Judge of the Lamp

Chapter 263 High officials, let's steel to the end

In less than an hour, Daxuan's army surrounded the feudal lord's castle in Lansuo City.

Lansuo City is not ready for battle, there are not many defenders in the castle, only more than a thousand people, but

Chu Xin wanted to take down the castle in one go, but he didn't expect Lord Lansuo to walk out of the castle by himself, lead the soldiers, and surrender to the Xuan army.

Ten years ago, Emperor Zhaoxing signed the "Yunwo Heshu", and Daxuan endured ten years of humiliation for this.

Up to now, Da Xuan Erlang has once again captured Tunu's city.

Liang Jixiong stood on the feudal lord's castle, pouring wine down the wall one cup after another. Two lines of old tears flowed down with the wine.

"Hao Erlang of Daxuan, you shed blood in vain back then, I came to see you today, and I brought the battle flag of Daxuan to see you!"

The castle was replaced with the banner of Daxuan, and the soldiers continued to cheer.

The crown prince carried the wine jar and toasted the soldiers one by one. Xu Zhiqiong drank two glasses, his smile still awkward.

Tao Huayuan searched around in the castle, but found no figure of Tai Bu, and saw Xu Zhiqiong standing on the corridor with a lonely expression, and accompanied Xu Zhiqiong to watch the snow scene together.

She knew why Xu Zhiqiong hurt himself: "It's better to tell the truth now, so that they won't be happy here in vain."

Xu Zhiqiong sighed: "It's always a blessing for them to be happy after suffering so much."

Tao Huayuan said: "So what a blessing to have this night, after all, it will be nothing!"

"It's not empty," Xu Zhiqiong shook his head and said, "This battle must not be fought in vain!"

That night, the prince was so drunk that he slept until noon the next day.

In the afternoon, Xu Zhiqiong went to look for the prince, and before he could say a word, Liang Jixiong and Chu Xin hurried into the room.

"I just said that this old thief Taibu wants to do something bad!" Liang Jixiong thumped the table vigorously, "I won't let the prince leave the capital, but he just won't listen. This old thief pretends to be clever and dares to assassinate, and now he has angered the emperor. Let me wait." Immediately class teacher, what should I do?"

Liang Jixiong received the official news, which was slightly different from the real situation.

According to official sources, the emperor had woken up long ago, and was watching secretly in the palace to see who had the heart of disobedience.

This not only reflects the wisdom of the emperor, but also beats the courtiers in the capital.

The emperor wanted everyone to understand that he knew all the things that had happened recently, but anyone who was disobedient would not be able to escape his grasp.

The news also said that the emperor had already noticed that Taibu was disobedient, so he took precautions and did not let Taibu succeed. Now that Taibu is at large, the emperor is searching for the rest of the party and ordered the prince to arrest all yin and yang cultivators. Escorted back to Beijing.

Although the sayings are different, the result is the same.

The prince asked: "Have all the Yin-Yang cultivators in the Yin-Yang Division been arrested?"

Liang Jixiong said: "I sent Canglongwei to investigate, and Taibu made preparations in advance. When the imperial army arrived, there was only one empty building left in the Yinyang Division."

The prince nodded and said, "That's good, that's good."

Liang Jixiong gritted his teeth and said: "I only hate that shameless old man Tai Bu, he ruined a big deal!"

The crown prince shook his head and said: "It's not to blame for Taibu. Since the father is awake, the country of Daxuan will belong to him after all. I still have to listen to the order of the father!"

Liang Jixiong said angrily: "Thousands of soldiers' blood is shed in vain!"

"No!" The prince said to Chu Dao, "General Cheqi, you will lead the soldiers to garrison again. I will leave today to return to Beijing to inform my father and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty. This victory must not be won in vain. The territory won Never hand over to others!"

Liang Jixiong sighed and said, "Forget it, the old man will go back with you. If you risk your life, you must explain this truth clearly!"

Chu Dao said, "Do you still want to arrest the Yin-Yang cultivators in the army?"

The crown prince shook his head and said: "Don't arrest them, just take good care of them. They are meritorious people. They shouldn't be implicated in this matter. No matter what method we think of, we must exonerate them from their guilt!"

Liang Jixiong got up and said: "I want to go back to the capital, but I still have to rely on the Yin-Yang magic circle. Poor Yin-Yang cultivators are all implicated by the Taibo, that's all, I won't say much, I'm leaving now, I just hope that I can keep them alive." life!"

The two were about to leave when they suddenly heard Xu Zhiqiong say, "Wait a minute!"

Xu Zhiqiong said to Chu Dao: "General Chu, don't tell the soldiers about this yet!"

Chu Xin was taken aback for a moment, then looked at the prince and Liang Jixiong in a blink of an eye.

Liang Jixiong shook his head and said, "How long can you hide it? Tell them earlier!"

