Quick Wear: Under the Skirt, All Beings Are Equal

Nangong Yunran knelt in front of the emperor's bedroom with her eyebrows drooping. The eunuch chief ran out: "Hey, Princess, what are you doing?"

"I want to see my father."

"His Majesty has gone to bed, Your Highness, please come back tomorrow."

Perhaps it was because the girl in front of him was so pitiful that the father-in-law, who was used to seeing the fickleness of human nature, couldn't help but feel a little pity and wanted to advise her to be prudent.

Then he whispered, "Princess, you are the daughter of His Majesty. Your life will only get better and better in the future. His Majesty already feels guilty about you and has made plans for you. Why bother to upset His Majesty at this time?"

Nangong Yunran smiled with her pale face. When faced with enough benefits, she would be abandoned by these people without hesitation.

If he had really thought about himself, he shouldn't have extinguished his only hope.

He is first a king, then his own father!

"If my father won't see me, I will kneel here and not leave." Nangong Yunran knelt barefoot in front of the Taiqing Palace, her long hair painted in ink falling to her waist, and she looked as if she would break at the slightest touch.

Her eyelashes were wet, and she reached out to grab the eunuch's clothes: "Eunuch, please tell my father that if he really wants to be a wise ruler who will be remembered in history, please don't disappoint the loyal ministers and the people of the world."

"Princess, you can't say that." The eunuch chief's face changed.

Nangong Yunran said nothing, but just knelt quietly.

A few hours later, the night became increasingly chilly, and snow began to fall again. The frail girl knelt with her waist straight, her slender, pale fingers like those of a water ghost hanging on both sides, as if she had no life.

Yihuan was also kneeling beside him, her tears almost dried up, but she still couldn't persuade Nangong Yunran to come back.

She knew that if something happened to General Xu, the princess would probably die.

The palace door then opened, and the pale-haired emperor walked out and stood in front of Nangong Yunran. He raised his right hand high and then dropped it weakly.

"Ranran, how long are you going to make trouble?"

Nangong Yunran's eyelashes trembled slightly when he heard the voice, and he raised his head and looked straight at the old emperor: "Father, Yunran is not making a fuss. I beg you to send troops to Yunzhou City. The lives of the people in Yunzhou City and the Xu family army are now in your hands. Do you really want to be infamous in history for killing loyal people because of that unfounded rumor?"

The old emperor looked at her with a complicated expression: "Do you really have to have Xu Jinhuan?"

"From the fight between the deposed crown prince and Nangong Zhe, father knows that you are an extremely intelligent person. There are some things that father turns a blind eye to and does not want to intervene, just because you are my daughter. Now you really want to turn against father for a man."

Nangong Yunran smiled miserably and shook his head.

"Father, you are wrong. I have always been stupid and could only live in this palace for many years, but I still could not learn how to survive in this palace."

"Father, I have never asked you for anything. Now I only ask you to send troops."

Nangong Yunran folded her hands and knocked her head heavily. She looked weak, but she had always been strong-willed. No matter how many times she almost died in the conspiracies in the harem, or how she was abandoned and married off, she never asked for help.

The old emperor's expression changed several times. He stared at Nangong Yunran in silence for a while before saying, "Xu Jinhuan left Liangzhou City without permission and went to Yunzhou. If you really think about it, this is a serious crime."

"I just received the news that he was asking for help in Yunzhou City today, and I haven't had time to discuss a countermeasure with the civil and military officials."

Nangong Yunran didn't want to listen to these hypocritical words, and said sharply: "Liangzhou City has won a great victory, and the news of Dayan's attack on Yunzhou City has long been heard. The Jianan Army is the direct army of the emperor, and has always obeyed the emperor. Without the emperor's will, how dare they stay still? The military report sent 800 miles in an emergency, if there is no backer behind it, who dares to intercept it privately for a few days."

“Father, are you really not afraid that thousands of years from now, people will criticize you and call you a tyrant?” Nangong Yunran’s voice was weak but powerful, with a heartbreaking cry: “Father, you clearly knew that Xu Jinhuan would never rebel, so why did you kill him?”

The old emperor was so angry that he gasped for breath. What he always cared about most was the reputation he left in history, otherwise he would not have gone through so much trouble before taking action.

It is indeed impossible for Xu Jinhuan to rebel now, but what about decades later?

Can the next emperor suppress such a brilliant general who commands a large army and has a great reputation among the people?

The old emperor said coldly, "Give him a few more decades. Not only will the people in Liangzhou City not know that there is an emperor in the world, but the whole world will only know his name, Xu Jinhuan. Even if Xu Jinhuan doesn't want to be the emperor, there are soldiers under Xu Jinhuan who have evil intentions. At that time, they can directly launch a mutiny to support Xu Jinhuan to the throne and put on the imperial robe. He will have to be the emperor even if he doesn't want to."

"The Xu family is loyal to the people of the world, not to our Nangong family."

The old emperor suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, picked up the pill and stuffed it back into his mouth. The eunuch beside him hurriedly helped him to calm down.

"Ranran, you really disappoint me. Do you think Qingyang doesn't know that Xu Jinhuan shouldn't die? Do you think Nangongzhe doesn't know that Xu Jinhuan shouldn't die? Do you think I don't know? But I don't dare to gamble."

"You have Nangong blood flowing in your body, so you should put the future of the entire royal family first. Now that more than 400,000 soldiers of the Jiang Kingdom have been buried in Liangzhou City, there is nothing to be afraid of. Dayan is weaker than our dynasty. They hate Xu Jinhuan for killing more than 60,000 soldiers of Dayan in Yunzhou City a few years ago. They are willing to exchange three cities for 500 Ferghana horses, and are also willing to exchange the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers for Xu Jinhuan."

Nangong Yunran felt a chill in his heart. This was the case. Once suspicion arose, the crime was already established.