The maid's road to success

After all, they were two great families that had been entrenched in Kyoto for many years, and they were two people who had always had great influence in the military. With the cooperation of Prince Li and Marquis Wu'an, and with the news from An Zizhong, they immediately found the private soldiers raised by the Sixth Princess.

Although the number of people was not large, they were all strong soldiers. The moment Prince Li saw it with his own eyes, he realized how powerful the Sixth Princess was. Such manpower was enough to intimidate the enemy even on the battlefield.

They are the best vanguard troops in the army. I didn’t expect the Han family to have such ability. This shows that the Han family had some private interests when training soldiers for the court.

No wonder the Empress Dowager had put so much effort into arranging a marriage for the Sixth Prince with the daughter of the Han family. If the Sixth Prince had been as ruthless as the Fourth Prince, he would probably have been able to seize the throne by now.

But there was one thing that they couldn't understand. Since the Han family had chosen the Sixth Prince, they must have been greedy for the supreme power. But why did they hide this ability from the Sixth Prince?

Who are we raising death warriors for?

"Don't think about it. Once we catch the Sixth Princess and the Han family, we'll know what they are up to. Before that, when will your people arrive?"

Marquis Wu'an was lying on a secluded hilltop, looking at the soldiers in front of him who were still training with their bare chests, with a look of pity in his eyes. They were all military generals, and they liked these kind of brave and skilled soldiers the most. If they were placed in the frontier, they would surely be a team that would win the highest honor. What a pity.

It just so happens that they were trained by the Sixth Princess and the Han family. Even if such people are spared in the end and allowed to atone their sins and work for the court, there are still great hidden dangers.

"We're here. Let's wait until they fall asleep and then take action at night. Don't get too excited and leave some of them alive."

Both of them are old.

He lay motionless on the top of the hill for two hours and felt like his bones were about to fall apart. He finally waited until everyone in the camp below had rested before he sent a messenger five miles away to bring the army over.

The Han family would never have thought that the city defense army they had been keeping an eye on had been staying in Kyoto, and no one noticed which army from the west belonging to Prince Li had arrived here today.

It was also because the Han family was too confident, thinking that now that the Sixth Prince was in power at court and was about to become the new emperor, no one would pose a threat to them, so they were so confused that they didn't even have someone monitoring them from outside.

This is the biggest taboo in the military, and it was this negligence that led to the successful sneak attack on everyone in the valley and their strangulation at night.

In Kyoto, the Sixth Prince, who had been sitting on the dragon throne in the Hall of Mental Cultivation, was now forced to stand in the hall, looking at Prince Li and other princes and nobles of the royal family who were sitting on the stool on his right.

He turned his head and looked at the indifferent Sixth Princess, his eyes turned red with hatred. Unexpectedly, unexpectedly, when he was about to become the emperor, he was caught by someone.

And from beginning to end, I didn't even notice it.

The heads of the Yue and Han families are rarely in Kyoto. Although the old man has retired to the inner house, he is still able to suppress the Han family. He did not expect that they had raised such a large number of assassins behind his back.

The number of personal soldiers in the palace is limited. No matter how you look at it, the Sixth Princess's army of death soldiers exceeds the regulations and has ulterior motives.

"Sixth Princess, everyone below has confessed. It's useless to deny it now. The large-scale training of assassins alone is enough to kill the entire Han family. You might as well confess early and give the Han family a chance to survive."

The Sixth Princess didn't care about the Sixth Prince's thoughts at all. Such an irresponsible man, indecisive, and needing a woman to support him in everything, actually became her husband.

"The Han family didn't have the surname Han from the beginning. Our real surname is Ruohan, which is the Ruohan clan you know, the Ruohan clan that was exterminated by Chen State many years ago. Most of the remaining Ruohan clan migrated to various places in Chen State, and only our family joined the army and climbed up little by little just to get in touch with the royal family."

When the Ruohan clan was mentioned, the older people present all had an impression.

The Ruohan people are strong and good at fighting, and are a race that the Chen Kingdom has always cared about. There are not many of them, but each of them is a very brave warrior. Such people are slowly growing stronger. The Chen Kingdom was aware of this and immediately sent people to attack the Ruohan tribe.

After all, they were outnumbered, and the Chen army took some time to defeat the patriarch of the Ruohan tribe. The Ruohan tribe members were scattered and had no ability to fight back.

"Our ancestors are from the lineage of the patriarch of the Ruohan clan. At first, the head of the clan wanted to avenge himself and kill all the royal family members of Chen. Later, after the Han family gradually developed, he no longer thought about killing all the people of Chen. After all, the strength of Chen is not something we can fight against. Since my grandfather, we have decided to erode the power of the royal family, let the royal family of Chen merge with the blood of the Ruohan clan, and let the descendants of the Ruohan clan also control Chen. This is the best revenge of the Ruohan clan on Chen."

Prince Li did not expect that this was the reason. The Han family was actually a descendant of the patriarch of the Ruohan clan.

Looking at the Sixth Princess's appearance, she really has some characteristics of the Ruohan clan, with thick hair and very fair skin, slightly broad fingers, and a high nose bridge.

