Chapter 743: Rebellion (22,000/100,000)

The Imperial Study.

Yongxing Emperor unfolded the paperwork, scrutinized the “agreement” between the two sides, the content of the agreement is complicated, involving a lot of details, the first condition remains unchanged:

Since the first year of Yongxing, Dafeng has been paying an annual tribute of 500,000 taels of silver and 600,000 pieces of silk to Yunzhou.

Extensions, changes in rules:

In the first year only 150,000 taels of tribute and 300,000 pieces of silk were required, which had to be paid back in the following year.

The second condition remains unchanged, after the peace talks are over, the court of the Great Feng shall immediately send out a residence report towards the government offices of various places, recognizing the lineage of Yunzhou as the orthodox lineage of the Central Plains and posting notices to inform the world of it.

The third condition, the longest tug of war.

For its part, Yunzhou demanded that the court cede Yongzhou, Yuzhou, and Zhangzhou.

Yongzhou is further north, is the capital city boundary, so Yongzhou is impossible to cede, this is a matter of principle.

During the negotiation process, Ji Yuan once again pressurized with the Cloud State Transcendent Powers, but this time it didn’t work, the Minister of Rites and the Secretary of the Honglu Temple were dead set on not relenting.

Yuzhou and Zhangzhou, the former is rich in iron ore resources, the latter is one of the three major granaries of the Dafeng, if these two continents were ceded to the Yunzhou rebels, one can imagine what would happen.

But after Yongzhou was saved, Yuzhou and Zhangzhou had to be ceded, and geographically speaking, these two states were still quite far from the capital, and not as deadly as Yongzhou.

The fourth condition, Supervising Zheng’s Alchemy Handbook.

Yongxing Emperor yesterday has sent people to the Secretary for Heavenly Supervision to get, unexpectedly, the Secretary for Heavenly Supervision of the Song Qing is very painful to give out.

Painfully as if it were not a relic of the deceased master.

“Your Majesty, although the peace talks were successfully concluded, the Yunzhou rebels are wolves and cannot be trusted.”

The aged King Lili, who was also in the imperial study at the moment, was the only one present who was given a seat.

“Don’t worry, Uncle!”

The Yongxing Emperor’s face finally had a few moments of his old smile on it, and he said in a relaxed tone:

“I have long since discussed this matter with all the princes, and after sending off the Yunzhou envoys, I will personally look for Xu Yinluo and ask him to go to the Southern Border to bring in reinforcements. Both the Companions and the Demons have quite a few transcendent powerhouses. Let Xu Yinluo invite them here.

“In another month there will be the Spring Festival, and after the Spring Festival, the earth will return to spring, the cold plague can be solved, and the situation will definitely get better.”

King Calendar nodded slightly as he heard this:

“This king heard that some days ago, His Majesty and Xu Yinluo had a bad time?”

Emperor Yongxing waved his hand:

“Small things only, I usually respect him three times, but the state affairs, I have my own ideas. Do not allow him to show off his courage.”

As for the matter of moving rescuers, Emperor Yongxing did not think at all about how Xu Qi’an could be invited, whether it was difficult or not, it seemed that everything was what Xu Qi’an should do.

Just like he developed the Companions and Demons into allies.

King Knight let out a “hmm”, his face slightly relaxed, and slowly said:

“So Your Majesty had a plan already, then this king is relieved.”

What is the Yongxing Emperor’s idea, just said clearly, first negotiate peace, stabilize the rebels, and then let Xu Yinluo open his face to ask for assistance from the southern border allies. At the same time waiting for the spring to subside the cold plague.

King Knight had likewise not considered the difficulty of the task.

……….

Outside the city gates, six horsemen galloped furiously, cloaked and mounted on fast horses, whistling through the gates.

Entering the city gates, the speed of the horses sharply reduced, the leader of the horse halted the reins of the horse and looked back at the city wall.

His face was stiff and lacked expression, like he was carved out of stone.

Yang Yan!

After the Chuzhou massacre, Yang Yan stayed there, and the court appointed him as the Generalissimo of Chuzhou and Commander of Chuzhou.

