Pei Shufan knew that this matter was indeed difficult for Chu Huajin to accept. But she stands in the position of being a mother, and as the wife of the Chu family, she thinks about the long-term interests of the Chu family, and this is the best way to retreat.

She grabbed the quilt on the bed tightly with both hands, and continued to persuade Chu Hua patiently: "Master Hou, don't be angry, listen to me." Now the queen has three princes, the eldest son is twelve years old, but the saint has no intention of establishing a prince until now. Don't Hou Ye think that it is the best move for our Ningyuan Marquis Mansion to temporarily retreat and advance? ”

Pei Shufan meant that they first asked for the title of Holy General and beheaded, then Chu Huajin was the last Marquis of Ningyuan.

The military households of the Great Qi Dynasty are all hereditary, not only the small soldiers below, but even the officers above, such as the hundred households, the thousand households, the capital division, and the lord, are also hereditary.

Marquis Ning Yuan is the ancestor of the Chu family with military merits, and he has 50,000 military households in charge of the Southwest Army, and he is also a big force in the Great Qi Dynasty. At the beginning, the old Ningyuan Marquis Chu Bozan could rely on the power of the Southwest Army to support the abolished prince to ascend the throne, and he knew that this force should not be underestimated. If Marquis Ning Yuan can take the initiative to return the ownership of the 50,000 military households in the southwest to the hands of the saint, and by the way say that the nobles do not support the army, this is the real great achievement. In the heart of the saint, it is bound to be more sacred than to help him ascend the throne with half coercion and half support.

Resigned from the title of Marquis of Ningyuan, and at the same time gave up control of the 50,000 military households of the Southwest Army, which was the first time in the Great Qi Dynasty. The saint is a person who understands, the Chu family gives up such a big power, the saint will naturally no longer be suspicious of the Chu family, and the benefits to the queen mother and the three princes will outweigh the disadvantages.

Of course, for Pei Shufan, the direct consequence of this is that those restless concubines can be stopped. Without a title, the family property is divided equally, and the treatment of being a concubine is almost the same as being a concubine. Without those conflicts of interest, we can naturally coexist peacefully. In addition, with his own sister-in-law marrying to protect him, his two children should be able to grow up safely.

Pei Shufan persuaded him for a long time, but he made it clear that if the Chu family didn't want to rebel, the 50,000 soldiers of the Southwest Army would be a thorn in the emperor's eye and a thorn in the flesh.

When the Great Qi Dynasty was founded, because the first generation of emperors ascended the throne as a young man, in order to stabilize the generals of all parties, the generals were equally distributed to the hereditary honors according to their military merits, which was also the meaning of checks and balances. In doing so, it was still very effective in the two hundred years that the Great Qi Dynasty was newly built. At least the troops in the hands of the generals of all parties are about the same, and there are Ti Cavalry watching, and the throne of the Fan royal family is sitting firmly.

It's just that the development process of any dynasty is the same, and after the glory of the founding of the country, it will inevitably go to a bumpy consolidation stage. In the future, the Fan Dynasty will move towards the prosperity of Zhongxing or decline and perdition, it all depends on the dynasty of Emperor Hongxuan.

The crisis of the Great Qi Dynasty in the past dynasties was the most powerful when Pang Guifei instigated Emperor Longqing to take the concubine as the heir, and then when the Marquis of Lao Ning Yuanyuan supported the abolition of the crown prince to ascend the throne with the power of the southwest army, it reached the point of reaching the peak. The dictatorship of the nobles and relatives in the army has become too great to be lost, and such a situation is intolerable for any emperor.

Emperor Hongxuan, who had just come out of the shadow of being "held hostage" by the nobles in the army, in Pei Shufan's view, was different from the emperors of the Great Qi Dynasty. He has lived in the people for thirteen years as a deposed prince, and such a person has reascended the throne, if he has not died unexpectedly, he must be a prosperous king. Therefore, Pei Shufan concluded that the first major event after Emperor Hongxuan's accession to the throne was to attack the hereditary system of military households in the Great Qi Dynasty.

Rather than waiting for the saint to sharpen his knife and force you to hand over power, it is better to give it to your children and grandchildren first, and fight for another way out.

Chu Huajin didn't listen to this truth at all. He hated people the most in his life that he had dragged the queen back, Pei Shufan's words, to his ears, were heart-wrenching, so he sneered: "Pei Shufan, I'm sorry." I'm not a fool who doesn't know how to learn, and I'm not a bullying uncle of the country, I've let you down! - You show me, I want you to know that I, Chu Huajin, can also rely on my own ability to open my teeth and build a mansion, and I am a very good minister! As he spoke, Chu Hua grabbed the teacup of Ruyao Douqing and Three Shrimp on the table next to Pei Shufan's bed and slammed it on the ground.

Ruyao's teacup body is like jade, and when it is smashed, it splashes all around. A piece of broken porcelain flew into the air, and Pei Shufan screamed "ah", only to see that the piece of broken porcelain had cut through her forehead, and a line of blood slowly flowed down her eyebrows.

