On September 17 of the 19th year of Jianye, Emperor Wei collapsed. This emperor, who also worked hard to become strong and annexed other countries when he was young, was left to the history books in the end with his absurdity and cruelty, as well as the chaos that brought disaster to the country.

Yuwen Moyuan, the crown prince of Dayong, ascended the throne on September 20, the 19th year of Jianye, and changed his name to Yankang. Since then, Yuwen Moyuan has been called Yankang Emperor by the people of Dayong.

Dayong taken over by Yuwen Moyuan is already a mess full of holes. After more than ten years of harsh government by Emperor Wei, Dayong's hearts were disheartened and he had no fighting spirit. The officials only know how to oppress, and the people complain about it. And what Emperor Wei did in the year before his death eventually led to the war in the whole territory of Dayong, and a large area of the country was lost.

At present, the treasury is empty, and the people are struggling to make a living. No matter how diligent Yuwen Moyuan is, he can't change this country that has rotted from the roots overnight. But as the helmsman of the Yuwen clan, Yuwen Moyuan still devoted himself wholeheartedly to the operation to save Dayong. At the beginning of his succession, he successively issued policies to appease the people. However, the people's support has been lost, how can a few benevolent governments that cannot be easily redeemed by good implementation?

Yuwen Moyuan's road to succession was very unsmooth. He first lost Lan Jing'an, and Zhao Wanyao was burned into a monster again; Then, on the same night, Yuwenmo sneaked into the palace, and Emperor Wei died; A few days later, he heard the news that Xiao Qingyun had captured the important city of Linjiang in Qingzhou without spending a single soldier.

Yuwen Moqian was charged with forcing Emperor Wei to death because of forcing the palace. With the charge of killing his father and killing the king, Yuwen Moyuan didn't have to be polite to him, and directly executed Yuwen Moqian and his sons. Yuwen Moqian became the first person killed by Emperor Yan Kang after he succeeded to the throne.

The news that Zhao Wanyao was seriously burned reached the Zhao Guogong Mansion, and the Duchess of Zhao Guo fainted from crying several times, and hurriedly sent a letter to Zhao Hu. The crown princess Zhao Wanyao is an important link between Yuwen Moyuan and the Zhao Guogong Mansion, and now Zhao Wanyao is burned, and she can't be the queen anymore.

But the Zhao Mansion has worked hard for so many years, how can it tolerate queens with other surnames? And they found out that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had secretly hidden Lan Jing'an for a year, and it was because of offending Lan Jing'an that the two sisters Zhao Wanyao angered the prince. Therefore, when Yuwen Moyuan proposed not to establish the queen for the time being and renamed Zhao Wanyao as Zhaoyi, Zhao Guogong immediately guessed Yuwen Moyuan's mind and categorically refused.

Zhao Guogong used Lan Jing'an's year in the prince's mansion as a bargaining chip to negotiate with the prince. If the crown prince is willing to appoint the Zhao family as the queen, their Zhao State Mansion will be loyal to Yuwen Moyuan as always, and agree that Lan Jing'an will change his identity and enter the harem in the future. Otherwise, they will expose the relationship between Yuwen Moyuan and Lan Jing'an, and shake out the matter of Lan Jing'an's burning of the crown princess, and break the net.

Although Yuwen Moyuan hated the Zhao State Mansion for threatening him, the current situation on the battlefield did not allow him to say a word. In order to keep Dayong's only remaining land, he could only choose to continue to cooperate with the Zhao State Mansion. But Zhao Wanyao's current dignity must no longer be able to honor the world. And she only has one sister-in-law, Zhao Wanzhu, and the other girls of the Zhao family have a low status and are not qualified to be candidates for the queen at all.

After the two sides discussed, the final outcome was jaw-dropping. Zhao Wanzhu, who was locked in the private prison of the prince's mansion, was released and became Queen Dayong. And the former crown princess Zhao Wanyao was named Zhaoyi, whose status was second only to the queen. The Duke of Zhao's Mansion has a queen and a concubine, and for a time it was once again in the limelight.

