Chapter 222: The Road of Thorns

"How can you call it embarrassing, didn't I say that the storm is coming? There are some things that are clear in advance, and it's better to leave them until the end to deal with them. Besides, didn't I help you add a little spice to your life? If you don't know about this, then you will have to worry about it in the future. ”

Gao Ciyi looked at An Xin's distant back outside the house, and sighed: "I'm just afraid that she will be unhappy, according to what you said, if I can, then I am really willing to be her Ah Yi for the rest of my life." ”

An Yi smiled and comforted him: "Don't worry, my sister, I know that she is angry with you, which means that she still cares about you, if she is polite and pleasant to you one day, it means that the two of you are really centrifuged." ”

As he spoke, An Yi pointed to the main seat again, "Sit down, let's talk about business." ”

Gao Ciyi glanced at the main seat along his hand, and then the boss muttered reluctantly: "I don't sit there, it's very unlucky!" He turned around and sat down where he had just been sitting.

An Yi looked at him like this, laughed in his heart, turned around and sat next to him, and asked Gao Ciyi: "Does Your Highness know where your father belongs in his heart?" ”

Gao Ciyi thought for a while and replied: "If there is, it must be my second brother, and now he is in charge of the country." ”

"That's right, according to the information I have gotten, your father has already made this matter clear to many of his confidants, and his uncle Sun Dadu Governor has also told me a lot, at least the intention of wooing is quite clear."

Gao Ciyi let out a light "um" and nodded: "I understand, it seems that they can't wait now." ”

"But I also have good news here that King De still needs time to prepare at least now, but I can't be sure about the other people, you have to know best about the things in the imperial city, how can I say it......"

An Yi thought about it and then asked him: "Why don't you ask you like this, if King De successfully sits on the throne of the prince, how much strength do you think King Yong can use to fight with him?" ”

Gao Ciyi knew that this matter was very important, he recalled it carefully, and then said to An Yi: "From my point of view, let's talk about the mother concubine first, my fourth brother's mother is just a deceased concubine, compared to my second brother's mother and concubine Emperor Guifei Sun, it is not worth mentioning, but you must know that the queen mother is his mother's cousin, his cousin, and the grandfather of the old country is the queen mother's maiden family, and these relationships should not be underestimated." ”

"Can you be sure that they are all on King Yong's side?"

For the royal dispute, the old Shu King was a wake-up call to An Yi, these superficial relatives and uncles, but they turned their faces when they said they turned their faces.

However, Gao Ciyi is a person who knows the inside story, and he feels that it is a little unnecessary to worry about comfort.

"Uncle doesn't know, my second brother's mother, that is, the current imperial concubine is a manager of the princess, my second brother has been spoiled by him since he was a child, plus the emperor just died of my eldest brother at that time, and he loved him very much, I heard that during that time, the courtiers saw this my second brother and hid away. It wasn't until one time that he broke the glass cup enshrined in the queen's palace, which made the queen furious, and had to send my second brother to his governor to transfer. teaching, which is what made him a meritorious achievement in the future. ”

An Yi pondered this flavor carefully, and said meaningfully: "If I'm not mistaken, the queen and the concubine also started to tear their faces from that time, right?" ”

Gao Ciyi nodded, "You're right, the two of them were just a small feud before, but their faces are still passable." Since that incident, the concubine Niangniang has humiliated King Yong's mother Duan Concubine in every way, but fortunately, with the protection of the queen, she will not go too far.

However, Concubine Duan herself was weak, and after giving birth to the fourth brother, she was often depressed, and the concubine Niangniang beat from time to time, and soon passed away. The queen mother has always felt that the concubine hurt her cousin, and she often suppressed it, and the concubine just felt that the queen made a fuss and deliberately blamed her son, and the two of them looked at each other even more unpleasantly.

