Crown Prince of the Empire, I quit!

"why?"

Hearing this, Duanmu Jiang was surprised at first, and then became furious.

"Why are they all a bunch of trash?"

At this critical moment, mistakes occurred frequently.

How can their plans proceed?

Even though they have spent a huge amount of money in the early stage, if all their subordinates are such people, what great things can they accomplish together?

Just go home and wait for your entire clan to be exterminated!

Upon hearing this, the subordinates could only hang their heads and dared not respond.

In fact, they also feel aggrieved.

Qin Ming had planned everything before coming here.

Whether it was the hype in newspapers or the smooth flow of traffic at checkpoints along the way, someone had put in some thought in advance.

One of the people assisting from the rear was Fang Yuanjian, the prince of the Shenmu Kingdom.

The other is Chu Ying, who controls Tongbao Pavilion.

These two people took action together, and the newspapers also led many people to express their dissatisfaction with the ministers in the court.

This made Qin Ming's arrival extremely easy.

"Tell them that they will either die at Qin Ming's hands! Otherwise, I will personally lead people to execute them as traitors!"

"In extraordinary times, high-pressure measures must be used."

Duanmu Jiang was no longer willing to argue with them at this point and began to give orders.

Upon seeing this, several ministers around him nodded and expressed their opinions.

"Tell the Sun family, the Liu family, the Li family... and ask them to use their private soldiers."

"Issue a bounty on the Jianghu, setting the reward for Qin Ming at... 10 million taels!"

"No matter how much pressure we bear, for the next seven days, the sale of all newspapers around Shenmu City is prohibited. Anyone who violates this will be killed!"

Every word spoken by these pillar ministers was a major move that touched the core of the empire.

And all this happened just because Qin Ming came.

Hearing this, all the men standing by couldn't help but feel their legs go weak.

They knew clearly how much turmoil these orders would cause in the Shenmu Kingdom.

If Hua Yunhong were still in the court.

Just these charges alone are enough to kill all of them ten or a hundred times over!

"Yes……!"

Everyone took the order with trembling voices.

Soon, martial law was imposed in Shenmu City.

Guards wearing armor and holding mechanical weapons stood on every street.

As for the Tongbao Pavilion newsstand, which was once very busy, it has now been completely blocked.

Inside Tongbao Pavilion, people were also undergoing rounds of inspections.

Duanmu Jiang and others dug deep into the ground, frantically searching for any trace of Hua Yunhong.

Tongbao Pavilion in Shenmu City is constantly fighting back against the other party's unreasonable actions.

Not only did it cut off part of the material supply to the Shenmu Kingdom's court.

It also completely shut down the sales of goods from Daqian to Tongbao Pavilion.

In just half a day, public discontent boiled over!

Duanmu Jiang and others were originally planning to return home after the meeting.

But as soon as they left the palace, they found that things seemed different from what they had imagined.

After taking extremely harsh measures, the people spontaneously ran to the gate of the palace and waited.

The carriage was on its way out of the palace, but before it had gone a hundred feet, rotten eggs and rotten vegetable leaves had already arrived.

The carriages that had cost many ministers of the imperial court thousands of taels of silver to build were now dyed in all sorts of colors and smelled awful!

"You old traitor, why don't you just die!"

"You dare to kill His Majesty, aren't you afraid of being infamous for eternity?"

"Even if a new emperor is appointed, everyone will remember that you came to power illegitimately!"

"Go to hell! I'll smash it!"

There was constant shouting and cursing along the way.

"Sir, what should I do?"

After being attacked by the crowd outside, the driver's face was already covered with bruises. When he stuck his head in, blood was still dripping from his forehead, making him look like a yaksha.

Duanmu Jiang's eyebrows couldn't stop twitching, and anger was already surging in his chest.

"Where are the palace guards? Let them kill to establish their authority!"

"Yes!"

The driver immediately turned the carriage around and headed back to the palace.

The remaining few old ministers were unable to leave in the crowd and had to make the same choice.

Back in the palace, standing under the red wall, Duanmu Jiang shouted angrily:

"Someone! Someone!"

"Kill a few of these troublemakers to establish my authority!"

Several other old ministers who were unable to leave the palace were equally angry, and upon hearing this, they wanted to raise their hands in support.

"It's ridiculous that people are so ignorant and do such things!"

"We have fought for our country and our people, even willing to bear the eternal infamy, just to restore the art of machinery and strengthen our Shenmu Nation. Yet, no one understands. How sad and lamentable!"

"Don't be afraid. Your eternal reputation will be judged by future generations!"

"Yes, we will move forward courageously!"

Ding Ding Deng!

Heavy footsteps came from Shenmu City.

Hundreds of heavily armored guards held long spears, pointed their spear tips forward, and moved forward step by step.

"What are you doing!"

The people gathered here became even more dissatisfied when they saw this.

But the weapons of the heavily armored guards did not stop at all, and they continued to move forward unwaveringly.

This scene caused more people to throw things at them, trying to stop them.

But they soon discovered that this was of no use.

There was a pop.

A spear pierced a civilian.

"Killed!"

Someone in the crowd shouted.

Everyone fled in all directions.

"Oh, let's go."

At this time, Wan Youwei, who was mixed in, spoke to Hua Yunhong.

No one expected that Wan Youwei, who only had a few dozen people, could take Hua Yunhong away.

This force in Shenmu City was not considered powerful. When they received Qin Ming's order and were about to protect Hua Yunhong, they had just ambushed outside the imperial city when they saw Hua Yunhong walking out with a group of people covered in blood.

Wan Youwei did not hesitate and walked forward to reveal his identity.

Only then did he finally take Hua Yunhong away.

They hid Hua Yunhong in the Shenmu City branch of the Wulin Alliance.

Not many people noticed.

Because they don't attract much attention.

"These bastards are already lawless."

When Hua Yunhong, who was wearing a conical hat, saw Duanmu Jiang and others slaughtering civilians, veins bulged on his forehead.

He never thought that one day things would turn out like this.

"Your Majesty, think positively."

"When the Daqian people come, they will all die."

Wan Youwei comforted him from the side.

Today's riot among the people was actually instigated by Wan Youwei and others.

They wanted to see if there were any guards in the palace who were loyal to Hua Yunhong. If there were, they would contact them secretly. With more manpower, their chances of winning would be greater.

Maybe Qin Ming doesn't even need to come.

But when they actually arrived at the scene and saw that all the palace guards had been controlled by Duanmu Jiang and others, their hopes were shattered.

"Let's go back first."

Hua Yunhong took a deep breath. He had seen too many storms and waves. When it was time to lie low, he would never get angry.

Wan Youwei nodded, called out to the people in the dark, and escorted Hua Yunhong to prepare to return to the Wulin Alliance.

But just as he was giving the order to escort, he suddenly froze.

The people he had just arranged had disappeared at some point.