Jin Wang Dotes on His Concubine

After a while, Li Dequan suddenly stood up from the pedals, crossed the dragon couch lightly, and came to the thick curtain.

Opening the curtain, there is a Duobao Pavilion close to the wall, with many ornaments placed on it. Li Dequan reached out and fiddled with one of the small incense burners a few times. Duobao Pavilion suddenly and silently split into two, revealing a black hole.

He bent down and walked in, and soon Duobao Pavilion returned to its original state. The heavy curtains are still hanging low, and the people on the dragon couch are lifelike.

…

There was an old man lying on the couch. He was not dead, but he looked like a dead man.

Li Dequan's eyes turned red as soon as he saw this person, and he didn't dare to cry anymore. He hurriedly took out a porcelain bottle from his arms, leaned over and poured the contents of the bottle into the person's mouth.

"This old slave is incompetent and has been watched too closely. Now he can't even make some ginseng soup. Your Majesty, please just drink some. Drink more to preserve the dragon's body..."

Emperor Hongjing's face was withered and sickly. He sipped the rice soup in his mouth drop by drop. He lived a lifetime. This was the most embarrassing time for him. He didn't blame anyone, he just blamed him for being stubborn and trusting people wrongly.

"How's it going outside?"

"I heard that His Highness King Jin has been leading people to confront the Zhonggong group. I don't know the specific old slave. I only know that the king has been angry one after another in the past few days."

"It's a liar's ambition, but it's a pity that it doesn't work. He is no match for Lao Wu." Emperor Hongjing finally saw some light in his cloudy eyes.

Li Dequan didn't dare to speak, hiding what he heard today. People from the fifth military camp have already entered the city. With the few people in King Jin's hands, how could they be opponents. But he didn't dare to say it because he was afraid that His Majesty would collapse if he did. His Majesty was at the end of his rope.

No one thought that Chang Jian'an would betray Emperor Hongjing, not even himself. During that time, Emperor Hongjing was unconscious. He woke up once, but he hid it because of his suspicious nature. I wanted to recover secretly and order someone to secretly investigate what was going on behind the scenes, but suddenly I found that there was no one available overnight.

Emperor Hongjing suddenly lost his eyes, ears, limbs, and was discovered and brutally murdered. In desperation, he came up with a plan to replace him with a substitute he had raised for many years, and the real Emperor Hongjing was hidden in a secret room by Li Dequan.

It was Emperor Hongjing's suspicion that saved him, but something happened the next night.

Emperor Hongjing has been trapped in this secret room for the past few days. He is rarely awake and mostly unconscious. I don't know what kind of medicine he was given. The poison was so powerful that it actually made him weak and weak. Many times he couldn't control it at all and fell asleep.

"Don't forget Lingwei."

Emperor Hongjing seemed to understand Li Dequan's thoughts and suddenly said this.

Li Dequan was surprised and asked: "Your Majesty said he was the tomb guard of the imperial mausoleum?"

The Mausoleum of Emperor Qian of Yanshan is located in Yanshan, Changping, not far from the capital.

Several generations of emperors from the Qian Dynasty were buried in this imperial mausoleum. To protect the imperial mausoleum from malicious damage, several guards were stationed in the area, also called mausoleum guards. These mausoleum guards are neither classified as the Ministry of War nor the Beijing Guards, but they are a hidden force close to the capital.

It's just that Lingwei usually doesn't show his face in front of others and is ignored by many people.

Emperor Hongjing hummed, "Don't forget who is there. When I asked Lao Qi to guard the mausoleum, he didn't complain a word. I knew he must have something planned. He thought I didn't know what he was doing behind his back. I actually know everything about it.”

Li Dequan was so surprised that he cried and laughed and said: "Your Majesty should be lucky, now we can be saved."

Emperor Hongjing felt that chaos was coming again, and his mind began to blur. He tried hard to clear his mind, but found that there was nothing he could do.

His eyes slowly began to become cloudy and his eyelids drooped. A weak voice came from his throat: "Li Dequan, the secret passage of Jingren Palace..."

Li Dequan shivered, his whole body seemed to have been soaked in ice water, and he felt an unprecedented sense of coolness.

"Yes, I know."

Chapter 198

Li Dequan went to look again, only to find that Emperor Hongjing had fallen asleep.

This was not the first time he had experienced this situation, and he still couldn't help but feel flustered. It wasn't until he reached out to touch his breath that he finally felt relieved.

He sat down on the ground and began to think about the secret passage of Jingren Palace.

There has always been a secret passage in Jingren Palace, which leads to Qianqing Palace.

The secret path was built during the reign of Emperor Gaozong. It is said that Emperor Gaozong had a concubine who seemed to be inconspicuous and never stood out in the harem, but she was the most beloved woman in Gaozong's life.

This concubine's life was legendary. She did not give birth to the most children, and her appearance was not among the best in the harem. The Daqian dynasty was selected every three years, and every three years was a reincarnation for the women in the harem. During this period, there would always be various favored concubines, making this one overshadowed.

