Chapter 137: That Night
With a ding sound, the knife in the eunuch’s hand rubbed against the third prince’s young body and ruthlessly stabbed on the verdant stone floor under the chen corridor, actually crumbling up a few grains of rubble, seeing how the force was so great.
The third prince twisted his body, screaming in a chaotic voice, his feet stomping blindly, but just in time to avoid this knife, and the dagger he held in his trembling hands swung two times haphazardly.
With two snorts, the lower robes of the two eunuchs were cut through, revealing two ragged cuts. The eunuchs grimaced coldly, as if they had not expected that a royal son of heavenly splendor would carry a dagger at all times, and that this dagger would be so sharp.
The first time the dagger was pulled out of the boot, it seemed that it didn’t do what it was supposed to do. Although the dagger was sharp, it was held in the hands of an eleven or twelve year old boy.
In the moment of life and death, Li Chengping had learned the courage to kill that Fan Xian possessed at the age of twelve, but he had not learned his own teacher’s skill to kill. The eunuchs who killed him did not have any martial arts skills, but they were strong and powerful, so where was he able to resist.
One eunuch stomped Li Chengping to death on the ground, one eunuch stomped on Li Chengping’s elbow so that he could no longer move, looked at the ragged cuts on his own clothes, shook his head, strangled Li Chengping’s neck with one hand, and held the knife in the other hand, and stabbed down again!
Li Chengping breathing more and more difficult, watching that knife stuck down, knowing that he must die, can not help but give birth to endless regret, thinking that just now his knife swung out, but even the other side did not even graze the edge of the other side, despair, can not help but to give up, closed his eyes and cried out.
However waited for a long time.
Li Chengping has even felt the pain of sharp objects stabbing in his chest, the iron hand on his neck is cutting off his breath …… But he found that he is still alive, the two feet that stepped on his body and hands did not seem to step down any harder.
He opened his eyes in horror, and then saw a scene that made his heart shocked beyond measure, only to see the two eunuchs above his head were also like himself, opening their eyes in horror, while the corners of their eyes actually flowed down two channels of black blood!
Li Chengping knew that the chance of life is back, ho ho chaotic scream, from the eunuch’s feet to pull his right hand out, a dagger ruthlessly stabbed on the calf that stepped on his chest.
The dagger entered the flesh and bloomed a blood flower.
Li Chengping struggled to stand up and looked at the two eunuchs, who had been ferocious earlier, and fell down like two logs, and could not help but feel a palpitation in his heart. His legs trembled, not daring to go forward to check what had happened and why these two eunuchs had black blood flowing from the corners of their eyes and just collapsed.
He looked down at the knife that was lodged in his chest, and only then did he feel the infinite pain, calling out in miserable pain.
Fortunately, at the last moment when that eunuch stabbed the knife down, he was already out of breath and couldn’t continue to apply force, the tip of the knife only entered the flesh by three points, which allowed Li Chengping to narrowly and narrowly save his own little life.
Li Chengping dragged the paralyzed legs, walked to the side of the two eunuchs have been killed. Fearful, his heart was also endlessly puzzled, thinking could it be that the heavens were helping him, casting a magic spell on these two eunuchs?
Not a magic spell – the sobered up Third Prince finally understood, he stared at the two ragged cuts on the two eunuchs’ abdominal garments in a daze, and then glanced down at the black dagger in his hand.
The dagger in his hand was too sharp, so although he had only swung it two times haphazardly earlier, it had not only cut through the eunuchs’ clothes, but had also slightly grazed the skin underneath the other party’s clothes. However, because the dagger was too sharp, or because the teacher had applied some kind of drug on this dagger, it actually made these two eunuchs not feel anything.
The dagger was quenched with the most powerful poison of the Supervisory Academy, as soon as the blade broke through the skin, the drug entered the blood, and it even took only a split second of effort to make the two eunuchs die of poisoning, not even leaving the last bit of time to kill.
What a powerful poison!
Li Chengping escaped from death, no body is not trembling, holding the dagger, looking at the feet of the two eunuchs whose faces gradually turned black, finally could no longer stand, fell to the ground. He knew in his heart, if the dagger did not have such a powerful poison on it, if the two eunuchs did not think of this at all, then today, no matter how he struggled, in the end he still could not escape the end of death.
He sat trembling beside the two corpses, his face pale, not knowing what he should do next. Being killed for the first time, killing for the first time, even though he was a very powerful and precocious prince, he was still shocked to the point that his heart and mind were greatly disturbed.
