Chapter 803 If Prince Kang were to become emperor, he would be a tyrant.
Xie Shang's cheeks flushed slightly. He couldn't deny what Jiang Fenghua said. It was precisely because the Great Zhou Dynasty was already riddled with problems that he found it very difficult to make it prosperous and strong immediately.
Jiang Fenghua suddenly comforted him, "Your Majesty, keep up the good work. The Great Zhou Kingdom will surely become the prosperous nation you desire. Let time prove the rest!"
Sigh! Xie Shang wasn't wrong either.
No one is truly virtuous, and her hands are stained with blood. Hopefully, she can live with a clear conscience in the future!
The four words "family, country, and world" carry immense weight.
Hearing Jiang Fenghua's words, Xie Kang couldn't help but look at her with higher regard. According to the information Chang Mingxiu had given him, Empress Jiang was a scheming and vicious woman. After all, many things had happened in Xie Shang's harem and they were related to her.
Women should also care about the people of the world, especially the empress, whose role is to set an example for all women. Women in the harem have almost no sense of national or familial responsibility, except for competing for the emperor's favor.
Xie Shang smiled slightly, "With the Empress and me together, the Great Zhou will surely get better and better."
Just then, a scream like a pig being slaughtered rang out in the underground palace. The group froze and quickly ran in the direction from which the sound came.
Ao Xue was cutting Chang Shun's body repeatedly, causing him to bleed profusely. He was in so much pain that he wanted to faint, but Ao Xue didn't give him the chance and tortured him awake.
Chang Shun knelt down and begged for mercy, but Ao Xue wouldn't listen. "I will avenge you a thousand times over how you tortured Ye Ying."
“He was determined to die, he wanted to die himself…” Chang Shun continued, “I didn’t bring him back, Yan Jue brought him back. He’s very stubborn. I’m not the only one torturing him, why are you only torturing me…”
The fighting in the surrounding area had stopped. The Hidden God Camp quickly wiped out all the assassins. They had suffered too many losses recently, lost face, and even caused the death of Night Shadow, so they were filled with resentment.
Ao Xue's hands were stained with blood. She plunged a knife into Chang Shun's thigh and said to the guards, "Go find Yan Jue. I want to see him alive or dead."
She had only let the person who looked just like Ye Ying escape because she wanted to save Ye Ying. It turned out his name was Yan Jue.
Everyone was stunned; no one had ever seen Ao Xue look like this before.
Lin Yu stood by and watched coldly, protecting Ao Xue and wanting her to have her fun first.
Lin Yu is particularly unreasonable when she's protecting her own.
Chang Shun saw Chang Mingxiu again. He endured the pain and crawled towards Chang Mingxiu, pleading, "Mingxiu, save your uncle."
Chang Mingxiu was barely able to protect herself, and she was only able to survive by relying on Xie Kang. For some reason, the emperor did not arrest Xie Kang directly, but instead tried to appeal to his emotions.
Xie Kang's only flaw was that he cared too much about what the Holy Ancestor Emperor said.
For remembering the phrase "pass the crown prince position to him" for a lifetime, Chang Mingxiu could only sneer. How could she possibly save her life?
Will Xie Shang spare her life?
Ao Xue grabbed Chang Shun from the ground and said coldly to the Dowager Consort Chang, "Does Your Highness wish to save him?"
Consort Chang shook her head, "Do as you please..."
Chang Shun wasn't dead, but he was in even more pain than if he were. After hearing his niece's answer, he just wanted to curse, "I'm your uncle. I helped you with what happened between you and Prince Kang back then. How can you turn your backs on me and have no family ties?"
Chang Mingxiu just wanted to disappear into the ground. Having an affair wasn't something to be proud of, especially since she knew Xie Yang was definitely listening outside.
Xie Shang also wished he would die a horrible death, so he let Ao Xue do whatever she wanted with him.
Jiang Fenghua avoided eye contact and left with Xie Shang and Prince Kang.
Chang Mingxiu wanted to follow, but Jiang Fenghua said, "Your Highness, please stay and collect your uncle's body!"
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On the other side, Xie Shang asked King Kang, "Whose man is Yan Jue?"
