It only took one night for the people who came down from Dadong Mountain to deal with everything. The first rebellion in the history of the Qing Dynasty, which was lit in daylight, ended disastrously. up any waves. Everyone, including the emperor, waited coldly and nervously for the changes in the capital in more than ten days.
The emperor was already very tired at that time, and getting rid of the two great masters, Ku He and Si Gu Jian, was certainly the most magnificent page in his life, but it also consumed too much of his strength and energy, especially when this long plan became a reality In the end, some spiritual influences made him far less powerful than people saw him at this time.
In his entire life, this stage was actually his weakest and most easily defeated, but no one discovered it, and no one dared to take advantage of it. Because apart from encircling Dadongshan and blocking news, the tens of thousands of state troops are still desperately chasing and killing the two forces that sneaked into the border from Dongyi City and Northern Qi.
The tiger was dozing off, but he forcibly squinted his eyes, shining a cold light, frightening those who dared to offend him into prey who fled in embarrassment. Uesugi Tiger was alone, but he had to go north with Kuhe, so he was naturally powerless to do anything. Yun Zhilan, who was temporarily in charge of Dongyi City's affairs, was also a master of swordsmanship, but not a master of war art. It has nothing to do with courage to fight back bravely and seek some earth-shattering effects.
The Overwatch Council has also taken action, and the three-way inspectors dispatched in advance have densely covered every road from Dongshan Road to Kyoto. Although Chen Pingping was in the capital, these subordinates under him still displayed the powerful and glorious tradition of the Overwatch Council and displayed a terrifying ability to block information.
Whether it is Uesugi Tiger or Dongyi City, even if they can release the news on the way to inform the princess who is far away in Kyoto, it is impossible to do it within a few days. The truth spread to the capital, more than ten days later than usual.
It was inconvenient to transmit information, but it brought great convenience to the emperor and Chen Pingping.
At this time, Fan Xian was fighting Yan Xiaoyi in the depths of the mountains. He didn't know what happened on Dadong Mountain. After he successfully killed Yan Xiaoyi, entered Song Kingdom, and then went south from Yanjing, the people who escaped from Dadong Mountain highlighted the mountains and broke into the sphere of influence of Dongyi City.
Fan Xian's luck was bad, he left Song Kingdom a few days early, so he didn't hear the news. Not long after he entered the border of the Qing Kingdom, the commander of the Yanjing Camp had received a secret decree to secretly take over the leaderless Zhengbei Camp, and at the same time forcibly cut off the borders between the three countries.
And what's even more amazing is that people who returned from Beiqi or Dongyi seemed to have closed their lips subconsciously. It was very late when the little emperor of Northern Qi received the news, even if he sent a letter to the princess of the south, it was too late to change anything. As for the Sigu Sword in Dongyi City... this madman who was seriously injured and dying, for some reason, did not try to inform Li Yunrui in Kyoto.
The reason is actually very simple, once the news that the emperor is still alive is sent back to the capital, the civil turmoil in Qing may end before it even started, and the national power of Qing will not suffer any loss, this is what Si Gu Jian is very unwilling to see.
Today's Si Gu Jian has to consider the future of Dongyi City after his death. In order to delay the pace of Emperor Qing's unification of the world, it may be more in the interests of Dongyi City to let the eldest princess know the news that the emperor is still alive a few days later—if Chang The princess made a big fuss in the capital, and the national strength of the Qing Kingdom will be damaged. If there is a big war, it will take two or three years for the Qing Kingdom to recover and send troops abroad.
Of course, Yanjing and Cangzhou have been banned. Not long after Fan Xian entered Beijing, the capital was closed. Even if Si Gujian wanted to inform Li Yunrui, it would not be that simple. The most frightening thing was that Emperor Qing seemed to be able to figure out Si Gu Jian's thoughts at this time, and the minds of the great masters were indeed so connected.
Another most critical issue was Fan Xian's safety. As long as Fan Xian can successfully break through the threshold of Yan Xiaoyi and return to the capital... Sigu Jian is thinking about the future of Dongyi City, Fan Xian cannot die so early.