Xu Zhiqiong said to Chu Dao: "General Cheqi, please trust me once, this matter must not be mentioned to the soldiers, and let me have a private conversation with the prince and Elder Shengwei."

Looking at Xu Zhiqiong's expression, Chu Xin felt that there seemed to be a turning point in this matter.

He turned and left, leaving only three people in the room.

Xu Zhiqiong said to the prince: "Your Highness, you can't go back to Beijing, the battle is not over yet!"

Liang Jixiong smiled wryly: "Zhiqiong, I know you are not reconciled, but now is not the time to think about fighting!"

Xu Zhiqiong said: "Now Lien Chan and Lian Jie's morale is at its peak, and it is an excellent opportunity to capture the Southern Imperial Province in one fell swoop!"

Liang Jixiong said: "The emperor asked me to wait for the class teacher to return to Beijing. If we resist the order, we will become criminal officials!"

Xu Zhiqiong said: "If you go back, aren't you a guilty minister?"

Liang Jixiong asked in amazement, "What crime am I waiting for?"

Xu Zhiqiong said: "Assassination and treason, is the crime serious enough?"

Liang Jixiong said angrily, "What have we to do with the assassination?"

Xu Zhiqiong said: "Tai Bu's assassination was to help the crown prince succeed to the throne, with a little weaving, the crown prince can be charged, can the charge of the mastermind behind this be escaped?

Elder Shengwei has a close relationship with the prince and is dissatisfied with the emperor. Can he escape the charge of conspiracy? "

Liang Jixiong gritted his teeth and said, "He wants to frame us with empty teeth? The Liang family rules are still in place, but I don't believe that I can't explain the truth!"

Xu Zhiqiong frowned and said, "Second brother, you haven't suffered for some time, but you forgot the pain. The emperor is fully prepared to wait for you to go back. Do you want to throw yourself into the trap again? You want to fight him again Do you still want to go back and reason? When did you meet the emperor and reason?"

Liang Jixiong said: "There are still civil and military officials in the court! He doesn't reason, but he doesn't believe there is no reason!"

Liang Jixiong was agitated. During this period of time, he had received a lot of support from the cabinet and ministers, which gave him the illusion that the cabinet and ministers would always support him unconditionally.

"Second brother, tell me, why does the cabinet want to reason for you?"

Liang Jixiong was a little emotional: "The prince is not in the capital, he is fighting in the northern border, Yin Yang Si Taibu assassinated the emperor, what has he to do with the prince? How can he frame the prince?"

Xu Zhiqiong said: "Where is this truth explained? Standing in the court hall?"

"Of course it's in court!"

Xu Zhiqiong smiled: "Second brother, why does the emperor see you in the court?"

In a word, the choking Liang Jixiong was speechless.

Xu Zhiqing went on to say: "But you said that you haven't suffered for a long time, but you forgot the pain. If the emperor doesn't see you, let you go back to the Canglong Palace and the prince to go back to the East Palace. There is nothing wrong with that, right?

The crown prince returned to the East Palace, and the emperor asked him to ask questions. Whether it was about the war or the assassins, the crown prince should answer the questions, right?
When we arrived at the secret pavilion, we casually grabbed the crown prince's words and said that the crown prince is an assassin's party and was arrested by Chen Shuncai. There is nothing wrong with that, right? "

Elder Canglong yelled: "This is definitely not right! This is the time to reason, I will go to the emperor to reason, and bring all the civil and military officials to reason!"

"Arguing to whom? Reasoning to a prisoner? His Royal Highness has already become a prisoner."

"He dares!" Liang Jixiong was furious, "He dares to..."

"Why didn't he dare? Evidence is a bird's egg in the eyes of the emperor!"

Liang Jixiong stopped talking, Xu Zhiqiong was right, not to mention in the eyes of the emperor, even in the eyes of the clan members, evidence is not even a bird's egg.

Xu Zhiqiong continued: "There are many capable people in the palace. Is forging two letters considered evidence? When the evidence of the crime is confirmed, how do you ask the ministers to defend the prince?"

Liang Jixiong snorted and said, "Even if this old man risked his life, he must protect the crown prince."

"Preservation? Desperate this life, just for a security? Recover the entire territory of Yongzhou, take down Tunu's Lansuo City, just for a security?
The board is full of good chess pieces, but you just sent an orphan piece to the emperor just to keep it safe?
You saved the prince, who will save the soldiers who were born and died?Who will protect Daxuan's territory? "Yunwo Heshu" is everywhere in Tunu Country, why don't you sign another "Lan Suohe Shu"?Let Emperor Maocha call him uncle again?Wait for them to write a book "Biography of Filial Piety by My Nephew"? "

Liang Jixiong's tears were about to come down, this was the scar in his heart that he didn't want to be uncovered, this was the thing he didn't want to see, but these things were almost a foregone conclusion.

