Chapter 491 As Long as the King Is Alive, You Will Always Be His Subjects!

After the monsters retreated, the pioneers left, and the Luoshen Mountains, which had been busy all night, gradually returned to calm.

The group of armed nobles who entered the pass overnight were still leading their own troops and busy in the south and north of the city.

It seems that he is gathering corpses, cleaning the battlefield, burying pots to make rice, and cleaning up the army. He looks like he has life in his eyes, is well-trained, and has the king's orders in his heart.

But anyone with a discerning eye can see that they are actually looking for excuses to stay in Gyeonggi and are unwilling to leave easily.

So what is their purpose in doing this?

Sun King (wiping sweat): "Oh, why are you looking at me? I am busy writing letters!"

So the Sun King, who had just announced that all the princes from all sides would come to Beijing quickly, issued the second king's order without stopping.

Low EQ: If nothing happens, you can all go back. What do you want to do by blocking the door of my house? I'm scared, get out!

High emotional intelligence: I would like to thank you all for your help. Now that the threat of the beast tide has been defeated, if you have no other matters, please return to your respective fiefdoms as soon as possible, and do not let any mishaps happen and damage your respective peace.

And the result is...

"Loyalty! Sincerity! As vassals, we are willing to serve Your Majesty! We are not tired, Your Majesty, please rest assured!"

besides.

"Niang Xipi! It's hard for me to come to the capital once, but what happened is that I have to leave? I have meritorious service, and I want to see the king! I want to see the king!"

As for the rest…

Oh, the rest just pretend to be dead.

"What is the king's command? Look, there is no king's command here. We all learn from the heart and are justified by faith. If we don't receive it, it doesn't exist!"

[Wait a minute, Savior, are you sure these are the great nobles and lords of the magical world? Why do I feel that this is the Tang Dynasty Jiedu Envoy who organized a group to enter Chang'an to cause trouble?]

"Oh, just get the point across. It's so tiring to talk so much in official language."

In short, it can be said that no noble family is willing to leave Qixia City and return to their own fiefdom. They are all planning something under the city with their soldiers in excitement.

"well!"

So after letting out another sigh, the Sun King could only quickly send someone to contact Duke Xiguang and Duke Arclight, asking the two elders to rush into the city and have a small meeting in the palace.

The current situation is different from the past. The old men who usually have to quarrel overtly and covertly when meeting each other, and hurt each other severely to feel comfortable, today actually said peace to each other seriously when they met today.

"Oh, Duke Xiguang, I see that you are seriously injured. Please sit down first."

As the vanguard in this battle, Lord Xi received a slap from the bear demon king in order to stop him from making a desperate counterattack.

Although this old bone was still strong and did not disintegrate on the spot due to this, it was still shaken to the point of bleeding.

If the lordship hadn't been from a well-off family and didn't lack anything to save his life, he might have died from the bite of a swarm of beasts.

"Haha, it doesn't matter. I am a martial arts practitioner, a level 74 warrior professional. Ahem, I can just heal this little injury."

"On the other hand, it's you, Duke of Arclight. You don't seem to be in good condition at all. Look, I'd better hold you up. You're even a little wobbly when you walk!"

There's no way around it. Although this "Finance Minister" is one of the top employees in Radiance, he can still get a lot of gold coins if he touches any two of them.

But at critical moments, the mobilization of large amounts of supplies and the approval of large lists must go through his hands.

If there is a problem found during the subsequent inspection, it will really cause trouble!

Especially in this special situation, the situation is urgent, and all the messy things are piled on him.

...For an old man who is old and not very powerful, all this is too difficult.

So of the two old men, one had a bruised nose and a swollen face, and was coughing constantly; the other had circles under his eyes, and his face was like gold paper.

In contrast, the Sun King, who was clearly on the verge of death and could only survive on rejuvenation liquid in the main seat, looked like a healthy old man with a strong spirit.

You also have to take the initiative to stand up and "respect the elderly" and help the old guys sit down.

