Crown Prince of the Empire, I quit!

After Hua Yunhong and Du Zi started to move.

Bad news also came from the direction of Shenmu City.

"Your Highness, the Fourth Prince has arrived in Shenmu City."

"What!?"

When his subordinates delivered this news to Hua Yunhong.

Hua Yunhong jumped up from the stool.

He had never been so flustered in his life.

The reason for all this is because the Fourth Prince was once the Crown Prince!

In previous years, Hua Yunhong was not the designated crown prince.

Because there is no system of primogeniture within the Shenmu Kingdom.

The princes can compete for the position of crown prince.

It is precisely for this reason that many people quietly accumulate strength and merit in an effort to make the old emperor see their talents.

During this period, the Fourth Prince performed extremely well.

More than ten years ago, he was the crown prince.

However, later on, due to his poor health, he missed a lot of important work.

In particular, there was an extremely serious riot in the fiefdom under his jurisdiction.

A large number of peasants gathered together to revolt and almost marched south to attack Shenmu City.

After such a crazy behavior, the Fourth Prince made a big mistake and was directly deprived of his status as the crown prince.

Hua Yunhong, who had been accumulating strength, took the opportunity to take the position.

And made many outstanding contributions.

Among these, the most important achievement was suppressing the rebellion in the fourth prince's fiefdom.

This also cut off the fourth prince's chance to secure the position of crown prince.

After the position of crown prince was handed over to someone else, the Fourth Prince naturally launched a crazy revenge against Hua Yunhong, whose foundation was unstable.

But in the end, they were all blocked by Hua Yunhong.

As time went on, the Fourth Prince lost his voice in the entire court.

Many of his supporters turned against him and expressed their loyalty to Hua Yunhong.

At that time, Hua Yunhong was not as extreme as he is now, and he accepted the redemption of the former Fourth Prince on a large scale.

Finally, he was able to gain a foothold in the court.

But now the old emperor died too quickly.

No one expected that Hua Yunhong also made a huge mistake.

This directly shook Hua Yunhong's position as the crown prince and gave the fourth prince hope.

He directly contacted the royal family members in the surrounding areas. The reason for contacting them first was that the royal families in various places had their own private soldiers within their fiefdoms.

These troops are usually used to guard the national border.

But in this period, it can become a force supporting the Fourth Prince.

Apart from them, there are officials in Shenmu City.

This is also the fourth prince’s second stop.

These officials are all selfish fence-sitters.

Once the Fourth Prince enters Shenmu City, it means that his alliance in the border area has ended and he has gained a lot of support.

With the support of the border kings, he came to Shenmu City.

This in itself is a deterrent.

It is very likely that Hua Yunhong will never have the chance to return to Shenmu City.

If this guy has a lot of support in the court and has a large number of troops in his hands.

Hua Yunhong doesn't even need to return to Shenmu City, he can directly ascend the throne and become emperor.

"Send a message to the imperial court to block all the main roads in the north and expel the Fourth Prince from Shenmu City!"

Without any hesitation, Hua Yunhong made an extremely domineering decision.

He was now a little anxious. Although the troops had gathered together, they were marching even slower.

The journey was originally only a few days long, but after receiving troops from various places, the pace slowed down a bit.

Under this circumstance, he was no longer prepared to wait and directly called Du Zi over.

"Bring all your troops with all their weapons and equipment ready, and follow me into Shenmu City."

"Yes!"

Du Zi also learned the news that the fourth prince had entered Shenmu City.

Now they no longer care about the newspapers, they must seize the throne.

Everyone started on their journey regardless of day or night.

Just when major events were happening on their side, the newspapers also quietly published the major events that had recently occurred in the court.

Many officials and citizens, both in government and in opposition, are now keeping their eyes fixed on newspapers.

Because it will contain some of the latest developments in the court.

In the southern part of Shenmu Kingdom, within the city of Shuilian County.

Looking at the news coming from afar, Chu Ying's face was also full of shock.

He didn't know much about the things happening in the Shenmu Kingdom.

So when he saw the Fourth Prince rush into Shenmu City first, he was also very surprised.

Facing this prince who suddenly appeared, he turned to several of his men and asked:

"Why didn't the newspaper find this news in advance?"

Their people have been collecting intelligence in various places.

This is mainly to provide more topics for publication in newspapers.

Logically speaking, they should know more and more about the affairs within the entire Shenmu Kingdom, and in more and more details.

However, they only learned about the Fourth Prince's arrival in Shenmu City now.

The most crucial point is that he has not reported this incident to Qin Ming.

This made Chu Ying feel that he was not doing his job well.

"Boss, even if our people investigate, they can only find some superficial information. Since this guy dared to enter Shenmu City, he must have been disguised, so it will be difficult to track him down."

The subordinates also felt aggrieved at this time because it was difficult for them to find out the truth through the other party's disguise during the investigation.

If you don't want people like the Fourth Prince to find out, there must be countless ways to do it.

Even the news of his arrival in Shenmu City was released by himself, and only then did the local Tongbao Pavilion finally know about it.

Sighing, Chu Ying did not focus on the news in the newspaper.

Instead, he quickly explained to them:

"You must go now and report this matter to His Majesty as soon as possible. There must be no delay."

Qin Ming's planning was very detailed. In this situation, the situations occurring in various places and some major events had to be reported to him promptly by Chu Ying.

Otherwise, there would be no point in letting Chu Ying control Tongbao Pavilion.

Chu Ying himself was very clear about this.

Under his arrangement, the news was quickly delivered to Qin Ming.

Looking at the telegram sent by the other party, Qin Ming frowned slightly.

He called Liu Chuang and Wu Qingye, who had fought in the Shenmu Kingdom several times, to his front.

"At this rate, if the Fourth Prince in the north wants to mobilize troops, when will he be able to bring all the men here?"

Hearing Qin Ming's question, Liu Chuang scratched his head and said:

"Their troops march at different speeds. We don't know if this guy secretly brought too many people with him when he went there. It's hard to judge, Your Majesty."

Wu Qingye thought for a moment and shook his head:

“No, actually, we can roughly judge it.”

"Oh?"

Qin Ming and Liu Chuang both looked at him curiously.

Wu Qingye explained:

"The Fourth Prince probably didn't bring many troops with him back to Shenmu City this time. No more than 3,000 at most. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to avoid so many eyes and ears. This is certain."