Chapter 317 Yang Lang has never been able to withstand the autumn (Extra 1)
Yang Shengqiu had a dream in which he married Feng Yalan, the daughter of Feng Ke, and became the son-in-law of the prime minister of the dynasty.
Feng Yalan was beautiful, calm and dignified, but she was born out of wedlock, and as such, her son-in-law was inferior to others in the Feng family.
In particular, the Feng family has a noble son-in-law, the third prince.
During the holidays, at the Feng family banquet, although he was also a son-in-law, he was not even qualified to sit at the same table with the third prince.
He came back from Feng's house with a depressed look on his face. Feng Yalan felt distressed when she saw this and gently advised him not to take it to heart. After all, that boy was not only a prince, but also the emperor's favorite son. They were first the emperor and his subject, and then relatives.
He understood what Feng Yalan said, but he still felt unwilling.
If there was no Dayong, if it was still the previous dynasty, he would also be a royal relative. Although not as good as the prince, he would be almost the same.
But now, he had to change his name and be extremely cautious, and even dared not show his prowess in the imperial examination. He took great pains to keep his ranking in an inconspicuous position.
Not long after, Tongzhou was hit by a flood, and the fifth prince received the emperor's order to go to Tongzhou to provide disaster relief.
His unattainable brother-in-law, the Third Prince, suddenly summoned him to his residence and condescendingly told him, "Work for me, and I will give you a chance to rise to prominence."
He agreed.
Because he had no choice.
As an official of the Ministry of Works, he followed the Fifth Prince to Tongzhou. While in Tongzhou, he secretly won over the officials traveling with him and, according to the Third Prince's plan, sidelined the ambitious Fifth Prince. He bribed the people around the Fifth Prince, stole his seal, resold grain, and embezzled disaster relief funds, while the Fifth Prince was completely unaware.
The victims were not properly resettled and complained bitterly, which eventually turned into a riot. The two daughters of Qin Meng, the Left Censor-in-Chief of the Censorate, and his mother-in-law, Madam Hao, died in the riot. It is said that the bodies of the two little girls were in a horrific state.
Before the fifth prince left Tongzhou, the memorial impeaching him had already been submitted to the emperor. Censor Qin burst into tears and fainted in front of the emperor!
Emperor Yongjia was furious. The Fifth Prince was still on his way back to Beijing when the Jinyiwei who came to arrest him had already arrived.
But he escaped unscathed!
He died in the line of duty, lost in a flood.
In fact, he was taken to Dalu by Fairy Cao who came to pick him up.
In Dalu, he met the military advisor Wang Yin and became the spiritual leader of Haidongqing.
His arrival also attracted the attention of King Dalu.
He once again faced a choice, and between his military advisor and King Daru, he chose King Daru.
He took advantage of the military advisor's trust in him, killed the military advisor, and became the actual ruler of Haidongqing.
He was very happy that he was finally no longer a puppet at the mercy of the military advisor. He took over the Saker Falcon and became a guest of honor of King Daru.
King Daru valued him very much, and he reciprocated the favor.
He had lived in the capital before and was familiar with the capital and its officials. Therefore, he sent assassins to kill Han Tai, the prince of Northern Yan who was held hostage in the capital!
Beiyan had no crown prince, but the king of Beiyan wanted to make the twelve-year-old fifth prince the crown prince. He took on the task at a critical moment and sent people to kill the fifth prince and cripple the king of Beiyan.
The disabled King of Northern Yan had no choice but to write a memorial to the emperor, appointing his third son Han Song as the new crown prince.
Not long after, an imperial edict was sent from the capital, and Han Song became the new prince of Northern Yan.
During this period, he sent someone back to the capital and took his son away under Feng Yalan's nose.
Now that he had a son, the Daru King could not force him to marry a Daru woman on the grounds of continuing the family line.
He is a descendant of Emperor Ai and has noble blood. He does not want to marry a lowly Daru woman, nor does he want to give birth to a son with Daru blood.
After his son was taken to his side, he was very happy and took great care to raise him. His son was very smart and showed great talent at a young age. If he was in Dayong, his son would definitely be the top scholar!
Many years passed like this, his son grew up, and he also reached middle age.
At this time, news came from Dayong that Emperor Yongjia died suddenly!
Hai Dongqing quickly found out the cause of Emperor Yongjia's death. Emperor Yongjia died suddenly after taking the elixir made by the retired emperor. After the retired emperor learned that he had accidentally killed his beloved son, he swallowed the remaining elixir and died.
