Facing Zhao Zhen's death, Zhao Zongquan really couldn't believe it for a while.
But Zhao Zongquan soon realized that Empress Cao and Zhao Zonghan must not run away.
Otherwise, once they are allowed to run outside the palace, Zhao Zhen's death will definitely be blamed on himself, saying that he killed his father and killed the king for the throne, a crime he cannot afford.
But now Shen Congxing has led people to chase him, so he doesn't need to be too anxious.
The most important thing to know now is where the jade seal is, because no matter what he does next, Zhao Zong needs a succession edict to clear his name.
This edict may not be written by Zhao Zhen himself, but it must be stamped with a jade seal. Otherwise, those who want to say that the edict is true without conscience will find it difficult to speak.
The question now is whether Yuxi was taken away by Queen Cao or whether it is still in Funing Palace.
For this reason, Zhao Zonghan asked Zhao Ceying to go down and summon all the eunuchs and maids in Funing Palace to interrogate them one by one.
Finally, I learned from a chamberlain that the jade seal had been carried by Empress Cao these days and had not been managed by Fu Baolang.
In this case, Yuxi must have been taken away by Queen Cao, and there would be nothing to stay here.
So Zhao Zongquan and Zhao Ceying also led people to chase Queen Cao to check the situation nearby.
As for Li Hao, Li Hao had actually noticed it when the palace first caught fire.
Li Hao's first reaction was that Zhao Zongquan had entered the palace, and now Li Hao became even more anxious.
But Qing Haibo and the others on the opposite side refused to let him go, desperately trying to stop Li Hao.
By the time Li Hao completely defeated the oncoming enemy, the palace was already ablaze.
Li Hao couldn't care about anything else at this time, so he organized his troops and horses to enter the palace to rescue them.
As a result, before setting off, he was stopped by the British Duke, who said he had something to talk to Li Hao and asked Li Haoping to retreat.
Li Hao looked confused after hearing this, but he still did as the British public said.
When only two people were left, Li Hao asked: "Father-in-law, what on earth are you talking about in such a hurry? And didn't you go to ask about the situation? What is the specific situation at Liangmen?"
Faced with Li Hao's question, the British public remained silent for a while and then replied: "What I want to say to you is related to them."
After that, the British Duke told Li Hao all the plans of Su Xian and others. He also told Li Hao the conditions he wanted to fight for, and asked Li Hao to choose what to do next.
This condition is really tempting for Li Hao.
Because the participants this time are basically military generals, if they come forward to lead the support, it will inevitably be somewhat eye-catching.
So when the British minister proposed to leave the matter to Li Hao, everyone present directly agreed and promised to persuade others to join him.
In the long run, this would be of great benefit to him. After all, Han Qi had been in power for more than ten years by virtue of his two victories.
Compared with Han Qi, he still has an advantage. After all, Han Qi appointed the person chosen by the previous emperor, and he did not contribute much.
How could he carry someone up like he did, and do so in a legitimate manner?
Anyway, the palace is about to enter soon. If you want to appoint someone then, you can just write the edict and seal it yourself before the officials can react.
I have the format myself, but just follow the one Zhao Zhen gave me originally and just change the name.
And as a descendant, Li Hao had no discrimination against military generals, so he didn't think it was wrong to think about improving the status of military generals.
And based on real history, if we improve the political status of generals to strengthen military armaments, maybe the shame of Jingkang will disappear in the future.
As for whether improving the environment for generals would lead to preventing the separatism of feudal towns and the recurrence of the chaos of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, Li Hao was not worried.
After all, today is different from the past. The Song Dynasty may not have done well in other aspects, but it has done a very good job in centralizing power, even if it gave him a little
Even if they were loosened, the generals would not be able to overthrow them.
It's just that Zhao Zhen was kind to him for promoting him after all. If he let himself just stand by and watch, or even add insult to injury, Li Hao would always feel a little guilty.
As for Li Hao's psychological struggle, the British public can roughly guess.
After all, Li Hao was not from a noble family, and he had not been in the officialdom for a long time, so he might not have a good grasp of the ability to be thick-faced and dark-hearted.
So the British Duke said: "The situation in the palace is still unclear. If we attack rashly, we may fall into other people's plans.
Let's do this, first send some people to the palace to inquire about the situation, and then you and I will lead a large group of people to go to Xuande Gate to see the specific situation and then make plans. "
After Li Hao thought for a while, he said nothing, which was equivalent to acquiescing to the matter.
