Just when Yinhai Commercial Bank and General Commercial Bank were each harboring ghosts, planning and secretly calculating each other, a secret letter from Xiao Yao, the assassin of Xuzhou, had also been handed to Emperor Chen Xu, making his face uncertain and hesitant, and in the end he could only find a few confidant ministers to discuss.

"Xiao Yao, the assassin of Xuzhou, sent me a secret letter, suggesting that I transfer the current Xiangzhou assassin history and King Xing back to Jinling City, so that he can serve in the court and assist me in dealing with national affairs together, what do you think of this matter?" Chen Xu said with a hesitant expression.

In fact, in his heart, although he didn't like Xiao Yao, who had a close relationship with King Xing, to use this obvious way of forming gangs and doing things for his lord, Chen Xu was very interested in Xiao Yao's suggestion, because he loved his second son, Xingwang Chen Shuling, much more than the crown prince Chen Shubao!

And since the last time Chen Shubao made a beautiful poem about the flowers in the back garden of Yushu in front of Chen Xu, Chen Xu also saw that Chen Shubao was a person who only likes to drink and have fun, and is extremely poor and extravagant, if he ascends the throne in the future, he is likely to become a faint monarch like the current Emperor Gao Wei of Qi State!

Now although the Three Kingdoms of Zhou, Chen and Qi have entered a period of confrontation, everyone knows that now is the time for the Three Kingdoms to accumulate strength, as long as whoever can improve the national strength faster, then he can defeat the other two countries, and then dominate the world and become the first emperor of the ages!

Moreover, the current situation of the three countries of Zhou, Chen and Qi is that the once strongest Qi country has been defeated by the faint monarch Gao Wei, and it is only a matter of time before it is destroyed! Although Chen recovered the Jianghuai region in the hands of Qi, he still could not compete with Zhou in terms of strength.

Because the Zhou State under the governance of the powerful minister Yu Wenhu, the national strength has already surpassed the Qi State, from the year has been bullied by the Qi State, can only defend the weak country that was beaten, and has become the strongest country that can take the initiative to attack the Qi State, every winter, the soldiers of the Zhou State have to go to the Yellow River to chisel the ice on the river surface to prevent the army of the Qi State from attacking the Zhou State from the frozen river, but now every winter to the Yellow River to dig the ice, but has become the army of the Qi State!

Moreover, after Yuwenyong successfully eradicated Yuwenhu and regained the ruling power of the Zhou State, he has been working hard to make the Zhou State stronger on the original basis, and even he has expressed in public more than once that he must defeat the Qi State and then unify the world!

So now Chen Xu feels very pressured, knowing that Chen Guo can't compete with Zhou State now, he can only agree to Xiao Yao's reason for losing his lips and teeth, and then make a truce with Qi State, so as to gain time, quickly develop Chen Guo's national strength, and then strive to turn Chen State into a country that can compete with Zhou State!

Therefore, Chen Xu has always been very diligent, putting all his energy on vigorously developing the national strength of Chen Guo, building water conservancy, reclaiming wasteland, encouraging production, and even in the spring ploughing every year, he must personally go to the field and drive cattle to plough the field, in order to declare his national policy of refocusing on farming, being diligent and thrifty and loving the people!

But now he finds that his crown prince has the potential to become a faint monarch, which has to make Chen Xu have reservations about the choice of the heir to the throne, if Chen Shubao ascends the throne of Chen State, he will only indulge in pleasure and not care about national affairs, then the dynasty established by their Chen royal family will definitely be destroyed by Chen Shubao, the faint monarch!

So when Xiao Yao's secret letter was handed to him, Chen Xu was moved: first, he was indeed more fond of Chen Shuling, the king of Xing, otherwise he would not have let him go to various places as a assassin in his teens to train him; Second, he also felt that he should beat Chen Shubao, create a little pressure on him, and let him know that he had dozens of sons, if he really continued to do these things that would only seek pleasure and luxury, and he did not have the appearance of a diligent and loving Ming Jun at all, then he might want to abolish him as the prince and let another son be the prince of Chen Guo!

But if Chen Shuling, the king of Tiaoxing, returned to Jinling City to take up his post, it would definitely cause a more direct and fierce fight between the two brothers! After all, when King Xing was not there, his number one subordinate Xiao Yao had already dared to directly confront the prince, and even repeatedly put the prince at a disadvantage.

Therefore, Chen Xu, who had been hesitating, could only find his confidant ministers and discuss the matter with them!

"Your Majesty, this matter is very important, and it is widely implicated, and Wei Chen does not dare to say more!" One of the ministers said fearfully, after all, this is a matter of partisanship.

"Say, you are all my most trusted confidants, and I will just have a casual chat with you in today's meeting, and there will be no records! I know that this issue involves the choice of the heir to the throne of Da Chen in the future, so you must speak freely to me, and even if you say anything rebellious, I will definitely not pursue it, after all, the issue of choosing an heir is not a joke! Chen Xu said solemnly.

"Since that's the case, Weichen will say it directly! Your Majesty, this secret letter from Xiao Yao, the assassin of Xuzhou, is really a heinous crime, and he intends to provoke a struggle between His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Royal Highness King Xing! The struggle between the two highnesses, Your Majesty is not unaware, if His Royal Highness King Xing is transferred back to Jinling City, wouldn't it be equivalent to directly starting a war with His Royal Highness the Prince? And when the two tigers fight, one of them will be injured, which can't help but hurt the harmony of the two highnesses, and it will also damage the entire court! Cai Jingli, the head of the household, strongly objected.

"And as we all know, His Royal Highness King Xing and this Xiao Yao are brothers, and their relationship is extraordinary, so this time he suggested that His Majesty transfer His Royal Highness King Xing back to Jinling City, there must be an ulterior secret!" Cai Jingli continued alarmistly.

Because he is Chen Xu's confidant, he did not explicitly take refuge in the prince's camp in the party struggle between the crown prince Chen Shubao and Xingwang Chen Shuling, but in his own considerations and resentment towards Xiao Yao, he still leaned towards Chen Shubao's side, so now Xiao Yao actually asked to transfer King Xing back to Jinling City and directly compete with the prince, then of course he wants to oppose it vigorously!

"I think it's Cai Shangshu who said such alarmist words, which is the most heinous crime! Not only did it provoke the brotherhood between His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Royal Highness King Xing, but also separated the trust between His Majesty and General Xiao of Xuzhou, and slandered the reputation of His Royal Highness King Xing and General Xiao. Zhang Huayi, the secretary of the ministry, refuted and scolded loudly, he was a person from King Xing's side, of course, he wanted to speak for King Xing.

"Please forgive your majesty, Weichen never meant that!" Cai Jingli realized that what he said just now was indeed a bit heavy, and immediately knelt down to Chen Xu to plead guilty and said: "But there is a contradiction between His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Royal Highness King Xing, not to mention the ministers above the imperial court, even the people of the entire Chen Kingdom, they know it!" Therefore, Weichen just wanted to express that if King Xing was transferred back to Jinling City, it would definitely lead to the intensification of the contradiction between him and the crown prince, and at that time, it might plunge our entire court into infighting, which would be unfavorable to Chen Guo! ”

"Cai Shangshu is too worried! Although there is a contradiction between His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Royal Highness King Xing, it is also due to different political views, but as the princes of His Majesty, they must be loyal to our Da Chen, and no matter what they do, they must be for our Da Chen! How can you describe the contradiction between the two Highnesses in front of Your Majesty as a life-and-death struggle with rivers of blood? Zhang Huayi was saying magnificent and foolish words!