Chapter 324 War
"What are your plans, old man? It's probably not appropriate for you to return to the palace at this time." Zhao Yushu had a good impression of this old eunuch who had helped him a lot.
"When I became enlightened, I swore a solemn oath that I would never be an enemy of the Li family in my lifetime."
Zhao Yushu thought for a moment and said, "I have several brothers and sisters in Dongdu. I am very stupid and I am afraid I cannot discipline him well. I wonder if you are willing to teach me. If you want to pay me, you can give me 100 coins a day."
The old eunuch looked at the old man, then at the wolf girl: "I have rarely been out of the palace. I wonder if a hundred coins in Dongdu are enough to live on?"
The wolf girl thought for a moment and said, "One hundred coins can buy a lot of steamed buns, which should be enough for you to eat."
The old eunuch laughed loudly: "In this case, old slave, no, I can no longer call you old slave, I will boldly accept it. Mr. Liu, please go back first. I have to go and pack up my things and go to the Eastern Capital to find you in a few days."
Zhao Yushu expressed his sincere gratitude and watched the old eunuch slowly leave.
The empty Imperial Mausoleum Military Town was left with only the master and his three disciples.
"Teacher, will the prince return to Chang'an?"
The old man nodded and said, "Emperor Taizong left behind countless backup plans. Even if the prince doesn't know, the dragon probably knows that the best place for them to go is Chang'an."
"I'll go kill them." The wolf girl stood up.
"I'm afraid it's too late."
In the Daming Palace in Chang'an, the Crown Prince sat on the dragon throne: "Now that we are here, everything should be alright, right?"
"You are indeed a waste. I left so many things behind, but you guys have destroyed them all. However, since you and I are destined to be together, I will help you once more. Go find some monks quickly. The higher the cultivation level, the better. Otherwise, something bad will happen!"
If an outsider saw it, they would be surprised to find that from beginning to end, only the prince was sitting on the dragon throne and talking to himself, and his eyes were sometimes normal, and sometimes had several pairs of pupils, just like a dragon with chaotic pupils.
The wolf girl went to the palace, and the old man told her to just watch and not move. It was not until night that the wolf girl rushed back to the military town.
"He found some monks and performed a blood sacrifice." The wolf girl bit her lip, seeming to have difficulty describing the scene she saw.
"Actually, I didn't see it either. When I got there, I only saw people carrying bodies out, but the palace made me feel very uncomfortable."
"He made a simple picture of a thousand miles of rivers and mountains." The old man pondered for a moment and came to this conclusion.
"The Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains was created by Emperor Taizong. Although I don't know how he made it, it cost the lives of at least ten inner realm masters, and then added the blood of Emperor Taizong. I believe that this dragon was also by his side at the time, and even helped him create this picture."
Zhao Yushu sat on the bed: "So, the prince now has an old grandfather in the ring?"
The old man and the wolf girl looked at him in confusion. Zhao Yushu spread his hands and said, "You will get used to it slowly. Anyway, the prince is incredibly lucky. Sometimes I wonder if there is such a thing as destiny."
The old man sighed: "Zixiao said that the mortal world belongs to the mortal world. I think he might be right."
Zhao Yushu was stunned: "Are you going to kill all the cultivators in the world?"
The old man slapped him on the forehead without any hesitation: "I have been wise all my life, how could I have taught such a fool like you!"
The wolf girl and Zhao Yushu curled their lips together.
"What are your plans next?" The old man was not afraid of the prince, nor was he afraid of the Qionglong, or rather, there was no one in the world he was afraid of, but if there really was destiny, could man overcome nature?
Zhao Yushu thought for a moment and said, "I think the world will be in chaos soon. I want to go back to the academy, wait for Master Zixiao to send something, and then go to the south."
An open carriage was moving slowly on the official road from Xijing to Dongdu. In the carriage, an old man and a wolf girl were playing chess. It seemed that the two of them were both very bad at chess, but they were evenly matched.
Zhao Yushu, who had barely recovered from his injuries, was responsible for driving. The reason was not because they bullied him because of his low ranking, but because he didn't know how to play Go at all, so he had no excuse to be lazy.
Zhao Yushu couldn't understand why the two internal bosses didn't fly back to Dongdu directly, or why they didn't just ask Boss Gu to pick them up, but had to walk back step by step. The old man didn't give any reason, but just told him to drive carefully.
Until one horse after another galloped past, the knights on horseback had chess and cards on their backs, conveying the emperor's urgent order of eight hundred miles.
One of the knights felt dizzy for unknown reasons, and when he started galloping again, the sun above his head seemed to be a little too slanted.
During the two quarters of an hour that he lost, the contents of the imperial decree were read through by the three people in the car.
"Prince Fu plotted to kill the emperor and has been executed. The troops from Xiangzhou, Huazhou, Bianzhou, Songzhou, and Xuzhou were summoned to Luoyang to capture the traitor Li Tong. The troops from Shouzhou, Luzhou, and Xuanzhou were summoned to Jiangning to capture the traitor Wang Xiangchen."
Zhao Yushu exhaled: "The princess and the Duke of Yue are rebelling?"
Zhao Yushu was not surprised at all that the princess rebelled. This father and daughter had been planning this for who knows how long and had won over countless civil and military officials. Prince Fu had been doing two things all his life: killing his brother and praising his daughter.
The Duke of Yue's rebellious intentions were not so obvious. Jiang Ning played a trick on the prince, and the best explanation was that he looked down on this useless prince. However, he did not seem to have enough ability to rebel, after all, his surname was not Li.
It is also difficult for Li Tong to become an empress. Although women have a high status in this world, the heirs are still mainly men, and there is no Wu Meiniang in this world. If Li Tong wants to be the first empress in history, the resistance will be extremely great.
"Wait a little longer."
Just as the carriage passed Tongguan, a messenger from Dongdu came towards them with a manifesto. After reading it, Zhao Yushu smiled bitterly and finally knew who the protagonist of this rebellion was.
After the ancestral worship ceremony, King Li Jian of Kucha fled to the Eastern Capital overnight. Princess Li Tong of Prince Fu supported Li Jian as the new emperor and accused the prince of killing his father and uncle, violating the moral code of law, colluding with the Liao Kingdom, and slaughtering the people, which was an unforgivable crime.
As soon as the manifesto was released, more than half of the prefectures in Hebei, Henan, Hedong, and Huainan raised their troops in response. After the Red Lotus Sect occupied Jiangnan, it also withdrew its troops, intending to sit back and watch the fight.
For a time, the areas actually controlled by the Chang'an royal family were only Longyou, Jiannan, Lingnan and Guannei.
Li Jian could not forget his dream of becoming an emperor. After changing partners one after another, this little prince with no background finally found two powerful supporters.
"The prince is bound to lose." The wolf girl concluded.
"Not necessarily, he still has the Liao Kingdom."
At this point, it was inevitable for the prince to borrow troops from the Liao Kingdom, or even Tubo. A war that swept the world was completely ignited. The Tang Dynasty, which was once so glorious that all it could see was Han territory, gradually decayed after four hundred years of ups and downs, and eventually fell into division and destruction.
"Who owns Tongguan now?" Zhao Yushu turned his head and looked at the towering city wall that had disappeared from his sight. A manifesto was thrown on the wall, expressing Tongguan's loyalty to Chang'an. He slowly retracted one hand and tightly grasped the spear.