The eldest princess is obsessed with rebellion, but there are six male protagonists

As the commander of the imperial guards, Lu Hong was in charge of the defense of the capital. If the emperor went out openly, no matter where he went from, he would definitely know.

So there are only two possibilities for the emperor's disappearance. One is that the emperor hid in the palace, and the other is that the emperor sneaked out.

The fact that Lu Hong came to find her at this time meant that he must have searched the entire palace but could not find any trace of the emperor. The first possibility was unlikely.

As for the second type, the emperor has had precedents before.

Su Fengyi asked Lu Hong:

"After I left the palace today, did anyone see me go out again?"

Three years ago, the emperor also disappeared once. He disguised himself as the eldest princess and followed Qiao Gui. He sneaked out of the palace and went on a secret visit for fun.

The emperor and the eldest princess share the same face, with a boy's appearance and a girl's features. The emperor dresses up as the eldest princess, and it is indeed difficult for ordinary people to tell them apart unless they speak or look carefully.

In addition, the eldest princess always came and went as fast as the wind when entering and leaving the palace, and no one dared to check. So when the emperor disguised himself as the eldest princess and left the palace three years ago, no one dared to ask any questions and he just walked out in a swagger.

At that time, Lord Yang had not yet fallen ill. He not only took care of all the affairs of the court, but also the emperor's words, deeds and studies, and was quite strict with the emperor.

Lord Yang had strict requirements on the emperor because he hoped that the young emperor could grow up to be a wise ruler under his guidance, so that he could live up to the Taizu and the late emperor who came before him.

Yang Ge Lao was an old minister who followed Taizu in conquering the world. When Taizu was conquering the world, he was Taizu's military advisor. After Taizu conquered the world, he became Taizu's chief minister and the prince's tutor.

After the late emperor ascended the throne, Yang Ge Lao was almost eighty years old. He petitioned the late emperor to retire and return to his hometown, but the late emperor said, "Please help me, sir." He did not leave and remained the Prime Minister and the Prince's Tutor.

Later, when the late emperor passed away, Yang Ge Lao could no longer leave.

Elder Yang dedicated his entire life to the Su family. Three years ago, he was already eighty-three years old. He was worried that he was too old and would not have much time left. After he was gone, the emperor's throne would be unstable, so he started to arrange the emperor's wedding and personal rule in advance.

Three years ago, the emperor was just fifteen years old. He was tired of being restricted in everything despite being the Son of Heaven. Even if he ate too much, said something wrong, or teased a little eunuch, he would be lectured.

Therefore, he felt both annoyed and afraid of Yang Ge Lao, an old man who had been taking care of him since he was a child, and who was in charge of everything.

According to royal custom, before the emperor's wedding, Yang Ge Lao arranged for palace maids to teach him about human affairs.

Yang Ge Lao's selection criteria are naturally that honesty is the best, while appearance is secondary.

As a result, the emperor despised them for being as boring as wood, and complained to Qiao Gui in private:

"I am the emperor, but I don't even have the freedom to sleep with any woman I want. What's the fun of being the emperor? I don't know if I am the emperor or he, Yang Ge Lao, is the emperor."

Lord Yang is a man of high moral character and power, so he is naturally very demanding of the eunuchs around the emperor.

Therefore, Qiao Gui had always been a low-key person, acting as a diligent and honest man beside the emperor. However, from the emperor's complaint, Qiao Gui keenly felt that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

A chance with both risks and opportunities, a chance to overthrow Lord Yang.

Although Lord Yang is powerful, he has one biggest weakness: he is old and the emperor has grown up.

Qiao Gui had served the emperor for many years and knew clearly that the emperor was a person who only wanted to enjoy the benefits brought by power but was absolutely unwilling to bear the responsibilities and obligations that came with power.

And this is the great opportunity that God has given to Qiao Gui.

Power will not disappear, it will only be transferred. After Lord Yang falls from power, this power that covers the entire world will naturally belong to Qiao Gui.

Then Qiao Gui said to the emperor:

"If Your Majesty doesn't like them, I do know a place where the girls are gentle, charming, and amorous. Their beauty is top-notch. Your Majesty should go and take a look."

The emperor became interested as soon as he heard that there was such an interesting place among the people. For fear of being discovered by Lord Yang, the emperor secretly disguised himself as the eldest princess and slipped out of the palace. Then he followed Qiao Gui to visit the most famous paradise and den of brothels in the capital.

The king of a country actually went to a brothel. If this was discovered by Lord Yang, Qiao Gui, as the mastermind who instigated the emperor to go out of the palace in disguise to visit a brothel, would be in danger of death.

Serious illnesses require strong medicines, and wealth and honor are achieved through risk. Qiao Gui is gambling on that one in ten chance of survival, and on the fact that the young emperor, who has grown up, will no longer agree to let others' will override his own authority.

