When Fu Yi entered Yong'an City, the regime of Yong'an City had been basically stabilized by a few people. Yan Ze disguised himself as Murong Yao and played the role of emperor in the Yong'an Palace for a few days, and recalled the mighty Western Wilderness army back to the territory.
The decisive battle of Nanguan City, which had been prepared for more than half a year, was ultimately not fought. When the victory of the war was announced, the South Territory itself did not react.
With the strong support of many forces, Fu Yi quickly took over the court of Yanyang Kingdom. Although he encountered strong opposition from some conservatives, they all shut up after hearing that several major imperial merchants and aristocratic families in the capital supported him.
As a prisoner, Murong Yao was placed under house arrest in the cold palace and was soon forgotten.
As for Xu Wanrong, she was imprisoned with the mad Ye Fan. Ye Wanqing felt that she was her brother's obsession and that Ye Fan's mental disorder was caused by her. So she proposed to everyone that Xu Wanrong take care of Ye Fan for the rest of his life.
But not long after, Ye Fan was poisoned to death, and Xu Wanrong disappeared.
Liu Zhang brought back the exiled Liu family members. He renovated the Prime Minister's Mansion and brought A Rao back to his residence. After the deaths of several members of the Liu family who valued equal status, no one objected to his relationship with A Rao. He became the youngest patriarch in the Liu family's history and, due to his outstanding political achievements, he soon became Prime Minister.
Just as everyone was busy preparing for Fu Yi's coronation ceremony, an alarm sounded from the outer city, and 300,000 troops marched straight towards Yong'an City.
It turned out that Jiang Yulou had assembled 200,000 Black Sail Army and 100,000 Western Wasteland rebels, and in the name of restoring the king, he wanted to seize Yong'an City.
"There are only 100,000 Yulin troops in the city. The political situation is unstable now, Lucheng has just changed its government, and the southern border of Xiling is too far away to provide support." Liu Zhang felt irritated when he thought about how he had just returned to Yong'an City to settle everything, and now he had to flee Yong'an City in a hurry. "I shouldn't have taken a shortcut earlier. If I had followed the princess's plan and flooded these people in Nanguan City, I wouldn't have had to go through so much trouble."
Shen Xu stood calmly on the city wall, looking at the huge crowd in the distance, "But times have changed, brother-in-law."
"There are 10,000 brand new automatic mechanical crossbows in the armory. We built them to frame Jiang Yulou." Murong Yan sighed and continued, "But we forgot to make crossbow arrows."
Shen Xu turned around and looked at him resentfully.
Murong Yan spread his hands and said, "There are less than 5,000 crossbow arrows now. Two crossbows are only equipped with one arrow. They are gone as soon as they are brought in."
Liu Zhang covered his eyes and said, "Let's withdraw from the Beicheng Street Wharf first. The battle that needs to be fought must be fought."
"Don't be so pessimistic." Fu Yi slowly climbed up the city wall and glanced at the Black Sail Army camp in the distance. "There are so many people here. With so many people, we can probably open the tunnel in one day, and by the end of the year, we can have trains running throughout Yanyang Country."
"Brother, let's get down to business." Shen Xu couldn't help but shake his head. "The enemy is at the gates."
"My brother-in-law has gone to negotiate."
"Song Lin?" Shen Xu glanced at Murong Yan, then at Liu Zhang, and asked anxiously, "You let A Lin go to negotiate?"
"He is my biological son. He won't die if we can't come to an agreement."
Before Fu Yi finished speaking, Shen Xu hurried down the city wall.
The carriage quickly left the inner city of Yong'an and headed towards the outer city gate.
Seeing this, Murong Yan said anxiously: "Why don't you stop Ah Xu? What if she really leaves the city and encounters danger?"
"Neither of them can leave the outer city. Love and guilt will always have to decide the winner."
Seeing Fu Yi was fearless, Liu Zhang asked, "Brother, how are we going to deal with all those soldiers outside?"
"Last year, we borrowed some equipment from the Haoyue Kingdom. We were originally going to deploy it to the southern border battlefield to fight Murong Yao, but now we can use it to fight the rebels. Based on the timeline, it should be arriving soon."
At this moment, a soldier came to report: "Your Majesty, the fleet of Shunning Escort Agency has arrived, and Miss Xie II requests an audience with Your Majesty."
"Brother Yi." Xie Ning'er, riding on her horse, saw the figure on the city wall and waved excitedly to Fu Yi. "Thank you for the letter of recommendation. This trip to Haoyue Country is absolutely amazing."
Fu Yi strode down the city wall and went to meet him. "Do you have any gifts for me?"
"Yes, there are too many things, all at the dock. There is also a handwritten letter from the Right Prime Minister of Haoyue Kingdom." Xie Ning'er took out a letter from the canvas bag. It was written by Xue Yan.
"Let's go back to the palace and discuss this."
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Shen Xu took a carriage and rushed to the east gate of the outer city. Song Lin was negotiating with the soldiers at the gate.
"Alin." She hurriedly got off the carriage and called out to Song Lin who was leading the horse at the city gate.
"Xiu Xiu?" Song Lin was very surprised to see Chen Xu. "Why are you here instead of staying in the inner city?"
"Don't go."
"What happened?"
Without saying anything, Shen Xu strode forward and took the reins in his hand, "Don't go to negotiate."
"Negotiation? What kind of negotiation?" Song Lin looked at Shen Xu blankly. "Princess Lin has come to Yong'an City. His Majesty asked me to meet her at the city gate."
Shen Xu was stunned, and immediately understood Fu Yi's intention. She loosened the reins and turned around, "Why didn't you tell me before you left?"
Song Lin tugged at her sleeve and asked, "Are you willing to forgive me?"
"Who said I forgive you? Your father is leading an army of 300,000 in rebellion."
"Are you worried about my safety?"
"Princess Lin came here by boat and is already in the palace. If there's nothing else, I'll go back first." Shen Xu walked towards the carriage without looking back.
"Xiu Xiu." Song Lin strode after her and put his arms around her waist from behind. "Are we really going to miss each other like this for the rest of our lives? We care about each other so much, but we have to act like we have a grudge against each other and remain speechless when we meet."
Shen Xu pulled his hand away and said in a cold voice, "Song Lin, I can't get over Pei Zhiyuan's matter."
"If he were still alive, would you be with him?"
"I..." Shen Xu paused, and when he turned back, his beautiful cat eyes were already misty, "At least I will feel better."
"If he were still alive, would you stay with me?"
"Is he still alive?"
"Xiu Xiu, answer my question."
"I don't know. Don't appear in front of me again." She shook off his hand, lowered her head and got into the carriage.
"I don't understand what our relationship has to do with Pei Zhiyuan." Song Lin stopped in front of the carriage and said in a dull voice: "Chen Xu, do you really not love me anymore? Do you want me anymore?"
Shen Xu sat in the carriage with her head hung dejectedly. During this period of time, she had been avoiding such questions and asking herself, does she really like Pei Zhiyuan?
Nothing but guilt.
But it was the guilt that made her unable to see her own feelings clearly.
The curtain of the carriage was opened, Song Lin walked in and sat opposite her.
"What are you doing here?" Shen Xu looked up at him, his eyes misty with tears.
Song Lin curled his lips and said reluctantly: "What happened with Pei Zhiyuan is my fault. I know my mistakes and can correct them. Please don't abandon me."
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