When Wang Xian returned to the Earl's Court after a long absence, it was already dark, and he saw a beautiful silhouette in front of the dining room window, Gu Xiaolian waiting for him to return.

"I'm sorry I came back late." Wang Xian walked in and gently shook her hand.

Gu Xiaolian shook her head and said softly, "I'm willing to wait." Although she couldn't see things yet, a happy smile slowly spread on her face.

The maid hurriedly brought a basin of water for Wang Xian, and when Wang Xian washed his hands, the maid had already prepared the meal.

After Wang Xian sat down, he was used to naturally picking up the bowl and wanted to feed Gu Xiaolian.

"I can do it myself." Gu Xiaolian turned her head shyly.

"Let's wait until your eyesight is restored." Wang Xian shook his head and smiled, insisted on sending a spoonful of rice to her delicate lips, and said like a child: "Good." ”

Gu Xiaolian had no choice but to open her mouth shyly and chew carefully.

A dinner was eaten very peacefully, just like those **** nights and nights under the supervision of the East Factory in the past.

After dinner, the maid cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, and Wang Xian helped Gu Xiaolian to take a walk in the courtyard, telling her that the lotus flowers in the pond were in full bloom, and there were frogs lying on the lotus leaves and croaking.

"I can hear that." Gu Xiaolian smiled happily, and the two of them were quiet and did not speak, quietly looking at the moonlight on the lotus pond in this summer.

"Even if I never see anything, I will never be dissatisfied." Gu Xiaolian snuggled on Wang Xian's shoulder and murmured, "Because I am already extremely happy and very satisfied." ”

"How so? You're recovering every day, and it won't be long before you're completely fine. Wang Xian shook his head, the dark fragrance of lotus flowers lingering on the tip of his nose, as well as the natural cold plum fragrance on Gu Xiaolian's body, and he was drunk and forgot his worries.

"Actually, the slave family doesn't really want to recover ......" Gu Xiaolian shook his head lightly and whispered: "In the past few months, I can hear everything the officials have said to me. Everything I did for me, I could feel it. Only then did the slave family know that he was really important in the hearts of officials. Later, her voice became softer and softer, but her affection was so thick that she couldn't dissolve. The slave family never imagined that the officials would treat me like this......"

"It's because I owe you too much before...... Wang Xian said, sighing secretly in his heart, how can he owe too much to Xiao Pian? It's the same debt to Qing'er and Baoyin. "I'll be with you the same in the future."

"That's not good," Gu Xiaolian hurriedly shook her head and said, "The situation was special before, but now that it has passed, the official has to reunite with Sister Qing'er quickly." ”

"Hmm." Wang Xian nodded, hugged Gu Xiaolian tightly in his arms, and said in a low voice: "Our family is reunited, and then we will never be separated." ”

"Hmm." Gu Xiaolian nodded vigorously......

Although King Zhao hesitated, he had always planned carefully, and he had long been ready to lead his army to retreat to Tongzhou once the affairs of the capital were not harmonious. Tongzhou is not only the southern gate of the capital, but also the gateway of Caoyun, and the imperial court has a number of warehouses to store military rations for national use. Occupying Tongzhou can not only threaten Beijing, but also cut off the transportation and cut off the grain and grass in the capital, and can also get the accumulation of many years of the imperial court, which is enough to support for many years!

Consumption can also consume the enemies of Beijing City to death!

After King Zhao retreated to Tongzhou, he acted step by step, first claiming that Zhu Zhanji and Wang Xian colluded to kill the monarch, and he wanted to gather volunteers to avenge Emperor Daxing! After raising the banner of rebellion, King Zhao gathered the left and right guards of Changshan, the left guard of Yanshan, the Houtun army of Xingzhou and the right guard of Tongzhou, as well as some of the officers and soldiers of the left guard of Jinwu who withdrew from the capital with him, known as 100,000 soldiers and horses, eyeing and threatening the city of Beijing!

Tongzhou is now occupied by King Zhao, and the people in Beijing are naturally panicked, and the people of the capital, who thought that martial law had ended and finally had a good life for a few days, suddenly fell into greater panic, and the city gates everywhere were filled with an endless stream of fleeing people. Contrary to the usual people fleeing to the city, the people who fled this time all fled outside the city, and at least 100,000 people fled Beijing in one day.

His Royal Highness Taisun stood on the city tower, looking at the fleeing people on the street who were helping the old and the young, carrying bedding and burdens, iron pots and grain, and his heart was very sad, and he sighed to Wang Xian, Yang Shiqi and others who were standing on the side: "The people are so unoptimistic about our ......."

Yang Shiqi, Yang Rong, and Jin Youzi, three scholars, were rescued from the edict prison as soon as possible, because the three confessed very happily and did not suffer a catastrophe, but only suffered some skin injuries. Now that he has been reinstated, he has become a hero of His Royal Highness Taisun, and his spirit is naturally very strong.

Hearing what Taisun said, Jin Youzi immediately said: "Your Highness is false, the people are not optimistic about us, but they just want to stay away from Beijing City." After a pause, he said: "Now Zhao Wei has tens of thousands of troops in Tongzhou, one is about to become a battlefield, and the other is that Zhao Wei chokes off the luck, and if the war is delayed a little, Beijing will cause a famine." ”

"Yes, no matter who wins or loses, the people are worried about the life and death of their whole family." Yang Rong bowed his head and said with a face full of regret: "This battle must be resolved quickly, otherwise the people can't stand it, and the court can't stand it!" ”

"Yes......" the ministers agreed. Not to mention anything else, just one food cut can kill more than a million people in Beijing.

