Because of Han Huaijin's memory, Han Qingyun and Lu Yanyan reminded Li Jixin that he should not let Emperor Zhaowen capture the people they cared about and threaten them.

Li Jixin sent a message to Ziying, asking her to send Liu Zhiheng and others out of the city.

Unfortunately, although Liu Zhiheng and others looked down on Emperor Zhaowen, they did not think that Emperor Zhaowen would use them to threaten Li Zhaoying.

Ziying had no choice but to knock him out and throw him into the Lu family's secret room.

On the contrary, the families of these people were very sensible and hid in the place arranged by Ziying.

Li Zhaoying and others thought that there was no one threatening them, and that attacking the north and south gates at the same time would minimize unnecessary casualties.

However, Emperor Zhaowen's shamelessness was beyond their imagination. He actually used his own ministers and royal relatives to threaten Li Zhaoying.

But these people are the ones Li Zhaoying cannot ignore.

After receiving the news from Ziying, Lu Changping went to the border of Dongyang Prefecture.

Li Jiren deliberately revealed his intention to launch a surprise attack on the north gate, and soon the 300,000 troops and most of the imperial guards in the city were transferred to the north gate.

The defense measures at the South Gate are much weaker.

Li Zhaoying and Li Jixin deliberately delayed time with Yu Chun. After Li Jiren took over the North Gate, the South Gate was in chaos.

Prince Cheng, Prince Yan and others were rescued...

On the afternoon of the second day, Lu Changping came to pick up Han Qingyun and others.

"The palace has been taken. Emperor Zhaowen, Empress Dowager Ruan, Empress Dowager Chen, and Empress Ruan have all been captured."

He had minor scratches on his hands and face, but nothing serious.

"How is the Crown Prince? The Emperor, Prince Chen, Dongchen, Xingwu, and the others..."

"Everyone was injured, it's nothing serious."

It was impossible for too many troops to enter the city. Only Li Zhaoying and his son, their personal guards, and 50,000 cavalrymen were besieging the imperial city.

The palace is filled with skilled guards.

Casualties were inevitable, but fortunately the damage was not serious.

"Just as my uncle and aunt guessed, Empress Dowager Chen actually wanted to set fire to the palace. Fortunately, the Crown Prince and his men had already made arrangements."

After Han Qingyun asked about the situation in detail, he was completely relieved.

He turned to look at Mu Ming, Yang Ziliang and the others: "My Lords, please come in."

Mu Ming has not said a word since he was taken away by the Imperial Guards as a bargaining chip to threaten Emperor Ji Lin.

At this moment, he could not help but say: "Even if the emperor has the blood of Nanlai, he is still the son of the late emperor and the legitimate emperor of Dayu.

Emperor Jilin already has the Northern Ji Kingdom, which is much larger than Dayu. Why does he insist on attacking Dayu and bringing himself into disgrace?

Why attack Dayu?

Han Qingyun's tone was somewhat cold: "Your Majesty is the founding emperor of the Northern Ji Kingdom, but he is also the Prince of Lin of Dayu. Dayu should have been his! Is Prime Minister Wei so sure that Emperor Zhaowen's throne came legitimately?"

Wei Ming choked, he was not sure.

Earlier they thought that perhaps the late emperor chose Prince An because he looked a bit like him.

Later, the more they got along, the more they understood that there might be some secret behind Emperor Zhaowen's position.

But they are already the emperor's subjects, and the emperor is much easier to fool than the previous emperor. For them, working under Prince Lin is much easier than working under Emperor Zhaowen.

That's why he suppressed all the doubts in his heart.

But if the inside story of Emperor Zhaowen's ascension to the throne is really revealed, then their attempts to cover up the truth over the past few years will seem particularly ridiculous...

When Han Qingyun, Lu Yanyan and others opened the door of Lu's house, they saw the embarrassed expressions of Liu Zhiheng and others.

Lu Youtian walked around them and felt that they looked familiar.

"Where have I seen you before? I think it's... Mingxiang Tower."

He remembered that when Li Jixin was fighting in the ring two years ago, these old men hid in a box and cried even more miserably than the Prince of Yan.

Liu Zhiheng and the others looked even more embarrassed. Yesterday, Ziying said that Li Jiren had already entered the city, and Emperor Zhaowen would definitely not be able to take care of them, so he released them from the secret room.

