Chapter 421 - 12.29
Everything happened so fast, like a forest fire that quickly burnt everything to the ground. Six months after that day, the Empire was finally in peril.
The soldiers were demoralized to the ground, with the absence from their Golden Emperor who refused to leave the Palace of Serene Harmony and get over his grieving even after eight months of his wife’s death, alongside the news of Empress Xiuying death, alongside how pitiful he was during her last breath, starved to death, calling his husband’s name even after he got banished and starved by the same husband.
Maybe the citizen didn’t know how important the infertile Ger Empress was. But for the soldiers, he was a beauty they would be willing to kneel to.
And that beauty was gone because their Emperor was too prideful and didn’t see how important the Empress was.
Even the generals, who should be leading the war against the rebellions, failed to motivate their soldiers because they didn’t have central power to move them around. The Ministry of Defense was just not capable enough to handle a huge scale rebellion.
Even worse, some generals who had moved their main family to the outer region of the Empire actually joined the rebel side. Those were the generals who got heartbroken, usually the younger ones.
They were furious at the Emperor who tortured Empress Xiuying with the slow death of starvation, the ger man whom they dreamed and idolized so much.
Bai Yunyu was astonished by the effectiveness of his death and how Xu Jiansheng could control a mass scale of rebellion. This proved that Jiansheng had many subordinates underneath his seemingly peaceful exterior, especially in front of Yunyu.
"Yunyu, why are you sitting here alone? It’s already midnight," Jiansheng said as he walked to the pavilion.
Yunyu saw Jiansheng and smiled, "And why do you come home late today?"
Xu Jiansheng paused, then he scratched his head awkwardly, "Well, I just went out with my general today for a drink. It’s nothing serious."