Chapter 104 – The Bastard of the King (above)

The Crown Prince and Fan Xian were brothers by blood, and there was no unresolvable hatred between the two, those were ultimately matters of the elders. The crown prince had also once expressed his willingness to reconcile to Fan Xian, it was just that Fan Xian couldn’t possibly believe it, and most crucially, it was clear to Fan Xian that the crown prince didn’t have enough strength or a strong mind to defeat himself.

Therefore, Fan Xian’s biggest target for all his actions in the past six months was actually the eldest princess, and it did not occur to him that the emperor would just seclude her in the end, but he had to rush ahead to abolish the crown prince, a fact that made Fan Xian ponder for a long time, and he always felt that there were some problems with the order, and that the emperor’s oldest son, who had been immersed in the world’s gladiatorial arena for so many years, should not be able to make this kind of mistake.

Regardless of whether there was a mistake in the order, the matter of abolishing the Crown Prince was finally unfolding with great fanfare in the Qing Dynasty. The word “vigorous” may not be accurate, the so-called wind rises at the end of the ping pong, any big event in history, in the beginning, perhaps just some insignificant wind in the officialdom.

A few months ago, the East Palace fire, the Prince to the Southern Zhao, this is already the wind.

And when the Supervisory Yuan of eight threw out some old stories, the Taili Temple suddenly moved interested in the year to conquer the North Army winter witchcraft things re-investigation, the Ministry of households began to cooperate with the study of those silver exactly where to go …… wind sound will gradually up.

Last year, when spring and Jingming, the crown prince and the second prince of the two factions in order to combat Fan Xian, will have investigated the Ministry of households, and finally found the biggest loophole, is to conquer the northern army winter coat problem. But the prince did not think that this matter was investigated to his own head in the end, fortunately, His Majesty later withdrew his hand, the prince avoided the disgraceful end.

But now that the court has brought up this old matter again, the courtiers up and down the courtroom all smelled a different flavor. The Crown Prince’s side has long since run out of too many loyalist characters, who is His Majesty preparing to let the Crown Prince throw out to atone for his sins?

Even at this point in time, still no minister thought that his majesty would directly let the crown prince to take the blame, so when the Da Lisi and Supervisory Yuan will be Xin Qigu claimed to be imprisoned, they all thought that this matter will be over for the time being.

It did not occur to me that after only three days in prison, Xin Qimo was released again, and because of his good relationship with Fan Xian, this East Palace confidant and close minister of the Crown Prince was not tortured in the Supervisory Yuan, and did not confess the Crown Prince to the crime.

Even so, the Supervisory Yuan and the Da Lisi still bit the crown prince, and presented the secret report into the imperial study room. And in a meeting of the imperial study room, presented in front of the eyes of those who are the center of power of the Qing Dynasty, the six ministers.

Shu Wu and Hu Daoshi pleaded on behalf of the Crown Prince, and even guaranteed the Emperor’s disguised anger. But after the court, these two university professors once again get together to drink wine, but can not help but long and short sigh up.

His Majesty is really determined to abolish the Crown Prince, but the two of them, as the door under the Chinese scholar, must protect the Crown Prince. This has nothing to do with the faction, but they as pure ministers must show the attitude, the prince is a day of the Crown Prince, they have to be half of the emperor to look at, the emperor will not be harsh on this.

The most critical thing is, to Hu Shu two people as the representative of the ministers of the dynasty, all thought that the crown prince may be absurd and confused, but these two years has really improved a lot. In order to avoid a major shakeup in the court due to the struggle for imperial power, and in order to prevent Fan Xian, who was far away in Jiangnan, from getting involved in these matters, they really hoped that His Majesty would be able to settle his heart down, and settle down the distant future of the Kingdom of Qing.

No matter from which point of view, today’s crown prince is the best choice for the state of Qing, that is, to avoid the internal friction of the state of Qing, but also to prevent the Supervisory Yuan …… that young man’s dominance.

The Emperor of Qing is not a dim king, knows the benefits that checks and balances between the monarchs and ministers bring to Qing, and also anticipates that the matter of abolishing the crown prince will surely cause a great wave of opposition, so he temporarily chose to remain silent, and it seems that after the first storm, the idea of abolishing his crown prince was dispelled.

