Chapter 1128: A Child Delivers the Letter of Surrender
The October snow melted quickly.
Before Prince Yu even reached Shangjing, the imperial court had already fallen into chaos.
The Crown Prince was missing, Chancellor Yun was nowhere to be found, and the Human Sovereign had vanished on the battlefield.
The court was entirely leaderless.
In an instant, the court lost its backbone.
Under these circumstances, the civil officials wanted to prop up another princely heir to stabilize the situation. But no one would agree to it; no one was willing to sit on a throne doomed for destruction.
Ultimately, the ministers forced a child onto the throne—Prince Xian's heir, a boy only six years old.
They thought this would steady the situation enough to mount a counterattack.
Their hopes fell flat. The situation refused to stabilize, and the high-ranking ministers had already lost their will to fight. Whispers of surrender rippled through the court; stubborn resistance would only lead to a dead end.