Xia Ruohan rushed to Huangxian all the way. Seeing that the city was fine, a heart that was hanging in his arms finally fell back into his stomach. He met Yuqing in a hurry and rushed to the capital.

Although Yuqing used Changxiang's good archery technique to pass through Yang Baizhi, he temporarily saved Huang County.

But the crisis has not been resolved. What if the third prince wants to burn the city according to the imperial edict?

He has to convince him to change his mind.

Xia Ruohan guessed correctly. When he arrived at the mansion, the third prince was about to lead his troops to burn the city himself.

However, the factory owner told him to act slowly, and the third prince could not help but give him this face.

Although Xia Ruohan was just a eunuch, he was a powerful official in the court and the country.

When the princes see him, no one will flatter and please him. I hope that he will stand on his side, and that his chances of winning the position of crown prince will be greater.

In the eyes of many court officials, Xia Ruohan is a big devil with little talk, but in fact he is very eloquent.

He only said something and the third prince changed his mind.

He said that now a group of princes compete for the position of crown prince has reached a fever pitch.

Even if the third prince has no intention of being the crown prince, his age is there, and the other princes must have wanted to get rid of him and get out of here so that they can lose their competitors.

He followed the emperor's order and burned the city on the surface, but in fact he was intimidated by danger.

If a prince attacks him in the future, he will say that the emperor is thousands of miles away and does not know much about the situation in Huang County, so he issued an imperial edict to Burn the city.

But the third prince is in the capital city, so why don’t he understand the situation in Huang County?

Even though he knew that Huang County was saved, he refused to save him when he died. He burned the city according to the imperial edict. He was either tragic or stupid, or he wanted to please the emperor, but lost his benevolence.

In either case, it is enough to trample the third prince on the ground and never have a day to turn over.

Since it is so risky to obey the imperial edict, it is better to report the situation in Huangxian to the emperor after the previous memorial and ask the emperor to give another half a month of grace.

If the epidemic in Huangxian County is still out of control within half a month, he is willing to apologize for his death.

In this way, he not only shows his kindness and righteousness, but also shows his ability to remain calm in the face of danger and govern the country. He will definitely be seen by the emperor differently.

If you follow the imperial edict carefully, the consequences will be unimaginable. If you do not follow the imperial edict and strive to protect Huang County, it will be beneficial to yourself. The third prince will naturally obey Xia Ruohan's words.

Half a month later, the epidemic in Huangxian finally ended.

Yuqing also used the money he had forcibly raised to help the victims rebuild their homes, and taught free classes to teach rabbit breeding techniques.

Although it was difficult to breed rabbits on a large scale in ancient times, it was not difficult to raise rabbits on a small scale in a family.

Even if a hundred rabbits are slaughtered a month, the money earned is enough for an ordinary family to spend a month.

Rabbits have strong reproductive power, short growth cycle, fast returns, but small investment, and are suitable for people who have nothing to do after the disaster.

Yuqing not only taught rabbit breeding, but also taught various methods of making rabbit meat to the people.

Rabbit meat is delicious, so people are willing to buy it. The more people eat rabbit meat, the more conducive it is to breed rabbits.

In order to revitalize the economy of the disaster area, Yuqing stayed in Huguang Prefecture for three months before he returned to Beijing with the third prince.

Xia Ruohan returned to Beijing two months in advance.

He has always been a meticulous person.

When the emperor issued a secret decree, he only learned a few days later, which showed that the secret decree was really secret, and even though he had many eyes and ears in the palace, he had not received any news.

But after learning about this a few days later, someone wanted him to know about it.

Xia Ruohan's reaction to knowing this matter must have been rushing to Huangxian County to rescue Yuqing.

Yuqing will insist on helping Huangxian, so Xia Ruohan will definitely stop the third prince and Lu Zhiqiu from burning the city.

Then he will resist the order. Even if he is not questioned, he will definitely make the emperor angry and may lose favor.

It’s not easy for an eunuch to pack up if he is out of favor?

So the secret decree was not aimed at Yuqing, but Xia Ruohan himself.

Xia Ruohan sent his eyes and ears to inquire, and finally found out that it was the palace concubine Xiande who instigated the emperor to issue a secret order to burn the city.

The virtuous concubine has always been at peace in the palace and has no disputes with the world, so she is deeply favored by the emperor.

Xia Ruohan also had never had a marriage with her, Princess Changle and the Fourth Prince whom she had born, so why did Concubine Xiande suddenly attack him?

Xia Ruohan carefully sorted out the people he had offended in the past few years, hoping to find some clues from it.

Since he was assassinated by Duke An and his group of people a few years ago, he has been digging out several of their traitors who colluded with the enemy.

Concubine Xiande jumped out at this time. Could it be that it is related to these traitors?

Before this, Xia Ruohan had never paid attention to Concubine Xiande, and then he paid more attention to her.

I found that she had been going well since she entered the palace at the age of fifteen and was promoted to Virtuous Concubine.

In order not to make him suspicious of the emperor, he did not allow his family to be the capital official, nor did he allow them to come to the palace to see her. To put it bluntly, he was cutting off his relationship with his family.

No concubine has ever been able to promote her family in order not to be suspicious of the emperor, and she cannot do this for herself or for her own son.

