I really can't control myself.

Chapter 859 Uprising

The Thomas Heihe incident has recently caused a lot of noise in the empire. In fact, this incident has already attracted the attention of the people of the whole country. After all, the emperor's first prince died, and the second prince also passed away (the emperor was greened naturally. It cannot be made public, so it was announced that he died of illness), and now the royal family has no male heirs, which naturally makes the people of the whole country very anxious.

Yes, although the emperor still has two daughters, the general patriarchal thinking in this world is still dominant. It does not mean that there are no female heirs to succeed to the throne, but the problem is that the common people's view is that female heirs succeed If it is not in power, the family will go into decline and chaos. Anyway, they just don't believe in female rulers.

In short, I don’t know if someone deliberately took the rhythm. Anyway, after Linton left, the entire empire seemed to be discussing this matter. The people’s thinking was probably to have a male heir. They are all over 50, but they have lost their fertility, so there is still a chance, even if they are younger, it doesn't matter, everyone thinks that the emperor should hurry up and work harder.

However, Wigley did not have much interest in this. After experiencing the previous two blows, he is indeed a little disheartened now. Although he probably knows what the Merovie family represented by Linton wants to do, But he really didn't want to care about it anymore, he thought about handing over the throne to his daughter as soon as possible, and he could do whatever he liked.

However, the problem is that at this juncture, this man named Thomas Heihe suddenly appeared out of thin air, and it can be said that he came into being as the times require.

The surname Heihe is actually a commonly used name for abandoned children in a region in the northern part of the empire.In the north of the empire, there is a river called Heihe. It may be because the surrounding mountains have open-pit coal mines, so it is called Heishan, so this river is naturally called Heihe.And there are often abandoned babies on the edge of this Heihe. Of course, most of the babies were basically taken away by wild animals or starved to death. Most of the babies who survived fortunately claimed the surname of Heihe.

Of course, as an abandoned child, the name Thomas Heihe had never appeared in the ears of the public before. No one knew who this person was, and no one had heard of his past experience.However, at this time, he became the center of heated discussions among the people of the country, because he suddenly claimed to be the illegitimate son of Emperor Wigley, and now became the only remaining male heir to the empire.

The matter of Thomas Heihe claiming to be the illegitimate son of Emperor Wigley spread very quickly. It started in the northern part of the empire, and soon spread to the entire empire. Princess Yalan also said that there must be someone helping to promote this matter. It was obviously premeditated, and by the time they found out, the people of the whole country basically knew about the existence of such an illegitimate child.

Of course, Emperor Wigley also heard about this incident, but of course he felt a little strange when he heard about it.Wigley is not a fool, and he has experienced a lot of political struggles, so the illegitimate child who appeared suddenly felt that there was some kind of conspiracy, so of course he didn't believe it at the first time, but although he didn't He believed it directly, but he didn't immediately issue an imperial decree saying that he was a fake or something.

Yes, Wigley actually wanted a male heir, after all, patriarchy is a common perception in this world, even his emperor is no exception.Besides, he was disheartened because he lost his eldest son before. Now that he heard about Thomas Heihe, although he felt that there was a high probability that it was fake, he still had a glimmer of hope. He wanted to see if this guy was real. his own illegitimate son.

Of course, he didn't hide this matter from Ya Lan and Fulla, and he couldn't hide it, after all, the whole country knew about it, so he directly invited them to the palace to discuss this matter.As a result, the result of the three people's final discussion was that they should investigate first before talking.

It can also be seen from this that Yalan and Fula's desire to become queens is indeed not very great. Otherwise, how could they agree to let someone investigate when a competitor appears? What if the investigation turns out to be true?If you really want to be emperor, don't care about 21.In short, neither of them objected, so Wigley naturally went to investigate.

The investigation on Wigley's side is actually very simple, that is, go directly to Thomas Heihe himself. Didn't you say you are my son, so come here, let's confront him face to face and see if you are my son.So they also sent someone to go directly to this Thomas Heihe and let him enter the palace to face the saint.

However, the person sent there did not bring back Thomas Heihe, only a letter from the other party.The contents of this letter, except Wigley, no one knows, because now this letter has disappeared.The only thing he could know was that after reading the letter, Wigley's attitude had obviously changed.

