In the neighbouring country on the northern border of the Dayu Kingdom. There is a country called Bai Lan ruled by Yu Hong. He has a peace treaty with the Dayu Kingdom ruled by Emperor, Jin Yu. The Dayu Kingdom is helping trade some wool, meat and rice to the Bai Lan Kingdom which having a mountain rock terrain in their area. Their army also the weak one between the fourth country in the area.
The king of Bai Lan, Yu Hong is the only legitimate son in the Bai Lan nation from the queen. However, there is another illegitimate son from the concubine. The King brother from his father concubine called Prince Yu Tian.
Prince Yu Tian is having a different opinion from his royal brother. He wants to make the Bai Lan army stronger and invade their region to the Dayu Kingdom to take all their countries product. in his mind, they have to become ruthless and powerful to be the greatest nation.
King Yu Hong is not wary and lowers his guard into his royal brother until one day during the Autumn celebration. The Palace ambush by a black troop with the archer points their bow to the king. Prince Yu Tian is pulling his sword and point it out to his royal brother. Yu Hong manages to distract his brother and snatch a nearby sword.
they are engaging in the sword fight until their sweat-drenched their body. however, Yu Tian is using his subordinate and cold bloody kills the whole royal family. Yu Hong sees with his own eyes, his whole family got killed. He feels enrages. Yu Tian is happy to see the blood pool in front of him. Apparently, Yu Hong loyal bodyguard manages to pull him out with his youngest son to the secret passage. The baby prince is in the hand of his wet nanny. They manage to flee from the Bai Lan Palace through the secret passage.
Yu Tian enforces himself as the rule of the Bai Lan Kingdom as he pronounces the death of his royal brother. He is blackmailing all the minister by killing everyone who does not want to comply with his rule. He makes an example by killing the prime minister who is loyal to his brother in front of all the minister. They got scared and acclaim their loyalty to Prince Yu Tian.
He starts by rearranging his military forces. He has his own plan and relays it to all his general. His first plan is to attack the Dayu Kingdom. Every General who hear his ambitious plan got quiet. there is a protest from several senior generals who decides to walk out and retire from their position.
half of them marches out from the barrack and plead their disloyalty to Prince Yu Tian and proves their loyalty to King Yu Hong. Some of the troop is following their general and walk out from the barrack. They already plead their allegiance toward their King and General who fight together through rain and sun.
Prince Yu Tian is acclaim himself as the King and attacks the food ratio to the fortress of the Dayu Kingdom on the outer side of Fujian city, the border of The Dayu Kingdom. He wants to send his spy inside the first city to know their strength.
He paid so many people or killing their family member to make them refugee to the Dayu Kingdom. Yu Tian even sends someone to become a troop of the dayu kingdom to send him back all the information. otherwise, he cannot easily attack the ratio convoy by the dayu Kingdom troops.
Lin Yue barrack is the closest to the Fujian and fortress. They got the news of the attacker and Lin Yue directly send a few of his best troop under one of his captains to help defend the fortress before they got the Imperial Decrees from the Emperor.
Ni Sheng is in the barrack and Lin Yue send him back to the capital to report the urgent matter to the Emperor. Meanwhile, he sends the news to his father who defends the capital with Master Li Tzu. If they have to go to war with Bai Lan county, it means he needs Ni Qing to come and fight with him.
Ni Sheng rides with his fastest horse to the capital and reports everything to the court and his Emperor. Ni Sheng is pacing back and forth in front of the Emperor study room. The Eunuch Wang is telling him that the emperor is not available for a meeting.
the truth is The emperor is not arriving yet at the palace. He still outside the Palace with Zhang to find the lotus cake and caramel candy. if he told his purpose to go outside the palace wall, his reputation as a black belly emperor will crash down in a mere second. Eunuch Wang can not let that happened to his master. He told some white lies to cover his master.