At this time, the entire royal city was completely like the calm before the storm.
All the nobles began to link up to protect themselves. The powerful slaves and family servants not only put on armour, but also gradually began to assemble.
There were also many degenerate city guard troops that gradually began to assemble.
The entire royal city appeared incomparably silent!
But a terrifying civil war was on the verge of breaking out at any moment!
These temporary armies composed of powerful slaves and family servants were not to be feared. These degenerate city guard troops were also not terrifying. Even if such armies numbered one or two hundred thousand, they were no match for sixty thousand Imperial Guards.
What was terrifying was the Zhi Capital Holy Temple Legion mixing in and taking advantage of the chaos, hidden among these temporary armies.
The entire Furious Wave Kingdom’s Holy Temple Legion numbered nearly thirty thousand, with over half in Zhi Capital.
And the Dragon God Holy Temple Legion was completely the most elite army in this world, bar none.
If they were allowed to hide among them and fish in troubled waters, then once war broke out, exactly what would happen was completely unknown.
Even whether Suolun and the entire royal house would be slaughtered by taking advantage of the opportunity was also an unknown. One must know, the Dragon God Holy Temple concealed this world’s strongest martial arts experts.
It was not only the noble families that began to stir. Among the commoner class, there was also full of unease.
At this time, all the prostitutes should have been sleeping.
But from last night onward, the entire royal city’s brothels stayed awake all night, and almost none opened for business.
Because everyone had heard a terrifying piece of news. The Royal City Gold House’s gold coin reserves had vanished into thin air.
This news truly made the prostitutes’ souls fly away and scatter.
Immediately, someone began to link up, planning to go withdraw their savings from the Royal City Gold House first thing tomorrow morning.
Then the Hidden Origin Society forces took the opportunity to fan the flames, attempting to ignite a great chaos among the commoners amid the nobles’ great chaos.
Tomorrow morning, they would immediately create a run crisis, making things even worse for Suolun.
At this time, the Zhi Capital Arts Committee stepped forward to calm the prostitutes’ unease, telling everyone not to believe the rumours. Moreover, the committee president Yi Manman announced that tomorrow she would go to request an audience with Regent Duke Suolun.
This Zhi Capital Arts Committee, speaking of which, was still established by Suolun.
At that time, because the spendthrift Suolun had been framed by Zhining, owing the Royal City Gold House three thousand nine hundred gold coins, the Suo clan family had turned their boxes upside down and still could not repay this sum.
To earn this money in a short time, Suolun set his sights on the brothel resource.
He began packaging prostitutes, launching the plan for the Royal City’s Nineteen Beauties, making these women’s value soar by dozens or hundreds of times, and he also earned his first large sum of gold coins from it.
Suolun took the money and left, incidentally establishing this arts committee, electing his confidante Yi Manman as president.
This committee was not only responsible for packaging women, but also for other affairs, gradually becoming an organisation similar to the entire royal city brothel guild.
In the entire royal city, it had very great speaking power.
Once Duke Zhiting was the ancestor of the royal city brothel world, the great backer behind it.
But after King Zhibian suffered a stroke, even this bit of power was snatched away. The entire Zhi Capital brothel world gradually fell into the Hidden Origin Society’s hands, and even Yi Manman lost her position as arts committee president.
However, after Zhili’s great defeat, when Suolun entered the royal city.
Yi Manman also immediately became the arts committee president once again, but the entire royal city brothel world was at least economically still controlled by the Hidden Origin Society.
With the Hidden Origin Society fanning the flames like this, originally the entire royal city’s people were going to go to the Royal City Gold House to withdraw their savings.
And within a few days, these news would spread to other provinces, and the Royal City Gold House’s branch offices in these provinces would immediately experience a run crisis.
Because brothels are the most mixed of fish and dragons, and prostitutes have the most savings in the Royal City Gold House, the Hidden Origin Society planned to set this first fire on the prostitutes.
However, even if the entire royal city’s brothel bosses were controlled by the Hidden Origin Society, the prostitutes below were not necessarily so.
In their hearts, Suolun was one of their own.
Over three years ago, Suolun was the ancestor of the pleasure quarters. At that time he wished he could live in brothels every day. Even when he had no money he could eat and stay for free, and there were plenty of beauties to sleep with for free.
Most prostitutes were inwardly self-abasing. At this time Suolun had risen against the heavens, defeated Zhili, married the princess, and was about to become the kingdom’s regent prince.
This made them share in the glory, feeling that this was also the pride of the brothel world.
So, with the arts committee that Yi Manman stepped forward to suppress, the brothel world’s unrest was temporarily suppressed. They agreed that tomorrow morning they would not go to the Royal City Gold House to run and withdraw money, but would have Yi Manman represent them to ask Suolun whether the gold coin reserves had truly disappeared.
Of course, this was also merely temporarily suppressed.
If their money truly vanished into thin air, then even if Suolun was one of their own it would be useless, because this money was all the guarantee for the rest of their lives.
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Nine in the morning!
Suolun’s great confiscation order still had not come down, but all the royal city’s nobles were already extremely anxious.
