When Cheng Yong waved his sabre and cut off the head of the steed, Li Ze and his party also arrived at the gate of Zhenzhou City in a mighty manner.

Li Ze opened the window of the carriage, reached out to the window, caught a few flying snowflakes, and watched the edelixirs turn into crystal water droplets in his hand, but he clenched his fists and withdrew his hand. He whispered: "Go to the city!"

The ruts pressed against the snow. With the creaking sound, a large group of people entered the city one by one, heading towards the other palaces.

In the palace, Xianglan was lined with soft armor and a cotton skirt. She sat next to the table, and there was a long knife out of the sheath.

"Madam, Li Ze has entered the city and is coming towards the other palace. Liu Ruyan, Xia He, Cao Xin, Yang Kai, and Guo Fengxiao were walking with him. Zhang Hui was here to greet him, but he did not see Li Anmin and Gongsun Changming. Also, he did not see the cripple Tian Bo."

"It doesn't matter if you don't have these two." Xiang Lan said coldly, turning to Xiang Qi and said, "You go to the gate of the West Courtyard. If Li Ze wants to come to pay homage to the emperor, it means that the emperor is too sad, has been infected with the cold, and has been infected with the wind and cold, even I will be infected. Jin Yuan and the others have seen it, and Li Ze should know that this is true. People like him are extremely precious to their bodies, so they will naturally not come here."

"Madam, what if he insists on coming?"

"Stop him and say that Li Xiang is a country's Gancheng. We dare not take the risk of causing Li Xiang to be infected with a serious disease, so please ask Li Xiang to visit the body of the Supreme Emperor first. When Your Majesty is in better health, please invite Li Xiang to meet!" Xiang Lan said.

"I know!" Xiang Qi straightened up, looked at Xiang Lan with some flickering eyes, turned around suddenly, and walked out.

At the same time, in the yamen of the commander of the Zhenzhou Neiwei, Gongsun Changming and Tian Bo were both sitting at the table, drinking tea slowly.

"Sir, commander, everything has been arranged." Yan Si stood in front of the two of them in full arms and bowed.

"Where has Li Xiang been?" Gongsun Changming asked.

"At this time, you must have arrived outside the other palace." Yan Si said.

Gongsun Changming and Tian Bo looked at each other, Tian Bo stood up and said sternly: "I'll order the inner guard to arrest people without any leaks. All of them must be arrested."

"As for your order!" Yan Si turned around and walked out of the house, took out a bamboo tube from his arms, shook the fire stick and lit it. With a slight sound, a firework rushed into the night sky and bloomed brilliantly in the snow-flying night sky. Countless colorful sparks fell one after another in the night sky.

Since the death of the Supreme Emperor, Zhenzhou City has entered a curfew. As soon as it was dark, people other than patrols were no longer allowed to go to the streets. At this time, the entire extremely quiet Zhenzhou suddenly came to life. Teams of soldiers, inner guards, and Weiwei Temple drove out from all over the place, and then rushed straight towards targets that had been anchored.

When Li Ze stepped on the high steps of the palace, he happened to see the fireworks blooming in the night sky. He smiled slightly, stepped over the threshold of the palace, and walked inside.

The road in front of me is divided into two parts, one on the left, one on the west courtyard, where the emperor is now resting, and one on the right, the mourning hall where the body of the Supreme Emperor is placed.

Without any hesitation, Li Ze walked straight towards the road on the left.

In front of the gate of the West Courtyard, Xiang Qi bowed his head to block the door.

Li Ze stopped in front of the west courtyard, looked at Xiang Qi, and said with a smile: "Please report back to Your Majesty, Li Ze asks for a meeting."

Xiang Qi looked up at Li Ze, but quickly lowered his head and whispered: "Li Xiang, Your Majesty is infected with wind and cold. Why is it serious? Typhoid fever is a serious disease. Li Xiang is an important official of the country. Your Majesty said that he dare not let Li Xiang be at risk of infection. He also asked Li Xiang to go to the Emperor's Mourning Hall first. When Your Majesty is in good health, he would invite Li Xiang to meet him."

Li Ze smiled and said, "Your Majesty is ill. I am both the prime minister and the teacher of your Majesty. It is reasonable to go to visit. If you don't go, it's not reasonable."

Xiang Qi was stuttering, but he didn't say anything.

Liu Ruyan, who was on the side, took a step forward impatiently, reached out and pressed Xiang Qi's shoulder and pushed it sharply, "Get out of the way."

Xiang Qi staggered and took a few steps back, but he was about to leave the passage.

Li Ze stopped talking and walked inward. When the other guards saw Xiang Qi move out of the way, they didn't know what to do for a moment, but they watched Li Ze and others rush in.

Behind them, Xiang Qi took a deep breath, but suddenly turned around and headed in the other direction. After walking a few steps, one of them came up and said to him: "General Xiang, please come with me."

