Chapter 204

The twenty-third year of Jiajing, the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth lunar month.

Inside the Forbidden City, Qianqing Palace.

Huang Jin knelt on the ground and told everything he saw and heard last night one by one.

He spoke extremely meticulously, especially the traces of the battle between Li Miao and the Emperor Emperor Jianwen Emperor, including what moves were used, how far each was repelled, how much flesh and cloth were torn off at the scene, etc., without missing a single detail.

By the time he finally finished speaking, the sun was already high in the sky.

Huang Jin waited for a while, seeing that the Emperor didn't speak, so he continued to state his conclusion.

"Your Majesty, this matter is not just the work of the Ming Cult thieves."

"Oh?"

The Emperor responded noncommittally.

"If it were just the Ming Cult and the Yang family, they absolutely could not have done what happened last night."

Huang Jin said decisively.

"How much weight the Ming Cult has, after over a hundred years of killing since the founding, has been figured out clearly. If not for this, Eunuch Wang would not have proposed withdrawing the guards and bringing ten offerings to set an ambush."

"What happened last night was actually a case of the Ming Cult taking advantage of a loophole due to a series of coincidences."

"If the mausoleum's defenses were as usual, and the Ming Cult's Heaven-Men broke into the Xiaolingwei, as long as they were blocked by Lord Yin and Lord Wang for the time it takes for a stick of incense to burn, the guards and the Xiaolingwei would have arrived, and they would definitely not have succeeded, and would have had to leave their lives behind."

"But, Eunuch Wang's plan cannot be said to have problems."

Since Wang Zhi was already dead, Huang Jin didn't kick him while he was down and said truthfully.

"There are three reasons why this matter went wrong."

"One: The mausoleum guards were withdrawn, and the Xiaolingwei did not go to support as decreed for a time, which gave the Ming Cult thieves time to break into the tomb."

"Two: Since Yang Yang Lixuan died thirty years ago and Ji Ji Ji Tianrui plotted to seize the Ming Cult, the Yang family has rarely appeared in the world, and the few times they did appear, it was to make things difficult for the Ming Cult, showing a posture of being irreconcilable."

"I don't know why the two sides came together again, adding an old man who could drag Lord Yin down, which allowed that woman to enter the tomb and wake the Emperor Emperor Jianwen Emperor."

"Three, it is because of one person."

Huang Jin said slowly.

"This person first broke into Your Majesty's mausoleum. At the same time, the Ming Cult thieves broke into the Xiaolingwei. Eunuch Wang heard the commotion, and seeing that there was only one opponent, he divided five offerings to support the Xiaolingwei."

"At that time, Eunuch Wang was clearly planning to kill this person first and then rush to support the Xiaolingwei."

"But he didn't expect that the five offerings were actually defeated by this person, and Eunuch Wang himself died for his country."

The Emperor pondered for a long while and said.

"The one fighting the Emperor Emperor Jianwen Emperor at Tianshoushan is also this person."

"Exactly."

Huang Jin said.

"And precisely because of this, I speculate that this person is not on the same side as the Ming Cult thieves."

"The Ming Cult thieves' plan was to release the Emperor Emperor Jianwen Emperor, but this person caught up with the Emperor Emperor Jianwen Emperor after the Ming Cult left and had a fierce battle with him."

Huang Jin took out a cloth bag from his bosom and spread it on the table before the Emperor.

"These are the items I collected at the scene."

Inside were two clumps of flesh and two pieces of cloth.

"The flesh and cloth belong to that person and the Emperor Emperor Jianwen Emperor respectively."

Huang Jin said.

"Judging from the traces at the scene, neither side held back in this battle; they fought extremely fiercely, almost deciding life and death."

"Finally, the Emperor Emperor Jianwen Emperor stopped first and fled, and this person chased for a distance, during which the two exchanged a few more blows, and until dawn, this person stopped and left."

