Troubled times: Start practicing spiritual practice by taking care of your sister-in-law.

Chapter 437 Xu Guozhong was killed
Linzhou.

After Xia Zhiqing gave birth to her child, Chen Mo stayed with them in Xiangyang City for more than half a month, and then picked up the previously shelved matter of touring the entire Linzhou.

Before spring, the inspection was completed.

Chen Mo made a special inspection of the shipyard.

The navy of the Wu family in Jiangdong is top-notch, and the Wu family's shipbuilding skills have been passed down for thousands of years, far superior to the Nangong family.

After marrying with the Wu family, the Wu family provided support to Chen Mo in warship manufacturing and naval training.

With the dual efforts of the Nangong family and the Wu family, the overall strength of the Fish Scale Guard has been greatly improved.

After the inspection, Chen Mo was very satisfied.

Although the Xiao family has taken refuge in him, he can only feel at ease once he truly has Jiangnan in his hands.

Therefore, after the beginning of spring, he planned to send Nangong Xian and Wu Changlin to lead the Fish Scale Guards and the Wu family's navy to station in the south of the Yangtze River and receive the Xiao family's private soldiers.

Yes, the Xiao family is different from the Wu family. Chen Mo will never allow the Xiao family to have a private army of its own.

In addition, there is Suzaku Guard.

After checking that the red cannon has no quality problems.

Chen Mo allocated some silver to Zhuque Wei.

All the "dowry" previously obtained from King Huai was invested in Zhuque Guard to expand the factory and research on explosive ammunition.

Previously, the Suzaku Guard could only produce one red cannon a month.

As the factory expanded, the number of furnaces increased.

A conservative estimate is that five red cannons a month are not a problem now.

In terms of gunpowder, Chen Mo no longer needed to extract saltpeter from urine. Instead, he found a saltpeter mine in Linzhou.

……

Luonan.

Queen Xu Ying fell to the ground weakly, her eyes full of fear.

She wanted to get up, but her whole body couldn't help but tremble, and her eyes gradually became moist.

The palace maid quickly helped her up.

Just now, she received the news.

Lu Sheng launched a mutiny, and his father was defeated and killed by Lu Sheng.

The Xu family was also confiscated, and all the family members were thrown into prison by Lu Sheng.

"Hahaha."

At this moment, Emperor Chu Nan walked into Xu Ying's palace with a loud smile.

That's right, he just came to gloat.

He had no feelings for Queen Xu, only anger and hatred in his heart.

If he had not been coerced by Xu Guozhong, he would not have married Xu Ying at all, let alone made her his concubine. He was even forced by Xu Guozhong to abolish Liang Ji's position as queen and make her the queen instead.

Not only that, Xu Ying used the power of her father Xu Guozhong to constantly suppress the concubines in the harem and prevent them from getting pregnant.

Chu Nan even suspected that Xu Ying bribed the palace officials and manipulated Liang Ji behind the scenes because she had not been pregnant for so many years.

All these things made Chu Nan extremely resentful towards Xu Ying.

"That old thief Xu Guozhong is finally dead. I've been waiting for him day and night, cursing him to die early, and I even didn't hesitate to learn the art of witchcraft. After all, God has eyes, hahaha cough cough"

Maybe he was too excited, which made Chu Nan's face turn red and he coughed a few times.

Eleven years.

Xu Guozhong has been weighing on him for eleven years since he succeeded to the throne.

Except for the first two years after taking the throne, Chu Nan felt like an emperor and could exercise his rights as an emperor, but he did not leave Tianchuan. From then on, no matter what happened, Xu Guozhong had to nod his head before it could be done.

If Liang Ji hadn't been chosen by the late emperor while he was still alive, I'm afraid the queen would not have the final say.

This made his life very frustrating. It made him feel like he was not like an emperor, but someone else's prisoner.

Now, the mountain that was pressing down on his head and making him breathless was finally gone.

"I just wish I could kill Thief Xu with my own hands to relieve the anger in my heart." Chu Nan said these words with sonorous force.

Xu Ying shed tears silently, and her body began to tremble again.

"Xu Guozhong is dead, and no one can stop me now. I will destroy you, a poisonous woman, and establish Liang Ji as queen. I will revive the imperial court." Chu Nan was extremely excited and ambitious.

Now, he is still imagining that once Xu Guozhong dies, he can regain the imperial power.

As he said that, he glanced at the palace maid who was supporting Xu Ying, and shouted: "Who asked you to help her, get out of here."

The palace maid did not act immediately, but glanced at Xu Ying.

She entered the palace with Xu Ying. She was Xu Ying's personal maid and obeyed the orders of the Xu family.

This move undoubtedly made Chu Nan extremely angry: "Why, my words don't work? Believe it or not, I killed your nine tribes?"

The palace maid was frightened and quickly let go of Xu Ying, kneeling in front of Chu Nan and kowtow: "Your Majesty, please forgive me. Your Majesty, please forgive me."

Without the support of the palace maid, Xu Ying, who was already heartbroken, sat down on the ground.

"Get out of here now." Chu Nan shouted.

The palace maid hurriedly left the queen's palace.

And this made Chu Nan feel a little joyful about the return of power, and the smile on his face became a little thicker.

At this moment, there was a rush of footsteps outside the door.

"General, you can't go in. This is the Queen's palace. Your Majesty and the Queen are both inside. You"

"Go away."

Huicheng kicked the eunuch in front of him and walked into the queen's palace facing Lu Sheng.

When Chu Nan saw Lu Sheng barging in like this, he frowned slightly and felt a little unhappy. However, he still pretended to be calm and chuckled: "General Lu is here. General Lu will kill Thief Xu this time and save me." In the midst of fire and water, I want to express my gratitude to General Lu, and I have decided to make General Lu the Prime Minister."

But the words were not finished.

Lu Sheng interrupted him directly.

Lu Sheng was not Xu Guozhong. He was a rough man. He didn't like to make twists and turns. He turned around and said, "Come here, lay out pen, ink, paper and inkstone for Your Majesty."

Then he looked at Chu Nan: "Your Majesty, in order to stabilize the internal and external affairs of Luonan, we need an edict. I will read it and you will write it."

After saying that, he placed the jade seal he had taken from Xu Guozhong in front of Chu Nan.

Chu Nan's expression changed, and he realized that Lu Sheng was going to do what Xu Guozhong did.

Chu Nan's body suddenly went limp, his eyes were dull, his hands and feet were floating, like a puppet being manipulated by Lu Sheng.

He never expected that Lu Sheng would do more than Xu Guozhong.

First of all, Lu Sheng asked Chu Nan to admit his guilt, and he used people unkindly, allowing Xu Guozhong to control the government, disrupting the government, causing loss of life, and suffering for the people.

Then he asked Chu Nan to depose Xu Ying and cast her into a slave.

In the end, Chu Nan abdicated the throne and passed it to the King of Qi. Lu Sheng was appointed as the auxiliary minister, granted the title of prime minister, and Hui became the general.

King Qi is the son of Chu Nan.

When Chu Nan was still the prince, he was drunk and favored the child of a maid.

I have never been able to get on the stage.

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the other side.

In the cold palace.

"Mother, good news, good news." A palace maid trotted to the cold palace and told Liang Ji the news of Xu Guozhong's murder.

In the eyes of the palace maid, if Xu Guozhong dies, Queen Xu will be deposed soon, and Liang Ji will be able to leave the cold palace soon. She has to be fawning now.

(End of this chapter)