Chapter 506 Report to Your Majesty, Qingzhou is defeated, Lord Zhao will be triumphant!
Crash—
On this day, a ship returning along the canal finally landed at the pier outside the south gate of the capital.
Before the ship stopped, the deck was densely packed with figures, and the heads were the "palace men" led by Mo Chou and Sun Lianying.
I haven't seen each other for many days, Mochou has lost much weight. Beside her, the old supervisor Sun Lianying couldn't hide his tiredness. For him, a mortal, the escape along the way was undoubtedly a great hard work.
The two confidants in the palace stood one by one, each with familiar faces from Zhao Duan:
Eunuch Hai in a bright red python robe.
The highest official in the team actually acts as the mascot of the Ministry of Rites.
Ning Zechen, the governor of the grain transportation.
Tang Jinzhong, Song Jinxi and other martial arts halls enshrined eunuchs.
As well as Zhao Duan's direct descendants, the elites of Lihuatang, Lang Shiba and Jiyue were also mixed in. "We finally arrived in the capital," Mo Chou stood tall and faced the summer wind, and swept across the crowd with a serious and serious expression: "If there was no accident, the capital was in a state of turmoil, from the court to the people, everyone was in danger.
Because of the Fengshan team, we are not able to return to the sage, and every move is bound to be watched by countless people.
I hope that no matter how the changes you encounter later, Luoshan will collapse before your eyes. In this way, you can help Your Majesty guard this court in a turbulent situation."
The Minister of Rites was a little excited and wanted to get off the boat: "Miss Mo said this eight hundred times. We are not a three-year-old child, so we understand naturally. Let's hurry up and enter the city."
It's too long since I left Beijing. Although I had letters through secret guards, the last time I communicated was half a month ago. The current situation is, no one knows what the situation in the city is now.
So, at this moment, not only did everyone not relax when they returned to Beijing, but instead tightened their hearts and looked like they were facing a great enemy. "Dad, this is the capital."
Behind Ning Zechen, the girl with a straight-talking round face, with her big eyes rolling, and one hand held Mrs. Ning's hand nervously and excitedly.
Suddenly, it was Governor Ning's wife and daughter who Zhao Duan rushed to Jianning Mansion that day and rescued him on the river.
During the Fengshan Mountains, Ning Zechen arranged his wife and daughter to watch the ceremony nearby, and then they simply followed the Fengshan team all the way north. "Shh, the capital is not as good as outside. The water in the court is very deep. Don't talk more after entering the city, don't throw it away." Governor Ning, who had a much darker and rougher skin, held the sword around his waist and gave a serious advice.
When I turned my head to look at Xiongcheng, there was a heavy sorrow between my eyebrows. I wonder if I was right or wrong when I was waiting for the people to enter the city this time.
At this moment, the yamen clerks on the dock had noticed this special team and rushed to greet them.
Mo Chou threw out the token and ordered the carriage to be prepared.
When the dock clerk picked up the token, he felt cold sweat and hurriedly went to give orders.
"Do you want to ask about the situation in the city?"
In the Lihuatang team, the young secretary Qian Kerou was about to move, but Shen Juan grabbed it:
"The big men on the boat didn't speak. What can our soldiers do? Besides, what can these little officials outside the city know?" Qian Kerou said, stopped her movements, and said softly: "I just thought, maybe the adults are back. I don't know if he is safe now." Hou Ren hugged his arm, walked out of the team, and patted her on the shoulder: "With his talent, he must be safe and sound."
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The whole team drove into the capital with a heavy heart.
Along the main road, heading towards the northeastern palace in the city - this is the destination agreed upon before getting off the ship. First enter the palace, then contact Xiuwenguan to establish contact with important officials such as Dong Taishi.
In order to prevent the situation in the city from getting out of control, this time, Eunuch Hai deliberately hid his whereabouts and did not report to the court in advance.
Entering straight into the palace is also to catch someone who is interested and take the initiative.
However, along the way, everyone was surprised to find that the atmosphere in the city was much better than expected.
Although it is indeed not as lively and prosperous as before, the general order remains the same. When passing by the teahouse and the restaurant, no scholars gathered to talk about national affairs. "The city is more stable than we expected. It seems that Master Dong's control over the court is still there." Mo Chou's eyes flashed.
