Chapter 289 Battle Dragon
The little maid was trembling all over and walked to Prince Zhong in one step, wanting to cry but not daring to cry.
Prince Zhong roared, pushed the maid to the ground, and then thrust the maid's clothes frantically. He had a manic mood in his heart, eager to vent it, and he wanted to destroy and destroy everything in front of him, whether it was a man or a thing!
The maid opened her eyes wide in horror, and blood was rising from the corners of her eyes, but she didn't dare to shout or move. She let Prince Zhong tear her dress apart and stripped her into a little Aries in a blink of an eye.
The girl was still young and not fully developed enough. She lay alone and helplessly on the ground, like a poor lamb. Prince Zhong was stunned by his manic emotions. His only thought at this moment was to destroy and destroy. He had red eyes and entered the body of the little maid hard. With a shrill scream, blood splattered!
"Hahahaha..." Prince Zhong laughed wildly...
After a long time, Prince Zhong vented his inner mania and woke up. Looking at the little maid who was covered in purple and sobbing in front of him, Prince Zhong did not even hesitate. He raised his palm and slashed on the little maid's sky cover like lightning!
The little maid's eyes instantly protruded, and she twitched a few times on the ground, then lay down on the side and stopped moving.
"You two, come in." Prince Zhong knew that there were two servants accompanying him at the door, and they must have heard the movement inside. Of course, they did not know that the prince had killed the maid.
The two servants walked in with fear. When they saw the corpse lying on the ground, they immediately realized that it was not good. They were about to run out, but they felt a sharp pain in their foreheads. Then they turned dark and they knew nothing.
Prince Zhong cleaned up the scene for a while, then called the housekeeper, pointed to the three corpses entangled on the ground, and said in a sequel: "These three servants actually had an affair in my study while I was away, so I was killed by me. You find someone to carry them down. Don't make any noise about this, give their family more pensions."
The butler's expression did not change at all, and he nodded. Then he found a few people to carry out the three bodies. Of course, he could see that something was strange. No matter how brave the servant was, he would never dare to have an affair in the master's room. Moreover, the little maid was covered in scars, not like she was left with an affair, but more like she was abused. However, the butler would never be stupid enough to raise his own suspicion. When working in Prince Zhong's mansion, he would never say what he shouldn't say, nor should he think about what he shouldn't think. Some things, even if he knew, he would pretend not to know.
This way you can live longer.
Everything in the study quickly returned to its original state, and Prince Zhong's emotions calmed down. For him, killing a few servants is no different from killing a few chickens. Prince Zhong has a reputation for being virtuous and harsh, and these servants unfortunately saw his cruel and despicable side, so they must die.
His glorious image of the wise king is not allowed to be doubted or slandered by anyone.
After the mania in his heart disappeared, Prince Zhong began to calm down. As Song Li grew faster and faster, the strength of the Ming Prince's Mansion also increased, and there was a trend of latecomers coming from the top. If it continued at this rate, it was not whether Prince Zhong wanted to seek revenge on Song Li, but whether he still had the ability to resist other people's problems.
He must face this problem.
The current situation has changed a lot from two years ago. The strength of the Ming Prince's Mansion has increased greatly, and the Holy Emperor has also made a fortune in silence and secretly cultivated his own strength. It is obvious that these two forces join forces are no longer something that Prince Zhong can deal with.
It is urgent that he must also find a strong support. And after finding a strong support, he must plan the uprising in the shortest time. After his son died, he had lost patience. The key is that the strength of the Ming Palace and the Holy Emperor are getting stronger and stronger. If they are allowed to develop like this, when the two are completely full of wings, they will have no chance.
The forces in the court have basically been divided up by the Holy Emperor, Prince Zhong’s Mansion and Prince Ming’s Mansion. There is still a small part left, and they are basically all so-called roles, even if they are attracted, they will not have any effect. Therefore, the forces in the court can no longer be expected.
Prince Zhong had no choice but to set his sight outside.
What other forces are there in the local area? Although they are not in the imperial capital, they are strong enough to threaten the safety of the imperial capital. Even the Holy Emperor is afraid of three points?
After a little thought, a person's name immediately appeared in Prince Zhong's mind: King Jingnan Zhanlong!
Although this person is not in the imperial capital, but in the southern part of the Holy Lion Empire, he is in charge of a 500,000 army under his command, known as the "General King". When the Holy Emperor ascended the throne, he received strong help from Zhan Long. Without his support, Song Xingtian would not be able to take up the position of the Holy Emperor. It is precisely because of this that after the Holy Emperor ascended the throne, he became the only foreign prince of this dynasty who was named.
Logically speaking, he helped the Holy Emperor ascend to the Great Treasure, and he should be the Holy Emperor's iron confidant, but in fact it is not the case.
After Zhan Long was named King of Jingnan, he had his own troops and occupied the three southern counties, which seemed to be a country among the country. The court could not interfere in the taxes, personnel appointments and removal powers of the three southern counties. Such behavior would of course make the Holy Emperor dissatisfied.
