Chapter 735: Empress Bright Moon
The three princes of Xizhou Qin were not willing to fail, quickly abandoned their previous suspicions, and united together, they were also a not weak force, the princes each had a fief, each with 30,000 personal guards and their own privately raised staff, adding up to more than 100,000 people.
This group of people can't compete with Princess Mingyue on the surface, so the three princes privately wooed many princes and kings, made heavy promises, and dragged Princess Mingyue back in the affairs of the Qin State.
Even if Princess Mingyue is powerful, it is impossible to do everything satisfactorily, it is very easy to find fault and find faults, the three princes are constantly finding fault in government affairs, trying to defeat Princess Mingyue in public opinion.
For a while, a lot of criticism came surgingly, which made Princess Mingyue extremely angry, many things are not that she really did wrong, but to take care of the interests of many parties, it is normal to be blamed, who wouldn't.
Princess Mingyue was in and out for a while, which made many princes and kings also suspicious of Princess Mingyue, and they were all discussing whether Princess Mingyue had the ability to take power and bring the Qin State to a more glorious level.
"Princess, you can't wait any longer, you must quickly cut through the mess and solve the three princes, otherwise there may be changes to the throne of Qin."
In the midst of the disturbances, Princess Mingyue's staff decided to admonish Princess Mingyue after private discussion, so when Princess Mingyue was angry with the three princes again, she said to Princess Mingyue.
"They can't afford to make waves"
"What the princess said is, but if it drags on any longer, I'm afraid the soldiers of the three armies will be unhappy."
"Zhuge , what do you say"
When Princess Mingyue heard this, she was immediately furious, the monks of the Qin State were organized into three armies, which was the foundation of the Qin State, and when she heard that the foundation was going to have problems, Princess Mingyue suddenly couldn't sit still.
"Princess, I'm not alarmist..."
Princess Mingyue's staff calmly replied, most of the monks of the Qin State are organized into three armies, and the first army is the Imperial Forest Army, which is mainly composed of the children of the royal family of the Qin State, guarding Kyoto, and the equipment treatment is the best.
The other two legions are called Wind and Fire, Longteng, Princess Mingyue is in charge of the Wind and Fire Legion, and King Qin is in charge of the Longteng Legion, among which the princes and kings of Qin State in addition to their own personal guards, also hold important positions in the two legions.
These two legions are stationed on the border all year round, and when the war is tense, the Royal Forest Army will also divide most of them to support, and now Princess Mingyue has attracted most of the generals of the three legions in order to overthrow the king.
But it's useless to just make promises, if you can promise you for a while, you may not be able to support you for a long time, the best way is to give them benefits, bind them with interests, to put it mildly, it is to add officials to the knighthood.
And what is the best merit of adding an official to a knight, from the dragon's merit, the so-called merit is nothing more than from the dragon, only if they support Mingyue to ascend the throne, can they justifiably add an official to the knight.
And what to do after the addition of officials to the knighthood, it is naturally to divide the interests, but there are so many interests of the Qin State, where do they come from, it is naturally taken from the enemy's side, and who the enemy is, naturally it cannot be the king, but the three princes.
The prince has a fief in his hands, and he has a lot of property, including some mines, real estate land in Kyoto, etc., only by seizing these interests, Princess Mingyue can reward her subordinates, otherwise how long can she last with the support of the martial arts alone?
Now that the three princes are aggressive and looking for their own death, the soldiers under the command of Princess Mingyue have long seen them unpleasantly, so they want to get down and force Princess Mingyue to get rid of them, completely solve the stumbling block to Princess Mingyue's accession to the throne, and get their due benefits in advance.
"Zhuge , you're right, but what about my father's side, he hasn't sat down yet"
"Princess, this is not the time for a woman's kindness, there is no hope for the king to break through the eighth realm, Shouyuan has been like this for decades, we all feel that letting the king be a prince and enjoying the last old age is the greatest loyalty to him"
"Zhuge , you..."
"Princess, this is not the meaning of Zhuge alone, it is the meaning of many soldiers, the civil war of the human race is about to break out, no one knows if it will sweep Xizhou, more strength, more peace of mind, everyone is afraid"
"But Uncle Huang's side..."
"This requires the princess to communicate, I believe that King Qin is a person who knows the overall situation, and there is no one in the world who is more suitable to be the empress than the princess."
"I see, I'll think about it"
"Then I'll quit"
Zhuge arched his hand, and then left the room, leaving Princess Mingyue alone in thought.
In fact, Zhuge has already said that Princess Mingyue has been moved, in recent days, the actions of the three princes have made her very disgusting, these people have attacked her indiscriminately, so that Princess Mingyue has been under pressure in many things, getting rid of them is very helpful to Princess Mingyue's integration of the power of the Qin State.
Three days later, Princess Mingyue secretly went to visit King Qin, King Qin is the only two golden-body monks in Qin, and will soon become the only one, if King Qin does not agree to her, then she can only find a helper from the outside, which is in danger of luring wolves into the room, so Princess Mingyue needs King Qin's threat very much.
