The King of Qin had been away at war all year round, so he was not familiar with these concubines, and had been offended by the Luoyang Treasury incident before. The prince often walked around, presented treasures, and often let Zhang Jieyu and Yin Defi blow pillows at Liang Gaozu's side.

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Therefore, it is true that the prince often visited the palace of the two noble concubines. In addition, the two noble concubines also kept saying good things about the prince in Liang Gaozu's ears. This made Liang Gaozu also suspicious and felt that there seemed to be something wrong with this matter.

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Of course, it is impossible to convict him for this, after all, the King of Qin did not produce any really strong evidence.

This matter still has to wait until the prince and the concubine explain themselves to each other before the truth can come to light.

Therefore, relying on "Taibai meets Qin" and "the prince is having fornication with the harem", the prince and the King of Qin ended up in a draw in this incident.

Seeing that there would be no results, Liang Gaozu decided to let King Qin go back first. Early tomorrow morning, he would summon the prince and King Qi to confront King Qin together.

When the time comes, whether the prince has had an affair with the harem, and what happened when Taibai saw Qin Fen, they will all be resolved in the court.

With this counterattack, King Qin not only bought himself an extra night, but also gained the opportunity to intercept the prince and King Qi at the Xuanwu Gate at the same time.

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After King Qin returned to his mansion, countless light spots immediately became busy.

Li Hongyun saw many discussions about the Xuanwu Gate Change, which basically focused on the details of the Xuanwu Gate Change.

But in fact, the real coup process is often simple and straightforward.

After all, very complex conspiracies and conspiracies often exist in literary and artistic works, while conspiracies and conspiracies in reality are simple and direct.

Because conspiracies always require people to execute them, the more complex the plot, the higher the requirements for execution, and anyone in it may have problems.

Therefore, the key to a conspiracy is simplicity, directness, and efficiency, and in order to ensure this, efforts must be made in daily preparations.

Judging from the dense light spots in the Qin Palace, the preparations of the King of Qin are obviously much better than those of the Prince.

Of course, this does not mean that the prince was unprepared, or that the prince was at a disadvantage during the coup. In fact, the prince was the advantaged party.

The military strength of him and the King of Qi was overwhelming to the King of Qin.

The prince's private soldiers numbered more than 2,000, and they were named Changlin soldiers. In addition, the King of Qi should also have private soldiers. There is no historical record of how many, but there is a record that he "hid many warriors who were on the run and gave them generous gifts to make them

"Use". According to common sense, there should be at least several hundred people.

The King of Qin also had his own private soldiers, but their number was about seven to eight hundred.

Yuchi Jingde once said, "More than 800 warriors raised by King Su are now in the palace." This can be used as supporting evidence.

Eight hundred versus three thousand is obviously an absolute disadvantage in terms of military strength.

More importantly, the imperial army guarding the entire palace was still theoretically taking orders from Liang Gaozu.

If all these forbidden troops are included, then the gap in military strength between the two sides will be even greater.

Moreover, King Qin's goal was not just to use these 800 people to kill the prince and King Qi.

It is not difficult to kill the prince by ambush, but King Qin also has another important goal, which is to control Liang Gaozu.

Otherwise, if the prince and King of Qi were killed but failed to seize power from Liang Gaozu, the subsequent problems would be even more troublesome.

Therefore, the King of Qin actually only used a dozen or so men to ambush the Crown Prince and the King of Qi. The remaining men had to complete the task of controlling Liang Gaozu, intercepting the Imperial Army and the Crown Prince, and allowing the King of Qi to support the army.

Calculated in this way, King Qin's manpower was even more stretched.

But judging from the results, the process by which King Qin completed the Xuanwu Gate Change was as delicate as a surgical operation, without any accidents at all, and was even a little too simple.

This is obviously because King Qin's bargaining chip is not only on these 800 people, but he has already completed all the more important things in advance.

Li Hongyun saw countless light spots patrolling back and forth in the palace. Those were the imperial troops responsible for guarding the palace.

And when you observe them at close range, you can often see fragments of their memories popping up.

These memory fragments, almost without exception, are all about the heroic appearance of King Qin they saw when they followed King Qin to fight.

It is no longer just the obedience and trust of soldiers to their generals, but more like the admiration of ordinary people to gods.

When the civil war was basically calmed down, Liang Gaozu disbanded the imperial troops in Guanzhong.

Thirty thousand people were carefully selected from among the soldiers to form the Imperial Palace's Forbidden Army, which was responsible for guarding the safety of the entire palace. They also gave them the fertile fields next to Baiqu north of the Weishui River, and named them the "Yuan Cong Forbidden Army."

The selection of the Imperial Guards in past dynasties was the most stringent, and they were basically all sons of good families with innocent backgrounds or orphans of soldiers who died in battle.

There is no big problem with Liang Taizu's behavior. Basically, these soldiers in Guanzhong have made great contributions in the process of Liang Dynasty's conquering the world, and their ability and loyalty are full. It should be unreasonable to let them serve as the imperial army to guard the palace.

What big problem will there be?

But the only question Liang Gaozu didn't expect was: were they more loyal to the emperor or to the King of Qin?

According to historical records, as early as two years ago, in the seventh year of Wude, King Qin had already begun to win over these forbidden troops.

But the effect of this kind of wooing is actually not certain.

