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Upon hearing this, the new emperor stood on the moral high ground and accused Ling Moxiao, saying that the emperor had asked him to return to Chang'an many times but he refused, which led to the previous emperor suffering from heart disease and passing away early.

Now that the late emperor's body is still warm, he has led his troops to Chang'an and treated his brother as an enemy.

How can such an unfilial and unfraternal person have the face to raise the banner of clearing the imperial court? In the eyes of the world, Prince Ling is the traitor who should be eliminated!

It was originally a feud between brothers, or a battle for the throne in the royal family, so of course they had to have a war of words. Each side had their own reasons, one holding an imperial edict and the other holding an imperial decree.

One said that the death of the late emperor was caused by the other party's anger, and the other said that the death of the late emperor was caused by the other party's poisoning. As for evidence, it would only be useful if the winner produced it.

History books are autobiographies written by the victors.

If Prince Ling was defeated and died at the hands of the new emperor and empress, he would be recorded in history books as a rebel king, and Shen Dongsu would naturally be recorded as an eccentric and evil woman who rebelled against Tiangang.

Even her early slander as a witch doctor would be written about in detail, so she really became a witch doctor...

Officials and generals from both sides were listening to the verbal fight between the new emperor and Prince Ling in a normal manner. It would have been fine if the new emperor had only scolded Prince Ling, but he was just a bad mouth.

Even Princess Ling started to curse him, saying, "Your lowly wife has been doing evil things in Youzhou, causing misery for the people. She has rewritten the Xia laws at random and has no regard for the king's law..."

Ling Moxiao was completely enraged, but there was someone in the Youzhou army who was even more angry than Ling Moxiao, and even reacted faster.

That was Li Nianyu who was driving the chariot. Although the improved chariot was much faster, it was still slower than a horse.

He was slower than Jia Si and Prince Ling. When he arrived outside Chang'an City, he heard the new emperor scolding Princess Ling in such an ugly way.

Who can bear this!

Li Nianyu drove the chariot forward directly. The people on the city wall looked at this iron monster, wondering what it was.

Then Li Nianyu shouted, "Your Highness! Stop wasting time with this patricide! Just wait and see how I break down the city gate!"

After he finished speaking, a "click" sound was heard, and he adjusted the catapult and aimed a shot at the city gate. With a loud "boom", a big hole was directly hit in the city gate.

The air was filled with gunpowder smoke, which made it impossible for the new emperor and soldiers on the city wall to open their eyes.

The new emperor was greatly surprised and asked, "What is this? How could Ling Moxiao have such a weapon?"

Didn't they say that the disciples of the Mo Sect just made bigger firecrackers? Didn't they say that Princess Ling exaggerated the function of the weapons just to intimidate the foreign enemies, and that they were actually not that powerful at all?

Although the timing of the war was unexpected, it was impossible to stop once the first shot was fired.

Ling Moxiao was too lazy to argue with the new emperor anymore, and besides, he had touched his sore spot by slandering Dong Su!

He immediately raised the long sword in his hand: "Charge! Attack the imperial city and capture the rebel king!"

The new emperor also shouted on the city wall: "Stop them! The Liangzhou army will come to help soon. Ling Moxiao is the traitor. When the time comes, I will tear him into pieces!"

At this time, Li Nianyu had already adjusted the angle of the catapult and fired another shot at the city wall, which exploded not far from the new emperor.

He was so frightened that his legs went weak, and he quickly asked his personal guards to help him down the city wall. This weapon was too terrifying, it could actually hit so far and so high!

Moreover, its destructive power is astonishing. It can even blow up city gates and hit the crowd, causing blood and flesh to fly everywhere.

If he hadn't left, the imperial army would still have some fighting power. Seeing that the battle hadn't really started yet, the emperor withdrew first.

How could the remaining soldiers still have fighting power? The Imperial City Army was originally the most popular among all the armies, and many children of noble families came here to show their political achievements.

Many people have been here for ten years and have never fought a battle. How can they compare with the Youzhou army who have just reached the northern border and attacked Goryeo fiercely, and are full of blood and murderous spirit!

As for the artillery, although I had heard of it before, when I saw it with my own eyes, I realized that human power was no match for it. The old-fashioned catapults and crossbows in Chang'an City could not cause much damage to Youzhou.

Then there are the reinforcements that the emperor mentioned. The Liangzhou army has not arrived in Chang'an to this day. Liangzhou is much closer than Youzhou, and the Youzhou army has already come, but the Liangzhou reinforcements have not arrived yet.

Who knows if they are being held back by the barbarians, or if they simply don't want to come to the rescue.

In short, only half a day after Li Nianyu fired the first shot, the enemy had no combat effectiveness left.

But Chang'an, as the imperial city, is easy to defend but difficult to attack.

If our army ignores all the dangers and fights hard, we can break through the city gate and enter the city today.

But Ling Moxiao did not do so. He wanted to quell this disaster with the least sacrifice.

Seeing the new emperor escape from the city wall, Ling Moxiao ordered to stop the attack.

