Chapter 367: The Old Empire
As the first unified empire of human forces on the Elsa continent, the Iron Fist Empire was once the overlord of human forces in the world, and it was also the first powerful force that successfully repelled the demons, and the first hegemonic power in the world.
But before the establishment of the Iron Fist Empire, humans actually had an old monarchical empire - the Grizzly Empire. The reason why the Iron Fist Empire can become a powerful force is that the legacy left by the monarchy has benefited the Iron Fist Empire for life.
Especially the members of the Iron Family, the royal family of the Iron Fist Empire, they are the descendants of the monarch of the monarchy. And the legitimate descendants of the royal family of the old empire are the Xiong Family, which has a certain reputation in the Holy Church.
And according to some non-public information of the Iron Fist Empire, the Iron Family and the Xiong Family are actually a pair of sisters who married different husbands. In terms of origin and blood, the two families can be called sister families.
Even in the era after the establishment of the Iron Fist Empire, the Iron Family, which obtained the throne, did not kill the members of the former Grizzly Empire royal family, that is, the Xiong Family. On the contrary, the Tie family and the Xiong family still maintain a marriage relationship. If a family has no male heir, they will send their own boys to be adopted as sons-in-law.
The reason is that the Grizzli Empire did not perish because of war with external forces; but because of the internal strife of the Grizzli Empire royal family and the cruel palace struggle, the military of the Grizzli Empire launched a palace coup, which led to the direct decline of the Xiong family royal family.
More specifically, after the establishment of the Grizzli Empire, the second-generation emperor was a self-willed and self-willed monarch who did not listen to the advice of ministers and was very dissatisfied with his marriage. In the era of this emperor, almost all the upper class members of the Grizzli Empire knew that he was unhappy with his queen. In particular, his queen was not chosen by himself, but was decided by the first generation of the Grizzli Empire emperor and queen.
Therefore, this political marriage has long been his biggest shadow, but because his mother is still alive, and the queen's family, who has always been in poor health, has been making various weapons for the Grizzli Empire for many years, and has a huge influence within the country, he has no way to divorce publicly.
However, such an open secret naturally attracted the attention of another Grand Duke at the time, and he took the initiative to train his granddaughter to enter the palace to guide His Majesty the Emperor to a "proper divorce." As a result, under the manipulation of the Grand Duke, the Queen was poisoned by the bribed palace maid. The unaware emperor thought that his Queen could not survive the torture of the disease and passed away, and immediately made the Grand Duke's granddaughter the new Queen.
Of course, this matter must have aroused the suspicion of the Queen Mother. For this reason, the Grand Duke naturally used the same old routine, using the same poison that poisoned the former Queen to poison the Queen Mother who finally discovered the truth but had no time to speak. As a result, the new Queen naturally lost a huge obstacle, and began to reach out to control the military and political power of the empire, thereby making profits for her grandfather.
Therefore, in order to better manipulate the Grizzli Empire, the Grand Duke and his granddaughter Siya conspired for six years. Taking advantage of the fact that the emperor was getting older and more addicted to wine and sex and gradually became incompetent, they secretly instructed the members of the Guards who obeyed their orders to eliminate the only son left by the former queen, that is, the crown prince who was supposed to succeed the third generation of the throne of the Grizzli Empire, and his family, so as to ensure that his son could legally ascend the throne according to the eldest son inheritance system.
Unfortunately, the plan did not succeed completely. Although the crown prince, who had long been neglected, was killed, his wife and a pair of twin children were desperately escorted to a safe area by the crown prince's chef. As the news came back, the new queen and her grandfather could not help but be scared. But fortunately, the emperor's body was hollowed out by wine and sex at this time, and he was basically unable to manage the affairs of the court.
For this reason, the new queen simply let herself and the emperor's son sit on the throne, and she supervised the government as the de facto empress dowager, so as to ensure that the emperor would not know what happened outside under her management. At the same time, she also cooperated with her grandfather and father to fake the assassination of the crown prince as an accident.
