"well……"
Seeing Zhao Zongquan cast a searching look at him, Wei Chen deliberately let out a long sigh, whetting Zhao Zongquan's appetite, and then said quietly:
"To be honest, when Your Majesty wrote the blood edict, there were many palace ladies and chamberlains nearby. The rebels surrounded the back of Funing Palace. Some of them, shameless villains, informed King Yan of the blood edict in order to survive.
Because of this, on my way out, I encountered many rebels who were chasing me, and I suffered a near-death experience. Thanks to the inner palace guarding me to the death, I was lucky enough to survive and be able to see my brother here! "
When Wei Chen said this, he couldn't help but gnashed his teeth and looked distressed, as if he had really suffered because of the villain's snitch.
When Zhao Zongquan saw the wounds and blood scabs on Wei Chen's face, he immediately believed it. He hurriedly took Wei Chen's arm and asked, "Brother Xian, what you mean is... King Yan already knew about the existence of the blood edict, and he also knew about it. Your Majesty wants to pass the throne to me?"
Wei Chen sighed and shook his head, then nodded with a wry smile, acquiescing.
"Bitter!"
Zhao Zongquan's eyes suddenly darkened.
At this moment, Zhao Zongquan felt frightened and paced back and forth like an ant on a hot pot. While patting his thighs, he kept sighing: "What should we do? What should we do?"
When Wei Chen saw that the heat was almost done, he winked at Gu Tingye.
Gu Tingye immediately understood and stepped forward and said: "Your Highness, King Yan is a headstrong and cruel person, and everyone in Bianjing knows it. Now that King Yan knows the content of the blood edict, how can he let His Highness go? Once King Yan succeeds in usurping the throne, His Highness Let alone return to Yuzhou, even if you escape to the ends of the earth, King Yan must get rid of His Highness and hurry up!"
"Zhong Huai is right!"
Zhao Ceying grabbed the land with his head and said earnestly: "Father, if you insist on refusing to obey the imperial edict, then our family of dozens of people will probably have to meet again in the underworld!
Please father, please save your son! Save my mother who is still in Yuzhou! And your granddaughter, she is not yet two years old this year! Father! "
"This this……"
When Zhao Zongquan heard Zhao Ceying's words, he closed his eyes in pain, his face full of struggle.
Seeing that Zhao Zongquan's attitude finally relaxed, Wei Chen gave him another push: "Brother, there are only a few thousand rebels in the city at the moment, and they have not long entered the palace. Their foothold is not yet stable, and the official family has not yet fallen into the hands of the rebels. , is the best time to put down the rebellion. If we delay it any longer and wait until King Yan coerces the emperor to order the world, win over the hearts of the soldiers and the people, and even correct the imperial edict and become self-reliant, it will be too late!"
Wei Chen's words were like the last straw that broke the camel's back, finally making the hesitant Zhao Zongquan make up his mind.
Zhao Zongquan stared blankly at Bianjing City in the distance under the moonlight, and murmured: "Being wise and philosophical, in order to protect his body..."
This sentence was a saying of wisdom that Zhao Zongquan had followed for the first half of his life. Now, forced by the situation, he had to put this sentence aside.
How difficult it is to protect yourself wisely!
After sighing, Zhao Zongquan let out a long sigh of relief. His eyes that were originally a little distracted gradually became focused, revealing unprecedented perseverance.
After making up his mind, Zhao Zongquan washed away his timid and cowardly attitude and showed a calm demeanor that was completely different from the past. In the calm, majesty emerged.
Zhao Zongquan looked at everyone and ordered in a dull tone: "Pass this palace order, change your clothes, prepare your horses, follow me to the camp in the western suburbs, take the blood edict and tiger talisman, order all the troops and horses, enter the city to put down the rebellion! "
Wei Chen, Zhao Ceying, Gu Tingye and others looked at each other and were all overjoyed. They all fell down and shouted: "Your Highness is wise!"
