Hearing the news that Zhang Ximiao was seriously injured, Chen Xinbo's heart was in a trance, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that the matter was tricky, who would have thought that Zhang Association would be so ruthless, and he would kill his son without delaying for a moment, even if he poked the suspicions, the emperor would not believe it, but might drag himself into a body of.

Chen Xinbo and Wang Qishan first went to Taihe Palace to restore the decree, and were just about to go back to the house to plan carefully, walking in the middle of the road and listening to someone shouting behind them: "Chen Xiangye, Chen Xiangye ......"

Chen Xinbo looked back, but it was Lu Huizong, the young eunuch and the steward of the Wanshou Palace, looking at him, he seemed to have been waiting here for a long time.

Lu Huizong is a person from Wanshou Palace, presumably the Queen Mother sent him to find him, Chen Xinbo thought in his heart: the Liang family lost their courage to the Donghu people in the battle of Chentangyi, and the official Xu Liang family occupied Shandong, on the one hand, he hoped that the Liang family could clean up the chaos in Hehuai, on the one hand, King Lining could use the Liang family to suppress the uncontrolled expansion of Jianghuai's forces, and on the other hand, when Yanji was in danger, he could count on the Liang family to come to the nearest aid; At one time, Manjugu also became active in Kyori.

The Liang family failed to lose the chaos in Hehuai, the Donghu people came in, the Liang family's soldiers and horses stopped in Pingyuan Mansion, and Jiangning's calculation there was even more heart-wrenching - the future king of the Huaidong army, he gritted his teeth with hatred here, and Wanshou Palace naturally became a stinky pit, and no one paid attention to it anymore.

Chen Xinbo thought of Li Zhuo's words before he died: Jinhai must not go, and there may be a glimmer of life in the south...... Going south is the territory of the Liang family, and the Wanshou Palace may not be useless.

Chen Xinbo couldn't figure out why Li Zhuo said that Jinhai couldn't go for a while, but his face eased, and he stood there waiting for Lu Huizong to come over, and asked, "What did Lord Lu call me for?" ”

"If Chen Xiangye has leisure, the Queen Mother invites Chen Xiangye to take a trip to Wanshou Palace." Lu Huizong said.

Chen Xinbo hesitated for a moment and said, "There is nothing else, I just want to go back to the mansion......" and walked to Wanshou Palace with Lu Huizong and the two little eunuchs accompanying him.

The sandwich road between the palace walls is deep and long, and the white marble shadow wall that passes through the door is more than two zhang high, which is engraved with the word "longevity" of the size of more than zhang, and is surrounded by small characters. Chen Xinbo's eyes are not good, but he knows that the small characters he received this week are all engraved with the word "longevity" offered by the ministers during the queen mother's birthday.

Bypassing the shadow wall and seeing a sedan car parked in the atrium of the front yard, Chen Xinbo asked Lu Huizong in a low voice: "But King Lu is here?" "There are few people in the capital who can directly enter the Wanshou Palace in a sedan chair - although the situation is chaotic, the rules that should be talked about in the palace still have to be spoken, except for the old ministers of the three dynasties like Chen Xinbo, not casually anyone can go directly to the front yard of the Wanshou Palace before getting off the sedan chair.

"Well," Lu Huizong said, "Prince Lu and Princess Yangxin have invited me to come over and talk to the Queen Mother to relieve my boredom, and I haven't left ...... yet."

In the tenth year of Chongguan, Yuan Jianhai inherited the prince of Lu and has been stranded in Beijing. Although he and Ning Wang Yuan Jianwu are both nephews of the present, but Ning Wang Yuan Jianwu is the heir of the first emperor, and there is no heir today, and it is natural for the heir of the first emperor to inherit the unification.

Of course, if Jinshang can successfully break through and go to Jiangning to establish a new capital, with Jiang Ning's inaction at this time, King Ning will definitely be abolished. But even if it gets to that point, it may not be King Lu's turn to take the throne, and there are still several nephews to fight for.

Zhang Xie even gave up his son, probably because he had made up his mind to stay in Yanjing and not leave, in case Chen Dingbang or the dog calf Lu Xiong broke out of the city and leaked the news of Li Zhuo's death to Chen Zhihu's ears, he might not be able to expect Chen Zhihu to escort the breakthrough with all his heart - fight, can fight for fart!

Chen Xinbo had a kind of indulgence in his heart, and thought in his heart: Poke out Zhang Ximeng's suspicions in front of the Queen Mother, maybe he can beat Zhang Xieyi? But after thinking about it, he shook his head and denied it, and in the end, it would be too risky for the emperor to believe it. There is no chance of hitting with one blow and killing with one hit, and you can't tear your face directly.

Chen Xinbo was led by the little eunuch to drink tea in the side hall, Lu Huizong went in to report, and returned in a moment, asking Chen Xinbo to go. Through the hall, Chen Xinbo and Lu Huizong walked into the courtyard where the Empress Dowager Liang lived, and Princess Yuanyan of Yangxin came from the inside and gave a salute: "Chen Xiangye......"

