The sun gradually set, and Jinling City, which had been bustling for a day, ended its hustle and bustle and gradually became quiet. After nightfall, except for the patrol officers who occasionally walked through the streets, there were almost no pedestrians coming and going. But to the east of Jiming Temple
The mansion was crowded with guests and very lively. This was the residence of Zuopushe, the Minister of the Tang Dynasty, and Li Gang, his servant.
At this moment, the house was full of people drinking wine, laughing and chatting. Guests were sitting or standing, men and women were watching a dancing girl with a hot figure. She had a slender waist, her arms were flying in the clouds, and she was as graceful as an orchid, a green orchid, or a swimming dragon.
Li Gang sat cross-legged on the chair casually, with just a scarf tied loosely on his head, and his chest exposed. At this moment, he was watching the dance while teasing with the beautiful maid beside him. There was another person beside him.
The young maid was serving with a fan. His son Li Shifei was standing behind him, but his hands were wandering up and down the buttocks of the maid holding the fan.
While the banquet was in progress, they heard a commotion outside the door. Everyone was startled. Who was so bold as to dare to break into the prime minister's mansion? However, they saw Zhao Neng, the eunuch in charge of the ceremony, walking in quickly and hurriedly
He ran to the middle of the room, stood facing the south, and said in a strange voice in a male duck's voice: "There is a decree, Li Gang kneels down to listen!" This sudden change scared everyone to their feet and stood up, and the guests hurriedly left.
Stepping aside to avoid it, Li Gang quickly straightened his clothes, knelt down, kowtowed and said:
"The humble minister Li Gang respectfully listens to the edict!"
Li Shifei, who was behind him, also took back his hands and knelt down with his father.
"According to the order, I follow Li Gang and quickly enter the palace to meet you. I admire you here!"
"I obey the order!"
Before Li Gang and his son finished kowtowing, Zhao Neng had already turned around and walked out. Li Shifei was used to joking with Zhao Neng, so he grabbed him and asked with a half-smile: "Old castrated dog, walk slowly.
. If you don’t know better, you’d think the sky is falling.” Zhao Neng was so anxious that he pulled it away and said, “Quick, quick, quick! There’s no time to delay.”
Li Shifei was young and ignorant, but Li Gang knew that something serious must have happened, otherwise the emperor would not have called him, a foreign minister, into the palace in the middle of the night. But after all, he had been the prime minister for many years, and although he had suffered from serious incidents in the palace, he remained calm and calm.
Said: "Fei'er is unreasonable, please quickly tell your servants to prepare father's sedan chair."
Zhao Neng stepped aside and said: "My prime minister, what kind of sedan have you prepared? You can ride a horse." After saying that, he turned around and left.
Seeing how anxious he was, Li Gang couldn't help but turn pale. He shouted "Ready the horse" in person and ran out after Zhao Neng. Li Shifei was busy arranging for the guards of the Prime Minister's Mansion to follow behind.
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Li Gang caught up with Zhao Neng on horseback. He was slightly out of breath and said angrily: "Looking at your ability, will the sky fall or the earth collapse?" When he was away from everyone, Li Gang's tone was no longer polite. After all,
He is the leader of this interest group.
"My lord, isn't the sky falling?" Zhao Neng replied hurriedly without stopping, "Xiao Chunzi, who followed the prince, is back."
"Something happened to the prince?" Li Gang also changed his expression. The emperor's health has not been very good. They have already poured investment into the prince. If the prince has shortcomings, it means that their efforts in recent years have been in vain.
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"Died in battle." Zhao Neng sighed.
"Died in battle?" Li Gang was really anxious, "What's going on?" The Western Turkic army was pressing on the border, and Prince Jiang Ji led the troops to go on an expedition. He knew it and agreed with it. Although the Western Turkic army was powerful, the Tang Dynasty
There are also dangerous fortresses in the dynasty. Although they cannot be defeated, with the respect of the prince, there is no danger.
"I heard that the horse was frightened and the man fell off. One foot was still in the stirrup..." Zhao Neng shook his head on the horse.
"What is the Emperor's reaction?"
"I was so frightened that I fainted on the spot. When I woke up again, I was already dead. When I came out, I was speechless. I just pretended to pass the imperial edict at the Lord's house just to keep it secret and to hurry up.
Please call me out." Zhao Neng spoke quickly, "He Zhen also went to the Taiwei's mansion."
With a "buzz", all the blood in Li Gang's body rushed to his head in an instant, and his vision went dark. He almost fell off his horse. Good guy, the emperor and the prince are all gone at once. Who will take care of this? It's hard for Zhao.
It's okay for this headless master to have a functioning head above him, so he can notify himself as soon as possible.
Li Gang is indeed an old fox who has been in officialdom for a long time. Although he was panicked for a moment when he heard about the great changes in the palace, he immediately regained consciousness. He quickly made an estimate of the current situation in his mind and made a plan.
He reined in the horse's head and told Zhao Neng: "Don't go back to the palace yet. Go to Prince Lu's Mansion to convey the order and ask Prince Jiang Zhe of Lu to enter the palace quickly to meet the emperor. Then go and call the other princes."
"Prince Lu? That famously dull prince? Can he do it?" Zhao Neng was not slow in thinking, and he already understood that the most powerful official in the Tang Dynasty wanted Prince Paul to ascend the throne.
"Stop chewing your mother's wife's tongue and go quickly." Li Gang was really anxious. He didn't care about the dignity of the prime minister and even used swear words.
Zhao Neng stopped talking nonsense, turned his horse and ran towards Prince Lu's Mansion. Li Gang was attentive, glanced at the guards of the mansion who were following him from a distance, and also ran to the palace. He also held the title of Head Guard and Minister, so he did not need to be led by a eunuch.
Can enter the palace.
While Li Gang and Zhao Neng were carrying out vigorous and resolute actions, things on the other eunuch's side, He Zhen, were not developing so smoothly. As the eunuch's mansion was on the edge of Xuanwu Lake, the distance to the palace was relatively short.
The house is a long way away; secondly, He Zhen is not as eager as Zhao Neng, and knows how to fake imperial edicts, and only asks to see Captain Zhang Jinzhong in the name of a visit; thirdly, Zhang Jinzhong is good at wine and likes to drink it every night
After a few days, this man wanted to do that after drinking. When He Zhen arrived at the Taiwei Mansion, Zhang Jinzhong was sweating profusely on his concubine in the sixteenth room. Everyone knows that after drinking, he wanted to do that.
It's a matter of time.
After all this tossing, when Zhang Jinzhong finally knew what had happened and hurriedly followed He Zhen to the inner court, the sky had already begun to light up, and the first words he heard when he entered the room were: "Now
Read out the imperial edict of Emperor Xian Daxing, and all ministers will kneel down to listen!" Zhang Jinzhong immediately recognized the voice of his biggest political enemy, Li Gang.
"Long live." The princes knelt down.
Seeing that Zhang Jinzhong had just arrived, Li Gang secretly rejoiced that he acted quickly and got the "edict" in front of the princes before the emperor died. Seeing that Zhang Jinzhong stood without kneeling, he emphasized his tone and said again, "All ministers
Kneel down and listen!" This time, the word "kneeling down" was pronounced with special emphasis.
Although Zhang Jinzhong knew that Li Gang must be up to something, he saw that all the princes were kneeling down. If he did not kneel down, it would be tantamount to treason, so he had no choice but to bend his knees and bend his knees.
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