops were sufficient, and there were many people who could use them. But now that there is only such a small amount of troops in hand, in addition to clearing out the remnants of the rebels lingering outside, they also have to beware of other actions of the rebels. Obviously, they cannot all be devoted to the siege battle.
Some people have already started shouting at the imperial city, but there is no movement inside. There are many well-armored soldiers guarding the gate tower of the palace, but they are like stone men, and no one pays attention to the shouting outside.
"Fifth Brother, are you still fighting?"
King Jin pondered for a while, and said: "Order people to guard outside the gates of several palaces, and don't let people inside come out."
"Fifth brother is trying to trap the enemy?"
"In order to save troops, this is the only way to do it for the time being. They are trapped in the palace. In addition to these rebels, there are tens of thousands of court ladies and eunuchs in the palace. The food reserves in the palace are not enough for them to last long."
"Fifth brother is wise."
This is not Jin Wang's wisdom, but a question that everyone can think of. There are too many people in the palace. Although there are many rice and granaries built, the consumption is greater than the storage. According to King Jin's estimate of the food in the palace, it would only be enough for them to last for ten days at most.
And these ten days are enough for him to do many things, enough to close the door and beat the dog.
King Jin did not slack off because of this, there are still many things he needs to do.
For example, to clear up the remnants of the rebels in the city, to appease the people, to rectify the Shuntian Mansion, the Wucheng Bingma Division, and the Jingwei Commander Division, and to unite with the courtiers to resume the government office, and at the same time call reinforcements from outside the capital.
He was so busy that he couldn't see anyone for many days, and Yaoniang was also very busy. After a thorough rest, she started to send away all the family members who had temporarily lived in the Prince Jin's Mansion.
Especially the so-called courtesy between the nobles, if they express their thanks, you have to show up. Yaoniang is very tired every day, so naturally she has no time to think about King Jin.
This turmoil caused heavy losses to the capital, not to mention the damage to the various houses, many ordinary people's homes also suffered.
Too many people died, and the capital was completely white. Because the rebel army has not been completely wiped out, Beijing has not been able to restore the prosperity of the past for the time being, and there are very few people walking on the street, all of whom have lingering fears.
King Jin did not forget the culprit, and ordered people to go to Duke Wei's mansion that day.
Except for Wei Guogong and his eldest son who were not in the mansion, everyone in the Wei family was there. They probably didn't expect that the big event would fail. In fact, some people are quite innocent. They don't know what the Patriarch has done, but because the surname is Wei, this is the original sin.
It stands to reason that King Jin is not qualified to dispose of a duke's mansion, but since the matter is urgent, he doesn't have extra troops to surround the duke's mansion of Wei, so he can only imprison all the Wei family members. Not only the Wei family, but everyone who showed up in the rebel army did not escape.
Conglong's achievements make people forget about it, but once things fail, it will implicate the whole family.
The capital was once again shrouded in crying, but this time they changed their partner. I have to say that life is really full of miracles, and there are too many reversals.
Different from the outside, the palace is shrouded in a haze.
The disastrous battle, the limited food, and the worry that the whole family will be outside the palace. There are probably not many who can still be happy in this situation.
Dai Wang is in a rage every day, but it is like a fight between trapped animals.
In the past two days, many more court ladies and eunuchs in Qianqing Palace died than before, but the contemporary king was persuaded to discourage these servants any more. The other party said very realistically, the most people in this palace are the maids and eunuchs, if these people are really driven to a corner, and they riot, I am afraid that even the Dai Wang will be unable to bear it.
So what to do
No one can answer him!
Every day there are people who want to open the palace gates to escape, but they are all killed. The people guarding the palace gates are all from Chang Jian'an, and Chang Jian'an was also the one who persuaded him to act as the king.
The game that must be won was messed up by this person, and Chang Jian'an was full of contempt for Dai Wang. But it was too late to say anything now, the defeat was already decided, the only plan for now was to save his life.
At this time, there was finally a disagreement between Chang Jian'an and Dai Wang.
Chang Jian'an meant to use the courtiers in his hands to exchange for a way of escape, but Dai Wang seemed not interested in this. After all, the king of Dai Dai was born as a prince, with his own pride and self-esteem, so what if he escaped, could he be a king in the whole world, would he want to become a bandit and live in hiding for the rest of his life.
Wei Guogong and Wei Guogong's sons were not interested in this. Wei Guogong fell ill that night, and the elderly people collapsed after several times of shock and anger. And it is impossible for the elder son to leave his father and his family and escape, unlike Chang Jian'an, who are alone and have no worries.
Seeing that the two of them looked useless, Chang Jian'an ignored them and went to handle the matter by himself, but before he could make a request to the other party, the palace suddenly became chaotic.
No one knew how those people came in, and how the city gate was opened. It seemed that those people came in in the blink of an eye.
In Qianqing Palace, on the dragon seat in the main hall, there is a person sitting.
This person was dressed in a bright yellow dragon robe, but his face was full of despair.
It is Dai Wang.
