How many buildings are in the mist

As the government and army pressed forward step by step, the rebels' stubborn resistance became more and more extreme.On that day at the beginning of April, the imperial court received an urgent report from the front that the enemy army pulled down the people who wanted to defect in the city wall and pushed them down, killing one by one;The officers and soldiers had no choice but to temporarily stop the attack.

Feng Zizhang directly proposed that it is time to execute the assassination plan to speed up the end of the war.Feng Zihuan approved it on the spot, and Cui Yi and Taiwei had no objections, so they asked Xie Yan how many choices he had at the moment.Xie Yan said that she had already arranged to buy a small number of adjutants or lieutenants of the frontline generals of the rebel army. For these, the strategy of assassinating the generals first, forging documents to blame others, causing confusion among the enemy troops, and then killing them all in one go.Cui Yi asked if there was a way to deal with it if it really caused a mutiny and surrender, implying that the falsely accused enemy general would really pardon his crimes and appease him, or be executed regardless of the reason.Xie Yan said bluntly: "It doesn't matter, the backup plan for this plan is that once the falsely accused general really has this idea, the assassins who stay at the enemy's place will also dress up as the enemy's army early in the morning, and they will directly incite the other soldiers of the enemy's steadfast army. Partial mutiny. In other words, things can go as far as they go.”

The Taiwei still asked, and Feng Zihuan said: "Yes. But this method should be done in one main stronghold first. The rest will see if it will fall on the wind. And since we are here to cause chaos, remember to tell you Friends, there is no need to go to such lengths to call them adventurers. First, we only need to ensure that the gates of the city can be opened. As long as the officers and soldiers can enter, the bandit leaders will be captured alive. If they resist, they will be killed. What else? What about Feng Zibai and Feng Ziyang?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, the feasible plan for Feng Ziyang is to intimidate. Judging from the last news received so far, Feng Ziyang's mental state is not very stable, and he is almost sick with fear. We can consider how to deal with Feng Ziyang after the defeat on the front line. Its repeated intimidation made her finally collapse and commit suicide."

The Taiwei asked, is this inappropriate? How to ensure the effect of intimidation?Xie Yan added: "Specifically, there are three methods of operation: one can set fire to his camp and mansion, harming his cherished horses, etc., and make him mentally frightened; or he can play tricks at night and poison his diet In a trance; or cut off the transmission of documents halfway, and send false news back to make them anxious. As for luring the soldiers to mutiny, it is not very feasible. It is reported that Feng Ziyang stays with loyal people and will never betray her .”

Although no one said it, everyone felt in their hearts: If this step can be achieved, wouldn't it be more convenient to kill him directly; of course everyone also knows why not to do that.

Cui Yi asked, how sure is it to do so?Xie Yan replied that it would depend on whether the strategy of mutiny on the front line would be successful, and if so, he would be more confident, "Of course we can keep working hard until it succeeds."

Feng Zihuan waved his hands and said: "Forget it, how many can you perform at the same time?"

"two."

"Then the first two. If you fight well on the front line, you don't need the third one. You don't need to work hard until you achieve it. You don't need to waste your energy if you can't do it. What about the Padang direction?"

"Badong's current preparations are the same. However, since Feng Zibai is relatively calm and his palace is also guarding the forest, it may take a considerable amount of time to complete it. The methods are nothing more than these for the time being. If there are more in the future When the opportunity arises, you can also try other strategies.”

Feng Zihuan nodded, then asked the other three people what they thought.All three had no objection, so the meeting was adjourned to implement it.Xie Yan was left alone, "Xie Yan, I want to ask you something."

"Yes."

"These friends of yours are mostly involved in military and state affairs, and they also contribute to the country. After the rebellion subsides, do they have any requests?"

When Xie Yan heard this, he immediately walked up to Feng Zihuan, knelt down and kowtowed, then straightened his upper body and said, "Reporting to Your Majesty, most of my friends are idle in the world, out of concern for the safety of the country, and want to please thieves." Doing things for the court because of the righteousness and friendship with the ministers, I don’t ask for anything. I dare not ask for any rewards afterwards, but I just want to go back and live my life with peace of mind.”

"No money, no official position, nothing?"

"Their family property is very considerable, and they have no worries about money. Your Majesty does not need to reward them. As for official positions, they are even more difficult to achieve. They are loose-tempered. They do these things not only because they can, but also because they are fun."

"Fun? Such a thing is also fun??"

"Your Majesty," Xie Yan said sternly, "although my minister's friends are people from the Jianghu, they are also righteous men. They act out of righteousness, act out of fun, that's all. After the rebellion is put down, Your Majesty just needs to forget about them."

"You say it like this, it seems that all this is just a kindness you owe them, not the court."

