Daning Dynasty is different from the previous dynasty, it is not strict restrictions on the prince and the prince, the prince can stay in the fief for a long time, but also can have a certain number of troops, the fief of the king of Qi is naturally Qizhou, the palace of the king of Qi is located in Yidu County, but the king of Qi also has his own mansion in the capital, but can not be called the palace, but can only be called the mansion, the size of the mansion is also limited, the prince and the princess's mansion can not occupy an area of more than 180 acres, and the largest building in the mansion can only accommodate 5,000 people at most.

King Fu of Qi is in his early thirties today, and the middle-sized Prince Heng is different, King Qi is tall, strong, with a huge nose and a wide mouth, he began to practice martial arts at the age of eight, and studied under the great Confucian Lu Sixian, among the sons of Emperor Xuande of Daning, he is the only prince who is all-round in civil and military affairs.

However, compared with the attention of the crown prince and the favor of the king of Chu, his father, Emperor Fu Xuande, did not favor him very much, which was more or less related to his mother.

In the eighteenth year of Zhenye, Huang Fu's mother, Concubine Li Xian, was given to death for the crime of witch cup, which had a great impact on Huang Fu and made his status plummet.

However, four years ago, he put down the rebellion of Qizhou Xiangma Yan Shun meritorious service, praised by his father, so that his status gradually began to recover, last year the emperor Xuande allowed him to build a tomb for his mother in the suburbs of Beijing, and allowed him to return to Beijing every two years to worship his mother.

Huangfu only returned to the capital five days ago, and yesterday August 14 happened to be his mother's death, and he swept her grave and prepared to return to Qizhou in two months.

Just like a man wants to be a treasurer and a general wants to be a marshal, as a prince, he is only two steps away from the throne, and becoming an emperor is his birthright desire, which is determined by his status.

Although Huangfu Song was once left out in the cold, it does not mean that his heart has become cold, on the contrary, in the years when he was neglected, he learned from the pain and felt more deeply the importance of imperial power, although he was a prince, but his surname was still held in the hands of his father, and his father could let him go to hell with a word.

Only by becoming emperor can he control the power of life and death over others, rather than having his fate in the hands of others, and he has been plotting a battle for his throne since the night his mother was given death ten years ago.

He knew very well that if he wanted to seize the throne, he needed the right time, the right place, and the right people, and the time was an opportunity, and it had not yet appeared, so it was not up to him to decide.

But while waiting for the time to appear, he actively carried out the preparation of geographical advantages and people, geographical advantage refers to strength, with his understanding is financial resources, military resources and army, in order to obtain sufficient financial resources, he established Donglai Commercial Bank, a series of money-making operations, such as money villages, trade, wine stores, and green buildings.

The industries he ran were all very specific to his surname and purpose, Qian Zhuang was to collect military salaries for his army, and his trade was mainly to deal in pig iron, grain, livestock, and cloth, pig iron was for the manufacture of ordnance, grain was for military rations, livestock was for war horses, cloth was for tents, and even he opened wine shops and green houses for the purpose of gathering intelligence.

Therefore, the operation and trade are to cover his irrepressible ambitions, because he has a strong power capital, after nearly ten years of development, his Donglai commercial bank has become the largest commercial bank in the country.

Backed by a strong commercial capital, his Qi king's guard had reached the allowable limit of 50,000 troops.

But he couldn't take over the world with these 50,000 guards alone, so he accumulated slaves in nearly 100 manors all over Qizhou, trained Zhuang Ding, and in fact had nearly 50,000 troops.

50,000 troops and 50,000 Zhuang Ding were still not enough, so Huang Fu began his third step: people.

Three years ago, his father, Emperor Fu Xuande, acquiesced to the existence of the Qi Dynasty, and Emperor Fu began to have his own supporters, Zhao Yuanliang, the secretary of the Ministry of War, Zhang Qian, the servant of the Ministry of Rites, and Wu Zheng, the secretary of the Taifu Temple, these three are high-ranking officials of the imperial court.

But the most proud of him was that his Princess Qi unfortunately died of illness three years ago, and he finally said that he moved his father and canonized Luo Qifeng, the eldest daughter of Luo Wei, the envoy of Qi Qingjiedu, as the new princess of Qi.

Luo Wei has 250,000 troops in Qizhou in his hands, and is deeply valued by the emperor, with Luo Wei's support, Huangfu has become full of confidence, and his Qi royal line has actually become the third largest force after the East Palace and the Chu royal family.

However, since the official opening of the palace of the king of Chu this year, he has begun to be a little unlucky, first in May, Zhang Qian, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites who supported him, was convicted and imprisoned, and then in June, the emperor came from the palace to adjust some of the festival envoys.

Although this news has not yet been clarified, it makes Huangfu very nervous, if Luo Wei is transferred from Qi Qingjiedu to the throne, the army of Qizhou is likely to no longer support him, and what is even worse is that once Luo Wei is transferred, there will be no one to cover him up, he is privately practicing Zhuang Ding, and the person who makes ordnance privately will be exposed.

The Emperor paced back and forth in the study with his hands behind his back, looking worried, for for several days he had been unable to sleep, and he was going to stop it from happening anyway.

At this time, the door was gently pushed open, and Princess Qi Luo Qifeng walked into the study with a bowl of ginseng tea, Luo Qifeng was only in her twenties, young and beautiful, compared with the previous princess, she looked extremely shrewd.

