Xiao Ren had almost recovered, and before Zhou Tong returned to Baoding, he had received an order from the King of Qin to go to Qingyuan first, join the soldiers and horses, and wait for orders at any time.

Jiang Shuangliu's army marched towards Baoding, accompanied by the king of Qin.

After Xu An and Luyou came back, Xiao Ren took Zhou Tong to Qingyuan together.

At this time, Xiao Yi, together with the two clans of the Zongren Mansion, as well as the cabinet Zhang Ge Lao, also arrived at Baoding Mansion, where they paid homage to King Qin.

What happened in the palace, King Qin had already received the news, he couldn't help laughing, he didn't expect that this battle would end in this way.

He didn't actually know about the edict, although he had guessed it, but in the end he didn't put his mind on it.

When Emperor Taizu was alive, King Qin never thought about the throne.

He didn't, neither did King Yan, and King Gui and King Yu didn't.

Emperor Taizu is not a mud leg, let alone reckless, the Zhou family was originally a famous lord of the former dynasty and a real family. Taizu is the most important and usual, and the prestige of the empress dowager is extremely high, although the prince is weak and sickly, as long as he lives for a day, that seat will be left to him.

After the death of the crown prince, that seat is, of course, the grandson of the emperor.

Everyone thinks so, not only the Yang family, but also the Xiao family and all the people of the Xiaoyun Twenty-four Generals. No matter how great the credit of King Qin and King Yan is, they have neither the heirs nor the longest, and from the day they were born, they were destined to have no chance with that son.

King Qin sighed and said to Li Sinan: "If the prince and the second child were still alive, this king would not have come to this point. ”

If both sons are still alive, perhaps he will die in Xi'an.

If King Yan and the prince of Yan were still alive, perhaps the king of Yanbei County would be like most of the princes and grandsons, raised in the rich bushes, and grew up under the fame of his father and brother, and would never know that he had a sister, let alone occupy the mountain and become a bandit for the king, and naturally he would not have the current achievements.

However, whether there is this edict or not, the empress dowager will attack the four princes, after all, it is the four of them who really threaten the imperial grandson.

Therefore, whether there is this edict or not, the two sons of King Qin, King Yan and his son, King Gui and King Yu, will still die, and in the end King Qin will still rebel.

Perhaps, when Emperor Taizu left an edict, he had already calculated that there would be this result, and this edict was just a decent gift for his descendants, so that King Qin could ascend the throne with dignity and dignity.

But in the same way, if Emperor Chongwen hadn't killed himself, even with this edict, would the Xiao family and other powerful families support King Qin unreservedly like they are now?

Li Sinan said: "The prince Wen Tao Wuluo is the material of the emperor. ”

King Qin shook his head: "Twenty years in the morning, if my father passed the throne to me, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, especially those veterans who followed my father's birth and death and fought on the battlefield, would not support me in eight or nine out of ten." ”

King Qin smiled bitterly: "When my father canonized my mother's concubine, I encountered a lot of resistance. ”

Speaking of which, the mother is still more expensive than the son, if Concubine Rong was pregnant with the dragon species, and Taizu did not have many heirs at that time, Concubine Rong was able to be promoted to concubine.

Concubine Rong's identity as a princess in the previous dynasty was the main reason why the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military forces secretly fouled the King of Qin.

King Qin has known since he was a child that although his father loves him, even if there is no prince, there will be the second brother King Yu and the third brother King Yan, and the crown prince will not be his turn even if he is in order.

So when he could take up the domain, he left the capital very happily, he wanted to show his strength in the northwest, make great achievements, and get the approval of his father and brother.

On the tenth day of the first month, the Western Qin army wearing filial piety clothes arrived outside Baoding City, and the King of Qin, accompanied by Jiang Shuangliu and several officials of the Qin Palace, met Zhou Zheng who went out of the city to greet him, as well as Xiao Yi and others.

Xiao Yi read out the edict of Taizu in public, and King Qin knelt three times and bowed nine times to receive the edict.

The next day, the king of Qin ordered Xiao Ren to lead 5,000 elite soldiers into Beijing first.

"Lord Wang, let Tongtong enter Beijing with me." Xiao Ren said.

King Qin glared at him and said, "Entering Beijing with you?" Put on armor and mix in with a group of soldiers to enter Beijing? It's different now, she's a princess! ”

Zhou Zheng said with a smile: "Xiao Qi, my sister-in-law hasn't officially married you yet, if I don't follow my uncle and brother into Beijing, what's the matter with following you into Beijing?" ”

Xiao Ren was aggrieved, so he had to complain to Zhou Tong.

"Tongtong, what do you call this?"

Zhou Tong stood on tiptoe and touched his head, and persuaded with a smile: "Maybe they are right, at least I didn't come up with words to refute it." By the way, after you enter Beijing, you will immediately send someone to the Daxiangguo Temple to check. ”

Since she returned to Baoding, she went to Qingyuan for the New Year, and later had to greet King Qin, until now, she remembered what Concubine Ding said.

"It's a fake monk, in Daxiangguo Temple, and Yang Lanshu also said that the reason why she escaped was that a monk in Daxiangguo Temple saved her, and she was able to hide in the Tibetan Scripture Building for more than half a year, and then her fake identity as a nun was also given to her by that monk. For some reason, I always felt that these things had something to do with the old princess of the Temple of Mercy and Grace. Zhou Tong said.

"The old princess? Are you talking about Princess An, the mother of King Zhongshun? Xiao Ren asked, when he assassinated the Empress Dowager, he was also in the palace, and the two fake palace maids were brought out of the palace by him, and the brothers and families of the two fake palace maids were held hostage by him, so they were willing to comply, and later they arrived in Baoding, found their families, and have not been heard from since.

If it weren't for Zhou Tong entering the palace this time and hearing about the fake monk from the concubine, Xiao Ren would have almost forgotten about the two fake palace maids.

Now that I think about it, I think of a lot of things.

He said: "This matter is not simple, the prince once asked about the old princess, I think she died too suddenly, who would have thought that she would hide in the capital of Daqi, and also get the protection of the empress dowager, living in the Temple of Mercy and Grace where only the royal ladies can live in the monks, I have written down this matter, and in the past two days, let people find a way to sneak into the Daxiangguo Temple, lest they run away." ”

Zhou Tong sighed and said: "Fortunately, after the funeral of Emperor Daxing, all the gates of the capital are closed, their kind of identity, it is not easy to get out of the city, and it is impossible to escape, but the capital is so big, if they hide incognito, if we want to find them, it is also difficult to ascend to the sky, I really don't know what is going on here, but as long as they are not spies." ”

"It's not impossible to be a spy, Princess An will never come to the capital by herself, didn't she say that she still brought two princes? Think about it, there are two princes hiding in the capital of Daqi, can this be a trivial matter? I don't know what the Queen Mother thinks. Xiao Ren said.