After this series of blows, Yan Min returned home and soon died of illness.
But from beginning to end, neither the emperor nor the Xue family felt the slightest bit of guilt towards the Yan family, and they continued to suppress the Yan family, which was simply shameless.
Wang Yue could hear his father's resentment towards the royal family. He felt that as a member of the Yan family, he also needed to change his strategy a little. After all, this was a personal vendetta!
He frowned and said, "Father, I think we need to change."
Father Yan frowned, not knowing what Wang Yue wanted to do, so he asked uncertainly, "Lin'er, what do you mean?"
Wang Yue looked at Old Man Yan and said word by word, "Dad, since you want revenge, then can't we put ourselves out in the open? We need to draw strength in the dark until we have enough strength to come back for revenge."
Father Yan frowned and asked uncertainly, "Lin'er, what do you think?"
Wang Yue looked at Old Man Yan's attentive eyes and suddenly felt a lot of pressure. He felt that his IQ was not low, but compared with those people who were as cunning as foxes, there was really a big gap between him and them.
So, he said very seriously, "Master Xie came here this time and told me the emperor's intention. He will probably grant me and Princess Leyang a marriage, but he will also take away 70% of our military power."
Father Yan didn't expect Wang Yue to be such a spendthrift, so he frowned and said, "If that's the case, then what's the point of keeping that 30%?"
Wang Yue knew that his father was worried, so he said solemnly, "Dad, let's not talk about the 7 soldiers we still have at the border. The loyalty of the Yan family army in Tongzhou to our family is not just based on a military token. I have already begun to transfer the families of the Yan family army. Even if % of the Yan family army in Tongzhou is given to the emperor, if there is a need in the future, as long as father makes a call, the soldiers will naturally come back. Don't you have this confidence?"
After hearing what Wang Yue said, Father Yan smiled confidently and said, "Don't worry about this, my son. Although I can't make everyone loyal to me, I can still make most people loyal to me. That's the reputation I have accumulated after fighting on the border for many years." 39288248.
Chapter 16 Yan Mu faked his death!
Wang Yue certainly knew this, which was why he was so confident. He then said word by word, "In this case, why don't we take the initiative to take a step back, or even take this opportunity to disband the remaining 30% of the troops, so that we have no more troops left."
Father Wang was stunned for a moment, and said incredulously, "If you say that, we won't have any soldiers at all, and we will be at the mercy of others."
Wang Yue saw that his father was a little excited, so he smiled and explained, "Anyone with a discerning eye can understand that the missing 30% of the troops are our trump card. Before we find this trump card and control the troops at the border, my father and I are safe. Also, do you know how many people Zifeng has grown to after he took 500 people to Jinling?"
Of course, Father Wang knew what Wang Yue was doing, but he didn't know some details. Seeing Wang Yue so confident, he asked doubtfully, "How many people?"
Wang Yue held up two fingers and said with a smile, "We already have 2,000 troops. If we deploy them, it won't be long before our numbers multiply several times. Add to that the 70,000 troops at the border. Once the world becomes chaotic, that will be our chance for revenge."
Father Yan frowned and asked in confusion, "How is it possible? Why is the world in chaos?"
Wang Yue certainly knew that the world would be in chaos, because Xie Wei needed revenge and the King of Pingnan wanted the throne, so the world must be in chaos, but he did not say it immediately, but analyzed it seriously,
"Once my father is no longer in the court to check and balance the Duke of Dingguo, the emperor will definitely shift his attention to the Duke of Dingguo. The Duke of Dingguo will definitely not give in step by step like us. He will definitely think about changing the emperor. After all, whether it is the Prince of Linzi or the current emperor, they are all his nephews!"
Although Old Man Wang was not very smart, he thought about it carefully and concluded that if the court struggle was too intense, or even if a new emperor was replaced, the Prince of Pingnan would have the opportunity to take advantage of the situation.
He gritted his teeth and said in a cold voice, "Lin'er is right, but your plan is not perfect enough. Dad will help you with the follow-up matters!"
Wang Yue frowned, not knowing what Old Man Wang wanted to do, but he didn't ask in detail. He was busy enough with the things on hand.
The emperor was more anxious than Wang Yue thought. Early the next morning, when Old Man Yan went to court, the emperor issued an edict to grant the marriage.