In the last days of their lives, Grand Masters had to consider more, farther, and deeper things. They lost the most critical battle at the hands of Emperor Qing, but they kept their hope in the future, in that moment. It seems that, no matter what, it is impossible for Dongyi City to hope... Fan Xian.
All of these things would happen more than ten days later. His Majesty the Qing Emperor is not a sophisticated computer, so he can only infer the approximate possibility. Fortunately, the development of the situation is not too far from his analysis.
After dealing with the Dadongshan incident, he did not stay at the foot of the mountain, but went northwest overnight to Luozhou, entered the city in the early morning, and settled in the Governor's Mansion of Dongshan Road Governor Hou Yongzhi.
On that day, the entire city of Luozhou City was strictly prohibited, and the Jiangbei Road State Army who followed His Majesty to the north was ordered to take over the important task of guarding the local state army. A dozen ministers and eunuch masters of the inner court controlled the entire governor's mansion.
The people in Luozhou City stared at everything in front of them with dumbfounded eyes. They didn't know where so many soldiers with strange faces suddenly came from. Moreover, the eyes of these soldiers were very unfriendly. They looked like wild animals, and there was a touch of blood on their bodies. The smell is obviously just off the battlefield.
Soldiers were patrolling the streets of Luozhou City, watching everything around with vigilance, bringing a sense of awe to this largest city on Dongshan Road, and oppressing those ordinary people, they no longer dared to stand on the street. Whispering, except for some necessary things, most of the time I retreated into the room in fear.
Inside the governor's mansion on Dongshan Road, the governor Hou Yongzhi knelt in front of the emperor, not too frightened, but his face was ashen, after kowtowing his head twice, he didn't say a word. Because he knew that he was going to die, but he didn't know whether he was going to be hacked into pieces or quartered. From joining the eldest princess' plan, he knew what would happen if he failed.
It's just that he didn't expect that His Majesty would break the situation in Dadongshan so easily. Before everyone had time to react, he pierced into the Governor's Mansion like a sharp arrow feather and landed in front of him.
The emperor didn't look at him, and there was no disappointment on his face. Because he knew that the minister kneeling at his feet would surely become the first Governor-General to be executed in office in thirty years of the Qing Dynasty. He just counted the days indifferently, to see if he could leave enough time for his sister.
Luozhou city has become a dead city, no one can leave, even if the eldest princess buried eyeliner in Dongshan Road, she has no idea what happened in the governor's mansion. And some people outside the city noticed the vision of the city and began to send news to the capital. However, every time they made a sudden trip within a few tens of miles, they were killed by the Overwatch Council's spies disguised as various characters.
Chen Pingping invested as much as 40% of the Overwatch Council's manpower in these three directions. No wonder he was forced to lead the Kyoto garrison to fight guerrillas around the capital. For His Majesty's will, the old dean paid a lot of money.
In this way, they waited silently in Luozhou City for a few days, estimating the time, the news of the emperor's death on Dadong Mountain should have reached the capital, and Fan Xian should have arrived with the decree. It looks a little better.
A few days later, the imperial court dispatched urgent secret reports from Kyoto to several Governor's Offices in the world, especially the secret report to Dongshan Luzhou Prefecture, which arrived at the fastest speed, and began to question the truth of Dadongshan for confirmation.
The emperor went through the procedures of the Governor's Mansion as a matter of course, confirmed his death, and then waited for the arrival of the court's spirit welcome team.
On the second day, the report from the imperial court came again, talking about the crown prince and Fan Xian's assassination. The major governors wrote letters one after another, and began to fight against the imperial court. Except for the governors of Jiangbei and Jiangnan who knew the inside story, the rest of the governors were purely from the perspective of a feudal official and a loyal minister of His Majesty.
Although the emperor did not receive letters from the other governors, he probably knew what they would say. At this time, he ordered people to bring out Hou Yongzhi, the governor of Dongshan Road, and said slowly: "I chose seven of you to guard the world for me, and the six of them did not disappoint me, only you..."
Hou Yongzhi was imprisoned for many days. He didn't think about food and was exhausted. Hearing His Majesty's words, he didn't dare to beg for mercy at all, knowing that the day His Majesty left Luozhou was the date of his death, he just kowtowed desperately, hoping that His Majesty would spare his wife, children and old mother.
