On the first day of June, the vanguard of the Northern King had already arrived at the Yellow River Crossing under the leadership of the Northern King's Crown Yang Ke, which was opposite to the regular army of the Wei Dynasty's court. In addition to stationing north of the Yellow River, the vanguard of the vanguard began to deploy defenses to prevent the imperial troops from crossing the river to the north.

By this time, the rebellion of the Northern King was obvious, and the martial law began on the first day of June. Not only was the city gate closed, but the common people were not allowed to walk on the streets.

The next day, the main force of the Northern King also arrived on the north bank of the Yellow River. Since then, the imperial army and the Northern King Army have officially confronted each other on the north and south sides of the Yellow River. It is impossible to see when and how the Northern King will cross the river and fight.

In a few days, the palace was also under high alert inside and outside. The Queen had to summon people from the Privy Council and the Ministry of War to enter the palace every day to discuss the establishment and completion of the river defense line. Judging from the current situation, there was no problem with the defense line of the court, and the Queen was the queen's younger brother, King Ji, and Yang Yu, who led the establishment of the defense line. The Queen trusted her younger brother, so that there would be no flaws in the river defense line from the outside.

The queen also issued a strict order, and without any order, the River Defense Army would not allow the River Defense Army to lead troops across the river and engage in a head-on battle with the Northern King's troops. In order to prevent someone from "cooperating with the enemy", the queen even ordered the boats and ships of the imperial army on the south bank of the Yellow River to burn down, which was equivalent to completely blocking the Northern King's pace of going south.

The empress did this, which was equivalent to putting the two sides of the Yellow River into a closed state. The people from the Privy Council and the Ministry of War also had quite an objection to this, but the empress's arrangement was generally correct. Even if the people below had small opinions, they did not hinder the implementation of this decree. By the third day of June, the entire court's river defense line had been completely complete. King Ji Yang Yu was on the river defense line during the day and returned to the palace to report to the empress at night, and was very hard-working to do things. The empress was also very satisfied with what Yang Yu did.

By the third day of June, the Dongwang Mansion House was still calm and Han Jian did not make any moves. At this time, some people in the court were staring at the Dongwang Mansion House. Their purpose was not clear, but he was also very clear. His position was crucial in this power struggle, because it involved the positions of the counties and prefectures in the southeast of the Wei Dynasty. Han Jian's support for the Queen would make it difficult for the Beiwang to pacify the south. If Han Jian supported the Beiwang... Even the Beiwang had never thought about this possibility. If Han Jianzhen supported the Beiwang, he would not help the court eradicate the Beiwang's power in the capital. What the outside world thinks more now is that Han Jian might choose to be neutral and make a decision after everything is settled.

This seems to be the result of the rigid relationship between the Queen and the Eastern King. It forces the Eastern King to such a neutral path. Some people outside also think that it is a bit unwise to have a stalemate relationship with the Eastern King at this time. But some people who are interested also know that although the Eastern King has the support of the Southeast County and the State behind it, it can be said that it is useless when it comes to the major issue of the ownership of Luoyang City. Because the Eastern King's power has not extended to Luoyang City.

And Han Jian, a person who "cannot have an important impact on the current situation in Luoyang", was planning a major action. No matter which force it was on, he did not expect.

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The Luoyang defense line is composed of river defense line and city defense. With the fall of the Beiwang army, the imperial river defense line has been established and the Beiwang crosses the river to test the solidity of this river defense line.

At the same time, the Luoyang city defense of the imperial court was also complete. Compared with river defense, Luoyang city defense was very simple. It was enough to just close the city gate and transfer the guards' personnel to the top of the city.

The Luoyang defense line has different focus. This time, the empress focuses on river defense. With city defense as the auxiliary, the regular troops around the court basically mobilized to the Yellow River line, but did not transfer troops into the city. The imperial court could rely on only 10,000 troops, including palace guards and guard soldiers. At the same time, there were also small-scale regiment training in the city, with only a few hundred people totaling, and they were also transferred to defend the city at the same time.

On the evening of the third day of June, the Queen sent a team of envoys to cross the river north in a small boat. As representatives of the direct negotiations with the Northern King, their purpose was very simple, which was to question the Northern King's purpose of going south.

The Queen was not in a hurry to make a fuss with the Northern King. The King himself led his troops south to quell the Xianbei crisis. Whoever takes the initiative in public opinion will take the lead role in the situation. The Queen wanted to make the King admit that this was a treacherous act of conspiracy in Luoyang City. Although this kind of rebellion may be fancy and whistle-like, if the King of Northern King just refuses to admit it, the Queen will be named Wuming if he quells this rebellion.

The wars in this era were very forced to be famous, and they emphasized that they had gained power, but they had no support. Whether it was the Northern King or the Queen, they all hoped to get the support of ordinary people. Therefore, the Northern King went south and did not violate the local area. Even when they entered Changdicheng, they only killed an unsightly magistrate. The army entered the city without looting, nor burning, killing and looting. Everything seemed to be that the Northern King was really here to pursue the Xianbei cavalry, but they had not chased the Xianbei cavalry and had only set up troops north of the Yellow River before they chased the Xianbei cavalry.

