Duke photovoltaic in the bedside coldly watched the waiter read out the imperial edict, in the bedchamber of the city nobles also cold eyes, read out the imperial edict of the waiter trembling, read stuttering.
"Ulsan-kun, please receive the edict." After the attendant read the summoning and condolence edict issued in the name of Gongzi Yong, he was so nervous that his head was covered with beads of sweat, and his back was already drenched in sweat.
"Men, drag the pseudo-servant down and shut him down." Gong Zi Guang grinds his teeth and orders, waking up again,facing the news that his father is dead and his enemy has gotten his wish.
"Ulsan-kun, you... You can't disobey!" The attendant was crying, everyone in the royal court knew that Gong Zi Guang and Yi Ji were arch rivals, and delivering an imperial edict to Ulsan Dacheng was the worst kind of errand, and this attendant had no backing or connections in the royal court, so the worst kind of errand fell on his head.
The Huben guarding the door heard the order and came in and dragged the weeping attendant to the cell to close it.
When the attendant who delivered the obituary in Wangdu was dragged down, Gong Ziguang lay back on the cushion. He held Wei Shen in one hand and beckoned Zheng Yuming to the bed.
"Father Wei will fulfill Light's wish, right?" Gongzi Guang looked at Wei Shen expectantly.
"Your Excellency's wish is Shen's wish." Wei Shen's eyes were glistening with tears, in just less than ten days, his black hair and beard had already turned white. Watching the life of the child that he had nurtured with his own hands slowly disappearing in front of his eyes, that kind of grief and helplessness could not be described in words.
"Ming Di, you will also make your brother's heart's desire come true, right?" Gongzi Guang held a smile towards Zheng Yuming.
"Gongzi..." The knot in Zheng Yuming's throat slid, the next promise was incredibly difficult, "Yes, Ming will let my brother fulfill his heart's desire."
The nobles in the bedchamber hooted and hollered, and all of them fell to their knees, "The Duke is at ease! We will follow Duke Ming and fulfill his wish!"
"Good! Good!" Gong Ziguang closed his eyes and took a breath, he felt like he had enough strength today.
"Reporting to Your Excellency, the famous scholar Wang Jiejie of Xu Kingdom seeks an audience!" The attendant outside the door came in and knelt down to inform.
"Quickly invite mister in!" Gong Ziguang's eyes lit up, and he actually struggled to go to the door to greet him, frightening Wei Shen and Zheng Yuming to calm them down.
Wang Jie was led by the attendant to Gongzi Guang's bed.
"King Xu Wangjie greets Prince Azure, and meet you all." After Wang Jie had bowed to Gong Zi Guang, he greeted the nobles in the bedchamber.
"Please step forward, sir." Gong Ziguang argued his way up, ignoring Wei Shen's objections and half-supporting himself to return Wang Jie's salute.
"Gongzi quickly lie down!" As soon as Wang Jie saw this formerly handsome young man, who had now become withered and thin, with a pale face and greenish lips, his heart could not help but sour.
"Sir! Guang wants to beg one thing from you sir!" Gongzi Guang sat up against Wei Shen.
"Your Excellency, please!"
"Light would like to ask you to write a crusade diatribe! Light and Myung-bi want to send an army to crush the adulterous consort and avenge the nobles who were killed at the hands of their father, mother, crown prince, and the king's capital. Please, sir, answer Light's request!" Gongzi Guang bent down, lying on the edge of the bed and bowed toward Wang.
Seeing this, Zheng Yuming beside him hurriedly stood up and followed Gongzi Guang to perform a great salute towards Wang Jie. Gongzi Guang now treated Zheng Yuming as Gongzi Ming in front of the crowd, and as Gongzi Guang's younger brother, how could there be an elder brother who performed a salute request and his younger brother not follow the action.
"Your Excellency does not have to be like this, this kind of ruthless, heartless, poisonous woman, everyone has to be put to death, your Excellency does not say, Jie will come to ask for his life today!"
Wang Jie is full of indignation, how can such a morally corrupt woman become the queen of a country? If the power of Wu is held by such a sinister and poisonous woman, there will be no peace for the people of Wu. Wang Jie's thinking is very similar to that of Confucius, who advocated the way of benevolence, and Ri Ji's behavior is obviously contrary to the way advocated by Wang Jie.
