Picturesque Rivers and Mountains in the Red Chamber

Chapter 168 3.75 Not many forces have the guts and motivation to directly attack the princess

Volume Three

3.75 There are not many forces who have the courage and motivation to directly attack the princess.
"Asshole, are you satisfied?" As Zhou Yang helped him stand up and rubbed his sore knees, Princess Yongchang angrily hit someone hard several times, "I don't know what was wrong with me in the first place. I think you are a good person, but you have already violated me to this extent in just a short time. I have lived for 29 years. Apart from being punished by my father, the emperor and my empress, when have I ever kneeled before anyone for such a long time?"

"I'm not feeding you enough -" Zhou Yang joked with a bad smile, and stopped the little fist that was coming at him again, "Besides, who told you to be dishonest? The girl I accepted at the beginning was a harem. Poor woman; now that she has grown up, she will put on airs in front of me when she turns around?"

"Secret boudoir? When did I want to do that?" Princess Yongchang sighed quietly, bent down to pick up the clothes on the ground, but someone snatched them away and threw them aside. She could only helplessly continue to be in the celestial state and lay softly in Ai Lang's arms. "Has that damn girl Bing'er revealed it to you? I am not a weak woman raised in a boudoir!"

"No." In Princess Yongchang's surprised eyes, Zhou Yang was also helpless, "I don't know what kind of ecstasy soup you poured into that girl, but she never talks too deeply about anything related to you, and neither do I. Based on what happened these days, I vaguely guessed something, but Bing'er didn't even want to confirm it after I said it."

"Good girl, it's not in vain for me to hurt her." Princess Yongchang was obviously very satisfied with this, "Tell me first, how much did you guess?"

"The external affairs of the Royal Secret Guard are now in your hands?" Zhou Yang's words made her freeze up. "If you put it this way, you should actually be leaning towards the Supreme Emperor, right? Tell me, why? Today? Your Majesty is a wise king and has performed well since he ascended the throne, so why should you do this?"

"Do you know that just these few words are enough to kill all nine of your clans?" Princess Yongchang glared at him seriously and said, "Regardless of whether these things are right or wrong, how can you participate in them? Even if they are too many, Just ask, it’s all a crime of beheading!”

"Then do you know that you are already standing on the edge of a knife?" Zhou Yang said back angrily, "I have been doing nothing these days, and only when I sorted out the major events I have experienced in the past two years, did I I have discovered this problem. For example, you just mentioned the decline of your consort’s family, have you ever thought about why Huang Sheng can still put his hands into your personal bodyguards?”

"One of the two traitors had trouble at home, and the other was a gambler. Both of them needed a lot of money." Princess Yongchang obviously checked afterward.

"Okay, please explain why you couldn't find any information about these two family members after repeated searches?" Zhou Yang said angrily, "Huang Sheng is a waste. I have also checked this repeatedly through the Xue name. He can only find prostitutes in a slightly elevated building, how could he handle it so cleanly?

I know you are suspicious of the second prince, but have you ever thought that he can only use some means through the ancestral family of Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and I have repeatedly checked through the name of Xue. In front of those poor people, In fact, it has never been a high status, more like being used by others. Even the eldest prince knows this. How can he mobilize such huge resources? "

"Of course he can't be moved, but those poor people know my attitude towards Kai'er. If they intervene, of course they can," Princess Yongchang said impatiently.

"There are not many forces in the world that can mobilize such strength and have the courage and motivation to directly attack the princess." Zhou Yang interrupted him rudely, "If it is these poor people, it can indeed be explained, but it cannot be explained. Regarding your good-for-nothing consort, although his father was once a great scholar, he died long ago.

I checked repeatedly, but I didn't find any evidence that could prove that Huang Sheng was closely related to those poor people. How could a loser who can only find second-rate or third-rate prostitutes get into that group of poor people? Eye?What's more, the people who destroyed him in the first place were also those poor people; but you have forgotten that there is actually another person who has the ability to mobilize such resources and make Huang Sheng obedient! "

"Have you even noticed?" Princess Yongchang smiled bitterly and her tone became much softer. "My brother and I have had a good relationship since childhood. After he ascended the throne, I helped ease the relationship between him and his father."

"But you should have been closer to the other person at the beginning, right?" Zhou Yang's words completely made him lose heart. "In other words, it should be the handiwork of that person that you were able to control the foreign affairs power of the Royal Secret Guards. Right? Although he died long ago, his reputation and influence have never left the court!"

"Brother." Princess Yongchang murmured, actually shedding tears.

"Furthermore, I just heard you call the Queen Mother." Zhou Yang gently kissed the girl's tears and continued, "The only one with the highest status in the palace now is the Concubine Zhengui you mentioned. The Queen Mother you mentioned must have passed away. The Supreme Emperor and the Empress Yuan, right? And that Prince Yi Zhong, if you don’t want to talk about these things.”