Before, he still had some scruples, but after tearing his skin apart, he simply didn't hide it. He Xiao had wanted to be the emperor for a long time, and now he finally had the opportunity, so he naturally added a yellow robe to show off his prestige first.
In the distance, there seemed to be an overwhelming shout: "Give up resistance, let the past go, try to resist, and you will never be forgiven!"
"Protect the family and defend the country, help the community! Punish the traitors, and God bless you!"
This is the slogan that Jin Wang's men and horses will shout every time there are rebels, because such lies and such rumors confuse the crowd, and the men and horses on behalf of the king have suffered a lot without mentioning it. Until now, Dai Wang couldn't figure out why he was going to lose.
Obviously he had the upper hand, obviously he had more troops than King Jin, so he was about to lose.
A sentence that old Chen Ge said to him a few days ago suddenly sounded in his ears: "If you risk the world's disgrace, you will not be able to stand firmly in the end. It is recorded in the history books of the time, and it will be stigmatized for thousands of years."
Dai Wang didn't believe this kind of rhetoric, and everyone looked at the history books, nothing more than success and defeat.
What does it mean to risk the world's dissatisfaction? Princes, generals, and relatives are kind!
He is also the father's own son, a serious and upright son of the middle palace, why shouldn't the throne be his, it should be his!
With a creaking sound, the closed palace door was pushed open from the outside, and a general who was in a state of embarrassment stumbled and ran in, shouting at the top of his lungs, "Your Highness, the attack is coming, the attack is coming..."
Dai Wang didn't know what he was thinking, he just let out a soft oh, without even raising his head.
The door of the palace was suddenly opened wide, and a lot of sunlight came in from outside the door. Sitting facing him, Dai Wang was blinded by the light. Many people rushed in, and the leader was tall and calm, with a tall and straight figure, like a god descending from the earth.
"Third brother, stay safe."
In Kunning Palace, Empress Wei sat on the phoenix seat of the main hall.
She was dressed in a bright yellow Yanju uniform, with decent makeup, her gray hair neatly combed in a bun, and a crown of six dragons and three phoenixes on her head.
The Kunning Palace, which was originally quiet, suddenly became noisy.
There were chaotic footsteps and the screams of a court lady, and soon the half-open palace door was pushed open from the outside.
"Empress Empress..."
Without waiting for the other party to finish speaking, the queen stood up from the phoenix seat with a snap.
"You came at a good time. I have been imprisoned in this palace by the acting king for a long time. I want to exterminate relatives righteously. The acting king assassinates His Majesty, plots to usurp the throne, confines the queen mother, imprisones ministers, and all kinds of crimes are beyond description..."
No one spoke, and everyone's eyes became a little weird.
The queen is planning to cut off her tail to protect herself, but the problem is that things have developed to this point, how does she feel that she will be able to win the trust of others? Sure enough, one of the most honorable people in the world can do such a thing. Shameless behavior.
The leader, Fu Cheng, said with a smile: "Your Majesty, you should not tell the servants these words, because the servants don't understand them, so you should save these words to His Majesty and his elders."
As soon as Emperor Hongjing was mentioned, Empress Wei suddenly mourned, covered her face with her sleeves, and wept uncontrollably.
"That evil son actually made a move against His Majesty, and made the dragon's body stay in the Qianqing Palace. I told him countless times, asking him to put His Majesty in the Zi Palace first, but he turned a deaf ear to it, and instead scolded me for doing too much. Mind your own business. If it wasn't for Ben Gong being his biological mother, I'm afraid this life would be gone now... Ben Gong dreams every night that His Majesty is looking for Ben Gong in his dreams, asking why Ben Gong gave birth to such a wicked child, But His Majesty said that he doesn't blame me, the acting king has been in the fief for a long time, and he hasn't been close to me since childhood, he acted so recklessly, this palace..."
Fucheng interrupted: "Your Majesty, you should save this and tell His Majesty."
Empress Wei asked in surprise, "What are you trying to do? If I didn't remember that you are the personal eunuch of the King of Jin, wouldn't you want to kill me privately? I am the empress of Daqian, the mother of the world, and the King of Jin His mother, the King of Jin borrowed the courage from heaven to dare to attack his mother, so he is not afraid of the contempt and ridicule of the world?!"
Fucheng was very helpless: "My Highness has no intention of murdering Your Majesty. Your Majesty should not make random guesses. This old servant just wants to take Your Majesty to see His Majesty."
As he spoke, he impatiently talked nonsense to Empress Wei, raised his chin, and someone rushed up from behind him.
But Empress Wei completely misunderstood what he meant, she couldn't help but backed away until she tripped over something and fell to the ground. Even so, she still didn't forget to survive, and crawled forward with hands and feet, trying to hide behind the phoenix seat.
Hong Rang has already been taken down, seeing such a scene at this time, seeing these lowly people looking at the empress as if they were watching a monkey show, I felt extremely sad and indignant.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty is not dead, Your Majesty is not dead!"
Empress Wei's movements suddenly stopped, the horror on her face froze, and then she passed out.