ebookland Chapter 666: The civil strife in Jinling is settled!
Chapter 666: The civil strife in Jinling is settled!
The people became more and more indignant as they spoke.
"Although His Royal Highness Prince Su is in Da Chu and is now the Emperor of Da Chu, he possesses the backbone that we Daliang people should never lose!"
"He also helped us recapture the city. Your Highness still has Daliang in his heart."
"I heard about it. Many people in the court wanted to force His Royal Highness Prince Su to death, and even sent people to secretly assassinate His Royal Highness. His Royal Highness had no choice but to resort to this desperate measure, faking his own death to escape and find another way out."
"Besides, when the former Crown Prince plotted rebellion, Your Highness played a significant role. If he hadn't suddenly left Jinling and given up the position that was within his grasp...why would this Crown Prince still be around?"
"Shh—are you looking for death? How dare you say such nonsense?"
"Anyway, Nanjing has become a chaotic place where they fight each other. If I die, I die. After eighteen years, I can be a hero again!"
"Now that I think about it, if Daliang hadn't pushed His Royal Highness Prince Su into a desperate situation, Daliang wouldn't be humiliated by the Western Regions and still not dare to fight back."
"Today, it is our Daliang Kingdom that should be the one to attack their Western Regions!"
"Daliang is no longer the Daliang we once knew when the Pei family army was still here..."
The people had already completely lost hope in the entire Duan Dynasty.
However, the court was still eager to fight for power and profit, and did not take seriously the impetuous public sentiment aroused by Duan Rongshi.
Princess Xiyue and Crown Prince Duan Rongjue were both eager to completely settle the issue of the throne.
The prince did not send troops, which eventually angered the eldest princess.
The eldest princess secretly contacted the Panqi army, with whom she had already colluded, and broke into the palace one day, intending to kidnap the still-dead Emperor Yan and launch a complete rebellion.
But when she broke into the bedroom, she was dumbfounded.
Where is Emperor Yan, who was originally under her strict supervision?
The palace maids and eunuchs were all gone.
The entire bedroom was empty as if no one had ever lived there.
The guards guarding the door were completely unaware of all this!
Xiyue panicked and quickly searched the palace.
Because her father is her only bargaining chip now!
If she couldn't control her father's life or death, she would lose her last trump card!
However, the Crown Prince had already made sufficient preparations. He sent out the Imperial Guards to surround the princess and the rebels. "Sister, where are you going?"
"Hand over our father immediately!"
Xiyue looked at her third brother Duan Rongjue, feeling extremely hateful.
"Duan Rongjue! It was clearly you who kidnapped our father, and now you're trying to turn the tables on me."
"The emperor cannot live without me, the witch doctor. You are not planning to kill me and then the emperor in rebellion, are you? You are so bold!"
Duan Rongjue sneered as he walked towards Xiyue: "I want to ask you, sister, what exactly do you want to do?"
"Your Majesty loves you so much and trusts you so much, the honor of making you the Princess of Daliang is not enough for you."
"You are a woman, yet you dare to covet my father's kingdom."
"Now you are holding my father back and refusing to let him ascend to heaven early. You want to use this to threaten me so that I can't touch you."
"Even the court has been stirred up by you! You have formed a clique for personal gain, colluded with powerful officials, and attempted to dethrone me from the position of Crown Prince."
"If the emperor really loved you, he would have deposed me and made you the crown princess long ago."
"Don't you understand yet?"
"Royal sister, I am the orthodox one. And you are a rebel!"
"You now have only one way out, which is death!"
The two of them fought for several years.
Until now, the winner has not been determined.
No one has patience anymore.
We must seize the throne quickly to stabilize the country.
Otherwise, if the border is attacked again, that would be the real internal and external troubles!
The Imperial Guards and the Panqi Army fought inside and outside the palace for three days and three nights.
In the end, Duan Rongjue, who was more shrewd and had made sufficient preparations, won by a narrow margin.
The princess fled out of the city with hundreds of defeated Rock Army soldiers and disappeared.
Duan Rongjue naturally wanted to kill her, so the entire Jinling City was once again in a bloody storm...
However, after ten days, not only was there no trace of the eldest princess, but even Emperor Yan had completely disappeared.
Naturally, the witch doctor from the Western Regions also disappeared.
The prince suspected that Xiyue had hidden the person again.
He was so angry that he massacred everyone in the princess's mansion.
Including the son-in-law and the two princesses' sons.
Even the three clans of the prince consort were arrested.
"No one is found alive, and no body is found dead. It seems that the emperor has been hidden."
"This Xiyue is such a wicked bitch with evil intentions!"
"My father has disappeared without a trace, and I am unable to ascend the throne legitimately."
"Search, keep searching!"
"But in ten days, if I still can't find my father... I will take the next step on my own!"
The next step the prince mentioned was to forge the corpse of Emperor Yan.
The corpse was already rotten and full of maggots, and the face was unrecognizable.
He put on the yellow robe and said he was Emperor Yan. Who would dare to say he was not?
He secretly issued a death order that if there was any news about Emperor Yan again, he would be killed without mercy!
It was just right, he could also use this opportunity to lure Xiyue out, then kill two birds with one stone and completely solve his biggest worry!
Power ultimately drives people completely crazy.
The Third Prince, who once swore to die rather than submit to the Lotus Sect, is now obsessed with power and has completely abandoned human ethics and humanity.
However, just as the prince was walking towards the throne wearing the dragon robe, he was only one step away when the gate of Jinling was easily breached by the Wan family army from outside.
"The Crown Prince is plotting treason!"
