Chapter 463 Wind and Rain (3)

"Your Majesty, there are rumors that someone is going to rebel. Does Your Majesty know?" In the side hall, during the break of dancing, the Queen suddenly spoke.

Unexpectedly, the emperor was not angry. He pondered for a moment, then twirled the petals of the flowers on the table and asked jokingly: "Didn't the Queen herself say that I am not in a good mood? Please don't bother me with some false rumors?"

This is certainly not nonsense.

Last time, the female officers around the Queen were released from the thieves. After thinking about it, I felt that the thieves were a bit different from ordinary thieves. In addition, they arrived a long time later than the people here in Jiangdu. They found that there was no such thing as Jiangdu.

Not knowing what the situation was outside, I couldn't help but feel worried and wanted to make a report, and the queen agreed.

But the result was that the female official who went to see the emperor was beheaded for the crime of "deceiving the public with evil words".

The queen had no choice but to say to the other female officials: "The saint is in a bad mood, so don't disturb him."

From then on, no one in Jiangdu's chamberlain or palace officials said any negative news about the outside world in front of the emperor... let alone rebellion.

"Because this is the time, the other is the time, this is the same and the other is the same." The queen did not panic at all, she just spoke seriously.

"Oh?" The emperor looked surprised.

"At first, I was talking about how powerful the thieves were outside, but now I am talking about the forbidden troops around Jiangdu. I was talking about that in the hope that Your Majesty would cheer up and re-establish the world. Now I am talking about this because I am afraid that trouble will arise. If we are not careful, Jiangdu will be safe, and Your Majesty will be in danger.

It's hard to say." The queen spoke sincerely.

The emperor couldn't help but laugh, but he gave the queen face by opening the petals and calling out: "Who is on duty?"

Zhang Qianda, who was already sweating profusely, turned into the palace in embarrassment, knelt down and kowtowed: "Zhang Qianda in the Zhige Pavilion at the prison gate..."

After only saying his name, he was already so panicked that he didn't know how to continue.

"Zhang Qianda." The emperor thought for a moment. "Aren't you working as General Ying Yanglang to lead the army?"

"The saint knows thousands of miles." Zhang Qianda regained his consciousness a little after hearing this question. After all, this question has a predetermined answer. "I was indeed leading troops before, but recently because Sima Zheng was leading troops back to the east capital

There was some commotion in the army. Because I was an old subordinate of General Sima, I could not go back for some reason, which aroused resentment in the army... Then I begged to Xianggong Yu and gave up his military power to serve as a servant in front of the emperor.

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"Because you did not return to the Eastern Capital due to some strange combination of circumstances, you incurred the resentment of your subordinates in the army? Is that what you mean?" The emperor immediately understood.

"yes."

"The queen said that there are forbidden troops who want to rebel. Is this what you mean?" The emperor continued to ask.

"I dare not hide the saint." Zhang Qianda was obviously a little nervous. "In the past few years, there have been some commotions back to the Eastern Capital every few months, but this time Sima Zheng took away 30,000 elite soldiers at once. The above

The person who entered the palace knew that he was succeeding Uncle Cao, but most of them were just talking about it, and the following team generals and captains have become quite powerful... It is normal for the Queen to be alarmed by this, but it seems that the matter is more than that. "

"If you have anything to say, just say it." The emperor was obviously a little impatient again.

"It's a rumor about Tu Wan Chang discussing the old general. It is said that the day before yesterday, the master of literary studies in Jin Dynasty, Wang Huaitong of the Wang family in Taiyuan, suddenly appeared and visited the old general Tu Wan." Although Zhang Qianda was still trembling, he spoke a lot more sharply. "The ministers really dare not deceive the saint. There are many rumors in Jiangdu City. They all say that Wang Huaitong was entrusted by the British Gongbai Hengqiu to persuade him to return to Kansai... and there are many opinions on how to return. , he left alone, imitating Han's lead of bows and troops to leave, and there are even theories that General Tuwan planned to launch a mutiny and lead his army to attack Jiangdu."

The emperor fell silent, and the queen seemed to want to say something, but finally shut up and just looked at the former.

After a period of suppressed silence, the emperor in the side hall spoke again, but he looked at the person who settled the case: "They are all rumors. The queen is overthinking."

The queen nodded.