However, Yuwen Moyuan's resentment and disgust towards the two Zhao sisters were not ordinary. So since Zhao Wanzhu became the queen, she has never seen Yuwen Moyuan again. Fortunately, she was originally afraid and afraid of this former brother-in-law and current husband, but now that Yuwen Moyuan does not come to her, she is happy.

As for Zhao Wanyao, Yuwen Moyuan, out of revenge, specially ordered Imperial Doctor Wang to diagnose and treat her, sparing her life. Then he ordered someone to show her a bronze mirror every day. Although Zhao Wanyao survived, she was burned into a monster, her face was gone, and her most noble identity was gone. And Yuwen Moyuan also tortured her with such the most cruel method for women, and Zhao Wanyao soon became a madman completely.

Since then, Zhao Hu felt that this daughter was no longer useful, and refused to plan for her. Except for Zhao Wanyao's mother, the Duchess of Zhao Guo occasionally visits her, and Zhao Wanyao, an abandoned son, no one pays attention to her in the palace.

And the search for Lan Jing'an was not as smooth as Yuwen Moyuan imagined, this cunning woman was like a fish into the sea, and there was no trace of her after escaping from Yonghua City. Yuwen Moyuan had no choice but to paint her portrait himself, and then let the painter copy it and distribute it to the various counties of Sili, so that he could find Lan Jing'an and capture her alive and return to Yonghua. At the same time, he ordered someone to offer a reward in the market, and those who provided clues to Lan Jing'an would be rewarded with 10,000 gold; Those who capture Lan Jing'an alive will be rewarded with 10,000 gold and given to high-ranking officials.

Although the people below were surprised that this order was different from when Emperor Wei was there, they had all heard Lan Jing'an's proverbs before, and they felt that it was reasonable for the emperor to want to capture her alive, but no one doubted it. For a while, everyone in Sili was talking about Lan Jing'an, trying to capture her alive and hand her over for a reward.

Although Lan Jing'an successfully left Yonghua City, he escaped the first round of pursuit by Yuwen Moyuan. But his new policy of manhunting and arrest has indeed caused her a lot of trouble. When she left Yonghua City, she did not go east or south, but went the opposite way, all the way west to Meiyang. Although Meiyang City is not big, it is connected to Wugong in the east and Qishan in the west, and the location is the most convenient.

As for the shadow guards led by Qiu Shaoze, she was divided into four groups, and one group went straight to Meiyang with her out of the West Gate. A group led by Qiu Shaoze out of the north gate, went north around Anling and then detoured westward, to Meiyang to meet her. The remaining two groups to the east and south had a difficult task, responsible for diverting the pursuers, and then turned to Qingzhou to report to Xiao Qingyun.

The leader of the two groups of people who went to Qingzhou was Wu Wei, and Wu Wei was responsible for taking Su Mei to Qingzhou together. Lan Jing'an arranged this, on the one hand, so that Su Mei could pass through Yuzhou as soon as possible to see if there were any clues that could help her find her brother. On the other hand, Lan Jing'an was also afraid that she would leak the news, so she found a way to report her location to Yuwen Moyuan. So she chose to let Wu Wei send Su Mei away first.

As for which one of Wu Wei and Qiu Shaoze should keep Lan Jing'an's side, and which one should be responsible for delivering the letter, the two of them discussed it privately. Considering that Qiu Shaoze's martial arts were better, Wu Wei asked Qiu Shaoze to bring the one hundred shadow guards with the most exquisite martial arts to stay here in Lan Jing'an, and he took the remaining one hundred people to Qingzhou day and night to deliver the letter.

As soon as Lan Jing'an arrived in Meiyang City, he continued to divide the shadow guards around him into three batches, and asked Qiu Shaoze to pick sixty people to hide in various parts of Meiyang City, and at the same time, twenty people went to Jincheng through Qishan to send a message to Wan Mingde, the chief general of the northwest. The other twenty people passed through Taibai, passed through Hanzhong, and went to Baishui Pass to inform Jiang Shaoheng, the general of Shu.