Aggrieved Fish Sprite

There are no corpses strewn about in the city of Taijing, nor are there ruined walls.

Although there are soldiers everywhere and the atmosphere is extremely tense, the common people can still walk around in the square, and they can also enter and exit the square through interrogation.Many shops on the street were closed, and there were long queues in front of rice shops and oil shops.

In front of the shop, the small officials of the Taijing government loudly read the orders just issued by the ministers of Wenyuan Pavilion, claiming that the rebellion has been decided, all the rebels have been taken down, Taijing will return to normal soon, and the people do not need to rush to buy rice grain.

Those rice merchants who set prices on the ground have been locked up by the officials and are about to be taken away.

Although the people were terrified, they kept applauding when they saw this scene.

The sixth prince opened the curtain of the carriage and looked out, with a slightly disdainful expression on his face.

"Such merchants should clean up." General Liu's personal guard said in relief.

"It's arresting people, and then extorting money." The sixth prince sneered, and stretched out his finger, "Look at these government soldiers, are they guarding against merchants, or are they applauding people around?"

Liu Dan coughed lightly, and before He Shilang heard the movement, he persuaded in a low voice: "Your Highness, please be cautious in your words and deeds."

Since the sixth prince entered the city, his thorny posture became more and more obvious.Liu Dan couldn't understand why, shouldn't he pretend to be filial at this time, and show humility and obedience to the emperor?

When I first heard about the second prince's rebellion, the sixth prince was a little weird, and now it's even worse.

In Liu Dan's view, after a coup forced the palace, Taijing can quickly restore such an order, which is already very good.This shows that nothing happened to Zaifu's important ministers, and they didn't intend to make troubles to disgust people.

——As a general who has been squeezed out and suppressed by the civil society group all the year round, Liu Dan still has a lot of opinions on some people in the court.

Not participating in the conspiracy does not mean that you can sleep peacefully.

All through the ages, in the name of rebelling against the party, there will be earth-shaking changes in the imperial court. Those who are demoted and resigned are considered lucky. Maybe one day they will be impeached by the censor for more than a dozen crimes, and then some of the court officials will be impeached. The factions worked together, and when the court went to the official hat and uniform, they were thrown into prison.

For Liu Dan, the most dangerous thing is that he has no backer in the court.

His backer was the emperor himself. In order to win the emperor's trust, the military general could only be a lonely minister, and his military power and influence were not so great that the civil servants were willing to look at him differently, so he didn't even have anyone to help him speak.

Liu Dan frowned.

What was more worrying than him were the Jinyiwei who went to the imperial mausoleum with the sixth prince in the convoy. There were imperial guards everywhere on the streets of Taijing, even yamen servants, but there was no sign of Jinyiwei.

Liu Dan gradually realized that something was wrong. Although the interrogation in the city was strict, but when encountering those Jianghu people who were stubbornly resisting, the patrol guards and yamen servants just pretended to chase and shout, and did not use bows and arrows.It seems that if they can catch up, they will be locked up, and if they can't catch up, it's fine. This is obviously because they have not received a death order, and the convoy was only embarrassed when it entered the city. Come to find fault, and there is no servant to pass the order.

In this way, they entered the inner city with trepidation.

At this time, someone finally came, it was the servant of Wenyuan Pavilion.

Shi Shulang is a small official of the sixth rank, usually from Hanlin background, and the head teacher is an important minister of the prime minister or he himself joined a powerful faction in the court, and was trained as a minister.However, it will take at least 20 years before they actually take the position of prime minister, even if their official career goes smoothly. During this period, countless accidents may occur, preventing them from reaching the end.

They seem to have a bright future, but they are actually the ones who run errands in Wenyuan Pavilion and help the ministers.

Seeing such a person with the imperial guards blocking the way at this moment, the faces of the people in the convoy were not very good.

He Shilang relied on his status and looked down on the other party.

Except for him, everyone else was wondering in their hearts, after all, the sixth prince is also a prince, how could he let a sixth-rank servant to welcome him?If he is a loyal courtier of the emperor, it doesn't matter if he is a small official, but the servant in front of him is not at all.

