"Intending to rebel?" Ye Feng and Ye Yun reacted the most strongly upon hearing this, especially Ye Yun, who shouted incredulously, "Who the hell dares to wrong the Prince like this? The Prince has been suffering in the North, not eating or sleeping well, working tirelessly to provide disaster relief and suppress bandits, and now he is leading troops to resist the Northern Rong. The Prince has done so much, and they dare to wrong him like this!"
They even dared to pin such a serious charge as plotting rebellion on the prince; do they have no conscience at all?
Although Ye Feng didn't speak, he was equally indignant.
Compared to Ye Yun and Ye Feng, Xuan Yuanzhan was relatively calmer.
Of course, compared to the fabricated charges leveled against him, Xuan Yuanzhan was more concerned about Bai Shi and Su Xuening: "The Dowager Consort and the Princess Consort have both been imprisoned in the Heavenly Prison?"
The secret guards dared not conceal such a matter: "I had just returned to the Prince's residence to report when Commander Jin of the Imperial Guards led his men into the residence. The Dowager Consort did not want to implicate the other members of the Prince's residence, so she and the Princess Consort followed the Imperial Guards. I secretly followed them later, and both the Dowager Consort and the Princess Consort were taken to the Imperial Prison."
Upon hearing this, Xuan Yuanzhan was filled with worry and felt extremely guilty.
If he had been able to get back to Kyoto sooner, perhaps things wouldn't have been so bad.
My mother has always lived a life of luxury; she has never been to any prison.
And Ning'er, she's six months pregnant and about to give birth, so she'll be sent to the imperial prison!
Are Xuanyuan Yu and Xuanyuan Zhi forcing him to go back?
No!
They certainly didn't want him to return to the capital, which is why they sent these Northern Barbarians to keep him in check.
However, they should not harm the Empress Dowager and Ning'er for the time being, since the situation in the North is still unclear.
In other words, since Xuan Yuanzhan is not dead yet, shouldn't they keep his mother, wife, and children alive to threaten him?
Therefore, Mother Consort and Ning'er are not in any danger for the time being.
However, Xuanyuan Yu has always coveted Ning'er, so he still needs to find a way to rescue his mother and Ning'er as soon as possible.
Even if Xuanyuan Yu didn't have such wicked intentions, Ning'er was about to give birth, so he couldn't let her stay in the Heavenly Prison indefinitely.
Seeing Xuan Yuanzhan's worried expression, the guard quickly reassured him, "The Imperial Guards have taken away the Dowager Consort and the Princess Consort, but Physician Luo and Master Daoyi are safe. When I arrived, they were discussing how to rescue the Dowager Consort and the Princess Consort."
Upon hearing this, Ye Yun quickly comforted Xuan Yuanzhan: "Your Highness, Doctor Luo and Master Dao Yi are so skilled in martial arts that even if the Dowager Consort and the Princess Consort are imprisoned in the Heavenly Prison, they should be able to rescue them."
Although this consolation was somewhat weak, Xuan Yuanzhan still felt much better.
Indeed, the masters and uncles wouldn't just stand by and watch Mother and Ning'er be captured; they would definitely try to find a way to rescue them.
Even though he wanted to save his mother and Ning'er, the North was so far from the capital that he couldn't reach them. Now he could only place his hopes on his master and uncles.
Moreover, Ning'er is clever, and her mother is not stupid either. Even without a master or uncle, Ning'er and her mother will find a way to protect themselves.
He never doubted Ning'er's and his mother's intelligence.
However, Xuanyuan Yu and Xuanyuan Zhi dared to smear him like this, and even arrested his mother and Ning'er. This debt must not be settled peacefully!
In the past, when they bullied him, he would let them off the hook out of respect for Xuan Yuanpeng, only giving them minor punishments as a warning. But now that they dared to touch his weak spot, even daring to pin charges of treason on him, this was absolutely intolerable!
However, as I said before, he is currently tied up in the north, and the matter in the capital is beyond his reach. Even if he wants to settle accounts with them, he will have to wait until he returns to the capital!
Xuanyuan Zhan did not rush back to the capital because of the arrest of Bai Shi and Su Xuening, because he simply could not leave the northern region.
However, he was indeed very worried about this matter, so much so that he wanted to end the war with the Northern Rong as soon as possible and return to the capital.
Xuanyuan Zhan went back up to the city wall, looking down at the Northern Rong army below, which was busy at work.
He had to find a way to wipe these people out as soon as possible, or to drive them back to the Northern Rong.
Seeing that Xuan Yuanzhan looked preoccupied, Ling Lang asked with some concern, "Your Highness, has something happened in the capital?"
Xuan Yuanzhan did not intend to answer Ling Lang, but Ye Yun said indignantly, "The prince recruited bandits and was wrongly accused by those people of building up a private army. They also wrongly accused the prince of plotting a rebellion and even imprisoned our Dowager Consort and Princess Consort in the imperial prison."
"Ye Yun!" Seeing that Ye Yun dared to say anything, Xuan Yuanzhan angrily rebuked him.
Ling Lang was stunned when he heard these words: "Didn't Your Highness submit a memorial requesting amnesty for the bandits?"
Ye Yun seemed to realize something as well, and widened his eyes, saying, "The prince has submitted a memorial, and even specially sent a fast horse to deliver it back to the capital. How dare they still accuse the prince of hoarding a private army!"
Xuanyuan Zhan solemnly said, "I submitted a memorial, but I don't know if it has reached the Emperor, since the Emperor is not currently in charge of the capital."
The Emperor is currently controlled by Gu worms. Not only might the memorials he submits not reach the Emperor, but even if they do, the Emperor, under control, will listen to Xuan Yuan Yu.
Xuanyuan Yu could also falsely accuse him of not submitting a memorial and sue him for treason!
Ling Lang was shocked; he had not expected the situation in the capital to be so complex.
The prince had clearly submitted a memorial, yet they still falsely accused him of hoarding and building a private army.
They all knew about the matter of pacifying the bandits. The prince didn't use these bandit troops for anything. They heard that they only dug river channels and helped distribute some disaster relief grain. They were doing things that were beneficial to the people.
Moreover, he had heard about those bandits; they weren't all heinous criminals. Even Bai Ying, for example, had led the people of Liuying Village to distribute grain to the people of Beifeng City more than once.
Some bandits, though living in bandit dens, weren't entirely without conscience. So, in the past, he often turned a blind eye to their existence.
The prince was a kind-hearted man and probably didn't really want to go on a killing spree and slaughter all these bandits. After all, there were probably forty or fifty thousand of them.
Offering amnesty is indeed the best solution, and Your Highness has done nothing wrong in doing so.
Moreover, all the things the prince has done in the north, whether it's disaster relief, bandit suppression, leading the people to dig canals to alleviate the drought, or now leading them to resist the Northern Rong army, have been seen by the people of the north.
The prince would never do anything like a rebellion, and the current state of the North simply doesn't allow him to think that way.
Ling Lang couldn't bear to see Xuan Yuanzhan wronged. The most crucial thing was that the prince's mother and princess were both imprisoned in the Heavenly Prison. How could the prince stay in the North and fight against the Northern Rong with peace of mind?
"Your Highness, should I submit a memorial to explain this to you?"
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