More children, more blessings, starting from marrying a wife to fight for world hegemony

Chapter 150 Chess Pieces
There is only a small population in the entire North County, and only a small annual tax.

Moreover, in less than a year, there is no way to breed the horses needed by [-] heavy cavalry.

The most important thing is no money.

Although the business in Beiwang Mansion was profitable, no matter what, it couldn't make the armor needed by [-] heavy cavalry.

Another point is that there are not so many craftsmen in Beijun.

In the entire Great Xia, there was only one person who could build [-] heavy cavalry, and only he had such resources.

who's that person?
You can guess it with your toes.

That person is inside the palace.

After Lu Shuyun came back to his senses, he felt that he was very stupid.

He actually thought that King Bei had suddenly awakened, and was even so scared that he couldn't sleep for a while. Every time he thought about the bloodbath in his mansion some time ago, he panicked in his heart.

Thinking about it now, Lu Shuyun felt that it would be a shame for him to be afraid of a mere Northern King.

At this time, Wang Yong who was next to Lu Shuyun said: "Don't worry, Your Highness. In my opinion, Your Majesty has no intention of making the Northern King the crown prince at all. The Northern King is just a pawn in His Majesty's eyes."

"Everyone can see that His Majesty is now in his prime and has no plans to establish a prince at all. Now the Northern King has fifty thousand heavy cavalry in his hands. Almost all the forces and factions in Daxia are staring at the Northern King. If the Northern King is true His Majesty likes him so much, it is impossible for His Majesty to make King Bei a target of public criticism."

Hearing Wang Yong's words, the corners of Lu Shuyun's mouth rose slightly. He actually thought so too, and now he doesn't think that his father really likes his ninth younger brother that much.

If he really liked him, he wouldn't be able to let the King of the North stand out when the conflict with the family was about to break out.

The Northern King now has [-] heavy cavalry in his hands. Once his father makes a move against the aristocratic family in Daxia, the [-] heavy cavalry will most likely be a knife, and the situation of the Northern King will be very dangerous.

His own father didn't even intend to establish a crown prince so early, how could he let the crown prince candidate in his mind be exposed so early, wouldn't this make people target the king of the north.

As for whether his father wanted to hone the Northern King, it was even more impossible. At this time, how could his father push out the candidate for the crown prince in his heart to hone him.

In today's undercurrent, if one is not careful, Bei Wang will die.

So the king of the north can only be a pawn.

And it's just a pawn used to target the family.

The Northern King's mother family is the Chu family, pushing the Northern King out will probably divide the Chu family, which is the first effect.

Secondly, King Bei is a dispensable prince, and Emperor Xia will not be sad when he dies, so he is a perfect chess piece.

At this time, Lu Shuyun sneered and said: "This king originally wanted to reconcile with him and seek a great cause together, but I didn't expect him to reject me."

"It's really ridiculous. Since I think that I have been reused by my father now, the position of crown prince is his. I really don't know what to do."

"Since he doesn't eat the fine wine after toasting, then don't blame me for being rude."

Wang Yong said: "Your Highness, in my opinion, all the princes are now guarding against the Northern King. Why don't we take this opportunity to join hands with other princes and get rid of the Northern King first."

Lu Shuyun said lightly: "There is no need. At the beginning, the king wanted to kill him to make the Chu family completely fall to the king. Now the entire Jiangnan family supports the king. It doesn't matter whether the Northern king is dead or not. Anyway, he It's just a pawn that my father can throw away at will."

Wang Yong said: "But the [-] heavy cavalry in Beijun has always been a huge threat to us. If we don't find a way to disintegrate these [-] heavy cavalry, it may have a great impact on His Highness's cause."

"The most important thing is that I heard that some shadow guards have gone to Beijun. The national teacher and the shadow guards appeared in Beijun at the same time. I am afraid that His Majesty has already grasped the evidence of our transaction with the barbarians. It is estimated that His Majesty will use the royal family to collude in a short time. The barbarians used it as an excuse to attack us."

Hearing Wang Yong's words, Lu Shuyun fell silent.

Originally, he just wanted to fight for the throne by seizing the heir, and had no intention of directly rebelling at all.

But my father has a great prejudice against the family, and is obviously ready to take action against the family.

It stands to reason that he should keep a distance from the aristocratic family at this time, so as to prevent the aristocratic family from affecting him.

But his mother is the daughter of the royal family. If the royal family rebels, it is impossible to have no influence on him at all. At that time, he will also lose the throne.

And for him, the aristocratic family is the biggest hole card in his hand. For now, his interests have been tied up with the aristocratic family.

He has reached the point where he cannot be separated from the family.