What does it mean?The sixth prince no longer has any possibility of ascending the throne?The sixth prince is going to be unlucky soon?Or is the emperor deliberately suppressing the sixth prince?Or...does the emperor really still hold the power of the court?It stands to reason that for the balance of power, even if the emperor kills the second prince and makes the third prince the heir apparent, he will not really throw the sixth prince aside. On the contrary, he will take the little prince out to sharpen the East Palace!

They are all people who have been mixed in the officialdom, and they have developed several minds. When everyone thinks about it carefully, they shudder.

Shi Shulang calmly announced the oral order, saying that it was nothing more than the second prince's conspiracy, His Majesty was furious and ordered a strict investigation and so on.During the period, it was mentioned that the second prince colluded with the commander of Jinyiwei and bribed the assassins from the rivers and lakes to enter the palace to assassinate.

He Shilang was out of his mind, Liu Dan didn't dare to move rashly, so he watched helplessly as they took the sixth prince away.

Then Shi Lang was mentioned in the oral order, and he was told to go home and rest until the court meeting in a few days.

Seeing that the servant turned around to leave, Liu Dan couldn't help asking: "Did Your Majesty mention this general?"

Shi Shulang glanced at him, because Liu Dan's injury was not healed, so he didn't wear any armor, only a fourth-rank military officer's uniform.There is no difference between the four-rank official robes of the military officers, but there is a difference in the standard of the armor. The servant obviously didn't remember who Liu Dan was, and thought it was the military officer who escorted the sixth prince from Yongzhou, so he said casually: "No, Mr. Go back to the state post and wait for the news."

Liu Dan: "..."

When officials from other places came to Beijing to report their duties, or came to Beijing for official business, because they had no place to live, they would live in the post house with the sign of the state capital. This was set up by the imperial court, and the officials themselves did not need to spend money.

If he is a fourth-rank governor in the local area, he can only go to the post house, even if he has bought the house in Taijing, it is still in the outer city.Naturally, the officials on standby must be in the North City and the Inner City, which are close to the imperial city. Houses here are simply unaffordable, and the prices are frighteningly high.

But he, the general who smashed the bandits, once had the merit of saving him!The emperor rewarded the mansion!Even though no one lives there all year round and the house is not big, he still has a house!

This servant was not sent by the emperor at all!

Liu Dan didn't believe that the emperor could forget himself. It wasn't that Liu Dan thought highly of himself, but that the emperor was eager to call him to Beijing to inquire about the Silang Mountain gold mine.

He would walk with the Sixth Prince because the Sixth Prince disappeared because of playing around in the Yongzhou Imperial Mausoleum. When He Shilang asked the government for help, he also involved him who was passing by the place and asked to help find it.Later, the chaos of the collision of the imperial mausoleum occurred, and He Shilang and Liu Dan respectively wrote a secret memorial and reported it to the emperor.

So in the official documents, Liu Dan did not go with the sixth prince.

But here in Lu Zhang, he is very aware of this matter, and whether it is for the gold mine, the imperial tomb, or to understand what the six princes have done along the way, it is impossible for Lu Zhang to completely ignore Liu Dan. Not to mention, the person who conveyed the oral order didn't even know who Liu Dan was.

General Liu's brain buzzed loudly.

He stopped the guards with his eyes, and then stared threateningly at the Jin Yiwei and soldiers walking along the way.

"Yes, we are going to the Yongzhou Posthouse." Liu Dan turned his head and said to Shi Shulang with a smile.

Shi Shulang noticed something was wrong, looked at Liu Dan suspiciously, made a note of this matter in his heart, bowed his hands as a gesture of politeness, and then led the person away.

The guard looked at his back and cursed in a low voice.

A few quick-witted Jin Yiwei also realized that Liu Dan should live in the Pingzhou post house when he was suppressing mountain bandits in Pingzhou.

"It's not right."

