There are no corpses everywhere in Taijing City, and there are no broken walls.

Although there were soldiers everywhere, the atmosphere was extremely tense. But the people were still able to walk around the market and checked and entered and exited the market. Many shops on the streets were closed, and long queues were lined up in front of rice and oil shops.

The small officials of Taijing Prefecture read out loudly in front of the shop the premier in Wenyuan Pavilion had just issued an order, claiming that the rebellion had been decided and all the rebels were taken down. Taijing will return to normal soon, and the people do not need to rush to buy rice and grain.

Those rice merchants who set prices on the ground have been locked up by officials and are ready to take them away.

Although the people were frightened, they still kept applauding when they saw this scene.

The sixth prince picked up the curtain of the carriage and looked out, with a faint expression of disdain.

"This kind of merchant and others should deal with it." General Liu's personal guard said relievedly.

"I've caught someone and extorted another money." The sixth prince sneered and stretched out his finger and said, "Look at these yamen soldiers, are they guarding merchants or the people around him who are well-known."

Liu Dan coughed lightly, and before Mr. He heard the movement here, he whispered: "Your Highness should be careful in his words and actions."

Since the sixth prince entered the city, his thorny posture became more and more obvious. Liu Dan couldn't understand why this was. Shouldn't he pretend to be filial and show his humble and respectful side to the emperor?

When I first heard of the second prince’s rebellion, the sixth prince was a little strange, and now it is even worse.

In Liu Dan's opinion, it was already very good that Taijing could quickly restore order to such order after a coup. This shows that nothing happened to the prime minister and the important officials, and they did not intend to make trouble and disgust people.

——As a military general who has been excluded and suppressed by civil servants for many years, Liu Dan still has a lot of opinions about some people in the court.

Not participating in the plot to rebel does not mean that you can rest assured.

In the name of the Qing Dynasty and the rebellious party, there were earth-shaking changes in the court. Those who were demoted and dismissed were considered lucky. Maybe one day they would be impeached by the censor for more than a dozen crimes, and then a certain faction of the court officials worked together to go to the court to get the official hat and uniform and be sentenced to prison.

For Liu Dan, the most dangerous thing is that he has no backer in the court.

His backer is the emperor himself. In order to win the emperor's trust, military generals can only be lonely ministers, and his military power and power are not as great as civil servants are willing to look at him differently, so there is not even a person who can help speak.

Liu Dan was frowning.

What he was even more worried about was the Jinyiwei who went to the imperial tomb with the Sixth Prince in the convoy. The streets of Taijing were filled with imperial guards, even yamen runners, but the shadow of the Jinyiwei could not be seen.

Liu Dan slowly realized something was wrong. Although the investigation in the city was strict, when he encountered those people who were fighting stubbornly, the patrol guards and the yamen runners were just chasing and scolding, without using bows and arrows. It seemed that they could catch up and locked up the people. It was obvious that they received a dead order, and the convoy was only embarrassed when they entered the city. Then they were all smooth sailing. No one came to find fault, and no eunuch came to pass the order.

They entered the inner city with fear.

At this time, someone finally came, and it was the Secretariat of Wenyuan Pavilion.

The Secretariat is a sixth-rank official, usually from the Hanlin Academy, the master is a prime minister or he has joined the powerful faction in the court as a prime minister. However, even if they are truly in the position of prime minister, even if their career is smooth, they will have to wait at least twenty years. During this period, countless accidents may occur, which will prevent them from going to the end.

They seem to have a promising future, but they are actually people who run errands in Wenyuan Pavilion and help the prime ministers.

Now that I saw such a man leading the Imperial Guards to block the way, the people in the convoy looked very good.

Mr. He respects his identity and looks down on him.

Except for him, everyone else was wondering in their hearts that no matter what, the sixth prince was also a prince, how could he let a sixth-rank servant come to welcome him? If he was a minister who was trusted by the emperor, it would be fine if the officials were small, but the servant in front of him was not at all.

What does this mean? The sixth prince no longer has any possibility of ascending the throne? The sixth prince is about to be in trouble? Or is the emperor deliberately suppressing the sixth prince? Or... Does the emperor really still have the power of the government? Logically speaking, for the sake of balance of power, even if the emperor kills the second prince and makes the third prince the crown prince, he will not really throw the sixth prince aside. On the contrary, he will lift the little prince out and hone the Eastern Palace!