Beside her, the old supervisor Sun Lianying, whose temples were white and exhausted, looked silently at both sides of the street. People came and went, but their brows became deeper and deeper: "What's wrong."
"What's wrong?" Mo Chou turned his head and looked at the old eunuch.
Sun Lianying muttered, "It's too peaceful and stable, this is the biggest mistake."
The Minister of Rites walked beside him and heard the conversation between the two, adding:
"It's meaningless to be suspicious. It's urgent to go to the palace first."
Mo Chou nodded, and the Fengshan team accelerated toward the palace. Soon, a huge group of people arrived outside the gate of the imperial city.
At this moment, three figures came out in the imperial city.
The leader has a cold face and a sinister face, no need, thick joints on both hands, no temperament, and no one should come in. He is wearing a third-rank brocade robe.
It was Ma Yan.
Behind him, one left and one right, followed Zhang Han and Haitang.
As soon as the two teams ran into each other, both sides were stunned.
I worked hard for days and my dark circles were thick. Haitang was yawning and slammed her feet suddenly and subconsciously rubbed her eyes.
After confirming that he was not wrong, he looked at the bright red python robe in the returning team, and his face was filled with joy: "Too..."
The great-grandfather interrupted Ma Yan in time: "Mo Zhaorong? Sun Sijian? When will you come back?!"
"Dugong Ma?!" Everyone, who had a tense heart, suddenly felt relieved when they saw the faces of their acquaintances.
The Minister of Rites almost cried, and the King of Hell, who had hated him in the past, seemed gentle and friendly today.
The empress's spy leader is still there, which means that the capital is not in chaos.
"Duke!"
"See the Duke!"
Brother Yi of Lihuatang was even more overjoyed, as if she had found an organization and saluted them one after another.
With his hands behind his back, Eunuch Hai looked at Ma Yan with a light attitude, and nodded gently, as if he were greeting him. Many worshippers behind him clasped their fists.
"I'm not long after I'm back," Mo Chou also squeezed out a smile on his face and pointed at the people behind him:
"These are mostly those who were guarding Luoshan during the Fengshan period. After the Eight Kings rebelled, we fought and fled all the way. Unfortunately, we were either separated or killed many of them. Fortunately, we were left. We hurried north to stabilize the court for Your Majesty to prevent the situation from being bad."
After pausing, she said:
"But after entering the city, we observed all the way and ran into you here, and I knew that the court was still stable. I think it was because the Grand Master was bothering to control it. I wonder if the Grand Master could be in the palace now?"
Ma Yan faced his eyes that were eager for answers, listening to Mo Chou's words full of complaints, his brain was stuck for a while, and I didn't know how to answer.
Seeing his eagerness to speak but stopping, everyone's hearts suddenly sank!
Mo Chou's forced smile froze, and his hands were clenched subconsciously:
"What? Could it be that something happened in the court?"
Ma Yan pondered for a while and nodded sincerely:
"A major change did occur. Li Yanfu instigated many Li Party officials, commanders and commanders of the imperial guards, launched a court coup, and tried to control the court."
What? !
It was like thunder thunder roaring on the ground, and everyone's faces suddenly changed.
Before Mo Chou asked, Ma Yan continued:
"However, Li Yanfu's coup failed. Now those involved in the rebellion may die or be sent to prison. We have just entered the palace to report and interrogate the Li party's rebels."
Your mother was breathing heavily...
The officials of the Fengshan team felt that their hearts were floating again, as if they were dragged back from an ice hole to midsummer. The cold limbs returned to warmth and cursed in their hearts. "Is there such a thing? I see that Li Yanfu has a disobedient mind, so it's true!" The Minister of Rites jumped and cursed, clasped his fists to the sky, and tears filled his eyes: "Fortunately, God blessed my country, God blessed Your Majesty, but this rebel has not been made successful!" Ma Yan shook his head and carefully corrected it:
"It's not your Majesty, nor your Majesty. It's your Majesty who protects Yu." Behind him, Haitang saw everyone confused and explained: "Before the Li Party's coup, Your Majesty and Zhao Shaobao had returned to the capital, and both of them had a higher level of cultivation. Your Majesty swept across thousands of troops and eliminated the treacherous thieves. Now he has regained the treasure and was in charge of the imperial palace for many days, so the city is so stable.
