The south gate of Ochichi Castle opened, and heavy carriages drove out one after another.
In the largest and most luxurious car, Prince Liang and his wife were sitting.
Princess Liang was crying and crying, and she was very reluctant to give up. The crying made Prince Liang very upset.
"Cry, cry, cry, get out of the car if you keep crying!" Prince Liang cursed angrily, and Princess Liang stopped crying.
But he himself looked at the city gradually disappearing into the night, and shed tears.
In fact, King Liang was even more reluctant to leave the city of Kunming where he was born and raised. He never thought in his life that he would leave Dianchi Lake and go back to Mobei...
Mobei, such a strange and rough place name. It is very different from Kunming, which has spring-like seasons and mountains and rivers.
He heard about the hard life in the royal court from the envoys of the Northern Yuan Dynasty. It was also the twelfth lunar month, and Kunming was just a little chilly. A light fur coat was enough to keep out the cold. But in Mobei, it was snowing heavily, the cold wind was howling, and there was a brazier in the yurt.
No matter how much you order, it will still turn into ice...
And I heard that everything was in short supply in the Mobei royal court, and even the princes and nobles had to burn horse dung to keep warm. Can horse dung be burned? How smelly it is? King Liang felt terrible just thinking about it.
The King of Liang had become accustomed to the luxurious palaces and silver charcoal. As soon as he thought about having to live in a yurt and burn horse dung in the future, he felt bad.
As Ochichi completely disappeared into the darkness, he also fell into deep self-doubt, wondering whether the decision to return to Mobei was the right one.
I am already sixty years old, do I really need to suffer that kind of crime?
But if you don’t go back to Mobei, where can you go?
There is no need to think about the sphere of influence of Yunnan and even the Ming Dynasty, but what about the territory of the Mongols?
At that time, in addition to the Yuan Dynasty, there were four vast khanates. The world was so big that the Mongolian cavalry could gallop.
However, those khanates were dependent on the Yuan Dynasty, and their khan kings needed to be canonized by the Yuan Dynasty. When the Yuan Dynasty abandoned the world and huddled in a corner of Mobei, it also lost the authority to canonize khan kings.
Because of disputes over their successors, all the major khanates either fell into civil strife or were directly wiped out. No one's life was easy... not to mention that we had no connections, so it would be better to defect to them than to defect to the Northern Yuan Dynasty.
Not long ago, he heard that the Timurid Empire had risen in recent years, and that it was conquering the East and the West, and suppressing these precarious Mongol Khanates. According to past experience, these surviving Khanates are not far from being destroyed.
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Until this moment, King Liang, who had never believed in evil, truly felt that the era of the Mongols was gone forever. The good days of these Mongolian princes had also come to an end.
At this time, the tragedy of the entire nation and his personal experience were superimposed, making King Liang's already weak heart completely overwhelmed.
When the sound of Dianchi Lake completely disappeared from his ears, King Liang finally collapsed...
"Don't go any further, go back!" He suddenly shouted nervously.
The coachman looked at Qie Xue, the captain of the guard, in confusion. Qie Xue looked at the accompanying drivers Lu Er and Dade for help.
"Your Majesty, where are you going?" Lu'er had to ask, "Are you going to Chicheng?"
"If you don't go back to Achicheng, go back to Dian Lake!" King Liang shouted loudly: "I can't leave Dian Lake, don't leave Dian Lake!"
"..." Everyone looked at each other, wondering what kind of madness the prince had.
"What should I do?" Dade asked softly.
"Your Majesty may have thought that we would never see each other again, so he didn't want to leave Dianchi Lake." Lu'er guessed.
"Don't talk about Prince, I also want to see more of Dianchi Lake and the Western Mountains." Dade felt the same way.
"Then let the prince take another look." Lu'er sighed.
So the guards surrounded the carriage of the prince and his family and drove to the edge of Dian Lake, while the large army remained on the road waiting.
One mile westward, the sound of water reappeared, and King Liang breathed a sigh of relief. The suffocating feeling finally disappeared.
The carriage continued to move forward and came to the edge of Dian Lake. The sound of the lake lapping at the shore became louder and louder. However, the beautiful scenery in the daytime and the vast expanse of Dian Lake looked dark in the night, as terrifying as a beast that chooses people to eat.
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King Liang called his wife and children to his luxurious carriage, but he got out of the carriage, and then ordered the guards: "Seal the doors and windows."
"Ah?" Qie Xue was stunned.
"Don't you understand what I'm saying?" King Liang said coldly.
"My lord, what do you mean by this?" Qie Xue didn't know what kind of madness he had.
"Just do what I ask you to do. Is it your turn to ask questions?!" King Liang shouted angrily.
"..." Qie Xue had no choice but to lead people to use wooden sticks to bolt the car doors from the outside and secure the windows from the outside.
The queens and princes in the car also noticed something strange. When they wanted to open the door, they couldn't do it. They hurriedly opened the window again, but the window couldn't be opened either...
"Open the door, open the door! Father, open the door quickly!" Several sons slapped the car windows desperately and shouted.
King Liang's heart was like a knife, with tears rolling down his face, but he hardened his heart and said loudly: "Son, stop shouting. Dayuan is dead, Yunnan is also lost, my father and son's country is ruined and our family is ruined! What's the point of living?"
"Father, let me out!"
"I don't want to die!" The princes banged and smashed the carriage windows crazily, but King Liang was afraid of death and made the carriage extremely strong. The windows were all made of wood and iron, so there was no way he could destroy it with his bare hands.
"No, you all want to die. My family, King Liang, is full of loyal men who sacrificed their lives for the Yuan Dynasty. They will surely be remembered forever and live forever!" King Liang waved his arms and shouted nervously: "Don't be afraid, my father will be there soon."
Come, our family can still be together!"
After speaking, he loudly ordered: "Drive the carriage into Dian Lake!"
But the coachmen cowered and did not dare to move. If they killed the prince's wife, they would have to be killed if they could not ensure that the prince would be transferred back.
The King of Liang again ordered his timid troops to attack, and the guards did not dare either.
"A bunch of trash!" Seeing that they could not be moved by his orders, King Liang drew his sword and wanted to do it himself.
Lu'er and Dade hurriedly stopped him and urged him: "My lord, don't be impulsive. You can keep the green hills and don't have to worry about running out of firewood."
"Yes, Your Majesty, haven't you already prepared a way out? Wouldn't it be good for us to go to sea and return to Mobei?"
"What a fart, how can a bereaved dog survive?" They all thought that King Liang was crazy, but King Liang was extremely sober at the moment.
"The moment I escaped from Ochichi City, I was already dead! If I escape again, I will lose all my fame after death!"
As he spoke, he broke away from the two men and stabbed a horse in the butt.
The horse was in pain, screamed and ran forward, and the other three horses also started running, dragging the heavy carriage and speeding towards Dian Lake.
With no one driving it, this four-horse carriage cannot turn at all and can only keep moving forward. The water in the river continued to cover the noses of the horses until all four horses were submerged...
The heavy carriage slowly sank into the Dianchi Lake amid the cries and curses of the princesses and princes, and in the end only a string of bubbles remained.
