Chapter 184 Chapter 161: The Best of Favor!

On the summer festival day in the 960th year of the Roland Empire, the imperial capital was in chaos. The eldest prince Alvin Augustine mutinied the imperial city, and more than ten thousand rebels besieged the palace.The second prince, Chen Augustine, led the Lin army and the remnants of the Public Security Department to fight back with the soldiers of chatting and the help of the temple.During the melee, Prince Chen stood under the gate of the palace, showing the spear of Longchinus, an artifact, and thousands of knights knelt and stood under the imperial city regardless of enemy or friend.The morale of the rebel army collapsed.

The eldest prince shouted: "I am defeated, not because of the war, and I am not in my destiny." He also pointed to the prince Chen and said: "I would like to ask the flag to be buried and die!" After speaking, he drew his sword and killed himself on the horse. His subordinates mourned, dozens of people died, and the rest of them surrendered. And, the rest of the rebel tribes, all descended from the Marquis of the Solomon tribe, and the Earl of Raymond from the Luolin tribe were captured after fighting hard, and the rest were captured.Qin Wang's army suppressed the rebels, with more than 4,000 leaders and more than 6,000 prisoners. The chaos in the imperial capital was peaceful in three days.

——"Imperial Chronicles, Chapter 15, Chapter 6: A Brief Life of the Regent" This is the record of the coup d'état in the official historical materials of the empire that year. In the whole text, Du Wei, the eldest son of the Luo Lin family, was not mentioned, not even a single word was mentioned.Such a person who played a subtle role in the coup d'etat, but under the instigation of relevant parties, the historian had no choice but to cut his age and disappear in the writing. ... Bucket after bucket of water was poured down, and after the busy work of thousands of people, the blood stains in the central square under the imperial city had been washed away. The soldiers walking back and forth with serious faces were all wearing the uniforms of the security forces of the Public Security Department, with awe-inspiring expressions. , as if facing an enemy.

There was chaos in the city for three days, when Prince Richen showed the spear of Longchinus, Du Wei couldn't help but see it, and the eldest prince himself could see that he was defeated but never won. Those knights kneeling on the spot were like a sharp needle, easily piercing the confidence in the eldest prince's heart.Looking at the darkly kneeling knight in the arena, the eldest prince suddenly made the last correct decision in his life. Do you want to continue fighting?Looking at the knight kneeling in the arena, the eldest prince's heart was as cold as ice, he raised his long sword with trembling hands, and then turned his head to look at Earl Raymond.

"Raymond, we lost." After all, the prince suddenly puffed up his chest and said loudly: "I am a royal family, I will not surrender even if I die!" Then he pointed his sword at Prince Chen in the distance, and shouted loudly: "It's not that I'm inferior to you, it's just that fate is not on me... ...You! You're just luckier than me!" After finishing speaking, he swung the long sword across his neck and lightly wiped it on his neck. A splash of blood spurted out, and his body was already limp and fell under the horse. Earl Raymond was clearly close at hand, but he didn't try to stop him, because the old earl also understood at this moment that the situation was over.

Then the scene was chaotic, and the rebel army's morale was already in disarray. Prince Chen took the opportunity to order the guards to rush out. The gate of the palace opened wide, and the rest of the Imperial Forest Army also took the opportunity to rush out. The Marquis of Solomon surrendered, and Earl Raymond, under Alpha's swearing-in protection, originally planned to rush out a bloody road to leave, but the Earl of the Rollins family gave up at the last moment. He pushed away the chief guard of Alpha who was guarding him covered in blood, and then threw away the long sword, with a proud expression on his face. At this moment, Earl Raymond was completely showing the air of a real aristocrat.

"The Luo Lin family, how could they run away like bereaved dogs!" After finishing speaking, the noble general looked at the garrison rushing forward, stood proudly, and was quickly caught.With the rope attached to his body, he sneered and said nothing, but glanced at the distant imperial city.A black figure there was his son Du Wei.There was a hint of deep meaning in the Earl's eyes, and even a complicated smile seemed to flash, and then he glanced at the direction where the eldest prince fell just now, and sighed: "Shuzi is not enough and tricky." And the rebellion of the coup d'état, with the capture of Earl Raymond, the overall situation has been settled.

