Chapter 110

On the third day of June, when the sky was still dark, fast horses galloped out of the gate of the capital city, carrying official documents stating the death of the late emperor and the succession of the crown prince to various government offices and relatives of vassal princes.

He Nan is close to the capital, and within a day, the news spread throughout Henan. The officials and the people knew about it. Since then, they changed into plain clothes and began to abide by the national mourning.

Among them, Runing Mansion is located in the southernmost part of He Nan Province, and King Jing, who is here, only received the official document after half an hour.

King Jing is the half-brother of Emperor Jingshun and the uncle of the Hua Yang siblings.

King Jing is forty-seven years old this year, although he is not considered young, but he is usually good at martial arts, tall and strong, and quite majestic in the local area.

Shocked by the sad news of Emperor Jingshun's death, the tall King Jing passed out on the spot, and was pinched by his cronies. After waking up, King Jing couldn't stop crying, even the neighbors could hear him cryingVoice.

After crying enough, King Jing was helped to rest in the room.

When night fell, King Jing immediately called several staff members in the mansion to the study to discuss important matters in secret.

"The new emperor is young, and people in the capital are unstable. It is a god-sent opportunity for the prince to take action at this time!"

"I'm afraid Chen Tingjian is not that easy to deal with."

"He's an old civil servant. In times of peace and prosperity, he can pretend to be a tiger. As long as our army goes all the way north to attack Capital City, the Inner Pavilion will obediently hand over the little emperor and bow down to the prince!"

"You must have a reputation when you start an incident, otherwise you will be an unjust teacher. Why do you win over local officials and generals?"

The aides talked a lot, some were eager to raise the banner of rebellion immediately, and some were very cautious, thinking that more planning was needed.

King Jing lowered his eyes, but he was actually thinking about it.

From the day he became a vassal, he had the heart to fight for the throne, but when he just arrived at the palace, he only had three hundred soldiers and had no foundation.

Over the past twenty years, while accumulating wealth, King Jing carefully recruited troops, using the names of bodyguards and farm guards scattered all over He Nan, and has raised an elite army of 50,000 people so far.He was cautious enough to only control those leaders. Those 50,000 elites had no idea that their real master was him, but once he started an incident, these 50,000 people would definitely support him.

In addition, King Jing also kept a dark guard, and ordered the dark guards to monitor the important officials in He Nan to collect evidence of corruption or other secrets that cannot be made public, especially the three local tyrants in charge of He Nan.No matter how many times the court has been changed, the envoys, the inspectors, and the commanding envoys, as long as they are human, there will always be shortcomings.

Like the three officials in charge of He Nan at this time, Zhang Tai, the chief envoy, was dignified but greedy, and secretly communicated with his wife's young stepmother.

The most important thing was Guo Jixian, the commander of the capital who commanded more than 90,000 soldiers in the 17 guards in He Nan.

Guo Jixian is a general, otherwise Chen Tingjian would not have thought highly of him and transferred him here.

Guo Jixian hardly has any faults that can be manipulated by others, and he doesn't touch any of the power, wealth and sex.

Coincidentally, when Guo Jixian was still a young boy, he fled to Runing with his mother and sister. In order to support his son, his mother sold her sister into the palace as a maid.For concubines.

When King Jing favored Mrs. Guo, three years had passed since Mrs. Guo and Guo Jixian separated from their mother and son. Even if King Jing wanted to help his concubine find his family, he didn't know where to look for it.

Guo Jixian always remembered this elder sister, the elder sister who exchanged money for him to buy food.

After his mother died, Guo Jixian joined the army at the border. As time went by, Guo Jixian also grew from a small soldier to a general.

The bigger the official, the more Guo Jixian understood that the court should not let the court know that he, a general, had an in-law relationship with the vassal king, so Guo Jixian never revealed to anyone that he also had a sister who was a concubine in King Jing's mansion.

When Guo Jixian took over the post of He Nan Metropolitan Commander, King Jing had long forgotten that Guo’s younger brother who had been separated for many years was also called by this name. It was once he accidentally mentioned the new Metropolitan Commander in front of Guo, and Guo was suddenly excitedTears welled up in her eyelashes, insisting on confirming whether the Commander-in-Chief is her real brother.

King Jing suddenly saw a big opportunity.

It is not easy for him to leave the fief, so it is still feasible for Guo Shi to disguise himself as an ordinary woman. Guo Shi went to see Guo Jixian, and the siblings wept with each other, secretly recognizing each other.

