Sir, I can do it!

The day after Wei Zhao returned home, Li Huai issued an order to summon him.

At that time, the Hou Mansion was setting up a mourning hall for Wei Confucian and Wei Xuan, and the entire mansion was pure white.Wei Zhao stood in front of the mourning hall in full suit, offering incense respectfully.Then said lightly: "Let's go."

Little Deng Zi who came to announce the decree saw that Wei Zhao was still in plain clothes and had no intention of changing clothes, so he reminded: "Third Young Master, don't be rude when you enter the palace to face the emperor."

Wei Zhao said with a smile: "My son is filial piety for my father and brother. This is filial piety. The emperor will not blame him."

Little Dengzi was in distress, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and invite him into the carriage.Who knows that this man doesn't want to sit in a good car, but wants to ride a horse by himself.

"I've been at the border for a long time, and I feel uncomfortable if I don't ride a horse for a day. If I'm not comfortable, others won't be comfortable either."

Little Dengzi groaned inwardly, thinking that this ancestor was really hard to serve.

It was the busiest time on the street at this time, and Wei Zhao rode a horse through the bustling city at a leisurely pace, his suit in plain black was particularly eye-catching.

As Wei Zhao Mai crossed the street, the wind from Shuobei also blew to Shengjing City.The literati's pen and ink are sonorous, and every sentence is weeping blood. All readers are touched by it and feel grateful for the loyalty and bravery of Zhen Guohou.

At the same time, Li Huai also received a tip from Shuobei.When he learned that the whole of Shuobei fell into Wei Zhao's hands, he became calmer.Even though the sackcloth and filial piety still made him feel extremely dazzling.

He looked at Wei Zhao in front of him, his face was still extremely handsome, but the chill and dead silence in his eyes told Li Huai that he was no longer the Wei Zhao from before.

"I know that the Marquis of Zhen Guo's Mansion has a profound background, but I never thought that the power of the Marquis' Mansion would be so terrifying." He laughed at himself, "Should I be thankful that Marquis Zhen Guo's merciful hand didn't take me out of this chair?" Pull up and down."

Wei Zhao looked at him expressionlessly: "Is this what the emperor called me to say?"

Li Huai frowned suddenly, covered his chest with his hands, and coughed heart-piercingly.Every time he coughed, he dragged out a long breath and had to stop, as if he could faint at any time.

When Wei Zhao entered the hall, he saw that Li Huai was haggard, pale, and had lost a lot of weight.Thinking that the Cui family borrowed the hands of Concubine Zheng to use a lot of spices for Li Huai, Li Huai's body must have been exhausted.

After coughing violently, Li Huai's voice was a little hoarse, and he said: "I already know the ambitions of the Cui family, and I also know that my health is not good."

He raised his eyes and looked at Wei Zhao: "The commander of the imperial army has been bought by the Cui family. Once the Cui family learns about the situation in Shuobei, they will definitely force the palace to usurp the throne. I was controlled by Xiangxiang, and I was often insane. Concubine Cui took the opportunity to pretend to be an imperial edict. The soldiers and horses of the East Day Camp were transferred away. General Yuanmeng was sent to Huaizhong again by me. Now that the Cui family has taken action against the Yongzhou army, if the Shengjing Palace changes, the Yongzhou army will not work hard to put down the rebellion."

Li Huai coughed again, and he said intermittently: "Zhen, I call you back to Beijing, Qin, Wang!"

Wei Zhao stared at him for a long time, then suddenly laughed: "The emperor summoned a traitor to King Jingqin? I think the emperor is really confused."

Li Huai took a few deep breaths, and stared at him firmly: "Wei Zhao, I will return the Wei family's innocence, how about protecting the Li family!"

Wei Zhao said: "With the current strength of the Wei family, it is possible to overthrow the Li family and sit on the throne of the emperor. As for whether to rebel or not, who dares to say anything. Which founding emperor did not get the throne by rebellion. My Wei family Anqianmahou seized the country for the Li family, but in the end, my elder brother died of injustice, and my father died in a fierce battle. In the end, he was not charged with treason. Your Li family treats my Wei family like this, so why should I continue to protect you? Li family's country!"

"It's justified by a name!"

Li Huai became excited, his face turned red, and he said solemnly: "Even if Wei Shi usurps the throne and becomes the emperor, can you stop the people in the world? Those students support you now, but in the future! When your interests are at odds, Wei Shi Rebellion is enough to make the world criticize. Even if you don't care, your ancestors don't care! They are upright, so they should also bear the infamy because of your stubbornness!"

"It's all because of you!" Wei Zhao sternly said, "You imposed the crime on the Wei family, and now you want to give charity? What do you think of my Wei family!"

Li Huai pursed his thin lips tightly, and after a long time, he let out a breath slowly, and said with red eyes: "I will issue an edict to sin against myself, I will admit my mistakes to the world, and I will tell the world that I have wronged the Wei family! I will give Wei Shi justice."

After saying these words, it seemed that even his spirit was taken away.He is an emperor!

