The Regent makes me unstoppable [Transmigration Book]

The imperial court's crusade against the vassal king's rebellion lasted from February to April. During this period, the two sides won each other. At the end of April, the imperial court sent an additional [-] troops to encircle and suppress Yongping, but they were stubbornly resisted by the rebels.

After April, the weather gradually became hotter, and most of the soldiers in the imperial court's army against the king were from the north. Yongping is located in the southwest, and the climate is hot and humid, with a lot of miasma. After summer, the soldiers began to appear water and soil. The situation of dissatisfaction, and this just gave the rebels a chance to counterattack.

Since then, the imperial army has been retreating steadily. Lin Zhenyue led the army to retreat to the city behind closed doors. The rebel army attacked the city for three days. Some staff members offered advice to King Huai. It would take a lot of time to attack the city, and at this time the defenders in Beijing were weak. Why don't you send your troops straight to the capital?

After listening to this plan, King Huai took it for granted, so he stopped spending time entangled with the imperial army retreating in the city, and directly sent his troops northward, intending to attack Huanglong directly.

In the next half month, the imperial court received countless reports of the victory of the rebel army. For a while, the officials and people in Beijing were panicked, and many people packed up their belongings and left the city to avoid disaster. However, at a distance of a hundred miles, the emperor ordered the generals in Beijing to guard the gates of each city strictly, vowing to live and die with the capital.

The capital city has become an isolated and helpless island. Just when the officials desperately thought that everything would be over this time and the country was about to change hands, they did not expect that a good news came from outside the city!

According to the victory report, the rebel army was preparing to attack the capital, but at the critical moment, the reinforcements from the Pingyang Palace arrived, and together with the imperial army that came after them, they attacked the coalition forces of the vassal kings from the left and right flanks and defeated the rebels!

As soon as the good news came, the officials saw the hope of victory and were greatly encouraged, but before they were happy, another battle report spread to the capital.

According to the battle report, the Pingyang army captured the defeated King Huai and King Xin alive, and handed over the military power of the two kings. Lin Zhenyue, Marquis of Gu'an, sent people to negotiate and wanted them to hand over the rebel army to the court, but unexpectedly, the commander of the Pingyang army Rejected.

After hearing the battle report, all the officials felt that their hearts that had just been put in their stomachs were lifted up again. This was really a wave of unrest, and the ministers quarreled directly in the hall.

"What does King Pingyang want to do? Since he is here to help the court put down the rebellion, why doesn't he hand over his military power after the rebellion is over?"

"The king of Pingyang supports his own troops, so is he going to rebel too!"

"Hundreds of thousands of troops are in the hands of King Pingyang. If he becomes rebellious at this time, what should we do?"

"Who is the commander-in-chief of the Pingyang Army? We must send someone over to negotiate!"

"If King Pingyang also has the heart of disobedience, then the capital is in danger!"

However, the soldiers who could send the letter said that the commander who brought the Pingyang Army to suppress the rebellion this time was not Pingyang King, but a young general named Xu Jingcheng under Pingyang King.

After the officials heard the name, they immediately whispered to each other and discussed a lot, but the result of the discussion was that no one had ever heard of such a person as Xu Jingcheng, and where did this unknown Xu Jingcheng come from? of?

But now is not the time to investigate Xu Jingcheng's origins. Now Xu Jingcheng is stationed in the suburbs of Beijing, eyeing the capital. The most urgent task is to appease Xu Jingcheng and persuade him to hand over his military power to relieve the crisis in the capital.

Just as the officials were expressing their opinions and arguing endlessly, the emperor, supported by the young eunuch, entered the hall on his weak and sick body.

Shen Ying walked up the steps, sat on the dragon chair, covered her mouth with a handkerchief and coughed a few times, frowned, pretended to be ill for a long time, and asked the ministers below in a hoarse voice: The harem has already heard that Xu Jingcheng relied on his merits in suppressing the rebellion to support his troops, this person is really hateful, can you think of any way to punish him?"

A minister said: "Your Majesty, I think that if Xu Jingcheng is punished at this time, I'm afraid it will only anger him, which is not good for the current situation. We should focus on appeasement."

