When Count Raymond saw this, he sighed softly and whispered to himself: "I haven't seen this scene for twenty years..."
After speaking, he raised his head, looked at Augustine VI in the distance, and said loudly: "Your Majesty, the magic circle has been activated... According to what I know, the activation of the magic circle requires all the palace magicians to exert their full strength.
It takes at least an hour to activate the magic circle! In other words, before the eldest prince launched his attack, the court magicians were already activating the magic circle! Once the magic circle is activated, it cannot be stopped even if it wants to! And this magic
Once the array is opened, it will take at least three days to close. During this period, all the court magicians who preside over the magic array cannot leave their posts!"
Count Raymond's gentle voice said this, and Augustine VI's eyes suddenly became very gloomy: "Lemon, you have even inquired about this... You have calculated the right time to make my son attack. These ideas, are they yours?"
Did you help him think about it?"
"You are still so wise." Earl Raymond leaned slightly and said calmly: "Now, the 10,000 imperial guards in the palace, the most elite 3,000, have been killed in Victory Square, and the remaining seven
Thousands of people cannot defend the huge palace. And you cannot mobilize the power of the palace magicians within three days. And even if the magic circle stops after three days, those palace magicians who have consumed all their magic power may not have much power.
It's useful." Earl Raymond said this and sighed: "Of course, if it is normal times, you can use the last imperial guard to defend the palace, and then ask for reinforcements from the acropolis or other armies outside the imperial capital. But it is a pity.
, once the magic circle in the imperial capital is opened, no one can enter or leave! Even if you mobilize reinforcements, they will have to wait outside the city for at least three days! Three days, we are in the imperial capital, which is enough to solve all the problems
Yes, are you right? In other words, there is not much power you can rely on in the palace."
Earl Raymond suddenly bent down deeply in front of everyone. He made a very respectful aristocratic courtesy to Augustine VI, and then said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty! Please abdicate!"
"Please abdicate!"
On several surrounding high platforms, many nobles and ministers who originally belonged to the eldest prince's party finally spoke at this moment, and dozens of voices gathered into one...
Augustine VI's fingers trembled, and his eyes glanced viciously at Count Raymond and others one by one, finally stopping on an old man!
"Marquis Solomon!" Augustine VI suddenly became excited, with a trace of deep resentment on his face: "You! You white-eyed wolf! I have always trusted you so much that I even handed over the royal family's property to you!
Now you actually betrayed me with them!"
Marquis Solomon, who was stared at by the old emperor, looked calm. He raised his head calmly, looked at Augustine VI, and then nodded: "Yes, Your Majesty. I did work with them on this matter. Now the following
I used the fleet of your Royal Industrial Chamber of Commerce to quietly transport those archers into the imperial capital. And because of the special warrant you used, no one even dared to check them on the river."
"What about you! Juncker!" Augustine VI suddenly pointed at General Juncker who was standing not far from Count Raymond. The old emperor roared angrily: "Junker! I trust you so much! Even the Guards
I’ll hand over the second division to you! I’ll hand over the entire imperial capital’s defense to you!”
Junker's face was indifferent, he stood up straight, looked at the old emperor coldly, and replied calmly: "Your Majesty, you did entrust me with the defense of the imperial capital... But if I guessed correctly, if I am today
If you don't do anything, you will replace me within a month! You are old, and you are currently preparing to pave the way for Prince Chen's succession. A general like me who still holds military power in the imperial capital will soon be
I will be demoted to other places by you! Prince Chen needs some new people he trusts to take up the position of city defense... And I, unfortunately, have not had a good relationship with His Highness Prince Chen in the past few years."
The old emperor's body shook violently. This time he seemed to be really knocked down. He bit his lip so hard that blood even came out of the corner of his mouth.
"Betrayal! Betrayal! Everything is betrayal!!" the voice of Augustine VI roared.
Earl Raymond looked at the old Augustine VI and sighed: "Your Majesty, I just said, it's not that we betrayed you. It's that you betrayed us!"