Li Huai's eyes were a little distracted.He smiled, and asked Wei Zhao in a deep voice, "Can you guarantee that Mrs. Wei really has no intention of rebelling?"

Wei Zhao looked down at Li Huai, and said, "The Wei family will not ignore the people of the world. That's right, I admit that my father and Han Qing have a close relationship with the Murong family. The war against Beiyan is a joint effort of the three parties." But have you ever thought about it, who will benefit in the end when my father takes down Beiyan? If you would trust my father, this situation would not have happened today."

"If my father wants to rebel, as long as Huaizhong and Ningzhou close the salt road, how long do you think Qi can last? If my father wants to rebel, he will desperately defend Beiguan City and prevent Beidi from breaking through! Once Beidi drives straight in , Cui Feng can stop it? Your Li family's country has been trampled by barbarians, can you still sit comfortably in this magnificent palace and dictate orders!"

"Li Huai, the Wei family will not rebel." He looked at this once mighty man and said, "Because you will no longer be an emperor."

He turned around and left Xuanming Hall, walking alone on the long palace road.The majesty and solemnity of this majestic palace were trampled under his feet.At this moment, Wei Zhao suddenly tasted the taste of power.

Hearty with bitterness——

In the early morning of the next day, Li Huai suddenly issued an imperial decree, canonizing the eldest son of the emperor, Li Kui, as the crown prince.Caught off guard, the ministers were in an uproar.

Lu Ding has always supported the eldest son of the emperor, and now that the eldest son of the emperor has become the prince, all the officials couldn't help but congratulate Lu Ding.After all, few courtiers could support the current emperor like Lu Ding, and the prince he supported became the prince again.If there is no accident, the prince succeeds to the throne, and Lu Ding is still an important minister.

However, Lu Ding felt very uncomfortable.Because no one knows better than him that he initially supported the eldest son of the emperor to fight against Wei Shi.Later, supporting the eldest son of the emperor just wanted to hold him in the palm of his hand and become a stepping stone to support the seventh prince to ascend to the throne.

He couldn't help but think of the lonely figure in plain clothes in front of the main hall yesterday. It turned out that he had always underestimated the eldest son of the emperor, and even more underestimated Wei Zhao.

It's just that the arrow is on the string, if he doesn't shoot it, he will suffer.

Song Maoli smiled slightly and said, "Master Xiang, have you figured it out?"

Lu Ding rolled up his sleeves and looked up at the gloomy sky: "The rainstorm is coming, no one can stop it."

Song Maoli said: "Master Xiang doesn't have to be so pessimistic. The generals of the Yongzhou Army have long been attached to me. I let the Cui family get in touch with the Yongzhou Army, just to remind our emperor that he is alone and helpless."

"But he recalled Wei Zhao."

Song Maoli pinched the chess piece in his hand and looked at the chessboard, calmly dropped a piece, and said: "So what. Even if Wei Zhao occupies Shuobei, he is not alone in Beijing at this time. Shuobei has not yet been completely settled, so he dares to mobilize the army. Just relying on the [-] soldiers and horses he brought over, to pretend to be king? It's a joke."

"The Wei family army is good at soldiers. Since Wei Zhao dared to bring five thousand soldiers back to Beijing, he must have been prepared. We should be careful."

Song Maoli said: "We have no way out. So Xiangye might as well be more confident, often you will get unexpected results if you fight to the death. We have forced the palace to fight against Shuobei, and divide half of Qi Kingdom. Slowly, we will not try it in the future. You can’t achieve great things. If you don’t succeed...it’s just a loss of health.”

Lu Ding snorted: "Mr. Song can think about it."

"If I can't think about it, I would have died more than 20 years ago. I am alive and can see Wei Ru die, that's enough."

"The truth is, I'm curious why Mr. Song hates Wei Ru so much."

Song Maoli paused his chess hand, and said slowly: "It's been too long, I forgot."

Lu Ding looked at him: "You must have forgotten the original intention of revenge. People will always be fascinated by power and desire."

When the autumn wind picked up, Lu Ding stretched out his hand to catch a fallen leaf, and said: "The orchids are beautiful, the chrysanthemums are fragrant, and the beautiful women are not to be forgotten—"

Song Maoli closed his eyes slightly and stopped speaking.

On the third day of October in the tenth year of Xuanping, there was light rain.

The commander of the forbidden army surrounded the palace.

Li Huai recalled the same scene when he usurped the throne.He led people around Xuanming Hall, forced Emperor Wu to death, and seized the throne.

"As long as the emperor replaces the Seventh Prince, I can save the emperor's life. If not..." Concubine Cui raised her hand and pointed, and the Imperial Army dragged the concubine out.

"If not, I will kill them one by one until the emperor agrees."

The concubines are all scared, who wants to die.At this time, they didn't care about the dignity and lowliness, and begged the emperor to accept Concubine Cui Gui.

On the contrary, several concubines who had given birth to princes looked indifferent.Because in any case, they will not live, and their son will not live.

Seeing the chaos in the hall, Concubine Feng stood up and scolded: "The emperor is not dead yet, what are you doing, you can't rebel!"

