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Chapter 265 Nowhere to Retreat, Conspiracy!
There was thunder and lightning outside the hall, and the lights inside the hall were brightly lit.

The queen mother who sent away the medical officer walked up and down in the Hanyuan Hall in panic, her heart was in a mess, she was like an ant on a hot pot, standing or sitting or not!
The news of Yongzhou Mu Wangxian's death has not been officially announced, but Chang'an in the thunderstorm has become a lake where boulders are thrown, and the ripples spread round and round.

——In the imperial city stared at by countless pairs of eyes, there are no secrets at all!
The Wei Palace must have received the news.

And that woman, the woman who has been wearing eyeliner in the harem since Queen Ye's generation, must have known about it.

They must be plotting against her by candlelight right now.

If she had known that Wang Xian couldn't help being stimulated, she should have held him steady!Pei Linger thought regretfully.

pity--

Things have happened, Wang Xian's body has been completely cold, and there will be a break between her and the Emperor faction.

She doesn't mind being abandoned by the emperor faction, even without Wang Xian's sudden death, they would have made the decision to abandon her.

But I still couldn't help being afraid in my heart, afraid that they would bear a grudge against me, and afraid that I had really made a wrong decision.

……

"Master Chu is here!"

Just when she was feeling uneasy, a message sounded, and Pei Ling'er ran out as if she had heard amnesty, she forgot her identity, she just wanted to be like an ordinary woman, and when she was most helpless, she threw herself into the arms she could rely on.

Fortunately, she forgot, but Chu Qing still sticks to it.

Just when she was about to cross the line, Chu Qing took half a step back, waved his sleeves, bowed, and said loudly: "The queen mother summoned my minister late at night, what is the matter?"

The voice was like a slap in the face, calling back the rationality that was about to collapse. Pei Ling'er withdrew her feet on the thunder pool, put her hands on her chest, and said embarrassingly: "Wang Yongzhou...suddenly died in the palace...I...need you to help me make a plan..."

"Wang Xian?"

Chu Qing lowered his eyes, repeated in a low voice, sighed, and said, "Has the news spread?"

"Not yet, but... paper can't keep fire, let alone... the emperor's faction and the king of Wei..."

Pei Linger spoke anxiously, her eyes wandering.

Even if there is no secret report, she also knows that the political opponents are writing impeachment memorials with passion at this moment!

"...I'm very confused, I...you must help me!" She drooped her head and said depressedly.

Although Pei Ling'er was very strong in front of Wang Xian, she was still just a woman, an ordinary woman who needed support, and she needed the man in front of her to help her gain a firm foothold in this turbulent political tide.

She has always believed that she is the empress dowager, the most honorable woman in the entire empire. With the young emperor in her arms, she naturally holds the title of righteousness.No matter what happens in the future, countless people will choose to protect her just because she is the queen mother.But today, when she really encountered the crisis of the sky falling, she realized that she couldn't find anyone around her to discuss with, except Chu Qing!

"...Don't worry, Empress Dowager."

Different from Pei Linger's panic, Chu Qing remained calm. He respectfully asked Pei Linger to recall and describe Wang Xian's every word and every action he made during the period from the audience to his sudden death.

Pei Linger backed away as she said, and recounted the night in detail, many of which were her subjective assumptions, such as how aggressive Wang Xian was, and how she endured the burden.Chu Qing knew her temperament, and listened to those untrue parts with a smile, but didn't take it to heart.

At the end, Pei Ling'er was still angry, and cursed: "Wang Xian is so stubborn, making the Ye family king is to lure wolves into the house!"

"But now, apart from the Ye family, who else has the ability to coerce the regent? Although Wang Yongzhou is a little old-fashioned, his loyalty to His Majesty is a lesson from heaven and earth!"

Chu Qing said while seeing blood, since he was blown away by a gust of wind from Liangzhou, he has become more cautious in his words and deeds.

"...you also... blame me for ignorance?"

