Chapter 228: Rumors
In the early morning of November 13, 798 in the Guangming calendar, panic, fanaticism, evasion, and despair were still pervasive and fermenting in the imperial capital, but most people believed that the disaster should have come to an end, and nothing could be worse than now. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 However, reality has given this idea a hard slap in the face.
The followers of the Lord God of the Worlds took to the streets again, their voices hoarse and fearless of sacrifice. They grew tenaciously under the scimitars of the gendarmes like weeds that could not be burned. Every day, they continue to lash out at this decaying dynasty with words, and their followers are growing.
Today, these believers once again smashed several horrific news into the city of Doom, and as soon as the news appeared, it spread throughout the city as quickly as it appeared. Hearing these news, the already numb nerves of the people who had already suffered the disaster were pulled violently again, and they were all stunned, and even those who were fleeing were at a loss. Because they suddenly found that the disaster seemed irreparable, but would spread in an even more turbulent manner.
In the 798th year of the Guangming calendar, this year is destined to be written in the annals of history. Because in the long history of the dynasty, the fortunes of the country have never withered so much, and in just a few days, the national honor has almost been cut off.
On the 8th, the Emperor of Light.
On the 9th, the Minister of State, the Crown Prince and the Prince of Wen, Ye Chong, died.
On the 10th, Dai Chen, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, disappeared, and the other garden turned into ashes, and he was suspected of death.
On the 11th, blood was shed at the gate of the Palace of the Seven Righteous Soldiers, and 5,000 reserve non-commissioned officers were slaughtered.
On the twelfth, the governor of the Central Army, the Duke of Wolf City, and the crown prince Guo Zizhong died.
In the past five days, the empire seemed to have been cursed, from the emperor to the top ministers, and even the young elites who represented the future of the empire, one after another.
At the same time, a well-worded rumor began to spread.
This rumor reveals the truth about the Bright Emperor's moodiness for days. Since the disaster, many people are full of doubts, why did the emperor, who had been immersed in the deep palace for ten years, clearly want to work hard to rejuvenate the empire after issuing the "guilty edict", but in just a few days, the empire has been brought into the abyss from which it cannot extricate itself?
Now that question has been answered. It turned out that the Bright Emperor had died five days ago, he was killed on the spot by the jealous queen in the Luanming Hall with a gilded phoenix dagger in the chest, the queen in order to cover up the truth of the murder of the monarch, she burned the emperor's body and the entire palace, and the Emperor of Light died with the new favorite concubine who entered the palace.
Among the rumors, even the appearance of the gilded phoenix dagger was accurately described, as if it had been seen with one's own eyes. It is said that this rumor came from a certain palace maid who witnessed the whole process, and this loyal palace maid completely disappeared shortly after the news came out - everyone deduced that this respectable poor palace maid must have been pushed into some dry well in the palace by the vicious queen - it was really embarrassing!
Subsequently, the queen, who had turned into a devil, was in cahoots with Dai Chen, a mad dog who was spurned by everyone—according to another branch of rumors, the two were far from colluding, Dai Chen intended to become the prince of the empire with a different surname, and was willing to be the face of the empress -- in short, they began to kill loyal ministers and righteous men, and the first to be killed was a generation of virtuous ministers, Prince Wen Ye Chong, whose entire mansion was razed to the ground, and he was even beheaded by Dai Chen, and when he heard that the queen saw Ye Chong's head, she laughed three times and then cried three times. Laughing because there was one less stumbling block in the world that could prevent her from ascending the throne, and crying because of the loneliness of the deep palace - and the vicious queen had an inexplicable affection for this noble and elegant royal family......
In order to deal with another stumbling block - Guo Zizhong, the governor of the Central Army and the Duke of Wolf City, the queen first slandered the duke who had been loyal for generations as a rebel, and then mobilized tens of thousands of gendarmes and court offerings to surround Guo Zizhong. How do you know that God can't bear to die early, Guo Zizhong suddenly possessed by a god, and with the courage of ten thousand people, although he was seriously injured, he was able to escape-as for the possessed god, it is said that he is the main god of all worlds who has become famous in the imperial capital these days......