... "Actually, he doesn't need to commit suicide." Du Wei looked at the First Prince's body. At the foot, the body of the First Prince was covered with a flag of thorns and flowers—this is the tradition of the royal family of the Luo Lin Empire. The "flag burial" of the royal family. Even if it is treason, if he is not officially sentenced for one day, the flag of thorns and flowers on his body cannot be taken down. The blood of the corpse permeated the thorn flower banner, and the thorn flower pattern on the flag seemed to be stained with bright red blood.

Prince Chen was standing beside Du Wei, his expression seemed to be unable to tell what he was thinking in his heart, only after hearing what Du Wei said, Prince Chen turned his face to look at Du Wei: "Oh? What do you mean? what?" "I said, in fact, he shouldn't commit suicide." Du Wei smiled wryly, "Unfortunately, he doesn't understand chivalry... Seeing so many people kneeling before the knight's spear in your hand, he frightened himself to death Be courageous." After a pause, Du Wei continued: "Knights pay the most attention to loyalty. Although the holy spear in your hand is a holy weapon, those knights kneeling do not mean surrender or rebellion against the prince. On the contrary, if you take out the holy spear, those Once the knight is inspired by the spirit of chivalry, he will swear allegiance to the First Prince even more... At that time, in a big battle, although he is already at a disadvantage, he still has a three-point chance to win. It's just a pity... He watched his subordinates face You kneel, but you don’t understand that what they kneel is only the Holy Lance, not you. He thought the situation was over, so he gave up.”

Du Wei looked deeply at Prince Chen: "I really don't understand...how did your head calculate these things? You have already figured it out, take out the holy spear, let the knight kneel down, and you will be able to Scared the eldest prince to give up?" Prince Chen dodged his words and said with a smile: "When things come to an end, no one can be said to be absolutely sure. But of course I know better about my brother's personality." Du Wei was silent, bowed his head and thought for a while, and then said: "You pull the temple into the water first, then the magic union, and then you take out the gun of Longchinus, you have so many chips in your hand, and one after another This matter, I think about it now, and I feel that no matter what happened that day, your strength is far superior to that of the First Prince, but if this is the case, why didn't you stop him before the coup d'état?"

