In the second year of Yuanhui, the Yuezhi king led 100,000 soldiers to conquer the southern border of Sufeng, capturing eight cities in just two days.
The Yuezhi army entered the city, burning, killing, looting, raping women, and committing all sorts of atrocities.
General Beimen Lin was ill and bedridden, unable to lead his troops.
The mighty Sufeng Kingdom had not a single person capable of leading an army to repel the Yuezhi bandits.
The new emperor, Bei Menmu, was sixteen years old and would not come of age for another four years.
Emperor Yuanhui grew up surrounded by women, his body was covered in the smell of cosmetics, he was physically weak and not very bright.
It's much easier to ask him to identify women's cosmetics and jewelry than to ask him to make decisions on matters of state.
When Sufeng encountered a powerful external force, the court officials were extremely anxious, but the emperor remained calm and composed.
The palace had just held a selection of concubines before the new year, and one of them was a beauty of unparalleled grace and charm, who captivated Emperor Yuanhui.
When the country was in peril, this foolish emperor, imitating Emperor Xuanzong, ordered an urgent dispatch to transport frozen lychees from the south, killing five Ferghana horses in the process, all to please his beloved concubine.
Liao Yue, the prime minister who defied public opinion and elevated Beimen Mu to the throne, was filled with shame as he faced the condemning gazes of his ministers.
His granddaughter married Bei Menmu as his principal wife, and the prime minister had his own selfish motives.
He knew that Beimen Mu was foolish and clumsy, and only wanted him to be a mediocre emperor.
But no one expected that Beimen Mu not only failed to inherit the wisdom of his father, the Crown Prince, but instead displayed the utter incompetence that a ruler should avoid most.
Any one of the royal heirs from the Northern Gate is more responsible than him.
As a high-ranking official second only to the emperor, the prime minister should, when the emperor is inactive and irresponsible, follow the will of the people and support a new emperor to ascend the throne.
General Beimen Lin is both brave and resourceful, making him the best candidate.
The ministers agreed with the prime minister's point of view.
Back then, the Crown Prince and the Third Prince fought for the throne, and in the end, both were severely injured. The Northern Gate family was dominated by women, with more than a dozen princesses but few princes.
With the passing of the two princes, only the eldest grandson of the emperor, Beimen Mu, remains as the legitimate heir to the royal family.
Although everyone disapproved of the eldest grandson of the emperor who spent his days surrounded by women, there was no other candidate.
Actually, it would have been better to let Beimen Lin succeed him in the first place.
Although he did not have the orthodox bloodline of the Beimen family, in terms of talent and learning, he was far superior to the good-for-nothing Beimen Mu.
He also had the skill to fight on the battlefield. It was said that even the children of small border countries would cry in fear upon hearing the name Beimen Lin.
The ascension of such a decisive, courageous, and resourceful ruler to the throne not only serves to deter restless smaller nations but also brings more benefits than harm to Sufeng's future development.
However, to bring Emperor Yuanhui down, one thing needs to be resolved first.
If the Yuezhi are left unchecked, given the ferocity of their army, it's only a matter of time before they capture the capital.
Su Feng has little in abundance except for princesses, and each one of them inherited the good looks of the Northern Gate royal family, making them all more beautiful than the last.
The prime minister, together with other officials, submitted a memorial to Emperor Yuanhui, requesting that the sixteenth princess, Beimen Lianxia, marry the second prince of the Yuezhi as his queen.
The young emperor, who usually lacked assertiveness, stood up for himself on this matter.
The memorial was thrown into the brazier, and Emperor Yuanhui announced to the public that none of the princesses of Sufeng would marry into the Yuezhi!
Everyone in the government and the public knows what he's thinking.
The Sixteenth Princess was Bei Menmu's younger sister, born of the same mother, and was the closest person to him in the world.
The second prince of Yuezhi was cruel by nature. His previous queens were tortured to death, and it is said that their bodies were incomplete.
The ministers would not have wanted to marry a princess who had just come of age to a man old enough to be her father, unless there was absolutely no other way.
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