The court lackeys of the eight-hour workday

Chapter 204 Xiaoling Guards Rebellion!

The twenty-third year of Jiajing, the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth lunar month.

Inside the Forbidden City, the Palace of Heavenly Purity.

Huang Jin knelt on the ground and told everything he saw and heard last night.

He described it in great detail, especially the traces of the battle between Li Miao and Emperor Jianwen, who used what moves, who was beaten back and how far, how much flesh and blood was torn off at the scene, etc., without missing a single detail.

By the time he finally finished speaking, it was already noon.

Huang Jin waited for a while, and seeing that the emperor did not speak, he continued to speak of his conclusion.

"Your Majesty, this matter is not just the work of the Ming Cult villains."

"Oh?"

The emperor responded without comment.

"If it were just the Ming Cult and the Yang Family, they would never have done what they did last night."

Huang Jin said firmly.

"The strength of the Ming Cult has been well known since its founding over a hundred years ago. Otherwise, Eunuch Wang would not have proposed withdrawing the garrison and setting up an ambush with ten priests."

"What happened last night was a coincidence, and the Ming Cult took advantage of it."

"If the imperial mausoleum is guarded as usual, and the celestial beings of the Ming Cult break into the Xiaoling Mausoleum, they only need to be stopped by Lord Yin and Lord Wang for a short while, and then the garrison troops and the Xiaoling Mausoleum Guards will arrive. They will definitely not succeed, and they will lose their lives."

"But, it cannot be said that there is anything wrong with Eunuch Wang's plan."

Since Wang Zhi was already dead, Huang Jin did not add insult to injury and spoke truthfully.

"There are three reasons why this is going to go wrong."

"One: The imperial mausoleum garrison withdrew, and the Xiaoling guards followed the order and did not go to support them for a while, which gave the Mingjiao thieves time to break into the tomb."

"Second: Since Yang Lixuan's death thirty years ago and Ji Tianrui's attempt to seize the Ming Cult, the Yang family has rarely appeared in the world. The few times they appeared were to make things difficult for the Ming Cult, showing an attitude of irreconcilable hostility."

"But somehow the two sides came together again, and an old man was added who could hold Lord Yin back, which allowed the woman to enter the tomb and awaken Emperor Jianwen."

"Third, it's because of one person."

Huang Jin said slowly.

"This person first broke into your mausoleum. At the same time, the Ming Cult thieves broke into the Xiaoling Mausoleum. When Eunuch Wang heard the noise and saw that there was only one person on the other side, he sent five of his followers to support the Xiaoling Mausoleum."

"At that time, Eunuch Wang was obviously planning to kill this man first and then rush to help the Xiaoling Mausoleum."

"But I didn't expect that the five priests would be defeated by this man, and even Eunuch Wang himself died for his country."

The emperor pondered for a while and then spoke.

"This is also the man who fought with Emperor Jianwen at Tianshou Mountain."

"Exactly."

Huang Jin said.

"It is precisely because of this that I speculate that this person is not of the same kind as the Ming Cult villains."

"The Ming Cult thief's plan was to release Emperor Jianwen, but this person caught up with Emperor Jianwen after the Ming Cult left and had a fierce battle with him."

Huang Jin took out a cloth bag from his arms and spread it out on the table in front of the emperor.

"These are the things I collected at the scene."

Inside were two pieces of flesh and two pieces of cloth.

"The flesh and blood and the cloth belong to that man and Emperor Jianwen."

Huang Jin said.

"From the traces at the scene, it seems that neither of them held back in this fight. The fight was extremely fierce, and it was almost a life-or-death battle."

"In the end, Emperor Jianwen was the first to stop and flee, and this man chased him for a while. During this time, the two of them fought a few more times. At dawn, this man stopped and left."

The emperor glanced at the things on the table, put aside the two copies belonging to Emperor Jianwen, and picked up the two copies belonging to Li Miao.

He glanced at Huang Jin, who immediately leaned forward with his head pressed tightly against the ground.

In the silence, Huang Jin heard the sound of swallowing.

He shuddered and closed his eyes tightly. After a while, the emperor's surprised voice came from above his head.

"strangeness."

"What realm is this person in? Are his muscles, bones, blood and energy really diamond?"

"Any more?"

Huang Jin immediately replied: "There is more."

He took out another copy from his arms, placed it on the table in front of the emperor, and then knelt on the ground again.

After a while, the emperor spoke again.

"It has changed again. This one is Xumi."

"Heh, interesting."

The emperor glanced at Huang Jin.

"Do you have any clue about this person's identity?"

Huang Jin suddenly broke out in a cold sweat and spoke tremblingly.

"I am incompetent, I only have some guesses, which will take some time to verify."

"tell me the story."

"Yes."

Huang Jin said slowly.

"When this man fought against Emperor Jianwen, he used dozens of extremely sophisticated martial arts, many of which were secrets of various major sects."

"Even if this person is Jie Zi, without the original method, he can't practice to such a high level just by watching others practice and analyzing it secretly."

"There are only three places in the world with such a vast collection of books. I can think of them at the moment."

"Inside the palace, Jinyiwei, Xiaolingwei."

"Needless to say, the Jinyiwei in the palace have been patrolling the martial arts world for many years, and there are many fragments of secret manuals in the warehouse; and the Xiaolingwei, when Emperor Taizu established his rule over the world and confiscated the secret manuals of various major sects, he kept the originals in the palace, and sent the copies to the Xiaolingwei for their practice."

"So, this person should be related to the Jinyiwei or Xiaolingwei."

The emperor hummed and asked.

"Which side do you think it is?"

"Xiaoling Guards!"

Huang Jin said firmly.

"First, the secret manuals collected by Jinyiwei are basically incomplete, far less complete than those collected by Xiaolingwei. If we talk about the possibility, Xiaolingwei is naturally more likely."

"Secondly, there are no celestial beings among the Jinyiwei, but there are quite a few among the Xiaolingwei. This man's martial arts are so profound, he must have learned from a great master. At the very least, he couldn't have been trained by a mere top master."

"Third, the Xiaoling Guards are not loyal to Your Majesty!"

Huang Jin said affirmatively.

"As for what happened last night, the Xiaoling Guards waited until Emperor Jianwen was awakened before they arrived."

"Although His Majesty ordered them not to get close, the timing was so coincidental that they arrived just after Emperor Jianwen escaped. After arriving, they did nothing and watched Emperor Jianwen and the Mingjiao thieves escape. One cannot help but wonder if they were the ones who stole the property."

"And the motive is even more self-evident."

"The one that Xiaoling Guards are loyal to is not Your Majesty, but Your Majesty Taizu!"

"And Your Majesty..."

Huang Jin stopped talking and didn't dare to continue.

Because this matter has involved the most sensitive point of Dashuo's inheritance.

The successor chosen by Taizu at that time was not Emperor Chengzu, but Emperor Jianwen!
At that time, Emperor Chengzu raised an army to quell the rebellion, and received great support from the people. He eventually captured the capital, forced Emperor Jianwen to abdicate, and became emperor himself.

No matter how it is beautified or described in nice words in history books, this is still rebellion!

If Emperor Taizu really followed his opinion, all the emperors of Dashuo since Emperor Chengzu were rebels who plotted to usurp the throne!
(End of this chapter)