Chapter 112 Emperor’s Crisis
"Five Tianwu Realm people died, and three more were at the top of the Tianwu Realm. It was enough to make the Ximen family feel distressed for a long time."
After the battle, Chu Qingyan walked out of the carriage.
Chu Junyan stood on the carriage, holding the spear tightly in his hand, still maintaining the best fighting condition, and scanning the depths of the dark forest with his eyes.
After a long time, after the battlefield was cleaned up, Chu Junyan said softly:
"Continue to Jiangcheng."
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Soon the news came out that Chu Qingyan was attacked by bandits. Chu Junyan, who was in charge of Lingyan Mansion, was furious and immediately ordered soldiers from all counties and cities to go out to suppress the bandits. The struggle between Chu Junyan and the Ximen family really began.
These things have nothing to do with Li Yuan for the time being. During the next period of time, Li Yuan continued to go to various counties, treated the people leniently, and rewarded the soldiers. This greatly enhanced the prestige of King Chu, and the cohesion of the counties also slowly condensed. Under Xun Under the governance of Yu and Jia Xu, Lingyang Mansion is changing with a new look.
Just two months later, a piece of news shocked the Yu Dynasty.
When Emperor Yu went to court, he suddenly vomited blood and fell into a coma, causing panic among the ministers in the court.
At the same time, another news also shocked all the forces. Emperor Yu's last words before he fell into coma was to ask the four kings to return to the court!
That's right, King Xuan of Danzhou, King Ming of Yizhou, King Yu of Liangzhou, and King of Chu of Lingzhou.
As soon as this news came out, the originally chaotic border states calmed down and stopped attacking each other.
All the forces knew that Emperor Yu was seriously ill. It had been more than a year, and Emperor Yu could no longer hold on.
And now the crown prince has not been chosen yet, and the prince has not yet been decided!
If Emperor Yu died, the royal family would most likely fall into civil war.
Thinking of this possibility, many forces' eyes lit up.
Li Yuan also received instructions from the palace to return to Beijing quickly.
Prince Chu's Mansion, a small pavilion in the lake.
Li Yuan frowned, why would his father recruit four people into Kyoto at this time?
He has nothing in Lingzhou. King Xuan, King Ming, and King Yu have only been in the state for a long time. They are obviously fighting against other forces. Why should they be recruited back at such a critical moment?
Xun Yu, Jia Xu, Yuwen Chengdu, and Zhong Limei gathered in a small pavilion in the lake.
The entire Lingyang Mansion knew that King Chu trusted these four or four people the most.
Now these four men control the civil service and military respectively.
Xun Yu looked relaxed at this moment and poured a cup of hot tea for everyone.
"Your Highness, I think this is a good thing. Now the Ximen family and Chu Junyan are fighting fiercely. Under the strong pressure of the Ximen family, Chu Junyan has wrested a county from the Ximen family. Eight of the Ximen family have died. A strong person in the Tianwu Realm, half of the strong people in the Tianwu Realm are already dead, and three people from Chu Junyan’s side are also dead.”
"The Ximen family has invited the Lieyan Sect and Zhongyi Hall to enter Lingyan Mansion to deal with Chu Junyan together.
If His Highness leaves now, the only worry between them disappears and the battle will become even more brutal.
Although I don’t know what the situation is like in other states, I can feel that after the return of the four kings, the power of each state will become clearer. "
Jia Xu took the hot tea handed over by Xun Yu, smiled and nodded to him, and then said:
"Even His Highness thinks His Majesty Yu's move is a bit confusing. What about the other forces? But now it's just the three kings who have returned to the court. Their forces are still in the states. They have a lot of talents. When the three kings leave, their counselors can completely Taking advantage of the opponent's contempt to give the various forces in the original alliance a taste of the sweetness, while conceding some benefits, while designing to create gaps within them."
Jia Xu narrowed his eyes, smiled slightly, and continued:
"Why do they resist the three kings? It's just for profit. Who doesn't want to be strong? If they solve the three kings, they will be their opponents!"
"The alliance is the strongest at the beginning, but if there are disagreements at the beginning, it will be much easier to deal with in the future."
"If the three kings are here, this strategy will be difficult to succeed. But when the three kings are gone and they are likely to fall into the crown prince's storm, this strategy will become easier."
Li Yuan nodded, this was the only thing that could be done now, and then he ordered:
"Wen Ruo, you and Zhong Lizhen will guard Lingyang Mansion. Wen He and Chengdu will return to the capital with me."
"Here!"
Four people responded at the same time.
Lingyang Mansion was guarded by Xun Yu and Zhong Limei, so Li Yuan felt relieved.
After the four people left, Zhao Gao's dark red figure slowly appeared.
"Zhao Gao, I asked you to detect the situation in Lingyuan Mansion adjacent to Lingyang Mansion. How about it?"
Zhao Gao lowered his head and couldn't see his expression clearly, but he could hear his excitement from his voice.
"Your Highness, the net has successfully infiltrated Lingyuan Mansion, but its effect is very small now. It only takes a little more time to figure out the distribution of the situation in each county."
"Okay, I hope to see a chaotic Lingyuan Mansion when I come back."
"Wei Chen understands!" Zhao Gao's eyes flashed, and he understood what Li Yuan meant.
Let the various forces in Lingyuan Prefecture and the three major forces resent each other, and take the opportunity to recruit a group of forces to prepare for the next attack on Lingyuan Prefecture.
Framing, assassination, hating... stimulating the hatred between the two forces, this set of procedures, Zhao Gao is very familiar with!
When the news of Li Yuan's departure from Lingyang Mansion came out the next day, it indeed attracted the attention of various forces in Lingzhou.
To the west of Lingzhou, Lingyan Mansion and Jiangyan County have been controlled by Chu Junyan. Fengyu City, Fengyan County, adjacent to Jiangyan County, is in the city lord's palace.
Wu Yong sat high on the main seat with a gentle smile. On the side, Lord Zhang of Fengyu City huddled in his chair, looking at Wu Yong above him in horror.
"City Lord Zhang, you don't want Sheriff Feng Yan to know that your son accidentally killed his son."
City Lord Zhang's round head immediately shook his head.
Ximen Linhui, the governor of Fengyan County, is from the Ximen family. If he finds out, their family will be doomed.
On the side, Zhang Shan, the son of City Lord Zhang, knelt in the middle of the lobby and cried loudly:
"Father, Ximen Shenyuan wanted to kill me because of an oiran. If Lord Wu Yong hadn't taken action last night, I would have died at the hands of Ximen Shenyuan. I didn't want to kill him at first, but last night my mind was empty and I was so angry that I died. Plunged the dagger into his chest."
Ximen Shenyuan is the son of Ximen Linhui.
Facing Zhang Shan's cries, City Lord Zhang had no time to think about why Ximen Shenyuan would kill Zhang Shan. The water here was too deep, and they just wanted to live.
Ximen Linhui sent Ximen Shenyuan to Fengyu City because he was afraid that City Lord Zhang would seek refuge with Chu Junyan.
But there is no need to be afraid now.
Chu Junyan has made up his mind and no one can stop him!
"Mr. Wu, what should we do now?"
City Lord Zhang looked at Wu Yong very urgently.
"City Lord Zhang, you made a very smart choice. If you choose to join us alone, it will only arouse deeper hostility from the Ximen family. It would be better if you could get a few more City Lords to join us and share some of their attention with you."
City Lord Zhang's eyes lit up and he said quickly: "Mr. Wu, I know there are two City Lords who can win over!"
Wu Yong's eyes flashed and his smile became gentler:
"Then we'll earn them!"