So the British Duke stood up and began to take over this team, and selected some people to investigate the palace.
In addition, the news was sent to several other places, asking them to send troops and horses to the gate of the palace to blockade the palace.
In case any important person escapes, the situation will not end well.
Soon, the four walls of the palace were taken over by four armies in turn, sealing all the city gates.
But the action ended there. After the ministries took over, they did not march further inward.
But just because they don't go in, it doesn't mean that the people inside don't want to go out.
For example, Zeng Chaosheng and Empress Cao and their entourage rushed out of Funing Hall and fought their way out through Huangyi Hall, Huangyi Gate, and Youchengtian Gate, trying to leave the palace through Xihua Gate.
But when they arrived at the gate, what they saw was the tightly closed city gate, as well as soldiers and horses stationed on top of the city.
At this time, it was Su Xian and others on the city wall who also saw someone attacking Xihua Gate.
Su Xian and others naturally did not want anyone in the palace to go out. Whether it was Empress Cao or Zhao Zongquan, they all treated them equally.
So when facing the intruder, Su Xian directly ordered to shoot with a bow and arrow, telling Empress Cao and others to stop immediately.
At this time, Zeng Chaosheng and Queen Cao did not realize that there was something wrong with the people on the city wall, and thought they were Zhao Zonghan's people.
Even though his heart felt cold, after all, there were people stationed at Xihua Gate, who could guarantee that there would be no one at the other gates.
But now there is no choice but to block it.
Not far behind him were the pursuers led by Shen Congxing. If they turned around and walked toward Donghua Gate, they would probably run into them.
Walk north to the old Yanfu Palace, pass through Houyuan, and exit the palace through Gongchen Gate. The road is too empty and not conducive to hiding.
You can only go south, pass through Yimo Gate, and leave the palace from the direction of Xuande Gate. This is the outer court area. There is room for movement in the middle, and there should be fewer enemies there if there is a fire.
After thinking quickly, Zeng Chaosheng thought of the route in his mind and came to seek Queen Cao's opinion.
Queen Cao didn't have any other opinions at this time, so she agreed directly, and everyone turned around and left.
As soon as Queen Cao and the others left, Shen Congxing rushed over from behind, and was greeted by another hail of arrows.
This scared Shen Congxing. After all, Queen Cao didn't know, but he did.
They simply don't have any extra manpower to deploy at the city gate, so anyone they meet here must be the enemy.
This made Shen Congxing confused as to why the people at the city gate were guarding the city gate but did not enter the palace. Could it be that there were insufficient troops.
In addition, it stands to reason that these people came here just to save Queen Cao. Why did they not save Queen Cao when they came just now?
Shen Congxing didn't quite understand these weird phenomena, but since Queen Cao was not saved now, she had to seize the opportunity to catch Queen Cao quickly.
So he turned around and chased in the direction where Queen Cao left. Another person was sent back to inform Zhao Zongquan and others of the situation.
After Shen Congxing left, Su Xian and the others came to their senses. After all, the two waves of people chasing and escaping were obviously two opposing parties.
In addition, Shen Congxing is Zhao Zongquan's brother-in-law, and the people he has seen in Bianjing City are still
There were quite a few, so they were recognized.
Together, everyone figured out that the person who could be hunted down by Shen Congxing himself must be an important person, so they also planned to send someone to follow him.
As a result, before the soldiers and horses were gathered together, they suddenly found someone running towards Xihua Gate.
Su Xian and the others were still wondering why there was a third wave of people in the palace, but they found out that Zhao Zongquan was leading the team.
Now Su Xian and the others were more certain that this first wave of people were definitely big shots, and they might even be Empress Cao and Zhao Zhen. Otherwise, it would have been impossible for Zhao Zongquan to personally lead people to chase them.
Now that the main characters have appeared, Su Xian and the others began to take action. The first step was to capture Zhao Zongquan first.
Taking advantage of Zhao Zongquan's approach, Su Xian ordered his men to open the city gate and let the men gathered outside the city go directly towards Zhao Zongquan to kill him.
In addition, on the city wall, there were also two groups, which surrounded Zhao Zongquan from the top of the city, trying to intercept his retreat.
This change of situation was completely beyond Zhao Zongquan's expectation, because he was focused on chasing with his men and horses, and missed the people Shen Congxing sent back to report the situation.
Therefore, Zhao Zongquan did not know that there was a troop of unknown origins in Xihuamen.
