Tiantang

Chapter 319 The Dust Settles
Chapter 325 The Dust Settles

Li Heng stood up again, trembling and bracing himself. Just as he was about to speak, Li Yu saw that the situation was not good, and immediately angrily said, "Not yet!"

But Li Yu yelled for a long time, and the palace guards under Gongsun You who stood around him all looked solemn and did not move.

Li Yu was furious, and roared, "Gongsun You, didn't you hear what I said?"

Gongsun You sighed softly, clasped his hands to Li Yu and said, "His Royal Highness Chu, the officials are His Highness's ministers. If Your Highness has no edict, please forgive me for not daring to touch King Yongning rashly!"

After finishing speaking, Gongsun You waved his hand lightly, and all the palace guards immediately lined up on both sides.

Gongsunyou took a step forward, prostrated himself in front of Li Heng's case, and shouted loudly, "Your Highness, the minister and the right guard lead the governor, Shi Gongsunyou, to wait for your Highness to pass the edict!"

The situation reversed, Li Yu's confidant Gongsunyou suddenly turned against him, Li Heng was relieved, and Yang Guozhong and others also breathed a sigh of relief.

Whether or not to win Zhang Xuan, at this time, Li Heng actually didn't care about thinking about it. He was most worried about his own safety.He never expected that his son Li Yu would also follow the example of King Rong and King Si Ning back then, leading the army to force the palace to carry out military remonstrance.If it was really a last resort, he had no choice but to give up Zhang Xuan passively and let Li Yu take Zhang Xuan down.

Fortunately, things took a dramatic turn.

He gathered himself together, and reprimanded extremely shamelessly, "Li Yu, you brought armor to force the palace, and used weapons rashly in front of the palace, what should you do?"

Li Yu's complexion suddenly changed, and he was extremely pale.

He never dreamed that Gongsun You, whom he considered a confidant, would betray him and refuse to obey orders at this critical juncture.

Li Yu subconsciously stepped back a few steps, glared at Gongsunyou with an extremely sinister and cannibalistic gaze, raised his finger and said to him word by word, "Gongsunyou, hello, very good! How dare you Betrayed Ben Gong! Ben Gong will cut your corpse into thousands of pieces to vent the hatred in my heart!"

Gongsunyou didn't dare to meet Li Yu's eyes, and lowered his head slightly.

Li Yu really loved Gongsunyou very much, and Gongsunyou once thought that he would be loyal to the future prince.However, Gongsun You never imagined that the master he was loyal to would take such a risk and make such a foolish move as forcing the palace to remonstrate.

Who is Zhang Xuan?Gongsun You used to work under Zhang Xuan. Although he didn't work for a long time, he also knew Zhang Xuan's methods and tactics.In Gongsunyou's view, Li Yu's desire to fight Zhang Xuan was basically doomed to failure from the very beginning.

Zhang Xuan's resolute methods and meticulous thoughts made him almost a monster in Gongsunyou's mind, and he was miraculous.At the beginning, the two rebellions of King Rong and King Sining were put down, and it was like a stroke of magic.At that time, Zhang Xuan's power and status, as well as his control and influence over the court were far inferior to today's.

Gongsunyou didn't dare to be an enemy of Zhang Xuan at all, which almost became a subconscious self-preservation.

Therefore, Gongsun You once persuaded Li Yu not to take risks.But Li Yu's temperament is headstrong, since he has made up his mind to take a risky move, how could he listen to Gongsunyou's good advice?

Gongsunyou was helpless, in order to avoid going on the road of no return with Li Yu and to leave a glimmer of life for himself, he secretly sent someone to secretly report a vague message to Zhang Xuan.

In fact, Gongsun You knew very well that even if he didn't report it, Zhang Xuan would have a lot of eyes and ears among the guards led by his right guard, and the news would still spread to Yongning Palace.After all, Zhang Xuan was the founder and first commander of this palace guard.

And just outside the hall, he just got the news that the Habayashi guards under General Yang Lian of the Habayashi Guards were divided into two groups. The right door, I am afraid that the right door has been controlled at this moment, if there is any disturbance in the palace, Yang Lian's Habayashi guards and Zhang Xuan's guards will rush in and take down Li Yu and Chen Xuanli in one fell swoop.

All of this today is very similar to when Gongsunyou followed Zhang Xuan to quell his heir Ning Wang Li Lin to force the palace!Everything is under Zhang Xuan's control, and Li Yu and Chen Xuanli's military remonstrance to force the palace seems like a child's game.

Therefore, before entering the palace, Gongsun You had completely abandoned Li Yu.

Li Yu retreated step by step, and Gongsun You turned his back on the water, which meant that the 500 guards that he relied on so much could not play a role. Now he could only count on Chen Xuanli's thousands of guards to enter the palace in time to save him in a passive crisis.

Speaking of which, this Li Yu can be regarded as a ruthless character. Once he recognized the situation clearly, he pushed everyone away without the slightest hesitation, turned over and fled outside the hall.

Gongsun You was about to wave his hand to order his palace guards to stop Li Yu, but he saw a weird sneer on the corner of Zhang Xuan's mouth.With a chill in his heart, he stopped his gestures and allowed Li Yu to flee towards the entrance of the palace.

Yang Lian's army horses took control of the right door.Meanwhile, Meng Xun at the left gate was firmly restrained by another group of Habayashi guards under Yang Lian, unable to move.Meng Xun has never received Chen Xuanli's signal, so he can't really fight with his "comrades" outside the palace gate.