The Hidden Origin Society began secretly urging, they could not sit and wait for death, they must take the initiative to attack!
The so-called taking the initiative to attack was having the temporary army composed of powerful slaves and family servants actively attack the Imperial Guard.
However, this was clearly impossible.
Give these nobles a hundred guts, and no one would dare to actively attack the Imperial Guard.
They did not dare, but there were people who feared the world would not descend into chaos.
Those were the commanders of the royal city city guard troops!
This army had long been rotten beyond repair, penetrated by the Hidden Origin Society until riddled with holes.
Previously when Zhili assassinated the king, it was these city guard troops who covered the escape of assassins like Li Chenglian.
One could say, the entire city guard troops’ command layer had completely rotted away.
After Suolun entered the royal city, he immediately set about purging the city guard troops, placing under house arrest the city guard troops’ commander and deputy commander, eight commanders!
And at the first moment selecting eight deputy commanders from the Imperial Guard to serve as temporary commanders of the city guard troops!
However, this was far from enough. The entire city guard troops had been thoroughly corrupted. Randomly pick out a centurion and they would not be clean.
But after Suolun entered the royal city, time was truly too short, and there were too many more urgent and important matters.
Moreover, a complete overhaul of the city guard troops could not be completed overnight. Suolun also did not have a large number of mid and low-level officers on hand, and could not be too harsh in stimulating the city guard troops, lest he truly trigger a mutiny.
So, before Yan Chuoer led the Yan Pirate Legion into the royal city, Suolun would adopt a method of boiling the frog in warm water toward the city guard troops, lest he startle the snake.
However, these city guard officers knew their doomsday had arrived.
Originally, they were powerless to resist. But now, seeing that the royal city was about to fall into complete chaos and erupt in civil war.
These city guard officers felt that the chance to survive had come. They decided they could not sit and wait for death. They must seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, unite all the royal city’s nobles, plus the Zhi Capital Holy Temple, and together thoroughly kill the royal house and Suolun.
Only by overthrowing Suolun and Zhiyan could these corrupt city guard officers have a chance to turn their lives around.
“Willing to be cut to pieces, daring to pull the emperor off his horse!” A dismissed city guard ten-thousand-man commander said in rage, “What kind of thing is he Suolun? A ruined household who spends every day crawling into women’s crotches, yet he actually puts on airs and acts as regent? He is not afraid of making the whole world laugh their teeth off.”
“Exactly.” A deputy commander beside him said, “This playboy ruined household, back then at the Yuhua Pavilion he fought with me over a woman, and in the end was beaten half to death by me alive. Except for having a big dick, he is completely useless.”
“If he didn’t have a big dick, and fucked Princess Zhiyan until she was satisfied, could he have become this regent duke?”
“My dick is even bigger, I could fuck Princess Zhiyan even more satisfied, she should have looked for me to be this regent, ha ha ha…”
This group of corrupt military heads, even when holding a meeting about rebellion and beheading, after two or three sentences the topic would definitely skew to crotches.
“Ahem…” Suddenly someone coughed.
Instantly, the entire venue fell into deathly silence!
The one who coughed was a mighty and domineering middle-aged man. His name was Yu Wengai, former commander of the city guard troops!
He appeared to be merely middle-aged, but was actually already over sixty. He had served as city guard troops commander for over thirteen years.
This Yu Wengai was born a commoner, with superhuman martial arts.
Over twenty years ago, the then Yu Wengai in his thirties was already a Dragon Martial Artist. Yet he was merely a lowly centurion, one could see how suppressed he was.
After Suolun’s father, Count Suolong, became Dragon Guard Legion commander, he immediately carried out a purge and rectification of the entire Dragon Guard Legion, eliminating most incompetent commanders and letting capable commanders rise to prominence.
Yu Wengai, who had been buried for nearly ten years, was excavated at that time.
After Count Suolong conversed with him, he greatly valued him, directly promoting him to thousand-man commander.
Very soon, the Rouran great war broke out. Count Suolong led the Dragon Guard Legion to support Rouran City Lord Ashimo, resisting the Yelan Duchy’s great army.
In that Rouran great war, Yu Wengai indeed stood out, establishing illustrious military merit. On the battlefield he was rapidly promoted, directly from thousand-man commander to ten-thousand-man commander.
After the great war ended, Count Suolong also petitioned King Zhibian to promote Yu Wengai to Dragon Guard Legion infantry grand commander!
For Yu Wengai, this was completely a meteoric rise to the heavens!
Count Suolong’s regard for him was simply unmatched. One must know he was born a commoner, not of the same class as Count Suolong.
And King Zhibian was also vigorously promoting commoner elites at that time. Looking at this momentum, Count Suolong even had the intention of cultivating Yu Wengai as his successor in the Dragon Guard Legion, even though he was only a few years older than Yu Wengai.
After the Rouran great war ended, Tu Lingtuo was promoted to duke. And Count Suolong still handed over all military power and returned to Tianshui City.
Yu Wengai had risen too quickly, and was born a commoner, so he received enormous exclusion in the Dragon Guard Legion. Without Count Suolong’s protection, he simply could not stay.
