After her rebirth, the empress received a tragic and beautiful script.

Chapter 239 Judgment

After Ye Qinghuai and the court officials had been struggling to mediate for five days, news of the Eagle Guards finally came back from Qing County.

Qing County has been completely surrounded by the Yingzhou Army, and no one is allowed to enter or leave. The Eagle Guards had no one in Qing County, and they could not get in for a while, so they did not contact Lu Yanchen, and only reported the current situation to Ye Qinghuai.

The whole incident was caused by an internal conflict among the warehouse officials of Qing County due to work friction. During the conflict, the adjutant killed the warehouse manager. Later, when the local garrison of Qing County suppressed the riot, Lu Yanchen led a small team to join the rioters, which made the matter worse.

Later, the Yingzhou army arrived. Although they did just garrison in accordance with Ye Qinghuai's request, it was not a simple garrison, but a siege.

Qing County is not big, with a population of only about 40,000 to 50,000 including the surrounding villages and towns. It is also located on a plain, so the 8,000 Yingzhou troops surrounded it tightly. Not to mention people, even a bird could hardly enter or leave Qing County.

Among the messages sent back by the Eagle Guards, there are only two pieces of information about Lu Yanchen that can be guaranteed to be accurate.

First, the officials and civilians in Qing County witnessed with their own eyes that Lu Yanchen had indeed killed many of Qing County’s defenders.

Second, Deng Shangyuan, the governor of Yingzhou, once called out to Lu Yanchen outside Qing County, asking him to take the Western Army and leave Qing County and not hinder the government army from suppressing the rebellion, but Lu Yanchen did not respond.

After reading the news about Eagle Guard, Ye Qinghuai felt overwhelmed.

No matter how you look at it, it seems like Lu Yanchen really has rebellious intentions.

Lu Yanchen's Western Army was somewhat awkward in its positioning when it was first established. Theoretically, this army was a branch of the Northern Expedition Army and was directly under the Ministry of War, but now that He Qingchang was transferred back to the capital, the Northern Expedition Army was temporarily led by Xu Ye, the governor of Yunzhou. In addition, most of the Northern Expedition Army was composed of Yunzhou troops, which gave this army a bit of the flavor of the Yunzhou Prefecture Army.

However, the main combat area of ​​the Western Army was in the vast sea area at the junction of Yunzhou and Yingzhou, and Qing County had already penetrated deep into the heart of Yingzhou. In the eyes of the Yingzhou Jiedushi, it was simply that Lu Yanchen led an army from Yunzhou to act recklessly in his own jurisdiction.

Ye Qinghuai could even imagine how angry Deng Shangyuan was when she received the emperor's order to stay where she was and not to move without permission. She probably already labeled her a tyrant in her mind.

Previously, she had dragged her feet on the request of court officials to quell the rebellion because she did not believe the one-sided statement of the cabinet, she only believed the eyes of the Eagle Guards.

But now even the news sent back by the Eagle Guards was so unfavorable to Lu Yanchen that Ye Qinghuai couldn't help but feel a little doubtful and shaken.

As Chen Yuansi said, Lu Yanchen was a well-read scholar of the Taiqing Pavilion and an imperial tutor. He could not have been unaware of what it meant to draw his sword against the imperial officials and the soldiers guarding the granary. If he had no intention of rebelling, what was so serious that he had to do so? Moreover, he had been exchanging letters with the emperor. Before Qing County was besieged, he had every opportunity to write to Ye Qinghuai to discuss the matter with her.

Ye Qinghuai couldn't help but frown.

Could it be that the plot of the previous life was really inevitable, and Lu Yanchen's fate would eventually turn against him?

But there is no reason.

In this life, Lu Yanchen has never had any contact with Chu Boliang. Why did he suddenly betray him?

Could it be that Chu Boliang was not the reason for Lu Yanchen's rebellion?

What exactly is that?