Wang Jie's stirring words caused the nobles of Dacheng to share the same hatred.
Seeing the warm atmosphere, Chu Chao Hui walked to the center of the bedchamber and said loudly, "The adulterous consort's rebellion is unpopular, and more than a thousand Huben from the western city gate of the royal capital, led by the Hussar General, will come to Ulsan by boat from the northern bay to embrace His Excellency, and together they will raise the banner of the rebellion!"
"Not bad, those who commit crimes are unpopular, I believe that after the feudal lords everywhere know the truth, the crusade flag will be raised in droves!"
"Yes, once the crusade diatribe is out, the adulterous princess will be attacked on all sides!"
Gong Ziguang leaned on the cushion, looking at the emotional crowd with a smile, as if he saw Yi Ji prostrate under the big knife, Jiang Dafu a group of chaotic parties tied up and knelt on top of the torture platform.
"Light! Light!..." Wei Shen gently called out to Gongzi Guang, who was smiling with his eyes closed.
"Duke! Gongzi!" Zheng Yuming also noticed Gongzi Guang's strange appearance and followed to call out softly.
In a flash, there was silence in the dormitory.
"Light! Light!..."
Wei Shen's lips trembled, and his slightly trembling hand reached between Gongzi Guang's mouth and nose, and although it was warm there, there wasn't a single breath.
"Light! Light!..." Wei Shen fiercely hugged Gong Ziguang's still soft body tightly and hissed in pain, and the people in the dormitory immediately understood that Gong Ziguang had already died, and cried loudly.
On the northern border of Wu, the Hussar General was also bawling, he was crying that the king he served demised, while Yu Kui was gnashing his teeth and cursing the stupidity of Crown Prince Zhao.
"Ha ha! Haha!" Yu Kui suddenly stood up and laughed to the sky.
"What are you laughing at?" Dong Sima was not sure what to do with the Hussar General, when Yu Kui laughed like that, Dong Sima's heart grew angry and decided to escort both the Hussar General and Yu Kui into the royal capital.
"I laugh that the entire court of the King of Wu is being turned over by a woman who doesn't realize that she is turning her hand to the clouds and her hand to the rain!" Yu Kui put both hands behind his back and raised his head and chest, not fearing the swords and spears of the Huben in the tent aimed at him.
The bawling Hussar General paused in his cries, and the Southern Sima waved his hand to stop the Eastern Sima from giving orders to the Huben, and told the Huben in the tent to go out.
"Tell me instead, how was the royal court blinded by a woman?"
"Do you all know about last year's Harvest Festival, when mountain bandits robbed and killed merchants forty to fifty miles away from the western city?" Yu Kui was certain in his heart that as long as the East Sima and South Sima let him speak, he would be able to turn the tide.
"There is such a thing." Both Dong Sima and Nan Sima had sent their soldiers to search for it, with the bizarre result that the mountain bandits were nowhere to be found after that crime.
"That group of mountain bandits was prepared by Ripple Ji for my son, Azure Mountain Jun." Yu Kui immediately explained the matter of Ripple Ji using the name of mountain bandits to plot against Gongzi Guang.
Dong Sima and Nan Sima looked at each other in disbelief.
"Ripple Ji is doing this to my duke to prepare for her son's ascension to the throne, by plotting to kill the Azure Mountain King and then thinking to bring down the crown prince, duke Yong will become the sole heir to the throne of Wu!" Yu Kui concluded.
"Not bad, after Wei Wenzai of Azure Mountain went back, he felt that Yi Ji would plot against the Crown Prince and sent people to remind me several times, but unfortunately, I misunderstood Wei Wenzai's good intentions and did not alert the adulterous consort, which resulted in the Crown Prince being killed by the adulterous consort." Hussar General once again regretted, the consequences of being gullible, is that his own family size almost all followed the crown prince to accompany the burial.
"This..." Dong Sima and Nan Sima looked at each other in dismay, if the Ripple Ji plot was true, what should they do?
Yu Kui saw that the two Secretaries of Departments were somewhat convinced, and then told a shocking conspiracy: "The two Secretaries of Departments arrived here, also thanks to the treacherous consort."
"What is this talk? I and Nan Sima leading troops to defend the country is originally the duty of being a Huben." Dong Sima frowned, being a general leading troops to resist the invasion of history was his duty, how could he blame it on Ri Ji.
"When did the two lords depart from the royal capital?"
