The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 950: neck-to-neck
Chapter 950: Be Killed
The elderly Prince Guang’an looked at Bai Qingyan with his cloudy eyes, his hands shaking and his lips tightly pursed.
Bai Jinxiu glanced at Prince Guang’an and continued in a slow and unhurried voice, “General Gu Wenchang of the Bai family army and Bai Qingjue, the seventh son of the Bai family, have led their troops to surround the armies of the three vassal kings outside the city. They are just waiting for your majesty’s order to wipe them out immediately!”
“Impossible!” Prince Baishui’s pupils trembled slightly, and he turned his head with a pale face to look at the elderly Prince Guang’an, “Uncle! Those imperial guards said that it was unheard of for a woman to ascend the throne, and they were dissatisfied, so I asked those imperial guards to help hide the killer in the hall, but I didn’t tell those imperial guards that we had soldiers outside the city! They couldn’t have known! Bai Qingyan couldn’t have known in advance! Uncle…believe me, I definitely didn’t tell them!”
“How stupid is King Baishui!” Xie Yuchang said slowly, “Military generals… have always spoken with strength, and your majesty… although she is a woman, she is an invincible killer! How could we military generals be dissatisfied just because your majesty is a woman? But… King Baishui wants to bribe my imperial guards with such an excuse. King Baishui… doesn’t understand us military generals at all.”
It turns out that the problem was caused by Prince Baishui bribing the imperial guards?
No…that’s not right!
The King of Hedong soon realized that the timing didn’t match. If Bai Qingyan knew about this when the King of Baishui bribed the imperial guards, how could he have arranged for the Bai family army and Lin Kangle to make preparations so early… and let Lin Kangle bring his family from Hedong. How could he have let Shen Tianzhi set an ambush on Tianxia Peak Road and annihilate the Shuofang Army and the Anxi Army!
King Hedong was sweating profusely, but he managed to keep his composure. Fortunately, he reacted quickly enough so that his whole family would not be killed. The worst that could happen… was just the loss of his fiefdom.
“Your Majesty!” The King of Hedong kowtowed hurriedly, “Hedong has absolutely no intention of rebelling! I beg Your Majesty to understand!”
“Your Majesty…Shuofang has absolutely no intention of rebelling!” King Shuofang was originally timid, and in order to save his life, he pretended to be frightened and cried out loud, “This is not my intention, it’s all King Guang’an! King Guang’an forced me to send troops, and I followed King Anxi because he sent troops!”
Bai Qingyan had soldiers at his disposal and was well prepared. The total number of soldiers under the five princes… plus those left behind in their fiefdoms, was less than 180,000. How could they be a match for Bai Qingyan? !
The King of Anxi, who was already dissatisfied with Bai Qingyan’s ascension to the throne as a woman, knew clearly that he should kneel down to Bai Qingyan, but… he was not happy in his heart, and there was no way he could kneel down and beg for mercy like the King of Hedong and the King of Shuofang, with his fists clenched tightly.
Bai Qingyan glanced at the embarrassed King Guang’an and King Anxi, nodded to the Yan and Rongdi envoys and said, “I’m sorry to have embarrassed you all.”
After Bai Qingyan finished speaking, his eyes fell on the trembling Baishui King: “After the country was named Great Zhou, I did not immediately send troops to take over your fiefdoms, nor did I send officials to hand over the population, land and military power. I invited you five princes to the capital as relatives to witness the coronation ceremony!”
“The old dynasty is replaced by the new one, and the court officials have requested permission… I once said that you, the royal family members of the old dynasty, cannot be left behind to avoid future troubles, but for the sake of my grandmother… I originally did not intend to touch the royal family members of the Jin Dynasty. As long as you have no intention of rebelling, I am willing to let you live out your life in peace, which is also an explanation to my grandmother! But I didn’t expect that my kindness almost caused a disaster for the Great Zhou Dynasty!”
“Our fiefdoms were all left to us by our ancestors. You want to take them away, but do you expect us to be killed?” The elderly King Guang’an knew that the game was over, so he slammed the table in front of him and shouted until his face turned red and his neck became thick.
“The whole world belongs to the king. Even if I give you fiefs, you are allowed to collect taxes and recruit soldiers in the fiefs, but you are not allowed to treat the fiefs as your own private property!” Bai Qingyan said coldly, “Not to mention, your fiefs are from the old dynasty. Now the world has changed and it is the Great Zhou! Old prince… it’s dawn, you should wake up!”
“Your Majesty…” Lu Jin stepped forward and bowed to Bai Qingyan. “Your Majesty is kind and generous, but some people are ungrateful and repay kindness with resentment. The Baishui King is a lesson for you. Your Majesty must not be soft-hearted again! Please issue an order. No relatives of the previous royal family within three generations will be allowed to stay. The rest will be confiscated and exiled! The Baishui King, the Guang’an King, and the Anxi King have violated the emperor’s authority and are disrespectful. They intend to lead troops to rebel. Their crimes are unforgivable and their entire clans should be executed!”
Upon hearing Lu Jin’s words, King Shuofang, who had knelt down with King Hedong to express his support for Bai Qingyan’s reform, lost his soul. If he had not surrendered with King Hedong in time, he would have been among the people who would have been executed along with his entire clan!
It doesn’t matter if he dies, his wife and children are so innocent. King Shuofang now regards King Hedong as his backbone. He looks at King Hedong secretly and makes up his mind to follow King Hedong.
“Bai Qingyan! How dare you!” The King of Baishui was about to die, but he was still holding on. “Even if we don’t have the soldiers of the King of Hedong and the King of Shuofang, we Baishui still have 30,000 soldiers outside the capital! The soldiers of Baishui will not surrender… Can you kill them all?”
“Why bother to kill all the soldiers of Baishui? Kill all your family of King Baishui… Are you still afraid that the soldiers of Baishui will not surrender? Ridiculous…” Liu Rushi sneered, stared at King Baishui, clasped his fists and raised them in the direction of Bai Qingyan, “The soldiers of Baishui will all be your majesty’s soldiers in the future! Your majesty will not be willing to kill them.”
Bai Jinxiu recalled what Bai Qingjue had said, that the Baishui King had at most 10,000 soldiers, and chuckled, “How could the Baishui King have 30,000 soldiers? 10,000… is already quite a lot!”
When Bai Jinxiu said this, not only Prince Baishui…but also the other princes changed their expressions. Bai Qingyan actually even had control over their military forces!
Soon Shen Tianzhi brought the dusty Prince of Anxi and the surviving brave generals of Anxi and Shuofang to the palace. Prince of Anxi and these soldiers… had clearly been through a fierce battle. Their broken armor was covered in blood stains that had dried into black scabs, their hair was disheveled, and no one had bandaged their wounds. One of the Shuofang generals had a broken arm, and the exposed wound had already festered, it was a horrible sight.
Shen Tianzhi bowed solemnly to Bai Qingyan and said, “Your humble servant Shen Tianzhi has been ordered to set up an ambush on the Tianxia Peak Road, annihilate the Shuofang Army and the Anxi Army, and capture the Anxi Crown Prince alive, as well as 13 Shuofang and Anxi generals. Your Majesty, please make your decision.”
Shen Tianzhi had just heard that although he was not in the capital, Bai Qingyan had not forgotten him, and he was now the Minister of Works.
“Father!” When Prince Anxi saw his father, he choked up and called out, “I feel so ashamed of myself! When I was leading the Anxi Army and the Shuofang Army through Tianxia Peak Road, we were ambushed. We were outnumbered and have been… completely wiped out.”
The first update, here it comes…