Even after Wei Yuan’s death, he stayed there in Chuzhou and never returned to the capital.

“Gather all the brothers lurking in the capital and wait for orders.” Yang Yan turned his head sideways and looked at the subordinate on his left.

“Yes!”

The subordinate clasped his hands together, then tugged on the horse’s reins and, with a gentle tug, separated himself from the group and galloped off toward another road.

Righteous father was not able to help the fourth prince to ascend to the throne during his lifetime, and now, it is time for us to take charge of this faction……….. Yang Yan moved his line of sight, following the spacious main road, looking out in the direction of the palace.

………..

The night watchman’s office.

The four golden gongs were gathered together with the doors and windows closed.

Golden gong Zhao Jin stared at the silver gong Song Tingfeng across from him, narrowed his eyes, and said:

“Did Xu Yinluo really say that?”

Hsu Yin Gong has become a title rather than an official position.

In Da Bong, if you say the word “Xu Yinluo”, everyone knows who you are referring to.

Song Tingfeng laughed:

“Now that the Central Plains are in turmoil and the imperial court is in crisis, whether or not several Golden Gongs can seize the opportunity in this flood depends on today’s choice.

“Ning Yan is Duke Wei’s disciple, and the four lords are also friends with him and not strangers to him, so I’m not afraid that he’ll screw you over. Besides, to speak a word of treason, nowadays in Da Feng, who has the most promising future to serve?

“Not the one sitting in the Golden Palace, wagging his tail at the Cloud State rebels, but my brother.”

Zhao Jin and the other three Golden Gongs looked at each other and pondered for a moment:

“Why didn’t Xu Yinluo come himself?”

Song Tingfeng didn’t answer, but took out a note:

“You will naturally know after reading it.”

Zhao Jin took it, unfolded the note and glanced at it, first commenting with a sigh of relief:

“It’s his handwriting.”

Then the eyes glazed over and stared at the paper for a long time.

Zhao Jin took a deep breath and suppressed the excitement that was churning within him, and without moving, he handed the note to the other three gongs, and after passing it around, he said:

“You reply to Xu Yinluo, as long as he didn’t lie to me, I, Zhao Jin, can give him this life, but we need to meet with him.”

………..

Stagecoach.

Ji Yuan held the voice transmission phallus and said:

“Boring!

“The young emperor of the Dafeng is boring, the courtiers are boring, and the students of the State Academy are even more boring.

“I heard that when the body of the Zhenbei King was transported back to the capital, Yuan Jing closed the palace and did not see the hundred officials, and there was a concubine scholar named Xu Xinnian, who blocked the noon gate and cursed from morning to night, cursing Yuan Jing for compromising to open the door.

“It is a pity that I did not see this son in the courtroom, nor did I see him in the negotiations; perhaps he is inferior in rank and not qualified to debate with me on the same case.”

About Xu Xinxin’s matter, he had heard occasional private mutterings about it from the negotiations in the past few days:

That Yunzhou from the boy sharp-tongued, if the Hanlin Academy Xu adults can come, will scold him on the spot crying, obediently rolled back to Yunzhou.

Ge Wenxuan’s laughter came from the Transmission Spell:

“Then you’re afraid you won’t have the chance to see it, this person, Xu New Year, is Xu Qi’an’s cousin, Yuanfang and Yuanhuai’s cousin.

“He wasn’t in the capital, but fought with the Da Bong army in Qingzhou, well, after Qingzhou was lost, he was slashed by Zhuo Haoran, and his life and death are unknown.”

Ji Yuan tsked and shook his head:

“A scholar, taking a hard hit from General Zhuo, I’m afraid he’ll be in a bad way. Not to mention him, General Ge, that Xu hasn’t shown up so far.”

Ge Wenxuan pondered for a moment and said:

“It seems to be similar to what we guessed before, that Surname Xu is at his wits’ end and has acquiesced to the peace talks, thinking to buy time to survive the winter and then ask for help from the Southern Border.”

