The rider anxiously waited for the passerby fee to appear. It wasn't until they heard the sound of scrambled footsteps and the clashing of weapons in the palace that the rebels realized that they had been fooled. Lian Cheng immediately ordered an attack, and the soldiers began to ram the gate and climb the outer wall, and those who rushed to the front were immediately shot dead - Qi Xianggong had come to hunt. However, Qi Xianggong's defense was seriously insufficient, and the attackers raised their shields and pushed forward, broke through the defense line and swarmed in, and the palace gate was quickly overcome. The defenders led by Fei Fei and the Imperial Guard Ishino Rufan put up a heroic resistance, but were soon killed.

The rebels rushed into Qi Xianggong's bedroom, and saw a guy shivering like chaff hiding in the quilt on the bed, and the soldiers stabbed the man mercilessly, and the person inside let out a terrible scream, and soon stopped moving. A centurion lifted the quilt, saw the terrifying face of the deceased and said, "This man has no beard, not Qi Hou." Another said, "I know him, he's a little eunuch." ”

The main battle was over, Qi Xianggong's guards were outnumbered and all killed, and the temporarily armed personnel also suffered heavy casualties. The rebels examined the corpses and the living, and almost searched the palace, but they could not find Qi Xianggong. They even speculated if he had already fled.

But Lian Cheng determined that Qi Xianggong was still hiding somewhere in the palace, and he said: "If we look for it inch by inch, and if we can't find Qi Zhu'er, we will all commit suicide!" ”

Qi Xianggong was hiding behind the curtain of a side room at this time, he had lost the arrogance and domineering of the past to dominate the world, he would rather endure great shame than dare to defend his dignity by facing a strong enemy; He would rather go into hiding in disgrace than have the courage to prove himself worthy of a famous warrior and king of a great country by fighting bravely; He only wanted to escape death, and his integrity was not even comparable to that of those who could not grow beards.

At this time, strange things happened: a huge wild boar poked into the house with Qi Xianggong's lost combat boot in its mouth, and then slipped in silently; Qi Xianggong showed one eye and looked at the haunted guy in horror. The boar walked out of the curtain where he was hiding, stared into his eyes with the most resentful eyes—just as Peng Sheng had done before he died—and then as soon as he let go, the shoe fell to the ground. Then it took a few steps back, suddenly turned around, and slammed out the window.

The soldiers rushed in at the sound of the noise, and immediately saw the shoe, and then discovered the man behind it; Qi Xianggong waved his hands back and forth and shouted: "Listen to me, the soldiers ......" The captain raised his spear and stabbed him in the face for the first time, Qi Xianggong covered his face and squatted down, and the soldiers immediately stabbed him indiscriminately. In this way, Qi Xianggong ended a life of outstanding achievements but infamy.

Gongsun Wuzhi and Guan Zhifu received the news of the success of the rebellion at the first time, and they and their accomplices occupied the palace as soon as possible and prepared to take control of the whole city. The people were greatly frightened, and many of the princes and doctors fled from the south and east gates for fear of being implicated (because the rebels entered Linzi from the north and west directions); Among them, Gongzi Jie was summoned and Guan Yiwu protected and fled to the country of Lu.

The rebels blocked the streets and kept the doctors in their homes. The doctors were unprepared and cut off contact with each other, so they had to resign themselves to fate.

Early the next morning, under the close surveillance of the rebels, the doctors entered the court one after another. Lian and Guan then announced that the tyrant Qi Xianggong had been suppressed, and then surrounded Gongsun Wuzhi into the temple, while the doctors were forced to stand behind the rebels. The coronation ceremony began, and the doctors mechanically imitated the rebels' every move. The ceremony begins with a commotion and ends with a tumult.

After the ceremony was completed, Gongsun Wuzhi walked up to the court, sat on the monarch's seat and began to issue orders—as if he could really become the new monarch of Qi as long as the coronation ceremony was held.

It was only at this time that Gongsun Ignorance realized that none of the country's two secretaries, Gao Fu and Guo Yizhong, came. He suddenly felt his scalp tingling, his tongue stiff, his throat tight, and he couldn't say a word. Guan Zhi's father leaned into his ear and whispered: "Don't be impatient, the two adults are just sick." ”

The Gao clan and the Guo clan of Qi are both from the Duke of Qi Wen, and the two families were given the order of Zhou Tianzi to be the secretary of Qi for generations. Qi then became the only state among the princes to have two ministers.

In the State of Qi, as long as Gao Wei and Guo Yizhong oppose it, the monarch will not be able to do anything (the relationship between men and women is not included). Today, both of them claimed to be ill, and they had already conveyed their attitudes to the usurper.

At the beginning, the putschists discussed whether they should draw Gao and Guo into the circle of conspirators, but the result of the discussion was absolutely not. It turned out that the reason why Gongsun Wuzhi was not as notorious as Qi Xianggong was only because his status was not as noble as the latter, and his power was not as great as the latter; In fact, ignorance is equally shameful. The two ministers would never agree to snatch the power of the monarchy from a tyrant and transfer it to a villain. Therefore, the rebels decided to force the two men to admit the legitimacy of ignorance in order to achieve a fait accompli (coronation), but this attempt also failed.

Gongsun Wuzhi reversed the shameless style before his "accession to the throne" and tried to build himself into the image of a wise monarch: he issued a series of decrees conducive to the people's livelihood, relieving the poor, helping orphans and widows, pardoning prisoners, forgiving debts, and asking all parts of the country to report the disaster situation and reduce taxes in each province according to the size of their losses.

As a result, his henchmen and those who had always tended to be inflammatory, began to create public opinion, praising the benevolence and virtue of the new monarch all the time in the streets and alleys, in the suburbs of the city, and all over the country, and touting him as the prince of Qi in the world; And those who don't know the truth or only care about life also begin to have a good impression of Xinjun.

The secretaries of state and the state also felt great pressure, and they believed that they should get rid of the usurper as soon as possible, otherwise the usurper would counterattack once he gained a foothold. The two secretly gathered some honest officials to discuss the plan of Kuang Zheng's office. It was thought that relations with the usurper should first be eased (because the Gao and the state were still hostile to ignorance) and that ignorance should be relaxed; Then lure him out of Linzi and get rid of him by surprise.

After the plan was formed, the task of assassinating the ignorant fell to Doctor Aoigaoka.