The road to national restoration that began at the end of the century - #366 - Chapter 367 The Old Empire of the Past

As the first unified empire of human forces on the continent of Aisha, the Iron Fist Empire was the former overlord among the human forces in the world. It was also the first powerful force to successfully defeat the demons and the first hegemonic power in the world. .

But before the Iron Fist Empire was established, mankind actually had an old empire of monarchy – the Grizzly Bear Empire. The reason why the Iron Fist Empire can become a great power is that the legacy left by this monarchy will be used by the Iron Fist Empire for life.

Especially the members of the Iron Family, the royal family of the Iron Fist Empire. They are the descendants of the monarch of that monarchy. The orthodox descendants of the royal family of the old empire are the Xiong family who now have a certain reputation in the Holy Church.

And according to some non-public information from the Iron Fist Empire, the Tie family and the Xiong family are actually large families derived from a pair of sisters who married different husbands. In terms of origin and bloodline, the two families can be called sister families.

Even in the era after the establishment of the Iron Fist Empire, the Tie family who had obtained the throne did not exterminate the members of the old Grizzly Bear Empire royal family, that is, the Xiong family. On the contrary, the Tie family and the Xiong family still maintained a marriage relationship. If any family did not have a son, they would send their own boy to them as a son-in-law.

The reason is that the Grizzly Bear Empire did not perish because of war with outside forces; it was because of the civil strife in the Grizzly Bear Empire royal family and the excessive cruelty of the palace struggle, which led to the Grizzly Bear Empire’s military launching a palace coup, which triggered the Xiong family royal family. direct decline.

More specifically, after the establishment of the Grizzly Bear Empire, His Majesty the second generation emperor was a headstrong man who did not listen to the advice of his ministers and was a monarch who was very dissatisfied with his marriage. In this Majesty’s time, it was known to almost all members of the upper class throughout the Grizzly Empire that he was unhappy with his Queen. Especially since the queen was not chosen by herself, but was decided jointly by the first generation Grizzly Bear Empire emperor and the queen.

Therefore, this political marriage has been his biggest shadow for a long time, but because his mother is still alive and the queen is not in good health, the ducal family from which the queen comes has been building various weapons for the Grizzly Empire for many years. With huge influence within the country, there is no way to make a public divorce.

However, such an open secret naturally attracted the attention of another grand duke at that time, and he took the initiative to train his granddaughter to enter the palace to guide His Majesty the Emperor in a “proper divorce.” As a result, under the manipulation of the grand duke, the queen was poisoned and killed by the bribed palace maid. The uninformed emperor thought that his queen would not survive the illness and passed away, so he immediately made the grand duke’s granddaughter the new queen.

Of course, this matter must have aroused the suspicion of the Queen Mother. For this reason, the Grand Duke naturally adopted the same old routine and used the same poison that poisoned the former Queen to poison the Queen Mother who finally discovered the truth but had no time to speak. As a result, the new queen naturally lost a huge obstacle, and began to control the military and political power of the empire, thereby making profits for her grandfather.

Therefore, in order to better control the Grizzly Bear Empire, the Grand Duke and his granddaughter Siya conspired for six years. Taking advantage of the fact that the Emperor was getting older, he was increasingly addicted to wine and sex and gradually became faint, secretly instigating those who obeyed his orders. The members of the Guards wiped out the family of the crown prince, the only son left by the former queen, who was supposed to succeed the third-generation throne of the Grizzly Bear Empire, to ensure that their son could legally ascend the throne according to the primogeniture system.

Unfortunately, the plan was not completely successful. Although the prince who had been neglected for a long time was killed, his wife and twin children were escorted to a safe area by the prince’s chef. As the news came back, the new queen and her grandfather couldn’t help but feel scared. But fortunately, at this time, His Majesty’s body was drained by alcohol and sex, and he was basically unable to manage government affairs.

For this reason, the new queen simply let herself and the emperor’s son sit on the throne, and she supervised the administration as the de facto empress dowager, thus ensuring that the emperor would not know what was happening outside under her management. At the same time, she also cooperated with her grandfather and father to fake the assassination of the crown prince into an accident.