The Holy Emperor issued several edicts to transfer Zhanlong back to the capital, but they were rejected by Zhanlong on the grounds that the frontier wars were frequent and the situation was tight. Therefore, the two sides should have been very harmonious, and now they are in harmony and have their own small plans.
Prince Zhong thought that if Zhan Long could be pulled onto his ship, then the Ming Palace and the Holy Emperor would definitely not be enough. He was in charge of the capital, and Zhan Long led an army of 500,000 to attack the imperial capital. With the inside and outside, does the Holy Emperor still have room for resistance?
Just do this, you can send someone to the south to explore the war dragon's words. Didn't he just want to be a Taiping vassal king? It's simple. As long as you promise him that after the successful operation, Prince Zhong ascended the great treasure. Not only did he let him continue to let him take charge of the three southern counties, but he could even cut him two more counties. Isn't that enough? Who would think that he has too much territory?
There are less than two months left to be the Empress Dowager's birthday party. Prince Zhong believed that the Holy Emperor would use this as a reason to recall Zhanlong back to the capital. He felt that the day of the birthday party was the best time to do things. Everyone's attention would definitely be on the birthday party, and no one would pay attention to his movements.
Before that, we must communicate well with Zhanlong, and then launch a joint attack on the birthday party. If we attack him unpreparedly, we will definitely succeed in one fell swoop!
As long as he succeeds in his work, no one in the Holy Emperor or the people from the Ming Palace will escape, and they will all go to the underworld and be buried with his son!
King Jingnan, Fighting Dragon.
On the dragon case in front of the Holy Emperor, there was a thick stack of files, all collected by intelligence personnel he sent in three southern counties, about the evidence of the Jingnan King’s war of the dragon!
He completely covered the sky in the three counties of Minzhou, Nanzhou and Taizhou under his jurisdiction. The people of the three counties only knew that there was the King of Jingnan and rarely mentioned the Holy Emperor.
The Holy Lion Code clearly stipulates that although the vassal kings have fiefdoms, the court still has the power to collect taxes and the power to appoint and dismiss personnel. The vassal kings have collected 50% of the taxes paid by the vassal kings. However, the three southern counties have not been handed over to the court for four years, even a bronze coin.
In name, the imperial court could still assign local officials to the three southern counties, but Zhanlong would also assign one, which often had two people in charge of the country in the same department.
As the saying goes, a strong dragon cannot defeat local snakes. In the end, the officials assigned by Zhanlong are naturally the officials assigned by Zhanlong. This makes everyone in the South talk about the three counties in the south. If anyone is accidentally assigned there, it will be a painful torture.
Being a ruling official is undoubtedly the dream of many Beijing officials, but if they could only be a puppet in the past, it would be meaningless.
The more the Holy Emperor looked at it, the more annoyed the war dragon became more and more courageous. If the three southern counties were not taken, they would soon change their course and divide them from the Song family's territory. In fact, judging from the current situation, the court has lost the actual control of these three places. Everything is decided by the war dragon.
In fact, before the Holy Emperor ascended the throne, his relationship with Zhanlong was quite harmonious. Sun, the Holy Emperor's official concubine, was the eldest daughter of Sun Yang, the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, and Sun Yang's second daughter married Zhanlong. With this relationship, the Holy Emperor and Zhanlong get along well.
Later, when the three southern counties rebelled, Zhan Long was sent to suppress the rebellion. Because he was brave and resourceful, he was a natural military genius, so he made great achievements in the process of suppressing the rebellion. His status in the army was rapidly improved. He went from being a commander to a marshal who commanded hundreds of thousands of troops, and became a legend in the army with his military achievements.
When the Holy Emperor and Prince Zhong were at the most critical time to compete for the throne, Zhan Long reached the peak of his military career and was named General Jingnan. He had 500,000 soldiers under his command, and officially settled the position of the number one general of the Holy Lion Empire.
In fact, the Holy Emperor favored Prince Zhong as the crown prince at that time because Prince Zhong’s image project was good and was very popular in the imperial capital. The former Holy Emperor was not very fond of the taciturn Song Xingtian. He thought he looked too low-key and did not have the grand aura that an emperor should have.
At this time, Zhanlong returned to the court, and his position in the military was of great importance. Any sentence represents the position of the military. Because of his in-laws and the Holy Emperor and their personal relationships, Zhanlong supported Song Xingtian in the choice of the crown prince.
The Holy Lion Empire was a dynasty built by martial law, and the country was defeated by force, so the court always attached great importance to the military. The general Zhanlong was undoubtedly the number one figure in the military. The Holy Emperor had to carefully consider what he said. Finally, he combined various factors and selected Song Xingtian as the crown prince.
It can be said that the situation was very obvious at that time. Song Xingtian was not very advantageous among the princes who were fighting for the crown prince. Prince Zhong had a very good reputation between the court and the opposition. Xianren Sheng Ren Sheng also liked him very much. Everyone thought that the position of the crown prince was his.
But because of Zhan Long's support, Song Xingtian helped complete the counterattack and completely pulled Prince Zhong from the position of quasi-Crown Prince.
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