I really became a king.

Chapter 390 Royal Secret
"Generals of the East and West Demon Territory Pass?"

After Jiang Yi came out of confinement and listened to Ding Ren's report, there was no expression on his face, he just said something in a low voice.

"This is to make me a captive prince."

Ding Ren half-bowed beside him and did not say a word, because he knew that his prince had already made up his mind.

There was still a hint of anger on Jiang Yi's face. This way of keeping the royal family in captivity was popular in the Dali Dynasty for a period of time.

That was two thousand years ago. Except for the prince who was left to succeed the throne, all the princes were divided into different places and given the title of "idle kings" without any power.

They were closely monitored by the garrisons in various places and were not allowed to leave their fiefdoms for the rest of their lives, let alone get involved in any military or political power.

But it was abolished after only a few hundred years of implementation. After all, this was a world where martial arts were rampant, and this method of captivity would greatly weaken the power of the direct royal family, and would also weaken the strength of the entire Dali royal family.

As one of the largest martial arts families in the wild continent, expanding their branches is only one aspect. What is more important is to constantly improve one's own strength. Only in this way can one sit firmly on the throne of the royal family.

But now, the "captivity" method has appeared again, and it has appeared on the most outstanding royal children of the Dali royal family, just like a stone falling into a calm lake, causing waves.

The Demon Realm Pass, where people's hearts had just settled down, was once again in turmoil, and many people looked at Prince Yi's Palace in Kongtong Mountain with sympathy.

Now that the imperial decree with the seal of the Emperor of Dali has been issued, the most outstanding prince of the Dali royal family is about to face the fate of being kept in captivity.

Many people secretly lamented and sighed for the tragic fate of Prince Duan and his son.

"Your Highness, a secret letter has arrived from the northern border." Ding Ren suddenly said.

Secret letter? Old prince? That should be his nominal father, Prince Duan Jiang Lie.

Why did they suddenly send me a secret letter? What would be in it?
Jiang Yi reached out and took an unsealed envelope and opened it directly, but the contents inside left Jiang Yi confused.

It's just some gossip about family life, without any real content.

"Is it worth sending a secret letter from afar just for these trivial matters?"

Jiang Yi was filled with doubts, thinking that things could not be that simple, and he could not help but look at the letter carefully.

It was just an ordinary piece of letter paper. Apart from the words of concern, there was nothing special about it.

The more this happened, the more Jiang Yi felt that it was not that simple.

Several years have passed without a single letter from home. Now, at a time of crisis, a letter suddenly arrived, which must contain extraordinary content.

Jiang Yi had a vague intuition that this secret letter would reveal the mystery that had always been in his heart.

For example, why did the grandmother hate her own son so much and wanted to kill him...and what was the grandfather thinking and why he was always so distant to her.

He also had a vague feeling that the royal grandfather sometimes wanted to kill him, but sometimes acted like a kind grandfather.

This is really contradictory. There must be some unknown secret hidden in it. As for what the secret is, this secret letter is the key.

After reading the letter from beginning to end again, Jiang Yi still gained nothing. He closed his eyes and carefully recalled Jiang Zhongbao's every move in his previous life.

Seeing this, Ding Ren bowed slightly and quietly left the martial arts arena.

Only Jiang Yi was left standing quietly on the edge of the cliff, and the entire martial arts field became silent.

After recalling for a while, Jiang Yi finally remembered one thing. It was a nursery rhyme that this body had recited with Jiang Zhongbao when it was a substitute in its previous life.

Jiang Zhongbao looked very impatient at the time, and sometimes even couldn't help cursing out loud.

From Jiang Zhongbao's few words, the original owner of this body also knew the original meaning of this nursery rhyme.

It turns out that this nursery rhyme of more than 10,000 words was left behind by Prince Duan Jiang Lie when he traveled to the northern border. He also sternly instructed Jiang Zhongbao to remember it well, and he would send people to check it from time to time.

This nursery rhyme is not very expressive and is difficult to read. Not to mention its meaning, it is even more obscure and difficult to understand.

In his previous life, Jiang Zhongbao not only had to recite it himself, but also forced the original owner of this body to recite it as well, for fear that when Prince Duan suddenly sent someone to check that day, if he saw a substitute, everything would be exposed.

Thanks to Jiang Zhongbao's coercion, the original owner of this body memorized it word for word.

Comparing this secret letter with Jiang Yi, he finally murmured a ten thousand word nursery rhyme to himself, and suddenly he felt enlightened.