"Your Majesty... Could it be that the second prince is in power?"

"Idiot, if the second prince is in power, it shouldn't be the second prince who is labeled as rebellious, it should be the third prince!"

Everyone suddenly realized, yes, the second prince's reckless temperament is not like someone who can plot rebellion!Even if the second prince is stupid, the Commander of Jin Yiwei is not stupid.

"...Your Majesty's trusted Jin Yiwei can't see any of them, and there is actually our commander in the rebellious party!"

"The third prince is really hiding something."

Everyone said what they said, wrongly twisting the truth in another direction.

Smart people are often defeated by absurd reality.

Because no matter how you think about it, the civil official group secretly planned, instigated the second prince to plot against, bombarded the palace with artillery, and then took advantage of the chaos to control the capital, united with the third prince to put the emperor under house arrest, and the process of killing the second prince was very convincing.

The next opponent of the third prince is the weak prince.

The sixth prince is young and has no power, so it is difficult to stand up.

Liu Dan returned to his mansion in a hurry, and sent his own soldiers out to inquire about the news. He walked back and forth in the flower hall with his hands behind his back.

The domestic servant was very slack on weekdays because he had not been in the capital for a long time. Now, with his head down tremblingly, he reported to Liu Dan what had happened in the capital these days.

It is mainly the Xingbo on the first day of the Yuan Dynasty, and the double dragon vision that appeared in the sky a few days ago.

Liu Dan didn't hear what he wanted to know, and was anxious when the guards came back one after another.

"General, it's not good! The crown prince is critically ill. It is said that it happened this month. Originally, it was very well concealed. When Taijing was under martial law, those who handled related matters were afraid and leaked the news."

"really?"

"General, it's bad! Beizhen Fusi was besieged by the imperial guards... and Nanzhen Fusi, those Jinyi guards were all trapped inside. It is said that it has been like this for four days."

"what?!"

Liu Dan came up against the case, although he was very tired of Jin Yiwei, but it was bad news for Liu Dan that the emperor would not become an emperor. The third prince came to power through the civil official group, and the general's life would be even more difficult.

"If you're so bold, aren't you afraid that it will be known to the government and the public, and you will be entangled in notoriety?"

"...General, there is even worse news. A few days ago, Jin Yiwei and Zhi Gongjun were sent to Shangyun Mountain to arrest the Jianghu people who went to Beijing to make trouble. As a result, they never came back after this trip, and the capital was under martial law. General Tan from Zuoying led his troops to encircle and suppress the rebellious party, and headed towards Shangyun Mountain. General, do you think they are arresting Jianghu people, or dealing with Gong Tongzhi?"

Liu Dan was dumbfounded, and when he recovered, he hurriedly urged, "How did you know about this?"

"There is chaos at Fusi in Nanzhen. It is said that there is nothing to eat in the yamen. They are arguing with the imperial guards, and the sound is heard far away!" The soldiers curled their lips and said disdainfully, "Those imperial guards It's also ridiculous, thinking that Jin Yiwei can be completely suppressed this time, and proudly saying that Gong Tongzhi may have died in the hands of gangsters in the rivers and lakes."

Liu Dan shook his head: "Gong Tongzhi's reputation in Nanzhen Fusi is higher than that of Jin Yiwei's commander. These imperial guards speak so rudely, it's like stabbing a hornet's nest."

"So it's like this? No wonder!" The guards hurriedly added, "The guards in Jinyi became angry when they heard it, and they rushed out and injured many guards. They took off several arms without seeing blood, and said Why did they both know martial arts, and Shangyun Mountain is so big, how could something happen. Then the Imperial Guards made a mistake. It turned out that General Tan from Zuoying in Gyeonggi went there with artillery. Artillery! Directly Boom the mountain!"

Even Liu Dan was too shocked to speak.

How could Taijing be in such a mess?

"Now, how about the imperial guards and Nanzhen Fusi?"

"I don't know yet. There is a brother squatting over there watching. I will come back and report to the general."