Instead, the emperor rushed to explain: "There are many people outside who want to plot against us, but as long as we don't fall into the hands of thieves, I can always be the empress of the Chen Dynasty and an Anle Gong. You can also imitate Empress Shen of the Chen Dynasty. Feel free to be a father-in-law."

The queen could only nod.

"Go down." The emperor waved his hand downwards.

Zhang Qianda quickly thanked him, then got up and returned to the outside of the temple to continue patrolling. After a while, he came to his senses and couldn't help but have subtle thoughts.

Firstly, he was thankful that he had managed to handle this crisis successfully; secondly, he was disappointed that he had not been able to seize the opportunity to divert the trouble to the east and use this opportunity to arouse the emperor's anger at Tu Ten Thousand Comments. Instead, he passed away lightly. Thirdly, it was this lightness and the emperor's obvious flinch that made Zhang Qianda feel a little relaxed... It turned out that this master who seemed so unfathomable before could be fooled so easily. Naturally, it made him relax a lot.

Zhang Qianda didn't think about it. After a small episode in the side hall, he continued singing, dancing and feasting. When the sun set and darkened, the singing and dancing ended, and the whole hall was lit with candles. According to this saint's rules in Jiangdu, it was time to Move your position and follow the Candlelight Avenue to the west of a row of residences to find the concubines in order... This year, especially since the saint recruited many concubines and beauties from Jiangdong and Huainan, he has always done this... Dozens of beauties, each with their own house, visit one by one every day, and whoever's turn it is is responsible for singing and dancing during the day and taking care of the bed at night.

During the day, the queen would often come, and there was a rare chance that the prince and grandson would accompany her. At night, the emperor would go to the beauty's residence alone.

But this time, Cao Che didn't get up in a hurry. Instead, he sat in his seat, lost in thought for a while.

The queen did not leave, but waited on the golden couch next to her.

After a long time, Cao Che finally said: "Get the bronze mirror."

The surrounding palace people did not dare to express their anger at first. After hearing this, they felt as if they had been granted amnesty. They quickly found a bronze mirror, placed it on the table in front of Cao Che, and moved the candlestick closer.

Cao Che looked at himself in the mirror, then turned to smile at his wife: "Bai Hengqiu and I are about the same age, only two or three years younger. I saw him in Dongdu with gray hair, and he was a little worried. He felt that he was like this

The same happens with age, but now it seems like I’m worrying too much.”

The queen chuckled: "The saint's talent is outstanding, far better than that of others."

Cao Che nodded, looked at his head in the mirror, smiled, and suddenly said: "It's such a good head, who should cut it?"

As soon as he said these words, the originally relieved atmosphere in the palace disappeared. Even the queen, who had maintained her dignity even when she was captured, changed her expression: "Why did Erlang say this? Didn't he just say that he could be An Le Gong?"

Xu was a title that had been called for decades, and when he was called out in this old place, Cao Che actually softened his heart and slowly spoke to comfort him: "The joys and sorrows of the noble and the humble are changing, just like the three radiances of the wheel, so why worry?"

The queen immediately fell silent.

The emperor also stood up, changed into short clothes in the hall, put on a scarf, and then took a cane. Like a leisurely scholar from the eight great families in Jiangdong, he followed the candlelight out of the side hall and went to the concubine whom he wanted to favor tonight.

Go everywhere.

The queen had no entourage, so she stayed for a while and then returned to her palace.

Zhang Qianda, on the other hand, patiently followed the emperor to the concubine's residence, watched her go in, and in the twilight of spring, when he arrived at the other straight pavilion of his replacement, he also hurried there, and met his former military guard on the way.

The supervisor, Niu Fangsheng, only glanced at him, then tacitly agreed, and together they went to Sima Deke's house.

This time, there were more people in the backyard of Smadeke's house, so that several key members simply contacted each other early and decided to hold a small meeting after everyone left.

And sure enough, there were so many people that it was impossible to explain clearly. Everyone was talking about it, and basically everyone said their own things. The few topics that were discussed in agreement fell on Wang Huaitong's visit to Tu Wanchanglun... Many people were really tempted.

Already.