The nursery rhyme is a skip-reading mnemonic, and there is no pattern to follow. Sometimes it may skip a word, sometimes it may skip hundreds of words, and sometimes it may even skip to the first word at the beginning and start from the beginning.

With this formula, the true content of a seemingly ordinary family letter can be completely revealed.

Jiang Yi took the letter and read it word by word. His face began to be moved little by little, and in the end, the corners of his eyes could not help but become moist.

After I finished reading it, two tears rolled down from the corners of my eyes.

"Father's love is like a mountain. Is this what is called father's love?"

Looking at the Demon Realm Pass connected by mountains and rivers in the distance, Jiang Yi murmured in his heart, even though he had traveled through time and space and occupied this body, this fatherly love still deeply touched his soul.

It all started with the "Palace Coup on a Rainy Night" more than a hundred years ago.

The last emperor's death is approaching, and the entire Dali capital is in a sea of ​​swords and sabers. His nine sons are fighting bloodily for the supreme throne.

According to those in the know, that night was known as the night of "Nine Princes Fighting for the Throne". The nine princes formed alliances and split into three factions. The entire capital of Dali was in a bloody storm all night.

But to everyone's surprise, the winner in the end was not any of the nine princes, but another prince who was usually as low-key as a transparent person.

This prince is the current emperor - Jiang Zhenyi.

In the eyes of most people, the current emperor is a model of enduring humiliation and playing the role of a pig to eat the tiger.

But in the eyes of a few old people with deep roots, the winner in the end was not the current emperor Jiang Zhenyi, but another low-key prince, Jiang Zongxiao, who was called the Fourteenth Prince. However, God was jealous of talents, and at the last moment of success, the Fourteenth Prince Jiang Zongxiao was ambushed and his life was in danger.

Jiang Zongxiao was also a man who could take things or leave them. Seeing that he did not have much time left and could no longer rule the huge Dali Dynasty, he secretly transferred all the power in his hands to his younger brother, the current emperor Jiang Zhenyi.

Jiang Zongxiao was also an upright person. He had made an agreement with Jiang Zhenyi at that time: when Jiang Zhenyi selected the successor to the throne in the future, he would not base it on blood relationship, but on talent.

The only offspring left by the Fourteenth Prince Jiang Zongxiao has the priority to inherit the throne.

The priority mentioned here has a prerequisite, that is, Jiang Zongxiao's descendants are indeed outstanding in all aspects and can crush all of Jiang Zhenyi's descendants.

Under such circumstances, the current emperor must return power to the Fourteenth Prince's lineage after a hundred years.

Jiang Zhenyi had always respected his half brother very much. Without any hesitation, he willingly swore a blood oath and promised to do his best to train his nephew.

He did so. After ascending the throne, he brought the only infant son of the Fourteenth Prince into the palace and announced to the public that his queen had given birth to her fourth son.

As for the fourteenth prince Jiang Zongxiao, he retired completely. Not long after, his injuries relapsed and he died at home.

Over the years, the current emperor Jiang Zhenyi has always abided by his oath, treating his nephew as his own son, and even spending a huge price to let him marry the only heir of the Northern Frontier Mu family.

And the fourth prince indeed inherited the great talent and strategy of his biological father Jiang Zongxiao. Wherever he went, the army won their support, and his military might grew stronger day by day.

If things continue like this, he will definitely be the best candidate to inherit the throne in the future.

This fourth prince is Prince Duan Jiang Lie!

But there are unexpected changes in the weather, and people are subject to misfortunes at any time, and the most important thing is that people’s hearts will change.

Especially with the sinister Queen Ye by his side, under her pillow talk day and night, and the power of being the head of a country being too tempting, the mentality of the current emperor Jiang Zhenyi slowly changed.

He began to waver in his vow to "return power to the Fourteenth Master's lineage," but he was still concerned about his brother's feelings, so he was hesitant and couldn't bear to take ruthless action.

But someone came to his rescue, and that was the current queen, Ye Xinmei.

She would never tolerate her husband returning power to his brother's lineage, because the throne must belong to her son, and she also wanted to take this opportunity to allow the secular sect to regain control of the secular world.

That's why the lineage of Prince Duan suffered a series of disasters later on. The lives of everyone in the mansion were hanging by a thread. If it weren't for the sudden rise of Jiang Yi, they would have been wiped out.

