Chapter 309: Confusing Truth with Falsehood
"Later, within two years, the "Final War" broke out...... Duke Xinglan adjusted his sitting posture, smoked a cigarette and said: "At that time, all countries were frantically grabbing territory, and the entire continent was plunged into war. It stands to reason that an emperor has a dream of expanding his territory, but the emperor has not moved. At that time, other countries invaded, and your grandfather led the army to repel, but the emperor only gave a reward, and did not say that he would fight back......"
"It's been changed since then?" asked Bei Mingyi with an eyebrow. In this history, he knew that the emperor had the style of hard work and decisiveness before the "Final War", and there were many people who said that the Ancient Bird Kingdom would definitely be more powerful in his hands. But since the beginning of the "Definitive War", the emperor has begun to decline, and the government is not careless, but he only cares about major affairs, and he has not had a single foreign army, and he is greedy for pleasure all day long, and the treasury has made him choke enough. Recently, there has been a lot of restraint, and in previous years, every finance minister resigned with a scolding on the street.
When Beiming saw this in the record, he laughed and said that there is also an Emperor Wanli in this world...... But who would have thought that people didn't have a big change in temperament, but a fucking direct replacement!!
"There's no evidence that it was changed at that time. Duke Xinglan shook his head and said, "Later, your grandfather told me about this before he died, suspecting that the current emperor is a stand-in." I honestly haven't taken this seriously all these years, so I thought it was your grandfather's conjecture. I don't have much interest in this matter, after all, no matter who is the emperor, as long as our family doesn't have an accident. ”
Bei Ming nodded, now this emperor doesn't have much to do, and he doesn't care about anything, if he changes a lot of things, it will be troublesome. For Duke Xinglan, this is really not a question that must be clarified.
"It wasn't until I saw this wheelchair man just now that I knew that your grandfather's original conjecture was right!, but it's too late now...... Duke Xinglan took a puff of his cigarette and continued, "At this time, all you can do is to pretend to be stupid, pretending not to know about this person's existence, and you also released him unintentionally, so you hurriedly took him directly to the palace...... Because it's too troublesome, I don't want to worry about it......"
Bei Ming took a sip of wine and said, "It's understandable, let me and I have to hide away, it's not right to deal with this matter......"
"Alas. Duke Xinglan sighed and took a sip of his wine glass.
"And after that, father...... What did you talk about when you brought him into the palace tonight? I can see that Si Yubo is very nervous today, he must know about this. Bei Ming asked curiously.
"Hmph. Duke Xinglan snorted and said, "Not only he panicked, but even that fake emperor panicked......"
"I've been an emperor for so many years, and the fake has to become real, right?
"They are afraid of me, afraid that if I take this person directly to the world, the country will inevitably cause a certain amount of turmoil, anyway, he, the emperor, will not be able to sit still!" Duke Xinglan shook his head and said.
"What are you talking about?" Bei Ming was curious, this kind of thing is definitely the fewer people who know about it, the better, the fake emperor definitely wants to do something, it is not easy for Duke Xinglan to get out of the way.
"Actually, I didn't talk about anything, I went in in a wheelchair and said directly that he had cultivated himself all these years, and he had no interest in the throne anymore, and he would hand over the 'Ancient Bird Seal' in exchange for his own life!" Duke Xinglan said with a puff of cigarette.
"'Ancient Bird Seal'? What is that?" Bei Ming looked confused.
"Well, it's a legendary thing. Duke Xinglan stood up and took two steps and said, "This seal is used to mobilize the army! If there is only the emperor's holy decree, and there is no 'ancient bird seal', the army commander is not allowed to send troops without authorization, if these two things are missing, then it will be regarded as treason..."
"Oh...."Bei Ming nodded, "Father, you continued. ”
"The fake emperor made an appointment with him, and agreed to hand over the 'Ancient Sparrow Seal' in two months!" Duke Xinglan extinguished the cigarette in his hand and said, "Then Si Yubo took out some information and told me that a stand-in for the 'Shadow Project' decades ago escaped and stole the 'Ancient Sparrow Seal'!
"Then tell me to let me look at this person until he hands over the 'Ancient Sparrow Seal'!" Duke Xinglan said, spreading his hands, "That's all we have to meet." ”
"I'm a little confused, I'll wisp it...."Bei Ming touched his forehead and said: "The secret order that grandpa received decades ago was that a stand-in escaped, and then asked grandpa to kill all the stand-ins...."
"Uh-huh. Duke Xinglan nodded, looking at him with a smile on his face, obviously Beiming's reaction had long been expected by him.
"Then just now Si Yubo told you that a stand-in escaped decades ago, thank you for sending him back. Bei Ming scratched his chin and said, "First question, how do you tell if this one in a wheelchair is real?"