Afterwards, Ziying took Fang Quan and Xiao He away and asked them to wait here.

But before they could wait for Ziying, they waited for the owner of the house.

awkward!

"Sorry... I'm Liu Zhiheng/Liu Zhiheng/Song Wuming/Wang Wenxuan/Li Jiangnan/Chu Shinan/Xue Yanling. Sorry to bother you."

Han Qingyun guessed that it must be the secret guards of Prince Lin's Mansion who hid these people in Lu's house, and he couldn't help but smile.

"So it's you elders. I'm Han Qingyun."

"Are you Han Qingyun?"

Liu Zhiheng and the others were no longer embarrassed. Han Qingyun was the Prime Minister of Beiji State, and they still had many things to ask him...

After Emperor Ji Lin took over the Luocheng Palace, he removed the seal of Prince Lin's Mansion and returned to live there.

The people continued to live their lives as usual, and the Beiji army did not harm them at all.

Both the officials of Dayu and the people of Luocheng were dumbfounded. Apart from the fact that Emperor Zhaowen no longer attended court, nothing else had changed?

What does Emperor Ji Lin want to do?

What was Emperor Ji Lin going to do? Emperor Ji Lin did nothing. He wandered around Luocheng with his two sons all day, occasionally drinking tea with royal relatives, and then playing chess with Liu Zhiheng, Wang Wenxuan and others.

On the contrary, it was the Prime Minister of Beiji, Han Qingyun, who was exhausted.

The former Prime Minister Wei Ming certainly cannot continue to serve as an official. This man has ability, but he is too selfish.

Except for Wei Ming who retired and received retirement benefits, the first and second rank officials of the other three provinces and six ministries remained unchanged.

Han Qingyun first worked with the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of War to resolve the issue of the Luocheng army.

Among the million-strong army in Luocheng, 300,000 were local garrison soldiers, all of whom were sent back to their original capital.

The other 700,000 were forcibly conscripted civilians. After receiving their military pay, they all demobilized and returned to their fields.

Emperor Zhaowen and Empress Dowager Chen were fond of luxury, but were reluctant to use money from their own private treasury, so they could only plunder money from the national treasury under various names.

The money in the national treasury was not enough to pay the soldiers, and Han Qingyun's face suddenly changed.

Didn’t Emperor Zhaowen issue an announcement before that the national treasury had a surplus of two million taels?

What about money?

Minister of Revenue Zhang Jingzhi's face turned red.

It cost three hundred thousand taels to build the Shuiyue Palace. The four masters of the palace were all in poor health, so they borrowed a large amount of silver from the national treasury, saying that they wanted to buy medicine to replenish their health. In the past two years, conscription has been severe, and military pay has been in arrears, so military rations always cost money.

There was also the Crown Prince Li Zhenyu who spent 100,000 taels to marry Concubine Fang.

Concubine Fang is naturally Fang Ling, who died for revealing Li Zhenyu's birthmark. Li Zhenyu originally thought that Concubine Fang's family was very wealthy and had a lot of dowry, but he didn't know that Fang Ling married him to avenge her sister. The 50,000 taels of gold in Fang Ling's dowry was all gold-plated copper and was worthless.

……

Earlier, the Ministry of Revenue was controlled by Ruan Bai, and Zhang Jingzhi had no say. It was not until Ruan Bai suffered a stroke and Zhang Jingzhi became the Minister of Revenue that he began to strictly control the treasury expenditure. Otherwise, it would be impossible to save even the more than 700,000 taels of silver.

After Zhang Jingzhi finished counting on his fingers, he saw Prime Minister Han, who was always gentle and elegant, cursing like a village elder.

Minister of War Chang Jingyu rubbed his ears. The curse words sounded familiar. It seemed that Emperor Ji Lin and Prince Chen also liked to curse in this way.

Zhang Jingzhi and Chang Jingyu look at their noses with their eyes and their hearts with their noses. You see, these people all look like banished immortals, so why do they curse so vulgarly?

The only normal person seemed to be the Crown Prince Li Jiren.

Li Jiren, who was considered normal, cursed even more foully than Han Qingyun at this moment.

He finally found his aunt's two cousins, Tan Bin and Tan Fei, and Tan Bin's son Tuan Tuan in the secret room of the Ruan family...

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