This was something that could be easily reasoned out, the Da Feng Transcendent Warriors were in short supply, all of them were of the third rank, and it was simply impossible to compete with the first and second ranked powerhouses.

And when one reaches the Transcendent Realm, starting from the third rank, it would be difficult to advance any further.

Those with poor qualifications, like the martial arts ally Kou Yangzhou, who was barely promoted in five hundred years to become a second-ranked martial artist.

Those with top qualifications, such as the State Master and Luo Yuheng’s stream, were second grade at a young age, but they had also been stuck in the second grade realm for a full twenty years.

Since he couldn’t rely on his own promotion to level up his battle power in the short term, asking for help was Xu Qi’an’s only option.

Ji Yuan snorted:

“The Southern Border Compass Clan is limited by the power of the Compass God, making it difficult to give birth to a first-rate, and of the seven divisions, only the Heavenly Compass Granny is a second-rate, yet she’s not good at fighting. The Southern Demon’s transcendent powerhouses are even more pitifully scarce.

“It is unlikely that that dreadful corpse will leave the Southern Border, and it is possible that the Nine-Tailed Sky Fox will intervene in the battle for the Central Plains, but if she comes to the Central Plains, then the Western Regions will not be held back, and a portion of her forces can be divided to attack the Central Plains.

“In fact, the only variable is in the Witch God Cult, after Nalan Tianlu got out of the trap, the Witch God Cult had a great sorcerer, a rainmaker.

“It would be a bit of a headache for them to ally with Da Bong.”

“Ninth Prince is smart.” Ge Wenxuan said with a smile:

“I think so too, but my teacher said to ignore the Witch God Cult for the time being, and as for the reason, I wouldn’t know.”

After a pause, he continued:

“Since Xu Qi’an is willing to be a shrinking turtle, let him go, a third grade martial artist can’t afford to turn any waves. Leaving the capital tomorrow?”

Ji Yuan let out a “hmmm”:

“Tomorrow morning the court exchanges papers, and after that you can leave the capital and return to Yunzhou.”

This is a necessary process whereby, after the negotiations, the two sides exchange documents and then “say goodbye” in a public forum such as the Assemblies.

When the voice transmission ended, Ji Yuan handed the voice transmission spellshell back to Xu Yuanfang and asked Xu Yuanhuai, who was at the side, with a smile on his face:

“Yuanhuai, the flower queens in the capital’s teaching department are all top-notch beauties, leaving the capital today, while there’s still time, Ninth Brother will take you to enjoy yourself?”

Xu Yuanhuai didn’t pay any attention to him.

Ji Yuan does not care, playing with the folding fan to go out, he also casually said, but do not dare to really go to the Department of Education, in case of assassination how to do.

………..

The following day, the pilgrimage.

At dawn, dark, civil and military officials in good order through the east and west two side doors, across the Jinshui Bridge, Beijing officials waiting in the Danhaji, steps and plaza, the princes stepped into the Jinluan Temple.

Today’s morning court was held exclusively for the Yunzhou envoys, and the main protagonists were Ji Yuan and a group of his entourage.

More than twenty “negotiation team” wearing official robes of Yunzhou, stepped into the Golden Palace, high and mighty, with the strength and arrogance of the victor.

Emperor Yongxing was high up on the imperial throne, and after a few words of painless conversation, he had the paperwork exchanged.

“Thanks to the hospitality of His Majesty and your lords, I am very happy for this trip.”

Ji Yuan smiled brightly as he bowed toward Emperor Yongxing and bowed toward the princes.

Inside the Golden Palace, the faces of the ministers were ugly, just as if they couldn’t see his face of mockery and wantonly flaunting his temper.

“By the way, the capital has been seething with public discontent lately, openly abusing the court and His Majesty. I suggest that it should be killed as a warning to others.” Ji Yuan laughed.

Xu Yuanfang on his side recalled that Ninth Brother had been prying into the folklore from time to time in the past few days, listening to the people of the capital and the students of the State Elementary School angrily scolding the Yunzhou Mission and the Subterranean Dragon City lineage day in and day out, and at that time he was shaking his folding fan in his hand and appeared to be unconcerned.