As long as his father attacked the Jiangnan family, he would definitely be affected, so he had only the last way left, which was rebellion.

But having said that, a son who rebels against his father will eventually be cast aside by the world.

Not to mention whether he can succeed, even if he succeeds, he will probably be scolded by the world for thousands of years.

Even if he manages Great Xia well in the end, the matter of rebellion will always be a stain on him.

If possible, Lu Shuyun still didn't want to rebel directly, but through various pressures, his father had to give up the idea of ​​attacking the aristocratic family.

After being silent for a while, Lu Shuyun said: "If the [-] heavy cavalry in Beijun are disintegrated, will my father give up attacking the family?"

Hearing this question, Wang Yong said: "Your Highness, there is indeed a possibility. Your Majesty has long been planning to eradicate our ancient family of thousands of years, but considering the power and influence of the family, at most he can only suppress the family in the court. I have never dared to directly take action against any of our ancient families."

"Even though His Majesty has withdrawn his military power, he still hasn't done anything to the family for a long time."

"But it's different with the [-] heavy cavalry from Beijun. These [-] heavy cavalry belong to His Majesty completely. No one of our family can interfere with this heavy cavalry, not even a single spy can be placed in it. Saying that this is His Majesty's biggest hole card is also His Majesty's biggest confidence in taking action against the family."

"Without this hole card, His Majesty will have no confidence. If our aristocratic family unites with other dynasties to put pressure on His Majesty, His Majesty will only have to compromise in the end."

Hearing Wang Yong's analysis, Lu Shuyun pondered for a moment, and then said: "In this case, then we will unite with the other brothers of this king to find a way to disintegrate the [-] heavy cavalry in Beijun. Force my father to give up his original idea."

"Rising troops is always a bad idea. I believe that my brothers are also very afraid of the [-] heavy cavalry."

Wang Yong echoed and said, "Your Highness is right."

Then they gathered together to discuss how to disintegrate the [-] heavy cavalry in North County.

at the same time.

Royal Palace.

Royal Garden.

Wearing a yellow dragon robe, Emperor Xia stood by the lotus pond, watching the fish swimming in the lotus pond. At this time, Situ Ce was in the pavilion beside the lotus pond.

Emperor Xia asked, "You went to see Xiao Jiu this time, what do you think of Xiao Jiu?"

Situ Ce replied in one sentence: "I have the ambition of Taizu."

Hearing this, Emperor Xia's face darkened instantly. Naturally, he didn't want to hear Situ Ce praise Lu Chen. After all, Lu Chen was the child he disliked the most.

However, Emperor Xia didn't delve into it, he laughed and said, "I didn't expect the national teacher to have such a high opinion of Xiao Jiu."

Speaking of this, Emperor Xia continued to ask: "The national teacher has stayed in Beijun for so long, and he should have understood some things about Beijun. I have a few things that are confusing, and I would like to ask the national teacher to clarify."

Situ Ce said, "Please speak, Your Majesty."

Emperor Xia asked directly: "According to the information from all parties, I have roughly understood the battle in the Wanning River Valley, but I still don't understand it. Even with the fifty thousand heavy cavalry, it is impossible for Xiao Jiu to do so. Easily eat the 30 barbarian army."

"Furthermore, according to General Lin's battle report, Beijun only lost [-] to [-] soldiers. Looking at the history of the major dynasties, none of them can reach such an exaggerated battle loss ratio. However, the battlefield was indeed cleaned by the imperial army. The number of corpses It was also counted by the imperial army, so there is no doubt about its authenticity."

"I am very curious, what kind of army does Xiao Jiu have in his hands, so that he can defeat the 3 cavalry of the barbarians with a loss of 30 people, and it is still difficult to fight in the Wanning River Valley, where he can only fight head-on. terrain."

"The national teacher has been in Beijun for so long, and he must have seen the cavalry in Xiaojiu's hands, so he should have some understanding of their situation."

Emperor Xia asked Situ Ce to go to Beijun. Obviously, it was impossible just to say a word to Lu Chen. It was as simple as drawing a cake for Lu Chen. It is possible for the King of the North to build [-] heavy cavalry in such a short period of time.

Moreover, Situ Ce is a great master, and it is relatively easy for a great master to sneak into any place. Even if someone finds Situ Ce, Situ Ce can easily leave.

After hearing Emperor Xia's words, Situ Ce smiled slightly. He naturally knew what Emperor Xia wanted to know, so he said directly: "Your Majesty, the old minister has indeed seen the heavy cavalry in the hands of the Northern King, and according to the veteran's observation, that Most of the soldiers of the heavy cavalry are above the fifth rank."

