“What on earth does my brother think?”
At the same time, after the heavy rain stopped, a middle-aged man in embroidered robe furrowed his eyebrows in the study of Prince Qi’s mansion.
He was Prince Qi who didn’t care for power and influence all his life. In the years when the current emperor ascended the throne, he had never done anything improper. Truth to be told, he didn’t pretend to be unaccomplished because he was afraid that the emperor would guard against him, which was the suspicion of outsiders.
Prince Qi really didn’t put the throne in his mind.
He didn’t want to fight for it.
The orientation of his study was not well, so it needed to light up in daytime when the weather outside was not well. In the past, it was the servant of the mansion who lighted up the study for him. There was a maid in the mansion, and Prince Qi called her Light Maid. The maid took care of the light in the study.
Tod
Perhaps many things were doomed. But naturally, there were many things full of variables.The Emperor of the Chen Kingdom thought that nobody knew the departure of Prime Minister Luan except him. But who would have thought it had been circulated before Prime Minister Luan left Huaiyang City?As for how the news spread, the Emperor knew that, without doubt, it was his good brother, the Prince Liang, that had done it.Even if it was a done deal and the news could not be concealed, the Emperor still expressed his fury and smashed several antiques of the former dynasty in the Imperial Study that day.If this had been seen by those merchants in Huaiyang city who liked to collect antiques, they might not be able to sleep for a whole night.His Majesty’s had a large fortune, so it might not be painful to see these smashed antiques, but for ordinary people like them, they could even hardly get an item from the forbidden
But soon the dismayed scholar figured out one thing, “The copy that you let me make by imitating Prime Minister Luan’s calligraphy was not for collection?”In surprise, Li Fuyao looked at the scholar, who could barely afford to eat, and then shook his head.He wouldn’t say more.It was already a boring thing, no matter how much he talked about it.The scholar looked in silence at the silver ingots in front of him, lost in thought.He would have liked to ask for clarification, but would the money still belong to him after he got the answer?People had to give to get.Walking out of the not-so-large painting and calligraphy shop and looking at the sky with not-so-good weather, Li Fuyao looked odd, with his sword case on his back.Walking through the crowd, he came to a lane called Vegetation Lane. Li Fuyao did not stop, just murmuring, “This is just a gamble.”Th
Indeed, in all the stories about coups and treason, money was indispensable.Whether it was used to reward the soldiers who sacrificed their lives or to bribe the generals, money was the most effective and useful thing.Therefore, in those stories, once people wanted to stage a coup, for the start, the first thing they do was find someone with a lot of money.There were many wealthy people in Huaiyang City.But their wealth was all a far cry from that in the national treasury.The only person who could draw silver ingots from the treasury in a short period was the old His Excellency Xun Fang, the Minister of Revenue.Therefore, if Prince of Liang wanted to stage a coup, for a start, he needed His Excellency Xun to draw some money from the treasury.In the year of Chenghua, one vice minister of the Ministry of Revenue did so by chance. He embezzled 300,000 taels of silver ingots from tho
Obviously, whether people in the Chen or those in the Zhou Kingdom knew that the Zhou Kingdom was in a difficult situation at present.The Chen Kingdom had attacked the Zhou Kingdom by all means with the support of the Yanling Emperor. Although Beiyan County of Zhou was not taken up by the army of the Chen Kingdom, everyone knew that the Zhou Kingdom was indeed in a difficult situation now.“Outside Beiyan County, the fight with the army of the Chen Kingdom had been in a stalemate for more than a year. We had some notable victories in battle. If military strength were well matched, perhaps I would have led my army across the border of the Chen Kingdom and arrived in this land of the Chen Kingdom by now. Perhaps after some time, the Chen Kingdom will only exist in the annals of history by historiographers, and not in the world anymore.”“Unfortunately, the military strengths of the two sides are truly too far away from each other. No matt
Li Fuyao had done what he could do in the current situation in Huaiyang City. He wanted to do something more, but he had to wait until Prince Liang made a move. He had to see what the situation would develop in Huaiyang City before making new plans.Xie Ying, who came to Huaiyang City with his back to the wall, relaxed a lot. The most important general in the army of Zhou Kingdom now felt happy for unexplained reasons when he thought that he was highly possibly going to die in the battlefield.It was a worthy death for an army man to die in the battlefield.Previously, he had a drink together with Li Fuyao, and when he drank to his heart’s content, he told Li Fuyao about the ongoing war of Zhou Kingdom. As an insider, although it was hard for Xie Ying to be defeated outside Beiyan County and his reputation had spread to the places other than Chen Kingdom and Zhou Kingdom, he still didn’t think that their kingdom would go through this cou
Until today, or until the previous moment, no matter the mansion of Prime Minister Luan, the mansion of Prince Liang, or Li Fuyao and Xie Ying, they all ignored one thing on purpose.And Luan Yan figured out the most important part in the entire situation.It was why the Emperor was indifferent when the situation in Huaiyang City was not opaque any more. Apart from summoning the ministers of six ministries and the commanders of Imperial Army, and secretly put Xue Yu, the chief of Imperial Household Department to death, the Emperor took no other actions.It was too flat.In Huaiyang City, Luan Ping was the most prestigious, Prince Liang was the most talented in military and the most ambitious, Prince Qi was the last one to compete, and Li Fuyao was eager to see a messy Huaiyang City.But the owner of Huaiyang City was the Emperor of Chen Kingdom.This point was beyond all doubts.Thus, i
When the Imperial Army of the west camp was going to the Imperial Study, Prince Liang took his time getting to the south gate.Prince Liang was wearing his armor and leading the private soldiers of his mansion. Prince Liang got a huge figure and with his armor on, he looked nothing different from other warriors on the battlefield.However, after Prince Liang passed through the south gate and got to the path of the palace, his face soon turned pale with fear.A head was hung on the overhanging eave of the turret in front of the path.Prince Liang fixed his eyes upon the head and found that it was Chen Yin’s.A member of the royal family, who was supposed to have a bright future, was killed tonight.Prince Liang stopped his horse.Countless generals and soldiers of the Imperial Army appeared on the path with sword in their hands. They stared at Prince Liang who plotted a rebellion.
In an instant, the atmosphere became weird. Prince Qi, who never scrambled for anything in Huaiyang City, opened his mouth just now and his tone was tough.All the master-hands from the Imperial Palace were dumbfounded for a moment.Before they came here, someone had suspected that Prince Qi was in the Xun Mansion, but as a matter of fact, these master-hands who had earned a name in the society of Chen Kingdom had never put Prince Qi in their eyes.In Huaiyang City, even the people from the poorest corners of society knew about Prince Qi’s personality. When they talked about him, they always said that he never strove for anything or he lived a secluded life, while some radical ones would possibly say that he was good-for-nothing or timid.But no one dared to say that they knew exactly what Prince Qi was thinking.Anyway, no one cared.Especially these master-hands form the palace. They never minded