"Seeing a group of dragons without a leader is auspicious."
Prince Zhongshun, who led the team back to Duzhong, soon learned of the current situation in Duzhong after meeting the left-behind officials who greeted him outside the city.
This line from "Yi" came to his mind involuntarily.
Originally, various forces in the capital were eagerly looking forward to Chen Qinzhi's return to take charge of the overall situation.
But the problem is, Chen Qinzhi is still recuperating in Daming Mansion!
The emperor has died, and both the first and second ministers of the cabinet have fallen ill.
The officials, who had no backbone, were at a loss for a moment.
At this time, they all thought of Prince Zhongshun.
Nowadays, he, the prince, has the highest status in the court.
The most important thing at the moment is the enthronement of the new emperor and the funeral of Emperor Daxing.
These are all involved in the palace, causing many inconveniences to foreign ministers.
Therefore, without Prince Zhongshun having to express anything, countless people asked him to take charge of the overall situation.
After all, Prince Zhongshun led the team all the way, so it is natural for him to continue to host it now.
Soon, all the officials reached a consensus, and Prince Zhongshun led everyone to send Emperor Daxing into the city and welcome the new emperor to the throne.
Arriving outside the Tai Chi Hall, many ministers stood on both sides.
The one at the front is Prince Zhongshun, and on the left and right are distinguished civil servants.
On the left are the four princes, eight princes, the Prince Consort of Yongchang and other dignitaries arranged by rank.
On the right are the two members of the empty cabinet, leading the ministers, ministers and other civil servants of the six ministries.
The other officials also stood solemnly.
In addition, there were more than a hundred dragon guards who came back alive to guard the coffin of Emperor Jingshun.
The imperial edicts from all the families who came back have all returned to their respective homes.
All the officials followed him without taking off their clothes, for fear of missing the important event of the new emperor's enthronement.
At this time, all the civil and military officials in the court were thinking about the impact of the new emperor's accession to the throne.
This time, it is undoubtedly the founding line led by the Four Kings and Eight Dukes who are the most optimistic.
Originally, once the Supreme Emperor died, Emperor Jingshun would probably deal with them.
Now that Emperor Jingshun is dead, the new emperor can only be Concubine Jia's son.
The prince is young, so he naturally needs the help of these old relatives.
Most of them are optimistic that the founding lineage can continue to bring prosperity for several generations.
The civil servants in the court were the most pessimistic.
The emperor of Chongxin New Party died, and the first and second assistants also fell.
When the new emperor ascends the throne, there will definitely be a major reshuffle of the cabinet.
Without support, will the new party continue its former glory?
It would be great if Zhang Songyue and Chen Qinzhi were still here, so they could talk to each other.
But now?
Many people looked around, and finally their eyes focused on Li Shouzhong...
"Emperor Daxing was assassinated, and the whole country deplored it! But as the saying goes: 'A country cannot live without a king for a day.' Today, my king will come to the palace to see you. Please bear witness!"
Prince Zhongshun looked sad and said again:
"After this king enters, he will inform his wife and ask the new king to ascend to the throne, so that he can legitimately arrange for the emperor's funeral."
All the officials said in unison: "Thank you, Your Majesty!"
At this moment, Feng Yibo came out and solemnly said:
"My lord, how about I accompany you for a while?"
"oh?"
Prince Zhongshun's eyes flashed and he squinted:
"How can you enter and leave the palace at will?"
At this time, Feng Yibo stepped forward, which caught Prince Zhongshun off guard, but he couldn't figure out what he meant.
"If the prince goes there by himself, he will inevitably disturb the empress and His Highness."
But I heard Feng Yibo explain:
"And I was lucky enough to save my queen once in Tiewang Mountain, and my family is close to my family. If I see you, I should feel at ease."
"This is indeed more appropriate."
The young master of the country is in doubt, and the dragons are leaderless.
This was a godsend opportunity for Prince Zhongshun.
Originally, he was a little worried that his plan was in ruins.
Even if it succeeds, it will cause quite a backlash.
However, in order to deal with Emperor Jingshun, he did not dare to make unnecessary arrangements in the capital.
I am afraid that if there is any omission, I will fall short.
Now, even God is helping him.
As soon as you enter the palace, the throne is right in front of you.
The biggest difficulty in Prince Zhongshun's plan is to kill Emperor Jingshun.
Therefore, almost all his energy was spent on this assassination.
And when Emperor Jingshun died, he only had to return with mourning.
No matter how simple and crude it is to kill the prince by knocking on the palace, he will be the only heir left in the royal family.
No matter how unwilling the princes in the court were, they had no choice.
You have to recognize it even if you pinch your nose.
As for the rebound, that will only happen after he reaches the top.
But now that there is no leader in the court, it is a good time for him to start the "old affairs of Xuanwu Gate".
Even if something goes wrong and the court is leaderless, he can easily suppress the whole crowd.
"Please send a message on behalf of the king that I and General Feng are asking to see the empress on behalf of all the officials."
"Your Majesty, wait a moment."