Pei Ling'er said aggrievedly, with tears in the corners of her eyes. Seeing this, Chu Qing hurriedly said: "Queen Mother, now is not the time to discuss who should be responsible for Wang Yongzhou's affairs! The most urgent thing is how to explain to the courtiers after dawn! "

Pei Ling'er suddenly realized, and said wryly: "Master Xuan has a clever plan to defeat the enemy?"

"I don't have any clever plan, I just feel that since the queen mother has reached this point, it is impossible to reconcile with the emperor's faction, so I simply—"

"How about it?" Pei Ling'er asked anxiously.

"Don't do one thing and keep doing it. For the current plan, the only way is to secretly order the Duke of Shu to raise troops, and the Qing emperor will side!"

Chu Qing cruelly suggested that military power is the decisive bargaining chip in the court struggle, so the Ye family has become the target of the emperor faction even at the expense of sacrificing the queen mother, so the regent dare not show his fangs so far!

As long as the empress dowager can hold the general power in her hands, even if the emperor sent her to talk and force her, what can she do?
When Pei Ling'er heard this, she suddenly realized that the only people she could rely on were the Pei family.Cousin Shu Gong Pei Jiong, who governs the military affairs of the nine prefectures of Xiang, Wei, Li, Marsh, Bei, Zhao, Ji, Ying, and Cang, and his younger brother Pei Qing, who governs the states of Qing, Qi, Jiao, Guang, and Ju. There are hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in their hands. If they climb up and call out, they will surely respond from all directions!

"...But, Wei Xiao is still in the capital, and Ye Chuan... I'm afraid it's just the two cousins... that won't be able to handle it..."

Pei Ling'er thought uneasily, although she was ignorant, she was not arrogant enough to think that the Pei brothers alone could change the political situation!

The Ye family holds the power to dispatch the world's soldiers and horses!
It was only when she really decided to turn the tables that she realized how correct it was to reconcile with the Ye family.

Even if you are the empress dowager, so what, now that the imperial power is unstable and the power ministers are divided, she, the empress dowager, is completely empty-handed.

but……

There is no turning back when you open the bow, not to mention that the condition for the reconciliation between the emperor faction and the Ye family is to sacrifice yourself and the Pei family!
Thinking of this, her fighting spirit was once again high.

"Chu Qing's family, if the cousin raises an army, how many soldiers can he summon?"

Her voice trembled as she spoke.

"The regent has been in control of the government for a long time, and there are many complaints in the local area. If the queen mother secretly teaches the phoenix seal, and the Marquis of Shu raises troops to Qingjun's side, he will surely be able to raise his arms and shout, and the world will respond! Even the clan kings, I am afraid... they will not dare to... ...not responding..."

Chu Qing is not Chu Kuang, he doesn't understand military affairs, but he knows that he and she have no way out.

He had to convince her to join forces!

This is their only way out!

Because of his remonstrance, Pei Ling'er, who was originally moved, finally made a decision.

Although she has already lost everything, she is still the Queen Mother, and the righteousness of the world is still in her hands. As long as she dares to stand in the court hall and denounce the Wei Wang Party as traitors and sinners, even if the emperor is dissatisfied Not daring to face her face to face, but the Ye family, the Ye family that always gave her a splitting headache...

From the bottom of her heart, she hoped that Ye Chuan would choose King Wei, so that she could attack him together.

Of course, she knew that Ye Chuan would choose the emperor faction in the end, because the emperor is righteous, and the Ye family has always advertised loyalty to the emperor and patriotism!
With the help of the Ye family, the cousin's army will surely be like a broken bamboo. When Wei Wang's party is wiped out, he will still be the empress dowager, and the cousin can rely on the great achievements of the Qing emperor to break the Ye family's monopoly on military power.

Thinking of a bright future, a smile appeared on the corner of the woman's mouth.

Before she turned back to the case, she spread out the yellow silk and wrote vigorously.