As Du Wei said, his eyes were like lightning, and he looked closely at Prince Chen. Prince Chen looked calm, and looked back deeply at Du Wei, then left a word, turned and left slowly. "Since you already guessed it, why ask me again?" Du Wei stood in the same place, speechless, looking at the back of Prince Chen, only felt that no one he had seen in his life, no matter if it was his father or a strong man from the mainland, had no one with more scheming skills than this Prince Chen is even deeper! He sighed, and whispered to himself: "You didn't stop him, you deliberately made him a coup, just to let him jump out. If he doesn't jump out, how can you get rid of him openly? If you don't get rid of him, how can you get rid of him?" To be able to take power in a legitimate way..." Said these words in a low voice, Du Wei smiled wryly himself first: "It seems that I am not a political material yet." Prince Chen walked a few steps ahead, stopped, turned around, looked at Du Wei, and said with a gentle smile, "Aren't you coming?" Du Wei smiled, and the two glanced at each other, thinking about each other for a while, Du Wei raised his footsteps and followed. In the palace, the Imperial Forest Army had already replaced the gorgeous equipment on the celebration day. They were fully armed, with armor, shields, long swords, axes and spears. Teams of Imperial Forest Army came and went in the palace in a hurry.Those court servants were also temporarily restrained.Prince Chen had an idea in his heart, and as he walked along with Du Wei, he kept issuing orders to his subordinates behind him. Du Wei knew that the garrison outside should have begun to take over the city defense at this moment. Following Prince Chen walked for a while, in front of him was a group of golden armored warriors guarding a tall palace. Prince Chen and Du Wei stopped before the palace: "I want to see my father." The leader of the team of golden-armored warriors hastily saluted: "Your Highness, Your Majesty has been waiting for you for a long time, and he told you to go in as soon as you arrive." Prince Chen smiled slightly, looked at Du Wei: "Let's go." The leader of the golden-armored warrior stepped forward to stop him, with a troubled expression on his face: "This... His Majesty seems to only invite you in." Prince Chen's complexion changed, and he stared at the leader of the golden armored warrior. A hint of majesty suddenly appeared on his originally gentle face. His cold eyes made the warrior take a step back involuntarily, and quickly lowered his head. Dare to make eye contact with Prince Chen. Prince Chen withdrew his gaze, didn't even speak, but just held Du Wei with one hand, and walked into the palace without looking at the golden armored warrior in front of him. This golden armored warrior was sweating coldly, watching Prince Chen disobeying His Majesty's order and bringing people into the palace, how dare he stop him? He is an officer of the Emperor's Guards in the Royal Forest Army, but after knowing what happened today, I'm afraid... the palace will have a new owner.This Prince Chen is still "Your Highness", but I'm afraid that after going in and meeting the emperor, he will become "Your Majesty" when he comes out! In this case, why should I go against his will? Who else doesn't understand this truth?They all stepped back to make way.As soon as Prince Chen brought Du Wei into the palace, the inner court warriors commanded by him surrounded him and immediately replaced these golden armored warriors and took over the defense around the palace. Honestly go aside. ... In such a large and spacious palace, the tall pillars all around are inlaid with golden walls, but the candlesticks that are as tall as a person are not lit, making the palace that should have been resplendent with golden walls become lifeless. The aura of wealth and nobility on the golden wall and jade wall can be seen from afar, but it is full of depression.Du Wei just took a deep breath, but he seemed to smell a decaying air that made him uncomfortable. Well, psychological effects, these are all psychological effects.Du Wei reminded himself carefully, and followed Prince Chen expressionlessly. Going forward, the servant who already had a timid face quickly pushed open a door and raised the gauze curtain inside the door. In this room in the palace, there is a large square bed in the middle, with four beds above the foot of the bed. The pillars poked straight into the ceiling, covered with exquisite carved patterns, and inside the moon-white bead curtains, the old emperor Augustine VI was vaguely lying on the bed, breathing heavily like a bellows. "Chen, you are here..." There was a soft call, followed by a rush of coughing, the old emperor seemed to try his best to stand up, and waved his hands vigorously, a trembling servant next to him raised the curtain, and hurriedly retreated out. "Father." Prince Chen knelt down on one knee, lowered his head and did not look at the old emperor: "Brother is dead." "You... did a good job." The old emperor's face was sallow, it was a color full of haggardness, his eyes no longer had a trace of brilliance, they were full of old turbidity, it seemed that it was difficult to open the eyelids open. However, after such a simple conversation between father and son, they both shut up as if in tacit understanding. For a long time, the only sound in the room was the old emperor's breathing like a bellows. Du Wei quietly knelt behind Prince Chen on one knee. He quietly raised his head to look at the old emperor. The former hero of the mainland is now an old man lingering. His robes are askew and his face is full of wrinkles. Like the bark of a tree, on his ashen face, there is no trace of the look of an emperor. Most importantly, in his cloudy eyes... Ok?That is clearly vigilance! That's right, the old emperor looked at his son in front of him, at Prince Chen, his eyes were full of vigilance and vigilance instead of the joy of quelling the coup d'état. Time froze