Part Four: The Four Seas Are Difficult to Peace The Anti-Zheng Alliance Chapter 120: Xiao Lu Kills the King
Xiushan Xiucheng
Xiao Lu wandered here like a bereft dog. Being thirsty, he ignored his image and lay down on the moat to drink. When the patrolling soldiers saw him, they pointed and laughed.
At this time, a centurion holding a long whip came over and shouted at Xiao Lu: "Who are you? Do you also drink the water of the moat?"
"I said...I am the current prime minister...do you believe it?" Xiao Lu was out of breath and almost collapsed on the side. The centurion was very surprised and hurriedly turned his face to confirm.
It is the Prime Minister of the Taiwei Empire!
The centurion bent down in panic and saluted: "This little man has no eyesight, so he didn't know he was the Prime Minister. I hope the Prime Minister will respect you!"
After hearing this, all the soldiers knelt down on the ground. They would eventually be held responsible for the disrespectful behavior just now.
Xiao Lu stared at the centurion: "What? Do you recognize me?"
"The Prime Minister has the kindness to reinvent the villain!" The centurion's eyes filled with excitement: "To be honest, we are all soldiers of Sanqin Pass. The Prime Minister knows rewards and punishments clearly, and is considerate of the corporal. We have admired him for a long time and only hope for him.
I will repay my kindness one day, but I don’t want something like this to happen today!”
Xiao Lu smiled awkwardly. He knew that the favors given to him at Sanqin Pass were nothing more than an attempt to seize power and use them to make meritorious deeds.
"My humble name is Su Zhanqing. The Prime Minister doesn't dislike me. I would like to be a personal servant of the Prime Minister. I will serve tea and water, lead horses and hold stirrups. I will do whatever I want!" The Centurion gave a very respectful salute.
All the soldiers said in unison: "I am willing to obey the Prime Minister's order!"
A gust of cold wind blew through, and Xiao Lu shivered all over. He gently helped the centurion: "Su Baihu, from today onwards, you will be your personal bodyguard!"
"Yes!" Su Zhanqing knelt down and kowtowed three times, with a smile on his face. He was as simple as a child, smiling happily.
Subsequently, Su Zhanqing ordered the entire army to form, and helped Xiao Lu onto his horse and walked into the city. Xiao Lu inquired about the situation in Xiucheng, and Su Zhanqing made no secret of it: "Your Majesty, Prime Minister, the prefect of this place is General Zhao Fuli. This man seems to be
With some secret order, you want us to get rid of the Prime Minister. But please rest assured, Prime Minister, Su will protect you!"
Xiao Lu took a breath. He had realized that it was difficult for him to gain a foothold in the court, so he came up with the idea of meeting the Holy Emperor and wanted to report his illness and return home.
"Prime Minister, you are right. I don't know who listened to the temptation, but I want to come to the scene of the battle to observe the battle. The emperor will arrive tomorrow, and then I will go cry and complain, and I will definitely have a way to survive!" Su Zhanqing replied.
The old and fatuous Emperor Taili would not be involved in military matters. Xiao Lu believed that it must be those strange private matters. There was once a cook who had an affair with a palace maid and fled. After hearing this, the old emperor was already lame and could not go to court.
After being cured, he personally led a group of eunuchs in the palace to chase him for more than hundreds of miles. The chickens and dogs were disturbed wherever he went. The people treated him like a god of plague, and even made up a jingle to ridicule:
"The cheating ghost, the eunuch Zui'er, healed the emperor's legs~"
Xiao Lu didn't tell anyone, but just tried to figure out in his mind how those families slandered him, which alarmed Emperor Terry. If he didn't have a good way to deal with it, the mediocre old emperor wouldn't care about it, and he would do it on the spot.
It might cost him his life.
On the other side, Zhao Fuli was completely panicked when he heard that Xiao Lu had not only returned unscathed, but also gathered a large number of troops. He was afraid that Xiao Lu would raise an army to rebel, so he quickly ordered a banquet to be held on a scale to receive the prime minister.