But if you look at it for a long time, you will find that those beloved concubines have long gone without knowing where they are for decades, but this one is the evergreen tree. It remained unchanged for decades, no matter how old or handsome she was, in the end, although she did not become the queen mother, her son became the emperor.

This person is the late emperor.

Queen Xiaoyide was posthumously named the Queen Mother after her death. She could have continued to enjoy the ultimate wealth in the world as the Holy Mother Queen Mother, but she died with him after Gaozong's funeral.

This secret passage was built by Emperor Gaozong specifically to visit Queen Xiaoyide, and almost no one in the palace knew about it. The reason why Li Dequan knew it was because Emperor Hongjing had used this secret passage. Only then did he know why his Majesty deliberately moved Concubine De from Zhongcui Palace to Jingren Palace.

The reason why Emperor Hongjing mentioned this secret passage just now was not because he thought of Concubine De, but because there was another branch of this secret passage that could lead to the outside of the palace.

The correct answer is that there has always been a secret passage in the palace leading to the outside of the palace. Only each emperor knew that the secret passage in Jingren Palace was actually a branch from this secret passage.

Li Dequan didn't think any more and returned outside the same way.

The mood in the dormitory was the same as when he left just now, making people feel so still that their hearts were filled with tranquility.

However, Li Dequan was calm. He was thinking about how to use the secret passage to get out of the palace.

This battle lasted for a whole afternoon. Because the Yanshan Mausoleum Guards attacked from the rear, the people of the Fifth Army Camp were defeated and defeated.

They were dead, injured, some were captured, and some fled towards the palace. The Yanshan Mausoleum Guards and King Jin's men took advantage of the victory and pursued him until they reached the palace and had to stop.

King Qing was dressed in armor, with a face full of wind and sand. His armor and weapons were still stained with blood, which showed that he had been engaged in a fierce battle for a long time. He drove his horse to King Jin, who was wearing black armor, cupped his hands and said, "Fifth brother, it's a pity that you are not alive."

King Jin was dressed in black, which made his face look whiter and whiter, but he was very cold and hard, like an iceberg that had not melted for thousands of years. He stared darkly at the palace gate not far away, with a frosty expression on his face, and nodded slightly: "Thank you for your hard work."

Prince Qing was speechless and choked, but it was obvious that now was not the time, so he could only swallow thousands of words into his throat.

"Brother, it's not hard."

The rebels fled into the palace. Although the anti-rebellion army won the battle, it was not a complete victory.

After all, the purpose of King Jin is not to defeat the rebels, but to invade the imperial city, capture King Qing, rescue the trapped courtiers, and find out what happened in the palace. But it is obvious that the towering imperial city The palace wall blocks all this.

When the Forbidden City was built, it was originally built as a city. Which emperor is not afraid of death, and his lair must be built to be indestructible.

The King of Jin had never fought siege battles, but at that time he had enough troops and many people to use. But now that they only have so few troops in hand, in addition to clearing out the remnants of the rebels stranded outside, they also have to watch out for other actions by the rebels. Obviously, they cannot devote all of them to the siege.

Some people have already begun to shout to the imperial city, but there is no movement at all inside. There are many armored soldiers guarding the gate tower of the palace gate, but they are like stone men, and no one pays attention to the shouts outside.

"Fifth brother, do you still want to fight?"

King Jin pondered for a moment and said, "Order people to guard outside the palace gates to prevent people inside from coming out."

"Fifth brother is trying to trap the enemy?"

"In order to save troops, this is the only way for the time being. They are trapped in the palace. In addition to these rebels, there are tens of thousands of palace maids and eunuchs. The food reserves in the palace are not enough to sustain them for long."

"Fifth brother is wise."

This is not the wisdom of King Jin, but a question that everyone can think of. There are too many people in the palace. Although there are many rice warehouses and granaries built, the consumption is greater than the saving. According to King Jin's estimate of the food in the palace, it would only be enough for them to last for ten days at most.

And these ten days are enough for him to do many things, enough to close the door and beat the dog.

King Jin did not slack off, there were still many things he needed to do.

For example, the remnants of the rebels in the city were eliminated, the people were appeased, the Shuntian Prefecture, the Five-City Military and Horse Division, and the Jingwei Command and Envoy Division were rectified, and the courtiers were united to restore the government offices and at the same time recruit reinforcements from outside the capital.

He was so busy that he was nowhere to be seen for many days, and Yao Niang was also very busy. After a thorough rest, she started to send away all the family members who had temporarily stayed in Prince Jin's Mansion.

Especially the so-called courtesy between noble people. If someone goes out of their way to say thank you, you can't help but show up. Yao Niang was very tired every day, so naturally she had no time to think about King Jin.

This chaos caused heavy losses in the capital. Not to mention the damage to various houses and government offices, many ordinary people also suffered in their homes.

Too many people died, and the capital was completely white. Because the rebels have not yet been completely eliminated, Beijing has not been able to return to its former prosperity for the time being. There are very few people walking on the streets, all with lingering fears.