Seeing this, Chu Qing kept silent and rubbed his ink from the sidelines. He was more sober than Pei Linger. He knew that even if he succeeded in motivating Pei Jiong to raise troops, he might not be able to successfully achieve the goal of the Pei family's dominance of the government, so when he got the news of Wang Xian's death, he He had already secretly trusted the surviving members of the Guangming God Sect, asking them to do everything possible to lure the Turks to the south and force Ye Chuan to leave the capital!

……

"All right!"

When the sky turned slightly pale, Pei Ling'er raised her head and exhaled heartily.

The storm had passed, and the moist air was filled with the fragrance of grass leaves. Looking at the blood-red phoenix seal at the end of the yellow silk, she felt mixed feelings in her heart.

Although Pei Jiongqing, the secret edict, could bring her the best development, if she hadn't reached a miserable situation with no way out, she wouldn't have dared to take this dangerous move.

It was Wang Xian and the Emperor faction who contributed to this situation!

They insisted on using her and the entire Pei clan as gifts to please the Ye family, ignoring her existence.

Since whether to raise troops or not, the fate of the Pei family is already doomed, and the stubbornness in her bones is also blazing because of this!
"Tianshi, quickly send this secret edict to the Marquis of Shu!"

Before the ink dries up, Pei Ling'er sealed the edict with red paint and handed it to Chu Qing.

She chose Chu Qing because she only believed in Chu Qing.

The entire Hanyuan Hall is not credible, anyone here may be bribed, she dare not hand over the secret edict to them, she is afraid that when she waits anxiously for the news of Pei Jiong's army in the Hanyuan Hall, the secret edict will be pinched In the hands of a foreign minister, it was lit by a candle and slowly turned to ashes.

Pei Jiong is her last move, there is no way out, if the secret edict to Pei Jiong is intercepted by foreign officials, it will be over for her and the whole Pei family!
Chu Qing didn't know her worry. If Pei Linger fell, he, who had almost completely lost his cultivation, would also be powerless to avenge Chu Kuang.

They are a community of destiny.

So he accepted Pei Ling'er's entrustment, even if he consumed his last mana, he had to send the secret edict to Pei Jiong within two days.

Seeing Chu Qing resolutely and resolutely disappear before dawn, Pei Ling'er couldn't help biting her lower lip, folded her hands on her chest, knelt down, and prayed to the unknown god and Buddha.

Her life, as well as the lives of everyone in the Pei clan, are in Chu Qing's hands...

If you succeed, the whole world will bow down, and if you fail, everyone will be executed!
But she has no choice, all the people in the court are oppressing and bullying her, she has no choice from the beginning!

thump—

On the tower of Chengtianmen, the first dawn drum sounded.

When the morning time came, the gate of the imperial city slowly opened.

clang--

The morning bell rang, and the deep and distant sound of the bell was intertwined with the beating drums, awakening the entire city of Chang'an.

After praying, Pei Ling'er raised her head and looked at Phnom Penh where the clouds were faint.

Today might be the longest day in her life. She could even imagine how vicious those veterans of the emperor's faction would attack her. These words that should have embarrassed her became insignificant at this moment.

The secret edict has been issued, and she has given up life and death.

Thinking of the news that the two cousins ​​raised troops to Qingjun's side reached Chang'an, Yue Wang Zhao Wang might show a distressed expression of wanting to smash her body into thousands of pieces but had to raise troops to respond, her mood was like wind and rain.

Putting on the gown and crown, and just as he was leading the female officials to the front hall, a female officer with narrow sleeves in a hu suit hurried over and whispered in his ear, "Queen Mother, Lord Jinyang...drinking too much last night...chasing The moon fell into the pond and drowned..."

"what!"

Hearing the bad news for the first time, as if being struck by lightning, Pei Linger took two steps back in a daze, and when she was at a loss, the female officer flinched again: "...and..."

"What else?"

"His Royal Highness King Yue was attacked last night and his forehead was smashed. It is said that the leader is... yes... Uncle Guo!"

(End of this chapter)