Si Tian Guan

"It's Shen Zhou?" Mu Jingzhao was about to shout, but was stopped by Liu Chongming's gaze, and hurriedly lowered his voice: "Chongming, life and death are at stake here, don't make fun of me!"

There was no hint of laughter on Liu Chongming's face.

"Precisely because the prince's life and death are at stake now, you should think carefully about whether my words are joking."

He reminded: "I know Qu Shenzhou better than the lord. He is narrow-minded, he will take revenge, his heart is higher than the sky, and he never wants to be inferior to others. Has the lord ever had any unreasonable thoughts about him?"

Mu Jingzhao was embarrassed.

"After Qu Chenzhou entered the palace, did the prince pester him?"

There is no need to answer this question, as both of them know the answer, Mu Jingzhao felt guilty: "It's just rubbing hands twice, isn't it... just because of such a trivial matter?"

"He has a sensitive mind, and nothing is trivial to him. When it comes to ruthless words, you and I are not his opponents. I have also suffered a few times at his hands. What's more, the empress also has a lot of personal grievances with him. .With his talent for divination, it is too easy to convince the Queen Mother."

Mu Jingzhao was dumbfounded when he heard this, and suddenly became furious: "What a bitch! Give him three points of color, and actually want to bully us! Chongming! Let's go to the emperor and talk to him!"

"The prince is impulsive."

Liu Chongming stopped him: "My lord wants to say something in front of the emperor? Just rely on what I just said, will the emperor believe it?"

"I'm not afraid of the prince's jokes when I say it. I left Beijing this time and almost died when I came back."

Mu Jingzhao was surprised: "What?"

"We got the treasure through many dangers. General Ding even died. In order to monopolize the credit, Qu Shenzhou pushed me off the cliff. I escaped from death and returned to Beijing. I wanted to seek justice in front of the emperor, but the emperor wholeheartedly protected him, saying that he was not Intentional."

Mu Jingzhao became flustered: "Your Majesty... Your Majesty... Is it really possible that Qu Shenzhou has been fascinated by him? From the very beginning, I thought he was a vixen! How could a person be so good-looking!"

"Chongming, I blamed you wrongly in the past. I thought you were harsh and mean. Now that I think about it, what he hit from the very beginning was to betray your thoughts. My fault! I'm blind!"

"Then what shall we do? What shall we do now?"

He grabbed Liu Chongming's hand.

"Chongming, I finally understand what you mean. He must have hated me and said something to the queen mother to make the queen mother hate me and the queen mother! What should we do! He is by the emperor's side, bewitching the emperor to support him, the emperor can no longer listen Enter our words!"

"The monster is messing with the court, so we can't keep him," Liu Chongming's brows were also full of anxiety: "Otherwise, even if he escapes this catastrophe, he will cause trouble again. Today is your Ning Wang's Tang family, and tomorrow it will be my Liu family's turn."

Mu Jingzhao felt the same hatred: "Shameless bastard! How can he be allowed to run rampant!"

Liu Chongming smiled wryly: "But what can I do? He can even pull Bai Shiyan away from me. It's not what I said. If it wasn't for the current incident, I'm afraid the prince would not stand by my side."

Mu Jingzhao thought about it carefully, it really was like this, he was startled and frightened.

"Then... what should I do? The emperor was deceived by him, did he believe that I killed the empress dowager? Where is my queen mother? Where is my uncle?"

"Your Majesty and Tang Shizhong have been arguing for the prince all the time, but..." Liu Chongming hesitated for a while before saying, "But the prince is inseparable from the Queen Mother's death, and the best case scenario is that it will be sent to the fiefdom."

"I, I, I, I'll go..." Mu Jingzhao nodded hurriedly, and then reacted in horror in Liu Chongming's gaze.

You can't just go to the fief if you want, and Mu Jingde is a lesson from the past.

"Chongming!" He panicked completely: "Help me! Are you just watching me die?"

Liu Chongming paced around the room for a few steps, hesitant to speak.

"Chongming, tell me what you say! Can I still not trust you?"

