In the spring of the third year of Taiwu.
Emperor Taiwu Yang Wuqiang took the wife of Prince Anping as his concubine. Emperor Taiwu's uncle Prince Anping committed suicide in shame and anger in front of Zhuque Gate. The crown prince of Anping Commandery led 300 dead men to forcefully break into the palace and was shot dead by random arrows.
Three days later, the princess of Anping County was tortured to death by Yang Wu and was thrown out of the imperial court naked.
Ten days later, Prince Changhe, the elder brother of the Anping Commandery Prince, launched a rebellion and wanted to seek justice from Emperor Taiwu Yang Wu.
For a time, all the kings responded one after another. Thirteen princes raised armies to rebel. Countless killers even poured into the imperial court, wanting to kill the unprincipled emperor Taiwu Emperor Yang Wu.
But Emperor Taiwu Yang Wu quickly put down the rebellion in just three months, beheaded thirteen princes, and hung their heads on the wall of Xuanwu Gate for viewing.
As for the killers who sneaked into the imperial court, they all died quietly.
After this battle, Emperor Taiwu Yang Wu became more and more dissolute and immoral.
Winter in the third year of Taiwu.
Emperor Taiwu Yang Wu killed Tanhualang's consort Xu Xiu, married his imperial sister Princess Lingxi, and made Princess Lingxi the queen.
The ministers objected fiercely, and Emperor Taiwu went on a killing spree in the Qiankun Hall, until the ministers dared not say a word.
After Princess Lingxi was named queen, her behavior became more and more absurd. She randomly selected faces to serve in the palace, which was on par with Emperor Taiwu Yang Wu.
In the last two years of Emperor Jinglong's reign, the Daye Dynasty was in a mess. Emperor Taiwu had only been on the throne for three years, and the entire Daye Dynasty had already appeared to be in ruins.
The imperial court sold off officials and conferred nobel titles, the emperor was dissolute and immoral, the White Lotus Sect developed followers and supported peasant uprisings, and the martial arts and Confucian Taoist families in various places merged their fields, hid the population, and continued to develop and expand themselves.
The one who has annexed the most land is Yang Yue, the eldest princess of the country. She now has more than one million tenant farmers under her rule, and more than half of them are young adults. She can now raise an army of 300,000 horses anytime and anywhere.
The palace of the Princess Protector.
Jiangyuan Courtyard.
Three years after Emperor Taiwu Yang Wu ascended the throne, Jiang Yuan also practiced meditation here for three years.
Now he has broken the limits and reached a level that has never been achieved before or since.
There is no martial arts practice handbook from ancient times to the present that records his current state.
"I have mastered all the martial arts in the Royal Court's arsenal. In the past three years, I have practiced countless breathing techniques and refined countless strengths, and finally condensed them into purple gold strength. The strength penetrates the body and is like substance."
Now my purple gold strength is thirteen feet away from my body. Within thirteen feet, I am invincible. This may not be the limit of a first-grade warrior, but it is already the limit that I can reach! "
Jiang Yuan thought in his heart.
However, the vast majority of first-level extreme warriors are naturally gifted to be able to exert their strength nine feet outward, but Jiang Yuan can exert his strength thirteen feet outward!
This is something that I dare not say will ever come after, but it is definitely an unprecedented existence.
After these three years of hard training, Princess Yaoguang has become a fifth-level warrior, while Princess Protector has become a second-level warrior.
This year, Jiang Yuan was twenty-one years old and Yang Yue was twenty-four years old.
Hibernating for three years, just waiting for the opportunity to soar into the sky!
"Xiao Dezi, are you out of seclusion?"
Jiang Yuan left his own private courtyard and came to the princess's house to walk. Princess Yang Yue, the eldest protector of the country, saw him and said with some joy.
"Princess Qi, I have reached the ultimate level of the first level, and there is no possibility of improvement, so I left the seclusion for a walk."
"Without spiritual roots, even with the "Innate Guidance Technique", I am destined to be unable to become an innate warrior."
Jiang Yuan said with great emotion.
"Then is your current strength comparable to that of a real innate warrior?"