"Li Baoquan, go to Wenyuan Pavilion and bring me the Qing County Chronicles and the Yingzhou Local Chronicles."

After Ye Qinghuai gave the instructions, he turned around, took a box from the bookshelf and opened it.

Inside were all the correspondence between Lu Yanchen and her, as well as the Yunzhou Landscape Record written by Lu Yanchen himself and given to Ye Qinghuai as a gift along with a map.

Seeing the booklet, Ye Qinghuai's tense expression softened a little.

Then she took out all the letters.

She wanted to find out the reason why Lu Yanchen betrayed her from the clues in these letters.
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By midnight, the lights in the bedroom of Jingshou Palace had already been turned off.

Ye Qinghuai lay on the bed, opened his eyes and looked at the curtains above the bed, his mind was unusually clear.

She suffers from insomnia.

This was the first time she had insomnia since her rebirth.

The morning court session would begin in three hours, and Ye Qinghuai could almost imagine the scene of the morning court session.

The Qing County rebellion must be the main topic of the morning court. After fighting with the ministers for the past few days, Ye Qinghuai has changed from an indecisive and mediocre monarch to a tyrant monarch deceived by the slander of treacherous ministers. If things continue to develop, he will become the Chu Ai Emperor who ruined the country because of his male favorites.

Ye Qinghuai even thought of taking a sick leave. But once she did, the cabinet would inevitably have a reason to take the power. Maybe when she came back from a few days off, Lu Yanchen's head would be sent to her desk.

She looked through all the letters between her and Lu Yanchen today, and had to say, she couldn't see any clues.

Between the lines there is the expression of the poet's devoted efforts for the emperor and the court, as well as his sympathy and concern for the suffering of the people. There is not a trace of selfishness, nor any sign of rebellion.

Especially the map of Yunzhou and the booklet he wrote himself.

If he had any rebellious intentions, he would never hand over such an important and detailed military map to Ye Qinghuai.

From a personal emotional point of view, Ye Qinghuai completely trusts Lu Yanchen.

But she is not just Ye Qinghuai, she is also the emperor of Dajing. Her trust in Lu Yanchen is not just a matter between the two of them, but also concerns the entire court, the country and even the country.

If she believed wrongly, she would not only face Lu Yanchen's betrayal, but also the doubts and disappointment of the court officials, as well as the tragic situation of the broken mountains and rivers.

Under such tremendous pressure, she did not dare to make a judgment based on her intuition alone.

So, Ye Qinghuai kept questioning and struggling for who knows how long before he fell asleep in a daze.

She didn't sleep well.

She had a dream.

Perhaps she was thinking about something and dreamed about it at night, she dreamed about the morning court.

The Hall of Supreme Harmony was filled with officials dressed in red robes and black gauze hats, gathered in groups of three or four and whispering something.

Ye Qinghuai stood beside the throne, somewhat stunned.

The scene is familiar yet strange.

Because all the court officials were people she didn't know, Ye Qinghuai looked around and only saw a familiar face in Wen Xinzhong.

There is no Prime Minister Chen Yuansi, and no Second Prime Minister Gu Shihai.

She subconsciously looked behind her at the position of the eunuch who was announcing the decree.

Sure enough, the eunuch who accompanied the emperor was not Li Baoquan, but a strange man in his thirties or forties.

"What's going on?" Ye Qinghuai murmured subconsciously.

No one answered her.

The eunuch who was accompanying the court was still staring straight ahead as if he didn't see Ye Qinghuai who was so close to him.

Not only him, but also the officials in the court seemed to have not noticed Ye Qinghuai's existence.

Just as Ye Qinghuai was surprised, a figure slowly walked up from the back of the hall. At the same time, the eunuch's sharp voice rang out to her left -

"The Emperor has arrived!"

Ye Qinghuai turned around and couldn't help but widen his eyes.

A tall man wearing a dragon robe and a gauze hat walked to the throne and sat down naturally.

It was none other than Lu Yanchen.