After their talk that day, Yu Jiuqing, though still unwilling to completely open up about his innermost thoughts and feelings, had finally tacitly agreed to let Shen Qing face things with him.
After that, Shen Qing learned from Chen Li that Yu Jiuqing had also been secretly mobilizing troops loyal to them over the past few days.
The troops in Da Qi who were completely loyal to Yu Jiuqing were almost all soldiers that he and Shen Qing had recruited from the People's Army uprising ten years ago. These men were originally common folk who had raised the banner of revolt simply because they could no longer bear the corrupt rule of the Daqi Court.
They had chosen to pledge allegiance to them back then only because they believed Shen Qing and Yu Jiuqing were people who genuinely cared for the common folk. Thus, from the very beginning, their loyalty was to Shen Qing and Yu Jiuqing, not the Daqi Royal Family.
