Xiao Qi was later imprisoned in Kunning Palace, and the queen's title was lost in name. His original fief, Luoyang, was taken back by the imperial court, and another barren land was replaced. When the situation in the capital stabilized, he immediately became a vassal. But this time, the name of the third prince is Jifan, which is actually equivalent to house arrest.
The Marquis of Zhenbei was not liquidated because of Qin Yi, but the Marquis of Zhenbei asked to resign, the sons and nephews of the Qi family also lost their posts, and those who were demoted were demoted. These days, the Marquis of Zhenbei was closed. out, for fear of causing trouble. The entire capital is in a state of depression and panic. Almost every household has a relative who died in the melee. Now, before they even have time to grieve for their relatives, they have to face another, more terrifying problem.
Dealing with Eunuch Liu's comrades, and what's more, Xiao Qi's family was also implicated, nothing more than to quell public anger. But clearing these people is not the end, on the contrary, the problem has just begun.
"His Royal Highness, outside Juyong Pass, there is a lot of mobilization of troops in Wa Lai, and I am afraid that it will attack all border passes in the future."
The elites of the capital have all been trapped outside the border with the emperor, and the remaining old, weak, sick and disabled are less than 100,000. With only these 100,000 people, how can they defend the capital
Today, the foreign affairs and internal affairs of the Dayan Dynasty are surprisingly severe. A few days ago, there was a general who tried to make the country difficult to make money. If there is another one that is not handled properly by the court, I am afraid that Dayan will be in danger of subjugating the country.
Xuanfu fell and the emperor was captured. Compared with the external crisis, this incident actually had a greater impact on the internal order of the court. After Qin Yi refused to be enthroned in danger, the remaining half of the court fell into an unspeakable silence. Under the seemingly peaceful situation, people's hearts had long since collapsed.
But at this time, Qin Yi didn't have time to pay attention to what these courtiers were thinking. The life and death of the entire country is placed in front of Qin Yi's eyes. The enemy is arrogant and eyeing, and what is the interior of the court like? All high-ranking civil servants died in the melee, and most of the military generals with experience in leading the army went out with the army. Outside the battle, even the promising reserve children of the noble family went to gild the army with the army. As a result, the emperor had no military literacy and no two. Knowing people, he even allowed eunuchs and favorite ministers to compete for power and profits. The army changed the order, advancing and retreating out of order, and the marching route was changed as soon as it was changed. In this way, the cavalry took the opportunity to be caught off guard, and the entire army was annihilated.
Difficulties both at home and abroad, and no answer, this is the situation Qin Yi has to face.
Qin Yi looked at the deployment map in front of him, and was silent for a long time, and when he spoke again, he was firm and resolute: "The two Beijing and Henan troops will be sent to Beijing, and the Shandong troops will be on standby from Hejian, Baoding to the capital, and the Jiangsu and Zhejiang coastal troops will be ready. The army also entered Beijing immediately from the waterway. Jiangbei and the capital's prefectures transported grain troops to help, opened state warehouses, and adjusted grain and grass into Beijing." Afterwards, Qin Yi pointed to several military residences on the map and said, "Immediately issue an edict, and then another. The general troops of the provinces enter the King of Qin."
Because the high-ranking civil servants were exhausted in this accident, many people in the six divisions were temporarily promoted by Qin Yi. This temporarily formed team knew that the crisis this time was different from the past, so they took their contempt, and all kinds of red tape could be reduced if they could. When they heard Qin Yi's order, the person who was called complied and hurried. Run down to deal with it. Everyone in Wenhua Pavilion is in a hurry, and I don’t know how many documents were issued from here in one day. The former power center was also moved from Wenyuan Pavilion where the cabinet was located to Wenhua Hall. Looking around, the entire palace showed a kind of chaos. Busy in order.
Qin Yi stayed in the outer court all day, deploying troops, provisions, armaments, and the appointment of new generals. He had to think too much. Chu Jinyao has not seen Qin Yi for several days. She is pregnant and lethargic. Often when Qin Yi comes back, she is already asleep. When she wakes up, Qin Yi is already in the outer court. Chu Jinyao originally thought that Qin Yi was too busy, but after a few days like this, Chu Jinyao slowly felt that something was wrong.
Why does she feel that Qin Yi is avoiding her on purpose
So today, Chu Jinyao held on to her spirits, and Linglong persuaded her to go to sleep several times, she insisted, and finally yawned repeatedly with tears in her eyes, and finally waited until Qin Yi came back.
Qin Yi didn't move much when he entered the door. When he entered the room and saw Chu Jinyao, his eyes flashed with surprise: "Why haven't you slept yet?"
After he finished speaking, he naturally went to see the servants who were waiting for him. Chu Jinyao stood up and rescued Xiao Linzi whose face had turned into a bitter gourd behind him: "It has nothing to do with them, it's me who insisted on waiting for you."
Qin Yi looked at Chu Jinyao and finally sighed and said, "You all go down."
