Concubine Xuan and Xiao Ling are transparent people in the palace of the Mande Empire. Although with Concubine Xuan's appearance, when she was young, she also had a period of favored days, but as Xiao Jinglong's harem became more and more young and beautiful concubines, Xiao Jinglong's mind no longer fell on Concubine Xuan, coupled with Qin Xuan's increasingly powerful strength, Xiao Jinglong felt deeply threatened, and Concubine Xuan and Xiao Ling, two relatives who were related to Qin Xuan, made Xiao Jinglong dislike it even more from the bottom of his heart.

It can be said that if it weren't for Xiao Ling, the prince, who had the label of "Qin Xuan's cousin" on his head, maybe everyone would have forgotten him somewhere.

He Yi couldn't remember the existence of Xiao Ling and Concubine Xuan for a while. As soon as Xiao Jinglong died, the power of the entire Mande Empire was equivalent to being in He Yi's hands, and the skyrocketing power made He Yi's self-confidence swell unprecedentedly, and he felt that it was not difficult to solve Qin Xuan and Ouyang Jing now.

After all, the entire empire's army and the command of a part of the king organization were in He Yi's hands.

So, taking advantage of He Yi's moment of letting down his vigilance, Xiao Ling and Concubine Xuan quietly left the palace of the Mande Empire. In order to hide people's eyes, Qin Xuan's two subordinates also disguised themselves as Xiao Ling and Concubine Xuan, and stayed in the deep palace instead of them. Unlike Xiao Ling and Concubine Xuan, Qin Xuan's two subordinates are not weak, once He Yi has the idea of using them as "hostages", they are 80% sure that they will be able to get out of the way.

Looking at the shrinking Imperial Lord Star outside the window, Concubine Xuan burst into tears, and she intuitively felt that she might not be able to return to this place where she was born and raised for a long time.

Xiao Ling hugged his mother's shoulder and patted it comfortingly, and a lingering sadness rose in his heart, but he also had a sigh of relief.

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The interstellar calendar, the 1351st year of the Mandeb Empire, was called "the beginning of the fall of the empire" by later historians. In this year, after the military group led by He Yi secretly killed Xiao Jinglong, the last emperor of the Mande Empire, they then issued more stringent decrees to suppress and suppress the uprisings across the country, the first of which was the Shizhan Martial Arts Hall led by Qin Xuan, the former first commander of the empire.

In the name of "Xiao Jinglong", He Yi issued a nationwide arrest warrant, saying that the members of the Shizhan Martial Arts Hall were restless traitors who were secretly preparing military forces in the name of "patriotism" and intended to overthrow the entire empire's political power.

He Yi knew that Qin Xuan's prestige in the entire empire was very high, and in order to play a sufficient deterrent effect, his decree also added a clause of "joint and several liability", if anyone knew about it and did not report it, or hid the "criminal", it would be the same as the members of the Beginning War Martial Arts Gym, and they would be severely punished by the empire.

On the other hand, if anyone is willing to report their whereabouts directly to the Empire's intelligence agencies after discovering a member of the Primal War Martial Arts, they will be rewarded accordingly. He Yi even allowed the Imperial Police-Cha to shoot and kill the members of the First Battle Martial Arts Gym, saying that this was allowed by the laws of the Empire and would not be dealt with.

All of a sudden, the situation in the empire became even more tense. People in the family who have relatives who are from the Origin Martial Arts Gym are starting to feel uneasy, while some greedy people scan the surrounding crowd with suspicious eyes to see if there are any people who are suspected of being from the Origin Martial Arts Gym, and expect to make a windfall from this. The Shizhan Martial Arts Hall was forced to turn from light to dark, and the door of the Martial Arts Hall was closed the day after He Yi's decree was issued, and the people in the Martial Arts Hall were nowhere to be found.

However, the situation at home is not good, and the situation of the Mandean Empire at the international level is not optimistic. The other four great powers united to blast open the door of the Mande Empire, although He Yi's military ability is not weak, but after all, a person's energy is limited, and when he wants to eradicate Qin Xuan and Ouyang Jing with all his heart, it is natural that the resistance to the external ** team will be weakened.

The most important point is that the so-called "things gather by like, people by groups", He Yi is an unscrupulous conspirator, so most of the people gathered around him are some people who like to play tricks, and there are very few real capable generals, most of them have been invested in Qin Xuan's Shizhan Martial Arts Pavilion. In this way, no matter how large the number of the emperor's ** team is, without experienced generals to command, it is just a plate of loose sand, and it has no chance of winning against the armies of the four major powers.

The four great powers are very surging, and in the blink of an eye, they have shown a situation of encirclement of the Mande Empire in the blink of an eye. He Yi originally adhered to the idea of "the outside must first be inside", and insisted on solving Qin Xuan and Ouyang Jing first, but as a result, Qin Xuan and Ouyang Jing were both people with very rich experience in leading and anti-tracking, even if He Yi issued such a strict decree, there were very few people in the Origin Martial Arts Hall who were really caught and killed by He Yi, but many people were killed by people who were mistaken for the Beginning Martial Arts Pavilion.

