Chapter 235 Palace Change
Food is something that keeps people alive. Ordinary refugees may rob granaries, but they will never burn them.
Only people who want to cause chaos would do this.
Once the capital is in chaos, the soldiers in the capital will be too busy to handle it. The person behind the scenes can seize the opportunity to instruct the refugees to attack the city, or...
Launch a palace coup.
The other party was able to repeatedly carry out explosions in the city, which obviously meant that they had already ambushed a large number of people in the capital.
The burning of the granary was most likely intended to lure the enemy away from the mountain, to make a feint to the east and attack in the west, so that the people in the city and the refugees outside the city could work together to break down the city gates and then attack the palace guarded by the Imperial Guards.
There might even be people from the other side in the palace.
If things were really as she guessed, the master would be in danger.
Feng Qingsui immediately sent a message to his spies in the palace, asking them to keep an eye on Fengyi Palace and escort the master away if any chaos occurred.
Then inform other people in the city and be ready to fight at any time.
Then he sent an order to the palace guards to be on high alert.
After finishing her work, she stood in the courtyard, looking at the night sky in the northwest, and said sadly: "If you don't come back, I will really have to take mother away from the capital."
Diwu Qingqing has been writing medical books day and night recently, and only rests in the middle of the night.
Soon after I closed my eyes, I heard a shrill scream.
He immediately turned over and sat up.
He reached out and grabbed the clothes he had placed beside the couch before going to bed.
After getting dressed, she quickly walked out of the bedroom and asked the eunuch guarding the ceremonial gate, "Eunuch, what's going on outside?"
The eunuch replied, "Your Majesty, several assassins have arrived and the guards are dealing with them."
Diwu Qingqing's expression suddenly became serious.
He turned back to his room, wrapped the results of his compilation in a bundle, and put it on his back. Then he put on his hand the hidden arrow that Peregrine Falcon had sent into the palace, and stuffed the poison into his body.
After everything was ready, he sat by the window and listened carefully to the movements outside Fengyi Palace.
There were definitely not just a few assassins as the eunuch said, there were at least dozens or even hundreds of them.
And he has muskets and thunder bombs in his hands.
Gunshots and explosions rang out one after another, almost shattering the glass windows.
The sounds of fighting were getting closer and closer, and soon gunshots were heard at the gate of Fengyi Palace.
The palace maids were frightened and at a loss.
"Your Majesty, an assassin has broken into Fengyi Palace! What should we do?"
She stood up from her chair and said calmly, "Hide, or escape and save your life."
After saying that, he walked towards the backyard.
There was a pomegranate tree outside the palace wall on the north side of the back garden. She and Qingsui had previously agreed that if Fengyi Palace was lost, they would go here and wait for her people to rescue them.
Just as she walked under the tree, a rope ladder was thrown over from the other side of the palace wall. She pulled it to make sure it was safe, and then climbed up.
When she climbed up the wall, she saw a woman dressed as a palace maid standing outside, waving her hand towards her.
"My lady, jump down."
She jumped off the wall.
The woman caught her and put her on the ground.
Then he led her away quickly: "The palace gate is not open, let's find a place to hide first."
The palace gate is not open?
The fifth one asked in confusion, "How did the assassin get in?"
Could it be that the palace wall was blown up?
"They came in through the drainage ditch," the woman replied. "Most of the assassins went to the Ganning Palace, and some headed for the palace where the prince's concubines lived."
Diwu Qingqing subconsciously turned his head towards Ganning Palace.
If Zhao Qi hadn't survived this coup, who would have taken the throne? What fate would the people of Daxi have faced?
All sorts of thoughts raced through her mind.
But after only thinking for a moment, she came to her senses and quickened her pace.
She can't even take care of herself, so there's no point in thinking too much.
Survive first.
Ganning Palace.
When the emperor heard the gunshot, he knew that the assassin who broke into the palace must be the evil Zhao Bixiang.
When Xuan Pingbai returned from Hezhou, he reported to him that the leader of the Chengtian Army looked somewhat like Zhao Bixiang, and had deliberately disguised himself to look like Zhao Bixiang, with treacherous intentions.
He knew that it was not the thief leader who had ulterior motives, but that Zhao Bixiang had deliberately found a substitute to divert his attention.
After this evil creature escaped, his methods became more and more outrageous.
He even let his people sneak into the imperial palace.
The emperor ordered with a cold face: "Kill without mercy."
"yes!"
The commander of the Royal Guards took the order and left.
The emperor summoned Yu Mofang, the commander of the imperial guards, and said, "Send twenty more men to Fengyi Palace to protect the empress."
Yu Mofang said hello.
He immediately called someone over.
After everything was arranged, the emperor waited quietly in the imperial study for the battle to end.
"Your Majesty, the Queen has been captured by assassins."
A eunuch hurried to the outside of the imperial study and shouted loudly.
The emperor stood up suddenly.
He walked out of the imperial study quickly, looking past the imperial guards guarding the door and at the eunuch.
"The Queen was captured?"
The eunuch nodded. "The assassins blew open the gates of Fengyi Palace and engaged in a fight with the guards. Another assassin went around to the back garden and kidnapped the Empress."
The emperor's expression suddenly changed.
The next moment, the guard Yu Mofang had just sent out hurried back to report, "Your Majesty, the Empress is not in Fengyi Palace."
The Emperor was deaf for a moment.
Qingqing, something really happened to her?
At this moment, the eunuch who came to report the news rushed through the heavy guards at lightning speed, rushed to the side of the emperor, and put a thin knife to the emperor's neck.
"Don't move, the blade is poisonous."
The eunuch looked at the guards expressionlessly.
Yu Mofang's scalp instantly went numb.
It's over.
His Majesty was kidnapped right under his nose.
This eunuch is actually an assassin? !
Isn't he the personal eunuch that His Majesty placed in Fengyi Palace to serve the Empress?
Is it a nail that has been lurking for a long time, or has it been replaced by someone in disguise?
No one dared to move.
Including the emperor.
"Stop the Royal Guards fighting."
The "eunuch" ordered the emperor.
The emperor said to Mo Fang with a cold face, "Notify Commander Lin and let him go."
Yu Mofang accepted the order.
After a while, the gunfire stopped.
A figure that the emperor was extremely familiar with walked into the palace gate, leading dozens of men in black.
"Father, I hope you are well."
The emperor's face was grim.
The imperial guards looked at the newcomer warily.
Zhao Bixiang walked towards the emperor calmly, and the guards in front of him were shot down one by one by the black-clad guards following behind him.
"Father, you don't seem happy to see me?"
A wicked smile appeared on Zhao Bixiang's lips.
"I saw that my father was very happy."
The emperor's voice was as cold as iron: "I really shouldn't have sent you to Anguo Temple."
This evil creature should be killed with one blow.
Zhao Bixiang laughed.
"Isn't it because you, Father, don't take me seriously, thinking you can crush me at any time? Ever since I was little, I've always hoped to astonish you one day, and now I finally have achieved my wish."
The emperor's face was gloomy.
He really didn't take this evildoer seriously from the very beginning.
Before the evil deeds of this evildoer were exposed, he was cautious and respectful in front of him, and calm and generous in front of outsiders, gentle, respectful and frugal, just like a gentleman.
But he knew that this evildoer's homework was all written by his tutor and that this evildoer's reputation was spread by the Rongchang Marquis Mansion.
It's just a facade.
Zhao Bixiang walked past him and entered the imperial study.
"It's getting late. Father, please have someone draft the imperial edict of succession as soon as possible."
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