The situation in the Great Southern Kingdom is complicated and complicated, and it is simple to say that it is simple.

The first thing Yuling needs to understand is who is trustworthy and who needs to be guarded against under the command of King Nan, and what are the attitudes of the twelve grand dukes and sixty-eight princes towards the royal family. Only by knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can one survive a hundred battles.

Fortunately, Yuling already has enough psychological expectations, although the situation of the royal family is indeed very bad, he feels that he can still save it.

In the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, almost 30 or 40 percent belonged to the grass on the wall swaying in the wind, and 450 percent had secretly defected to the powerful princes, while only 10 percent of the ministers who were really loyal to the Nanyan River were only a dozen percent.

This is still the result of his years of hard work, and when he first ascended the throne, there were not even one percent of the people who were willing to follow him.

In this process, the greatest credit is Yu Chen, the prime minister of the dynasty, who has been conscientiously assisting Nanyanhe and helping him cultivate a large number of young scholars who can be used, but on the surface, Yu Chen maintains a detached and neutral attitude, and is indifferent no matter how those princes try to win him over.

If you change to an ordinary petty official and want to be alone in the chaotic court, it is definitely the rhythm of death that is not explained, but Yu Chen, as a veteran of the Three Dynasties, has protégés and former officials all over the Great Southern Kingdom, even if those princes want to move him, they have to weigh whether they have this qualification.

So in the past ten years, Yu Chen's situation is very dangerous, but it is also very delicate, he has survived the turmoil again and again unharmed, like a towering ancient tree standing in the storm, regardless of the ups and downs of the world, but also unmoving.

In addition to Yu Chen, Chu Beiming, Li Hengwang and Cai Ye are also the right-hand men of Nanyanhe.

Chu Beiming is the head of the Keqing Mansion, which is equivalent to the number one leader, although the official position is only four grades, but the actual power is very large. He is responsible for helping the royal family search for strange people, as long as they have certain specialties, they can enjoy good treatment. The Keqing Mansion is divided into the Inner Mansion and the Outer Mansion, the Outer Mansion is completely used to confuse the sight and fool those princes, and there are some grandstanding people who have no real skills, and the Inner Mansion is the real core.

Li Hengwang is a second-class military general, and was named the general of Shunding, ranking second among the eight generals. Due to the military attache system, the first-rank great Sima is usually in a state of emptiness, so in addition to General Jingyuan, Li Hengwang has the highest status.

Cai Ye is the head of the palace and internal affairs office, firmly controlling the affairs of the palace, so some people call him "the second minister in the palace" with bad intentions, and even think that Cai Ye has set the king of the south in the air. But his family knows his own affairs, and many things that are inconvenient for Nanyanhe to do are all done by Cai Ye for him.

It can be seen that several important people in the Great Southern Kingdom are actually working for Nanyanhe. Especially Yu Chen, without his help, the current situation may be even more bleak and bleak.

At dusk one day, Yu Ling finally saw this legendary prime minister, the other party was not wearing court clothes, but an extremely simple outfit, looking like an ordinary old man next door, only a pair of eyes as clear as a mirror of the clear lake, calm and calm.

"I've been busy these days, and now I have time to meet with the Yun Alliance, and it's not surprising that I'm rude. Yu Chen's voice was gentle, without a half-compelling momentum, only when Yu Ling met his gaze, he would feel an illusion that he had been seen inside and out, as if this old man naturally had the ability to see people's hearts.

"Prime Minister Yu is polite, as long as we don't disturb your business. Yu Ling smiled faintly.

"It's nothing more than preparing for a spiritual array exchange meeting, it took me a few days to finally divide all the tasks at hand, and I can relax for two days. Yu Chen smiled.

"Then the prime minister's time is precious, so I won't talk nonsense. Yu Ling paused, and said tentatively, "I want to know what happened more than a hundred years ago, why did His Majesty the Seventeenth Southern King fall to the Fire Refining Sect?"

Yu Chen was silent for a while, and sighed lightly: "This matter is a long story, and the simple summary is that the capital of the seventeenth generation of the Southern King Tianzong attracted the jealousy of the princes, and because the news of that skill somehow spread to the Northern Fire Refining Sect, the two sides colluded, under the pretext that a large number of chaotic creatures had broken into the White Star on the southern border, and the situation was extremely critical, and instigated the seventeenth generation of the Southern King to go to the front line to boost the morale of the army. ”

"And he went?" asked Yuling before realizing that he had said something nonsense.

