Yuan Seng lost his mother since he was a child, and the queen pretended to sympathize and pamper Yuan Seng on the surface, the queen knew that because of his background, the eldest son Yuan Yan was snubbed by the emperor, and now Yuan Seng Yuan Zeng is under his own hands, there are only three princes in total, and his position has been solid, just waiting for the emperor to die, she became the queen mother, and spent her old age in peace.

But after all, the adoption is not as good as the biological one, after Yuan Zeng was established as the crown prince, the queen in order to get rid of the hidden dangers, sent the Yuan monk to be stationed in the northwest army, nominally experience, in fact, the Yuan monk is forever excluded from the center of power, but these Yuan Seng and Yuan Zeng do not know, the two of them grew up together, the two have no guesses, and the personal relationship is very good, and now the Yuan Seng has been appointed as the general of the Northwest, he will be sent to the northwest, the Yuan monk Yuan Zeng and the two are about to separate, they are very reluctant, but at this moment, the Yuan monk Yuan Zeng has no way to change anything, Yuan Seng and Yuan Zeng did not expect at this time that the two would turn against each other in the near future. So in this way, the monk left the capital that was magnificent on the surface, but extremely rotten and dark in secret, and embarked on the northwest road to the swamps and wanderers.

Later, Yuan Zeng succeeded to the throne, the queen finally became the queen mother, Wang Jing also became the prime minister of the empire, the world is still peaceful, not only the emperor Yuan Zeng, even the prime minister Wang Jing also believes that at this time the world is still in the prosperous era, at least in the national capital where Wang Jing lives, the crowd is surging, lively and extraordinary, but outside the national capital, in addition to those big cities continue to maintain the prosperity of the surface, the rest of the place has long been a different scene, but the emperor Yuan Zeng and the prime minister Wang Jing who live in the palace and the prosperity of the Wang family is no less than the palace can not be seen at all, Therefore, like their own fathers, they continue to be poor and extravagant.

However, they were not as fortunate as their fathers and the mediocre emperors of the previous empire, and in the tenth year of Yuan Zeng after the emperor Yuan Zeng succeeded to the throne for ten years (the Great Yan Empire took the emperor's name as the era name and implemented the one-emperor one-yuan system, that is, an emperor had only one year name), the rebellion broke out, and the peasants, who could not bear the oppression, under the leadership of one of them named Chen Guang, established the Blue Sky Army. However, the emperor and the Wang family on the royal land continued to occupy most of the wealth of the empire in the name of the whole world, and they were drunk to death, because the imperial system of scholars could be passed down from generation to generation, and the people did not have any chance of promotion. It's true that Putian is dead, and this person named Chen Guang was originally a fisherman, so how did he establish the mighty Blue Sky Sect and the Blue Sky Army after that? This can be traced back to three years ago, that is, in the seventh year of Yuan Zeng's succession, when Chen Guang and the people around him suddenly declared that he was sailing in the Blue River, the largest river in the empire, a stone man suddenly jumped out of front of the boat, and the stone man would move, his mouth opened slightly, and he said: "The stone man has one eye, provoking the blue river to rebel in the world!" ”。 After saying that, this sentence was engraved on the body of the stone man. The people around him scoffed at this.

That is of course, because this legend alone cannot convince the vast number of peasants that Chen Guang is really the chosen son, and that God chose him to replace the original "Putian" and establish a new sky. But Chen Guang was born as a fisherman, and later, the farmer prepared to cook the fish he bought into soup, and when he opened the belly of the fish, he found that there was a cloth in the belly of the fish, which read, "When the blue sky stands, Chen Guang is king!" This matter spread ten, ten, hundreds, and the people thought that Chen Guang was the chosen son, and Chen Guang founded the Blue Sky Sect with this, attracting many farmers to join.

And the empire in two years later, that is, in the ninth year of Yuan Zeng, there was a great famine that had not been encountered in a century, this year, the temperature of the whole country suddenly plummeted, even in the summer as if in the autumn, this situation naturally caused the failure of the grain harvest, the peasants themselves were hungry, and now so, there is no food to eat, and the large and small grades (the rank of the empire is divided into six grades, the first grade is only the prime minister, the second grade is also the head of the three departments under the command of the prime minister, and the northwest general stationed in the northwest of the empire, the third grade is the three officials in the national capital, and the fourth grade is the city lordAt the same time, the city is the center of the jurisdiction of the periphery, the army that commands the city, the five products are the various officials in the city under the control of the city lord, and the six products are the sesame officials who deal with all kinds of miscellaneous matters at the bottom) Seeing this situation, the officials did not open warehouses to release grain, but quickly took the grain of the various granaries distributed by the empire in the world as their own, and the rest were supplied to the army to maintain the most basic stability, and the officials who kept themselves no longer took care of those ordinary people and left them to fend for themselves.