The palace servants standing around all breathed a sigh of relief, bowed their heads and stepped back. However, even though there were no more outsiders in the house, Qin Yi was still far away from Chu Jinyao, and he didn't naturally come to her side as usual.
Chu Jinyao's guess became clearer and clearer, there was indeed an invisible barrier between the two of them. If he doesn't talk about this knot today, Qin Yi may have to be awkward with himself for a long time.
"His Royal Highness, today the palace staff reported that the second princess went to Kunning Palace to meet the Queen again, but was stopped."
Qin Yi responded indifferently: "If you stop it, you will stop it. She is petted and lawless, and it should have been taken care of."
The second princess has been restless these days, falling and beating, but she is just a princess, and even King Lu has been demoted, so how can she beat the power of the court. When Chu Jinyao talked about the second princess, it was only a matter of words.
"His Royal Highness, sometimes when I see women in the palace, I can't help but feel sad. The second princess is the second princess, so what about other women? After the queen became a country, she has been favored by the palace for more than ten years. , she has both grace and children, but now, her phoenix seal is deprived if she is deprived, and as an empress, she can no longer accept the worship of foreign women, and she can't even see her own daughter. I know that Your Highness probably doesn't like it. Listening to this, but when I am in it, I can't help but hurt others. This is probably the fate of women in the palace. No matter how glamorous and glorious they look, they are actually just castles in the air. The real nobles said that if you want to die, you have to die." Chu Jinyao looked at Qin Yi and said slowly, "This person used to be the emperor, but now he is His Highness."
The light in Qin Yi's eyes couldn't help being cold and solemn: "Who told you this?"
"No one. Besides, do you need someone else to say such a thing?" Chu Jinyao looked at Qin Yi quietly, and said, "It is the queen who is down now, but it may not be me in the future. Speaking of which, the relationship between me and the queen The situation is quite similar, they are all very favored as soon as they enter the palace, and relying on favor and appearance, this has attracted everyone in the harem to awe and fawn."
Qin Yi finally lost to Chu Jinyao, he sighed in his heart, stepped forward and carefully embraced Chu Jinyao's shoulders, and helped her to sit on the side of the couch: "What are you thinking about? You are different from them. , I am not the same as the emperor, this kind of thing will not happen."
"I've only been married to you for a year, and now I have a child in my belly. Of course, this kind of thing won't happen. But what about in the future?" Chu Jinyao broke Qin Yi's hand, turned around and stared at him. "His Royal Highness, my family background is not as good as others, and my talents and strategies are not as good as others. What I rely on is nothing more than Your Highness. If you are willing to believe me and talk to me frankly, I will be able to live in a thin layer of ice in the harem. If you don't want to tell me one day, what's the difference between me and the queen?"
Qin Yi was so grown up that he was speechless when asked for the first time. He didn't know how to face Chu Jinyao these few days, and the outer court was really busy, so he waited for Chu Jinyao to fall asleep before coming back, and tried to avoid the meeting between the two. Qin Yi watched Chu Jinyao's sleeping face for a long time after returning every day. This was the person he wanted to protect the most, but he let her suffer this kind of thing. Qin Yi suddenly questioned whether he was really good for her when he forcibly grabbed Chu Jinyao from Lin Xiyuan and made her the crown princess. When he made this decision, he didn't ask Chu Jinyao at all. Until now, he didn't know whether Chu Jinyao was willing to accept the imperial edict of marriage.
He wanted to see Chu Jinyao again after he figured it out. But I didn't expect that when Chu Jinyao was so aggressive, Qin Yi, who was almost pressed, was speechless. Qin Yi had no choice but to say, "I didn't mean it that way. Who are you trying to provoke? How could I think this way? I just think, maybe I'm too self-righteous."
Chu Jinyao never expected to hear such words from Qin Yi's mouth. Qin Yi is indeed a bit assertive and strong, but with his arrogant temperament, he would admit it
Chu Jinyao deeply felt that this matter was unusual, that no one was iron-clad, Qin Yi could say such a thing, I am afraid that the pressure these days was too great. Chu Jinyao asked softly, "Why?"
Qin Yi paused, looking at Chu Jinyao with a deep and complicated look, which seemed to contain some kind of warm emotion, but when Chu Jinyao took a closer look, there was no trace of it. Qin Yi said: "I ordered to stick to the capital, and if any officials secretly send their family members out of the capital, they will all be shot to death."
Chu Jinyao felt that this was correct: "In wartime, it is natural to be stricter. If this wind blows, people will be turbulent, and no one will be willing to defend the capital."
Qin Yi touched Chu Jinyao's hair and did not speak. Chu Jinyao had a flash of inspiration and suddenly understood what Qin Yi meant: "Your Highness, are you worried about me and the child?"
Qin Yi didn't answer directly, but asked, "Don't you blame me?"
Chu Jinyao was stunned for a while, and then she was really angry: "Your Highness, if you send me out, I will be angry with you! Since I am a crown princess, I dare not say that I serve the people and the country, but at least, I will always go in and out with you. If you abandon the city and leave, I will accompany you to the south. If you stick to the capital until the last moment, then I will wait for your return in the palace regardless of life or death. Whether it is life or death, You and I, and our children, we are all together as a family."
