Chapter 216 I Don’t Want to Be a Loyal Servant!
Wen Jiarong is the male protagonist of this small world. Although he was handed over to the Yu family by Si Yuan at the beginning of the plot when he was a child, unlike the original owner who would rather abandon his own son to protect him, the Yu family did not have much sincerity towards Wen Jiarong and handed him over easily.
But he is the male protagonist after all. With the male protagonist's aura, he will surely turn misfortune into blessing and danger into safety.
Seeing how Wen Jiarong was able to rise from a criminal slave and eunuch to Cao Jing's adopted son Cao Jiarong in the palace, we know that although his life has been hard over the years, it is far less hard than Lin Zhong in the original plot. Although he did not become the Nine Thousand Year Old Lord like Lin Zhong in the original plot, but became the adopted son of the Nine Thousand Year Old Lord, this also shows that Cao Jiarong did not suffer as much in the palace as Lin Zhong in the original plot.
In the original plot, Lin Zhong was able to climb to his current position as Cao Jing, but he really did not take his own life seriously. He had been on the verge of life and death many times before he was appreciated and valued by the emperor and was able to ascend to the position.
Cao Jiarong was chosen by Cao Jing as his adopted son at a very young age. Now he has gained a higher status and more power by stabbing Cao Jing in the back.
Cao Jiarong's life experience is his biggest threat now. Lin Shu uses this to threaten Cao Jiarong. Cao Jiarong is eager to solve this problem, so the fate of the male protagonist favors Cao Jiarong, the original male protagonist, and brings the Yu family father and son to him.
Luck is not static. For example, Lin Shu was just a villain cannon fodder in the original plot, but now as he occupies more and more territory, he gradually condenses the dragon energy and the luck of the emperor.
If Lin Shu was with the Yu family father and son at that time, Cao Jiarong's luck as the male protagonist would not be enough to counter Lin Shu's luck. However, Lin Shu was far away from the capital. How could the spies under his command resist the aura of the male protagonist? Naturally, they were reduced in intelligence, which made them make a series of stupid actions.
Fortunately, they were all subordinates that Lin Shu valued, and were protected by some of Lin Shu's luck, so only the Yu father and son were exposed to Cao Jiarong. The spies were all fine and successfully escaped the pursuit of the North Factory.
Si Yuan certainly couldn't tell Lin Shu directly about this so-called luck and the male protagonist's halo. This was just an ordinary small world. As an ordinary person, it would not be good for Lin Shu to know too much about these things. What would he do if he pursued immortality when he was old?
Si Yuan simply didn't tell Lin Shu and only comforted him: "It's not a big deal. You're lucky that the spies you trained didn't get killed."
Lin Shu was just shocked by the sudden stupidity of his subordinates, and he was not angry about the Yu father and son falling into Cao Jiarong's hands.
Hearing Si Yuan's consolation, Lin Shu just smiled helplessly and said, "Dad, I know, but I didn't expect that they, who have always been cautious, would make such a low-level mistake this time. I'm a little too surprised."
Si Yuan tried to find excuses for the spies whose intelligence was lowered by the male protagonist's halo: "No one is perfect. Besides, you were not at the scene. You just learned about the simple course of events through a secret letter. Maybe there was something you didn't know that caused problems in their guarding. Don't think too much. Are you currently involved with a little eunuch beside the emperor?"
Lin Shu's face was embarrassed. What did he mean by being entangled with the young eunuch beside the emperor? Please don't make his good plan sound so weird!
But Lin Shu soon put the matter behind him, because he had almost digested the conquered territory and it was time to attack Huanglong and enter the capital.
Lin Shu has been taught by Si Yuan for so many years and is proficient in both civil and military affairs. He personally led the powerful Lin family army to attack the capital, and the capital's defense force could be said to be vulnerable.
Most of the high officials and nobles in the capital city have surrendered to Lin Shu voluntarily, and there are countless people who are ambiguous about it.
When the Lin family army was at the gates of the capital, without waiting for Lin Shu to give the order to attack the city, people who wanted to please Lin Shu took the initiative to open the city gates and welcomed the royal army into the city with food and drink.
The emperor was still in court, hurriedly discussing with his ministers who to send to guard the city and who to send to negotiate with Lin Shu, when the city gate had already been opened and the Lin army marched straight in.
The guards at the gate of the imperial city are still loyal to the emperor and try their best to defend the imperial city, but how long can a palace be defended?
The disheveled eunuch tumbled into the throne room and shouted, "The Lin family army has reached the gate of the palace!"
The emperor was stunned. He thought the enemy was still outside the capital and was dreaming of defending the capital to the death. He did not expect that the enemy had already arrived at the gate of his palace.
Not long after, the sounds of shouting and fighting were heard outside the palace gate. It was obvious that the enemy had already entered the palace and was about to reach the emperor.
