Emperor Yue, who heard the news, almost didn't get angry and half died. Obviously, all this is Gongsun Jian's conspiracy. But now the three northwestern states of Zhou are all under the control of Gongsun Jian and Qian Yan, and it is likely that there is still Wu Guo behind them. If he doesn't agree, then the mad dog Gongsun Jian is very likely to use this as an excuse to tear his face and unite with Wu to launch an attack on Zhou. At that time, there is no danger in the northwest and go straight to the western and central regions of the Zhou State, plus the war between the North and the Qi State is still continuing, and the Zhou State is really in danger of dying.

To say that politicians are shameless. Faced with such a predicament, Emperor Qian Hong of Yue put down his figure and face, crowned Gongsun Jian as the captain of the horse and the water waiter, and allowed Gongsun Jian to come to the capital to marry the princess of Ningguo. And at the same time, he called the world, set up the eldest prince Qian Yan as the crown prince, and ordered him to hand over the military power and return to Shangjing to settle in the East Palace.

Gongsun Jian and Qian Yan, who had received the holy decree, all laughed, they never thought that Emperor Yue would be so forbearing. The two holy decrees directly wanted to get both of them back to the capital.

Fortunately, Gongsun Jian also has the means. That night, at a dinner party to entertain the proclamation officials, Gongsun Jian beat Qian Yan well. and declared in public that Qian Yan was not virtuous, and actually teased his concubine in the inner court, how qualified is such a person to be a prince. immediately asked his subordinates to imprison Qian Yan, and let out cruel words, and then cut Qian Yan when he came back from marrying.

That night, Qian Yan escaped from Linshui County, and gathered his original soldiers and horses, colluded with the army of Wu to break through Linshui County in one fell swoop, and Gongsun Jian escaped alone in a hurry. The next day, the three northwestern states of the Great Zhou State declared their autonomy, and they remained the territory of the Zhou State but became the self-owned territory of the Great Emperor Minwang. and wrote to Emperor Yue, claiming that he was neither a descendant nor a talent, so he was not qualified to be a prince, and was only willing to be a prince to guard the northwest frontier for the Zhou State for generations.

At this time, Emperor Yue was completely dumbfounded, he had never seen such a shameless one. His eldest son and prospective son-in-law are playing with themselves like this?

Gongsun Jian ran back to Shangjing all the way crying and asked Emperor Yue to make the decision for him. and claimed that the eldest prince Qian Yan did this, and it was completely a rebellion. Emperor Yue is so angry! The heart says you really think you're a fool? Can't you see it's you two bastards acting? But there is no way to take Gongsun Jian. After a few words of comfort, let him go home for the time being and wait for the marriage. In fact, Gongsun Jian was placed under house arrest in Shangjing in disguise.

Gongsun Jian is also quite stable. After coming back, he lived in the public house, and in addition to reading every day, he exercised, and then went out for a walk or went to visit Princess Ningguo in his free time. Sometimes when I get drunk, I 'copy' some poems and pass them on. Although he seems to be Ansheng, in fact, he has never forgotten his existence.

Although Emperor Yue verbally promised to give marriage, he did not move. In this regard, Gongsun Jian himself and the public family did not urge. It's as if I forgot about it. In this way, more than a month passed peacefully, and another unexpected thing happened.

The Liu family of Chaohai Mansion of the Zhou State, that is, the maiden family of King Wei's mother, led the people to revolt in Chaohai Mansion. In just over ten days, they captured the prefecture city of Chaohai Prefecture and more than a dozen nearby county seats.

The court suddenly turned up again. Some proposed to send troops to suppress it, and some proposed to send people to discuss and appease. There was actually a proposal to kill the King of Wei. Of course, the person who proposed it was a brainless fool in the eyes of everyone. No one, King Zhao.

Regarding this matter, King Wei stood up in the court and said that he was willing to come forward to talk to his grandfather and uncle's family in person, hoping that the matter could be resolved peacefully. And the new right prime minister Chen Cheng resolutely opposed, saying that the imperial court must send troops to suppress it, otherwise where will the majesty of the imperial court be in the future? Especially after the three northwestern states were divided by the great prince, the prestige of the imperial court has been seriously affected.