That night, Xiao Lu had the most filling meal of his life, and Zhao Fuli drank a glass of wine for him: "I didn't expect that the prime minister would suffer such a disaster, and I will feel ashamed in my heart."
"General, what are you ashamed of?" Xiao Lu asked with a smile.
Zhao Fuli was speechless for a moment, so he had to change the subject: "Does the Prime Minister know? Your Majesty will be here tomorrow. You will be ignorant and hope that the Prime Minister will exercise great power."
"Everything should still be handled by the general." Xiao Lu swayed the wine glass reflecting the moonlight: "Your Majesty is here for me. If I take care of it, wouldn't it embarrass Your Majesty?"
Zhao Fuli looked at the guards behind Xiao Lu and finally had no choice but to follow his orders and arrange them one by one.
The next day, all the officials of Xiucheng stood neatly outside the city gate. Under Zhao Fuli's arrangement, the people also practiced the "welcome across the street" joke over and over again.
"Woo~" The royal horn sounded, and all the officials knelt aside, Xiao Lu and Zhao Fuli knelt in the center. To be honest, the officials didn't take the emperor seriously at all, they just wanted to show their respect to Yang Min, who was in power.
It's just a matter of face.
The old eunuch shouted loudly: "Your Majesty has arrived!" The ministers immediately arranged their official sleeves and shouted in unison: "Long live my emperor! Long live my emperor!"
The dragon chariot was gently placed in the center. The old emperor Taili leaned out with the support of the eunuch, and then slowly landed on the ground. The ministers facing him said: "Pingshen..."
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" This burst of shouting shocked the Emperor's ears, and the momentum completely overwhelmed him.
The ministers escorted the emperor to the prefect's mansion, where he would be received according to royal standards, even though Taili didn't have a few bites.
Terry looked at the people in the audience and soon noticed Xiao Lu. So he made a confused remark: "Xiao Lu, you have done a good job!"
Everyone was confused by the sudden words. Most people thought that the emperor was here to hold him accountable for the defeat. Only Xiao Lu knew clearly that the emperor must have listened to the slander and made some strange accusations against him.
Terry dragged his old body to his feet and threw the wine glass in his hand to the ground. Everyone present was shocked and knelt down. Although Xiao Lu had an army behind him, he still knelt down according to etiquette.
"Xiao Lu! You ungrateful person, if I hadn't supported you, you would have been a slave for the rest of your life! Not only did you not want to repay your kindness and serve the country, but you took advantage of my serious illness to have an all-night affair with the queen. What are your intentions?"
The old eunuch on the side continued to encourage: "This is a crime of great disrespect. According to the "Taiwei Law", he will be executed as Lingchi and the nine tribes will be exterminated. Does Prime Minister Xiao know?"
Xiao Lu was sweating like rain. Although he had already made plans, he didn't expect that the nobles would make a fuss about the dead queen. Xiao Lu always made suggestions for the queen, and even jumped into the Yellow River and couldn't clean it up.
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"I am not guilty. I hope your Majesty will find out the truth so that the hearts of the scholars in the world will not be chilled..." Xiao Lu had no choice but to defend himself.
As for other things, Terry would not care even if he was defeated and surrendered. But trying to steal a woman from him would not work. Although he is old, his pursuit of "love" is no less than that of a young man in his twenties.
Terry twitched his beard and shouted angrily: "Kill him for me! Kill him for me!"
Although it was an oral order from the emperor, except for a few eunuchs, all the soldiers at the scene obeyed Xiao Lu's orders, so they stayed put and no one took action.
Tai Li was extremely embarrassed for a moment. As an emperor, he could not even order a pawn. Where was his face? He quickly looked at Zhao Fuli aside: "General Wei! You! I allow you to use those hammers to smash it to pieces.
broken!"