The prince sighed and said, "Zhiqiong, brother, what do you think should be done about this matter?"

"This matter is easy to handle!" Xu Zhiqiong thought about it all night last night, and he figured out everything, "The battle will continue. After the Lansuo City is defeated, several surrounding towns must also be defeated. The provinces are all shot down!"

Liang Jixiong said: "But this matter of resisting the decree..."

Xu Zhiqiong said: "At this time, the ministers have to be used, admonishing! Ministers may not be willing to admonish a prince who plots against and assassinate, but they will definitely speak out for the sake of the country and society that is declared.
The battle is not over yet, the crown prince can't go back, if he wants to let the prince go back, he is a foolish king, he is not worthy to sit on the throne! "

Liang Jixiong said: "In case the emperor gets angry..."

"Who is he angry with?" Xu Zhiqiong sneered, "Our emperor is not afraid of smart people, he is a smart person himself, and he is not afraid of good people, he can play good people to death,
The only thing he was afraid of was ruthless people. Tunu was ruthless enough, so he called Tunu his uncle. Counting Tunu prisoners, the crown prince had more than [-] soldiers and horses. Who would the emperor dare to be angry with? "

Liang Jixiong was stunned.

He didn't approve of Xu Zhiqiong's thinking at first, and he thought that resisting the edict was the most undesirable idea.

But I have to admit that according to Xu Zhiqiong's thinking, the most perfect result can be obtained. He knows the emperor's temperament very well, and every blow hits the emperor's weakness.

Xu Zhiqiong said: "This battle must go on. Not a single inch of the land that Da Xuan Erlang bought with his flesh and blood can be let out! Not a single inch of the achievements that Da Xuan Erlang bought with his flesh and blood can be denied!"

The crown prince nodded and said: "Then I will stay here and continue fighting, but I am afraid that the military supplies and food will not be sustainable."

Liang Jixiong sighed, "I'm afraid the emperor will immediately cut off the army's food supply."

Xu Zhiqiong unfolded the map and said: "If the prefect of Luzhou is alive, this matter is really difficult to handle, but if he is dead, His Royal Highness, please appoint someone to take the post of prefect temporarily. The official rations of Luzhou can be used by the army ,
Yongzhou is waiting to be rejuvenated, and it is not expected for the time being, but a prefect must be appointed to make long-term plans for the future.

There are nine cities in the Southern Imperial Province, and every time a city is captured, a city official will be appointed to run the land of the three states! "

Liang Jixiong said: "Tu Nu is poor, I'm afraid there won't be much food in stock, I'm afraid the supply will not be enough in the future."

"Let's go back and ask the emperor for food," Xu Zhiqiong looked at Liang Jixiong, "The crown prince can't go back, we brothers have to go back, we have to come out of his hands one by one!"

Liang Jixiong gritted his teeth: "Okay! This is the right way! Let's leave immediately!"

"Don't worry," Xu Zhiqiong waved his hand, "Leave in two days. Today I will write the playbook, and tomorrow you will recite the lyrics!"

Liang Jixiong was taken aback: "What's the point of writing a playbook?"

Xu Zhiqiong said with a stern expression: "The emperor wrote the notebook first, and when he came up, he wanted us to be forced to the edge of the cliff. Let's also write a notebook and see who is standing on the edge of the cliff!"

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Two days later, Emperor Zhaoxing was reading a book on interpreting dreams in Tianzhang Pavilion, when he heard that Chen Shuncai came to report: "Elder Shengwei has returned to Beijing."

Emperor Zhaoxing waved his hand and said, "I don't want to see him."

"This..." Chen Shuncai's expression was a bit ugly.

Emperor Zhaoxing sneered: "This old man must be eager to come to see me, and then tell me how the war in the northern border was like, how many victories he achieved, how much territory he conquered, and how much credit he has made, and how he wants to defend the prince. , said he could not have assassinated,
Every word this old man wants to say is within my expectations.

What if we win the battle?Can meritorious service cover up the crime of treason?So what if you lay down the territory?Has he ever thought about my safety?Without me, what if Daxuan has as many territories as possible?

I don't want to hear him grind his mouth, make him unable to say a word, and ask Yuyang to come and see me! "

Chen Shuncai said: "Your Majesty, the crown prince has not returned to Beijing."

"What?" Emperor Zhaoxing was furious, "Nizi, how dare you resist the order and ask Liang Jixiong to come to see me immediately!"

Chen Shuncai's expression became even uglier: "Your Majesty, Elder Shengwei said that he has no time to face you."

Emperor Zhaoxing said in astonishment: "What are you talking about? Say it clearly!"

Chen Shuncai tried to be as straightforward as possible: "Elder Shengwei said that he doesn't want to see you."

(End of this chapter)