The Imperial Capital was in turmoil for several days. Compared with the news that his own nephew had died, another piece of news made His Majesty the Emperor furious, and his originally good mood was wiped out. This news was - the famous beauty of the Imperial Capital, Her Majesty the Queen's sister, Miss Qiaoqiao, is missing!
After many layers of investigation, it was finally discovered that Miss Qiaoqiao took some guards to the family manor outside the city before the night when the Prince's Mansion was attacked. As a result, there was no news after leaving the city.
The soldiers guarding the city gate reported that Miss Qiaoqiao's carriage and convoy left the city gate that evening, but never came back. However, Qiaoqiao's family manor also said that Miss Qiaoqiao had not been to the manor. !
Therefore, Miss Qiaoqiao disappeared out of thin air with a team of guards! Not even a hair is left!
The commander of the Public Security Bureau had just received two orders from His Majesty the Emperor almost immediately. The first order was to praise him for his very good handling of the aftermath of the attack on the Prince's Mansion, but the second order was to order the police to be dispatched immediately. People are looking for the whereabouts of Miss Qiaoqiao!
In addition, His Majesty the Emperor also sent thousands of Royal Guards cavalry to search in all directions outside the gates of the imperial capital. It is said that even several of the empire's top warlocks and warriors in the palace who specialize in guarding the safety of the royal family were sent out. .
Mr. Qiu just said nothing and watched these people busy coming and going. He naturally knew in his heart that Qiao Qiao was dead and his body was hidden by Rody. As for where it was hidden, Rody didn't say, and he didn't ask.
After this chaos, His Majesty the Emperor finally put aside his proposal to Miss Nicole of the Tulip family, but almost turned the entire imperial capital upside down - of course, this was not for the sake of the dead nephew, Bayan's Death is not bad news for the emperor. Although Prince Balang, who luckily escaped this disaster, never entered the palace again. He left the imperial capital with his people that day and went to a private manor in the suburbs.
Those aristocratic ministers who knew about the secret fight between the emperor and the prince, and those who had secretly sided with Prince Balan, saw that the prince's side lost, and they were thinking of ways to show their loyalty to the emperor in order to protect themselves - but Abbas The eleventh generation is not in the mood to pay attention to them now. Every day he waits with red eyes for the person who went out to look for Miss Qiaoqiao to come back.
"The emperor is a fool."
In a room in a corner of the imperial capital, Seth held a silver wine glass and said slowly with a smile: "Although I'm not sure who is in charge of the prince's palace, that boy Rody suddenly disappeared without showing up. Yes, this matter probably has something to do with him."
Mark leaned lazily on a chair, as if he had no strength left in his body, shook the empty wine bottle in his hand, and said calmly: "The emperor is a fool to begin with, but what's the use of saying this?"
A strange expression flashed across Seth's handsome face: "If I were the emperor, now would be the best time to uproot the forces that threaten me! The prince's palace has been taken over, and the emperor's biggest gain is Bayan That boy is dead! You must know that the emperor's biggest weakness now is that he has no heirs, and Bayan is a direct bloodline of the royal family, and his father is the son of the late emperor. If the emperor still has no son in the future, then the position of crown prince will be , the chance fell on Bayan, even if His Majesty the Emperor was unwilling, there was nothing he could do. Prince Balang dared to win over these nobles in the imperial capital so arrogantly some time ago, because he saw the emperor's weakness! "
Mark said coldly: "I think there is something wrong with Prince Balang's brain. Anyway, the position of crown prince in the future will belong to his son sooner or later. Isn't it superfluous to do so many small tricks now?"
Seth sighed, shook his head and said: "It's not superfluous at all!" A cold smile appeared on his face: "Whenever this kind of struggle for imperial power is involved, in which case is it not fought to the death? His Majesty the Emperor is naturally reluctant to kill him. If the throne is given to someone else, he naturally hopes to have his own heir to inherit the throne. But now he has no son... So, he can only suppress the prince and his group..." He sighed: "Prince Balang is working hard. There is no choice but to expand one's own strength. The emperor regards their father and son as a thorn in his side, and he certainly knows it. Even if the emperor was intent on dealing with our Tulip family, Prince Barang was much smarter than the emperor before he could react. ! He naturally seizes the opportunity to gather his own wings to obtain sufficient capital to fight against the emperor in the future!"
Old Mark still sighed. Although he knew that the wine bottle in his hand was empty, he still couldn't help but put the mouth of the bottle to his mouth.