The emperor looked at him indifferently, without saying a word.
On the second day, His Majesty the Emperor led the state army and ministers and eunuchs out of Luozhou. Before leaving Luozhou, Hou Yongzhi was sentenced to death, his three sons and daughters were beheaded, and all 34 people in the Governor's Mansion and officials at all levels controlled from top to bottom by Dongshan Road were all strangled.
The emperor was not a person who would get angry easily, and he was too lazy to use those harsh punishments to torture Hou Yongzhi who had betrayed the court. In his view, letting a person lose his life is only a necessary means for the king to gain power, and has nothing to do with punishment.
On the sixth day after receiving the Prince Enthronement Report and Fan Xian's charges, His Majesty the Emperor, who was slowly marching from Luozhou to the capital, finally saw the team that came to welcome him. Of course, the original purpose of this team was to meet his body and soul.
After contacting the imperial court's spirit welcoming team, the emperor ordered indifferently that the team speeded up a little and continued to approach the capital.
A few days later, the capital was still far away, and the emperor didn't know what the current situation in the capital was. Chen Pingping and him, the monarch and his ministers, were like two lonely ghosts in the fields of Daqing. They were constantly floating, not devoting their energy to collecting intelligence.
It's just that these two lonely ghosts cooperated too perfectly and seemed too powerful.
One day, the emperor passed by outside Xinyang City, looked at the strange city in the distance, and remained silent. After a while, he looked back at the hearse dragged behind the team, and the large coffin in the car with unknown weight and layers, with a hint of self-mockery on the corner of his lips.
"Tell Yun Rui." The emperor said.
Eunuch Yao stood by on horseback, quickly took out a pen and paper and listened carefully.
"I'm back."
The emperor spoke indifferently, then clamped his horse's belly, and drove through Xinyang before the brigade, heading for the distant capital.
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The strings of the zither were broken, the flowers and trees were broken, and Her Highness the Eldest Princess, dressed in neon clothes, was standing by the lakeside of the Taiping Courtyard in a daze at this moment, looking at the information just received in her hand, in a daze, and ignored it at all, sitting Fan Xian not far from his feet.
From the beginning of the plan, she had gradually moved her influence from Xinyang to the capital. This process took two years, including the dead Huang Yi and the surviving Yuan Hongdao, who all came to the capital from the Li Palace in Xinyang. However, after the thunderstorm night a year ago, the emperor and Chen Pingping only took half an hour to wipe out the influence of the eldest princess.
Today's Eldest Princess is basically hiding behind the scenes in the conspiracy, setting the overall situation and persuading the strong in the world to take action. On the one hand, it is because she is good at such roles, and on the other hand, it is also because she has to choose this role. She controls the crown prince and the second prince, so if she controls the Ye family and the Qin family, she can do it with ease.
However, her own intelligence system has already suffered an extremely fatal blow, and it will not be able to recover within two or three years. So when she received the intensified report from Xinyang, she couldn't help but frowned, feeling a little surprised.
This information is false. Li Yunrui, the Lord of Xinyang, naturally recognized him at a glance. But this information is true, or it can be said that Xinyang has been completely controlled by others, so he can use his own channel to send himself an urgent secret report. Who is it
Li Yunrui was a little surprised, a little curious, and a little expectant. Tore open the cover that was pressed with wax paint, glanced at it lightly, and then fixed his eyes on the letter paper.
There were only four words on the paper, but these four words made her read for a long, long time. The emotions contained in her eyes are complex, very complex. These four words seemed to be reflected in her dark and clear eyes, and they were typed out word by word, becoming the shrinking and opening of the pupils, the thick and light eyes.
Her pupils were first shocked, then faintly disappointed, followed by unreasonable anger, which immediately turned into a faint self-deprecating smile, and finally, like a stone falling into a lake, it gradually turned into a piece of calm.
In just a moment, so many emotional changes took place in the pupils of the most beautiful and most ruthless woman in the Qing Kingdom.
Fan Xian watched her quietly from the side, watching the changes in her pupils. He didn't see the hint of madness that frightened him, so he felt a little relieved, but then there was a click, and he guessed what was written in the letter.
