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Chapter 224: The capital is broken! Yang Tinghe flees! Xie Qian and Zhang Sheng are arrested! The dust has settled!
Datong.

Dayan Khan (a little Mongolian prince) climbed up the city wall with a few people.

At the age of six, he became the Great Khan of Mongolia as the last bloodline of Kublai Khan's Golden Family.

Then he also has a second wife, Mandu Hai, who is 26 years older than him.

With the assistance of his wife, Empress Manduhai, who was equivalent to his great-grandmother, he led his troops to conquer the Oirat Mongols, forced them to move westward, eliminated the threat from the west, and focused on cracking down on powerful officials of different surnames who were in power. Now at the age of 32, he only needs to make a little more effort to complete the great cause of unifying Eastern Mongolia.

Historically, he was the one who completed the great cause of unification in the fifth year of Zhengde. His historical status in Mongolia was second only to Genghis Khan and Kublai Khan.

Unfortunately, at this time.

Something went wrong.

The Ming Dynasty was in chaos.

Datong, an important city that had been in business for more than a hundred years, actually opened its gates and allowed the Mongols to come and go as they pleased.

Several tribes that had not yet submitted to him took the opportunity to attack.

Even now, only ten days have passed, and Datong is already full of Mongols. Several tribal leaders have openly occupied Datong's general's residence and mansions, and continued to send their cavalry out to forage for food.

More than a hundred years have passed.

On behalf of the Mongolian Han, he once again stepped into the Central Plains and actually entered the town of Datong.

Not a single soldier was lost.

"Khan, they are coming!"

Just as the Mongolian prince was sighing with emotion on the city wall, his general Tuohuochi spoke up.

He raised his head slightly and saw Yismain, Huoshai, the right-wing separatist forces Yibula, Mandulai Agulehu and others all rushing over.

Outside the walls of Datong was the 10,000-strong army he had recently assembled.

Together with the nearly 20,000 troops from several other divisions, they already have 30,000 troops here.

"You're here just in time. It's time to discuss how to deal with the Ming Dynasty!"

Dayan Khan was naturally not afraid of those representatives of forces who had not yet submitted to him. Instead, he believed that if he could handle the current situation well, he might be able to unify the various tribes!

……

Beijing.

"Did Yang Ting and his gang deliberately blow up Emperor Taizong's mausoleum?"

"Have we been kept in the dark by them these days?"

In a temporary restaurant, the Minister of War Wang Qiong, the Minister of Revenue Han Wen, the Minister of Personnel Jiao Fang and others quickly gathered.

Get straight to the point as soon as you get started.

They didn't go to the palace, nor did they dare to.

Their top priority now is to find out the background of Yang Tinghe and Xie Qian.

"It's possible! Chen Zhong just acted like that and clearly wanted to kill people to silence them..."

Wang Qiong still couldn't believe it: "But why? Why did they lie to us?"

"Lord Xie, Yang Tinghe, how could they have come to this point?"

Yes, despite the tension that had just broken out, until now, Wang Qiong still found it hard to believe that Yang Tinghe had deceived them and was conspiring with them to rebel.

Because they didn't dare to think this way from the beginning to the end, which is a misconception.

"Did they really blow up the Emperor Taizong's Mausoleum? Are they really that brave?"

"Also, Your Majesty is thousands of miles away. Without any investigation, you just declared them a treason?"

Jiao Fang also had many questions and couldn't help but review her past experiences. She found that all their behavioral logic was normal!
The only abnormal thing is that after the bombing of Emperor Taizong's tomb, everything seemed to have accelerated.

"I'm afraid we'll have to wait until Zhang Yanling gets better before we know the truth..."

Han Wen also felt that the key to the matter lay with Zhang Yanling, who was still recovering from his injuries.

"I say! My Lords, can you please stop dwelling on the past? What should we do about the current situation? If Yang Tinghe and Xie Qian are really ambitious, what should we do with the capital? Should we take action against them?"

Zhu Feng took a look and was shocked. The situation was already extremely urgent, and these people were still trying to find out the bad guys' motives and the truth.

I was immediately speechless.

"Correct!"

"Zhu Feng is right! Let's stop worrying about these things for now!"

"The plan now is! We need to find the Queen Mother, no, report this to the Grand Empress Dowager immediately!"

Wang Qiong was startled: "Oh no, Yang Ting and the others went straight to the palace, will it be..."

The words just fell.

A soldier ran in anxiously!
"Fire! There's a fire! There's a fire in the direction of the palace!"

With a loud bang, everyone rushed out of the door and saw flames and thick smoke rising from the direction of the palace!
"Xie Qian, Yang Ting and the others are truly traitors!"

"Hurry and save the Grand Empress Dowager and the Queen Mother!"

Everyone's face changed drastically. They had never expected that Yang Ting and their actions would be so quick and swift.

……

The palace!

"Grand Empress Dowager, something bad has happened! There are traitors in the city! The rebels are attacking!"

"There is chaos in the city now!"

"To ensure your safety, please move with us as soon as possible!"

