The Wife is First

Chapter 119
Jing Chen silently glanced at his younger brother who "had a daughter-in-law and forgot my brother", then turned to Mo Yun Shibaqi: "Before leaving the imperial city, what did my father explain to you?"

The eighteen black-clothed men looked at each other, and one of them replied: "Return to Prince Rui, the Emperor only said to let me wait to protect His Highness, he didn't say anything else."

"The imperial decree said that the king conspired against me, so do you still want to protect the king?" Jing Chen looked at the speaker seriously. He never questioned these 18 people along the way, and they followed them all the time, precisely because There were 18 of them, which made him sure that his father didn't really want to kill him. Now that he was about to enter the capital, the capital must be extremely dangerous, so he had to reconfirm the position of these 18 people.

Jing Shao quietly winked at the left guards on the outskirts, and if the loyalty of the eighteen cavalry was questioned, they would be killed immediately by the sword.

"We have never received any other orders, and the 18 subordinates will protect His Highness well if they die." The man replied without hesitation.

Mo Yun's eighteen riders said in unison: "I swear to protect His Highness Prince Rui to the death!"

Jing Chen nodded slightly, these people did not change their loyalty to him in the face of Jing Shao's army, and insisted that they only obeyed the emperor's orders, then the meaning of the emperor's father was very clear.

"The army can't be within a hundred miles of the capital, and you let them station here." Jing Chen raised his head and said to Jing Shao.

Jing Shao frowned, Duke Mao is dead, and there are no more troops around the capital, but there are still [-] imperial soldiers in the capital: "Zhao Meng and the army stay here, and the personal army will follow the king for another fifty miles to the camp." Fifty miles south of the city is where Jing Shao rectifies the pro-army before each expedition.

It was already the next morning when we reached the fifty-mile camp.Jing Shao was actually not willing to let the army stay. After all, the situation in Jingzhong was unclear, so he patted the person who was sleeping soundly in his arms, and wanted to discuss with him how to persuade his brother.

His slender eyelashes trembled, and Mu Hanzhang slowly opened his eyes. Before he could say anything, there was the sound of horseshoes not far away. Looking carefully, it was Shangshu of the Ministry of War who rushed over with a group of imperial troops.

"I have seen Prince Rui, King Cheng, and Marquis Wenyuan!" Sun Shangshu got off his horse and saluted.

"Sun Shangshu, what's going on?" Jing Shao asked, after so many days, he finally saw someone from his side.Minister of the Ministry of War signaled the Imperial Army behind him to wait a moment, walked to Jing Chen's carriage, Jing Shao immediately drove the horse over, but did not dismount, and stood behind him.

"I don't even know about it," Sun Shangshu said in a low voice, "The emperor has not been in court for several days and has sealed all the news. A few days ago, the fourth prince suddenly announced that he will be acting as the supervisor of the country."

"Well, my lord is here today..." Mu Hanzhang frowned, but he didn't know who ordered Sun Shangshu to come.

"It's the emperor's will." Sun Shangshu replied immediately, took out a handbook from his sleeve, and handed it to Jingchen with both hands.

Jingchen unfolded it and took a closer look. It was indeed Emperor Hongzheng's handwriting, asking the two brothers to put their soldiers in the fifty-mile camp and enter the palace alone.

Jing Shao frowned, quietly stuffed a soldier talisman into the palm of the man in his arms, and whispered in his ear: "You take the left and right guards to that forest in a while, and once I release the fireworks, you lead the soldiers to rush in In the palace."

Mu Hanzhang's eyes widened, he quietly hid his hands in his sleeves, nodded slowly, and gently squeezed Jing Shao's palm: "Be careful in everything."

Since it was Emperor Hongzheng's will, they could not disobey, Jing Shao left Xiao Hei with his own princess, got into his brother's carriage, and only took Mo Yun Shiba back to the imperial city.

The entire palace was silent, and the guards had serious faces. When they got off the carriage, they saw An Xian, the chief eunuch beside Emperor Hongzheng, standing quietly outside the carriage.

"Your Highness, please come with your servants." An Xian's face rarely lost his smile, and without saying much, he led the two of them directly to Emperor Hongzheng's bedroom. Mo Yun Shibaqi was originally the emperor's guard, but now No one stopped me when I followed.

Walking to the bottom of the jade steps, An Xian did not lead the two of them up, but left the eighteen riders at the bottom of the steps, and led the two of them in through the side door behind the main hall. There were eight tall guards guarding the door. Then, let the two of them remove all the weapons on their bodies.

Jing Shao frowned, and was about to lose his temper, when his elder brother held down his arm, signaling him not to act rashly, and then handed the small porcelain bottle in his arms to An Xian: "This is what my father asked me to find, please trouble me to give it to you." Royal father."

