Prison Dragon

Chapter 106

A few days later, when Di Fei's reply letter arrived, Yang You glanced at it and couldn't help laughing.

"How to say?" Zhuo Xinhong was helping him with his official duties.

Yang You handed Di Fei's reply to him, Zhuo Xinhong read it and smiled, "He even doubted the authenticity of our Majesty, and asked us to send His Majesty to the city for him to have a test first, he thought it was a business !"

"Is my son still unable to tell the truth from the fake?" Yang You sneered.

Maybe it's the prince who cheats.

"Continue to send people to urge you," Yang You ordered, "does he dare to tell the officials about this? Isn't Yang Ren's delay in ascension to the throne just because his name is not right? Second brother still has an emperor's disease As an excuse, Yang Ren has no one and no Yuxi, if he dares to sit on the throne, he will wait for me to start a war."

When Yang You sent the second batch of envoys to Beijing, the news came back that Di Fei had sealed off the capital and they were not allowed to enter. Yang You had to take the emperor into the palace to verify the authenticity.

Yang You told the emperor the matter exactly, and cried again in front of the emperor.

Yang Ting endured for a long time, and finally said what he wanted, "General Di was deceived by a traitor and refused to let me enter Beijing. I will eliminate harm for the country."

This sentence is equivalent to acquiescing that Yang You can fight Di Fei.

And as long as Yang Ting spoke up, he would have a valid reason.

Yang You asked someone to write a number of letters about the emperor's return to Beijing. Di Fei deliberately refused to open the city gate, wanting to support the soldiers and stand on their own.

Originally, the common people didn't like Yang Ting very much, but they experienced many military disasters in a year, and they couldn't help but miss the days when Yang Ting was in power, although it was difficult, but he didn't have to worry about his life.

This capital, Yang Shi surrounded it again, and the governor Di Fei sealed off the city again. The farmland near Lidu could not afford the food in the city, and the food from outside could not be brought in. The price of vegetables and food in Lidu was soaring. Even the official warehouse could not afford to feed millions of people. Di Fei had no choice but to open a small door to transfer food from the surrounding cities.

However, a drop in the bucket cannot solve the emergency, and the common people look forward to Yang Ting's return to the court more than ever, so that they can live a peaceful life.

Let the emperor be foolish, at least it is better to survive than to die at the hands of a wise emperor.

For a while, public opinion in Lidu City was turbulent, and Di Fei successively issued several orders not to discuss the government in private, and sealed several courtyards, and only then did he slightly control the situation.

These things are unknown to Yang You, because a bigger surprise is waiting for him.

They stayed outside the city for a few more days, when there was a commotion at night, Yang Yuchun woke him up, put on his clothes, and helped him go out.

"My lord," Zhuo Xinhong had already put on his military uniform and was talking to a general in black armor. When he saw him, he nodded and saluted, "This is General Cui Jue of the Yulin Army, and he is the current Lidu Weiwei."

He had long heard that Cui Jue was promoted by Yang Ti to be a Weiwei, and was used as cannon fodder to block Yang Shi. Lidu City had been breached twice, but he did not expect that Cui Jue was still a Weiwei under Di Fei.

Speaking of which, the two of them have some relationship. At that time, Cui Jue wanted to quarrel with his elder brother Cui Yan. Cui Yan was obviously Yang You's attendant, but in the end he chose to become the second prince Yang Ti's confidant.

Cui Yan has always dominated Cui Jue since he was a child. In order to prove himself, Cui Jue insisted on following Yang You and showing his brother that the fifth prince he gave up back then was the final winner.

In order to keep a low profile, Yang You did not choose to cooperate with Cui Jue, but comforted him and asked him to stay in the capital to make plans for himself.

In fact, he really hasn't contacted Cui Jue in the past ten years.

Cui Jue was the general of the Yulin Army, the imperial guard guarding the palace city. Yang Ting didn't say anything, but he kept a close eye on him. people.

If Yang You contacts Cui Jue, he is courting death.