I don t know how long I sat there, twelve year old Li Chengping finally woke up, climbed up with some difficulty, looked at the two corpses beside him, and the complex emotions that a small child should not have flowed out of his eyes, and this smear of emotions gradually turned from fear, helplessness, sadness, and a hint of excitement …… to calmness and anger.
Calm anger.
Who wants to kill himself? Li Chengping did not know, but it was clear that it could not be dissociated from those brothers of his. He suddenly cried out with a wow, then gripped the dagger in his hand and stabbed down hard.
One dagger, two daggers, three daggers, he numbly and mechanically stabbed the dagger into the corpse of the eunuch next to him, stabbing out countless amounts of blood, which eventually splattered into black blood.
He hated these people, so he would let the other party die a thorough death, of course, he would be very careful not to let these blood poisons get on his own body.
After another moment, he stopped his fearful crying and stood up holding onto the corridor pillars, looking at the long, quiet and empty path of the Cinnabar Corridor, his lips trembled slightly, then he shouted loudly.
At the end of the Cinnabar Corridor was the Cold Palace, and there were always palace maids in the Cold Palace.
“Mother, I don’t want you to live in the Cold Palace.”
The weather in early fall was not cold, but inside a compartment at the back of the Hall of Containing Light, the Third Prince was tightly wrapped in a large quilt, looking at Yi Gui Concubine who was tearfully looking at him at his side, lowering his voice, and saying in a strong and chilling tone, “I don’t want to die, and you can’t die either.”
Yi Gui Concubine’s eyes were red and she hugged him tightly.
Earlier, the Cold Palace side came to report the news, and the people realized that the original third prince even sneaked out of the Hall of Containing Light, and even encountered assassins in the deep palace! The Empress Dowager was furious, ordered the inner palace to strengthen the defense, not to mention the big catch assassins, but also will contain the light of the Palace of the eunuchs and palace maiden a round of angry reproach, that is, even the Yi Gui concubines did not let go.
The empress dowager previously in the unconscious third prince bedside stayed a few bursts, until earlier to leave.
And as soon as the Empress Dowager left, Li Chengping woke up and said this to his mother in a trembling voice. Obviously, the stupor in front of the Empress Dowager was feigned, this Third Prince just had a secret hidden fear for the Empress Dowager and didn’t want to face his grandmother directly.
“Don’t worry ……” Yi Gui concubine hugged her own son, the aftershock has not gone away, and said in a trembling voice: “In the Hall of Containing Light, there is the Empress Dowager Old Ancestor looking on, they don’t dare to mess around anymore.”
Li Chengping’s face clouded for a moment, knowing that his mother was just comforting herself, but did not say anything. Yi Gui concubine looked down at her son, wanting to say something, but finally did not hold back, softly asked, “How did those two eunuchs …… die? Whose people were they?”
“I don t know.” Li Chengping did not give an account of that dagger, and at the same time as he called for help, he had already hidden that dagger in the trees next to the cinnabar corridor. With a hint of panic in his eyes, he looked at his mother and said, “Suddenly he died …… I don’t know who tried to kill me.”
Yi Gui concubine fell silent, looked around, found that there were many people, many eunuchs and palace maids were waiting outside the compartment, it is really inconvenient to say too many things, nerdily stopped her mouth.
Since knowing the news of his majesty’s assassination, she and the third prince will be like being under house arrest in the hall of light, not very clear about what happened outside, just know that Fan Xian has been branded as a criminal, the Fan family Liu family are under the control of the inner court, the empress dowager’s eyes look at their own eyes are getting colder and colder.
Looking at this palace today, Yi Gui Concubine felt a bone chilling coldness, and she thought in her heart, “This Hankuang Palace doesn’t look how safe it is either.”
Right at this moment, a middle-aged woman walked in from outside the house. It was none other than the Grand Prince’s birth mother, Ning Cai Ren. Concubine Yi hurriedly stood up and bowed. The two mothers looked at each other, saying endless sighs.
The prince also came to visit, a few words of relief for his brother, and guaranteed to find out who the real culprit is. These words are extremely sincere, but Yi Gui concubine always hear into the ear. Until finally the night gradually to, people gradually away, the house gradually quiet, Yi Gui concubine only looked at the son hidden in the quilt, said quietly: “If not the Prince, who will it be?”
