Just as Xiao Xi guessed, not long after this week's episode ended, heated discussions broke out on Weibo.
Qin Banruo, who is known as a scheming girl but not annoying, turns out to be Princess Linglong, the mother of King Yu.
Xia Jiang, who was tested twice in a row and targeted by Yanhou, was deliberately exposed according to Princess Linglong's plan.
Emperor Liang, who is considered by the public to be the driving force behind the Chi Yan case, has actually been plotted by Princess Linglong and Xia Jiang.
When this unexpected truth was roughly revealed, netizens became a little uneasy and admired the screenwriter Liu Yi's storytelling ability.
The topic that most caused netizens to express their opinions must be the truth surrounding the conspiracy behind the Chi Yan tragedy.
Princess Linglong endured the humiliation and burden in Youyeting for many years, and made a living by making suggestions for Xiao Xuan. It was not until she gave birth to Prince Yu that she regained hope of survival and gained a strong fighting spirit to restore the country.
She was seriously injured after having a caesarean section, and when she was sent to be buried outside the city, she faked her death and escaped, deceiving Emperor Liang and all the insiders. Of course, Xia Jiang's help was indispensable.
She later hid in Kyoto and had a secret connection with Xia Jiang. She used the powerful intelligence network of the Xuanjing Division to understand the situation of officials in Kyoto and Daliang in order to plot something.
The late emperor had great achievements and when he was still in power, she and Xia Jiang did not dare to take any action and only silently collected intelligence information.
When the late emperor was seriously ill, that is, a few years after the Qing Dynasty, she relied on Xia Jiang's power and tentatively opened a red sleeve shop in Qinghuafang to plan some things.
When the late emperor was critically ill and unable to govern, she took action again, wanting to send someone to assist King Yu and make preparations in advance for King Yu to gain power.
The person she originally wanted to send was Gong Yu's mother, a branch of her family.
Gong Yu's family of three was taken out of Youyeting by Xia Jiang, waiting for Xia Jiang's final arrangements.
At that time, Xiao Xuan ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor. On the grounds that the treasury was empty and the country was unable to develop, he wanted to plot the Red Flame Army to reduce the burden on the country.
At this point, a series of cunning operations such as the Red Flame Army ration case that disrupted the morale of the army, the inferior equipment that reduced the Red Flame Army's combat effectiveness, and the Xuanjing Division secretly leaking information on the Red Flame Army's operations to the Beirong camp, all appeared.
At the same time, Princess Linglong and Xia Jiang had a good plan for Gong Yu's family, but they didn't know that Gong Yu's parents didn't follow the routine and thought that restoring the country would be seeking death, so they ran away with Gong Yu.
By some strange combination of circumstances, the family came to the inn specially used to design Chiyan's army rations. Gong Yu's parents were killed. After Gong Yu was rescued by Zhuo Di, Gong Yu's story began. From Gong Yu's body
The root of the exposure of Youye Court was thus laid.
There was an episode. After Gong Yu was rescued by Zhuo Di, he expected that Zhuo Di did not dare to speak out. The people in the Xuanjing Division were afraid of being punished by Xia Jiang. After returning to Beijing, they told Xia Jiang that Gong Yu and his family were all dead. This is why Gong Yu could
The main reason for survival.
Princess Linglong was angry because she didn't expect her cousins' family to betray her, but when Xia Jiang said that Gong Yu's family was all dead, Princess Linglong felt relieved.
She no longer dared to send anyone, so she let her sister, Princess Xuanji, take charge of Youyeting. She personally transformed into Qin Banruo to assist her son, Prince Yu.
Some friends who are fans of the drama on the Internet stripped the plot to its core and published the previous events and background in a very logical way, which attracted many viewers' praise.
What made the audience praise even more was the seemingly complicated plot line.
Emperor Liang planned the Red Flame Army to reduce the burden on the country.
Princess Linglong planned the Red Flame Army so that Beirong could go south and disrupt the situation in Daliang when they lost their enemy.
Emperor Liang wanted to suppress King Yu in order to make King Jing ascend to the throne.
Princess Linglong wanted to suppress King Yu in order to arouse King Yu's rebellious heart so that he could rebel.
Xia Jiang suggested that the money from the sale of Chiyan military rations should be used to channel the money into the Red Sleeve Moves, in order to give him a strong reason to suppress King Yu in the future, and Emperor Liang agreed.
This was exactly what Princess Linglong wanted. She wanted to use the money to develop the Red Sleeve Movement and at the same time train dead soldiers and private soldiers. The private soldiers all joined the Kyoto city defense army through Prince Yu's relationship.