However, after being integrated with the blood and characteristics of the Chen Kingdom over several generations, the once prominent features gradually disappeared.

Prince Li was looking at the Sixth Princess when he suddenly saw the back of the young man standing outside the door.

He had always been doubtful about An Zizhong's identity. He knew everyone in Huaiyuan Marquis' Mansion, but he didn't know anyone like An Zizhong.

Later, Yong'an reminded that Wen Niang was a maid in Fushou Hall, and An Zizhong and Wen Niang were siblings, so it was very likely that they were both former servants of Huaiyuan Marquis' Mansion.

But there is no servant in the world who could do so many things to avenge his master.

It’s not that there aren’t such people, but the servants don’t have the ability and mentality to do so.

When Prince Li looked at the Sixth Princess, a thought suddenly flashed through his mind: were all the male members of the Huaiyuan Marquis's Mansion really dead?

After the Sixth Princess said that, she took a closer look and found that they were also people of the Ruohan clan.

And An Zizhong looked very much like the boy in his memory.

Chen Luoxi.

Chen Luoxi is the one who looks most like the old marquis among his grandchildren, and they also behave in a similar way. Regardless of grudges, he will definitely value Chen Luoxi the most.

An Zizhong is most likely Chen Luoxi.

If Chen Luoxi had not died back then, even if the Huaiyuan Marquisate was persecuted by Duke Cheng'en, not all the male members of the family would have died, and he would have had to take action himself to save a clan brother.

Now it seems that they sent Chen Luoxi away at the last moment. No wonder, no wonder An Zizhong has such great ability.

"Then why do you want to raise assassins? You have become the Sixth Princess, and you should support me well. When I become the emperor, you will be the queen, and your child will be the next emperor. If it is not to satisfy your Han family's purpose, why do you keep assassins behind my back?"

The Sixth Princess seemed to have heard something funny and laughed wildly. She stood up from the ground and looked at the Sixth Prince with red eyes due to anger. She became even happier.

"You want to be the emperor? You want me to be the queen? Are you kidding? I know you too well. You are selfish and conceited, hesitant and stupid. When you take the throne, the first thing you will do is to kill the Han family to protect your precarious throne, eliminate your constraints, and make those gentle, pitiful and simple women you really like the masters of your harem."

"Gong Qiyuan, I've been your wife for so long. I know very well whether your affection for me is that of a husband and wife or that you use it. I've been dealing with so many of your incompetent things. How could you let someone who knows your true nature live and enjoy the glory you bring? So, when you become the emperor, I'll be the first person you deal with. Why would I raise a private army?"

"I might as well tell you directly that it's to kill you. When you become emperor, I will find a way to get pregnant and bring the real heir of the Han family into the palace and make him my child. By then, you will be of no use to me. I will be the only concubine with a prince, and I will also be the mother of the young emperor and manage the government for him."

Everyone was shocked by the Sixth Princess' words. They didn't expect that the reason why the Sixth Princess kept private soldiers was because she and the Sixth Prince were not on good terms.

"Since it has come to this, I don't mind saying a little more. I don't like you. Maybe I did at first, but when I saw you shunning me and humiliating me for those cheap women, I no longer like you. What I like is women. I like women who are delicate and soft, and who I pamper like a man. And you all don't know, the Sixth Prince can't have children. It's impossible for him to have children."

As soon as he finished speaking, the Sixth Prince threw the Sixth Princess to the ground and beat her like a madman. Upon seeing this, Prince Li quickly had someone pull the Sixth Prince away, but he unexpectedly saw a sharp silver hairpin stuck in the Sixth Princess's chest.

Her hand was still tightly holding the silver hairpin and continued to push it in. Blood gushed out of her mouth and she spoke slowly through a hoarse throat.

"I've been forced to be a beautiful woman, but I don't want to be one. I hate that my clothes hide my poems, and when I look up, I envy the names on the list. Why was I born a girl?"

The Sixth Princess's breath gradually disappeared, and her whole body stopped shaking. She was dead. A woman whose talent and ability were no less than men, who wanted to rely on herself to replace the Chen royal family with the Ruohan clan, was dead.

The Sixth Prince seemed to have lost his life. He slumped on the ground, staring at the Sixth Princess's body in a daze.

Before everyone could discuss what to do next, the Sixth Prince suddenly laughed wildly, looked at the corpse of the Sixth Princess and the people in front of him, and stood at the table in the hall.

"How dare you not kneel before me? You are a bunch of traitors. I will kill you all. Kill you all."

Everyone looked at the Sixth Prince's strange appearance, looked at each other, and understood.

This is crazy.

No wonder the Sixth Princess looked down on this gentleman. He was too weak. He had been in charge of government affairs these days and was arrogant. If it weren't for Prince Li's care, he would have wanted to kill the emperor and ascend the throne directly.

Unexpectedly, his princess trained a large number of private soldiers, intending to replace the bloodline of the royal family of Chen State, and revealed the secret that she was a lesbian and that the Sixth Prince was infertile, completely cutting off the Sixth Prince's possibility of succession.

The Sixth Prince went crazy after this blow.