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Chapter 582 The Blood of the Zhumen

The palace immediately fell into chaos. Some ministers followed the chamberlain and knelt down, saying in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty, please move to the Eastern Capital!"

"Your Majesty, please move!"

The prince also knelt on the ground in fear and kowtowed heavily: "My son, I sincerely ask the saint to move to the east capital quickly!"

“…”

Whether to move the emperor out of Beijing or not, there have been many disagreements in the court recently.

Some ministers believe that Chang Sui Ning Langzi's ambition is to seize Luoyang, the eastern capital. Going there at this time is like a sheep entering a tiger's mouth. By then, the dignity of the Tian family will be gone, and both the emperor and the prince will be reduced to puppets, and life and death can only be determined by one thought!

Some people also believe that if the emperor flees without a fight and the hearts of the people are shattered, it will only accelerate the fall of the capital and make the situation that was still promising become completely doomed... It is really foolish and cowardly to actively abandon the capital before the situation is clear.

Furthermore, the capital may not be able to be defended!

Bian Chunliang's claim to have an army of 200,000 was an exaggeration. Even if he really had 200,000 troops, they were all improvised rabble... No matter how powerful Bian Chunliang was, he would never be able to do it. Integrating 200,000 people into a well-disciplined iron army in such a short period of time!

There are still 40,000 well-trained troops guarding the capital, so they may not be unable to fight with them!

Even if they are not sure of victory, they can at least delay the resistance for ten and a half days. Time is an opportunity. They have once again urged the Shannan West Road army to return to the court, and sent urgent orders to everywhere, inviting all forces to come to Beijing to protect them... This If we can wait for reinforcements in half a month, the capital can save the day!

But, but...

They never expected that an army of 40,000 people could only resist Bian's army for three days!

How could this be so...

Why did it fail so quickly? Why? !

This shocked question exploded in everyone's minds, and it also appeared in the emperor's heart.

Amidst the mournful cries urging people to move, the Holy Emperor stood up slowly, holding on to the golden dragon relief on the armrest of the dragon chair.

There was a breeze blowing in from outside the palace, fluttering the large dragon robe on her body, making her figure under the robe appear even more thin and thin, even a bit empty.

A bolt of lightning flashed across the hall, instantly covering the hall with a layer of deathly whiteness. The glow on the dragon chair behind the emperor was also covered up by this paleness, and the firm obsession in her eyes that had never faded was also covered for a moment. gray.

Many times, the Holy Book Emperor can clearly feel the invisible chains wrapped around his body.

Yes, she finally ascended the throne as the emperor and became the true dragon emperor, but she still had chains on her dragon body. The Li family, the generals, the nobles... these people have been tightly binding her and competing against her at all times. He wanted to put her to death and make her disappear into ashes.

Since taking the throne, she has been thinking about breaking free and killing them every day...

For more than ten years, she has been walking unswervingly on this path, killing vassal generals, royal children, and nobles. She has clearly killed so many enemies...

But it wasn't until this moment that she clearly felt that the chains with sharp thorns finally broke one by one and fell apart... But what appeared on her body at the same time was the bone-breaking pain of having the imperial power stripped away.

As the chains peeled off, she seemed to have no support, and she completely lost her sense of the dragon chair behind her.

In a daze, she seemed to realize that although imperial power and chains were naturally hostile, they were also dependent on each other in a certain sense... and what really brought her disaster was outside of the chains that trapped her, and even Out of her sight.

The empress stared blankly outside the palace.

Under the glazed palace lantern, countless dust particles surged in the wind and rain.

The particles of dust that had never been looked at directly gathered together, turning invisible into tangible forms, and suddenly swarmed towards her, like invisible filaments like a cocoon, entangling her one by one.

The empress felt that she could not move.

She never underestimated any problem, but at this moment she subconsciously wanted to deny and avoid it, trying to tell herself and the world that "Li Yin set up a scheme to plot against me." However, there were countless voices in her mind, forcing her to face up to her long-standing feelings. Misperception.

The questions about "people's hearts", together with the countless tiny cocoons made of tiny dust particles, seemed to be crushing her to pieces.

The moisture from the rain poured into her nose, and for a moment, she seemed to have returned to the time when she was a neighbor of the Elephant Garden many years ago.

Those years were dark and humid, always depressing, but at this time, the first thing that appeared in her mind was the innocent laughter of children.

When they were young, both Ah Xiao and Ah Shang loved to laugh, especially Ah Shang.

When he was very young, Ashang's temperament was extremely bright, lively and extremely stubborn.