Of course, Jiang Yi’s strong rise is one aspect, and there is also the support of the current emperor Jiang Zhenyi. Deep in his heart, he still cares about his brother’s feelings.

Especially after Prince Duan Jiang Lie was seriously injured and bedridden and soon passed away, Jiang Zhenyi, under the dual psychological effects of pity and guilt, pushed Jiang Yi to a new height and put him in control of military power.

But after all, whether he is his own blood or not, the Emperor of Dali has been wavering. While promoting Jiang Yi, he also condoned and acquiesced in Ye Xinmei's suppression of him.

However, all this might have been done for the elderly people who knew the situation. After all, there were several witnesses to the oath of "returning power to the Fourteenth Master's lineage."

However, it is everyone's instinct to seek profit and avoid harm. Even the few elderly people who were left from that year began to selectively forget, as if they had forgotten the scene they witnessed that year.

Prince Duan Jiang Lie learned about his life experience by chance, but he pretended not to know until he felt the looming murderous intention of the current emperor. Then he made his own choice:

To abandon one's martial arts skills and severely injure oneself to the point of being on the verge of death is tantamount to choosing self-destruction.

Everything he did was to reassure Emperor Jiang Zhenyi and protect his sons.

Because he had sensed the murderous intention of the current emperor, not towards him, but towards Jiang Yi and his brothers. If he continued to hold power in the northern border, the military power would only increase day by day, and the current emperor would definitely reveal his ruthlessness.

Just like when he came to power, he wiped out all the families of his brothers who were vying for the throne, he would definitely kill Jiang Yi and his brothers to completely eliminate Jiang Lie's desire to compete for the throne.

As everyone knows, Prince Duan Jiang Lie has been unable to give birth to offspring in recent years due to the martial arts he has practiced. Jiang Zhongshan and his brothers are the last descendants of his bloodline in this life.

This is also the reason why Jiang Yi shed tears. Father's love is like a mountain. Even though he is a cuckoo in the magpie's nest, he is still moved by this heavy and suffocating father's love.

At the end of the secret letter, Jiang Lie urged Jiang Yi to be patient and hide in order to regain the throne.

Obviously, Prince Duan Jiang Lie had seen through it long ago. If he did not fight, he would only die. Although he had already committed suicide, the current emperor Jiang Zhenyi might not take action against the brothers of Prince Yi's Mansion when he was in power, but the future heir to the throne would definitely kill all the descendants of Prince Duan's Mansion.

This is the royal family. There will be no mercy in the fight for the throne!

There was another thing that made Jiang Yi feel inexplicably sad. It turned out that Jiang Lie had known about the existence of this substitute for a long time. Not only that, he also knew that this substitute was actually his twin sons who he had secretly sent away for foster care just in case.

But he had always pretended not to know, because a great man had once given him a comment, or rather a comment on his twin sons:
The two sons are incompatible when they are together, one dies and the other lives, which leads to separation!

He had been trying to avoid this tragedy, even if it meant giving up the throne, but he was unable to prevent the two sons from reuniting.

He had even made careful arrangements in Prince Duan's Mansion, but he did not expect that he could not avoid this outcome in the end, and only one of the twin sons was left.

Jiang Yi could sense the other party's despair from the words he wrote. For a father, this was indeed an unbearable pain.

In addition, he also mentioned Xiaoqi and his mother in a vague way, expressing dissatisfaction and disappointment. Jiang Yi understood that this was a reminder for him to treat his other brothers well in the future.

Another point is that Jiang Lie vaguely mentioned the twin brothers' biological mother, but did not mention her identity at all. However, his words were full of admiration, and it was obvious that he loved her deeply.

At the end of the secret letter, he specifically told Jiang Yi to treat Princess Duan Mu Xiruo well in the future, and bluntly said that the Duan Palace owed her too much and had made her a political sacrifice for nothing.

Jiang Yi smiled bitterly and shook his head. A flame shot out from between his fingers and completely burned the secret letter.

Then he looked towards the north, knelt down and kowtowed three times respectfully.

This was the first time since he traveled through time that he willingly knelt down to worship his father who was far away in the northern border.

From now on, he will follow the will of his grandfather Jiang Zongxiao and his father Jiang Lie and climb to the top of Dali!
Now Jiang Yi finally understood why the current emperor Jiang Zhenyi was so contradictory towards him. His only way to protect himself was to rise straight up and ascend to the throne of the emperor!

Because he knew very well that he had to fight, otherwise he would die!
(End of this chapter)