Return of the Swallow

The entourage didn't find out who sent the ministers to go to court, seeing the master was angry, naturally he didn't dare to say anything more.

Marquis Qingyang touched his inexplicably cold forehead, and said in a low voice: "Something is not quite right, could something be wrong?"

"Impossible. The king's plan is flawless. How could there be a loophole at this time? The Queen Mother must have lied to us." Prince Li gritted his teeth.

Qing Yanghou smiled bitterly and waved his hands: "Impossible, I don't know what kind of temperament my sister is? Besides, the county king has also seen it. She is timid and an ordinary woman, so she can't make any waves. "

Lijun Wang's anxious and angry emotions were suppressed by him. He looked back at the charred ruins of the palace, and at the corpse that had been carried out by his followers and put on the carriage.

Lijun Wang didn't know what was going on, and suddenly he felt blessed, strode towards the carriage, and got closer to observe carefully.

Marquis Qingyang frowned, pinched his nose, and walked over, "What is the prince doing here? What's so interesting about dead people?

King Li Jun completely ignored the noisy Marquis of Qingyang who took a lamp from his attendant, and carefully inspected the face of "Li Qitian" under the weak light in the early morning, and finally found that there was something wrong with the burned skin .

King Li's heart skipped a beat, he reached out and grabbed the corpse's face, regardless of whether it was dirty or dirty.

Qingyanghou was too nervous when he was the king of Lijun, and exclaimed: "What are you doing..."

Before he finished speaking, he saw that King Li had already peeled off the face from the corpse. The thin layer of broken human skin was still burning with burnt ashes and blood, which looked particularly terrifying under the light of the orange lantern.

However, more terrifying things are yet to come.

Under that face, there was another strange face.

That's not Li Qitian at all!

Li Junwang was holding the broken human skin mask in his hand in a daze, his whole body was chilling, and the pores on his back exploded.

How could it be fake?

Li Qitian is not dead, so what happened to the fire in the palace?

By the way, those charred corpses in the Wangfu can barely be identified as human bones, and it is impossible to tell whether they are male or female, so there may not be any female family members of the Wangfu.

The fire in the palace is strange. Li Qitian's body was fake, and the ministers went to court again for no reason.

These three points are connected together, and Lijun Wang will understand even if he is stupid.

He's pissed off!

This time, everything was calculated in the fire, and the other party firmly grasped his psychology, and used the plan to lure him out of the palace. At this time, Li Qitian might have taken back the imperial palace!

Li Junwang trembled like chaff, almost unable to stand.

Marquis Qingyang is no better than King Li Jun.

Now his mind is full of Li Qitian's viciousness and majesty.

"What to do, what to do! If the Holy Majesty comes back, we can still have good fruits for the two of us? Your plan will definitely not escape, even if I want to die together! The Holy Majesty cares most about military power, Haven't you seen that Pang Zhixi has been deprived of military power, but I, the commander of the Huben Army, refuses to listen to Yi's order to support Tianmen Guan, the Holy One knows that I will not be punished for the crime of slacking off!"

Li Junwang's face was gloomy, and the trembling on his body gradually subsided.

Qing Yanghou said anxiously: "For the present plan, let's go to the palace to beg my sister! My sister is the empress dowager, if you say a few good words in front of the holy majesty, we may still be saved!"

King Lijun suddenly looked at Qingyanghou, and said coldly: "If you want to throw yourself into a trap, go yourself."

"you……"

"Have you forgotten how you treated the Empress Dowager? The Empress Dowager is not out of her mind. I must take revenge when I see you now! And how did you see the Empress Dowager? Since Li Qitian has the ability to declare As long as the two of us get close, we will be arrested and sent to Li Qitian before we see the Queen Mother."

Qingyanghou's face was pale when he heard this, and he felt that the sky was about to fall.

How did things develop like this? Everything was going well at first, why did it all come to naught all of a sudden?

"Then what do you think we should do?" Qingyang Hou was in a mess now, and he only looked at King Li dependently.

Li Junwang gritted his teeth, and immediately said: "If you don't do anything, you will not stop. Anyway, there are a lot of spies from the Tartars, otherwise Li Qitian would not be buried alive. Now who knows if the people in the palace wall are the pointed and thin men from the Tartars?" Lurking in and wanting to harm the queen mother and queen?"

"You mean...you want to attack the palace?" Qingyang Hou was shocked for a moment, and lowered his voice.

King Lijun said: "Either wait to die, or take a chance. If you want to die, I will not stop you. I can guarantee that as long as you take a step closer to the palace wall, you will be escorted to Li Qitian by five flowers. How you die is up to you."

Marquis Qingyang shivered. His eyes gradually turned from panic to firmness.

"Okay, let's give it a go! Don't forget, Ben Hou is still the commander of the Huben Army!"

Lijun Wang was quietly relieved when he saw that Qingyanghou was so upright.

He then continued to order, "A Tartar spies sneaked into the palace and pretended to be the Holy One with the intention of committing crimes. Immediately dispatch all the soldiers and horses from the five cities, the east, the west, the south, and the north. We must protect the Empress Dowager, the Empress and the unborn dragon son! "

"yes!"