"Half a month ago."
"When we departed, did the border emergency report say that the Tang army was pressing against the Wu border?"
"Not bad." Dong Sima frowned even more, what Yu Kui asked was nonsense.
"But what about now? Why is it that after half a month, the Tang army is still pressing its troops against the border, and since it's coming to attack Wu, instead of taking advantage of the fact that Wu's army isn't there to attack, it's leisurely waiting at its own border?" Yu Kui coldly grunted.
Huang Zhong's intelligence officers located close to the border strongholds had collected a lot of news about the Tang army's activities, and when Yu Kui arrived with the Hussar General, these intelligence officers had already reported the information to Yu Kui to know.
While the two men, East Sima and South Sima, changed in color, the Hussar General exclaimed, "Could this also be the work of the adulterous consort?"
"Two lords! There should be an order for the army to be stationed on the spot following the royal edict sent from the royal capital, shouldn't there?"
Yu Kui's words were actually speculation, but after Yu Kui asked, the two Sima couldn't sit still and stood up with a 'huff'.
"The adulteress is colluding with the Lord of the Tang Kingdom to lure the two Simas away from the royal capital to facilitate her plotting against the king! The Lord of the Tang Kingdom is not leading an army to fight, he is here to divert the tiger from the mountain!" Yu Kui had personally heard that Yi Ji had assigned Dr. Jiang to collude with the Lord of Tang, and with a bit of intelligence on Yi Ji's intentions, he could quickly surmise.
The Hussar General's teeth clenched, ''Poisonous woman, that crown prince's incriminating evidence must have been framed by her as well. The Great King... The Great King must have been victimized by the treacherous concubine as well!"
Dong Sima was furious as he walked around the center tent with both hands behind his back, while Nan Sima sat down on his butt on top of the futon.
"The two Simas! What are you waiting for? Go with me to Ulsan to follow the Second Prince, and together we will raise the banner of rebellion and kill the adulterous concubine!" The Hussar General shouted angrily.
"Right! The Great King's Huben can't help the enemy." Dong Sima stood firm, Ripple Ji plotting against the King of Wu was his enemy.
"No!" Nan Sima shook his head.
"Nan Sima, are you going to aid and abet the enemy?" The Hussar General chided.
Nan Sima continued to shake his head, "No, this general will not aid and abet the enemy, but the Tang army is still at the border, even if the Tang lord colluded with Ripple Ji in order to lure the two of us away from the royal capital, but if we lead our army and abandon the border, what if the Tang lord takes advantage of the opportunity to invade? The army of the two of us cannot be moved!"
When Dong Sima heard this, he thought it made sense that he had been impulsive just now.
"Moreover, both of us have family members in the royal capital." Nan Sima sighed heavily, in addition to for the sake of the country, but also for the sake of private affairs, the two men now raised the flag against Ripple Ji, the family members who stayed in the royal capital would immediately be unfortunate, Ripple Ji's acted so ruthlessly, and would not be merciful to their family members.
The hussar general was silent, he himself had just experienced the destruction of his family, with only two first grandchildren and seven or eight wounded houseguards left by his side.
Thinking of Wang Du's family, Dong Sima also sat down on the futon like a deflated ball of leather, 'poof'.
Yu Kui saw that there was no possibility of turning the two Simas back to Ulsan Dacheng, so he busily proposed a second plan, "Actually, my son has enough elite soldiers and strong generals in his hands, so as long as the two adults don't help my son to attack, that treacherous concubine's chaotic army will soon be defeated under the Ulsan Huben."
Nan Sima's eyes lit up when he heard Yu Kui's words, he stood up, paced a few steps in the tent, turned back and walked to Dong Sima's side, discussed with Dong Sima for a while and made the best decision. That is, more than 10,000 Huben guarded the border and did not help each other, and waited until Gong Ziguang defeated Yi Ji and took control of the royal court, then they moved their division back to the capital.
That night, Yu Kui led the Hussar General and Huben to take a shortcut to the small bay of Tang, which was filled with ships from the southern port. Huang Zhong, the head of intelligence appointed by Chu Chao Hui, personally greeted them at the cove. After the dawn in the east, more than a thousand Huben all boarded the wooden boats, and a dozen of large and small wooden boats sailed away from the cove at the break of dawn, raised their sails, and headed towards the pier of Nanbu.