Even if the Ye family turned against the water and took control of the capital by himself, Li Yunrui did not lose his composure, then there is only one person in the whole world who can make her become what she is today.
Li Yunrui lowered his head again, and carefully read the four words on the letter paper: "I'm back."
The handwriting on the letter paper is extremely strong, it is the handwriting of His Majesty the Emperor. However, Li Yunrui could tell at a glance that this was Eunuch Yao's ghostwriting. Although His Majesty is a very diligent king, but to lead such a large country and deal with so many memorials, he still has some mental difficulties. Some memorials that are not harmful are often handed over to Eunuch Yao for approval. Over time, Eunuch Yao He also learned 90% of His Majesty's handwriting, which is enough to deceive the ministers in the court and those royal officials.
However, how much Li Yunrui put so much thought into his elder brother, how could he not see the difference. But she did not suspect that this was a lie, that someone used eunuch Yao's handwriting to pretend that His Majesty was still alive.
Because she knew that no one except Your Majesty would have thought of saying such four simple and powerful words.
The meaning of these four words is very simple: I am back, and I am still alive. You can figure it out.
Two lines of tears just fell from Li Yunrui's eyes for no reason. It was an inexplicable emotion that stimulated her lacrimal glands, and made this woman who loves to cry in front of the Queen Mother cry in this lonely Taiping. Crying came out in the other courtyard.
This was probably the last message, the last words, from Emperor Qing to his sister. Li Yunrui thought sadly in his heart, wouldn't he bother to write the last sentence himself
His Majesty the Emperor certainly did not expect that these four words would cause Li Yunrui to have so many emotions. He just announced his return as an emperor, like a lion, telling the world that he has the supreme right to rule the territory.
Fan Xian didn't understand why the eldest princess was crying. There was no trace of madness on this crazy woman's face, she was just sad. In any case, he never expected that the eldest princess would be angry and sad because the emperor didn't write these four words with his own hand.
The emperor and Fan Xian are undoubtedly wise people, but they still can't understand women. For men, the creature of woman is undoubtedly another completely different species, a stranger from a distant unknown space.
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Li Yunrui let go of her fingers weakly, the paper fell from her fingers, was blown by the early autumn wind, and landed on the small lake in the middle of the Taiping Courtyard. As soon as the paper was soaked in the lake, it immediately sank toward the surface of the water.
After a glimpse, Fan Xian saw those four words clearly, and was shocked in his heart. Although after the Ye family's rebellion, he had thought about the possibility that His Majesty was still alive, but seeing it with his own eyes and confirming it with his own eyes, he still couldn't help being shocked. Because he didn't know what happened on Dadongshan.
Since His Majesty is still alive, the eldest princess is naturally defeated. Although she said that before, Fan Xian knew that if she could wipe out all the powerful men in the world in one fell swoop, she would be most satisfied.
This news was the good news that Fan Xian had been looking forward to. If His Majesty died, he was really worried whether the Ye family would continue on this road.
Fan Xian clenched his fists with uncontrollable excitement, and slowly stood up, watching Li Yunrui's back, worried that this woman would give some crazy orders under the stimulation of this news.
Li Yunrui clapped his hands lightly, and many masters flooded around the small lake. Fan Xian glanced at it, not too scared. These people recruited by Xinyang may be very scary in the eyes of ordinary people, but they are not in his eyes at all. He is only worried about Wan'er and Dabao.
To Fan Xian's surprise and to the shock of those subordinates, Li Yunrui said calmly, "You all go. You are no longer needed here." She paused for a moment and said, "Hidden name, Ann Spend the rest of your life in peace, and don't think about ridiculous things like revenge."
Those subordinates were in an uproar, looked at the eldest princess with disbelieving eyes, and said in pain: "Your Highness!"
From the moment Fan Xian stepped into the Taiping Courtyard, these people knew that there was a huge problem with the rebellion in Kyoto, but they still had strong confidence in the Eldest Princess.
Li Yunrui just smiled indifferently, waved his hand, and said nothing more.
"Your Highness!" Those subordinates knelt down to her on the hills and around the lake, refusing to leave, and some of them even cried.