Hearing this, Liu Dan frowned and regretted, "We shouldn't have gone to Beijing. We can see the direction of the wind after a while outside. Now that we've been sucked into the vortex, I really don't know how to get out."

"This is easy to handle. Why don't we sneak into the ranks of the Imperial Guards and play by ear?" the guard suggested.

"No, even though the attendant didn't know me, he told me when he went back that I couldn't hide my identity. When the time comes, I won't be able to find him. I'm afraid he will be directly labeled as a traitor." Liu Dan sighed and stretched out his hand. Rubbing between the eyebrows.

This is really a sad city.

Just when Liu Dan was worried, another soldier hurried in.

"General, something strange has happened!"

Liu Dan was not as surprised as the previous two times, he just raised his eyelids, and ordered in a deep voice: "Say!"

This soldier was relatively young, he leaned over and said mysteriously, "Something happened to He Shilang's house!"

"Ok?"

"The subordinates just followed He Shilang's home. General guess what, He Shilang is furious at home right now! His servants wanted to hide it, but they couldn't hide it. He Shilang went home to change clothes, but his house... Poof. "

Liu Dan stared at the soldier, who quickly suppressed his smile and said solemnly: "All Shilang He's clothes have been stolen, except for the purse and socks, there is nothing left! Even the shoes are gone!"

"...What did the thieves do for stealing these clothes? The official robes were also stolen?"

"No, five or six official robes are gone, and official hats and boots with jade belts are gone."

Liu Dan pondered: "Could it be that someone wants to pretend to be Minister He?"

"Not only that, I heard from the servants of the He Mansion that all the rice and food in the house disappeared, and there was only a pile of cabbage left in the kitchen." The soldier suppressed a laugh and said in a low voice, "My subordinate guesses that maybe these things will be destroyed. Appearing in the homes of those poor people in Xicheng, robbing the rich and giving to the poor, it sounds like a script."

Liu Dan said angrily: "Come on, why did the hero who robbed the rich and helped the poor steal the official robe? When is this? There are still people who do this kind of thing..."

Before he finished speaking, he saw that the guard who came back last had a wrong expression.

And next to the bodyguard, there was a short man in gray armor, at first glance he thought he was also his bodyguard.

"you--"

The uninvited guest raised his head with a gloomy expression.

"General Liu doesn't seem to welcome me anymore."

"Sixth Prince... how did you get out?" Liu Dan remembered that the Sixth Prince could sneak out before that. He Shilang and his men quickly turned over the imperial tomb, but they didn't find him.

Liu Dan's face was very ugly, standing in front of him who is the prince is obviously a huge trouble.

Head trouble!

"Your Highness has a distinguished status. Now that there is chaos in the city, His Highness really shouldn't run around willfully."

"General Liu, you are my father's confidant, and my father will definitely summon you first." The sixth prince stared at him, pursed his lips and said, "Then please take me into the palace as a personal guard. Even if the general refuses, I can find Liu's residence, and I can also get others to find the general, the general doesn't want to be a chaotic party!"

Liu Dan turned cold and ordered his own soldiers to drive him out mercilessly.

"The sixth prince has been taken into the palace. This person's identity is unknown, but you actually let him in! Let him go!"

The sixth prince was not annoyed either, he looked at Liu Dan fixedly and said, "Wouldn't you introduce me to the people the general met in the imperial mausoleum?"

Liu Dan's heart skipped a beat, but his expression remained calm.

The soldiers were not as calm as Liu Dan, and the movements of his subordinates couldn't help but slow down.

Seeing this, the sixth prince said more firmly: "General Liu may not know that this king has learned martial arts, and his eyes and eyes are much more sensitive than others. That day in the forest near the imperial mausoleum, I heard your soldiers mention a name."

"..."

"Master Meng, that's an interesting title. Who is this person?"

Looking at the confident sixth prince, Liu Dan felt a headache for a while.

