"I am the most cowardly king of the country, perhaps even worse than Qi Qingbao!"
In the night, Kang Chengqian put down the medicine bowl, sat weakly on the edge of the bed, and whispered to his confidant eunuch beside him, "Several generations of kings of the Wu Kingdom, in my dynasty, were gradually ignored by these aristocratic families, and the whole dynasty Civil and military officials only seek the benefit of the family behind them, and I am just a stone statue they put in the court hall."
"Your Majesty!" The eunuch had tears in his eyes and took out his handkerchief to wipe them.
"I'm sorry to my ancestors, but I don't want to be a stone statue in the Golden Palace." Kang Cheng patted the edge of the bed dryly, then put on a single coat and stood up, looking at the bronze bird candlestick, "They are the ones who made this mess in the Wu Kingdom. , not me! Since they want it, I will give it to them and see what they can come up with!"
Regardless of whether it was motivated or not, Kang Chengqian had no hope for the Wu State. Instead of continuing like this and eventually being conquered by the Xia State and becoming the king of the country, with his wife and children as slaves, it would be better to take advantage of him while he still has value. He went to Luyang in the Central Plains of Xia Kingdom and bowed his head to the emperor who was as angry as a tiger.
At any rate, he could join the heirloom of a duke, so that his wife, children, children, and children could have enough food and clothing.
In the next few days, when his health got better, he went to pay respects to the fake queen mother as usual, and occasionally stayed in the fake queen's bedroom. In the eyes of the civil and military officials in Shengkang, he was no different from ordinary people.
Anyway, no one would have thought that the emperor in front of him would have such an outrageous plan to escape.
In front of these people, Kang Chengqian behaved as before, abiding by the rules, sitting on the dragon chair like a piece of wood, listening to these various civil and military recitals.
Then, promise one by one.
After all, even if he refused to promise, these civil and military officials would find various reasons to persuade him and achieve his goal.
In late June, on the twenty-seventh day, Kang Chengqian had just gone to court and was feeling depressed and depressed. He was walking in a flower garden in the harem. The confidant eunuch beside him did not follow him, but went to do other things.
Not long after, the other party came from a palace, and there was another person beside him. He was tall and straight, with neatly combed hair. He was wearing a set of armor and brocade robes of a palace guard, and an ancient sword hung on his waist. .
"His Majesty!"
The eunuch who came over raised his hands in salute, and then whispered in Kang Chengqian's ear: "Someone is coming from the Emperor of Xia Kingdom."
Over there, Kang Chengqian turned around with his hands behind his hands and looked at the man next to the eunuch. The latter nodded slightly and cupped his hand towards him, but his peripheral vision had already glanced around.
"I am Pei Min, the commander of the Embroidery Department of Xia State."
As he said these words, he was also looking at the Emperor of Wu in front of him. He was probably thinking about what kind of emperor would be able to flee.
Then the two of them spoke very lowly, using voices that only the two of them could hear.
"Does Commander Pei have any plans?"
"Your Majesty disguised himself as a businessman and followed me out of the city during the day."
"that's all?"
Pei Min didn't explain too much to him, he just said: "Don't worry, my Majesty will ensure that you arrive in Luyang safely. As for how to do it, don't worry about it, just follow me."
If other emperors heard these words, they would definitely be furious.
But for Kang Chengqian, these words were ordinary. Every few days in the morning, the civil and military officials in the court almost always said this, and their ears were already calloused.
"When?"
"When I came, the plan was already laid out. What does Your Majesty think now?"
"Now?"
Kang Chengqian looked at the commander of the Embroidery Department in front of him with a rather surprised expression on his face. He did not expect that the other party would be so resolute. He hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth, and nodded.
"Since Commander Pei is confident, I will believe you."
Pei Min took a step back and stretched his sword forward: "Your Majesty, please go change your clothes and let someone with a figure like yours pretend to be..."
Then he followed Kang Chengqian to the Hall of Supreme Harmony in the harem, and helped him change into a new set. He brought ordinary people's robes from outside, put on a round hat worn by ordinary people, and used some makeup that only women can do. , making Kang Chengqian look like a man traveling around.
Then he asked a eunuch of similar stature to wear a god's uniform, and then asked a group of close guards to protect him, pretending to go boating on the inner lake in the back garden. Once everything was ready, Pei Min took Kang Chengqian and his close eunuchs with him. Walking along the less crowded palace road, the confidant eunuch walked at the front and dismissed the people he met along the way.
They quickly came to a dog cave, and the two of them crawled through the palace wall in front of them. When they came out, Pei Min had jumped over the palace wall and landed firmly in front of the two of them.
"Follow up!"
This place belongs to the scope of the East Palace. There is a secret passage in the nearby corner, and the confidant eunuch brought Pei Min in from there.
