Dongling Yuanyong knew what Ximen Zhende meant even if he didn't read the "oath" in the inscription, but he said coldly:
"Unless the Ximen clan rebels, the Dongling clan will never deprive the Ximen clan of the oath of co-prosperity with Dacheng. I, the Dongling clan, swear to keep it for a hundred years and make your Ximen clan prosperous to this day! Now it is you, the Ximen clan, who has rebelled first.
I, the Dongling clan, have no shame in taking back my ancestral oath to kill the Ximen clan!"
Ximen Zhende, who was kneeling on the ground, could only look up and look at Dongling Yuanyong. He looked at the proud and calm Dongling Yuanyong. What he regretted most in his life was that he let Dongling Yuanyong do it during the bloodbath of "Fengyi Palace".
Yong escaped.
If Dongling Yuanyong had died in that palace catastrophe, there would not have been the disaster that Ximen suffered today!
Fortunately, the Ximen clan has the blessing of their ancestors. He held up the "Exoneration Monument" and said calmly to Dongling Yuan Yong:
"As things stand now, Your Majesty can kill me Ximen, but you cannot destroy me Ximen. This is the privilege granted to me Ximen by Taizu Dongling."
Ximen Zhende's words made Dongling Yuanyong slowly squat in front of Ximen Zhende and said coldly:
"Ximen Zhende, back then you fabricated evidence to frame my grandfather's self-proclaimed army and attempted to rebel. At the same time, you plotted with your daughter Ximen Ruofeng to poison the tonic soup that the late emperor stewed every day on my mother's behalf and put the blame on me.
Mother. Finally, you calculated the time when the late emperor would be poisoned and deliberately submitted Yin's so-called evidence of treason to the late emperor to stimulate his poison. Then the "fact" that my mother poisoned the late emperor was also finalized. In order to make Ximen
The fire of the clan's power will never be extinguished, and you did not hesitate to harm Zhongliang, attempted to murder the late emperor, and killed my mother and queen."
"The honor given to you by my Dongling ancestor, Ximen, is not without a bottom line. You, Ximen, have been loyal to the Dongling clan for hundreds of years, so the honor you enjoy will last forever. Now that you have committed a heinous crime, you still have the nerve to hold me
After bargaining with me about the gift of the Dongling Ancestor, do you think you are still qualified to use the gift of my Dongling Ancestor?"
"As your Majesty said, the guilty minister has no excuse and no desire to live. The reason why the guilty minister has survived until now is to wait for Your Majesty to personally come and take back the "Exoneration Monument" given to Ximen by the ancestors of Dongling!"
In Dacheng Kingdom, everyone knows that the Ximen clan is the family of humerus ministers who founded the country. The "Exoneration Monument" given by the ancestors of the Dongling clan will be treated with courtesy and fear by all the emperors of Dacheng Kingdom, let alone ordinary people!
This is the direct reason why no one dared to raise the butcher knife in Ximen Mansion, and it is also the only reason why Dongling Yuanyong had to come in person to collect the "Exoneration Monument"!
Although Ximen Zhende knew that Dongling Yuanyong would never let Ximen go, he at least knew that Dongling Yuanyong would not dare to disrespect the "Exoneration Monument"!
Fifteen years ago, it was not because he was disloyal that he maliciously framed the Yin family and Queen Fuxuan.
Because Emperor Hongwen favored Queen Fuxuan, the power of the Yin family also rose to the top, even overtaking the Ximen family for a time.
Ximen Zhende could be loyal to Dachengguo wholeheartedly, but he could not tolerate Ximen's powerful position being replaced by Yin's.
Therefore, he deliberately planned to destroy the Yin family and return the Ximen family to the top of the powerful officials.
As for the removal of Queen Fuxuan, it was also to allow his own daughter to sit on the throne of queen!
After excluding Queen Fuxuan and the Yin family, all his ideas came true.
Ximen returned to the top of the powerful ministers, his daughter was naturally named queen, and his nephew Dongling Yuanxi succeeded Dongling Yuanyong as the crown prince.
If everything goes well, it can be said that Dachengguo has half of the country in his hands now!