The third prince was stabbed to death, for all the forces in Kyoto at this time, who is the most favorable? Yi Gui Concubine involuntarily thought of a person’s name, but did not dare to say it out loud.
Li Chengping looked at his mother’s thoughtful look, his heart fluttered, knowing who his mother was suspecting, and firmly shook his head, saying, “It’s not the teacher.”
Yes, Yi Gui Concubine was suspecting Fan Xian, because there was a large group of civil ministers in the court today who were firmly standing beside Fan Xian, using the so-called posthumous edicts and the name of righteousness to combat the crown prince, and if the third prince really did die in the middle of the palace, the crown prince would not be able to clear himself of his own charges no matter what, and would be even further behind in his speech, and ……
If Fan Xian really has the certainty to defeat the Crown Prince, then what’s the point of keeping Lao San? Yi Gui Concubine looked at her son and said quietly, “Although he is your teacher, he is not your own cousin after all.”
“He is my own brother.” The third prince bit his lip and said.
Yi Gui Concubine sighed, “In this royal family, where is there any brother-teacher-apprentice friendship? You didn’t tell the Empress Dowager and the Crown Prince earlier that those two eunuchs used a token to trick you into going to the Chen Gallery……. If they weren’t your teacher’s people, how could they have a token in their hands?”
The token is actually very simple, just a page from one of the favorite books of the …… third prince in the Peng’s manor by the West Lake in Hangzhou, Jiangnan.
Li Chengping lowered his head, “I will not doubt the master …… and I believe in his ability, if he really want to kill me, come to let the palace to mess up again for a while, will not use the token, this is all easy to make a break. And master …… never reveals so many breaks.”
Yi Gui Concubine forced a smile and didn’t say anything else, emotionally, from the current critical situation, she was also willing to believe in her son’s judgment of Fan Xian, because apart from Fan Xian, they, mother and son, no longer had any credentials.
“Yes …… but I don’t know when young Lord Fan will be able to get us out.” Yi Gui Concubine was thinking in her mind that if Fan Xian really pushed the Crown Prince to the point of no return, the Crown Prince would have no choice but to risk the world and use bloody means to subdue the hearts of his ministers. At that time, I was afraid that my own mother and son would no longer be able to live.
Containing light hall anterior hall, all the people are silent, the whole palace shrouded in a depressing and tense atmosphere. The Crown Prince and Empress sat beside the Empress Dowager, gently pounding the old man’s back. The situation of this pair of mother and son was much easier than that of Yi Gui Concubine’s mother and son, but they were also clear that something must not go wrong with this old woman under their fists.
“Auntie.” The Empress glanced at the Empress Dowager and said with a wince, “Lao San that child has a great life and great fortune ……” She glanced again, “…… actually survived even like this! , it seems that Fan Xian that traitor has really taught him a lot.”
The crown prince frowned and saw the skin at his grandmother’s temples tense slightly, knowing that his mother’s foolish words had set the empress dowager on fire, he coldly grunted and said, “It’s good that my younger brother is alive, so let’s not discuss the rest of the matter for the time being.”
The Empress Dowager forced herself to take a few breaths, suppressed the anger in her heart, and gently patted the back of the Crown Prince’s hand, thinking that amongst so many children and grandchildren of the Royal Family, the Crown Prince was probably the only one who truly understood what she was thinking. Thinking about this, the empress dowager felt more and more that her choice was not wrong. The Kingdom of Qing, indeed, needed a child like the Crown Prince who knew how to be filial and fraternal to be in charge.
“All of you go out.” The Empress Dowager coughed twice, her spirit extraordinarily tired, waved her hand, and all the serving eunuchs and palace maidens and old grandmothers led the order to go, even if the Empress who was a little reluctant was also driven out of the palace, leaving her and the Crown Prince as the only two people in the entire hall.
The Empress Dowager turned around and looked at the Crown Prince with somewhat lifeless eyes, holding the Crown Prince’s hand, and said quietly: ”I just don’t want you brothers to fight each other, that’s why I’m holding on to this body and watching all this. I’m very relieved that you can understand this.”
The Crown Prince did not respond, but only sighed, not knowing if he was thinking of Fan Xian, his brother.
The empress dowager’s eyes suddenly cold, seemed to see through the crown prince’s heart: “As an emperor, then you need to break when you break, and be lenient when you are lenient……. As for Fan Xian, this person is the thief of all evils who plotted to assassinate your father’s emperor, and his family name is Fan and not Li, so what is the point of thinking about it so much?”