For someone else, I already feel dangerous at this moment.Xie Yan felt that he was walking straight and straight, fearless, and told the truth: "Yes. I originally invited them to relieve difficulties and save the world from suffering. This is what a self-proclaimed hero should do. If you regard yourself as someone who can ask for some compensation from the imperial court, you are belittling yourself, and your intentions are not right."

Feng Zihuan smiled, "If you think this way, you are truly a hero. Do they think the same way?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, I don't care about small details when I make friends with people, but it is required that this person and my minister have similar values, and can have as much consensus as possible on major issues. If you can't do this, you can't be a friend." She also said I was too lazy to continue to go around with the emperor, and said directly: "Your Majesty does not need to give them any rewards, let alone worry about whether they will know too much. These friends of the minister are very credible. If they are not credible, there will be no today's The situation is over."

Feng Zihuan looked at her without saying a word, and she let Feng Zihuan look at her with dignity.After a long time, Feng Zihuan asked: "Xie Yan, it stands to reason that you are as noble as Xuanji's. Not only were you born in a noble family, but your mother's background is also very high. For you, it will be expensive in the future to seek an official position in the court." Zhi Gongqing is a matter of time. Xuan Ji came out out of necessity, she doesn't mind the position, she just wants to do things. But I see you, it doesn't seem to be the case, you don't even want to be an official. What do you want to do?"

Xie Yan said: "If you get the Dao, you will bring peace to the world. If you don't get the Dao, you should be kind to yourself."

"What about after peace?"

"Go back to the mountains and live a happy life."

"But if the world is leveled, can we go back?"

"If the world is not peaceful, we can't go back. If the world is peaceful, there will be peace and prosperity. There are talents who can play a role."

Feng Zihuan laughed and stopped arguing with her.

More than ten days later, a good news came from the front line. Not only was the strategy successful, but before the assassins could take advantage of the chaos to open the city gate, the guards opened the gate on their own initiative, and the guard was captured. This is how the strongest bunker stronghold fell.He Quan, the prefect of Yuzhang, personally led the troops to charge into the battle, cut down the rebel guard as soon as he entered, and asked his school lieutenant to take it to the front to publicize the matter.Sure enough, within a few days, the rebels in two or three strongholds mutinied and surrendered.A few days later, the same thing happened unexpectedly at Fengzi Yang's residence.The person who led the rebellion turned out to be the prime minister she relied on on a daily basis. This person was disturbed by repeated fires and weird incidents in the mansion, and decided to rebel against the lord and surrender.He himself was killed in the melee, Feng Ziyang was injured and his whereabouts were unknown, and Wuchang County was recovered.

The imperial court is ordering to trace Feng Ziyang's whereabouts around, and soon received news from the Badong front that Fengzi Yang fled along the waterway to Badong County and recuperated at Feng Zibai's mansion.The imperial court made a prompt decision and ordered Cui Xuance's department to fight directly with him.Originally, Xie Yan's seductive friend was thinking of stepping in one last time to do something, after all, he was already going to get involved.Xie Yan sent a letter telling him not to do it if he is not very sure, as long as he can spread the news, it is a victory.She knew very well that it was already the limit to send out the information at this time.

As a result, she received many, many messages from Feng Zibai's residence, such as how Feng Ziyang's injury was, why Feng Zibai was extremely anxious all day long and even beat and scolded his concubine, and so on.Xie Yan originally thought that these were useless, because they were of no help to the battle situation, but Feng Zizhang did not expect Feng Zizhang to watch them with relish.Xie Yan was curious, Feng Zizhang didn't say what she was looking at.

After the decisive battle day arrived, the court was very excited all day long, waiting for the good news.Only Feng Zizhang didn't think so.This afternoon, she went back early after finishing her official business, but Xie Yan hadn't come back from the emperor's house. She sat alone in the corridor in front of the garden, watching the camphor camphor changed to new green and the flowers of various colors bloomed gradually.Suddenly the sky darkened, and it began to rain in spring.Then the wind blew off the petals.

In the secret report, Xie Yan's friend said that during Feng Ziyang's recovery, Feng Zibai cared for him so much that he almost didn't think about eating or drinking.Out of good intentions, the concubine persuaded her not to neglect important matters. After all, now is the time of life and death. Who knows that this person who can plot for more than ten years to claim the orthodox heir to the throne beat and scolded his only concubine, shutting her down? up.He also said that Feng Ziyang was seriously injured, and he fled all the way, and he might not live long; Feng Zibai was very sad about this, and even blamed himself.The last secret report before the start of the decisive battle said that Feng Ziyang was about to commit suicide, but was stopped by Feng Zibai, who said that he would die together, and no one was allowed to go first.

She tried hard to recall the appearance and mood of the two cousins ​​when she saw them last time.The third sister must know that she was seriously injured, and the army was defeated, so she was dead anyway, so why did she flee to Padang?And once she is captured by the army and used to blackmail the elder sister, things will get even worse.If it wasn't for her subordinates' insistence, then there was only one explanation: she would die beside her elder sister, and before she died, she must take another look at her elder sister.

