Chapter 585: Huang Chao returns to the palace
With the stationing of Shang Rang's army in the west of Chang'an City, the situation in Chang'an City has become more and more unstable, and even many generals with military power in their hands have begun to disobey Zhang Li's order to stay in Chang'an, especially some of Shang Rang's old subordinates, although they have not been able to contact Shang Rang outside the city, but their hearts are ready to move.
But before noon one day in early September, Wang Teng, who had just finished inspecting the defense of the imperial city, stepped out of the Vermilion Bird Gate of the imperial city on his front feet, and before he could take a breath in the hot sun, he was alarmed by a string of hurried horses' hooves behind him, and he couldn't help but look slightly angry, in the imperial city, even if Wang Teng, the commander, did not dare to gallop on a horse at will, the morning inspection was actually just an inquiry about the defense in the Taiji Palace and the Daming Palace, but it was this inquiry, in the two huge palace complexes, Wang Teng still stayed from Mao to noon, What's more important is the whole walk.
Wang Teng, who was just about to get on the mount, also stopped moving, turned his head to look, and couldn't help but feel a little puzzled, looking at the person who came, Wang Teng found that it was one of his henchmen, and it was the kind that did things more steadily on weekdays, thinking of this, Wang Teng was not angry, and quickly understood in his heart that something big must have happened, otherwise his henchmen would not be like this.
Seeing this, Wang Teng had no choice but to turn around and stand under the door to avoid the scorching sun, originally a little bored in his heart, but when his henchman jumped off his mount and rushed to his side, Wang Teng's irritability was suddenly swept away.
"General, Your Majesty is back, just now, I entered the Daming Palace from the Chongxuanmen in the north!" The henchmen didn't care about wiping the sweat beads on their foreheads, jumped off the horse and rushed directly to Wang Teng's side, forgetting to even salute the back of their minds, and whispered in their ears: "Those who came back with Your Majesty, in addition to Lin Yan and Li Yan, I heard that the Zhang family brothers stayed in the Weihe area, and they will soon take a detour back to the city!" ”
"How many people did you bring? How many soldiers and horses have returned? This news was like a bolt from the blue for Wang Teng, and it was even more serious, so he immediately rushed out of the doorway with his henchmen, looked around, and asked in a deep voice: "Has Your Majesty seen you?" Did Your Majesty mention me? Did you ask about the recent events in the city? ”
"Not really!" Faced with a series of questions, the henchman was stunned at first, then shook his head, glanced at Wang Teng suspiciously, blinked his eyes, and said in a low voice: "But when I came, my subordinates saw that the personal guards led by Lin Yan were heading in the direction of Zichen Palace, and it is estimated that Your Majesty will also return to Zichen Palace!" Presumably, the general will soon be summoned to the palace! ”
"This, this, how is this so sudden? How do you say that you will come back? "Wang Teng is completely stunned at this time, what is the place of Zichen Hall Wang Teng can understand very well, if you enter from the Chongxuanmen, the first thing that Huangchao who has traveled for a long time is naturally to go to Zichen Hall to rest, and Zichen Hall is not something that ordinary people can enter, but just yet, Wang Teng is definitely among these people.
"Don't make a noise yet! It's not my time anyway! Under the brainstorm, Wang Teng immediately realized that this matter was not trivial, and he had to find Lin Feng first to discuss the corresponding countermeasures, and Wang Teng also thought that with his own ability, it would be difficult to deal with Huang Chao in person. Not only that, Wang Teng was more worried about his rival Zhang Li, because Zhang Li was definitely qualified to enter the Zichen Palace, and the two of them were likely to be summoned by Huang Chao at the same time.
Immediately, Huang Chao first waved away the henchman who reported the news, and then stretched out his hand to summon a cronie who was following him, first rolled his eyes to look around, and then instructed in a deep voice: "Hurry up and go to the East Market to find the person who is looking for Feng Ye, and inform Feng Ye that I have something extremely important and must see him immediately!" The stakes are high, and it must be done right away! Remember, be quick! Hurry up! Still in the old place! ”
Hearing this, Wang Teng's henchmen also knew that the matter was urgent, so he nodded hurriedly, and didn't care about saluting and saying goodbye, turned around and ran to his mount, and after jumping on, he didn't pay attention to the fact that he was outside the imperial city, and galloped straight to the direction of Dongshi.
Then, Wang Teng paced back and forth outside the Suzaku Gate for a while, shook his head and sighed a few times, and hurriedly jumped on his mount, galloped towards the Suzaku Street in the south direction, and after giving instructions to the henchmen who followed, he turned around the Kaihuafang on the east side of the street, found a corner, changed the civilian clothes he carried with him from the saddle, entered the Chongyi Fang, left the horses in an inn, and walked towards Pingkangli on foot.
Before noon, Wang Teng and Lin Feng met again in the music shop in Pingkangli, and arrived at the same time as Huang Chao's message, when Wang Teng's henchmen hurriedly passed the message to Wang Teng, Lin Feng, who had also just arrived, also understood what Wang Teng was so anxious to see him for, and hurriedly glanced at Yuan Biao and others who followed behind, and then walked to the second floor without saying a word.
Li Xiaofeng followed Lin Feng's footsteps straight up to the second floor, while Yuan Biao took Feng Kill's brothers to stay on the first floor and several people distributed outside the music square. Seeing this, Wang Teng also shook his head at a few of his henchmen, and then quickly followed up to the second floor.
"General Wang, what did you do as the commander of the imperial city? That's too slow, isn't it? After arriving at the room, Lin Feng directly questioned Wang Teng without replying, then pursed his lips and said in a dissatisfied voice: "I knew that your subordinates were doing things like this, I might as well let my brother do it!" It's good now, there is no movement, Huang Chao directly returned to Daming Palace, I'm afraid that people have already had lunch, and General Wang, you just told me the news! Can I understand that if it was a little later, I would only need to learn the news from the mouths of the people of Chang'an City? ”
"Misunderstanding, misunderstanding! Master Feng, this is a complete misunderstanding! Wang Teng hurriedly waved his hand to deny it, and quickly stepped forward to explain: "This incident is completely unexpected!" Then the emperor, what he does, there is no need to report everything to me! I just knew that he had stayed in the Weihe area before, and although he wanted to go back to the city, I didn't expect him to return to the city with only his personal guards! ”
"There's no need to explain, since the matter has happened, let's find a way to solve it first!" Lin Feng frowned slightly, although he knew that Wang Teng didn't dare to lie to himself, he was still a little irritated by the other party's way of doing things, and there was an omission in this kind of big thing.
"I, I'm just here to discuss with Master Feng! I'm back, and I've really just learned the news! What do we do now? Wang Teng was also full of anxiety, looked at Lin Feng with an aggrieved expression, then looked at the door, his body shook, and continued to add: "You also heard what you said just now, Master Feng, now, what should I do now?" If I enter the palace and ask me about the Jin Chamber of Commerce in public, what should I say? ”
"It's useless to say anything! That would have been a hoax! Lin Feng stood in place and shrugged his shoulders, smiled irresponsibly, and then looked at Wang Teng, who was anxious and white-faced, smiled faintly, and comforted softly: "It's okay, it's not a big deal!" Just do what I say, and they won't be able to do anything to you! Rest assured! After all, it was a thing that was only beneficial to the pseudo-Qi and harmless, at least there was no harm on the surface! ”