The entire north was hit by a severe snow disaster. As the emperor of Qingluan Kingdom, he had to find a way to solve this problem. However, there was not enough food. Gu Beiyi went to Qinghao Kingdom and offended them. Qinghao Kingdom was preparing to attack Qingluan Kingdom.
Therefore, the emperor set his sights on the kingdoms of Baiqi and Langya, hoping they would lend him grain so that he could first relieve the people in the north!
How could the Baiqi Kingdom and the Langya Kingdom easily let go of the opportunity to suppress the Qingluan Kingdom? So they agreed to lend grain to the Qingluan Kingdom, but only if the Qingluan Kingdom ceded territory in exchange for grain; otherwise, they would never lend grain to the Qingluan Kingdom.
The Emperor was extremely worried about this matter. He had no idea that Gu Beiyi was secretly manipulating his request to borrow grain from Baiqi and Langya, which was to drive the Emperor to the brink of death and force him to take action against Baiqi and Langya!
Meanwhile, Baiqi Kingdom and Langya Kingdom had long been occupied by the people of Wuyinglou. Both the royal family of Baiqi Kingdom and the emperor of Langya Kingdom had been killed by the people of Wuyinglou and put on human skin masks to pretend to be members of the royal family of Baiqi Kingdom and Langya Kingdom, working for Gu Beiyi in Baiqi Kingdom and Langya Kingdom!
However, this matter was handled very discreetly. Apart from the people of Wuyinglou, no one knew that Baiqi Kingdom and Langya Kingdom had long been silently destroyed by Wuyinglou.
Of course, Gu Beiyi had been planning this for a long time. Since his rebirth, he had asked the Valley Master of the Divine Doctor Valley to research human skin masks. After the research on human skin masks was successful, the Shadowless Tower was also established. When the time was right, Gu Beiyi had the people of the Shadowless Tower infiltrate the royal palaces of Baiqi Kingdom and Langya Kingdom to assassinate the emperor, the crown prince, and other royal family members or court officials who were related to the country and its people. They were all assassinated, put on human skin masks, and openly seized Baiqi Kingdom and Langya Kingdom.
The reason why Su Wenxian became the richest man in Qingluan Kingdom so quickly was partly due to the support of Wuyinglou. If Wuyinglou had not taken over Baiqi Kingdom and Langya Kingdom, Su Wenxian could not have become the richest man in Qingluan Kingdom so quickly, let alone gained a foothold in Baiqi Kingdom and Langya Kingdom.
Although Su Wenxian was very skilled in business, his ultimate dream was to abandon commerce and become an official in the imperial court!
That's why all the properties under his name were transferred to Rong Mu's name. The properties that were left behind were all Su family properties, which had nothing to do with Gu Beiyi. They were not very profitable, but they could keep the Su family alive without accumulating much wealth.
The Su family will become ordinary merchants in the future, and will be far removed from the richest family.
But Su Wenxian did not regret it. If he had not come from a merchant family, where everyone looked down on merchants, he would have taken the imperial examination long ago and become an official of the court. Fortunately, the opposition of those people allowed Su Wenxian to rely on Prince Yi. With Prince Yi's support, Su Wenxian was able to develop his business.
Because Gu Beiyi promised him that as long as he worked hard to earn money and helped him support spies, an army, the Shadowless Pavilion, the Divine Doctor Valley, and the entire Qingluan Kingdom, the Su family would definitely shed their merchant status before he ascended the throne, and all members of the Su family could enter the court as officials!
The matter has gone a bit too far. It was precisely because Su Wenxian suddenly gave up that Gu Beiyi, in alliance with powerful ministers, began to put pressure on the Emperor step by step, and even had the Emperor send him to Qinghao Kingdom. This was all to ensure that the Emperor was completely under his control and had to do things according to Gu Beiyi's wishes. If the Emperor dared to resist, he would be doomed!
It was because of the coercion of Baiqi and Langya that, for the sake of the people in the north, the emperor deliberately feigned compliance and exchanged the particularly poor cities of Qingluan with Baiqi and Langya for grain. After receiving the cities, Baiqi and Langya sent the grain to the border of Qingluan and had their army escort the grain to the north to be handed over to Gu Beiyi!
But the emperor's joy was short-lived, because the Baiqi Kingdom and Langya Kingdom actually reorganized their armies and attacked their Qingluan Kingdom. Qinghao Kingdom had already had friction with Gu Beiyi because of this. After receiving Gu Beiyi's orders, Yuwen Yuanjing directly launched an attack on Qinghao Kingdom.
The overall strength of Qinghao Kingdom is far inferior to that of Qingluan Kingdom. In addition, with the people of Wuyinglou working together from within and without Qinghao Kingdom, Yuwen Yuanjing's attack on Qinghao Kingdom is unstoppable!
Because of his superb martial arts skills, Rong Mu became Yuwen Yuanjing's most capable vanguard general. In addition, Rong Mu loved military service and fought battles, so he worked very hard. With the military books that Sheng Bao gave Rong Mu and Yuwen Yuanjing's careful training, Rong Mu's temperament underwent a tremendous change.
It was for this reason that Rong Mu became the vanguard general, galloping all the way and causing Qinghao Kingdom to suffer repeated defeats. He occupied one city after another in Qinghao Kingdom, leaving Qinghao Kingdom with empty treasuries and reduced military strength. The people began to have great doubts about Qinghao Kingdom, and internal struggles began in the royal family because the emperor of Qinghao Kingdom suddenly fell seriously ill, and the imperial physician said that the emperor would not live much longer.
The princes and nobles of Qinghao Kingdom schemed and killed each other in their quest to become the new emperor, leaving Qinghao Kingdom increasingly vulnerable!
Princess Qinghao never expected that her love for Gu Beiyi would bring such a disaster. She was in great pain. However, she did not expect that her father would fall ill at this time. As a result, Princess Qinghao fell out of favor. Her brothers were eager to throw her into the Heavenly Prison and pin the blame for Qingluan Kingdom's attack on Qinghao Kingdom on her.
Princess Qinghao of Qinghao Kingdom had been pampered since childhood and had never experienced such hardship. As a result, she quickly became depressed and fell ill.
Princess Qinghao never recovered from this illness and died when her country was destroyed.
If it were any other time, the Emperor would not have said anything if they attacked Qinghao Kingdom. However, Qingluan Kingdom is currently facing a snow disaster, so they must stop the war and focus their attention on the snow disaster in the north, instead of attacking Qinghao Kingdom!
However, one can disobey the emperor's orders when one is away from home, and what's more, Yuwen Yuanjing's master is not the emperor, but Gu Beiyi! So the emperor was so angry that he vomited blood, and his health, which had just recovered, was hit so hard that he fell ill again. But the snow disaster in the north had not yet been resolved, and even if the emperor wanted to hide, he had no way to escape it.
After the emperor woke up, he tried to handle state affairs despite his illness, but Gu Beiyi's suppression was too severe. So even though the emperor was able to handle state affairs, he had no way to suppress Gu Beiyi and could only let Gu Beiyi climb on his head and manipulate him! Right now, he was a useless person who was strong on the outside but weak on the inside.
But he wouldn't admit defeat. "My dear brother, you just wait! I'll give you a big surprise and show you what happens when you try to suppress me and cause trouble for the Qingluan Kingdom. You think you've gotten away with it all and no one dares to say a word against you? Do you think there's no one who can deal with you? You just wait! I'll make you wish you were dead! I'd even give the Qingluan Kingdom to them if I had to!"
So once the emperor's health improved a bit, he got up and quickly wrote several secret letters, which he then had his trusted confidants send out.
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