Zhenbei Hou Mansion.

"Master Hou, there is news that the king has fallen off the cliff and died!" The Marquis of Zhenbei was thinking about how to make Zhan Ge disappear completely, when he heard the news from his subordinates.

"Really? Are you sure the person is dead? ”

The subordinate hesitated for a moment and said, "Someone saw the king jumping from the cliff with his own eyes, and it is impossible for such a high cliff to still be alive."

"Great!" Zhenbei Hou slapped the table, his face flushed.

"This guy Zhan Ge is finally dead, and it's not in vain that I sent so many puppets!"

"Yes, don't worry, no one will stop the prince this time, and the world will soon be the final say."

The Marquis of Zhenbei stroked his beard comfortably, and said slowly: "Immediately assemble the puppets in the secret room and listen to my orders at any time!"

"Yes, Master Hou!"

In the early dynasty, the emperor looked at the ministers below uneasily because of the sudden disappearance of Zhan Ge.

The Marquis of Zhenbei stood in the center of the court at this time and said, "Tell the emperor, Weichen has something to play."

The emperor really didn't want to see the face of the Marquis of Zhenbei, but in the face of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military ministers, he had to maintain a superficial relationship between the monarch and the minister.

"Say it!"

"Your Majesty, since the emperor sent the king side by side to the north to suppress the turmoil to this day, there has been no news of the turmoil in the north being suppressed, and the rebels and thieves are becoming more and more rampant.

The emperor's eyes sank, this old guy was saying that Zhan Ge was not doing things well, and sending troops to support him was just a sloppy fight with himself.

Several ministers who have been looking forward to the head of the Houma in the north of the town have also stood up for the time being.

"Yes, the emperor, the Marquis of Zhenbei is reasonable, the king has been side by side for so long, and the north has not been pacified, it can be seen that the side by side king is not able to help the emperor and make the court stable, but it makes people panic, and I hope that the emperor will treat the side by side with the king a crime of disadvantage."

"Your Majesty, what the waiter of the Ministry of Rites said is reasonable, please ...... the emperor"

A bunch of people in the court proposed that the emperor severely punish the king side by side, and the emperor looked ugly and said sharply: "Okay! Are you the emperor or am I the emperor? The matter of the king side by side will be talked about later, and no one shall have any objections, I am tired, and I will retreat! ”

Leaving a group of ministers, the emperor swept his sleeves and left.

In the imperial study, the emperor angrily waved the folds on the table to the ground, making the eunuchs and maidservants who followed the emperor tremble and bow their heads.

"The old thing, dare to collude with the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty to force me, it is simply unreasonable!" The emperor couldn't swallow this breath, and suddenly felt bored, as if he was blocked by something, and his eyes fainted.

"Your Majesty! Hurry up and call in the imperial doctor. ”

Soon, the news that the emperor was sick spread throughout Yongguo, and the Marquis of Zhenbei was overjoyed when he heard the news in the palace.

On the sickbed, the emperor sat up with a pale face.

"Your Majesty?" The father-in-law stepped forward and supported the emperor.

"Ahem...... The king can send a message back. The father-in-law shook his head, causing the emperor to cough violently a few more times.

"Your Majesty, you have to take care of the dragon's body!"

"I'm fine, you go down, I want to be alone." The father-in-law looked at the emperor on the bed helplessly, sighed helplessly, and left with a group of palace maids and eunuchs.

At night, the emperor felt thirsty, sat up weakly, lifted the curtains around him, and saw a figure flickering behind the screen.

"Who!"

Zhan Ge hurriedly walked out from behind the screen, and when he saw Zhan Ge, the emperor got up from the bed excitedly and almost fell.

"Your Majesty?" The guards outside the palace heard the movement and quickly rushed over.

Zhan Ge made a silent gesture, the emperor nodded, and shouted outside the palace: "I'm fine, just get up and drink saliva, touch the tables and chairs, you go down!"

Hearing the familiar voice, the guard breathed a sigh of relief, bent down at the palace gate and said, "Yes!" Emperor! ”

The guards left, Zhan Ge approached the emperor and was hugged by the emperor, after a while, the emperor let go of Zhan Ge and cried with joy: "It's good to come back, it's good to come back, I still think you ......"

When Zhan Ge heard the news that the emperor was seriously ill, he immediately decided to visit the palace at night to put the emperor at ease.

"Your Majesty, it was the minister who lived up to your high hopes!" Zhan Ge knelt on one knee and said in a solemn tone.

"Hurry up! Get up! Wiping the corners of his eyes, the emperor carefully observed Zhan Ge to make sure that he was not injured, and finally let go of his hanging heart.

"Tell me what the hell is going on? How did you fall off a cliff? Zhan Ge helped the emperor to sit on the bed, and he also sat beside the emperor.

He was ambushed and fell off a cliff, fought with a puppet, and found that moss could suppress the puppet's actions and told the emperor everything.

Knowing that Zhan Ge was forced by the puppet, he fell off the cliff and patted the railing on the bed angrily.

"Damn! I knew that the old thing of Zhenbei Hou was uneasy and kind, and he ...... this morning. He even incited the rest of the ministers to punish you for a crime of disadvantage! That's why I can't afford to get sick! ”

Knowing the reason for the emperor's injury, Zhan Ge's face was ugly, and after a while, he said: "Your Majesty, since this is the case, we might as well just plan it, you claim that you are seriously ill to the outside world, and I fell off the cliff again, I believe that it won't be long before the Marquis of Zhenbei will move, and when the time comes, see what else this old guy has to say."

