Unable to capture Renshou Palace for a long time, King Liang grew increasingly furious and ordered, "Use fire to attack!"
The commander of the Imperial Guards' expression changed drastically. "Your Highness, you mustn't!"
Apart from a few scholars like Grand Secretary Wang who sought refuge with the Prince of Liang, the other officials also hid in Renshou Palace. If Renshou Palace were to be burned down, wouldn't everyone die?
They used the excuse of avenging the late emperor to justify killing the emperor, but not to commit massacres.
If all the officials are killed, how can the court function?
No matter how good their pretext for starting a rebellion, the people of the world will still judge them as traitors.
He was forced to rebel because his son had been given leverage by Kang Le, but he absolutely did not want to become the target of public condemnation.
King Liang didn't really want to, but he had no way out. He slammed his fist on the table and said, "Then let's attack with all our might."
After thinking about it, he wrote another letter to Kang Le, asking her for support.
At the same time, he summoned a man in black and said, "Find a suitable spot and assassinate Ye Zhen."
He felt that the Imperial Guards had failed to break into Renshou Hall so far because of Ye Zhen's misdeeds.
"If I had known, I should have killed Ye Zhen from the beginning," King Liang thought bitterly.
Just then, someone came running up, stumbling, "It's terrible, Your Highness! Marquis Zhongyong has arrived with his men!"
Why would he come?
King Liang panicked, "What kind of work is Kang Le doing? Isn't she supposed to be able to trap Marquis Zhongyong and block the news?"
How would the person coming know?
His face was full of anxiety. "Your Highness, what should we do now?"
What could the King of Liang do? He thought of using fire again.
Then someone rushed in, shouting, "It's terrible! The Crown Prince has arrived too!"
King Liang's pupils dilated in shock. "The Crown Prince isn't dead?"
How could he not be dead?
A trusted confidant wrote to say that the crown prince had been dealt with, so how could he still be alive?
After pacing back and forth a few times, he made a desperate gamble: "Capture the emperor at all costs."
This time, the commander of the Imperial Guards did not stop it.
The Marquis of Zhongyong holds military power in the western suburbs camp. His arrival at this time must be to mobilize troops to rescue the emperor.
They are no match for us.
Moreover, there's also the Crown Prince.
Their only chance of survival right now is to take the emperor hostage before they storm the imperial estate.
But to their utter surprise, a large number of soldiers clad in black armor suddenly emerged from the imperial estate.
The loyal and brave marquis's men arrived just in time, launching a pincer attack from both inside and outside, and the King of Liang suffered a crushing defeat.
"You did this on purpose?"
He glared at the emperor with resentment.
Now that things have come to this point, he has figured everything out.
The emperor was already aware of his and Kang Le's scheme, but instead of stopping them, he took the opportunity to come to the summer palace and then forced him to rebel, so as to thoroughly punish him and Kang Le.
Those Xuanjia soldiers had long been hiding in the imperial estate, but the emperor watched as he raised an army like a clown.
"Hypocritical, you're still as hypocritical as ever."
The emperor looked at him with a deep gaze, "If you had no ambition, who could have forced you to this point today? Twelfth, I have treated you well."
When the late emperor passed away, Prince Liang was just a few years old. The emperor remembered that Prince Liang's mother had helped him, and that he and his dozen or so brothers had died, been deposed, or fled far away in their struggle for the throne, leaving only Prince Liang as the youngest brother.
He had a moment of weakness and kept the young Prince Liang.
He hadn't expected the King of Liang to try to seize the throne, and it pained him deeply, as he knew he hadn't treated him badly.
But the King of Liang did not think so.
"If you had truly treated me well, you wouldn't have left me as a carefree prince."
“If I hadn’t helped you, my mother wouldn’t have been resented by the late emperor. If she hadn’t been resented, she wouldn’t have been tormented by him, and she wouldn’t have died young.”
My mother died because of you, yet you refuse to promote me, or even let me go to my fiefdom. Isn't this because of your fear and distrust? And this is what you mean by treating me well?
The emperor frowned. "Your mother did help me, but she died not because of me, but because she had you as her son."
The late emperor was jealous and could not tolerate the other princes.
The reason he was allowed to stay was simply because of the late emperor's perverse sense of humor; the late emperor wanted him to watch him and the empress be affectionate.
"And you have never shown any ambition, so how can I give you a job?"
As for not sending the King of Liang to his fiefdom, it was indeed because he did not want him to go.
Because the Prince of Liang was too dissolute, he worried that if he went to his fiefdom, he would become a troublemaker and bring disaster to the people. That's why he thought of keeping him in the capital so that he could at least keep him in check.
However, the emperor offered no further explanation.
He realized that any further explanation was superfluous, and none of these were reasons for the King of Liang to rebel.
King Liang also felt this was an excuse, saying, "You're lying; in the end, you're just being hypocritical."
You kept saying you were good to the Crown Prince, but in the end, you still forced him to commit regicide. And then you used that as leverage to prevent him from returning to the capital, forcing him to live in exile for many years.
Everyone was shocked!
The crown prince murdered the emperor?
Before anyone could think further, Xie Tingzhou said calmly, "Wasn't this done by you, Kang Le, and the Grand Princess?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Lei Ce pressed Kang Le, Wen Cheng and the others forward.
Xie Tingzhou continued, "Back then, Kang Le had someone impersonate me, intending to assassinate my father. The Grand Princess was waiting in the wings, hoping to take my life."
I was shot in the heart, and during my recovery, the three of you never stopped trying to assassinate me.
Their wolfish ambitions are blatantly obvious; why bother finding a reason for their rebellion today?
He concealed the fact that the queen shot an arrow and that he had fled.
The Prince of Liang did indeed pursue and kill the Crown Prince, but he did not participate in the autumn hunt. It was only after conspiring with Kang Le that he learned the whole truth of what happened back then, and the events were not as the Crown Prince had described.
Just as he was about to expose it, someone stepped forward holding a dragon robe, saying, "Your Majesty, this was found in the Liang Prince's residence."
Making a dragon robe without permission is a serious crime of treason. Although the King of Liang had already committed treason, he did not make any dragon robe and cried out that he was wronged.
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