After all, it would be good to go back to Dongdu. Dongdu is home, but this home only lasts for a generation or more than ten years. We are all Kansai people who moved to Dongdu after the current saint built it. So now the three major cities in the north

The forces in the east moved toward Hebei; the British occupied Jin territory and entered Guanxi; Sima Zheng entered the eastern capital and suppressed Huaixi... Except for the gang, which is obviously an enemy rather than a friend, which of the other two families can't do it?

However, the location of Dongdu is there. If you want to go from Jiangdu to Guanxi, you must either abandon the troops or lead the army alone to take a detour from Xiangfan to the Han River.

The road is not easy to walk on.

After the discussion, most people left. Except for Sima Deke, Sima Jinda, Zhao Xingmi, Zhang Qianda and other key members, only two newcomers, Yuan Lizheng and Niu Fangsheng, remained.

Of course there is a reason for the two of them to stay, because these two people were both members of the army who escaped from Xuzhou after the previous battle and returned to the defense. They belong to the same group as Zhao Xingmi and Zhang Qianda, the core backbone of the rebel group.

A small group... More importantly, Yuan Lizheng is now a Zhonglang General in the Jinwu Guard, and is the direct and powerful figure in charge of Sima Deke, another core member of the rebel group. Niu Fangsheng, who was the supervisor of the army at the time, is also now

He is from Naishi She, and belongs to Nanya... Both of them have important positions.

Therefore, although these two people were not the initiators of the agitation at the beginning, they were naturally directly absorbed into the core members.

"I'll say it first."

After one person left, Yuan Lizheng said with a dark face. "I came here because I heard that you guys are going to do something big. If you want to do what Xue Wanlun and those guys said, you can just flee on March 15th."

I'm going north together with my long talk, so I'm going to leave now and find someone else to do great things?"

Zhang Qianda wanted to explain.

Zhao Xingmi, who was standing next to him, was quick to talk and asked first, "Isn't what they said okay?"

"What the hell! Does a cultivator named Xue want to go to Guanxi? If he were to lead troops, not to mention Zhang Xing and Sima Erlang, he would not be able to get through even upstream Xiao Hui." Yuan Li was cursing. "And if he goes alone,

With all due respect, they can leave, but we can't! Without soldiers and horses, without this forbidden army to rely on, without people like Sima Erlang occupying a place to stay, we are just lonely ghosts!"

Zhao Xingmi and others were greatly relieved and nodded one after another.

"That's right, we just want to do big things." Sima Jinda even came up to hold hands, which attracted Sima Deke's attention.

When Zhao Xingmi saw this scene, he immediately asked Niu Fangsheng, who was silent: "Niu Sheren, you have also seen that we are going to do something big. Are you willing?"

Others understood and came to see it.

The truth is actually very simple... If they really wanted to leave after voicing endless arguments a few days ago, and they knew that there was a grandmaster they could rely on, they would not be afraid of the fate of the previous escapees, and they would have to directly lead the troops to follow them.

He even followed alone... But what now? Now that this rebel group has been established and has its own plan, it naturally wants to try to achieve some kind of demands.

And Yuan Lizheng stated the basic pursuit of several backbones here, which is to make their own decisions, control this forbidden army, and use it as capital in troubled times, and then go north.

At this time, the only person who was a little embarrassed was Niu Fangsheng. He had joined the army before and was now a member of the Internal Affairs Bureau. He had nothing to do with military power. And his biological father Niu Hong had been a minister in Nanya for many years as a minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. He was a disciple.

There are so many officials all over the world... In this situation, where can I go without a future?

"Everyone, everyone." Niu Fangsheng knew it well and shook his head repeatedly. "I know what you mean, but there is no need to doubt me... First, although my cultivation is there, it is only a literary cultivation. In these troubled times, dragons and snakes

If there is no boat to escape, any bandit leader can kill me; secondly, since I came back from Xuzhou last time, I have been working in the Imperial Palace and want to escape on my own. Unlike you, I just have to

It will be even harder; thirdly, the saint is such a ghost, if we don’t do something, we will all die in Jiangdu!"

In the end, I gritted my teeth in anger.

When everyone saw Niu Fangsheng's statement, they felt relieved.

Zhao Xingmi even came to advise: "Since everyone is in agreement, don't waste time and just talk about things... Although it is noisy today, judging from the situation, the key positions have been acquired, and the public sentiment has risen, so it is time to go down."

"When did you start?" Yuan Li interrupted and asked.
To be continued...