Emperor Longqing fell into a drowsy sleep this afternoon, daydreaming a lot, and also dreamed about many past events when he was young.

The late emperor had quite a few heirs. He was born as a concubine, neither a direct wife nor an eldest son, and had no strong support from his relatives. In the end, he was able to stand out from the many princes and inherit the great treasure. Apart from relying on his firm mind and extraordinary resourcefulness, he naturally had blood on his hands.

He has killed countless people in his life, including close relatives, siblings and ministers of civil and military affairs. As long as he thinks that he will threaten his rule and has the heart of treason, he will never be soft. He would rather kill by mistake than let it go. Yes, which dragon chair is not made of piles of white bones?

He killed too many people, many people who died at his hands, Emperor Longqing has no memory, of course, there is no need to remember.

He is the true dragon emperor, the lord of all peoples, those who follow others will prosper, and those who oppose others will perish. This is the way of kingship.

Emperor Longqing was wandering in his dream, not knowing where he was, when suddenly a mist floated in front of him, Emperor Longqing walked into the fog, and saw a shadowy figure in front of him that seemed to be someone, so he walked forward, and when he walked in, he took a closer look, Those people were all wearing solid armor and were tall and tall, but there was nothing above the neck where the head should have been. It turned out that the head was held in their hands!

Emperor Longqing was shocked when he saw this terrifying scene, and turned around to run for his life, but those headless ghosts were chasing after him.

"Hunting Lord! My Jiang family is full of loyalty and made great contributions to Da Liu, but you listened to the villain's slander and killed us. Hunjun, I want you to pay in blood today!"

Emperor Longqing immediately understood that the headless ghost chasing him was the son of the Jiang family, and while running away with his head in his arms, he begged for forgiveness: "Aiqing, please forgive me! I was also deceived by the traitor. I know that your Jiang family is loyal to me, and I regret it very much afterwards. , if you spare my life, I will definitely punish the traitors severely, and erect monuments and temples for you, to comfort you and other heroic spirits!"

After fleeing for an unknown distance, the sound behind him gradually disappeared. Emperor Longqing turned his head and looked back with lingering fear. The headless ghost was gone. Just as he was about to breathe a sigh of relief, when he turned his head, he saw several ghosts staggering in front of him. They came towards him, they were all dressed in prison uniforms, unkempt and unkempt, and they died in a miserable state. Some hanged themselves with bright red tongues sticking out, and some drank poisonous wine and bled to death. Collapsed.

"Duan Mingzhao! You are cruel, cruel, ruthless and ruthless! We have already stated your crimes in front of the Palace of the King of Hades, and now we will arrest you and send you to the eighteenth floor of hell!"

Emperor Longqing also understood the identities of these fierce ghosts, they were the brothers who were killed by him in the battle for the throne, and now they came to ask for their lives!

Emperor Longqing ran away, and after running not far away, he saw a fairy-like woman in white clothes in front of him. He thought it was some kind of fairy, and hurried forward to ask for help: "Fairy, help me! There is a ghost chasing me!"

The girl was born with a beautiful appearance and was absolutely untouched. Looking at Emperor Longqing, she quietly asked: "Has the Emperor no longer recognized his concubines?"

Emperor Longqing stared at the woman carefully for a while, "Are you Lian Ji?"

"Your majesty, you have made my concubine so miserable..." The woman's tone was sobbing, and two lines of blood and tears slowly seeped from her eyes, making this beautiful face suddenly dark.

Emperor Longqing was afraid and regretful in his heart, and tremblingly said: "Lian Ji, is it really you? I was the one who misbelieved the rumors back then, and everything was due to me. I am sorry for you. Fortunately, our child is fine, he has returned to the By my side, don't worry, I will definitely make it up to him!"

The woman slowly approached Emperor Longqing step by step, and said sadly: "It's too late, it's too late! You have committed too many crimes, and the retribution is just around the corner!"

"Lian Ji! Please forgive me! I know I was wrong!" Emperor Longqing was forced to retreat again and again, and unknowingly retreated to a bottomless cliff. At this moment, the woman suddenly stretched out her hand and pushed After giving him a hand, Emperor Longqing stepped on the ground in his dream, and then woke up from the dream dripping with cold sweat.