Zhao Shaobao brought troops out of the city a few days ago to pacify the rebels in Qingzhou.
By the way, before he left the city, Your Majesty ordered people to propose marriage to Zhao's mansion. Now this young master is a foregone conclusion. Hey, haven't you asked before you come back?"
What? Your Majesty is back long ago?
Are there one step ahead, single player pushed the coup?
Zhao Duan has also come back, and now he has led his troops out to fight again?
Mo Chou, Sun Lianying, Ning Zechen, Minister of Rites, Eunuch Hai and others looked dull and frozen at the city gate, trying their best to digest the huge amount of information in these words.
"Sir, the adults are back..." Qian Kerou murmured softly, her expression changing from shock to excitement and admiration:
"I knew he could do it."
No mistakes, one song, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one bar, one read!
A thousand miles of protection, and returned to Beijing to quell the rebellion... Hou Renmeng, Shen Juan and other Lihuatang Jinyi were surging and lost her mind:
His lord of his own actually done such an amazing thing?
Proposal of marriage...Proposal of marriage...Mo Chou stood in a daze, his mind circling again and again, and his lips were pale.
This imperial city is too shaky.
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Outside the Imperial Study Room.
The small garden is covered with green trees, and the branches are scattered in color. The sun shines on the green tiles and on the red lacquered wooden pillars. The female officials along the way are in a hurry.
"Your Majesty, Mo Zhaorong has arrived."
In the study, Xu Zhenguan, who was lowering his head and holding a red pen to correct memorials, heard the report outside the door, raised his head, and placed the dyed red brush on the pen holder with a delicate jade hand. He saw a very thin and beautiful figure walking towards him outside the open door and outside the threshold.
Wearing a slightly dirty female official robe, black gauze on her head, and makeup on her eyebrows, Mochou bowed and bowed: "Sister, see Your Majesty!"
"Mochou?" Xu Zhenguan stood up with his pen and dragged his white clothes on the smooth floor. She walked to the door a few steps and helped up the maid who had not seen for many days. Above the fairy's jade face, full of concern and joy:
"I am very happy to hear that you are back. It's good to come back. It's good to come back. Thank you for your hard work all the way."
"Your Majesty..." Mo Chou was helped up, raised his head, bit his lips and looked at the familiar smile of the empress. His nose turned sour and red eyes, and his words were choked:
"I...I...I thought I would never see Your Majesty again."
This sentence was said, and tears could not stop rolling down in his eyes.
Mo Chou never shed tears on the way north to escape, but at this moment, tears burst out like a dam and could not be curbed.
The empress smiled, with a little doting look on her face, but in fact, she followed her since she was a child, and she was like a sister, and she helped her into the study and pressed her in a chair.
The sloppy female official sat in the chair weakly, almost holding her waist and burying her head in tears. The empress in white stood beside the chair, smiling and gently patting her back with her hands.
This scene is rare in the courts of all dynasties.
After a long time, Mochou's emotions were expressed in his heart with tears. He finally realized his loss of composure and hurriedly broke free. He quickly wiped away the tears from his eyes with his hands and said in panic: "Your Majesty, I have lost my manners in front of the palace. Please punish me!"
The empress just smiled, raised her hand, sorted out the scattered hair on her forehead, and smiled and said, "Okay, I'll punish you quickly and report on your experience." "Abide by the order..." Mo Chou blushed and began to stutter, uttering the key information of the experience along the way in one breath. The empress listened quietly and asked occasionally in the middle.
At the end, he nodded slightly and said:
"Although you have not been by my side all the way, you have also made contributions to protecting the emperor. The rest of the people are in the side hall? I deserve the reward."
Mo Chou shook his head quickly:
"I dare not take credit for me, but as a minister, I am a subject, and if I say protecting the emperor, I heard that Zhao Shaobao protected His Majesty all the way back to Beijing. The day before yesterday, Your Majesty... proposed marriage to him?"
