The fires in the outer city burned for a day and a night, as if weeping over the death knell that had been rung in the palace.

On this day, the two markets in the east and west and the entire slum area were reduced to ruins, and the flying ashes made the ashes float over Dandong for half a month.

Countless civilians were displaced, people who lost relatives and friends wept bitterly on the roadside, and finally counted out that more than 40,000 people died in the fire, although most of them belonged to the ordinary poor in the slums, which still shocked the entire imperial capital circle and made the whole Dandong lose its voice.

The people who suffered in this Black Torch Festival could not but be the commoners of Danton, as well as the ruling class of Pere.

In addition to Emperor Phoebe II, who died on the first night of the fire, the Prince Regent, Jupiter, was assassinated and wounded in the palace.

Robin, Kobe Bryant and more than a dozen other aristocratic lords who rebelled in the inner and outer cities colluded with the inner and outer city guards to open the gates of the inner and outer cities.

After learning that Phoebe II had died and that the regent Crown Prince Jupiter had escaped assassination, he brazenly attacked the mansion of the nobles in the inner city, trying to coerce the palace gate to open, but finally escaped in a hurry due to the sharp resistance of the private soldiers of the mansion led by the nobles and the timely arrival of the royal swordsmen.

Before the royal swordsmen stationed outside the city got the will to enter the city, most of the rebellious noble lords led private soldiers and coerced more than 100 nobles to flee back to the territory.

So before the fire in the outer city was extinguished, the nobles, who were angry that their mansions were attacked and their families and relatives were held hostage, had already interrogated the whole rebellion to reveal the truth:

Robin, Kobe Bryant and other twelve noble lords and the rest of the party colluded with foreign enemies, hired assassins to assassinate the royal heir, and teamed up with the two princes to poison and assassinate Phoebe II during his serious illness.

A large amount of physical evidence and excavated certifications from the mansions of the rebellious noble lords also pointed to the huge casualties of the "Black Torch Festival" fire to the conspiracy of the twelve noble lords and the remnants. The people who heard it were shocked by the madness of the noble lords and the remnants.

Among the evidence found in this search, there are some vague written letterheads, written in foreign languages. Vaguely reveal a deeper and broader black hand from an external enemy.

October 16, three days after the Black Torch Festival of Phoebe II's collapse. Jupiter hastily ascended the throne with the approval of the majority of the nobles of the House of Lords, a few abstentions, and the presence of the Royal Mage's Order* and Merlin's Legation.

The hasty and simple enthronement ceremony did not affect the mood of His Majesty Jupiter, who succeeded to the throne on the verge of danger, and as soon as he ascended the throne, he immediately turned the royal swordsman battalion that had temporarily taken over the defense of the inner and outer cities into a regular position. The commanders of the outer city guards and the inner city guards and related cadres were all imprisoned.

And the two princes' mansions and other cadres who had long been surrounded by the royal swordsman regiment were naturally imprisoned and interrogated in the royal prison.

However, the two lords and the commanders of the two armies who had confessed to the rebellion did not have the good fortune of the two princes.

The ministers and nobles debated for a long time about the punishment for this extremely appalling treason unrest that had serious consequences. Eventually, the newly enthroned Jupiter agreed to the final sentence of the House of Lords to abolish the title, recover the territory, and divide the death by hanging of a male in the direct line.

However, he unexpectedly made an opinion to change the scene of the execution, where the hanging, would eventually take place, from the prison of the nobles to the square of the outer city, and allow the commoners to watch the execution.

The government and the opposition were in an uproar. The conservatives were so vocal in their opposition that they even pushed the House of Lords Council again in an attempt to veto the young emperor's will, which had tarnished the aristocracy.

But the news somehow reached the market, and on the same day, citizens who lost their relatives and friends in the fire took to the streets, shouting "Long live His Majesty Jupiter". It attracted many citizens to join it, making the original procession of hundreds of people into thousands, tens of thousands!

Many civilians rushed forward to confront the Royal Swordsmen under the stimulation of emotion, while the rest of the citizens cried out loudly about the grief of the loss of their loved ones, so that the swordsmen on duty of the Royal Swordsmen could not be expelled ruthlessly, and retreated step by step.

When the procession reached the inner city gate, the procession had gathered nearly 100,000 people, accounting for about one-twentieth of the total population of Dandong, but the sound seemed to be millions, and the cries of "Long live His Majesty Jupiter" and "punish the traitors" shocked all the nobles in the inner city!

The House of Nobles held an emergency meeting, and during the Black Torch Festival, several nobles who were poisoned by the traitorous lords were the most severe, and even several nobles whose relatives were held hostage in the hands of the fugitive lords jumped out and clearly supported the young emperor, and the indignant denunciation shook many nobles on the spot.