However, Dr. Hu Shu and all the ministers knew clearly that his majesty was a person who did not make decisions easily, but once he made a choice, he would stick to it no matter what difficulties he would face.

As expected, in a few days, Jiangnan Road Governor Xue Qing adults of the folding sent to the palace, in the great dynasty on top of the court read out, words and phrases, hidden refers to the East Palace, the hidden meaning, everyone knows.

Shu Wu was furious, although I know that this situation against and can not return, still out of the column cursing Xue Qing has an insubordinate heart, full of nonsense words of insubordination.

The emperor pity Shu Wu old and frail, so that he returned to his home to recuperate in March, did not give the slightest chastisement.

Another six road Governor Ming fold again to, tone or heavy or light, either bright or dark, but all secretly express their attitude.

At this time the situation has gradually become clear, the emperor has the intention to abolish the reserves, the seven road governor forced by the sacred authority of the corresponding letter, only those in the court of the first-class ministers were sandwiched in the middle of the ministers, they are trying to oppose, but also feel that there is a heavenly cover on the bottom of the thorns up and down, all up and down a good not hard to bear.

However, although Shu Wu was invited back to the house, the door under the Chinese book is still playing the Qing Emperor allows them to play the role of positive flow, the ministers in the court, bold in the court meeting to weigh the words, expressed the views of the opposition, the courage of the small to remain silent …… No minister in the emperor’s hints, courageous petition, please his majesty to change the reserves.

Yes, even if you like to kiss ass again, it is difficult to make this kind of thing, full of civil and military personnel, full of people in Kyoto are looking at these officials, the crown prince did not make any big mistake, but to be abolished, it is really not possible to say, later more can not be explained in the history books.

After this court meeting dispersed, several representatives of the civil ministers came to the Shu residence, carefully soliciting the opinion of Shu Daoshi, anyway, his majesty is clear about these things, they are not afraid of someone to play their own party.

Shu Wu wearing a cloth robe, silent for a long time, smiled and said: “Everything under the sun, always have to pay attention to a reason, especially the matter of the Crown Prince, the upper involved in the will of heaven, the lower involved in the ten thousand people, if the reason does not make sense, it can not be flattered……. Fan Xian once said that the world’s worries first, the world’s happiness after the joy of the world and music. This is a matter of state, not a matter of the son of God’s family, Shu Wu as a subject, on the need for His Majesty to solve the problem, the side of the country for the removal of worry, the sacred heart without speculation, then ask their own heart is.”

“His Majesty’s mind is set, what can be done?”

Shu Wu grasped the beard under his jaw, like usual that cheeky said: “Mr. once said, the king has a chaotic order, I can not accept.”

The gentleman in his mouth, naturally, is the Zhuang Mo Han who has already resigned for two years. The civil ministers went home separately, each silent.

In fact, if the emperor wanted to imply that his ministers should submit a petition, there were many other ways to easily find those who were the spokespersons of the court, but it was amazing that since the storm, apart from Fan Jian, the Minister of the Household, the emperor had never summoned any of the ministers to the palace alone, so the ministers were wondering if His Majesty’s mind was not yet set – -They were not the kind of His Majesty’s house slaves that the Seven Roads Governors were, and they dared not submit a petition indiscriminately.

The court fell into an awkward silent confrontation. His Highness the Crown Prince, who was at the center of the incident in the Eastern Palace, remained gentle and quiet, and did not seem to take this matter to heart. His faction simply does not have any powerful people, this time but won the support of so many civil ministers, can be said to be a kind of unexpected joy, but also a kind of …… unexpected surprise.

So the crown prince in secretly grateful, more and more silent.

And in the midst of this abrogation of reserves storm, there are two young people who stay out of the way and attract the attention of the group of ministers the most. These two young dignitaries have somewhat similar temperaments, and their relationship with the Crown Prince is complicated, but to this day, their performance is quite unexpected.