Fan Xian watched this scene in shock. Although it is clear that Li Yunrui sent his subordinates away after the incident was defeated, he already had the idea of severing himself from the world, but he really did not expect that these subordinates were so loyal to her.
He has very little contact with Xinyang, and he doesn't know how the eldest princess controls his subordinates. With the connivance of the emperor and the help of Chen Pingping, in the two years of war against the eldest princess, he won more than he lost, and it was inevitable for Li Yunrui. A little bit of contempt was born.
But seeing those subordinates who were crying bitterly and unwilling to leave, and feeling everyone's loyalty to the eldest princess, Fan Xian vaguely understood something, such as why this princess could have so many followers in the court. Power, why can she persuade Ku He and Si Gu Jian to take action, why can she control the prince and the second prince, why...
This is just a feeling. He still doesn't know where the princess's magic power comes from, but he knows that this is definitely not an effect that can be achieved by peerless beauty. It's just a pity that Fan Xian didn't know about it in the past, and now it seems that he has no chance to see the true ability of the eldest princess.
There was crying all around, but the eldest princess by the lake frowned slightly, looking a little bored, and waved her hand again.
A leading official watched this scene, knowing that the situation was over, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, knelt down, kowtowed his head, turned and left resolutely. When one person leaves, many people leave. Maybe these people are not greedy for life and fear of death. However, since Li Yunrui issued the order, and His Highness obviously disliked it, they have no other choice but to leave.
In this way, only the eldest princess and Fan Xian were left in the entire Taiping Courtyard. Although it was the same before, Fan Xian knew that there were many people watching him outside, and knowing that those people had left now, he felt even more lonely in his heart. Looking at the thin shoulders of the eldest princess, he felt slightly bewildered.
Li Yunrui turned around slowly, with his hands placed on his stomach very gracefully, his wide sleeves drooping down into beautiful and luxurious lines.
There is still a smile on her face, but her eyes are exceptionally clear. She is no longer that vicious figure in front of the enemy, no longer the cowardly person who is often slapped in front of the empress dowager, cowardly and crying, and is no longer the iron-like emperor. Under the palm, the stubborn, angry, and sad sister.
She is the eldest princess, she is Li Yunrui, the one and only one in heaven and earth.
Li Yunrui looked at his son-in-law with a smile, and said, "Knowing that His Majesty is still alive, you seem to be less happy than I imagined."
Fan Xian lowered his head slightly, and said, "Recently, many people have died, and I can't be happy."
"So that's how it is. It seems that you and your mother really look alike..." Li Yunrui was startled for a moment, then laughed, stopped the topic with an inexplicable emotion, and asked lightly, "Have you ever thought about Why did the Qin family rebel?"
Fan Xian frowned, not understanding the meaning of this sentence, let alone why she would suddenly mention the Qin family who had been expelled from the capital by the Dingzhou Army at this moment.
The eldest princess gave him a mocking look, then sighed, and looked at the piece of paper that had sunk to the bottom of the lake. The lake water in Taiping Bieyuan was extremely clear and shallow, and the white paper gradually spread out in the lake water, resembling soaked steamed buns, causing countless red carps to come to compete for food, and the water tumbling for a while.
She watched the scene quietly, and said: "Actually, we are all fish, but we are fighting for different things. I didn't fight for anything this time. I thought I would be angry and disappointed... And I was really angry and disappointed. But in the end Only to find out that he is alive... I am happy after all."
Fan Xian was startled, then thought sadly, according to what the eldest princess said earlier, her goal in life has been achieved, so what if the emperor dies or not? It's just that since His Majesty is back, the eldest princess may have no way out.
Then he saw a scene that shocked him.
Li Yunrui's face was calm and serene, and he slowly lowered his arms, and the wide sleeves of the light-colored palace uniform naturally drooped and spread out, as if the curtain of a big drama had come to an end, and the actors walked out of the curtain for the last time to express their gratitude to the audience.
The final cast included not just herself, but a black, poisoned dagger that was lodged deep in her belly, down to the hilt.
Fan Xian's heart trembled, and he flew across, threw her to the ground, and reached out to touch her belly.