Chapter 145: The Seven Kings Fight for the Emperor

Since the death of the first emperor Xia Ding, the situation of the Xia Dynasty has entered turmoil, when the crown prince Xia Yuanyu did not ascend the throne, and the second prince Xia Yuanwen, who was deeply loved by the courtiers, did not take the throne as the emperor, but the fourth prince Xia Yuanyou, who has been unknown, sat on the dragon chair.

This result was beyond everyone's expectations, all the princes heard the news of the death of the first emperor, and originally wanted to return to the imperial capital to mourn, but the queen was afraid that several princes would lead troops into the imperial capital and cause changes, so Nangong Xiongba led the troops to block several princes on the border line of Yuxiajiang.

There were several princes blocking outside, preventing them from entering the imperial capital. In addition to the powerful Seventh Prince Xia Yuanxiao and the Ninth Prince Xia Yuanming who escaped, the fifth prince Xia Yuanlan and the eighth prince Xia Yuanxiu were all sent by the queen to house arrest in the palace.

Everyone originally felt that the edict of succession was strange, but when they saw the queen's actions and remembered the previous Hongdemen incident, everyone agreed that the edict was fake, so several princes got together in different camps and wanted to compete for the throne.

The crown prince is both the eldest son and has been in charge of the country for many years, and he is naturally qualified to be the emperor. It is rumored in the imperial capital that the first emperor originally planned to pass the throne to the second prince, but the edict was revised by the queen's mother, so he also had the qualifications to compete for the throne.

When the first emperor was reincarnated before, the crown prince and the second prince suppressed each other in order to compete for resources and suppress each other, and they respectively gathered a large number of civil servants and military generals, and now these people all have a place to use, and the prince and the second prince want to use those people to compete for the throne with the four princes.

After half a year of open and secret fighting, mutual infiltration, and secret co-optation, the good Xia Dynasty was collapsed by several princes, and the Xia Dynasty, which was originally monolithic, was now divided into several forces, first of all, the strongest force was the imperial court faction.

No matter how the crown prince and the second prince greet each other, in the eyes of the people, the imperial court is still orthodox, the emperor Xia Yuanyou controls the imperial court, the literature uses Nangong Hongru, and the military uses Nangong Xiongba, uniting the territory controlled by the royal family, and integrating the territory of some courtiers, and the imperial court faction controls fifty territories.

The second is the prince's faction, the prince is the rightful successor to the emperor, he has been in charge of the country for many years, controlling a large number of generals and courtiers, this time the army, he gathered fourteen military governors, six civil governors, five royal governors, and the territory area has 25 territories.

The weakest is the faction of the second prince, the second prince always believes that the rumor is true, and believes that he is the true successor to the throne of the emperor, in order to regain his throne, the second prince recruited twenty-two civil governors and occupied twenty-two territories.

Of the one hundred and eight territories, the imperial court faction controlled fifty territories, the princeling faction controlled twenty-five territories, the second prince faction controlled twenty-two territories, and the three forces controlled ninety-seven territories, in addition to this, eleven territories remained neutral and did not take sides.

Among the territories of the neutral faction, including Ling Xia's Ziyanjiang and Xia Ning'er's Liulijiang, in addition to the two of them, the four major territories of Hongzejiang, Penglaijiang, Yanxiujiang, and Cheng'an Xinjiang are being affected, and the scope is in a mess, not to mention that they don't stand in line, they just want to stand in line, and it is estimated that no one wants it.

At the critical juncture of seizing power, all we are fighting for are favorable resources, and who is going to fight for these severely affected territories, not to mention that those territories are remote, and this disaster alone is unbearable, and the victims and jurisdictions are all rotten, with corpses all over the wilderness and thousands of miles of ruins.

The victims in these territories add up to hundreds of millions of people, if anyone takes in these disaster areas, they can't expect to say anything, and then they will have to fund, donate, pay, and come forward for disaster relief, and the cost of disaster relief will be a bottomless pit, and several princes are reluctant to spend this money.

The previous crown prince, the second prince, and the new emperor sent people to woo Xia Ning'er and Ling Xia and his wife, they wanted the two to stand in camp and help them fight against the other two opponents, but they were politely refused.

Xia Ning'er refused the trio's solicitation on the grounds that she was a female streamer, that the three parties fighting for power were all brothers, and that it was inconvenient for her to participate in the family dispute, while Ling Xia resigned from the recruitment of the three on the grounds that she was a son-in-law and listened to her daughter-in-law in everything.

said that he rejected the three of them, but Ling Xia replied to the prince's biography, saying that he had not forgotten the first emperor's entrustment, and if the war came to the point where he needed to come forward, he would help the prince resist the enemy, and at the same time, Ling Xia hinted to the prince that he should try not to use the prince of Zhenguo.

However, Ling Xia's kindness was not understood by the prince, seeing that Ling Xia actually refused his call, Xia Yuanjie was furious from the camp tent, scolding Ling Xia for being a snobbish, cowardly, ungrateful, living up to the emperor's entrustment, and dropping the chain at a critical moment.

Seeing that Xia Yuanwei was inexhaustible by Ling Xia's anger, everyone didn't dare to persuade him, but the green bamboo Weng next to him showed a hint of contemplation, picked up Ling Xia's reply, and saw the content that implied that the prince should not use the town of Guogong, and the green bamboo Weng showed a thoughtful expression.

To say that Liulijiang does not participate in the team, it is because Xia Ning'er does not want to get involved in the disputes of several brothers. And Ziyanjiang, Hongzejiang, Penglaijiang, Yanxiujiang, Cheng'anjiang, these five territories did not stand in camp because they were busy giving relief to the victims, and the remaining territories were interesting.

One of the most striking is the Wulanjiang controlled by Zhenguo Gong Yingtian, after the confrontation between the three camps, they all sent a letter to Zhenguo Gong as soon as possible, wanting to pull Zhen Guogong into his camp, as long as he comes, even if he doesn't do anything, it is enough to deter everything.

However, in the face of the crown prince, the second prince, and the new emperor, no one in Zhenguo Gong replied, and Ying Qiankun practiced in Zhenguo Gong's retreat, and he couldn't reply to you for the time being, and everything was decided after Zhenguo Gong's retreat was over.

In addition to these seven territories with special reasons that do not stand in the camp, there are still four territories left: Maple Leaf Frontier, Moyu Frontier, Tiger Territory and Taoxian Frontier, and the reason why their governors do not stand in the camp is very simple, the four of them watched the court become a pot of porridge, and actually took advantage of the fire to rob and join forces to make an independent scene, and the governors of the four territories all crowned themselves kings.

In the face of the current chaotic situation, the crown prince, the second prince, and the new emperor all have their own plans, and the top priority is how to defeat each other? How can I let myself sit on the dragon chair, as for other things, the three of them can't take care of it at the moment.

It is said that the house leak coincided with the overnight rain, and this statement is really not bad, just when several princes were fighting for the throne and making trouble with each other, the infinite ocean island country that had withdrawn before actually sent troops to invade the land of the Xia Dynasty again.