The Crown Prince bowed his head to be taught, “My child understands. Some people cannot be spared.”
“It’s just a pity that we still haven’t caught him.” The empress dowager slowly closed her eyes and said, “Where is Shu Wu’s group of ministers being detained now?”
“Pressed in the Ministry of Justice’s dungeon.” The crown prince laughed bitterly, “Now naturally it is not good to put in the Supervisory Yuan’s heavenly prison, just …… these ministers for some reason, even by Fan Xian blinded, so confused and unbearable, even refused to give in to softness.”
The empress dowager sneered, “Blindfolded? Still not some sour and corrupt people who read dead books, and only your father Emperor allows them to be so unbridled …… Maybe they’ve already read that posthumous edict that Fan Xian has at hand, and only then dare to be so hard-headed.”
The crown prince’s face changed slightly, then calmed down and said, “There is no posthumous edict at all.”
“Not bad.” The Empress Dowager looked at him approvingly, “So, what do you think we should do with these ministers who speak out of their mouths and threaten the royal family?”
The crown prince’s face changed again, knowing that the empress dowager was letting herself make up her mind. After a long time, he said in a deep voice, “If they should be killed, they should be killed.”
“Very well.” The Empress Dowager’s face grew cold, “If you want to be stable, don’t be afraid to kill.”
“It’s just that a bunch of ministries of the Supervisory Yuan are completely free from imperial orders, it’s a bit tricky.” After pondering, the crown prince said, “Today, many ministers in Kyoto have been assassinated and killed, people are on edge, and the dynasty is in chaos …… Fan Xian is hidden in the shadows presiding over everything, and the child can’t think of a good method to cope with it for a while.”
“Fan Xian is using his blood and head to deter the court officials with the intention of causing chaos in Kyoto.” The Empress Dowager looked at her first grandson and said softly, “Whatever you want to say, just say it.”
The crown prince raised his head after a moment of silence and said in a firm tone, “My child dares to ask the Empress Dowager to transfer troops into the capital …… to suppress it!”
The Hall of Containing Light was once again calm, and after a long time, the Empress Dowager slowly opened her mouth and said, “Today in the Hall of Taiji, Yan Xingshu already had this proposal, and in the end how was it rejected?”
The crown prince smiled bitterly, shook his head and said, “No one has ever thought that the door under the middle book of the university scholar all imprisoned …… today but someone else jumped out.”
Today in the court jumped out of that person’s official position is not high, but the identity is very special, because he is the left imperial historian of the Duzha Academy, He Zongwei!
He Zongwei this person has been the East Palace faction, after once helped the Princess Lin Ruofu chancellor driven out of Kyoto, and with Fan House has always been some unspecified grudges, the Prince has always thought that this person will be their own future in the dynasty of the pillar minister, did not expect, to transfer the army into the capital of the imperial decree, but this person jumped out of the opposition.
He Zongwei’s opposition is very extreme, he took off his official uniform, take the veil, leading a dozen imperial court, just like that kneeling in front of the Imperial Palace! The prince was furious, hit him twelve big cane, will drive him out of the palace, but this when the Kyoto famous talent, even so blood stained kneeling in front of the palace wall, not let a step!
“Imperial Historian He’s objections are very reasonable.” The empress dowager slightly lowered her curtains, tiredly said: “In fact, I have not been letting the Qin family into the capital, worried about this problem …… court ancestry, strictly prohibit the military to enter the capital to interfere in the government, this precedent, I am afraid that the future legacy of endless trouble.”
Prince silently, clear the old ancestor of the Empress Dowager’s worry, the Empress Dowager always still hope that he can peacefully take over, once involved in the military, the Qin family Ye family sits on the big, he is not like his father as in the military has supreme authority, this future of the State of Qing, in the end, what will evolve into what pattern?
“The Qin family has been loyal for generations, there is no need to worry.” The Empress Dowager indifferently opened her mouth and said, she had an extremely deep relationship with the Qin family, so she naturally didn’t need to worry about this, “But what about the Ye family? Ye Chong is your second brother’s father-in-law!”
The Empress Dowager looked at the silent Crown Prince, and after taking a deep breath, she opened her mouth grimly, “It’s just that Fan Idle …… this yinzi is acting too crazy, and without a large army to suppress it, this Kyoto will never be able to settle down. Even if you kill the dozens of ministers in the great prison, what good will it do? If things are delayed for a few more days, once the other five elite armies of my Daqing are destabilized, the state of affairs will be worrisome.”
