Chapter 55 Deadlock
The most calm people in the room were Luo Huanzhang and the Queen Mother. When they heard the noise outside, they were the two of them most surprised. The Queen Mother quickly stood up, looked at the door, then slowly sat down, and turned her eyes to Han Ruzi, because she could hear clearly that the people outside were shouting "Save the Lord".
Luo Huanzhang turned around and walked to the door. Before the people outside rushed into the inner courtyard, the sound of weapons hitting was clearly heard, and the sharp screams of the eunuchs were all "hard people".
He turned around and asked Bu Hengru, who was confused, "What's going on? Isn't there anyone guarding the inner palace gate?"
"Yes, there are people guarding me... I'll go out to take a look." Bu Hengru hurried out of the room and came back soon, with obvious panic on his face, "I don't know where a group of eunuchs and palace maids came from, more than fifty people, holding... wooden sticks and bamboo poles, surrounded Cishun Palace."
"Eunuchs and palace maids?" Luo Huanzhang was puzzled.
The angry and shocked King Donghai couldn't help but sneer: "So many martial arts masters can't stop more than fifty eunuchs, can the palace maids?"
Bu Hengru shook his head, "Everyone outside went to Qinzheng Hall with the Imperial Concubine, and only four people were left to guard the gate. I thought... let the three of them go out and kill a few of them to establish their authority..."
The three short swordsmen at the door were about to go out, Luo Huanzhang shouted, "Stay. Our plan is to hold the empress dowager and the emperor hostage and keep these two people, which is not a failure."
King Tokai lowered his head and his face turned blue because he was not among the "two people".
Luo Huanzhang walked to the empress dowager and bowed, "I admire him. The empress dowager suppressed the court and became more loyal to the ministers. The blood stained the inner palace and the slaves served him. I admire him."
The queen mother said coldly: "The court is in my hands, and the inner palace is managed by the imperial concubine, it has nothing to do with me. Those outside are not here for me. Didn't you hear them shouting "Save the Lord"? They are the emperor's people."
Of course, Luo Huanzhang heard it, but from the palace to the court, everyone shouted "Your Majesty" but had their own thoughts in their hearts, so he didn't expect the emperor to see the young man sitting by the window after hearing the empress dowager's words.
Han Ruzi was extremely excited. After all, Zhang Youcai and Tong Qing'e did it. The emperor was no longer a bystander of this palace coup, but he could still remain calm and face Luo Huanzhang's gaze.
"Your Majesty can actually make a group of eunuchs and palace maids loyal to you?" Luo Huanzhang still didn't believe it.
"If you follow the trend, the Empress Dowager will arrest and kill people, I will win the trust of others." Han Ruzi's attention was mostly on the noise outside. There were only four guards at the gate of Cishun Palace, and dozens of eunuchs and palace maids did not attack, indicating that things were not going very smoothly.
"This is the benefit of the way of benevolence and righteousness. Power and strategy can achieve success, benevolence and righteousness can maintain success, power and strategy can advance, and benevolence and righteousness can be cut off the queen." Luo Huanzhang turned to the queen mother again, "We also followed the trend. Emperor Wu, Emperor Huan, and Emperor Si died one after another. The queen mother was in charge of the political power, and the Cui family was the tyrannical relatives of the Great Chu. The foundation of the Great Chu was already rotten, so we gave the people of the Jianghu a chance."
"Your Excellency is still so easy to be a teacher." The Empress Dowager smiled briefly, "It's hard to say how the foundation of Da Chu is, your current situation is not good."
The three swordsmen ran in from outside the door, all of Bu Hengru's people. They held the knife in their hands and their clothes were covered with egg whites, vegetable leaves and other objects. They tore a few holes and had a little blood. They were in a panic and turned around and closed the door as soon as they entered the house.
Several bamboo poles followed outside the door, poking in a mess.
Bu Hengru was shocked and went forward to help with three original subordinates in the house. The seven people squeezed into a group and finally barely guarded the door. Several bamboo poles still reached in through the crack of the door, and there were even more bangs outside, mixed with the sound of "rescuing the car".
"Where is Yan Mingfeng?" Bu Hengru was shocked, but she had not forgotten her subordinates.
"He was stabbed down by a secret gun, and he didn't know how to live or die." One man replied with a little anger, adding: "You said this was a shocking and you would not encounter any resistance. Why..."
"You said that you all fight against a hundred people, why can't even beat eunuchs and palace maids?" As the situation changed, Bu Hengru could not remain calm, and refused to take responsibility for nothing.
"Shut up." Luo Huanzhang shouted. Now is not the time for internal strife. He stared at the emperor for a while and said to Bu Hengru and others: "Open the door."
"Can't open it." Another swordsman full of dirty things yelled at him. They fought with the eunuchs and palace maids outside, knowing that these people were difficult to deal with.
"Idiot, why are you fighting with a group of slaves? Keep the emperor, the queen mother... and the King of East Sea, who dares to come in?" Luo Huanzhang did not admit defeat.
Tokai Neptune whispered: "I think of me now."
Luo Huanzhang just mentioned him, walked to the emperor a few steps, and bowed and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty."
Bu Hengru finally reacted and gritted his teeth and said, "Don't guard the gate, listen to my order: Xiaolong, look at King Donghai, Dalong, Master Deng and I guard the Queen Mother, you three guard the emperors. One, two, three... retreat!"
The seven people blocking the door scattered and rushed towards their own targets.
