Zhuge Weiming was fidgeting and waiting for news from Pingyang City.
“Report ……” A soldier hurriedly ran in and said to Zhuge Weiming with a look of delight, “Your Highness, Pingyang has held, King Zhao and the others have retreated.”
Zhuge Weiming immediately stood up happily from his chair at the words, “Really?”
The soldier immediately bowed at his words and said, “It’s true, the White Tiger Kingdom’s second prince arrived in time with a large army and surrounded King Zhaowang and their army before forcing them to retreat.”
Zhuge Weiming’s eyes flashed with a flash of ghostly light at his words, this time he was considered to owe Xuanyuan Hao a favor.
A small eunuch walked into the imperial study and bowed to Zhuge Weiming, “Your Majesty, General Yang Qiong, who is beside the second prince of the White Tiger Kingdom, seeks an audience.”
Zhuge Weiming narrowed his eyes slightly at the words and frowned, “Xuan.”
“Yes.” The little eunuch bowed and retreated not long after hearing this, and in a short while, he led a stout military general in.
That military general walked with a dragon’s stride and without a slant in his eyes, he walked straight towards Zhuge Weiming.
Zhuge Weiming looked at the majestic face of the military general and couldn’t help but knit his brows, Yang Qiong, the most capable general under Xuanyuan Hao, and because of him, Xuanyuan Hao was able to bring out 100,000 troops from Xuanwu, this person, is not as big and thick as he appears to be.
Yang Qiong walked up to Zhuge Weiming and bowed slightly towards him, “See you, Regent Xuanwu.”
Zhuge Weiming looked at Yang Qiong and coughed lightly, “Why has General Yang come to see this king at this time, but is there something wrong with the Second Prince?”
Yang Qiong sniffed and bowed back, “Your Majesty, it’s our Second Prince who has something he wants to say to Your Majesty.”
Zhuge Weiming furrowed his brows furiously at the words, a flash of displeasure in his eyes, “What words?” There was a slight hint of anger in his icy voice.
Sensing Zhuge Weiming’s displeasure, Yang Qiong remained unassuming and said, “Our Second Prince asks Your Highness not to forget the promise you made.”
Zhuge Weiming sniffed and chilled his face, snorted coldly, “This king has a word for everything, your second prince is too small-minded for a gentleman’s heart, not to mention that this king’s holy decree has been given to him, so what else does he have to worry about.”
Yang Qiong sniffed and immediately lowered his eyes and said, “Don’t misunderstand, Your Highness, our Second Prince in no way meant to distrust Your Highness, he just wanted to remind remind Your Highness.”
Zhuge Weiming heard the anger in his eyes deeper, he Xuanyuan Hao counts as something, also worthy to come to remind him, if not to see that he is still a bit useful, where he can accept this mouth of the bird gas.
Zhuge Weiming took a deep breath, converged his emotions, looked at Yang Qiong eyes narrowed slightly, “Go back and tell your second prince, this time the Pingyang thing this king took note of, this king will never forget his credit, let him feel at ease guarding Pingyang, this king when things come to fruition, is also the time when he returns to the White Tiger.”
Yang Qiong sniffed and bowed again, “This is very good, the last general will leave.” Yang Qiong said as he turned around and left in large strides.
Yang Qiong left, Zhuge Weiming angry directly on the table all the things swept to the ground, damn Xuanyuan Hao, damn Xiahou Xun, damn Lian Taichu, one by one dare to climb to his head to shit, really when he Zhuge Weiming is a good bully is not, it seems that he must be as soon as possible to ascend to the throne, and so on he sits on the throne, he must kill all of them.
Ruyang council hall, Xiahou Xun sat in the first place, under the order of Lian Taichu, Fang Pengyuan, and a number of large and small generals.
Xiahou Xun looked at Fang Pengyuan, who was sitting in the first place on the left hand and said, “Military Master, you can find out who is in command of that strange army.”
Fang Pengyuan immediately rose at his words and said, “Your Majesty, according to what my subordinates have found out, the one who helped Zhuge Weiming last night was the second prince of the White Tiger Kingdom, Xuanyuan Hao.”
Xuanyuan Hao? Xiahou Xun sniffed his eyebrows furrowed violently, eyes flashed a flash of worry, if there is a white tiger country people intervene, then this matter is complicated, now the white tiger, Zhuque, Qinglong linked together, if they are all to help Zhuge Weiming, then he simply has no chance of winning.
Lian Tai Chu was also puzzled when he heard this, “Why does the second prince of this White Tiger country want to intervene in our Xuanwu country’s affairs.” Between the four countries have always been well water, why they white tiger suddenly intervene in the Xuanwu civil unrest, could it be that the last time the little emperor attacked the white tiger, knit the anger of the white tiger master, so only sent the second prince to Xuanwu to take revenge? Lian Taichu instantly broke out in a cold sweat thinking about it.
Seems to see Xiahou Xun and Lian Tai Chu’s worry, Fang Peng Yuan explained, “According to the scouts back to the news that this Xuanyuan Hao some time ago because of the conspiracy to murder the master of the country, plotting to usurp the throne, was expelled from the White Tiger Lord, long ago is not what the White Tiger second prince, this time to our Xuanwu, is the defection to Zhuge Weiming’s, underling guessed that these two people between them must have reached what can not see the light of the agreement.”
Xiahou Xun sniffed slightly relieved, not the white tiger to intervene is good.
Suddenly thought of something, Xiahou Xun again raised his eyes and looked at Fang Peng Yuan said, “This Xuanyuan Hao brought a total of how many people.”
Fang Pengyuan sniffed and immediately replied, “Not much, just a hundred thousand.”
