Chapter 2: The Expedition
Gao Xun is indeed His Royal Highness the Third Prince of the Great Yuan Kingdom.
Since the founding of the People's Republic of China more than 100 years ago, Dayuan has mostly been peaceful and prosperous, and the country and the people are safe. Because when Emperor Kaizu pacified the world, he signed a century-old friendship contract with the Xiongnu in the north, so there were few wars. When the country is stable, it will naturally prosper slowly, and several emperors after Kaizu have also worked hard to lay a good foundation for the prosperity of the Great Yuan Kingdom. And how to sit on the throne of ruling this century-old country has become a matter that successive princes have struggled to fight for in recent decades. It is no longer surprising that the princes who can ascend to the throne in the end are already covered with the blood of their own brothers and are alone.
Xu is such a cruel way of competition, but instead selected the best successor, the Great Yuan Kingdom, which is becoming more and more rich and prosperous.
Gao Xun's father is the ninth monarch of the Great Yuan Kingdom, Gao Zheng.
Gao Zheng has three sons. The eldest prince, it is said that the biological mother is a folk singer, Gao Zheng was young and she had a night of fun and accidentally left the dragon son, and later the singer came to the door with her son, Gao Zheng left them in the palace and gave them the name Gao Yan. The second prince Gao Heng, is the daughter of the right minister of the dynasty, Song Guifei, it is rumored that Song Guifei is enchanting and moving, born in a famous family, and soon after entering the palace, she was pregnant with the dragon species, and even threatened to sit on the back seat above the ten thousand people under that person.
However, there was another person who sat in the back seat later, that is, Gao Xun's mother, Dai Tianyu.
Dai Tianyu is the only daughter of the left prime minister of the dynasty, on the family background and Song Guifei equal, on beauty, Dai Tianyu is even more captivating the country, as soon as he entered the palace, he captured the heart of Gao Zheng and was named a concubine. The only pity is that the stomach has not moved. The harem cannot be left without an owner, and the affairs of the back are urged by the court, and Song Guifei is even more arrogant with her son Gao Heng. At this juncture, there was finally news from the harem one day, and Concubine Shu was happy!
Gao Xun's birth, Xu was Dai Tianyu's last bargaining chip, so she was obviously a daughter, but she was hidden by her mother, and she turned the princess into a prince.
With the prince, Dai Tianyu rightfully ascended to the back seat.
Although Gao Xun is the third prince, he is born by the queen, and he is very loved by Gao Zheng as soon as he is born. Gao Xun has been clever since childhood, and he is very intelligent, and he played too much when he entered the school, and he did a lot of naughty things such as truancy and fighting, although his father and queen mother would take the opportunity to train her two sentences, but after that, he was even more spoiled, and Gao Zheng sometimes let her follow her young to read the folds, praising Gao Xun as if she was a child.
In contrast, the second prince was also both civil and military at a young age, outstanding, well-behaved and sensible under the education of Song Guifei, but for some reason he never got into the eyes of Gao Zheng and couldn't get his favor. Although the eldest prince Gao Yan is the eldest son of the emperor, he is the most unfavored one, without the support of his mother, and he is also cowardly when he looks at him, and he will only hide in the palace and read books all day long like a literati.
Clear-eyed people can see that the throne of this Dayuan will be passed to the third prince in the future.
When Gao Xun was eleven years old, the queen died of illness. After Dai Tianyu died, Gao Zheng's health was not as good as before, and he handed Gao Xun to the care of Concubine Liu, who was good friends with the queen, and did not establish a queen after that.
Four years later, turmoil began at the border gates, which had always been stable. It turned out that the deadline for a hundred-year treaty of friendship had long passed, and the Xiongnu in the north were ready to move, staring at the big fat meat of the Great Yuan Kingdom, and delusionally wanted to invade and annex the territory.
Although the Great Yuan Kingdom has not experienced the border war for a long time, the Ming monarchs of the past dynasties are always in peace, and at this time the soldiers are strong and strong, and it is a good time to raise troops to fight and repel the Huns in one fell swoop!
So Gao Zheng sent Gao Xun, who had just turned fifteen at the time, to lead the troops out of the army, and ordered Sima Jing, the son of the general of Zhenguo, to assist Gao Xun in sending troops to the whole army. Above the court, Gao Zheng handed over the tiger talisman symbolizing military power to Gao Xun, and gave him a golden dragon knife to personally tell Gao Xun to return safely.
The golden dragon knife was the talisman knife that helped Emperor Kaizu avoid the assassination of the enemy, and it was passed down in the hands of the emperors of the past dynasties. Now that Gao Zheng has given it to Gao Xun, the meaning is naturally self-evident. Presumably, on the day Gao Xun returns from the victory, it will be the time to establish the crown prince.
In the 174th year of the Yuan Kingdom, Gao Xun led an army of 300,000 and set out in a mighty way!
However, no one expected that a few months later, Emperor Gao Zheng, who had not yet reached the age of confusion, died!
Although Gao Zheng was not in good health, he would not be terminally ill for a few months. Gao Zheng did not die of illness, it is said that the imperial doctor who was in charge of the emperor's medicine that day deliberately killed the emperor and poisoned the medicine that Gao Zheng drank, and Gao Zheng died of poison on the night he drank the medicine.
The emperor died for a time when the palace was in turmoil, and the second prince ordered a search, and found the same kind of poison powder on the body of Dr. Lu Tai in the Tai Hospital that night, and immediately convicted and arrested people. killed the emperor, should be connected to the nine clans, a few days of inland imperial physician mansion was sealed, all over the house.
The incident happened suddenly, although it was strange, but the prisoners had been sentenced to death, and the evidence was conclusive, and no one dared to investigate further. But the country can't be without a king for a day, it stands to reason that the three princes should succeed to the throne, but the three princes are fighting at the border at this time, and they don't know the news of her father's death. Everyone in the court was anxious, and at this time, I don't know who said, "The Great Yuan Kingdom is not only one prince. ”
Then the right minister led everyone in the direction, saying that the second prince has meritorious service in catching people, and has both ability and political integrity, and he is also a good candidate for the emperor! As soon as these words came out, the officials were in an uproar, and many people stood on the side of the left minister, holding opposing opinions, opposing and opposing, even if they succeeded to the throne, the three princes would not be able to come back for a while and a half, but it was also an indisputable fact!
So with the support of the right minister, three days later, the second prince Gao Heng ascended the throne as the tenth monarch of the Great Yuan Kingdom. Song Guifei also sat on the throne of the queen mother.
And Gao Xun in the north received the news a few days later.