Chapter 241: Li Jiancheng: I Am the One True Emperor of All Ages!

"Bang!"

The eunuch cursing loudly had a vivid crimson flower bloom on his forehead.

The smoking muzzle shifted sideways, pressing against another eunuch's forehead.

High heat scorched, sizzling and crackling.

"Where is Yin Defei?"

Compared to his tight-lipped companion, this crippled and weak-willed eunuch could no longer hold his urine.

"Xi, Xi Ye Ting Palace~"

"Lead the way!"

"I, I don't dare~~"

The eunuch cried, crying from top to bottom.

Lead the way?

This is wanting the whole family to die together~

Lin Dao frowned slightly, "Point the way."

The eunuch quickly raised his hand, indicating the direction.

Lin Dao mounted his horse, dragging the already unrecognizable Yin A Shu, and rode away.

He was unfamiliar with the Imperial Palace of Chang'an City, having only seen the floor plan.

Moreover, various obstacles would always be met on the road, with much trouble along the journey.

Lin Dao's sudden intrusion into the palace was like throwing firecrackers into a beehive.

The entire Imperial Palace was now completely boiling.

Groups of armored soldiers came to block, and the tall, thick Gong Liang Yu even sealed off the Road ahead.

Screaming gongnu and eunuchs ran around everywhere like headless flies.

Wherever the eye could see, all was chaos.

Loaded the RPG, hoisted it onto his shoulder, and fired a shot at the tall palace wall ahead.

Amidst a roaring sound, the sturdy palace wall collapsed and shattered, tearing open a huge gap.

Lin Dao rode forward, dragging the already unhuman strange thing, and charged through the breach.

Behind him, the Jin Palace Guards in iron armor chased after him, panting.

The palace guards were not allowed to ride horses; the armored soldiers could not catch up at all.

"Where is Yin Defei?"

Lin Dao was rampant, running amok within the palace.

Soldiers near the machine gun swept fire; any obstacles on the Road were directly blasted open.

After constantly grabbing people to question, he finally blocked Yin Defei beside Jing Fu Tai after crossing Jin Shui River.

Around Jing Fu Tai were large numbers of Left and Right Feathered Forest Army soldiers.

Not far away in South Sea Pool, on the huge Dragon Boat, Li Yuan in his dragon robe hid behind the shield wall, anxiously looking this way.

Originally Yin Defei was to escape onto the boat.

But before she could board, she was blocked by Lin Dao.

Lin Dao on horseback looked at the trembling palace-dressed beauty before him, "Are you Yin Defei?"

Yin Defei had been scared senseless.

In her entire life, she had never dreamed she would encounter such a terrifying thing.

In despair, she cried shrilly toward the distant Dragon Boat, "Your Majesty~ save me~~~"

The favored concubine facing danger, Li Yuan's heart was also twisted like a knife.

He hurriedly instructed the soldiers to shout, asking what the assassin wanted.

Lin Dao turned a deaf ear to the soldiers' shouts.

He reached out and grabbed the rope, swinging the already unrecognizable Yin A Shu in front of Yin Defei.

Looking at the bloody, mangled skeleton before her, Yin Defei screamed and retreated again and again.

"Your father struck me with black hands, I killed him."

"His backer is you; I will kill you too. To remove the grass, you must remove the roots."

"Father~~~" Yin Defei let out a tragic cry, tears pouring down.

"Shoot!"

The Xuanwu Gate Guard General roared angrily, and the prepared Left and Right Feathered Forest Army shot out dense arrows.

The horse shot into a hedgehog let out a tragic cry and fell into the blood pool, struggling.

Lin Dao, his white robe covered with arrows, lowered his head and glanced at the many arrows bouncing around his feet.

"If you have the ability, bring the Eight-Ox Crossbow over and shoot me."

Lin Dao withdrew his gaze, looking at the crying Yin Defei.

"Bang!"

A woman?

What's wrong with a woman?

Those so-called virtuous empresses, which one doesn't deserve to die?

Yin A Shu relied on his daughter's favor to run rampant inside and outside Chang'an City, harming how many people.

The root is this woman.

Deserved!

Lin Dao turned around, facing the dense mass of armored soldiers.

