It was already dusk.

The lights in the Ganlu Palace were brightly lit, and Li Shimin finally spoke again.

"I want to see the Pheasant Slave!"

Li Zhi, a prince who has been serving as the crown prince for less than half a year, will soon become the deposed crown prince. Li Shimin did not think about fighting for this son, he just wanted to save his life.

Fang Xuanling agreed to the emperor.

Li Zhi was brought.

Nine-year-old Li Zhi was young and intelligent, dignified and peaceful. He was already sensible and understood his current situation. After seeing his father, he silently held his father's hand.

"Sir, my son will be relieved."

Li Shimin took his son into his arms, "I wish Chengqian was as filial as you."

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Under the city of Guangzhou.

Li Ji convened the generals to discuss matters in the military account.

"Master General, what happened to Hanjing, and why did such an order be issued?"

One day passed after receiving the order to withdraw troops, and Li Ji learned more about this day. He now knew what happened in Hanjing, and a palace coup occurred. And the mastermind was Fang Xuanling and Changsun Wuji.

The emperor has been under house arrest, and the area in the capital of the capital was controlled by them. Han Jing wanted to welcome Chengqian into the capital.

"The prime ministers in Hanjing have betrayed, and they betrayed His Majesty." Li Ji said sadly.

His eyes swept over the generals and told everyone the truth. He wanted to see everyone's reaction, but the reaction disappointed him.

When the generals heard the news, they not only were not angry, but seemed to feel relieved.

"What will happen next?" Zhang Liang asked. This was the emperor's absolute confidant and the general of the Shence Army.

"Next, Chengqian will enter the capital, and then Your Majesty will abdicate and Chengqian will ascend the throne."

"Where are us?" Zhang Liang asked.

He was also one of the nine generals of Xuanwu Sect back then, and he knew very well that the situation in the court would undergo earth-shaking changes after the coup.

One day a gentleman and another day a minister.

Where should these old ministers of the emperor go?

"Hanjing summoned us to withdraw our troops."

"Return to Beijing?"

"No, the soldiers of the government will return to the government and the generals will return to the capital."

At this time, it was impossible for Hanjing to let this army reach Hanjing. They asked them to withdraw their troops, but the troops returned to the government and the generals returned to the capital.

"I mean after we return to Beijing?" Zhang Liang continued to ask. He had never thought about taking his troops back to Hanjing to serve the king and rescue the emperor. What he was thinking about now was the future of these people.

Li Ji snorted, "Even if Cheng Qian becomes the emperor, he will not do anything to us in order to stabilize the situation. Maybe he will be promoted to the title."

"Oh!" Zhang Liang said a long time, feeling relieved.

Li Ji looked at the emperor's confidant and had such an attitude, and no longer had any hope.

"Give all the military supplies to the soldiers, and then disband the army and let everyone go home!"

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Guangzhou.

Zhang Zhongjian was a little haggard. This time he lost his face by Li Ji. When he was old, he almost lost his fortune.

"My nephew, do you think Li Ji will withdraw his troops?"

Zhang Jing smiled and said, "It's definitely true. Li Ji has always been a cautious person. This time, he was considered to have been in the wrong team, but the situation is so clear now that he has no reason to resist stubbornly. Without the subsequent reinforcements from the court, just with his 80,000 people, he could not make waves in Lingnan. Guangzhou City is now in multiple reinforcements. Such a strong city and heavy artillery, Li Ji cannot capture it."

really.

On the same day, Li Ji sent someone to the city of Guangzhou to meet Zhang Zhongjian and others.

After the talks, Li Ji expressed that he would accept the imperial edict from the court, disband the army on the spot, and let the 80,000 troops go home. However, he also put forward several requirements. First, the wounded soldiers must be taken in Guangzhou and be responsible for treatment and care until the soldiers recovered from their injuries.

Secondly, Guangzhou will distribute dry food and severance payments to the disbanded soldiers.

Third, the soldiers' corpses were killed in battle, and Guangzhou had to send people to restrain themselves. After cremation, they would send their ashes back to their hometown.

As for generals and schoolmen such as Li Ji, they would take a boat from Guangzhou to return to Beijing.

Zhang Zhongjian stood up and stretched out his hand.

Li Ji also extended his hand.

Two opponents who had fought to the death before shook hands and made peace.

Although he was once a defeated player under Li Ji, Zhang Zhongjian is in a good mood now, but he is the winner in the end.

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Jiankang.

There was laughter and joy everywhere.

The whole of Jiankang already knew the good news, and the prince was finally going to Beijing.