However, just after the emperor's decree was announced, the Minister of Rites stood up and objected, saying, "Your Majesty, the prince consorts of our Daqian have never participated in military and national affairs. Prince Yan will inherit the Yan family army in the future, so he is not suitable to be a prince consort. Please withdraw your order."
Although these words were said by the Minister of Rites, everyone knew that this was definitely a test from the Emperor to see how Old Man Yan would react.
Father Yan had already discussed it with Wang Yue. He first received the emperor's order, and then responded, saying, "Your Majesty, Lin'er is about to get married. I have fought for the country all my life. Please choose a reliable person. I want to give the Yan Family Army to Your Majesty, so that I can enjoy a peaceful life."
The emperor didn't expect that Yan Mu would not give 70% of the soldiers, but all of them, even the troops on the border. He couldn't help but smile.
But he was too excited and coughed several times, and he couldn't say what he wanted to say.
Xie Wei didn't know what Yan Mu was up to. It was actually different from what they had discussed before, but at this moment, he couldn't say much.
All the other officials in the court felt that Yan Mu’s move was unique and very effective.
The emperor was investigating the collusion between the Yan family and the traitor Prince Pingnan. Yan Mu suddenly retreated and handed over all his troops. If the emperor continued to pressure him, it would seem too cold-blooded, and other ministers might become alienated out of grief.
The emperor coughed for a long time before he managed to steady his breathing. He tried to persuade Yan Mu hypocritically several times, and seeing that Yan Mu was determined to hand over his troops, he asked Xie Wei to take him to the military camp.
Yan Mu immediately took Xie Wei out of Kyoto and headed towards the Tongzhou camp. The imperial edict announcing the marriage contract also soon arrived at the Yongyi Marquis's mansion.
Just when everyone thought that Wang Yue would marry the princess after his coming-of-age ceremony half a month later, Yan Mu encountered an accident when he went to the military camp.
It turned out that after Yan Mu went to the Tongzhou camp, he gathered soldiers from the six camps and announced in public that he was going to resign and retire. Although the soldiers reacted strongly, they were still suppressed by Yan Mu.
What no one expected was that on the way Yan Mu and Xie Wei were returning, they were actually assassinated. Yan Mu had few people with him, so in order to protect Young Master Xie, he sent some people to escort Young Master Xie away first, while he himself led his men to cover their retreat.
When Young Master Xie called for reinforcements and turned back to look for Xie Wei, he only found a headless corpse, while all the men who followed Yan Mu had been killed in the battle.
Fortunately, they arrived not too late, and the thieves left behind a lot of corpses. Among the corpses, they discovered two forces.
Among them, there was a group that looked very similar to the people of Prince Pingnan who were surrounded and killed by Wang Yue. In addition, several bodies of Xingwuwei people were also found.
Of course, all of this was arranged by Yan Mu after listening to Wang Yue’s plan.
The bodies of those men under the King of Pingnan were captured elsewhere on the day when Wang Yue surrounded and killed Gong Yicheng. After all, he had deployed 10,000 to 20,000 soldiers and horses, and had captured quite a few people.
As for the personnel of Xingwu Guard, Zhou Yinzhi deliberately leaked the information to Duke Dingguo, letting Duke Dingguo know the time of Yan Mu's return. Only then did he send these people to surround and kill him, but he did not expect that all of them died there.
The troops in the Tongzhou camp were finally pacified, but they did not expect to encounter this incident. As a result, more than half of the Yan family army, which was leaderless, mutinied.
Several generals loyal to Yan Mu killed several generals sent by the emperor, and then led their troops out of the Tongzhou camp and headed north.
This action immediately frightened the Daqian court. You have to know that the 7 Yan family soldiers had fought against foreign races before. This time they were just taking a break and arrived at the Tongzhou camp.
The garrison in the capital was no match for the enemy, so they quickly closed the city gates and sought help from all sides.
Fortunately, the Yan family army did not seem to have any intention of rebellion. When passing through the capital, they sent someone to shoot a letter, and then marched northward, captured Daming Prefecture at lightning speed. After intercepting the treasury, they continued to march northward and occupied Youzhou together with the Yan family army in the border army.
Many of the border troops in Liaodong had fought with the Yan family army before. They offered almost no resistance and were occupied by the Yan family army. After that, no news came from them. 39288782.
Chapter 17: Being tricked by Xie Wei
When the Yan army left, they left a letter asking the emperor to hand over the real culprit who hurt General Yan, otherwise they would lead their troops south to attack the capital and avenge Marquis Yongyi.