In the end, the deadlock was finally settled by the chief envoy of Merlin, the Archduke Rünster, who had been invited by the young emperor to observe the meeting:

"Deprived of their noble titles and domains, they are naturally no longer nobles, and the glory and noble blood of their ancestors are also tainted by their felonies of treason and collaborating with the enemy, and become a stain on the entire aristocracy—and the execution of thousands of people who are spurned by the punishment and spurning will surely be a warning to those who have rebellious hearts in the future, and those who have committed such unforgivable grave sins will be trampled under the feet of all the people, and will no longer be glorious! No more noble! ”

The nobles present were terrified, but Jupiter was extremely satisfied.

In the end, the nobles who supported the young emperor voted in favor of the Archduke Randster's sentence that "if you have been deprived of your noble titles and territories, you are naturally no longer a nobleman", and two-thirds of the nobles voted in favor and agreed to the emperor's will.

Of course, everyone knew that it was not the Emperor's will that doubted the words of the Archduke Lanster, but the hundreds of thousands of people gathered outside the inner city gates.

When Jupiter himself appeared above the inner city walls and announced this decision to the citizens below, there was a roar of silence that even the birds flying in the sky were frightened and fell!

His Majesty Jupiter, who was immersed in this boiling cheer, trembled all over, and closed his eyes tightly before tears flowed from his eyes.

"Thank you, Lancet! Never on a day have I been so grateful to my father for the decree that I should be the welcome envoy of the Merlin Legations. So that I can get such a sincere and loyal friend as you - you are the one who changed my fate! ”

After walking down the city wall, Jupiter only hugged Lenster, and said from the bottom of his heart. "You will be my friend until death, a glory to me. I would like to give you a county at once, and make you Prince of Perret, so that you may always be by my side and be my loyal and good friend! ”

"Never, Your Majesty!" Lancet was taken aback.

Fortunately, there was no Merlin nearby, and the nobles and ministers beside Jupiter behind him were far away. Jupiter's whispers could not be heard, and the nearby courtiers and guards lowered their heads as if they had not heard:

They all knew that a thousand of them were not as high as the status of a Archduke of Ranster in Jupiter's heart. Even if the Archduke of Randster was a Merlin.

"I guessed you would refuse, and even though I expected it, I'm still very disappointed, hey!" Jupiter sighed and said, "I thought that sooner or later you would have to leave with the Merlin Legates. The sadness in my heart is hard to suppress, and I am even more worried that without your help, I am afraid that I will fall into that situation of isolation and no one can trust again! ”

Jupiter's words were so sincere that even Lanster, who knew that he had ulterior motives in his heart, couldn't help but be a little moved:

"Please don't say that. You have done a good job, as a young king who has just succeeded to the throne, and no one in history has achieved such great prestige as you, who has won the support of countless subjects, and who has easily calmed the chaos and taken the court into his own hands—you should look back at the noble ministers behind you, and the people who cheer for you in the city. ”

"You brought it all for me! If it weren't for your advice and encouragement to persevere in the midst of the conservative rebellion, I wouldn't be where I am today! ”

Jupiter's eyes glistened with tears, "Tell the truth, even if you had made it clear that they had intended to give me, the young monarch, so that I could further analyze my intentions in the future, I would still be skeptical, and even had the weak thought of giving up holding on to those who were most opposed by the conservatives—if it had not been for your friendship to sustain me, and your resourcefulness to arrange for me, and even to the initiative to attend the council to help me, I am afraid I would not have received today's cheers...... It's all because of you, my most loyal friend! ”

"yes, it's all because we have the most loyal friends."

Ranster couldn't help but whisper when he thought of the person who really contributed to the qiē that Jupiter was grateful for, but couldn't go to the front of the stage to get gratitude and glory.

……

"To tell you the truth, even though I've seen this qiē with my own eyes, I still can't imagine that this qiē is actually being pushed by a weak girl who looks less than twenty - I thought your greatest talent should be magic, but now ......"

On the second floor of a hotel, behind the window facing the street, Anatoly watched the crowds of people and the cheers that shook the city below, and suddenly felt that he could no longer describe how he felt in his heart.

"You are too famous, what can cause this qiē is the people's hearts and the current situation, and I just saw a little possible opportunity, and tried to do a little bit of pushing, even if there is no promotion from me, such a situation will come sooner or later, but it is not so intense, and it is not necessarily us who benefit from it."

Lin An shook his head and said.

That's what she really thinks.

She only tried to come up with an idea when she caught some clues, but it was Lenster who was the catalyst for Jupiter's side; It was Anatoly and Ryan's spies who made a careful plan and provided manpower in the dark; Even the advice of the whole process is indispensable for people like Salen who know the bottom well, the contribution of Andre and Johanm, and the cooperation of Merlin's envoys in the palace.

"No, no, this plan would never have been possible without you coming up with the idea, without you uniting so many people in the middle and making everyone trust and do your bidding—you are the most indispensable!"

Anatoly said sincerely, "It's an honor to be able to participate in such a big thing, and I think when I go back, Tomia will be very jealous of me!" ”

(To be continued)

ps：

This chapter is also known as "The Emperor of Investment", but after thinking about it, I still think that it is more literary and artistic, so I decided to use this.

The fourth watch is completed, and I finally made up for yesterday's lack of more, rolling and begging for pink! ~~