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Chapter 268 Killing is Loyalty

Shangguan Sheng sat alone in the Hall of Qinzheng, feeling lonely. He tried to sublimate this loneliness into a more noble emotion, such as the loneliness of the emperor, but he was unable to do so. He could not remove the little fear in his heart. It was this impurity that made his loneliness mediocre.

Therefore, when the soldiers sent the King of England in, he felt sincerely happy and immediately stood up from the stool.

King Ying rubbed his eyes while yawning, sat on the throne and said listlessly, "Why did you wake me up so early?"

"Because someone wants to seize the throne of Your Majesty." Shangguan Sheng looked serious.

King Ying yawned again and said no, his indifferent attitude angered Shangguan Sheng, "Don't Your Majesty care about the throne?"

The King of England was shocked, not because he was worried about the throne, but because he was afraid of Shangguan Sheng's hideous face. His eyes turned red, tears gushed out, and his mouth was flattened, and he would burst into tears.

Shangguan Sheng hurriedly knelt down, "Your Majesty, don't worry, as long as I am here, Your Majesty will always be the Emperor of Chu."

"Okay...ah." King Ying didn't cry, "You are a loyal minister... Can you let King Donghai and Jue Hou enter the palace?"

"These are the two who want to seize the throne." Shangguan Sheng had already said this, but King Ying always heard it all in one's ears and never took it to heart.

Even now, King Ying didn't care. His tears were not dry and he smiled on his face, "They were probably just having fun."

Shangguan Sheng stood up, walked to the throne steps, and said in a gentle tone: "Is Your Majesty willing to go to another place to play?"

"Will!" King Ying jumped up suddenly and lost his sleepiness. "The palace is really boring. Whoever has more food, let's go and ask for food." In his memory, the most interesting experience was to follow a group of people to the Champion Hou's house to "seek for food".

"The Kingdom of East China."

"The Kingdom of East China? Is it the Kingdom of King of East China?" The King of England immediately thought of the connection between the two.

"Well, let's go to King Donghai's hometown and grab his food and land. When he arrives, he will startle him."

The King of England cheered, "Go, go now!"

"Abide by the order." Shangguan Sheng needed this verbal "decree".

From then on, he no longer let King Ying leave him.

Then, Shangguan Sheng called in to the dozen important generals under his command, all of whom were promoted and hired by him personally after he took office. He should be loyal to him, "How is the battle outside the city?"

"It's still going on. Cui Taifu's Southern Army really wants to wipe out Juehou. We have used all our strength. We probably will be able to completely defeat Juehou after dawn."

"It's going to be dawn." Shangguan Sheng murmured, and suddenly asked, "Do you like the capital?"

All the generals were confused and no one dared to answer this question.

"Until now no minister has come out to support the new emperor." Shangguan Sheng said coldly.

A general said, "When the war is over and the new emperor officially ascends the throne, the ministers will rush to kneel down."

"Hey..." Shangguan Sheng sneered, "This battle is over, there is another one, and there is another one. Juehou is finished, but the Northern Army is on the way. Which side do you think the Northern Army will support after arriving in the capital?"

"Of course it is to support...the current emperor."

Shangguan Shan laughed loudly, heard the lies, and also heard the tension and disconfidence in the lies. "The Northern Army will support the Southern Army. Although the two armies compete with each other, they do not like the Suwei Army. The conflict has been a long time, and it has been a long time... Your Majesty just issued an order to patrol the East China Sea Kingdom. You are ready immediately and wait until the battle outside the city is over, and you will set off immediately."

The generals looked at each other and Shangguan Sheng sternly said, "What are the questions?"

No one dared to refute that these people came from all over the world, most of them were not from capital, and had no objection to the "suspending" of the East China Sea Kingdom. They just felt that the timing was a bit strange. When Shangguan Sheng was angry, they immediately softened and said that they were right in front of General Zhonglang and the "Emperor" to discuss leaving the city.

An officer hurried in, "General Shangguan, the people in the palace...rebel."

"Well? Who rebels? Who dares to rebel?" Shangguan Sheng held the hilt of the knife. He was the only one with weapons in the Qinzheng Hall.

"Those eunuchs and palace maids opened the north gate of the palace..."

"The eunuch and the palace maid? Haven't they both been arrested?"

"When they arrested some and continued to arrest people, they...they rebel."

Shangguan Sheng was furious and suddenly thought of another thing, "How can a group of slaves open the north gate? What about the guards?"

The officer replied in panic: "I don't know who stole the key and opened the north gate. And... and the soldiers guarding the gate seemed to intentionally let the eunuchs and palace maids escape..."

Shangguan Sheng slapped the table heavily, which scared the generals and the King of Ying, "I just knew these people were unreliable."

The Guards have experienced major expansion and major blood exchange, but there are still a group of old people who stayed behind, and their main responsibility is to guard the palace gate.

The second officer who reported the message arrived and became even more panicked, "The people outside attacked from the north gate..."

Shangguan Sheng was so angry that he shouted to the generals: "What are you waiting for? That's a group of mobs, stop them and kill them!"

"Those eunuchs and palace maids..."

"Kill! Kill them all, and don't leave one. They have a disagreement. The guards guards who are guarding the gate will be executed!"

Shangguan Sheng was furious and signaled a general to pick up the King of England and take the lead in walking out, "Call your soldiers, just trustworthy people."

There were nearly 10,000 soldiers of the Guards in the palace, and 70% to 80% were recruited in the later period. The generals immediately executed the orders, and there were more and more followers behind Shangguan Sheng.

