In the fourth year of the 48th reign of Zhuluo, three major events occurred, the first of which was that the emperor's compatriots and sisters---- the fifth princess and the second princess both disappeared in the imperial mausoleum. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

That year, a tragic thing happened in Qingyang Town, which was close to the snowy region in Yongzhou, Qingyang Town suffered a big fire, and strangely, no one in the town survived, all of them were burned to death. The mountains ten miles outside the town also encountered fires, the fire burned for many days, and the mountains that stretched for thirty miles were burned out, if it were not for the seventh day, the sky suddenly fell for three days and three nights of heavy rain, I am afraid that this mountain fire will continue to burn north. Local rumors say that this is a punishment from the gods.

For Xingxi in the snowy region, this year was really worse, first all the people he sent to pick up his two sisters disappeared, and then there was news about the emperor's younger brother.

The third thing is that because the emperor has been childless since his marriage, Prime Minister Huangfu Qingyun proposed to appoint the emperor's third brother Qingwang as the emperor's younger brother. The emperor did not respond to the scene, and most of the other ministers had already attached themselves to the emperor's family and seconded the proposal. Even if the remaining few ministers are not the same party as the emperor, but because they are afraid that this kind of crown prince dispute will hurt themselves, they will protect themselves, not to mention that the current emperor does have no heirs, in the blood of the first emperor, the whereabouts of the second prince have been unknown, only the third prince is left, and there is a precedent in history to make him the emperor's younger brother.

The emperor went to the court and returned to the inner court, first to Fu Guifei, then to the queen, and finally to the queen mother's Yongshou Palace with the queen.

The queen mother has learned of the quarrel between the court and the court, although she feels sorry for the grandson she raised since childhood, but she also thinks that the proposal of making King Qing the emperor's younger brother is very good. After all, in her selfish heart, she is still more partial to her mother's family.

The emperor did not find comfort from the Queen Mother, and was even more depressed. The queen gently comforted, "The emperor is still young, and now it is too early to say that the emperor's heir, the imperial grandmother might as well discuss with the prime minister and postpone it for another five years. ”

The Queen Mother thought about it and agreed to the queen's proposal. The queen privately persuaded the emperor, "The concubines have something to say, there are more than ten concubines and beauties in the palace, Your Majesty is wet with rain and dew, and the sisters are more likely to get pregnant, even if Your Majesty contacts Sister Fu, you should also think about Sister Fu, otherwise if there is a minister who bewitches the king and obstructs the emperor's heir to ask for the punishment of Sister Fu, will Your Majesty protect Sister Fu or not? and how?"

Although the emperor doesn't like the queen, since the queen entered the palace, he has been behaving very well, and he does have the bearing of a mother, so even if he rarely goes to the Qingning Palace, where the queen lives, he still maintains his respect for the queen. Although the queen's words made him a little angry, he still calmed down and relived what the queen said in his mind.

I don't know if I was really touched, from the next day, the emperor began to summon other concubines and beauties, and I don't know if Huangfu Qingyun was overconfident in his means in ** or what, three months later, there was a palace maid next to a beauty who was found to be pregnant.

This Lu Meiren went out in the middle of the **, when the Queen Mother saw that she was quite blessed and was an excellent birth figure, she gave her to the emperor, and the emperor casually sealed her as a beauty, but she has not been fortunate since then.

This time, the emperor really wanted to give birth to an heir as soon as possible, so he specially asked the grandmothers around him to help select concubines and beauties who seemed to be easy to give birth to summon luck. I didn't expect it to be the palace maid who served by Lu Meiren's side who won the lottery.

In fact, this is also an accident, although Huangfu Qingyun has already ordered his chess pieces to drug the meals of the concubines and beauties in the palace to prevent someone from giving birth to an heir. But she didn't expect that one day the emperor summoned Lu Meiren, Lu Meiren happened to be unwell, and she was reluctant to give up this opportunity, so she let the palace maids serving beside her serve the emperor instead.

The palace maid usually hasn't eaten a drugged meal, so she won the lottery once. After Lu Meiren learned of the situation, although she was a little unhappy in her heart, she also knew that what the emperor lacked most now was the emperor's heir, so she asked someone to report it to Xuanhuang beside the emperor.

Xuan Huang was overjoyed and told the emperor the news. The emperor didn't dare to be ambiguous, and immediately asked someone to take the palace maid to the Penglai Palace of Fu Guifei to live and raise the fetus, and promoted Lu Meiren to the fourth level and named Lu Concubine.

Originally, the emperor's consideration was that this pregnant palace maid could be better protected when she arrived at the Penglai Palace, where Fu Guifei lived daily. But his enemy, Huangfu Qingyun, has reached the point of playing cards unreasonably.

The news of the palace maid's pregnancy had just come out, and the next day, Huangfu Qingyun personally led the forbidden army into Penglai Hall and took the palace maid away. At that time, the emperor was in the court, and when he heard the news, he hurried to the Penglai Palace, and the palace maid no longer knew where she was taken.

