Chapter 367 Chaos in Kyoto
Xie Zhan's carriage came out of Bird Clothes Lane and headed straight for the palace.

When passing by a road in the market that he must pass through, he heard a louder noise than usual, so he couldn't help but opened the car curtain and looked out.

In Jiankang City, on the eighth of every month, there are four markets in the east, west, north, and south, but there is only one special market every year-that is half a day in July.

At this time, it is a folk festival in early autumn to celebrate the harvest, reward the earth, and respect the ancestors. People from top to bottom in Daliang attach great importance to it.Therefore, every year after the Qiqiao Festival, this big fair will not only be open for one day, but will be open for three full days.

It also means that the gates of Jiankang City will be wide open within three days, allowing people outside the city to come in and sell goods.

If there was no news from today's part, he would just be a normal crowd at the market, but after getting the news, he would inevitably feel suspicious when he looked at anyone passing by.

Xie Zhan's forehead jumped violently, and he knocked on the wall of the carriage with his folding fan.

Outside the carriage, Shi Qing, who was accompanied by a royal horse, stepped forward upon hearing the sound, looked at the window, and said in a low voice, "My lord."

"Send someone to Jingzhao County, and let us know. Send more servants to the market, and be sure to guard it."

When he said "guarding", it meant that he was vigilant. Shi Qing had been by his side for many years, so he naturally understood the seriousness of his young master's words, so he even sent a clever man to the Jingzhao County Mansion Ya.

Obviously, Xie Zhan's worries were not unreasonable.

When Xie's guards rushed to the government office, and wanted to convey the meaning of his nephew to Liu Dan of Jingzhao County, they were told that Liu Jingzhao had already taken a group of government servants to Dongshi, and the reason was that Changxing Lane in Dongshi had left. water.

It's fine if it's just an ordinary fire, but it's dry in autumn and the wind is blowing again today. The shops in Changxing Lane are closely connected. I don't know where the fire started. I only know that when the patrolling officials from Jingzhao County arrive At that time, several pharmacies, restaurants, and cloth houses were engulfed in flames.

When Liu Jingzhao learned that his subordinates were asking for help, and brought his people there in a hurry, half of Changxing Lane had been burned down by fire.

Seeing that the fire was still spreading, Liu Jingzhao didn't dare to hesitate, and immediately ordered someone to call in patrol officers from other places to solve the urgent need first.

As a result, most of the Jingzhao County guards who were in charge of public security in the city gathered in Dongshi, and knew little about what happened in other places.

Xie Zhan heard the reply from his subordinates just as he was about to enter the palace to face the Holy Spirit.He had a premonition that the situation was more severe than he had imagined, so he immediately sent someone to inform Chen Tian at the gate of the city, and then hurriedly followed the servant who came to guide the way into the palace.

At this time, the situation at the gate of Jiankang City was not optimistic.

Last year, half of Daliang’s border was hit by a snowstorm, which greatly affected the harvest of the five northern states this year, but the southern border of Daliang still had a bumper harvest. Therefore, many merchants in the northern border pulled ox carts to build Kangcheng, saying that they intended to Buy more goods in the market and bring them back.

From the day before the big fair, that is, on the night of the Qiqiao Festival, a large number of ox carts flocked to the gate of Jiankang City and waited to enter the city, until the third day of the big fair, that is, the tenth day of the seventh month. The closing time of the market is approaching, and there are still people who want to drive into the city.

At this time, even if these people did not stay halfway after entering the city, they would not be able to reach the market before the market closed.

Chen Tian keenly noticed some abnormalities, and ordered the soldiers in the four directions of east, west, north, south, and north to stop the bullock carts. People were allowed to enter, but carts were not allowed.

Unexpectedly, such a stop caused complaints from everyone.

They repeatedly accused the soldiers guarding the city of ignoring the laws and restricting the people from entering and leaving the city before the time came. They spoke loudly and angrily, and some of them got too excited and began to push and rub individual soldiers.

These soldiers are charged with defending the city, and they are used to people who want to force their way into the city gates. When encountering opponents, they will not be soft at all. They immediately taught the leaders a lesson, and the two groups became one at a time. group.

The news that soldiers and civilians were fighting each other at the city gate, and the news that Xie Zhanfang's army was besieging the city and the market in the city was abnormal, arrived at Chen Tian at the same time.

