Chapter 540

Great Ming Dynasty.

Inside the base camp of the Southern Prince and the Ning Prince.

Following the information published on the Famous Sword Ranking about the Yongle Sword.

The Southern Prince and the Ning Prince also learned the news that the Great Ming's guardian cornerstone, Sanbao Eunuch Zheng He, had been killed by Zhu Wushi.

Upon learning this news, the Southern Prince and the Ning Prince were overjoyed beyond measure.

The two of them believed that the time for them to truly rise up had come!

"Now the little emperor is in a coma, and Zhu Wushi has even killed Zheng He!"

"The capital of the Great Ming must be in chaos now!"

"With Zhu Wushi's character, he must be seizing the power of the government now!"

"As long as our army sets out now, learning from the Yan Prince Zhu Di of that year, and marches toward the imperial palace under the banner of Jingnan!"

"We will surely be able to achieve something!"

The Southern Prince looked at the sand table excitedly and said, as if he had already become the emperor of the Great Ming, waving his hands and looking very majestic!

The Ning Prince expressed his full agreement upon hearing the Southern Prince's words, and then also put forward his own opinion:

"Zheng He's death has indeed given you and me a great opportunity; Zhu Wushi must be facing the verbal criticism of the ministers in the capital now!"

"It will inevitably take him some time to completely stabilize that group of civil and military officials."

"And this period of time will be our opportunity; we must quickly prepare our troops."

"As for the little emperor, he is now in Zhu Wushi's hands; who knows if he is still asleep."

"Before we prepare our troops to set out, we can spread the news in Jiangxi that Zhu Wushi has imprisoned the little emperor."

"Combined with the news on the Famous Sword Ranking that Zhu Wushi killed the Sanbao Eunuch Zheng He, the guards at the border will definitely be confused by us; by then, we might not even need to spend a single soldier, and the garrison soldiers will let us fight all the way to the capital!"

"After all, we have a legitimate reason!"

After the Ning Prince finished speaking, the Southern Prince and the Ning Prince looked at each other and understood each other's meaning, and then they laughed loudly.

Another conversation finalized their ultimate plan.

Not many days later, the news spread from somewhere in Jiangxi as if it had grown wings, and it quickly spread through every street and alley of the border.

"Zhu Wushi has the ambition of a wolf and is usurping the throne; the emperor has long since woken up, but he has been secretly imprisoned by Zhu Wushi!"

"Zhu Wushi killed Zheng He, having long had a plot; he had long since secretly defected to the enemy country, and now Zhu Wushi is going to hand over the entire Great Ming as a gift to the enemy country!"

Countless news spread through every street and alley of the border, and the soldiers and people at the border were now also becoming panicked.

Great Ming, inside the Protection Dragon Villa.

The four great secret agents of Heaven, Earth, Mysterious, and Yellow, and Linghu Chong were discussing something in the secret room; at this time, the secret room was very oppressive and dull, as if it were a gunpowder keg.

"I don't think Godfather would do (dacb) such a thing!"

"Godfather is the loyal and righteous Iron-Gall God Marquis; we have all seen how he has worked diligently for the Great Ming all these years!"

"He absolutely could not do anything to betray the Great Ming!"

Shangguan Haitang was the first to break the dullness in the secret room, speaking first; although she said she believed in Zhu Wushi, when she spoke, she didn't even dare to raise her head to look at the other four, as if she didn't have much confidence in the words she was saying herself.

Upon hearing Shangguan Haitang's words, Cheng Shifei couldn't help but say:

"Haitang, can this still be fake?!!"

"The Iron-Gall God Marquis Zhu Wushi must be a hypocrite!"

"The things he did before might just have been acting for us or for Zheng He to see!"

"Now the Famous Sword Ranking has said that Zhu Wushi killed the Great Ming's guardian god, Sanbao Eunuch Zheng He; can this still be fake?"

"And I also heard recently that before Zhu Wushi had achieved great martial arts, in order to improve his strength quickly, he secretly sucked the internal energy of the experts of the Eight Great Sects, which allowed Zhu Wushi to become an expert of the Earth Immortal*Mortal Realm in a very short time, and this also led to the current situation where the Great Ming's Jianghu has never been very prosperous!"

Cheng Shifei was the last to join the Protection Dragon Villa, apart from Linghu Chong.

So his feelings for Zhu Wushi were not particularly deep.

Now that these things had happened, Cheng Shifei was just stating these problems from an objective perspective.

However, before Cheng Shifei could finish speaking, Shangguan Haitang scolded Cheng Shifei loudly:

"Shut up!"

"I won't allow you to talk about Godfather like that!"

As she spoke, Shangguan Haitang even wanted to make a move on Cheng Shifei, and seeing this, Cheng Shifei didn't want to make a big deal out of it and hid behind Linghu Chong.

Seeing this situation, Linghu Chong just smiled awkwardly at Shangguan Haitang and had no way to solve this matter.

After all, he was originally the last to join the Protection Dragon Villa and had no say in the first place.

And his nature was even more free-spirited than Cheng Shifei's; during this period, he hadn't deliberately collected any news, so at this meeting, Linghu Chong hadn't intended to express any opinions.