Xiahou Xun gently nodded at his words, thinking that a fallen prince who has lost his power will not have too many soldiers.
Xiahou Xun frowned and contemplated for a moment, turned his eyes to look at the crowd underneath and said, “We all saw the situation last night, do you have any good countermeasures?”
The crowd looked at each other in disbelief, and soon a general stood up and bowed, “My subordinate thought that we still need to find a way to capture Pingyang, and as long as we occupy it again, the king’s great event will be accomplished.”
Xiahou Xun nodded at the words, did not say good or bad, but turned to one side of the Lian Tai Chu said, “Lian big general thought how?”
Lian Tai Chu rose at his words and said, “My subordinate thought that Your Highness should return to the Imperial City as early as possible, with Zhuge Weiming’s nature, he might ascend to the throne early.”
Xiahou Xun sniffed and frowned, his eyes flashed a touch of gravity, must not let Zhuge Weiming ascend to the throne, otherwise everything he did will be meaningless.
Fang Pengyuan heard this and also said, “My subordinate thought that what Great General Lian said was very true, Your Highness should return to the Imperial City as soon as possible to stop Zhuge Weiming from ascending to the throne, and as for the matter of Pingyang, Your Highness can hand it over to Great General Lian.”
Xiahou Xun nodded at his words, got up and bowed slightly to Lian Taichu, “In that case, the matter of Pingyang will be handed over to Great General Lian.”
Seeing this, Lian Taichu immediately moved his steps away and bowed slightly to Xiahou Xun and said, “My subordinates will do their best.”
The next day, early in the morning, Zhuge Weiming went directly to the Xuanwu Great Hall wearing his dragon robe.
The civil and military officials in the Xuanwu Great Hall looked at Zhuge Weiming in his dragon robe and all of them changed their faces, and all of them began to whisper.
“Are my eyes blurred, why is the Regent wearing a dragon robe.”
“This Regent is also too bold, before every day the python robe did not leave his body, now he even dares to wear the dragon robe.”
“Great treason, great treason ……”
Listening to the whispers of the civil and military officials, Zhuge Weiming’s eyes flashed with a touch of displeasure as he coughed lightly and said loudly, “We all know that His Majesty has been missing for many days, and yesterday, this king received news that the soldiers at the northwestern border had already found His Majesty’s remains.”
The crowd instantly exploded at the words.
“Is it true what he said, that the Emperor has really died?”
“Isn’t it true, how could the Emperor say he’s gone when he’s in good hands?”
“It could be true, didn’t I hear that the Empress Dowager even fainted a few days ago?
Listening to the crowd’s words, Zhuge Weiming gave a wink to the small eunuch next to him, who immediately understood and quietly withdrew from the Xuanwu Hall.
In a short while, there are two small eunuchs carrying a stretcher into the Xuanwu Hall, the stretcher covered with a layer of white cloth, under the white cloth like a person, looks only eight, nine years old size.
The two small eunuchs gently lifted the stretcher to the top of the jade steps and bowed and retreated.
The crowd looked at the stretcher and all looked at each other.
Suddenly, Zhuge Weiming knelt down towards that stretcher, “Your Majesty, it is this king who is sorry for not saving you …… in time.” The sad voice was slightly choked, making it impossible to hear whether it was true or not.
When the ministers saw Zhuge Weiming kneeling down, they all knelt down as well.
The Emperor has really died.
The Emperor is only eight years old. It’s so sad!
If the Emperor dies, what about the Empress Dowager and what will Xuan Wu do?
The ministers kneeling on the ground have different thoughts, some are genuine and sad, some are pretentious, wiping their tears and fake crying, and some are skeptical and have a glint in their eyes.
After crying for a while, Zhuge Weiming then stood up and looked at the ministers, with a sad face, “His Majesty’s death, this king has a great responsibility, this king is ashamed of the late emperor’s trust, as the emperor’s own uncle, this king has the responsibility of guarding Xuanwu for the emperor, the country can’t be without a ruler for a day, this king has decided to ascend to the throne on the same day.”
Once Zhuge Weiming’s words were finished, the group of ministers once again became agitated.
Standing in the first hundred officials of the Prime Minister Fang Ye heard, rose and looked at Zhuge Weiming said, “Regent words, I thought it is not good, the emperor just died, we now need to do the most important thing is to find out the cause of death of the emperor, as well as to do a good job of the emperor’s afterlife, as for the selection of the new emperor is not a matter of urgency.”
Zhuge Weiming heard a flash of cold light in his eyes, before he had time to speak, the Minister of Rites stood up and said, “What the Prime Minister said is very true, although the Emperor is young, he is also the Emperor of our Xuanwu, and it must not be ended so hastily.”
“The matter of ascending to the throne is a matter of great importance, and Wei Chui thought that it needs to be discussed properly before deciding who should take the throne.” The Minister of Rites was followed by the Minister of War.
Zhuge Weiming instantly became angry at the words, “Bold, Qin Taolu do you mean to say that this king is not qualified to inherit the throne?” This military minister originally was Lian Taichu’s vice general, before it was neutral, not standing on any team, now Lian Taichu with Xiahou Xun, he is also standing fast.
The Minister of War listened to Zhuge Weiming’s roar and lowered his eyes, without the slightest hint of fear on his face.
Secretary of the Ministry of Rites saw Zhuge Weiming angry, immediately came out to round off the scene, “the Regent King rests his anger, I thought that the new emperor to ascend to the throne can not be in a hurry, how to choose a day, so that rush to ascend to the throne, but also too hasty.”
“Prince Zhao has arrived!” Just as the atmosphere of the Xuanwu Great Hall was gloomy, the eunuch’s chorus sounded outside the door.