That night, Wigley left the palace, and even the city.Of course, Yalan only found out about this later, because Wigley didn't say hello to them when he left, not to mention them, all the ministers didn't know, he just went out with his own team of guards Yes, the target should be the north, and I don't know the exact location, but two days later, the news of Wigley's death came.

Yes, on the way to the north, the emperor of the empire was assassinated, all his bodyguards were also killed, and everything accompanying him was robbed, and the corpse was even exposed to the wilderness naked. Death is extremely humble.And he was discovered by a passing caravan one day after his death, and later found out that it was the emperor who died, and he was lucky to die near the official road. Otherwise, the body might not be found, and it would have been eaten by wild beasts long ago.

It is also impossible to hide the death of Wigley. Everyone in the entire empire knew about it immediately, so the entire empire would be in chaos now.Originally, the people of the empire were not very satisfied with the matter of the two female heirs, but thinking that the emperor was still there, there was still a chance after all. Now that the emperor suddenly disappeared, what should we do now?

And in this chaotic situation, someone still jumped out to take the rhythm. It was what the maid said before, and the whole empire started to go crazy. Legend has it that people from the Merovey family assassinated the emperor Wigley, and gave The reason for this is quite acceptable, after all... Wasn't the Meloway family already clearing out the enemy before?After the whole family of the Noble family was killed, everyone knew that the most powerful minister of the empire was now the Duke of Merovey. Now that he had become the most powerful minister, wouldn't it be logical to take the next step further?

In short, it is said that Gassen sent people to assassinate Wigley, and some people say that Linton took the shot. Anyway, it was the Merovie family who did it.Then this directly provoked the dissatisfaction of the entire empire, because Emperor Wigley was actually quite good to the people. Before that, he carried out a lot of benevolent policies, such as exempting the people from taxes in disaster years, and helping refugees. The word of mouth is very good, but now it is heard that he was murdered by the powerful officials of the empire, and the fire of the people was ignited all of a sudden.

Of course, the fire of the people is the fire of the people, and they can't do much.From ancient times to the present, only the officials forced the people to rebel, and the people would rebel if they could not survive. I never heard that the people would rebel when the emperor died, even if he was a good emperor.So chaos is chaos, and there is no big situation, but the problem is that someone took the lead at this time.

The person who took the lead was naturally Thomas Heihe.Sure enough, this Thomas Heihe also jumped out at this time, and he immediately declared two points, first of all, the legitimacy of his identity, saying that he was the illegitimate son of Wigley, and of course he was also the legal heir of the empire.Regarding this matter, he said that Emperor Wigley definitely knew that this was true. He came out of the palace to the north to see himself and wanted to take him back as the crown prince. Otherwise, why would the emperor run away from the main city?

The second point is that the people who killed Wigley were members of the Merovie family, because they did not want to be recognized by Wigley. Now he is still an illegitimate child, and illegitimate children have no inheritance rights, but Wigley obviously He wanted to restore his own identity and take him back to be raised as an heir, but the Meloway family simply assassinated the emperor directly for their own benefit, in order to let the third princess Yalan who had already married into the Meloway family ascend the throne directly. So that the Meloway family can control the entire empire.

So in the current situation, who do you think the people will trust?At first glance, everyone felt that what Thomas Heihe said was true. Before, some people doubted the identity of his illegitimate son, but now seeing that the emperor left the palace and went north for no reason, maybe he was really there to see him. Isn't his identity confirmed?And his logic seems to make sense, isn't this a conspiracy by the Merovie family?

All of a sudden, the Meloway family seemed to be besieged by the public opinion, including Princess Yalan.At this time, even more troubles came. Thomas Heihe here directly declared an uprising, rebelling as the heir of the empire, with the goal of inheriting the throne.

I said before that ordinary people will not rebel casually, but the situation is different now, someone has taken the lead.Once someone coerces public opinion, the situation is completely different.Thomas Heihe began to pull up his team, but the matter was not over here, because the rebel army was at best a peasant army, and it was really not a threat. However, a large number of nobles immediately announced their support for Thomas. Heihe, then the problem is serious.

(End of this chapter)