The emperor was greatly shocked when he heard the news. He did not expect that someone would assassinate Yan Mu at this critical juncture, as if to deliberately prevent him from taking control of the military power.
It is understandable that Prince Pingnan did this, but what is going on with Xingwuwei?
In anger, he called Duke Dingguo Xue Yuan into the palace and demanded an explanation from Xue Yuan.
Duke Dingguo really had no way to defend himself. He really did send people to kill Yan Mu. He wanted to force the Yan army to rebel so that he could take this opportunity to wipe out the roots.
What he didn't expect was that although he achieved his goal and even killed Yan Mu, he left evidence behind, which made it difficult for him to explain himself, so he could only put the blame on his subordinates.
Just when the emperor wanted to continue pursuing the case and send Duke Dingguo to the Heavenly Prison, the empress dowager arrived and sternly stopped the emperor from continuing the investigation.
The emperor had no choice but to remove Duke Dingguo from his post as commander of the Xingwu Guard.
However, Duke Dingguo had been in charge of Xingwu Guard for a long time, and even without him as the commander, Duke Dingguo still had the final say, which made the emperor even more angry.
At this time, Zhou Yinzhi captured a silk merchant and got a secret from him. It turned out that the Xue family deliberately joined forces with some people in the market to lower the price in order to drive up the price of silk.
Because this silk merchant had a lot of loans, he had no choice but to destroy the Xue family's silk ship. He wanted to sell the raw silk as soon as possible to ensure that he would not go bankrupt. Unexpectedly, he was hunted down by the Xue family.
Although the silk merchant was smart enough not to mention that the Xue family made money through the canal transportation, the emperor, who was very smart, understood what was going on as soon as he heard it.
The Xue family was already deeply favored by the emperor and had countless fields and properties. How could they possibly still need money to oppress merchants?
However, the emperor can't do anything about the imperial merits now because the empress dowager is there.
So, the emperor, in a rage, promoted Zhou Yinzhi to the commander of Xingwu Guard, in an attempt to take away Duke Dingguo's control over Xingwu Guard.
However, it will take time to completely control Xingwuwei. The most urgent task is to deal with the Yan family army that occupied Youzhou.
Since there was no way to take Xue Yuan's head to report to the Yan army, they could only let Wang Yue, the prince of Yan, persuade them to surrender, and he was accompanied by the Xingwu Guard led by Zhou Yinzhi.
This intention was very obvious and extremely shameless. If Wang Yue could not persuade the rebellious Yan army to surrender, he would definitely be punished when he returned, or even beheaded on the spot by the Xingwu Guards.
Wang Yue was actually a little confused. This was somewhat different from what he had discussed with Yan Mu and even Xie Wei. He originally just wanted half of the Yan family army to rebel and then split up to become bandits in different places. Even when Yan Mu faked his death, the original plan was to just let him get injured.
With the time traveler You Fangyin around, the huge amount of money she helped to earn is enough to secretly support so many soldiers and even expand them.
But now, the situation has turned out that more than 100,000 Yan family troops have all rebelled, and even the 10,000 troops entrusted to General Liu were forced to take away. It is very different from what was originally expected.
But thinking about it, Xie Wei's arrangement was right. The Yan family had hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers, and they could just take advantage of the general trend and be self-reliant. If he had a million soldiers, he would even directly declare himself emperor!
The only thing he couldn't understand was how Xie Wei persuaded the emperor to let him leave the capital. Isn't this like letting a tiger return to the mountains?
Just as Wang Yue was considering countless possibilities and was about to follow Zhou Yinzhi and the Xingwu Guard out of the imperial city, he was stopped by Prince Linzi and Princess Leyang who had hurried over.
Prince Linzi went to negotiate with Zhou Yinzhi, while Princess Leyang came to Wang Yue and drove the guarding soldiers away.
She felt a little guilty towards Wang Yue, so her eyes turned red before she even spoke.
She felt that Wang Yue had already surrendered his military power for her, but she did not expect that he would be forced to do such a thing. This made her feel a little resentful towards her brother.
But it was of no use no matter how hard she tried, so she asked her second brother, Prince Linzi, to take her to see Wang Yue.
When she saw Wang Yue, she didn't know what to say. After struggling for a long time, she finally said hesitantly, "Yan Lin, are you sure about me?"
Wang Yue sighed and said helplessly, "No, because I asked General Liu to take away 10,000 soldiers last time, the Yan family army no longer trusts me. They are unlikely to listen to my advice to surrender."