The look in Seth's eyes was a bit complicated: "It's a pity, it's a pity that all I met were idiots... The emperor is a fool, a stupid fool to the extreme. He left the Tulip family, the backbone of the empire, unused, but he wanted to do this. The pillar has been dug down. Now he is ignoring the opportunity to consolidate his throne, leaving Prince Balang alone, but focusing all his attention on finding Qiao Qiao... And this fool, I tried so hard to persuade him that day. , but he couldn't listen. Now that the imperial capital is in such chaos, he left again... Sigh... "
Old Mark suddenly glanced at Seth and said coldly: "Don't you think what you said is strange?"
"oh?"
Old Mark said calmly: "I don't care whether the emperor is a fool. Whether he likes the throne or women, it has nothing to do with me... It's just that boy Rody... Sigh... You tried so hard to persuade him to continue to be the Duke that day. , for whom? Or for yourself? So that you can escape your responsibilities!"
Seth smiled, his expression unchanged: "Do you think I'm too selfish?"
"Yes." Old Mark still looked lazily curled up on the chair, but the look in his eyes seemed sharp: "Who is Roddy? He is just an irrelevant person. You just let him go. As Duke Tulip, I will go through life and death for the sake of the empire and your family... Why? With his current abilities, he can defeat Reuenthar in the northwest, and he can use thunderous means to defeat him in Xilin Province. A bunch of rebels have wiped out every blade of grass! Do you want to lock him up with a chain and work for your family for the rest of his life? "
Seth's smile remained unchanged, and he listened quietly to Old Mark's words, and then said slowly: "Do you think I'm a little too much?"
He suddenly sighed, walked slowly to the window, looked at the starry sky outside, and murmured: "Am I really too selfish?"
He seemed to smile a little strangely: "But why is it our Tulip Family's duty to guard the Empire and the Bright Continent forever? Why should we Tulip people always bear this heavy burden? It is said that the Tulip Family guards the Bright Continent. But who will guard our Tulip Family? For hundreds of years, our Tulip Family has been a wall, a castle, and a pillar! But... why? Why does Abbas XI always want us to guard that damn Thorn Flower Family? He’s obviously a fool, why do we have to sacrifice our lives for him?”
"So you just let Roddy go?" Old Mark sneered.
Seth looked calm: "So what? The tulip flag has been flying for hundreds of years, and it's finally time for it to end. A new flag is flying again. What's wrong with that?"
"Don't you think your words are inconsistent?" Old Mark frowned: "You are not willing to work for that idiot emperor, so why should Roddy go? As for the new flag... Where did the new flag come from? Roddy continued to pretend, Or tulips!”
Seth shook his head and whispered: "You don't understand... you don't understand." He smiled strangely: "Rody is a very suitable person. He is brave, but very soft-hearted. He has a strong character, but there are many Principle. It is perfect for such a person to be the commander-in-chief of the empire. The empire still needs Tulip. As long as the empire no longer needs Tulip, then Tulip will be able to call it quits safely!"
"How many years? Curtain call?" Mark shook his head: "What are the thoughts in your mind?"
Seth said calmly: "I will not harm Roddy, let alone lock him up. At most... I will only use him temporarily." He sighed: "It's a pity that I am not like him... I said No, I will never be like my father, I will never be a qualified commander... I am a person hiding in the shadows. The commander-in-chief of Tulip should be an idol who stands in the sun and is admired by thousands of people. It's a pity. I am not that kind of person... The commander-in-chief of Tulip needs to be brave, but unfortunately I am not brave. I don't even want to see blood. If you ask me to take him to the battlefield... I am very afraid of pain. The commander-in-chief of Tulip needs to be upright, but it is a pity that I am not brave. I like to take evil paths. For example, if I encounter an enemy, if it is someone like my father or someone like Roddy, I will draw my sword and challenge the opponent head-on, using a convincing method. Defeat the opponent - that's what a hero does! But I'm not, I like to use other methods."
He turned around and looked at Old Mark and said calmly: "Some people are born to be heroes, but what heroes do is often very tiring. I like wine, women, enjoyment, freedom, and intrigues—it's a pity If you want to be a hero respected by thousands of people, you must stay away from these things and not even touch them.”
"Nonsense." Old Mark sneered: "Can't heroes like women? Don't people in the world like ambiguous stories between legendary heroes and beauties?"
"That's not ambiguity... my dear old Mark." Seth smiled: "That's love. The love between a hero and a beauty is dazzling and brilliant, but a playboy is different. A hero should be tall and tall. , holding a sword in one hand and holding his beloved woman in the other, standing at the highest point, looking down with majestic eyes on the thousands of people cheering and admiring below. As for me... I don’t need the sword, I won’t use it even if it is given to me, and women. Well, the more the merrier... It’s just best to change them faster... "
"Hahaha..." Old Mark burst out laughing: "You are really not a hero. You should be..."
