Chapter 60: The Coup, the Dead and the Foresight
"This country is not as you know outside." Princess Sugar sighed, held her hair with her jade hands, and said softly: "You should have heard about my father from Sister Hua, right?"
"Yes." Zhang Luoye nodded: "Miss Baihua said that the sugar emperor died of diabetes because of excessive sugar intake."
"Diabetes?" A hint of dimness flashed across Princess Sugar's face: "We sugar people have the power of a black phoenix. Do you think that a mere sugar can kill my father's death?"
"You mean......!?" Zhang Luoye looked in the direction of Sugar Princess.
"He was poisoned to death by General Tang Nian's 'Assistant Taifu'." Princess Tang said with some gritted teeth.
Assistant Taifu? Zhang Luoye was slightly stunned and couldn't help but remember that on the way here, he encountered the camping sugar army. The general of this sugar army seemed to be called "Assistant Taifu" by a deputy general Guo who was introduced to behead him at that time.
He asked about this and Princess Tang's face became even more dim: "It's him right. This man is broad and ambitious. He gave his sister to my father as a concubine, that is, my mother's queen. Shortly after giving birth to me, Tang Nian asked her mother to be unfavorable to her father, but her mother was kind and refused to agree. Tang Nian cruelly killed her mother, even though it was his biological sister. Then he slandered the matter to the original Taifu and fabricated the so-called evidence. When the father saw the evidence, he was angry and beheaded the original Taifu. Later, his father promoted Tang Nian to the original Taifu and served as the general of the country protection."
"All this is just like the Tang Year plan. He gradually controlled the garrison of the entire palace. One day, he threatened my life as a threat to make his father's emperor's will, and then poisoned him to death. The position of Assistant Taifu, also known as the First Taifu, was because some princes were too young and worried that after inheriting the throne, they would not be able to govern the country well due to lack of experience. Simply put, it is to say that before the heirs can be able to inherit the throne, the Assistant Taifu will be the affairs of the entire country. The rights during the agency are actually equivalent to the rights of the Tang Emperor."
Zhang Luoye inserted: "In other words, Tang Nian manages so hard that it is to obtain the position of assisting the Taifu, treating you as a puppet doll that he controls the imperial court?"
Princess Tang sighed: "It's not just that. Treating me as a puppet and undermining my rights is only the first step; after my father's death, I deliberately pretended to be extremely willful in order to save my life, with the purpose of making Tang Nian feel that I was not threatening. Unexpectedly, he happened to use my point to exaggerate it as a military action that was a waste of money and money, so that the people of the whole country would have a slight word to me. This is probably his second step, which makes me lose my majesty and trust."
"In the third step, I'm afraid people will gradually get used to his subrogation, and then make better political achievements than me, or even my father, and get praise from the entire Tang Dynasty. I think, I'm afraid that at that time, no one will pay attention to me if I don't inherit the throne. Even Tang Dynasty killed me and became the Tang Dynasty's emperor by myself, people would not object."
"Better political achievements?" Zhang Luoye seemed to think of something, and suddenly slapped his thigh: "Is it because the war between the sugar country and the vinegar country is based on this? Think about it, if you can defeat the vinegar country, there is no greater political achievements for you sugar country."
"You are wrong. This war has never existed since the beginning." Princess Sugar said in a surprising way!
"Your Highness Princess, are you kidding?" Zhang Luoye said in confusion: "War does not exist? Are you trying to say that you are tying hundreds of thousands of troops, which is a waste of money and money. Just go for a walk and turn back?"
Princess Sugar was amused by Zhang Luoye's words: "It's not like this. I mean that this war was planned from the beginning, and the purpose was different."
"I still don't understand. If I have a good plan, who will do it with whom? Who should I do?" Zhang Luoye asked with a frown.
Princess Sugar was right and asked, "Then I ask you, what is the fuse of this so-called war? How did you hear it outside?"
Zhang Luoye thought for a while and said, "I heard that it was a radical member of the 'Free Alliance'. He saw that the friction between the Neutral City and the Sugar Country was heating up. In order to solve this problem, he hired a wood carving assassination team. On the one hand, he captured His Royal Highness's pet and slandered the country. On the other hand, he caused a large vinegar cellar capture incident in the Vinegar Country and slandered the country to try to lead the hatred of the two countries to each other and resolve the crisis of the Neutral City."