In this completely unprepared situation, Zhao Zongquan and the others fell into a bitter battle in an instant and suffered heavy losses.
And as Su Xian and the others increased in number, Zhao Zongquan and Zhao Ceying had no palace wall to rely on, so they tried to concentrate their strength and rush out.
But after several attempts, they all ended in failure. Seeing that there were fewer and fewer people around him, Zhao Zongquan was completely panicked.
But even so, Su Xian and the others were still not satisfied. After all, they still had to chase the people who escaped in front of them, and they didn't want to spend too much time here.
So Su Xian and others ordered the surrounding soldiers to shrink back, exposing Zhao Zongquan's position in the middle.
Seeing this situation, Zhao Zongquan thought that the leading general wanted to negotiate terms with him, and he was secretly happy, thinking that there might be room for change.
Then he stood up and said, "I wonder who is leading the troops in front. Can you come out and meet Zhao?"
Hearing this, Su Xian and others exchanged glances, and then Su Xian actually walked out and said to Zhao Zongquan:
"The eldest prince wants to see me, and I don't know what he plans to say to me."
Seeing Su come out first, Zhao Zongquan immediately replied: "It turns out to be Commander Su. I wonder what you are planning to do when you lead the troops to the palace?"
Su Xian replied: "Of course he was ordered to enter the palace to quell the rebellion, otherwise what else could he do.
First Prince, why are you bringing so many people with you? It seems that the people behind you are not from the Imperial City Department and the Palace Front Department. "
Zhao Zongquan replied: "Of course I am here to bring order to the chaos. Earlier I received news that the empress was deceived by evil people and wanted to fake the imperial edict and establish a crown prince, which was also detrimental to the official family.
So I thought about bringing people and horses to rescue him. Now the rescue was successful, but the thieves kidnapped the queen.
At this critical moment, the officials appointed me as the crown prince and asked me to lead people to rescue the queen.
As a result, I met you here by chance, and this misunderstanding occurred.
But that's okay. With your help, it will be much easier to rescue the Queen.
After rescuing the Queen, I will definitely help Commander Su to ask for merit in front of the officials. "
When Su Xian heard this, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Zhao Zongquan was so mean-spirited, and he was really quick to make up lies.
In just a few words, I first laid out my position, and then cleared up the original conflict.
It happened that Su Xian also wanted to test Zhao Zhen's situation, so he answered: "So that's the case, that's really hard work for the eldest prince.
But you just said that the official has appointed you as the crown prince. I don’t know where the edict is, but let me take a look. "
Zhao Zongquan replied: "The edict is still in the Funing Palace, and I didn't take it with me. The most important thing now is to rescue the empress.
After rescuing the Queen, I will give the edict to Commander Su to read. "
There was no loophole in what he said, but Su Xian still felt that Zhao Zongquan was not telling the truth.
But it doesn't matter. Zhao Zongquan will die soon anyway, so it doesn't matter whether what he said is true or false.
As Su Xian turned around and signaled, a group of archers who had been well prepared appeared from the city wall and shot arrows at Zhao Zongquan.
Zhao Ceying had quick eyes and quick hands. He immediately stepped forward and pulled Zhao Zongquan behind him, and tried to deflect the incoming arrows with his spear.
But it was obvious that Zhao Ceying overestimated herself a little. What was shot was not just one or two arrows, and Zhao Ceying was not Changshan Zhao Zilong.
And even Zhao Yun probably couldn't stop the piles of arrows from missing, so as expected, Zhao Ceying and Zhao Zongquan were shot into arrow targets.
Seeing this situation, everyone behind Zhao Zongshen was stunned. They didn't expect Su Xian and the others to be so decisive.
As the surrounding soldiers and horses besieged them again, these people came back to their senses.
After that, except for some diehards who had followed from Yuzhou, such as Lao Geng, Xiao Duan and others who were still trying to kill, everyone else had lost their fighting spirit.
So the place calmed down quickly, and then Su Xian and the others got an important piece of information.
It turned out that Zhao Zhen had already died before Zhao Zongquan entered Funing Hall.
In addition, we also learned that the first ones who were on the run were Empress Cao and Zhao Zonghan, and that the jade seal was also on Empress Cao.
What else could he say now? Su Xian immediately led his soldiers and horses to kill them in the direction they left. As long as they were dealt with again, the matter would be settled today.
At this time, Queen Cao did encounter trouble here. When passing by Chongxiao Gate, she suddenly ran into a wave of unexpected people.