When fans of the drama uncovered this plan, many netizens discovered that Emperor Liang and Princess Linglong, two people who fell in love and killed each other, could also be called rivals, planned the same thing, but they both planned the same thing.
Beneficial to both parties.
"Two enemies, planning the same thing, both sides benefit, but one is overt and the other is covert, the screenwriter teacher adds chicken legs! This hidden line is awesome! I have never seen such a Machiavellian drama, it is amazing and the logic is closed.
Perfect!"
"It's no wonder that Princess Linglong and Xia Jiang have never been exposed. What they planned is what Emperor Liang wants to see. It's absolutely amazing."
"..."
With the heated discussion on the Internet, the hot searches for "Legend of Red Flame" are also trending to dominate the list.
The protagonists such as Mu Nihuang, Mei Changsu, Prince Jing Xiao Jingyan, Xia Dong, and Meng Zhi, as well as the opposing characters such as Emperor Liang, Xia Jiang, Qin Banruo, Princess Linglong, and Princess Xuanji, all have unique characteristics and are discussed by the majority of the audience.
At present, there are only two final doubts left that confuse the audience. How did the Chiyan tragedy happen? Currently, Mei Changsu does not have such a memory scene.
Who are the other court officials who cooperated with Emperor Liang and Xia Jiang? Although many viewers have speculated on this suspicion, there are still some doubts about the plot that has not been publicly announced.
The audience is looking forward to this, and the finale week of "Legend of Red Flame" is coming.
"here we go!"
At eight o'clock on Friday night, Xiao Xi and many viewers across the country stayed in front of the TV on time.
As the theme song of "Beautiful Beauty" comes to an end, the TV slowly unfolds the main screen.
Xia Jiang, the Minister of Xuanjing, was sacked, and the sword hanging over the heads of all civil and military officials was finally gone.
Although Emperor Liang and Xia Jiang had some plans, and Xia Jiang's death was expected by Emperor Liang, Emperor Liang might have a way to let Xia Jiang die a good death, but the civil and military officials did not know all this, and they were all enjoying Xia Jiang's imprisonment.
Even though King Yu was also implicated, with politicians like them here, there would always be a way to get King Yu out of his connection with Xia Jiang, so they were not worried.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! There is an undercurrent among the ministers, and they want to discuss ways to clarify the matter for King Yu.
Xia Jiang's dismissal means that the Xuanjing Department is temporarily paralyzed. Even if Xia Dong temporarily takes over his duties, the operation of the huge organization that monitors the world will definitely be affected.
From various clips, it can be seen that many hidden stakes of the Xuanjing Division were uncovered by the guards of various powerful families. It seemed that the civil and military forces of the entire dynasty were launching a joint campaign to completely eradicate the Xuanjing Division.
"How much these officials hate the Xuanjing Division. They didn't dare to take any action when Xia Jiang was here. They all started moving as soon as Xia Jiang was imprisoned."
"This is going to create chaos. Xia Jiang was exposed on purpose and imprisoned. Without his supervision, all the officials became unscrupulous. Chaos began in Kyoto. Is this also Princess Linglong's plan?"
Just as audiences across the country were lamenting some of the chaos in Kyoto, one person emerged from the chaos that was beginning to appear.
If Xia Jiang, who has great monitoring ability in Kyoto, is still in office, this person would not dare to show up.
Now that Xia Jiang has fallen from power, this person appears.
Zhou Qi, the chief craftsman who worked in the same position as the assistant minister, personally came to Mu Nihuang and revealed a secret that puzzled audiences across the country.
Zhou Qi was the person in charge of making equipment for the Red Flame Army. The loss of equipment on the battlefield was very high, so Zhou Qi needed to continuously make equipment during the Red Flame Army's campaign and transport it to the battlefield so that the soldiers could replace it in time.
Maintain the strongest combat effectiveness.
Ten years ago, when the Red Flame Army was fighting against Beirong, Zhou Qi was in charge of a batch of equipment manufacturing processes. Making equipment not only required minerals and other material resources, but also required a large amount of labor to be paid to the workers.
Simply put, making equipment requires a lot of money.
Money is managed and allocated by the Ministry of Household Affairs.
The minister of household affairs at that time was Zhuo Yanqing, who was already attached to Prime Minister Zuo Xie Yu.
When Zhou Qi went to the Ministry of Household Affairs to apply for money from Zhuo Yanqing, he was told by Zhuo Yanqing that there was a flood in Huzhou and that he could not allocate money in one go and could only allocate funds in batches.