However, all this grand vision has come to nothing, and it is nothing more than a joke. He has nothing else to ask for now. He only hopes that Dongling Yuanyong can abide by the "promise" on the "Exoneration Monument". In this way, Ximen can be regarded as staying.
A glimmer of hope!
Dongling Yuanyong certainly knew why Ximen Zhende was waiting to see him. He glanced at the "Exoneration Monument" and said:
"The Ximen family will no longer have glory. Even if I obey my Dongling ancestor's promise today and leave you a seed of the Ximen family, so what? But have you ever thought that your surviving children and grandchildren will only be the sons of guilty ministers?"
Life, can he live for a long time?"
Dongling Yuanyong said straightforwardly that he could not only obey the oath of his ancestors, but he could also find thousands of ways to seize the last bloodline of the Ximen clan!
The Dongling clan's withdrawal of the "Exoneration Monument" means that the Ximen clan will no longer have anything to protect them. Even if the Ximen clan has an heir, the lives of their descendants who are lucky enough to survive are just miserable lives.
As long as Dongling Yuanyong wants to destroy the Ximen clan, it will be an easy task.
But Ximen Zhende seemed to be calmer than Dongling Yuanyong imagined. He suddenly turned the "Exoneration Monument" over and pressed it somewhere. The "Exoneration Monument" opened and split into two halves like a box.
Then, Ximen Zhende bowed and held the "Exoneration Monument" high and said:
"Your Majesty, please personally read the "oath" of the ultimate glory given to the Ximen clan by the ancestors of the Dongling clan!"
Dongling Yuan Yong's sword-like peak eyebrows are frowning. He may not take Ximen Zhende seriously, but the "Exoneration Monument" is the imperial oath made by the founding king of Dacheng Kingdom to heaven and earth. The Dongling family
Future generations have the responsibility to carry on the legacy.
Therefore, even though the "Exoneration Monument" has lost its effectiveness, Dongling Yuanyong respectfully took the "Exoneration Monument" and looked at the inscription hidden inside!
It turns out that the "Exoneration Monument" not only has inscriptions on the front, but also on the invisible inside, and it is also a "Founding Oath".
In other words, the bright and dark inscriptions on the "Exoneration Monument" are all promises made by Dongling's ancestors to Ximen!
But after reading the inscription in the dark, Dongling Yuanyong's expression was so cold that it made the cold autumn cold even more ruthless!
He never expected that the inscription hidden inside turned out to be: When the Dongling clan will kill the Ximen clan, if the reigning Emperor Dongling does not have a harem leader, a daughter of Ximen's direct bloodline can be the queen. If the emperor has a harem,
Lord, Ximen's daughter can also be a concubine. This is the final condition for the termination of the "Protection Oath"!
Dongling Yuanyong actually didn't care much about this ancestral "oath", but he couldn't ignore it.
In Dacheng Kingdom, no one knew that the founder of the Dongling clan and the first head of the Ximen clan were close friends.
The reason why the Dacheng Kingdom was able to successfully establish the country was because the ancestors of Ximen sacrificed their lives for the ancestors of Dongling in exchange for the final victory. This is why the ancestors of Dongling treated Ximen so unreasonably and favorably!
Dongling Yuanyong stood up slowly, and then glanced at the separated female dependents. A group of obviously exquisitely dressed female dependents made it easy for him to know that they were the female dependents at the master level.
However, he looked at Ximen Zhende and said calmly:
"It's beyond my expectation that my Dongling ancestor has treated you Ximen so favorably. But since this is the oath of the founder of the Dacheng Kingdom, I dare not disrespect you. But...?" Dongling Yuanyong's eyes were cold and cold.
After a slight pause, he scoffed and asked:
"Ximen Zhende, your eldest daughter has already become the late emperor's queen, and the rest are all women, and then there are your several granddaughters who are only a few years old. Even if I are willing to abide by the oath of my ancestors, I will marry you Ximen
If you have female relatives as your queen, do you want the widow to choose one of your daughters who are already married as wives, or do you want to choose a baby who is still drinking milk as your queen?"
The number of sons and daughters of Ximen Zhende's direct blood relatives has long been recorded. Dongling Yuanyong wanted to see how Ximen Zhende could give him a candidate he couldn't shirk!