as if dead, and both the emperor and the prince seemed to be testing each other's patience.Du Wei's heart suddenly moved. He clearly saw the emperor's foot under the crooked robe, vaguely revealing a sword hilt, and that big skinny hand was holding the sword hilt with all his strength. Finally, after a long time, the old emperor suddenly sighed, and there was a trace of complexity and difficulty in his voice: "You are here to ask me to abdicate." Prince Chen didn't answer. Suddenly a morbid blush flashed across the old emperor's face, he sat up with difficulty, still pressing the hilt of the sword in his arms, looked at his son carefully, and said slowly: "This time, it was your hand." Calm down, now everything in the imperial capital is under your control, you are young and resolute, you are thoughtful, you are secretive in your actions, and you are persevering by nature... It is mostly due to yourself that you can get to where you are today. Moreover, According to the current situation, it seems that I should announce my abdication and pass the throne to you, right?" Prince Chen still didn't answer. Du Wei sighed inwardly - the emperor's family has no family! Although the old emperor liked the younger son, he had always been inclined to regard the younger emperor as his heir.But... there is a premise. If I pass the position to you, I must wait until I am willing to pass it on! Facing the throne, who would be willing to give it up?The original intention of the old emperor was that he still wanted to hold the emperor's position for a few more years, until he died, and then give up!No one is willing to let go of the authority in their hands. Even his own son!Even if it is the heir that he made himself! If you want to inherit, you have to wait until I die! At this moment, Du Wei clearly grasped Augustine VI's mind. Prince Chen still didn't speak, the haze in the old emperor's eyes revealed little by little, he breathed little by little, as if he was gritting his teeth: "You...you have to be like him, you want me to abdicate now ?" Finally, Prince Chen raised his head. At this moment, the prince had a gentle smile on his face: "Father, you are overthinking." After speaking, the prince stood up easily, and he walked to the bed with a gentle smile on his face.Suddenly, the old emperor became tense like an old lion being approached by the enemy, and the veins in the hand holding the sword hilt bulged.But when Prince Chen walked to the bed, he only stretched out his hand, gently helped his father straighten his robe, then lowered his eyelids, looked at his father, and said softly: "Father, my brother and I are different." The decline and embarrassment of Augustine VI all fell into Du Wei's eyes. At this moment, a sentence flashed in Du Wei's heart: This is politics! "Father, you are still the emperor. It was my elder brother who was responsible for the coup, not me." Prince Chen smiled, his eyes were bright, half confident, half cold: "However, father, you are indeed an old man. The state affairs are complicated, and you are out of energy. This time Earl Raymond helped his brother mobilize troops, but you didn't realize it at all... In the future, my father may need to spend more time on this. I will be able to keep my son. You once, but may not be able to help you pass the test every time." Although the voice is soft, the meaning in the words is unspeakably hard! After finishing speaking, Prince Chen took a step back and bowed to say goodbye: "Your body has not healed, so leave the outside affairs to me for now." After finishing speaking, Prince Chen walked up to Du Wei, gently pulled him up, as if smiling at Du Wei, and took Du Wei away. Before leaving, Du Wei glanced back. The old emperor had a complicated expression on his face, and his cloudy old eyes were full of depression and emptiness... ... After walking out of the palace, Prince Chen didn't leave immediately, but just dragged Du Wei to wait at the gate of the palace.His eyes were full of confidence, and there was a determined smile on the corner of his mouth. Sure enough, within a short while, a servant came out of the palace. The inner room looked terrified, holding something in his hand, trotted all the way to Prince Chen, knelt down on the ground with a plop, and held the thing above his head with both hands . Prince Chen gently took it over and opened it. "Establish the prince Chen as the regent, and then all state affairs will be decided by the regent, and he will act as the emperor!" This sentence was scrawled on the white cloth, and the handwriting was a little crooked. Obviously, when the old emperor wrote the pen, his heart was already extremely weak. The signature below was even more scrawled, and the seal affixed on it was also because Not strong enough and somewhat blurred. Prince Chen showed a satisfied smile on his face, and then recruited a subordinate of the inner court guards, and handed over the square white cloth. "Send it to all departments." Du Wei looked at Prince Chen, smiled, and said lightly, "Should I call you Your Majesty now? Or Your Highness?" "Your Highness." Prince Chen glanced at Du Wei: "I am the regent, not the emperor. This should not be confused." ... The news that the regent was first established was immediately passed along with Augustine VI's personal order. Various departments in the imperial capital were not too surprised by the news.In this coup, the old emperor's aging state was undoubtedly revealed, the eldest prince was defeated and died, and Prince Chen ascended the throne, which was a matter of course in everyone's minds.The only slightly surprising thing is that the old emperor did not abdicate immediately, and Prince Chen did not ask for succession immediately, but became a regent. Prince Chen acted resolutely, and immediately dispatched a thousand-strong Imperial Forest Army to guard the old emperor's palace. Under his deliberate arrangements, the original subordinates of the Imperial Forest Army were changed beyond