"You...you! Nonsense!!" The emperor suddenly collapsed and sat down on the chair. His fall caused people around him to exclaim. Augustine VI gasped violently and stared at Count Raymond:
"You said I betrayed you! Nonsense! Nonsense!!"
"On the contrary, what we are saying is the truth." Count Raymond looked at Augustine VI calmly: "Your Majesty, every word I say is the truth!"
As he said that, Earl Raymond turned sideways, raised his hand, and pointed behind him... On the high platform behind him, most of them were the wealthy noble families and ministers of the empire who belonged to the eldest prince's party.
"Dear Your Majesty." Earl Raymond said slowly: "Have you noticed that most of us who support the eldest prince are people of about the same age as him! I think if you have not forgotten, you should still remember it.
It’s what the eldest prince said just now.”
Du Wei stood behind his father, watching Earl Raymond face the emperor of the empire with an almost indifferent tone, and suddenly a strange and complicated emotion arose in his heart.
"Your Majesty, when the eldest prince was still young, you told him that everything he studied was to prepare him for inheriting your rule of this empire in the future! You told him these same words,
You have said the same thing to many of us!" Earl Raymond raised his finger and pointed at Prince Chen: "Just before His Highness Chen was born... No, to be precise, it was when the eldest prince had just grown up.
At that time, at that time, for more than twenty years, you trained the eldest prince as your heir! We, as a group of the same age as the eldest prince, first set foot in the upper-class inner circle of the imperial capital.
At that time, you regarded me as someone who would assist the eldest prince in the future! I still remember clearly that just before the outbreak of the Northwest War twenty years ago, I was about to accompany the eldest prince to the desert front line! At that time, you also
I was summoned into the palace alone, and you said to me, 'Raymond, you will be the best person to assist him in the future! You represent the future of the empire!' I have not forgotten this sentence! Because it has been since very early.
From early on, you have put many of us around the eldest prince almost intentionally or unintentionally. It is you who have closely connected us with the eldest prince! From the time we entered the political arena, you have been labeled as "big prince" by you.
The brand of the prince's party! This brand was not put on by ourselves! It was you who chose us as the assistants of the eldest prince in order to train successors and to train a team for the successors! All of this happened in Chen
It started before the prince was born!"
Then, Earl Raymond changed his tone: "Thirty years have passed... we are now gray-haired. We grew up with the eldest prince. We are friends and companions, because you have been with me since I was young.
He has hinted to me many times that the eldest prince will become the new emperor in the future, and he will be the object of allegiance to our generation in the future! I think I did it... and these people behind me, we all worked hard to do it.
! But..." He suddenly smiled bitterly: "Suddenly one day, you changed your mind! Just because of a ridiculous decision without any reason! Where will we, who have followed the eldest prince for thirty years, go in the future? You told us back then
, the eldest prince will be the future emperor, you have to assist him! Okay! We did it! But thirty years later, you suddenly said that the eldest prince will not become the emperor! So let me ask... where will we people go? Yours
A change of thought has made the thirty years of hard work of us all aimless! Prince Chen is young and promising, but unfortunately he is not the object of my allegiance! To put it bluntly, if Prince Chen succeeds to the throne, he will naturally
With his inner circle, where will we, the eldest prince’s party, be put when the time comes? So…”
The patriarch of the Luo Lin family finally sighed and looked at Augustine VI: "So, it's not that we betrayed you, but that you betrayed us first! You gave us a goal first, and let us fight for thirty
Years! Then you easily canceled our goal, making our thirty-year goal come to nothing. Please tell me, is this not betrayal? What is it!"
Count Raymond's eloquent talk made Du Wei almost unable to help but cheer loudly to his father!
Father... is amazing! He can even start a rebellion so confidently! To put it this way, it seems as if Augustine VI really felt sorry for them.
"Count Raymond."
Suddenly, a pleasant voice came slowly. Prince Chen, who had never spoken a word but had been sitting on the sidelines, suddenly spoke, with the iconic smile still on his face: "Your Excellency, Earl Raymond, I want to
Let me ask you a question, as you just said, if my father asked you and those behind you to be loyal to me from the beginning, would you also do what he ordered?"