Once again, he asked people to take turns reading the manifesto aloud, listing the ten major crimes of the King of Wu, and then saying that the Imperial City Army was under the orders of the Emperor, and that as long as they surrendered, he would not pursue the matter.

At the same time, he called out the names of important officials in the court, demanding to know the truth about the death of the late emperor in person.

This time, he first used his absolute strength to defeat the imperial army without any chance of resistance. Then, in the name of justice, he attacked the new emperor's psychological defenses, killing people and destroying their hearts.

Ling Moxiao was very sure that the Imperial City Army would surrender within a few days.

But things never go so smoothly. The next day, the new emperor climbed up the city wall again in ecstasy because the Liangzhou army was coming.

General Xie personally led the troops to kill the rebel king and save the new emperor.

The new emperor did not sleep a wink last night. He was afraid that the Liangzhou army would not be able to return in time. Ling Moxiao would break into the imperial city. He would have no choice but to commit suicide to save his body.

The harem had long been in chaos. The empress and concubines came to him again and again to ask for a meeting, but he refused to see them. He wanted to arrange for his legitimate son to escape secretly, but he felt unwilling to do so.

Moreover, there are no secrets in the palace. Once the legitimate son escapes, the news will spread immediately, and the soldiers and officials who support him will also be in chaos.

He pretended to be calm and repeatedly said that the rebel Ling Moxiao could not break into the city and that the Liangzhou army would come to rescue soon.

Because he was too scared and confused, he didn't notice that the tea he drank tonight was different from what he usually drank, but tasted the same as the tea he had drunk with Mo Xiujing at Mo's house.

The more he drank the tea, the thirstier he became, and the more energetic he felt. It was just the right amount to dispel the uneasiness in his heart, so he didn't think much about it and just drank the tea as soon as the palace maid served it to him.

When it was almost dawn, we finally received good news that General Xie had arrived and the traitor Prince Ling would surely die!

The new emperor knew how embarrassing it was to hastily escape from the city wall yesterday, so he climbed up the city wall again early this morning.

He wanted to inspire the people and boost morale, and at the same time he wanted to see with his own eyes how General Xie defeated the traitor Ling Moxiao!

Ling Moxiao didn't want to fight with General Xie. The Liangzhou Army still had to defend the border. If the losses were too heavy and the barbarians and the Hu people broke through the Yumen Pass, there would be a catastrophe inside the pass.

So he asked someone to invite General Xie to the city gate for negotiations first.

General Xie agreed. It seemed that he didn't want to fight with King Ling. Others didn't know the strength of the Youzhou army, but he knew it very well.

The Tatars are more difficult to deal with than the barbarians and the Hu people, and if Prince Ling can destroy the northern border, the Youzhou army must have crawled out from a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​​​sea.

In addition, the new weapons made by Momen for the Youzhou Army could also cause him heavy losses. He also had to keep the main force back to Liangzhou to kill the barbarians. How could he kill each other in the hands of his own people!

But he also had to protect the new emperor, so he came here, hoping to end this civil war as soon as possible by deterrence or capturing the thief and the king.

When the new emperor saw that General Xie actually listened to Ling Moxiao and started the negotiations first, he couldn't help but be furious. Did I ask you to come here to negotiate with him?

I asked you to kill him!

What's there to discuss with a rebel like him? With your 100,000-man Liangzhou army, are you afraid of the Youzhou army that was half-crippled by the Northern Frontier and Goryeo?

For some reason, the new emperor clearly felt that his emotions were not right. If it were before, even if he was even more dissatisfied, he would not question General Xie in front of the three armies.

He would even continue to be a benevolent king, and would even persuade Ling Moxiao with tears in his eyes, saying that out of brotherhood, he would spare his life as long as he pleaded guilty, and would not harm Princess Ling and his two children.

Long before Ling Moxiao reached Chang'an, the new emperor had simulated in his mind thousands of times what those people had to say in front of others.

But today, he felt a suffocation in his heart, and the fire of anger burned him so hard that he could no longer think rationally. Especially when he saw Ling Moxiao and General Xie, they seemed to appreciate each other and shook hands and talked.

The fire of anger in the heart of the new emperor completely erupted. His eyes were bloodshot, the blood vessels in his temples were throbbing, and he shouted at the bottom at the top of his lungs:

"Thank you, General. I order you to kill the rebel king! Quick, kill him!"

General Xie looked up at the emperor with a frown on his face. He felt that the emperor was so furious at the moment that he looked like a tyrant without moral integrity or talent.

Just as he was about to persuade the emperor, suddenly, the new emperor on the city wall, with one hand tightly covering his chest, pointed at General Xie with the other, and roared:

"I order you to kill him!"

As he roared, using up all the energy in his dantian, a mouthful of blood spurted out. No one knew what happened to the new emperor.

He had no old illness, nor any hidden injuries, and Prince Ling had not sent anyone to attack him. There were no wounds on his body. How could he be so angry that he vomited blood like an elderly man?

The imperial guards and eunuchs hurried forward to support him, and the new emperor muttered, "Quick, kill Ling Moxiao! I want him dead, I want him dead..."

Then he slowly fell to the ground. The eunuch was so frightened that he fell to the ground and screamed, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty has passed away!"