The Crown Prince said with a silent salute, “Therefore, my son needs the military to enter the capital. Compared to the troubles in the future, today’s Fan Xian is the dagger in front of him.”
He frowned slightly and said, “Just …… what about He Zongwei’s side? He is, after all, the left imperial historian, with a group of notoriously unafraid-of-death imperial historians under his hand, playing dead admonishments outside the palace walls ……”
Prince’s worry is not without reason, killing ministers is not uncommon in history, but killing speech officials, but it is something that violates a major taboo, even with Emperor Qing’s supreme authority back then, the imperial historians collectively attacked his illegitimate son Fan Idle, and Emperor Qing still only caned a few times to make a gesture.
“Someone always needs to be the villain.” The Empress Dowager stared into the Crown Prince’s eyes and said lovingly, “These people will be disposed of by order of the mourning family.”
The Empress Dowager paused and added, “After the army enters the capital, your elder brother’s commanding officer’s post can be handed over.”
The crown prince was stunned, made a sincere bow, and was moved speechless.
In the Guangxin Palace not far from the Hall of Containing Light, the eldest princess, who had drawn up this plan from the very beginning and then began to coldly watch the countless roles being played out on the stage, finally fell into some kind of apprehension for the first time, because what happened on this day today made her feel a hint of something fishy.
“Why hasn’t Fan Xian been caught yet?” She looked at Eunuch Hou beside her, and asked as cold as ice, “It’s not as if the inner court doesn’t have experts, and it’s not as if the Kyoto Prefecture hasn’t put in any effort, so how long does this palace need to wait until we can see his head?”
These words, she said in front of her own daughter. Lin Wan’er smiled and listened from the side, seemingly not worried at all about the safety of her prime minister, several days had already passed, and since the palace had no way to catch him, then he would never be caught.
Throwing Eunuch Hou out of the palace, the eldest princess’s face immediately changed its expression to one of calmness, not at all able to see that she had been in such a great temper earlier.
Because she was clear that Fan Xian was not that easy to catch. Since this young man was able to come back alive from the Great Eastern Mountains, it proved his ability.
This was a big picture involving the whole world, and the center of the eldest princess’s mind had been on Daedong Mountain, not in the middle of Kyoto. From the very beginning, she hadn’t expected Fan Xian to be able to return to Kyoto alive, and this had fundamentally shocked her mind. If Fan Xian lived, Yan Xiaoyi would naturally die. Li Yunrui slightly lowered her curtains, the coldness in her eyes slightly converging, thinking about Fan Xian’s cultivation nowadays, exactly to what kind of realm? He actually dared to challenge the authority of the Imperial Palace in the middle of Kyoto by using assassination tactics in such an arrogant and reckless manner!
She suddenly frowned, looked at this cold and clear Guangxin Palace, and opened her mouth to say, “This palace …… is permeated with a dead flavor, this palace wants to go out.”
Lin Wan’er quietly looked at her mother and said, “You are afraid.”
“What do I have to be afraid of, afraid that Fan Xian will attack the palace this night?” The eldest princess gently patted her daughter’s slightly thin cheeks and said, “I know Fan Xian too well, he can only ever be an assassin and a mouse who skirmishes in the dark of the night, and he has never had the courage to, to go head to head with his enemies …… because he is more afraid of death than anyone else. ”
The Rapunzel inclined her head slightly, looking at her daughter, and said, “I have always wondered the question, if he were threatened with your life and death, what exactly would he do?”
“I’m curious about the answer to that question.” The eldest princess smiled happily, “So I waited for Fan Xian to be able to kill me.”
Fan Xian he had always thought that he had read the Empress Dowager’s mind clearly, that the grandmother of the old Li family wished for a peaceful handover, and was unwilling to allow the wild and unmanageable power of the army to strangle the entire Kingdom of Qing into a chaotic mess of slag, and that was why he had proceeded with his own arrangements in an orderly fashion.
Obviously, he had underestimated the strength of his dark god of killing image, in the hearts of the nobles in the palace, not realizing that his assassination in Kyoto had finally irritated the Empress Dowager and the Crown Prince to some degree, forcing them to proceed with preparations to move their troops into the capital to suppress the situation.
The next day, the Kyoto garrison division in the Yuantai camp would enter the capital to suppress the assassination, and if Fan Xian had not been able to take control of the palace before then, he would be greeted with a disastrous end.