When he was punished to kneel down, Ashang easily refused to admit his mistake. A child like that would rather kneel down for an hour than admit that he had done something wrong. But when she saw her mother-in-law suffering from chest tightness and coughing due to anger, she would stand up nervously and immediately, saying that she was wrong and asking her mother-in-law what was wrong.

From about that time, she could clearly see the child's heart.

At that time, she didn't like Ah Shang's excessive restlessness. Every time she did this, she would always think of the frail Ah Xiao, and then think of the unsatisfactory situation that she was unable to change...

It seems that there is a cause and effect in the dark, but this situation like a pool of stagnant water was unexpectedly broken by A Shang, who was pretending to be A Xiao.

Since then, she has become more and more strict in asking Ashang to temper his temper.

Ah Shang did a great job indeed. He studied for A Xiao, went to the battlefield, and became the crown prince... Every time he came to salute her, he was quieter and calmer than the last time.

It was quiet until the last time I knelt down to say goodbye.

This calmness is probably the result of her mother's teachings, and she naturally recognizes and appreciates it.

But at this time, as a bystander, she suddenly triggered these old memories, and suddenly realized that this process from vividness to quietness turned out to be a kind of alienation and separation...

This memory appeared very suddenly in the empress's mind, and this was by no means a suitable time to recall old things. Its sudden appearance is probably due to the change in the relationship between mother and daughter, which has something in common with the process of the emperor and the people gradually deviating from each other without realizing it.

At this moment, the empress was almost confused.

The human heart is invisible and changeable. Human nature is evil and greedy. Without deterrence and discipline, it is not enough to control... She has obviously never treated her carelessly, so why is she still out of control?

What went wrong? If she had to do it all over again, what changes should she make to prevent this from happening now?

The empress tried to think about it, but found that she had no answer.

As a king, she stands at the highest point, overlooking all living beings, and knows everything about the world... But in the face of such a huge mistake, she has no answer!

This unanswered answer made the empress feel at a loss, unable to reflect on herself. Underneath the confusion was the fear of losing control—

What she hates most in her life is the word "out of control".

Out-of-control things, out-of-control people, out-of-control life... She wants to get rid of everything out of control, gain the power to control herself, and no longer be influenced by anyone and anything. This is her original intention to climb up step by step.

But at this moment, she was surrounded by a feeling of being out of control that was a hundred times greater than before, and was about to be swallowed up by it.

The gold bricks under my feet seemed to be cracking, and the entire hall was falling rapidly. The sky and the earth were spinning, and everything was shifting...

The empress subconsciously reached out her hand, trying to grab something.

A gust of cold wind howled into the hall, and the two candles on the bronze bird candlestick flickered and went out. The empress' thin figure was extinguished in the wind like a candle, swaying and falling to the ground.

The emperor's crown fell, the jade beads scattered, and they splashed and rolled down the steps.

"saint!"

"His Majesty!"

“…”

The wind has not stopped and the rain has subsided slightly.

On the streets that were starting to get agitated, an old man sitting in a speeding carriage sighed: "There is no intention to succeed, and there is no intention to fail."

A man in his early forties asked anxiously: "Father...where are we going?"

The old man was upset by the question: "How do I know?"

The man's eyes widened: "You... don't know where to go? How dare you follow me?"

"The fire is burning on my eyebrows. If you don't leave, why are you waiting?" Mrs. Chu said angrily: "If you can leave, you can do it!"

The man raised his hand tremblingly and pointed at the driver: "Then... you should know who these people are!"

Mr. Chu: "Nonsense."

The man holding the baggage breathed a sigh of relief and stopped asking any more questions. He only opened the corner of the car curtain, looked behind him, and said uneasily: "I don't know if everyone is following..."

When Taifu Chu heard this, he felt upset - if he had been born less, he wouldn't have loaded ten cars with his children and grandchildren at such a critical moment. It was so annoying and annoying!

Ten fully loaded carriages carrying the Chu family rushed towards the Dengtai Tower.

There is a secret secret passage in Dengtai Tower that existed many years ago that can be used to leave the city. Last year, Meng Lie, under the instruction of Chang Sui Ning, had someone reopen the passage and resume its use.

When Taifu Chu and his party arrived at Dengtai Tower, they could faintly hear the sound of Bian Jun's horse hoofbeats.

Chang Ren and others did not dare to neglect for a moment and went to various places according to the plan.

Logically speaking, the people on the list should be arranged to leave the city as early as possible, rather than delaying the action until Bian Jun enters the city. However, the imperial court ordered that the capital be defended, and all the city gates had been closed, and powerful officials were strictly prohibited from escaping. Supervision methods are very strict.