The sixth prince snorted and said, "Later, the imperial mausoleum was attacked by a group of Jianghu people. After investigation, I even heard that there was a former palace official named Aunt Yu who once saw a person whose figure, demeanor, and eyes were all different." It looks exactly like Meng Qi, the former national teacher, but much younger in appearance. Aunt Yu insisted that it was Meng Guoshi, and said that there is no other person with such power in the world. What's more, her description reminded me of Of the two strangers I met near the Lujiazhuang of the imperial mausoleum, one of them is just like what she said, unique in the world, and it is unforgettable."

"I don't know what your highness is talking about. I will fight in northern Xinjiang for many years, and later I will go to Pingzhou to suppress mountain bandits. I have only a few days in Taijing. I can't even recognize the officials of this dynasty, let alone say anything. The former imperial teacher!"

Seeing Liu Dan's reluctance, the sixth prince nodded and said calmly: "Then let's not mention this, let's talk about the general's current crisis. Orders can disarm you and return you to the fields, or bring you to justice. You are a loyal subject of your father and emperor. When the new king ascends the throne, your position will be replaced by the new king's confidants. Is the general willing? The soldiers and horses under the general's command are Those who followed the general in northern Xinjiang, who were born and died, handed them over to others, would they be willing? Will there be a good end?"

The sixth prince stretched out his hand to the side of the guide, and said with a sneer: "If I am the new emperor, I only need to send these people to the defense line of the Yangtze River and force them to attack the old land of Yichu, and these people will naturally become members of the list of soldiers killed in battle by the Ministry of War."

Liu Dan is not a fuel-efficient lamp, he remains silent.

To deal with people like the Sixth Prince, it is the best strategy to ignore them with a cold face.

Seeing that the anger would not work, the sixth prince changed his words again: "Maybe the general wants to defect with his soldiers and horses."

He clapped his palms twice, and said with a sarcasm: "That's a good idea. Unfortunately, the general's former headquarters is in Pingzhou. What will happen after the general flees with his own soldiers? To go to the territory of the three kings of the Chu Dynasty, you have to go through Yongzhou and go to The Tianshouwang in the southwest? The general wiped out the sub-helm of the Holy Lotus Altar, can the Tianshouwang really stay there?"

Liu Dan was surprised, how did the sixth prince know about his stay in Qinghu Town, Pingzhou?

The sixth prince just laughed and said nothing, he won't be so stupid as to say that he got the Pingzhou secret report from the prince, and the prince from the Commander of Jin Yiwei.

"...From this point of view, the general can only take his subordinates far outside the pass, or escape into the mountains, and occupy the mountains where the imperial order cannot be conveyed. Right now, there is an opportunity to change fate. It depends on the general. Can you hold it!"

"Just to bring you into the palace?" Liu Dan sneered.

"No, I want to see that Meng Guoshi!"

The sixth prince's eyes lit up, he wanted to see the legendary figure that the prince had mentioned, who was in Beizhen Fusi as if entering no man's land, and caused the sudden death of the deputy commander of Jin Yiwei.

Missing it in the Imperial Mausoleum before made the Sixth Prince extremely regretful.

Thinking of overhearing Meng Guoshi talking about Lujiazhuang with that doctor, the sixth prince was even more excited. It is really rare that a capable man who does not take imperial power in his heart is still a good minister who governs the world in the words of the elder brother!

"You, what did you say?" Liu Dan was dumbfounded.

"This king..."

The sixth prince thought silently, he wanted to find a reliable assassin, the Qingwu patriarch that idiot like the second emperor brother was looking for would not work at all!Meng Guoshi is different!

"This king can promise the position of Minister of Meng Guoshi, not only this king, but also the elder brother!" The sixth prince gritted his teeth and said, he believed that the prince would definitely agree with him.

Liu Dan and the soldiers: "..."

Meng Guoshi doesn't want Xiangyin, he only wants the money bag.

The author has something to say:

Liu Dan: The national teacher has always come to rob. I have never gone to the national teacher. How should I go?Hang a purse around your neck, and walk the streets beating a gong?

You are embarrassing me Liu Qiandai!