The civil and military officials who were summoned by the emperor to attend the grand court meeting were all confused. Before coming to the court meeting, they had heard that the Lin family army was setting up camp outside the capital, as if they were going to fight a protracted siege. Why were they going to attack them head-on now?
However, those court officials who thought about the fact that their family had been flirting with Lin Shu for a long time were not so panicked. So what if the throne changed? At worst, they can just worship another emperor.
The most desperate people in the entire hall were probably the emperor himself and his princes.
Because their country was lost, as kings and princes of a lost country, it was obvious that they would not have any good ending.
Even if the new founding monarch is willing to give the former royal family a title and honor them, they will probably end up being imprisoned until death.
Because of their status as royal family of the previous dynasty, even if they behave themselves and have no other concerns, there will always be people with ulterior motives who will use their status to stir up trouble.
As long as they are alive, there is a possibility that someone will use their names to harm the new dynasty. In history, how many kings of fallen countries and royal families of previous dynasties could live out their lives in peace?
When the emperor and the royal children were in a state of panic, Cao Jing, who was guarding the emperor, quietly approached the emperor and reminded him: "Your Majesty, let's escape quickly before the rebels attack us."
Cao Jing felt that as long as the emperor could escape from the palace and the capital, there would still be a glimmer of hope. After all, the world was so big, and Lin Shu only occupied most of it. The other part was still in the hands of the court. Even if it was only nominally controlled by the court, the emperor would be treated well by the local rulers when he went there.
Even if he was being held hostage to control the other lords, the emperor could still maintain his dignity, which was better than becoming a king of a fallen country. The better to survive for a while.
Why did Cao Jing remind the emperor to escape instead of capturing him and trying to curry favor with the new emperor?
Of course, it was because Lin Shu started the uprising under the banner of "clearing the imperial court and eliminating the treacherous officials". Now that Lin Shu had attacked, the first person he wanted to kill was definitely not the emperor, but Cao Jing, the "treacherous official".
So Cao Jing wanted to escape even more than the emperor. If it weren't for his future survival and development, Cao Jing wouldn't have wanted to take the emperor with him.
Cao Jing's words awakened the dazed emperor. The emperor turned to look at Cao Jing who was persuading him to escape. Listening to the sounds of fighting and killing coming from outside the hall, and the voices of people dying tragically and begging for mercy, he was so frightened that the dragon robe on his back was soaked with cold sweat.
The emperor stared at Cao Jing for a while, and suddenly remembered the slogan of Lin Shu's uprising, "Purge the emperor's side and eliminate treacherous officials." He stepped back from Cao Jing as if he had grasped a life-saving straw, and shouted loudly: "Come here, arrest Cao Jing, this treacherous villain, immediately!"
Cao Jing looked at the emperor who had stabbed him in the back in disbelief. He kindly reminded the emperor to run, but the emperor turned around and ordered people to arrest him. He also labeled him a treacherous villain. Isn't this emperor too much of a villain? He really lived to see his country destroyed and his family ruined, and became the king of a fallen country.
He should have escaped quietly on his own and not reminded the emperor to run away with him.
At the emperor's command, the agile military officers among the courtiers who reacted immediately rushed forward to block Cao Jing's escape route and captured him.
When Lin Shu led the army into the Golden Palace where the emperor and his courtiers gathered, his armor was still stained with blood, the sword in his hand was still dripping with blood, and his handsome young face was splashed with some bloodstains, making him exude a terrifying and murderous aura. The army behind him, marching in orderly and majestic steps, made his image even more majestic.
Everyone in the Golden Palace who saw Lin Shu had only one terrifying thought in their mind - this was the person who held the power of life and death over them!
Lin Shu glanced around, and immediately someone couldn't bear the pressure and fell to his knees with a thud.
Once someone took the lead, others dared not to kneel.
Only the emperor was still maintaining his precarious self-esteem and pride and refusing to kneel, and those who were loyal to the emperor were willing to follow him and risk their lives and refused to kneel.
Lin Shu didn't care. He smiled slightly, raised his hand to wipe the wet blood stains on his face, and walked towards the emperor.
He walked towards the emperor step by step at a steady pace. As the distance got closer, the emperor felt more and more psychological pressure. He looked at Lin Shu, who was still holding the bloody knife in his hand, and the blade was flashing a terrible cold light.
The emperor had already imagined the scene of Lin Shu walking up to him and chopping off his head with a knife.
So the emperor knelt down with a plop, and said in a trembling voice: "You, didn't you say you were here to purge the emperor's court of evildoers? Cao Jing, the evildoer, has been arrested. I will do whatever you want to do with him."
The emperor raised his trembling hand and pointed at the tied-up Cao Jing.
Lin Shu stopped in front of the emperor. He looked in the direction the emperor pointed and indeed saw Cao Jing. Then he asked, "Where is Cao Jiarong?"
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