They are all people who are stubborn in the officialdom and have become several scruples. When everyone thinks about it carefully, they feel chilled.

The Secretariat made a verbal order without hesitation, saying that it was nothing more than the second prince's plot to rebel. His Majesty was furious and ordered a strict investigation. During this period, it was mentioned that the second prince colluded with the commander of the Jinyiwei and bribed the assassin in the palace to assassinate. The assassin has not been caught yet, so he ordered the Imperial Guard to escort the sixth prince into the palace and protect it strictly.

Mr. He was not in a state of mind, and Liu Dan did not dare to move, so he watched them take the Sixth Prince away.

Then the oral order mentioned He Shilang and ordered him to go home to rest and wait for the court meeting a few days later.

Seeing the waiter turning around and leaving, Liu Dan couldn't help asking: "His Majesty has mentioned this general?"

The Secretariat glanced at him. Because Liu Dan's injuries were not healed, he did not wear armor, and only wore a fourth-rank military officer uniform. There was no difference between the fourth-rank military officer robe, but there were differences in armor. The Secretariat obviously did not remember who Liu Dan was. He thought it was the military officer who escorted the sixth prince in Yongzhou, so he casually said: "No, the lieutenant will go back to the post office in the prefecture to wait for news."

Liu Dan: “…”

Officials from other places who come to Beijing to recuperate their posts, or go to Beijing for official duties, and have no place to live, they will live in inns with signs of the prefecture. This is set up by the court and officials themselves do not have to spend money.

If he was the fourth-rank supervisor of the local area, he could only go to the inn. Even if he had already bought a house in Taijing, it would be in the outer city. The officials would naturally have to be in the north and inner city close to the imperial city. The houses here could not be afforded, and the price was so high.

But he once made the best of saving the enemy! The emperor rewarded the mansion! Even if no one lives in it for many years, the house is not big, but he still has a house!

This Secretariat was not sent by the emperor at all!

Liu Dan didn't believe that the emperor could forget himself. It was not that Liu Dan regarded himself very highly, but that the emperor was anxious to summon him to Beijing to ask about the Silang Mountain Gold Mine.

He would walk with the Sixth Prince and his party because the Sixth Prince disappeared because he was playing tricks when he was in the imperial tomb of Yongzhou. When Mr. He asked for help from the government, he also brought him past the place and asked to find it. Later, the chaos of the collision between the imperial tomb occurred. Mr. He and Liu Dan wrote a secret memorial to report to the emperor.

Therefore, in the official documents, Liu Dan did not walk with the Sixth Prince.

But for Lu Zhang, he knew this very well, and whether it was for the gold mine, the imperial tomb, or the knowledge of what the Sixth Prince did along the way, Lu Zhang could not completely ignore Liu Dan. Not only did he not mention it, but the person who conveyed the oral orders did not even know who Liu Dan was.

General Liu's mind buzzed loudly.

He stopped his personal guards with his eyes, and then threatenedly stared at the Jinyiwei and the soldiers who were walking with him.

"Yes, let's go to Yongzhou Inn." Liu Dan turned his head and smiled and said to the Secretariat.

The Secretariat noticed something was wrong, looked at Liu Dan suspiciously, wrote down the matter in his heart, bowed his hand to express his etiquette, and then took the people away.

The guard looked at his back and whispered.

Some of the flexible Jinyiwei also reacted. Liu Dan should have lived in Pingzhou’s inn to suppress the bandits.

"The situation is wrong."

"Your Majesty... Is the second prince in power?"

"Idiot, if the second prince is in power, it shouldn't be the second prince being beaten to be a rebel, it should be the third prince!"

Everyone suddenly realized that it was right. The second prince was reckless and didn't look like a person who could plot rebellion! Even if the second prince was stupid, the commander of the Jinyiwei was not stupid.

"...Your Majesty's trustworthy Jinyiwei can't see any of the Jinyiwei, and there is actually our commander in the rebel party!"

"The third prince is really hiding it."

Everyone said and said something, and mistakenly turned the truth into another direction.

Smart people are often defeated by absurd reality.