It turned out to be a secret note.

Emperor Yongxing now only wanted to hurry up and send away the Yunzhou mission, Dao:

“Don’t bother Ji envoy, I will deal with it myself. On the other hand, the silver and silk have already been prepared and can be taken away by Envoy Ji.”

As for the cession of land, there are still a bunch of work to follow, such as notifying the local government, withdrawing the gentry and nobles as well as the local army, etc.

It can’t be done right away.

“In that case, thank you, Your Majesty ……..”

Ji Yuan’s words fell, suddenly heard a “rumble”, artillery sounds from a distant place, followed by intensive drumming also synchronized, is the direction of the palace gate.

The people in the hall were shocked, including the Yunzhou delegation represented by Ji Yuan.

It’s just at this juncture that things go wrong.

Panic flickered in Emperor Yongxing’s eyes as he forced himself to calm down and looked at Zhao Xuanzhen:

“Go see what’s going on.”

Zhao Xuanzhen led the order to retreat, he stepped out of the golden palace, overlooking the square outside the palace, the officials below were in chaos, their faces in fear, part of the palace guards flocked to the palace gate, part of the palace guards ran to the golden palace, to protect his majesty and all the princes.

Inside the Golden Palace, Ji Yuan frowned tightly, gripping this fan of silver bones and murmuring.

Xu Yuanfeng and Xu Yuanhuai, the former frowning, the latter frequently looking outwards.

The civil and military officials in the hall, the royal family members, looked at each other, not knowing what had happened.

It wasn’t until Zhao Xuanzhen returned in a frenzy, carrying the hem of his robe and running like a lost dog, that he screamed:

“Big deal, big deal ………

“Your Majesty, the rebels are fighting their way in, fighting their way in.”

The faces of the people in the temple changed greatly, subconsciously looked at Ji Yuan, since the beginning of the uprising in Yunzhou, the word “rebel” is linked to Yunzhou, listening to more than two months, suddenly heard the word rebel, the instinctive reaction is that the rebels of Yunzhou killed the capital.

Ji Yuan and the others also froze for a moment.

Immediately, he heard Zhao Xuanzhen gasp and continue his words:

“Shouting for a clean slate ………”

The clamor once again rose in the hall, and Emperor Yongxing fiercely looked towards where the royal family members were, then froze as he saw Prince Yan.

According to reason, Prince Yan should not be here at this moment, could it be that it was not him?

The crowd of princes and county kings similarly looked at Prince Yan with strange eyes. Among the nobles, there were a few cultivators who did not move and leaned towards Prince Yan.

If there was anyone in the court who could rebel and dared to rebel, it was probably only this Prince born of the Empress Dowager.

No one understands the principle of catching a thief before he catches a thief.

Prince Yan was confused.

“What do you mean, you fought your way in? Have you breached the palace gates?”

Among the nobles, a Duke of State came out with great strides and glared viciously at Zhao Xuanzhen:

“Get the word out.”

The pale-faced Zhao Xuanzhen was about to speak when shouts of killing, clashes of blades, and screams suddenly came from outside the hall.

Now it goes without saying.

The rebels have an insider, and it is not small ………. The people in the temple immediately made a judgment.

Those who guarded the palace gates were the forbidden army, and those who guarded the imperial city were the twelve guards, and no army could have consecutively captured the imperial city and the palace city in such a short period of time, unless the rebels were the twelve guards and the forbidden army.

What kind of person could turn back the forbidden army and the twelve guards of the capital?

Between the flickering thoughts of the crowd, the sound of shouting and killing came closer and closer, until a great inner guard screamed and fell into the Golden Palace.

Outside the temple door, the silhouettes flashed, and the ones who came in first were the two golden gongs wearing the uniforms of the night watchmen, and Yang Yan wearing light armor and carrying a long spear, and then there were the silver gongs and copper gongs, the feather guards, and the imperial sword guards.

