Raising a wife? The mistress of the Hou family divorced and remarried her younger uncle

Chapter 214 Regent

Lu Jing, with several elite Jinyiwei, clung to Liu Jiang like a ghost.

Liu Jiang was old after all, and his physical strength and reaction were not as good as before. He was injured in just a moment, and was exhausted under the siege of Lu Jing and others. Lu Jing seized the opportunity, and the cold light of the Embroidered Spring Knife flashed, and he chopped Liu Jiang's arm twice in succession. The wound immediately bleeds, and the bright red blood flows down his arm, soaking his clothes red.

At this time, Zhou Jingming brought a group of experts to protect the emperor tightly, and quickly escorted the emperor and Yan'er back into the Yangxin Palace.

There are many secret rooms with mechanisms hidden in the Palace of Tranquil Longevity. Lu Jing knows that with these mechanisms protecting the emperor and Yu'er, they will be safe for the time being. So he no longer distracts himself and concentrates on dealing with Liu Jiang.

In the melee, Liu Jiang saw a guard beside him, and he immediately made up his mind and reached out to grab the man to use as a scapegoat.

Lu Jing's eyes flashed with ruthlessness, and he stabbed the imperial guard's chest without hesitation. Liu Jiang took advantage of the gap when Lu Jing drew his sword, and threw the corpse towards Lu Jing with both hands, and then turned around and fled for his life outside the palace.

Seeing this, Lu Jing immediately shouted an order: "You guard the Yangxin Palace well, wait for Anyuan Hou and the general to arrive, and make sure to control Prime Minister Lu and the prince consort. I will go after Liu Jiang!"

"Yes!" The Jinyiwei responded in unison.

Zhou Jingming's face was full of worry, and he shouted at Lu Jing's back: "Be careful!"

But Lu Jing was as fast as lightning, and in the blink of an eye he had already chased out of the Yangxin Palace. Liu Jiang's arms and legs were injured in many places, and he fled all the way, leaving a shocking trail of blood on the ground. He identified the direction of the imperial kitchen, where there was a palace gate, and it was far away from the main battlefield. As long as he escaped there, he could easily leave the palace.

Liu Jiang knew the topography of the imperial palace very well, but don't forget that Lu Jing, as the commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, was also familiar with every brick and tile and every corner here.

At this moment, Lu Jing chased Liu Jiang, just like teasing a trapped beast, relaxed and comfortable. The two chased each other and soon killed their way to the vicinity of the imperial kitchen. At the same time, the reinforcements led by Ning Yuanhou and General Chen had also rushed into the palace.

"Master, you have nowhere to escape. Why bother fighting like a trapped beast? Just surrender." Lu Jing chased all the way with a steady breath. His scarlet flying fish suit was splattered with other people's blood, which made him look even more cold and intimidating.

Liu Jiang panted heavily and pretended to be calm, "Lu Jing, there is no one around here now, why are you so aggressive? The emperor favors you too much, and I have retreated everywhere to help you become the commander. Now the entire Jinyiwei is under your control, what else do you want? Let Master go, as soon as I leave the palace, I will definitely fly far away and never get in your way in Kyoto. The situation is so chaotic tonight, even if you let me go, no one will know."

Hearing this, Lu Jing raised a cold smile: "Master, I was planning to take your head as a betrothal gift to the princess! There is no way I will let you go!"

Since he had promised the princess, he had to do it no matter what. The princess was seriously injured and bedridden, so he had to take Liu Jiang's life with his own hands.

"I have no grudges against the Princess of Southwest in the past or in the present, why does she want to kill me?" Liu Jiang was shocked and angry. He thought he had no grudges against the Southwest lineage, and he couldn't understand why the Princess was so determined to kill him. Thinking back to that day at the Lu family, the Princess glanced at him hastily, and the hatred in her eyes made him unforgettable.

But he had been a lackey of the imperial court for many years, and there were countless people who hated him, but he had never taken these hatreds to heart. Lu Jing's face darkened, and he said coldly: "Twelve years ago, the Jinyiwei who went with you to Huainan to exterminate the clan, in recent years, have either disappeared inexplicably or died strangely. Don't you understand?"