After the curfew, patrols in the city were particularly strict, no one was allowed to go out and walk around, and if found, they would be killed on the spot.

Unwilling to abandon the city, the imperial court made various decisions to forcibly stabilize the situation and people's hearts, which greatly increased the difficulty of Chang Ren and others' actions. During these days, they could only deploy in secret and make preliminary preparations. It was not until now that Bian's army entered the city, the city defenses were broken, and the imperial army was overwhelmed with self-care, that the final rescue plan could be put into action openly.

But the imperial court, which had persisted until this moment, was not unprepared.

The rear city gate passage has been opened, and there are still elite soldiers resisting in front of the palace gate. The five thousand forbidden troops used to **** the emperor and the prince out of the city are always on standby - the emperor's persistence, although stubborn, is never blindly waiting for death.

In other words, the court reserved time and room for escape.

However, the number of important ministers that the emperor can take away is limited, and the ordinary dignitaries and common people who are unescorted can only seek their own blessings and rely on their luck.

The discipline of Bian's army was not strict. After Bian Chunliang led his troops into the city, he went straight to the palace. However, when the soldiers following him saw the prosperous Kyoto, their eyes almost lit up. Many people left the team and listened to their evil thoughts and greed. The knife plundered wantonly.

Many people who knew they did not have the ability to venture out of the city made up their minds to stay behind closed doors and wait for the storm to pass. However, the doors of their homes were violently knocked open by Bian Jun armed with a knife.

On this night, the fate of the powerful is destined to be more difficult and twists and turns than that of ordinary people.

Those Bian troops specifically selected wealthy families and looted them. The splendid gates were broken down one after another, and the cries were heard all over the sky.

An old man in a brocade gown denounced "thieves without virtue". He was teased and laughed by Bian Jun, who dragged him out, stripped him of his clothes, and then killed him with a knife, leaving his body to be disturbed on the long street. Crowd stampede.

The blood stained the rainwater and flowed into the moat along the grooves.

"Sister-in-law, hurry up!"

At the back door of Wu's house, Wu Chunbai picked up his young nephew, hurriedly put him into the car, and then helped his elderly grandfather into the carriage.

Two of the three carriages were soon filled. When Wu Chunbai was about to board the carriage, a sharp arrow suddenly flew over and almost missed the tip of her nose!

When Wu Chunbai could barely avoid it, he fell to the ground. Regardless of the pain, he shouted in fear: "Drive! It's Bian Jun here. Let's go to the agreed place! Someone will meet you!"

Several coachmen were so horrified that they immediately waved their whips without caring much.

The accident happened in an instant. Almost at the same moment, a group of Bian soldiers on horseback had surrounded them. They fired arrows at the speeding carriage. When they saw that they could not stop them, they cursed.

When Wu Chunbai got up from the ground, he was surrounded by Bian Junjun.

She vaguely heard the cries of her family coming from the direction the carriage was leaving. The cries gradually faded away, which made her feel a little more at ease, and she had to start looking at her terrible situation.

What was even worse was that, in addition to a group of servants who followed closely, she discovered that her brother Wu Zhaobai could not escape either.

Before those people launched an attack, Wu Chunbai said: "Generals, we just want to save our lives. All our belongings are at home. You just go and get them!"

Hearing his sister's words of surrender, Wu Zhaobai's expression changed, he clenched his fists and endured without saying a word.

Among the group of people, some spoke a southern dialect, but the leader spoke with an easily distinguishable Shannan accent: "Of course I want to take the property!"

As he spoke, a malicious smile broke out in his eyes: "My dear lady, please come with us too!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly drove his horse forward and waved the horse roping pole.

The rough horse rope fell on Wu Chunbai, and the man tightened the rope and exerted force in his hands. Wu Chunbai was immediately pulled to the ground by the strong force. The man on the horse laughed evilly and drove the horse in a circle. Looking at Wu Chunbai, it attracted more wild laughter and applause.

While Wu Chunbai was covered in mud and struggling, a figure suddenly rushed forward and threw herself beside her. With one hand, she grabbed the rope in front of her, and with the other hand, she took out the dagger she had prepared at some point, gritting her teeth. Cut the rope quickly.

His movements were unfamiliar and panicked, causing his fingers to bleed, but he didn't care much and quickly pulled up his sister: "Chunbai! Let's go!"

However, before the brother and sister could stand up completely, their path was already surrounded by the group of people again.

This time, the leader's face was no longer teasing, but filled with sinister anger.

See you tomorrow~