In the Cuixian Building, there were four people sitting next to the round table, one was the slightly chubby Wei Zhonghai, the other was his younger brother Wei Zhongping, one was their sister-in-law Qian Lin, and the other was King An. A few people were talking about something while pushing the cups and changing the lamps.

Marquis Wei said: "King An, it has been eight or nine years since you came out to do things. Now that you've almost accumulated your strength, we should have the next move, right?"

King An took a sip of wine and said, "Uncle, it's almost there, but now the position of the crown prince is becoming more and more stable, many old ministers in the court support him, and the crown princess gave birth to two princes in a row." He is now firmly rooted in the heart of his father. It's hard, but we can't wait indefinitely, so let's sum it up. ”

Wei Zhongping asked: "Big brother, how did those people from the northwest mountains come to the capital? There are too many people and the goal is too big. ”

Wei Zhonghai said: "It's easy to do, it's summer now, and many places are either drought or floods, so they can come in disguised as refugees." ”

Qian Lin said: "That's a good idea. But they have to come in batches, and they can't come so many at once, it will arouse suspicion. ”

King An asked, "How many of those people are there?"

Wei Zhonghai said: "There are about 10,000 people. I calculated that there were 20,000 Imperial Forest Army in the capital, and there were 5,000 of Ling Shizi's own soldiers, so if you want to mobilize the soldiers of the West Battalion, it will be too much. So we can only do it by surprise. We can't rely on them alone, we still have to use some stratagems, and we need the cooperation of several forces at the same time. ”

A few people studied it carefully, but what they didn't know was that someone in the empty private room next door had already listened to their conversation. Although they had already lowered their voices and could not hear them very clearly, they had also heard five or six floors. Naturally, these news quickly reached the ears of King Ling Jun.

King Ling Jun said to Ling Yuanhang: "The news that Xiao Er heard is not complete, but we can roughly guess about it, King An, they are about to make a move, and from their conversation, it can be concluded that the armed force they trained in the northwest is going to disguise themselves as refugees and enter Beijing." If they disguise themselves as refugees and enter Beijing, this is not a good sign. The key is how we distinguish between real refugees and their people. ”

Ling Yuanhang said: "We can't let them all enter Beijing, hasn't the emperor already sent someone to monitor them? If one of them is not let in, it will arouse the suspicion of King An." We'll let a small part in, and we'll send people over and intercept most of the rest. King An, they don't know that we have completely mastered this power of theirs. So we have the absolute initiative in this regard. ”

King Ling Jun said: "These people of King An have been training in the mountains, and I guess they are not very experienced in combat. We can't take this soldier from the capital, we must let them think of it. Now only one person needs to send a letter to the border pass eight hundred miles urgently, transfer troops from the border pass, and let your third uncle go. ”

Ling Yuanhang smiled: "Father, do it like this, let's go, let's go see the emperor." ”

Without further ado, the father and son went to the palace to meet the emperor without a moment's delay.

A few days later, in the early dynasty, the emperor had been out for a long time, but the prince had not yet appeared. Everyone knows that the emperor is waiting for the crown prince. For so many years, the crown prince has never been late, he always came earlier than the emperor, and he has not been absent from the court too early, the prince is a very dedicated person, what's wrong today?

Just when everyone was suspicious, the eunuch next to the prince came, saying that the prince was infected with a cold last night and fell ill.

The emperor is very concerned, and he doesn't have much to worry about. He hurriedly ended the affairs of the court and ordered the court. Then the emperor personally went to the East Palace to see the crown prince.

Everyone is talking about it, this prince is probably very sick. Because the prince is a very tolerant person, it turns out that when he is occasionally unwell, he persists as much as he can, so this time he must be too sick to get up. Is this unavoidable illness really a cold?

And King An and Marquis Wei just glanced at each other, and there was joy in their eyes.

When King An walked into the palace of the concubine, a guest was coming out of the palace. This guest is as skinny as a new li, her eyes are charming, and her face is full of spring, she is Yan Yueqin, who was sent to the palace by the Yan family in the draft, and now she is a concubine by the emperor.

When Concubine Yan first entered the palace, the emperor also loved her, she was young and beautiful, and the emperor lived in her palace for half a month. Last year, Concubine Yan gave birth to a son, but I don't know why this son was very thin at birth, and the doctor diagnosed that it was a disease in the womb. Why do you say that, because Concubine Yan was poisoned once in seven months of pregnancy and almost died twice. So the child was not physically strong from birth.

Later, the queen also checked the six palaces, but found nothing, just a palace maid died, and coincidentally, this dead palace maid turned out to be the queen's palace maid. So Yan Concubine thought that the queen poisoned her, and coupled with Concubine Shu's instigation next to her, Yan Concubine hated the queen.