It was impossible for him to openly ask these forbidden troops: The king is going to rebel. Do you support me or the emperor? It is even less possible to reveal the specific details.

The gold and silver treasures were sent out, and the words were brought, but to what extent these forbidden troops could help him could only be known on the day of the incident.

Among the Forbidden Army, King Qin also focused on developing his own manpower.

There are fourteen guards in the imperial city. Among them, the King of Qin is the general of the twelve guards, which means he nominally leads the twelve guards such as the left and right guards, the left and right Xiao guards, the left and right Wuhou, the left and right tuns, and the left and right leaders.

But the problem is that although these twelve guards are nominally obedient to the King of Qin, the King of Qin cannot rely on them to launch a coup. This is because many of the twelve guards are more obedient to the emperor.

During a coup, the only people you can rely on are absolutely loyal private soldiers, that is, the eight hundred people.

As for the twelve guards, it is very likely that they will be unable to command on the day of the coup.

Moreover, it is difficult to bribe the people of the Twelve Guards, because they have to take turns, and the King of Qin himself is not sure when the coup will begin. If you bribe them all, there will be too many targets, and it will be very easy for the news to leak out.

Therefore, King Qin targeted the two guards he had no control over in name, namely the left and right prison guards.

The gatekeeper of the left prison is responsible for entering, while the guard of the right prison is responsible for exiting. When entering and exiting, one must check the door, whether there is permission to enter and leave the palace, and what to do when entering the palace. All these need to be carefully checked, otherwise the person will not be released.

In particular, Chang He's "Jian'er Changshang" has always been responsible for guarding the Xuanwu Gate.

Therefore, buying off Chang He is the most critical node for the Xuanwu Sect to succeed.

The reason why King Qin chose Xuanwu Gate to launch a coup was because except for some very important celebrations and festivals, the south gate of the palace was not open. If you want to enter the palace, you have to go through Xuanwu Gate in the north.

So since Chang He is so important, hasn't the prince ever thought of suborning him?

Of course I have thought about it, and in name, Chang He is still a close confidant of the prince and deeply trusted.

Therefore, the prince also thought that he was sure of victory. With Chang He, the Dinghai Needle, at the Xuanwu Gate, if anything happened, he would definitely inform him, so he could rest easy.

But in fact, Chang He had been on the expedition with the King of Qin as early as the second year of Wude. In the seventh year of Wude, he led the Xuanwumen and bribed the imperial army. He had always been a double agent who only obeyed the King of Qin.

As a result, the King of Qin had actually completely defeated the prince in Changhe and the Forbidden Army, but the prince still knew nothing about it.

That night, the palace of Prince Qin was brightly lit.

Although arrangements have been made in advance, it is still a very difficult task to gather all the people who support you overnight, formulate a complete and thorough plan, and ensure that no one leaks the secret.

In the previous struggle, the prince and the king of Qi were not idle either.

Although they were unsuccessful in falsely accusing Yuchi Jingde and the generals under the King of Qin and were fished out by the King of Qin, they also continued to slander and asked Liang Gaozu to dismantle the configuration of the Qin King's palace.

For example, counselors such as Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui have been transferred out of the Qin Palace by Liang Gaozu.

Executing the Xuanwumen Incident requires a complete and careful plan, taking into account all trends and situations. This is rebellion, not a child's play. If there is a problem in any link, these people will probably die.

Therefore, the King of Qin had asked Yuchi Jingde to invite Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and others in advance.

Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui disagreed for the first time, saying that His Majesty's decree prohibits us from serving the King of Qin anymore, and we cannot accept the King's teachings, otherwise we will definitely be convicted and die.

So the King of Qin was furious and asked Yuchi Jingde to go forward with his sword. So Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui put on Taoist clothes and entered the Prince of Qin's palace.

These people began to intensively prepare for tomorrow's action in Prince Qin's Mansion.

On the other hand, looking at the side of the Crown Prince and King Qi, it was a completely different scene.

The entire Prince's Mansion has actually been infiltrated by the King of Qin like a sieve. For example, Wang Hao, the leader of the East Palace, has been bribed by the King of Qin. Previously, the Prince and the King of Qi wanted to assassinate the King of Qin in Kunming Pool, and it was he who came to inform the King of Qin.

While alert, he also quickly started planning.

The night before the Xuanwumen Incident, the prince and King Qi were still not alert at all.

They got the news from sources they trusted and believed that King Qin would not lead troops into the city tomorrow, so they did not take too many precautions.

Zhang Jieyu even hurriedly came to the East Palace, called King Qi, and told the prince and King Qi that King Qin had sued them in front of Liang Gaozu today, and asked them to pretend to be sick tomorrow and not enter the palace, and to rectify the army to prevent unexpected events.

But the prince and King Qi didn't believe it.

Looking back in hindsight, the prince and King Qi lost the most precious opportunity to change history, but based on the analysis of the situation at the time, it was reasonable for them to make such a decision.

Because Zhang Jieyu was just guessing without any convincing evidence.

What's more, the prince and the king of Qi did not only have information through Zhang Jieyu, they also had many other channels to get information.

The information they got from these channels made them think that King Qin did not dare to take action in the palace, so they made such a decision.

Obviously, this is not just a coincidence, but a huge gap between the intelligence systems and popular support of both sides.
Chapter completed!