"My lord..." Liu Chongming whispered in his ear: "Now all the key lies in Qu Chenzhou, as long as he is still around, the emperor will not listen to our advice."

"That's to..." Mu Jingzhao's eyes flickered, and he made a downward posture.

Liu Chongming shook his head: "The empress dowager's turmoil has not subsided. If he is assassinated to death, the emperor is afraid that he will go to war, and he will not be able to listen to anything. At that time, no one will be able to escape unscathed."

Without waiting for anyone to ask, he softly uttered two words: "Admonishment."

Mu Jingzhao was stunned, he didn't yell as he imagined, and took a few mouthfuls in a daze.

Liu Chongming didn't urge him, went to the side of the door and looked out, like watching the wind, it took a long time to hear the response behind him.

"Chongming, I think what you said is right," Mu Jingzhao said in a low voice, "But how do I do it? I can't even go out of the palace, I don't know anything, let alone lead troops to fight..."

"There's me, otherwise, how could I think of a way to beg the emperor for mercy and come to see the prince?"

Mu Jingzhao was at a loss: "How to do it?"

Facing his ignorant gaze, Liu Chongming felt a little unbearable in his heart, but King Ning was the frontmost barrier and shield pushed by the Tang family.

Although King Ning was innocent, the Tang family was not innocent at all.

King Ning is not dead, even the emperor dare not shake the Tang family.

My sister sent someone to ask him for embroidery patterns, plum blossoms—the emperor already had a plan in mind, he would rather crown Lan'er as king than hand over the military power of Shiliting to him.

In the end, Qu Chenzhou guessed correctly, if the military power of Shiliting fell into the hands of King Huai, it would be a sword hanging above his head, and he didn't know when it would fall.

In other words, the emperor wanted to use him as a blade to cut off the Tang family's confidant, but he not only wanted to dismiss him lightly, but also grandly put the Liu family and King Huai on the ring and watched them fight to the death. .

This wishful thinking is also played too well.

Shiliping guards the main road, so it is impossible to be withdrawn, so before sending it to King Huai, the sharp blade should be hammered into scrap iron.

Then it's up to Shen Zhou, and he only needs to play his part well.

"My lord, I also said just now that Qu Chenzhou and I have a greater hatred. This time it is the Tang family, and next time it will be the Liu family. If the lord takes this opportunity to remonstrate, I, Liu Chongming, will definitely not stay out of it."

"I still have some available people in the palace. After dark, I can send the prince out of the palace quietly. The prince will ask General Tang to meet you outside the city. At dawn, you can go out of the city to meet General Tang."

"At that time, the prince will be away, and I will lead the Jinxiu Camp to meet him in the city, and we will plead with the emperor together!"

"My lord, don't worry, not only the empress will support you, but also Tang Shizhong, my father, General Bai and Manchu civil and military will stand by our side! The emperor can only kill Qu Shenzhou to appease public anger!"

"Get rid of traitors and sycophants, Qing Jun side! Cut the song and sink the boat!"

Mu Jingzhao's blood boiled with excitement when he was told, and he scratched his ears and cheeks, wishing that it would be dark soon, and after a few laps, he quickly calmed down again.

"Chongming, before I leave the palace, can you arrange to meet the queen mother?"

Liu Chongming sighed: "Because of the prince's matter, the emperor and the empress are now at a standstill, so watch closely, does the prince want to throw himself into the trap? Then don't involve me."

Mu Jingzhao was ashamed, and asked again: "How can I get General Tang to welcome me in time? Chongming send me a letter, please."

"It's a duty," Liu Chongming touched the charcoal pencil from his sleeve, watched Mu Jingzhao hurriedly tore off the inner jacket to write, and reminded: "Your Highness, do you have any tokens with you, otherwise it will not be easy to convince General Tang."

This put Mu Jingzhao in a difficult position, he was originally going to the palace for a banquet, so he didn't think about it so much.

"Then can you send someone to my house..."

"The prince's mansion has already been guarded by heavy soldiers, so I can't send people to search for it."

Mu Jingzhao was so anxious that he turned around, and when he thought about it, he remembered something.