Xie Kang remained silent, seemingly hesitant. Xie Shang continued, "Uncle Kang, do you still want to hide the current situation? Do you want to watch the Great Zhou Dynasty be riddled with holes and beyond saving?" He knew that the Great Zhou Dynasty would be destroyed several decades later, but during that time the Great Zhou had indeed suffered countless battles, large and small, and the constant warfare had left the Great Zhou with no opportunity to recuperate.
“Apart from Consort Chang and Chang Shun, everyone here is my person.” He added, “Now that Yan Jue has run away, he will definitely spread the word about what’s going on here. Does Uncle Kang know who he’ll pass it on to?”
Xie Kang said, "He's from the Earthly Fiends Sect. The second-in-command of the Earthly Fiends Sect is Yan Dinghai, and Yan Jue is his adopted son. However, Yan Dinghai has many adopted sons. I met Yan Dinghai at a banquet held by the Yuezhi..."
The people of the Earthly Fiends Sect also had contact with the Yuezhi, the indigenous people of the Northwest. That's how he got in touch with the Earthly Fiends Sect.
The Yuezhi were the same clan as the mother clan of the queen he married in the northwest. The native inhabitants were generally not under the jurisdiction of the imperial court. They did not speak the same language as the people of the Central Plains and did not intermarry.
The Yuezhi people married their daughter to Xie Kang entirely because Xie Kang needed to establish himself in the northwest and he needed the support of the Yuezhi.
"Whose idea was it to use Yan Jue's face to sneak into the palace?" Xie Shang wanted to know whether it was Xie Kang or the Di Sha Sect that was investigating the Hidden Camp. They could easily use Ye Ying's face to sneak into the Hidden Camp, which would be faster and more convenient. Of course, the Hidden Camp had its own system, and it wasn't something anyone could just investigate.
“It was Yan Jue’s own idea. He first turned Ye Ying’s subordinate Xiao Liu against him. Xiao Liu was a gambler and owed a lot of money…” Xie Kang added, “There is a secret passage here that leads to the horse training ground in the suburbs.”
Jiang Fenghua said, "So, isn't Yan Jue's idea actually Yan Dinghai's idea?"
"Is Yan Dinghai a person from the Great Zhou Dynasty? Why is the Earthly Fiend Sect so determined to investigate the Hidden Divine Camp?"
Xie Kang said, "Naturally, it's about attracting talented people."
“King Kang is also someone recruited by the Earthly Fiends Sect. I see that Uncle Kang has nothing special about him except for his wrinkled face. How could they help King Kang rebel and assassinate the Emperor? What makes such a large-scale assassin organization like this recruit King Kang?” Xie Shang directly confronted Xie Kang, who still wouldn’t tell the truth.
Xie Kang's men were all dealt with by the late emperor, so he went to the northwest all alone and was bound to suffer.
Jiang Fenghua then asked, "So, dealing with the Jiang family and disrupting the court were both Prince Kang's decisions. The Jiang family has no grudge against Prince Kang, right?"
Xie Kang did not deny this: "I have no enmity with the Jiang family, but the Jiang family's daughter is the Empress, and I know that Empress Jiang is not a kind person."
Jiang Fenghua's eyes turned slightly cold as she retorted, "An incompetent prince wants to seize the emperor's throne. You're looking for the emperor, so why drag the Jiang family into this? Even if I'm not a kind person, did the Jiang family kill your entire family? You've chosen the wrong person to seek revenge!"
She's so angry!
“The Empress and the Emperor are husband and wife, and it is said that their love is as deep as that of a pair of lovebirds. The Jiang family is also highly valued by the Emperor. Eliminating the Jiang family is like eliminating the Emperor’s right-hand man.” Xie Kang inexplicably started arguing with her: “When Empress Jiang was so aggressive towards the Empress Dowager, wasn’t it precisely because you were the Empress that she dared to act that way?”
"Your Highness is just trying to spite me because of your mother!" Jiang Fenghua said in a deep voice, "If Prince Kang were to become emperor, he would be a foolish ruler."
Xie Kang stared at her in disbelief. He was so angry at Jiang Fenghua that he almost vomited blood. What kind of granddaughter-in-law disrespects her grandmother like that?
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