Chapter 61: The Royal Fight
"County lord, I don't have any idea of being the emperor, I will try my best to take you to defeat Ningguo, the emperor, any of you can do it, don't call it Yiguo, whoever becomes the emperor will decide the name of the country. "Yi Jiuxiao is not humble, he is talking about real thoughts.
"If I am the emperor, it should be called Qi State, there is already a Qi country, and if there is another Qi country, it is not good, it will be called Yi State, whether you will be the emperor or not in the future. ”
Qi Qingru knew Yi Jiuxiao's temper, so he used words to cover him, as long as he called Yi Guo, he was not afraid that you would not be the emperor.
Yi Jiuxiao was helpless, he had no reason to object anymore, what Qi Qingru said made some sense, and it was not appropriate for her to be the emperor and call Qi Guo.
In fact, there is nothing called Yi Guo, Yi Jiuxiao just doesn't want to be the emperor, and as for using his surname to determine the name of the country, he doesn't care very much, after all, he is not the only one with the surname Yi in the world.
In the end, it was agreed that on the second day, they would leave camp and rush to Ningguo, which was nine thousand miles away from the current station, and could not be reached overnight.
At this time, it was the time of internal strife in Wei, and there was no time to take care of the friendly team, otherwise they might not be able to get out of the Wei State, and even so, it was full of risks.
They had to leave Gyeongju, where the Wei state was located in Gyeonggi, as Gyeongju was the heart of the Wei state.
If you go directly to the northeast from Gyeongju, it is the closest route to Ningguk, but for the sake of safety, you still choose to turn back to the original road to the east.
First leave the border of Gyeongju and enter Mizhou to the east of Gyeongju, and then rush from Mizhou to Ningguo, so that you can not only stay away from Jinggi of Wei, but also use the return to Qi as an excuse.
That night, two scouts from Gyeongju rushed back to bring the latest news from the Wei court.
The forces of the Empress Li family and the forces of Concubine Jing's Feng family were fighting fiercely outside Gyeongju City, and reinforcements from all over the country continued to rush to Gyeongju City to help.
There are also rumors about the death of Emperor Wei Wen, and Wei Wen's sudden death made Yi Jiuxiao and others very confused.
Wei Emperor Wei Wen killed his brother and seized the throne, but he was also shocked by his brother and his foundation was damaged.
Since he ascended the throne, he has rarely taken care of the government and has been trying to heal his wounds, and the government has been handled by the queen Li Rong on my behalf.
Empress Li Rong took control of the government and wholeheartedly supported her son Wei Yang as the crown prince.
And Wei Wen's favorite concubine Feng Qiushui is also secretly cultivating power to compete for the crown prince for her son Wei Tong
Empress Li Rong and Concubine Jing Feng Qiushui are both from famous families in the Wei State, and their respective forces are very large.
Li Rongquan leans towards the government and the opposition, is resourceful, and most of the officials in the DPRK and China are his cronies.
The elder brother Li Rui served as the secretary of the Ministry of Finance, was in charge of the country's money and grain, and his own cultivation was also very high, and he was a master in the middle of Jindan.
At the same time, the royal forbidden army, the most elite army of the Wei State, was also firmly controlled by the Li family.
Although Concubine Jing Feng Qiushui herself has no real power, her Feng family has long held the military boundaries of the Wei State.
His second brother Feng Xihai was named the general of Zhendong and held heavy troops, and his eldest brother Feng Xishan was the secretary of the military department and a master in the middle of Jindan.
Although the Ministry of War cannot control the forbidden army, the armies except for the forbidden army are controlled by the Ministry of War, which shows that its strength is better than that of the queen.
The two forces were mostly secretly fighting before, and there were few open fights, until the death of Wei Emperor Wei Wen before.
Wei Wen has been in retreat all these years, claiming to be cultivating divine skills and impacting Yuanying, but in fact, he is just saving his life.
He once sent people all over the continent to search for a panacea, trying to repair the golden pill, but unfortunately to no avail, until the situation deteriorated, and finally the realm fell.
It is rumored that Wei Wen actually found a book of exercises in the palace collection, called the Divine Soul Movement Dafa, which is actually a way to seize the house.
After the monk's body is destroyed, if the divine soul can escape, he can find a monk and use his divine soul to devour the opponent's divine soul, so as to occupy the physical body and start cultivating again.
Each monk can only take it once in his life, so when he takes it, he is carefully selected, not just a low-level monk who can take it, and there are requirements for the qualifications and spiritual roots of the person who is taken away.
If the qualifications of the person who has been taken away are dull and the spiritual roots are mixed, even if they succeed in taking away, it will be difficult to cultivate, and they can only survive and live a mediocre life.
Wei Wen is also choosing a candidate to take the relinquishment, and the exercises he cultivates are the exercises of the Wei royal family, which are sharp and domineering, and extremely demanding on the blood and spiritual roots of the cultivators.
So Wei Wen set his sights on the crown prince, who was his own son, and his bloodline and spiritual roots were the same as his own.
At the age of twenty-nine, the crown prince was already at the peak of foundation building, and he could advance to the Jindan realm at any time after taking it.
Either it is said that the royal family is very ruthless, for the sake of longevity, for its own strength, and does not care about human ethics and family affection at all.
Wei Wen has coveted the prince's body for a long time, and he has never found a chance to attack.
Finally, a few days ago, he came up with a way, lied to the queen Li Rong that he would die soon, and before he died, he used a secret method to infuse his cultivation into the prince to help the prince practice.
Li Rong was very happy, she very much hoped that her son could be strong, so she asked her son Wei Yang to cooperate with his father and accept his father's cultivation.