"Qu Chenzhou! Qu Chenzhou has a token of my waist card! Go and get it back for me! If he holds that thing, he will definitely use it to harm people! He is not in the palace this afternoon, so go and find it at his place!"

Liu Chongming hesitated for a while, but he still complied.

"Don't worry, my lord. I will find a way to get it, but if I do this, I'm afraid it will take some time. Today is too late."

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter." Mu Jingzhao carefully folded up the written secret letter, and urged: "Chongming, please come back early! I'll be waiting for you."

When Liu Chongming got down the steps and looked back, he could still see a hole in the window paper. Someone was looking at him eagerly inside, and he couldn't help but feel sad.

The grievances of the previous generation have already taken root in King Ning's blood.

It would be fine if Mu Jingzhao was a princess, but she was born as a legitimate son, and the emperor never thought of inheriting the grand line as a legitimate son.

When the queen stepped on other people's bones to shine on the Tang family, she might never have thought that the emperor had already buried the poison of bone erosion.

The way of being a king and the way of a minister should not be like this.

Decades of turmoil and treachery should also die down.

"Your Majesty..." Someone knelt on the steps outside.

The cotton curtain rolled up to both sides, and Emperor Yu's lazy voice came out: "Shen Zhou, it's so late, what's important that we can't talk about tomorrow?"

Qu Chenzhou's forehead rested on the ground: "I know that I shouldn't disturb the emperor late at night, but I have something to report."

There were several coughs in the room, and many light footsteps moved towards the door. It wasn't until Yu Dexi's clothes walked past him, and the sound of the door closing behind him, that the room was completely quiet.

"What's the matter, tell me."

Qu Chenzhou took a few steps forward on his knees, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, this afternoon, I met your son at the gate of the palace."

Emperor Yu hummed and asked, "Are you arguing again?"

"I remember the emperor's lesson. I didn't argue with the prince. It's just the prince..." Qu Shenzhou said softly, "I made a divination for the prince. After noon tomorrow, King Ning raised his troops. After returning to the pavilion, I found that King Ning The waist badge that was sent to the minister...is gone."

The hexagram was so clear that no one could calm down when they heard "King Ning raised his troops", but Emperor Yu still hummed indifferently.

Qu Chenzhou straightened up slightly, and said more clearly: "Your Majesty, the son wants to assist King Ning in fleeing, and the matter of raising troops...don't underestimate it, and please make a decision as soon as possible."

After a long time, Emperor Yu sighed softly: "Shen Zhou, you are smarter than I thought, and you dare to play tricks on me and test me?"

"I don't dare," Qu Chenzhou leaned over: "Before I came, I was just guessing, only the words of the emperor let me know..."

He didn't go on talking, both of them understood the following words - let the minister know that the emperor knew about it.

Emperor Yu laughed and asked: "Shen Zhou, do you think you can understand everything, so you are not afraid of getting killed?"

"When you meet the emperor, you have no one to rely on, nothing to worry about, only the emperor is the only thing you can rely on, and everything you have is entrusted to the emperor, without fear of life or death."

Qu Shenzhou's voice was soft and calm, like a feather, stirring up the greed in the darkness.

"The prince has a lot of connections, but the minister is alone and asks for very little. It is just that the emperor shows pity and care, and asks the emperor to protect the minister so that he will not be bullied again."

"I am willing to live and die for the emperor, without complaint or regret."

"What the Jinxiu camp can do for the emperor, the ministers can also be driven by the emperor."

Emperor Yu was stunned for a moment in his calm confession of Chicheng, swallowed his words about driving people out, and asked indifferently: "What can you do?"

The light wooden butterfly flew to the inner room, landed on the brocade quilt, and flapped its wings.

"The Shiliting garrison can be used by King Ning today, and it can also be used by others tomorrow."

"This time the army can be held in the palm of your hand, but not next time."

"Not only the Shiliting garrison, but also the Nanbei Yamen and the Bai Family Commander..."

Qu Chenzhou slowly raised his eyes, his strange pupils were like torches.

"Your servant can kill the emperor to warn others, so that Xiao Xiao's generation will not dare to disagree!"