The members were very sophisticated, but they all had a red silk wrapped around their arms.

Carrying bloodied swords, they surrounded the dukes, clansmen, and nobles, in the hall.

“Yang Yan?

One of the county kings recognized him and was shocked and angry:

“Disorderly son, you dare to commit treason, aren’t you afraid of executing your nine clans!”

Emperor Yongxing suppressed all his emotions and maintained the composure of a monarch, propped up his case, glanced at Prince Yan, turned to look at Yang Yan and the several golden gongs, forced himself to be calm, and said:

“Who is your master.”

At the same time, two lords, one on the left and one on the right, clamped down on Prince Yan.

Seeing Yang Yan and a few golden gongs show up, people with clear eyes knew who the person behind the curtain was.

These Wei Yuan’s party members had supported the Fourth Prince in the beginning.

If not for Wei Yuan’s early death, the one who ascended to the throne after Xu Qi’an killed Zhen De definitely wouldn’t have been the Crown Prince, but rather the Fourth Prince in the first place.

Ji Yuan knew how to keep a low profile at critical moments, holding his folding fan and watching coldly.

“Ninth Prince, there’s civil unrest in the Da Bong court.”

A scarlet-robed official said, half-joyful, half-worried.

This is the same as their goal, if the peace talks can make the court internal chaos, then success or failure, it does not matter, or even better than the effect of negotiating peace.

Once the center is in disarray, the Da Bong court will collapse and disintegrate at a surprisingly fast pace.

Of course, the lives of the missions are somewhat unprotected, and all is half joy and half sorrow.

“Wait and see what happens.” Another scarlet-robed official whispered:

“Regardless of who wins or loses, if you don’t want your country to be destroyed, you must be courteous to us.”

Based on the current situation in Dafeng, tearing the face off with Yunzhou would be a dead end. Those who rebel will not fail to see this fact.

“This, this has nothing to do with me ………”

Prince Yan was only at the Qi Practicing Realm cultivation level, and was restrained by the two lords with high cultivation levels, without the ability to resist.

At this time, the killing sounds outside the temple stopped, seemingly dividing the winners and losers.

Of course, there was still the sound of artillery and drums in the distance, and the battle continued elsewhere.

“There’s no need to make things difficult for Fourth Imperial Brother, this matter has nothing to do with him.”

Cold and pleasant voice came, the people in the temple or turn back, or sideways glance, saw the Golden Palace outside, a long white dress silhouette, across the high threshold, skirt dragging on the ground, walked in.

Rapunzel?

The uninformed were aghast.

Emperor Yongxing froze, not expecting that the person who appeared in front of him would be her.

“Huaiqing?”

Yongxing Emperor pointed at her and said angrily:

“What do you want, answer me, what do you want?!”

He slapped the large case with force, and his aura surged a few points higher.

Huaiqing took a step under the imperial seat and looked at Emperor Yongxing, his tone was flat but his voice was not low:

“Please abdicate, Imperial Brother!”

At these words, there was a silence in the hall, and a pin could be heard.

Ji Yuan’s jaw dropped as he scrutinized Huai Qing’s back, with an undisguised amazement in his eyes.

“You? Wyoming …….”

As if Emperor Yongxing had heard a great joke, he propped his hands on the case, looked down condescendingly at the treacherous imperial sister, and suddenly roared:

“Do you know what you’re doing!!!”

Emperor Yongxing strikes hard.

With any other brother, he would have been both cautious and wary, but now it was a woman who was asking him to abdicate and rebel.

Joke!

He did not look at Huaiqing again, but looked at Yang Yan and the golden gongs, as well as the rebels who surrounded the ministers in the hall, and angrily rebuked them:

“Are you all crazy, accompanying a woman to rebel? You have several heads to chop off.

“How can she accomplish anything? Ask all the eunuchs in this hall, who will support her. Ask the people of the world who will support her as a woman.”

At this time, Liu Hong silently stepped out, made a bow, and said in a loud voice:

“Please, Your Majesty, abdicate!”

