flstandardbreds Chapter 227 The troops are approaching the city
Chapter 227 The troops are approaching the city
"What……"
"The Lan family is good at playing both sides. How can the son she taught be a good person? Think about it yourself. How many times have you suffered at his hands? In the end, you still thought he helped you and were grateful to him."
The more Prince Qing thought about it, the angrier he became. He picked up his knife and wanted to ride back to Kyoto to settle accounts with Prince Yong.
The princess hurriedly grabbed him and said, "With your brain, you're still counting money for others after being sold! Why are you going? Don't worry! If he goes to Kyoto, it means he has reached a dead end. You don't need to go to Kyoto now, go to Suzhou! No matter what, you must stop Prince Qi!"
The King of Qing was stunned. "He is also on the same side as the King of Yong? He is hiding it very well..."
The princess shook her head, "No, he didn't stand with Prince Yong, he stood with Prince Chong."
"Chong——" Prince Qing was about to shout out loud, but the eldest princess glared at him and he had to lower his voice, "Prince Chong wants to rebel too?"
The princess was too lazy to explain to him, "You better leave now! It's too late!"
"Yes! Sister..."
Mu Qingyan was even more surprised when King Qing's men hurriedly headed in another direction.
Is it really so easy for a prince who wants to rebel to be instigated?
"Do you find it strange that I was able to persuade Prince Qing to stop with just a few words?"
Mu Qingyan nodded.
"When he was young, I saved his life. Later, his mother died together with the chief of bandits in a palace coup to save the late emperor. I am much older than him. The late emperor was afraid that he would grow up to be a bad person without his mother's care, so he let him live with me until he grew up and established his own government. He was a simple-minded person who was easily deceived and misled. In fact, his heart was not bad. At least, he would listen to me..."
"An elder sister is like a mother. The prince respects Her Highness the Princess as if she were his mother."
"Maybe... But he has done something wrong and he must accept the punishment. I won't interfere. Let's go. If we are any later, we won't be able to watch the show in time..."
Mu Qingyan rode her horse and galloped behind the eldest princess.
Princess Changning and Xulin rode side by side.
Along the way, the two people did not talk about love, but just got along like ordinary people who had just met.
京都
King Yong has officially raised the banner of rebellion and is marching his troops to the city.
He raised the banner of rebellion on the grounds that Emperor Jianning had murdered the Empress Dowager and that as a son he could not disregard his filial piety.
General Gu personally directed the battle on the city wall, and Prince Ling was also present.
Prince Yong's offensive was not very fierce. After all, his army had traveled a long distance to the capital and was exhausted.
If the secret of Qinglong Village had not been discovered by King Ling, his life would have been much easier today!
Unfortunately, he had been poisoned for many years and was in poor health. He was about to die, but Mu Qingyan appeared and pulled him back from the brink of death.
How hateful!
"Brother Ling, you are so lucky. I have been in Kyoto for so many days. Why don't you let your confidante come out so that I, your royal brother, can get to know her..."
Prince Ling looked down at him, "Don't worry, my brother. You will be able to see her soon..."
Prince Chong had been waiting for news from Suzhou. Prince Qi had clearly sent a pigeon message saying that he had left Suzhou and was preparing to rush to Kyoto. Now that Prince Yong had arrived, there was still no news from him. This was very unusual.
Moreover, the King of Qing didn’t come either!
Now, only Prince Yong's own people are left to support the country.
With hundreds of thousands of soldiers besieging the city, Prince Ling remained so calm. He must have planned well to wait for reinforcements!
He stood up and paced back and forth. Suddenly, his eyes turned cold. "No! Mu Qingyan didn't go to Suzhou! She went to Yuzhou!"
The guard also knew that something was wrong. "But our people clearly saw that she went to Suzhou..."
"That was Prince Ling's trick! We've fallen into his trap! Once Princess Yongjia's men arrive, Prince Yong will have no choice but to surrender! Send a message to Zhou Yuan and have him tell Prince Yong to bring Princess Yongjia's elite troops into the city from the north gate! Charge directly into the palace! Once His Majesty is controlled by us, even if Princess Yongjia's troops arrive, it will be useless!"
The guards hurried down to deliver the message.
Prince Chong sat down angrily and slammed the table hard, "Mu Qingyan! Do you think that you can marry Prince Ling as you wish after helping him so much? As long as I am still here, you will never get what you want in this life! Never get what you want!"
That night, Prince Yong ordered his confidants to attack the city gate like crazy.
However, he and Zhou Yuan, with the Grand Princess's elite troops, quietly entered the imperial city from the north gate and had an unimpeded journey along the way.
When he was stopped by the guards at the palace gate, King Yong drew his weapon and killed the guards, and then the soldiers hiding in the dark rushed in.
The sentry was busy beating the drum to warn people.
However, a large number of troops had already rushed in. They were invincible, leaving many corpses along the way, and headed straight towards the Chongwen Hall.
Emperor Jianning was not in the Chongwen Hall. At this moment, he was in the Empress Dowager's Shouxiang Palace.
Looking at the Queen Mother who had fallen into a coma, his eyes flashed with coldness, "Queen Mother, your precious son, Prince Yong, has raised an army to rebel... He has even reached the gate of the palace..."
As soon as he finished speaking, Wang Quan ran in with a panicked look on his face, "Your Majesty, Prince Yong, Prince Yong is outside Shouxiang Palace..."
Emperor Jianning looked up, "Why are you panicking? Hasn't he come in yet?"
The gate of Shouxiang Palace was heavily guarded, and Prince Yong did not want to start a war in front of his mother's bedroom. After all, he started his army on the grounds of filial piety. If he confronted Emperor Jianning and Emperor Jianning threatened his mother's life, what would he do?
Surrender without a fight? Obviously not.
But he would also be criticized for forcing the Queen Mother to abdicate and abandoning the throne, regardless of his mother's life.
After the gate of Shouxiang Palace was opened, Prince Yong's eyes were filled with excitement.
This step took him nearly twenty years.
"Brother, it's been so long since we last met. You've aged so much!"
Emperor Jianning felt full of irony when he saw that he could still chat and laugh with him like this.
"My brother is still as charming as he was back then, he hasn't changed at all... If you want to see mother, just submit a memorial, why... do you have to make such a fuss... If I accidentally misunderstand, wouldn't it hurt the harmony between brothers..."
Prince Yong sneered, "When I heard that my mother was seriously ill, I was confused for a moment. I hope that you can't even understand this filial piety of a son..." At this point, he deliberately paused, as if he just remembered, and said with a guilty face, "I forgot that the late Empress Xiaolie died early, and you have been without your mother for many years. Naturally, you don't know what kind of duty you should fulfill as a son..."
Emperor Jianning listened and showed no displeasure on his face.
As the emperor, if he can't even see through this provocation, then he is not suitable to sit in this position...