Because no matter what he thought, the civil servant group secretly planned to incite the second prince to rebel, bombard the palace with artillery, and then took advantage of the chaos to control the capital, unite the third prince to put the emperor under house arrest, and kill the second prince. The process of this is very convincing.

Next, the third prince's opponent was the weak prince.

The Sixth Prince is young and has no power, so it is difficult to turn over.

Liu Dan hurried back to his mansion and sent his personal soldiers to inquire about the news. He walked around the flower hall with his hands behind his back.

Because he was not in the capital for a long time, his servant was very lazy on weekdays. At this moment, he lowered his head tremblingly and reported to Liu Dan about what happened to the capital these days.

It is mainly the Star Bo on the New Year's Day and the two dragons that appeared in the sky a few days ago.

Liu Dan didn't hear what he wanted to know. While he was anxious, his personal guards came back one after another.

"General, it's not good! The prince is critically ill. It is said that it's been this month. He had originally concealed it very carefully. After Taijing's martial law was strictly imposed, those who handled related matters were scared and revealed the news."

"really?"

"General, it's not good! The Northern Fufu Division was surrounded by the Imperial Guards... and the Southern Fufu Division, the Jinyiwei, were trapped inside. It is said that this has been like this for four days."

"What?!"

Liu Dan slapped the table. Although he was very tired of the Jinyiwei, the emperor was really not the same as bad news for Liu Dan. The third prince took advantage of the civil service group and the life of the military general would be even more sad.

"Are you not afraid that everyone in the government and the public will know it and are notorious?"

"...General, there is even worse news. A few days ago, Gong Jun, the Tongzhi of the Jinyiwei, was sent to Shangyunshan to arrest the Jianghu people who were in trouble in Beijing, but he did not come back after the martial law in the capital. General Tan from the left camp of the Jingji Valley took his troops to encircle and suppress the rebellion party and headed towards Shangyunshan. General, do you think they were arresting Jianghu people or dealing with Gong Tongzhi?"

Liu Dan was stunned. When he came to his senses, he hurriedly urged: "How did you know about this?"

"There is chaos in the Nanzhen Fushi. It is said that there is nothing in the yamen to fill the stomach. They quarreled with the Imperial Guards, and the voices were spreading far away!" The personal soldiers curled their lips and said disdainfully, "Those Imperial Guards are also ridiculous. They think that this time they can completely suppress the Jinyiwei. They scolded and said proudly that Gong Tongzhi might have died at the hands of bandits in the martial arts world."

Liu Dan shook his head: "Ming Tongzhi's reputation in the Nanzhenfusi is higher than that of the commander of the Jinyiwei. These imperial guards are so rude that they are like stabbing a hornet's nest."

"So that's it? No wonder!" the personal soldiers quickly added, "The Jinyiwei was angry when he heard this, and rushed out and injured a lot of imperial guards. Without seeing blood, he removed several arms, and said something about them, "They were both good at martial arts and the fact that Shangyun Mountain is so big, how could something happen? Then the imperial guards leaked their mouths. It turned out that General Tan from the Left Camp of Gyeonggi brought artillery, artillery! Blast the mountain directly!"

Even Liu Dan was so shocked that he couldn't speak.

How could Taijing be so messy?

"Now, what happened to the Imperial Guards and the Nanzhen Fushi?"

"I don't know yet. A brother squatted over there and watched. I'll come back and report to the general first."

Liu Dan frowned when he heard this and regretted, "We shouldn't have entered Beijing. We can see the direction of the wind clearly after delaying for a while. Now we are being swept into the whirlpool, and I really don't know how to get out."

"This is easy to deal with. Why don't we sneak into the Imperial Guards and act according to the opportunity?" the personal soldier suggested.

"No, although the Secretariat doesn't know me, when he goes back, he will say that his identity will not be hidden. If you can't find someone, you will be beaten directly as a rebellious person." Liu Dan sighed and stretched out his hand to rub his eyebrows.

This is really a city of sorrow.

Just as Liu Dan was worried, another personal soldier hurried in.

"General, something strange happened!"

Liu Dan was not as surprised as before. He just raised his eyelids and ordered in a deep voice: "Say!"

This personal soldier is relatively young, so he leaned over and said mysteriously: "What happened to Mr. He's family!"

"Um?"
To be continued...