To be honest, Ling Moxiao, who was standing under the city wall, was also very confused.

He really didn't send anyone to assassinate him! There was no need at all! It's not like he couldn't win, so why would he assassinate the new emperor at this time?

Seeing General Xie's questioning look, Ling Moxiao said frankly: "General, you can wait until the imperial physician and the coroner have examined it before questioning me."

General Xie did not question him, but felt that everything happening before his eyes was like a farce.

If the emperor had died a day earlier, he would not have rushed to Chang'an to confront Prince Ling. His trip became a complete joke.

Jia Si and others were also confused and bewildered. We haven't even started fighting yet and haven't even broken through the city gates. How could the emperor die inexplicably?

There is only one person in this world who knows the truth, and that person is Mo Xiujin, who was drinking medicinal tea in the guest room of Prince Ling's Mansion in Youzhou, calculating the date and muttering:

"Isn't it time?"

Sister Yuan didn't hear clearly, so she stepped forward and asked, "Xiao Pan, what did you say?"

Mo Xiujin smiled gently: "Nothing, it's just the medicinal tea that Dongsu prepared for me before. I added a medicine and gave it to someone. He has been drinking it for so long, it should be time for him to feel the effect of the medicine."

A Yuan did not ask who it was, but just smiled and said: "If your friend is not feeling well, he can come to Youzhou and I will personally see him and prepare some special medicinal tea for him, which will be more effective."

Mo Xiujin smiled mysteriously: "I'm afraid that won't work. Besides, he's not my friend."

Mo Xiujin looked out the window at the heavy snow and thought to himself, the prince and Dong Su were good in every way except that they were too upright, and in political struggles, the upright could never defeat the despicable.

Then let me be the despicable one! Anyway, I am not afraid of going to hell after death...

Outside Chang'an City, Prince Ling's army set up camp and the city of Chang'an was in chaos. The Queen and court officials investigated the cause of the new emperor's death.

It was found that the new emperor died of poisoning, and the poisoning occurred very early, at least half a year ago. At the same time, a eunuch in the teahouse committed suicide. Further investigation revealed that the eunuch was planted by the previous prince.

The matter was clear. The former crown prince had sent people to poison the new emperor a long time ago, but it was a chronic poison that only took effect today.

The Queen wanted to be like Empress Lu, so she invited General Xie to the palace to discuss the matter and make her three-year-old son the emperor, with General Xie as his tutor.

Therefore, the most important thing right now is to kill King Ling.

General Xie decisively rejected the Queen's request and said that the Queen should go out of the palace and take a look. Just one look would show her that in today's Chang'an City, Prince Ling is the one that the people want.

What she had to do was to take her children to confess her crime to King Ling, and ask him to spare their lives for the sake of their blood relationship.

The Queen was naturally unwilling to accept this and wanted to persuade several other court officials, but that day the Imperial City Army announced its surrender and opened the city gates to invite Prince Ling into the city.

It is said that when Prince Ling entered the city, the people of Chang'an who had been hiding spontaneously went to the streets to greet him, and the nobles and officials also knelt down to greet him.

Only General Xie quietly left the city and returned to the Liangzhou military camp.

The queen finally gave up hope. Although her mother's family was also a noble family, it could not be compared with the Xie family and the Chen family. She had no close relatives who held military power, and her son was too young. She had no bargaining chips at all to fight against Prince Ling.

Then he led all the concubines and princes and princesses to kneel in the palace, waiting for Prince Ling's decision.

In addition, many young concubines began to fantasize about being favored by Prince Ling and being able to continue to stay in the palace as concubines.

But the result was beyond everyone's expectations. After seeing the late emperor's body, Prince Ling ordered the imperial tomb to be sealed and the late emperor was officially buried.

After finding evidence that the new emperor had murdered his father, it was announced to the world that the new emperor was not allowed to be buried in the imperial mausoleum and was buried as a commoner.

The chaos in Chang'an City was quickly quelled, and then Prince Ling did something that puzzled the entire Chang'an.

He did not live in the imperial palace, nor did he step into the harem. He only ordered that all the concubines of the King of Wu be confined to the former King of Wu's Palace.

Then he announced that the capital would be moved to Youzhou, and he would hold his coronation ceremony in Youzhou.

Moving the capital was a major event, and all the officials in the court and the dignitaries in the city strongly opposed it.

But Prince Ling's attitude was very tough. After sending away the Liangzhou Army, he directly ordered the Youzhou Army to pack up the palace's warehouse and asked the six ministries to take inventory of the national treasury.

He himself will rush back to Youzhou before the New Year, and the officials can come later.

He even said that if any officials wanted to stay in Chang'an to serve as officials, that was fine. As for the powerful, he would not force them to stay.

All the powerful officials in Chang'an were dumbfounded. What did Prince Ling mean by this?

Could it be that Chang'an City, which has been prosperous for hundreds of years, is no match for Youzhou, an old border city?

Ling Moxiao directly used Dong Su's previous words to shut them up, which was:

"The emperor guards the national gate."

Youzhou City is undoubtedly the gateway to Daxia, so he wants to move the capital.