Chapter 268 (1/2)
Perhaps what they are doing is a joke to other countries.
And such a thing could only happen in an environment like the Yan Kingdom.
Why would an unknown sect dare to confront the imperial court?
King Yan, Mu Changyan, was still there. No one knew that he was being controlled, so King Yan represented the authority of this country.
And what the Heavenly Enlightenment Sect was doing, in this sense, was rebellion.
Such a conspiracy was in the capital.
If it had been any other country, such a thing could not have happened.
If it was in the Great Xi, no one would even think about it.
However, in the Yan Country, they were able to do so with a certain probability of success.
Only in the Yan Country would they have a chance of success.
Her Majesty was bent on ruling the court, and the great families, though submissive on the surface, did not really want a foreign woman in power, and the woman's ambition was well-known.
This was not the chaotic era of the Seven Kingdoms from thousands of years ago, when the empress dowager's power was so great that she could change the king of a nation at will.
As long as the interests of those big families were at stake, they would not be trampled upon.
Mu Changyan was a puppet, his will was not to be found in the capital.
With the Celestial Sect blatantly rebelling against them, only a group of martial artists had been called upon to attack the sect. The decline and decline of the Yan Dynasty could be imagined.
The most important thing was that the Yan Kingdom's army was still engaged in a fierce battle at the border.
Hundreds of thousands of elite warriors had no time to care about the capital.
This was a complicated situation … According to the rules, no matter how domineering the empress dowager was, Mu Changyan held the Infantry Division in her hands. With military power in her hands, what was there to be afraid of?
However, in reality, holding the army was not the same as holding the military power. What could be controlled was only a small portion of the garrison forces in the capital, which was the part of the army that w.a.n.g KaiTai and Fang Dao held.
As for the Imperial Army, it was under the control of the Embroidery Palace.
As for the hundreds of thousands of men of the Yan Country, it was impossible for them to be sent back from the border.
The sixteen kingdoms didn't fight with each other for years. Once they returned from the border, their opponents would pounce on them and bite them once they detected it.
And it was precisely this division that could not control the numbers that successfully restrained the empress dowager.
As for the empress dowager, she had been tied down by the various great clans of the imperial court, so she stood on three legs on the surface.
Amongst these three pillars, the King of Swallow, Mu Changyan, was undoubtedly the weakest.
By now, Mu Changyan was no longer a force to be reckoned with.
After combining the powers of the Military Department and the Gathering of the Shang Clan, the peaceful Heaven's Enlightenment Sect had replaced Mu Changyan as the new member of the Three-Legged Golden Crow Clan.
If the Holy Emperor of the Great Xi, Chen Nuo, heard about the Yan Kingdom, he would probably laugh out loud.
For a country to be in such a situation, what was the need for such a thing?
However, such a rotten country had been carefully maintained by these three forces that fought openly and secretly, yet it still did not fall.
This was because everyone was very clear that their interests were built on the basis of the existence of the Yan Kingdom.
Once the State of Yan was destroyed, everything would be in vain.
This was why An Zuzheng and the others were so adamant in defending the Heavenly Adept Sect in the capital. They formed a threat to Empress Dowager Su and Mu Changyan.
Gu Zhaogong was squatting there, drawing on the ground with a branch in his hand. Soon, he drew a complicated diagram of the relations.h.i.+p between the two of them.
””Empress Dowager Su still hasn't moved. She doesn't want those in the alliance to see her trump cards clearly.””
Gu Zhaogong raised his head and looked at An Zaiyue, ””And the current situation has already exceeded my expectations, so the countermeasures should have changed … In fact, at this moment, King Yan could be ignored.””
Duke Yan didn't have any strength in his hands, and the only ones who could move were the palace maids and eunuchs around him.
””And those adults … they seem to have good patience. They're just waiting for us to force the empress dowager into a corner and see what else she can do.””
He sighed, ””Actually, this is an incredibly sad matter …””
””Maybe we can change the country.””
Gu Zhaogong said, ””But we know very well that this is rebellion.””
””I still say that if you fail to succeed, you will rebel. If you succeed, you will be called the Protector of the Kingdom.””
Gu Zhaoye stood up. ””Now we'll see what Empress Dowager Su will do next. Those martial artists should still rush over, but they won't be able to affect anything.””
””Master Huo, this is really eye-opening.””
””I was scared too,”” An Zaixin said with a smile.
He looked at the eight Lava Cannons, ””But … I don't have the most powerful spirit stone bullets left for the cannon. I just went to take a look, and there are only two left.””
””Those martial artists will also pounce on us in a while, it will be a battle of close-quarters.””
As he spoke, those sects that had suffered heavy losses in the distance began to stir again.
These people would not give up so easily, especially after a certain amount of losses, they were even more unwilling to give up so easily.
And they became wise and began to congregate together to choose a leader to command.
This way, it wouldn't be as chaotic as before.
Furthermore, more and more people joined them. Although those who joined later were not cultivators, the majority of them were hooligans who wanted to take advantage of the situation to rob others.
These days, the conflicts on the east side of the city were exceptionally brutal, those rascals had no room for survival.
Now that they saw that the Heavenly Enlightenment Sect was about to be exterminated, these people rushed over like mice smelling a scent.
””It doesn't seem to work for someone like you, who controls bad guys.””
Tantai Che sat there and laughed, ””It seems that I was afraid that you would only be temporary.””
””Because I am not terrible enough,”” answered Antony.
””That's true. If a person is terrifying to a certain extent, people don't even have the courage to fight back.””
For example, the royal family of the Da Xi family were so powerful that they could suffocate people. Who would dare to resist?
””Holy Emperor Chen Wuzuo's fart, it can even blow a corner of the world away.””