After careful analysis and judgment, the Yue Emperor made up his mind to send troops to recruit and suppress. But it happened that at this time, news came from Dali Temple that Yun Ke, the former general of Zhennan, who had been imprisoned in Dali Temple, had escaped from prison. A few days later, Yun Ke appeared in Chaohai Mansion and was publicly promoted as the anti-Vietnamese generalissimo.

After hearing this, Emperor Yue smashed his study to a pulp, and ordered dozens of officials and jailers of Dali Temple to be directly killed.

In such a situation, Emperor Yue had to calm down and carefully summarize his gains and losses. First of all, I underestimated Gongsun Jian, a bastard boy. Of course, it may also be that the public has been instructing him to do this behind his back. From this, it can also be seen that he has always been right to deal with the nobles, but the means are still gentle, and he has not been able to cut the mess quickly. As a result, the nobles felt the danger and began to retaliate against themselves. In addition, the queen's side inside the palace and the Chen Dong family of poor officials who have been supporting him are still too weak. It did not play a role in completely opposing the noble line, but also made the battle for the crown prince more and more difficult to control. Not only did the third prince King Wei take refuge in Xungui, but even the eldest prince, who had always been more obedient, now dared to hold the fire staff and cut the land to stand on his own, which was unimaginable. If it goes on like this, I'm afraid that Zhou Guo's country is really going to end!

After thinking about it, Emperor Yue felt more and more that his head was bigger, and he didn't know how to deal with these things next, and he felt very helpless. Faced with this situation, what he could think of in his mind at this moment was actually the old lady who had just been driven away by himself, and the Zuo Prime Minister Dugu Mou, who had taught him since he was a child. It seems that only this old minister has always treated himself as before, and his eyes are always full of love. Even though he approved his resignation not long ago, the old man was not the slightest dissatisfied, on the contrary, he said a lot of words of concern to himself before leaving. I hope that I can walk out of a pioneering road that no one has ever done before, and I can lead the Zhou Kingdom to become stronger.

But now the court is like this, and the royal family is like this. Everything is a headache for me, and I don't even know how to deal with it. Think about it when I was young, if I encountered something I didn't understand or didn't understand, my father and this master could ask for advice, but now I look high, but in fact, it's just an empty shelf.

Thinking of this, Yue Huang Qian Hong sighed. opened his mouth and called the eunuch next to him to change his clothes, and he wanted to go out of the palace overnight to visit his old teacher Dugu Mou. Maybe only the teacher can help me solve my current dilemma.

When it comes to the relationship between the Great Zhou and the Southern Han Dynasty, it is really complicated. The seven kingdoms of the entire continent competed for supremacy, but only the Zhou State and the Southern Han State were at the southernmost point of the continent. And the relationship between the two countries has always been relatively close. Because the Southern Han understood one thing, that is, if the Zhou State was destroyed, then it might be their turn next. Therefore, after the division of the Seven Kingdoms, the Southern Han almost never had a large-scale war with the Great Zhou.

Of course, this is only the situation on the surface, and in fact, there are still some dirty disputes between the two countries. For example, the demarcation of national borders between the two countries has always been an unresolved issue, and people near the border often try to avoid the flow of taxes, which makes a lot of tax revenue lost between the two countries. What's more, those who are dissatisfied with the oppression of the ruling class and have gathered people to rebel have been fleeing back and forth on the border between the two countries. The most important thing is that the borders of the two countries to the south and west are divided by two rivers, but because they do not recognize each other, no one dredges the river, but they continue to raise the banks of each other. In the event of a flood, the river will naturally burst to the lower side of the embankment. For this reason, there have been many conflicts between the border residents of the two countries and the neighboring county governments.