Seeing Wang Yue say this, Le Yang's face turned a little pale. She bit her lip and said, "Yan Lin, I'll wait for you to come back and get married!"
After Princess Leyang finished speaking, she ran back to her carriage. She had already mustered up her utmost courage to say so much.
The Prince of Linzi came back, but he didn't know what to say, so he could only say solemnly, "Take care!"
Wang Yue nodded, said nothing more, and followed Zhou Yinzhi.
They came all the way to Daming Prefecture, but found that the Yan family army passing by here did not harm anyone here, and the people here lived as usual, and there seemed to be no major war at all.
It was not until they reached a town outside of Peking that Zhou Yinzhi stopped his troops and sent someone to deliver a letter to the Yan Army, hoping to start negotiations.
At this time, Wang Yue had secretly received a secret letter from Old Man Yan and learned the whole story, so he changed his plan.
It turned out that when Xie Wei and Yan Mu went to the Tongzhou camp, they thought that since they had money and food, why should they stay in the capital and be bullied? They might as well take the opportunity to rebel.
He also pointed out a location to Yan Mu, which was Youzhou and Liaodong!
Because Dayue has become more powerful in recent years, large tracts of land in the northeast have gradually been out of the jurisdiction of Daqian. As long as Yan Mu occupies Liaodong and Youzhou, he will definitely be able to control this area with his prestige in the border troops.
With the entire Northeast as a logistics base, and the large sum of money that the Yan family is about to get, the Yan family has money and food, and the people of the Northeast are tough. They only need to prepare for a few years before they can lead a large army for revenge.
By then, with Xie Wei as an insider in the capital, it would be easy to break through the imperial city.
Wang Yue was speechless. He had originally planned to build high walls and store up food before slowly becoming king, but he didn't expect Xie Wei to disrupt his plans all of a sudden. Now he could only take one step at a time.
Seeing Zhou Yinzhi's cautious look, he smiled and said, "Commander Zhou, what are you going to do next?"
Seeing Wang Yue's confident look, Zhou Yinzhi felt a little uneasy. When he thought about the secret letter in Wang Yue's hand, his eyes became uncertain.
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Chapter 18 Duke of Yan
Wang Yue knew that this guy still wanted to plot against him, and probably hoped to use threats to exchange for a letter. His thinking was simply too naive.
You know, Zhou Yinzhi's current opponent is the insidious guy Xie Wei. Even Wang Yue was tricked by Xie Wei, let alone Zhou Yinzhi.
Sure enough, not long after, the screams of the Xingwu guards guarding outside the yard were heard continuously coming into the house, and not long after, there was no more noise outside.
Zhou Yinzhi heard no sound outside the room, and even a strong smell of blood drifted in. He couldn't help swallowing, for he knew that everyone outside must be dead.
He knew that if things went wrong today, he might die, so he looked at Wang Yue in disbelief and asked, "Yan Lin, is your Yan family really planning a rebellion?"
Wang Yue looked at Zhou Yinzhi's exaggerated performance and knew that it was deliberately performed for him. He pretended to be very melancholy and said, "It's not that I want to rebel, but the emperor needs me to rebel. Do you think I can persuade the Yan family army?"
Zhou Yinzhi shook his head. He was not a fool. Once the arrow is shot, there is no turning back. What the Yan army is doing now is equivalent to treason. If they are persuaded to go back at this time, they will be liquidated sooner or later.
Rather than dying in the future, it is better to occupy Youzhou and the Northeast now. With Daqian's current energy, it simply does not have the energy to wipe out the Yan family army.
Even Daqian had to carry out appeasement to prevent the Yan Army and the Dayue Kingdom from joining forces, then the northern defense line would be in jeopardy.
Therefore, if you rebel, you can survive and may even become king, but if you return to Beijing, you will most likely die. Even a fool would rebel.
Seeing that everything had been exposed, he said awkwardly, "Then I wonder how Prince Yan is going to deal with me?"
Wang Yue did not embarrass Zhou Yinzhi. He smiled and said, "Send a letter to Kyoto for me. I want our good emperor to marry the eldest princess to me and complete the marriage he granted me. I can guarantee that unless I die, Youzhou will never be in chaos."
Zhou Yinzhi also breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that Wang Yue still had some use for him. At least he could survive. He waited tactfully until he received the letter and then rushed to Kyoto without stopping.
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