"Do you want to close the gates of the city and keep the people out of the city?" Jian Yi looked at the snake-like procession out of the city, and felt full of panic, as if the world had been lost, and only Beijing, a lonely city, was left.

"No need," Yang Shiqi said categorically: "Where the people want to go, it's their freedom, we don't allow them to go out of the city, won't they become all the way with Zhao Zhi?" ”

"It makes sense...... the ministers echoed one after another, comprehending Yang Shiqi's voice-over, the more people who go out of the city, the less pressure there will be on the grain and grass in the capital, and the longer it will last.

Zhu Zhanji acquiesced to Yang Shiqi's suggestion, looked at the vast distance, and asked heavily: "Is it necessary to let the local army enter the king of Jingqin?" ”

"Zhao Shun's army is claimed to be 100,000, but in fact, it is only 30,000 or 40,000, and the 200,000 forbidden army in Beijing should be enough." Chengguo Gong Zhu Yong and Xue Lu glanced at each other and spoke. As a noble who controls the forbidden army, of course he does not want to see the local army enter Beijing and intervene.

"But what kind of forbidden army does Grandpa know is reliable?" The left attendant of the military department, Chai Che, said coldly: "The night before the chaos of the army, but there are many forbidden troops who act for the tiger, even if they do not move, there are many collusions with Zhao Rei, before the suspicion is cleared, counting on them to resist Zhao Rei, I am afraid it is tantamount to seeking skin with the tiger." ”

"Yes......" This remark attracted the echo of all the civil officials, "Zhao Shun has not had time to get involved in the local army, let them enter Beijing, first, they can quickly quell the rebellion, and second, they can also deter Xiaoxiao!" ”

"Nonsense!" Xue Lu blew his beard and glared, "Do you not even believe in Lao Tzu?" ”

"The old marquis is angry, how dare we suspect a few, but grandpa marquis dares to guarantee that his subordinates and King Zhao have not colluded?" The chai cart and the others were not in a hurry or impatient, but they did not give an inch.

"This ......" Xue Lu, Zhu Yong and the others didn't dare to speak wildly, because in the hands of Jinyiwei, there was ironclad evidence that a large number of forbidden army generals had surrendered to King Zhao. If you want not to be slapped in the face, unless Jinyi Wei is willing to cooperate. The eyes of all the nobles brushed on Wang Xian, hoping that he would endorse him.

However, Wang Xian seemed to be distracted, looking at the people fleeing outside the city, not knowing what to think, and ignoring those nobles.

The nobles froze there. The atmosphere in the city was also embarrassing, Zhu Zhanji's face became more and more ugly, and he was just about to settle down and veto King Qin's matter, Wang Xian asked leisurely as if he had just come back to his senses: "This kind of big event, should you ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince first?" ”

The words "......" made Zhu Zhanji speechless, and he could only hold it there.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is far away in the sky, I'm afraid it's too late to ask for instructions." Seeing that the grandson was embarrassed, Li Xian, the Marquis of Fengcheng, immediately jumped out to refute Wang Xian.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is in Shandong, it's not far away." Wang Xian said lightly: "Even if Zhao Wei occupies Tongzhou, Jinyiwei has the ability to deliver the news within two days, and then send back His Highness's will in two days." ”

"This ......" Wang Xian said this, and if everyone wants to oppose it, they will not be able to get along with him, and they will not be able to get along with the prince.

"Okay, let's ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince first......" Zhu Zhanji glanced at Wang Xian with a gloomy expression, and then hastily ended the inspection......

In Tongzhou City, King Zhao and a group of generals were all dressed in green clothes and filial piety, and their expressions were extremely solemn.

"Lord Wang," said Chen Kai, the right guard of Tongzhou, "The granary in Tongzhou is empty, and only a hundred boats of grain that have just been transported to the shore can be used for military funds!" ”

"What? How can it be?! King Zhao was stunned: "This king has inspected before, how many millions of grain and grass are in the warehouse?" ”

"The last general interrogated the waiter of the warehouse and said that it was all borrowed from the giant merchants of Tongzhou in order to deal with the inspection of the prince before!" Chen Kai said with a bitter face: "As soon as the prince left, he returned the ......"

"Where are those merchants, just borrow the grain again!" Gao Zheng, the commander of the left guard of Yanshan on the side, shouted loudly: "If you can't borrow it, you will lead the troops to rob it, and you are afraid that a few businessmen will not succeed?!" ”

"The problem is that the merchants have fled with their families...... Chen Kai said helplessly, "their grain and grass have all been sent south......

"Can they tell the prophet?" The commander of Changshan's left guard surprised Ma Shu and said, "Could it be that there are masters in this Tongzhou City?" ”

"There's a fart!" Liu Qiang, the commander of the Houtun Army in Xingzhou, was a person who understood, and said hatefully: "They don't flee to the north or to the west, and if they go south, they must have defected to the prince!" ”

"Hiss......" The generals gasped when they heard this, the prince has arrived in Jinan, this is well known, those merchants fled south with grain, and it is really possible to run to the prince!

All the people present were leading troops to fight, and they naturally knew that in these famine years, the importance of military rations cannot be overstated! The Ming Dynasty has soldiers, but no one can drive them without grain and grass, with the grain and grass provided by those merchants, the prince can gather tens of thousands of troops in Shandong, and go north with high morale!

The more the generals thought about it, the more terrifying they felt, and finally found that they were not hunters at all, but someone else's prey!

"Wang Xian......" Zhu Gaosui gritted his teeth, what he regretted most was not that he did not launch a coup d'état earlier, but that he had kept Wang Xian and completely ruined his own big things!