Unparalleled Concubine

   Chapter 762 Wind and snow spread over the capital

   In the middle of the twelfth lunar month of the eighth year of Taikang.

  After a few days of overcast and rainy days in the capital, heavy snow fell all over the sky. This time, the heavy snow was comparable to the snow in Chengde’s seventeenth year. The heavy snow blanketed the ground and blocked the official roads entering and leaving the capital.

   On the road, it is difficult for vehicles and horses to travel, and people are rare.

   However, there are still some people who are rushing through the wind and snow. These people wear heavy cotton clothes. They enter the city from the east gate of the capital, from Liushufang to Yonglefang, and then directly from Yonganmen to the imperial city.

   These people are Xiao Zheng, Xiao Huai and others.

   After entering the imperial city, Xiao Zheng turned around and let Xiao Huai and others disperse. He simply sorted out his description, touched the things in his sleeve, took a few deep breaths, and walked towards Weiyang Palace.

He is the great **** of the inner court. He walked in the palace naturally and smoothly, and he entered the entrance of the emperor's study in Weiyang Palace very smoothly. When he reached the door, he hesitated for a long time, finally gritted his teeth, walked in, and knelt with a plop. In front of the emperor who was reviewing the memorial, he bowed his head and said, "Your Majesty, the slave is back."

  The emperor slowly put down the red pen in his hand and looked up at Xiao Zheng.

   "Why did you come back?"

   Xiao Zheng lowered his head and said, "The heavy snow blocked the road, and the carriages and horses were blocked. The slaves and others had to abandon the carriage and walk all the way, so it was delayed for a few days."

  The emperor had no expression on his face, reached out and threw a copy of the memorial in front of Xiao.

   "You haven't returned to Beijing yet, but Hanzhou Muying's Announcement Letter was delivered to me."

   Having said this, His Majesty the Emperor stood up from the dragon chair, put his hands behind his back, and walked to the front of Xiao.

   "Didn't I send you to the southwest and ask Pei Jin to stop?"

  The emperor grabbed Xiao Zheng's front and asked coldly: "What is the situation in the southwest, you have to tell me clearly!"

  The emperor was angry, Xiao Zheng was in a state of fear, he knelt on the ground, kowtowed and said, "Your Majesty, the servant is about to report the situation in the southwest to Your Majesty..."

  The emperor then let go of Xiao Zheng's front, took a deep breath, and sat back on his dragon chair.

   And Xiao Zheng, trembling faintly, told the emperor little by little about the situation in Hanzhou.

When talking about the situation of the siege that day, Xiao Zheng first glanced at the emperor secretly, then swallowed and gritted his teeth: "That day was the fourth day of Pei Jin's siege, because the first three days of siege went very smoothly, Han The state city was already crumbling, so General Pei's attack on the fourth day was very violent, and he directly transferred the Hanzhong army and the garrison of Jincheng to attack the city, and from morning to noon, Hanzhou city was almost destroyed...

   Xiao Zheng shook his body and continued.

   "However, at this time, some unknown objects were thrown from the city wall of Hanzhou City by a group of people, and when these objects were thrown into the crowd, they would explode with a bang... It was extremely lethal."

Xiao Zheng took out a slap-sized pottery from his sleeve, put his hands in his hands, and lowered his head: "Look, Your Majesty, this is a fragment of the thing brought back by the servant from the southwest, and this is the thing that fell among the crowd. Terribly appalling."

   "In just a split second, the soldiers in the front row suffered heavy casualties, and the formation was in chaos. They were finally rushed out by those Hanzhou... rebels, and they were finally defeated..."

  The emperor's face was gloomy.

   He walked to Xiao's front, took the pottery piece in his hand, looked up and down a few times, and said coldly, "What is this thing?"

   "It should be a clay pot."

   Xiao was on his way back and had studied this thing carefully. Hearing that, he immediately replied: "When this pottery falls into the crowd, it will shatter and the pottery pieces will splash around. Even if the soldiers around are wearing armor, they will be cut by these pottery pieces, which is very powerful."