The first was naturally Fan Xian. Now in people’s eyes, he is the authentic third prince faction, and himself is his majesty’s illegitimate son, his identity is too sensitive. But before and after the seven road governors petitioned, he maintained a dead silence in Jiangnan, daily post to the palace, there is not even a single word mentioning this matter, but only in the inner treasury and the surrounding day-to-day affairs in a circle. And although the Supervisory Board has investigated from the Ministry of Revenue to the Eastern Palace, but the strength is obviously not as strong as the ministers imagined, everyone can see clearly, the Supervisory Board’s actions in Kyoto, and Fan Xian has nothing to do with.

So much so that it suddenly occurred to people that when His Majesty threw Fan Xian to Jiangnan, did he also have the idea of separating him from the Supervisory Yuan? And why did the always gentle on the surface, but resolute in the heart, Fan Tisi, refuse to seize this opportunity to beat up on a falling dog?

The second was the Second Prince. Before Fan Xian entered the capital, the second prince has been favored by his majesty, in his majesty’s sons in the first king, in the dynasty Zhou Na a large number of ministers to accompany the left and right, and then all people know that the Princess of the Prince in the open to protect the Prince, secretly to protect him …… The second prince is not simple, hidden and the Prince to fight against, the so-called seizure of the Crown Prince, in fact, the most previously referred to! The most previous reference is him.

But this half a year in Kyoto event constantly, but seems to have nothing to do with the second prince. After the Princess was imprisoned, the second prince did not do anything at all, on the contrary, the crown prince was banished by His Majesty.

Now the crown prince was abolished the situation is critical, according to reason, the second prince should be the most benefited person, he should have acted. Even if he in order to avoid suspicion, in order to please his majesty’s heart, hold the word filial piety and fraternal duty, keep silent all the time is just, but he actually …… personally wrote a letter for the crown prince to defend the case of the winter witch of the conquering north army, even more secretly mobilized the officials in the faction, stood on the opposite side of the emperor’s mind.

Of course, his power in the dynasty has basically been Fan Xian’s two battles have been beaten to death, but operating for so many years, there is always some talking mouth, the most critical thing is that after he married Ye Ling’er, it is equal to become half of the master of the Ye family, he spoke for the crown prince, indeed some role.

The crown prince’s two brothers, the two greatest enemies, in the crown prince’s most dangerous time, with different ways to show support, this is really a very wonderful wonderful mysterious situation.

I’m sure that Emperor Qing must be in a very complicated mood at this time.

While the matter of the abrogation of the Crown Prince had not yet reached its climax, one of the three most dangerous borders in the world had already experienced a climax, startling the already fearful courtiers of the Qing Kingdom into exuberance instead.

The three most menacing borders are the border between Northern Qi and Northern Barbarians, the border with Western Hu, and the border between …… Southern Qing and Northern Qi.

The extreme north of the land for three consecutive years of snowstorms, frozen northern barbarians cattle dead horse death, had to move the whole clan around the sky vein, after 10,000 miles of hard march, finally from the north of the North Qi around the south of the Qing’s west, just for this to pay for the entire population of the clan ten to seven or eight of the tragic price.

This is a major event in history, for the current world, but also has a very far-reaching impact. First of all, the Northern Qi people no longer need to worry about those savage barbarians behind the barren plains, they can finally free up their hand to deal with the southern Qing people – that hand, naturally, is a generation of famous general Uesugi Tiger.

And after taking two years to digest the Northern Barbarians’ incoming tribes, Xihu’s strength increased steeply and sharply. Because although the number of people who survived the Northern Barbarians was small, the clansmen who could endure the pain of traveling 10,000 miles without food or medicine were all elite young men and women who were now one in a thousand.

The pressure on the Qing Kingdom increased dramatically as it was attacked from the back.

This is why the Dingzhou Ye family’s urgent aid to the western front, and King Jing’s son, Li Hongcheng, is playing hide and seek with those hu people in the west at this time.

Yan Xiaoyi in the north also returned to his camp ahead of schedule, using his strong military power to suppress the machinations of Uesugi Tiger and the bad ideas of the Northern Qi people.

And the climax of this borderline was exactly what broke out on the northern front, between Yan Xiaoyi, the Great Governor of the Northern Conquest, and Uesugi Hu, a famous general of his generation.