The Left and Right Feathered Forest Army, who had rushed from Xuanwu Gate to rescue the emperor, packed the riverbank densely, guarding against Lin Dao approaching the Dragon Boat.

"Heh~"

Lin Dao sneered.

Glancing at the Dragon Boat growing ever farther in the distance, his heart held only disdain.

Li Yuan, you are truly too weak.

If not for your outstanding son, you wouldn't even count as a lamp.

Holding a machine gun in both hands, his body wrapped with ammo belts.

Lin Dao swept fire all the way as he walked toward Xuanwu Gate at the rear gate of the Imperial Palace.

The armored soldiers of the Left and Right Feathered Forest Army were knocked down in swathes.

The soldiers fought to the death in resistance.

They counterattacked with strong bows and hard crossbows, raising shields to advance and meet the enemy.

It was useless.

Even clad in iron armor and holding iron shields, they could not withstand 7.62 bullets.

It was entirely a one-sided massacre.

The thunder-like gunshots ceased, and the soldiers looked at Lin Dao in fear.

Yet they watched his figure suddenly disappear before their eyes.

Outside Jing Fu Tai, deathly silence reigned.

The next moment, Lin Dao's figure appeared once more.

He switched to another machine gun and reloaded it with ammo belts.

When the dense gunshots rang out again, the armored soldiers of the Left and Right Feathered Forest Army fell into despair.

Their morale collapsed, and they began to rout.

No one dared stand before Lin Dao, watching him walk toward Xuanwu Gate with wide eyes.

Facing the heavy city gate, Lin Dao fired an RPG at it, smashing it directly to pieces.

Helmet plumes and capes and long robes rose in the wind.

Under the gaze of all, Lin Dao walked out of Xuanwu Gate just like that.

Inside the Imperial Palace, corpses lay everywhere, blood flowing like a river.

The entire Chang'an City was in an uproar.

Troops and horses within the military camp outside the city surged into the city, and all city gates were closed.

Countless armored soldiers searched every fangshi one by one.

This was a great event unheard of in a thousand years since the founding of the capital.

One person!

One assassin!

Charging alone into the Imperial Palace, then killing his way out alone!

The face of the Tang Li was pressed into the ground and rubbed back and forth.

As Crown Prince, Li Jiancheng was busy until the moon rose over the willow tips before returning to Donggong.

"Truly a strange person."

"Charging into the Imperial Palace, yet not assassinating the Emperor, only killing a concubine."

"Yin A Shu is also a fool, actually provoking such a monster for a bit of money!"

"Erlang and he are unclear~"

"Where is the person?"

Returning to the Qin Palace, no one was seen around.

Li Jiancheng entered in confusion, and under the dim candlelight, saw the Crown Princess sitting motionless there.

"What's wrong?"

He stepped forward in confusion, only to see Crown Princess Zheng Guanyin bound hand and foot, with a strange paper strip pasted on her mouth.

Li Jiancheng was greatly surprised and turned to leave.

As he turned, he saw an iron-armored man clad in iron armor.

At this moment, Li Jiancheng's heart rose to his throat.

Good, such great audacity!

Causing a great disturbance in the Imperial Palace by day, and sneaking into Donggong by night?!

Lin Dao raised his head to signal "go sit by the Crown Princess."

Li Jiancheng gritted his teeth.

He wanted to shout loudly, calling over the Crown Prince Six Rates of Donggong.

But he feared that once he shouted, he would be killed immediately.

"Hmm?"

Li Jiancheng retreated step by step, finally sitting down beside Zheng Guanyin.

Lin Dao, looking down from above, broke the plastic cable ties on Zheng Guanyin's hands and feet, and tore off the sealing adhesive tape.

Lin Dao, looking down from above, gazed at Li Jiancheng.

"I'll ask you a few things."

"How do you view the Xiongnu and Tibet?"

Li Jiancheng was stunned, as if being interrogated about governance.

He was inclined not to answer, but feared the Iron Armor men would ruthlessly kill.

He responded in a low voice: "The Turks are powerful; harmony should be prized. Marry off a Princess to form a Qin-Jin alliance."

"As for Tibet, those barbarian small states are not worth mentioning."

The Turks of this era were extremely powerful; prizing harmony was not wrong, and Li Yuan did exactly that.

