Ling Yu and his party came back late because Ling Yu and his party sent Luo Kede to the Xianluo Warrior Academy for treatment, but Tong Yue and Lu Xiaowei did not follow. The current situation of Anping Town Hospital is not good, and among Tianma Community

The few doctors inside could not help Luo Kede recover quickly. When it was time to hire people, Ling Yu had no choice but to ask for help from the Xianluo Warrior Academy.

Wei De and his party of more than 20,000 national defense troops rushed towards Gufeng non-stop. The long armored convoy raised smoke and dust all over the sky, like a crawling yellow dragon on the ground, constantly twisting and struggling, and seemed to be in an unusual hurry.

However, Ling Yu and his party did not know that a great turmoil sweeping the country in Gufeng, the imperial capital, had quietly begun. This turmoil would further accelerate the disintegration of the Jiutian Empire, and also indicated that an era of chaos and crisis was coming.

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Gufeng City is the core of the remaining Han nationality, and the Jiutian Imperial Palace is located here. Gufeng City has three separation walls, which are divided into the inner city and the outer city. The inner city is basically a garden shape, with the Jiutian Imperial Palace as the center, and surrounded by

There are the Imperial Government Office, four aristocratic gathering areas, four garrison bases, and wealthy businessmen gathering areas in the middle city. These facilities are interlocked and closely connected, integrating troop guards, building buffers and many other security factors to surround the Jiutian Imperial Palace.

Among them. To put it simply, the Jiutian Empire Palace is architecturally like a tortoise huddled in three layers of hard tortoise shell.

After nearly 100 years of development, this place has become the economic, cultural, political and technological center of the world since the "Millennium Destruction", and has become the spiritual home of the only remaining human beings on earth.

Since the fall of Changtai Town, together with the previously lost Lego Town, Hanyang County, Feiyun County, Zuoshan County, Changyin City and other places, the territory actually controlled by the Jiutian Empire has been constantly changing in the hands of the emperors before Zhulong.

Zoom out. In the Zhulong era, this trend remained the same. The just-lost Changtai Town and the precarious Anping Town are a good example.

Long before the fall of Changtai Town, nearly 1 million refugees from all over the country poured into Gufeng City, and the remaining more than 2 million people gradually disappeared or merged into other towns, which brought serious consequences to Gufeng City.

hidden dangers.

The silver-grey oval-shaped building of the Jiutian Empire Government Affairs Office still maintains its due dignity. On the four-sided obelisk in the central square, the antique bronze tripod is still clear and dazzling, but it was built in

300 years ago, it represented the oaths made by the tribes when they formed an alliance.

In a large office on the 42nd floor, Lei Tiancheng, the commander-in-chief of the imperial armed forces who was undergoing impeachment proceedings and was on suspension, was looking out of the window through the floor-to-ceiling windows. There was a crowd of people outside the window, and groups of people who had just returned from Anping were gathering.

To suppress the people who fled. As the nominal commander-in-chief of the three armed forces, the refugees made him feel worried. These people who traveled five to six hundred kilometers came to Gufeng City to seek help or asylum, but the empire gave them no help.

There are too few of them.

Ever since the defeat at the Battle of Jitai Mountain seventeen years ago, the Imperial Marshal, who has followed the famous emperor Zhu Long on the battlefield for nearly forty years, has been constantly subjected to wave after wave of accusations of having an affair with a dwarf and betraying him.

National interest is one of the most serious accusations. The prestige of the people-friendly marshal has plummeted. In the Battle of Changtai two years ago, the battle where Ling Yu and the four were trapped in the wilderness because of watching the battle, the imperial troops were defeated by various forces.

After intervention, it ultimately failed. Later, because the Barrow people turned to attack Xianluo Huayang City, Changtai was finally able to get out of trouble. This incident is still regarded as an important accusation.

People who did not know the truth once held a huge demonstration in the imperial capital, demanding that the nearly seventy-year-old marshal resign and step down. Imperial Emperor Zhu Long was forced to terminate his military power, and the power of the army fell to the Imperial Prime Minister Jia Fengzhen and In the hands of the second prince Zhu Huanjin. Since then, impeachment proposals have been continuously handed over to Zhu Long by ministers from all parties, demanding that Lei Tiancheng be punished for his crimes, but Zhu Long has always ignored them.

For this reason, Jia Fengzhen strongly recommended his nephew Sheng Lin to serve as the commander of the three armies, while Lei Tiancheng recommended his son Lei Mingqian. In order to reduce the pressure on Lei Tiancheng's punishment, Zhu Long weighed it again and again, and reluctantly issued an edict to let Sheng Lin take charge. The Imperial Marshal asked Lei Mingqian to serve as the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Palace Guards. The impeachment process began to be delayed.

Lei Tiancheng sighed at this time and slowly looked away from the outside. He paced impatiently among the potted plants in the hall, and from time to time he reached out to scratch his short gray hair and sighed.

Suddenly the door opened and Lei Mingqian hurriedly walked in.

"Scared me, couldn't you knock on the door first?!" Lei Tiancheng said angrily.

