Chapter I
In the eighteenth year of Yuanshuo, Guotai Min'an.
On the eighth day of the first lunar month, the crown prince and a group of noble children went to the royal hunting ground to hunt, and accidentally fell to the ground and broke one of his left legs. After a month of treatment, his leg injury was healed, but he was left with lifelong defects and has not been on the throne since then. The elite class will reshuffle the cards, so that the already unpeaceful capital will be surging for a while.
The second crown prince was born by the first queen, with a generous personality, and was made a prince when he was eight years old. My grandfather was a former prime minister, and his protΓ©gΓ©s were everywhere. Although the body is fat and not loved by the emperor, many of the old ministers in the court still support the prince, because the prince is a serious son-in-law, and the first heir to the throne since ancient times is the heir who does not stand up, if it is not for the broken leg, the position of the prince is not easy to shake.
The Cui family is a veteran family in the capital, and there are children and grandchildren who have held important positions in the court in the past hundred years.
It's a pity that Mrs. Cui's stinky temper has offended many people, and he once scolded many officials in the DPRK and China because of political discord. Now that the prince's big tree is about to fall, the Cui family has become the object that everyone avoids.
After careful consideration, Mrs. Cui returned to his hometown and no longer paid attention to the affairs of the court, and the emperor allowed it.
Without Cui Taifu, only Cui Zhang, Cui Bai's two brothers, Cui Zhang, Cui Zhang, Cui Bai, is the country's son of the priest, and the rest of the Cui family's side branches also serve in Beijing, but most of them are idle positions.
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In the Cui family's big study, the two brothers of the Cui family had a dispute, precisely for the current dispute between the princes.
"Who doesn't know that the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Households, and the Ministry of War have now surrendered to King Qin, and my father offended him before, so we don't want to show favor now, do we wait for him to sit in that position?" It was Cui Zhang who spoke.
Cui Bai disagreed: "Big brother, calm down, King Qin is not a stingy person, he may have forgotten about those before, why should we rush to ask for this unhappiness." β
"Do you know that King Qin is a person?"
Trebord.
Cui Zhang said earnestly: "Second brother, you heard about me, the current situation is not difficult to choose. There are only seven sons on the saint, the third prince died at an early age, and although the eldest prince has a long one, he is only a noble concubine, and his mother's family does not have much backing, although he was crowned King Wei, but I am not optimistic.
Now the fourth prince of Empress Shangguan, King Qin, and the sixth prince King Han are the sons-in-law except for the crown prince, and according to the eldest and youngest, the successor to the unification is none other than the King of Qin! The biological mother of the five princes, King Qi, was lowly, and his adoptive mother was only a Zhaoyi, and there was not much power behind him, so he could not pose any threat to King Qin at all.
Moreover, how many years has the Shangguan family been in charge of the military, although there is no war now, and the tiger talisman is not in the hands of Shangguan Ding, but in terms of prestige in the army, who can compare to him?
The seventh prince is only fifteen this year, and he is the most favored concubine, but unfortunately he is still young, and it is absolutely impossible for my Cui family to put the rise and fall of the family in the hands of a child. β
Cui Bai said: "I don't know what the eldest brother said, it's just ......"
Zhu Jingming, the king of Qin, has a very good reputation, is not a woman, and is diligent and thrifty. He is the fourth son of today's saint, he was an envoy to Min State at the age of eighteen, and he went to the battlefield to supervise the army at the age of twenty.
But the King of Qin is not all good, the King of Qin is good at raising soldiers, and the private soldiers of the same level of the palace are three thousand, and the personal guard of the King of Qin has eight thousand people, named the Black Eagle Guard.
It was also because of this incident that Taifu Cui offended King Qin, because he had mocked King Qin in front of His Majesty for arrogance and misdeeds.
Although the saint has always had the intention of abolishing the prince and replacing the king of Qin, the king of Qin is too power-hungry, and even the saint has noticed it, and for various reasons, he has not taken action.
He had heard that there was an unknown force around King Qin, no one could carry a dagger within three feet of King Qin, and if anyone had bad intentions, they would eventually become corpses, and every day dead people were carried out from the side door of King Qin's mansion.
Some people once boldly speculated that King Qin raised some dead soldiers and protected King Qin from invulnerability, thinking that his Cui family is safe and sound so far, it is nothing more than waiting for the autumn to settle accounts.
