Chapter 363: Revenge

The Minister of Rites hung his head, regretting what he had said just now. He had no selfish motives, but it was not easy to say that the empress had a lover.

Who would have thought that this matter had become a big deal?

To be honest, although the Emperor of Dongling was domineering, he was very good at governing the country, otherwise Dongling would not have been the strongest country in the four regions.

The emperor had a good reputation among the people, and Li Yunshu's people deliberately created momentum, saying that the prince and the queen's family had to go to war with Dashuo. The emperor did not want to kill people, so he hesitated to agree, which led to the prince leading his army to force the palace and regicide in public.

The queen, as the mother of a country, not only did she fail to educate her children, but she also caused chaos in the palace and kept male concubines. The entire harem was in chaos.

Under the instigation of Li Yunshu's people, everyone asked to parade the queen through the streets and then drown her in a pond.

In order to give everyone an explanation, Xiao Heng actually agreed.

He also personally told the emperor about this decision and said to him: "Father, although you failed to unify the four realms and become the ultimate overlord, your queen kept 108 male concubines under your nose. This is unprecedented in the world of emperors. Now you don't have to worry, no one will remember you after you die!"

The emperor was tortured by pain every day, and now with Xiao Heng's daily precise strikes, he couldn't breathe and died.

Xiao Heng concealed the news of the emperor's death and issued an edict in the name of the emperor, demoting the empress to a commoner and making her walk around the capital in shackles.

The emperor had been locked up in the cold palace for many days and had lost his former charm.

At the time of execution, she was only wearing a white middle garment, with her hair loose, walking barefoot on the floor, and was paraded by the yamen runners.

The most romantic empress in history, there were always onlookers on the road, and rotten eggs and rotten vegetable leaves were commonplace along the way.

Sarcasm and insults were endless, and there were also many courageous people who took advantage of the chaos to do whatever they wanted to her.

As a dignified queen, when had she ever suffered such humiliation? She shouted loudly, but the more she shouted, the more she suffered. In the end, her voice was so hoarse that she couldn't speak, and those people who wanted to seek justice never stopped.

Someone even deliberately threw thorns on the road she had to take, and her delicate feet were pierced and bleeding.

The queen had no strength to shout, and walked forward in pain under the whip of the yamen runners. Suddenly, a sentence "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has arrived" awakened her from despair. Her son finally entered the city to save her.

However, the majestic crown prince in front of her turned into Xiao Heng. He rode a tall horse and looked down at her. His eyes were filled with the satisfaction of revenge.

The queen really regretted that she let him escape that time and did not completely root out the evil. She never dreamed that she would end up being destroyed by him.

Xiao Heng said nothing, just looked up at the row of corpses hanging on the city wall, and a barely perceptible smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

The queen followed his gaze and suddenly her face twisted. She let out a scream of terror and rushed towards Xiao Heng like a madman.

She wanted to kill Xiao Heng, but how dare he? How dare he kill her parents, brothers and son and hang their bodies on the wall?

Xiao Heng was no longer the wild child who allowed her to bully him. She didn't kill him in the end, not because she felt compassion for him, but because she accidentally discovered that Xiao Heng was snatching food from a dog and wanted to raise him like a dog.

The difference in her mind at the time left endless troubles. Xiao Heng came to avenge his mother.

Before she could get close to Xiao Heng, she was whipped down by Yu Linjun.

Xiao Heng raised his hand, stopped the guards, turned his horse around, and rode away.

He thought that punishing the empress would make him feel better, but even though the empress was now humiliated and trampled by thousands of people, he was not very happy.

He never wanted anyone to die, he just wanted his mother and sister to come back!

The empress walked to the bottom of the city gate, could no longer bear it, and crashed her head against the city wall to death.

Xiao Heng ascended the throne smoothly, because he had been serving the emperor personally during his illness, and his filial piety was evident, and those old ministers who were loyal to the emperor recognized him very much.

In addition, he suffered too much when he was young, and knew the difficulties of the grassroots people. He followed the laws of Dashuo, lightened taxes, encouraged production, and cracked down on corruption. Soon, the court was stabilized.

He once again signed a treaty with the Emperor of Dashuo, Gu Huaiyu, that they would never invade each other during their lifetime, on the premise that Li Yunshu and her people would withdraw from Dongling.

Li Yunshu's intelligence network was very powerful, and they were the sharp sword in his hand when he was fighting wits and courage with the Emperor and Empress of Dongling.

But now that he is the emperor, he doesn't want his every move to be under the surveillance of Li Yunshu.

Gu Huaiyu naturally understood his thoughts and immediately ordered Li Yunshu and her people to withdraw from Dongling and return to Dashuo to report.

Li Yunshu did not hesitate, not only withdrew the bases that Xiao Heng knew, but also withdrew those bases that had never been activated. It seemed that they were withdrawn cleanly.

Gu Huaiyu did not break his promise, and did not leave any of Li Yunshu's people, but his people wove another intelligence network in Dongling.

He didn't want to be beaten passively. Besides, he believed that Xiao Heng's spies were active in Dashuo, and they knew each other tacitly. Without

the supplies from Beiqiu and Dongling, Dayin was soon defeated again, but this time, Dashuo did not easily stop the war.

Su Bowen followed quietly with an elite force half a month after the army set out. He brought the emperor's order, and this time, Dayin must be driven to the Japanese island.

For such a race without martial ethics, only resorting to force is the most effective.

Dayin repeatedly surrendered and asked for peace, but Su Bowen ignored it and took advantage of the victory to pursue the enemy and drove the group of unruly people of Dayin to the Japanese island surrounded by the sea. He also deployed troops around it. From now on, every time Dayin comes, they will fight.

After reading the news sent by the spies, Emperor Beiqiu secretly rejoiced that he was lucky that he did not send troops at the beginning, but only provided some supplies from Dayin. Otherwise, Dongling and Dashuo would unite and his small Beiqiu would be razed to the ground in no time.

Beiqiu got the good seeds from Dashuo, so it will definitely not suffer from famine this year. If Beiqiu wants to turn things around, it must grow bigger.

He was drawing a grand blueprint when the Minister of Agriculture asked for an audience.

"Your Majesty, something bad has happened. None of the good seeds sent by Dashuo have sprouted."

Emperor Beiqiu was so scared that he fell off his chair: "How could this happen? Our best fields are planted with seeds sent by Dashuo. The little emperor Dashuo is so insidious and cunning. Did he tamper with the seeds?"

The Minister of Agriculture looked confused: "I'm not sure either. It's either a problem with the seeds or it's because of the inability to adapt to the local climate and soil!"