After losing the vest at the beginning, the female general was forced to marry the scheming prince

Chapter 279 Three years later

It's the most beautiful season in Yudu again.

Red leaves, yellow leaves, green tiles, and red walls are mixed together, romantic and solemn.

Three years have passed.

In the past few years, as the eldest prince and second prince grew older, factional struggles in the court became more serious, especially the calls for a crown prince.

Wei Guogong, Minister of Rites and others blatantly supported the eldest prince born to the queen, and they would fight for everything, and the smell of gunpowder was extremely strong.

But those who supported the second prince kept a low profile.

The second prince looks weak, but actually has more supporters in court than the first prince, because the first prince is too "stupid".

Cui Shangshu from the household department is the grandfather of the second prince, so he naturally favors the second prince, but he is an honest man and dare not fight too much.

On the face of it, Lord Protector supports the emperor, but as long as it involves a conflict of interests between the eldest prince and the second prince, he must be on the side of the second prince.

However, no matter how the two factions compete, the biggest force in the court is Ning Youbei.

It's not that Ning Youbei is taking power, but that the emperor is relying more and more on Ning Youbei, and Ning Youbei is basically in charge of all affairs in the court.And Ning Youbei naturally has people who support him.

Needless to say, the government of Zhen Guo is all about Ning Youbei.

Su Shangshu of the Ministry of Officials, Master Han of the Zuo Yushi of the Metropolitan Procuratorate (who accompanied Qu Chu to the tribes in the west and Nanyi) and others were the emperor's people, but because of their various relationships with Qu Chu, they naturally supported Ning You North.

Not to mention the forces in the military.

Except for the imperial forest army in charge of Dai Linshan who directly obeyed the emperor's orders, the rest of the army basically obeyed the orders of Ning Youbei or Qu Chu.

The emperor had released Chang Weijun, the capital admiral who was in charge of the city defense force, as governor two years ago. The current admiral of the capital is Wang Liangcong.

Wang Liang listened to the emperor on the surface, and Qu Chu no longer interfered with his military affairs, but everyone knew that he was the Northwest Army brought out by Qu Chu.

Sui Li, who was stationed in the East China Sea, respected Ning Youbei as the main force; General Fan, who was stationed on the border of Nanyi, and the generals stationed in the northwest and north were all the Northwest Army directly brought out by Qu Chu.

Wei Guogong once advised the emperor to replace these generals, but the emperor did not accept it.One is that there are no other suitable generals, and the other is that the emperor trusts Ning Youbei.

In the past few years, people have been provoking the relationship between the emperor and Ning Youbei, but they have not been successful.

No matter how powerful Ning Youbei is, his attitude towards the emperor is always the same as before.

Be affectionate, casual and respectful.

Even if he disagrees with the emperor on politics, he will only do what the emperor says, and will never put on an attitude that I am doing what is good for the court and the people.

Once the matter was settled, the emperor asked him: "Your opinion on handling this matter is obviously better, why did you still follow my opinion in the end?"

Ning Youbei replied without burden:

"Everything is not perfect.

This world belongs to the emperor, and you are not a faint king, so you can deal with it however you want.And I am not Master Qingtian, why should I compete with you? "

This made the emperor very happy.

What Ning Youbei said was also true.

In his heart, the emperor is not just as simple as a brother, he is like a father and brother, and he has more weight in his heart than his son Ning Qingyu.Therefore, as long as the emperor is not a big mistake, he can follow him in everything.

It is precisely because of Ning Youbei's attitude as before that the emperor has no identity with Ning Youbei.

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The layout of the imperial court made the ministers have different guesses.

Lord Zhen guessed vaguely: The emperor wanted to pass the throne to the king of Chu.

Duke Wei, Duke Huguo and others thought that the emperor was worried about the lack of ability of the princes and the loss of imperial power, so he trained the king of Chu to be the next regent in advance.

During the court meeting that day, another minister stood up and said:
"Now that the princes are old, please Your Majesty to establish a prince as soon as possible. This is the foundation of the country."

After the minister finished speaking, a group of people immediately echoed him.

The emperor asked: "Then according to Qing, who should I make as the prince?"

This was the first time the emperor asked this question. In the past, when a minister asked for a crown prince, the emperor either ignored it or changed the subject.

Seeing the emperor's questioning, the minister said: "The eldest prince is both the elder and the heir, so he should be made the crown prince."

The emperor asked Duke Huguo: "Mr. Huguo, what's your opinion?"

The protector came out.

"Establishing a crown prince is a major matter, and I dare not speak out, but I think that His Majesty has his own balance in his mind, and he should always be someone who can shoulder the heavy responsibility of the Great Yu Kingdom."

The emperor did not let the Huguogong go, "Then uncle, who do you think can take on the heavy responsibility of the Dayu Kingdom?"

The Duke Protector could only say:

"The eldest prince's temperament is too straightforward, and he doesn't have the character of being an emperor.

Although the second prince's current ability is not enough to take on the heavy responsibility of the Dayu Kingdom, but he has a good temperament, and it may not be impossible for Professor Sheng to speak well. "

The emperor said: "Then according to what uncle said, does it mean that none of my sons is suitable to be crown prince?"

Being squeezed by the emperor's words, Duke Protector had no choice but to say:
"Your Majesty doesn't mean that.

Since ancient times, there have been many sage emperors who were not necessarily very good when they were established as princes. They grew up step by step through continuous experience.

Your Majesty should give the Second Prince more opportunities. "

In fact, what Duke Hu said was not wrong. If the emperor hadn't already thought about passing the throne to Ning Youbei, he should have done so.

But because of the branding of the Ning family's blood, the emperor never thought of passing the throne to his sons.

The emperor said:
"Didn't I give the eldest prince and the second prince a chance? What happened to them when they were asked to provide disaster relief last winter? Didn't Youbei come forward to clean up the mess for them in the end?"

Last winter, there was heavy snowfall in the capital city of Yu, and the houses in villages and towns a hundred miles away from the city collapsed and the people were affected.At that time, a minister suggested that the eldest prince should come forward to provide relief.

The emperor also wanted to see if the two sons had made any progress after handling government affairs with him for several years, and felt that there were not many people affected by the disaster, and the two sons should be able to handle it, so he agreed that the first prince and the second prince would each take their people to rescue the disaster .

However, the emperor's purpose was to pay attention to the two sons, so the two of them led ordinary soldiers in the city defense army, and did not let the ministers follow, let Wang Liang follow the supervision.

The eldest prince and the second prince happily received relief supplies from the household department and went to the disaster-stricken villages and towns.

In the end, the eldest prince only knew how to put on a show, let the people sing praises to him, did some superficial effort, served porridge for a few days, and distributed clothes twice to settle the matter.

The second prince was diligent, he took family by family to condolences, and his attitude was also very good. The people who had been favored by the second prince were very grateful to him.

But not halfway through, the relief supplies were all used up, and more people were hungry.

The goal of both of them was only to distribute food and clothing, and they never thought about organizing the people to repair their houses.

Fortunately, Wang Liangcong reported it in time, and the emperor sent Ning Youbei to remedy it after he got the news.

　We are about to enter the battle for the throne, and after this volume is finished, it will be the last volume of gunpowder in the Wolf Country.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)