When the upper Sugi tiger led the army retreat, give Yan Xiaoyi left space time to think to prepare, Yan Xiaoyi is not at all to think about their own back in Qing, to prepare to meet the Qing emperor’s arrest, but directly waved troops to the north, hostage 20,000 elite, along the line of Cangzhou Yanjing in the middle of the seam, raiding the northern camp!

Soldiers are not afraid of deception, soldiers are as fast as a hurricane, Yan Xiaoyi perfectly implemented this tenet, did not even ask for instructions from the Privy Council, and did not have time to wait for the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty’s decree, so he personally led the army and killed the past.

At this time, the Uesugi Tiger, who had always been a mastermind in the battlefield, obviously did not expect Yan Xiaoyi to actually have the heart to send troops to attack when he was in difficulty.

At that time, the Northern Qi army was retreating slowly for more than 50 miles, not yet stabilized, and suddenly encountered a night attack, resulting in heavy damage. On the other hand, the Southern Qing army only paid a total of 5,000 lives.

This was the great victory of Cangzhou.

In people’s impression, this seemed to be the first time Uesugi Tiger suffered a defeat.

When the news was sent back to Kyoto, no matter it was Shu Daoshi who was ordered to recuperate, or the people who were selling drinks on the street, all of them were excited, and the passion for war and border expansion that was buried deep in the blood of the Qing people was mobilized to the peak by this “shameless” victory.

The dark clouds that had been floating over Kyoto seemed to be less blinding, and people were thinking that, with such good news, His Majesty would not insist on his own absurdity, and do the opposite of the people’s emotions, which was not a good choice.

With the arrival of the war report, immediately came is the state letter of the emperor of north qi, in the book the emperor of north qi angry scolding, said the two countries friendship, but you and so on how how, very shameless.

After receiving the letter of state, the Qing Emperor just smiled, and then handed over the matter to the Honglu Temple and the Ministry of Rites to deal with. Nowadays, the world, the division of national boundaries is always so vague, who entered whose country, always a difficult thing to say clearly, if it is really a misunderstanding, after some days and then apologize well, anyway, the people who killed is not likely to come back to life.

The emperor smiled and said to Eunuch Hong beside him, “Yan Xiaoyi is good, knowing the right way to clarify the meaning of his existence to me.”

Yes, people who had no meaning of existence, then they shouldn’t exist any longer.

For example, the crown prince.

So the Da Lisi continued to interrogate the case of the winter jacket, the Supervisory Yuan continued to dig into all the wrongdoings the Crown Prince had done, and the most shameless of all was the Eight Offices, which seemed to be ready to write memoirs of all the things the Crown Prince had done as a child in molesting the palace maidens.

The matter of abolishing the Crown Prince was not interrupted by the great victory gained by Yan Xiaoyi, but only rested for a little while, and then was slowly and unquestionably pushed forward again under the disappointed gaze of the courtiers.

None of this had anything to do with Fan Xian.

He was on top of a civilian ship at this time, looking at the courtyard newspaper in his hand and thinking to himself that the emperor’s old man was indeed a bit more shameless than he was, and it seemed that in a few more days, the heavenly sacrifice that Xue Qing had once mentioned would begin, and he wondered what the quiet temple of celebration in Kyoto would look like at that time.

To find the crown prince can be abolished, and then sacrificed to heaven for the Oracle – the emperor is the son of heaven, the crown prince is naturally the grandson of the sky, if God thinks that this grandson is not good, then God’s son had to do the same.

This is to write out, in the history books will be much more beautiful.

It was really shameless.

Fan Xian shook his head and put the newspaper down. Since Xue Qing began to write a letter, he fled Suzhou, did not return to Hangzhou, did not go to Wuzhou, just disguised, disguised as the people on the people’s boat, subconsciously want to get away from this political vortex as far away as possible.

He also knew that the second prince petitioned to protect the crown prince of the matter, thinking that the heart of the old two is also really ruthless.

He also thought of the great victory of Cangzhou, and a trace of doubt flashed through the pupils of his eyes. He had always been ignorant of such things as military affairs, but he had always felt that a horrible character like Uesugi Tiger, how could he have suffered such a big loss at the hands of Yan Xiaoyi? The most crucial thing is, to start a war lightly, this is a great sin, the subjects and people can be as happy as watching a play, how can the emperor also be as happy as an idiot?