This is very strange. The battle on the front line is urgent and equipment production is urgent. Appropriating funds in batches means that we cannot purchase enough materials at once and can only purchase them in batches.
Buying in batches and transporting materials to and from various states will take a lot of time, which is very disadvantageous to the Red Flame Army.
But after hearing that the disaster occurred in Huzhou and that it was also required by national conditions, Zhou Qi no longer had any doubts.
Only later did I accidentally find out that the flood in Huzhou was just a small incident and didn't cost much at all.
Zhou Qi suspected that Zhuo Yanqing of the Ministry of Revenue was up to something evil.
But Zhuo Yanqing has always been great and upright, so why would he do this? He probably doesn’t have the courage, right?
Zhou Qi did not dare to make random guesses, so he could only ask to see Emperor Liang to explain the matter.
However, all Zhou Qi's requests to see Emperor Liang were rejected, and the only people with such energy were the prime ministers.
And Zhuo Yanqing had a good relationship with Zuo Prime Minister Ning Guogong Xie Yu. The person who blocked Zhou Qi from seeing Emperor Liang was about to come out, and it was Xie Yu!
"Sure enough, it's him." Mu Nihuang sat in front of the desk and said, as if she had expected it.
Xie Yu is the husband of Princess Liyang, who is the aunt of Lin Shu and Mu Nihuang.
In previous episodes, when Mu Nihuang visited Duke Ning's Mansion and met and communicated with Princess Liyang many times, Princess Liyang mentioned Xie Yu's greed for power.
Many viewers also thought that there was something wrong with Xie Yu.
However, there has been no plot explanation, and the audience also has an ambiguous attitude.
Now Zhou Qi has provided clues, and it has finally been confirmed that Xie Yu is an accomplice of Emperor Liang and Xia Jiang.
"Why didn't you come and tell the princess earlier? It would have saved us so much time to investigate." Xia Dong frowned.
Hearing this, Zhou Qi apologized and explained the reason with a wry smile.
At that time, the equipment was transported in batches, but Xia Jiang, the director of the mirror, told him that in order to be more secretive and safe, the route of sending the equipment out of the city in Kyoto should be changed.
This was sudden, but Xia Jiang had a high position and had no choice but to obey orders and ordered the escort officer to follow Xia Jiang's instructions.
In his heart, Xia Jiang, Zhuo Yanqing, and Xie Yu might have some conspiracy, but he was too humble to speak out, think about it, or make wild guesses.
It wasn't until the Red Sleeve Moves incident occurred and Xia Jiang was arrested some time ago that he dared to show up to see Princess Nihuang and reveal the torment that had been buried in his heart for a long time and was probably closely related to the Chiyan tragedy.
Then, another big secret was revealed from his mouth.
The route that Xia Jiang changed to transport equipment back then had to pass through Qinghuafang!
"Qinghuafang!" Xia Dong stood up suddenly, with a heavy expression on his face: "Change the route of transporting armor and pass by Qinghuafang. Is the broad tunnel in Hongxiuzhao used to store these heavy armors?"
"The batch of inferior equipment of the Red Flame Army was contracted by them from Red Sleeves?"
"The red flame heavy armor is made of special materials. If it is only sealed, it will not decay for many years. Hongxiu Zhao specially dug such a vast tunnel space to seal these heavy armors. What do they want to do?"
Everyone present was silent. They never expected that the person behind the Red Sleeve Move not only tampered with the Red Flame army's food, but also the Red Flame heavy armor, completely killing the Red Flame army.
After they were silent for a moment, Mu Nihuang uttered a sentence: "I'm afraid they are going to rebel."
"What?!" Prince Jing, Meng Zhi, Xia Dong, and Mei Changsu's expressions changed drastically.
The word "rebellion" is not something to be thrown around indiscriminately, but after thinking about it, Mu Nihuang's suggestion was the most likely guess.
What is military equipment used for? To arm soldiers.
What is the purpose of arming soldiers? To improve the combat effectiveness of soldiers.
This is a good thing. Can't we do it openly? Why should we arm soldiers secretly?
Then maybe there is really only one possibility, someone is going to rebel!
And Hong Xiuzhao is affiliated with Prince Yu, so who is the rebel? Prince Yu?
However, Prince Yu is the most likely candidate to become the crown prince, so why would he rebel?
Audiences across the country know the answer, because King Yu is from the royal family of the Xia Kingdom and is the son of Princess Linglong.
But Mu Nihuang and the others don't know this secret yet, so they can only continue the investigation with this heavy suspicion.
The scene changed and we came to Duke Ning's Mansion.