Therefore, if it is really King De who is in power, even if my second brother doesn't know what to do, his mother concubine will not let go of the queen's line, and many years of grievances will not be eliminated. ”

In this way, it seems that the battle between the queen and the imperial concubine is completely a competition between King Yong and King De, but these two forces are really distinct, and years of grievances have led to the fact that no matter who is on the throne on either side, they will ruthlessly suppress the other side with iron-blooded means.

An Yi thinks that this is not a bad thing, at least when the two of them fight, they will fight for their lives with their hole cards, after all, if anyone is weak or weak, it will be the end of the annihilation.

An Yi still asked Gao Ciyi with some indecision, "But I heard that King Yong likes to linger in the fence and the wall, and he has no size merit, no official and no position, but is it true?" ”

Gao Ciyi does not deny it,

"That's right, the fourth brother doesn't look like the second brother now, he is the general of Zhennan of his father, and he still has soldiers and horses in his hands, but he has no power now."

An Yi's eyes picked at him, and he said suspiciously: "Then the queen's maiden family should have soldiers in her hands, right?" ”

"That's what you're asking!"

Gao Ciyi's mouth was dry, and after answering the comfort, he turned up two upside-down tea cups from the table, one in front of An Yi, and the other under his eyes, and then picked up the small purple sand pot and shook it.

"Is there water to drink?"

An Yi Xin said, who are you asking? How do I know if I can drink it or not? He raised his head and shouted loudly outside the door: "Ning'er! Get some tea! ”

Ning Er, who was outside the door, pushed open the door when she heard the sound, smiled and waved at An Yi, and then pointed to the purple clay pot in Gao Ciyi's hand and said, "Master, Madame knows that you don't like to drink hot tea, and you have arranged for us to cook tea before, and it has just been warmed up now, just under the stomach." ”

"Oh, I know, you go."

"Yes~"

An Yi looked at the teapot in Gao Ciyi's hand and smiled, how did Liu Siyi know that this girl was coming here? Could it be that the roundworm in your stomach can't do it? Or is it ...... That's all ...... Including the clouds and rain in the inner house, are they all thought of by Liu Siyi?

"What a little fox!"

"What did Uncle say? Who is the fox? ”

Gao Ciyi, who was helping An Yi pour the tea cup full in front of him, was stunned by what he said, and he didn't know if An Yi was talking about King Yong or the queen.

An Yi didn't intend to explain, waved his hand at Gao Ciyi, and motioned for him to continue.

"Does Uncle know King Wu?"

An Yi nodded, "Who doesn't know the name of the Nantian Pillar?" One of the five iron hat kings in Great Xia, the 30,000 tiger camps under his command are all well-trained and neat, good at using hook and sickle spears, and every attack is broken. The disaster more than ten years ago made half of the south of the Yangtze River unstable, or this King Wu personally sent troops to pacify, and the 800 tiger battalion dragged nearly 50,000 people in Suzhou City for ten months, this kind of record is not something that any Daxia official army can do. ”

"That's right, and King Wu's territory can be regarded as the richest place in the Great Xia Dynasty, and a little further north is Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which pay taxes for half the world, which is the money bag of the imperial court. And today's queen mother is the niece and daughter of his King Wu. ”

Gao Ciyi took a big sip of the teacup to relieve the dry mouth, and then continued: "It's not just that, does the uncle know Zheng Yuan, the commander of the Yangtze River Navy?" He is the nephew of the queen's mother. This Yangzhou salt road transfer envoy is the father of the mother of Yongwang and his maternal grandfather. It's powerful, but does Uncle know? ”

But you know? Why don't you know? In this way, in fact, King Yong's biological mother doesn't matter at all, it is equivalent to the power of the entire foreign relatives standing behind him, which is in line with what An Yi thought before Even if you sit on the throne, he also has the ability to pull you down.

So this also explains why the old governor is so anxious to attract contacts, I am afraid that the concubine Niangniang in Wang Jingli is already an ant on a hot pot, and it is difficult for people not to be cautious and jealous of this huge real force.