"I understand, Mingyue, you let it go, but I have a request"
"Uncle Huang, please speak"
"The royal family is the cornerstone of the Qin State, and I don't want the royal family to split, so the three princes, please read on the face of everyone who is the same clan and spare their lives."
"Mingyue has never thought of harming their lives, Uncle Huang can rest assured, Mingyue will definitely raise them to sit."
"That's fine, you go"
King Qin nodded, he was not keen on power, and even the Dragon Teng Legion was just a false leader, but he was still very clear about the situation within the Qin State.
In hundreds of years of performance, Princess Mingyue seems to be more shrewd and capable than the three princes, and Princess Mingyue is more suitable to be this king than them, so he will not thwart Princess Mingyue's plan.
Princess Mingyue received the support of King Qin, and her heart was suddenly settled, and then she began to convene her staff to discuss, preparing to plan Mingyue's accession to the throne.
After the deliberation of dozens of staff, they decided to take three steps, the first is to install people loyal to Princess Mingyue in the court and occupy an important position, the second is to actually control the three legions and control the place, and the third is to collect the evidence of the crimes of the three princes and completely eliminate them before ascending the throne.
After the staff determined the strategy, they immediately began to implement it gradually, sending the personnel of the Military Intelligence Department to spread the news, publicize the deeds of Princess Mingyue, and gain the initiative in public opinion, and then mobilized officials from the DPRK and China to repeatedly admonish the king to add officials to Princess Mingyue, and by the way, eliminate the different parties, and completely suppress the people of the prince's faction.
The Military Intelligence Department is a very important force in the Qin State, but most of the Military Intelligence Department is in the hands of Princess Mingyue, so that the three princes have no possibility of turning over.
After more than half a year of planning, Princess Mingyue began to exert her strength, first raising a big case, and sending the officials of the prince's faction to prison one after another for various reasons such as corruption, dereliction of duty, unfavorable combat, and violations, even including some marquis and other people.
And the people on Princess Mingyue's side took their place, took over most of the power in the court, and coerced the king to canonize Princess Mingyue, and the king had no choice but to crown Princess Mingyue as the king of the moon and lead the political affairs of the court.
After Princess Mingyue was crowned king, she entered the palace openly and justifiably began to preside over the affairs of the Qin State, and at the same time, the ministers of the court began to attack the three princes.
There is no accident in the crimes they attacked, basically they are all charges of corruption and dereliction of duty, forcibly robbing people's girls, bullying officials, disadvantageous to the war of demon beasts, and killing monks.
The three princes are not as self-disciplined as Princess Mingyue, basically all the accusations of those officials are true, and all kinds of evidence are even more dazzling, this time, even the king is disappointed in the three sons, compared with Mingyue, they are not only the gap in ability and cultivation, but also their personal ethics are much inferior, how can they pick up the burden.
The king's heart is like ashes, hiding in the imperial garden, he no longer wants to be a director, his longevity is only a few decades left, he just wants to enjoy his old age in peace, anyway, the competition is his own children, and there are no cheap outsiders in the pot where the meat is rotten, so let's fight.
Princess Mingyue felt her father's thoughts, and her heart was suddenly overjoyed, and she immediately summoned hundreds of officials and asked them to recruit three princes to Kyoto in the name of the king to defend themselves.
But how dare the three princes come to Kyoto at this time, isn't this a death, they all refused, Princess Mingyue issued thirteen edicts in a row within half a year, and they all refused to come.
Princess Yu Si Mingyue was furious and ordered the capture of the three princes, and had already prepared an army of 300,000 to immediately attack the prince's fiefdom, and the three princes made the final resistance, raising troops to meet the enemy, the three princes were 90,000 personal guards, plus the die-hard forces were close to 200,000 horses against the 300,000 Wind and Fire Legion.
However, among the prince's faction, only their 30,000 personal guards were more elite, and the rest were considered rabble, and they were directly defeated in the first battle.
After the First World War, the prince's faction was killed by more than 50,000 people, captured 780,000 people, and scattered tens of thousands.
The Wind and Fire Legion struggled to catch up, after more than a month of hard fighting, most of the three princes' men and horses were killed, the eldest prince fled from the Qin State with more than three people, the second prince had a strong personality and died on the spot, and the third prince was wounded and captured, and was escorted back to Kyoto.
Subsequently, Princess Mingyue judged the three princes in the honor of the king, completely deprived them of all their powers, and the three princes were abolished and sent to the ancestral tomb of the Qin royal family to guard the tomb of the ancestors of the Qin State.
The fiefs of the three princes were also deprived and distributed to many generals under Princess Mingyue, and all their properties were confiscated, and Princess Mingyue rewarded the three armies.
Soon after, Princess Mingyue took advantage of the prince's case to clean up a group of princes and kings, and reshuffle the forces of Qin, and after the political situation stabilized, Princess Mingyue had completely controlled Qin, and only waited for the king to abdicate and ascend the throne as emperor.