In fact, the queen also felt very wronged, she pleaded guilty to the emperor, and the emperor did not believe that the queen would do this. With many years of husband and wife relationship, the emperor thinks that the queen is a person who does not love things, nor is she a person who loves to seize power. And the queen has no motive, although the emperor favors Yan Concubine, but the emperor does not ignore the queen, this is the queen he trusts. Later, there were rumors, saying that the queen was afraid that the emperor would abolish the prince and set up a son of Yan Concubine, and the emperor felt that it was even more ridiculous, he didn't need a good prince, he would use a little doll, could he be mediocre?

Later, because of this incident, Concubine Yan relied on the emperor's favor for herself, and said a lot about the queen in front of the emperor. Of course, these words are certainly not words of praise for the queen.

The emperor looked at some Yan concubines who had gone mad, and he was a little displeased. Originally, he also thought that this Yan Concubine gave birth to a prince and was the granddaughter of Yan Shoufu, and wanted to propose a concubine to her, but because of this, the emperor did not mention it. Since then, the emperor has no longer gone to Yan Concubine's palace. In this way, Concubine Yan, who should have been more favored by her son, fell out of favor.

Yan Shoufu also knew this, he asked his daughter-in-law to enter the palace to comfort his granddaughter, but this Yan Yueqin was like a demon, and said that the queen had harmed her. Since then, Yan Daozhu has been completely disappointed in his granddaughter, and it is a pity that he has spent so many years of hard work on this child in vain. Now Yan Shoufu didn't dare to expect anything from this granddaughter, he just hoped that she would not bring disaster to the Yan family in the future, so he burned high incense.

Concubine Yan would come to Concubine Shu from time to time to sit here, and sometimes King An could also meet her. Yan Concubine saw King An, and after the two saluted each other, Yan Concubine returned to her palace, and King An entered Concubine Shu's bedroom.

When King An came in, Concubine Shu was thinking about something, and when he saw his son, he smiled and said, "I was thinking about you, and you came." ”

King An raised his eyebrows and said, "The concubine seems to be very happy?"

Concubine Shu said: "Didn't you see Concubine Yan just now? I added a fire to her heart today, and then we will wait to see Concubine Yan's reaction." ”

King An said, "On the side of Warat, the old king has died, and Hadur has killed his brother and inherited the throne of Warat, so we can use his power." ”

Concubine Shu sighed and said, "We can't be treasonous, you have to know in your heart, don't let him take advantage of you in turn." If this happens, we must be an independent country. ”

King An said: "Don't worry, Mu Shu, he wants revenge, I want the throne, we are just using each other." ”

Concubine Shu said: "None of your princesses and concubines have any stomachs, and they have not had any heirs so far. ”

King An raised his eyebrows and said, "Mother, you forgot, Ling Yuanhang still has a child for us, but unfortunately he still doesn't know that his only son is my son." Hahahaha. ”

Concubine Shu looked at her proud son and said, "Since their father and son can't win it over, then we can't let their father and son become our resistance." ”

King An said smugly: "Mother, don't worry, my uncle and I have already made arrangements." At that time, let Princess An take An'er's mother and son over and live in the mansion for a while. If we face off with King Lingjun in the future, we can use An'er as a use. As he spoke, King An whispered a few words in his mother's ear.

Concubine Shu was immediately overjoyed: "This is a strategy that kills two birds with one stone, simple and practical. Why didn't I come up with it?"

The mother and son fantasized about themselves being worshiped by the ten thousand people, and they were immersed in the desire for the pinnacle of power.

At the beginning of August, after several years of silence, Warat relaunched its army against Dayuan. The express report was sent to the capital in an expedited manner for 800 miles. The emperor did not hesitate at all to re-dispatch the Ling family father and son to continue the expedition to the northwest.

The prince has been sick for many days, not only has it not improved, but it has a tendency to worsen, and the East Palace is silent and sad.

It is said that the crown princess has left the imperial physician in the East Palace, and the old imperial physician has not returned home for several days.

It is said that the emperor was also so worried that he couldn't eat and couldn't sleep well because of the prince's illness. When he was in the court, the ministers looked at the emperor's face much worse than before, and the eunuch Li Cheng next to him choked up.

As soon as the war broke out there, there was another flood in Shandong, and a large number of refugees began to flow into the capital. The Imperial Guards dispatched 2,000 men to maintain the resettlement of refugees in the capital.

Under these circumstances, the price of grain in the capital began to rise, and the emperor began to issue decrees to limit the rise of price and grain prices, and the price of food in the capital began to stabilize.

But then came the rumors in the capital, and now the prince is seriously ill, and it is the invasion of foreign enemies, and it is floods and droughts, internal and external troubles, and I don't know what angered the gods, otherwise how could this be?

So there were also courtiers in the court who said that the emperor should ask the master to calculate and sacrifice to the gods.

The emperor did not invite the master, nor did he go to worship the gods, but issued an edict to the people of Dayuan. And sent special personnel to the disaster area for rescue.

So during this time, it was a war zone, a disaster area, and security in the capital, and the emperor and courtiers were so busy that they forgot to sleep and eat. The emperor's face also got worse and worse, and a month later, the prince's illness did not improve, and the emperor also fell ill.