"Sit down, everyone, sit down, no more time to waste, let's get straight to the point."

He gestured to Luoshen Mountain outside Qixia City.

"These guys, they are thieves. I'm afraid all it takes is one brave climber to call out before the soldiers rush in. You two, do you have any plans?"

Duke Arclight had already guessed the purpose of the king's urgent announcement of their entry into the palace. As a think tank, he naturally had already prepared the plan.

"Your Majesty, although the royal capital has not been affected by this war, the people of the city have been peaceful for a long time, and they are already worried. The martial law has just been lifted, and they really cannot withstand the stimulation."

"Moreover, the external situation is quite chaotic now. The collapse of Meteor God Peak has caused a lot of adverse effects. Now there are rumors among the people that the body of Zidian God is inside, and now it has been resurrected!"

"Even if this is false, according to the intelligence below, a fairly large-scale battle broke out before the collapse of Meteor God Peak. I'm afraid more than one level 70 person took action, and in the end, there was a purple thunder and lightning that penetrated the sky and the earth..."

"In my humble opinion, I think what we should do now is to try to appease everyone, calm down everyone's minds first, unite the internal forces, and not give any opportunity to those who are interested."

"Uh, so... let's take some money from the treasury first. I can persuade a few to leave..."

The Duke of Arclight gave his own strategy, but the Sun King did not give an evaluation, and just nodded silently.

On the other hand, Duke Xiguang raised his objection in a hoarse voice.

"Give money? How much? Duke Arclight, you should know better than me! They are all greedy people. Ordinary benefits cannot satisfy their greed. So how much money do we have to pay, how much benefit, to settle this matter?"

Lord Xi seemed to have a strong psychological shadow on this, pointing to the sky and the earth, and then added.

"And if we compromise this time, what about next time? What about the next time? We are all lords. You know how terrible it will be when we are greedy. If we open this hole, what will we do in the future?"

"And in the future?"

Duke Arclight was not a coward. He was naturally hit back immediately after being sprayed twice.

"Duke Xiguang! The current situation is that if you don't pay, you can't even do this little thing in front of you!"

"Do you think you can kill all the people outside by yourself now!?"

Then Duke Xiguang's blood pressure rose instantly.

"Hmph! Even if it's a sick tiger, the tiger's reputation is still there! When the time comes, I only need to... puff, cough cough!"

And he became more and more excited as he spoke, and accidentally touched the wound. If he hadn't shut up quickly, he might have spurted out a mouthful of blood.

"You... ouch! Hiss..."

The Duke of Arclight on the other side already had a splitting headache, and now he had to think of a way while debating with others. He rubbed his temples painfully after saying a few words.

"Hey, both of you calm down a little."

The Sun King had no choice but to quickly order his servants to deliver food, clean water and healing potions, and told the two old men not to worry, you don't worry, you should recover blood first and then talk.

But if they were not stubborn enough, the two stubborn old men would not have competed in the power field of the capital, so they recovered blood but not feelings, and started quarreling again as soon as they got better.

One insisted that they should temporarily avoid the edge and wait for the right time, and slowly settle accounts after things were over - none of these traitors can escape!

One insisted that the royal family's face should be maintained at all costs, and now all the scoundrels should be suppressed with absolute force - this trend must not be allowed to continue!

However, despite the quarrel, both of them expressed their ideas, or the Sun King wanted the current situation.

The ministers quarreled, and he listened quietly. When things became clear and a solution was hatched, he would come out from behind the scenes...

Put forward a constructive opinion, and then let everyone continue to discuss and argue.

There is no way. The audience is not the Yan Party and the Qingliu, and this is not the Ming Dynasty. He does not have the extremely powerful control of the Jiajing Emperor.

As a monarch under the medieval feudal system, he can only use such means to prevent his vassals from banding together and maintain his absolute rule.

"Ahem."

"I think..."

So he was not in a hurry this time. He listened for a while and thought about everything clearly before speaking calmly. As usual, he merged the ideas of the two together.

