This matter gave even the emperor a headache. In his opinion, King Jin and King Qin were undoubtedly the best candidates to succeed the crown prince, but he was still having trouble deciding who to choose.
Whether it is the Yue family or the Wu family, he has single-handedly supported them, and he is also in charge of the military power of one party. However, judging from the current performance of the two families, it is obvious that King Jin is more optimistic about him.
As for King Qin, the Yue family's performance in this battle really disappointed him!
But what the emperor didn't expect was that Yuejia would disappoint him even more...
As soon as February entered the second half of February, Yuejia lost two more cities, and half of the southwest they guarded was handed over to the hands of Poland!
As soon as this news came out, the whole country was shocked!
How incompetent must Yue Jia be to achieve such a record? ! He even lost to the point where he had nowhere to go and had to garrison in the city defended by Chu Junxiu!
But just when the whole country had not recovered from the shock, Yue Jia's next move made everyone feel unbelievable.
Because the Yue family actually attacked the city defended by Southwest General Chu Junxiu!
On the surface, they were asking for help so that the Yuejia army could enter the city and settle down, but in fact, the Yuejia army raised their weapons and took action against their compatriots!
Fortunately, Chu Junxiu noticed something was wrong in advance and evacuated everyone in time. This did not cause too much damage, but the move of escaping home still shocked the entire Zhou Dynasty!
It was only then that everyone knew that the Yue family had rebelled!
No wonder!
No wonder Yuejia has been retreating steadily since the beginning of the war!
No wonder the Southwest General and the Western Army plan to counterattack, something will happen to the city defended by Yuejia!
No wonder Yuejia was able to lose all the cities it defended!
It turns out that Yuejia is no longer Dazhou’s Yuejia!
Even at the last moment of exposure, he took the opportunity to snatch away a city that Chu Junxiu was defending!
The situation in the southwest of Great Zhou Dynasty has become more and more critical at this moment!
The Yue family already controlled more than half of the military power in the southwest, and now they were obviously colluding with the Polish state. With the two parties united, Chu Junxiu could not resist at all, and could only defend the remaining cities with difficulty, so that the southwest would not be completely destroyed. fell into enemy hands.
The same is true for the Western Army. The number of enemies they are defending has changed from one to two, and their front line has been stretched. They can only focus on defense.
At this moment, even the troops who were stationed in the Central Plains had to mobilize and assemble at the key pass connecting the southwest border with the Central Plains to prevent the intrusion of Yuejia and Poland, otherwise even the capital would be in danger!
However, there are not many troops in the Central Plains and their combat power is not strong. Everyone is not sure whether they can resist the coalition forces of Yuejia and Poland.
This is the first time that everyone is so worried that the enemy will break into the capital...
On the day when the news of the Yue family's rebellion came back to the capital, the emperor vomited blood and fell into a coma. He was finally rescued and woke up. The first thing he did was to order people to arrest the King of Qin, Concubine De, and all related personnel of the Yue family in the capital.
However, when the emperor's people arrived at the Qin Prince's Mansion, the Qin Prince's Mansion was already empty, and there was no living thing in sight.
The same is true for Yuejia, and the tribesman who was imprisoned in prison before Yuejia was found dead in prison, and had long since died.
The main hall of the palace where Concubine De was located was forcibly knocked open by the palace guards, and it was discovered that Concubine De had been hanged from the beam.
As for whether she hanged herself or was harmed by others, no news came out. I am afraid that the emperor at this time has no intention to find out the cause of Concubine Defe's death.
On the day King Qin disappeared, Wu Zechen teamed up with Zuo Xiang and Zuo Xiyan, his father and son, to expose Xiang Liu's crimes!
It turned out that Prime Minister Liu had been secretly helping King Qin in his activities in the southwest. More than half of the cities in the southwest, the city guards or governors were disciples of Prime Minister Liu. The reason why the Yue family was able to take over half of the southwest so smoothly was because they all belonged to the Liu family. "Credit"!
As soon as the evidence came out, the emperor was furious and sent people to search Liu's house that night. However, Prime Minister Liu's mansion was also empty and messy like a ghost house.
Obviously, the Liu family left the capital together with King Qin. As soon as the incident in the southwest was exposed, they immediately packed up and ran away.
As for where he went, there was no need to think too much, it could only be the southwest!
When the emperor discovered that King Qin was missing, he had already sent people to pursue him, but nothing was found.
Five days after King Qin disappeared, he finally appeared in the southwest city.
When the King of Qin appeared, he immediately proclaimed himself emperor, classified the area controlled by the Yue family as the national border, and changed the name of the country to Qin.
After the emperor learned about this, his condition became more serious.
He trusted Yue Jia and handed over the military power to Yue Jia, but now he turned around and betrayed him! They even used his military power to point the finger at him!
And the prince he trusted and loved betrayed him!
Even the right prime minister, one of the two prime ministers, actually helped King Qin take away his kingdom!
Such a big blow made the emperor sick, and he seemed to have aged more than ten years.
The emperor suddenly fell ill, and his condition was extremely unstable. His position as prince was still in doubt, and the entire court was in panic.
In such a situation, the emperor had to make up his mind as soon as possible. The former prince had already lost his reputation and could no longer hold the position of prince.
Not to mention that King Qin had already rebelled. In the end, in the eyes of the emperor, only King Jin was left.
To the emperor, other princes are not as good as King Jin, and even King Jin's current reputation is quite worrying.
But just the day before the emperor finally made up his mind to announce that the crown prince was deposed and the second prince, Prince Jin, was to be crowned crown prince, something happened in the palace...
In the royal study, after dragging his sick body and forcing himself to draft two imperial edicts related to the position of the prince, before the emperor could return to the palace to rest, there was a report from the eunuch at the door.
The prince and queen are here.
The emperor frowned, having some idea as to why the mother and son were here.
As for why these two people were able to leave their respective palaces despite being in a state of confinement, he was not too surprised.
The punishment of confinement is just for others to see.
The emperor always favored the prince. He had heard about the things the prince did, but he didn't take it to heart at all.
If the prince hadn't gone too far and had everyone exposed, he probably wouldn't have taken these things to heart at all. In the final analysis, he was just a pariah.
In fact, what pissed him off the most was that the prince was not doing things smoothly and was often caught by his tail. This was what disappointed him the most.
As for the queen, she was imprisoned because she poisoned the queen mother. When it was revealed, the emperor had to imprison the queen as punishment.
But from the emperor's point of view, he even resented the queen for not succeeding!
