Chapter 192 Why Did We Do That in the First Place?
In a tent outside Beijing, three people stood in front of a flat city defense map, analyzing the situation.
"Gu Zheng can't incite rebellion. All the northern suburbs garrisons are already in place. Jiang Zhao also brought troops back to the capital. The palace's defenses have been strengthened, so it's probably impossible to break in easily. If we force our way through the north gate, we'll only lose manpower."
While Yu Wang was analyzing, he unconsciously tightened the hilt of the knife at his waist.
Your Majesty was assassinated in the northern border, the Crown Prince is young, and the palace is leaderless. This should have been a good opportunity to plan something big.
He led his troops from Qinyang to the capital under the pretext of supporting the crown prince, thinking that this matter was a sure thing and that he could transform himself from the commander of the garrison stationed in Qinyang into the commander-in-chief of the central army. However, he never expected that Queen Jiang was not an ordinary person.
Yu Wang was completely confused.
He knew about the background of the current queen. She was just the daughter of a merchant. No one taught her political strategies since she was a child. All she learned was boring things like gardening and weeding. How could she react so quickly?
She carried the prince into Chengqian Palace, and everyone outside the palace instantly became rebels, with no legitimate reason.
This is like strangling their throats.
According to the original plan, as long as they attacked the imperial palace, the local garrisons would surrender in order to find a way out in the new dynasty when they saw the situation had changed. Perhaps even the Beijing army could be instigated to rebel.
However, the situation was stabilized by Empress Jiang, and those who had been ready to make moves and wanted to conspire with them calmed down. In their minds, orthodoxy could not be easily overturned, otherwise they would become sinners for all eternity.
Now they cannot take the city by force, and no one is willing to support them, so they are in a dilemma.
Xue Ning looked at Yu Wang, who had a tense expression, and sneered, "Waste."
Yu Wang immediately raised his head and looked at her, with anger between his brows: "What did you say?!"
"I said you're a waste." Xue Ning repeated, "Don't think I can't see that you're already thinking of quitting."
Yu Wang's face showed a guilty look as if he had been exposed, so he became even more angry and pointed his sword at Xue Ning's throat.
"If I hadn't stopped killing women, you would have died long ago. But my patience has its limits. What on earth are you so high and mighty about?"
Xue Ning held the sword blade between his fingers, raised his eyebrows and sneered: "Compared to leading troops to attack the north gate, killing a weak woman is certainly easier and more impressive."
Yu Wang felt humiliated and his sword began to tremble.
Xue Shide glanced at the two people arguing with each other and shouted, "Enough, look at it for yourself. Is this reasonable? The situation is just difficult now, not the end of the world. So what if Empress Jiang and the Crown Prince have entered Chengqian Palace? The Emperor is dead, and how long can she hold out with a woman and child sitting on the throne? Those who are still watching and afraid will eventually know what to do."
Xue Shide's calm words immediately eased the tense atmosphere.
Yu Wang put away his sword and took a few steps back with a grim face.
"Father is right." Xue Ning continued, "Now we have to compete to see who can endure longer. The young master is not even a year old. Who can resist the temptation of rising to the top overnight? The chaos in the palace has just begun."
Xue Ning's eyes fell on the East Palace on the city defense map, and there was a lingering haze and murderous intent in the depths of his eyes.
What a good girl Jiang Yingli is.
She had planned everything, even successfully using Jiang Zhao to assassinate Xiao Chenglan, but she had not expected that she would be the one who caused the misfortune.
She was truly a good queen nurtured by Xiao Chenglan. She hated her so much that her heart ached! !
It was her fault. She should have killed her directly instead of using that chip of escaping from her heart to let them escape.
If it weren't for Jiang Yingli, the one sitting on the dragon throne in Chengqian Palace now would be her Xue family's child!
But how could she, a person with destiny, lose to Jiang Yingli? Didn’t God give her the chance to be reborn so that she could turn the tide?
In her previous life, she lost to Xiao Chenglan. In this life, she couldn't lose to Jiang Yingli again.
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In Chengqian Hall, several important officials were gathered together to discuss state affairs.
Xiao Chen'an sat on the dragon throne with an innocent look on his face, looking around curiously with his eyes wide open, not knowing what dangerous thing he had just experienced.
Fulin and Yunniang were guarding him by his side. After all, the throne was still very high for the little Crown Prince.
Jiang Yingli returned to Zhaohua Palace and took Lianqiao and Qiuxia to deliver food to the concubines in the secret room.
When the mechanism of the stone gate sounded, the pale-faced concubines were as if facing a great enemy. They pulled out the hairpins in their buns and pointed them in the direction of the stone steps.
But after a while, the first thing that caught my eye was a gorgeous black and red hem. Then I looked up...
Her Majesty the Queen!
Lady Fang immediately ran over crying, leading a large group of people behind her.
Jiang Yingli was startled when she saw them rushing towards her.
"Are you that hungry? Well, I haven't eaten since yesterday evening, and it's already noon."
"Empress, it's already late. Please stop teasing us. Is everything okay out there? Is Empress alright? Where's the Crown Prince?"
Jiang Yingli smiled, reassuring them: "Everything is fine. The palace guards have been deployed and it will be difficult to attack. Although His Majesty is far away in the northern border, he is well aware of the unusual movements in the capital and has sent reinforcements back in advance. They arrived last night."
The concubines who had been worried finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"That's good, that's good! The Queen didn't know that this secret room can feel the movement of horse hooves. We heard a rumbling outside in the middle of the night last night, and everyone was so worried that they couldn't sleep."
Song Wanyan laughed teasingly, "Not only can't I sleep, but last night someone seemed to insist I activate the mechanism and let you out to fight the rebels, saying I'd kill as many as I could. Now I know that going out at that time would only cause trouble for the Empress."
Jiang Yingli was deeply moved. "If you protect yourselves, you're helping me. I'm just here to let you know I'm safe. To be on the safe side, you should stay here."
"Is there any other unexpected event?"
Jiang Yingli didn't hide it from them: "The prince is still too young, and not only is the Xue family watching covetously, but we can't let our guard down as long as the situation remains unstable."
After Jiang Yingli finished talking with the concubines, she returned to Chengqian Palace.
Although the prince was sitting on the dragon throne, he was still a little baby who needed to be coaxed, so she played with him for a while.
When Yunniang carried Xiao Chen'an away, Jiang Yingli coughed twice. Ge Huaichuan immediately stood up and said worriedly:
"Your Majesty, please take care of yourself."
Jiang Yingli felt that there was nothing wrong with her body, just a little tired, so she was still in the mood to tease Ge Huaichuan.
"Don't worry, Mr. Ge. Before I became the Queen, I was a demon concubine. As for the demon concubine, I have always been in good health."
Ge Huaichuan choked and his old face turned red.
The scenes of him arguing with His Majesty in Changqing Palace in the past flashed through his mind, making him want to bang his head on the ground.
He bowed his head in shame and made a deep bow: "Your Majesty, you are embarrassing me by saying this. I will only follow your orders now!"
Song Zhang, Liu Xingjian and others who were sitting behind him covered their faces and stroked their beards, hiding their meaningful smiles.
If I had known this would happen, I wouldn’t have done it in the first place.
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