Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Meaux Incident
It was a rainy spring, and the weather in Meaux always seemed to be so capricious, and before noon, it was still a clear sky and no clouds, and it was not long before the distant mountain outside Meaux was mixed with a black and oppressive dark cloud.
Looking at its speed, even if you look at it from afar, you can still see the dark clouds rolling violently and moving quite fast, I am afraid that it will not be long before the lively Meadow will be raining down for several days in a row.
It's just that at the moment, the people of Meaux seem to have their thoughts and attention not on the dark clouds on the distant hills.
The noise on the edge of the arena had gradually spread to the entire arena, and the actions of the eight four-star elders of the Mo Mansion and nearly two or three thousand soldiers in armor guarding the entire arena and preventing the crowd from leaving wantonly caused dissatisfaction and panic among the people.
The people in the entire arena had no time to offer warm congratulations and tidal applause to Lin Yu, who won the championship of the matchmaking competition.
"Why don't you let us out?"
The edge of the arena clashed with the surrounding troops, and a man and the soldiers pushed and shoved, trying to break through the soldiers' blockade, shouting loudly.
"What do you Mofu want to do?"
The man's shouts did not seem to reach the cold armor of the soldiers, who turned a deaf ear, like a cold machine, carrying out the orders of their superiors without emotion.
Lin Yu in the ring glanced around the ring, and then looked at Mo Shu and Prince Qin Zheng in the guest seat, and his sword eyebrows were a little frowned.
Even in the face of the panicked and frightened people around them, the two of them still sat calmly on the seats, as if they were waiting for the time to appear, and then tear through each other's disguises.
Outside the gates of Meaux.
A man dressed in the light clothes of a soldier from the city of Mo, riding a reddish-brown horse, came all the way from the imperial city of Qin, and finally arrived at this moment.
He rushed to the gate of the city of Meaux and dismounted, and did not rush into the city, but took out a bamboo tube-shaped object from his bosom, the head of which was led by a fuse, and after the man set it on fire, he quickly lifted it high.
"Whoosh. With a bang, a very beautiful colorful flame was launched from the top of the bamboo tube, reaching the sky above the city of Mo and detonating, forming a gorgeous colorful Mo character.
This Mo character with a diameter of fifty or sixty zhang, as well as the sound of artillery that could be heard from a distance when it exploded, attracted the attention of all the people in the Mo Mansion.
"Uncle Huang, this cannon roar probably means that your plan has been successful, right?"
The crown prince Qin Zheng, who was sitting next to Mo Shu, looked at him faintly and said.
"Since you father and son already know the old man's plan, why do you dare to come to my Mocheng alone?"
Mo Shu took the cup from the red table with both hands, silently took a sip of rich tea, and his eyes stayed for a moment on the three or two tea leaves in the cup that turned from green to yellow.
"I came here to say that there is nothing else, just to see who I saw when I was a child, the loyal and kind imperial uncle, what has become of you now. ”
The crown prince Qin Zheng said bluntly.
"Oh?"
Mo Shu's eyes flashed, and he looked at Qin Zheng and asked, "Then nephew, what do you think has become of Uncle Huang now?"
Crown Prince Qin Zheng rolled his eyes and smiled meaningfully.
"According to my observations in the past few days, the former imperial uncle is still the former imperial uncle, but the current imperial uncle is no longer the former imperial uncle. ”
"Hahaha..."
After the crown prince Qin Zheng finished speaking, the two of them looked at each other and laughed, and those who didn't know thought that what the two said was very happy.
The laughter gradually subsided, and Mo Shu said to Qin Zheng.
"In that case, my good nephew, you can stay in Mocheng and take a good look at how Uncle Huang pushed the Qin State to a prosperous height and dominated the world!"
"What if I won't?"
Hearing this, the crown prince Qin Zheng said to Mo Shu with a serious face.
"Hmph, that's not up to you. ”
Mo Shu snorted coldly, stood up from his seat, glanced at Qin Zheng, flicked his sleeves and walked to the guest stage, and his voice was sonorous and powerful to the hearts of everyone in the crowd.
"Ladies and gentlemen, you are not allowed to leave because I have something to announce next. ”
His voice was not loud, but it seemed to have some strange magic attached to it, calming the noisy and screaming crowd to listen carefully to what he was going to say next.
Mo Shu's eyes looked around, and when he saw that everyone's eyes around him had converged on this side, his serious expression eased a little, and continued.
"Today is an extraordinary day for Mo City, and it is also an extraordinary day for the Qin State, because from today, from this moment on, the Great Qin Empire will be ruled by me, Mo Shu, and I will be your greatest emperor. ”
Mo Shu's sentence can be said to have set off a storm in the surrounding crowd, and everyone was shocked in their hearts, and they couldn't believe that such deviant words came from Mo Shu's mouth.
On the guest seat, Zheng Yuan of the Kanli faction and Li Fugui, a wealthy man from Mocheng, listened with calm faces, as if they already knew.
Only Wang Yue, the supervisor who had been in Mocheng for a long time, seemed to be kept in the dark and didn't know anything about it, and he was so angry that he jumped up directly from his seat, pointed at Mo Shu, and said with a trembling mouth.
"Okay, you Mo Shu, do you want to seek power and usurp the throne?"
After Wang Yue finished speaking, he looked at the crown prince Qin Zheng, who was still sitting in his seat and did not react, and said.
"His Royal Highness the Prince, this Mo Shu is so wildly talked, and it is a great rebellion, and Weichen implores the prince to report to the imperial capital as soon as possible, and asks the emperor to immediately send troops to crusade against such traitors. ”
Wang Yue, who said so many words in one breath, seemed to be in a hurry to clarify that he was not involved in this incident and to express his loyalty to the royal family to Qin Zheng.
