Great Zhou Empress

Liu Yan's queen is a woman with a bad mind, who was spoiled by her father and brother since she was a child. Since her fake pregnancy was exposed, she has almost lost all the trust of Yuan Hanzhang and Liu Yan. The reason why she is still the queen, It's just because she still needs to "give birth" to a son.

She is also from a big family, how can she bear such a thing.

Liu Yan died, and she was very worried that Yuan Hanzhang would arrange for her to "suddenly die", or arrange for her to "go crazy", because there has always been only the reason for the queen mother to be regent, and there is no empress dowager who is regent, so Yuan Hanzhang is about to leave During the chaotic time in Jiankang City, she managed to contact her father and brother.

If Yuan Hanzhang can be killed, she will be the Queen Mother Regent, and her father and brother will also benefit greatly.

The boat that Xue Zhijing and others took can already see Jiankang City not far away, and Xue Zhijing also heaved a sigh of relief. He has been so busy these past few months that he almost has no time to think about his own affairs.

She decided to wait for Yuan Hanzhang to settle down in Bianjing, and she applied to be an envoy to the Liao Kingdom, just like the ambassadors of the embassy in later generations. There are similar ones in this era, but no system has been formed, but this kind Things can be discussed.

Hey, this time she won against Xiao Liege, in Xiao Liege's eyes, she probably really became a bad person.

It was already night, and the bow of the boat was hung with lanterns. Jiankang City was not closed at night, so they could sail the boat to the shore at night, and they estimated that they would be able to enter the palace at midnight.

At this moment, a bright flame suddenly appeared in front of him.

Light pollution is not so serious in this era. Even though Jiankang is a city that never sleeps, the lights are limited after all, so once a building catches fire, it can be seen from a long distance away.

"It seems to be the direction of the palace?"

Xue Zhijing thought about it, but she didn't have a telescope, so she couldn't be sure, so she had to call the rowers to speed up.

When they finally arrived at the pier in Jiankang City, Xue Zhijing and others got off the boat, quickly mounted their horses and went straight to the direction of the palace, leaving the rest of their luggage on the boat.

Running all the way forward, he met a group of imperial guards stationed outside the city, pretending to ask them why they were running horses in the city, Xue Zhijing explained his identity and asked if the palace was on fire?But the other party expressed that he did not believe that she was really Xue Zhijing, saying that Commander Xue was not in Bianjing City, how could he return to Jiankang.

If something goes wrong, there must be a demon, Xue Zhijing secretly screamed, something must have happened to the palace, Queen Mother?

"Cut them down!" Xue Zhijing didn't talk to the imperial army, and directly called the cavalry behind him to come forward.

After all, they had just come down from the battlefield. The imperial guards stationed outside the city hadn't seen blood for a long time, but they were hacked a few times, shed some blood, screamed a few times, and scattered like mice.

"Hurry up, go to the palace."

Xue Zhijing headed straight for the palace with his soldiers and horses, met several pairs of imperial guards in the middle, and finally arrived at the gate of the palace after hacking them all.

The imperial palace in Jiankang City was originally just a mansion of a Duke, and it was not big at all. Except for some spacious yards in the front yard, the rest of the houses were built densely, which means that such houses are easy to burn.

When Xue Zhijing saw the burning palace, he felt bad.

She quickly made a decision, divided the people she brought into three parts, and one part went to the surrounding residential buildings, and called out all the civilians who were hiding in the house because of tonight's turmoil. Participate in fighting fires.One part went to tie Jing Zhaoyin to her, and asked Jing Zhaoyin to lead his subordinates to maintain order in the capital.The other part followed her to look for Yuan Hanzhang's traces, wanting to see people and corpses.

In order to get to the palace as soon as possible, she only brought some people here, and the rest are still on the boat behind, and they should come one after another. Xue Zhijing sent people to inform them that Jiankang City was surrounded, and they were not allowed. Anyone leave.

The fire was too strong, and it was getting bigger and bigger. Everyone could only dig a whole circle of ditches around the palace to prevent the fire from burning further away, but they couldn't rush into the palace anyway.

The heat wave was rolling and everyone was sweating profusely.

The surrounding residents were pulled over one by one to ask what happened tonight.

At this time, some courtiers noticed the movement in the palace and rushed over.

But no one can tell what happened.

Finally, the fire trucks arranged by Jing Zhaoyin were pushed over one by one, and they were used with a clatter.

But even in later generations, such a powerful fire truck cannot completely and quickly extinguish the fire in an area, and the fire trucks of this era are even slower.

Now Xue Zhijing saw the courtiers in the city and looked at them all as if they were rebels. He didn't know who set the fire, so he simply asked them to stay in a resident's house directly. If he could tell something, he would be pulled over to see Xue Zhijing.

When the fire was getting smaller, the students of the Military Academy escorted several people on horseback to Xue Zhijing, and some of them carried several people on their horses.

After dragging them down, it was Liu Yan's queen and her father and brother.The last student held a baby in his arms, which should be Liu Yan's "son".

The queen of Liu Yan must have suffered some hardships, her hair was messed up, and her face was a little bruised.

Seeing her, Xue Zhijing became angry, grabbed her collar, strangled her neck and pulled her towards him, "Say, where is the Empress Dowager?"

The queen laughed out loud, and when she was caught, she opened her arms like crazy and said, "The queen mother of Dacheng, isn't she right here? Hahaha!"

Seeing her appearance, Xue Zhijing's hand gradually clenched, and he slapped her face. Xue Zhijing's hand was very strong. At this moment, anxiety, worry, and anger were mixed in his heart, and his strength became even stronger. With a slap, the queen's ears were almost deaf, and her face was visibly swollen.