In almost half an hour, the spies placed in the palace by the Wu family would look for the emperor, or check whether His Majesty had seen anyone today and where he had gone, and then go over to take a sneak peek to confirm.
The commander of the guards in the middle palace, whose surname was Meng, was the spy of several powerful civil and military families who had settled into the palace together. Kang Chengqian also knew that he had no plans to escape in the past, nor did he want to concentrate the monarch's power.
So I have an indifferent attitude towards this eyeliner.
Now he followed a group of guards to the inner lake. From a distance, he saw the emperor waiting for the boat by the river. He didn't care about the queen mother and empress, so he only took a cursory glance. But for the emperor, he had to keep a close eye on them. After confirming, will leave.
'wrong! '
With just one glance, the emperor's back over there could hardly overlap with the back he had seen countless times. He immediately made an excuse and stepped forward to ask.
"His Majesty!"
He led a team of guards, walked very fast, and suddenly spoke, causing the 'Emperor' with his back to tremble. Hearing the sound of weapons clashing, the 'Emperor' closed his eyes in fear.
"His Majesty?!"
Another sound came from behind, and the 'Emperor' pretended to be hoarse as he spoke: "Commander Meng, do you have..." Halfway through the words, his shoulders were instantly grabbed, and several guards around the 'Emperor' quickly drew their swords. Heading towards Meng Chuxing.
"Where is your Majesty?!"
Seeing that the emperor in front of him was actually a beardless eunuch, a look of anger suddenly appeared on his face. Amidst the roar, the steel knife on his waist was unsheathed and he chopped the fake emperor to death. A group of guards around him also separated. Half of them rushed towards several guards who were guarding the 'Emperor', and they immediately fought together.
"Stop them, and the rest follow me!"
Meng Chuzhou suddenly realized that things had become strange, and issued an order as he walked: "Send someone to inform Prime Minister Gu and the Taiwei immediately that His Majesty is missing! In addition, immediately send someone to the Queen Mother and Queen to check, and be sure to hurry up." !”
Several guards left one after another, and when they arrived at Qinghe Tower, the guards who went to check on the Queen Mother came back and told them that they were all pretending, and that the princes in the palace were also not real.
"The emperor, empress, and queen mother actually..."
Meng Jue felt a little stupid. What he was stationed in the palace to guard against was actually the emperor's desire to suppress the aristocratic family and regain power, or other aristocratic families secretly collaborating with the emperor to subvert the civil and military forces currently in power.
Unexpectedly, none of these things have appeared in more than ten years. Instead, the emperor ran away.
"Secret passage!"
After thinking about it for a while, Meng Xuzhou calmed down. The emperor wanted to leave the palace, but obviously he couldn't leave from the imperial city, otherwise he would have known about it. The only way out was through the secret passages.
"Torture the eunuchs around His Majesty immediately!"
When he learned about the secret passage in the East Palace, half an hour had passed. While he was leading people to pursue him, Gu Chongwen of the Prime Minister's Mansion in the imperial city had already led people out of the imperial city and sent out the Imperial City Forbidden Army to search.
The name was naturally that the emperor, empress, and queen mother had been kidnapped. After receiving the news, Taiwei Fan Li also sent out guards and soldiers to search. The two met at the east gate of the imperial city.
"I didn't expect that His Majesty in the palace was fake."
"It's morning today, how could it be fake? We must have just left a short time ago. We sent messages and set up checkpoints along the way so that other state, county, generals, and officials wouldn't know."
"It's hard to put it bluntly, but your Prime Minister's residence is in the imperial city, but he is so careless!"
"Fart, how could I have expected that Your Majesty would escape from the imperial city and take the Queen Mother away with you!"
As he was speaking, a knight came flying towards him. He was sent by the general from the Imperial City. Behind him was a wealthy family named Li in Wu Kingdom, who controlled the wood in Wu Kingdom.
"Prime Minister, Lieutenant Commander, there is a suspicious caravan leaving the city at the east gate today."
"Investigate immediately and His Majesty must be brought back!"
…
After noon, the sun became more dazzling and the temperature rose sharply.
A caravan departed from the east gate of Shengkang and moved quickly along the official road. Pei Min, who took off his palace guard uniform, put on a brocade black robe and a bamboo hat, and rode in front of the caravan.
The four rickety carts were filled with beans, which were used to conceal their presence. The cars were shaking among the potholes on the road, and the sound of gold and iron could be faintly heard below.
Among the group of porters accompanying them, there was a man with a rough face and long steps, wearing straw sandals and coarse linen clothes. He was awkwardly walking on the frame of the carriage, looking back from time to time, with a nervous look in his eyes.
Just when he turned back for the seventh time, there was dust at the end of his field of vision, and the rumble of horse hooves spread from the ground.
This was the power that only a fast horse in the army could achieve. Kang Chengqian immediately tightened his grip on the frame of the carriage and called out in a low voice: "Commander Pei!"