"Father!" Lei Mingqian saluted politely.

"How many times have I told you, don't call me father outside!" Lei Tiancheng was a little annoyed.

"Yes, father. News just came from outside that someone is planning to cause trouble recently," Lei Mingqian said.

"I just heard about it, and I'm checking the news. Once the situation is true, you have to learn to adapt to circumstances and deal with it urgently." Lei Tiancheng looked at his unfulfilled son in front of him with a gloomy face.

"What? I don't know what adaptability is." Lei Mingqian said.

"If the empire doesn't send troops to regain the lost territory, this kind of thing may become more and more common." Lei Tiancheng looked at Lei Mingqian with disdain and said, "You must learn to take advantage of opportunities, not only to be common people, but also to give some people some color. look."

"Well, I understand this," Lei Mingqian said. "Now only Ge Zhiping is struggling to support Anping Town. If there were not a few children there to help, Anping would have been gone. Not a penny of war materials was given. It's impossible to get that old guy Jia Fengzhen to send troops. After wiping out the Yuelong Gang two days ago, the empire actually sent troops to attack Anping Town to arrest those children." Lei Mingqian had a slightly sad look on his face.

"Well, supplies and troops have nothing to do with you. From now on, don't mention anything. Understand your mission: to protect the crown prince and the princess. Do you understand?" Lei Tiancheng said impatiently, "Princess Your Highness is your fiancée."

"But...Father, Caiyun doesn't like me, I think..." Lei Mingqian muttered.

Lei Tiancheng was slightly startled: "Do you already have someone you like? This matter is an imperial edict issued by His Majesty the Emperor. You are not allowed to disobey it. You must protect the two brothers and sisters even if you die!"

"Yes!" Lei Mingqian saw the stern look in his father's eyes, and immediately saluted, turned around and walked out.

Lei Tiancheng watched him walk out of the office quickly with his dim old eyes. He sighed deeply again: "It's hard to achieve great things!"

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Prince's Palace of the Royal Palace.

Luo Tiefeng sat on the sofa with a gloomy look and lowered his head without saying a word. But there was a helpless smile on the face of the prince Zhu Xingyun. The princess looked anxious and kept walking up and down the hall. She suddenly stopped: "Brother, you Can't we make the decision and let Jin'an support Anping? Even if we transport some supplies, that's fine."

Zhu Xingyun smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Sister, there is no such possibility. I know your concern. He will be fine."

Zhu Caiyun raised her eyebrows: "You are the prince, aren't you? If you can't even be the master, why should you be the prince!"

Zhu Xingyun said: "When my father appointed me as the crown prince, I already had a reputation." He stood up and said, "If it weren't for this so-called crown prince position, my mother would not have died." His face turned pale.

He became livid: "What is the result? Rights? I don't care!" He turned around and threw a book on the coffee table: "Father gave me life, what else did he give me? A stable person.

The political foundation is still a prosperous country? There is nothing. Is it intentional to cause disputes by appointing me as the crown prince? "

He slowly turned his head and looked out the window. The flowers in the garden were blooming under the hazy sky.

He smiled bitterly again: "My father is seriously ill, and the prince can neither supervise the country nor regent. What kind of prince is he? He is a worm raised in a boudoir!" He turned around slowly, with a sad look on his face.

, the veins on his face popped up, and his neck turned red: "My father left me a reputation, the reputation of a prince, and this reputation not only cost my mother's life, but now it is so difficult to even protect myself, and it is also

My sister has been implicated! For more than ten years, every time I go out, I have to rack my brains to escape. There is no narrow escape, and no one dies because of me! Why should I be a disaster?! Even if I have nothing, I will keep a low profile and be simple.

, is also a hidden danger in the eyes of powerful ministers. I have no way to avoid it. I have no way to escape. There are eyes and ears probing my privacy everywhere! I didn’t even ask for the position of prince if I gave it up! I might as well die!!

"

"Xingyun, you scared Caiyun." Luo Tiefeng raised his head and shouted, looking at the maids and guards at the door from time to time.

"Brother...I'm sorry..." Zhu Caiyun had tears in her eyes and threw herself into Zhu Xingyun's arms, sobbing loudly.

Zhu Xingyun had no expression on his face, gently stroking his sister's long black hair with one hand, and sighed: "It's my fault, sister, I can't bring you happiness. I don't blame you, I'm just in a bad mood."

, I will never leave you, never. My father’s empire is not my brother’s, and I can’t do anything about it.”

Luo Tiefeng stood up and patted Zhu Xingyun's shoulder gently: "A good man is not discouraged, a good man is responsible. Come and sit down, I have a few issues to discuss."

Zhu Xingyun nodded: "Brother Luo, I'm really immature, aren't I?"

Luo Tiefeng shook his head: "You have done a good job, but you are under too much pressure." He quickly changed the topic: "Your Majesty is in poor health. You should have made plans in advance as to where to go. You should have a map in your mind. Don't

Fight an unprepared battle."

Zhu Xingyun asked: "Brother Luo, what do you think? Let's talk about it."
Chapter completed!