Even the previous Sui Dynasty was the same.

Walking the road others have walked is safe and steady.

If anyone dared say they could crush the Turks within a few years, they would surely be laughed at.

Lin Dao asked again: "How would you treat the common people?"

"Encourage farming and sericulture, lighten corvée and lower taxes, recuperate and multiply."

Lin Dao asked again: "How would you treat the Aristocratic Clans?"

Hearing these words, Zheng Guanyin, who had been silent beside them, also turned her head to look at Li Jiancheng.

"Thi~~~s"

Li Jiancheng frowned slightly: "Select talents for office."

"Intermarry with the Five Surnames and Seven Wang Families, mutually binding honor and disgrace together."

Lin Dao's gaze turned to Zheng Guanyin beside them.

This Crown Princess was from the Xingyang Zheng Clan of the Five Surnames and Seven Wang Families.

From this, one could see Li Jiancheng's attitude toward the Aristocratic Families.

Recruit, utilize, mutually bind—the Royal Family was merely the greatest Aristocratic Clan.

If Great Tang's state policy were thus.

Hundreds of years later, the Central Plains would likely end up like San Ge's fate.

Lin Dao shook his head and said no more.

Under Li Jiancheng's stunned gaze, he turned and walked away.

Li Jiancheng was greatly surprised that he had not been killed.

He could not help but rise and shout: "What exactly do you mean?!"

Lin Dao stamped his foot: "Inspecting you."

"Inspecting?" Li Jiancheng seemed to suddenly understand: "Is there also Erlang?!"

"You are comparing me with Erlang."

Saying this, he could no longer hold back.

He stepped forward: "Tell me, who is more outstanding, me or Erlang?"

Lin Dao turned around and looked directly at him: "What do you think?"

"Naturally, I am more outstanding!"

Li Jiancheng said decisively: "Erlang is skilled in battle, but he only knows how to fight."

"If Erlang ascends, Great Tang will surely be given to endless war and ceaseless campaigns. How is that different from the former dynasty's Emperor Yang?"

"By then, the people will be scorched and the beacon fires will rise everywhere!"

His words did not stop.

"I am different. I will let the people recuperate and multiply, and I will make Great Tang stable."

"Internally unite the Aristocratic Clans, externally make peace with strong enemies."

"Only thus can we strive for time and gradually grow strong."

Lin Dao finally spoke.

"If you ascend, you will be nothing more than an ordinary Guardian Ruler."

Li Jiancheng flew into a great rage: "How is that possible!"

"I will surely be a wise ruler!"

"And what of Erlang?"

Lin Dao glanced at him and spoke the evaluation the Historical Records gave Li Erfeng.

"One Emperor of All Ages."

Zheng Guanyin covered her mouth and gasped.

Li Jiancheng, however, was struck as if by thunder, stunned on the spot.

"Thou~sand~thou~sand One Emperor of All Ages?!"

The blow of these words was too great—so great that his mind went blank for a moment, and he could not react.

"I am a Guardian Ruler, and Erlang is One Emperor of All Ages?"

"Hahahahaha~~~"

Li Jiancheng laughed out loud, his laughter sharp like a Night Owl.

Outside, someone finally noticed the commotion.

Xue Wanche, who had recently defected to Li Jiancheng, brought men outside asking: "Your Highness the Crown Prince~~~"

Li Jiancheng, having stopped laughing, roared: "Scram!"

"I do not believe it!"

Li Jiancheng, eyes red, stared fixedly at Lin Dao.

"I am One Emperor of All Ages!"

"As for Erlang, at most he is an Emperor Yang who knows how to fight."

Lin Dao naturally would not argue with him, but asked a question instead.

"Do you truly have a private affair with that Consort Yin and Consort Zhang?"

Under normal circumstances, Li Jiancheng would certainly deny it outright.

But now his mind was agitated, and he dared not ignore "So what if it is!"

Zheng Guanyin, sitting there, lowered her head.

Lin Dao smiled. "Is it that kind of literature, or deepening interest binding?"

"Forget it, I'm not interested in knowing."

He turned around, opened the door, and left in large strides under the gaze of numerous Donggong armored soldiers.

End of Chapter