That imperial concubine was always afraid of Concubine Feng Gui. Now that the knife is on her neck, whoever thinks you are a concubine can't help but retort: ​​"The rebellious ones are the Cui family. What does it have to do with me? If you really For the sake of the emperor, let the crown prince step aside, let the seventh prince be the crown prince, and everyone will be able to save their lives!"

Concubine Feng glared: "Idiot!"

She walked to the center of the hall, her skirt was swaying, and her luxurious clothes made her more and more glamorous. Although she was over thirty years old, she still had the same charm, like a pearl pressing on a crabapple.

Li Huai looked at her gravely, and vaguely saw a light blue smile on this beautiful and flamboyant woman.

She has always been arrogant and domineering, but at this moment her domineering is full of elegance.

He looked at her standing in front of everyone, pointed at Concubine Cui, raised his chin haughtily, and sneered: "Do you think it's so easy to force the palace to rebel? Do you think you can do whatever you want by buying the commander of the imperial army? Qi Where is Wu!"

A sonorous and forceful voice spread throughout the hall, followed by a calm and firm response.A lieutenant general came from outside the hall. The moment the hall door opened, a strong smell of blood flowed into the hall with the wind. When the concubines looked up, they saw corpses everywhere outside the hall, blood flowing like a river.

The deputy general strode into the hall and knelt down on one knee: "Chen Qi Wu sees the imperial concubine!"

What he said was seeing the imperial concubine, not the emperor.

There was a trace of bitterness on the corner of Li Huai's mouth, it seemed that he didn't know her anymore.

Concubine Cui Gui's eyes widened suddenly, she pointed at Qi Wu with trembling fingers: "You, how could you..." She looked out of the hall in panic: "Where is the commander of the imperial army!"

Qi Wudao: "The former commander of the Forbidden Army conspired to rebel against the Cui family, and has been captured by His Royal Highness. I was ordered by the crown prince to protect the emperor and the imperial concubine."

Beauty Xiao turned her beautiful eyes, and said to Concubine Xie in a low voice: "I was frightened just now, and I didn't notice that His Highness the Crown Prince is not in the palace."

Concubine Xie held the Buddha string in her hand, looked at Concubine Feng Gui in the center of the hall, and thought to herself that this is probably the protagonist today.As for that Concubine Cui, she is nothing more than a clown.

"It's impossible!" Concubine Cui Guifei's voice was sharp, like a street shrew. "There is also the Yongzhou army, aren't you afraid that the Yongzhou army will approach the city!"

Concubine Feng fiddled with Dan Kou on her nails, and said with a slight smile: "Sure enough, ignorant people are the most fearless. Concubine Cui dared to force the palace to usurp the throne without even knowing the situation of the enemy and us, it is pitiful."

"You nonsense! My eldest brother is in charge of the army in Shuobei, and my father has the support of most of the courtiers. Yes." Cui Guifei seemed to have finally caught the thorn that could hurt Feng Guifei. To support a prince who has no power, Lu Xiang has already stood with the Cui family!"

Concubine Feng shook her head and sighed: "My mother is right, don't argue with fools. Qi Wu, take this Concubine Cui into custody, the concubine has another case on her body, let's settle it later. Lock up these concubines who intend to murder the emperor, lest they go crazy and hurt the emperor."

Seeing the sudden turn of events, the concubines had no time to react, and begged for mercy.

Concubine Feng's phoenix eyes sharpened, and she shouted: "Drag on!"

Everything happened too fast, and it ended too fast, like a farce.

Li Huai's eyes were slightly closed, and his voice was weak.I don't know if I said it to Concubine Feng Gui, or I said to myself: "I have made Qi'er the crown prince, and I will not change it. Why do you do this?"

Concubine Feng Gui said: "Your Majesty's words are wrong. The third son of Wei only brought five thousand elites back to the capital. He put all his troops into the palace and joined forces with Qi Wuli to take down the commander of the imperial army."

She pointed to the outside of the hall and said: "The blood is still wet, the emperor should be able to imagine what kind of bloody battle he went through just now. That's right, Qi Wu was dismissed because of Huguo Temple's inability to protect the queen, and the concubine's younger brother Feng Yudai He begged for mercy, and since then, Qi Wu has been in close contact with my Feng family."

"I know that the emperor's efforts to protect Qi'er as the crown prince are simply because the Feng family's foundation is weak and cannot threaten the emperor's monarchy. But this does not mean that the Feng family will not seek protection. If it is not for the scheme of the third son of Wei, I am afraid that at this time It is the Cui family who succeeded. Is this the result the emperor wants?"

Li Huai pressed the space between his eyebrows, feeling physically and mentally exhausted.He suddenly understood Wei Zhao's words, he said that the Wei family would not rebel, because the Wei family had already secretly bet on Li Kui.This palace is no longer his.

"I want to know what method Wei Zhao will use to stop the Yongzhou Army."

Concubine Feng looked back and said: "At the end of Chu, the world was overwhelmed by water transportation. Today, the Qi Nationality uses water transportation to secure the world."