It's just that his words didn't get a reply from Qin Zheng.
In addition to the silence, there was silence at the scene...
"Prince ?..."
Seeing that Qin Zheng was still silent, Wang Yue couldn't help but chuckle in his heart, and weakly called out again.
"Wang Yue, I advise you to be in vain. ”
Mo Shu sneered at him and said, "The imperial capital of the Qin State has been captured by my righteous brother in the early hours of this morning, and the entire Qin State has been firmly in the hands of the old man. ”
Mo Shu laughed out loud, looked at the crown prince Qin Zheng, who had been silent, and said.
"My good nephew, are you right when you say Uncle Huang?"
Qin Zheng was still silent, but the meaning represented by this silence made Wang Yue smile miserably, and made the tens of thousands of people in the audience even more uproar.
"Could it be that the most prosperous Great Qin in my hall of the Six Kingdoms is about to die?"
Wang Yue sat paralyzed on the ground.
"No, Great Qin is not dead. ”
Mo Shu corrected Wang Yue's sentence, and said loudly to the crowd around him.
"Great Qin will embark on a greater path because of me, and you only need to bow down to me. ”
Mo Shu's sharp gaze looked at the crowd under the ring, and everyone who was swept by Mo Shu's gaze lowered their heads, not daring to look at them.
"Kneel, now is the time for you to pay your allegiance to the new emperor of the Great Qin Empire. ”
The crowd fell silent....
Power is always the best way to enslave ordinary people, for them, at the moment, Daqin is just a new master, and the future life will still be as usual, who will not be able to get along with power at this moment?
Among the nearly 10,000 people present, there were not a few people who were afraid of death, so they were always the first to kneel.
Someone took the lead, and then the vast crowd of people began to kneel down one after another, and the scene was very spectacular.
Except for the guests on the stage, almost all the people in the audience knelt down.
As a result, there were a few people who did not kneel, and they looked very dazzling in the audience.
And these few people who didn't kneel down were Lin Yu, Wu Qian, Father Wu and Murong Xiao of Murong Villa.
"Why don't you four kneel?"
Mo Shu's majestic voice looked down on them condescendingly.
For a long time, under the influence of Wu's father, Wu's father's sentence: Be a man who does not kneel to the sky, do not kneel to the ground, and kneel to his parents in this life. The principle of life is deeply engraved in the bones of Lin Yu and Wu Qian, so the three of them do not kneel.
"The nerds in the ring are from our family, and my father has always taught us that we only bow down to our parents in this life!"
Wu Qian held Wu's father's arm, stuck out her tongue at Mo Shu on the guest stage, and grimaced.
As for Murong Fu, why didn't he kneel, he was free and easy by nature, but he didn't have any special reason for him, if he did, it would be nothing more than a sentence: Look at you upset!
But in order to show that Murong Villa still has strong upbringing, Murong Fu did not speak so rudely, but said it a little elegantly.
"A man has gold under his knees, and he must not bow down lightly. ”
Mo Shu's eyelids were picked, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly.
The most taboo thing for people with respected status is that someone dares to challenge their majesty on some important occasions, and what Lin Yu and the other four are doing at this moment is tantamount to scratching the lion's head.
"Come on, take these four people down and detain them, and wait for them to fall!"
"Yes!"
The soldiers standing around the guest table moved when they heard the sound.
No, Lin Yu and the other four annoyed Mo Shu this time, and regardless of whether Lin Yu was the champion of this martial arts competition, Murong Xiao's old man still had a deep friendship with him, and they were all treated equally and imprisoned in the darkest prison in Namo City.
For Mo Shu, Lin Yu and the other four don't know what to do, the most effective way is to put them all in prison and enjoy a few days of prison food, maybe their "arrogance" will be somewhat restrained.
"Wait!"
At this tense moment, I don't want anyone to stop me.
Mo Shu followed the sound, but the owner of this voice was the prince Qin Zheng, who had been sitting in the seat and was silent.
"What's the matter, do you still want to intercede for the four of them?"
Mo Shu asked at the crown prince Qin Zheng.
"These four people have a deep friendship with me, I wonder if Uncle Huang can sell me face and let the four of them leave this Meaux City safely?"
The crown prince Qin Zheng glanced at Lin Yu who was standing in the ring, and said condescending to Mo Shu.
"My good nephew, you can't protect yourself, and you still have the heart to care about others?"
Mo Shu said sarcastically to Qin Zheng.
He waved his hand to the soldiers who were stopped by Qin Zheng and stunned in place, signaling that a few of them should not pay attention to Qin Zheng's words, and at the same time added one more sentence.
"In addition, a few of you, please also invite the crown prince Qin Zheng back to his residence, I think the prince has been tired from traveling a few days ago, and I am afraid that he has not rested well. ”
Mo Shu gave an order, and there were a few more soldiers who carried out the order, and they walked to the position where the prince Qin Zheng and Lin Yu and the other four people stood on the guest stage.
When these soldiers approached, the mutation protruded, and a few muffled snorts, and two figures stood in front of Qin Zheng at the guest seat, and the two soldiers who wanted to get close to Qin Zheng were knocked away by these two figures, and fell to the ground and lay on the ground.
If you want to ask who is the owner of these two figures? It is nothing more than the handsome eunuch Qingfeng who has been staying by Qin Zheng's side, and Xu Lai, who has been hiding in the shadows with a graceful posture.
"Escort!"
Qingfeng put his index finger and thumb together and shoved it into his mouth, blowing a secret whistle.
As soon as the whistle sounded, around the guest stage, the crowd was crowded, and dozens of figures wearing black strongshirts instantly appeared.
The fierce battle was about to break out, but I didn't want to, the last thing Lin Yu wanted to see happened, and the turmoil in Meadow began...