The Emperor glanced at the things on the table, swept the two portions belonging to the Emperor Emperor Jianwen Emperor to one side, and raised his hand to pick up the two portions belonging to Li Miao.

He looked at Huang Jin, and Huang Jin immediately bowed his head, his forehead pressed tightly against the ground.

In the silence, Huang Jin heard the sound of swallowing.

He felt a chill and closed his eyes tightly.

After a long while, the Emperor's surprised voice came from above.

"Strange."

"What realm is this person exactly? Is this sinew, bone, and blood Qi Diamond or not?"

"Is there more?"

Huang Jin immediately replied: "There is."

He took out another portion from his bosom, placed it on the table before the Emperor, and knelt on the ground again.

After a long while, the Emperor said again.

"It changed again; this portion is Sumeru."

"Heh, interesting."

The Emperor swept a glance at Huang Jin.

"Does this person's identity have any clues?"

Huang Jin broke into a cold sweat and said tremblingly.

"I am incompetent; I only have some guesses that still need some time to verify."

"Let's hear them."

"Yes."

Huang Jin said slowly.

"When this person fought the Emperor Emperor Jianwen Emperor, he used dozens of extremely profound martial arts, many of which are the unshared secrets of major sects."

"Even if this person is an Atom, without the originals of the techniques, just by analyzing them secretly after seeing others use them, it is impossible to practice them to such a profound level."

"A place in the world that collects such extensive knowledge, I can only think of three places for a moment."

"Inside the palace, the Embroidered Uniform Guard, the Xiaolingwei."

"Inside the palace goes without saying; the Embroidered Uniform Guard has patrolled the Wu Lin for many years and stores many remnants of secret manuals in its library; while the Xiaolingwei was where the Taizu Emperor settled the world and confiscated the secret manuals of various major sects, keeping the originals in the palace and sending the copies to the Xiaolingwei for their practice."

"Therefore, this person should be related to the Embroidered Uniform Guard or the Xiaolingwei."

The Emperor said "Hmm" and asked.

"Which side do you think it is?"

"The Xiaolingwei!"

Huang Jin said decisively.

"First, the secret manuals collected by the Embroidered Uniform Guard are basically remnants, far less complete than those at the Xiaolingwei; if we talk about possibility, the Xiaolingwei is naturally greater."

"Second, there are no Heaven-Men in the Embroidered Uniform Guard, but there are many in the Xiaolingwei. This person's Wu Gong is so profound, he must have a brilliant master, at the very least, it is impossible to be trained by a mere pinnacle expert."

"Third, the Xiaolingwei does not owe allegiance to Your Majesty!"

Huang Jin said affirmatively.

"Regarding what happened last night, the Xiaolingwei waited until the Emperor Emperor Jianwen Emperor was awakened before they happened to arrive."

"Although Your Majesty had a decree not to let them get close, the timing was so coincidental, and they happened to arrive after the Emperor Emperor Jianwen Emperor was freed, and after arriving, they did nothing, watching the Emperor Emperor Jianwen Emperor and the Ming Cult thieves flee, which makes one have to suspect whether they were the ones stealing while guarding."

"And the motive is even more self-evident."

"The one the Xiaolingwei owes allegiance to has never been Your Majesty, but the Taizu Emperor!"

"And the Taizu Emperor..."

Huang Jin stopped, not daring to continue.

Because this matter already involved the most sensitive point of the Great Ming's legacy.

The successor appointed by Taizu back then was not the Chengzu Emperor, but the Emperor Emperor Jianwen Emperor!

Back then, the Chengzu Emperor raised an army for the Jingnan campaign, and everyone responded to his call, finally attacking the capital and forcing the Emperor Emperor Jianwen Emperor to abdicate, making himself Emperor.

No matter how history books beautify it and say it sounds good, this is also rebellion!

If we really follow the Taizu Emperor's meaning, from the Chengzu Emperor onward, all the Emperors of the Great Ming were rebels who usurped the throne!

(End of chapter)