Chapter 265: Retreat to the villa

After speaking, Cheng Yuhuan cleared his throat and said: "Now that His Majesty and the crown prince have died, it is reasonable that the second prince should succeed to the throne, do you have any opinions." ”

Xia Jun shook his head and said: "It's not good, the second prince is cruel and easy to kill, it's not enough to be this big task, I think it's better to be the third prince." ”

Cheng Yuhuan said: "The three princes are stubborn and have no royal majesty, how can they take on such a heavy responsibility? ”

Xia Jun said: "The superior can be mediocre but not cruel and easy to kill, if the second prince is allowed to ascend the throne as the emperor, how can he kill casually." ”

Cheng Yuhuan said: "No, we should follow the ancestral system and grow without grandchildren." In the past, even if the prince was the eldest son, he could naturally become the prince. Now that the crown prince has passed away, there is no more son-in-law, and the second prince has grown up a son, so he should naturally become the emperor. ”

Xia Jun said: "The throne is occupied by capable people, how can you only look at the ancestral system." ”

Cheng Yuhuan smiled: "But the third prince is not a capable person, right?" ”

Cheng Yuhuan has been in officialdom for a long time, and he is very proficient in a set of lip service, and he uses the ancestral system as an excuse to invoke the identity of the crown prince, as if the second prince inherited the throne is the will of the first emperor. And Marshal Xia Jun only used the second prince as a cruel and easy to kill, and the reason for setting up the third prince was obviously not sufficient, and he gradually fell behind.

The two quarreled for most of the day and didn't decide, although Xia Jun lost to Cheng Yuhuan in lip service, but the key to who to set up still depends on the strength, and Cheng Yuhuan, the marshal who has absolute strength in the military, did not dare to be too disobedient, and both sides stopped after the last day, wanting to ask Xiahou Feng's opinion.

Xiahou Feng is now the person with the highest position and prestige in the Xiahou family, and the Xiahou family naturally looks to him as the leader, seeing that the Cheng Xia family is in dispute, Xiahou Feng doesn't know who to choose.

If he chooses, although none of the nephews have succeeded, he prefers the five princes, after all, the second prince is cruel and easy to kill, and the third prince is too arrogant, only the fifth prince is a little lustful, but if he becomes the emperor and lets him marry the harem beauties for three thousand, he is the one with the least problems.

After Marshal Xiahou Feng expressed his opinion, he was besieged by the two families, and as a result, the three parties quarreled for a long time and did not say why.

Seeing that the court would be like this, Fang Rui knew that there would be no result from such a noisy noise, so it was better to be quiet, so when the dynasty was dispersed, the second elder of the Fang family said that he was unwell and wanted to rest for a few days, and he would not come to the court in the next few days.

Wang Xuan and Chen Qun also knew what they meant, since they were on the same side as the Fang family, they naturally had to remain neutral, so they simply called themselves sick and cultivated, and they didn't come.

Walking out of the palace gate side by side, Wang Xuan patted Fang Xiaoyu's shoulder with a smile and said, "Xiaoyu, your move to retreat is really powerful." Stay neutral first, let them fight in three ways, and pick up the bargain after the last. ”

Fang Xiaoyu smiled bitterly: "What is retreating, I am forced to be helpless." ”

"What's ......" Wang Xuan said in surprise: "Did something happen?" ”

Fang Xiaoyu stretched out his hand and invited: "It's not convenient to talk here, uncle, let's get in the car first, let's talk on the road." Ling'er has already gone to my Lanting Villa first, let's go over too. ”

Wang Xuan nodded: "It's okay, I'll take your carriage over." ”

Boarding the carriage, Wang Xuan said with a smile: "Although your carriage is also very exquisite, it is not as good as the one given to Ling'er, and you send that battery over from time to time, Ling'er's carriage is still very easy to use, but this time I didn't bring it to Beijing in a hurry." ”

Fang Xiaoyu said with a smile: "Later, I will give my uncle a better one, you will definitely like it." ”

"Oh? Is there anything better? Then I want to see and see. Wang Xuan said again: "Let's not mention these first, let's talk about what the hardships you just talked about?" ”

Hearing Wang Xuan ask again, Fang Xiaoyu had no choice but to tell everything he had seen and heard when he went to see Xia Jun, Wang Xuan pondered for a long time and shook his head and said, "I can't think of what Old Man Xia is so resolute about. Your strategy is right, and there's nothing we can do but wait and see. ”

Fang Xiaoyu nodded and said: "Uncle, now our troops are not rich, this point is weak, and the strength is strong, I think my uncle still moved to Lanting Villa, and brought the troops over to station, let's guard the villa and wait for changes." ”

Wang Xuan nodded and agreed: "That's it, I'll let the troops go over immediately." ”

It is indeed not very safe to camp in the wilderness, and now it is much better to have Lanting Villa as a place to be stationed, so Wang Xuan quickly transferred his two divisions to Lanting Villa to station, and the military strength here was suddenly overflowing, and Fang Xiaoyu's heart finally had a little bottom.

Now that he has maintained neutrality, all Fang Xiaoyu has to do now is to wait for the result of the three-party quarrel in the city, so he no longer cares about the political struggle in the capital. Idle in the villa, Fang Xiaoyu took Wang Ling to play around in the villa, and the laughter of the two of them was left everywhere in the Lanting Villa, which made Fang Rui, Wang Xuan and the others just say that young people are really energetic.