Emperor Longqing opened his eyes, looked at the bright yellow bed curtain above his head, and realized that it was just a dream, but he also felt like he was alive after a catastrophe.

He had had similar nightmares before, but when he was young, he was never afraid of these gods and ghosts. These people were not his opponents when they were alive, so what would they do after death?But once a person gets old, he becomes paranoid and full of fear of death, fearing that after death he will go to hell because of too many sins, and fear that his soul will not be at peace.

The scene in the dream is still vivid in my mind, and I still feel chills in the back of my head when I recall it, and my heart trembles with fear.

I don’t know how long I slept for this sleep. When I woke up, the lamps in the hall were already lit, but no one was on duty. I could vaguely hear noises coming from outside. Emperor Longqing lifted the quilt and slowly got out of bed. Sitting up, he yelled twice: "Come on! Come on!"

Wang Neiguan heard the call from inside and hurried in, "Your Majesty, you are awake."

Emperor Longqing sat on the edge of the bed, rubbed his brows, and asked impatiently: "What's going on outside, it's noisy, what's going on?"

"Back, back to the emperor... outside, outside..." Wang Neiguan seemed troubled, he hesitated for a while, unable to explain why, Emperor Longqing felt something was wrong, patted the bed, and asked in a deep voice: "What happened?" What's wrong? Say!"

Wang Neiguan bent his legs and knelt down, "Your Majesty! The prince has turned his back!"

Emperor Longqing's body shook when he heard the words, he opened his eyes wide and asked incredulously, "What did you say?!"

Wang Neiguan fell on the ground and said tremblingly: "Return to the emperor, the grandson of the emperor did not go to Baiyue after leaving the city today, but killed the mission and led the rebels to break through the south gate and surround the palace. This is probably going to... Forcing the palace!"

"Niezi! Beast!" Emperor Longqing had had a nightmare and was restless. Now that he heard the bad news, he was frightened and angry, and immediately spurted out a mouthful of blood. Stopped him and shouted loudly: "The emperor vomited blood, quickly announce the imperial physician! Announce the imperial physician!"

"Father!" Bai Jinfu heard the voice first, and quickly came in from the outside. After seeing the blood on the ground, he pretended to be shocked, walked to Emperor Longqing, and said with a heartbroken expression, "Father must definitely Take care of your dragon body!"

Emperor Longqing had experienced strong winds and waves anyway, and he still had the basic quality of staying calm in the face of danger. He restrained his mind and asked heavily, "How is the situation outside?"

Bai Jin helped and said: "Most of the capital has been controlled by Duan Wuji, and there are also Duan Wuji's people in the forbidden army. The remaining forbidden army is fighting the rebel army at the gate of the palace. The rebel army will not be able to attack for a while. , Erchen has already sent people out of the palace to the Dragon Martial Army to inform them to raise troops to serve the king. I don’t know if the news has been passed on. If the reinforcements can arrive in time, if they can’t..."

Emperor Longqing slapped the bed board again, and roared with livid face: "Bastard! How dare you do such a rebellious thing! Are they thinking that I'm dead!"

Bai Jinfu persuaded: "Father, calm down and take care of the dragon body. Everything is still waiting for Father to preside over the overall situation and stabilize the morale of the army. You must not have anything to do. I will definitely defend my father to the death. The rebels compromise!"

Bai Jinfu's words blocked Emperor Longqing's retreat. In history, there are many emperors who were rebelled by their own sons and still swallowed their anger. I am afraid that Emperor Longqing would not want to see father and son fight each other when he was old and angry. Due to the situation, he pushed the boat to pass the throne to the crown prince. Wouldn't all his plans have been in vain.

However, Emperor Longqing was obviously not of the nature of compromise, he was rebelled by his most beloved grandson, and after so many years he personally taught him to be a white-eyed wolf, how could he swallow this breath.

Suddenly, inexplicably, he thought of the nightmare he had just now. Could it be that he had committed too many crimes in the past, and this was his retribution?

Suddenly a little eunuch crawled in from outside, shouting all the way: "Your Majesty! Your Majesty!"

Emperor Longqing asked, "What's the matter?"

The little eunuch knelt on the ground and presented a letter with both hands, "Your Majesty, the rebels have broken through the Zhengyang Gate, but they haven't entered yet. This is a letter sent by the rebels to the palace. Please have a look!"