The father and son chose a quiet room for the retreat, in which Wei Wen used the Divine Soul Movement Technique in an attempt to exchange bodies with Wei Yang.
Unexpectedly, Wei Yang sensed his intention and refused to exchange with him, and the spirits of the father and son fought in the prince's body.
Wei Wen overestimated his cultivation, thinking that although he had fallen into the realm, after all, he was a Jindan monk, and his divine soul was definitely stronger than Wei Yang, and he could take the initiative in the exchange of divine souls.
He didn't know that since his golden pill was damaged, his divine soul had not been nourished, and he had become extremely weak.
The prince is in the prime of life, and although the realm of the divine soul is not high, he is at the peak of his strength.
So in the end, Wei Wen's divine soul was devoured by Wei Yang, and without the divine soul, Wei Wen died so much that he could no longer die.
When the emperor dies, the royal family will definitely release the news to the outside world, and the specific cause of death naturally cannot be said directly.
But for such a big event, the elders of the royal family must know about it, and neither the queen nor the crown prince dare to hide it, so they can only tell the truth.
Among them, some elders inspected Wei Wen's body and the scene, and agreed with what the queen and the crown prince said, after all, it was the emperor who was wrong, so they would no longer pursue it.
The country cannot be without a king for a day, and the queen Li Rong wants to support the crown prince Wei Yang to ascend the throne immediately.
But Concubine Jing Feng Qiushui was unwilling, she had been preparing for many years, and she had not launched it for a long time, thinking that the emperor would live a few more years.
She dared to compete for the position of the crown prince, but she did not dare to usurp the throne, so that the royal family would destroy her family.
Now that the emperor has died, it can be regarded as an opportunity, how can she give up the throne to Wei Yang.
Therefore, Concubine Jing proposed to the elders of the royal family, saying that the emperor actually died because of the crown prince, so unfilial, he was not qualified to inherit the throne, and he had to choose another person.
Concubine Jing's mention is not unreasonable, although the emperor did not deliberately murder the prince, nor is it the prince's fault, but it has an inescapable relationship with it.
As a result, there was also a disagreement among the elders, after all, these elders were not monolithic.
The result of the dispute was that they did not give in to each other, and eventually divided into two factions to fight each other, and even the elders started to fight each other.
The elders are all fighting, how can there be peace below, and the two forces of Li Rong and Feng Qiushui also moved.
Li Rong raided the Feng family according to the advantages of the forbidden army, and almost exterminated the Feng surname in Gyeongju City, but Feng Xishan escaped from Gyeongju City with Feng Qiushui and Wei Tong.
Subsequently, the reinforcements of the Feng family from all over the country arrived one after another, and Feng Xihai came back with tens of thousands of border defenders.
Reinforcements from all walks of life formed a camp outside Gyeongju Fortress and began to attack Gyeongju Fortress, engaging in a fierce battle with the forbidden army in the city.
Although the forbidden army was very strong, there were many peripheral armies, and there were also border armies that were not weak, and they were evenly matched with each other, and the battle did not distinguish the winner for several days.
But with the increasing number of reinforcements from outside the city, the forbidden army will definitely lose its advantage in the end.
After listening to Tanma's statement, although Yi Jiuxiao's face was cold, his heart was very relieved, and Qi Qingru and the others were also relieved.
Even if they don't cancel the harmony, such a chaotic situation, the harmony may not be carried out, and if the prince's side is defeated, the result of the harmony may be the opposite.
In a word, in today's situation, it is wise not to get along.
At present, the Li family and the Feng family are still in the melee, they have not decided the winner, and they have no time to take care of the team, and it is also a good time for the team to evacuate, and it can be said that the news of the horse visit has strengthened everyone's determination.
Before dawn, the team set out from camp and marched along the same road in the direction of Mizhou.
There were still two scouts who failed to make it back, so Qi Bin left a secret mark at the camp, and the scouts would catch up with the team when they saw it.
In order to escape from the danger zone, the whole team got up early and hurried in the dark, marched nearly 200 miles a day, and left Gyeongju in three days and entered the territory of Mizhou.
Arriving in Mizhou, Yi Jiuxiao's heart was a little more settled, and the team left Qingzhou City for 1,300 miles, and it was not easy for the Wei court to catch up with any party.
Now the direction of the march is east, Yi Jiuxiao decided to go east another five hundred miles, so he headed north.
On the fourth day, the remaining two groups of scouts caught up with the team and brought back some big news.
As the reinforcements dispatched by the Feng family went to Beijing one after another, the original parity between the two sides was broken, and the situation became one-sided.
The army outside the city entered Gyeongju City, killing and wounding nearly 40,000 forbidden troops, and the remaining 20,000 forbidden troops escaped from Gyeongju City with Empress Li Rong and Prince Wei Yang and headed north.
In this civil war, the Wei State was greatly damaged, most of the royal forbidden army was killed and wounded, and the peripheral army also suffered heavy casualties, and the troops drawn from the border and various states and counties suffered 100,000 casualties.
At the same time, the elders of the royal family and high-ranking officials of the imperial court also participated in the battle, and several masters above the golden pill fell.
In the end, if it weren't for a Supreme Elder of the Yuan Infant Realm who came out of the customs and suppressed it, I am afraid that the casualties would be even more serious.
It can be said that this civil war is unprecedented in the history of Wei, and the elite of the whole country suffered great losses in this civil war.
Hearing the report of the four scouts, Yi Jiuxiao couldn't help but become worried.
The empress and the crown prince fled to the north of Gyeongju Fortress, and the pursuers must have followed them north.
And his team is heading northeast, although it is not exactly the same position as the queen's escape, but it is relatively close.
Will it be encountered halfway, will it be affected, and thus become a self-imposed net.