Han Ruzi and Donghai King were just thirteen-year-old boys. The Queen Mother and Wang Meiren were women. They were self-reliant and accepted hostage calmly. No one resisted. Only Donghai King had a cold face because he was treated differently.
The door was washed open. First, seven or eight bamboo poles reached in to explore the way, and then a small figure walked over the threshold and knelt on the ground, sweating heavily, and said to the emperor with great excitement: "Your Majesty, the miserable person is here... Are you sending us a secret code in Cining Palace?"
"Yes, you are here in time." Han Ruzi said, three swordsmen surrounded him, but they just shone the sword and did not put it on his neck. The emperor's calm behavior made them take a small step back.
No one knew how excited Han Ruzi was. He couldn't even stand up and could only sit on a round stool and try to straighten his body.
Zhang Youcai wiped the sweat beads on his forehead, turned his head and said to the people outside, "Look, I just said this is Your Majesty's secret order, we are right." Maybe someone hinted at him, so Zhang Youcai hurriedly turned around and kowtowed to the Queen Mother, "I'm late to save the Lord, and the Queen Mother forgives his crime."
The Empress Dowager refused to talk to the palace slave, so she turned her head and said to the beautiful Wang who was standing beside her, "You have raised a good son."
"He is the Queen Mother's son." said Meiren Wang.
The Queen Mother snorted and said nothing.
Han Ruzi knew that her mother had to do it, but she still felt sad and felt a little confused. She was obviously forced to enter the palace, so why was her mother more loyal than the palace maids around the empress dowager?
Luo Huanzhang also had the same doubts, but he had to resolve the crisis in front of him first, "Please order irrelevant people to withdraw from the bedroom."
Han Ruzi looked at the three short knives beside him and said to Zhang Youcai who was kneeling at the door: "You retreat to the court first, I want to talk to Master Luo."
Zhang Youcai looked at Luo Huanzhang and the seven swordsmen before answering "Abide by the order". He stood up and was about to quit. When Meiren Wang reminded: "Close the gate of Cishun Palace and don't let anyone come in again."
"Yes." Zhang Youcai withdrew, and many bamboo poles also withdrew, but the door was not closed.
The beautiful Wang bowed to the Empress Dowager and said, "I ordered my order before I asked him to punish me."
"Well, no hurry." The Queen Mother looked a little tired, and looked at the sunshine pouring in from outside the door, and ignored the blade a few feet away.
Bu Hengru and others became more and more nervous, and they all looked at Luo Huanzhang.
Luo Huanzhang thought for a moment and felt that the empress dowager was more important. He walked up to her and signaled Bu Hengru and the other three to put down the knife, saying, "It's a pity. It seems that things are deadlocked."
"I only regret that I believed in the wrong person." The Queen Mother still did not withdraw her gaze.
"These people around me are all heroes in the world. They don't understand the royal rules. Please forgive me."
The Empress Dowager finally withdrew her gaze and looked at Luo Huanzhang, "Someone once told me that the emperor's power is only ten steps away, within a thousand miles. I laughed it off at that time. Now it seems that he is right. I bowed someone within ten steps, and ended up in today's situation. Within ten steps, it is indeed the territory of the people of the Jianghu."
Han Ruzi was surprised. It turned out that Yang Feng had said similar things to the Empress Dowager. Who is he standing on?
Luo Huanzhang nodded and praised: "The person who said this to the Empress Dowager is very knowledgeable. Chunyu Xiao also said that the farther away from the emperor, the stronger the majesty he felt, so the emperor is always high and far away from his subjects. Once someone rushes through the obstacles and comes closer to the emperor, the majesty becomes unfair. This is what the saying in the world is, "I am willing to sacrifice myself and dare to take the emperor off."
"So you made this plan?"
"Half is a plan, and half is a heavenly scholar. Chunyu Xiao encouraged the King of Qi to rebellion in Qi State. I was preparing to cooperate in the capital. However, after staying in the Cui family for a long time, I found that I had the opportunity to rush to the emperor, no, in front of the empress dowager. So I agreed with Chunyu Xiao that if the King of Qi could break through Hangu Pass, I would implement the original plan, abolish the emperor and the empress dowager, and welcome the new king. If the King of Qi was defeated, I would implement the new plan and have a palace transformation."
The Queen Mother nodded, "I must capture Chunyu Xiao alive and see what kind of person he is."
Luo Huanzhang smiled, "The minister can prevent the imperial concubine from entering the Qinzheng Hall, but cannot stop the emperor's imperial edict. At this moment, the palace general is replacing people, and all the guards are for me. The queen mother, the Grand Marshal of the Southern Army, should have been deprived of her seal. The soldiers of the Southern Army enter the city again. At that time, the ministers will not be allowed to be disobedient."
The Empress Dowager also smiled slightly, "After noon every day, several minions in the court met me in Guanghua Pavilion. If they couldn't see me, they would go to Qinzheng Hall to put down the ministers. The Imperial Concubine would probably not be able to come back. As for the Grand Sima of the Southern Army, it would be not so easy to seize his seal."
Luo Huanzhang turned around and looked, and the sunlight at the door indicated that noon had passed long ago.
Luo Huanzhang and the Empress Dowager looked at each other, and they were all trying to figure out each other's bottom line.
Bu Hengru, who was standing next to him, suddenly said, "No need to talk. Master Chunyu issued a secret order to me: If a big thing fails, kill all the empress dowager, emperor, and king of Donghai. At that time, the ministers have no leader and the princes will fight together, and Master Chunyu still has a chance!"
Bu Hengru waved the knife in her hand, her eyes full of madness.
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