At night, the army patrol was significantly strengthened in Jiangdu City. Although there was no curfew, patrol soldiers could be seen everywhere. Any suspicious pedestrian would be stopped and interrogated and secretly blackmailed. If there was no indication, it would be likely to be arrested on false charges.●⌒,

The business of the Muyu Wine Shop in the south of the Chengnan City was still very prosperous, and the drinkers were drinking and laughing. At this time, a carriage drove out from the back door of the restaurant and headed towards the north of the city. There were lanterns of the Muyu Wine Shop hanging on the carriage. This is a very common situation in Jiangdu City. It was the wine shop to send drunk guests home.

This kind of carriage generally does not attract interference, but it was a bit special tonight. When the carriage was about to arrive in Taipei City, it was stopped by a patrol soldier.

"Who is the person in the carriage and where are you going?" the leader asked.

The comrade with the car quickly took out a handful of copper coins and handed them on it, and said with a smile: "It's a drunk guest, let's take him back to Taipei City."

The team was not accepting the money and snorted, "Are you sending beggars?"

The guy had no choice but to withdraw two staples of money from the carriage, "June, there is only so much."

The team was snatching the money, waved his hand and said, "Go!"

He took the patrol soldiers and went away. When the man saw them walking away, he hurriedly said, "Uncle, go quickly!"

The coachman urged the horse to pull the horse, and the carriage quickly drove to the north city. Finally, the carriage slowly stopped in front of the Bohai Commercial Bank. The man knocked on the door and walked into the commercial bank with the man in black in the carriage.

Under the light of the room, the man in black revealed his true face. He turned out to be a fat and beardless middle-aged man. He knew it was a eunuch in the palace at a glance. He stepped forward and bowed to Li Qingming, and said in a sharp voice: "Li joins the army, I have important information."

Li Qingming waved his hand with a smile, "Mr. Wang, please sit down and talk."

The eunuch was named Wang Fuzhong, and he was the vice president of Jiangdu Palace. He became Li Qingming's palace informant half a year ago, providing Li Qingming with a lot of important information.

He sat down and took a sip of tea, and couldn't wait to say, "Li Shenjun must have heard that the emperor fell ill!"

"I heard that. It is said that I am sick."

Of course, Li Qingming knew what Yang Guang was doing. Zhang Kai had told him that the poison in Yang Guang's body should have occurred for the first time in the past two days, which was a very serious angina pectoris. So when Li Qingming learned from the market that the emperor was sick, he immediately guessed the reason.

"It's not a pain, it's an angina pectoris. It's so painful that it faints and almost dies. It's very serious."

"So that's it, is there any news?"

Seeing that Li Qingming's reaction was plain, Wang Fuzhong felt a little disappointed. He hurriedly said, "There is also the inner palace guards that have started to change today. I changed a batch in the afternoon. I heard that all of them were replaced by the evening. They were all guards I didn't know, and the guards actually teased the palace maids. I felt that they didn't look like guards, and no guards dared to tease the palace maids. And they were all murderous, with a sword hanging around their waists, not a sword."

This news immediately made Li Qingming interested. As the deputy general manager of the inner palace, there were actually guards he didn't know. What did this mean? But in order to be foolproof, he asked again: "Master Wang, think about it, would it be guards transferred from other places, such as Ligong, etc."

"Impossible, there are only guards in Jiangdu, Luoyang and Chang'an. Guards in these three places are familiar with them, so I dare say that these people are definitely not guards, either army or private warriors."

"What about the guards now?" Li Qingming asked again.

"The guards are now on three days off. They will only return to the palace to work as a servant on the fourth day."

Li Qingming immediately realized that the coup was about to begin, and the change of guards must be the clearest signal within these three days.

Li Qingming turned around and ordered: "Get fifty taels of gold to General Manager Wang, and then send him back to the restaurant."

Someone brought fifty taels of gold and handed it to Wang Fuzhong. Wang Fuzhong took the gold and left with great gratitude.

Li Qingming immediately wrote an eagle letter and sent it to Donghai County with the letter eagle...

Li Qingming paced back and forth in the room. Although the commander asked him to keep his troops still and let the situation develop, Li Qingming still had a little discomfort. In fact, if he took active action, he could still save one or two young sons of the royal family. Even if he could not save a core royal family like Yang Nai and Yang Gao, he could at least save the young son of the royal family.

However, since the commander ordered him to stop moving, he had to obey the orders. Li Qingming couldn't help but sigh secretly. Even though he knew the building was about to collapse, he could only stand by and watch.

.........

Before dawn, Zhang Xuan was woken up by the soldiers, "Master General, Jiangdu sent an emergency eagle letter."

This is Zhang Xuan's order. As long as it is emergency information sent by Jiang Du, he must be woken up at any time.