Of course, this is only the apparent cause of death.
The person who actually poisoned Emperor Yongjia was the third prince. He bribed people around the retired emperor, replaced the elixir, killed Emperor Yongjia, and put the blame on the retired emperor. In the end, he was poisoned to death as well.
After the death of Emperor Yongjia, the third prince became the new emperor.
Soon after he ascended the throne, he confiscated and exterminated the Feng family, who had supported him all the way to the throne, and also confiscated the property of several old ministers in the court.
The deaths of Emperor Yongjia and the retired emperor were already shrouded in doubt, and the new emperor executed his old ministers before he had even secured the throne, chilling the hearts of people across the world.
The court of Dayong was facing the greatest turmoil in decades. King Daru felt the time had come and sent him to Northern Yan to negotiate with Han Song, the crown prince of Northern Yan.
In the end, Han Song agreed to a series of conditions and agreed to lead the Dalu into the pass.
Not long after, Han Song submitted a memorial in the name of the King of Northern Yan, asking the new emperor to allow Northern Yan to increase its troops by 100,000.
The new emperor refused, believing that Northern Yan had rebellious intentions, and sent assassins to Northern Yan to assassinate the King of Northern Yan.
Han Song took the initiative to kill his father and set a trap. With the help of Hai Dongqing, he captured the killer sent by the new emperor in one fell swoop.
Afterwards, Han Song issued a proclamation, announcing to the world that the new emperor was immoral and had murdered the King of Northern Yan.
Han Song, under the pretext of revenge for his father, let the Dalu army enter the pass.
The Daru army advanced triumphantly all the way and entered the capital. The new emperor had already fled, and the Daru people burned, killed, looted, and acted recklessly in the capital.
He also returned to the capital with his son and the army. He wanted to stay in the capital, but in the end, King Daru gave an order, so he had to take his son back to Daru.
But he never expected that he and his son would lose their freedom just after returning to Daru.
And the one who controlled the father and son was actually his trusted right-hand man.
They told him: "You are different from us. We are Han Chinese, but we are also Daruk people. You are just Han Chinese. You are not worthy of commanding the Saker Falcon. You are just like the military advisor, only fit to be a dog for the Daruk warriors."
They killed his son in front of him, and then it was his turn. The moment the knife hit his neck, he woke up from his dream!
Yang Shengqiu gasped for breath. Fortunately, it was just a dream. This dream was really terrible.
After a long while, Yang Shengqiu gradually calmed down. He looked around at the unfamiliar room and the unfamiliar bed. At this moment, a familiar yet unfamiliar voice rang in his ears: "Are you awake? Is your fever gone?"
Yang Shengqiu remembered, this was Jin Twelve!
He was taken north by Jin Twelve, and he fell ill after sleeping in the open air.
"What is this place?" He remembered that before he fell ill, they lived in a dilapidated temple.
"This is Beiyan. Since you are awake, let's go out tonight." Jin Twelve said.
Yang Shengqiu was stunned for a moment, remembering the dream: "Leaving the border? Going to Darlu?"
Jin Twelve frowned: "You must have burned your brain, right? Didn't we come to Beiyan just to get to Darlu?"
Yang Shengqiu thought of his tragic ending in the dream and said subconsciously: "No, I won't go. I want to go back to the capital. I am an official appointed by the court. I want to go back to the capital!"
A hint of disdain flashed in Jin Twelve's eyes. Is this the person the military advisor has his eyes on?
A waste!
"You want to go back to the capital? Dream on! In order to pick you up, we Haidongqing lost thirty or forty people. You just said you were going back to the capital so casually that all our lives were in vain. You'd better be smart and shut up. Follow me back to Dalu honestly. Otherwise, I will kill you with a knife. At worst, I will tell the military advisor that you died on the way."
Yang Shengqiu felt a chill on his back and his clothes were soaked with cold sweat.
He didn't want to know what a Saker Falcon was, let alone join it.
King Daru did not trust the Han people at all. He could kill the military advisor, and he could also kill him. As long as they were Han people, King Daru would squeeze out every last bit of their value and then kill them all!
But he had seen Jin Twelve's martial arts skills. Although he also had martial arts skills, they were just fancy moves in front of Jin Twelve. He could not deal with such a professional killer at all, and he could not escape from his Five Finger Mountain.
Yang Shengqiu's mind was working quickly. He knew that he couldn't force his way through, so he could only pretend to be practical and apologize to Jin Twelve.
"I'm sorry, my brain is burned out, so I'm talking nonsense. I'm wrong."
