The end of the world begins with the king

Chapter 772 Unacceptable Conditions

August [-]th, Mid-Autumn Festival.

In Jing'an, in Prince Ning's mansion, the eunuchs and maids are busy preparing for the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet tonight.

King Ning integrated the southern counties. Although it cannot be said that he has controlled the five southern counties, he barely put them together.

It's just that the distribution of many benefits has not yet been negotiated, so the five southern counties are now a very loose alliance, and King Ning himself is only a prominent representative of this alliance.

Therefore, in order to seize more power and not be taken over by the local power faction, King Ning Zhao Yongshen had to seize every opportunity.

But at this time, Zhao Yongshen received a bad news in the study.

"You mean, the assassination failed?" Zhao Yongshen frowned.

The eldest son Zhao Yanjue lowered his head and replied helplessly, "Exactly!"

Zhao Yongshen's expression became more and more ugly, and his tone became more severe. He asked, "That old fellow only has seven or eight students with him, plus a few grooms. The people you sent actually failed?"

Zhao Yanjue kowtowed and said, "It's my son who underestimated the enemy..."

"But the news from the front, there are people around Fang Hongji protecting him!"

"Who's protecting him?"

"This... I don't know yet!" Zhao Yanjue answered bravely.

After thinking for a while, Zhao Yongshen said with a gloomy face, "Could it be... the person from Zhao Yanxun's little school?"

Zhao Yanjue raised his head and asked with doubts on his face: "My son is secretive, how did he know that we are going to kill Fang Hongji?"

Zhao Yongshen looked calm, and said with a murderous expression: "For a long time, there have been editorial supervisors hidden in the palace, and some of them may have been passed down for several generations!"

"If that's the case, father...my son thinks that it's time for the palace to clean up these stumbling blocks!"

"How to clean it up?" Zhao Yongshen asked back, while also testing his son.

Zhao Yanjue replied: "According to my son, except for those servants who are trustworthy, all the others will be kicked out of the palace, and then they will be tortured carefully!"

Although this method is crude, it is once and for all.

"I leave things to you to handle!"

"Yes!"

After a few breaths of silence in the study, Zhao Yongshen asked, "What do you think about the matter in the southwest?"

The so-called incident on the southwest side means that the Yong army has entered Shu County, and they have been paying attention to this matter from the beginning to the end.

"There are [-] elite soldiers and horses in Prince Yong's Mansion, plus [-] guards. Yi Erchen reckons...the Southwest won't last long!"

"how to respond?"

"Father has ordered Yang Hongwen to lead the soldiers from Lingbei to the north, and the next step is to increase the troops!"

Nodding his head, Zhao Yongshen said: "It's so easy to increase troops. There are many important towns along the river, so it's hard to defend!"

Don't look at his bragging before, saying that the concentration of troops from the five counties can guard the wretched development of the river, but in practice, various difficulties have emerged.

Although the south had enough money and food, it was still too late to convert the money and food into troops.

Zhao Yongshen continued: "Tonight's banquet, let's discuss this matter with them again!"

Zhao Yanjue nodded and replied, "That's the only way!"

The atmosphere in Prince Ning's Mansion was heavy, and at the border of Rongcheng thousands of miles away, a Yong army was ushered in at this moment.

Rongcheng is the capital of Shu County, and now the Yong army has just entered the border of Shu County, and the main force is still on the east side of Shu County.

This thousand-strong cavalry marched quickly after breaking away from the main army. After breaking through the blocking all the way, it appeared outside the county town.

For this single-handedly attacked Yong army cavalry, although the two capitals of the Southwest had [-] troops, they had nothing to do.

The two envoys, who were supposed to spend the holidays in peace, appeared on the city wall at this moment, watching the Yong army approaching in front of them.

"It really is a strong soldier..." Wang Baozhen said in a deep voice.

As a general with actual combat experience, Wang Baozhen has a good eye for judging the strength of the army.