Zhang Xuan put on a piece of clothing and walked out of the tent, "What emergency information!"

A personal soldier handed him a red eagle letter, which showed an important information that was urgent and urgent. Zhang Xuan immediately took out the eagle letter and read it through the light. The eagle letter said that all the guards of Jiangdu Palace were replaced by soldiers or private warriors, and all the guards were on holiday for three days.

This news made Zhang Xuan feel a little nervous. He thought for a moment and immediately ordered his personal soldiers to say, "Go and invite Military Advisor Fang!"

Zhang Xuan looked at the last few words of Xinying again. It was news specially added by Li Qingming. The emperor Yang Guang had officially issued an edict to appoint him as King of Qi, Shangzhu Kingdom, and General of the Cavalry. This reminded Zhang Xuan of the letter Yu Shiji wrote to him. He would make him rise one more step. Zhang Xuan originally thought he would be named King of Beihai, but he did not expect it to be King of Qi.

I'm afraid this is Yang Guang's last edict.

At this time, Fang Xuanling hurried into the tent. He had just been woken up by the soldiers. When he entered the tent, he asked, "Has the Jiangdu mutiny changed?"

Zhang Xuan handed him the letter in his hand, "You'll know when you look at it."

Fang Xuanling read the eagle letter and nodded, "It turns out there are three days left!"

He saw the news of Zhang Xuan's promotion again and immediately smiled happily: "Congratulations to the general for his promotion again!"

"This must be what Yu Shiji meant, but I couldn't imagine how he convinced Yang Guang to agree?"

Fang Xuanling smiled, "If it were me, I would definitely say that the Grand Marshal was Li Yuan's opponent, and he could wipe out Li Yuan for the Sui Dynasty, so we must win over the Grand Marshal and prevent the Grand Marshal from being pulled away by Chang'an."

"But I also have ambitions. Isn't the emperor worried?"

"The Grand Marshal is different from Li Yuan. After all, the Grand Marshal still admits that he is the minister of the emperor. Unlike Li Yuan, who has already blatantly established himself as the emperor. Relatively speaking, Li Yuan's threat is much greater. Jiang Du is no longer able to deal with Li Yuan, so he can only hope for the Qingzhou army."

Zhang Xuan shook his head, "There are still 80,000 Xiaoguo Army in Jiangdu, which can completely sweep the Central Plains and return to Luoyang to join the garrisons in Luoyang. After the two armies merge, there will be more than 100,000 elite troops and sufficient food. Li Yuan is still unstable in Chang'an. If it is launched to protect the other, Chen Len, Li Jing and other veterans, they can completely wipe out Li Yuan. But the emperor no longer has the will to war, so he hopes for me, it's so sad!"

"The key is that the emperor is not employed properly, and he actually let Yu Wen and such treacherous ministers control the military power. The Sui Dynasty will surely perish in Yu Wen and its hands."

Fang Xuanling sighed deeply and said earnestly to Zhang Xuan: "Although the general does not want to interfere with the Jiangdu coup, I think the attitude should be done. The general must notify the important ministers to evacuate, and at the same time secretly inform the emperor that Yu Wen and the mutiny are about to change. If the emperor does not believe it, it is God's will."

Zhang Xuan nodded silently. Judging from the information, the mutiny will be today and tomorrow. Even if he notified it, he could not change the result, but his posture was sufficient.

"Okay! Just as the military advisor said, I will notify the important officials and the emperor immediately, especially those from Hebei. In addition, if the emperor cannot notify, you can notify the King of Yan."

After thinking about it, Zhang Xuan said again: "Five scouts must be sent south. If you encounter ministers who fled north, you can protect them to Donghai County."

………

At noon, Zhang Xuan's pigeon letter arrived in Jiangdu. Li Qingming received the order. He immediately took action and sent a large number of secret sentries to warn the ministers that the mutiny would occur.

Li Qingming also asked Wang Zhongfu to inform the King of Yan secretly.

The main ministers from Hebei were Li Qingming informed them through his father Li Shoujie. In the Li Shoujie mansion, more than 20 Hebei officials gathered together. They didn't know what happened and looked at Li Shoujie uneasy.

Logically, Lu Zhuo is the leader of Hebei officials, but Lu Zhuo is no longer in Jiangdu, so Li Shoujie can only be reluctant to do so and temporarily serve as the convener of Hebei officials.

"I want to tell you an emergency information. I have received a notice from the Qingzhou Army that a mutiny will break out in Jiangdu today and tomorrow!"

A buzzing sound in the lobby was like poking a hornet's nest. Everyone was talking, and it was not surprising that Jiangdu was going to undergo a mutiny. After all, everyone understands people. If the situation in front of him continues, the Yuwen brothers will rebel sooner or later.

But no one expected that the time for mutiny would come so quickly.

.........(To be continued.)

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