After quickly changing their clothes, everyone got on their horses and hurried towards the camp in the western suburbs. Everyone's faces were beaming with joy.
Zhao Zongquan accepted the imperial edict and became the prince from then on, and would most likely become the emperor of the Zhou Dynasty in the future.
By then, these old people who are following Zhao Zongquan will all be former ministers of Qiandi, and there will inevitably be a fortune that will shake the sky.
Of course, there is a premise for all of this, that is, Zhao Zongquan can successfully quell the rebellion and kill King Yan, otherwise any beautiful vision will be just a mirror.
At this moment, the most important thing to them is time. If one step is too late, infinite variables may arise.
Therefore, everyone suppressed their excitement and remained silent along the way. They just waved their riding whips desperately and tried to reach their destination, the western suburbs camp, as quickly as possible regardless of power.
…
The western suburbs camp is the largest camp around Bianjing, with tens of thousands of soldiers stationed there.
The camp faces mountains on both sides and is connected to water sources. High walls and deep fortresses stretch for dozens of miles. Lookout towers, arrow towers, beacon towers... all kinds of defenses are intertwined. It is almost like another fortified city outside Bianjing City.
In such an important military place, the commander-in-chief must naturally be an important minister who has high prestige and is deeply trusted by the emperor of the day.
The person currently in charge of the camp in the western suburbs is the famous British Duke Zhang Lie, a veteran of the two dynasties.
Zhang Lie joined the army when he was young, and then spent his whole life in the army. He was named the Duke of the country due to his outstanding military achievements.
It is precisely because of such a highly respected and loyal old prince who is stationed in the western suburbs camp that Zhao Zhen in Bianjing City can sleep peacefully every day.
After the fire broke out in the city of Bianjing, the British immediately sent scouts to explore the city.
However, due to the existence of the camp in the western suburbs, the city gate to the west of Bianjing has always been the focus of the rebels. Wu Mou, deputy commander of the Five Cities Military and Horse Division, was personally stationed here.
The rebels were tightly guarded, and the scouts sent out by the British government were unable to find out anything about the situation for a while.
After hearing the scout's report, the British Duke became more and more anxious. After so many years of ups and downs, the British Duke was keenly aware that there must have been a big change in the city of Bianjing!
However, the Great Zhou Dynasty had extremely tight control over the army. Even the British Duke could not mobilize the troops in the western suburbs camp without tiger talismans and transfer orders.
The British Duke could only order the gates of the camp to be closed and the soldiers in the camp to be restrained to prevent anyone from taking advantage of the chaos to cause trouble. At the same time, he sent a large number of scouts to the gates in other directions of Bianjing City, hoping to find out the situation in the city.
Just when the British Duke was restless in the tent, the scout suddenly came to report: "My lord, there are dozens of people outside the camp asking to see you. The leader claims to be Wei Chen, a scholar of the Imperial Academy, and Zhao Zongquan, the training envoy of the Yuzhou regiment. They say they have His Majesty’s personal blood edict and Tiger Talisman transfer order in their hands.”
"Wei Chen? Zhao Zongquan?"
The British public frowned upon hearing this.
Wei Chen was a scholar who served as a lecturer and served directly in front of the emperor. It was reasonable for the officials to send him to deliver the imperial edict in a desperate situation.
But isn't Zhao Zongquan the training envoy of the Yuzhou regiment? Why did he come to Bianjing and still be with Wei Chen?
However, although the British Duke had all kinds of doubts in his heart, he still decided to meet Wei Chen and Zhao Zongquan.
Just because he heard the word "blood edict".
In such an emergency, the officials would not even have time to polish the ink and write the edict directly in blood!
If the bloody edicts in the hands of Wei Chen and Zhao Zongquan were true, it would not be difficult for the British public to guess the situation in Bianjing City at this moment.
The official family must be at the end of its rope!
Thinking of this, the British Duke almost did not hesitate at all, and immediately ordered his subordinates: "Bring these two people into the camp quickly and come to the Chinese army's tent to see me!"