"Your Majesty is still alive, and the Crown Prince faked the death of the True Dragon to ascend the throne. This is a capital crime of usurping the throne!"
"The Wanjia Army has received orders from His Majesty to capture the Crown Prince!"
"Prince, please confess your crime immediately—"
Upon hearing the name of the Wan Family Army, the prince fell down on the stairs leading to the throne.
The day when the former crown prince plotted rebellion was the day when the Wan family army appeared and set the overall situation.
Afterwards, the Wan family army retired after completing their mission and returned to garrison in the northern border.
Over the years, he has been law-abiding and has made almost no noise.
In order to win over the Wan family army, the prince even married the granddaughter of General Wan as his concubine.
Even so, the Wan Family Army has never supported or opposed the Crown Prince, but the Crown Prince thought that with the in-laws, the Wan Family Army should be considered as one of his factions, right?
But now the Wan family army actually stabbed him in the back!
"Wan old dog! You've let me down!!"
The prince was so angry that he spat out blood.
When he urgently summoned the Imperial Guards to protect him again, the Imperial Guards surrounded the court instead.
Commander Wu Wei came out.
"Your Highness, please confess your guilt."
The prince then understood that even the Imperial Guards did not truly belong to him!
"you--"
"Wu Wei, don't forget, I married your sister!"
Wu Wei: "If you hadn't forced me to marry you, why would my sister have to be someone else's concubine?"
"You wanted to completely win me over and do such a disgusting thing. Do you think our Wu family should be grateful to you?"
"My sister had a good marriage prospect already! It's your arrogance that ruined her life!"
"Don't worry, once you confess your crime, Your Highness, I will use all my merits to ensure my sister's safety."
"My master will promise this!"
After saying that, Wu Wei waved his hand.
The Imperial Guards surrounded all the members of the prince's party.
The prince stood up with a pale face, drew his sword from the side and pointed it at Wu Wei.
"If you want to take me, then step over me!"
Of course Wu Wei would not let him die.
After a fierce battle, Duan Rongjue was ultimately defeated by the martial arts of the Forbidden City's number one master, and was pinned to the ground in a mess with his disheveled hair.
The Wan family army broke into the palace and quickly took control of the situation.
"Welcome His Majesty, return to the palace——"
Emperor Yan was carried back to the palace with his last breath.
The person serving him was the witch doctor who disappeared together.
Duan Rongjue then realized that this witch doctor was not from Xiyue at all.
Did he betray?
Or was he not really Xiyue's pawn from the beginning?
However, now he had no answer and could only shout unwillingly: "You are the ones plotting treason!"
"You are the traitors who falsely conveyed our father's order!"
"Father has long been unable to speak, how can he give you oral instructions?"
"You are the ones who deceived the world—"
General Wan sneered, "Crown Prince...oh no, Your Highness the Third Prince, please be careful with your words."
"It is a fact that you attempted to usurp the throne, and it is also true that Your Majesty has now regained his voice."
"Your Majesty, whom I personally serve, how could this be false?"
Duan Rongjue's eyes were filled with hatred. "Wan, you old dog! Do you think that if you drive our descendants of the Duan family apart and turn them into fratricide, you can ascend the throne with your young son and control the country?"
"Don't even think about it!!"
"Duan Rongshi will definitely not sit idly by. He will definitely come back to kill you and make you, an old dog, behead you and restore peace to the land of Daliang—"
General Wan: "You also know that His Royal Highness Prince Su will come back."
"Why bother trying so hard to get to that position?"
"Don't worry, Third Prince."
"Even if my granddaughter gave birth to your child under your scheme, that child would never sit in that high and lonely position."
"As for your concubine, she is the granddaughter of the old minister."
"In the future, they will follow me back to the Northern Frontier to live a good life with me and my son."
"I will never return to Jinling."
"Third Prince, please stay in the prison and wait for your punishment!"
General Wan waved his hand domineeringly, and Duan Rongjue, who was shocked and puzzled, was immediately dragged away.
"Who are you doing this for?"
"Who are you loyal to, anyway—?"
"Wan old dog—you will not die well—"
General Wan's eyes were filled with disdain: "You can't even guess this, you're so stupid!"
"If Your Highness didn't urgently need troops, there would be no need to confront you so soon. What's wrong with letting you roam around for another two years?"
"Power really does harm people beyond recognition."
"Now that Daliang has become like this, and you're still fighting here all day long, fighting for an empty shell and losing the people's support, won't the country be destroyed soon?"
"If it weren't for the Duan family's Prince Su, they would be completely hopeless."
"Someone is coming——"
"Quickly assemble the three armies, deploy troops, and send 300,000 troops to the border!"
"The Western Regions are unkind, and Heaven lacks humanity! Bullying Daliang and humiliating our Daliang princess is unforgivable. The two tribes have forged an irreconcilable feud!"
"Today, His Majesty has issued an order to send troops to attack the Western Regions—"
"To avenge the humiliation of our country—"
"Welcome back——His Royal Highness Prince Su——"
This battle lasted from the winter of last year to the spring of this year, and then to the autumn.
In the blink of an eye, winter has arrived again.
Although the winter in Mantuo City is hard to endure, Li Qingluo has lived here for a year and has become accustomed to it.
When she came back from outside, Dong'er immediately stepped forward and helped her untie her cloak.
"Your Highness, the Highness has received the letter."
Ever since Duan Rongshi led his troops to attack the Western Regions three months ago, Li Qingluo has been defending Mantuo City alone.
Today, Mantuo City is peaceful.
The entire city was well-managed and prosperous.
One month after Li Qingluo gave birth to the princess, Duan Rongshi held a relatively simple ceremony to crown her queen in Mantuo City.