After the accident, Fu Guifei begged the queen and the queen mother for the first time, hoping that they could help keep the palace maid, but it was too late, and when the queen and the queen mother saw Huangfu Qingyun, Huangfu Qingyun said, "That palace maid is a prisoner, and she has been sent to the prison to be tortured, she can't stand it, and she committed suicide." ”

Since then, in addition to the queen and concubines, the palace concubines, beauties, and palace maids have never dared to go when they meet the emperor's summons, and a group of people in the palace have fallen ill.

The emperor originally summoned them for the sake of the emperor's heir, but now that he sees this situation, he no longer forces himself to force others. Except for the queen, the emperor stayed at Fu Guifei.

Huangfu Qingyun coerced the imperial doctor again, and the imperial doctor actually diagnosed the emperor's infertility, this news was consciously spread by Huangfu Qingyun, and there was such a rumor in Zhongdu, saying that the emperor had lost his fertility, and there was a palace maid in the palace who was unbearable and lonely, and had a personal affair with the guards, and as a result, he also falsely reported that he was the emperor's heir, but fortunately, the prime minister was aware of everything, and the palace maid and the guards were arrested on the spot and executed.

Taking advantage of this rumor, Huangfu Qingyun once again coerced the emperor to make King Qingwang the emperor's younger brother. This time, the momentum of the hundred officials seconding the proposal was even more powerful, and the emperor had the courage to kneel and die there if he did not agree to this matter.

In the spring of the fourth year of the 48th reign of Zhuluo, the emperor was under pressure and could only agree to consider the matter of establishing the emperor's younger brother. Concubine Li is so proud, the emperor now has only one younger brother, that is, the Qingwang from Concubine Li.

The first emperor also had a small number of ministers who firmly supported the imperial family in Zhongdu, but these ministers were not very satisfied with the crown prince, after the prince ascended the throne, compared with the first emperor, he achieved nothing, and under the leadership of the emperor Qingyun, there were rumors that were unfavorable to the imperial family, in this case, this small group of ministers missed the missing second prince even more.

Since then, the emperor has simply stopped going to the early court, and has fun with Fu Guifei every day, and he doesn't even bother to see the queen and the queen mother. Even if the queen and queen mother want to see him, it is not so easy. Gradually, Fu Guifei got the name of a demon concubine who brought disaster to the country, and the emperor also got a tyrannical name.

Fu Linghui proposed through Fu Guifei that the emperor issue a decree to give the missing second prince Minghua, "Speaking of which, the second prince is His Majesty's younger brother, although he is missing now, there is no reason to only crown the Qing King." Waiting for the second prince to be crowned as the prince, and then sealing him as the emperor's younger brother, can not only block the mouths of the world, but also do not have to obey the wishes of the emperor Qingyun. ”

The emperor felt justified, so he listened to this proposal, and the next day he resumed the court, and ordered his younger brother Ming Hua to be the king of Ming, and at the same time named him the emperor's younger brother. As soon as this decree came out, the entire court was boiling, and the faction of Huangfu Qingyun strongly opposed it, and the reason for the opposition was that the second prince had disappeared, and the country should not be put on the body of a person who had disappeared.

The ministers who stood on the side of neutrality or the emperor were supportive, believing that the second prince was only ordered by the emperor to travel outside, and would return to Zhongdu to assist the emperor in a few years.

For a while, everyone quarreled for this will, and in the end, it was Aunt Gao, who originally served the queen, who took the will of the first emperor, to calm down the turmoil.

It turned out that before the death of the first emperor, he was worried that someone would make a fuss about the disappearance of the second prince, so he left a decree, explaining that the second prince was only ordered by the emperor to go out to Zhongdu to find a famous teacher to study, and after completing his studies, he would return to Zhongdu to assist the new emperor. Yi also mentioned that the new emperor should treat his younger brother well, and after ascending the throne, he would make both younger brothers princes.

As soon as the first emperor's decree came out, even if he was as arrogant as Huangfu Qingyun, he had to take a few steps back, so the second prince Minghua was officially named the king of Ming and the emperor's younger brother.

Huangfu Qingyun returned home, lost his temper, and then ordered his subordinates to hurry up and hunt down King Ming. The Emperor regained some confidence because of this. Then he went to court again every day.

At this time, the newly baked imperial brother was on his way to the north of the snowy region. He followed Guigu Qianli to read the military book for more than four years, and at the same time, he did not miss his martial arts homework.

Seeing that he was smart and learning quickly, Guigu Qianli ordered Guigu Yanli to take him to the north of the snowy region to practice on the spot. To the north of the snowy region, there is a military castle, which is actually a garrison castle, and the soldiers brought by Xingxi from it are also trained here, and after more than four years, their real masters finally came to this castle and joined them.

The castle is called High Slope Castle because it is located on a hillside in the middle of the grassland. Except for the soldiers and generals stationed there, and their families, no outsiders lived in it. It is heavily guarded, and military regulations stipulate that anything that happens in Gaopo City is not allowed to be disclosed to anyone outside the city without approval, and the surrounding area is not suitable for planting, so there is no human population within a radius of ten miles, so people also call this an iron city.

Xingxi and his soldiers and horses need to stay in the Iron City at least until Xingxi reaches the age of eighteen, which is the first mission that Chisato Guigu gives him.