Princess of the auxiliary country

Chapter 456; What’s the purpose?
"The rain is coming and the wind is blowing all over the building."

The apparent calmness in the capital meant good times for the common people, but for those who knew the situation, it was a matter of fear.

Especially those officials in the capital, during this period, they warned their children not to leave the mansion. They also sternly warned the servants not to cause trouble. If they were found causing trouble, they would be beaten to death.

However, there was one person who was not affected by all this.

That was Huo Junyao from the hot spring villa.

During this period of time, she has been secretly having people make homemade bombs. In addition to homemade bombs, she also relied on the knowledge from her previous life to tinker with a flintlock rifle.

In this era of cold weapons, the emergence of the flintlock rifle, although not extremely impressive, still has huge advantages.

So, she asked the blacksmiths to work on it as quickly as possible, as she had five hundred guards in her hot spring villa.

She planned to equip these 500 people with flintlock rifles. After the first batch of 30 flintlock rifles were made, she secretly asked Wangxia to take 30 people to the deep mountains and forests behind the villa to practice every day.

At the same time, she also received news from her father that hundreds of thousands of people had rebelled under the banner of King Huai, and the situation would soon become a big one. If it was not stopped quickly, it might even spread to the capital.

Originally, Huo Jingzhi hoped that Huo Junyao could go back to the capital with Princess Ningyang and Fang Zhilan to stay temporarily during this period of time.

After all, compared with the tall and solid city walls of the capital, the defense of the hot spring villa is indeed quite inferior.

Moreover, there are still more than 30,000 troops in the capital. Even if they fail to stop the rebels and let them attack, they can rely on the defense of the capital to delay time and wait for Li Jiujun to return with his army.

However, Huo Junyao refused. Even though Princess Ningyang tried to persuade her, she still did not agree.

In her words, those rebels looked powerful, but they were just a group of farmers gathered together.

Although they have a large number of people, in terms of defense, they may be able to rely on their numerical advantage to achieve some results, but if they want to capture the city, it will be very difficult.

This is absolutely true. Some people may say, weren't there many peasant uprisings during those turbulent times?
They were not regular troops, but they still conquered the world.

But they overlooked one point. It was a time of chaos, and the local courts mostly did nothing. They were just corrupt officials and incompetents. The people under their rule had long been dissatisfied with them. When the rebels came, those courts were unable to stop them, and the people inside the country also saw hope. With internal and external troubles, how could those rebels not be powerful?
Another thing is that during times of chaos, as the imperial court institutions in various places were taken down, many weapons and other items would be looted, which was tantamount to arming the rebels in disguise.

What now?
After the unification of the Yu Dynasty, people's lives have been getting better and better, especially in recent years. It can be said that 70% to 80% of the people have enough food at home.

Days like this are the best days for the people.

The people are simple and honest, and are used to accepting what is best for them. They will never act recklessly unless it is absolutely necessary. In such a good life now, they will not be foolish enough to follow the rebels to cause trouble. On the contrary, the rebels are more hateful to them.

Those guys wanted to ruin their hard-earned good life.

Why do rebels become more and more powerful during troubled times? It is because more and more people join as fresh forces. But will those people today be so foolish as to give up their good lives and follow the rebels to do stupid things?
I'm afraid that not only will these people not do that, they might even follow the imperial court to stop the rebels.

Without the support of the people, those rebels are just paper tigers. Even though they are very powerful now, there are so many of them, and they will not be short of food every day. They are surrounded by people who want to live a stable and good life, and no one will support them.

It was like being isolated and helpless, wanting to challenge the entire imperial court with only one state, and without the support of the people in other places. Such a rebel army would not even be able to enter the capital, let alone leave the state. The only way waiting for them was to either surrender or wait to be suppressed.

Under such circumstances, Huo Junyao was not worried about the rebels at all. On the contrary, what worried her was the purpose of the people behind them.

She had probably figured out something. The person behind this was ambitious and his target was most likely the capital.

The Turks and Tuyuhun were just baits he used to divert the useful troops of the Yu Dynasty.

As for the current peasant rebels, I'm afraid they don't want to do anything earth-shattering, but they probably want to attract attention more.

We'll know what else this guy will do later.

However, in Huo Junyao's opinion, no matter what the other party does later, it will probably not be easy to completely empty the capital.

First of all, there are more than 30,000 troops in the capital now, plus the military department in the city and the imperial guards, there should be about 45,000 people.

It was impossible for Emperor Zhaowu to arrange for all these people to go out. This can be seen from the fact that he ordered Duke Ningguo to turn back and gave Li Jiujun half a month.

He should have guessed some of the other party's intentions, so the troops in the capital are unlikely to move.

The person behind the scenes wants to take over the capital, which is a tough nut to crack and probably won't be easy.

Huo Junyao felt that it was impossible for someone who could set up such a big plan not to have thought of these things, so what else would he do to weaken the power of the capital?

Apart from this point, there is another point: why did he choose the capital city when there were so many places to choose from?

Compared to other places, the capital is more difficult to move. Do you want to replace it?
This is not an easy task. First of all, treason and usurpation of the throne is not a good reputation. Now the emperor is good, people live well, and the people's hearts are on the Xiao family, the royal family of the Yu Dynasty. If someone wants to usurp the throne at this time, I am afraid that the people of the world will not agree.

Even if they could control the capital, what would happen? By then, I'm afraid that rebel armies would emerge from all over the country just to sit on that throne?
Huo Junyao was very confused about these two points. She had always been unable to figure out what the person behind the scenes wanted to do.

What is his real purpose in setting up such a trap?
"Yaoyao, Yaoyao, what are you thinking about?"

Suddenly, the voice of Princess Ningyang came to her ears, interrupting Huo Junyao's thoughts.

"Ah? Mom, what are you doing here?"

"It's been a while. I called you several times but you didn't respond. What are you thinking?"

Princess Ningyang walked over and sat down beside her.

"I'm wondering what the purpose of the person behind this is. What does he want with such a big plan?"

Hearing this, Princess Ningyang was silent for a moment. To be honest, she had been thinking about this matter just now, but she just couldn't figure it out, so she came to her daughter to analyze it.