Jin Twelve snorted coldly and ignored him.
Although the military advisor said that this man was very important, Jin Twelve did not take him seriously at all. He was just a pretty boy and a spineless man.
Jin Shier left Yang Shengqiu in the house while he went out to contact the contact person and would be leaving the country tonight.
Seeing him leave, Yang Shengqiu breathed a sigh of relief. He pushed the door, but it didn't open. The door was locked from the outside.
Fortunately, there was a window, and Yang Shengqiu jumped out of the window. He did not dare to escape immediately, but hid nearby.
An hour later, Jin Twelve came back, and with him came a soldier from Northern Yan.
Jin Shier was holding a bundle in which were two sets of Beiyan military uniforms. Tonight, he and Yang Shengqiu would disguise themselves as Beiyan soldiers and leave the border. Someone would pick them up after they left the border.
Yang Shengqiu calculated the time and found that the King of Northern Yan was still alive and well, and Han Song was just an ordinary one among his many sons.
The fifth prince was born to the most beloved woman of the King of Northern Yan, and the King of Northern Yan would take him with him wherever he went.
Even if Crown Prince Han Tai died, the position of Crown Prince would not be the turn of Han Song, whose mother died early.
So now, although Han Song has been secretly communicating with the Daru people, the Daru people have to disguise themselves if they want to enter and exit the pass.
Yang Shengqiu didn't want to get involved in this mess. While no one knew about his relationship with Haidongqing, he wanted to return to Beijing and then say that he was kidnapped by thieves and escaped from death.
He wanted to bring up the matter of his marriage with Feng Yalan to the Feng family again. Feng Yalan's reputation had been ruined, and she could not marry a better man. It would be too high a marriage for him to marry her.
But Feng Yalan is well-educated, generous and decent. More importantly, only by marrying Feng Yalan can he give birth to the son from his previous life. If he marries another woman, even if he gives birth to a son, he will not be the smart and outstanding son in his dream.
Moreover, if the dream was his previous life, then in the previous life, Feng Yalan was a widow for him, lived alone for his old age, and regretted it for the rest of her life.
This is a good woman.
In this life, he wanted to marry her and let her give birth to more children for him.
As the son-in-law of the Feng family, he must make Feng Ke see the ugly face of the third prince, and let Feng Ke know that he, Yang Shengqiu, is the most anticipated son-in-law of the Feng family.
With Feng Ke's support, he would be able to be valued by the emperor. At that time, he would be able to find ways to expose the conspiracy of the third prince. The third prince should have died long ago. Such a person should be cut into pieces.
And because of this, he was able to rise rapidly.
Now that the third prince has fallen, which prince should be supported instead?
Yang Shengqiu thought about all the princes and finally decided on the seventh prince.
The emperor is young and strong, and he can sit on the throne for at least another ten years.
The seventh prince’s age is just right. Seven years later, he will be eighteen years old!
Moreover, the seventh prince has no biological mother, and from the emperor's attitude towards the Wei family, it can be seen that he does not like his in-laws, so the seventh prince, who has no help from his in-laws, fully meets the conditions to become the crown prince.
Yang Shengqiu was pleasantly surprised by his discovery. He was indeed born to become a prime minister. His vision far surpassed Feng Ke's!
I have to say that Yang Shengqiu's vision is really accurate. Emperor Yongjia did take a fancy to the Seventh Prince, but he was still young and the Seventh Prince was also young, so he was not in a hurry.
Besides, there is more than one little prince, the Seventh Prince. He still has at least ten years to carefully choose from among the little princes.
Yang Shengqiu was immersed in his own fantasy and did not notice that Jin Twelve was looking for him.
Jin Twelve is not an ordinary person. He is the twelfth-ranked killer in Haidongqing. The ranking of killers is not only based on their martial arts, but also their wisdom and experience.
Although Yang Shengqiu was extremely talented, his experience as a killer was not found in books. When he sensed the approaching danger, Jin Twelve's dagger was already against his chest.
"You're quite courageous, and you still want to run away. I'm afraid you don't know that so far, no one has been able to escape alive from my hands, Jin Twelve."
Yang Shengqiu thought this hiding place was quite secluded, but he didn't expect Jin Twelve to find him so quickly.
He tried to admit his mistake again, but this time, Jin Twelve no longer believed him and slapped him on the back of the neck, causing Yang Shengqiu to faint.
When he woke up again, he was already in Darlu.