Li Junwang's loyalists immediately went to the commanders and envoys of the soldiers and horses in the five cities to report.

The soldiers and horses of the five cities are in charge of public security and other matters in the capital. The four guards in the east, west, north, south, and north must have at least 10,000 soldiers in total. In addition, Qingyang Hou dispatched the Huben Army.

With such an offensive, it may not be impossible to fight with all your strength!

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At this time, in the Fengtian Temple, civil servants and military generals from the fifth rank and above in Beijing have already lined up in Wendongwuxi.

Everyone is actually very uncomfortable.

King Lijun is a clan member chosen by the Queen Mother to supervise the country. Although he is a little soft-tempered on weekdays, he knows how to advance and retreat anyway.

Why did this guy change his gender today?

The ministers all looked dignified and contemplative.

The Holy One and Prince Zhongshun have been buried for twenty-one days. Who can persist for so many days without eating or drinking? The sky of the Great Zhou Dynasty may have changed.

I just don't know the intention of King Lijun calling them to court today.

Among the courtiers, some people are already thinking about standing in line. There are also people who are loyal to Li Qitian and are full of anger. For a while, the faces of all the adults were not very good-looking.

At this moment, a sharp voice unique to Zhongguan came from outside.

"The Holy One is here!"

According to the rules, courtiers are not allowed to raise their heads and look directly at the sky.

Although all the ministers were very dissatisfied with Li Junwang's daring to call himself the Holy One, at this time no one was unruly.

Out of the corner of everyone's eyes, they could only see a figure in a bright yellow dragon robe sitting on the dragon chair in the middle. From the perspective of the bowed courtiers, they could not see the appearance of the person on the dragon chair, only the brand new pair of discs. Dragon gold-rimmed soap boots.

Sure enough, King Li Jun had a heart of disobedience! He is going to rebel!

Recalling the fire in Prince Zhongshun's mansion yesterday, the ministers all connected the matter. It seems that King Lijun really can't wait!

At this time, some people figured it out, and willingly knelt down and shouted long live.

But there are also some people who think that King Lijun's move was done by traitors and officials, and they would rather die than admit that King Lijun proclaimed himself emperor privately.

Therefore, the postures of the courtiers saluting are different.

Those who were bribed by Lijun King, or those who wanted to protect themselves, knelt down and bowed down.

However, the stubborn old ministers and the officials who were not afraid of death all stood with their heads bowed and slightly bent their knees.

"Long live the Holy One!" Everyone's voices fell apart.

Sitting on the throne, Li Qitian looked down at the courtiers who were saluting in a completely different posture under the imperial steps, and couldn't help feeling comforted in his heart.

Those who knelt down and called long live only accounted for 20% of the total number of people.

And those who refused to call Long Live or kneel down to salute, accounted for a full 80%.

It seems that his status is still very stable. Even though he has been missing for twenty days and people outside are rumoring that he has died, these loyal ministers still did not immediately recognize King Li.

Li Qitian carefully remembered who kneeled and who didn't kneel, and then joked: "Why, you old guys still don't kneel when you see me, are you trying to rebel?"

Li Qitian's voice was loud and echoed in the hall.

Hearing this familiar voice, the lowered courtiers couldn't help but look directly at Tianyan's rules, and raised their heads one after another.

I saw Li Qitian wearing a dragon robe, sitting on a dragon chair, with Pang Xiao and Ji Zeyu behind him, one on the left and one on the right. What was surprising was that there was still this beautiful pregnant woman standing next to Prince Zhongshun.

"My lord!" Everyone exclaimed in surprise.

Li Qitian said with a smile: "Look all of you, it is I who is back!"

"Long live the Holy One, long live!"

"The Holy Majesty is the Son of Heaven, the old minister has long known that the Holy Majesty will return safely!"

All the ministers knelt down to salute, and what's more, they burst into tears with excitement.

Amidst the salutes of the crowd, the two adults who knelt down first and recognized Li Junwang were already fighting with each other.

It's over, it's over, people who shouldn't come back are back, aren't they going to clean them up?

At this time, they could no longer care about why the Holy Majesty stood behind him, except for Ji Zeyu and Pang Xiao, and even the women stood up together. They just want to find a way to survive now. We must not let the Holy One think that they are all going to rebel.

Rebellion is a serious crime that can harm a family!

Just when everyone was uneasy, the new eunuch Xiong Jinshui had already proclaimed loudly: "There is a decree from the Holy Spirit, if there is something to do, we will play it early, and if there is nothing to do, we will retreat!"

As soon as these words were said, all the courtiers breathed a sigh of relief.

The Holy Majesty did not solve the problem of treason at the court meeting, but only asked about state affairs. Where can I find a sage who is so important to state affairs?

So everyone beat the chicken blood like chicken blood, and reported all the backlog of things that had been accumulated during the absence of Li Qitian. It will even be discussed in the hall.

Standing behind Li Qitian, Qin Yining looked at the faces of the courtiers, but what he thought about was the reshuffle that the ministers would face after the court meeting.