In the first ten days of November, news came from Yongzhou that Xiao Huang led an army of 15 to march eastward, claiming to be 30. The road was like a broken bamboo, and even two counties of Ke Anding and Fufeng approached Guanzhong, forming a siege of Chang'an.

Wei Ang, the governor of Yongzhou, led the soldiers and civilians of Chang'an to defend the city, and at the same time sent people to ask Luoyang for help.

The news of Qin Wang Xiao Huang's rebellion spread to Luoyang, and the capital was shaken.

Rumors spread in the capital all of a sudden, and many people in the capital and even some officials doubted whether Chang'an could be held. After all, Liangzhou's army had many generals, and they were menacing, and they were the most elite frontier army in Daning. The leader of the army was Xiao Huang, King of Qin who was the bravest and best at fighting in Daning.

Once the Liangzhou rebels capture Chang'an, how long can Luoyang hold on?

It is precisely because of this uneasy psychology that the people of Luoyang frantically snapped up food, causing the price of food to skyrocket for a while, which in turn further exacerbated the panic of the people.

Fortunately, Xiao Jie was prepared for such a situation and made a decisive decision. On the one hand, he sent the champion general Wu Ji to lead [-] soldiers from the Eastern Palace, and the right Jinwu Guard general Zhou Yan led [-] right Jinwu Guards to march into Guanzhong to help Chang'an. Drive up food prices, and at the same time put a large amount of food on the market at a par price, stabilize food prices, and appease the hearts of the people.

At this moment, news came from Changning Palace that after careful treatment by the imperial physician in the palace, Emperor Xiao Ji of Daning, who had been in a coma for more than two months, finally woke up.

As soon as the emperor woke up, Xiao Huang's accusation against the prince Xiao Jie of poisoning his father in the proclamation was self-defeating.

Soon, Xiao Ji personally issued a decree to declare Xiao Huang a rebel, abolished his title of King of Qin, removed all his official positions, and called on the soldiers of the Liangzhou Army not to help the tyrant, as long as they can no longer follow Xiao Huang's rebellion, everything before The imperial court can forget the past.

After repeated appeasement by the Eastern Palace and the imperial court, the hearts of Luoyang's subjects were finally stabilized, and the price of food in Luoyang also slowly fell back to the normal price.

And Xiao Jie also decided to go to the palace to meet his father, intending to persuade him to agree to lead the army himself, because no matter what, he and Xiao Huang needed to make a break.

Although Xiao Jie knew that his father had been pretending to be sick for more than two months, as soon as he entered the imperial study, Xiao Jie knelt down on the ground and congratulated: "I congratulate my father on his recovery from the dragon body."

In any case, you have to do a full set of plays, otherwise you will easily fall into the shoes of others.

But the strange thing is that Xiao Ji's face was extremely calm, and he didn't call Xiao Jie flat, but secretly winked at Lian Yi, the internal servant at the side.

Lian Yi understood, and took out the eunuchs and maids in the imperial study room, and then closed the palace door intimately, leaving only their father and son in the imperial study room.

Xiao Ji glanced at his son, and then slowly said, "You have done a good job during the two months that I have been bedridden and unable to govern."

Although it was just a simple sentence, it was the best recognition of Xiao Jie's actions during this period.

According to the usual practice, Xiao Jie had to be modest: "Father is too famous. This is not due to the merits of the ministers alone, but also depends on the careful assistance of the ministers in the court."

Xiao Ji looked at Xiao Jie with complicated eyes, and sighed silently in his heart.

This son is much better than I imagined. During the period when he deliberately pretended to be sick, he not only handled the affairs of the court in an orderly manner, but also defeated the slander and slander of Xiao Huang and the Wang family many times, and even fought back. , Let the other party be in a dilemma.

But why did he get confused again and again when he focused on that matter?

Now, Xiao Ji didn't want to beat around the bush anymore, he decided to have a good talk with his son frankly.

"Yesterday, your mother received a letter from Liangzhou. Do you know what's in the letter?" Xiao Ji's tone was very calm, but the air froze all of a sudden.

Xiao Jie's heart sank suddenly.

He also guessed what his father was talking about.

Han Yue and the others had already left Liangzhou, and they also sent Xue Liang to inform him of what happened in Liangzhou. When he knew that Wang Guifei had been rescued by them, but when Xiao Huang and Wang Cheng were about to attack, he had already sniffed There was a hint of danger.

He knew that Wang Cheng would never be Xiao Huang's opponent, and his own people robbed Xiao Jing before Xiao Huang, Xiao Huang would never let it go, and would definitely interrogate everyone in the manor. The matter of Wang Guifei couldn't be concealed at all.

Since Xiao Huang has such an advantage in his hands, he will definitely make good use of it, and now is undoubtedly the best time. While gathering heavy troops to attack Chang'an, he uses this matter to provoke the relationship between himself and his father, making his father suspicious of him , to break the trust of the emperor's father in him, so that he can take advantage of it.

It's just that he didn't expect that Xiao Huang would be so insidious as to tell Empress Sun about this matter, which made Xiao Jie feel very guilty towards Empress Sun. After all, although he was not Empress Sun's own, Empress Sun always regarded him as her own, caring and loving him , he really didn't want to hurt the kind Queen Sun because of this matter.

Xiao Jie didn't make any excuses, just bowed heavily to Xiao Ji, and sighed: "I'm guilty, I'm sorry for my father, I'm sorry for my mother."

"You still know that you are sorry for your mother."

It was fine if Xiao Jie didn't say this, but when he said this, Xiao Ji became even more angry: "If that rebellious son hadn't sent someone to tell you, how long would you have kept it from me and your mother... Ask yourself, what will your mother do to you? How, what is your conscience for what you have done?"

Xiao Jie sighed secretly again, but did not speak.

Seeing his son's appearance, Xiao Ji hated iron for being weak in his heart, but he still suppressed the anger in his heart and said coldly: "This is the end, I don't want to scold you anymore, and I don't want to cause such a scandal. Everyone knows that if you hand her over to me, I will pretend that nothing happened and I don't know anything."

Xiao Jie hesitated for a moment, but still couldn't help asking softly: "I don't know how the father plans to deal with... her?"

"You don't have to worry about it!" Xiao Ji flicked his sleeves with a cold face.

Although he knew that he would offend his father, Xiao Jie still shook his head: "My father, please forgive me for not being able to obey my orders."

Xiao Ji couldn't help being startled when he heard the words, obviously he didn't expect that his son would dare to reject him so bluntly, he became more and more annoyed in his heart, and smiled coldly: "Very good! Give me a reason to resist and not obey the order"

Xiao Jie lowered his head and sighed: "If the son-in-law betrayed his biological mother in order to protect himself, how is it different from Brother Sanhuang?"

"Good, good, good! What a loving mother and filial son." Xiao Ji said three good things in a row, and laughed angrily, "In this case, I might as well abolish your crown prince, demote you to a commoner, and let you go with your biological mother." How about having fun?"

Xiao Jie didn't say anything, he knew that his father was just talking in a fit of anger, and he wouldn't abolish a crown prince just because of this kind of thing, but some people didn't think so...

"Your Majesty, you must not abolish Yu'er because of this matter."

At this moment, Empress Sun couldn't bear it any longer, and immediately appeared from the screen behind.

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