It was inevitable for the royal family to fight each other; the opportunity for rebellion was extremely shameless, but it was unmissable; the betrayal of Feng Zihuan was indeed nothing compared to the interests of being emperor: she knew it all, and she just felt pity.This family originated from the hometown of Luoyang and has been handed down for six generations, with only a handful of people.In her mother's generation, because of Feng Ye's misconduct, not only did the royal family members be massacred, but also attracted foreign invasions, losing half of the country.Her mother favored Jiangzuo, took over the chaos, and tried her best to make a comeback.The great cause was not accomplished, and the baton was handed over to my sister.This road is actually extremely difficult.When the elder sister first came to the throne, she expressed that she would take care of Feng Ye's two daughters, not only because the clan guarded the four directions to protect the country, but also because of the goodwill within the family in order to unite.However, in the end, everything that could not have happened will eventually happen.The bond between people is sometimes as deep as words carved on a cliff, which cannot be erased; sometimes it is as fragile as a spider's thread, which breaks at the touch of a finger.

Huiyu suddenly walked up to her and said in a low voice, "Your Highness, there is news from the palace that the army has won a great victory and the rebellion has been put down."

Feng Zizhang asked if there was any detailed information, Huiyu said that he didn't know for the time being, so Feng Zizhang got up and went to the palace.Seeing Xie Yan in Feng Zihuan's bedroom, but not the emperor, she asked, "Where's sister?"

"I went to report to my ancestors."

"Do you have any detailed information?"

Xie Yan said: "It was a tough fight, but we still won. Later, when we entered the palace, the number of rebels was small, but the resistance was still fierce. When you finally found your eldest sister, she had already committed suicide. It was your responsibility to commit suicide. In front of the third sister's bed. As for your third sister, she also committed suicide."

After Feng Zizhang listened, he bowed his head and remained silent.Xie Yan seemed to understand what was on her mind, and was about to take out the handkerchief to her, but she immediately grabbed Xie Yan's hand.

"No need... How did my sister react when she heard the news? Did you say anything?"

"Your Majesty is very happy, although she is also sighing. She first asked Cui Xiang to come up with a plan tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, to see how to send people from the court to temporarily control the country; then she asked that all the criminals be detained. When we come to Jiankang, the corpse is the same, so protect it and make no mistakes."

Feng Zizhang nodded, "If I were a sister, I probably wouldn't be able to say a word to my ancestors today."

"Well, so she's the emperor and you're lucky not to be."

"Is your friend safe and sound?"

"Of course, what does he have to worry about? He was the first to run to the gate of the mansion to find Cui Xuance to lead the way. We greeted Cui Xuance, have you forgotten? The 'most beautiful in the world' is probably gone now." Get on the boat home smoothly."

"Okay, okay, that's fine."

"You are tired too, let's go back, or do you want to see His Majesty?"

Feng Zizhang thought for a while and said, "I'll see you, just wait for me outside."

Three days later, the imperial court issued an edict to deprive Feng Zibai and Feng Ziyang of all titles, move them out of the ancestral temple, confiscate all the state property and confiscate the treasury, Feng Zibai's only infant daughter was demoted to a commoner, but The whereabouts have never been known—Feng Zihuan ordered the child, along with the bodies of the two sisters, to be handed over to Feng Zizhang for disposal.Feng Zizhang and Xie Yan found a day with drizzling rain, cremated the corpse and scattered it into the Yangtze River.Then the baby was handed over to the servants of Xie's family, and Ling was sent to Nankang County to be raised.

Watching the carriage go away, Xie Yan asked: "Whose idea is this?"

"My idea." Feng Zizhang replied indifferently, "My sister ordered it so, leave room for me to do it. She doesn't want to order, and she doesn't want to know. This is very good."

"Who are you going to send to?"

"I don't send it to anyone, but send it to a temple funded by me."

Xie Yan nodded, "Very good. Your Majesty has also changed."

"Yeah, it's changed. I probably think about it."

"Oh, I didn't expect this matter to be over in half a year."

"What are you talking about!"

"Tsk, Your Majesty must want to continue her reforms again."

"Could it be that you are afraid of difficulties again, Lord Neishi?"

"No, no. I just think about organizing a party again, returning favors, and continuing to bicker with those guys in the court, and I feel tired."

"Apart from returning favors, how can there be one thing that I didn't do together with you? I haven't cried out that I'm tired yet, but you did it first?"

"Aren't I afraid that you are tired? When you are tired, I feel even more tired."

"That's right, why can't I hear that you feel sorry for me..."

The two kept bickering and went back to the palace, where they happened to meet Feng Zihuan.Feng Zihuan heard the two quarreling from a distance, and his mood of joy because the rebellion subsided began to have some waves.