"The little princess is polite." Chen Xinbo returned the favor and sent Princess Yangxin away first.

Princess Yuan Yan of Yangxin is the daughter of Yuan Jiancheng, the former king of Lu, the granddaughter of the Empress Dowager Liang, the city of Jinan is broken, except for the former general of Zhenguo, the current Lu Wang Yuan Jianhai and niece Yuan Yan and a few other people took advantage of the chaos to escape, most of the Lu Wangfu died or went to the north as slaves and maids.

Empress Dowager Liang took pity on Yuanyan and left her in the palace to adopt her and named her a princess. More than three years have passed, and the little girl three years ago is now a fifteen-year-old girl with bright eyes.

Chen Xinbo thought to himself: When retreating south, the Queen Mother should bring King Lu and Princess Yangxin, right?

Walking into the inner room that was burned with Fanxiang, and seeing that King Lu Yuan Jianhai was also present, Chen Xinbo saluted the Queen Mother and King Lu, and asked, "The Queen Mother summoned the old ministers to come, what important things do you order?" ”

Empress Dowager Liang was the empress of Emperor Qingyu, and when she got married, she was even three years older than Emperor Qingyu and had no heirs. Sixteen years ago, Emperor Qingyu was assassinated in Qiuye Jian and died without leaving a will, and the Liang family, with the support of the Liang family, negotiated with the ministers to establish the first emperor, that is, the then Jin King as the emperor, and then became a woman who leaned towards the court for a while. Chen Xinbo, as a supporting minister, served as the left attendant of the ministry at that time, and then successively grasped the power of the minister.

It was also with this as a wedge that the Western Qin Party was able to control the government, the Liang family was able to control the border army, and the Liang family, who controlled the inner court, jointly supported the world of the Great Yue Dynasty.

Thinking of the scenery of the year, Chen Xinbo felt a little sentimental in his heart: How good would it be if there was no defeat of Chen Tangyi?

"I heard that you went to see Li Zhuo off for the last time," Liang's white-haired and white-haired, face-like crane skin, gave the eyes covered under the white hair still in good spirits, asked Lu Huizong to bring Chen Xinbo a stool to sit down and talk, and said, "The mourning family also knows that Li Zhuo is wronged, but they can't let the emperor take this responsibility, and Hao Zongcheng's mourning family also went to see him - although Hao Zongcheng is a person, the mourning family doesn't like it, but he won't sell the emperor - he is like this, and it would be too pitiful to ask him to bear the responsibility for the defeat of Liaoxi." However, if the responsibility for the defeat of Liaoxi is uncertain and the morale of the army is unstable, the matter of moving the capital cannot be done, and Li Zhuo can only be wronged. The emperor is arrogant, he won't say these words, but after a few years, it may not be impossible to come up with a reconsideration. ”

Chen Xinbo knew that the Queen Mother was just talking, to comfort him and Li Zhuo's teacher-student friendship, and he kept silent and did not speak, in order to show that his mood was heavy, and secretly pondered the Queen Mother's intention to call him over.

"Li Zhuoke has something to say to the emperor?" Liang asked.

Li Zhuo left a message and said that Yanjing broke through the siege, so that after Chen Zhihu's palace, there was still a glimmer of life in the south, and he must not listen to Hao Zongcheng's words and go east to Jinhai! Yuan Lishan will also be brave, his relatives are all in Beijing, it is impossible to surrender without a fight! Please ask the emperor to give a generous reward to the generals and dependents of Jizhen generals and soldiers, so as to calm the hearts of the generals who were forced to surrender to Dongyu...... In addition, Li Zhuo also left a suicide note to Chen Zhihu, the suicide note was with the emperor at this time, whether to send it to Chen Zhihu, and the emperor had to make an idea. Chen Xinbo said, in addition to adjusting the words and expressing the meaning more completely and accurately, he did not distort Li Zhuo's meaning, after all, Wang Qishan was still listening at that time.

"What is the emperor's reaction when he hears this?" Liang asked.

Chen Xinbo hesitated for a moment and said: "The emperor was furious and wanted to drag Li Zhuo's body to the noon gate for execution. ”

"What nonsense," Liang sighed lightly and asked again, "In your opinion, Hao Zongcheng lied about Yuan Lishan?" ”

"Li Zhuo just speculated, although he had no last resort, but it was not as good as Hao Zongcheng's personal experience, but it was always impossible for Li Zhuo to guess wrong, so he suspected his intentions," Chen Xinbo said, "Moreover, the emperor has sent someone to arrest Yuan Lishan's family in the prison, and Lord Hao has not suggested that the emperor break through to Jinhai......" At this time, I thought that the Donghu people indulged Zhang Xiluo and Hao Zongcheng back, probably because it was expected that even if Hao Zongcheng was loyal to the emperor, he would put the responsibility for the defeat of Western Liaoning on others, so Li Zhuo's death and Yuan Lishan's family would be held accountable and beheaded, to make the situation in Yanjing even more chaotic, it should be the purpose of the Donghu people to carry out this scheme.

