In the cold winter season, the wind and frost sword.

The majestic and luxurious Xihong Palace, which is now full of festive red lanterns and bright red banners and satin, and Li Hong, the prince of Xihong, who is second only to the lord of Xiping, is standing on a high ground next to his palace study at this moment.

Seeing that the handymen and maids in the palace were busy setting up the tables and chairs for the banquet, and some people were preparing all kinds of melons, fruits and wines, this prince was moved

"It's been three years..."

Yes, today is the third birthday of the only sister-in-law of Prince Xihong, Li Yan, and he, Li Hong, is going to hold a big birthday banquet for his son.

Because there are too many people in the kingdom who want to befriend Prince Xihong, and King Xihong also has the intention to hold a special wedding banquet, so that this Xihong Palace, which covers an extremely wide area, has various halls and halls, plus the square for military training and martial arts, all of which are full of Yan tables.

It's just because King Xihong dotes on his son-in-law, and everyone understands this.

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It is said that this Xihong prince is really a very miserable prince, although he is extremely Xipingguo, even the emperor of Xiping respects him for three points, and some heart-piercing people even spread the words that Xihong King is the first person in Xiping.

But this Xihong prince lost his father three years ago, and in the three years of filial piety for his father, he lost his brother and sister, his wife and daughter, and lost his junior, three, four, and five, so that except for his only son Li Yan, there was no one with blood relatives around.

There are rumors that this is Li Harm, as his name suggests, is a lone star, but King Xihong fought on the battlefield in his early years and killed more people than ordinary people have seen in his life, so he doesn't believe this statement at all.

Later, when only his son Li Yan was left by the prince's side, he remembered those gossips again, but felt that he had too many karma in the past and suffered retribution, all because of himself, so that his son had no mother, no grandfather, no seven aunts and eight aunts, and only he was left with a father.

So the prince swore that he would be good to his son, even if Li Shen wanted the stars in the sky, he would have to find a way to get him them.

And there is another reason why this birthday banquet is so grand, that is, three months ago, there was a wandering Taoist priest wearing a lotus crown in the house, and this Taoist priest saw Li Hong's head and said: "The little prince will not live to be three years old", and then he left adrift.

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Because of the Taoist priest's words, the prince, who had been worried for three months, even hugged his son and slept for one night last night, and woke up early in the morning to find that his three-year-old son was looking at him with big eyes, red lips and white teeth, and he was pitiful.

The prince finally put his heart down, so he ordered that the birthday banquet of the little prince be doubled according to the standard set before! Then he summoned his confidant Wang Qi, who is also the chief manager of the palace, and asked him to intensify his efforts to search for the wandering Taoist priest throughout the country.

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At this time, a servant who looked like a butler came to the high ground where Li Hong was, and I saw this person bow his head and say: "Lord Wang, the guests have entered the mansion one after another at this time, and you still need to show up and speak everywhere."

"Got it, you go down first"

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In the special banquet in the palace, the prince Li Hong sat in the main seat, and below were all the princes and ministers in the kingdom, and those who were not powerful and in a position were also seated in the other hall or in the open-air martial arts arena at this time.

Li Hong seemed to be almost there, and was about to announce the start of the banquet, but he heard someone outside the hall shouting: "The emperor has arrived."

Everyone in the hall immediately stood up and waved to the door of the main hall: "Greetings to Your Majesty"

With a sound of "Zhong Aiqing is exempt", a tall figure walked into the hall, it was the emperor of Xiping wearing a five-clawed golden dragon robe, Li Xiping.

"Hahahaha, Brother Yanshan, today is my precious nephew's birthday, no matter how busy I am, I have to come to celebrate Yuan Chu in person."

At first glance, this Xiping Emperor seemed to have just passed the year of his establishment, and his spirit was full of red energy, as if today was his third birthday, and when he spoke to Li Hong, he did not call himself me, and shouted the words Li Hong and Li Yan.

The surname of the prince is Li Minghong, the word Yanshan, and the word Li is at the beginning of the Yuan.

Hearing this, Li Hong arched his hand and said: "Since Your Majesty has taken the time to come, please sit down with the Lord, and Your Majesty will announce the beginning of the banquet later."

The emperor happily sat down in the original position of Li Hong, and Li Hong moved one down.

At this time, the real protagonist of the banquet, Li Yan, who had just turned three years old today, walked to his father Li Hong step by step alone under the guidance of the chief housekeeper Wang Qi, and Li Hong picked him up and put him on the chair beside him.

His Majesty the Emperor on the main seat waited with a smile for Li Zhen to settle down in the chair, and then opened his mouth to announce: "The banquet has begun, and the Qing family cannot be restrained, and now the guests and hosts will enjoy themselves."

Below, the ministers' reply came: "Obey"

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The banquet began from then on, and everyone in the room had to find people who were close to each other on weekdays to talk about things and chat, and there were people who congratulated the prince for the first time, and for a time there were talking and laughing, eating and drinking, lively but not noisy.

Emperor Li Xiping still looked at the joy in the hall with a smile, did not open his mouth and did not move his chopsticks, and Li Xiping, the only concubine of Prince Xihong, also sat quietly on the chair that was quite wide for him, and did not move.

In fact, he hadn't spoken since he woke up this morning.

As the owner of the palace and the initiator of the banquet, seeing that the two heavyweights here did not say anything, he had to take the lead in speaking to the emperor: "Your Majesty, you can celebrate Yuan Chu's birthday in your busy schedule, and my brother is really flattered."