Due to Dai Chen's ineffective action, the queen was extremely dissatisfied with him, and the two demons became suspicious. Dai Chen, as the insider of the queen's murder, decided to make everything public. At the same time, the queen also decided to kill people. In order to fight against the queen, Dai Chen did not hesitate to collude with the necromancer and wreak havoc on the imperial capital. However, this move went against the will of heaven and attracted divine punishment, and the entire imperial capital city was plagued by pond fish. Dai Chen also disappeared from his mansion - he died of hatred before he could tell the truth.
As for Guo Zizhong, a generation of famous generals who left by luck, after hearing that the emperor was killed and his close friend Prince Wen was beheaded, he also died of his injuries, and only lasted less than two days before dying of depression and death. However, everyone believed that the man who represented the embodiment of loyalty and courage had not disappeared, and that he must have returned to the bosom of the Lord God, and from then on, enjoyed the admiration of all the people—anyway, the immortal pillar of the empire collapsed with a bang, which made people sigh.
People of insight in the imperial capital city naturally scoffed at this rumor. But today's people of insight in the imperial capital city can count it with one palm. So the mouth burned gold, accumulated and destroyed the bones, and this rumor became more and more popular.
In the market, this rumor is extremely popular, because it is like a demonic saga full of grudges. As the protagonist of the story, the queen is a model of all kinds of resentful women and poisonous women, and she is also the only person alive in the whole rumor. And famous people such as Emperor Guangming, Ye Chong, Dai Chen, and Guo Zizhong have all been reduced to her supporting roles - all dead. As for the Lord God, who occasionally appears in the midst of a certain contradiction of justice, mercy, and coldness, he seems to have changed nothing, but he commands the scepter of justice and mercy, trying to save the last justice in this once godless land - he did his best, only because of the lack of faith in humanity.
The emergence of rumors made the entire imperial capital once again turn into a mess and a foul-smelling porridge.
As the queen of the great villain, her will cannot go out of the palace at all, and the scope of her jurisdiction is limited to the ancient palace, and the gendarmes have become street rats, although they continue to catch those who dare to spread rumors, but those fanatical untouchables are all afraid of death, and they dare to attack the heavily armed gendarmes. Even if they were surrounded, they would shout and set fire to the house where they were hiding, shouting "Eternal life in all worlds", and they would be burned into black coals by the flames.
So much so that the gendarmes caught it to the end, and even they themselves were about to believe this rumor. Soon, nearly half of the 30,000 gendarmes wavered -- of course, this had a lot to do with the sudden appearance of the 150,000 Central Army outside the city, and this core defense force from the Gyeonggi region aimed their spearhead at the imperial capital, and they waved the banner of "punishing the traitors on the side of the Qing monarch." Of course, after the rumors spread, they have changed the banner to the more simple and straightforward words "Vengeance Division".
It's just that no one noticed that in the southwest of the empire, in a garden where winter had arrived but still fragrant with birds and flowers, a man who had been silent for a long time suddenly raised his head, looked in the direction of the imperial capital, and said casually: "Since everyone is dead, then who will be the next emperor?"
This is another hereditary duke of the empire, Huo Qing, the governor of the southwest. Just after he said this, all the 300,000 elite Xuanjia soldiers in the southwest began to fight vigorously -- 10 days later, they will start the largest military exercise in the history of the Southwest Military Region, and the direction of the exercise is the imperial capital.
In the far north of Xinjiang, the wolf city is still full of war, and the soldiers of the northern Xinjiang are still fighting to the death, and they continue to sacrifice their lives to defend the land and the human race. But no one could have predicted that when the news of Guo Zizhong's death reached Wolf City, would the entire empire be able to withstand the revenge of the Northern Frontier Army, and what decision would this empire's strongest army make?
The fire in the imperial capital has finally begun to burn the prairies, will it eventually spread to the entire empire and destroy this once powerful empire?
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ps: The results are not good, maybe the foreshadowing story in front is too bland, so it depends on everyone to recommend it to friends. (To be continued.) )