Chapter Eighty-Five—The Road Ahead is Unknown
It is precisely because of this that these members who were originally loyal to the royal family were able to basically guarantee the titles or land that had been passed down from generation to generation during the period of the reign of the royal family. These things that have been passed down from generation to generation are also guarantees for their own own interests.
However, the arrival of the Holy Emperor Zheng Junchao destroyed their own vested interests, which directly threatened them, and for these people who had certain assets and status in their hands, they naturally could not bear to have their vital interests threatened.
Since their interests all come from the royal step, and the times are more or less taken care of by the royal step, they are naturally invisibly more biased towards the royal step.
Saint Emperor Zheng Junchao's methods were indeed too drastic, and it was not surprising that these forces that were originally biased towards the royal family completely reversed. Zheng Junchao didn't have much hope and illusion about them, and he knew very well that once he reused these people, it was not known that he might incur even more severe consequences.
What's more, his own idea is to crush the foundation of the original foundation of the royal family, completely destroy it, and then re-establish a new kingdom of his own on this basis.
Of course, the foundation that Saint Emperor Zheng Junchao was thinking about was basically entirely dependent on the military strength he held in his hands, that is, the combat power of the Sealing War Society. At first, at the height of the Sealing War Society, the supporters of the royal family were afraid of their combat effectiveness, and had to choose to lie dormant and wait, waiting for a better opportunity before acting.
The army of the royal family, pampered, with the accession of Guangwu Jun Buling to the throne, and never sent troops to the Qi State, these troops left in the national capital Zhongcheng and nearby are completely unable to compare with the elite selected from the front, that is, the army of the Feng War Society.
The Seal War would be overwhelming, and even if there was some turmoil in the country caused by the supporters of the Imperial Family, the Seal War Society easily quelled the rebellion with its almost invincible army. And after the war, these people will be killed by the battle, and not a single one will be left alive.
That year, the Holy Emperor led his army to attack the Qi State, and had already successfully occupied several towns in the south of the Qi State with the help of Neiying.
Zheng Junchao originally thought that as long as these main troublemakers and rebels were killed, the remaining ones would naturally choose to hide out of fear, or give up their original thoughts and actions. But he overlooked the fact that these people were already hostile to the regime he had established, and the more they killed, the more they would incur the karmic fire of their anger.
Hatred does not fade out of fear, but grows out of fear, and this brutal and merciless killing temporarily deters those who have a secret idea. But the hatred is constantly growing and sprouting, and the people loyal to the royal family who were lucky enough to escape the killing are more united.
With the rise of the power of the white-clothed celestial maiden, the forces that were originally latent in various places and supported the royal family surged up. It has only been nearly twenty years since the Holy Emperor usurped the throne and seized power.
The inheritance has not yet passed, and the hatred of this country will naturally not be easily eliminated, especially the families of these people who have risen, more or less a few people have died due to that catastrophe, and they naturally put this account on the head of the Holy Emperor Zheng Junchao, and the hatred between them can even be said to have reached the state of undying.
The most important thing is that Zheng Junchao has no way to completely solve these people who are already taken care of or rewarded by the royal Chen family, and he does not dare to kill them all, for fear that the feudal country will be directly divided, he can only use this way of killing chickens and monkeys, and at the same time trying to provoke its internal contradictions, so as to profit from them and divide them.
He did underestimate the degree of unity of this force, and believed that they were dormant because they were cowardly and did not dare to continue to resist him. Therefore, to a certain extent, the current failure of Saint Emperor Zheng Junchao actually has a lot to do with his own conceit.
These were hidden deep in his heart, and he was unwilling to admit that it was because of himself, which indirectly led to the fact that he was now about to betray his relatives and leave the country, but today he was exposed by his wife. And when he thinks of the influence behind his wife, he may not have a secret connection with the royal family that he doesn't know.
For the first time in his life, the Holy Emperor Zheng Junchao had doubts about his wife, he did not doubt the relationship between them, nor did he doubt the words that his wife had explained at the beginning.
He was worried that his wife would choose another monarch for the sake of the people and the continuation of the feudal kingdom because she had lost control of the feudal land, which was not surprising and very likely.
This night banquet, which was originally a relaxation of relations, suddenly became very stiff because Zheng Junchao still maintained a little obsession, and Princess Rongle Bu Lian had no intention of continuing to sit here, so she got up and left directly.
Now only the Holy Emperor Zheng Junchao is sitting in the front hall, and his current mood is extremely complicated. He was reluctant to give up the power he held so easily. His current mentality is like that of a gambler, he will never admit defeat easily if he does not lose the last chip.
