More than a hundred years ago, the land of Jiuzhou has been falling apart and unable to unite. Each political power has occupied one area to form a country, and the number of changes in political power, large and small, has been as many as eight hundred, if not thousands.
Too much political power means barbaric competition. Therefore, war was a common state that the people of Jiuzhou at that time were accustomed to.
It has become the norm in Jiuzhou that the people are in dire straits. Therefore, the people have been miserable for a long time.
However, more than a hundred years ago, the land of Jiuzhou was finally divided into two and established two independent regimes that dominated the east and west.
The two hegemonic regimes that divided Jiuzhou were one that unified Dacheng State to the east of Jiuzhou, and the other was to unite Xiahou State to the west of Jiuzhou!
More than a hundred years ago, the Dongling clan conquered dozens of surrounding political powers and established the Dacheng Kingdom.
Similarly, the Xiahou clan also began to annex the surrounding political powers to establish a powerful Xiahou state.
In the end, the Xiahou clan and the Dongling clan became evenly matched political powers on the land of Jiuzhou.
If the two families continue to fight for hegemony for one family to eat alone, the outcome will be indistinguishable, and the two clans may once again cause the political power that was finally unified to collapse.
After all, the empires they both built were not easily gained overnight. And after years of war, the people have long been looking forward to the arrival of peace.
Therefore, the Dongling clan and the Xiahou clan unanimously decided to divide the east and west Jiuzhou into two parts.
The Dongling clan rules the east, and the Xiahou clan rules the west!
The first generation monarchs of the two clans swore on the border between the two countries that they would never send troops into each other's territory to trigger a war between the two countries during their lifetimes.
However, after the death of the founding kings of the two countries, Dacheng State and Xiahou State still had many wars, large and small, in the next hundred years.
But their strength is equal to each other, and no one has been seriously injured in the fight and fight, and they are still evenly matched to this day.
However, in comparison, from an internal perspective, Xiahou State has been more stable than Dacheng State in the past ten years.
Because fifteen years ago, Queen Fuxuan of Dacheng Kingdom colluded with her family’s forces in an attempt to murder her husband, Emperor Hongwen.
After the incident was exposed, Queen Fuxuan and her family members were executed.
Her only son, who was also the prince of Dacheng Kingdom, Dongling Yuanyong, was also deposed as the prince and exiled to the bitter cold border to "guard" the country. And unless he is recalled by imperial edict, he will never set foot in the imperial city again during his lifetime!
When Dongling Yuanyong was exiled, he was only a ten-year-old child.
A huge accident caused Da Chengguo to fall into a depression shrouded in dark clouds...!
In the blink of an eye, fifteen years of turmoil have passed, but Dongling Yuanyong was not trapped in the bitter cold forever and was not allowed to return to the imperial city.
Today, fifteen years later, not only did he get his father to issue an imperial edict before his death to call him back to the imperial city to inherit the throne, but he also led the most powerful army of Dacheng Kingdom from the east gate of the imperial city like a god of war.
Linlin accepted the people's admiration and went straight to the court of Dachengguo...
If in the past fifteen years, Dongling Yuanyong was a forgotten or even spurned prince, then fifteen years later, he has returned to an orthodox position that can be proud of the entire Dacheng Kingdom!
For Dongling Yuanyong, in addition to inheriting the throne that belongs to him when he returns, he also has to avenge his mother who died in vain...!
That's right, his mother, Queen Fuxuan, was maliciously framed and was doomed. He was also implicated and exiled thousands of miles away for fifteen years!
Returning today, Dongling Yuanyong stepped into the palace he had not seen for many years. The first place he went to was the palace where his mother lived during her lifetime - Fengyi Palace!
Pushing open the old and peeling palace door with his own hands, Dongling Yuanyong saw overgrown weeds in a courtyard and the ruins of the doors and windows of the pavilion!
It was late autumn at this time, and the maple trees in the courtyard of the palace were already red, and the ground was covered with a thick layer of red maple leaves.
A fierce autumn wind blew, and the maple leaves on the ground rustled, and the red maple leaves on the trees fell one after another under the ruthless autumn wind...!
Dongling Yuanyong looked up and looked at the dark red maple leaves flying in front of his eyes, but at this moment, it seemed that what he saw was not the falling red leaves, but the bloody storm...!
That year, it was also late autumn, and there were also deep red maple leaves. At the age of ten, he sat in the courtyard and painted in the company of Queen Fuxuan.
That day was the last time he felt happy in his childhood, but it was also the unforgettable sorrow in his life...!
Queen Fuxuan is gentle, kind, talented and beautiful, and is the well-deserved mother of Dacheng Kingdom!
However, Queen Fuxuan, who had adhered to her duties for many years, was inexplicably accused of colluding with her family's forces in an attempt to murder Emperor Hongwen!
This indication came so unexpectedly that Queen Fuxuan had no chance or time to prove her innocence, because the entire Fengyi Palace was massacred in an instant...!
During the massacre there, the bloody scenes were deeply imprinted in Dongling Yuanyong's mind.
The scene of fear that left him the most lingering was forever fixed in the moment when Queen Fuxuan was hit by an arrow and fell to the ground bleeding profusely...
He clearly saw that the fatal arrow was coming towards him, but his mother blocked it for him. It was his mother who protected him with her life at the last moment!
When the killing stopped, he cried and crawled to the dying Queen Fuxuan. He shouted in horror:
"Mother, mother...!"
The blood flowing from his mother's body blended into the maple leaves on the ground, making him unable to tell whether his mother's blood was redder or the maple leaves were redder!
Queen Fuxuan beat her to death and concentrated. She held Dongling Yuanyong's hand tightly with her blood-covered hands and said:
"Yong'er... must live... tell your father that your mother will not blame him...!"
This was the last thing Queen Fuxuan said to him. He had never been able to understand what his mother meant by "no resentment".
She was clearly wronged, and her father didn't make the decision for her. He didn't even give his mother time to defend herself before he issued an order to kill her.
Emperor Hongwen's execution order turned Queen Fuxuan's entire Fengyi Palace, as well as her mother's family and more than 500 members of the Yin family into the souls of unjust deaths in an instant.
To this day, Dongling Yuanyong stands under the maple tree where Queen Fuxuan died tragically. He seems to understand what Queen Fuxuan's "no resentment" means!
She told him to live. Not only did she keep him alive, she also pinned the grievances of the Yin family on him.
She hoped that one day Emperor Hongwen would know the truth and clear her and the Yin clan's innocence, so that she would "not complain"!
His mother did not complain, but he could not let go, so he "complained"!
Dongling Yuanyong personally experienced the palace incident that year. He knew that the crime of massacre of Queen Fuxuan and the Yin family was to murder his father!
Therefore, as the only son of Queen Fuxuan, even if he is the crown prince of Dacheng Kingdom, his fate cannot avoid earth-shaking changes.
If the general, Chu Pingyi, and the scholar You Zhongru had not taken the lead in admonishing the prince for his innocence, I am afraid that his life would have been ruined fifteen years ago!
It is precisely because he was able to save his life and be exiled to a bitter cold land thousands of miles away that he had the opportunity to grow and experience in a hellish environment with a heart of revenge!
How many people in this imperial city can imagine that the prince who was abandoned fifteen years ago will one day come back here openly and become the emperor to rule them!?