Hearing what Situ Ce said, Emperor Xia's brows immediately frowned into the word "Chuan". There are about [-] fifth-rank soldiers, where did his son get so many warriors.

Situ Ce continued: "Of course, I think His Majesty doesn't care too much about this heavy cavalry now. What Your Majesty really cares about is the suspected Grand Master in Beijun."

Indeed, what Emperor Xia really wanted to know was whether there was a grand master in Beijun. Lin Xiuming's memorial mentioned that there was a suspected grand master appearing on the battlefield, but Lin Xiuming could not confirm it.

If there really is a grand master, then it would not be very strange to win this war, but the grand master is not a Chinese cabbage, how could there be a grand master in Beijun?

This made Emperor Xia puzzled.

Moreover, Emperor Xia had asked the Shadow Guard to investigate. According to the information he received, it seemed that Xuanyue Palace had only just begun to contact his son, and had not provided any help to Beijun at all.

It can be said that Xuanyue Palace chose to invest in Beiwang because of his great potential, not because Xuanyue Palace helped Beiwang, so Beiwang has the current strength.

Then the question arises, since Xuanyue Palace is not helping Lu Chen, then what kind of force is secretly helping Lu Chen, allowing Lu Chen to have [-] heavy cavalry all of a sudden, and there are traces of a suspected great master in Beijun.

Xiahuang asked at this time: "Then the national teacher thinks that there is really a great master in Beijun?"

Situ Ce replied: "I can't be sure, but judging from the situation on the battlefield, it is indeed possible that a grand master participated in the battle in the Wanning River Valley."

Hearing Situ Ce's answer, Emperor Xia fell into deep thought.

Why does he feel that his useless son is becoming more and more mysterious?
Could it be that he is really not his child?

Thinking of this, Emperor Xia's face suddenly became very ugly.

When Lu Chen was born that year, he suspected that Lu Chen was not his child. After all, he had never slept with Chu Yue soberly. Every time he was with Chu Yue in a daze, who knew that Chu Yue was pregnant? Is not their own species.

If it wasn't for the support of the Chu family, he wouldn't have married Chu Yue. He didn't have any affection for Chu Yue.

And he could also feel that Chu Yue didn't want to serve him at all, they were together very rarely, and the possibility of Chu Yue conceiving her own child was also very low, which made Emperor Xia always feel that Chu Yue was having an affair with other men, And Lu Chen is also a certain man's child.

It's just that he couldn't find evidence, and he has been brooding over this matter all these years. Even after Chu Yue died, he asked the shadow guard to continue investigating the man who had a good relationship with Chu Yue, trying to find Lu Chen's biological Father, but so many years have passed, and there has been no result.

Fortunately, Lu Chen has always been a waste, Xia Huang simply entrusted him to Beijun. Unexpectedly, when Lu Chen arrived in Beijun, he would rise up suddenly, and even grow up to be able to threaten the existence of Daxia.

This further deepened the suspicion in Emperor Xia's mind. Maybe Lu Chen might not be his seed. The reason why Lu Chen can rise so fast now is that Lu Chen's biological father is helping Lu Chen. It made Emperor Xia feel as uncomfortable as if he had eaten shit.

Even though Chu Yue was dead, he still felt very ashamed about it.

When I thought about the fact that I was forced to marry a woman I didn't like, and even accepted the children of other men in her belly, and finally this woman killed the woman I liked, all these things connected together made Xia The emperor was very uncomfortable.

Suffering is uncomfortable, but now is not the time to move Bei Wang. He has suffered so much for so many years, and the next few years will not be far behind.

He will deal with Lu Chen's matter after he resolves the family issue first.

Now he still needs to use Lu Chen's [-] heavy cavalry to deter those aristocratic families.

Ever since the [-] heavy cavalrymen broke out in Beijun, almost all the aristocratic families regarded the [-] heavy cavalrymen as his Emperor Xia's, and suddenly became extremely honest.

With the deterrence of these [-] heavy cavalry, when he takes care of a certain family, if other families want to rebel, they have to weigh their strength.

This is a good thing for him.

Thinking of this, Emperor Xia snorted, "I didn't expect that I would be reduced to using the power of my son to intimidate the aristocratic family. I'm really useless as an emperor."

Hearing that Emperor Xia suddenly didn't mention the Great Master, Situ Ce asked curiously: "Don't Your Majesty be curious about where the Great Master from Beijun came from?"

Emperor Xia said indifferently: "Let's put aside the matter of Beijun for now. The Shadow Guards have collected enough evidence about the collusion between the Wang family and the barbarians."

"I've been so useless for so many years, it's time to end it all!"

(End of this chapter)