"Your Majesty!" Zhao Fuli knelt down and saluted: "Prime Minister Xiao is indeed innocent. I hope your Majesty will investigate the case thoroughly and make the innocent come to their own devices." He understood that compared to this titular emperor, Xiao Lu, who held military power, should be relied upon more.
The decree turned out to be an understatement and a joke. Terry couldn't bear it, and he turned red with anger: "A bunch of traitors and thieves! Traitors and thieves!" After saying that, he walked down the steps tremblingly and took out the pins from the guard's waist.
Holding the sword: "I will kill you! I want you to pay with your life!"
Xiao Lu puffed up his chest: "Why does your majesty want me to pay for it with my life? Who is related to the death of the queen? Is it possible that your majesty doesn't know?"
"It's you, it's you!" Terry behaved like a scoundrel, clumsily playing with the sword a few times: "How could I allow you to be the prime minister? You are clearly without a father, no king, no talent and no virtue!"
"Your Majesty is the father of the king and the father of everyone in the world, so everyone has a father." Xiao Lu replied.
Tai Li completely broke his guard and threw the sword in front of Xiao Lu: "If the king wants the minister to die, the minister has to die; if the father wants the son to die, the son has to die! Since you said that I am the father of the world, then I regard the king as the father.
My identity orders you to kill yourself immediately to apologize!"
He tried his best to serve the court, but in exchange for this cold sentence of death, Xiao Lu looked at the sword on the ground, his heart was overturned, and he muttered in a low voice: "Don't force me... Don't force me..."
"Don't you dare? Then let me give you a ride with my own hands!" Just as Terry was about to bend down to pick up the sword, he suddenly thought of the so-called power of the emperor and ordered loudly: "Eunuch! Pick it up for me!" The old man
The eunuch lay on the ground like a dog and gently handed the sword to Terry.
Terry held a dagger in his hand and slowly walked towards Xiao Lu: "I want to avenge the dead queen!" After saying that, the long sword unsheathed went straight towards Xiao Lu.
Probably out of survival instinct, Xiao Lu squeezed Terry's hand and kept mumbling: "Don't force me... Don't force me..."
"I just want to force you! I just want to kill you!" Taili used all his strength to fight with Xiao Lu crazily. Everyone was afraid, and no one dared to stop him.
Xiao Lu's tense nerves suddenly exploded. In his prime, he twisted Terry's wrist and completely moved the sword's edge.
"Poof——" He did not expect that the dagger directly pierced Emperor Taili's heart, and blood spurted out from the wound, splattering all over Xiao Lu's body. Emperor Taili opened his eyes wide, in disbelief
Looking at everything in front of him, he immediately fell to the ground, his dragon robe completely soaked in blood.
Xiao Lu was stunned. He didn't want to kill the emperor, and he didn't want to bear this eternal infamy! But it was already too late. He felt sweating all over his body and stared blankly at the blood on his hands. He understood.
, everything is too late...
The old eunuch hurriedly threw himself on Tai Li's body and cried to Xiao Lu: "Xiao Lu... you... how dare you kill the king!"
Xiao Lu was completely driven crazy. Looking at the emperor's corpse in front of him, not only did he not feel anything, but he raised his lips sinisterly and waved his hands to kill the remaining eunuchs. All the soldiers, including Su Zhanqing and Zhao Fuli, were frightened and could not recover for a long time.
God comes.
"No one is allowed to spread what happened today, otherwise...I will kill him!" Xiao Lu licked the blood from the corner of his mouth and said coldly. The soldiers kowtowed hurriedly, saying that they would never make a sound.
Even so, Xiao Lu was still a little scared, so he decided to escape from Xiucheng that night with Su Zhanqing and several other soldiers. His goal was to escape to the land of Xiliang nomads, where there might be a glimmer of hope.
It was also a coincidence that Zhao Fuli wrote a secret letter that night, telling Yang Min everything about the emperor's death. But he didn't know what kind of chain reaction this letter would have when it reached Yang Min, and even
It directly changed the structure of the entire world.