Sugar Princess whispered: "Then I can tell you frankly that the leader behind the Woodcarving Assassination Group is the Queen of Vinegar, and the instructor of the radical faction of the Liberty League is Sugar Year. These are all obtained by secretly sending my confidants to investigate secretly over the years."
Zhang Luoye's face was strange when he heard this. If this is the case, isn't the so-called vinegar cellar capture incident and the capture of the sugar princess' pet just the self-written, directed and acted by the vinegar queen and the sugar year?
The sugar princess glanced at Zhang Luoye and said, "It seems you have noticed that it is true. This war was the one who conspired to plan and the purpose was to be a neutral city."
Neutral City? Zhang Luoye thought for a moment and sighed, "I understand that the place where the two countries are fighting is located just outside the Neutral City. If the two armies that are about to attack each other suddenly join and turn to attack Neutral City, I am afraid that the Neutral City will be captured under the condition of being caught off guard and with a huge gap in force."
Sugar Princess nodded and said, "For Sugar Year, the heavy losses compared to defeating the Vinegar Country, it will be his greatest political achievement with the least losses. If this move is successful, it will be the time for me to die."
Zhang Luoye touched his chin and said, "Then, what you want me to do is to stop this war, right? But, what exactly do you do? I don't think that killing the Sugar Year and the Vinegar Queen can end this war."
"Of course I can't kill them." Princess Sugar frowned and said, "This will only make the situation even more out of control. What I want to do is something more essential than this. I want to launch a coup to take back my rights and the throne!"
Coup? Zhang Luoye couldn't help laughing: "Then, Your Highness, you must have a detailed plan, but I don't know how many people there are besides you and me. After all, if you want to launch a coup to seize power and the throne, the number of people naturally cannot be too small."
When the sugar princess heard this, she touched her forehead and said shyly: "There are so many people, of course there are a lot of them, besides me... there are you."
The smile on Zhang Luoye's face instantly froze: "Your Highness, Princess, you... are you kidding, didn't you just say that you had some confidants? There should be more than the two of us, right?"
The sugar princess gave Zhang Luoye a blank look: "Those close friends are powers that cannot be used by the dark masses. I just know how to contact them. I don't know who they are and where they are."
Zhang Luoye listened and his face twitched: "In other words, just by you and me, do you want to launch a coup that steals the country?"
Zhang Luoye's expression was seen by the sugar princess, and the latter chuckled. Her beautiful posture made Zhang Luoye stagnant.
"Brother Zhang, you still don't understand the feasibility behind the surface. Just in terms of the number of people, you and me are not worth mentioning compared to the Million Master, but don't forget that I am the Princess of the Sugar Kingdom, and you are the prophetic white-haired alien. If you consider this point, Million Master is nothing at all. Come here."
Zhang Luoye saw that Princess Sugar looked as if she was sure to win, and couldn't help but lean her ear over. Princess Sugar endured the strange thing in her heart and exhaled as if a lyrics were saying something in his ear.
After a while, Zhang Luoye leaned against Princess Li Tang, touched her chin with one hand, as if she was pondering. After a long time, he said, "What you said is indeed feasible, but I am not familiar with this place, so I am not sure. Princess, how much success rate do you think what you said is?"
Princess Sugar thought for a while and said, "It should be about 60%, and the minimum is not more than 50%.
"Does 50% to 60%?" Zhang Luoye couldn't help but smile bitterly: "The success rate is still too low."
Princess Sugar gave him a blank look again: "60% is just an estimate, but the actual operation depends on your and my acting skills. I think this should increase the chance of one to two hundred percent."
Zhang Luoye nodded, and was about to say something, but suddenly raised his eyebrows slightly, looked around instantly, and then shouted at Princess Sugar: "Your Highness, lie down quickly!"
Although Princess Sugar didn't know what happened, she saw Zhang Luoye's cautious appearance and lay down without hesitation. Just then, a series of sounds of broken windows sounded. Princess Sugar glanced at her in the light that it was a large area of bows and arrows! This made her face change slightly.