However, compared with the new queen gradually taking control of the government, the former queen's second brother Nathan has always been worried about the death of his sister and the previous queen mother. Taking advantage of the opportunity that the new queen tried every means to usurp the military and political power, the second brother who inherited the duke's throne even took one of his brothers who worked as a doctor to sneak into the imperial mausoleum to perform an autopsy on his sister.
So the second brother not only discovered the fact that his sister was poisoned, but also examined the body of the queen mother out of curiosity. As a result, there was no need for the brothers to say much, and they immediately prepared their own plans and took their confidants back to their fiefdoms as much as possible. At the same time, the duke who dared to sneak into the imperial mausoleum also met the chef who desperately escorted his nephew's widow and the pair of children left by his nephew on his way to escape from the imperial city.
After a brief exchange, the chef named Kanzhuo, as the protector of the Crown Prince, continued to escort his master's family to the northern part of the Grizzli Empire, the Dukedom of Nathan, for refuge. As soon as Nathan and Kanzhuo returned to their duchy, they immediately ordered the duchy to enter war preparedness. At the same time, in order to better ensure safety, Duke Nathan still entrusted Kanzhuo with the task of taking care of his nephew's widow and a pair of twin children.
In short, when the new queen Siya suppressed all the major bureaucratic forces in the palace and other members of the royal family, four years had already passed. At this time, the second generation of the emperor of the Grizzli Empire officially passed away. Queen Siya, who was honored by her son, sent her men to pursue the last bloodline of the crown prince, and neglected various military and political affairs. However, as a protector, Kanzhuo not only married and had children in the duchy of Nasen, but also formed a family to take care of his mistress's family. The mistress, that is, the crown princess, became a female official in the duchy, and successfully contacted her father and elder brother, telling them about the hunt she had suffered and the thrilling escape.
As a result, when Queen Siya came to her senses and tried to eliminate Nasen, who had been protecting the orphans of the crown prince, and was looking for reasons to take military action against the duchy to eradicate the roots, Nasen had already prepared the troops that could be recruited, and even formed a political alliance with the noble forces represented by the father and brother of his nephew's wife, and established the last stronghold in a valley in the northeast of the duchy. However, in order to buy more preparations for the people of the dukedom and time for the final migration of the whole dukedom, Duke Naesen took his wife to leave a suicide note to the people of the dukedom, and took the initiative to return to the imperial city to face the blame of Queen Siya and revenge for his sister.
However, Naesen, who was ready to die, was also lucky. There were also ministers in the court who were very dissatisfied with Siya, who was promoted to the queen mother. One of them was Shaoen, the minister in charge of the financial affairs of the Grizzli Empire at that time. Out of his intuition in the officialdom, Minister Shaoen tried every means to stop Queen Mother Siya from trying to murder Naesen and his wife. At the same time, Shaoen used his reasoning ability to discover the evil deeds of Queen Mother Siya one after another. For this reason, Minister Shaoen mercilessly questioned Naesen and his wife who were under house arrest, and secretly left a key after getting the answer. So Queen Mother Siya's grandfather and a group of family members were killed by Naesen and his wife, and Naesen and his wife, who had completed their revenge, chose to die in the sea of fire.
Compared with the internal struggles in the palace, the first invasion of the demons from the west, the Grizzlies Empire won the final tragic victory at the cost of seven years. The soldiers who were dissatisfied with Queen Mother Siya who only thought about how to fight for power and profit, neglected military development, and repeatedly cut military expenditures were extremely excited and openly forced the palace by force. For this reason, Shaoen immediately controlled these soldiers, and then personally led the troops into the palace to launch a military coup. As a result, Queen Mother Siya and most of her minions were forced to death by Shaoen, and then forced the little emperor to appoint himself as prime minister and establish a parliament to implement constitutional monarchy. However, at this time, the dukedom of Nathan had completed the migration of the entire dukedom and publicly issued a declaration of independence.