"Today, I owe my success to several friends. I hereby declare that during my lifetime, I will never deliberately provoke wars among countries!"
"Long live Your Majesty! Long live! Long live!"
"There's one more thing. I'd like to recognize Mu Fengqie, the princess of the Qin Dynasty, as my adopted sister. Without her help, I might have to wait for several more years. Therefore, I confer on Mu Fengqie the title of the Princess Who Protects the Nation of the Southern Qing Dynasty. And the Southern Qing Dynasty will never wage war against the Qin Dynasty."
"Your Majesty, it may not be appropriate to confer the title of the princess who protects our nation on a princess of another country. Please think twice, Your Majesty."
"Please think twice, Your Majesty!"
"My decision is final." Seeing the officials below were about to object again, Jiang Yanqin continued, "Do you know that Mu Fengqie has other identities besides being the princess of the Qin Dynasty?"
He glanced at the whispering officials below and said, "Her mother is the eldest princess of the Tianlin Kingdom, and her father is the master of the Medicine Master Valley. Now she is also the princess of the Qin Dynasty. Tell me, is it appropriate for me to confer this title on her?"
The officials never expected that a single woman could be connected to three countries. This woman must be extraordinary.
"Your Majesty is wise. We have no objections."
"That's good."
"Ruan Ming, the descendant of the Ruan family, step forward to receive the conferment."
Ruan Ming took a step forward. He never expected that the person he saw when he led the troops into the city today was actually Prince Yu, the most capable person to ascend the throne back then.
He was in a daze for a long time. No wonder Mu Fengqie was so confident. It turned out that she had known it long ago.
If Mu Fengqie knew what he was thinking, she would surely feel wronged. She had no idea that Jiang Yanqin was also a prince. This really took her by surprise.
"Ruan Ming has made great contributions to the new emperor. He is both civilly and militarily accomplished. I hereby confer on Ruan Ming the title of the Great General Who Protects the Nation. He is specially allowed to enter the palace with his sword, and he need not kneel when he sees me."
"Your servant thanks Your Majesty. Long live Your Majesty! Long live! Long live!"
In the evening, Jing Xunce brought Mu Nan and Lü Yun to the prison of the Southern Qing Palace. They didn't sneak around like before. Instead, they climbed into the palace openly.
The patrolling guards twitched their lips when they saw them. If the emperor hadn't given special instructions, they would have shouted "assassin".
Li Tongyu was in a daze in the prison, muttering to herself, "I am the emperor. I am the empress of the Southern Qing Dynasty. Kill them all for me."
"Zhanzhi, I'm here to marry you. From now on, you'll be my emperor consort. I've already killed that Mu Fengqie."
Hearing this, Jing Xunce kicked her in the stomach. Li Tongyu immediately started bleeding from below.
"Ah! It hurts... Help! It hurts..."
"Didn't you say you wanted to take the blood of the child in the belly? No need for the silver needles. Now there's ready-made blood. Just take it." Mu Nan said speechlessly, looking at Jing Xunce.
The master's hot temper... This Li Tongyu is really something. If you're crazy, just be crazy. But you still curse the mistress. You're just asking for death. No one can save you...
Lü Yun took out a poisonous insect from the bamboo tube. She took a drop of Li Tongyu's blood and fed it to the insect. Then she took a drop of Jing Xunce's blood and put it in front of the insect.
If the insect ate it, then the child was Jing Xunce's. If the insect refused to eat it, then the child had nothing to do with Jing Xunce.
Because this insect was called the parent - child insect. As the name suggests, only a parent - child would eat their blood.
Obviously, the insect just smelled it and then left without eating the drop of blood.
"Humph, I knew it. How could the master betray the mistress? You're really so vicious, woman."
After doing this, the three of them left without caring about Li Tongyu, who was lying on the ground, almost fainting from the pain.
"You two go first. I'll go find Jiang Yanqin."
"Okay. Be careful, master."
At this time, Jiang Yanqin must have a lot of things to deal with just after ascending the throne. So he must be in the Peace - Negotiation Hall.
"What are you doing here? Didn't you find Li Tongyu?"
"I found her. Did you meet Qie'er after she left?"
"No." Humph, where were you earlier? Now you come to ask me.
"Impossible! Tell me, where is she?" Now that he had proved his innocence, he was going to find his Qie'er.
Jiang Yanqin looked at Jing Xunce with a deep gaze. When he heard Mu Fengqie say that Jing Xunce had divorced her, he didn't believe that Jing Xunce would do such a thing. Because he could tell that Jing Xunce loved her.
It was just that Mu Fengqie was too involved to see clearly, while onlookers could see clearly. But he didn't tell Mu Fengqie. He thought that if they had a quarrel, he might have a chance. But the fact proved that he didn't.
However, this couldn't stop his mood of watching the show.
"I didn't. But she did send someone to deliver a letter to me, giving me the handles of those officials. Otherwise, do you think I could succeed so quickly?"
Jiang Yanqin watched Jing Xunce sitting there silently, feeling extremely happy. As long as Jing Xunce felt bad, he would be happy. If he and Mu Fengqie reconciled in the future, he would still have to call him elder brother.
Hahaha... He was really a smart guy.
"I said, don't you want to go to the Yang Mansion? I've already ordered to raid their house. If you go late, there won't be anything left."
Actually, when he led the troops into the city, he had already sent people to surround the Yang Mansion. He received the news that the Yang family had a group of private soldiers. But after discussing with Mu Fengqie, they decided to drug those people.
It wouldn't kill them, but they wouldn't be able to help either. Now, the old master of the Yang family must be in a hurry in the mansion.
When Jing Xunce arrived at the Yang Mansion, the whole mansion was brightly lit. Jing Xunce accurately found the location of the study. When he went in, the old master of the Yang family was hurriedly packing things.
"Who's there?" The old master of the Yang family looked at the person standing outside the door. The person's imposing manner was overwhelming. He could tell at a glance that the person was not an ordinary person. Because Jing Xunce was in the dark, the old master of the Yang family didn't see what he looked like clearly. Otherwise, he would have run away long ago.
"Old Master Yang, long time no see." Jing Xunce walked out of the dark and watched the changing expressions on the old master of the Yang family's face leisurely.
"Young hero, why... Why are you here?" His daughter had been very obedient recently. She hadn't gone out. Why did this evil star come again?
"Old Master Yang, have you ever been to the Ruan family?" Jing Xunce didn't want to waste time talking to him.
Hearing this, the old master of the Yang family's pupils shrank violently. "No... I haven't been. I'm not familiar with the Ruan family."
"Really? I originally wanted to spare your life, but you're so ungrateful. Do you know who the person who followed the new emperor to attack the palace today is?"
The old master of the Yang family had been confined in the mansion from the beginning and couldn't receive any news. So he didn't know the situation outside. He only knew that the empress had fallen and the new emperor had ascended the throne.
Jing Xunce watched the old master of the Yang family looking completely confused and knew that he didn't know.
"Since you don't know, I'll tell you. The person who followed the new emperor to attack the palace today is Ruan Ming, the only descendant of the Ruan family."