Xie Qian rushed into the Empress Dowager's Buddhist hall and spoke urgently.

The Empress Dowager stopped beating the wooden fish and then continued to do so.

"You two should leave now. If they really want to harm me, I've had enough of living."

With just one sentence, Xie Qian could not go on, but he remembered Yang Tinghe's words - the Empress Dowager was their last amulet and must be taken away.

"My Queen! I'm sorry! We can't let you die in vain. I'm sorry!"

Xie Qian waved his hand and the Changling Guards rushed in, trying to forcibly take the Empress Dowager away.

Bang bang bang!
however……

With just a few gunshots, several Changling guards were killed on the spot, and then several Jinyi guards appeared.

"Xie Qian, do you still want to hold the Empress Dowager hostage?"

Zuo Ning, a captain of the Imperial Guard, walked out from the side room and looked at him coldly.

"Jinyiwei!"

Xie Qian turned pale on the spot.

"Xie Qian, why bother? Why bother? Emperor Xianzong and the emperor have been very kind to you. Why do you have to do this?"

The Empress Dowager looked over, her wrinkled face full of disappointment.

"Pfft..."

"Your Majesty, we didn't mean to go this far. It's just that His Majesty was too ruthless! We just want His Majesty to come back. Our starting point is all for the Ming Dynasty..."

Xie Qian finally lost all his strength and looked at the Empress Dowager with bitterness and despair.

"This world belongs to our Zhu family, not to you scholars."

The Empress Dowager only said this one sentence and then continued to beat the wooden fish, as if praying for someone who was about to die.

Xie Qian's mouth moved... and he could no longer utter a word.

"The queen is frightened!"

Zuo Ning waved his hand, and the Jinyiwei arrested Xie Qian on the spot. After cleaning up, they respectfully left the room.

It's as if none of this happened.

"Queen Mother, I am wronged!"

"All of this was Liu Jian and his team's idea!"

"I don't want my entire clan to be exterminated! Madam, spare my life!"

Elsewhere, in front of Empress Dowager Zhang's palace, Empress Dowager Zhang and Xia He also saw Zhang Sheng, who was pissing and defecating, being dragged out of the room.

"They...how could they do this?"

"They...they..."

Empress Dowager Zhang looked at her brother who was wrapped like a rice dumpling, and then looked at everything.

Now she has been taught a profound lesson again.

"My lady...it seems like everything is over."

Xia He held Empress Dowager Zhang's hand tightly. Now she had fully witnessed the cruelty of court politics.

……

"Prime Minister, it seems that Elder Xie and Lord Zhang have exceeded their time limit. Do you want to..."

At Anding Gate, under the city gate, the soldiers had their hands on the gate, ready to open it at any time. Yang Tinghe, Chen Zhong and others had already gathered here.

"Wait another quarter of an hour..."

Yang Tinghe rode on his horse, looking expressionlessly at the flames rising from all parts of the capital, without a trace of emotion in his eyes.

"Okay!" Chen Zhong was also waiting quietly, looking at everything familiar in the capital with reluctance. At the same time, he felt extremely fortunate that they had prepared and planned in advance.

A quarter of an hour goes by quickly.

It's slow to say.

In the blink of an eye, Xie Qian, Zhang Sheng and others were still nowhere to be seen at the end of the street.

"go!"

At that moment, the two men had no more lingering feelings and led their troops out of the city gate.

"Kill! The bandits have already broken through Yongding Gate. If you want to live, follow me and rush out!"

Of course, there were soldiers from the nine frontiers guarding outside Anding Gate.

Unfortunately, what they encountered at this moment were the Changling Guards and some imperial guards who were ready to risk their lives. They were caught off guard, and when they finally reacted, they found that the city gates were wide open.

"Don't chase the desperate enemy! Enter the city! Enter the city!"

At this moment, no news has yet arrived from Yongding Gate.

Although they were stunned by the thousands of people who rushed out rashly, after the soldiers reacted, they no longer cared about Yang Ting and them. They just wanted to rush into the capital to make a fortune.

Suddenly, Anding Gate was broken!
……

"what's the situation!?"

At this moment, outside Yongding Gate.

I just prepared the welcoming tent for Zheng Ji and Qian Ning.

The flames and smoke rising from the capital were immediately discovered by the soldiers.

"Oh no! Yang Ting and his gang are desperate! Quick! Go and save the Grand Empress Dowager and the Queen Mother!"

Zheng Ji's face changed. He didn't expect the enemy to react so quickly. He immediately realized what was happening.

"what?!"

"go!"

Wang Xun and others didn't care about anything else. They quickly picked up their swords and rushed towards Yongding Gate.

When they rushed towards Yongding Gate, people on the gate were shouting in unison.

"Surrender without killing!"

"Surrender without killing!"

More and more imperial guards surrounded several hundred Changling guards. At this time, the Changling guards knew that they were abandoned, but no one surrendered.

"Kill! The commander told them to take good care of our family!"

"You are stubborn and refuse to change your ways! I wanted to spare your life, but you asked for it!"