Cui Jue stepped forward and knelt in front of Yang You, "The last general, Cui Jue, received a letter from a bow and arrow outside the city the day before yesterday. He heard that the prince came to save the capital from fire and water. He is very grateful. He has ordered his men to open the city gate. Greetings, I would like to be the pawn of His Royal Highness, and restore my Great Qi Dynasty..."

Unexpectedly, it was Cui Jue who helped him a lot in the end.

"General, please get up." Yang You bent down to help him up, and before Cui Jue could finish speaking, he took his hand and said, "The general is not hesitating to take risks to welcome His Majesty. Loyalty and patriotism are very respectable, and come with me to see my father." .”

He called several generals to wait in front of Yang Ting's gate, and asked the little eunuch to report.

Yang Ting tidied things up before letting them in for a meeting.

Zhuo Xinhong secretly regretted that when he thought of the city gate opening, he hurriedly dragged people into Beijing.They used the emperor as an excuse, so they naturally had to be polite. If Cui Jue came here only for Yang You, then Yang You would be no different from the rebels. How can there be any reason why the generals of the imperial army and the prince should be on good terms?

Only Cui Jue came for the emperor, neither the emperor nor the officials could use this to attack Yang You in the future.

Didn't opening the city gate for the emperor just prove his loyalty?

Cui Jue obviously thought of this too, kneeling on the ground with [-]% loyalty on his face, "Your Majesty, the future is too late!"

Ting Yang wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes with a sigh, and listened to Cui Jue finish his story.

After Yang Shi broke through the capital, not only did he not drive away Cui Jue, but he appreciated his military talent quite a bit. He also wanted to use Cui Jue to win over the Cui family, so he continued to be a guard, but without the power of city defense.

When Di Fei broke through the capital and forced the Cui family to work for him, the old grandpa of the Cui family had a quarrel with Di Fei in the early years, and he didn't want to let his family members become officials, so he pushed Cui Jue out to show Di Fei, and Cui Jue returned. In the position of Wei Wei, only this time he only has the power to guard the Qixia Gate.

Qixia Gate is a small gate in the south of the capital. It is a gate left over when Lidu was first built 800 years ago. Therefore, it is disabled as a place to place sundries.

Because it is small, it is unobtrusive.

The night before yesterday, Cui Jue got a letter from the bow and arrow, which stated that King Jing and the emperor were stationed outside the city, and they could restore the order of the court and the public only by entering the capital, but General Di Fei wanted to stop them for some reason...

Cui Jue stayed up all night thinking about it for a long time, without discussing it with anyone, he took a gamble on his own initiative.

What he gambled on was his official career, and maybe his own life.

Of course, what he and Yang Ting said were not the truth, they were all edited, and they only picked the ones Yang Ting liked.

Yang Ting was very moved, and was so excited that he wanted to go to the city immediately.

Zhuo Xinhong had already gathered his men and horses in advance, and now that he had met the emperor's carriage, he quietly entered the city from Qixia Gate.

Beijing on the first day of July

The east has not yet seen the sun.The huge capital city was shrouded in deep night, and only a corner of the square city wall could be seen.Yang You looked up and saw the stupa of Ci'en Temple soaring into the sky from a distance, and the ever-burning lamps on each floor were the highest light source in the city, echoing the tall buildings of the imperial palace in the city.

Ten years have passed.

He still remembers the day when he left the capital, there was continuous drizzle everywhere, and Ao Chen's black robe on the tallest city wall was rattling by the wind.

There was no time for nostalgia, there were still many things waiting for him to do, and only when he was done could he have a short rest, Yang You led the horse and entered the city gate.

The wound on his chest was painful, and he coughed a few times.

Yang You brought 5000 soldiers and horses into the city, escorted Yang Ting back to the palace with [-] people, and the rest stayed in the city wall guards, waiting for orders to take over the city defense.

They walked down the road, and there were no people and no lights during the curfew, only low-key jokes came from a few houses.