When Liu Jiang heard this, he was horrified, the color on his face instantly faded, and he said in a trembling voice: "She...she is the little princess of Huainan!"

He then remembered that when he was ordered to go to Huainan to carry out the mission of exterminating the whole family, only a little girl escaped from the Huainan clan, the little princess. At that time, he killed someone at random to replace her, thinking that even if a little girl of a few years old escaped, what kind of storm could she stir up. Who would have thought that twelve years later, she would transform into the princess of Southwest County, and even control Lu Jing, the sharp blade, to come and kill him! It is really karma, and no one can escape from the heavens!
“Hahahahaha…” Liu Jiang laughed up to the sky, his laughter full of despair and unwillingness, “Everyone says that you, Lu Jing, are loyal and devoted to the emperor. But you knew that the emperor had a grudge against Huainan, but you concealed your identity as a princess and deceived the emperor. Lu Jing, you are not that loyal to the emperor!”

"I am only loyal to my own heart!" Lu Jing's eyes flashed with determination. He raised the embroidered spring knife high in his hand, and the cold light cut through the night sky. "Master, prepare to die!"

After saying that, the knife flashed and chopped down towards Liu Jiang fiercely.

That night, the palace was engulfed in flames, with sounds of fighting and shouting reverberating, and thousands of lives lost. After Prime Minister Lu, his son-in-law, and a group of civil servants who participated in the rebellion were successfully controlled, the imperial guards and the Five Cities Military Department saw that the situation was hopeless and surrendered one after another. Several children of the Lu family were killed on the spot, and the palace was filled with a strong smell of blood that lingered for a long time. This vigorous rebellion to force the emperor to abdicate finally came to an end.

The emperor issued an order, ordering Marquis Anyuan, General Chen and other generals to lead a large army to raid the six major families, including the Lu family, the Zhang family, the Li family, and make sure to eradicate them completely.

All the civil officials who participated in the rebellion and regicide were punished. Some were killed on the spot by the Jinyiwei, while others had their homes confiscated and their entire families convicted. For a time, the Jinyiwei prison, the Ministry of Justice prison, and the Kyoto prefectural prison were all overcrowded. Outside the Meridian Gate, batches of prisoners were beheaded, and the mass graves were filled with corpses.

Except for Lu Nianqing, all the direct descendants of the Lu family were thrown into prison, and more than half of the male members were killed. No one in the court dared to plead for them.

Because the emperor's health condition has taken a turn for the worse and he won't live long.

Although the emperor had temporarily escaped death with the help of the detoxification pill, he was already weak. Before Su Qingwan had time to take care of him, he was poisoned by Concubine Lu. Although the poison had been removed, the emperor's body was like a dilapidated building, rapidly deteriorating. The imperial doctors told the princess in a veil that the emperor had not much time left and only had ten days left to live.

During these last ten days, the emperor made many arrangements in a swift and decisive manner to ensure that the young Yan'er could secure his throne.

He first appointed Yan'er as the crown prince, and then launched a thundering attack on clan forces, uprooting those aristocratic families that might threaten the imperial power, and more than half of the important officials in the court were killed.

Especially the direct descendants of the Lu family, almost all of them were slaughtered. The emperor would never allow any external relatives to threaten the position of the crown prince after his death. For the sake of Yan'er, he did not even reward the military generals who had made military achievements, but planned to leave this opportunity of grace to Yan'er, and bear the infamy of offending people, so that Yan'er could win people over with virtue in the future.

Civil and military officials all secretly speculated that the emperor would most likely order the eldest princess to get involved in politics.

But no one expected that the emperor issued an unexpected decree, promoting Lu Jing to regent, and the eldest princess remained in charge of the Grand Council. The two of them assisted in the administration until Yan'er took power.

The whole court was shocked by the imperial decree. Even Ningyuan Hou and General Chen and other veterans looked at each other in confusion. Lu Jing, the emperor's personal guard and former deputy commander of the Jinyiwei, rose to become the most powerful man in Dayuan.