Li Jinzhong, who was beside him, agreed with Wang Baozhen's statement in his heart, but at this moment he said coldly: "Don't grow up with other people's ambition!"

Before the two armies officially fought, the Southwest Guards Army was defeated one after another by only a thousand cavalry, which made Li Jinzhong feel very frustrated.

At this time, Wang Baozhen's words are like throwing salt on Li Jinzhong's mouth.

"Could it be that this group of people intends to use his thousand cavalry to take down our fortified city?"

Cavalry is not suitable for attacking the city, let alone only a thousand people came, it is really unrealistic to take down Rongcheng.

In fact, since the Yong army took the capital, the two counties in the southwest have been preparing for the war. The city has sufficient supplies and [-] defenders.

In Li Jinzhong's view, if King Yong did not give enough benefits, he would not easily respect the other party's fearful king, not to mention that this guy is a king-killing traitor.

More than half a month ago, the officials from the imperial court announced the decree without mentioning any benefits. This made Li Jinzhong very angry, and directly killed the official who delivered the decree.

Ever since, Southwest and the imperial court have directly become hostile.

To be honest, Li Jinzhong was really panicked when he was about to fight Zhao Yanxun, but he had no other choice.

Fortunately, King Ning in the south sent news that the whole south will fully support the southwest, which made Li Jinzhong feel a little more at ease.

"General, someone is coming from the opposite side!"

Hearing the reminder from his subordinates, Li Jinzhong glanced not far away, and sure enough, he saw someone walking out of the army formation.

"He's a civil servant, what kind of name is this!" Wang Baozhen couldn't help muttering.

"Could it be to persuade you to surrender?" Li Jinzhong sneered.

"My lord, do you want to shoot this fellow?"

Li Jinzhong shook his head and said, "Don't worry, just listen to what he has to say!"

So the tower fell silent, and everyone looked outside the city wall, who was escorted by a few soldiers with large shields.

At a distance of [-] meters, Yang Qingshan, who was sitting on horseback, took out the edict written by Zhao Yanxun himself.

"Prince Yong ordered..."

Seeing the other party pronouncing the edict directly, everyone on the city wall didn't understand what it meant, so it's important to have your edict from King Yong?

The cold eyes of the people on the city wall did not affect Yang Qingshan who proclaimed the imperial edict. He read to himself: "There are disobedient people in Shu and Shannan counties who confuse people's hearts. ..."

"However, I think that God has the virtue of loving life, and I can't bear to lose my life, so I would like to give you another chance to survive!"

Chance of survival?That must be conditional, so Li Jinzhong and others had to listen patiently.

"Since receiving the imperial edict, the capitals of Shannan and Shu counties should open the four gates of Rongcheng, and dismiss the guarding troops and return them to the local government..."

"Civil and military officials of the fifth rank and above in the two counties should go out of the official robes and go out of the city to plead guilty, so that they can avoid the death penalty!"

Several times, hearing these words, everyone on the tower was stunned.

Are you making a condition or wanting to kill someone?The army has been disbanded by you, but you still want to dismiss our officials?How can this work?

In Li Jinzhong's mind, after the two counties announced their submission to the imperial court, the imperial court should also give preferential treatment, and all the appointed officials of the government offices will not move. This is a happy situation for everyone.

Putting away the edict, Yang Qingshan shouted loudly: "Everyone, this is the last chance His Highness gives you, a chance to survive!"

"Go back and tell that kid Zhao Yanxun that I have something to give him..."

The voice on the tower fell, and several soldiers around Yang Qingshan immediately raised their large shields to block a dozen arrows thrown from the opposite side.

"retreat……"

The soldiers held up their large shields, and quickly retreated to the rear. The army formation was not chaotic at all during the retreat.

Seeing the crowd fleeing in embarrassment, laughter came from the city wall, and some soldiers even gave out cheers of victory.

But next to Li Jinzhong, Wang Baozhen's expression was full of worry, and there was really no chance of turning around now.

(End of this chapter)