Jiankang's cabinet and various departments are now happy. Seeing Li Ji invading Lingnan, everyone is still worried, but now he wins so unexpectedly.

Chengqian, Zhang Chao and Ma Zhou sat together to discuss the matter of entering Beijing.

"Wen Yuan, good news, Li Ji finally received the imperial edict. He negotiated with Guangzhou several conditions, and then agreed to disband the troops on the spot, and the generals and schoolmen from the southern expedition returned to Beijing by boat from Guangzhou."

After hearing this news, Cheng Qian became even more happy.

Even if Li Ji was reduced, things would be even more unhindered.

"Teacher, what should I do after you return to Beijing?"

"First of all, kill the demon monk in Luona's world. His evil words confuse Your Majesty and offer the elixir of immortality. In fact, it was poisonous, poisoning Your Majesty's body, which led to the later chaos. This is why Your Majesty's body was not good and he had to abdicate and let Your Majesty take over. Therefore, the first thing you do when you enter the capital was to kill this demon monk."

This is also true to their slogan of rebellion and clearing the king's side.

This is a political slogan. Even if you want to scapegoat, you have to do this at this time.

Not only do we have to kill, but we have to kill the entire Hanjing and the people of the world see it.

We must let everyone know that the emperor was confused by the demon monks and would lose his mind only after eating the poison pill. The emperor was still very wise in the past, and this could not be erased. The prince was just in his raising an army, for the sake of the country and the country, to clear the king's side.

Now that the emperor's side has been eliminated, the emperor's health is no longer good, and he can no longer continue to govern the world, so he abdicated and gave way to Chengqian to succeed the throne.

Everything is legal and reasonable, and Chengqian's succession will have no problem.

"What then?" Cheng Qian asked again.

"Then," Zhang Chao smiled, "Then Your Highness will be awarded great honors. Not only the soldiers who raised their troops, but also the ministers who followed them will be awarded, but the heroes of the Xuanwu Gate Incident in the Hanjing will be rewarded, even those who caught us off guard like Li Ji, and even those court officials who did not do anything should be rewarded appropriately."

In short, we must give as much reward as possible. Anyway, we should use this to show our attitude to the world that the new emperor will not do anything to cleanse, and we must be stable, united and stable.

As for the later part, of course, he would be the crown prince again, then supervise the state, and then succeed to the throne, and take it step by step. What about becoming the emperor?

Reorganize the center, establish a cabinet, restore parliament, and restore the new policy.

There are many things to do, you can take it slowly.

However, there is one thing that Zhang Chao must remind Cheng Qian.

"We must lead the army into the capital when we go to Hanjing."

"Is it necessary?" Cheng Qian asked. He thought it would be enough to bring 20,000 to 30,000 people, and the rest of the soldiers could be disbanded or returned to the defense base.

"Your Highness, of course it is necessary. There are so many troops in Hanjing, and even Your Majesty is still there. If we cannot reach an agreement at that time, we will still rely on the army as a deterrent. Your Highness always doesn't want to be constrained everywhere in Hanjing, or even threatened?"

After saying this, Cheng Qian also understood that what he said was too simple.

"Teacher, I'll leave this matter to you. You can select elite troops to go north with Gu."

Ma Zhou also agreed with Zhang Chao's proposal that he would not be too calm when entering Hanjing this time. After all, Fang Xuanling, Changsun Wuji and others are simple.

"I think that after entering Beijing, we should take over the troops in the capital as soon as possible and gain control of these troops. It is best to reorganize these troops in the capital, break them up, organize them into our Southern Army, and transfer some of them to the capital." Ma Zhou suggested.

"This is a must, but we cannot be too hasty, and we cannot scare the people of the Hanjing court."

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In the 14th year of Zhenguan, mid-September.

Zhang Chao selected 100,000 elite troops, two naval fleets for 40,000 people, and three armies of 60,000 troops, a total of 100,000 elite troops, leaving Jiankang, Jiangnan, and heading north to Hanjing.

Behind the fleet is a "Logistics Civilian Fleet", carrying food, grass, weapons, and military personnel. In fact, these Logistics Civilian Fleet are still soldiers of the Southern Army, regardless of the name they have changed. They are fully equipped and organized, with a total of 60,000, plus 60,000 real civilians, and set off with the army one after another.

The vast white sails and countless ships were connected.

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Hanjing, East Palace.

Xia Hua has been taken back to the East Palace. Now she is the mistress of the palace, waiting for the male owner to return home.
To be continued...