flstandardbreds Chapter 133: Female Supremacy: One Little Husband a Day 1
Chapter 133: Female Supremacy: One Little Husband a Day 1
Chu Yuan drew the long sword from his waist and attacked directly. In less than twenty moves, he easily defeated Liu Chunyi.
"You have been hiding your strength for so many years?"
"If I don't hide my strength, how can you bring just a few people to stop me?"
Yunshan and his men quickly dealt with the remaining people on the opposite side and tied them to the backs of their horses.
Chu Yuan, holding the military order, quickly mobilized the Zhennan Army. In fact, they were also aware of the changes in the capital, but they did not dare to act rashly without orders from above.
Now, the Crown Princess came with the military order, and all the soldiers in the army immediately gathered and rushed to the capital at full speed.
After a whole day of galloping, the Zhennan Army finally arrived outside the city gate.
Now it was the Dingxi army's turn to be in trouble. Faced with enemies attacking from both sides, they were quickly defeated.
The four princesses and General Dingxi, who were in the lead, were captured alive by Chu Yuan and his men and imprisoned in the Heavenly Prison. Thus, this farce of usurping the throne ended in failure.
Those who participated in the rebellion also received the punishment they deserved. The fourth princess was demoted to a commoner and was no longer allowed to enter the capital.
The queen was deposed and lived in the cold palace for the rest of her life.
The queen's mother, General Dingxi, and her entire family were sentenced to exile.
The commander of the Imperial Guard who colluded with the four princesses was sentenced to death, and Zhou Li successfully became the new commander of the Imperial Guard.
Because of his meritorious service in protecting the emperor, he was also granted a title and is now a first-rank Duke of Protectorate.
As for Liu Chunyi, who had prevented Chu Yuan from seeking help, he was temporarily detained in the Tianlao, awaiting execution in the autumn.
In recognition of General Liu's lifelong contributions to the country, all other members of the Liu family who knew about the incident were exiled to Lingnan, and those who were unaware were demoted to commoners.
Chu Yuan and Liu Chunxi had known each other for many years and had some friendship with each other. He even went to visit her in prison once before she was exiled.
Just a few days ago, the two of them could still go fishing and drink tea together, but now the situation is completely different when they meet again.
When Liu Chunxi saw Chu Yuan, he quickly dragged the heavy chain over and said, "Your Highness, I am ashamed of your friendship."
"When did you know that your elder sister was planning to commit treason?"
"I only found out about this a month ago, but my sister was already deeply involved in it. In order to protect the lives of my people, I had no choice but to conceal this for her."
"Did you poison me when I was fishing that day?"
"Yes, I deserve death. I dare not ask for forgiveness, Your Highness. I only ask Your Highness to believe that before this, I did truly regard Your Highness as a close friend."
After getting the answer, Chu Yuan left.
No matter whether what she said was true or false, it could not change the fact that she had betrayed him.
Chu Yuan once treated her sincerely and regarded her as a friend, so even though he was curious later, he never secretly pried into her thoughts.
However, reality taught her a harsh lesson. In the political arena, there are no eternal friends, only eternal interests. If you want to win in the end, you can't trust anyone.
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Although the rebellion has come to an end, the serious consequences it brought have not disappeared with the end of the war.
The capital was filled with civilians injured by the rebels and destroyed houses.
The Empress has ordered the Ministry of Revenue to pay for all the medical clinics in the capital to provide free medical treatment to the people, and the Ministry of Works to send craftsmen to repair the damaged houses free of charge. This has calmed the unrest among the people.
Within two months, the capital city returned to its former prosperity.
The empress was forced to abdicate by her own daughter. She was depressed and ill for a long time, and became much weaker.
During this period, Chu Yuan was in charge of the government, and most of the reports from various places were good news.
First, potatoes and corn are two crops that have been fully popularized in the northern region, and the output has stabilized at more than 1000 kilograms.
Both of these crops are easy to preserve, so as long as you are diligent, no one will go hungry in the winter.
Next is the Jiangnan area, where the flood disaster that occurred some time ago has been well controlled.
The relief supplies allocated by Chu Yuan were all escorted by the Imperial Guards themselves, and the money and grain were directly approved by the Ministry of Revenue without any deduction.
Therefore, the scope of the disaster this year is shrinking at a very considerable rate.
The Queen often asked about this matter when she was ill. When she learned the result, she praised Chu Yuan for handling it well and for her style.
After this period of supervision, the ministers in the court all praised Chu Yuan, and the empress also affirmed her ability.
Even after the empress recovered, she did not take back all the power. Instead, she continued to delegate power to Chu Yuan, allowing her to gradually take over all the affairs of the court.
At this time, everyone also saw the Queen's thoughts, and they all joined Chu Yuan.
Less than a year passed like this, and the empress abdicated and moved to another garden with the male concubines in the harem.
After Chu Yuan successfully ascended the throne and appointed Qi Yunzhen as the emperor, the positions of Shen Fenghua and Wu Yulin remained unchanged.
On the first day of the new emperor's accession to the throne, all the ministers came to pay homage. Except for the demoted fourth princess, the rest of the princesses prostrated themselves at her feet.
Chu Yuan sent all the imperial sisters who had opposed him in the past to their fiefdoms, and also gave them chronic poison, so that they could only live with medicine for the rest of their lives.
As for the Ninth Princess who killed the original owner, she has been suffering from muteness for many years and no one can cure her. She spends all day drinking in her mansion to drown her sorrows. Her behavior has become crazy and no one in the capital dares to associate with her.
On the first night after Chu Yuan ascended the throne, he was pierced through the heart by an arrow and died quietly.
When the palace maids who came in to clean the next day found the body, it was already cold.
Chu Yuan ordered the Ministry of Justice to investigate with all their might and find out who was so rampant as to dare to kill the princess to vent his anger.
After much investigation, it turned out that this matter was related to the eldest princess.
That night, someone saw Agai, the guard beside the eldest princess, appear around the Ninth Princess's palace. Accompanying her was a masked man in black, whose figure was very similar to that of the eldest princess.
Finally, more and more evidence pointed to the eldest princess, so Chu Yuan ordered the eldest princess to be thrown into the Tianlao for life imprisonment.
The eldest princess cried out in injustice. She could have set off for her fiefdom in a month, so why did she have to kill the ninth princess at this time?
But in the prison, no one was willing to listen to her explanation. No matter what she said, it could not change the fact that the queen had already given the order.
These jailers have seen so many prisoners, and none of them did not cry out for injustice when they came in, but how many of them can get out alive?
Chu Yuan certainly knew about the injustice of the eldest princess, because she was the one who killed the ninth princess.
The eldest princess bullied the original owner many times in her previous life, and now it is her turn to pay back.
Chu Yuan was of course aware of the injustice done to the eldest princess. After all, she was the one who killed the ninth princess.
However, someone must take the blame for this murder, and the eldest princess bullied the original owner a lot in her previous life, and now it is time for her to pay back her debt.