The Child Emperor

After the death of Princess Hengyang, the Chai family lost their backbone, but as a group, the "Chai family" did not dissipate, and they often got together to discuss one thing: who can be the emperor? How should the Chai family stabilize their position?

Everyone unanimously reached several conclusions:

Champion Hou has the best relationship with the Chai family.

Marquis Juan, the King of the East Sea and the Chai family all have grudges. If Princess Hengyang is still alive, things will be very difficult to handle. Now that she has ascended to heaven, no matter how big the grudges are, they can find a way to resolve them, but who of the two is more worthy of support? dispute.

The King of England was not considered.

There are many relatives and friends of the Chai family, and their tentacles are all over the nobles and ministers in the court. The information is well-informed and mixed. Countless rumors are thrown into the cauldron of the Chai family like ingredients and spices. A new rumor of scent.

The latest rumor is that Marquis Tien has sneaked back to the capital and will continue to fight for the throne.

The Chai family was amazed by this, unable to guess how this would affect the situation in the capital.

I heard that the Champion and the East Sea King were going to "do big things". The Chai family still sent people to help each other. Several honorable followers of the Champion Hou and several criminal officers inside and outside the East China Sea King's mansion were all from the Chai family, and they would inform them at any time. .

The news of Champion Hou's poisoning first came, and the dozens of people who gathered at Chai's house to stay up all night and drink alcohol to drown their sorrows were taken aback. The orphans have high hopes, and it doesn't matter who poisons them, and no one cares.

Xiao Bi was the nephew of Zuo Cha censor Xiao Sheng. He once led a group of people in Broken Iron City to try to force Chai Yue to commit suicide. He stood up staggeringly and looked at the whole hall.

Five tables were placed in the hall. Seventy or eighty people sat together, drinking wine for nearly a day. The interest was over, and only the stomach was full of sadness and confusion.

Looking around, Xiao Bi couldn't see the leader. The Marquis of Hengyang was never the leader of this group of people. Among his sons, only Chai Zhi had some skills, but he died in Iron Broken City, and the other descendants were not worth mentioning. , There are many relatives who are not surnamed Chai, but they have no opinion. Xiao Bi doesn't even look down on his brother. Driven by Jiu Jin'er, he decides to come forward.

"Hey!" Xiao Bi called out, attracting everyone's attention, "You all...Listen to me, the champion is dead, why did he die? Because he...he doesn't pay attention to the Chai family, nor does he call us, himself I went to seize the throne, and ended up... dead."

"Yes, that's right." Everyone raised their glasses and cheered, but no one could drink it, and the wine was spilled on the ground.

"There are also Donghai King and Juan Hou." Xiao Bi was encouraged, and suddenly raised his voice, "I will ask you one thing, who is more likely to forgive the Chai family? Juan Hou, or Donghai King?"

"King Donghai killed Chai Zhi, but we didn't seek revenge from him." Someone said.

Without waiting for Xiao Bi to speak, another person at the same table retorted: "Donghai King may not think so. After he returned to Beijing, the Chai family never visited him. He must think that he was hated by the Chai family."

Xiao Bi pressed the person with a higher voice, "How did the King of the East Sea avenge the revenge? I can see it, Zhang Yanghao and the others are still locked in the Iron Broken City."

In the Xungui Camp, the King of the East Sea and Cui Teng bullied Zhang Yanghao and others a lot, and many of the children of Xungui all saw it. It was the decision of Marquis Tien to imprison Zhang Yanghao, and at this time it was also counted on the head of the King of the East China Sea.

"Then only Marquis Juan is left, but the Chai family seeks revenge against him over and over again, can he forgive me?" said another.

"There is Chai Yue." Xiao Bi almost called out the name, and he didn't feel that there was any enmity between him and Chai Yue, "After all, he is the son of the Marquis of Hengyang and the cronies of Marquis Juan, so what kind of hatred cannot be resolved? ?"

"That's right." The Chai family was excited. They used to ignore the son of the Chai family. Like Xiao Bi, they didn't feel that they had treated him badly. Instead, they felt that Chai Yue should be on the side of the Chai family.

"Support Juan Hou." "How to support?" "Where are the Juan Hou people?"

Xiao Bi also didn't know that his decisiveness was over, and the wine was a little bit weaker, his mind was drowsy, he sat down and stared blankly at the leftovers on the table.

The hall was silent.

A housekeeper of the Chai Mansion ran in and said a few words in the ear of the master. The Marquis of Hengyang changed his face and got up to speak, his voice trembling slightly, "I just got the news, the Holy Master... the Holy Master may have died."

Half of the people who were awake all stood up in a hurry, the table overturned and the chair fell, and the sound woke the other half of the comatose.

"what happened?"

"Crash."

"Who died?"

"Who else could it be?"

"Who succeeded?"

"It's definitely not the King of the East Sea. He's still standing still in the palace."

"That's Tired Hou?"

"It's him, it can only be him."

The Chai family couldn't tell the difference between imagination and reality. Soon, everyone thought that Marquis Juan was or was about to become emperor, and it was unknown who shouted, "Go and support Marquis Juan!"

The people in the hall swarmed out, for fear of being a step slower than others.