Some are having sex in secret at home, and some are prostitutes in the capital.

Cui Jue would step forward to take care of all the guards on duty, and basically cooperated with them. If there were any uncooperative guards, they would be detained on the spot.In this way, all the way to Yushanfang, and further north is Miyagi.

It doesn't matter if you enter the capital, the palace city is heavily guarded, and Di Fei must have replaced all the people with his own. If the emperor can't enter the palace, it's useless if he can't go to the court.

Cui Jue also thought about this problem, and took the initiative to report to Yang Ting and Yang You: "Since the general begging for captives entered the capital, he will only enter the palace during the court meeting. At other times, even the third highness will not enter the palace, and only live in the palace outside. I also have many acquaintances in the imperial army, and I have agreed before leaving the city that he will wait at the Dahemen and open the door to welcome His Majesty."

"It's so good." Yang Ting didn't worry about anything anymore, and left everything to Yang You to deal with.

Yang Yuchun first left with Cui Jue and 1000 people. The Zuo Yulin army was stationed next to the gate, most of them were Cui Jue's old acquaintances, and the chance of success was very high.

Cui Jue walked to the gate of the barracks, looked at the banners and secretly hammered his palms: "Tonight it was actually replaced by Di Fei's He Feng army!"

"What's going on?" Yang Yuchun's temperament was already like thunder, and he couldn't restrain his anxious anger as the time passed, "You took us into the city without making any arrangements!"

If there is no internal response, they will have to be made dumplings by Di Fei!

Cui Jue pulled him back to Yushanfang with his troops, and Yang You felt a thump in his heart when he saw that they had returned without success.

Cui Jue explained, "Di Fei has changed the city defense since he entered Beijing. It used to be that each army has a fixed duty station. Now he has to change it every day. I calculated it before. Tonight should be the Habayashi Army. I don't know why. He became the Hefeng Army."

"Did they find us?" Yang Ting couldn't help worrying.

"No," Yang You looked around, the capital was still as quiet and peaceful as usual, "If we found out, we should have started a fight long ago, it wouldn't be so quiet, I'm afraid that tonight's change is just a temporary transfer."

"But I've already talked to them..."

"What can you do if they go back on their word?" Yang You said.

This kind of thing is not a dinner party, and courage is not enough. One mistake is to kill the nine clans, and anyone will feel guilty.

Maybe the Habayashi Army deliberately switched defenses with the Hefeng Army to prevent Cui Jue from coming to them.

"No, no, I must go back to the palace today..." Yang Ting couldn't sit still, if he missed this opportunity, he might never be able to sit on the Dragon Throne for the rest of his life.

"Father!" Yang You said in a serious tone, and pulled Yang Ting's robe to let him sit in the carriage, "There is still a way, don't worry, I will definitely let you go back to the palace."

What else can be done?

Those who stayed in the capital and the people of Taichang Temple could contact them, and if they could find them, even if they did, Taichang Temple was not in charge of the palace gates, so it was useless.

Who else?

Yang You suddenly thought of Yang Xiu, Yang Xiu was in charge of many affairs of the emperor, he must have a way to enter the palace.

Yang Shi has been looking for Yang Xiu and Yang Lun until his death, but he couldn't find them.Judging from the time, Yang Xiu was first controlled by Concubine Xian, and then searched by Yang Shi. When Di Fei entered the capital, he dared not stand out. It was impossible for him to escape from the capital. He must have been hiding in the city.

But where is he hiding?

Yang You looked around, in the vast night, only the palace city was shining with lights, without the emperor, the lights were a bit dimmer than in the impression.

In the thick night, a deeper black was blurred, like a bottomless abyss, absorbing all the light.The moonlight is misty, as long as the black is vividly jumping in the eyes.

Ao Chen stood on the eaves, looking down at everyone.

Yang Yuchun sensed Yang You's gaze and followed him to look up.

Everyone looked up.

That black figure stood in the wind, but only appeared in Yang You's eyes.