Vol 5 Chapter 166:

The movement of the Prime Minister's Mansion shook the entire southern Qi capital.
In the residences closest to the prime minister's house, they felt the ground, window lattices, desks, tables, and stools trembling. The people in the residences didn't understand what was going on, so they ran out of the door to inquire about the situation.
The government office was not too far away, and naturally heard the movement.
Ye Rui's expression changed drastically, and said, "It's the prime minister's mansion."
Madam Su immediately stood up and said with a pale face, "Did something happen to Nuan'er and Xiao Chang?"
Mrs. Wang said quickly, "Quickly, go and have a look."
Ye Rui ran out immediately, ran two steps, thinking that Su Fengnuan and Ye Chang handed over these people to him, which is a big responsibility. If he just left, if something happens, he will die. Take the blame. Whatever happened, it had already happened, and he couldn't leave anyway.
So he gritted his teeth and immediately shouted, "Come on."
"Four sons." Someone appeared in front of Ye Rui.
Ye Rui instructed, "Go to the prime minister's house, inquire about the situation, and see what happened to the loud noise just now? Are Ye Shizi and Shizi concubine all right?"
"Yes." Someone responded and went immediately.
Su Che said, "I'll go take a look too, I really don't worry."
Ye Rui shook his head, "Today is an extraordinary time. Uncle can stay in this mansion with peace of mind. I believe that with the cleverness of the son and concubine, they will be safe and sound. Now the empress dowager and empress are here and need protection."
Su Che was right as soon as he heard it, he could only dispel his thoughts and waited for the news.
Ye Rui pursed his lips, secretly anxious.
After a while, Su Fengnuan's voice sounded in his ears, "The prime minister activated the organ, and the prime minister's mansion was destroyed. Ye Chang and I are fine, we are out, don't worry."
Ye Rui felt relieved and immediately overjoyed, blurting out, "It's okay for you to be fine."
"Rui'er, what are you talking about?" Patriarch Ye walked up to him.
Ye Rui hurriedly said, "The concubine Shizi gave me a secret message, saying that the prime minister activated the agency and the prime minister's mansion was destroyed. She and Ye Chang are fine, they are out, let us rest assured."
When Patriarch Ye heard this, he was immediately relieved.
Mrs. Wang folded her hands and said again and again, "It's fine if there is nothing wrong, Bodhisattva bless you."
The queen mother also put her hands together, "The ancestors of the Liu family bless you."
When Ye Rui received Su Fengnuan’s transmission into the secret, Xu Yunchu and Chu Han also received Su Fengnuan’s transmission into the secret. Liu Wen, who was dispatched by the Jinglu Soldiers and Horses Camp, also received Su Fengnuan’s listening. The sound transmission of the bell.
No one thought that the prime minister was so cruel that he would destroy the prime minister's mansion to death.
What Xu Yunchu did not go well. He found that not only the commander and deputy commander of the Imperial Guard, the Imperial Forest Army, and the Five City Soldiers and Horses were absent. Except for the team on duty today, these three parties added up to more than 100,000 soldiers in the inner city. The horses, together, now there are only less than 20,000 horses left, and the remaining eighty to ninety thousand horses disappeared without a trace.
Xu Yunchu could not find anyone, so he could only find Lieutenant Zheng who was not on duty today.
After Lieutenant Zheng heard this, he was surprised and said, "Impossible, the inner city has no soldiers and horses, no one has to go out. How can you not be in the city?"
Xu Yunchu said, "It's indeed not in the city. The soldiers and horses in the inner city add up sparsely, but only 10,000 to 20,000 horses. Those people and horses disappear out of thin air."
Lieutenant Zheng's complexion changed drastically.
Xu Yunchu said, "Can you find anything wrong with the soldiers and horses in the inner city of Beijing in the past few days?"
Lieutenant Zheng shook his head, "No."
Xu Yunchu looked heavy and said to Zheng Zhongwei, "I'm afraid that the big thing is going to be bad. Please trouble me. Brother Zheng took his brothers to check out the house to see where the eighty or ninety thousand soldiers have gone?"
Lieutenant Zheng nodded immediately, "Okay, I'll summon my brothers."
Xu Yunchu nodded, said goodbye to Lieutenant Zheng, and immediately went to discuss with Ye Chang and Su Fengnuan. They had never expected such a thing.
After Su Fengnuan and Ye Chang returned to peace in the prime minister's residence, they stepped into the prime minister's residence again.
In the old days, the huge prime minister's mansion had been razed to the ground at this time, and no matter it was a rockery, pavilion, roof, or house, it no longer existed.
With such a devastating mechanism, one can only imagine the vastness of the project. Presumably, the prime minister had made preparations many years ago and was waiting for this day. Once he was discovered and exposed, then, leaving only the few loyal servants to accompany him outside the funeral, everyone in the prime minister's mansion retreated, the prime minister's mansion disappeared, leaving nothing.
Su Fengnuan and Ye Chang were standing in the ruins. They remembered that last year, Fengyang Chadong Lake painting boat disappeared, they were almost crushed by this destruction mechanism, and Ye Xi, that time, Su Fengnuan accompanied him. At the same time, it is this kind of ruin.