The atmosphere in the entire mansion was serious, and the patrolling guards were even more silent than in the past.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Xie Yu, played by teacher Liu Yijun, summoned the guard chief to whisper something, and both of them looked solemn.
Afterwards, the captain of the guard took the order and left. Xie Yu and his old servant came to the study to drink tea and chat, but the atmosphere of the chat felt a bit like a farewell before death.
With the dialogue between the two in the play, and some of Xie Yu's memories interspersed with it, the story line about Xie Yu's machinations has completely emerged.
During the Xiping period, Princess Linglong made a good point and told Xiao Xuan: Lin Xie is righteous, Xie Yu is greedy for power, Yan Que is moderate, and Xia Jiang is only loyal to the emperor. These four people have completely different behavioral tendencies. Zhonghe together is the most balanced. Make good use of these four.
People, the court can be solid.
Xiao Xuan listened to Princess Linglong's words and found out that these four people were invincible when combined, and sent her to the throne.
If he is told to be moderate, he will think twice before doing any great good deeds, and even less likely to do any bad deeds if he is asked to do so.
During the planning of the Chi Yan case, Yan Que was excluded by Emperor Liang, who knew full well that Yan Que would not agree.
Xia Jiang was only loyal to the emperor, and Xie Yu was greedy for power. In the end, Emperor Liang chose these two people.
Xie Yu was indeed the person who served Emperor Liang and Xia Jiang in the court.
Are you greedy for power? Then I will give you power.
Once the plan was made, Xie Yu was out of control.
Zhuo Di's Jing'an Trading Company was provided to Xia Jiang.
Xie Yu did not know that Emperor Liang and Xia Jiang had other plans against King Yu, nor did he know that Xia Jiang and Princess Linglong were planning to sell military rations and money.
Xie Yu's purpose is to get power and make Zhuo Yanqing surrender to him because of Zhuo Di's crime.
Tiger poison does not eat its seeds. As Zhuo Di, Zhuo Yanqing's only son, Zhuo Yanqing would never want to see the scene of a white-haired man giving a black-haired man away. Moreover, after the incident is discovered, the Zhuo family's family tradition will be upright.
Once it is destroyed, Zhuo Yanqing will definitely find a way to ask for help.
Compared with Xia Jiang's threats, Xie Yu's methods are more clever.
Xie Yu did not threaten Zhuo Yanqing. According to the situation in the court at that time, Wang Song was an old minister and was not trusted by Emperor Liang. He, the new prime minister who was promoted, was the person whom Emperor Liang trusted most.
Xie Yu was certain that Zhuo Yanqing would definitely seek help from him for Zhuo Di.
Sure enough, Xie Yucai was right and Zhuo Yanqing came to find him.
The official in charge of the Ministry of Personnel was promoted, and the then Minister of the Ministry of Personnel was also an experienced minister. When Emperor Liang ascended the throne, the court was in a state of change, and the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel certainly did not want to lose his position.
After Xie Yu's planning, the Minister of Civil Affairs helped Zhuo Di become an official.
However, as the emperor and his courtiers, the minister of the Ministry of Personnel may not be able to speak in front of Emperor Liang, so he went to find his father-in-law, Mr. Zhang, the Minister of Rites, who was very famous.
Later, after being introduced by Zhang Lao, the Minister of Rites, Zhuo Di successfully became an official. Zhuo Di believed that this was his father Zhuo Yanqing's recognition of him and gradually stabilized his position. Zhuo Yanqing was relieved.
This plan caused the well-known Minister of Rites, the Minister in charge of the dismissal and promotion of officials, and the famous Minister of Household Affairs, Zhuo Yanqing, to all succumb to Xie Yu, the Left Prime Minister.
This is about Xie Yu's conspiracy in the Red Flame Army Food Case.
In the case of the equipment of the Red Flame Army, Xie Yu asked Zhuo Yanqing, the Minister of Household Affairs, to deliberately delay the time for the appropriation of the Chief Craftsman Superintendent's application, which ultimately caused the Red Flame Army to suffer heavy losses in the battle before going to Meiling. This matter was reported by the Ministry of Works
Take full responsibility.
Xie Yu, on the other hand, pretended to be a good guy and spoke for the Ministry of Works. He only killed the low-level migrant workers who made the equipment, covering up the culpability of the upper-level figures in the Ministry of Works, causing the entire Ministry of Works to join Xie Yu's faction.
What Xie Yu and Emperor Liang didn't know was that Xia Jiang took advantage of Xie Yu's plan to delay the construction period and had enough time to dig tunnels in Hongxiuzhao. After changing the route, he successfully delivered batch after batch of Red Flame Army heavy armor equipment.
