Three days later, a mournful cry came from the palace of the King of Nanzhao: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty... Your Majesty is buried!"
Then Zheng Luofeng led his people into the palace.
In the past few days, people have sent letters back every day. Although Tang Ping walked slowly when he went back, he had already left Nanzhao Kingdom and entered Dongnu Kingdom last night.
Now that Tang Ping is gone, Zheng Luofeng no longer has to feel tied down.
It's just that he left Liu Hong, the young minister of Honglu Temple, behind. Zheng Luofeng was just slightly stunned and ignored him.
A young minister from Honglu Temple, a fringe figure in the Nanzhao court, attached himself to Duke Ping of the Tang Dynasty and was going to Chang'an. How normal was it?
"Where's Ahu? Why didn't you see Ahu today? He hasn't come back from the manor yet?" Zheng Luofeng asked.
The Ahu he is his confidant. Yesterday he went to his manor outside the city. Normally on a day like today, he should be back. right.
"Brother hasn't come back yet. I guess it rained a bit yesterday and the road is difficult to travel!"
A guard next to Zheng Luofeng replied, but he was secretly happy. On a day like today, if his eldest brother didn't come back, then he would naturally be the one to take the lead.
"Forget it, don't wait for him anymore, Ah Lang, let everyone come in!"
Although he was not wearing a dragon robe, Zheng Luofeng was already sitting on the dragon chair of the King of Nanzhao, and asked the guard A Lang to announce that others should enter the palace.
"Zheng Luofeng, what are you doing?" Lord Qingmeng of Honglu Temple pointed at Zheng Luofeng and shouted as soon as he entered the palace.
You must know that his surname is Meng, and the king of Nanzhao is also surnamed Meng. He is originally from the royal family.
Otherwise, how could he, a minister of Honglu Temple, gather a group of courtiers to stand on his side.
"Bold!" One of Zheng Luofeng's guards stood up and said, "Before his funeral, His Majesty issued an edict to pass on the throne of the King of Nanzhao to Lord Zheng Luofeng. Now I want to call you Your Majesty!"
As he spoke, a bright yellow scroll appeared in his hand.
"You! You are forging an edict. This is a capital crime!"
"Master Meng, you didn't even see the edict, so you just said it was forged? Isn't that too arbitrary? Isn't it too disrespectful to the late emperor?" Zheng Luofeng said with a smile: "Our country of Nanzhao has been in turmoil for many years. It was always the late emperor and I who jointly governed Nanzhao that made Nanzhao the country it is today."
"Now, unfortunately, the late Emperor took the first step and asked me to take over the Nanzhao Kingdom. Why not?"
A large part of the courtiers had already turned to Zheng Luofeng, and only a few were on Master Meng's side. When they heard Zheng Luofeng's words, they all knelt down and shouted long live.
Some officials around Mr. Meng looked at the situation, and more and more people fell to their knees.
Master Meng's face was livid, and he pointed at them and said: "You... you... the late emperor's bones are not cold yet, you just... just..."
"It seems that Lord Meng has not rested well. Someone, please send Lord Meng down to have a rest."
Alang gave the order, and the guards escorted Master Meng down.
There was no objection, Zheng Luofeng sat proudly on the dragon chair, looking at the courtiers kneeling below.
I have finally waited for this day.
At this moment, a guard rushed in from outside.
"No, something bad is going to happen!"
"Asshole, why are you so panicked?" Alang kicked him and knocked him to the ground: "Tell me, what is the matter?"
"Tang... Tang... Tang..." The guard stuttered for a long time without straightening his tongue: "Tang, Tang, Tang... has invaded."
"What?" Zheng Luofeng stood up from the dragon chair: "What did you say?"
"The Tang Dynasty is attacking the city. It has already reached the imperial city!" The guard lay on the ground and pointed at the palace gate with a look of horror on his face and shouted.
"What?"
"How can it be?"
"Aren't we a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty?"
"Ping Guogong has just moved forward, how could there be an army from the Tang Dynasty coming to attack the city?"
The courtiers below were all scared and pale. They could think of the outcome of the Tang Dynasty's attack on the city with their toes.
"Who is it? Who is leading the troops?" Zheng Luofeng asked with a pale face. The carrier pigeon he received last night said that Tang Ping had entered the territory of Dongnv Kingdom.
Although the two places are not far apart, how can it be possible to come back overnight after traveling more than 200 kilometers?
Could it be the Tang Army from elsewhere?
But it doesn't make sense. Even if Nanzhao didn't attend the Tang Dynasty ceremony, they wouldn't directly attack the palace.
"The one who led...the troops was Duke Ping, and the ones who attacked the palace gate were Xuan Jiaqi and the musketeers he brought.
The guard who reported the news finally got it right.
But this sentence was like a bolt from the blue, which stunned everyone in the entire hall.
"Impossible!" Zheng Luofeng roared: "Obviously there was a report last night, saying that their entire army entered the territory of Dongnv Kingdom, and they can't fly. How could they fight back to our palace overnight?"
"Master Zheng, are you so concerned about my whereabouts?" A voice came from outside the hall. It was not Tang Ping who left Nanzhao a few days ago.
"But Mr. Zheng has considered everything. Did he not consider that the carrier pigeon that actually delivered the message to you can be tied to the carrier pigeon by anyone?" Tang Ping smiled and stepped into the hall: "It happened to be that the message was tied to the carrier pigeon in the next two days. , they are all my people.”
Despite his voice, groups of musketeers rushed into the Nanzhao Palace Hall, pointing their guns at everyone in the palace.
Don't blame Tang Ping for fighting in so quickly. When they entered the capital, the city gate was wide open and they didn't expect anyone to attack the city.
So the heavily armored Xuanjia Cavalry rushed under the city wall, and the soldiers guarding the city remembered to close the city gate.
But there were more than ten people in the city, including Lao Cui and others, who sneaked in first and took control of the city gate in an instant.
Then he drove straight in and reached the palace gate.
The guards in front of the palace gate wanted to resist for a while, but then they found that they had no way to deal with heavy cavalry like the Xuanjia Cavalry.
The Tang Dynasty Musketeers fired a volley, and a group of people fell down, so they decisively chose to surrender.
It was originally a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty, so there was no shame in surrendering.
In this way, Tang Ping and the others entered the palace hall directly.
"Ping Guogong, you! Why are you doing this?" Zheng Luofeng pointed at Tang Ping and said: "We, Nanzhao, have professed their vassalage to the Tang Dynasty. Is it just because the late emperor was critically ill and did not attend the grand ceremony of the Tang Dynasty that he is going to attack our emperor?" Can’t the city be built?”
"Here we go again, here we go again!" Tang Ping said to Gou Shaoqun and Li Shan with a smile: "There's moral kidnapping again."
He chuckled: "Fortunately, I have no morals."
As he spoke, he took out a bright yellow scroll from his arms and snatched the abdication edict that A Lang had started to take.
The two scrolls were opened by Lao Cui and Lao Du at the same time and displayed to everyone.
Forging edicts is a good job.
