Travel through the heavens

Xiao Se and the others looked up and saw Fang Muye holding the curled-up Jin Yan in his hand, floating down from the sky and landing on the top of a dragon-shaped pillar in front of the hall.

Ye Xiaoying frowned, raised his head and looked at Fang Muye, and asked in a deep voice: "Brother Fang, you are a celestial being, do you also want to intervene in the royal dispute in this secular world?"

Fang Muye threw Jin Yan to the ground and smiled: "General Ye misunderstood. I don't want to interfere in the royal family dispute. As for who will be the emperor, I don't care."

"What do you mean, Brother Fang?" Ye Xiaoying looked at the Tai Chi diagram in the air, and then looked at the Langya Army, the Imperial Guards and the Huben Lang who were pressed to the ground.

Fang Muye waved his hand, and the Tai Chi diagram in the air gradually disappeared. The soldiers who were originally unable to move suddenly regained their freedom, but they did not continue to attack the opposite side.

At this moment, the same thought suddenly came to their minds: I'm afraid this war can't be fought?

Fang Muye looked at Ye Xiaoying and said slowly: "General Ye, these are all loyal and brave men who protect the country and the people. Why should we let them die in this meaningless war?"

Ye Xiaoying said loudly: "As a soldier, you should fight bravely and kill the enemy. How can it be meaningless?"

"But are they really enemies?" Fang Muye shook his head. "Back then, the King of Langya didn't want to be the emperor, and now this little brother Xiao Lingchen doesn't want to be the emperor either. I want to ask General Ye, do you want to be the emperor?"

Ye Xiaoying was stunned by Fang Muye's sudden question. After a moment of silence, he said in a low but firm voice: "I have never thought about sitting in that position. It was the same before and it is still the same now."

Fang Muye asked again: "Even if you massacre the Pingqing Palace with blood, what will happen? It will only cause unrest in Tianqi and the entire Beili."

“But the King of Langya died because he didn’t want Tianqi and Beili to revolt. He was killed by his brother, whom he personally put on the throne, and was killed on the execution ground.” Ye Xiaoying became angrier and angrier as he spoke, and finally he howled to the sky.

Ye Xiaoying liked to howl like this when he was young. Many timid enemy soldiers could not even stand after hearing such a long howl.

But now, this long roar contained too much anger and unwillingness. There was anger towards Emperor Mingde, and there was also anger and unwillingness at being betrayed by the person he trusted the most. He placed all his hopes on Xiao Lingchen. Unlike Zhuoxin and others, he did not place his hopes on ambition, but on the unwillingness of the Langya Army back then.

"He is dead, and Brother Lei is also dead. Of the three people back then, I am the only one left." Ye Xiaoying had a sad look on his face and muttered to himself.

Emperor Mingde had not spoken for a long time, until he heard Ye Xiaoying's words, "He was killed by his brother who personally put him on the throne, killed on the execution ground," his expression suddenly became extremely melancholy.

With his eyes blurred, he seemed to see again the figure in white at the execution ground four years ago. The figure gave him a complicated smile, said the last words of his life, "Brother", and then committed suicide in front of him.

Emperor Mingde sighed heavily and said in a deep voice: "Chu He."

Xiao Se turned around, walked to Emperor Mingde, and bowed: "Your son is here."

"Announce the decree." Emperor Mingde uttered these two words with a complicated expression.

Xiao Se was stunned for a moment: "Where does the order come from?"

Emperor Mingde said calmly: "Gu Nian, you announce it."

"Your son obeys your command." Xiao Se responded and turned around.

Emperor Mingde said softly, "In the sixteenth year of Mingde, the case of Prince Langya's treason."

"In the sixteenth year of Mingde, there was the case of treason committed by Prince of Langya." Xiao Se read aloud, and everyone present heard it clearly. They raised their heads and looked at Emperor Mingde, unable to guess what he was going to say next.

"It was my misjudgment." Emperor Mingde said immediately.

The people nearby were all shocked. Xiao Chong's expression changed drastically: "Father, are you going to issue an edict of apology?"

Only when the emperor and his subjects are out of place, when natural disasters are unpredictable, or when the regime is in danger, will he issue a self-criticism edict to reflect on his mistakes and inform the world.