"My brother can't talk like this, Yuan Chu is your son, isn't it my nephew? Today is his third birthday, of course I have to come to celebrate."

Li Hong couldn't help but mumble a little when he heard that the emperor was so close to his family

In fact, in the past few years, the blood relatives around him have either died of illness or accidents, and he has not suspected that this is a means for His Majesty to fear his high merits, but he really doesn't want to believe that this will be the case subconsciously.

After all, if His Majesty is really worried about him, the "first person in Xiping", then why not directly attack his only son, as long as he Li Hong is gone, then after Li Hong dies a few decades later, most of the military power in Xiping Kingdom and some profiteering official business will not return to him, the emperor.

So Li Hong didn't really think that the tragedy in his house was related to the emperor.

And beside Emperor Li Xiping, King Xihong controlled the military power, occupied the salt and iron business, and did not give it to the country, and there were many people who could be punished for their bad intentions, in fact, the emperor also wanted to take back some of the power in Li Hong's hands through some means, but he had been suffering from no perfect solution, and he really didn't want to anger his cousin.

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When Li Xiping's father was still on the throne, the country name was still called Shanyue.

Just because twenty years ago, there was a powerful country called the Zijin Empire on Dongzhou, and the lord of the Zijin Kingdom was a guy who wanted to dominate the industry, and he intended to unify Dongzhou, so he led the powerful Zijin Empire to war in the mountain country, and the mountains were defeated by Zijin, and finally broke the country, and the emperor of the mountain country, Li Wei, was almost slaughtered, leaving only Li Xiping a single seedling, and only Li Hong and his father Li Yue were left in the side lineage.

Later, Li Hong advocated revenge and restoration, and showed his face, ran into a lot of walls, made a lot of bad eyes, and encountered many assassinations, and finally gathered the initial group of 15,000 rebels.

Then Li Hong was the main killer, and Li Xiping was the main strategist, step by step, and he was born and died for a full thirteen years, before he brought back all the lost land of the Mountain Kingdom.

Later, Li Hong, who advocated revenge, changed his mind, did not want to fight and kill anymore, and after recovering all the lost land, he changed the name of the country to the mountain kingdom, and used the name of Li Xiping, Li Hong volunteered to let Li Xiping be the emperor, and he became the prince of Xiping Kingdom.

At that time, Li Xiping, who became the emperor, saw that his army was invincible, regardless of Li Hong's opposition, and was determined to start a full-scale war against the Zijin Empire.

In this way, there is today's Xiping Kingdom.

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In fact, the Zijin Empire already knew that the original Mountain Kingdom had revived into today's Xiping Kingdom, but the Zijin Emperor did not take the defeated generals of his subordinates in his eyes, and he was busy attacking other countries on the Eastern Continent, so he didn't care about Xiping Kingdom for the time being.

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To put it bluntly, if Prince Xihong wants to be the emperor of Xipingguo, he only needs to ascend to the heights, and the emperor's position can easily fall into the hands of Li Hong.

All Li Xiping was very troubled, and felt that his throne was not stable at all, but before he could figure out a way to attack King Xihong, there have been human tragedies in the Xihong Palace's palace in the past three years, which made this Xiping Emperor embarrassed to deal with Li Hong again.

After all, now that King Xihong only has a three-year-old son left, he doesn't necessarily have to kill Li Hong to make Li Hong die, so he runs the risk of being slashed by the crazy Li Hong.

According to Li Xiping's thoughts, Li Shen is only three years old now, and he only needs to manage it well in the future, or instill in him the idea of royal respect, or accept a righteous daughter and recruit Li Yan as a concubine, more time and methods.

Therefore, Emperor Xiping also sincerely wanted to make peace with his cousin Li Hong in Xiping Kingdom.

It's just that all these things here and there are not enough outsiders.

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The banquet continued, but it was the emperor who spoke: "Brother Yanshan, today is the birthday of my precious nephew, Yuan Chu is young, you can tell him on his behalf, what he wants, but he hasn't gotten it yet, I, as an uncle, should give it"

When the prince Li Hong heard this, his spirits perked, he had expected that the emperor would come today, and he also expected that the emperor would say this, as for how to answer, he had already thought about it.

"Hereditary replacement"

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When the emperor heard that Li Hong was going to ask for a hereditary replacement for his son, he was angry and a little relieved, after all, everyone knew that King Xihong was in pain with his only son.

When the ministers on the table in the hall heard that King Hong dared to open his mouth to ask for hereditary replacement, didn't that mean that the military power and salt and iron business controlled by Li Hong would always be in the hands of King Xihong, so they were busy holding their breath and no one dared to make a sound.

The hall became audible in the falling pins, and Emperor Li Xiping stared at the eyes of Prince Xihong, his eyes were slightly gloomy, and he didn't know what he was thinking at this time, and after a while, the emperor spoke:

"Yes"

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Then the ministers came to their senses and congratulated one after another:

"Congratulations to the prince, congratulations to His Royal Highness the Prince"

"Haha, Lord Wang, Your Majesty is really affectionate to you."

"Congratulations to the prince, uh.. Xiaochen has a daughter under his feet, eighteen years old, who looks like a shy flower and a fish and a goose, and now she is not married, I don't know..."

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Gradually, this grand banquet came to an end, and His Royal Highness Li Yan, who had been replaced by hereditary repudiation, did not say a word from beginning to end.