Chapter 172: The Eldest Son and the Eldest Grandson
The little prince sitting on the high platform is Xia Muyan, the son of Xia Zicheng, the king of Chengjun in the capital city of Daxia Guoyu. In the Yujing City, the status of the county king is lower than that of the prince, except for the children of Emperor Xia Qingtian and his younger brothers who were named princes, that is, the elders or heads of the four major sects of the Great Xia Kingdom were also named princes. Although the four major sects do not participate in the management of the imperial court's government affairs, the four major sects hold the top core strength of the monks of the Great Xia Kingdom, and are a strong support for maintaining the rule of the entire Great Xia Kingdom, deterring foreign countries, and resisting the invasion of foreign enemies. Therefore, the elders or heads of the four major sects have a very high status in the Great Xia Kingdom, and in addition to being crowned princes by the imperial court, these people generally also hold the official titles of Taishi Taifu and Taibao Taibao. Therefore, after the elders or heads of the four major sects came to Yujing City, even if they had been named princes, the emperor's younger brothers or the emperor's three sons, after seeing the heads of the four major sects or the elders of the Taishang, had to salute respectfully and call them masters.
However, except for the pilgrimage once every few years and grand events, the elders of the four major sects or the heads of the four major sects with heavy fists generally stay in their own sects and rarely go to the Jade Capital City. Therefore, in the entire Yujing City, the prince is the person with the highest status except for the emperor.
The number of princes is not large, except for the emperor's three sons who were made princes by the family, three of the emperor's seven younger brothers are also officially crowned princes.
The status of the prince was lower than that of the prince, and the other four younger brothers of the emperor were all crowned county kings. In addition, the three royal brothers who were crowned princes were also crowned princes, and their sons were also named county kings. The little prince Xia Muyan, who came here today, is the second son of Xia Zicheng, the king of Chengjun, and Xia Muyan's grandfather is the younger brother of Xia Qingtian, the emperor of the Great Xia Kingdom, Xia Qingchuan, the prince of Lin.
Xia Muyan was in Yujing City, spending all day drinking and idle, which made his father Xia Zicheng angry with him.
If it is outside the Jade Capital City, then the county king is also a high existence, but if it is in the Jade Capital City, then the county king can only be regarded as a dignitary, not the supreme position, because in the Jade Capital City, the prince is the second only existence to the emperor. Moreover, the prince can participate in the management of the court, and the prince of the county only has a name and no real power, and only takes the money and does not participate in the management of the court. Unless there is a special task, the court is assigned to a certain county king, except for that, the vast majority of county kings are idle at home.
Xia Qingchuan has four sons, according to the system of the court of the Great Xia Kingdom, only one of his four sons can be named the king of the county, this person who is named the king of the county, it is very likely that he will inherit the title of his father's prince in the future, Xia Zicheng is the eldest son of Xia Qingchuan, so he was named the king of the county early, but his three younger brothers are not convinced, and they want to bring him down, and then one of them will inherit the title of the king of the county, and then inherit the title of the prince in the next few years.
So Xia Zicheng also knew that his title of county king was not stable, although he was the eldest son, his mother left him due to illness when he was young. Although his three younger brothers are all concubines, their mothers have a deep background in the imperial court, and even in the four major sects, these people condensed into a rope and formed a huge force, and they did not take Xia Zicheng in their eyes, so they constrained everything, found fault with Xia Zicheng, and sued him in Xia Qingchuan, in order to let Xia Qingchuan abolish him.
In order to keep his position, Xia Zicheng has always kept a low profile and be cautious, not letting the other party catch his handle. It's just that his son Xia Muyan doesn't give him a long face, and in Yujing City, he lives a life of spending all day long. Xia Zicheng's younger brothers seized this shortcoming, and often sued him in Xia Qingchuan, saying that Xia Zicheng's godson had no way and could not be used.
In the past, after the fairyland feather platform was opened once every three years, it would be highly valued by more than a dozen surrounding countries, and each country would send elite forces to explore the fairyland...... and other things that are not easy to obtain from the outside world are enough to attract the attention of all countries.
However, after thousands of years, after the human monks repeatedly broke into the feathering platform and repeatedly carpeted the contents of the platform, in the feathering platform, the place that human monks could explore, and the valuable things they could find became less and less. Immortal stones, fairy spirit grass, and fairy spirit wood, even if they contain some, but the grade is not high, they are all regenerated after the closure of the feather platform, in the past few years, relying on the abundant and rich fairy qi inside. It is becoming more and more difficult to find the fairy stones, fairy grass or fairy spirit trees that have been bred for thousands of years.
A few years ago, in a desert place in the Western Regions, human monks discovered an immortal relic there that was much larger than the Feather Terrace. Since then, the imperial courts of various countries have set their sights on it. It's just that that place can only be opened once in ten years, but after it is opened, various countries have sent elite forces to go deep into it, and the value of what can be obtained is far greater than what can be explored in the featherlands.
With the remains of this new immortal, various countries gradually lost interest in the Feather Terrace, although the triennial Feather Terrace was opened as usual, but the various countries sent here are not the core forces, this time the Feather Terrace was opened, and it was not taken seriously by various countries, among the more than a dozen countries around it, only five countries sent strength here, and many other countries did not send people over at all.
This time, the matter of restarting the Feather Terrace, the Imperial Court of the Great Xia Kingdom did not take it seriously, the Imperial Court originally did not plan to send another Qin Messenger here, and the four major sects also said that they would not send people to participate in the activities opened by the Feather Terrace this time. The attitude of the Imperial Court of the Mansion Kingdom towards the opening of the Feather Terrace this time is that if some small sects in the country want to go, the Imperial Court will not stop it, but this time the Imperial Court will no longer organize it, nor will it invest manpower and material resources into it.
Seeing his son, spending all day drinking and not wanting to make progress, Xia Zicheng wanted to send him out of Yujing City, away from Yujing, a place of right and wrong, so that others could not see him, and he would lose the handle to attack him by him. After going outside, let it gain some knowledge, change its mind, hone its will, and be able to inherit his throne as the king of the county in the future. Because Xia Zicheng knows his father very well, his father's orthodox concept is very deep, that is, the concept of establishing a long and a descendant. He is the eldest son, and Xia Muyan is the eldest grandson, as long as the father and son are cautious and do their duty, and do not be caught by the other party, it is still very possible to inherit the prince's position smoothly.