recognition. Because the Imperial Forest Army lost 3,000 people in the coup, Prince Chen even recruited 5,000 people from the garrison of the Imperial Capital Public Security Department and transferred them to the Imperial Forest Army. Afterwards, the regent's orders were passed down like water. The Marquis of Solomon abolished his title, all the royal firms under his control were cut off, his territory was taken back, and the family's private army was disbanded on the spot. General Juncker (who died in battle) was stripped of his baronetship and his military posts, and was buried with civilian ceremonies. The rest of the nobles and officials who participated in the coup were all imprisoned in the prison of the Imperial Supervisory Office pending trial.At the same time, 3,000 garrison troops were dispatched to supervise the prisoner's mansion, and they were not allowed to enter or leave. All soldiers and warriors who participated in the mutiny were dismissed from military posts on the spot, and those who died were buried with civilian rites.The survivors are being held pending trial. What made everyone breathe a sigh of relief was that this Prince Chen, the newly-appointed regent, seemed to have no intention of killing anyone for the time being. Among all the orders, the prisoner did not order to kill a single person.Even a rebel leader like the dead General Junker was only expelled from his title, and could be buried with civilian ceremonies... This is already extraordinarily tolerant.Just think about the royal coups in the history of the empire. In any case, the winners brandished butcher knives to kill the losers.The scene of blood flowing into rivers in the imperial capital is vivid in my mind! It's rare to be kind like Prince Chen who only shuts him down but doesn't kill him.It's just that everyone hasn't grasped the victor's current intentions, except for a few nobles who were anxious to pat the horses and proposed severe punishment for rebellion, but they were all ignored by Prince Chen. Three days later, the magic circle in the imperial capital had already been eliminated. Prince Chen mobilized the guards of the two divisions loyal to the royal family from the acropolis around the imperial capital to enter the city and controlled the city defense. The rebels of the Second Division had canceled their numbers, and thousands of rebel prisoners of war were held in the camp outside the city. Prince Chen issued a series of orders again, but this time it was a reward.After all, a coup d'état is like a gangster assembly. When it's over, it's time for the winner to share the spoils. To everyone's surprise, the one who ranked first in this commendation order was actually the name of Du Wei, the eldest son of the Luo Lin family! Du Wei, given the surname "Rudolph" (it is said to be the surname of a knight in the Saint Laurent Knights around Aragon in history.), awarded the title of duke, the title of court magic advisor, the title of court university scholar, and the title of court astrology The title of teacher, and the prince's magic tutor. What made all the rich and nobles almost stare out of their eyes was that the title of "Duke" that Du Wei got was clearly written on the regent's order... hereditary! ! ! This news almost immediately blew up a gust of wind in the aristocratic circle of the imperial capital! When Prince Richen was in the coup, many people heard Du Wei's promise of dukedom.However, everyone naturally thought that the duke promised by Prince Chen must be something similar to a court title. There are two types of titles in the Roland Empire, hereditary titles and lifetime titles.Lifetime titles are only awarded to the person, not hereditary, and have no territory, and cannot form a private army.And once the person dies, the title will naturally be cancelled. Generally speaking, such a title is something that the royal family is often willing to reward.Because the cost of spending is small, although it is glorious, it does not have much real power. But hereditary titles are definitely not easily rewarded!A hereditary title means that the conferred can get their own territory, collect taxes on the territory, form their own private army, and pass it on from generation to generation!It is equivalent to adding another country within a country to the empire.The emperors of all dynasties were not stupid, of course they understood that the fewer such hereditary titles, the more stable their empire would be.Therefore, unless it is of great merit, there will never be any hereditary titles! Otherwise, more and more hereditary titles will be awarded, and more and more territories will be awarded. No matter how vast the territory of the empire is, there will always be a day when the titles will be exhausted! Back then, the ancestor of the Luo Lin family, the general Luo Lin who assisted the Augustine family in their rise and unification of the mainland, had made great military exploits, but he only won a hereditary earl.As for Du Wei, although he stood on Prince Chen's side in the coup d'état...but it's hard to say what he did.It can be said to be big, and it can be said to be small, but it is not easy to evaluate.It's just that being able to become a duke in this way is still hereditary, which shocked these nobles too much! And the shocking scene that everyone didn't know happened in the palace, the original residence of Prince Chen, and the current Prince Regent's palace. In front of several trusted subordinates, including the ten-year undercover agent who played a key role in the coup d'état, the guy named Camisiro, the former head of the Public Security Department, Baron Sark, and several subordinates of Prince Chen close relatives. The regent casually threw a map of the empire in front of Du Wei, with a smile on his face: "My lord duke, take a look at the map! Wherever you want to be your territory, you can choose whatever you want on the map!" When this word came out, everyone was shocked, and everyone changed color! !