But King Jing did not contact Guo Jixian right away. With their in-law relationship and the three children Guo had with her, King Jing believed that as long as he went to find Guo Jixian, Guo Jixian would definitely submit to him, otherwise Guo Jixian would face him.His sister and nephew are suffering, and the court is also suspicious of his dilemma.

Now that he needs soldiers and generals, all he needs is food and pay for the army, and a target to face the imperial court head-on!

Three days later, King Jing secretly came to Luoyang to see his good nephew King Yu, the eldest son of Emperor Jingshun and the elder brother of the new Emperor!

King Yu has been very sad these past few days. Although his father refused to make his eldest son the crown prince, he has always held resentment in his heart, but after his father left, he would have no father. If the Queen Mother Qi wanted to deal with him,There is no father to protect them.

Sad to sad, heard that a wealthy businessman wanted to present a treasure to him, King Yu summoned the wealthy businessman with anticipation.

The wealthy businessman looks dignified, and King Yu believes that he has a good baby even more.

King Jing was also looking at King Yu. Seeing that the twenty-five-year-old King Yu had already grown a fifty-two-year-old belly, fat head and big ears, King Jing first thought of Concubine Lin Gui.

He had seen Concubine Lin Gui, she was a beautiful and stupid woman, and he had heard that King Yu was not smart enough, but he did not expect that he could not even inherit Concubine Lin's beauty.

After Yu Wangping retreated, King Jing directly took out his king's seal.

King Yu: ...

He didn't understand why Uncle Wang ran to find him at the risk of being punished by the court.

King Jing looked sad: "Brother Huang is only fifty-three years old, and he is usually well. There is no hidden disease. The nephew doesn't suspect that there is something hidden about the death of Brother Huang?"

King Yu really had no doubts.

King Jing said angrily: "At the Dragon Boat Festival this year, Brother Huang once sent me a secret letter, saying that Empress Qi and Pavilion Elder Chen joined forces to control the government, and there was a faint tendency to force the palace. Brother Huang was very worried, and there was no one in the palace.Believable, I can only tell me my depression, the emperor also said that he wanted to change his nephew to be the crown prince, but he was afraid that the Inner Pavilion would object, so he couldn't make up his mind for a long time."

After speaking, King Jing took out the forged secret letter of Emperor Jingshun.

After King Yu read it, he immediately believed it!

That Chen Tingjian looks like a dog, and the mother and concubine have suspected more than once whether Empress Qi is having an affair with Chen Tingjian. The father and emperor were deceived by the two before, and this year they finally noticed the clues!

"So, the two of them found out that my father wanted to set me up, so they attacked my father first?"

"Exactly, because they were guilty of thieves, they made up the emperor's last words to the crown prince before he died!"

"How unreasonable!" King Yu slammed the table, his eyes widened!

Qi returns to Qi, but King Yu has nothing to do, the crown prince has already ascended the throne, what else can he do?

King Jing naturally wanted to advise him.

King Yu hesitated and said: "If there is an incident, I don't have any soldiers in my hands."

King Jing: "I heard that the commander Guo Jixian is the most upright and loyal to the emperor. I would like to test his words for my nephew. If he is willing to support my nephew, great things can be expected for my nephew!"

King Yu: "What if he refuses and exposes us to the court instead?"

King Jing: "Nephew, don't worry, I'm 100% sure I can convince him, otherwise Uncle Wang wouldn't dare to meet him in person."

King Yu was still worried.

King Jing: "Nephew, think about it. Chen Tingjian and the others dared to frame the emperor. Once the court situation stabilizes after a while, they will definitely attack you. My nephew can still fight for his own life by doing nothing. How can you do nothing?"Aren't you just sitting there waiting to die?"

King Yu was finally persuaded completely!

King Jing told him to keep it secret, and then went to see the commander of the capital, Guo Jixian, as a wealthy businessman.

As King Jing expected, if Guo Jixian does not support King Jing, sooner or later he will be implicated by this in-law relationship. If he assists King Jing to succeed, the Guo family will become the upstart of Capital City!

With the most important soldiers, King Yu's target is also stable, and King Jing immediately mobilized all the hidden guards to take action.

All the local officials in He Nan who were taken advantage of by King Jing turned their backs one after another, and the total number of guards in the government was tens of thousands.

King Jing then took the seal letters of King Yu, Guo Jixian and others to lobby the six vassal kings including King Zheng and King Zhou, asking them to support King Yu.

The rebellion is serious, these vassal kings dare not stand in line easily, but King Jing uttered harsh words, if they don't follow, King Yu's army will crush these palaces first.

