Chapter 170: Gong Yuxi, a master negotiator

It's another old-fashioned story of a concubine fighting for power, even if Qu Cangming doesn't say it, Feng Yiyang and others have heard of it.

Qu Cangming's mother, Yun Chang is the dowry maid brought to the palace by Qu Huaixu's mother Ji Xuan, and has always served Ji Xuan.

Yun Chang was favored by Qu Hengzhi because of her good looks. At that time, Ji Xuan was just a concubine, and she fought with the then queen Mo for two or three years, and in order to stabilize her position in the palace, she gave her to Qu Hengzhi to make a room.

Yun Chang also played an important role in Ji Xuan's struggle for power, and it was also indispensable to help her squeeze out the Mo family and sit in the back position.

But because of this, Yun Chang knew how sinister the harem was and how difficult it was for her to survive the palace struggle. She didn't dare to compete for favor, didn't dare to be in the limelight, and didn't dare to get pregnant, she knew that the next person Ji Xuan was going to kill was her, because she knew too many secrets.

The contraceptive measures in the palace are not 100% effective, Yun Chang was also pregnant in the third year of Ji Xuan's birth of Qu Huaixu, and she trembled every day, for fear that if she was not careful, she would lose the child. After all, it is normal for there to be a "small accident" in the harem with one corpse and two lives.

It was not easy for Qu Cangming to grow up.

Yun Chang is smart, but she is a cowardly woman who has no overall situation. She has spent her life saving her life, her own life, and her son's life.

She didn't dare to let Qu Cangming become a talent, and she was careful every day, for fear that people would praise him for being "outstanding".

Later, even outsiders were saying that Concubine Yun had worked hard all these years just to raise the second prince into a waste.

Qu Cangming was younger and didn't have his own ideas, and when he was twelve or thirteen years old, he didn't get close to his mother, he turned around and went to take refuge in Xue Guifei, who had some power in his mother's family, and with the help of Xue Guifei, he slowly raised his head.

Qu Cangming's treatment for more than ten years, Qu Hengzhi saw it in his eyes, but he also turned a blind eye to them. After all, he himself was born to a girl in the room, and he has been fighting against Qu Manshu for many years, without the help of the Ji family and the Xue family, the throne will not be stable.

Qu Hengzhi only has two children, Qu Huaixu and Qu Cangming, at first he also intended to cultivate Qu Cangming well, but later saw that Yun Chang was bent on making him a wasted person, so as not to be involved in the struggle for power, and he also felt that each had its own fate, not to mention that he also asked for the Ji family to sit on the throne, and he did not force Qu Cangming's education.

Qu Cangming matured early, and while pretending to be waste, he studied and practiced martial arts in private and worked hard, so that his personality became distorted.

At the age of twelve or thirteen, he tried his best to get close to Xue Guifei, not with the attitude of trying it out, but with a fight against the water. If Xue Guifei agrees, she still has a chance to turn over, and if she doesn't agree, she may be a waste for life.

He was not mistaken, Xue Guifei is also a master whose heart is higher than the sky, and she is not willing to live a dull life in the harem like this. He promised that the Xue family in the future would be the most powerful family in the Feng Kingdom, as long as she was willing to save him from the quagmire when he was young.

Xue Guifei secretly found someone to teach Qu Cangming kung fu, and when he was fourteen or fifteen years old, he could already put down a strong man twice his size. In the year when Chu Qingci led his troops to attack Tanran, Tanran's main general was killed, and he volunteered to go with the army.

Because Qu Cangming was too young at that time and did not have the strength to fight with the army, Qu Hengzhi did not agree, but slowly discovered that this son did not become a rich idler as he expected, and secretly relieved himself.

Qu Hengzhi himself was also born to a maid in the room, and he understood Qu Cangming's situation in his heart, and he also treated him preferentially. Qu Cangming was captured this time, and Tanran's position is very clear: the conditions are good, and the most important thing is for the second prince to go back safely.

However, although the country is Qu Hengzhi's now, it will fall into the hands of Qu Huaixu in the future. exchanging the city for a person who threatens his throne, Qu Huaixu is certainly unwilling.

The envoy did not come for a long time, and it was Qu Huaixu who got in the way.

"Don't talk about those useless things, who in this world isn't living scarred, do you think it's just you."

The two men, Feng Yiyang and Feng Huaijin, did not speak, but Yu Xi waved his hand to stop Qu Cangming from talking.

It's not that she doesn't have this ability to empathize, on the contrary, she is very sympathetic in her heart, and she also feels that Qu Cangming is not easy. But so what, recalling these will not help Qu Cangming in the slightest in his future life, if he wants to come out, he has to let go of the past.

Qu Cangming frowned and looked at Yu Xi, as if she was an emotionless machine.

"It's a man, so I'll fight for breath, kill Qu Huaixu and replace him. Otherwise, if you are not killed by him now, it does not mean that you will not be killed by him in a few years. No one is born noble, and even if he is born with a golden spoon in his mouth, he is still useless. Yu Xi said coldly, but every word was chiseled into Qu Cangming's heart.

She was reading in the 21st century, and when she read about the Chen Sheng and Wu Guang uprisings, what impressed her the most was the sentence "The prince will have a kind of Xiangning", she is not a Darwinist who purely pays attention to "natural selection", but she cares very much about the equality of all men and the breaking of classes.

Although he said this to let Qu Cangming cooperate with them, it was indeed from the heart.

Qu Cangming's brows were still wrinkled, but his expression was much more solemn.

"I have the heart to replace it, but now people are under the low eaves......"

"Don't worry, now that the matter has been revealed, the first thing Qu Huaixu will do is to personally come to Beijing to pick you up, so as not to fall into the charge of mutilating your siblings and lose the hearts of the people in the future. You wait patiently, within ten days, Qu Huaixu will come to Beijing. ”

Yu Xi interrupted him and said firmly.

"Second prince, you are brave and resourceful, not a mortal, I don't mean to look down on you, but in this situation, if you want to fight for the throne, without the assistance of my Dafeng Kingdom, the hope is too slim, if you can trust me, we can think about it in the long run."

Feng Huaijin saw that Yu Xi was aggressive, and hurriedly pretended to be red-faced, and "kindly" persuaded him.

Entering the abyss and retreating is the canyon, how could Qu Cangming not know.

"Just because I can develop a new type of weapon, even if you don't agree to cooperate, Ran will bow down to Feng Guo sooner or later. At that time, it will be your father and brother who will be the rulers. ”

Yu Xi saw Qu Cangming hesitate and hurriedly assisted.

"If you agree to cooperate, we will assist you to ascend the throne, and when you are full-fledged, if you have the ability to turn Fengguo into your tannish territory, we also consider ourselves inferior to others. You don't agree, but you don't even have a chance to turn over. ”

Feng Yiyang admires his princess for this: she can see things thoroughly, although she usually doesn't talk much, but when it comes to negotiations, she speaks on point.

As the mastermind of this matter, he didn't say a word, watching Yu Xi and Feng Huaijin take turns lobbying, as if everything had nothing to do with him.