Chapter 161: Vertical and Horizontal
[Previous chapter, also water?] I can't keep writing about it.]
Hundreds of carrier pigeons flew from Tan Binh City to various parts of the country with the news of the deaths of Fang Yao and Francis.
On the ninth day of the second lunar month, the news of Fang Yao and Fang Ji's death reached the county town of Yunhua, which was nearly 4,000 miles away.
Yunyi was shocked when he got the news, it was normal for Fang Yao to die, why would Fang Ji also die? But then Yun Yi understood that Francis, who was already the prince, would take over the throne of emperor after Fang Yao's death, but there were only those small and medium-sized families in Fangji's hundreds of thousands of families in the Dali Empire, and none of the first-class families supported Francis, while the other five dragons all had first-class families to support, so Francis had to die.
Fang Yao and Fang Ji have little to do with the Yunhua Yun clan, after all, the Yun clan has no clansmen to enter the officialdom of the Dali Empire, and the Yun clan has not joined the camp of a certain emperor's son and grandson, and the battle for the throne has not affected the Yun clan who is in a remote position for the time being, and now Yun Yi is more concerned about the Bright Sect whose specific strength is unknown, if the Bright Sect wants to start an incident, now is undoubtedly a good opportunity.
Yun Yi ordered Xun Feng and Tianmu to pay close attention to the actions of the Bright Sect in various places.
Fang Yao and Fang Ji are dead, the next emperor of the Dali Empire is undecided, Zhou Shu is presiding over the state funeral while presiding over the government, and the loyal monarch faction led by Zhou Shu strives to maintain the problem of the Dali Empire and does not participate in the struggle for the throne.
Fang Yao's other descendants didn't care that Fang Yao had just died, and began to fight with each other with the support of various forces, and the main contenders for the throne were the remaining five dragons: Fang Xuan, Fang Yue, Fang Rui, Fang Zhi, and Fang Da.
The battle for the throne is very cruel to Wulong and other emperors and grandsons, only one is the winner who becomes the emperor of the Dali Empire, the others are all losers, and there are only two losers, one is given to death, the other is under house arrest, the former is more likely, Fang Yao's competitors died one by one after Fang Yao succeeded to the throne.
However, the battle for the throne is not so cruel to the first-class families or second-rate families with innate warriors in charge, no matter whether the emperor's sons and grandsons they supported at the beginning eventually become emperors, they will not be affected too much.
Just like the battle of the previous generation, Emperor Li De died suddenly, leaving no edict, Emperor Li De had four sons, and the next emperor had to be selected from these four, and the hundreds of thousands of families of the Great Li Empire chose the emperor they supported, and slowly formed four camps and began to compete.
The family attaches great importance to inheritance, so that the family inheritance is longer, rather than consuming each other in the battle for the throne, so it is the emperor who ultimately benefits, so which emperor ascends the throne of God, the final look is how the family behind the emperor uses the interests to win over the family in other camps and strengthen themselves.
Even if there are only two camps left in the end to compete, they will not fight, but continue to exchange interests, and the stronger camp needs to divide a part of the interests to the weaker camp, and finally the new emperor can be elected.
A battle for the throne, as if the families are in the vertical and horizontal, pull each other, confront each other, only the party with the most forces gathered, can support their own support of the emperor and grandson to the throne, at that time, I am afraid that most of the first-class families and second-rate families involved in the battle for the throne are in the same camp, and when they really inherit the throne, the major families of this camp can distribute the benefits, the earlier the family to join this camp gets more benefits, the later to join the less benefits.
For the first-class families and second-rate families with innate warriors in charge, they are all beneficiaries of the battle for the throne, but in the end, the question of how much they benefit, but those families who do not have innate warriors are going to be unlucky, and they will not be able to take out a few to destroy them, which is also the reason why the Yun family did not participate in the battle for the throne before, and the family without the innate warrior is not much better than cannon fodder in the battle for the throne, especially the Yun family, which does not have much power in the officialdom.
Five dragons seized the heir, the storm blew from Xinping City, and the major families in the Dali Empire moved around each other more frequently, and they had to use various means to win over other families and clans, so that their own camp could grow and win the final victory.
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While the great clans were busy merging vertically and horizontally, there was a huge unimaginable undercurrent surging in the territory of the Great Li Empire.
"Quick, quick, gather here."
In a certain village, a team of "sergeants" wearing different colors of clothing but holding standard weapons are being assembled, there are about 40 families in this village, nearly 300 people, but in the end, a team of more than 50 people has been assembled, looking at the state, it is not much different from the sergeants in the county, and this is just a team trained by the Illuminati in this village where all the people believe in the Illuminati.
In the Dali Empire, how many ordinary villages believe in the Illuminati? This is probably an unimaginable number, a team of more than 50 people gathered in one village, 500 people in 10 villages, 5,000 people in 100 villages, and 50,000 people in 1,000 villages.
Because of the drought, there have been more than 10 million victims in the Dali Empire, among which the victims who believe in the Illuminati Sect may have reached millions, as long as the Illuminati has enough weapons and food, it can arm hundreds of thousands of troops.
Yuan Hao has been preparing for decades, digging out a huge amount of wealth from the ground, and even mining and smelting iron in the deep mountains and old forests to build weapons, the Bright Sect is not short of food and weapons, and it is easy to arm hundreds of thousands of troops.
The general rudder of the Guangming Sect is in Tongzhou, and it is divided into five halls: Qingmu Hall, Chihuo Hall, Heishui Hall, Brown Earth Hall, and Platinum Hall, each hall is divided into two rudders, a total of ten rudders: Zezhou rudder, Suzhou rudder, Qinzhou rudder, Hezhou rudder, Hengzhou rudder, Huizhou rudder, Yuanzhou rudder, Xinzhou rudder, Laizhou rudder.
The sergeants assembled from ordinary villages are just ordinary sergeant teams under the jurisdiction of Wutang and Ten Rudders, and in secret places in various places, there are also teams of elite troops subordinate to Wutang and Ten Rudders.
Yuan Hao understands that the tactics of the sea of people are very strong, but sometimes the tactics of the sea of people also have great weaknesses, if you want to overthrow the rule of the Dali Empire and exterminate the family, the elite army is indispensable, so Yuan Hao ordered that the five halls and ten rudders each select strong believers, plus armor and weapons, to train an elite army.
Whether it is an ordinary army or an elite army, the armies of the Covert Divisions in various places are secretly assembling in their respective regions.
The time has come, and the light is about to shine on the earth!