Shen Ying leaned crookedly on the armrest of the dragon chair, casually playing with a sachet in her hand, and said, "Soothe? Then how do you appease? Seal a thousand households? Or reward ten thousand taels of gold? Do you think it's enough?"

The ministers heard that the emperor's catastrophe was imminent, and they still had this indifferent tone, and they couldn't help but slander. They have hundreds of thousands of troops in their hands, and capturing the capital is as easy as searching for something. You just want to take a small thousand households. People dismissed?Who is this looking down on?

Then a minister came out and said, "Your Majesty, a mere thousand households may not satisfy Xu Jingcheng."

"Qianhu is still not satisfied?" Shen Ying propped her head on her hands and thought for a while, then reluctantly said, "Then make him a general of Dingguo, is that all right?"

A minister thought of a way, "Your Majesty, how about this? Let's send someone to negotiate with Xu Jingcheng and ask him whether he wants money or fame. As long as he can hand over his military power and the request is not too excessive, we can agree to it." What does the emperor think of him?"

Shen Ying took a picture of the imperial case, and said with a sneer, "The salary of eating the emperor, the matter of being loyal to the emperor, and being loyal to me is his duty as Xu Jingcheng. It's crazy! If his request is met this time, others will follow suit in the future, and if things go on like this, then where is my majesty?"

People's spears and swords are pointing at your door, and you are still thinking about the majesty and majesty. It is true that the emperor is not in a hurry to kill the eunuch!

The ministers all began to persuade the emperor: "Your Majesty! The most urgent task at present is to quell the war as soon as possible. The conditions agreed to Xu Jingcheng are just a way to delay the army. It will not be too late to deal with him after he hands over the military power in his hand. I would like to ask the emperor to think twice!"

"Please think twice, Your Majesty!"

Shen Ying looked coldly at the minister who was kneeling on the ground under the stage, and smiled secretly, let him think twice now, when Xu Jingcheng enters the capital in the future, lovers should not regret it.

"Think twice, you will know to make me think twice! Anyway, it is not your face that is lost!" Shen Ying pretended to be angry and coughed violently. After coughing for a long time, she finally stopped, and weakly raised her hand and shook it. , "Forget it, I am powerless now, so I will do everything as you said."

The minister Shen Ying sent out to negotiate with Xu Jingcheng came back soon. The minister was transferred to the capital after Gu Min left the capital, so he had never seen Gu Min who was still in the Linyang Marquis period. Seeing Xu Jingcheng, who looks exactly like Gu Min, was surprised.

After the minister came back, he tremblingly told the emperor and Baiguan Xu Jingcheng the conditions for him to surrender his military power.

Xu Jingcheng said that he wanted to be the regent.

Shen Ying dismissed it immediately, angrily scolded Xu Jingcheng in the main hall, he was a traitor, a wolf with ambition, and immediately announced that as long as he was in power for one day, there would be absolutely no "thing" like a regent in Daying.

But the officials didn't take it seriously. The emperor didn't have a few months to live, but they could still live for a long time. If you can make a regent king, you can get back the safety of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in the capital. Isn't this a good deal? ?

So all the officials went up one after another to state the benefits of exchanging the false name of a regent for the military power of hundreds of thousands of troops, and begged the emperor to carefully consider this matter for the sake of the stability of the world's subjects.

The emperor was overwhelmed by the disturbance. Although he was unwilling in every possible way, he finally couldn't stand the repeated bombing by civil and military officials. Three days later, he reluctantly agreed to the request of the ministers and issued a decree to make Xu Jingcheng the regent.

On the day when the imperial decree was issued, good news came from the Marquis of Gu'an that Princess Changping gave birth to a baby girl, and the mother and daughter were safe.

After Shen Ying knew about it, she specially ordered someone to drive to Shou'an Palace to tell Empress Dowager Liu the good news in person.

Shou'an Palace has been closed for a long time, except for two or three eunuchs and maids who are in charge of serving Empress Dowager Liu, ordinary people are not allowed to enter or leave.

Shen Ying got off the sedan chair. Even though it was summer, walking in the empty Shouan Palace made people feel chilly. A gust of wind blew from nowhere, and it made people's backs feel chilly, just like in previous years. Compared with the grand occasion, today's Shou'an Palace is no different from the Leng Palace.