"kill!"

Xu Pengju personally stepped forward and engaged in battle with this group of powerful warriors.

The battle lasted no more than ten minutes, and hundreds of Changling guards were all captured. Xu Pengju even killed the small leader of the Changling guards with his own hands, although he was also injured.

"Open the city gate! Let Lord Zheng and the others in!"

After dealing with all this, Xu Pengju decisively ordered the city gate to be opened.

There was no way. Until the moment when Zheng Ji's imperial edict arrived, he finally realized that he had been kept in the dark by Liu Jian, Yang Ting and others from the beginning to the end.

He also learned a severe lesson.

But you can't really blame him.

He is usually lazy and careless. His grandfather asked him to pay more attention to politics, but he didn't care.

The only thing he's interested in is playing with swords and guns.

Since he finally had the chance to command the battle himself, he didn't think too much about it.

But I didn't expect that the politics inside was so dark and horrible.

Of course, he was also glad that his political acumen was not that strong, otherwise Yang Tinghe would not know how to deal with him and would have to get rid of him first.

This time, he had both blessings and disasters.

"Young Marquis, you did a great job! The Queen asked me to tell you something. Your performance this time was terrible. If you want to atone for your crime, you have to arrest Yang Tinghe!"

Under the city gate, Xu Pengju received Zheng Ji. Before he could say anything else, Zheng Ji's words confused him again.

"What queen?" He was dumbfounded.

"Haha, it's your aunt!"

Zheng Ji smiled, then looked towards the palace, and couldn't help but sigh: "Yang Ting and his men are really more courageous than I thought! I wonder if he dares to burn down the palace..."

"Burn the palace..."

Xu Pengju looked up, and then...suddenly he saw fireworks exploding in the sky.

"Anding Gate..."

"Oh no! Yang Ting and the others escaped from Anding Gate!"

At this moment, his IQ was fully online.

"Master Zheng, I won't tell you! Yang Tinghe and that old thief deceived me so badly. Even if my aunt hadn't said that, I would never let him go!"

"Go! Brothers, catch Yang the thief!"

Xu Pengju didn't care about his injuries, he mounted his horse and led everyone to rush towards Yongding Gate.

He swore that he would catch the old thief with his own hands!

"Haha, young people are still so impulsive..."

Zheng Ji looked at his receding figure, shook his head, and followed the army towards the palace.

He also soon discovered that the palace was not on fire, but some houses near the palace were on fire.

Here, he met Han Wen, Wang Qiong and others.

"Master Zheng! You are so kind!"

"Yang Ting and the others are truly traitors!"

"They may have already kidnapped the Grand Empress Dowager and the Queen Mother and escaped from Yongding Gate!"

As soon as Zheng Ji arrived, Wang Qiong, Han Wen and others seemed to have found their backbone and surrounded him.

"Don't worry, Yang Ting and the others are not that capable..."

"Your Majesty is planning from afar and has already made arrangements."

"Now, hurry up and maintain order in the capital!"

Zheng Ji looked up at the sky with a calm face. Zhu Houzhao might be paying attention to him, so he just bowed.

This action surprised Wang Qiong and others.

"I was wronged!"

"It was Yang Ting and the others who ordered this!"

Then, without giving Wang Qiong and the others long to wait, Zhang Sheng and Xie Qian were dragged in front of Zheng Ji amidst a burst of desperate shouts.

"President, Commander! Fortunately, we have fulfilled our mission and have captured Xie Qian and Zhang Sheng!"

"In addition, all of Liu Jian's gang members have been arrested!"

"We have also placed undercover agents between Yang Ting and them. They can't escape."

Zuo Ning came over and reported a series of situations.

"Are the Grand Empress Dowager and the Queen Mother okay?" Zheng Ji didn't even look at Xie Qian and asked directly about more important matters.

"The Empress Dowager and the Queen Mother are safe!"

"That's good."

Zheng Ji breathed a sigh of relief, and so did everyone else.

"Xie Qian! You traitor, why did you do this!"

"Tell me, how big of a conspiracy have you guys created!?"

"Where on earth did Yang Tinghe and Liu Jian go?"

At this moment, Jiao Fang had already rushed to Xie Qian, slapped him in the face, and began to torture him, trying to make him stand out.

However... Xie Qian had already collapsed, and even after being beaten he just looked at him blankly, and then his eyes fell on Zheng Ji.

"Zheng Ji, can you tell me why His Majesty suddenly announced that we were in rebellion..."

"Your Majesty, why did he..."

Yes, Xie Qian’s only concern now is how the situation has suddenly reached this point.

He still felt that they were forced into this situation.

"Haha! Xie Qian, at this point... do you still think you are not wrong?"

Zheng Ji sneered and did not answer. Instead, he waved his hand and said, "First, keep an eye on Xie Qian, Zhang Sheng and their group! I'll go see the Grand Empress Dowager and the Queen Mother..."

"Yes!"

The Jinyiwei directly took Xie Qian and others away.

(End of this chapter)