However, the issuance of the edict of repentance was extremely cautious, because the emperor's mistakes would be recorded word for word in history books and eventually passed down through the ages. Since the founding of the Northern Li Dynasty, no emperor had ever issued an edict of repentance.

"Read it." Emperor Mingde said in a deep voice to Xiao Se who was stunned.

Xiao Se no longer hesitated and continued to read: "It was my misjudgment."

The Langya army was shocked.

Xiao Lingchen looked sad, and Ye Xiaoying had a gloomy face.

"Langya King Xiao Ruofeng worked hard for his country and his people, but was tragically framed by a traitor."

"Now the traitor has been brought to justice, the old case has been cleared, and he has been given the posthumous title of 'Da' and re-entered the Imperial Ancestral Temple, where incense has been burning for ten years."

"His son Xiao Lingchen inherited his title and became the King of Langya. He was granted the title of General Xuanwu and was allowed to call back the old Langya army and the three armies, and was directly under the emperor."

"I listened to slander and killed my beloved brother by mistake. I feel so ashamed and remorseful that I will go to the Imperial Ancestral Temple every three days to offer incense until I die."

Emperor Mingde spoke a sentence, and Xiao Se followed suit.

After the entire edict of apology was issued, Emperor Mingde coughed slightly, and his thin body was a little shaky. He only managed to avoid falling with the support of Mu Chunfeng.

Xiao Lingchen turned around, bent his knees and knelt on the ground, saying loudly: "Your Majesty, I obey your command!"

The edict of repentance was issued by the emperor himself to the people of the world. Who dared to receive such an edict?

Xiao Lingchen stood up again and said loudly to the Langya Army, "My father, Langya King Xiao Ruofeng, committed suicide and went to prison to quell the turmoil in the country. The night of the Tianqi City riot was planned by my father and I. My father sacrificed his honor for the stability of the country, committed suicide and went to prison, and then committed suicide on the execution ground to stabilize the world. You, as my father's soldiers, do not follow the general's orders, but instead march towards the imperial city to plot chaos in the world. Do you still deserve the name Langya Army?"

Xiao Se said coldly, "It was you who brought them here."

Xiao Lingchen whispered: "If it weren't for this, would those old eunuchs believe me?"

Lei Wujie also whispered, "At this time of life and death, do you still have the mind to complain to each other?"

Of course, the Langya Army could not hear these whispered complaints. They only heard the edict of repentance that had never appeared since Beili left the country, and Xiao Lingchen's loud shout.

The three former generals stood on the side of their young prince Xiao Lingchen without hesitation, and stepped aside with the troops under their control, releasing the encircling imperial guards and tiger guards.

But the real army is still under Ye Xiaoying's control.

"Grand Protector, why are both you and your son so unwilling to be emperor?" Ye Xiaoying's voice was very soft, and the soldiers did not dare to get too close to him. In the end, no one heard this sentence.

They only saw the golden-armored general remain silent for a long time, then finally turn his horse around and slowly head towards the palace gate.

Fang Muye glanced at Ye Xiaoying's departing back, then looked at Emperor Mingde and said calmly, "Your Majesty has not recovered from your heart disease yet, so you should not worry about state affairs. Your two sons are both good, and each of them is capable of inheriting the throne. Your Majesty should abdicate as soon as possible and become a leisurely emperor. This way, you may be able to live longer."

After saying this, the figure instantly disappeared from the spot, and when it reappeared, it was already in mid-air, floating away.

At the end of the 21st year of Mingde, this shocking case of treason, later known as the "Langya Rebellion", finally ended when the golden-armored general Ye Xiaoying led his troops to withdraw from Tianqi City.

The final record in history books was that the three former eunuchs forged the Dragon Seal Scroll and incited the former members of the Langya Army to rebel. In the end, the Langya Army, under the leadership of Langya King Xiao Ruofeng, killed the rebels, and their merits and demerits offset each other.

Emperor Mingde finally admitted that the case of Langya Prince's treason was a miscarriage of justice, and issued an edict of repentance to restore Langya Prince's reputation and punish himself. However, Xiao Lingchen quickly pointed out that there was a reason for Emperor Mingde's miscarriage of justice. In order to prevent being used by villains, Xiao Ruofeng deliberately did many things to defile himself. The night of the riot in Tianqi City that year was also planned by him.

It is indeed a strange thing that in this massive rebellion, only a hundred people were killed in the end.