After I traveled through the book, my sister kidnapped my mother

Chapter 276 The Emperor's Wrath

War reports came from the south, the disaster was getting worse, there were leaks in the relief supplies, and the death toll increased dramatically. Everything indicated that His Highness Yuan Zhao had messed up the disaster relief work this time.

The Wen family, the Su family, and some people who opposed Wen Zhimiao's succession to the throne wrote letters to the emperor, requesting a joint punishment for this unreliable little prince.

But just two days after the memorial was submitted, the emperor was in his own palace, and the imperial edict of punishment had not yet come down, when urgent news came from the south again.

"His Highness Yuan Zhao was assassinated."

The urgent report was delivered to the villa at night, and the news had spread throughout the entire Yunjing City the next day.

All the twists and turns that everyone had prepared were ruined by Wen Zhimiao's death.

Although their plan was to kill Wen Zhimiao on his way there, because at that time Wen Zhimiao still seemed to them to be a capable and troublesome guy.

He is a strong contender for the throne.

But after Wen Zhimiao arrived in Nanshao, his "true face" made them change their minds. A living piece of trash is much more useful than a dead piece of trash.

He could even let Wen Zhimiao take the blame in order to highlight the person he wanted to support.

The new plan is much more useful than killing Wen Zhimiao before.

But now Wen Zhimiao not only died, but also died in Nanshao City.

Although it was on an island outside Nanshao City, it was still within the scope of Nanshao City. In any case, it was due to Wen Rongxue and Wen Ke's poor protection.

The emperor will be furious and will certainly investigate the matter thoroughly.

Wen Zhimiao’s death instantly became a sword hanging over everyone’s head.

Due to the lack of relief supplies and the untimely relief efforts, the increase in the death toll led to rebellions in many places in the South.

Bandits were rampant, and even the common people joined the bandit camps.

Half a month later, the flood slowly receded. Although fortunately no plague occurred, the rebellion continued.

The Lu Jin Kingdom also took the opportunity to send troops to harass Tianqi's western border.

Everything became chaotic. The emperor was still not in the court, and apart from a few imperial decrees to mobilize troops, there was no other movement.

The people in the court were in panic, and no one knew what the emperor was thinking.

The master also closed the door and refused to see anyone except when handling official business.

The emperor ordered Prince Shun to quell the rebellion.

There was naturally no way to calm Wen Rongxue down as he was lying on the hospital bed, so the heavy responsibility naturally fell on Wen Ke, who controlled all the military power in Wen Rongxue's hands.

The task of fighting against Lu Jin was also handed over to Ji Qinghuai.

The Su family does control a part of the military power, and Su Qingluo has always wanted to take it back. The military power controlled by the Su family was seized when Su Qingluo's father was alive.

Although Su Qingluo has been trying to take back the military power in recent years, the Su family does have military merits and it cannot be taken back rashly.

He could only take the opportunity to continuously transfer other people to disperse the military power.

Shi Wanyue seems to have nothing to do, but her task is not easy.

She must start with Su Jincheng and collect evidence of the Su family's collusion with Beirong and the sale of weapons.

Although there will always be profit-seeking people who cooperate with the enemy, this person cannot be from the Su family, which controls part of the military power and the economy.

The Wen family can now be considered as the royal family of the previous dynasty, but because Su Qingluo's ascension to the throne was not a complete change of dynasty, many things in Tianqi were still a continuation of the previous dynasty, and the Wen family could not be wiped out directly.

A group of people were dealt with as an example, but it did not cause any damage to the Wen family.

After all, the clan is powerful, and it has also been involved in many areas under the name of the royal clan.

Although it has been weakened a lot in recent years, it is still a potential threat.

These people all want to take the opportunity to let their own people step onto the stage to compete for the throne, strengthen themselves, and preferably at the same time control the emperor. They are really evil.

However, logically speaking, although Wen Zhimiao's death disrupted these guys' plans, it did not pose any essential threat.

After all, according to their plan, the rebellion was initiated by the Duan family, and the invasion of the Lu Jing Kingdom was just a show.

Cooperating with Duan Clan to win over the hearts of the people, Wen Ke pretended to fight several times. Duan Clan took the opportunity to propose to establish an independent country. Wen Ke fought and retreated. The court officials then proposed to agree to Duan Clan's request as long as they were willing to become a vassal state of Tianqi.

As for Lu Jinguo's side, with Su Jincheng coming forward to negotiate, everything should go smoothly.

But the reality was not what they planned.

The Duan family did take the opportunity to rebel, but the bandits who were supposed to merge with the Duan family did not obey the Duan family's command, but instead became an independent third force.

The bandits do not want independence. Their demand is that the imperial court treat all southern regions equally, give them the same support, and reduce taxes for the people.

The military order Wen Ke received was to deal with the Duan rebels, while the bandits were handed over to General Tang to be eliminated.

But the mountain bandits always forced the anti-bandit army to oppose Wen Ke and Duan's rebels everywhere.

The Lu Jin Kingdom also had no intention of really cooperating with the people of Tianqi. After three battles with Ji Qinghuai's army, Lu Jin's army proposed the idea of ​​peace talks, hoping to renegotiate the issue of tariffs.

The emperor issued an edict agreeing to peace talks, and Shen Luoling, as the manager of a large trading company that had just taken control of the westward trade route, was responsible for the peace talks together with court officials.

No one behind the scenes had expected things to develop in this direction, and everything became a mess.

Everything is out of their control.

Under such circumstances, the joint acting that the Su family and Beirong had originally agreed upon was put on hold. After all, it was not appropriate to create any more trouble at this critical moment.

When the Su family settled down, the Duan and Wen families lost a partner and were immediately caught in an awkward situation.

Everyone's attention was focused on the situation in the south, with no time to think about anything else.

In the second month of chaos in the south, the emperor returned to the court, and Qi Guyu, who had disappeared for a long time, also returned to Yunjing.

It is often said that when the emperor is angry, corpses are scattered all over the place. Although Su Qingluo is not so cruel.

But the death of the princess is no small matter.

On the first day after returning, Su Qingluo convened a morning court session.

The emperor sat on the dragon throne with cold eyes.

All the civil and military officials in the court stood at the bottom of the steps and dared not speak. Normally, officials above the sixth rank did not stand throughout the court session, but had chairs to sit on.

But today, none of the officials, led by Shi Guanchao, dared to sit down.

The emperor's eyes were solemn, holding the emperor's sword in his hand.

"I remember when I ascended the throne, I was sitting on this chair holding Yuan Zhao."

"She was still young at that time, and she didn't know what it meant to ascend the throne."

"I wonder if you still remember it?"

Faced with her question, all the ministers dared not say a word.

"What was the scene like at the Imperial College when Yuan Zhao first entered it?"

"Are the younger generations in your family safe now?" Su Qingluo asked in a cold voice.

Still no one dared to answer.

"Answer me." Su Qingluo's voice was not loud, not even hysterical, and you couldn't even hear her sadness.

But the feeling of oppression made everyone present sweat profusely.