Zhang Luoye's face was plain and he didn't see much movement. He just swayed his sleeve robe and put the dense bows and arrows around him into the sleeve robe. Then he swayed his sleeve robe lightly. The bows and arrows that were put into the sleeve robe actually shot out the window in the opposite direction, and a large scream suddenly sounded out of the window.
"Your Highness Princess, stay here, I'll go back." With the sound, he turned into a shocking fountain and came out of the window, making Princess Sugar's eyes shine brightly.
Soon, a sound of fighting sounded outside the window and disappeared at an extremely fast speed. Then Zhang Luoye rushed in with a figure in one hand.
"Death Soldier!" After seeing the figure that Zhang Luoye was thrown on the table clearly, the Sugar Princess's face changed drastically.
"Death Soldier? What is that?" Princess Sugar's expression was seen by Zhang Luoye, and he couldn't help but ask in confusion.
Princess Sugar withdrew her gaze, but still looked a little surprised and suspicious: "The confidant Anbu I mentioned before is actually affiliated with our Sugar Kingdom royal family. Tang Nian has always wanted to know the background of this power, but unfortunately he didn't know anything from my father's mouth, so he imitated and trained the assassination corps exclusively to him, which was the Dead Soldier."
"Look, their wings were broken, their hair was pulled out, and their faces were even tattooed. But why did they appear here? The bows and arrows just now wanted to kill me. Before they captured the Neutral City, it makes no sense for Tang Nian to do this? By the way, Brother Zhang, is he dead?"
Zhang Luoye shook his head lightly: "I just knocked him out, so are the others outside. Your Highness, do you want to interrogate them?"
"I'm afraid the interrogation won't get any useful information." Princess Sugar sighed: "These dead men will only loyally perform the tasks of Sugar Year. With the cautious nature of Sugar Year, they will not tell them the purpose of the mission. Moreover, these guys are extremely stupid and loyal. I'm afraid that when you wake him up, he will bite his tongue and commit suicide."
Zhang Luoye thought for a while and suddenly asked, "Your Highness Princess, if you know what tasks Tang Nian has arranged for him recently, can you find useful information?"
When the Sugar Princess heard this, she looked puzzled: "If this is the case, you can compare the tasks assigned by Tang Nian to him one by one, and you should find useful information. But can this be done? I have said just now that for these guys, even the most cruel interrogation may not necessarily make them speak."
"Don't worry." Zhang Luoye smiled slightly: "We Taoist magic has a spell called 'soul searching' that can freely explore people's memories."
"Soul Searching?" Hearing that the name seemed to be a very amazing spell, Princess Sugar couldn't help but widen her eyes, and saw Zhang Luoye stretched out her hand to press her head, standing quietly with her eyes closed.
After a while, Zhang Luoye took his hand back and opened his eyes. The sugar princess beside her looked disappointed: "Not? Is this the so-called soul searching technique?"
"Do you think Taoist magic is a street-based art?" Zhang Luoye looked at her angrily: "I have found all the tasks in his memory. Do you want to listen or not?"
"Of course I have to listen, let's talk." Princess Sugar withdrew her gaze and said with a serious expression.
Zhang Luoye told the Tang Princess all the tasks found. The latter showed a thoughtful expression on his face and suddenly slapped his thighs and said, "I understand, so that's it. Alas, Tang Nian is indeed far-sighted. If Brother Zhang wasn't there, my life would have been done."
It seems that in order to make Zhang Luoye understand, Princess Sugar explained: "There are two tasks that are most important. One is to assassinate me; the other is to assassinate me but fail to succeed, so she assassinated the city lord of the Neutral City who came to lobby. Combining these two tasks, you can get Tang Nian's intention. He probably wanted to blame the charge of assassinating me on the city lord of the Neutral City who came to lobby, so that he could not only get rid of me, but also find an excuse for sending troops to the City lord of the Neutral City."
"Of course, Tang Nian also considered the time of failure, so he took this second task, so that the dead soldiers could not kill me, and instead killed the city lord of the Neutral City. First, the Neutral City lost its cohesion due to the city lord's death, and it was like a piece of sand, making it easier to attack. Second, I think he would blame me for killing the city lord of the Neutral City, causing the illusion that I wanted to attack the city lord of the Neutral City, so that De Tianxi thought I was a warlike and willful person, and damaged my reputation."
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