Chapter 146: Betrayal (Part II)
When Count Raymond saw this, he sighed softly and whispered to himself: "I haven't seen this scene for twenty years......"
After speaking, he raised his head, looked at Augustin VI in the distance, and said loudly: "Your Majesty, the magic array has been opened...... As far as I know, the opening of the magic array requires all the court magicians to exert all their strength and spend at least an hour to open the magic array! That is to say, before the great prince made an attack just now, those court magicians were already activating the magic array! Once the magic array is activated, even if you want to, you can't stop! And once this magic array is opened, it will take at least three days to close, and during this period, all the court magicians who preside over the magic position cannot leave their posts!"
Count Raymond said this in a gentle voice, and Augustine VI's eyes suddenly became very dark: "Raymond, you even inquired about this...... I calculated the right time to make my son difficult, these ideas, are you helping him think of the land?"
"You're still so wise." Count Raymond owed slightly, and he said lightly: "Now, the 10,000 Imperial Forest Army in the interior of the Imperial Palace, the most of which are 3,000 people, have been killed in Victory Square, and the remaining 7,000 people are unable to hold the huge Imperial Palace. Count Raymond said this and sighed: "Of course, if it is peacetime, you can use the last Imperial Forest Army to defend the palace, and then ask for help from the acropolis or other armies outside the palace in the palace. There's not much ground you can rely on."
Count Raymond suddenly bent down deeply in front of everyone, made an extremely respectful aristocratic salute to Augustin VI, and then said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty!
"Please abdicate!"
On the surrounding high platforms, many nobles and ministers who originally belonged to the party of the Great Prince finally spoke at this moment, and dozens of voices converged into a ......
Augustine VI's fingers trembled, and his eyes swept viciously over Count Raymond and the others one by one, and finally stopped at an old man!
"Marquis Solomon!" Augustine VI suddenly became excited, and there was a deep resentment on his face: "You, you white-eyed wolf, I have always trusted you so much, I even handed over all the royal estates to you!
Marquis Solomon, who was stared at by the old emperor, looked at Augustine VI calmly, and then nodded: "Yes, Your Majesty, I did work with them in this matter.
"What about you!Junker!" Augustine VI suddenly pointed to the Junker general who was standing not far from Count Raymond, and the old emperor roared angrily: "Junker, I trust you so much! I even handed over the Second Guards Division to you! I handed over the entire city defense of Dìdū to you!"
Junker's face was indifferent, his body was straight, he looked at the old emperor coldly, and replied calmly: "Your Majesty, you have indeed handed over the city defense of Dìdū to me...... But if I'm not mistaken, if I don't do it today, you will remove my land within a month! You are old, you are preparing to pave the way for Prince Chen's succession, and a general like me who is still in command of the military will soon be relegated to other places by you! Prince Chen needs some new people he trusts to take up the position of the city defense...... Unfortunately, in the past few years, I have not had a good relationship with His Royal Highness Prince Chen."
The old emperor's body shook violently, and this time he seemed to have been really knocked down, he bit his lip **, and even the corners of his mouth bit out blood.
"Betrayal, betrayal, all betrayal!!" roared Augustine VI's voice.
Count Raymond looked at the old Augustine VI and sighed: "Your Majesty, I just said, it is not that we betrayed you, but that you betrayed us!"
"You...... You!nonsense!!" The Emperor suddenly collapsed in his chair, and he fell to the ground causing the people around him to let out an exclamation.Augustine VI gasped violently, and stared at Count Raymond: You say I betrayed you! Nonsense! Nonsense!
"On the contrary, we say the truth." Count Raymond looked at Augustine VI calmly: "Your Majesty, every word I say is the truth!"
As he spoke, Count Raymond turned sideways, raised his hand, and pointed behind him...... On the high platform in the back, most of them are the wealthy noble families and ministers of the empire of the great prince and the party.
"Your Majesty." Count Raymond said slowly: "Have you noticed that most of us who support the Great Prince are people of the same age as him! I think if you haven't forgotten the words, you should still remember what the Great Prince just said."
Du Wei stood behind his father, watching Count Raymond face the Emperor of the Empire in an almost indifferent tone, and suddenly a trace of strange and complicated feelings suddenly appeared in his heart.
"Your Majesty, when the Great Prince was still a child, you told him that he studied everything in preparation for the future succession of your rule over the empire! You said these words to him, and in the same way, you have said the same thing to many of us!" Count Raymond raised his hand and pointed at Prince Chen: "Just when His Highness Chen was not yet born...... No, to be precise, it was when the Great Prince was just coming of age, and at that time, for more than 20 years, you had been cultivating the Great Prince as your heir! We, as a group of people of the same age as the Great Prince, were cultivated by you as future assistants to the Great Prince's land when we first set foot in the core of the upper reaches of the earth! I still clearly remember that just before the outbreak of the Northwest War twenty years ago, I was about to accompany the Great Prince to the desert front! At that time, you also summoned me into the palace alone, and you said to me, 'Raymond, you will be the best person to assist him in the future! You represent the future of the empire!' I have not forgotten this sentence! Because from a very early age, you have put many of us around the Great Prince's Land, almost consciously or unconsciously, and it was you who have single-handedly connected us closely with the Great Prince's Land! From the moment we set foot in the political arena, you have been branded as the 'Great Prince and the Party'! This brand is not our own! And it was you, in order to train the successor, in order to train the successor, that chose us as the assistant of the great prince! All this happened before the birth of Prince Chen!"
Then, Count Raymond's tone changed: "Thirty years have passed...... We were gray haired back then, and we grew up with the Great Prince, and we were friends and companions, because you hinted to me many times since I was young that the Great Prince would become the Emperor of Xindi in the future, and that he would be the object of our generation's future allegiance! I think I did...... And the people behind me, we all tried to do it! But ......" He suddenly smiled bitterly: "Suddenly, one day, you changed your mind! Just because of a ridiculous decision for no reason! What will we do in the future for those of us who have followed the Great Prince for 30 years? Back then, you told us that the Great Prince would be the future Emperor, and you should assist him! Okay! We did it! But thirty years later, you suddenly said that the Great Prince would not become the Emperor! So may I ask...... Where will we go? You change your mind one by one, and let us people work hard for 30 years, and become aimless! Prince Chen is young and promising, but unfortunately he is not the object of my allegiance! To say a big rebellious word, if Emperor Chen succeeds to the throne, he will naturally have his own henchmen, and when the time comes, where will we, the big princes......, put them in a party?
The patriarch of the Rollin family finally sighed and looked at Augustine VI: "So, it wasn't that we betrayed you, but you betrayed us first! You first gave us a goal and let us struggle for thirty years! Then you easily canceled our goal and made our goal of thirty years of time come to naught, excuse me, this is not a betrayal, what is it!"
Count Raymond's eloquent talk made Du Wei almost can't help but applaud his father!
Father...... It's amazing! Even rebellions can be so justified! It seems like Augustine VI was really sorry for them.
"Count Raymond."
Suddenly, a pleasant voice came slowly, and the prince of Dichen, who had not spoken until he had spoken, but had been sitting and watching coldly, suddenly spoke, and he still had a smile on his face: "Your Excellency Count Raymond, I would like to ask you a question, as you just said, if my father had made you and those behind you loyal to me from the beginning, would you have been as he commanded?"