An Yi lowered his head and thought, his fingers involuntarily knocked on the table,

"No wonder King De is in a hurry, not to mention anything else, even if King De really wins the world, as long as King Yong raises his arms, half of the south of the Yangtze River will completely fall into his hands, and then the Yangtze River Sailor blocks the river, making it clear that it is not impossible to rule the river with King De."

Gao Ciyi didn't seem to have thought so much, and said suspiciously: "Uncle is thinking farther, I think that the current court is still based on the will of the father, if the father wants to help the second brother to the throne, it must be to cut off the queen's power." ”

An Yi sneered and asked him, "How to cut it off?" When that queen Wu Wang Lao Guogong is blind? Watching yourself being skinned little by little and not having any reaction? ”

"How can they react? Now, if you plot against you, you will also be fighting the whole country with a corner and looking for the road to death! ”

"A corner of the enemy?"

An Yi was amused by Gao Ciyi, and asked him: "Don't talk about it, let me ask you, this northern border trouble has never stopped, there are Liao people in the west, and there are Jurchens in the east. What about the south? Grain and grass are abundant, taxes are sufficient, and hundreds of thousands of people with armor can be levied! In comparison, who is the corner? ”

Rao is Gao Ciyi was also speechless for a while, and hesitated for a long time before asking, "That's ...... According to what you mean, my fourth brother is now opposed? ”

An Yi shook his head, "It's hard to say, on the surface, he is capable of doing this now, but we don't know exactly what he is preparing." But fortunately, we are not enough to be his opponent for the time being, and let the king fight with them, so let's gather our own power. ”

Then An Yi then turned his eyes to Gao Ciyi, "It's come to this point, what hole cards His Royal Highness King Huai has, and I know what hole cards he has." ”

Unexpectedly, Gao Ciyi smiled bitterly after hearing this, touched her nose to hide the embarrassment in her heart, and said a little sadly: "Hey! Let the uncle bother, when my mother died, I was not yet a weak crown, fortunately my father had mercy on a Huai King, since I was a child, I have a good relationship with the third brother, so my other two brothers are not very good to see me, to say hole cards, I really don't have one. ”

"Where's your mother?"

"The mother concubine was originally a folk girl, and her father passed away not long after her father's favor, if there are relatives, most of them come to cling to the mother concubine, and the side is gone."

An Yi rubbed his forehead a little helplessly, and said in his heart, isn't this little Huai Wang sent by God to make his life more difficult? He felt that the road had been smooth before, and when he landed, it was full of thorns.

"Yes, I know what to expect."

An Yi looked at the late night outside the window, stood up and stretched his waist,

"Ming'er has to get up early to go to Han Lin for peace talks, I have to hurry up and rest for a while."

"Peace talks? Is my father going to let my uncle go? ”

An Yi nodded, sighed lightly and said with a wry smile: "Your father is now dedicated to protecting King De, and even protecting the Metropolitan Governor, so this kind of black pot is naturally let me go." ”

Gao Ciyi groaned, raised his head to look at An Yi,

"Can you take me?"

"You...... Want to go? ”

Gao Ciyi's surprise was comfortable,

"Yes, I want to go, I think I should be involved in this kind of thing."

An Yi smiled at him, with some approval in his eyes,

"Okay, then you can follow Jin Mingyin tomorrow and go to Hanlin with me as a guard."

Then he raised his eyebrows at Gao Ciyi, "Go and coax Xin'er, just rest early, you have to get up very early tomorrow morning." ”

Gao Ciyi stood up after hearing this, habitually straightened her robe, and smiled at An Yi,

"Okay, I understand."

An Yi nodded at him, then turned around and walked out of the house,

"Since I was a child, except for my mother, no one has treated me as well as you, thank you, uncle."

Listening to the voice from behind, An Yi also smiled slightly, and answered him without looking back:

"Don't call me uncle in the future."