Macho Wars

"Of course I understand, General."

Whenever the emperor himself is involved, there is a very strict and cumbersome security inspection process for food, clothing, housing and transportation.Especially when it comes to eating and drinking, before everything enters the emperor's mouth, someone must be responsible for testing the poison one by one, and the boss himself is the last one.

This means that if Sidney XIV really died of poison, then Springer, who was alive and well, was one of the main suspects.

The boss met Howard without fear, and then took out two other things from his arms-a prescription and a bottle of medicine.

"This medicine was prepared by the chief physician to nourish your heart. After your majesty's death, all the formulated medicines were secretly stolen by someone. Because this bottle has been kept by the veteran, it is only now Save a copy. And this list is the composition of the medicine I commissioned by an old doctor who has retired at home to analyze, there is a medicinal material on it, which does not match the record of the royal pharmacy."

The veteran handed the medicine list to Howard, and then opened the corresponding page of the record book. There were indeed two different medicinal materials.Roland berries are written in the record book, but in the analytical composition of the medicine, it is replaced by fire sand blackberries.

Neither Howard nor Dragon understood pharmacy, so although they saw the difference, they didn't really understand it.

"Master, is this blackberry poisonous?"

"No, these two medicinal materials are non-toxic, and their properties are similar, so many doctors and pharmacists in the private sector will use whichever they have at hand based on the actual situation."

"Then where is the problem since it is not poisonous?"

"In terms of taste, the taste of fire sand blackberry is very bitter, but the taste is astringent, the bitterness will last for a long time on the taste buds, even if you drink honey, it can't be completely suppressed. And your majesty is born very sensitive to bitterness. People, the chief physician has served His Royal Highness for nearly 30 years, it is impossible to not even know this!"

"Is it possible that there were no Roland berries in the medicine storehouse at that time, so the pharmacist used the fire sand blackberry instead."

"I've checked this. Although someone burned the royal pharmacy, there is a special herbal plantation in the back garden. I asked the gardener. The supply of Roland berries in the greenhouse has not been cut off. The pharmacist is here. When dispensing the medicine, it was deliberately replaced with Fire Sand Blackberry!"

The boss took care of Sidney XIV for his entire life, and he knew everything about the other party's preferences, and fear of suffering was one of them.

This was mainly a physical problem of the old emperor. Sidney XIV belonged to the category of people who were born to be very sensitive to bitterness, and to a degree acceptable to many ordinary people, once it came into his mouth, it felt like he just poured it out. A mouthful of concentrated sulfuric acid is so uncomfortable.

Howard can also prove that Sidney XIV was a hopeless sweet party, and he didn't even drink coffee.

The boss explained this step, and the two people present, the old and the young, all understood a little bit.Those who manipulated the medicine did not want to kill the old emperor directly with poison, but took advantage of the weakness of the other's taste buds that could not stand the bitter taste to induce psychological rejection of the medicine.

Although the boss knows some medical techniques, he is not an expert after all. He has tried the medicine himself. Apart from the bitter taste, the medicine itself does not have any toxic or side effects. The effect is indeed correct for the old emperor’s illness. After thinking about it deeply, now that I realize the problem, I can't regret it.

This means that the real purpose of the black hand behind the scenes is not to hope that the old emperor's condition will get better.After all, an old man of his age, no matter how well he usually maintains, his immune system is already very old, and a small illness is enough to trigger a fatal crisis.

The result was indeed as expected by the other party. On the day of the wedding, the old emperor's overwhelmed heart unexpectedly stopped working on the spot because he could not bear the joy brought by the "double happiness".

This is also the main reason why the chief executive said that his majesty died only by accident!

After hearing what the chief executive said, Howard could not speak for a long time.

Because if all of this is true, except for the underage Andy, other princes may be behind the scenes.

You must know that although the old emperor's death has an incentive, it is still an accident in nature. The reason why Andy was able to sit on the throne was purely because the bastards in the Senate "scheduled on occasion" and forced him to push him up.

Before that, the queen who had always wanted her son to compete for the throne was undoubtedly the person in the world who most hoped that the old emperor could live for a few more years, and it would be better to live until Andy's adulthood.

After all, as long as the emperor of the empire is still there for one day, no matter how superior the other princes are, they are only princes.

Chapter 411

The old manager Springer walked out of the palace late at night and reported the secrets he had finally discovered to Howard, hoping that the other party could find the real culprit behind the scenes based on these clues and avenge the tragic death of the old emperor.

However, in his opinion, the so-called evidence is not enough to accuse anyone.Because the cause of death of the old emperor was definite, it was fainting caused by a sudden myocardial infarction, and then accidentally knocked his head when he fell, causing intracranial hemorrhage, and finally died.

Therefore, even if the black hand behind the scenes jumped out and confronted them face-to-face, as long as the other party insisted that it was the mistake of the Chief Royal Medical Medicine who had committed suicide.

Moreover, the current situation is extremely tense. The Eighteenth Route Prince’s army of forced palaces is about to arrive at the gate of the imperial capital soon. Howard really has no time for Yu Ying to investigate the truth of the emperor’s death.