He further did not expect that the time for the Qin family’s army to enter the capital would be delayed for one night by He Zongwei, the three-name slave whom he had always despised and abhorred, in a bloody and tough manner.
In this sense, He Zongwei had done him a great favor.
And the determination of the Empress Dowager and the Crown Prince was obviously also made a day late.
It was night, an extremely deep and quiet moment, when the night fell asleep. By the hour of the forbidden army shift, the forbidden army controlled the front half of the palace of the imperial city, as well as several key streets outside the imperial city. Now that the situation was tense, the forbidden army on shift were all temporarily stationed in the civilian houses on these streets, not daring to return to their camps to standby.
A column of about two hundred forbidden army team, full body armor, unusually calmly walked to the front of the main palace gate, with the previous shift duty forbidden army, exchanged the arming procedures and password.
Due to the current situation, the Grand Commander of the Forbidden Army, the Grand Prince, hadn’t returned to the Royal Palace for three days, and he stood on top of the city wall, coldly watching the handover below. After a slight pause, he slowly walked down.
He was in full armor and stood in the middle of the palace gates, like a heavenly god who wanted to block all attacks from outside the palace.
He coldly looked at this team of two hundred forbidden soldiers, and after a moment, he silently nodded his head. The personal military colonel beside him swallowed a mouthful of saliva, nervously stepped forward, fulfilled a set of formalities, and then waved his hand to let the team of forbidden army officers and soldiers, who were obviously looking a bit unfamiliar, walk into the palace.
The Grand Prince stood at the palace gate like that, letting these forbidden soldiers who came to take over split into two columns and passed by his own side.
This batch of forbidden army to take over walked quietly, military discipline is strict.
When the last party of this group of forbidden army was about to walk into the palace gate, the Grand Prince suddenly sighed.
The man at the very back of the forbidden army’s ranks nodded gently to him.
“Grand Marshal, what next?” That colonel was a general officer who was a close friend of the Grand Prince and had climbed the ranks since the Western Conquest Army. Logically speaking, it was not his turn to personally handle such a small matter as the formalities of handing over the defense, but he knew that he must handle this change of defense himself.
Looking at the soldiers of the forbidden army that gradually disappeared above the wide city wall, this colonel swallowed his saliva, forcibly suppressed the fear in his heart, and asked for instructions in a trembling voice.
The Grand Prince slowly gripped the sword on the side of his waist, the lines of his face facing the night wind appeared extraordinarily hard: “Let all the people wake up, an impromptu meeting before the army.”
As soon as these words came out, a strong to extreme killing intent, on this surfaced outside his body. Although the great prince is not a martial arts expert, but often killed on the battlefield, I do not know how many dead souls under the sword, tonight’s determination that is determined, that naturally the first thing to do is to deal with the disturbing factor within the forbidden army.
The school officer knows that the marshal is going to kill tonight, the forbidden army originally belongs to Yan Xiaoyi’s line of cronies, I’m afraid that they will be slaughtered, but he is no longer afraid at this time, from the bottom of his heart to give birth to infinite excitement, and immediately began to pass the order.
The front city wall of the palace was extremely wide, above which four horses could run in parallel, all built of green bricks, naturally exuding an austere and murderous aura.
A line of forbidden army here in formation, looking at the square below the imperial city, standing by, seems to be ready to meet the attack from outside the palace at any time.
However, one of the forbidden soldiers was looking at the palace with a far-reaching gaze.
Fan Xian gently straightened the forbidden army’s clothing and looked at this familiar palace, dark inside, wondering where his relatives were and where his enemies were. He knew that he had brought two hundred people to kill the palace, and would be facing the guards of the inner palace and the eunuch masters of the inner court, and no one could tell what the chances of success would be when he took such a risk.
Because he also couldn’t tell if the Grand Prince could keep the forbidden army under complete control when the killing started. He could not rely on the power of the forbidden army.
“Never do what the enemy wants you to do for the simple reason that the enemy wants you to do that.”
Fan Xian said to Jing Ge, the vice commander of the Black Riders beside him.
“This is what a man named Napoleon said. The gates of the Imperial City are already open, and the gates of the Harem are still closed, so they can’t imagine that we’d dare to go and force an attack on the Imperial Palace with so many people.”
He did not know at this time what the Elder Princess had said about himself, and if he had been replaced by the former Fan Tisi, Shixian, he really would not have chosen such a direct and courageous attack.
Only Fan Xian had changed, the moment he stood up from the grass.