The desperate people then joined the Blue Sky Sect one after another, and the people also believed that the empire's qi was really dead, just like Chen Guang said, the whole world was dead. The rapid expansion of the Blue Sky Sect's momentum caught the empire off guard, and even expanded to the point that the empire had no way to take him, Chen Guang quickly formed the People's Protector Army based on the Blue Sky Sect, also known as the Blue Sky Army, and the imperial court had no choice but to order to prohibit officials from taking possession of grain and opening warehouses to release grain. And Chen Guang also thought that the Blue Sky Army had just been formed, and the time for rebellion had not yet come, so on the surface, he trained the Blue Sky Army in the name of protecting the people, so that the imperial court thought that this was just a helpless formation of the people who wanted to live, and now the warehouse was opened to release grain, and the people had vitality, and they would not rebel, autumn came, the empire returned to calm, and the officials were relieved, they believed that in the next ten years of Yuan Zeng, as long as the grain did not fail, the empire could survive this crisis, and then slowly disintegrate the Blue Sky Army, just like before, The empire will return to its former dream of prosperity and power.

When the spring of the 10th year of Yuan Zeng arrived, and the grain harvest was indeed not failing, the officials were truly relieved, and when they were about to collect most of the people's grain as before, a rebellion broke out.

It turns out that the people have been affected by the Blue Sky Sect, thinking that the prince will have a kind of Xiangning, why is this group of people enjoying a life of poverty and luxury, Chen Guang also said, as long as the world becomes the world of the Blue Sky Sect, all the people will be evenly distributed to food, no one can starve, as long as the evil empire is overthrown, the people imagine the world of Datong, can be realized, which makes the people who have been oppressed by the empire join the Blue Sky Army, and now the grain has just been harvested, the empire hurriedly came to collect, Chen Guang knew that the time for rebellion had come, Under Chen Guang's order, the Blue Sky Army gathered in various places rose up, and soon the rebellion spread throughout the country. The capital of the country was in the west of the empire, and the rebels marched westward, and soon reached the pass that held the national capital, the Yuanyang Pass.

The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, up to the emperor Yuan Zeng, down to the officials of the various ministries, were panicked, the city lords all over the country, some held the city, some were overthrown under the offensive of the rebels, and the city lords who held the city were also panicked, these officials, large and small, in the peace of more than 200 years, have never experienced war since they were born, and now the corpses are everywhere, and the remaining city lords can only shrink in the city to resist wave after wave of attacks by the Blue Sky Army.

The high-ranking officials of the national capital, who were also in panic, also panicked, and had to gather all the troops of the national capital at Yuanyang Pass to resist the attack of the rebels.

At this time, the prime minister was extremely calm, Emperor Yuanzeng could only rely on the army of the national capital, and Wang Jing, as the head of the Wang family, controlled the power of the Wang family all over the country, especially most of the city lords in the north were people of the Wang family, and most of these cities withstood the attack of the rebels, and even now, the power of the Wang family finally exceeded the imperial power in the storm. And everyone has a desire for power, even if Wang Jing, who is the prime minister, is above 10,000 people, but who can be willing to be under one person all the time?

Of course, Wang Jing's thoughts, Yuan Zeng still doesn't know, at this time the situation of the empire is clearer, most of the southwest is occupied by barbarians, and the remaining cities of the empire are also occupied by the rebels, the northwest is already full of rogues, plus the attack of the rebels, only the concubines of the year are left in the northwest, and now the city where the Wang monk stationed by the general of the northwest has not been captured, in addition, the entire western part of the empire, only the surrounding capital has not yet fallen, and the empire is divided into two parts of the north and south by the blue river that runs through the country, and the other half of the north, The city in the northeast, the city controlled by the Wang family has basically not been captured, and the rebels have raised troops on the Blue River, so the northeast of the empire is now half of the Wang family and the rebel forces.

Now only the southeast of the empire remains, the eldest son of the year, Yuan Yan, was squeezed out here after Yuan Zeng succeeded to the throne, although the southeast of the empire is fertile, but the population of the empire is concentrated in the west and north, the southeast is sparsely populated, Yuan Yan is in the southeast, Emperor Yuan Zeng out of pity, did not monitor him, Yuan Yan has recruited a lot of talents under his hands as a think tank, and now the wolf smoke is everywhere, these talents finally played a role, and took most of the cities in the north under the Blue River, However, most of the cities in the south were also occupied by the rebels due to the strength of the rebels.

Since then, the power of the rebels, in the southwest and southeast of the empire, as well as the northwest and southwest, the northwest and the northeast of the southern forces have been connected, and on the other hand, the empire, now only the western part of the empire is still under the control of the imperial court and the national capital army, and at this time the emperor Yuan Zeng has long been frightened, hiding his face in the palace and crying all day long, has not been in the court for several days, the national capital is also panicked, the previous prosperity is no longer there, and even some court officials, feel that the empire's demise is a foregone conclusion, have fled, either disappear or surrender to the rebels.

At this time, the only one who could see the opportunity in the national capital, and the only one who was not so desperate was the Wang family headed by Prime Minister Wang Jing, who finally saw the hope of driving the only person above him down......