Quickly pass through and refuse to be cannon fodder

Yuan Jing didn't expect that the tunnel of Prince Cheng's Mansion leads all the way to the outside of the city, and there are also two exits in the civilian area of ​​the city.

The exit outside the city is in a deep mountain. Yuan Jing touched it all over and found a lot of weapons and armor hidden in a cave in the deep mountain. It was stored in the space, and I will find someone with a bright eye to send it to Ming Yu during the day.

Yuan Jing returned to the tunnel, and went back to Prince Cheng's mansion through the tunnel. It can be said that a master of art is so bold that he took away other people's weapon warehouses, and even went back to other people's lair in a big way.

This time he groped into King Cheng's study, groped slowly, and found another organ, found several letters and a stack of bank notes in the organ, and then Yuan Jing set a fire in the study, taking advantage of When the fire rose and attracted the people in the house, Yuan Jing slipped away so well that the people in the house didn't even catch his tail.

Cheng Wang and Cheng Wang Shizi who were awakened in the dream were shocked, and hurriedly asked people to put out the fire, but Yuan Jing did it on purpose, so it was so easy to extinguish. After the fire was extinguished, the whole study room became a pile of coke .

In the middle of the night, the Chengwang Mansion was on fire, which alarmed the residents in this area. The fire lit up the sky, and when it dawned, it spread rapidly throughout the capital.

Looking at the study that was burnt to ashes, King Cheng's legs were weak, because he knew that there were a lot of dirty things in the study. It would be fine if they were burned all together. What about taking things away before burning them?

"Is it artificial?" King Cheng grabbed his subordinates and asked sharply.

"My lord, it seems to be man-made. The little ones smelled oil when they put out the fire."

"Damn it, search, search quickly for me, what did the people patrolling at night do? They didn't even notice when someone walked into the palace?" Cheng Wang was furious, and Xiao Mingrui, the son of Cheng Wang, was also terrified. This time, it was targeting his father's study. , will it be against him next time?What does it mean?Is it to warn him?

For some reason, Xiao Mingrui subconsciously thought of Xiao Mingyu who was at the border. Only that lunatic would do such a crazy thing: "Father, the mansion has to improve its defenses, and the people in the mansion also need to rectify. Someone in the mansion teamed up with people outside to do it."

He judges others by himself, he often arranges nails in other people's houses, so he feels that others will be like him.

At night, Zhao Han and Meng Susu were also alarmed. Zhao Han was afraid that his son would be alarmed, so he didn't go out to check. Meng Susu ran to the yard and looked in the direction of the fire. The fire was extinguished, and everyone had a false alarm.

She wanted to ask the prince what was going on, but because Xiao Mingrui suspected that there was a loophole in the mansion, he got busy all night, so he didn't have time to meet the woman in the backyard.

Meng Susu was a little angry, thinking that these men are really big pigs, you are a baby when they want to sleep with you, and they leave you aside after getting out of bed, for some reason, recently Xiao Mingrui always asks her to hand over those things The method of making the mask and whitening pills was said not to make her worry, but it made Meng Susu vigilant.

If it was an ordinary facial mask and whitening pill, she would definitely not think too much about it, and even handed it over to make Xiao Mingrui pay more attention to her, but she is very clear that the reason why these things are so effective is because they grow in the space and are nourished by aura , although she made excuses, she could feel that Xiao Mingrui was a little unhappy, and hadn't come to her yard for several days in a row.

Thinking of this, Meng Susu was not interested in knowing the reason for the fire, so let's burn it, anyway, she will be fine if the whole palace is burned, and when the time comes, she just hides in the space.

When he went to court the next day, Prince Duan laughed at Prince Shangcheng and his son in front of many people. King Cheng, who had been busy in the middle of the night, had no good complexion, and even suspected that it might be related to Prince Duan and his son, his complexion was even darker.

"Don't let this king take advantage of it. If you have the guts, do it again."

"Hey, what do you mean? You mean I sent someone to burn it? Ah bah! If I were to burn it, I would definitely burn your whole house to nothing. This king has always been daring, so I won't be like you. You are full of hypocrisy and hypocrisy, and you dare to tamper with food and grass, where will you put tens of thousands of soldiers at the border?"

Prince Duan was furious, and he quarreled with King Cheng in the courtroom. Although someone had come forward to take the blame for those things, everyone knew who did it, and only Prince Duan would yell in court indifferently. When they came out, Prince Jiangcheng and his son's face turned from black to green with anger.

In the end, King Cheng couldn't bear it anymore, and his verbal skills were not as good as that of King Duan. In the end, the two of them fought each other with punches and kicks in the court hall. His nose was bruised and his face was swollen, and he was so embarrassed that he didn't show up in the court for several days.

The old emperor acted as a peacemaker, and no one pursued it, because he, like the others who pretended to persuade the quarrel, had a good time, and even smiled and told the noble concubine after he came down to court.

The source of the whole incident, Yuan Jingshen, hid merit and fame, and waited quietly for when Prince Cheng’s mansion would find out that the arsenal had been stolen. He found an opportunity to release these weapons, and sent people to escort them to the border. He copied a copy of the letter that came out and sent it over, so that Xiao Mingyu would not miss the big fish in it when he cast the net for fishing.

Because these letters contain the names of the people that Prince Cheng has hooked up with over the years, in addition to those from the Northern Qi side, there are even those in the army. Otherwise, the people in Prince Cheng’s mansion could have been in contact with Northern Qi for many years without being noticed at all. Naturally, there are people at the border. Colluded with Cheng Wangfu to provide them with a convenient door.

