Outside the Donghua Gate of the Imperial City of the Song Dynasty in Kaifeng Prefecture, the tall figure of the white-haired veteran He Guan stood on the stone bridge of the moat. His official uniform with wide clothes and long sleeves was blown by the howling north wind. .
Three hundred soldiers from the Infantry Division, all wearing military uniforms and carrying swords, lined up and blocked the Donghua Gate of the Imperial City of the Song Dynasty.
This scene is extremely rare outside the Donghua Gate of the Imperial City of the Song Dynasty. So much so that the infantry and bodyguards who led the troops all surrendered, and everyone was restless.
Several officers of the Imperial Army of the Song Dynasty, wearing the uniforms of military attachés, stood to the left and right of He Guan with their hands on the hilts of their swords. Their eyes met, and they could see the worry in each other's eyes.
Because they all know that they should not appear outside Donghua Gate. They are the troops of the Infantry Guard Division, not personal officers of the Imperial City Division. It is not their duty to guard the Imperial City and the Emperor. But now, they were transferred outside Donghua Gate by an order from the Privy Council! What happened?
Is this the official running away...or is it Xiao Qiang's fault?
These are extraordinary times! The Song Dynasty, which has been standing for more than 160 years and was immersed in the joy of restoring Yanyun and the glory of the prosperous age a few months ago, is now on the verge of life and death. The Liao Kingdom and the Jin Kingdom, which had earlier formed an alliance with the Song Dynasty and destroyed the Khitans together, suddenly broke their alliance and turned against each other two months ago, in October of the seventh year of Xuanhe. Guo Yaoshi, a traitor of the Liao Kingdom who relied on him, turned against the Jin and led the Jin soldiers to go south. They were unstoppable along the way and were about to be forced to the outside of Kaifeng, Tokyo, the Song Dynasty.
And when the country was in crisis, Zhao Ji, the literary and elegant official of the Song Dynasty, neither went to fight the Jin soldiers personally, nor dispatched troops and generals to save supplies and prepare to hold on to the city. Instead, he was preparing to flee!
This is not just some random guessing, it is based on real evidence! Just yesterday, December 21st, the official issued a great edict through the Dongfu, ordering His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to assume the post of Kaifeng Mu... Anyone with a brain knows that this is to make the Crown Prince Supervisor Guoding Lei slipped and ran away.
The Song Dynasty actually produced such an unworthy official family, which is depressing just thinking about it!
But even if the officials want to run away, they shouldn't let the people from the Infantry Department run outside the palace gate and block it! Guarding the palace has always been the responsibility of the Imperial City Department. How could the infantry guard Yuhou personally lead troops to stand guard outside the palace? This has probably never happened since the Song Dynasty began, right?
And no matter how you look at it, this thing looks a bit like a palace coup... I don't know whether these people are loyal ministers and good generals, or treacherous ministers and traitors?
The officers and soldiers at the grassroots level were all uneasy, and the veteran leader He Guan was equally anxious. He was not worried that he would become a traitor, because he knew the inside story. There is absolutely no such thing as a palace change. What is happening now is just the officials from the two governments persuading them to resign... This is not about the two governments forcing the palace, but the officials themselves abdicating and running away or not abdicating. He hesitated while running.
If he is willing to live and die with Tokyo, how can the two prime ministers dare to persuade him to meditate? Who dares to mention it? Without Long Yan being furious, the censor in the palace would jump up and impeach him!
But the problem is that the official is too cowardly, he wants to run away wholeheartedly, and he can't stop him at all. At the beginning, because I was afraid of the obstruction from the imperial army and the people of Tokyo, I wanted to meditate to protect the prince. The two governors had no choice but to agree. But when the imperial edict was officially issued yesterday, he was reluctant to part with the throne, and was only willing to give the prince the post of Kaifeng Mu. It seems that this means that he wants the prince to stay in Tokyo to supervise the country... Anyone with a brain knows that things cannot be done like this.
Because the officials meditated internally and then ran away, the officials in Tokyo were still the officials of the Great Song Dynasty and the Supreme Leader of the Nine-Five-Year Plan. Although people's hearts are inevitably shaken by the escape of Nei Chan and the Supreme Emperor, everyone still has some expectations for the new official family.
