Mystery makes me strong

Chapter 2608 The most critical moment

The investment of these dozens of people outside is equivalent to the military pay of thousands of people.

And the killing among them gradually caused more and more fear.

The main reason is that some people choose to flee while killing and then become robbers.

It was natural for deserting soldiers to become bandits.

Secondly, after winning, some people would kill and rob nearby residents when they come back to vent their anger and relieve the pressure of killing and being killed.

This was very common in ancient times.

In Wen Rensheng's sight, the world began to slowly change.

It is gradually changing from an ordinary detective story to a mysterious, weird and extraordinary one.

Just like the "Detective Di Renjie" he had watched before.

There have never been any strange cases, but all kinds of strange things have happened.

For example, there is a bleeding eagle case in Detective Di Renjie.

At that time, even Li Yuanfang almost thought it was true.

And now this ancient detective world is developing towards the extraordinary.

Finally one day, the situation began to develop to the point where quantitative change led to qualitative change.

After three months of this high-intensity hunting, the eldest prince and the second prince were exhausted.

The so-called exhaustion certainly does not mean that they are tired.

In fact, there is not enough money.

Both sides spent money like water.

Bounties, pensions, equipment repairs, and weapons purchases after each war.

Real combat is not a game.

The blade of the knife will become blunt and the armor will be damaged.

Maintenance costs are a lot of money.

This forced the two princes to live frugally.

Of course, their savings are nothing more than stopping those extravagant consumptions.

But it's good to be able to do this.

That's the benefit of competition.

No matter how bad the competition is, it is better than no competition at all.

They can no longer afford to recruit and train elite troops, and can only recruit some cannon fodder.

The equipment also changed from triple armor to double armor, single armor, and even paper armor and cotton armor...

The armor is very annoying. It is heavy, stuffy and hot.

Therefore, wars are often launched in autumn and winter.

A big factor is to accommodate armor.

Of course there is also the slack season for farming and so on.

Wearing armor in the hot summer, you will get heatstroke after marching for half an hour.

This war was terrible.

The short and intense battle caused the two major forces to lose a large amount of savings.

As soon as the cannon sounded, all the gold was gone.

Especially in feudal society, where productivity was too poor and there was no vigorous industrialization, war could not stimulate production but would only weaken it.

Because it consumes a lot of food and labor.

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this day.

After seeing the relevant information, the Third Prince couldn't help laughing in his study:

"It's a good fight."

"No matter how smart you are and how many counselors you have, how could you have imagined that I was the one controlling everything behind the scenes?"

Just when he was feeling proud, suddenly, a burst of shouting and killing came from outside the window.

"No, there are assassins!"

"Notify the Guards!"

"This is the residence of the Third Prince, you are rebelling!"

However, the next moment, a group of masked killers in black, without making any noise, came towards him under the cover of night.

The third prince was shocked when he saw this.

He dragged his fat body and was about to press the secret door.

However, the secret passage was opened, but he acted too slowly.

I can't run at all.

"how is this possible?"

"Why are they coming to kill me?"

"I'm obviously not threatening at all."

"Aren't they afraid of the emperor's wrath?"

Wen Rensheng couldn't help but smile when he saw this.

This stupid time traveler, doesn’t he know the saying: if you remove all the impossibilities, what remains is the truth?

The other two princes were not fools either. After repeated thinking, they would surely figure out that while the snipe and the clam quarrel, the fisherman would benefit.

The third prince seems unlikely, but now the most likely mastermind is him.

In other words, before the final battle, the two sides must collectively eliminate the third-party forces.

In history, when three forces fought, one side would usually be destroyed first, and then the other two would fight each other.

No one wants to see two people fighting to the death and a third party gaining benefits.

It is difficult for other members of the royal family to do the same thing.

Because now the dynasty's succession system is already very complete.

Those princes outside the capital had no power at all.

A local official with some yamen runners can arrest all those princes.

Because the princes had lost their own independent guards.

The princes' own guards had long been reduced.

Those responsible for protecting the princes were all local soldiers.

