vrcanaries Chapter 289 The dust has settled
Chapter 289 The dust has settled
"Ruo'er, Tiaotiao, let's go!" Rong Mo waved to Qin Ruo and Qin Tiaotiao. His expression returned to his usual gentleness with a smile on the corners of his mouth.
It seemed like he was not the same person as the frosty-faced man just now.
When Qin Ruo went forward to say goodbye to Madam Xie, Qin Tiaotiao held Rong Mo's hand, called out "Master", and whispered a few words to him.
After a moment, Rong Mo walked up and stood in front of Madam Xie and spoke slowly.
"You are a great guy. It is not embarrassing for Si Jinrong to have a junior like you."
Madam Xie's eyes slightly turned red when she heard this. Knowing that Rong Mo was the great master of the founding empress of Da Sheng, she felt a little ashamed.
She had been familiar with the stories about Emperor Kai's ancestors since she was a child.
The empress established the Great Sheng Empire, opened the imperial examination system, founded women's schools, and advocated women's rights, making the Great Sheng Empire a powerful country admired by all.
The empress's actions enabled countless women to step out of their boudoirs, participate in government affairs, or engage in business, medicine, literature and other fields.
She also left behind the bold words "Women can also stand tall and proud", which inspired countless women in Dasheng.
However, up to now, starting from her father's generation, it seems that they have gradually deviated from the original intentions of their ancestors.
As the struggle for imperial power became increasingly fierce, the status of women plummeted.
When she was young, out of respect for the founding empress, she was full of passion for Da Sheng and was determined to change its status quo.
Therefore, at the age of fifteen, she begged her father, the late emperor, to go to the battlefield. At the age of twenty-five, she was forced to withdraw from the battlefield due to serious injuries.
She killed countless enemies and made great military achievements in her life, and dedicated her best years to fighting on the battlefield against foreign enemies.
However, she could only watch the gradual decline of the Great Sheng Dynasty and the corruption of imperial power.
The descendants of Emperor Kai were unable to continue this glory, but instead fell into internal and external troubles time and time again.
Even her own second half of life was calculated thoroughly by her closest relative, the one who once called her imperial sister and father.
Madam Xie bowed respectfully, her voice choking with sobs: "Thank you for the compliment, Lord Rong. Si Nanmin is unworthy of it."
Rong Mo looked at the face of a man in his twenties, standing in front of the white-haired Madam Xie, and spoke to her in the tone of an elder, without any sense of incongruity.
Rong Mo nodded slightly and continued, "You have been on the battlefield, so you have done good deeds. I will grant you thirty years of life today."
Rong Mo raised his hand, and Madam Xie was surrounded by a golden light.
After the light faded, Madam Xie in front of him seemed to be twenty years younger in an instant.
His white hair had turned black, and apart from the faint wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, he looked about the same age as Mrs. Lin, who was in her early forties.
Everyone gasped, but no one dared to approach him.
Rong Mo turned around and looked at Cang Jiu, who was standing beside him like a fool. With just a thought, two more things appeared in his hand.
"Since Tiao Tiao likes you and praises you so much, you can take this sword and this set of sword skills and practice them well." Before Cang Jiu could react, a sword and a thin sword manual appeared in his hands.
"Thank you, Lord Rong, for your gift." Cang Jiu's hands were shaking with excitement. He didn't expect that he could also receive a gift from Rong Mo. He quickly knelt down to express his gratitude.
Cang Jiu knelt down silently to express his gratitude to Qin Tiao Tiao, and Qin Tiao Tiao's tail almost reached the sky.
He liked the feeling of his own master being so generous with his gifts that he would knock people out.
"Little girl from the Shangguan family, please come forward." Rong Mo waved to Shangguan Mingyu in the crowd.
Rong Mingyu stepped forward quickly and bowed to Rong Mo.
"I see that you have a strong character and extraordinary talent, and you are a promising talent. If you were born in Rong'er's time, you would definitely have made some military achievements. Swords and knives are blind on the battlefield, and this set of soft silk armor that is invulnerable to swords and guns is given to you for protection. It may save your life at a critical moment."
As Rong Mo casually spoke, a set of thin, soft silk armor appeared in his hand, with a faint glow flowing on it. It was obviously not an ordinary item.
Shangguan Mingyu took the soft silk armor with both hands, her eyes flashing with surprise and gratitude.
Finally, when Rong Mo came to Si Heng's side, he stopped and his eyes became meaningful.
"I will stay in Dasheng for a while, and I will send someone to inform you when the time comes."
Rong Mo's words imply that he wants to discuss something with him.
A Ruo's master, rounded off to the nearest hundred, is equivalent to one's own master.
Si Heng did not dare to be negligent and accepted the request respectfully.
After Rong Mo finished his instructions, he took Qin Ruo, Qin Tiaotiao, Meng Lingxiu and the Rong family members out of the palace first.
The envoys from various countries did not leave until they could no longer see Qin Ruo and his group.
After seeing what happened just now, everyone was both respectful and fearful of the Rong family. Those who had previously wanted to win them over no longer dared to think about it.
The Imperial Censor actually wet his pants during this moment.
Rong Mo was present at the time, and with Rong Mo's defensive personality, he thought he was dead.
He couldn't understand how the Rong family's people, who were clearly not present, knew everything that was going on in the palace, as if they had eyes inside the palace.
But what he was more worried about now was the head on his neck.
With the departure of the envoys, peace returned to the Hall of Supreme Harmony.
Three days later, several notices were posted in the city.
One was that Emperor Jingzhao was in poor health, and the Seventh Prince and the Ninth Prince were temporarily in charge of the country.
The second is that the mother and son of the Sixth Prince, Concubine Zhao, who led the coup, were sentenced to death, and the three clans of Concubine Zhao's mother's family were exterminated. The accomplices, headed by the Imperial Censor, were beheaded, imprisoned, dismissed from their posts, or exiled.
Now, half of the ministers in the imperial court of Dasheng are suddenly empty.
The Zhao family, a seemingly indestructible clan, has fallen.
The fourth prince, Si Kang, was made king and his family moved to his fiefdom. He was not allowed to return to the capital without being summoned.
The most surprising thing is that the former crown prince Si Yu chose to become a monk, with the Buddhist name ". Since then, he has entered the Buddhist world and no longer cares about worldly affairs.
When the news came out, the government and the public were shocked and people sighed.
When Si Yu was young, he was the brightest star in Dasheng. He was extremely intelligent since childhood and was proficient in both civil and military affairs.
She was deeply loved by Emperor Jing Zhao. If the late empress had not been so powerful and her grandfather had not been so ambitious, perhaps the outcome would have been different.
On the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, envoys from various countries had all left Dasheng, and this thrilling "Dasheng journey" was officially over.
That night, Si Heng, the Seventh Prince, and Old Madam Xie went to Emperor Jing Zhao's bedroom together.
Emperor Jing Zhao, lying on the dragon bed, was already dying.
The Seventh Prince dismissed the palace maids and eunuchs and stuffed a pill into Emperor Jing Zhao's mouth.
Emperor Jing Zhao, who was already on the verge of death, suddenly became energetic.
He opened his eyes, and a rare glimmer of clarity flashed across his cloudy gaze.
"Everyone is here, that's good. I have calculated so much in my life, but in the end, I was deserted by my friends and relatives. I accept this result. The road of an emperor is destined to be lonely. From the moment I sit on that bone-chilling dragon throne, I am destined to be a lonely man..."