He walked deep into the palace. He met eunuchs and palace maids along the way, regardless of whether the other party knelt down and kowtowed or fled around, and ordered them to be killed. Soon, his soldiers no longer needed his orders and would kill them as soon as they saw them.

Shangguan Sheng needed a killing, and he believed that the more people killed in the palace, the more loyal the soldiers were to him.

When he arrived at the gate of the Empress Dowager's bedroom, Shangguan Sheng ordered the soldiers to stop killing, but other places, especially the North Gate area, were not restricted.

The empress dowager refused to meet her nephew, and more than ten eunuchs were guarding the door, all of whom were frightened.

Shangguan Sheng shouted loudly by the gate: "The palace is difficult to protect. Your Majesty decided to go to the East China Sea to inspect the hunting country. Please ask the Empress Dowager to prepare the car immediately."

After a while, a voice from the door said, "I won't leave the palace, you go."

"Empress Dowager, we will be back sooner or later."

"I have decided." The Queen Mother's voice was very cold.

Shangguan Sheng's anger rose a lot again, and the eunuchs on the opposite side probably felt it and knelt down at the same time.

"Empress Dowager, you said that the Great Chu needs to start over again. Donghai Kingdom is the place where it starts over again. It is the hometown of our Shangguan family."

"You shouldn't take my words seriously."

"The Queen Mother..."

"If you think I am the Queen Mother, there is no need to say too much. If you don't think I am the Queen Mother, why should you say too much?"

Shangguan Sheng felt angry and felt humiliated by being deceived, but he did not have an attack. Instead, he slowly knelt down, kowtowed, got up, walked out.

There were a large number of soldiers lined up outside the gate of the bedroom. The King of England was frightened and lay on the shoulders of the person who was holding him, not daring to look up.

Shangguan Sheng shouted: "The Empress Dowager wants to stay in the palace to be loyal to the late emperor, but there are too many demons and ghosts in the palace. Before we leave, we must clean them up!"

Before this, the soldiers of the Suwei Army only killed the people they met on the road. Although they were already red-eyed, not many people actually died. After Shangguan Sheng gave the order, they began to break into the house and massacre palace people.

Shangguan Sheng came to a yard near the Queen Mother's bedroom. "The mother and wife of Donghai, Juehou's wife, and the son of Guanjunhou's son all lived here. They were the leaders of the demons and monsters in the palace and were all executed."

The soldiers who had always been obedient did not immediately execute the order. Shangguan Sheng was slightly stunned and understood that these people did not dare to take action. The guards left the capital and the emperor must be one of the King of Donghai and Juehou. Killing their family would cause great trouble.

Shangguan Sheng came forward in person, and the gate of the courtyard was closed. He raised his hand and thumped it twice. Someone inside said tremblingly: "Unless the empress dowager comes, this door will not be opened."

Shangguan Sheng snorted, pulled out his knife, turned around and came to a general, and said coldly: "Set the fire."

The general hesitated and nodded immediately, recruited his soldiers and ordered them to collect firewood or cut down nearby trees.

The firewood was quickly found, some piled up at the door and lit them, and others were distributed to dozens of generals present, and they were lit into torches.

Shangguan Sheng was the first to take action, and threw the torch into the yard, then supervised the generals, watching them throw the torches one by one.

The fire grew bigger and screams rang out in the yard.

Shangguan Sheng did not wait to check the final result. He didn't have much time and led the soldiers all the way to the north gate, but he still saw whoever he killed. He turned to Taizu's clothes and palace room and wanted to kill Yang Feng, but the eunuch tied to the pillar was nowhere to be seen.

The group of mobs that attacked the north gate had been dispersed, leaving behind corpses. The remaining people either escaped from the palace or hid somewhere else.

The soldiers of the Suwei Army prepared horses outside the north gate, and Shangguan Sheng mounted his horse and looked at the city wall. Because the city gate was open, he could hear the fighting outside.

He planned to wait a little longer, and immediately go out from the East City Gate after the Suwei Army returned to victory.

Shangguan Sheng looked west again, and suddenly regretted joining forces with Taifu Cui. If he had planned to escape early, he should have brought Juanhou into the capital and confronted King Donghai.

"Lin Kunshan!"

The man who looked at the air was pushed out by the soldiers and came to Shangguan Shengma with a smile.

"You lied to me."

"The grass people dare not, and the grass people do not have the ability."

"You advised me to go east, why did you advise me to join forces with Grand Tutor Cui to wipe out Jue Hou? Wouldn't it be more beneficial to me to let them compete for victory or defeat?"

Lin Kunshan really had no way out, so he could only say with a tough bullet and said, "Mr. Jue is full of tricks. This time he may not be wiped out. It only weakens his strength and makes him closer to the equal force with Taifu Cui. In this way, they will fight more fiercely in the future and will be more beneficial to General Shangguan."

Shangguan Sheng stared at the person who looked at the air, "Die Juehou, you will die too."

"General Shangguan's trip east is exactly what he wants to use. Lin is incompetent, but... but... can attract heroes in the world..."

Lin Kunshan was scraping his stomach and the news of saving his life came in time.

A soldier came on a horse and shouted loudly from afar: "The Northern Army is here! The Northern Army is here! Juenhou is rushing towards the northern city gate."

Lin Kunshan felt relieved, and Shangguan Sheng ordered the generals beside him without expression: "Get off and take him with him."

There were only a few thousand guards left, and Shangguan Sheng had no time to summon more soldiers. He wanted to kill some more people in the city, but it was also too late.

When Shangguan Shengchi left the East City Gate, Han Ruzi happened to lead his troops into the city. Not long after, he saw the tragic situation in the palace. (To be continued.)
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