Jin Twelve reported his attempt to escape word for word to the military advisor, and told the advisor that this man was extremely cunning and should not be trusted.
After waking up, Yang Shengqiu didn't want to repeat the mistakes of his previous life, so he took the initiative to negotiate with the military advisor.
"Since you come from a mountain sect, I believe you must know about the imperial seal?"
The military advisor certainly knew that Emperor Ai had handed over the imperial seal together with the little prince to the guards. After that, the imperial seal was passed down from generation to generation by the little prince's descendants, but it had always been kept by the eldest son of the legitimate wife. After the eldest son of the legitimate wife was exterminated, the whereabouts of the imperial seal became unknown.
"Do you know the whereabouts of the imperial seal?" asked the military advisor.
Yang Shengqiu nodded and said, "My mother knew where the imperial seal was hidden. Before she died, she told me the secret."
The military advisor looked at him for a long time and finally chose to believe him.
After all, Yang Shengqiu is the last bloodline of the eldest son's family. If he doesn't know, then no one in this world will know.
"With the Imperial Seal, you can also summon the Saker Falcon. Furthermore, from what I know, Emperor Ai was a playboy, and he did a lot of things like playing with dragons and phoenixes while secretly visiting the people. Perhaps there are descendants left among the people. If you look carefully, you will definitely find them."
These words were almost like telling the military advisor that you could just pick a child and say that this was the orphan of Emperor Ai. If I don't tell you and you don't tell anyone, no one in this world will know.
The imperial seal is in your hands. You can set up a puppet and still plot big things.
The military advisor agreed to send Yang Shengqiu back to Dayong, on the condition that Yang Shengqiu had to hand over the treasure map after sending him to Dayong.
Yang Shengqiu got what he wanted and he was finally able to return to Dayong. After returning to Dayong, he had a lot of things to do and he had already planned them.
However, walls have ears, and King Daru had already placed people around the military advisor, and his conversation with the military advisor was transmitted to King Daru's ears intact.
"The Imperial Seal?"
Although King Daru was far away outside the Great Wall, he had heard of the imperial seal.
Which emperor doesn't want to own the imperial seal, let alone the ambitious King Darug.
Before Yang Shengqiu set off, he was invited to the palace by King Daru.
Yang Shengqiu had no choice but to negotiate with King Daru again, but King Daru was not a military advisor. He wanted the imperial seal and the top scholar of the Yong Dynasty.
"The King of Northern Yan is a stubborn and unyielding person. I am sending you to Northern Yan to find a way to deal with him. He can do far more than Han Song. As long as you hand over the imperial seal and convince the King of Northern Yan to surrender, I will send you back to the capital of Dayong!"
Yang Shengqiu agreed immediately.
He was too familiar with the process of his previous life.
He killed Han Tai, the crown prince of Northern Yan, used Han Song, killed the fifth prince, and then crippled the King of Northern Yan. He had evidence of Han Song's patricide and brother-killing, and made Han Song completely useful to the Darlu.
Unfortunately, Yang Shengqiu came at the wrong time. He came to Beiyan and met Han Song.
Following his instructions, Han Song sent a female killer from Haidongqing to the King of Beiyan.
Unfortunately, at this time, Yan Xia came to Beiyan.
Yan Xia set a trap and forced the female killer into it. Only then did the King of Bei Yan believe that his son had evil intentions.
In a rage, the King of Northern Yan killed Han Song and the Prince of Hejin.
Immediately afterwards, Yan Xia and the King of Northern Yan launched a large-scale search for the Daru spies in Northern Yan. The people brought by Yang Shengqiu were captured and revealed Yang Shengqiu's hiding place. When the King of Northern Yan found him, he said that he was a Han Chinese who was captured by the Daru people and that he was the top scholar.
Unfortunately, it was not Yan Xia who captured Yang Shengqiu, but the King of Northern Yan.
The King of Northern Yan was in anger because he was being plotted against by his own son. He had not been to the capital for many years and did not know Yang Shengqiu at all, let alone heard of him. More importantly, Han Song's men could prove that Yang Shengqiu was the envoy sent by the King of Daru to contact Han Song.
With the witness already in hand, the King of Northern Yan did not give Yang Shengqiu any chance to prove himself and killed him with a single knife.
Before Yang Shengqiu could even react, the knife pierced his chest.
Yang Shengqiu's body was thrown out of the pass along with the bodies of other Daru spies. The King of Northern Yan climbed up the city gate tower and shouted to the Daru outside the pass, "Tell the Daru King that these bodies are gifts from me. Please accept them!"
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