Chapter Seventy-One: The Bloodstained Crown
Perhaps no one expected that the intervention of outsiders would lead to turmoil within the corner city. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
However, it should be said that it is unexpected, but such a development is a matter of course, after all, there are too many precedents.
Due to the intervention of foreign enemies, the prestige and status of the original overlord were threatened, and the flaws that were seen by others were also exposed, and careerists rushed to the top to seize the supreme throne.
Brothers turn against each other, friends turn against each other, and fathers and sons kill each other........ the world is probably used to it.
"Why?"
But at this time, when the rebel appeared in front of him, the burly city lord Siddian looked dazed.
He was not surprised that someone would take the opportunity to rebel, let alone strange that someone colluded with outsiders, what he was surprised was only the mastermind of the rebellion.
"Father, why did you choose to oppose me at this time? Obviously, you gave me the position of city lord, obviously you told me about our Seymour people's dream of unification and even statehood since I was a child, obviously you supported me in the midst of opposition..... why did you betray me on the eve of our dream about to come true, before I was about to become the king of all Seymours!"
It's hard to imagine that this middle-aged man with a blank and sad face is the one who is about to rule the entire wasteland and all Seymours.
And those words, full of confusion and sadness, also reveal a lot of things.
For example, unlike the rumors, Sias was not ousted by the rebellion of his own righteous son, and his mediocrity and immorality back then were more just a disguise.
Nowadays, the people of Jiaocheng absorb the knowledge of the outside world, unify internally, and oppose the grand strategy of the belief in the holy mountain, which was set by the old city lord back then.
And in order to get rid of those stubborn old-fashioned factions, he even made a show, perverse in the last stage of his rule, and extorted violently.
As a result, Yoshiko raised a banner to rebel, swept away himself and the forces of the old school and the Holy Mountain faction, and also gained high popular prestige and political capital, and the old forces did not interfere in the capital of the new policy, and by the way, he also enriched the treasury that was already in serious deficit at the beginning.
The father and son were not in a hostile relationship as outsiders seemed, and it was only because of political considerations that the old city lord was not executed.
The truth is completely opposite to the performance, and the father-son friendship is still maintained between the old and new city lords.
Even after many years in power, when Sidion encounters difficulties and problems, he still thinks of asking his treacherous and cunning father-in-law, and the old city lord also uses his own perspective to feedback various information and ideas to his own son.
Because of this, Sideon really can't understand why his stepfather was betrayed by him.
Is it impossible for him to lose his reputation and help himself to ascend to the throne back then, even if he changes his mind, he should not rebel at this time, more than 30 years have passed, he has already gained a firm foothold, the old man retreated, the dead died, what is the point of re-ascending the throne.
It is also impossible for him to cherish his reputation and only to see the actual benefits, and now is the critical moment of great reunification, and even if the internal struggle is not a defeat for both sides, it will also be a great loss to the vitality of the entire ethnic group, and the great cause of reunification will inevitably be greatly delayed or even failed, and it is impossible for him to lose sight of the overall situation.
"Why?"
The dazed generation of overlords, standing on the temporary city wall, behind the background is the floating fleet covering the sky, surrounded by the demon armor wargroup of killing machines, the knights loyal to him silently watch the victorious hero, everyone is waiting for his orders.
He won, he has won, and from the moment the spies sent out his father-in-law's plan of rebellion and quietly brought more than half of the legion back to the city in a floating ship, he could not have lost.
But he was still at a loss, and he showed it very unexpectedly, on the eve of becoming the founding king.
The short and obscene old city lord stood up and looked at the righteous son in the city, his small eyes that couldn't be opened were still squinted, and his expression was the same as before.
"You, go crooked, as your old man, to correct you. ”
"I, obviously we have finally become the strongest tribe, and we are about to unify the entire Seymour tribe, father, your dream of building a country, the future of our tribe, is obviously in the present!"
Rare sincere words, but it is also a fact, the prosperity of the corner city is at the moment, the city lord's justification caused a lot of discussion under the city, but the old city lord tilted his head and spit on the ground with a mouthful of thick phlegm.
"A crown stained with the blood of your own people?huh, does it make sense?"
"This is not what you taught me back then, this is a necessary sacrifice!"
"Why don't you sacrifice yourself.......
Half stunned by the rebuke, the old man stared at the city in disbelief.
Beside his son, a knight of the chamberlain held a longbow, the string still trembling.
And the detached feather arrow was already stuck in his chest.
"On the orders of the city lord, those who bewitch the people with evil words should be damned!"
In the disbelieving eyes of the city lord Sidion, the moment when the old city lord Sias looked at his wounds in disbelief, but fell down, the scene was completely out of control.
The screams, the explosions, the rush of the crowd drove everything into a frenzy.
But I'm afraid no one noticed that the old fox still had a strange smile on his lips when he finally fell.