Actually, these are minor problems. As long as both parties are willing to sit down and discuss well, it can be resolved. The point is that the real feud between the Zhou State and the Southern Han began more than twenty years ago. The two countries have been friendly for a long time because of each other's friendship, and they have been marrying each other constantly. The sister of the same mother of the Yue Emperor was married to the king of the Southern Han Dynasty, who had passed away at this time, but the king of the Southern Han Dynasty had a new love after ascending the throne, so in order to set up the newly acquired beauty as the queen, he actually poisoned the sister of the Yue Emperor. never thought that the news would leak out, and finally spread to the Zhou Kingdom. At that time, Emperor Qian Hong had not yet ascended the throne, and the old Emperor Yue had selective amnesia for the sake of stability between the two countries. But after Emperor Yue Qian Hong succeeded to the throne, he directly sent envoys to ask for the guilt. If it weren't for the Northern Qi attack on Zhou at that time, which made Zhou unable to be distracted, I am afraid that a large-scale war would have broken out between Zhou and Southern Han.

But even so, Qian Hong has not forgotten the hatred of his sister's murder. After relieving himself, although it was not good to find trouble with Nanhan on the surface, he kept calculating the other party secretly. In particular, he sent Xia Mao, the general who was his most confidant when he was still in the palace, that is, the one who had just been named the protector of the country and the general of Zhennan a few days ago, and took people to disguise themselves and infiltrate the capital of the Southern Han Dynasty and lurked, waiting for an opportunity to assassinate when the old Southern Han King held a celebration and went out of the palace to celebrate with the people. Coincidentally, the old King of the Southern Han Dynasty escaped, but the queen was killed at the chaotic scene. And the dead queen is the beauty who killed the sister of the Yue Emperor, and it is the biological mother of the new Southern Han king. So the enmity between the two sides has been continued.

In the face of the Southern Han Kingdom's invasion, Emperor Yue also lost his sense of proportion for a while. It's not that he was afraid of the other party, but he was just about to do something to those nobles in the court and the two sons who betrayed him, but suddenly encountered such a thing. If it is solved well, it may be able to solve all the problems at once, and if it is not solved well, the Zhou State is likely to be in danger of dying at any time. You must know that the Northern Army is still fighting against the Qi State. And the northwest seems to be occupied by the eldest prince Qian Yan, but who knows if he will take refuge in Wu? At present, the situation between the DPRK and China is unstable. If there is really a person with three long and two short, then he Qian Hong is really a sinner of the royal family of the Zhou Kingdom.

It was also at this time that Gongsun Jian suddenly asked to see him. Qian Hong's heart is not happy. When he was in trouble, this kid still came to find his own unhappiness, do you really think that I dare not kill him?

If you think about it, it seems that you really don't dare now. In desperation, he could only summon Gongsun Jian to the palace for an audience.

Gongsun Jian is also very single, but he pretends to be very heroic. Standing in the Qiankun Palace, he watched the impassioned speeches of the Yue Emperor and the ministers. In the end, he said his purpose, asking Emperor Yue to appoint the third prince of Wei, King Qian Zhuo, as the crown prince.

The reason is also very simple, as long as the Yue Emperor agrees to establish Qian Zhuo, the king of Wei, as the crown prince, then the eldest prince Qian Yan will inevitably rejoin and must recapture the northwest territory occupied by the Wu State, and he can also lead the army south to fight against the Southern Han. In addition, if the king of Wei was made the crown prince, then the rebellion in Chaohai Mansion could naturally be put down immediately. In this way, there is a large capital governor Dingguo Gong and the prince Taibao Xu Hu in the north to defend against the Northern Qi, and the northwest and Chaohai Mansion can also be peaceful.

In addition, in order to show that they live up to the monarch and ministers with the country, the public and all the nobles are willing to contribute three million taels of silver to the Yue Emperor and the imperial court, which is used to reward the three armies and encourage the soldiers to kill the enemy on the battlefield. Gongsun Jian himself, as a quasi-concubine who is not yet married but hangs on Lord Duwei of the horse, is also willing to be the vanguard of the army and share the worries of the old man to resist the invasion of the Southern Han Dynasty.