Seeing Fang Xiaoyu and Wang Ling so affectionate, Wang Xuan was also very pleased, and he also played chess with Fang Rui in his spare time, and he was very comfortable with Fang Qiong to drink tea, so the month passed quickly.

On this day, Fang Xiaoyu was leading Wang Xuan's father and daughter to visit his No. 2 special train: "Uncle, you see this is the train I took this time, I call it the ironclad train, it is specially used for war, it can take up to 2,000 people, once the war starts, I guarantee that with this ironclad train, I can use 2,000 iron-blooded troops to defeat 50,000 imperial regular troops." ”

Wang Xuan stroked the one hundred and five mm howitzer in the carriage and said, "Yes, very good, if there are five such things, they can run rampant throughout the Lanfang Empire, I don't know how many you have built?" ”

Fang Xiaoyu shook his head: "There is only this one." Then he added, "It's not that I can't build it, but I don't want to build it." ”

"Oh? For what? I don't want to build a weapon with such a great power. Wang Xuan was very puzzled by Fang Xiaoyu's words.

Fang Xiaoyu said with a smile: "This weapon is too big a target, and it is too dependent on railway lines, it is very easy to be destroyed, although it is amazingly powerful, it is easy to be trapped to death, it is not cost-effective to make this kind of weapon." ”

Wang Xuan nodded and said: "These shortcomings do exist, but even if there are some shortcomings, the power of this weapon is very amazing, such a heavy iron armor, such a heavy artillery, and so many carriages, no wonder you have to use four locomotives to propel." ”

While several people were talking, Guo Cheng hurriedly came over. He said breathlessly: "Young master, there is a businessman who claims to be a person from the Chinese Consulate Intelligence Bureau who came to report the news, and he looks very anxious, as if something big has happened. Oh, by the way, they're still holding this. ”

Saying that, Guo Cheng took out a badge with the golden dragon logo, Fang Xiaoyu took it and saw that it was the identity badge of the Chinese Consulate Intelligence Bureau, and it was also a high-level identity badge, seeing it, Fang Xiaoyu had already determined that the other party was his own person.

Knowing that there was something urgent, Fang Xiaoyu immediately came to the living room with Wang Xuan, at this time Fang Rui and the others had already arrived in the living room, and the person who came was a person dressed as a businessman, and when he saw that everyone was talking to him.

Fang Xiaoyu said: "These are all my own family members, there is nothing to hide, you can say it directly." ”

The merchant nodded and saluted, "It's Lord Lord, I am a special liaison sent to the capital by Director Zhao, and I am specially responding to the young master's operation." After the young master left the capital, the people of our intelligence bureau have been closely monitoring the movements in the city, there was a shootout in the city last night, although the fight was not very fierce, but it lasted for most of the night, this morning the gate of the imperial city was closed, the city was covered with soldiers, and there were many blood stains on the nearby streets, but there were no corpses. ”

Fang Xiaoyu was taken aback when he heard this, originally he thought that something had happened in the Chinese Territory, but he didn't expect that something had happened in the capital. It's also strange that Lanting Villa is a little far away from the capital, and the fierce battle in the city doesn't know the way, it's really closed enough, and his neutrality is really thorough enough. However, it is no wonder that there have been frequent small-scale frictions between the three parties in the city recently, and the sound of gunfire is indispensable every night, and everyone is used to hearing it.

Fang Xiaoyu hurriedly asked, "Which side is fighting in the city, do you know the way?" The result? ”

The merchant said, "We used part of the inside line, and finally got the details of this engagement. Yesterday evening, Xiahou Huan announced that the third prince and the fifth prince intended to rebel, killed the two, and at the same time supported the second prince to ascend the throne as the emperor. As a result, Marshal Xia Jun attacked the imperial city in the name of exterminating the rebels under the condition of insufficient preparation, but was attacked from both sides by the Cheng family and the Praetorian Guards under Xiahou Huan. Lieutenant General Xiahou Qian originally helped Marshal Xia to quell the rebellion, but one of the corps of the garrison camp suddenly turned back and killed Lieutenant General Xiahou Qian, and Marshal Xia Jun was also seriously injured, and now the Xia family's armed forces have protected Marshal Xia and his family to retreat to the northwest. ”

After hearing the news of the visitor, everyone present was shocked, and they didn't expect that such a big change would happen in the capital in less than a day. Fang Xiaoyu hurriedly asked, "Where is Marshal Xiahou Feng now?" ”

The merchant said: "Marshal Xiahou Feng did not support Xiahou Huan's rebellion, he was also wounded in the conflict, and he had already retreated to the east with the Beicheng City Defense Army and another army of the garrison battalion that were loyal to him. In addition, Lord Xia Yuyan's army also withdrew with Marshal Xia Jun. ”

At this moment, Fang Wei, who had been stationed in Nancheng, walked into the living room with a body full of dust. Fang Rui hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Third brother, what's the matter, why are you back?" ”

Fang Wei said: "We were attacked by the Cheng family, and the troops suffered great losses, and there were only more than 10,000 people left in the city guards and garrison battalions combined, and now they have been withdrawn." Seeing that Fang Wei was not in good spirits, it was obviously because he was very tired from running around for a long time, Fang Rui hurriedly ordered someone to take him down to rest.