Then there was First Counselor Qian, who stood shoulder to shoulder with Liu Hong, made a bow, and exclaimed:

“Please, Your Majesty, abdicate!”

Then, the Right Capital Royal Historian Zhang Xingying, the Minister of Justice Sun Shangshu, and the Minister of War came out together and said in unison:

“Please, Your Majesty, abdicate!”

As if it had triggered a group effect, at once, a large number of officials made a bowing out:

“Please, Your Majesty, abdicate!”

The number of people made up nearly half of the number of people in the temple.

The Wang and Wei parties, for the first time, were so united.

Yongxing Emperor’s face steeply froze, then slowly pale, he stared blankly at the officials bowing and bowing in the hall, for a long time, his lips trembled and muttered:

“Crazy, you’re all crazy ……….”

On the side of the royal clansmen, the princes and county kings were bewildered and confused, except for Prince Yan, who was ecstatic and trembling with excitement.

Incredulous, the Secretary of the Da Lisi went from person to person to help the bowing officials and reprimanded them:

“Are you all crazy, accompanying a woman to go crazy, who gave you the guts, don’t show off for a while, it won’t accomplish anything.”

Now it’s just a surprise attack. What’s the follow-up?

The number of royal clansmen was so large that they only needed to rise to the top to quell the rebellion.

Because no one is going to support a womanizer.

Following a princess in a rebellion, what’s not crazy?

Huaiqing folded his hands in the small of his back and said faintly:

“Take him down and make him write the edict of abdication.”

Yang Yan led a few silver gongs to stride forward towards the Yongxing Emperor on the imperial throne.

“There shall be no wantonness!”

Zhao Xuanzhen, the eunuch in charge of the seal, opened his arms and blocked in front of Yang Yan’s several people, his face was slightly white, and he snapped:

“Her Highness Lin An has a marriage contract with Xu Yinluo, if you rebel, Xu Yinluo will not let you go!”

This sentence, like a twilight drum and morning bell, woke up the hesitant royal clansmen, honored nobles, as well as the Wang Party Wei Party unless the officials.

In the gray eyes of Emperor Yongxing, a bright light abruptly burst out, just like a desperate person who saw a ray of dawn.

Yes, he still has Xu Qi’an.

As long as Xu Qi’an supported him, no matter how arrogant Huaiqing and Prince Yan were, they wouldn’t be able to accomplish anything.

Those who wandered and hesitated realized this as well.

Yongxing Emperor fixed his mind, looked around Yang Yan and the others, and said aloud:

“I will give you one more chance, hang on to the cliff and I will let you off the hook. If you take down the traitor Huaiqing, I will also reward you.

“Otherwise, you should know what happens to treason.”

Zhao Xuanzhen was emboldened and drank towards, “Still not backing down!”

“Disorderly men who are still unrepentant.”

“It’s too long to follow a woman in rebellion.”

“Take Huaiqing quickly, or else, when the forbidden army kills, when Xu Yinluo kills, you will all die.”

Those officials and lords who embraced the Yongxing Emperor loudly rebuked.

“Ugh!”

A loud sigh echoed through the hall, and in the shadows behind Huaiqing, a silhouette swelled and stretched, it was none other than Xu Qi’an, who had just suppressed the five battalions of the forbidden army.

Just now, Xu Qi An was still hanging on his lips, and the rightful owner came in the next moment, the Yongxing Emperor’s eyes just had a floating color of joy, and then he saw that this first martial artist of the Dafeng, looked at himself coldly, and said:

“Yongxing, abdicate, I can keep you from dying.”

“Otherwise, Yuanjing is your example.”

Yongxing Emperor’s face is white as snow, his body shook, as if he had lost his strength to claim that he had lost his strength, and he fell into the dragon chair.

The faces of those officials and dignitaries who were fans of Emperor Yongxing stiffened in unison.

The silver bone fan in Ji Yuan’s hand “snapped” and fell to the ground, and his pupils contracted violently as if they had encountered a bright light.

The one who wants to revolt is Xu Qi’an ………..

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PS: Four thousand chapters, two thousand plus.