At this time in the southern part of the empire, all the members of the Seventh Armored Division of the Southeast Military Region were using railways and roads to quickly advance toward the imperial capital. The second-line garrison troops along the way did not have the courage to step forward to stop the advancement of this famous troop.

As a teacher, Filavi was sitting on the train, looking solemnly at the night view out of the car window, unconsciously a little lost.

Filavi still clearly remembers the conversation with his father half a month ago.At that time, many people saw Filavi frowning when they left, thinking that the father and son had a conflict, and some even gloated about it.

But the facts are not as they thought!

At that time, Sidney XIV, after the military parade, was suddenly called to Firavi.As soon as the old emperor met, he took out a prepared edict from his arms and patted it on the table, and then told Philawi in a straightforward manner that as long as the two conditions were fulfilled, he would stamp the emperor on the edict. Yin, officially made him the crown prince.

These two conditions are one that Firavi must find a woman to marry before the end of the year, and the other is to completely sever contact with the southern nobles.

The first condition is that although Filawi's sexual orientation has been "talked about" by people over the years, he actually does not have that aspect.If the old emperor wants to urge marriage, he will go to the woman without saying a word.

What really embarrassed him was the second condition.

The nobles of the southern faction have spent the last few years to support Firavi. The two sides have formed a very close community of interests.This makes Filawie once rashly break with the southern faction, he will be 100% of the power he has worked so hard to manage for many years.

Fortunately, the old emperor did not ask him to express his stance immediately at the time. He asked him to go back and think carefully before making a decision. As a result, within a few days after Felavy left the emperor, the old emperor died suddenly on the day of his wedding.

It was precisely because of the undisclosed conversation and the official edict that did not have a large seal on his hand, so when the emperor came to the news that the 19th prince was enthroned, it took less than five seconds for Filavi. Zhong wanted to understand various reasons.

The habit he had developed over the years in the military career made him act decisively. He personally went out to meet other competitors one by one, then called all the princes up, and in front of them, he showed the unstamped decree in his hand. Then put it in the fireplace and burn it down.

Through this move, Firavi showed his attitude. The brothers have been fighting openly and secretly in order to win the favor of his father. The strength of each other has already been known in their hearts. Therefore, no matter who becomes the emperor in the end, the result will be more or less. acceptable.

However, the problem now is that in this competition for the throne, which has lasted for almost 20 years, the final reward was taken away by an "off-court spectator". What makes the contestants like them so embarrassing!?

Therefore, the princes who were summoned quickly reached a consensus. First, gather five divisions and 80,000 people to return to the emperor to force the palace. If the nineteenth prince and the Senate behind him are willing to make concessions, then nothing can be said. If they are still stubborn. If you don't change it, you can only come hard!

So the soldiers did what they said. The troops of the five divisions were assembled and opened to the imperial capital on the same day. The follow-up troops should also be prepared to reinforce at any time, putting on a posture of stubbornly fighting the central government.

The Seventh Armored Division took the lead. It only took two days and three nights to rush from the border station to Randuville, a traffic center only forty kilometers away from the suburbs of the Imperial Capital. The local security team was just a symbolic call to the sky. Three shots were disarmed by the first battalion of the 7th Division.

Firawi then arrived with his own division, set up a headquarters there, and began to deploy troops.

Filawie specifically urged his officers at all levels to strictly restrain the troops and only need to posture that they are about to attack. Who can open fire without authorization and resolutely not shoot the first shot.

They rely on armed demonstrations to force the palace to be of a nature. They really want to fight against the imperial capital, but that is another more serious nature.

On the morning of the 18th, the princes' troops arrived one after another, marching into the imperial capital from three directions, northwest and southwest, and confronted the Central Military Region.

The First Marine Division was ordered to go forward and blocked the 22nd Division from the west. The opponent was an elite motorized unit under the command of the Eleventh Prince.

Together with the First Marine Division, the 25th Infantry Division of the Sixth Corps of the Central Military Region, which was once in the exercise field, was tortured to collapse by air strikes by the First Marine Division. The two sides have now become a relationship of fighting side by side.

The prince group headed by Philawi immediately issued a notice to the central government and the Senate, demanding that the "pseudo-emperor" Andy, who had stolen the throne, immediately step down, and at the same time dissolve the arbitrary and ultra vires Senate, and question all the chief senators. responsibility.

Regarding the political demands made by the princes, the central government of the empire could not easily agree to it, and the Senate made a strong lyricist reply, warning the princes to rein in the precipice and not make mistakes again and again.But anyone can see that they are already riding a tiger, and they are actually panicking right now!

In order to avoid the outbreak of further military conflicts and endanger the millions of citizens in the entire imperial capital, Howard had no choice but to show that the central government came forward and negotiated with the imperial prince group.

If possible, Howard hopes that this incident will eventually end peacefully. The most ideal result is to let Andy take the initiative to "abdicate to the virtuous", the princes retreat and the Senate accepts responsibility, and then everyone sits down and talks and recommends A prince with both ability and political integrity became the throne.

However, Howard knows very well that such a perfect result is almost impossible to achieve, because no one is willing to give up benefits, he can only do his best to avoid the worst outcome.

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