Emperor Longqing took the letter and opened it to see that the letter was written in the handwriting of his good grandson Duan Wuji. It said that he had already controlled Lie Wang's family and most of the officials and family members in Beijing. It was a matter of an order, but he cared about the love of Emperor Longqing, and he didn't want his grandparents to meet each other in battle.As long as Emperor Longqing agrees to abdicate and pass the throne to the crown prince, and let King Lie go to Baiyue as a hostage, he will withdraw his troops. At that time, everyone will still be a kind family, and he will continue to be filial to Emperor Longqing as before.

Emperor Longqing had never been threatened like this before in his life. He tore up the letter and threw it on the ground in a rage, cursing loudly: "You unworthy thing, he thinks he can force me to submit by doing this? I will never let him do what he wants." !"

Bai Jinfu suggested: "Father, why don't you let your subjects go out to negotiate with them."

Emperor Longqing looked at Bai Jinfu suspiciously, "What can you talk to him about?"

Bai Jin Fu said: "It can be delayed for a while, at least for a while, as long as the reinforcements arrive, there may be a possibility to reverse the situation."

Emperor Longqing pondered for a moment, and suddenly waved his hand to veto: "No! It is not certain whether the reinforcements will come, we can't both be trapped in the palace! Now that the fifth child is in their hands, if you are arrested by them again If you don’t, then I really can only let them manipulate me.”

Bai Jin raised his eyebrows slightly, "What does the emperor mean?"

Emperor Longqing stared at Bai Jinfu for a while, then raised his hand and said to Wang Neiguan, "Go, get my tiger talisman."

Wang Neiguan went out for a while, and quickly took the tiger talisman over to Emperor Longqing. Emperor Longqing solemnly handed the tiger talisman into the white brocade armrest, and said solemnly: "You take the tiger talisman and leave the palace through the secret passage. With this tiger talisman , the defenders around Gyeonggi can be deployed by you, after you leave the palace, go to the Longwu Army to find General Chang Lin, he is my confidant, let him quickly enter the capital to suppress the rebellion."

Bai Jinfu blinked and said: "Since there is a secret way, why didn't Father come out of the palace with me?"

Emperor Longqing's face was condensed, and he said calmly: "If I abandon the palace and run away, what about the concubines in the harem? What is my majesty? I won't leave, I will just sit in the palace, I want to see, this pair of father and son Do you two have the guts to kill your father and king!"

After hearing these words, Bai Jinfu admired Emperor Longqing a little. Although Emperor Longqing was merciless and ungrateful, he did not lose his integrity as a king, and he was not the kind of person who was greedy for life and afraid of death.

Bai Jinfu carefully put away the tiger talisman for dispatching troops, stood up and saluted solemnly: "Since the father trusts the son, the minister will do his best to fulfill the mission and live up to the father's great trust!"

Emperor Longqing looked at Bai Jinfu with emotion, he never expected that the son he almost killed by mistake would be by his side at this critical moment, he beckoned for Bai Jinfu to come forward, leaned into his ear and said He found the location of the secret passage in the palace, then waved his hand and said: "Okay, hurry up and go."

Bai Jinfu left Emperor Longqing's bedroom, walked towards the secret passage in the dark, and when he reached a place where no one was around, Jing Yu had been waiting for him for a long time.

Jing Yu was about to make a sound, but suddenly saw a few black figures closely following Bai Jinfu, who seemed to be protecting Bai Jinfu, so he asked, "Who are these people?"

Bai Jinfu approached, and said lightly, "Jiang Shuheng left me a dead man before he left."

Jing Yu heard the words and said nonchalantly: "Although others are not in Beijing, they don't care about your lack of consideration."

Bai Jinfu ignored the jealousy in Jing Yu's words, and asked in a low voice, "Have all our people assembled?"

Jing Yu said: "Han Yucheng is sitting outside the palace, so he sent someone to inform me that everything has been properly arranged."

Bai Jinfu raised his head, looked at the place in the southwestern corner of the palace that burned the night sky red, and said with a sneer, "I've got the Tiger Talisman, so Duan Wuji must be tired after singing for a whole day, and now it's his turn." Here we are."

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