The unscrupulousness of the invaders has aggravated the severity of the domestic situation, and many ordinary people have sobered up from a series of harsh decrees issued by the supreme ruler of the empire, and they who were trembling and uneasy because of these decrees have gradually calmed down the fear in their hearts, and replaced them with unprecedented dissatisfaction and anger - since the waste of the imperial ruling layer does not care about the life and death of the common people, then why should they maintain the rule of the Xiao dynasty?!

As a result, there were fewer people who reported the whereabouts of the members of the Beginning War Martial Arts Gym, and some of them even consciously covered for the members of the First Battle Martial Arts Gym. The resentment of the invaders and the dissatisfaction with the rulers stimulated the blood in their hearts, and even an unarmed old woman could pick up the things that were in her hands and smash them at the police-inspectors who came to arrest the members of the First Battle Martial Arts Gym.

He Yi looked at the situation that was getting more and more chaotic day by day, and his mood gradually became anxious.

He finally understood that it was impossible to obtain the supreme rule of the empire in a step-by-step way, because the common people had simply lost all confidence in the supreme ruling level of the Mande Empire, and if he insisted on tying himself to this boat, he might have to end up with the Xiao dynasty one day.

So, after killing Xiao Jinglong, He Yi made the next decision, he found an opportunity to get in touch with the rulers of the other four great powers—he wanted to temporarily alleviate this situation.

Later historians named He Yi the title of "traitor", and their evaluation of him was very low, and it was not even as good as the last emperor of the Mande Empire, Xiao Jinglong.

Because, no matter how mediocre and arrogant Xiao Jinglong is, he has never done anything to give his country to others, but He Yi has done it, and he has no regrets.

He Yi held a secret video conference with the rulers of the other four empires, and after the meeting, He Yi signed a series of unequal treaties in the name of the supreme ruler of the empire. The treaty not only included the cession of many high-yield ore stars, resource stars, and important military planets, but also promised an "indemnity" equal to almost three-quarters of the Imperial treasury.

After getting what they wanted, these rulers promised to temporarily stop the invasion of the Mandean Empire for a period of three years, and to militarily finance He Yi's victory in the civil war.

At this point, He Yi no longer intends to use the name of "Xiao Jinglong" to give orders, he completely exposed his ambitions to the sun - except for Xiao Ling, Xiao Jinglong's other sons almost didn't react to what was happening, and they all died violently overnight, including the children they gave birth to, all of them died one after another without exception.

In the past few years, He Yi has eliminated all the people in the ruling layer of the empire who have the same ambitions as himself, and those children of the century-old wang clan have died and abolished, and the rest are silent, and they no longer dare to object to He Yi's decision.

Therefore, all the princes of the Xiao Dynasty died, and they did not cause half a wave in the court.

The Xiao Dynasty, which lasted for more than a thousand years, had already existed in name only by this time, and was replaced by a warlord rule headed by He Yi for five years. However, although He Yi killed the children and grandchildren of the Xiao clan and received the support of the other four great powers, his rule was not stable.

This kind of rule is like being built on a cliff, without the will of the people, and if you pry it slightly, you will fall off the cliff and be crushed.

In the thirteenth hundred and fifty-fourth year of the Mande Empire, in the three-year reign, He Yi still failed to find the location of Qin Xuan and Ouyang Jing, but almost exhausted the treasury inventory left by the Xiao Dynasty. There were many large and small "warlords" like He Yi all over the country, and He Yi sent troops to destroy the "warlords" in the east on this day, and a new force group emerged in the west the next day, which was impossible to prevent.

In this endless attrition, the military funding He Yi received from the four major powers through unequal treaties was quickly exhausted, and without armaments and losing the hearts of the people, He Yi had to face a very dangerous situation.

After careful consideration, He Yi planned to "sell" the empire's territory again.

He knew that this practice was undoubtedly to quench his thirst and would make the loss of people's hearts even more serious, but at this time, He Yi had already lost his original psychological state full of confidence, he felt that the land was gone, and he could take it back in the future, but if he didn't have military supplies as a backing, an ordinary soldier could kill him.

In short, in He Yi's heart, his own life is much more precious than the dignity and destiny of the country.

He Yi contacted the rulers of the other four great powers again, wanting to discuss the matter of military supplies with them. As a result, he was rejected by the other party.

It turns out that there are also varying degrees of turmoil within the other four major powers, and the affairs of their own countries have not yet been dealt with, so how can they have time to pay attention to the changes in the situation in other countries?

What's more, although He Yi ceded those planets belonging to the Mande Empire to other countries, the inhabitants of the planets were not so easy to speak, and under Qin Xuan's secret command, the inhabitants of these planets could create a lot of "accidents" for the rulers of those countries.

He Yi failed to get the result he wanted, and not only that, but a bigger blow was waiting for him ahead.

The people from the First Battle Martial Arts Hall finally appeared, but with the power of destroying the withering and decaying, they directly attacked the emperor ** team under He Yi who were already close to being vulnerable. 166 Reading Network