In the teahouse, which was full of guests, the storyteller woke up and clapped his hands.
"Continuing from the previous chapter, the Holy Emperor is foolish and harms the loyal and good, and the victorious general is angry and resists the order, turning to attack the barbarians!"
"Since General Chang Sheng resisted the decree and refused to return to the capital, the Holy Emperor sent troops to conquer. General Nangong, who was surrounded by enemies from both sides, captured two cities in succession and held five border cities."
"So some people accused General Nangong of being a traitor, but they didn't know it."
"Long before the army was launched, the Holy One had captured Old General Nangong and used it as a threat. He wanted to brand the Nangong family, who had been loyal for generations, as rebels in front of the city gate and in front of many people, and hang the old General in public."
The people below repeatedly exclaimed: "Sir, please tell me, what's next?"
"How could your Majesty treat the old general like this? He is really stupid and unethical!"
The storyteller drank tea to moisten his throat and then opened the folding fan.
"Old General Nangong has always been loyal to the emperor, and naturally he does not want to suffer such injustice."
"In front of hundreds of thousands of people in the capital, he shouted, 'If the king treats his ministers like grass and grass, then his ministers will regard him as a bandit. If the king forces his ministers to rebel, he will have no choice but to rebel!' He hit his head against the big bronze bell on the city gate tower and died.
superior."
"It is said that the old general's blood splattered three feet on the spot. The bell rang throughout half of the capital that day, deafening and lasting for a long time."
"It took less than half a quarter of an hour for the old general to leave, accusing him of injustice. Lightning flashed and thunder thundered in the sky, and heavy rain fell immediately."
"The sky sheds tears, and all the people cry!"
The people below stood up angrily and burst into tears.
"It should be like this! The old general saved my grandfather, and General Nangong saved my family. If it weren't for his current stupidity, why would the old general leave with injustice?"
Someone looked excited and stood up and left: "Now General Nangong wants to fight back to the capital to seek justice for the old general."
"All brave and knowledgeable people in the world can join the army. If the sky is unfair, we will change the world!"
Many passionate young people followed in his footsteps.
In the private room upstairs, Jinse looked at the excited people below and smiled without saying a word.
Beside her, Xie Xiuqi sighed: "My lady has a way, now we have no shortage of troops."
At this moment, Xu Jinzhi came quickly from outside.
"Report to the general, the remaining food in the city is in urgent need! Even if we fight every time to support the war, the food in the city is only enough to consume the five border cities for more than a month."
Jinse gave a sneer and raised his eyes to the south: "It's time to go back."
…
The next day, with the slogan "Redress the injustices of loyal ministers and restore justice to the world", Jinse recruited troops and marched towards the capital.
Along the way, the army was overwhelming.
After taking five cities in succession, the emperor made another foolish move.
He ordered that if any city was lost again, he would have the families of the soldiers in the lost city who were still in Jing Kingdom buried with them!
This method really worked in the beginning, and all the soldiers began to fight to the death for their families.
Jinse's advance into the city was slowed down, and he could not capture a single city in the time it took him to attack two cities.
But the disadvantages are more obvious.
As a city was captured and the emperor began to kill the soldiers and their families, the crowd became excited.
The Jing State adopted a conscription model. Depending on the situation, each family or several families would send a strong labor force to serve as a soldier.
Therefore, every household has a relative who is a soldier.
They have now become family members of soldiers, and they may be implicated and executed at any time.
When in a country, even survival becomes a luxury, will anyone still want to stay here?
The answer is of course no.
A large number of people fled from the inner city of Jing to the border pass, and then tried their best to escape outside the pass, that is, to the Jinse side.
…
Imperial palace, the emperor's bedroom.
Waves of furious roars were heard, but the imperial guards guarding the door seemed not to hear them and stood motionless.
"Sir! Look what a good thing you are doing now!"
The emperor was lying on the bed, his chest rising and falling, and a roaring sound coming from his throat.
Although his words were no less impressive, his image was completely different from half a year ago.
He had taken good care of himself in the past. Although he looked old, he was full of energy. Even the time he fainted due to being stimulated by Xie Xiuluo's life experience, it only showed a slight vicissitude.
But now his cheeks are deeply sunken, and his whole body has lost more than half of his weight.
The dragon robe hung loosely on his body, like a weasel wearing human clothes.
There seems to be a mouthful of phlegm stuck in my throat all the time, and even if I don't speak, my breathing will sound like a snore.
His eyes were bulging due to his extreme weight loss, and he was staring at Xie Xiuming angrily like a dead fish.
Xie Xiuming sneered: "Father, if you are too old to die, you are a thief. You are old enough to die, and you still hold the throne and don't let go. I have no choice but to use it for your own use."
"You're a traitor! You don't know how to be a king. You only kill to stop killing. This Jing Kingdom will fall into your hands sooner or later!"
The emperor gasped and struggled to make sounds from his chest.
Xie Xiuming's eyes turned gloomy for a moment: "I learned this from you. Aren't these all tricks you have played before?"
"Now that Xie Xiuqi is rebelling next to Nangong Jin, you only have one son, and you don't want to pass on the throne to me?"
"If I could sit in that position, it would be impossible to give Nangong Jin a chance to breathe, and why would he be where he is today."
"Anyone who knows the truth will tell me the location of the jade seal, and then issue an edict to sin against oneself."
"Admit that it is your stupidity that led to this disaster, and abdicate in favor of someone more worthy!"
The emperor did not answer, his eyes were strange, tears of regret overflowed, and he gasped for breath every sentence.
"Sir, you don't know how to govern a country!"
"It's because I didn't teach you well, and it's because I didn't manage the Jing Kingdom well."
"When did you teach me! You will only take Xie Xiuluo with you." Xie Xiuming's anger surged, and he raised his hand and pointed it at the emperor.
"No tomorrow," Concubine Yi walked in and stopped him, "I'll talk to the Holy One."
Xie Xiuming frowned: "Mom, please persuade him properly." He waved and left.
Seeing the emperor, Concubine Yi took out a handkerchief, sat by the bed and carefully wiped the saliva that overflowed from the emperor's mouth with gentle movements.
The emperor just looked at her with hatred.
After a long time, he closed his eyes, as if he didn't want to look at her, and said:
"I thought you wouldn't do such a thing."
Even though Concubine Yi was wiping someone's saliva, her posture was still elegant, and a trace of vicissitudes of life flashed in her eyes.
"This is not what I want, but tomorrow I will grow up." Now that I have my own ambitions, I no longer listen to what she says.
Since he wanted to fight, how could she, a mother-in-law, not accompany him? Even if he had to go to hell.
"This treacherous son!" the emperor sighed, "he has nothing like the magnanimity of my youth."
"Yes," Concubine Yi did not deny it, with a hint of mockery in her eyes, "but he is your son, and he is very similar to you today."
The emperor choked for a moment.
I think back to those days, when he first came to power, he was full of high spirits, and endured every step of the way to defeat his relative, the Queen Mother, and her niece, the former Queen Mother. They worked hard to govern and put Nangong An in the spotlight.
Since when did it become what it is now?
Concubine Yi stood up and said sarcastically: "Your Majesty, your son is most like you. I advise you to do as he says."
"Otherwise, I think no one knows better than you what he will do."
Watching Concubine Yi go away, the emperor looked regretful.