Chapter 27 The past is like smoke
When Old Man Long said this, he lowered his head and said nothing, as if he was very sad.
"One late one night after about half a month, the emperor was in Baoning Palace and was led by Qiao Zhonghai, the deputy commander of the Imperial Guard, and was taken away. He was placed under house arrest in Biyue Palace. Later, the emperor was told by Qiao Zhonghai that his commander of the Imperial Guard had been killed, Ji Lucheng had been surrounded by the troops led by Luneng, and the seventh prince was missing!"
Old Man Long stopped for a moment and continued:
"Qiao Zhonghai is the cousin of the Crown Princess. Later, he brought Luneng, Cao Guojiu and others in and asked the emperor to abdicate immediately and make Prince Chang the new emperor, but was rejected by the emperor."
"How did they deal with that emperor?" Huang Shang looked at Old Man Long and asked. In fact, he had already vaguely guessed something.
"What else can I do? I'm under house arrest, but they took the emperor a poison that died of incense, which means that if I leave a specific incense medicine, I will definitely die within seven days!"
"It is precisely because they think that the old emperor has been controlled by them and it will be a matter of time before they promised them, so they are not so strict in their supervision. In fact, if they don't kill this emperor, they still want to get two important things."
Old Man Long smacked his lips and moistened his throat and continued to say.
"The first is the Book of Tianmen. This is a military book that every country must obtain. It was written by Daoyangzi, a military genius from Huatian Kingdom, a thousand years ago. The emperor obtained it by chance and regarded it as a treasure. This is also the most important reason why a small country like Ulan, which is sandwiched between other countries, can survive. Of course, another reason is that this emperor is a military general and his ability is also great."
"The second is a treasure map. As early as five hundred years ago, there were only a few countries on this continent. Most of the south were ruled by Qi. Unfortunately, the king of Qi at that time wanted to rule the world and led a million troops to conquer neighboring countries in the north. The countries in the north united together. In the Wujiang, the southernmost tip of the Huatian Kingdom, a long-lasting war broke out between the two sides, and both sides suffered extremely heavy casualties!"
"Originally, everyone thought it would end with a peaceful end between the two sides, but they never expected that a city lord named Wuda in Qi would take advantage of the opportunity of Qi's army to fight against the north, and the troops were empty and the people were unstable. The princes in other parts of Qi also rebelled at this time and suffered from front and back attacks. The war ended with the defeat of Qi."
"Since Qi State has been defeated, why did the northern alliance not take the opportunity to go south to capture the original Qi State's land?"
Emperor Shang asked.
"Good question, although the Northern Alliance won the victory, they also won the victory in a very lucky way, which can be said to be a miserable victory. Their alliance itself is unstable, and years of war has caused their rear to be extremely unstable, so they have long been at the end of their strength. How can they still have the strength to continue to move south?"
"Since that war, the current situation of division among the southern countries has basically formed. At that time, the places occupied by Wuda were roughly the current Daxi Kingdom. At that time, a man named Chen Zuodong was the Chen Kingdom in the east of Nandan Kingdom, as well as the current Nandan Kingdom, Jin Kingdom, and of course, including Ulan Kingdom, all of which had already formed this situation at the beginning."
"Oh, I'm too long-winded. The more I talk, the farther I say, I'm getting older!"
Old Man Long sighed deeply and continued.
"At that time, the royal relatives of Qi, who knew that the failure was a foregone conclusion, secretly hid all the rare treasures and a large amount of gold collected when Qi was powerful, in order to make a comeback!"
"Later, since all countries coordinated to arrest these people from the Yuan Qi State, these people had no chance to restore the country. There were very few people who knew the location of the treasure. In addition, as the age of time, no one knew the existence of this treasure again."
"Grandpa Long, the second reason why those people didn't kill that emperor was because of this treasure?" The emperor paused for a moment and continued to ask.
"That's right!" Old Man Long nodded in approval and said.
"In order to prevent anyone from taking away the treasures, the royal relatives of Qi State divided the treasure map into four, and each of the four major families kept one. In order to save their lives, a death row prisoner from Ulan State revealed the news about one of the descendants of the family. The emperor of Ulan State led his personal guards to personally obtain the treasure map late at night, but unfortunately the news was still lost. Luneng and Cao Guojiu did not kill the emperor, of course, he also asked him to hand over the treasure map. As for the other three treasure maps, there is no news yet!"
"Don't look at me like this. Although a treasure map is just a piece of waste paper, there is at least a hope with this map. It is said that it is not considered the rare treasures in the treasure. There are tens of millions of taels of gold alone, and there are countless silver. Who do you think is not jealous?"
"Ten million taels?" Huang Shang exclaimed. For him, the most gold he saw was a gold ingot of one hundred taels per one.
"On the third night after the emperor of Ulan was under house arrest, several top masters broke into the Biyue Palace and rescued the emperor. There were seven of them in total. When they escorted the emperor out of Jilu City to death, there were only four left. When these four people escorted him to Tianyang City overnight, they were told that Tianyang City had been captured by the Daxi Kingdom's troops, and the fourth prince Shun was also captured!"
When Old Man Long said this, he silently lowered his head and his body trembled slightly.
"Grandpa Long, please take a rest when you are tired!" Huang Shang asked with concern.
"It's not the problem, it's not the problem. I must finish it today. I've been holding these things in my heart for too long. Besides, if I don't finish it today, I'm afraid I won't have another chance in my life!"
Old Man Long slowly raised his head, gritted his teeth and continued.
"The four people had to protect the emperor halfway through, rushed through a few interceptions, and finally arrived at the border city of Dhaka City, the Ulan and Nandan Kingdom. These people took a short rest in Dhaka City and immediately set off for the Nandan Kingdom to join Huang Tian, who was still the prince of the Nandan Kingdom and the Minister of War of the Nandan Kingdom. Because the emperor of the Ulan Kingdom had a good personal relationship with Huang Tian of the Nandan Kingdom. They originally thought that as soon as they arrived in Nandan Kingdom, the group would be safe, but they never expected that Cao Guojiu and the others had already arrived at the emperor's idea and sent martial arts masters to ambush early. As a result, the five of them were surrounded by more than a dozen martial arts masters sent by Cao Guojiu and others in danger!"
"What happened later?" Huang Shang asked.
"After a fierce battle, the emperor was seriously injured, and three of the other four people also died in a fierce battle. Just as they were extremely desperate and were about to commit suicide by swinging their swords, several martial arts masters from the Nandan Kingdom suddenly appeared, one of whom was named Qingyi."
"Qingyi!!!" Huang Shang exclaimed.
Chapter completed!