Outside Taiji Palace, Prince Zhongshun led Feng Yibo to knock on the palace door, waiting for the summons inside.
Previously, the Empress Dowager and the Supreme Emperor were ill one after another.
The Supreme Emperor took the first step, and the Empress Dowager was not far from her deadline.
Now I only rely on decoction every day, and I feel drowsy most of the time.
In addition, the prince is young and cannot live without his mother.
Yuanchun was left in the palace to take care of the old and young.
It was precisely because of this that he did not go to the funeral for the Supreme Emperor and escaped this disaster.
Hearing that Prince Zhongshun was knocking at the palace on behalf of hundreds of officials, Yuanchun knew that he was here to persuade him to join.
My son is going to be emperor.
For her, this is something to be happy about.
But when I heard that Feng Yibo was also coming, I felt a little uneasy.
She pondered for a long time before ordering someone to call him in.
After receiving the summons, the two of them went to Fengzao Palace one after another, led by the chamberlain.
"General Feng, do you want to witness it again?"
Logically speaking, you can't talk casually on the way into the palace.
But as Prince Zhongshun, naturally no one dares to care.
Hearing such questions, Feng Yibo smiled and said:
"Isn't this just following the prince and trying to follow the dragon?"
This was said somewhat vaguely.
For those who don’t know, I think he is talking about accompanying Prince Zhongshun and coaxing the young prince to ascend to the throne.
Prince Zhongshun heard this, but thought he was talking about following him to kill the little prince's Conglong Gong.
At that moment, he was completely relieved.
The two of them followed the servants around and finally arrived outside Fengzao Palace.
The chamberlain went in first to announce, and let the two of them in after a while.
Prince Zhongshun is about to succeed in taking the throne, so it is inevitable that he will be a little excited.
He took a deep breath, adjusted his mentality, and then stepped into the palace gate.
Feng Yibo followed calmly.
After entering the inner hall, the two of them saw a screen in the middle.
"I've met my empress!"
"waived."
After the two sides met with each other, Prince Zhongshun ordered:
"You guys go down first, I have something to say to your Majesty."
This is against the rules.
When the servants heard this, they were naturally hesitant.
"Go ahead."
Yuanchun behind the screen also gave instructions at this time.
Now that the emperor is dead, she is the only one with an heir, and it is the consensus in the palace to become the master of the harem.
Naturally, the chamberlain did not dare to disobey her words.
After all the servants had gone down, Yuanchun said again:
"Your Majesty is the brother of Emperor Daxing. General Feng saved my life. Speaking of which, he is still my brother-in-law and one of our own. If you have anything to say, just say it."
She thought that the two of them had something to ask of each other, or that Emperor Daxing had something to tell them secretly, so she couldn't tell them directly.
Unexpectedly, Prince Zhongshun did not respond to her, but smiled at Feng Yibo:
"It seems that I was right to bring you here. It will save me a lot of trouble."
If he came here by himself, he would inevitably have to think of some way to distract the servants.
And Yuanchun and his brother-in-law had to avoid suspicion, so it was unlikely that they would give him face.
The reason for such cooperation is largely due to Feng Yibo's face.
Having said this, Prince Zhongshun took off the hemp rope with filial piety from his waist.
However, he was not in a hurry to take action. Instead, he looked at Feng Yibo again and said with a half-smile:
"In that case, how about you take action?"
This is an opportunity for Feng Yibo to perform, and it is also a way to completely tie up Donghai County.
At the same time, if the rebound is too big afterwards, we do not rule out the possibility of letting him take the blame.
"you?"
Yuanchun heard something was wrong, but he still couldn't believe it.
How can it be?
If it were Prince Zhongshun, how could Feng Lang deal with his mother and son?
Behind the screen, she stood up with her child in her arms.
At this time, Feng Yibo's voice was heard:
"Your Majesty, wait a moment, I have something else to say."
As he spoke, he took out the loaded blunderbuss.
Prince Zhongshun was stunned, then remembered the allusion of this thing, and said with a smile:
"At this time, maybe you still have Yaxing and want to play a song for them?"
Feng Yibo was stunned for a moment, and thought of his nonsense last time, he nodded and said:
"That's exactly what I meant. After all, I want to see him off!"
It doesn’t matter who you send off to!
Prince Zhongshun didn’t think much about it and nodded:
"It's appropriate for the little country to mourn the death of the prince who is about to ascend to the throne."
Feng Yibo stepped forward at this time, walked around to the side of the screen, and took a look at Yuanchun and the little prince.
Especially the little prince in Yuanchun's arms.
If you look closely, this child's facial features are somewhat similar to his.
Maybe it's really his seed?
Yuan Chun looked at Feng Yibo in disbelief, with pleading in his eyes.
"Feng..."
She hesitated, not expecting that it would be like this when she saw Feng Lang again.
The little prince in his arms looked at the stranger with some curiosity.
But I don’t know why it’s kind of friendly.
He even extended his little hand towards Feng Yibo, as if he wanted to touch it.