Seth smiled slightly: "It should be a playboy, a conspirator hiding behind the hero... a character like Dandong."
Old Mark shook his head: "But I am still confused by you. What does this Roddy have to do with... Just now you said that you will use Roddy to impersonate you for a few years. After a few years, the empire will no longer need him... What on earth is this?" mean?"
Seth glanced at Old Mark and whispered: "What do you think the empire needs most now?"
Old Mark shook his head: "Of course he is a real Tulip Commander, a hero who holds a giant sword in his hand and defends the dignity of the empire so that powerful enemies dare not face it!"
Seth looked at old Mark with a look of pity: "Have you come to this conclusion in your head for more than two hundred years? Oh my God... You must never claim to be a disciple of Dandong in the future, he will be angry with you Come alive."
Ignoring Old Mark's murderous gaze, Seth said coldly: "What the empire needs is a real emperor, a leader! Not a fool who only knows how to cause trouble, a fool who destroys the Great Wall."
Old Mark smiled: "Emperor? Do you want to be the emperor?"
Seth was startled and immediately said: "Of course not! I don't even want to be a Duke... let alone an emperor? Do you think that position is easy to sit in?" He smiled slightly: "Have you ever seen a puppet show? It's like that The kind where you hold a few strings around your body and then are moved by others to slowly dance.”
"Of course I have."
Seth smiled slightly: "What an interesting thing it would be if you could stand behind and control an emperor."
Old Mark sighed: "Who said you are a person without ambition? Anyone who says this is simply a blind man."
Seth shrugged his shoulders: "I didn't say that myself. I just said I couldn't be a hero, but I didn't say I couldn't be a tyrant."
He had a weird smile on his face: "I know that Abbas XI actually stopped working two or three years ago. He has not been looking for the queen in the past two years. No one outside knows about this kind of thing. If It’s not that Qiao Qiao mentioned it to me accidentally..."
"Hmph, do you care about such messy things?"
Seth shook his head: "Of course I care... For a playboy like me, if you don't care about these messy things, what else can you care about? Do you care about the war in the northwest? Is it related to the holy war in the northern Roland continent?" He sighed. : "It's just that I know a little more than others... Our Queen seems to be in poor health recently... "
"Um?"
Seth smiled slightly: "Our dear Queen, she seems to be happy... It's just that she didn't tell the emperor about this matter."
Old Mark stared at Seth.
Seth said calmly: "So, no matter who it is, don't think about the position of the crown prince. Bayan, don't say he is dead, even if he comes back to life, I can still make him die again! Because no matter what No one can compete for the position of the crown prince! Because this position has already been reserved by the child in the queen’s belly!”
At this time, everyone will ask the same question, so old Mark is no exception. He exclaimed: "Whose child is it?"
Seth smiled calmly: "Mine."
"You... you are really amazing..." Old Mark was stunned for a long time before he slowly said: "You actually... actually..." He suddenly laughed wildly and said: "You actually made a cuckold to the emperor!!!"
Seth smiled strangely: "What a wonderful future... As long as it lasts a few months, once the emperor dies, my son will become the heart master of this continent... Rody will continue to be his Tulip Duke, and I will become The new generation of Dandong will create a new chapter in the empire... Alas..."
Old Mark smiled and said: "I'm afraid it's not that easy... The emperor will die in a few months? Although this idiot is annoying, it doesn't seem to be short-lived. Could it be... Do you still want to kill him? Don't forget, he You are the emperor, you are nothing now.”
Seth said calmly: "You don't understand this. I have at least a hundred ways to kill him. But... it seems that there is no need for me to do it." Seth smiled helplessly: "Our man Emperor, he only has a few months to live... I have seen his urine and feces with my own eyes... Don't forget, you taught me my medical skills."
"Stop looking at me." Seth glanced at Old Mark: "Your eyes really make me uncomfortable. Well, let me tell you, it is Balang who wants to kill the emperor. He naturally hopes that the emperor will die quickly, so If so, his son would be able to succeed to the throne one day earlier. This kind of poisoning is not too difficult, and it can be done by bribery with a few people in the palace. Besides, His Majesty the Emperor is a fool, if it had been done back then. In the era of Emperor Si, this kind of thing was not so easy to do... Well, tens of thousands of royal guards, a group of court masters in the palace, and Mr. Qiu, a top warrior-so what? Are you going to eat on behalf of the emperor?”
He sighed: "What a good idea... I took the medicine for two years, slowly accumulating toxicity, and then slowly poisoning people to death. It's impossible to tell with ordinary methods..."
Old Mark sighed, "How do you know so much?"
Seth smiled faintly: "This is the advantage of being a penniless playboy... Rody helped me attract most of the hostile eyes. I hide in the darkness and naturally see more things than others."