Hang Yue, the eldest princess who protects the country, asked.
"A year ago, I competed with the innate ancestor of the Xiao family. There was still a slight gap between my innate ability and my innate ability, but it was not a huge difference. Now I have reached my limit, and my strength is thirteen feet away from the body."
"I feel that if I fight against the innate ancestor of the Xiao family again, there should not be much difference in strength."
"But acquired warriors have a fatal flaw, that is, they cannot fly."
"Xiantian warriors open up the sea of qi and snow mountains, refine the vitality of heaven and earth and turn it into true energy. The quality of true energy is not only higher than the acquired strength, but also the innate true energy can travel through the limbs and bones, allowing people to fly in the air for a short time. "
"So if the innate warrior wants to run away, it will be difficult for me to catch him. Therefore, I need an arrow team composed of sharpshooters to follow me. Only by setting up a dragnet in advance can I kill the innate warrior!"
Jiang Yuan thought for a while before speaking.
The Xiantian True Qi of an innate warrior is indeed powerful, but the quality of his golden power is not much worse than that of the Xiantian True Qi. Now he has smelted a variety of powers and evolved purple gold power, and its quality is still higher than the ordinary innate True Qi!
It's a headache. "
"I wonder if you have any good suggestions?"
Princess Yang Yue nodded with satisfaction after hearing this. Jiang Yuan never let her down.
After these years of contact, she discovered that Jiang Yuan is simply a wizard and an all-rounder!
He "knows a little bit" about the ways of merchants, poems and songs, martial arts and martial arts, training and commanding troops, military strategies, political reforms, and various aspects of people's livelihood.
This little knowledge is actually Jiang Yuan's self-effacing words. Although some of his views are a bit unreasonable, his novel ideas can't help but make people shine.
She has already made the mistake of choosing Yang Wu, and this time, she doesn’t want to make the wrong choice again!
"Her Royal Highness, the princess, has great talents and strategies, is both civil and military, and has a heart for the world, and has great ambitions. Why doesn't the princess ascend the throne and become the emperor herself?"
The reason why Yang Yue spared no effort to help Yang Wu ascend the throne as emperor was not because he valued Yang Wu's talent for governing the country, but because he saw that Yang Wu was a waste, and the more wasteful he was, the easier it was to control.
In this way, she can use Yang Wu's hands to govern the country and even serve as regent.
But what she never expected was that Yang Wu was playing her from beginning to end.
Although the real Yang Wu is still a waste, he is a waste with a vicious mind and is good at disguising himself.
Such waste can no longer be called waste, but poisoners and hypocrites!
Now that he ascended the throne and became emperor, he immediately turned ruthless and attracted innate warriors and first-grade warriors to his advantage. Then he took the imperial power and acted haphazardly. Now he has become a powerful force.
Jiang Yuan also knew Yang Yue's ambitions, but Yang Yue only wanted to support the puppet emperor and control the government by himself. This was the way of a powerful minister. The powerful minister was destined to be liquidated, or even die without a burial place.
In this case, why not be the emperor?
Who said women cannot be emperors?
"Should I be the emperor?"
"But... but throughout the entire Daye Dynasty, there has never been a precedent for a woman to ascend the throne as emperor. This may not be in line with the ancestral system. Can I really do it?"
Yang Yue was also stunned by Jiang Yuan's words, and then a seed quietly took root in her heart.
"The way of heaven cannot be sympathized with, the words of men cannot be feared, and the laws of our ancestors cannot be observed!"
"If Taizu Daye abides by the ancestral system, he should abide by his duties as a minister. The world today should still belong to the Dayou Dynasty."
"Although there was no empress in the Daye Dynasty, there was an empress in the Western Regions. The founder of the Guyue Dynasty before the Dayou Dynasty was the Taiyin Empress, and most of the emperors of the Guyue Dynasty in the 300 years since its founding were women."
"Who says women cannot be emperors?"
"Does the ancestral system left by Taizu Daye still count?"
"If it really does count, then Daye will not have a tyrant like Yang Wu."
Jiang Yuan looked at Yang Yue and spoke calmly.