Chapter 246 The Candidate for the Throne
These guards are the most powerful guards around King Mobei. No one will suspect them of betraying the king. The leaders looked at the third prince and were confused.
The four people who were escorted looked at each other and knelt on the ground, not daring to say a word.
The current situation is not the time for them to speak.
"If you don't believe it, just interrogate them! They know everything!" the third prince pointed at them.
The four people being detained kept their heads lowered and said nothing. They probably had nothing to say.
"These are my father's most trusted personal guards. Are you saying they betrayed my father?" the second prince said loudly.
The four kneeling people still said nothing, and the third prince was a little angry, "Don't you say so? If you don't tell the truth, don't blame me for handing you over to the witch doctor!"
When the four of them heard this, they trembled all over. They thought that the witch doctor's method for dealing with traitors was to skin people. Their faces suddenly showed a look of horror, but they still gritted their teeth and remained silent.
The third prince was obviously a little impatient. He drew out the long knife from his waist and struck one of them. The sharp blade seemed to smell of blood. Seeing the tip of the knife hit the tip of the man's nose, the man was suddenly frightened and sweating like rain.
Next, he said loudly: "I will say! I will say anything!"
In panic, he raised his finger and pointed at the second prince and said loudly: "The second prince instigated the slave to do this! The second prince gave the slave a lot of gold and silver and promised the slave that when he becomes the king, he will be given a high official position and a generous salary!"
As soon as this man finished speaking, the people in the king's tent were in an uproar, and everyone's expressions changed. This was obviously patricide to seize the throne!
This is something that cannot be tolerated by God!
"What nonsense are you talking about!" The second prince drew out his long knife and slashed at the man, splitting him in two from the head, and bright red blood splattered everywhere.
The third prince sneered, "Second brother, do you want to kill people and silence them?"
A discerning person would know at a glance that the second prince was angry.
The second prince's eyes were as big as copper bells, and he looked at him fiercely, "It must be you! You must have bribed this bastard to frame me! Don't think that you can become the king of the grassland just because you strike first!"
The third prince sneered, "Now the evidence is conclusive, that is, you want to kill your father. You cannot bear the crime of murdering the king! According to the rules of the grassland, betrayers will be skinned and cramped, and their hearts and livers will be dug out and fed to wolves!"
The guard following the third prince will step forward to lead the people.
The second prince drew out his long knife and said, "How dare you!"
Seeing a life and death battle break out again, the atmosphere in the king's tent was unprecedentedly tense.
At this time, Huang Boyi said in a cold voice: "Stop it!"
The third prince and others looked at him in surprise. Is Emperor Xiling planning to stop them?
"Your Majesty, you are the Xiling Emperor, don't you want to interfere with our grassland affairs?" the third prince said.
If Xiling gets involved in the grassland reserve dispute, this matter will be difficult to handle.
Huang Boyi snorted coldly, "I don't want to get involved in your messy affairs. I am entrusted by your father and have to take care of some things! One of you murdered your father and the other had ulterior motives. Neither of you is qualified to inherit Mobei."
The position of king!"
As he spoke, he waved his hand, and the eunuch who was following him came to him holding a golden box in both hands.
Seeing this golden box, all the tribal leaders were shocked. An older leader burst into tears when he saw the box, "This?... This is?"
Everyone couldn't believe that the long-lost storage box on the grassland would appear again.
According to legend, the storage box is a treasure given by the Snow Mountain Goddess. Only the person named in the edict in the storage box can become the true king of the grassland.
Even the current King of Mobei has not been recognized by the edict of the storage box. They all thought that the storage box had disappeared for many years, but they did not expect that it would appear this time.
Huang Boyi's face was dull, and he opened the storage box. There was a golden parchment scroll inside. He took it out and unfolded it, and the delicate golden fonts on it appeared in front of everyone.
Many tribal leaders came forward to check the authenticity. When they saw the handwriting on it, they were stunned, "This, this, this! Is this really written by the goddess?"
No wonder the leaders were surprised. In their respective tribes, there were handwritten letters written by the goddess. The fonts were all in small gold letters. Of course they knew the words on them.
The third prince and the second prince did not believe that the candidate for the reserve position was Su Ying!
"Your Majesty! Who knows where this thing came from? Shouldn't it be my father who wrote the edict of succession? What does this mean?" the third prince tried his best to suppress his anger.
Huang Boyi snorted coldly, "Ask the tribal leaders what the origin of this storage box is!"
All the princes looked at the tribal leaders, and then one of the eldest leaders spoke slowly.
Eighty years ago, the grassland suffered a disaster. All the cattle, sheep and people on the grassland were eroded by a plague and almost became extinct.
Coupled with the struggles between the various tribes on the grassland, the grassland was in mourning. At this time, a woman wearing white clothes and a veil appeared on the grassland. She claimed to be the goddess of the snow mountain, and it was she who saved the people and livestock on the entire grassland.
It was she who led the Red Eagle tribe, which was still a small tribe at the beginning, to recover various scattered tribes and gradually grow in power.
The goddess also taught them hunting, planting, and making weapons. They were also called warriors from the barbaric Mobei people.
Countries other than Mobei are also helpless against their grassland people, and they are in the spotlight for a while.
Just when the Mobei grassland became quiet, the goddess used this storage box to pass the throne to the next King of Mobei. From then on, the goddess disappeared in Mobei without a trace.
When the goddess just disappeared, Mobei was still very united, there were no fights between the major tribes, and life was prosperous. The Red Eagle tribe had a special status because it was a direct tribe that followed the goddess.
In the following decades, without the existence of the goddess, differences began to arise in Mobei, and intrigues among the major tribes began.
The competition for the throne of Mobei became more intense.
Just after the appointment of the previous King of Mobei was issued, the storage box suddenly disappeared. This disappearance lasted twenty years.
The Red Eagle Tribe looked at the now torn apart Mobei and was heartbroken. They led their tribe away from the Royal Court and settled at the foot of the snow-capped mountains, facing the Royal Court from afar all year round.
The old leader looked at the princes in the king's tent and continued in a hoarse voice: "Your father is the only king who has not received the edict of the reserve box. But the reserve box has disappeared. We can only obey your father. These things
Your father has always wanted to regain the people of the Red Eagle Tribe, but in the end, there was no result. The Red Eagle Tribe will not obey the king who does not have an imperial edict to pass on the throne."
Back then, the storage box suddenly disappeared, and everyone in the grassland was in panic. It was rumored that the goddess no longer protected the grassland, so the storage box was taken back. Now it appears again, and there is a storage edict in the storage box. This
Chapter completed!