"Don't be afraid, just plug your ears for a while."
Feng Yibo smiled at the two of them and comforted them.
Although Yuanchun hesitated, he obediently held the little prince's head to his chest and covered his little ears with his other hand.
Feng Yibo nodded and turned to Prince Zhongshun.
He held a short blunderbuss in one hand and pointed behind Prince Zhongshun with the other hand, saying:
"My lord, who is behind you?"
Prince Zhongshun was waiting to appreciate the funeral of a small country, and turned his head reflexively upon hearing the words.
Only to find nothing.
At this time, I heard a "stab" behind me, and I turned around in confusion.
Immediately afterwards, there was another "stab" sound.
This time, it was accompanied by a loud "Bang!"
Suddenly, the fire flashed and smoke filled the air.
After several modifications of the short gun, the success rate of activation has been improved a lot.
Under normal circumstances, it can be activated once, and occasionally two friction activations are needed.
This made Feng Yibo feel a little dissatisfied with his luck.
"you!"
When the smoke cleared, Prince Zhongshun didn't realize what had happened.
He stared at Feng Yibo blankly, but suddenly he felt as if something in his body was leaking.
"Tsk tsk!"
Feng Yibo had already walked over at this time, stretched out his finger and tapped his forehead lightly.
With a sound of "Boom!", the corpse fell straight backwards, and blood gushes out from everywhere.
Prince Zhongshun had several bullet holes in his face, and he looked like he was dying.
He really never thought that he would die under the "little country's mourning sound".
Feng Yibo went up to caress his eyelids and murmured:
"It's a pity that you, Song Taizong, met me, Lu Buwei."
Although Yuanchun was not sent to the palace by him, there is a high possibility that the child is his.
It is not an exaggeration for Feng Yibo to say that he is "Lu Buwei".
As he spoke, he wiped the blood on his mourning clothes, then saw the bullet hole on Prince Zhongshun's head, and sighed:
"I didn't want to disfigure you. This is so disgraceful."
He was not making a sneak attack, but wanted to preserve his appearance as Prince Zhongshun.
For this reason, he deliberately lowered the muzzle of the gun and did not choose to shoot the head.
It's a pity that I was really unlucky and only succeeded twice.
"ah!"
Yuanchun heard the sound and came around from behind the screen.
Prince Zhongshun screamed in shock at the tragic situation and hurriedly covered his mouth.
Then I thought of the child again, and hurriedly covered the little guy's eyes and hugged him back behind the screen.
"Feng..."
She hesitated for a moment, then thought that there were no outsiders, so she changed her words:
"Feng Lang, what on earth is going on?"
In fact, she had somewhat come to her senses at this time.
Prince Zhongshun obviously colluded with Feng Yibo and wanted to take advantage of Emperor Jingshun's death to kill his mother and son to usurp the throne.
It's a pity that he doesn't know the relationship between his mother and son and Feng Yibo.
Could it be...
Did Feng Lang deliberately participate in it in order to save his mother and son at a critical moment?
still……
Yuan Chun was just thinking wildly when he heard Feng Yibo say:
"You should have seen that Prince Zhongshun wanted to kill your mother and son to usurp the throne, and it was he who sent people to assassinate you."
He walked around the screen and pinched the little prince's cheek with his left hand.
After all, there is still blood on his right hand.
The little prince suddenly became a little angry and complained to Yuanchun in a sweet voice:
"Mother, he hit me, you punish him!"
Prince Zhongshun brought Feng Yibo to kill their mother and son, and they had just escaped danger.
Now I heard that Emperor Jingshun was also killed by Prince Zhongshun.
Is Prince Zhongshun crazy?
Several things were mixed together, causing Yuan Chun's brain to almost shut down.
When the little prince saw that his mother didn't respond, he pushed her.
Only then did Yuanchun come back to his senses and said somewhat complicatedly:
"What should we, mother and son, do now? You killed Prince Zhongshun, what should you do with it? Otherwise..."
Speaking of this, she suddenly said with some expectation:
"Is it still too late for us to leave the palace now?"
The two of them were on the run in Tienwang Mountain and had a romantic relationship.
Feng Yibo said he was willing to take responsibility and asked her if she was willing to follow her anonymously.
For the sake of her family, she chose to give up.
But every day after returning to the palace was such suffering.
She even resisted sleeping with Emperor Jingshun again.
Now that their mother and son are in trouble, Feng Yibo falls from the sky again.
Yuanchun thought that he, like himself, had not forgotten each other.
This time I must be here to take my mother and son away.
Unfortunately, Feng Yibo was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and said with a wry smile:
"You didn't want to go with me at first, but now you can just be the Queen Mother with peace of mind."
Yuanchun's heart sank, and anticipation suddenly froze on his face.
"We don't have much time. I'll keep my story short. You must remember what I say."
Feng Yibo, however, had no time to talk nonsense and had to race against time to arrange the next things.
His next words directly brought Yuanchun back to reality from the love between his children.
"Otherwise, both Rong Ning and I will suffer."