Sure enough, the next day the emperor did not go to the study to read as usual, and his disappearance was discovered by Lord Yang.

Yang Ge Lao was shocked and furious, and sent the imperial guards to search the capital for the emperor. Finally, they found the emperor, who had spent the night drinking and carousing, drunk in the bed of a courtesan.

After bringing the emperor back to the palace, Lord Yang will take care of the matter.

He knew very well that if this matter was not handled properly, everyone in the palace would regard flattery as a ladder to success. The emperor, who was already mentally weak and greedy for pleasure, would grow up to be a tyrant in such a palace.

The first person that Lord Yang wanted to kill was Qiao Gui, the slanderer. However, just as the imperial guards had tied him up, the emperor, who was still hungover, groggy and in dishevel, rushed out amid Qiao Gui's cries of "Your Majesty, help me! Your Majesty, help me!"

The emperor only used one sentence to make Yang Ge Lao so angry that he fell to the ground.

The Emperor roared:

"Qiao Gui is my personal eunuch, and he is both my teacher and my friend. Who dares to touch him?"

What a great teacher and friend!

When the tied-up Qiao Gui heard these words, he knew that he had won the bet!

The real imperial tutor, Yang Ge Lao, was famous throughout his life and served three generations of monarchs. However, when he grew old, he was reduced to the level of being compared with a eunuch.

On the second day, news came from Yang Ge Lao's mansion that Yang Ge Lao had suffered a stroke and was in bed. The Yang family submitted a letter of resignation on Yang Ge Lao's behalf, handed in his official uniform and seal, and disappeared from sight, never setting foot in the court again.

But that was three years ago. Three years ago, the emperor wanted to go out of the palace to seek pleasure, and he had to disguise himself and hide it from Lord Yang.

Now that Lord Yang is no longer in the court, if the emperor wants to leave the palace, he can do so openly. There is no need to resort to this method.

Su Fengyi asked this question, asking whether the emperor had disguised himself again. Lu Hong actually nodded and said:

"At 3 p.m., Xihua Gate."

Su Fengyi's Princess Residence was in the East City, so she usually went out of the palace through the Donghua Gate and rarely went out of the Xihua Gate. No wonder the Princess went out of the palace twice a day and no one noticed.

The emperor went out at 3 p.m., which Lu Hong only realized now, meant that he went out on his own and was not held hostage by anyone. Therefore, the people at Xihua Gate regarded the princess's leaving the palace as a normal thing, and did not report it until Lu Hong found out.

Su Fengyi asked Lu Hong again:

"How did you find out that the emperor was missing?"

Lu Hongdao:

"Cui."

Eunuch Cui came to give Lu Hong a special reminder:

"Commander Lu, something terrible has happened. The Emperor is missing, and the factory manager is also missing. Please send someone to look for them!"

First he avoided Lu Hong and left the palace, and then asked Eunuch Cui to lead Lu Hong to send troops to look for him. It was obvious what Qiao Gui was planning!

I'm afraid that old villain Qiao Gui has been obsessed with the military power of the Imperial Guards. Seeing that General Shen has already stepped down in the matter of the little prince of the Northern Tartars and there is no chance for speculation, he started to come up with other crooked ideas.

Although Lu Hong was the commander of the imperial guards, he had no right to transfer the imperial guards out of the capital without the emperor's order, otherwise he would be suspected of treason.

Now Qiao Gui has probably used some method to coax the emperor out of the capital, and he must have left some clues for Lu Hong.

If Lu Hong found clues about the emperor and disregarded the rules by dispatching the imperial guards out of the capital to protect him, he would be committing the cardinal sin of privately dispatching troops.

But if Lu Hong found out clues about the emperor, or even Qiao Gui arranged a scene for the emperor to be in danger, and Lu Hong just let it happen and did not go to protect the emperor, that would give Qiao Gui an opportunity to attack him for being disloyal to the emperor.

Lu Hong will be doomed whether he chooses left or right. Qiao Gui's plan is indeed brilliant.

Su Fengyi is now only worried that Qiao Gui will really take the emperor to Qingbiankou.

The Emperor has already given Qiao Gui the best he could get, and Prince Pingliang cannot give Qiao Gui more. It is unlikely that Qiao Gui will vote for Prince Pingliang.

But while the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind. Su Fengyi was only worried that there were spies from Prince Pingliang in the palace. From the moment Qiao Gui first instigated the emperor to tour the north and capture the white unicorn at Qingbiankou, Prince Pingliang's men had begun to secretly push this matter.

Liu An had most likely already set up a tight net at Qingbiankou, waiting for the emperor to fall into the trap.