"If you speak well, I might spare your life."

"I bother!"

Ignoring them at this time, Xue Zhijing dragged them into the surrounding houses to torture them, hoping to know the whereabouts of Yuan Hanzhang. As for the little baby, Xue Zhijing looked at it coldly and let the person in his arms take care of himself .

Finally, in the middle of the night, the fire in the palace was extinguished, and it began to rain.

Regardless of the scorching heat inside, Xue Zhijing led his men into the ruins of the palace, and even arrested Jing Zhaoyin.

"I remember that there are some secret passages here, do you know where they are?"

Jing Zhaoyin had a mournful face, "I don't know."

This used to be the mansion of a duke of the state. Before the duke got this house, it was the mansion of a prince several generations ago. The legendary secret path was built by that prince.

Xue Zhijing thought that if there was a one in ten thousand possibility, Yuan Hanzhang might be in the tunnel.

Everyone found a lot of corpses in the palace, but no corpses were found in Yuan Hanzhang's study, which gave Xue Zhijing more hope in his heart.

At dawn, the soldiers and horses brought back by Xue Zhijing surrounded the entire Jiankang City. Many people were shuttling around in Jiankang City. The citizens did not dare to go out. The only sound on the street was the clacking of horseshoes.

At this time, a few people emerged from a somewhat muddy river, they were Yuan Hanzhang, Ayila and Li Jing.

After they walked onto the river bank, they were discovered by the sergeants.

When Xue Zhijing saw them, they had already put on the clothes of soldiers, but their hair was still dirty, looking miserable.

"Miss."

Xue Zhijing stepped forward and checked Yuan Hanzhang up and down for any injuries or other conditions.

Luckily she wasn't hurt, but she looked pale and emaciated.

Li Jing and Ayila on the side looked better, but they were not much better. The veil on Ayila's face was nowhere to be seen. If it wasn't for the dirty face, it would probably cause riots.

"The tunnel has been around for too long, inside," Li Jing pondered over her words, her complexion even worse, "God bless us, we finally came out."

Xue Zhijing greeted them into a residence near the palace, borrowed some clothes from the owner, and boiled some hot water for them to clean, finally it didn't look so miserable.

Along the way, Ayila held Yuan Hanzhang in his arms, and Yuan Hanzhang felt a little uncomfortable, almost leaning half on her body.

Everyone was tired all night, so they borrowed the kitchen of the folk house to make some simple breakfast. They talked while eating breakfast. Last night was a night of horror.

Li Jing: "I was at the military plane last night, and a group of forbidden soldiers rushed in. I guess the forbidden soldiers guarding the palace were either bribed or killed. I had to rush to the study of the empress, and Ayila heard about it. They rushed over. Those imperial guards were well-trained and very familiar with the palace, their only task was to kill the empress, and we hid in the empress’s bedroom in the end.”

Yuan Hanzhang also said slowly, "I know that this mansion is authentic. When I moved in, I looked at the drawings and found the entrance in my bedroom, but I never thought I would use it. Before, I just asked Haitang to go down to check briefly, and then blocked the entrance, I didn't expect it to be used in the end."

Xue Zhijing asked, "What about Haitang?"

Li Jing said, "If it wasn't for Haitang and the other empress' hidden guards, we probably wouldn't be able to make it to the palace, and we wouldn't be able to leave from the tunnel."

It means that Haitang may have died in the palace.

It is estimated that the fire after that was because the queen and others didn't know that there was a tunnel, so they simply thought of burning the entire palace with one fire, and it would be over once and for all.

Now that Yuan Hanzhang is fine, the next thing will be easy to deal with.

Before Xue Zhijing had a house in Jiankang City, it was not big, and she didn’t live there often, so she simply tidied it up and let Yuan Hanzhang and the "Little Emperor" live in it. After cleaning it up, we headed straight back to Bianjing.

In this incident, the Forbidden Army was dealt with first, and all generals above the middle level were dismissed from their posts, no matter whether they had joined the Queen's faction before or were deceived and imprisoned midway, and then the bottom-level sergeants of the Forbidden Army were caught in their hands.

Then the whole city was under martial law, and all the courtiers related to the queen were cleaned up. If the heads of various departments were arrested, the adjutants would handle the affairs, and if the adjutants were also arrested, the officials would handle the affairs.

At the same time, Xue Zhijing and the Military Aircraft Department handled the urgent documents submitted daily from various places, completely emptying the Political Affairs Hall and the Privy Council.

As for the rebellious queen's family, the queen claimed that they died suddenly, so naturally her family also died suddenly.

And Yuan Hanzhang was a little tired because of what happened last time. Every day when Xue Zhijing went to report to work, she was lazy. The imperial doctor said that she was overly frightened and needed to rest.

Xue Zhijing secretly asked Ayila who had been taking care of her in private, and Ayila said, "Actually, since the death of the first emperor, the empress has been a little bit bad. Although she still handles government affairs as before, I often see her in a trance. It was after that that I was able to freely enter and exit her study."

Xue Zhijing didn't expect this.

The first emperor that Ayila mentioned was Liu Yan, the only son of Yuan Hanzhang.

Xue Zhijing looked back at the room where Yuan Hanzhang was resting, and pondered, "I have never been a mother, so I don't know what kind of trauma the death of a child will bring to a mother."

Ayila said, "It should be very hurt. Later, I heard from the serving maids that after the late emperor passed away, they once saw the empress stay up all night and sit on the bed."

Xue Zhijing frowned.

"Then Ayla, take good care of your empress, I will take care of the affairs of the court."