Although a prince’s ability is very important, the clan power behind his mother is also very important.

The clan forces without help are alone and difficult to become a clique. Not to mention fighting for the position of crown prince, it is difficult to protect yourself.

If things are abnormal, there will be demons.

Xia Ruohan went to Lingnan to thoroughly investigate the clan of Concubine Xiande. He didn't know if he didn't investigate. After he was shocked, he found a shocking secret.

Concubine Xiande was not the daughter of the Huang clan of Lingnan, but the princess of the fallen country of Luo Yue.

When the Huang clan sent the most outstanding Huang clan daughter into the palace, the princess of the fallen country used witchcraft to kill the Huang clan daughter, controlled the Huang clan leader, and let the princess of the fallen country replace the Huang clan daughter into the palace.

The Huang family in Lingnan was worried about such a big secret that could make them exterminate the clan, so how could they dare to interact with the Virtuous Concubine?

Therefore, it was not that the Xiande Concubine did not interact with her family and clan in order to avoid the emperor's suspicion, but that they did not dare to have any involvement with her.

In addition, Xia Ruohan also planned to capture two confidants of Concubine Xiande.

There are some ways to pry open people's mouths. Although the two confidants have strong will, they ultimately did not withstand the double torture of physical and mentality and psychological warfare, and they all confessed.

Xia Ruohan took the confessions of these two confidants to meet the emperor.

Although the truth is unbelievable, the emperor immediately believed it.

There is no such thing as the two confidants confessed that their princess who fell into the palace impersonated the name of the country was to take revenge, but she refused to take care of herself.

Therefore, using their witchcraft technique from Luo Yue Kingdom, this witchcraft technique can not only confuse the emperor and make the emperor be attached to the virtuous concubine, but also destroy the emperor's body without trace.

The emperor has clearly felt that his health is not as good as before in recent years, and the imperial physician cannot find out the reason. If someone has witchcraft, it can be explained.

Moreover, whenever I feel tired and uncomfortable, as long as I go to Defei's place and be served by her, I will relieve myself a lot, but my physical condition will be worse later.

Because of this, the emperor was anxious and didn't like any concubine, but he only favored the virtuous concubine.

Unexpectedly, Concubine Xiande, whom she favored, wanted her own life. Even though she was in a state of hatred and family hatred, she had been a royal couple with her for so many years and she was extremely favored to her, but she could not let go of her hatred.

The emperor became more and more angry the more he thought about it, and he personally went to question the Virtue.

When I arrived at the palace of Concubine Xiande, I saw an outrageous scene.

Concubine Xiande actually gave the Fourth Prince and Princess Changle their secret poison of the Luo Yue Kingdom royal family. No one can solve this poison except for the members of the Luo Yue Kingdom royal family.

Concubine Xiande felt relieved when she looked shocked and painful, and laughed: "It hurts to see her favorite fourth prince and Princess Changle die in front of her.

When David destroyed my Luo Yue Kingdom, my parents and brothers died in front of me, and I was so heartbroken!

The emperor must also experience the pain I have experienced, otherwise how can we say we are royal couples!"

Speaking of this, she gritted her teeth and said, "I originally wanted to survive until the day the Fourth Prince ascended the throne, control him, mess up your David until the country was destroyed, so that you could not rest even in the nine fountains. It's a pity that Xia Ruohan, the eunuch, was defeated!" After that, he committed suicide by taking poison.

The emperor was extremely angry and took the sword, trying to poke her body into a hornet's nest to vent his hatred.

Concubine Xiande had long expected that he would use this trick and tamper with his body.

The emperor stabbed her body with a sword and was hit by a strange poison.

Although this strange poison will take three or five years to cause death, it will make people feel crazy and suspicious.

It is already a disaster for an emperor to be unable to handle national affairs calmly. In addition, the emperor's health is getting worse and worse, and the struggle between the princes for the throne has become fierce, and the situation is in turmoil.

The thorns took the opportunity to cause trouble, invade the border, burn, kill, loot, and do all kinds of evil.

Yuqing and Xia Ruohan didn't want to stand in line to support any adult prince, because in their eyes, none of these princes had the ability to rule the world, and no one was the emperor.

They just wanted to resist foreign enemies and save David's people from the pain of the country's destruction and the pain of war, so they both asked for an order to go to the border to rush to the rescue of the general Cheng Zifeng, the capital's general.

At that time, Washi was attacking a fortress called Yongcheng on the border. The fortress was insufficient. If there were no reinforcements, there would be only one end, and it would be defeated and lost.

The thorns are cruel. Anyone who captures David's city will definitely slaughter the city. Both soldiers and the people will be killed without mercy.

Cheng Zifeng guarded Yanmen Pass and could not bear the slaughter of the people in the city, so he sent a deputy general and his men to support him.

In this way, he is short of staff here.

Yuqing and Xia Ruohan received a secret report on the way to the border, and Washu joined forces with various surrounding tribes and small countries to assemble 150,000 troops to face the border.

Of them, 50,000 attacked Yongcheng and 100,000 attacked Yanmen Pass.

The imperial court was already corrupt a few years ago, with insufficient military expenditure and unable to raise more soldiers.
To be continued...