Emperor Xuanwu came out of the palace at around 12:00 p.m. in the afternoon.
As he left the palace and entered the Han Palace, the other princes' private soldiers who were ambushing nearby immediately started to make noises and started shouting and killing. At the same time, there was also an ambush inside the Han Palace, and they knew something was wrong as soon as they heard it.
After hearing the noise, Qu Jie immediately started to move.
More than a thousand private soldiers carried out the attack as planned.
Those who were walking on behalf of Heaven were walking on behalf of Heaven, those who were setting fire were setting fire, those who were shouting "Long Live Princess Jiahe" were shouting "Long Live Princess Jiahe", those who were attacking the Imperial Ancestral Temple were attacking the Imperial Ancestral Temple, and the division of labor was orderly.
Qu Jie's operation directly confused Emperor Xuanwu, who originally thought that everything was under control. Emperor Xuanwu had already discovered that his uncles were not very peaceful, and also knew about their private plans. Palace, just to give them a chance to rebel so that they can be wiped out in one fell swoop.
Moreover, for his own safety, the person who left the palace to go to the Han Palace was not actually him, but just a substitute.
He is still staying in the palace!
Basically everything went according to plan.
But Princess Jiahe's sudden appearance and rebellion were indeed beyond his expectation, let alone him, or everyone present in the capital who knew his fishing plan and those who didn't, including those in the Yong'an Marquis' Mansion. People are all a little confused at this moment.
It's not that Qu Jie's plan is so secretive.
The main reason is that no one has ever thought that a princess would participate in the rebellion. Naturally, they would not suspect it, let alone keep a close eye on it, so it would be dark under the lamp.
However, at this time, Emperor Xuanwu really couldn't mobilize many forbidden troops to quickly wipe out Qu Jie's rebel team, because he had transferred most of the forbidden troops to encircle and suppress the King of Han and other princes. At this time, the palace was the most empty, so for the sake of I don’t know how many private soldiers Qu Jie has, and Qu Jie’s voice shouting to kill and the princess’ long live voice can be heard by almost half of the capital with the blessing of loudspeakers. This undoubtedly further made Emperor Xuanwu I think Qu Jie has a lot of people.
Therefore, he did not dare to confront Qu Jie at all.
Instead, he hurriedly hid first.
And immediately sent people to mobilize soldiers from the Beijing camp.
The reason why this group of 100,000 capital guardsmen were not mobilized before was mainly because mobilizing these people would make too much noise and could easily alert the enemy. Furthermore, Emperor Xuanwu felt that the Imperial Guards were enough to deal with the rebellion.
But now, with the presence of Cheng Yaojin like Princess Jiahe, the number of private soldiers on the other side was deafening. It felt like there were tens of thousands. To be more cautious and safe, of course, he had to quickly gather all the soldiers from the Beijing camp. Tune in so you can feel at ease.
As for Qu Jiena, she never thought about the success of the rebellion. After all, even if the rebellion was successful, it would be difficult for a woman to ascend the throne. Even if she ascended the throne and became emperor, she would probably have to be many times more ruthless than Wu Zetian and kill many more people. , it is possible to completely stabilize the throne.
After all, in this era, society's suppression and restrictions on women are much stronger than during the heyday of the Tang Dynasty.
In addition, there are many vassal kings in various places, and she is not like Wu Zetian, who has controlled the government for more than ten years. She has enough obedient people in her hands, so she really wants nothing.
It would be better to go overseas and build a team yourself.
So even though Qu Jie knew very well that the palace was empty at this time, and that it was possible to kill Emperor Xuanwu with just a little effort, she still did not create any complications and still ordered her private soldiers to proceed as planned.
And as soon as he discovered that the Beijing camp was mobilized to Beijing.
He immediately ordered all private soldiers to start retreating.
At the same time she herself began to retreat.
As one hundred thousand soldiers from the Beijing camp entered the city, most of them went to the palace, a small number participated in annihilating the private soldiers of other rebel princes, and Qu Jie and others had retreated early, the order in the capital was quickly controlled and stabilized, and the rebellion of those princes also quickly Suppressed and pacified.
Immediately afterwards, of course, Emperor Xuanwu came out and ordered a thorough investigation of Princess Jiahe, to find out what happened, how much damage was done to the palace, where Princess Jiahe's rebels were, to arrest the entire Yong'an Marquis family, etc.
There are others who have suffered losses.
Qu Jie took the opportunity to do justice for heaven and killed the officials, nobles, and even the relatives of their heirs and beasts.
They also went to the palace or complained through other channels.
Of course, although the overall situation seems a little chaotic, some information is still being collected in an orderly manner. Among them, the most shocking, panic-stricken, angry, and almost death-like news is undoubtedly that someone has successively discovered that their private treasury is public. The library was stolen.
All his wealth, accumulated over a hundred years, was gone.
As the news spread, more and more officials and nobles conducted self-examinations, confirmed the news, and found that more and more people were like themselves. In the end, of course, Emperor Xuanwu also discovered this situation and fainted on the spot. . Read the book
It can be said that the entire capital was in chaos.
Going crazy.
Previously, the great princes joined forces to rebel, and Waidaijia and the princess rebelled together, which caused a big stir. Now they found out that their home had been stolen, and all the money they had saved had been stolen.
How do you say something?
Stealing someone's wealth is like killing their parents. Stealing someone's wealth is like killing their parents. Directly clearing out someone's family is no different than digging up someone's 18th generation ancestral grave!
Of course, some officials who were relatively poor or relatively honest were not harmed, and Qu Jie was too lazy to dig a tunnel and go to their house for one hundred and eighty taels of silver, or one thousand eight hundred taels of silver.
Then, of course, more information was gradually discovered, and more secrets were unearthed. For example, many people began to discover that there were tunnels in their public or private treasury, and there were also discoveries that were relatively close to Yongan Hefu. The tunnels from their private and public treasury actually lead directly to the Yong'an Marquis Mansion, and the tunnels under the Yong'an Marquis Mansion extend in all directions, as dense and terrifying as a spider web.
If you say that everything has nothing to do with them, or that they have no knowledge, then someone has to believe it. With so many underground passages, could it be possible that Princess Jiahe dug them alone? Could the soil be eaten? Such a big tunnel The movement is definitely not something that can be done in a year or two.
How could it have nothing to do with them?
It can be said that at this moment, no officials or nobles care about the rebellion of the princes. That is not a problem. Compared with the civil strife in the royal family, it is obviously that their homes were stolen. It is more important that their own homes were stolen. , if I can't get it back, I'll be so angry just thinking about it that I can't sleep, eat, or anything like that.
Then, as soon as Emperor Xuanwu woke up from the acupuncture treatment given by the imperial physician, he received a piece of news.
That is, almost all the civil and military officials and nobles of the dynasty were blocking the entrance of the palace, wanting to see him and wanting him to send people to help them quickly and find their belongings.
At this time, Emperor Xuanwu was obviously not in the mood to pay attention to them. He turned to look at his chief supervisor with genuine worry and anxiety, and asked tremblingly:
"How about the... national treasury?"
Although all the internal funds were stolen, it made him heartbroken, but in comparison, the treasury was obviously more important. After all, the money and food in the treasury was related to the country's people's livelihood, the salaries of the border troops, the salaries of hundreds of officials, and the people in famine-stricken areas. Disaster relief, without which the world would be in chaos.
If his internal funds were not stolen, he could still manage to survive with his internal funds. But now that his internal funds are gone, if the treasury is also stolen, then it is really over!