The old emperor is in a good mood recently. He didn't take Xiao Mingyu seriously at first. He just went to the border if he wanted to. Whether he lives or dies depends on his own luck, but he didn't expect to win the battle. Negotiating with Bei Qi should save him a lot of money. Thinking of the money saved, in order to make the noble concubine happy, he wondered if he could build a garden for the noble concubine.

The noble concubine was also very happy to hear the emperor's idea. It was just right to build a summer garden. As for the dispute between King Cheng and King Duan, she didn't care. She had already decided to raise one up to her knees, so that she could still enjoy the beauty of the Queen Mother. As for Xiao Mingrui, he is too old, and after he takes over, will he really respect himself as the Queen Mother?The noble concubine does not believe the promise given by the Cheng Palace.

Therefore, when Duan Wang's mansion was fighting with Cheng Wang's mansion, she sometimes didn't help Duan Wang's mansion with a few good words. If Xiao Mingrui and Meng Susu knew that their goodwill didn't work at all, I don't know how they would feel.

***

News from the border kept coming, but the capital was still singing and dancing. Except for stakeholders and ordinary people, not many people paid attention to these news.

The dignitaries can leave the capital ahead of time to avoid disaster before the enemy soldiers go south, but it is difficult for the common people to migrate, and they will become refugees after leaving the capital.

Suddenly, one day, many officials in the court launched an attack on Duan Wangshizi, counting his crimes. The old emperor just came out of Ruanxiang, and his eyes showed confusion when he sat on the golden palace. What happened to make these people People join the prince's son together?Didn't he stay well at the border gate?

The Cabinet Scholars came out and spoke in a sad tone: "Your Majesty, Prince Duan has not only interfered in the negotiations between the two parties many times, resulting in a stagnation of negotiations, and made the Northern Qi royal court angrily denounce my Da Zhou, but also Prince Duan was in the middle of the negotiations. He led troops out of the city without permission, and now he is gone, Prince Duan's son acted so recklessly, destroying the harmony between my Great Zhou and the Northern Qi royal court, what kind of situation does he want to put on my Great Zhou?"

The old emperor was startled: "Where is the whereabouts of Prince Duan's son? Has he not been found yet? Where is King Duan? Where are Prince Duan's people?"

"Hmph, I'm afraid that Prince Duan won't be able to give a reply after getting the news, so he simply hid in the palace. Your Majesty, you should quickly send Prince Duan's son back to court. With him around, I'm afraid it will arouse even greater anger in the Northern Qi court. At that time, the whole family will come out to ask me, Da Zhou, for an explanation, how should Da Zhou deal with himself at that time?"

"Your Majesty, there is Prince Duan's son disrupting the negotiations between the two countries at the border. I don't want to have a peaceful day in the Great Zhou Dynasty. Please make a quick decision and bring Prince Duan back to the capital for questioning!"

A cabinet scholar made a start, and everyone below came out with grief. It seemed that overnight, Prince Duan became the sinner of the entire Zhou Dynasty. As for whether Prince Duan is alive or dead, no one cares. They just If you don't want these generals to show up again, you must suppress them severely.

Even if there was a weak voice to defend Prince Duan, it was quickly suppressed forcefully by the other party, and the old emperor had a headache from the quarrel in the court.

At this moment, there was a sound of crying and howling from outside the hall, and some people couldn't help but twitch their eyebrows when they heard it, and they came here as soon as they thought, and saw Prince Duan running into the hall while crying, and knelt down in front of him, Crying with snot and tears:

"Your Majesty, that villain is going to kill my family Ming Yu. I beg Your Majesty to make decisions for Ming Yu. What did they say just now? It means that Yu doesn't obey orders? It's clearly the villain who didn't know how many battles Ming Yu won. Ask Your Majesty to do the same thing as them and lose money by cede territory to Northern Qi."

"Your Majesty, it was that villain who hooked up with Bei Qi to betray the interests of His Majesty and my royal family. They just wanted to keep His Majesty in the dark and let them manipulate you. Your Majesty, Ming Yu just found out that someone betrayed me. Great Zhou benefits, that's why they led the troops out, but they turned around and betrayed Ming Yu again, now Ming Yu is surrounded by the Northern Qi army, please send troops to rescue my child, Your Majesty, they just can't see His Majesty and my Xiao family Beautiful scenery, who knows how much they have benefited from the Northern Qi people, so they are so desperate to speak for the Northern Qi people."

The old emperor was terrified when he heard it, and looked suspiciously at all the officials in the court. Those officials also heard the same eyelids, wishing to gag Prince Duan's mouth, and the cabinet scholar who was the first to appear as the son of Prince Shen Duan was angered. I almost vomited blood:

"You are framing and slandering. You are completely nonsense. Prince Duan, even if you are a prince, the old minister will tell you clearly today."

"Ah bah!" Prince Duan got up from the ground neatly, "How many banknotes did your family accept from others in the past two months to let you join me in the court hall? You are just talking nonsense and slandering me, what? It was just the day before yesterday. Your beautiful concubine received another 5 taels of silver bills from others, and what is the origin of your beautiful concubine? Do you really think that others don’t know? What face do you have to refer to my son? You talk about the words of the saint all day long and refer to this and that. Yes, tell me, where did the millions of money in your family come from? Did it fall from the sky?"

"Slander, it's all framing!" The cabinet scholar really vomited blood, and passed away in front of the emperor.