Walking into the hall, Shen Ying saw Empress Dowager Liu kneeling in the small Buddhist hall to recite scriptures. In just over two years, Empress Dowager Liu's hair was completely white. The actual age is more than ten years older.

"Queen Mother, I'm here to greet you." The tables and chairs were covered with dust, and there was no place to sit, so Shen Ying simply stood and talked to Queen Mother Liu, "I'm here to give you the good news. People came into the palace to report that Changping was born."

"Boy or girl?" Empress Dowager Liu turned her head almost immediately, looked at Shen Ying nervously and asked, her voice hoarse as if cut by a knife.

Shen Ying smiled slightly, "It's my daughter."

The Buddhist bead in Empress Dowager Liu's hand fell to the ground, and her eyes burst into disbelief, "How could it be? How could it be a girl? It's absolutely impossible!" Long, his legs and feet were numb, and there was no one to support him, so his body tilted to the side and fell to the ground.

Shen Ying waved her hand, signaling to the servants on the side to help the Empress Dowager Liu up, but the Empress Dowager Liu didn't appreciate it, pushed away the palace servants sent by Shen Ying to help her, pointed at Shen Ying and said bitterly: "Sorry! I don’t want you to pretend to be kind! You are lying to Ai’s family, right? How could Changping give birth to a daughter? Master Xuanci clearly told Ai’s family…”

The corners of Shen Ying's lips turned upward, and she interrupted Empress Dowager Liu slowly, "Did Master Xuanci tell the Empress Dowager that the late emperor would be reborn in Changping's belly? It's a pity, there is no such thing as reincarnation in the world. , it is impossible to see my son again.”

Empress Dowager Liu was taken aback, "How do you know?" Then she quickly came to her senses, and she suddenly realized that she stared at Shen Ying with resentment in her eyes, and gritted her teeth, "So it was you! So you designed all of this! Shen Ying! You So vicious!"

"I'm vicious?" Shen Ying walked back and forth in the room with her hands in her hands, "It's really surprising that such words can come out of the Queen Mother's mouth, but when it comes to viciousness, I don't think I can compare to your Queen Mother." one."

Empress Dowager Liu had a terrifying expression on her wrinkled face, but there was a strange smile in her throat, "You will be punished! No, you have already been punished. The Ai family heard that you will not live long, maybe I still have to go to the front of Ai’s house, haha! This is all retribution! Once you die, do you think that this dragon chair, the puny little baby you set up, can sit firmly? !"

"Then I'm afraid I will disappoint the Queen Mother." Shen Ying showed sarcasm, without explaining to the Queen Mother Liu, put her hands behind her back, and said leisurely, "I have decreed that Xu Jingcheng will be the regent, and I believe the regent will be able to do so in the future." Help me assist the prince."

Empress Dowager Liu sneered again and again, "Naive! Ridiculous! In the past dynasties, has it been rare for powerful officials to bully young masters?"

"You don't know who Xu Jingcheng is, so it's normal to think so. Let me introduce you to the queen mother." Shen Ying chuckled, "Xu Jingcheng is the son of the late former cabinet chief assistant Xu Wenjie. Does the name still feel familiar?"

"Son of Xu Wenjie?" Empress Dowager Liu murmured and repeated, suddenly thought of something, got up from the ground with all her strength, and rushed out of the small Buddhist hall, her bloodshot muddy eyes stared wide open, as if seeing Like a ghost, "You mean Gu Min? He didn't die? How is this possible?"

"I remember that I said to the Queen Mother that I want both Junshu and Jiangshan. Jun, Wu, drama, and words." Shen Ying finished speaking every word, and looked at Queen Mother Liu mockingly, "Queen Mother, Xu Once the descendants of the family come back, it's time to settle the old debt many years ago, you must take care of yourself in the Shou'an Palace, and I will visit you again next time."

After Shen Ying finished speaking, she walked out of Shou'an Palace without caring about Empress Dowager Liu who was furious and scolding loudly behind her.

Walking outside the palace, he straightened his back, raised his head to look at the vast and clear sky above his head, and with a smile on his face, he ordered the palace people behind him: "Decide my will, order all the officials to leave the city, and welcome the regent back to the court."