When I asked this last sentence, Mo Chou's voice changed a little, and his eyes looked at the empress with a little resentful look.
Xu Zhenguan smiled and nodded, as if she could not see the little maid's resentment:
"He... is indeed the emperor I chose."
Mo Chou was speechless for a moment and had countless words to ask.
For example, if you want to ask what happened to Zhao Duan and the Empress on the way to escape, you still feel that this is not something she is qualified to ask, so you can only say dejectedly:
"I don't know Zhao Shaobao, now..."
"He went to the border of Qingzhou Road to quell the rebellion." Xu Zhenguan answered, and when she mentioned this topic, she couldn't help but sigh softly:
"I only went there for a few days, which caused many people in the court to be dissatisfied." "Zhao Shaobao has no experience in leading troops to fight," Mo Chou was stunned. She was extremely active and immediately realized: "Does the military officers of the Privy Council and the Ministry of War think it is inappropriate?" Xu Zhenguan nodded slightly, stood up and walked and said: "Yes, if these people requested to replace Zhao Duan to fight in the past few days, my ears were so sharp that they had been called out."
As soon as he finished speaking, a female official walked over outside the door: "Your Majesty, the adults from the Privy Council and the Ministry of War are here again, and they are asking to see Your Majesty." Xu Zhenguan's face showed a little helplessness, and wanted to drive out the people, but hesitated and said: "Bring them here."
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After a while, about three or five people were brought over. One was the old minister of the Ministry of War and the other was the highest "deputy Privy Councilor" in the Privy Council. "I, please see Your Majesty!"
The few people were before entering the door, and they saluted them carefully. "No gift." Xu Zhenguan's cold voice came out.
The military officers stood up and looked up at the study. When they saw Mo Chou standing quietly beside the empress, they were stunned at the same time. The old Shangshu of the Ministry of War was the first to laugh:
"The old minister and others just entered the palace, and they heard that Mo Zhaorong and others had returned. It was a joy to congratulate him." Xu Zhenguan sat behind the table in the bright yellow table, raised his hand to interrupt him, with a calm and indifferent expression: "What's the matter with you, just tell me."
As he was too lazy to greet and go around the corner.
This... several military officers looked at each other, and the tall and thin deputy privy envoy stepped forward and bowed:
"Your Majesty, I am still here to give advice and replace Zhao Shaobao to deal with the Qingzhou Road war."
He took out a note from his sleeve and held it up in both hands:
"This is a joint memorial signed by the generals in the army in the capital, begging Your Majesty to take back the order and hand it over to the Privy Council. I will fight to the death to repay Your Majesty's holy grace!"
Xu Zhenguan stared at the group of people quietly. Mochou glanced at the note, hesitated, walked over, picked it up, and handed it to the empress.
Xu Zhenguan's two slender and fair fingers pinched the thick joint note, but did not open it, but threw it on the table and said lightly:
"Li Yanfu mutiny, two imperial guards led the rebellion, and the vassal kings were in turmoil, and military officers such as Zhao Shixiong and Wei Xianzong also rebeled from the court. They are all subordinate to you. Now, you are fighting for military power again. Do you want to quell the rebellion or have other intentions?"
As soon as these words came out, the faces of the people changed, and they all fell to the ground:
"Your Majesty is clear, I am loyal, and the Privy Council (Ministry of War) is absolutely unparalleled! But although Zhao Shaobao has not been a military general, he has never taken the army in the end. I am just for the overall situation..."
Xu Zhenguan said lightly:
"Who said that he cannot win a battle without leading the army?"
Mochou looked at her sideways and thought to himself that your Majesty, your bias is too obvious.
"This..." Several military officers could not refute for a moment, so they had to keep their necks in motion, with a clear attitude.
Just when the monarch and ministers were in a stalemate, suddenly, another eunuch hurriedly ran in in the corridor outside the door. Before the person arrived, he shouted happily and loudly: "Congratulations to Your Majesty! Congratulations to Your Majesty! Qingzhou rebels have been destroyed, and the rebel King Wang Heng has been escorted outside the city. Lord Zhao has returned to triumphantly! Triumphantly!"
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