On the horse in front, Pei Min turned his face slightly and made a short sound in his mouth. He turned his horse around and crossed Kang Chengqian to face the spreading dust. He saw seven horses running towards him. They drew their swords as if they were checking in front before. Drink: "Stop the motorcade in front, show your official certificate, and check the trading days!"
The convoy did not stop. Kang Chengqian's hands and feet were shaking with fear. He was about to stop. The next second, his eyes dazzled and he saw Commander Pei coming up to him and suddenly drew his sword.
The sword light was as dazzling as thunder. He quickly closed his eyes and heard the scream of "ah" in his ears. When he opened his eyes, the seven people had fallen off their horses and died miserably on the ground.
'They met each other and killed seven of them. '
Kang Chengqian was so shocked that he could not open his mouth from ear to ear. This Commander Pei was even more cruel than the commander of the guards in his palace.
"Your Majesty, stop looking and leave quickly!"
The confidant eunuch also dressed up in disguise. He was wrapped in a turban, pushing the carriage and urging, "This commander, I heard that he is called the Sword Master, is the commander of the Embroidery Department. I heard that the deputy commander is his apprentice, and he was He is called the Sword Master, and with this Sword Master here, His Majesty will definitely be able to reach Luyang safely!"
Juggernaut? Sword Immortal?
Kang Chengqian's mind was a little confused. He looked at the commander named Pei Min and was secretly shocked. How could such a powerful person just be a spy?
Isn't the general in the army even more powerful?
It's stable now.
he thinks.
"The other party must have discovered us!" Pei Min galloped back and put the ancient sword in his hand back into its sheath. "Immediately abandoned the vehicle, accelerated forward, and rushed to the beach."
Just as everyone was rushing to the east, all the big families in Shengkang also discovered that something was wrong. The arrests from the government office and the soldiers from the Taiwei's Mansion and the Prime Minister's Mansion were already running outside the east gate and discovered that something was wrong on the official road. The seven people and the four abandoned vehicles immediately identified the target and sped up their manpower to search quickly.
Within a moment, clues were found: the footprints of a group of people walking by, the low-lying weeds.
Meng Guzhou, the commander of the imperial city, was among them. He sent his horsemen to chase him first. In less than half an hour, the horsemen fled back in panic. Fourteen of the fifteen horsemen were killed, which was extremely cruel.
However, I also learned that it was the secret agent of the Xia Kingdom - the Xiuyi Division.
When Prime Minister Gu Chongwen and Taiwei Fan Li heard the news, they had a bad feeling in their hearts, and immediately ordered the troops and horses scattered around to frantically block the opponent's escape route.
At the same time, additional warships were dispatched to patrol the coast from the Huaijiang outlet to eliminate the possibility of them leaving by sea.
In the wilderness and official roads extending eastward from Shengkang, as well as all the passes and foothills leading to the coast, noisy arrows continued to shoot into the sky, exposing the location of the fine work.
A large number of people, including police officers, government officials, and the army, gathered in this direction.
…
In the land near the beach, the sound of rolling waves resounded, and the noise of fighting penetrated.
Groups of soldiers and policemen formed formations to surround and kill more than a dozen people. One after another, figures rushed forward and were chopped to the ground by dazzling weapons. A group of masters from the Embroidery Department firmly protected Kang Chengqian and the two of them. They dared to When I came to Wu, I had already put life and death aside.
The commander-in-chief Pei Min even charged into the crowd, his sword light flashing like lightning in the clouds. The palace guard commander named Meng Juju was so frightened that he retreated and did not dare to step forward again. He could only let the soldiers rush forward and fight.
"Where is your emperor's ship? Why hasn't it arrived yet?"
When Kang Chengqian saw more and more Wu soldiers gathered around him, he stamped his feet anxiously. He simply rushed out and shouted: "I am the emperor of Wu. Your Majesty, I will not go to the Central Plains. Don't do it." Let’s catch up again!”
"Don't listen to your majesty's nonsense. He was kidnapped by Xia's spies, so he had no choice but to say these words!" Meng Chuzhou shouted on horseback, pointing his knife at him: "Kill the Xia spies and save your majesty! "
Pei Min chopped off several heads with one sword and moved through the chaotic crowd without getting any blood on his body.
He looked back at the people of the Embroidery Department who were surrounded and airtight, reached into his arms, threw a token, and dropped it on the ground.
Xilulu!
A high-pitched neighing of a horse resounded, covering up the boiling fighting.
The next second.
Soldiers screamed in the distance and flew over with a bang, almost knocking Meng Juzhou off his horse. He turned his head and saw a powerful figure in his field of vision. He held a gold-plated phoenix-winged boring machine in his hand. A five-spotted divine horse stood outside the battle group.
"Whose troops dare to disturb my tranquility!"
The sound is majestic and compelling.
(End of chapter)