Yu Chen's face was cold, and there seemed to be a flame burning in his eyes: "I went, and he personally went to the front line to kill the enemy, and finally he was seriously injured, and he was plotted by the people of the Fire Refining Sect, since then his life and death are unknown, we thought that His Majesty the King of the South had encountered an accident, so we were ready to let the eighteenth King of the South ascend the throne." ”

"The tiger father has no dog son, and the former king is also an amazing and brilliant figure, who once took the initiative to invite Ying to go to the border to make great achievements, whether it is talent or ability, it is not inferior to the seventeenth generation of the southern king. After hearing about this, the first king realized that there must be a shady scene behind this incident, so he endured his grief and vowed to find out the truth after returning to Nanhuangxing to ascend the throne. ”

"It took a few years for the first king to consolidate his position step by step, and at the same time figure out the conspiracy of the year. There were five Grand Dukes and eight princes directly involved, so the first king spent thirty years to realize his plan of revenge, and I wanted to help him, but he stopped me, and he said...... He has more important things to give me, so that I can keep them useful and repay the kindness of the seventeenth king of the south in the future. ”

Yu Chen's expression was extremely complicated: "Maybe it was at that time that the first king had a premonition. On the eve of the storm, he made an excuse to demote me to the rank of three ranks, and demoted me to the other stars, so that I could avoid the whirlpool on the cusp of the storm. ”

"So when that happened, I was the last person to find out. ”

Yu Chen's face couldn't tell whether it was ridicule or self-deprecation, and every word in his flat voice was soaked with blood and tears, and he slowly told the truth buried more than 20 years ago.

"The first king knew that from the beginning of the country, the power of the princes far exceeded the royal family, so he only wanted revenge, and did not expect to calm the world, but his revenge gradually deepened the panic of the people, who felt that this southern king was extremely dangerous, even more dangerous than his father. ”

So when the former king attacked the realm of the true path, they joined forces to buy off the then head of the internal affairs department, and after learning about the retreat of the former king, they let the masters under their command go out to assassinate His Majesty the Southern King. ”

Although he stepped into the realm of truth at the last moment, he also suffered a mortal wound, and only two hours were left for him. ”

The king had arranged for the aftermath in an hour, and called all the children to him, and they wept so much that only one child remained silent. The first king sent the child away from the south, and I don't know what he told him, anyway, until now, I don't know the news of the other party. ”

Yu Chen sighed softly, and said with a little pity: "Your Majesty also cried fiercely at that time, and then the first king slapped him, so that he was not allowed to cry, only laughed, and finally His Majesty walked out of the hall with a smile on his face, and everyone thought he was crazy." ”

Yuling was silent for a while, sure enough, this kind of thing must not be asked about the parties, otherwise it will be a bloody scar to expose others.

"And the next hour, the first king killed three grand dukes and four princes, and then came to me and said that this is all he can do, and the rest ...... Leave it to me. ”

"I returned to the court and became the prime minister above ten thousand people under one person, and I also got the title of the patriarch of the three dynasties, but what is the use of this? The two people who knew me well, and the two people who promoted me from the border officials to the central government, are no longer there, and only a few young children are left. ”

"His Majesty looked at me earnestly with big dark eyes and asked me if I would like to avenge him. I said that your father was forced to such a point by those people because of his desire for revenge, and His Majesty thought about it and told me that he had time, and he was willing to take revenge in a hundred or two hundred years, and if it was not enough, he would let his children continue to help him take revenge. ”

"I couldn't believe that such words came from the mouth of a child, so I told him that the first step in revenge is to make it impossible for the enemy to see that you want revenge. So His Majesty laughed, and smiled very brightly, and he said that he knew that the first king had told him to laugh even when he was crying. ”

"At that time...... He was only eight years old. I looked at the child who was smiling and smiling and shedding tears, and secretly vowed to protect him as he grew up. Because I was not there when the seventeenth king of the south was murdered, and I was not there when the eighteenth king of the south was murdered, but this time...... I won't be leaving again. Yu Chen said softly.