No matter how capable the princes are, they cannot turn the tables.

At this moment.

The third prince was about to be killed.

At this time, he pressed another switch.

Five assassins appeared from behind a wall.

They were wearing heavy armor and went straight to face the men in black who were coming in.

Then he used the narrow passage to block the man in black.

The third prince then began to run away quickly holding his magic brush and the scroll he had just painted.

At the same time, he set a fire in the study.

Flames rose and smoke filled the air.

The third prince fled to the secret passage.

All the scrolls he had painted before were also burned in the fire.

As for why they didn't burn all of them and took one away, Wen Rensheng thought that the other party might want the latest case to continue to ferment.

Thus turning those small cases into big cases.

Afterwards, the third prince immediately hid in an underground cave through a secret passage and thus escaped with his life.

However, this time, the secret power that the Third Prince had accumulated was almost wiped out.

It can be said that he no longer has the ability to launch a similar Xuanwu Gate Incident like Li Erfeng. Of course, after they killed all the forces of the Third Prince, they later discovered that there were not many dead warriors in the Third Prince's mansion, nor were there too many masters in reserve.

Because the Third Prince wanted to use the case to destroy the two families, he naturally would not reserve too many assassins to make himself easily exposed.

When the emperor got the news, he was immediately furious.

He called the eldest prince and the second prince to the front, picked up the whip, and whipped them personally!

At the same time, their royal titles were stripped, turning them from princes to dukes.

He even scolded them in public: "You don't know how to be friendly and respectful to your brothers!"

"He can't even tolerate a disabled brother!"

"If I let you take the throne in the future, no matter if you are my uncle or my brother, you will all die."

At this time, the third prince wrote again:
"This matter has nothing to do with the two brothers."

"This should be the work of gangsters."

"These are some bandits who want to instigate internal strife among the royal family. They are behind this."

The emperor was very pleased to see this.

An idea suddenly came to his mind.

Now passing the position to one of the two healthy sons would inevitably lead to the death of the other two sons.

Now the only way to save them is to pass it on to the disabled third brother.

Because the third child has a better temper.

Be more tolerant of others.

Some people may say, is the emperor a fool?

Can't you even see this situation?

However, history is like this. This is how Emperor Gaozong of Tang, Li Zhi, came to power.

He has limited talents, and in terms of academic ability and intelligence, he is not as good as his elder brothers, Crown Prince Li Chengqian, Li Tai, and Li Ke.

But he was the one who succeeded in getting to the top.

It all depends on the word "filial piety" and the so-called tolerance.

In fact, after he came to power, he was not tolerant.

He forced several of his brothers to death.

And this guy's seemingly wise operations eventually led to Wu Zetian's rise to power.

This is also the number one idiot in history...

He clearly held great power, and the Li family had great influence in the court, but he was worried that the royal family would seize power, so he let his wife take power on his behalf.

The end result was that almost all of his Li family descendants were slaughtered.

You know, this was the heyday of a dynasty.

The royal family was killed like this by outsiders.

Even during the Eight Kings Rebellion of the Jin Dynasty, it was their own people killing each other.

And Li Zhi caused a real good joke.

The dynasty was clearly still in its heyday, but the throne was taken away by outsiders.

Even if there was a dog tied to the throne, this wouldn't have happened.

That is why the system of nominal monarchs evolved in later generations.

And now, the emperor also chose to secretly appoint a disabled person as his crown prince.

Although he is disabled, the third prince still has four sons.

This is why the emperor finally decided to pass the throne to his disabled son.

As long as the grandson is normal, that's enough.

The son is just a transitional one.

In comparison, the sons of the other two princes were not very capable.

At the same time, he also ordered to find various medicines to treat the lameness of the third prince.

Medicines for treating the eyes.

The problem with the eyes is actually not a big deal.

Because it was far away, no one could see clearly when he was presiding over the ceremony.

No one dared to look directly at the emperor.

But it’s not the same for someone with a lame leg. You can tell whether he is lame just by listening.