But while the new queen is gradually taking control of the government, the former queen’s second brother Naisen has always been brooding over the death of his sister and the previous queen mother. Taking advantage of the new queen’s efforts to usurp military and political power, the second brother who inherited the title of Duke even sneaked into the imperial mausoleum with one of his younger brothers who was a doctor to conduct an autopsy on his sister.

So the second brother not only discovered the fact that his sister had been poisoned, he even inspected the body of the Empress Dowager out of curiosity. As a result, the brothers immediately prepared their plans without saying anything, and took their cronies back to their fiefdoms as much as possible. At the same time, the Duke who dared to sneak into the imperial mausoleum was still on his way out of the imperial city. He met the chef who was desperately escorting his nephew’s widow and the son and daughter left behind by his nephew.

After a brief exchange, the chef named Kanzhuo, as the protector of the emperor’s grandson, continued to escort his master’s family to the north of the Grizzly Bear Empire, to the Dukedom of Naisen for refuge. As soon as Naisen and Kanzhuo returned to their duchy, they immediately ordered the duchy to enter combat readiness. At the same time, in order to better ensure safety, Duke Neisen still left the care of his nephew’s widow and a pair of twin children to Kanzhuo.

In short, four years have passed since the new Queen Siya suppressed all the major bureaucratic forces in the palace and other royal members. At this time, His Majesty, the second-generation Emperor of the Grizzly Bear Empire, officially passed away. Queen Siya, who was more important than her mother, sent her men to pursue the last bloodline of the Crown Prince, and wasted all kinds of military and political affairs. However, as a protector, Kanzhuo not only got married and had children in the duchy of Naisen, but also established a family to jointly take care of his mistress’ family. The hostess, the Crown Princess, became a female official in the duchy, and successfully contacted her father and eldest brother, telling them about the pursuit she had suffered and the thrilling escape.

As a result, when Queen Siya came back to her senses and tried to annihilate Naisen, who had been protecting the crown prince’s orphan, and was looking for reasons to use force against the Duke to eradicate the roots, Naisen had already prepared the troops he could recruit, and even went so far as to fight with his nephew and wife. The noble forces represented by his father and brother formed a political alliance and established their final stronghold in a valley northeast of the duchy. However, in order to obtain more preparations for the people of the duchy and time for the final migration, Duke Neisen took his wife and left a suicide note to everyone in the duchy, and took the initiative to return to the imperial city to face Queen Siya. censure and the task of avenging his sister.

However, Naisen, who was ready to die, was also lucky. There were also officials and generals in the palace who were very dissatisfied with Siya who was promoted to the Queen Mother. One of them was Sean, the minister responsible for the financial affairs of the Grizzly Bear Empire at the time. Out of official intuition, Minister Shao En tried every means to prevent Queen Mother Siya from trying to murder Mr. and Mrs. Naisen. At the same time, Shao En used his reasoning ability to discover the evil behavior of Queen Mother Siya. For this reason, Minister Shaun mercilessly questioned the Naisen couple who were under house arrest, and secretly left a key after receiving the answer. As a result, Queen Mother Siya’s grandfather and many family members were killed by the Naisen couple. After completing their revenge, the Naisen couple even chose to die in a sea of ​​fire.

But compared to the internal battles in the palace, the demons invaded from the west for the first time, and the Grizzly Bear Empire won the final tragic victory at the cost of seven years. She was dissatisfied that Queen Mother Siya only thought about how to fight for power, neglected military development, and repeatedly The soldiers who were cutting military expenditures were extremely excited and openly used force to force the palace. For this reason, Shaun immediately controlled these soldiers, and then personally led the troops into the palace to launch an armed coup. As a result, Queen Mother Siya and most of her minions were forced to death by Shao En, and then coerced the young emperor to make herself prime minister and establish a parliament to implement a constitutional monarchy. However, by this time, the Dukedom of Nessun had completed its entire migration and issued a public declaration of independence.