"Can Yun be Yao Xian's illegitimate daughter? Yao Xian has only one wife in his life, giving birth to three sons and one daughter. How can a man only marry one wife? Since there is no one at home, he must be raised outside. Concubine Yun might be the child born to the woman outside him."

"It should be, otherwise why would a concubine have to Dai Chongxiao to send Yao Xian mourning?"

This was a bit ugly. When the Yao family heard it, they felt uncomfortable, but Concubine Yun was in Wanhe, and they were not good at expressing their opinions on this matter. To be honest, they did not understand why Concubine Yun had to send Yao Xian so grandly, but the Yao family absolutely did not believe in any illegitimate daughter. The Yao family has always been a man who does not take concubines or daughters. Yao Xian is an example of the whole family. He has been open and honest all his life, and it is impossible for him to have women and children outside.

Yao Jingjun looked at Concubine Yun and waited for her to explain. Finally, Concubine Yun stopped when people said again that "Yao Xian raised a woman outside". Her sharp eyes were cast, and the imperial concubine's aura instantly surged out, which made the gossiping people retreat step by step, and everyone was trembling with fear.

Concubine Yun asked them in confusion: "Are you here to see the mourning or to cause trouble? You always say that you have been kind to Dr. Yao, so why did you slander him with such vicious words? I am grateful to Dr. Yao, respect him as his adoptive father, and come to the funeral with filial piety. Who gave you the courage to slander my adoptive father so much in front of me? Do you think this palace is easy to bully, or do you think the royal family is easy to bully? Or do you think the Yao family is honest and can tolerate your dirty words?"

Concubine Yun was angry, and all the people felt the anger from her. Those who were unpleasant to their words immediately closed their eyes and retreated, fearing that Concubine Yun would be identified.

Unfortunately, it is useless to hide. Concubine Yun has lived in Yuehan Palace for more than 20 years and has always had no dispute with the outside world. However, not fighting does not mean cowardice. It is better if you hide from her far away. If you provoke her, the consequences will not be affordable to ordinary people.

Just like now, Yao Xian died and Concubine Yun was very sad, but someone said bad things about Yao Xian at this critical moment. How could she bear it?

But when Yun Fei sighed, "I rarely go out. Unexpectedly, the minds of the outside world have become so bad. Slandering Doctor Yao and orchestrating me, where are you going to put the royal family? The secret guards—" With a cold voice, several secret guards immediately appeared beside him. The leader was Feng Yuheng who stayed to protect her. "Did everyone who just talked randomly see clearly?"

Ban Zuo nodded, "I saw it clearly, but no one left behind."

"Okay." Concubine Yun turned her head and stared at the crowd of people, "cut their tongues and threw them out of the city to feed the dogs."

With a command, the secret guards immediately took action. No one who had spoken evilly could escape. They were all caught and cut off their tongues in front of everyone, allowing blood to flow, and let them suffer in all kinds of pain.

No one pity them, and the people are even wondering where these people came from? It seems that no one knows them. Those who come to mourn Yao Xian today are all those who have received favors from the Yao family or Feng Yuheng, and it is absolutely impossible to say such words. So people understand that it is not that Concubine Yun is too cruel, but that those who are originally interested arrange despicable behaviors, and everyone can kill their hearts. Concubine Yun only cut off their tongues and did not take their lives. It is already considered good.

The funeral team continued to move forward. The people remembered that many years ago, when Concubine Yun first entered the palace, she was beaten by the concubine in the palace. She heard that the flesh on her back was almost rotten. It was Yao Xian who personally used the magical technique of changing the skin to make her skin smooth as before. So for Concubine Yun, Yao Xian is indeed his benefactor!

Concubine Yun was furious and dealt with the people who spoke badly in public. No one raised any doubts about this. The princes who also came to see the mourning took the initiative to cure the aftermath for her. Speaking of which, Concubine Yun had been favored by the emperor for more than 20 years, and most princes did not complain about her, and even loved her. Although a large part of this was because of their deep brotherhood with Xuan Tianming, and the other part was because Concubine Yun was favored by Emperor Tianwu, she did not bully other palace concubines. This is the case in the palace. Women will sooner or later fall out of favor, especially women who have given birth to children, whose figure is distorted and look will grow old, and sooner or later, there will be new people to replace their position in the emperor's mind. The palace concubine who lost favor will face round after round of palace fighting. Those women who are favored will always try their best to get rid of other thorns in their side.

But Concubine Yun was different. She lived quietly by herself, without paying attention to anyone, and without letting anyone pay attention to her, and without making any bad things, and would not bully other palace concubines because of favor. This made the princes feel much more relieved. After all, with Concubine Yun's favor, although she did not see Emperor Tianwu, just one word would be enough to make Emperor Tianwu kick all the women in the palace.