Chen Tian immediately smelled a strong smell of danger, he immediately ordered the city gate to be closed, and sent a team of soldiers to Dongshi to assist Liu Dan in Jingzhao County to put out the fire and maintain law and order in the city.

It was getting dark, and the half moon was hanging high towards the west.

There were several more places where the fire broke out in Jiankang City, and people from Jingzhao County rushed around to put out the fire.At the city gate, the people who were suddenly restricted in and out of the gate complained and complained, and the soldiers were unmoved, so they had to wait at a distance and blocked the gate.

Both inside and outside the city are full of hustle and bustle, falling into chaos...

**
Palace, Palace of Diligence.

As Xie Zhan said, Emperor Mu Andi had already received the news that the army was crushing the city.

In the short five years since he ascended the throne, Emperor Mu An's face turned livid when he encountered two rebellion crises.Firstly, he hated the rebellious ministers and thieves who were too rampant, so he didn't take him seriously at all; secondly, he hated him for being incapable of disciplining him, teaching several princes and concubines to unite with outsiders to rebel, causing the world to ridicule his Chen family.

But after listening to Xie Zhan, who was begging for an audience, to use the Xie family trilogy to help him fight against the enemy, Emperor Mu Andi fell silent again.

Today, the courtiers are taking a rest, and it is golden autumn again. A few days ago, many ministers made an appointment to go out for an autumn outing.

As far as he knew, among the several kings surnamed Chen, except for King Duan who was on duty at the gate of the city for the annual festival in Kangcheng, the other his right-hand men had already arranged to go to the outskirts of the city for an autumn outing.Even Fu Yiyan said that he would take his nephews to the deep mountains for a hearty hunting competition.

He has already sent someone to inform them to transfer troops, but they are all in the deep mountains and old forests, and the time needed is obviously longer than Xie Zhan's current method to adjust the Xie family trilogy. Xie Zhan's method is undoubtedly the fastest method at present.

Because Xie Zhan is the patriarch of the Ding Ding family, although he has great trust in Xie Zhan, he has reservations.If he put the safety of the capital on the Xie family who had a history of rebellion, he obviously has concerns.

If at that time Xie Zhan plays a scene of praying mantis catching cicadas and orioles, first defeating the enemy army, and then taking advantage of the chaos to murder him, then pouring all the dirty water on the rebels, others will not know the truth, and will only think that Xie Zhan is too late to save him , such risks are not without.

For him, Xie Liulang, who had given up his status as the minister of the Dali Temple at this moment and stood in front of him as the head of a family, was not only a solid support, but also a powerful threat.

Facing a gamble with an unknown ending, Emperor Mu Andi felt conflicted and desolate, and looked at Xie Zhan with complicated eyes.

Xuanyi Xie Zhan's face was flat, his eyes were bent down, and the expression in his eyes was unclear. In the middle of the hall, he was tall and straight, like pines and cypresses standing upright.

**
Jiankang City was in trouble, and Xuzhou's Gushan Trilogy also made moves.

Xiao Che personally led the team and led tens of thousands of troops out of Mount Gu, intending to cooperate with the uprising around the capital.

Originally, when Xie Zhan's fiancée was hijacked by his younger brother and Xie Zhan's people entered the edge of Gu Mountain, he was worried that his soldiers and horses would be targeted by others, but soon Xie Zhan brought people back to Jiankang City , Xuzhou has been extremely calm, and after half a year of observation, he was sure that the other party did not find anything unusual.

According to their plan this time, his soldiers and horses are just backup. Presumably when he leads the troops to Jiankang City, the snipe and clam have already fought fiercely at the other end. His plan is to take advantage of the weakness of the hatchback , he fisherman profit.

In the cold autumn night like water, cold fog rises everywhere in the dense forest, and the crescent moon light shines down on the top of the tree. Xiao Che led his troops out of the fog with great hope. The mighty army set out from Guangling County. Take the road going south to Jiankang City.

But his hope did not last long.

Only a few tens of kilometers away from Gu Mountain, when passing through a mountain in Guangliang County, a resounding laughter could not stop echoing in the narrow valley, Xiao Che raised his hand and ordered the follow-up people to stop, and looked intently——

A young man wearing silver armor and a red cloak and holding a spear/spear stood in the middle immediately!

In the moonlight, the young man standing in front of him looked like a tiger and lion in the dark night, majestic and imposing.

Behind him, a large army of silver armor and iron horses, as vast as floating stars, firmly blocked the way of Xiao Che and his party.

(End of this chapter)

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