The package was changed and replaced with inferior equipment.
Later, Xie Yu used the Ministry of Industry's ability to control and produce equipment to appease the local army controlled by the Ministry of War. The excellent equipment enhanced the strength of the local army, which also strengthened the Ministry of War's voice in the court, which also allowed the Ministry of War to
The Ministry of War took advantage of the situation and joined Xie Yu's faction.
Up to now, the six departments of the imperial court, namely, the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Household Affairs, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Industry, are all members of Xie Yu.
There is only one Ministry of Punishment and the representative of the Ministry of Punishment, Dali Temple Qing Yanhou, who can be regarded as a neutral faction from beginning to end.
Xie Yu can be said to have overwhelming power.
At this point in the plot, all the Machiavellian characters emerge.
Princess Linglong, Xia Jiang, Emperor Liang, and Xie Yu are all planning the same thing. On the basis of harming the Red Flame Army as their core purpose, they completely ignore the sacrifices of 30,000 martyrs and only want to gain their own interests from it.
This is politics in their eyes.
This is the politician in this show.
One side wants to restore the country, the other side wants to free the treasury at the expense of the military and civilians, and the other side is looking for ways to consolidate its power in the court.
It doesn't matter whether the floods are raging, whether it's the battle situation on the front line, or whether the soldiers and civilians in the world are in dire straits or enjoying peace, these are not important in their hearts.
It's just pity that the 30,000 brave Red Flame Army fought bravely to kill the enemy on the front line, but little did they know that when they went out to fight, the country they protected was regarded as a political pawn for profit.
"I really want to curse."
"Why……"
Xiao Xi breathed a long sigh of relief. After watching the show for so long, she felt very depressed for the first time.
Not only her, but many viewers across the country became depressed.
I just hope that this dullness and depression can completely break out in the subsequent plot, telling the world that justice can always defeat evil.
"Xie Yu, are you crazy?" Princess Liyang came angrily.
Under her questioning, the chief guard of the Duke's Mansion informed her of Xie Yu's plan.
Assassinate Xia Jiang, who was imprisoned in Dali Temple?
Assassinate Zhuo Yanqing who is imprisoned in the mansion?
Princess Liyang was so frightened that she asked her husband if he was crazy.
From God's perspective, this can't be blamed on Xie Yu's madness.
The plan of Emperor Liang and Xia Jiang is related to the fifth prince of the current dynasty, Prince Yu. Naturally, the less people know about this kind of thing, the better.
Xie Yu didn't know about this. When he saw that Xia Jiang, his partner, was in jail, he communicated with Emperor Liang many times. In order not to expose his plan against King Yu, Emperor Liang acted very forcefully in front of Xie Yu and vowed to put Xia Jiang behind bars.
By law.
The reason why Emperor Liang acted so strongly was because Xie Yu's group fully supported King Yu as the crown prince, which was contrary to Emperor Liang's true intention of supporting King Jing.
When Xie Yu saw that his former ally was imprisoned and Emperor Liang was so resolute, he thought that Emperor Liang was going to kill him, so he wanted to fight back.
As long as the insiders Xia Jiang and Zhuo Yanqing are killed, with Xie Yu's power in the court, even if someone has suspicions, there will be nothing that can be done against him without evidence.
Princess Liyang and Xie Yu started to quarrel, and it was obvious that Princess Liyang was biased towards justice.
The scene changed to late night in the capital.
In the bedroom, Qinghong waited on Mu Nihuang to rest.
Suddenly, there was a slight movement in the dark night outside the room.
Mu Nihuang and Qinghong frowned and looked at the door with guarded expressions.
Unexpectedly, the enemy in the dark was vicious in his tactics. As the hidden arrows kept making a whistling sound, countless arrows were shot from outside into the room.
The incident happened suddenly, even though Mu Nihuang's martial arts were extraordinary, and his bodyguard Qinghong was very skilled, but this was like a situation where thousands of arrows were fired at once, and no matter how tough his flesh and blood body was, he could not withstand it.
Then Qinghong screamed: "Princess Princess!!"
With this scream, today's three episodes come to an end.
"They must be the dead soldiers trained by Princess Linglong!" Xiao Xi said angrily.
After watching too many TV dramas, she knew of course that Mu Nihuang could not die. If the heroine died, it would be useless to watch.
But the plot was so disappointing that even though she knew that the heroine could not die, she was still frightened by this scene.
But if you want to know what happens next, you can only watch the finale tomorrow, Saturday.