Therefore, the six vassal kings who really only raised 300 soldiers had no choice but to obediently donate money and food in the face of such intimidation, as a token of honor for King Yu.

After all the preparations were completed, on the morning of the ninth day of July, King Yu suddenly appeared on the city wall of Kaifeng Mansion, and loudly told the 200,000 troops assembled outside the city and the people inside the city that he had accused Empress Dowager Qi and Chen Tingjian of poisoning the first emperor, etc.The sword pointed at Capital City, and vowed to avenge the late emperor and get rid of the empress dowager, Chen Tingjian and other traitors for the imperial court!

Capital City.

At this time, Emperor Jingshun's coffin had been buried in the imperial mausoleum, and the new emperor also held a grand enthronement ceremony, because the reign name would be changed next year, so the common people called him Shaodi for the time being.

Hua Yang was granted the title of long princess, and Hua Yang officially moved out of the Chen Mansion as early as during the vigil for the late emperor.

After all, her married daughter has to observe filial piety for her father for a year. If she continues to live in the Chen family, will the members of the Chen family still have a banquet?

In addition, my younger brother came to the throne at a young age, and my father-in-law assisted the government. He already held great power, which was different from when his father was around. Hua Yang, the emperor's sister, should have properly kept her distance from the Chen family, and minimized the influence of the Chen family's relatives.identity.

While guarding the spirit in the palace, Hua Yang and Chen Jingzong rarely met, and had no chance to say anything when they met.

When Huayang left the palace for the first time since the death of his father and moved into the Princess's Mansion, the couple finally got to spend time alone.

At that time, half a month had passed since Emperor Jingshun passed away.

In Chen Jingzong's eyes, Hua Yang was thinner, but not as thin and haggard as when she deliberately pretended to be sick in March, and her eyes were still calm, so that he didn't know how to speak if he wanted to comfort him.

He stood in front of Hua Yang and looked at her silently.

Because of the earth-shattering event, and because they were separated for half a month during this period, the two seemed to become separated again.

Hua Yang didn't feel much. The death of her father would not affect her relationship with Chen Jingzong, but she could understand Chen Jingzong's silence. He was afraid that she would still feel distressed, and that if she accidentally said the wrong thing, it would cause trouble.Her displeasure.

Including Wu Run, Chao Yun and the others, all of them have been cautious towards her these days, as if she has really turned into a peony flower, and can't bear any wind and frost.

Therefore, Hua Yang smiled at Chen Jingzong who was opposite, and patted the bed beside him: "Come here, what are you doing standing there, you were not so reserved before."

She can laugh, but Chen Jingzong is not funny, and he can't laugh.

The year his second brother died of illness, he was in Ling Zhou, and when his mother sent a letter, he ran to the mountains alone and stayed there for three days and three nights.

The father-daughter relationship of more than twenty years must be deeper than his brotherhood of ten years.

He sat stiffly beside her.

Hua Yang glanced at him, and slowly leaned into his arms.

Chen Jingzong's body suddenly relaxed, and he raised his arms to hug her.

Hua Yang said in a low voice: "I'm fine, you don't need to be so nervous, father is physically weak, I have prepared for it, I never expected him to live a long life."

Touching her soft hair, Chen Jingzong thought of the flood she had predicted, the account books of his second aunt, and also thought of her sudden encounter with King Xiang when she went to enjoy the flowers.

She thought she was flawless, but in fact there were flaws all the time.

First, he doesn't believe in ghosts and gods, no matter how coincidental things happen.Second, if she hadn't wanted to give King Xiang a chance to get close, how could Zhou Ji and others have allowed her to be surrounded by people from the King of Xiang's side, and how could it have been possible for King Xiang to speak wild words to her.

Including even he didn't know about the old man's hidden illness, she actually brought Tai doctor Li back and solved the old man's illness.

Others can't see it because they are far away, but he is by her side, and he has already felt her temper clearly.

When she deliberately jumped into the ice hole, Chen Jingzong speculated that she might have known something in advance.

He was angry, not because of her concealment, but because she would rather spoil herself so much than believe that he might be able to help her.

Afterwards, she said that it was to prevent Emperor Jingshun from drafting, and Chen Jingzong believed it.

But seeing Emperor Jingshun collapsed under the dragon chair with his own eyes, Chen Jingzong really understood that she had predicted this scene in advance, so she did not hesitate to risk herself.

Before, Chen Jingzong thought about asking her what secret she was hiding.

But when she wept in his arms bearing the pain of losing her father, Chen Jingzong suddenly let go.

No secret is important, as long as she is happy.