"Feel!" Duke Xinglan said, looking out the window in the direction of the palace, "Feel! Because your grandfather gave me a wake-up call before he died, that's a point." The other point is .... The true emperors have all been baptized by court magicians! No spiritual magic can know the secrets of his heart! If this person is really a stand-in, wouldn't it be enough to search his brain directly with spiritual magic? Why do you still have to make an appointment with him to let him take the initiative to hand over the 'Ancient Sparrow Seal'?"
Bei Ming nodded, thinking that he had forgotten about it.
Duke Xinglan continued: "One more point, the handing over of the 'Ancient Bird Seal' after two months was proposed by this wheelchair-bound person, not by the emperor!"
"I see, I see...."Bei Ming nodded, and asked again: "That fake emperor didn't bargain? This can obviously be seen to be delaying time, two months, anything can happen!"
"Nope. Duke Xinglan shook his head, "The fake emperor didn't say a few words in total, he should be afraid of revealing his stuffing." But the wheelchair man said the reason, he said that he wanted to see the Guiyuan Festival, and said that he was afraid that he would not live until that time after handing over the 'Ancient Bird Seal', and he would regret it when he looked at the Guiyuan Festival, and it didn't matter if he wanted to kill him...."
The Guiyuan Festival is equivalent to the Spring Festival of the previous life of the Northern Ming Dynasty, every year at this time, the whole country celebrates, there will be a grand ceremony in the holy capital, the major families and the royal family will dress up the floats, the whole tour, the emperor will also attend, and the people will have fun, the whole festival is celebrated for three days!
"Is he going to do something in the next two months?" asked Bei Ming.
"That's right, that's what happened, so Beichen Mansion has been lively for the past two months. Duke Xinglan said with a smile.
Bei Ming lit another cigarette and asked: "There is one last question, that is, the fake emperor can completely kill this real emperor! and then announce to the outside world that the 'Ancient Bird Seal' is broken due to its age, or is it okay to find someone to make a fake one? There is no need to keep such a thunder by your side." ”
"It's simple. Duke Xinglan also lit a cigarette and said, "Because the 'Ancient Sparrow Seal' is a thousand-year-old antiquity! Its texture is the kind that will not be broken, although people no longer know what material it is, but it is recorded in the official history that there are grandmaster-level masters who want to destroy the 'Ancient Sparrow Seal' and have failed......"
"So the 'Ancient Sparrow Seal' can't be destroyed is one of them, and the second reason is that I guess this is his last means of saving his life!" Duke Xinglan said with a squint.
"It's... How can you save your life? Could it be that the matter has failed, and the real emperor will be handed over in exchange for his own life? It is simply impossible. Bei Ming pouted and said.
"Kill the fake as the real thing, the real one is the fake one! Kill the real one as the fake one, and the fake one becomes the real one! This should be the last hand of the fake emperor to save his life!" Duke Xinglan said lightly.
As soon as Bei Ming heard this, he instantly got goosebumps, this really makes sense! When the time comes, don't care how you arrange it, just kill the real one, and the rest of the fake one can also become real! As for the 'Gu Que Yin' go to his father's, let's save my life first at this critical time! For life, that bit of military power really doesn't matter, of course, with military power in hand, there is no need to worry about things failing, because it is really definitely dead!
"I understand father, this fake emperor is also an old fox...."Bei Ming said.
"That's right, besides, there is a Si Yubo by his side, although his ability is average, but he is more or less a negotiable person...."Duke Xinglan said with a cigarette.
"Si Yubo, as the chief manager of the emperor's side, must have rebelled. Bei Ming played with the cigarette butt in his hand and said with a smile, "I just don't know who listened to whom when the two of them conspired." ”
"Si Yubo's ability is average, but the emperor's will can only be issued through him. The fake emperor, his brain is okay, he has two brushes, just by virtue of his ability to get rid of the bottom of the treasury, no one dares to say anything, you can see that this guy's political - = governance skills are definitely not ordinary! Not to mention that he deliberately let those princes form a faction in order to stand at the pinnacle of power, which is really good. Duke Xinglan said sincerely.
It's really good to let Duke Xinglan say good in politics =- governance. The Si Yubo he said has average ability, which is also in his eyes, and in the eyes of others, Si Yubo is also a dragon and phoenix among people!
"Father, since you're now allowed to look at this.... True Emperor, that.... Could it be..."Bei Ming thought for a moment, and was about to say that the Duke of Beixing was interrupted.
"No, it won't. Duke Xinglan said confidently, "Just put your heart in your stomach, they will definitely not dare to touch me in a short time!"
"Be careful with the Ten Thousand Year Ship, what if it happens?" asked Bei Ming.
"What if, then I'll let them see the essence of our Beichen Mansion!" Duke Xinglan said disdainfully.