The Queen hoped that this time the envoy would make the King of Northern himself admit that he was going to rebel. But the Queen was disappointed.

The envoy crossed the Yellow River and entered the Beiwang camp. Not only did he not encounter any criticism, but he was even treated as a guest. During the meeting with the envoy, the Northern King was respectful and completely treated as a minister to receive the envoys of the emperor. This left the envoys who had already prepared words to scold the Northern King speechless. However, among the envoys, there was a learned scholar Cui Mingli, who was famous for "loyalty and wise". Although Cui Mingli was not at a high level and was not a regular envoy on his mission, he was the first to question the Northern King, asking why the Northern King ignored the court's laws and regulations and made a gesture of going south to force Luoyang City to rebel.

When facing the questioning, the King of Northern said respectfully: "...Cui Boru has some misunderstanding. I went south to calm the dog, but the dog was cunning and hid in my Wei Dynasty and could not be found. In order to prevent the dog from going south to disturb our Wei Dynasty's capital, I had no choice but to send troops here and prepare to report to His Majesty, joining forces with the troops of various prefectures in Hebei to find the hidden dogs and wipe out it."

The words of King Bei are neither humble nor arrogant, which even makes Cui Mingli very embarrassed. Now King Bei just doesn't admit that he wants to rebel. Even if the army is approaching, King Bei cannot say that he rebelled as long as he does not have a head-on conflict with the court for a day.

"Further." King Bei continued, "In order to pursue the foreign dogs, I was lightly equipped and all of them were ordinary light cavalry. How could this be a rebellion? How could the soldiers in the army cross the river? How to threaten Luoyang? Cui Boru would still go back and tell His Majesty that it would be the right way to let His Majesty understand the old minister's intentions and send troops to cooperate with the king to wipe out the foreign dogs."

At this point, Cui Mingli realized that the North King was scheming and everything was in his control. If you have no evidence to say that someone rebelled and they just refused to admit it, what can you do? Cui Mingli, who has always been famous for his eloquence, also suffered a defeat in front of the North King.

On the next day, on the morning of the fourth day of June, Cui Mingli and a group of envoys returned to Luoyang City and told the queen. After learning that they had returned without success, the queen did not blame her. She could only blame the rebellion of the Northern King. The methods used were not contradictory and could not be classified for the rebellion of the Northern King. It is hard to say anything among the people. The key is that if the lyrics are dragged down, the river defense line will inevitably be discovered by the Northern King. That is the real disaster for the imperial court.

But there is something strange about things.

Just when the court had no choice but to take the Northern King, and the Northern King was proud to think that the imperial court had no choice but to deal with him. His soldiers and horses continued to confront the Yellow River with the court, on the evening of the fourth day of June, many "pamphlets" suddenly appeared in Luoyang City. These pamphlets seemed to suddenly fall from the sky. Although the city had martial law and the people of the Tingwei Mansion were patrolling the streets everywhere, they still did not notice who had walked so many pamphlets to many places in Luoyang's inner and outer cities.

The booklet was not distributed by the court, but was published in the name of "Northern King". In the booklet, the Northern King was extremely arrogant and considered himself the lord of the world. At the same time, he claimed that he had the blessing of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors and was the lord of the world, so that all the people would worship him, and he even claimed to be the founder of Taoism.

In this book, the Northern King was not only arrogant, but also a psychopath. After reading it, the people of Luoyang, who were mainly responsible for the channels, couldn't help but be indignant. Many people spontaneously came out to denounce the Northern King's behavior of rebellion. On the next day, on the streets and alleys on the fifth day of June, some people went out of the streets and began to denounce the Northern King despite the obstruction of the Tingwei Mansion. However, the court did not properly block the people, but instead contributed to the flames.

Public opinion suddenly fell one side, not only unexpectedly, but even the court did not expect it. The court investigated thoroughly and could not find out the source of the booklet in a short time. At this time, most of the shops in the city had been closed. It was even more difficult to thoroughly investigate in front of the enemy of the Beiwang.

Although some people suspect that this kid was not posted by the King of Northern, but was issued to discredit the King of Northern, they also believe that the book would not be issued by the court. Because there are many "big rebellious" words, which are not something that anyone dares to say. But even the queen dares to instruct anyone to do such a lawless thing as the founder of Taoism. Except for the King of Northern who is overwhelmed and crazy, he really can't think of anyone who dares to publish such a book.

But how the booklets flowed out and how they spread throughout Luoyang City overnight became a mystery in the hearts of many people.

The brochure incident made the Northern King angry. He originally thought that he had performed a good show in front of the imperial envoys, which made the imperial court unable to do anything to him, but in such a special period, someone actually issued a brochure under his name. How could he help him win people's hearts? It was simply harming him.

With the wisdom of King Bei, he couldn't think of who would do it. King Bei could only guess whether this was a flattering act made by his people in the capital to please him?

The King of Northern thought that if he really found out who did it, he would have to cut him off.
Chapter completed!