The two of them unloaded all their weapons, and they were not even allowed to leave the jade belts on their bodies, so they walked in in loose clothes.

"Bang Dang!" The door behind him slammed shut, Jing Shao saw the situation in front of him clearly, and the hairs all over his body stood on end.

There was a long corridor in front of him, and it was not dim with candles on both sides, but without weapons, if there were any traps in this narrow road, the two of them would die without a place to die.

Jing Chen also raised his heart, and got closer to his younger brother: "Don't panic, let's go out quickly."

Jing Shao nodded: "I'll go ahead, my brother will definitely walk next to me!" As he spoke, he snapped off a candlestick embedded in the wall. The hollow brass candlestick was about a foot long. It was not a good weapon, and it was better than nothing. .

Jingchen nodded, and he really got close to his younger brother, and quickly rushed towards the end of the corridor.

In fact, the corridor is not long, but under such circumstances, it feels extremely long. As soon as he reached the end, the wooden door opened by itself. Jing Shao instantly blocked the candlestick in front of him, and the light from outside the door shone in, exciting both of them. The man squinted his eyes, and when he saw the situation in the room clearly, he immediately threw the candlestick to his feet.

At the end of the corridor, it turned out to be the inner room of Emperor Hongzheng's bedroom, and the two walked in, facing Emperor Hongzheng's bed.

"Not yet." Emperor Hongzheng leaned on the head of the bed and gave Jing Shao a look.

The two brothers hurried over and knelt down in front of the bed to salute.

An Xian was already standing safely on the head of the bed, and there was another imperial doctor, who was examining the small porcelain bottle.

"Jing Shao, you killed Lord Mao Guo yesterday?" Emperor Hongzheng didn't look at the action of the imperial physician, and leaned on the big pillow at the head of the bed with his eyes closed and rested.

"Yes," Jing Shao lowered his head, "Duke Maoguo led his troops to prevent his son from entering the capital, intending to assassinate the emperor's brother, but his son had no choice but to kill him." Saying this, there was no intention of admitting his mistake.

Emperor Hongzheng didn't say any more, he just asked, "Where's Jing Rong?"

"Go back to Emperor Father, Brother Elder Emperor and the army are parked a hundred miles away from Beijing." Jing Shao replied honestly, of course he did not say that Elder Prince was in the prison car.

"Report to the emperor," the imperial physician over there said suddenly, "this medicine is a folk recipe, a small amount of it can stop a high fever, but the medicine is fierce, taking too much is like poison, and there is no medicine to cure it... I am incompetent !” As he spoke, he fell to his knees with a plop, and wept bitterly.

Emperor Hongzheng opened his eyes and looked quietly at the two brothers kneeling beside the bed.

Jingchen raised his head, looked at the imperial physician in shock, and then at Emperor Hongzheng.

Jing Shao was also a little dazed.

"Your mother was poisoned by this kind of poison back then." Emperor Hongzheng took the small porcelain bottle and looked at it carefully, ignoring the two brothers who were struck by lightning, and said calmly, "Now, I can't escape."

"Royal father!" Jing Shao shouted, Hongzheng Emperor in the previous life obviously lived longer than his son, what's going on now?

"Jing Shao, you have fought for the royal family for many years, and no one is your opponent throughout the entire Dachen." Emperor Hongzheng's face was rosy, and he spoke in a calm manner, not like someone who had been poisoned at all, "I want to pass on the throne to you." Here you are, would you like it?"

Crack! Crack!As if a thunderbolt had struck Tianling Gai, Jing Shao was really dumbfounded now!
In the previous life, I worked hard for Dachen, and finally ended up with nothing!In this life, he was cheating, playing tricks, and being selfish, but now his father actually said that he would give him the throne, it was really a big joke.

Jing Shao was silent for a long while, without looking at the expression of his elder brother, he said word by word: "Father, son, I don't want to!"

"Why?" Emperor Hongzheng stared into Jing Shao's eyes.

Jing Shao raised his head and looked directly at his father: "My son is just a general who knows nothing about governing the country, and my son is in love with Mu Hanzhang, and he only wants to stay with him for the rest of his life. Yu'erchen, I'm afraid I'll be destroyed overnight by my son!"

Emperor Hongzheng looked at him quietly for a while, then leaned back slowly, with a tired voice: "Proclaim the decree."

As soon as the words fell, two people came out slowly from behind the screen, they were the Minister of the Ministry of Officials and the servant of the Ministry of Officials Xiao Yuan.

Xiao Yuan held a long wooden box and followed Shang Shu without looking sideways.

The Minister of the Ministry of Officials took out a decree and said loudly: "King Cheng Jingshao, who committed treason, will be imprisoned in the sky prison, and he will never get out of this life!"

(End of this chapter)