He knew very well that both his wife and daughter had a great connection with the royal family. Once they really grasp the military and political power of the feudal country, they will definitely not be like themselves, almost frantically rejecting people related to the royal family, and their identity and status can be supported by the royal family to some extent. Moreover, to a certain extent, Bu Lian and Bu Yuehan, the mother and daughter are still more flexible, unlike him, who is now about to walk into a dead end, but still has no idea of turning back.
With a slight wry smile, Zheng Junchao seemed to have anticipated his future, if he continued to insist on his obsession, the final outcome was likely to become very bleak.
However, now there is indeed a good opportunity in front of him, since his wife can't convince herself, then she will inevitably send someone secretly to contact her daughter Bu Yuehan, and the two will discuss how to control the situation of the feudal dynasty. He didn't plan to stop them from doing anything, and maybe he could use his daughter to make a fuss.
Thinking gradually cleared, walking out of his wife's bedroom, Zheng Junchao raised his hand slightly, and a ghost-like figure behind him rushed directly to Zheng Junchao's side from nowhere. He had only walked a few steps out of the palace, but the two maids guarding the door had not noticed the figure that had appeared behind His Majesty the Holy Emperor.
Of course, these maids were already aware of the contradictions between Niangniang and His Majesty, even if there was no one to serve, but the maids waiting outside vaguely heard the sound of the two arguing, and they couldn't believe that this was the real scene that appeared in front of them.
Even the two maids who were guarding the palace gate had heard the news, and now the two of them quietly leaned together and discussed the matter in a low voice. Naturally, he didn't notice the ghost-like existence that unexpectedly appeared behind the Saint Emperor in front of him.
"Go and tell Yue Ji that if anyone goes out of the city with the Xuanyi women's army with the queen's phoenix order in the past few days, don't stop them, let them go. ”
"Obey!"
The figure disappeared into the depths of the night sky like a ghost again, Zheng Junchao looked back again, and saw that the glimmer of the candle flame that had been lit had been extinguished, he sighed leisurely, turned around and gradually walked away along the wide winding road, and in an instant, his back had disappeared into the bedroom of Princess Rong Le.
What Zheng Junchao didn't notice was that in the attic of the dormitory, a figure standing quietly in the depths of the shadows had been watching his departing back. Quietly, a teardrop fell out of nowhere and fell straight to the ground......
At noon on the second day, near the east gate of Zhongcheng, the guards of the Huqing Army who were patrolling were closely checking the people and merchants who came and went, as usual, and they were allowed to enter and leave the city gate only after checking their belongings. Moreover, it is impossible for this Huqing army to use such a method as "wine and tea money" to get by.
Although the city gate was not completely closed, it took a long time to get in and out of the city gate, and the people in Chungcheng were not willing to spend this time and energy if it were not for an emergency, so they simply stayed in their homes in the city.
Although the situation in the feudal country is not very good, because the main production areas in the feudal country are in the south, there is no shortage of food in the feudal country for the time being. There are still more than 400,000 stone of grain stored in the city. A system of food rationing is also being implemented, and even if these people do not go out of the city to farm, they will receive food subsidies from the government on time.
This is also the idea of the Holy Emperor Zheng Junchao, since the public opinion in various places has long ceased to be towards him, he will not force these anymore. Of course, he will not completely give up on winning the hearts of the people in Zhongcheng, he has been operating in Zhongcheng for more than ten years, and has basically completely collected the popular aspirations of most of the people, which Zheng Junchao still knows.
As far as the current situation is concerned, Zheng Junchao is still able to control most of the land south of Zhongcheng, as well as the people and troops in it. However, Dream City now has only 3,000 garrisons, and once the enemy army enters, it will fall in an instant.
In fact, the only city that Saint Emperor Zheng Junchao can actually control now is Zhongcheng.
Originally, the relationship between the two armies guarding Zhongcheng, the Xuanyi Women's Army and the Huqing Army, was relatively harmonious, at least on the surface, it would not tear its face. Some of the guards of the Huqing Army always like to deliberately get close to some of the guards of the Xuanyi Women's Army and want to have a good relationship with them.
Of course, it is not realistic to marry them, and the guards in the Xuanyi Women's Army must be innocent and clean, which is also a rule that has been established since the beginning of Princess Rongle's founding of this army.
Just a few days ago, a major event that almost caused a sensation in the entire Zhongcheng also aroused the attention of all the people and soldiers, Yue Ji, the commander of the Huqing Army, and Su Hui, the leader of the Xuanyi Women's Army, and Su Hui, the henchman of Rongle Eldest Princess Bu Lian, did not know why, and there was an almost irreconcilable contradiction. In the past few days, the two armies have reached a tense situation, and they no longer dare to contact each other easily.