Lu Huizong stood beside him, glanced at Chen Xinbo, and sneered in his heart: Hao Zongcheng escaped yesterday, if you hadn't said on the side, "The Huaidong Army agreed to come to King Qin, but it happened that Gao Zongting and Geng Quanshan went to Jinhai, and this matter would have been yellow", the emperor might not have murderous intentions...... To be honest, Lu Huizong couldn't understand at this time, why did Chen Xinbo cause Li Zhuo to die?

Liang closed his cloudy eyes, opened them again, and asked, "Can't Jinhai really go?" ”

"The old minister is also at a loss," Chen Xinbo said, "How to go, when to go, who to leave and who to stay, these are all up to the emperor to decide." The old minister is left with this old bone, and he only wants to be loyal. As long as the society can turn the crisis into safety, the old minister will have no regrets even if he goes to see the emperor at this time. ”

"The loyalty of the Lao Qing family is obvious to all, but it's a pity that the emperor trusts Zhang Xie," Liang sighed lightly, "Li Zhuo's last words, the mourning family knows, you go and work for the emperor." ”

Chen Xinbo left with his body straight, and as soon as he left Wanshou Palace and sat in the carriage waiting outside the palace gate, he heard the family members waiting outside the palace gate say that the emperor had just driven to Zhang's mansion to offer condolences.

Zhang Ximiao died of serious injuries, Zhang Xie was sad and sick and bedridden, and it was normal for the emperor to go to Zhang's mansion to condole.

Chen Xinbo's eyes rolled, if there was a chance to fish in troubled waters in the past, maybe he could stab Zhang Ximiao's big handle in front of the emperor, Zhang Xie couldn't argue clearly, even if the emperor didn't hold him accountable, Yanjing's remaining position would not be his turn and other officials of the Chu Party.

rushed to Zhang's mansion, Chen Xinbo handed in the name post, saying that he was here to condole.

After waiting in the foyer for a while, Zhang Xie's old retainer Zhang Cheng led him in, and as soon as he entered the courtyard where Zhang Xie lived daily, he heard Zhang Xie crying in the room: "...... Although Xi Meng disdained him, the old minister regarded him as a treasure in his palm. At the beginning, he begged the emperor to let Xilang go to Liaoxi to deliver the decree, but the old minister also hid his selfishness, hoping that Xilang could be appreciated for serving the emperor and have a good career. Liaoxi was defeated, Xi Meng was captured, and he would rather die than give in, but he was tortured like this, and the old minister hated it in his heart! I can't wait to eat the meat and drink the blood of the Easterners. Although the old minister hated in his heart, he did not dare to harm justice for personal enmity. At this point, it seems that the emperor will not go south, and reinforcements from the south will never come. Please ask the emperor to make a decision, immediately go to the Taihu army, leave Chen Zhihu in the Taihu Palace, and Zhou Zongxian will escort the emperor to the south, and the old minister will die to guard this Yanjing City for the emperor. ”

Zhang Xie's hoarse and mournful crying made Chen Xinbo unable to bear to doubt him anymore.

"For several years, Aiqing has tried her best to plan for me, if I go to the river, how can Aiqing be by my side if I am not by my side?"

"Although Xitong is not talented, he also has a small plan, and as long as the emperor goes to Jiangning to sit in the town, he will definitely be able to transfer reinforcements to relieve the siege of Yanjing......" Zhang Xie said again.

Hearing Zhang Xie put forward his eldest son Zhang Xitong, Chen Xinbo reaffirmed that Zhang Ximiao died strangely, Zhang Xie's house was really ruthless, he proposed the eldest son at this time, undoubtedly hinting to the emperor that only Zhang Xie's guard in Yanjing was the only thing to keep him in Yanjing among the ministers in the court at this time: the eldest son was in Jiangning, and the second son died in the hands of the Donghu people - thinking of this, Chen Xinbo, who had calculated for half his life, felt chills in his heart.

Thinking about the fact that Zhang Xie's words did not directly say that he wanted to break through to Jinhai, and from the literal meaning of his words, it can even be understood that it is a suggestion to break through directly to the south, Chen Xinbo was shocked again: Could it be that Li Zhuo's last words leaked from Wang Qishan's mouth to Zhang Xie? He never knew that Wang Qishan was Zhang Xie's person.

The emperor is suspicious by nature, and Li Zhuo's words are believed or not, which makes people incomprehensible, but Zhang Xie's crying and admonition hid the meaning of Li Zhuo's words inside, although it is difficult to say whether it can prompt the emperor to break through directly to the south, but it can completely dispel the emperor's suspicion of him.

In the past six or seven years, Zhang Xie has actually held the power, and Chen Xinbo doesn't know how many people in the temple and the inner court are his minions, whether open or secret, so he gave up his plan to fight Zhang Xie.