"The eldest brother has been established as a prince since he was a child." Princess Yongchang breathed a sigh of relief, her tone was full of nostalgia, "My father actually has more than one son, but the eldest brother and I are the only children of the mother and the queen. Naturally, we have been close since childhood. At that time, I I didn't think about any important matters of family and country, I just didn't want to be separated from my eldest brother. Therefore, I didn't miss anything that my eldest brother needed to learn, whether it was reading, etiquette, or even riding, shooting, and practicing martial arts, I followed him , so that many people said that I was wronged to be born as a princess. If I were a boy, I would be my elder brother's right-hand man and another wise king in the Zhou Dynasty.

At that time, the father and emperor had many heirs, but I was the only daughter, so he indulged me a little bit, and ignored all these matters; until one time, I accidentally heard that he was going to hand over these matters to the commander of his guards , I happened to be there at the time, so I smiled and said that I was going to take over the errand, and my elder brother agreed for some reason, and it has been up to now. "

"Huh?" This time it was Zhou Yang's turn to be surprised, "If I remember correctly, His Royal Highness Prince Yi Zhong was appointed in the 32nd year of Longwu. So, you took over such a business when you were only twelve or thirteen years old? You... Big brother is really enough”

"Nonsense, it's not as powerful as you said!" Princess Yongchang hit him a few times angrily, "After that time, the elder brother was only grounded in his own mansion, and there were not many restrictions other than that, even the prince's His title has not been abolished. My father’s intention was to let him reflect on his thoughts, and he did not even prohibit courtiers from visiting him.”

"Huh?" Zhou Yang was confused, "How come this sounds like..."

"The relationship between the father and the eldest brother cannot be understood by outsiders." Princess Yongchang said lightly, "In the eyes of the old man, he only has one son, and the others are just children and ministers. Even since the emperor's brother has been on the throne, ministers are indispensable if he wants to meet the father. However, when I and my eldest brother met my father, they never cared about the so-called 'court ceremony'.

When the eldest brother took action, it was really just a "military remonstrance". He knew that his father had many alchemists and personal servants, and these people indeed encouraged his father to spend extravagantly, so he brought a hundred or so guards in the palace and wanted to force his way into the palace. "Qing Jun's side", but for some reason it was said to be "raising troops to rebel". The Imperial Forest Army at that time actually used elite archers and crossbowmen, and almost injured the eldest brother. "

"Huh?" Zhou Yang immediately realized the problem, "There is someone."

"Now that I think about it, my eldest brother has been close to Wu Xun since he was a child, and he always follows his father, Taizu, and Taizong as examples. He looks down on those poor people. I am afraid that he has been secretly plotted long ago." Princess Yongchang gently He sighed, "If I had taken over these people early, I would never have watched my eldest brother suffer this disaster.

After he was grounded, he quickly communicated with his father and explained the matter clearly. The two quickly eased their relationship. How could it be as rumored outside that father and son were as separated as enemies?Originally, my father’s intention was to let him reflect on himself and decide what to do in the future, but I didn’t expect that my eldest brother thought that the humiliation was too severe, so he became worried and angry.”

"When did you take over the power in your hands?" Zhou Yang said softly.

"On the eighth day of April in the 34th year of Longwu." Princess Yongchang's answer was very accurate. "It was past half of the morning that day. I went to my eldest brother's house to relax, and I happened to meet him discussing things with the guard commander Qiu Gangsheng."

"Qiu Gang," Zhou Yang asked quickly.

"At that time, the status of the four princes and eight princes was too high, and it was not convenient for any of them to be friends with the prince. The so-called 'twelve princes' were the eldest brother's confidants, and they were in line with those in the army." The way of balance." Princess Yongchang glanced at him and said, "Both father and son are grateful and repay their kindness. So far, during the holidays, they still show their due filial piety, which is much better than some things that don't know how to die. "

"After all, your eldest brother has been gone for some time." Zhou Yang said with a wry smile, "Not to mention those who have fallen, the three people your Majesty helped up were also involuntarily, not to mention that your eldest brother did it that time, but these ten The two families have suffered too much, if I remember correctly, there should be among the prince's bodyguards."

"Many of them are children of these twelve families, and because of their so-called 'participation in rebellion,' the other eight families have disappeared." Princess Yongchang's tone gradually became angry, "I didn't think much about it before, but now It seems that there was something strange about how the news spread that time. I originally thought it was a secret arranged by my father, but now it seems that is not the case.

The military attachés who were directly involved or even died would definitely not be involved, so they could only be close civil servants. The prince and prince's residence basically had their own set of civil and military affairs. Among them, the prince's residence was also called the 'East Palace', and the civil and military attachés were almost It was a shrunken court, leaving aside the military commanders. The civil servants did not participate much at that time, because the eldest brother never cared about them.

From this point of view, only a few people knew the news at the time, and they were all dealt with after the incident. One of them was sent out and later pardoned. The father-in-law's personal disciple! "

(End of this chapter)