Moreover, in the Rouran City great war, he was severely wounded and needed two or three years to recuperate.
Thus Count Suolong petitioned King Zhibian to temporarily transfer Yu Wengai away from the Dragon Guard Legion, promoting him to city guard troops commander. This was considered gilding, cultivating his credentials.
At this time, Yu Wengai was only one step away from entering the command headquarters!
If developments followed this trajectory, Yu Wengai would succeed Count Suolong as Dragon Guard Legion commander, becoming the first commoner elite to enter the command headquarters.
However…
Next, Count Suolong suddenly became paralysed in bed, and news that King Zhibian was completely without sons spread, causing the entire Furious Wave Kingdom’s winds and clouds to violently change.
Losing Count Suolong this pillar of the military, with Duke Tu Lingtuo’s betrayal, Yu Wengai as city guard troops commander became King Zhibian’s greatest reliance in the military!
However, under enormous pressure and temptation, Yu Wengai still chose to betray.
He betrayed Count Suolong who had shown him such great kindness. At first he chose neutrality, then five years ago, he thoroughly threw his lot in with Zhili’s camp.
At that time, King Zhibian was incomparably disheartened. Yu Wengai was the commoner elite representative he had vigorously promoted, yet in the end he betrayed him without the slightest hesitation.
Yu Wengai’s betrayal represented that besides the Imperial Guard, King Zhibian’s military forces were completely annihilated, also meaning that the king was thoroughly hollowed out by all the nobles.
And the source of all this lay in Count Suolong’s paralysis.
If he were still alive and in good health, commanding the Dragon Guard Legion, with his illustrious prestige, Duke Tu Lingtuo would not dare to defect.
With these two military leaders, Count Suolong and Duke Tu Lingtuo, maintaining their positions, no one in the entire military would dare to join Zhili, no matter how dissatisfied they were with King Zhibian in their hearts. Because King Zhibian’s ascension had cut off most of their wealth paths.
Given Yu Wengai and Count Suolong’s relationship, it would not be excessive for him to kneel before Suolun and call him young master.
When Suolun entered the royal city, because he had absolutely no one at hand, he once wanted to give Yu Wengai a chance, waiting for his visit.
After all, he could even heavily use Chu Ye and Jian Yong, let alone Yu Wengai who once had such an intimate relationship with his father Suolong.
However, he was disappointed.
Even after Zhili’s great defeat, Yu Wengai did not come to visit him.
Thus Suolun issued a decree, stripping Yu Wengai of his city guard troops commander position, confining him at home to reflect on his mistakes.
“Whether Suolun’s dick is big or small, whether he is a ruined household or not, none of this concerns us.” Yu Wengai said indifferently, “But now his butcher’s knife is already at our necks, we cannot sit and wait for death. The royal city is about to face great chaos. This is our only chance to save ourselves!”
“Right, right, right!” Everyone shouted in unison.
Yu Wengai said, “Between us and Suolun, only one side can live. Only by killing Suolun can we survive! How many city guard brothers will be able to rise with us?”
“Fifty thousand, at least over fifty thousand.” The commanders below roared, “Those Imperial Guard bastards that Suolun sent have all been tied up by us.”
“Fifty thousand is enough!” Yu Wengai nodded and said, “At that time, there will be an army of over fifteen thousand men mixing in with our city guard troops. This army is very powerful. Everyone knows the source, but no one is to breathe a word of it.”
“Yes!” Once these words came out, everyone was incomparably excited.
Whose army was this fifteen thousand men?
Of course it was the world’s strongest army, the Dragon God Holy Temple Legion!
“Kill Suolun, avenge Prince Zhili!”
“Execute Suolun, avenge Prince Zhili!”
“Rise in rebellion, execute Suolun.” Someone got overly excited and shouted this slogan.
Yu Wengai’s face immediately turned cold and he said, “Remember this for me. We are not rebelling, but purging the court of evil ministers, executing the treacherous minister Suolun! Suolun has debauched the royal court, acted against the way of heaven, incurring heaven’s wrath and the people’s resentment. Our city guard troops have no choice but to rise and purge the court of evil ministers!”
“Right, purge the court of evil ministers, execute the treacherous minister!”
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Suolun returned to the royal city at the fastest speed!
Then, according to Suofu’s testimony, he obtained his corruption ledger.
He destroyed all the great confiscation decrees, and re-drafted decrees. According to Suofu’s corruption ledger, he arrested people one by one, confiscated property one by one!
At this time, Zhuang Zhixuan suddenly entered and said, “Master, Miss Yi Manman of the royal city arts committee, along with over ten prostitutes, request an audience, inquiring about the Royal City Gold House’s gold coin reserves issue. Shall we drive them out?”
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And at the same time!
Hidden Continent young master Fang Qingyi received the worst possible news!
“Young master, the gold reserves we hid away have been discovered by Suolun!”
Instantly, Fang Qingyi felt the heavens collapse and the earth split, the heavens spinning and the earth rotating!
A surge in his chest and abdomen, a mouthful of blood nearly sprayed out!