But if the officials don't meditate and just run away...that means the emperor doesn't want to run away! The emperor of the Zhao family doesn't want the flowers and mountains in the Central Plains, so how can he expect the people below to hold on to them with all their lives?
I'm afraid that the officials will run away, and the Song Dynasty will have to return to the barbarians of the Jin Kingdom!
Precisely because the two prime ministers knew that the official family could not run away with the throne, they promoted the newly appointed minister Wu Mindai to be the leader and persuade the official family to abdicate. A large group of people have been persuading people since early this morning, but no accurate news has come out of Chongzheng Hall until now. I am really anxious!
Thinking of this, He Guan turned his head and looked at the Donghua Gate behind him, and happened to see his son He Ji, who was the official in charge of the door and praised the family, hurriedly walked out of the Donghua Gate, which was half opened.
"Dalang, has the official abdicated the throne?"
He Guan didn't wait for his son to approach before he already asked. This issue was too sensitive. As a Guan Jun with a fighting background, he was used to having a loud voice, which immediately attracted a lot of surprised and incomprehensible looks - in the official field, few people seemed to be willing to abdicate normally. .....
"Retreat, retreat... The people in Zhongshushe are drafting the edict, and the prime ministers of the two mansions have asked Hai'er to invite the prince to come and receive the edict." He Ji, who is in his thirties this year, also came from the northwest battlefield. Fighting Han, because my father became a military officer, he came down from the front line and joined the Hemen Division (with the intention of being a hostage). He was not used to speaking in a soft voice, so everyone knew when he spoke.
He Guan also breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly ordered his own soldiers to fetch a horse for his son. He also asked several warriors who had followed him for many years to go with his son - everyone showed their faces in front of the new official's house. Maybe the new official's family would like them and reward them with an official position!
At this time, there were no pedestrians on the street outside Donghua Gate, so He Ji and others galloped away on horseback. After a while, the horses' hooves hit them and disappeared.
He Guan was also completely relieved. As long as the prince followed his son into the Donghua Gate later, the matter would be settled. His Highness Prince Yun, who has been in charge of the Imperial City Division for many years and has been coveting the throne, even if he has great abilities, even if Li Shimin is reincarnated, he will not be able to make a comeback.
After all, this is the Song Dynasty with strict family laws, not the chaotic Tang Dynasty!
Just as he was thinking of this, the sound of horse hooves suddenly came from the street outside Donghuamen.
How is this going?
He Guan frowned, Dalang had already invited the prince? Isn't this too fast? Could it be that the prince has been waiting at the intersection?
Feeling something was wrong, He Guan quickly stood up, stretched his neck and looked towards the end of the street outside Donghuamen. At this moment, at the three-way intersection at the end of the street, a small team wearing serial armor and carrying carbines suddenly appeared. The cavalry! And behind these cavalry, there seems to be an unknown number of infantry!
How is this going? Who are they?
...
Of course the person coming is Zhao Kai, who has not yet passed the "unadaptation period after time travel" and is still a little dizzy!
Although Zhao Kai was still a little confused, he knew one thing - Song Huizong must not be allowed to escape!
Because once Song Huizong runs away, Song Qinzong will come to power...and once Song Qinzong ascends the throne, Zhao Kai will most likely be closely guarded, and he can only wait to become the cuckold king!
In order not to be a cuckold king and not to go to some Five Kingdoms City to drink the Northeast Wind, Zhao Kai must fight hard. He didn't care whether it was the Tang Dynasty or the Song Dynasty, or whether he was going to the Donghua Gate or the Xuanwu Gate. In short, he brought all the troops he could muster, and they had to be fully armed!
Of course, he did not want to seize Song Huizong's throne. His purpose in entering the palace was to "fulfil his filial piety" and to allow Song Huizong to continue to be emperor in Kaifeng Mansion.
Only in this way can Zhao Kai himself take the "little fairy" Zhu Fengying out of Kaifeng Mansion in Tokyo, not to escape, but to go north to fight against the Jin...