Qin Yi's eyes dimmed, and he was speechless. He held Chu Jinyao's hand with such strength that it almost hurt Chu Jinyao: "When I heard that the Lin family wanted to make you a concubine, I was both shocked and angry, and felt that I couldn't let you be stupid. , so I wrote back to the capital. I never asked you, would you like to?"
Chu Jinyao was stunned for a while, but suddenly she couldn't help but laugh. The more Chu Jinyao looked at herself, the more dangerous Qin Yi's eyes became. She quickly restrained herself and said, "Your Highness, if you look at your own face, how could any woman be unwilling?"
Qin Yi still looked unhappy, but a smile flashed in his eyes: "Nonsense."
What's more, Qin Yi annoys other people looking at him with that disgusting look, no matter male or female. But strange to say, the same words came out of Chu Jinyao's mouth, and it seemed less annoying.
"Okay, then don't mess around." Chu Jinyao said seriously and asked, "Your Highness, do you remember the time we first met?"
"Of course." Qin Yi teased, "Your attitude at that time was extremely arrogant. Especially with so many people in the Chu family, you only dare to be rude to me."
Talking about this Chu Jinyao is a bit embarrassing, but she wanted to say a lot of these things, but she was too embarrassed to say it. But later in Changhe Garden, she wanted to understand that there are some gratitude and feelings that he would never know if he didn't tell them.
"His Royal Highness, this may be nothing to you, but to me it is like a frog in a well suddenly seeing the light of the sky. I was really dependent at that time, and I am very grateful to Zize. After you left, I was depressed for a long time. Time, during that time I have been regretting, you are the first sight in my boudoir career, and I am just a passerby to pass the time to you. Later, I talked about kissing, I thought this was probably the case in this life, but I met you again. You were willing to pull me out of the embarrassing situation of being a concubine. I really appreciate you. I even thought at the time, it doesn’t matter if you marry me and go back to be a puppet princess. I will do whatever you like. Who do you want. But you told me that night that your name is Qin Yi... "
It is you who is young and amazing, you are the hero who saves the beauty, and you are the one who grows.
Tears welled up in Chu Jinyao's eyes, Qin Yi silently embraced her in his arms, Chu Jinyao grabbed the black prince's uniform, and said in a heavy nasal voice, "I'm really happy if you are willing to marry me, whether it is from The prince is still from Zize's point of view. My adoptive parents and adoptive mother have never regarded me as a human being, and my biological parents are not close to me, so I have only you... "
"Okay, don't cry anymore." Qin Yi's heart was broken by tears, and he felt distressed. He didn't expect to hear such words from Chu Jinyao's mouth. While you are becoming more and more important to me, I am also very important to you.
Chu Jinyao cried and cried, and became angry: "But you deliberately avoided me, and you even wanted to send me away!"
"No, I was talking nonsense. I've changed my mind now."
"Then will you come back so late on purpose and not see me on purpose?"
"No." Qin Yi thought silently in his heart, but he actually endured it very hard. It's like raising a delicate orchid, wanting to give her the best in the world, but afraid that one of them is not the best, and wronged her. He was so tangled up and down, he never thought that in the heart of this orchid, the person who raised the flower was the most important.
"Jin Yao, I'm also afraid. I'm afraid that if I can't handle everything this time, I will kill you myself."
Chu Jinyao was held in her arms and said gloomily, "It's nothing, I'm also afraid that you will change your mind. You have been with you from life to death, and you are only me. Maybe I can't ask for it."
Qin Yi smiled lowly, his chest vibrated gently: "Okay."
What is this "good" promise, no one knows except Qin Yi.
The capital urgently dispatched troops, and after a long debate among the people outside the Guan, the Wa Lai people still felt that the cheap gifts sent by God should not be given in vain. They took the emperor to Juyong Pass, and in the name of sending the emperor back to Beijing, they asked all sides to close the city gates.
Before the 800-mile expedited military report was sent to Qin Yi's desk, Qin Yi was silent for a long time on the document, and slowly wrote "rejected".
I knew that there was an abyss ahead, but I still had to step out. Just like when Xiao Qi was abolished a few days ago, he clearly knew that the early bird would die, but he wanted to stabilize the situation and calm people's hearts, so Qin Yi had no choice at all.
On the third day after refusing to enter the customs, Oara attacked Juyongguan and Datong Mansion. Because the emperor was there, the guards of the Yan Dynasty were tied.
Qin Yi personally led the troops and lined up outside the nine gates of Yongding, Desheng, and Anding. Behind them was the city wall of the capital. After their bodies, there was no barrier in the capital.
Whether the country is subjugated or shameful, life or death, when he walked out of the gate of Ciqing Palace today, whether Chu Jinyao arranged the armor for him is the last part of his life, it depends on this.
The famous battle of guarding the capital in the history books began.