Luo Qifeng put the tea bowl in front of Huangfu Chen, she glanced at her husband, and when she saw that he was worried, she was a little embarrassed, and she didn't know whether she should say anything about herself.

"Just put down the ginseng tea, and I'll drink it myself later."

Huang Fu was obviously urging the princess to leave, Luo Qifeng stood for a long time, wanted to speak and stopped, Huang Fu saw it, he asked, "Is there something wrong?" ”

"Nothing, hey!"

Luo Qifeng sighed, turned around and left, Huangfu was slightly stunned, "Princess, what happened?" ”

Luo Qifeng said quietly: "A little family matter, since the prince is in a bad mood, I will talk about it another day." ”

"My mood won't get better for a while, so you just say, what happened?"

"Lord Wang, is it my brother Qiyu?"

"Him?" The emperor was stunned for a moment, "He's causing trouble outside again?" ”

"He was beaten today, he was beaten badly, his face was broken, and he bled a lot."

"Really? It looks like he's got a hard hand today. ”

Huangfu knows his brother-in-law very well, causing trouble outside, relying on his father and his own power, rampant in the capital, is a well-known Tai Sui, he has persuaded him a few times, but it has no effect, but it seems that he has never suffered a loss, and today is the first time.

Huang Fu was a little interested in his heart, who made Luo Qiyu suffer a big loss.

"What the hell happened, who beat him?"

"Has the prince ever heard of the person Huangfu Wujin?"

Huangfu was stunned, "Huangfu Wujin, it turned out to be him?" ”

The princess was also surprised, it turned out that the prince really knew this person, of course Huangfu knew that his failure to intercept tax silver in Qizhou was the work of this Huangfu Wujin, and he just got the news yesterday that this Huangfu Wujin was actually the grandson of the king of Lanling County, and was named the Duke of Liangguo, which is considered an upstart in the imperial court, how could Luo Qiyu provoke him?

"And then you say, what's going on?"

"That's right, this morning Qiyu met a woman in Tianji Temple....."

Princess Qi was really difficult to speak, in fact, she also understood that it must be her younger brother who went to molest the people's daughter, but the emperor Wujin took action and severely punished her younger brother, she had already asked the truth from Luo Qiyu's subordinates.

If her brother was just beaten, she wouldn't care about it, so she should teach him a lesson, but he was beaten to the point that her head was bleeding, which made her feel distressed, and her brother liked the woman very much, so she decided to help her brother again.

Without waiting for Luo Qifeng to finish speaking, Huang Fu understood the reason, he knew that lustful brother-in-law too well, as long as it was a woman he liked, no matter what his identity was, he would have to provoke it, his bad habit made Huang Fu Yuan extremely headache.

"You don't need to say it again, I understand, Qiyu was punished for molesting the people's daughter, if it was an ordinary person who beat him, maybe I would help, but this Huangfu Wujin is an upstart in the Liangwang family, and he is a person who can alarm his father, if I go to him for trouble, the matter will be stabbed to my father, once it is investigated to the end and the truth is found out, not only will I be unlucky, I am afraid that your brother will be punished more severely, princess, I can't help him in this matter."

Luo Qifeng was disappointed in her heart, her husband refused to make a move, if even her husband didn't move the emperor, then don't count on her father.

However, she reacted very quickly, and hurriedly saluted her husband, "Lord Wang, you misunderstood, I didn't mean to take revenge on Huangfu Wujin, I meant that woman." ”

"Woman? Who was the woman he was molesting? ”

"I heard that the concubine is the granddaughter of the country's priest Jiu Suxun."

"What?"

Huangfu was furious, "Is he crazy? Su Xun's granddaughter also dared to flirt, today Su Xun has just been appointed as this year's main exam, the saint is strong, if something happens to the daughter of the Su family, the scholars will make trouble, it will be a head, nonsense! What a nonsense! ”

Luo Qifeng hurriedly knelt down, "Lord Wang, I know that my younger brother is spoiled, I haven't bothered about him all these years, but after all, he is my younger brother and my father's only seedling, he is the hope of the Luo family, I only implore the prince to look at the concubine and his father's face, help him again, one last time, let him retract and put a cage on him." ”

"Get up!"

Huang Fu gradually calmed down, he sat down, and when the princess got up, he asked lightly: "How do you want me to help him?" ”

"Lord Wang, my brother likes this Su Xun's granddaughter very much, he wants to marry her wholeheartedly, I think, the other party is a beautiful lady and knowledgeable, if she can marry my brother, it will also be a constraint on my brother, maybe he will change his surname from now on and start to learn and progress, Lord Wang, I think it is very possible, please help."

Huangfu sneered, he wanted to say that dogs can't change their surname for eating, but this sentence didn't come out, so he snorted, "Do you think people are willing?" ”

Luo Qifeng nodded confidently, "From the point of view of the family, my Luo family is also a generation of important ministers, my father was named the Duke of Qingguo, then Qiyu can also inherit the title as the prince of the county, and he is the only son-in-law, whether it is the family or the bloodline, he is fully worthy of the granddaughter of the Su family, plus the identity of the royal family, as long as the prince is willing to support him, then I have eight points of certainty about this marriage." ”

(To be continued)