It's better to be an empress than a county magistrate

Concubine Shu glared at Lu Xingchen, "Lu Xingchen, you vicious woman."

"The reason I'm waiting for you here is just to give you an explanation."

"I walked into your path before, don't you know my ambition?"

"You know it, and the emperor knows it too, but you are too greedy for money, and the emperor can do nothing about it."

"Everyone has weaknesses. I have caught your weaknesses, and there is nothing I can do about it."

"It can be regarded as a perfect ending to our acquaintance."

Lu Xingchen waved gently at Concubine Shu and Li Chaoyang.

"Lu Xingchen, what are you going to do? I am the concubine, I am the high and mighty imperial concubine, I am the emperor's favorite concubine."

"I won't kill you, but Li Chaoyang will definitely die."

Concubine Shu looked at Lu Xingchen in shock

After a moment, she kowtowed to Lu Xingchen repeatedly, thanking him for not killing her.

This is what the so-called deep love is all about.

"But your son should not be His Majesty's, but Li Chaoyang's, right?" Lu Xingchen said.

"No, no. My son belongs to His Majesty. He is a prince. He is really a prince." Concubine Shu struggled desperately.

The next morning, Lu Xingchen led his troops and left Yongzhou City for the capital.

She brought 50,000 soldiers and horses with her, and left 10,000 in Yongzhou City and handed them over to Ma Chao.

Three days later, the troops arrived and set up camp five miles outside the capital.

Lu Xingchen brought Li Chaoyang and Concubine Shu to the city gate of Beijing.

On the city wall of the capital, the soldiers guarding the city saw Lu Xingchen and his troops lined up outside the city.

Lu Xingchen's troops, with flags flying and neat formations, were filled with a murderous aura and were already in a panic and at a loss as to what to do.

Chen Hao came to the city wall and watched Lu Xingchen standing under the city riding a maroon horse.

Only then did he see Lu Xingchen's appearance clearly.

I had heard that Lu Xingchen was extremely beautiful, and now I saw that she was indeed so.

Her face dimmed the sunlight.

"Your Highness the Prince of Qin, what are your intentions in bringing your troops back to the capital?" Chen Hao shouted while standing on the city wall.

"I heard that His Majesty was in a coma. I came here specially to visit him." Lu Xingchen said.

"In addition, I caught Li Chaoyang. He is a sorcerer who deceives the people with his lies. He was the one who made the elixir for Your Majesty, and Your Majesty ate his elixir, which is why you were poisoned and fell into a coma."

"Today I will kill Li Chaoyang in front of Your Majesty and make him apologize to Your Majesty."

Chen Hao looked at Lu Xingchen in disbelief. This man was really good at confusing right and wrong.

It was clearly her who captured Yongzhou City and occupied the Nan Daying. His Majesty was so angry that he vomited blood after hearing this. He did not expect that she would put all the blame on Li Chaoyang.

"Li Chaoyang and Concubine Shu are having an affair, which makes the emperor wear a big green hat. Moreover, the second prince is not the emperor's biological son, but the illegitimate son of Concubine Shu and Li Chaoyang."

"They are all his majesty's sinners. So I want to see his majesty and help him kill his enemies..."

"You won't stop me from entering the city to see His Majesty?"

"Your Highness the Prince of Qin, you are a foreign general. If you lead your troops back to the city now, no matter how nicely you speak, I cannot let you in. Unless you set up camp with your troops ten miles outside the city, and you take off your armor alone and go into the city to see His Majesty, I will let you in." Chen Hao said.

Lu Xingchen sneered, "Your Majesty is surrounded by treacherous villains like Li Chaoyang. It's not that I don't trust Your Majesty, but I don't trust those treacherous villains."

"So I brought the troops back to purge the court of corrupt officials."

"If General Chen won't let me into the city, I can only let my cavalry trample down the gates of Kyoto..."

"Then the soldiers under General Chen will benefit greatly."

This is a threat, a naked threat.

During this time, more than half of the guards had already fled. He killed some of them but it did not stop the situation.

People's hearts have been scattered, and it will be useless even if more people are killed.

He also had no will to resist and kept asking Prime Minister Feng Yuan what to do if Lu Xingchen called him?

This question has been asked from last winter to this summer.

Feng Yuan never gave him an accurate answer.

But as the defender of the capital, he could not surrender, as doing so would bring him infamy.

His father has already been branded as a traitor, and if he is branded as well, then both generations of the Chen family would be traitors.

This kind of moral condemnation made Chen Hao dare not take the initiative to open the city gate and surrender.

Lu Xingchen used courtesy before force. He first wanted to go in to visit the emperor, but now if the city gates are not opened, they will attack. What should he do?

There is no way he can stop them. He has less than 6,000 soldiers under his command, and Lu Xingchen brought so many people here. It seems that there are at least 40,000 or 50,000 of them.

No matter how high and thick the walls of the capital were, it was impossible for six thousand people to stop the attack of fifty thousand people.

Is the heavy moral shackles really going to fall on his shoulders?

At this moment, the city gate slowly opened.

Lu Xingchen also showed a surprised expression.

To her surprise, many officials in court robes slowly walked out of the city gate.

Lu Xingchen roughly counted them and found that there were about twenty.

More than half of the officials in the capital have left, and there are still twenty left.

In front of me was an old man with gray hair and beard.

The officials walked up to Lu Xingchen and knelt on the ground.

"I, the Prime Minister Feng Yuan, lead all the officials to welcome His Royal Highness the Prince of Qin to the court to preside over the government..."

Lu Xingchen was also a little overwhelmed by this move.

"Your Highness the Prince of Qin is the only prince in Daliang today... and he has the highest status. Now that His Majesty is in a coma, there is no one to preside over the government. Please invite Your Highness the Prince of Qin to take charge of the government."

Lu Feng and Ling Xiao showed unexpected surprise on their faces.

I didn't expect that we wouldn't have to fight this battle.

However, Lu Xingchen thinks that age is more important.

She looked down at Feng Yuan with cold eyes.

This puts the blame completely on her.

If she deposed the emperor and proclaimed herself emperor, she would also have to bear the moral shackles of betraying her master.

Feng Yuan brought officials out of the city to welcome her, His Royal Highness the Prince of Qin, which was legitimate and for the sake of Daliang.

Because the emperor was in a coma, there was no one to preside over the government. As the King of Qin, Lu Xingchen was the most honorable person besides the emperor.

It is reasonable for her to preside over the government.

So Feng Yuan didn't have to bear the accusation of opening the city gates and welcoming the rebels. What he welcomed was not the rebels, but His Royal Highness the Prince of Qin.

Standing on the city wall, Chen Hao looked down at Feng Yuan, wishing he could smash the old man's head into his chest with one punch.

For more than half a year, he asked Feng Yuan every day, what should he do if Lu Xingchen called? The old man never gave him an accurate answer. Unexpectedly, the old man already had a plan in mind.

Chen Hao was so angry that he gritted his teeth. He had racked his brains for seven months but had never thought of this trick.

"In that case, please stand up, my lords. I will enter the city now..." Lu Xingchen said frankly.

She didn't even get off her horse, but rode her warhorse and slowly walked into the capital with her men.

Immediately afterwards, Ling Xiao, with his several thousand personal guards, took over the entire capital's defense at lightning speed.

She transferred Chen Hao out of the capital and stationed him outside the city.

The entire capital’s defense was under the control of Lu Xingchen.