He couldn't figure out the situation in the palace, and he didn't dare to use a knife or gun. This is a capital crime of ransacking the family and exterminating the clan.

Yang Lian led a thousand guards into Xingqing Palace and took over the defense of Xingqing Palace.And Nan Jiyun and Xiao Shisanlang took more than a hundred guards under Zhang Xuan to disguise themselves as Yulin guards, and rushed all the way to Mingde Hall.

Outside the Mingde Hall, Chen Xuanli who ran out of the hall happened to be captured.

Yang Lian strode forward under the guard of several soldiers, grabbed a torch from one of the soldiers, and stared at the embarrassed Chen Xuanli by the light of the fire, and said with a sneer, "Chen Shangshu, you are really big!" How dare you conspire with the King of Chu to force the palace with armor and bring chaos to the palace, what crime should you be guilty of?"

Chen Xuanli was in despair and bowed his head in silence.

At this moment, he was beyond regret.He boarded Li Yu's bandit ship, failed to remonstrate with him, and was on the verge of failure, but fell into Zhang Xuan's countermeasures. What else could he say?

As the prince this time, Li Yu will at most lose the throne and the qualification to enter the East Palace in the future, so that his life will not be harmed; but he is different, what awaits him will be Li Heng's anger and Zhang Xuan's thunderous revenge .

At this moment, there was a strange movement in the hall, and not long after, Li Yu, King of Chu, was seen stumbling out.

Nan Jiyun's face turned cold, and he was about to lead his army forward to take Li Yu down. Yang Lian grabbed Nan Jiyun, shook his head and said in a low voice, "General Nan, don't act rashly. He is the prince after all, please be calm and calm." !"

Nan Jiyun heaved a sigh of relief and did not take any further action.

Li Yu rushed out of the hall and looked around hastily. He saw that Mingde Hall had long been surrounded by murderous Habayashi guards with three floors inside and three floors outside, and the one standing at the front was actually Yang Lian.

Li Yu's heart sank immediately, his legs softened, and he couldn't control his panic anymore, and collapsed on the cold green brick floor outside the hall.

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Yang Lian strode into Mingde Hall, and under the complex gaze of everyone, knelt down in front of Li Heng's case, "Your Highness, I'm late to save you, please forgive me!"

"His Royal Highness, Chen Xuanli conspired with Chu King Li Yu to force the palace. Chen Xuanli mobilized two thousand soldiers from the Habayashi Guards to surround the Xingqing Palace without authorization. After hearing the news, I immediately led the army to the Xingqing Palace and captured the rebels in one fell swoop. Next... in the midst of desperation, I did not ask for an order, so I ask Your Highness to forgive me for the crime of usurping!"

Yang Lian couldn't afford it.

At this moment, Li Heng's mind has completely settled down, and his complexion has returned to normal.Although the cowardly side of his character was exposed at a certain moment, it did not affect his judgment and reason.

Li Heng looked at Yang Lian in silence.

He gradually figured out the reason in his heart.Li Yu and Chen Xuanli remonstrated against the palace, targeting Zhang Xuan.Of course, by the way, he must be forced to appoint Li Yu as the future prince of the East Palace.It's just that his daring son did such rebellious things in spite of the world's disgrace, but Zhang Xuan easily counterattacked and defeated him.

It can't be said that success is on the brink of failure, but everything is already under Zhang Xuan's control.

"Hateful and pathetic Yu'er..." Li Heng's face turned green and then pale, and he turned his head to glance at Zhang Xuan secretly.

In name, Yang Lian led the army to suppress the rebellion, but in fact the chief director behind the scenes was Zhang Xuan.It can be seen from this that Zhang Xuan's energy and methods are far more unfathomable than he imagined... Li Heng's thoughts flashed, but his heart became awe-inspiring.

He said slowly, "Yang Lian, you have made great contributions in suppressing the rebellion and saving the family, so get up."

"Yes, Your Highness." Yang Lian got up and stood aside.From the beginning to the end, he didn't even look at Zhang Xuan.And Zhang Xuan also sat down on the original seat calmly and silently.

Everyone was silent.

After the dust settled, Li Yu and Chen Xuanli's coercion failed, and everything seemed to be back to the original point.But for Li Heng, he is facing a huge problem at the moment: how to deal with Li Yu and Chen Xuanli, how to give an explanation to Zhang Xuan, the officials and the royal family.

After all, Li Yu and Chen Xuanli forced the palace in such a public way, if nothing happened, let alone unable to convince the public, even Zhang Xuan would not let it go.

Li Heng suddenly let out a long sigh.

Li Yu's bringing armor into the palace certainly offended Li Heng's big taboo and made him extremely angry, but Li Heng was not Li Longji after all, and he didn't have the ruthlessness and courage to kill a son like a pig.If he wanted to kill his parents and children with his own hands, he couldn't do it, and he would never be able to do it.

He has a cowardly side and a kind side in his character.In the role of father, he is far more competent than Li Longji.

Everyone sat in the original seats silently, looking at Li Heng quietly.

After waiting for a long time, but Li Heng didn't speak, Yang Guozhong couldn't help getting up and lowering his voice, "Your Highness!"

Li Heng looked up at Yang Guozhong subconsciously.

Yang Guozhong said in a low voice, "Your Highness, Li Yu and Chen Xuanli brought armor to force the palace to conspire against each other. A group of criminals have been captured by the Habayashi guards, and they are outside the hall. Your Highness, please punish them as soon as possible!"

(End of this chapter)