Xu Yunchu came very quickly. Even after listening to Su Fengnuan's secret speech, he was already prepared, but when he saw the prime minister's house turned into a ruin and nothing left, his face was still shocked.
When Ye Chang and Su Fengnuan heard the movement, they turned around and saw that it was Xu Yunchu. The two felt that he was looking for it at this time, fearing something bad and urgent.
Su Fengnuan asked immediately, "What's wrong? What happened?"
Xu Yun initially settled down, suppressed his surprise, and said to the two men, "Inner city soldiers and horses, not only the commander and deputy commander of the Imperial Guard, the Imperial Forest Army, and the Five City Soldiers and Horses, are absent. Except for the team on duty today, these three parties Add up, now there are only less than 20,000 horses left, and the remaining eighty to ninety thousand horses have disappeared without a trace."
Ye Chang's face sank, "What's the matter?"
Xu Yunchu shook his head, "I don't know, I found Lieutenant Zheng, he is not on duty today, and I don't know what happened? I have taken his brothers to investigate."
Su Fengnuan said suddenly, "I understand."
Xu Yun asked immediately, "What?"
Su Fengnuan looked at the ruins in front of him and said, "Last night, I killed Shen Zhilan and destroyed her hands and feet in the Jinglu Soldiers and Horses Camp. According to the inference, if I did not show up last night, if Shen Zhilan succeeded, I may not continue to spend the night with Zhang Lin. Maybe I will do something overnight. At that time, she was killed by me, so naturally I couldn't do anything. Therefore, the prime minister knew that something was wrong with Shen Zhilan early this morning. With his mind, Naturally I think of my return to Beijing yesterday and the incident was revealed. Therefore, on this day, he took action on the inner city soldiers and horses. And the secret road of the government office is to transfer the inner city soldiers and horses away from Beijing. Channel."
Xu Yunchu said in surprise, "In other words, the prime minister has arranged everything and will not give us a chance to control the soldiers and horses in the inner city?"
Su Feng Nuan nodded, "It can be said that those who are not on duty, those who cannot be transferred, and those who are afraid of being discovered, were secretly transferred away. And tonight, Ye Chang and I are here, and there are only a few people left in the government office. , The rest of the people were also evacuated. He took half a step to death poison, and before he died, he activated a mechanism capable of destroying the Guozhang Mansion, just to kill us in one fell swoop."
Xu Yunchu looked at Su Fengnuan and Ye Chang, then looked at the ruins in front of him, and said for a while, "Fortunately, you are all right." After the words fell, he asked, "What should I do now?"
Ye Chang said, "If what I expected is not bad, the eldest prince must be with the people of the prime minister's mansion, and he has already left Beijing with eighty to ninety thousand soldiers and horses. The eldest prince will not give up the Beijing army camp. Soldiers and horses, so Uncle Wen is afraid of danger. If he is asked to take the soldiers and horses of the Jinglu Soldiers and Horses Camp, he has two options. One is to take advantage of the emptiness of the inner city and conversely attack the city. All soldiers and horses, go to...East or West."
Su Fengnuan said, "I'm not dead, so he doesn't believe that Feng is here. Therefore, he will definitely not take people to the eastern border and the king of Xiangjun. If he takes soldiers and horses to the west, it is not necessarily true. After all, the distance between Beijing and the city The West is too far away, and Guanshan is handed over. Once we know that he has gone to the West, we will not let him take the soldiers and horses to the West and meet with the North Zhou soldiers. Therefore, the greatest possibility is that she will win After surpassing the soldiers and horses of the Jinglu Soldiers and Horses Camp, they then turned to attack the southern Qi capital."
Xu Yun said immediately, "If this is the case, we must immediately find a way to prevent him from taking the soldiers and horses of the Jinglu soldiers and horses camp, otherwise he will have nearly 200,000 soldiers and horses in his hands. If this is the case, we will be in the inner city. There are only less than 20,000 soldiers and horses, and the capital is in danger."
Su Fengnuan nodded, "Yes, I can't let him succeed." When the words fell, she immediately said to Ye Chang, "You are with Yunchu, go to the palace, immediately ring the alarm bell, and urge the civil and military officials to go to court. Take out the imperial edict and declare your identity. In addition, make the prime minister's crimes clear to the world." After the words fell, he said, "I will order people to light the beacon tower again."
Ye Chang frowned, "Are you going out of the city?"
Su Feng Nuan nodded, "I will help Uncle Wen, and I will definitely not let the eldest prince succeed."
Ye Chang said, "No, if as we expected, the most dangerous outside the city is now. The prince has soldiers and horses in his hands, you can't go."
Su Fengnuan shook his head, "Don't worry, with my martial arts, even in the ten thousand army, he won't let him find me. I will accompany you to live a hundred years, and nothing will happen. Now I am in a hurry, Ye Chang, can’t tolerate children’s love, can’t tolerate indecision. You said to the prime minister that you will return a flourishing age of Changan in five years, so let him see. Even if he plans everything, he can be crushed by us. When he went to Huangquan, he would not be as he wished."
Ye Chang gritted his teeth and said, "Okay!"
Su Fengnuan immediately stopped delaying, and flew out of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and soon left the capital for the Jinglu Bingma Camp.
Ye Chang and Xu Yunchu had a look at each other, and left the prime minister's mansion for the palace.