  The emperor took this pottery piece in his hand and sat back to his position, his face extremely ugly.

   "A few days ago, the military newspaper from the southwest was delivered to me. It was written in the military newspaper that there were thunderstorms falling from the sky, and it was impossible for man to stop it."

   "So Pei Jin was under the city of Hanzhou, and nearly 40,000 people were killed and injured, but a small city of Hanzhou remained unmoved!"

  The emperor was trembling with anger, he looked at Xiao Zheng coldly, gritted his teeth and said, "Where is Li Xin, have you found it?"

"No…"

   Xiao Zheng said in a trembling voice: "Jizhou City, and Li... Hou Ye's hometown, Yongzhou, everyone from Tianmu Jian went to look for it, but they still couldn't find Li Hou Ye..."

   "Waste!"

  The emperor slapped the table angrily, still feeling uneasy, and continued to curse: "Rice bucket!"

  The emperor was angry, not only Xiao Zheng, but all the palace servants in Weiyang Palace knelt on the ground, trembling.

The emperor's face was gloomy, and after thinking for a moment, he said coldly: "Immediately let Xie Jing transfer the people from Qianniuwei to surround the Jing'anhou mansion. Without my order, no one from the Jinganhou mansion is allowed to come out. !"

   Xiao Zheng knelt down and bowed his head.

   "The slave girl will do it now..."

   He was about to get up when he heard the cold voice of the emperor on the dragon chair.

   "Immediately send people from Tianmu Prison to Prince Qi's Mansion in Yangzhou and Prince Zhao's Mansion in Gusu, and put all the people in these two palaces under house arrest."

  Emperor's face is a little distorted.

   "If you find Li Xin's figure in these two places, act immediately and rectify the Fa on the spot!"

  Xiao Zheng trembled and said in a trembling voice, "Your Majesty, is it the two princes of Zhengfa, or..."

   "I killed them all!"

It was the first time that Emperor Taikang had been so rude in his eight years of succession. He almost gritted his teeth and said, "Order Tianmu Jian, and ask them to closely monitor the various clans. If there is any change, or Li Xin's figure is found, he will immediately take it down and **** him there. The capital is guilty!"

   "Slave obeys..."

   Xiao Zheng was terrified and went down to work.

   After Xiao Zheng left, the emperor backed away the palace servants beside him and sat alone in his study.

   He was still shaking a little.

   on the one hand because of anger, on the other hand because of fear.

   He was angry that, although there was no evidence that Li Xin was in the southwest, the battle in Hanzhou was almost certainly by Li Xin's handwriting, that is to say, Li Xin used force against his lord because of the remnants of Nanshu.

  The reason for fear is even simpler.

   He knows better than anyone how he got on the throne. To put it a bit exaggerated, it was Li Xin who held him to the throne with one hand. It is for this reason that he has always loved and feared Li Xin.

  Why are you afraid?

   Because he felt that Li Xin had the ability to hold himself up as God, and he had the ability to hold others up too!

   That's why he reacted so strongly after knowing that the Southwest was defeated, and asked Xiao Zheng to closely monitor the clans, especially his third and fourth brothers.

  The charcoal fire in the exquisite copper furnace flickers, making the emperor's study warm as spring.

   Emperor Taikang stared at this charcoal fire in a daze.

   he muttered to himself.

   "Without me, you are still a charcoal seller..."

   "You can't betray me..."

  …………

   Just as the emperor was staring at the stove in a daze, at the east gate of the capital, a group of more than a dozen cavalrymen arrived at the gate tower of the capital against the wind and snow.

  Because the snow was too heavy, they could not walk, so most of them were leading their own mounts.

   There is only one tall black horse that can barely walk in the snow.

A group of more than a dozen people stayed on the horse at the gate of Dongcheng. A young man in black clothes jumped off the black horse. He brushed the snow off his body and patted the snow off the **** horse. Then he raised his head and glanced in front of him. The capital of Beijing sighed with emotion.

   "The snow is very heavy this year."

   (end of this chapter)