It didn't take long for the hall to be empty, with only the Marquis of Hengyang and the housekeeper left, stunned and at a loss, the housekeeper murmured, "It's just that he may die, and...and..."

The Marquis of Hengyang said blankly: "My God, the Chai family is about to be exterminated."

Seventy or eighty Chai family members called their servants, and more than 200 people rushed out of Chai Mansion and went straight to the imperial city.

Rumors always ran faster. Many relatives and friends of the Chai family, as well as more unrelated people, came in from all directions. Some ministers gave up their wait-and-see attitude, did not show up in person, and also sent their sons and nephews to help.

When they approached the south gate of the imperial city, the team of the Chai family had grown to four or five hundred people, shouting all the way.

A group of scholars stopped these people.

The scholars in the capital have been gathering outside the South Gate for several days, petitioning the imperial court to send troops to fight the Huns immediately. During this period, some of them were taken away by the camp of the guards. As a result, more people were summoned. Shangguansheng had other things to do, so he was right. They ignored it.

Kneeling on the bluestone slab for a few days, the scholars were already exhausted, and rumors spread among them. One would say that the Marquis Juan was about to become emperor, and the first thing after ascending the throne was to accept their petition. Soon the blood of the old guard cavalry will be splashed on the south gate.

The rumors of the Chai family arrived one step ahead and merged with the rumors of scholars.

But scholars are scholars after all, and even when their minds are the most confused, there is etiquette in their hearts.

"Marquis Juan has been out of the capital, which means that he gave up fighting for the throne." A scholar said loudly.

The crowd on the street suddenly quieted down, wondering why he had ignored such an obvious fact before.

The scholar immediately added: "But Marquis Tien doesn't need to contend for the throne at all. He is the eldest son of Emperor Huan, and he was originally an emperor. He was mistaken by a traitor and forced to abdicate. The fate cannot be changed. Prince Yong’s orphan’s claim to be emperor is not in line with the great lineage. It is a false name. Today, the sage is still Marquis Juan, and he returned to Beijing to set things right, not to fight for the throne!”

Everyone was suddenly enlightened. When Marquis Juan was abolished, no one said a word, but now they are filled with righteous indignation, "Yes, Marquis Tien was originally the emperor." "Why should Marquis Juan abdicate? Where is the law of heaven?"

The number of people gathered outside the south gate of the palace soon exceeded a thousand people. The gates of the nearby ministries were closed, and no one dared to come out to meddle in their business.

Above the city wall of the palace, the soldiers of the Guards were standing by, but they did not come down to disperse the crowd.

A third group of people arrived later.

Xiao Sheng and Shen Mingzhi had nowhere else to go, and with their military talismans, they didn't know which side to defect to, and Yang Feng showed them a clear path, "Only Marquis Juan is the general trend, and Marquis Tien can understand the difficulties of the two adults. "

"Really?" Xiao Sheng and Shen Mingzhi once had a conflict with Juan Hou, and they were very uneasy.

"Holy Hou can even forgive the Chai family."

Han Ruzi's funeral for Princess Hengyang and his meeting with Champion Hou in Chai Mansion are all considered as symbols of the reconciliation between Juan Hou and the Chai family.

Xiao Sheng only had one question left, "Have you really sneaked back into the city?"

Yang Feng smiled slightly, "Who do the two adults think I'm running around in the middle of the night for?"

Xiao Sheng and Shen Mingzhi are both old-fashioned and slippery people. In normal times, they would never easily believe Yang Feng's words. Now, they are willing to accept any persuasion from anyone, as long as that is the way.

Yang Feng also took them outside the south gate of the palace.

Seeing so many people shouting for Marquis Tien, Xiao Sheng and Shen Mingsheng no longer hesitated and ran to the front, holding up the military talisman and ordering the soldiers of Su Wei to open the door.

Of course, the Guards will not obey because of the military talisman, but they are somewhat affected, and they are even more hesitant on the city wall.

Yang Feng dismounted and walked around in the crowd, nodding from time to time with acquaintances, including scholars and Chai's family. Then he squeezed out of the crowd, got back on his horse, and left the south gate with the desperate waiters, and went around the east gate.

No one noticed that Yang Feng took the King of England away.

Seeing the crowd, the King of England was excited for a while, but he was so sleepy that he fell asleep in his arms.

The east gate is very deserted, no one gathers, a group of soldiers guarding the gate, and they are stopped from a distance.

Yang Feng dismounted, greeted an eunuch, and whispered a few words to the man. The eunuch took the torch, glanced at King Ying, nodded, and ordered the soldiers to move away. outside.

It's almost four hours. In the palace, the East Sea King has not yet heard from the Tan family. He only heard bad news one after another. It seems that more and more people are turning to support Juan Hou. people know.

"I can't back down, I can't back down, this time I must never back down." King Donghai once again imagined the scene after he ascended the throne, and finally summoned up his courage and said to the Tan brothers and all the criminals: "No wait, let's go to the palace. North Gate, there is someone to answer."

(I want to say sorry to everyone. There have been many typos recently, especially if the north and south are not divided, which has caused trouble to the readers. I am very sorry.)