Yao Xian was buried and attracted half of the people from the capital. The mourning was finally completed before noon. When the tomb cover was closed, everyone in the Yao family felt that their hearts were sinking. My father disappeared like this, and my grandfather disappeared like this. Yao Jingjun thought, when Yao Shu and Feng Yuheng returned to the capital tomorrow, would he blame him for not taking good care of their grandfather?

The capital of Dashun seemed infinitely desolate because of Yao Xian's death. At that time, the capital of Zong Sui became panicked because of the loss of three consecutive cities.

Especially the new emperor Li Jian, after seeing the heavenly thunder brought out by Duanmu Anguo, he thought that even if the battle with Dashun could not be easy, he would not lose completely. Even if Dashun had heavenly thunder, the other party was in the light and they were in the dark, which was a great advantage. The reason why he decided to turn against Dashun was that his confidence lies in the heavenly thunder in Duanmu Anguo's hands.

But! I never expected that Duanmu Anguo was defeated so tragically, and the three cities of his sect and Sui were thrown so tragic. A minister said, "Emperor, Dashun slaughtered Jiancheng of our sect and Sui and bombed Tongcheng of our sect and Sui. It sounds like this irreconcilable revenge is to seek Dashun to avenge it. But as far as I know, Jiancheng was actually poisoned by Duanmu Anguo, and the whole city died of his huge poison. The thunder that blew up Tongcheng also came from Duanmu Anguo. It can be said that our people died at the hands of Duanmu Anguo, and our city was also lost by Duanmu Anguo. Emperor! Why did my dignified Zong Sui be so harmed by Duanmu Anguo? Why did you want to listen to Duanmu Anguo and completely separate from Dashun?"

As soon as this was pointed out, the other court officials couldn't help but accuse Duanmu Anguo. Of course, the accusation against Duanmu Anguo was just a cover. In fact, they were dissatisfied with Li Jian. This new emperor who was promoted by improper means had not even sat on the dragon throne, but it brought such a great disaster to Zong Sui before he could even sit on the dragon throne. Everyone thought that Li Jian was really not worthy of sitting on the dragon throne.

But what if they are not happy? They are from the royal family. After all, they are slaves. It has nothing to do with whom the master's family is to take office. They all have to obey their orders. But now, if Ren Dashun continues to fight like this, Zong Sui will be over. After Zong Sui, their family will be over, and they may even be killed. This has an absolute relationship with them.

Now, people have made every effort to do so. Some people bluntly accused Li Jian: "The emperor blindly listened to the slander of Duanmu Anguo, but have you ever thought about the fate of Zong Sui now? Please give the people of Zong Sui an explanation."

Li Jian was furious, but there was no refutation. Duanmu Anguo was so embarrassed that he heard that the old guy was not dead. If it fell into his hands, he would definitely tear him to pieces!

However, since things have come to this point, all the accusations are so pale and powerless. Li Jian knew that only by finding a way to remedy the situation can he save his face in the court. He thought about it and finally placed his hope on the old general Chunyu An. He wanted Chunyu An to lead his troops to Gancheng immediately, and must block the Dashun army outside Gancheng to protect the territory of the Sui Dynasty from further loss.

But Chunyu An shook his head and said to him: "After the old minister beat the beloved daughter, his health has been getting worse day by day. He coughed up blood last night. Not to mention leading the troops, even if he came to court today, he was full of energy. Emperor, the old minister is really powerless, please send another wise general!"

"You--" Li Jian was so angry that he was furious. Chunyu An didn't go to fight. Why did he do the title of general if he didn't go to fight? He really wanted to take back all the military power in Chunyu An's hands immediately, but he was an emperor who had not yet been on the throne. Those soldiers had no feelings for him, and they were all loyal to Chunyu An. If Chunyu An took the initiative to hand over this military power, he could still control those soldiers. If he had asked for it, no one would listen to him.

Li Jian went to the morning court and was very angry. Not only did the court officials openly accuse him, but even Chunyu An refused to lead troops to the battlefield. Li Jian felt that this emperor was really cowardly, and this cowardly was not only from Duanmu'an, but Chunyu An's humiliation was also a major factor.

He had no place to get angry and did not dare to further anger the ministers in the court, so he had to go to court and vent his anger with the people around him. The first person around him was the Queen Chunyu Qing.

The queen comes from the Chunyu family and is Chunyu An's daughter. Li Jian married her to get the support of the Chunyu family. The Chunyu family did make great contributions to his rise to power.

However, the two parties who had a good relationship were gradually alienated because of Duanmu Anguo's intervention and the decision he made to turn against Dashun, so that they have now become so alienated that the Chunyu family no longer obeys him, and they still openly resist in the court.
Chapter completed!