They can't sit still, they urgently need to ease relations with King Qin!
"Second brother, I thought of a way for my brother......"
"What's the solution?"
"Although the King of Qin has appointed the daughter of Duke Wei as the princess of Qin, there is no side concubine in the house, so it is better to ...... Zhuzhu"
"No!" Cui Bai objected a hundred, "I'm just a good girl, I am absolutely reluctant to let her do anything to be a concubine of Laoshizi!" β
"Confused! How can a woman be kind in the face of the rise and fall of the family! My Cui family now has an unmarried daughter left in Zhuzhu, and she is so beautiful and beautiful, can ordinary people protect her? I think King Qin is just right, no matter whether he can sit in that position or not, self-protection is enough. β
"King Qin already has a candidate for a concubine, if you want to choose, I would rather choose King Qi!"
Cui Zhang's color changed when he heard this, and he exclaimed: "You are crazy! What nonsense! β
Trabber also regretted it when he said it, "I'm just talking." β
"How can this kind of big thing be nonsense, a little carelessness is a disaster of extermination! I'm the elder brother, I'm in charge of this matter, and I'll find a matchmaker to find out the wind one day. β
Cui Bai still disagrees, "Big brother...... If we remain neutral, why should we wade into this troubled water? β
"The second brother is confused! If you think about it carefully, in the eyes of outsiders, we are still the faction that supports the crown prince, if we don't do something, this hat will be on our heads forever, and now it's not that we want to wade into this troubled water, but that we can't get out of the game. β
"But ......"
"Don't say it, the matter is settled, tomorrow I will have a twist, please abolish the prince!"
"Big brother...... Do you want to ask your father's opinion on such a big thing? β
"There's no need to ask, but I'll write another letter and send it back to my hometown, and my father will understand our current difficulties after reading the letter."
Cui Bai was silent, his Cui family is the core force supporting the prince, if his Cui family is the first to abolish the prince's play, although the emperor will not respond immediately, but it is definitely in the middle, and then the rest of the hundred officials will definitely follow, this bird has to be his Cui family.
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Cui Yuzhu was sitting at home, the pot came from the sky, and she seemed to have sensed something in the past two days, so she was a little unsettled, and in the end, Mrs. Cui leaked her mouth.
It turned out that King Qin directly rejected this family matter, and Cui Zhang was not very happy to be disgraced, and in the past few days, he has lost a lot of limelight because of the abolition of the prince, and he has completely broken off with the prince's faction, with praise and depreciation, and many ministers who were originally good friends have also come to show goodwill.
However, the King of Qin rejected his surrender on the grounds that Princess Qin did not set up a side concubine before passing through the door, but the people of the eldest prince and the seventh prince found him.
When the big fish didn't take the bait, the small fish jumped, and Cui Zhang had to find another strategy.
Cui Yuzhu heard this and knew that she was in a hurry to be a concubine for others, but others didn't want it, and she almost didn't bleed.
What kind of personality is Cui Yuzhu? Love to drill the tip of the horns, a little thing can be remembered for a long time.
After returning from the second lady Cui, Cui Yuzhu threw herself at the head of the bed, grabbed a handkerchief with a pair of small hands as white and tender, covered her face aggrievedly and cried, "Daddy is so ruthless, he wants to send me to King Qin as a concubine for the sake of his future......"
"Girl, don't think too much, isn't it unsuccessful?" Mama Qiu was relieved.
"It didn't work out, but why didn't it work? Why am I so unpopular, and everyone wants to push me out, can't I get married? β
Cui Yuzhu whined and complained, the more she talked, the more sad she became, and a handkerchief was all wet with tears.
"Who taught me to be a commoner wife rather than a noble concubine? Why is my grandfather not here, they are going to sell me secretly! My life is so miserable! β
"I'm going to ask my father, how down the Cui family is, and I want to send a good daughter out to be belittled!"
Qiu's mother and Chuncao hurriedly stopped her, so that Cui Yuzhu dispelled the idea of going to her father.
The more Cui Yuzhu thought about it, the more congested she became, "Wang Yueqing, they will definitely laugh at me when they know it, I can't raise my head in front of Xue Fangfei anymore, they want to have a party for me to refuse this time, I have to hide at home for a few days." β