The result of all this was that half an hour later, when the third royal order was sent out from the city, the nobles under the city bumped into each other and all looked strange.

"Why... why did everyone receive different orders?"

It was indeed different, for example, those viscounts and barons who were relatively small in power and had relatively little military force and could not reach the level of great nobles, and could only be called small nobles.

The royal order they received said that the king had issued them a large subsidy in his personal name as a reward for their loyalty to the king and patriotism, hoping that they would continue to shine in their own territories, love the people, and not forget the king's grace.

And those relatively large nobles, especially the dukes who held heavy troops and high positions, all received the king's invitation to them to meet in the capital in the name of "celebration".

If that was all, they would definitely be happy, after all, I would not win if I led troops into the city?

So this invitation also clearly pointed out that they were going to attend a "celebration party", so each person was only allowed to bring a single-digit number of followers.

Even top nobles like Xiaguang are only allowed to bring 20 armed guards as a preferential treatment because of the Xiaguang family's contribution to the kingdom over the years.

"Ah, this."

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is to separate the nobles from their army and completely cut off the possibility that they can take advantage of the situation to rebel with any excuse.

But so what?

As long as the king is alive, you are still his subjects!

Even if it is an open conspiracy, it is the king's order!

They, the lords, can't suddenly fall ill and rebel for no reason in seven days in the face of the world's disapproval.

And under this strategy, the Sun King also successfully cut and diverted the nobles under the city.

First of all, they gave money, and directly fed those little nobles who came to go through the motions and wanted to try their luck with dog food.

"Turtle, we are just a handful, we can't really follow others to make trouble."

"Quit while we are ahead, let's go."

So they achieved their strategic goal and happily left the capital with their army whose combat power and military discipline were not even as good as those of the bandits.

Although the combined power of this group of people was not as strong as that of the great nobles, they were too many, and the scattered departure dealt a heavy blow to the morale of the nobles under the city.

Because of this, many nobles who didn't know the story of the Hongmen Banquet but felt that they would not get a good result if they went in also chose to be obedient.

"Haha, I suddenly remembered that I still have to go back to urge the farmers to sow in summer, so I won't bother your Majesty here. Please ask the envoy to convey my concern for me, haha, goodbye, goodbye!"

Then he led his army to leave here quickly and connected into a group, leaving a large number of noble soldiers under the city.

"Damn, this group of cowards!"

At this point, the possibility of someone inciting rebellion and imitating the Lionheart King's old deeds to let me sit on the king's throne is almost zero.

Although this did not disappoint those active nobles too much, it was originally a leisurely chess game, and the time was not right, so it didn't matter if it didn't work.

But only a few powerful nobles who were brave enough and felt that they were strong enough to fish out some money even in boiling water dared to stay here, and accepted the invitation after repeated consideration.

"Humph, I want to see what the old ghost with the word "astringent" in his head can say!"

When they entered the city one after another, they unexpectedly found that there was no "show of strength" as they thought there would be.

Not to mention the piled up monster corpses, even the guards on the roadside were sometimes there and sometimes not. Only the servants and waiters in charge of reception followed them all the way and brought them to the Sun Castle.

After turning seven or eight times, they followed the red carpet to a tall building. Who knew that two familiar people would appear when the door opened.

"My lords, it's really rare for us to see you. Come on, come on, it's rare to have so many people today. His Majesty said that everyone must have a good time!"

The king opened the private medicine storehouse and let everyone eat. Duke Xiguang and Duke Huguang had at least regained the steady breath and ruddy complexion that healthy people should have.

One with a blazing gaze and the other with a sweet smile, walked over like an old butler and welcomed them in.

Now the nobles were puzzled. Why did these two old guys, who usually wanted to fight in the capital every day, stand together for no reason?

Could it be...

But before they had time to think clearly, they were taken away from the banquet hall full of beautiful women with a pleasant breeze.

Who knew that after just a glance, the nobles were completely shocked.

Regardless of whether they were the wealthy civil nobles or the military nobles with many soldiers and generals, they all stood at the door and dared not move, not even a step.