So the current problem is lameness, which must be treated well.

In fact, in Wen Rensheng's opinion, the Third Prince has reached the final critical moment.

The third prince pretended for decades, and under the cover of a cripple, he finally survived until the last moment.

Similarly, the eldest prince and the second prince also vaguely heard rumors that the emperor would pass on the throne.

They also realized that the critical moment had arrived.

They began to gather the last of their forces.

And they are all people to whom they have great favors, and their most elite troops.

Whether they can fight successfully depends on the strength they have at hand.

In comparison, this world's royal centralized system is not perfect enough.

It is not yet possible to centralize power to the extreme like the Qing Dynasty in the modern world, and to ensure that the transfer of the throne follows the emperor's will.

At this time, the third prince also began to paint hard.

He was trying to get a higher power.

The emperor's succession to the throne is the most watched and one of the biggest events in the world.

Second only to the fall of the dynasty.

The third prince wants to slowly lead the entire world to the high magic world.

In this way, he can not only sit on the throne of emperor, but also become an immortal.

What he wants to do is to be the Immortal Emperor!
Therefore, whether it is lameness, blindness, or obesity, those diseases that plague mortals are nothing in his eyes.

But Wen Rensheng, seeing this, shook his head.

Because this guy still suffers from impatience.

Everything was working fine before.

But even now, I became impatient.

The other party did not think about the potential of plug-ins, but just used stereotypes and believed that plug-ins could continue to grow.

This may also be because the old emperor is about to pass away.

I am over 70 years old and I could die at any time.

So he had to use a lot of scroll plug-ins to stimulate the conflict between the eldest prince and the second prince.

The third prince received the scroll when he was 18 years old.

That is to say, fifteen years ago.

Before that, the third prince was just disabled, but he was not fat and was even very healthy.

At that time, the third prince didn't even have the ambition to become emperor, he just wanted to be a lying prince.

At that time, the eldest prince and the second prince never doubted him at all.

There is no such mess between them.

Wen Rensheng saw these experiences.

I couldn't help but shake my head.

It is true that success is due to strength, and failure is also due to strength.

Power brought ambition to the third prince, but also brought destruction.

Originally, he could have been a prince who enjoyed poetry, singing and dancing.

You can live in peace for the rest of your life.

You can even help your own child succeed to the throne.

Because Wen Rensheng noticed that the children of the eldest prince and the second prince were both very weak and would not live long.

It can be said that the third prince’s child has a great chance of becoming emperor.

And now, because of the scroll plug-in, he took the initiative to join the fight.

And this kind of fighting will bring him a fatal threat.

In order to prevent people from finding out that he was the one behind the incident, the Third Prince added many conditions when designing the case.

So no one thought for a moment that he was the one causing trouble.

Now, there are more and more cases involving the eldest prince and the second prince, but they don’t care anymore.

At this time, after the third prince's position was secretly determined, he was taken into the palace by the old emperor.

The third prince settled down in a heavily guarded area in the palace.

The people who protected him were the palace guards.

The palace guards are very elite. They were all transferred from the border troops, and each of them has a clean background.

They all have complete families.

Parents, wife, and children.

They took turns serving as guards.

They are on duty for 4 months every year and are divided into 3 shifts.

Their work is quite leisurely, but the mission is very serious.

When there is nothing to do, it is like a holiday, but when something happens, it is a battle of life and death.

The struggle between the eldest prince and the second prince became more and more intense.

Of course they knew that the third prince had entered the palace, and they immediately wanted to send someone to assassinate the third prince to see if they could end his life.

As expected, the assassination failed.

The fight continues.

However, these things have little to do with the third prince, because the third prince has already entered the palace.

He now has the upper hand.

Once the old emperor became seriously ill, he would be the first to get the upper hand.

He will become the next emperor.

And this day has come when the situation truly changes.

That means the emperor died suddenly!

"The Emperor has passed away!"

"Your Majesty!"

After an emperor dies, he will be called the "late emperor" for a period of time.

The title used after the emperor's death but before his posthumous title is established.