"My family is still in Lingnan. You have promised to pick them up." Xiang Qi gritted his teeth. "How are they now?"

The visitor nodded: "Of course. Your family should have left Lingnan and reached a safe place, but General Xiang, you cannot meet them now. You also know that after this matter, you still need to come out to testify."

Xiang Qi shivered, "If I dare to appear publicly after this incident, Xiang will kill me at all costs."

"Kill someone in our hands?" The visitor sneered, "Who does he have to have the ability? General Xiang, you are also very clear that if you do things, you must do it to the end and do things in a perfect way. In this way, you will have a foothold and be unsteady, which is not a good thing. You know how we treat you, and you will never use up your money in your life, and we will also protect your family. When this matter is completely over, you will have a brand new identity. At that time, you will go wherever you want and do whatever you want!"

Xiang Qi stopped talking, as the man said, he had no way out.

After Li Ze stepped into the West Courtyard, he did not rush into it. Instead, he stood in front of the door and watched teams of personal guards pouring in with arms. In an instant, he completely controlled the West Courtyard. Even the roof was covered with soldiers holding crossbows.

In the west courtyard, Xiang Lan's personal guard saw that the situation was not good, immediately wanted to draw his sword to fight back. However, in the west courtyard, there were only a hundred Xiang guards, who were not opponents of the Tang army in a large group, were knocked over to the ground in an instant, tied up and dragged them out one by one.

In less than a cup of tea, the entire western courtyard was left with a knife on the stairs and pale faces. Xiang Lan and several personal guards watched Li Ze walk with great fear and anger.

"Li Ze, do you want to kill the lord?" Xiang Lanti pointed at Li Ze and shouted loudly: "Your Majesty is in the room behind me. If you want to murder the emperor, you will step over my body."

Li Ze stopped and stared at Xiang Lan with interest. After a while, he said, "Xiang Lan, it's time. You are still covering up the truth and want to trick me into visiting the coffin of the Supreme Emperor in the East Courtyard. It's really amazing. Xiang Xun has you, a granddaughter, that's really amazing."

"What kind of trick? Should you still go to pay homage to the Supreme Emperor's coffin?" Xiang Lan said tremblingly.

Li Ze smiled slightly: "Since I've been here and since I have taken down all your guards, you should know that the things you have planned have been completely exposed. Since they have been exposed, what's the use of saying these things now?"

Speaking of this, Li Ze walked back and forth in the yard with his hands on his back, looked at the East Courtyard, and smiled and said, "When I went to pay homage to the Supreme Emperor's coffin, five barrels of turbulent oil buried underground exploded with a loud bang, causing the body of the Supreme Emperor, me, and the many ministers behind me to collapse into heaven?"

With a sound, he fell to the ground at the steel knife in Lan's hand.

Li Ze shook his head: "You want to do such a thing in Zhenzhou. I have to say that it is really a bit whimsical. What is this place? It is Zhenzhou. It can be said that it is my Li Ze's nest! But this idea is really genius. I have to say that you have a lot of ideas."

"I can't understand what you said at all!" Xiang Lan took a deep breath and said with his head raised.

Li Ze walked forward a few steps: "What are you waiting for? Are you waiting for the secrets of the Xiang elites gathered from Lingshou Farm? Tell you, they can't come. Cheng Delang rode halfway waiting for them. At this moment, I think the battle should have ended, and there is no chance of these people surviving."

Although Xiang Lan still held her head up, her body trembled became bigger and bigger.

"Did you see the fireworks blooming in the night sky just now?" Li Ze continued: "That was Gongsun Changming's order to close the net and arrest the remaining remnants of your city in Zhenzhou. Did you hear the sound of horse hooves? It was our army searching and chasing these people. So, in Zhenzhou, the only people around you can help you! Are you still going to fight for a while?"

Hearing Li Ze's words, several guards beside Xiang Lan suddenly roared wildly, and with a knife, he jumped off the steps and ran towards Li Ze.

Li Ze shook his head slightly, behind him, the sound of crossbow arrows was endless, and several guards who rushed towards him were shot like hedgehogs in the blink of an eye and fell to the ground.

Li Ze looked at Xiang Lan and said, "Xiang Lan, you are also a famous family and a person with status. At this time, you still don't admit defeat. You still want to resist stubbornly and then be knocked down in the dust and tied up in dust? That would be bad!"

Xiang Lan stared at Li Ze hard but said nothing.

Liu Ruyan waved her hand, and the two female guards behind her immediately ran up, cutting Xiang Lan's hands back and bound her arms. Xiang Lan did not resist any more.

Seeing Xiang Lan being held hostage by two female guards, Li Ze then stepped onto the steps, walked to Xiang Lan, looked at her side, and smiled: "I'll go and see how many people you have found look like Li Ke?"
Chapter completed!