After saying this, the emperor also felt that this plan was good, and his face suddenly became much more rosy than before, and said, "Okay! I listen to you, and if you don't completely eradicate the hatred in his heart, it will be difficult to solve it. ”

It was inconvenient for Zhan Ge to stay in the palace for too long, so he told the emperor to pay attention to his body, so he flew out of the window on the side of the palace.

Early the next morning, the emperor asked his father-in-law to pass the decree out, saying that he was seriously ill and could no longer go to the court to deal with state affairs.

As soon as the decree came out, all the ministers thought that the emperor was angry because of the matter of the king side by side, and even more demanded that the crime of the side by side king be cured.

But he didn't get a reply from the emperor for a long time, and the Marquis of Zhenbei learned the news that the emperor was seriously ill early in the morning, so he hurriedly walked out of the palace of the last dynasty alone, and turned around and walked towards the emperor's bedroom while people were unprepared.

Along the way, the Marquis of Zhenbei skillfully avoided the patrolling guards, as well as the palace maids and eunuchs on the road, and finally arrived at the emperor's palace, but saw that the palace gate was empty.

Zhenbei Hou frowned, at this time, the father-in-law who had served the emperor for a long time walked out of the palace, Zhenbei Hou's eyes lit up, and he quietly stepped forward and grabbed his father-in-law.

"Master Hou? The miscellaneous family remembered that the emperor did not summon you to the dormitory. ”

Zhenbei Hou's eyes were gloomy, and he quickly took out the prepared dagger from his sleeve and put it on his father-in-law's throat.

It happened too suddenly, and when the father-in-law realized that something was wrong, he was dragged into the rockery where the palace was located by the Marquis of Zhenbei.

"Master Hou, you ...... What are you doing here? The small, the small one has never offended the Hou Ye. ”

Seeing that the dagger was about to cut his throat, his father-in-law was so frightened that his face turned white and his legs trembled.

Zhenbei Hou had long known that these eunuchs were greedy for life and afraid of death, and a sneer flashed at the corner of his mouth, and said: "You really haven't offended Ben Hou, but Ben Hou has one thing for you to do now, and if you do it well, not only can you leave your dog life, but also countless glory and wealth are waiting for you, if you can't do it, I will let you have no bones!" Got it? ”

The cold dagger was on his neck, and his father-in-law nodded with difficulty, for fear that he would accidentally give his life here.

Zhenbei Hou sneered, took the dagger in his hand away, took out a piece of gold from his sleeve, and threw it to his father-in-law.

"Master Hou...... What are you? ”

"This is to give you a little sweetness, as long as you do the things I tell you to do well, these are just icebergs, in addition, Ben Hou will also let you have an official and a half-job, not doing this thing of serving people!" Although the father-in-law has been by the emperor's side all the year round, although there are many rewards, he is not as attractive as the Marquis of Zhenbei.

Thinking that one day he would have an official and a half-job, his father-in-law's eyes lit up.

"Master Hou, you command, as long as it is a small one that can do it, it will be done for you."

Hou Ye sneered and said, "Don't talk so much, you heard clearly, Ben Hou wants you to help me coerce the emperor and sign the edict!"

"Smack!" The gold fell from his father-in-law's hand, and the Marquis of Zhenbei looked at the eunuch in front of him with a squint.

"Master Hou, this is a big sin of the Nine Clans!"

"Afraid of what? As long as Benhou asks the emperor to write a posthumous photo, the world will not be the final say in the future, and Benhou will come to see who dares to punish Benhou's nine clans. ”

The father-in-law followed the emperor and knew all about the ambitions of the Marquis of Zhenbei, threatening his life, and in the end, the father-in-law agreed to help the Marquis of Zhenbei.

At night, the father-in-law walked straight to the palace maids and eunuchs near the palace where the emperor lived, leaving him alone.

The huge palace was quiet, and the father-in-law stepped into the palace with a lantern and a prepared holy decree in his hand.

"Who is it?" In order to pretend to be seriously ill, the emperor's voice was weak.

"Your Majesty, it was the slave who sent you the holy decree."

"What a holy decree, ahem, ahem!" Slowly getting up from the bed, the emperor looked at his father-in-law in front of him calmly.

"Of course, it is the holy decree that you made the posthumous photo, and the Marquis of Zhenbei said that as long as you make the Marquis the prince, you can live for a while longer, otherwise you will ......."

"Presumptuous!"

"Presumptuous? Your Majesty, I advise you to get acquainted with each other, which has angered the Hou Ye......"

"What will happen?" The sudden sound made my father-in-law shudder.

"Who?" The person who spoke stood in the shadows, the sword flashed, and in the blink of an eye, the father-in-law fell in a pool of blood.

The emperor's eyes were calm, and he shouted outside the hall: "I want to go to the court, change clothes!"

Above the court, the emperor asked the public corpse to be carried up.

"Today, the Marquis of Zhenbei actually instructed this slave who betrayed his master to force me to sign the edict! Where are the Guards! ”

"The minister is here!"

"Immediately send someone to the Zhenbei Hou Mansion to arrest the Zhenbei Hou."

"Yes!"

When the Marquis of Zhenbei learned that the plan had failed, he scolded his father-in-law for being stupid, and immediately activated the puppet army!