Chu Huajin was taken aback, and shouted "Someone!" While sitting in front of Pei Shufan's bed, he took a handkerchief and came over to stop the bleeding for her.

Pei Shufan only felt a depressed breath in his chest surging into his heart, and he vomited.

Chu Hua didn't care about cleaning up the dirt that Pei Shufan spit on him, and hurriedly took the handkerchief on the side to wipe Pei Shufan's face.

Tonglu outside heard the previous quarrel in the house, and didn't dare to come in, only waiting for the Hou Ye to call someone, and then hurriedly went to the clean room to bring a basin of water out and clean it up for his wife.

When Tong Ye heard the voice, he also hurried in, and saw that Hou Ye was vomited, so he hurriedly led Hou Ye to the clean room to wash.

There was a rush in the room here, and when it was cleaned up, Pei Shufan was so tired that he fell asleep.

Chu Hua came in after changing his clothes, and saw Pei Shufan with a bandage on his forehead, and faint blood stains under him, and he regretted it a little in his heart. After sitting beside her bed, he got up and went to Aunt Fang's yard.

After a few days, Pei Shufan's body became weaker and weaker, and he felt that he probably couldn't drag it out, so he asked Tonglu to grind the ink and personally wrote a letter to the saint asking for his resignation from the title of Marquis of Ningyuan. Since Chu Huajin disagreed, Pei Shufan no longer persuaded him, and only planned to cut it first, first send someone to invite his mother to come over, and then let his mother secretly take it back to his eldest brother, and let the eldest brother transfer it to the saint.

But after waiting for a few days, he didn't wait for his mother to come over, but only waited for Pei Shufen to come alone.

This time, Pei Shufen told her the truth, saying that Mrs. Xia was sick and couldn't get out of bed.

Pei Shufan had no choice, seeing that he was about to die, and no one entrusted him, so he had to take out the Chen table he wrote from under the pillow, seal it in a red envelope, solemnly hand it over to Pei Shufen, and said, "Fourth sister, you must transfer this thing to my mother for me." "A thousand instructions, ten thousand instructions, very important.

Pei Shufen answered and returned to Pei's mansion with the envelope.

She pondered for a whole day, and finally decided to open it first. - She was very scared, this was the suicide note that the eldest sister chose to fill in the house. If she is not the candidate in the eldest sister's mind, then she has been working hard for so many days, and she is making wedding clothes for others.

In the middle of the night, Pei Shufen flashed into his Langjin cave with the letter.

On the second floor of the small building in Langjingdong, there is a study room, where there is a very strange candle that can never be used up. She lit the candle and put the seal of the eldest sister's letter on the candle and roasted it for a while, and the red wax on the seal melted without a trace.

Pei Shufen opened the envelope and took a look, and found that it was not a candidate for filling the house, but a table for the emperor! She read it carefully, and the more she read, the more shocked she became, it turned out that the eldest sister actually wanted to ask the emperor to resign from the title of Marquis of Ningyuan, so that the title of Marquis of Ningyuan would no longer be hereditary since Chu Huajin!

How can this work? - Pei Shufen thought hatefully, you don't want your son to attack the lord, and don't block the way for other people's sons to attack the lord!

The next day, Pei Shufen returned to the Marquis of Ningyuan Mansion with the letter handed to her by her eldest sister Pei Shufan yesterday.

Pei Shufan was originally watching Chu Qianyi paint red, but when he heard that Pei Shufen was coming, he asked Chu Qianyi and the nurse to go into the warm pavilion next to him to stay, and then ordered someone to bring the fourth sister Pei Shufen in.

"Have you done what happened yesterday?" Pei Shufan asked a little anxiously.

Pei Shufen looked at the maids on the left and right with a smile and said, "Mother has something to say." ”

Pei Shufan ordered everyone to go down, and only let Tonglu guard the gate outside the upper room.

"What does my mother have to say?" Pei Shufan asked.

Pei Shufen took out the letter and shook it at Pei Shufan. Thanks to the candles of the Lang Cave Heaven, Pei Shufen sealed the opened letter intact again.

Pei Shufan saw that the letter in Pei Shufen's hand was handed over to her yesterday, so he asked in disbelief: "You didn't give it to my mother?" - You peeked at my letter? ”

Pei Shufen sat on the edge of the eldest sister's bed, looked at the eldest sister's sallow and old face, and sighed: "Eldest sister, fortunately you handed over this letter to me." Otherwise, you have made a big mistake. ”

Pei Shufan was very stunned, his eyes widened, and he was a little inexplicable, "You didn't hit a guest, did you?" Do you know what you're talking about? ”

Pei Shufen smiled confidently and said, "Of course I know what I'm talking about. Eldest sister, for the sake of Yi'er, you are willing to give up even the title of Marquis of Ningyuan, as well as the 50,000 military households in the southwest, and I admire my sister very much. But you can't be so short-sighted and selfish. You only want to protect your son, but have you ever thought about it, if you don't have the title and honor of Marquis Ningyuan, and there are no 50,000 military households in the southwest, how can we help the queen mother and the three princes compete for the throne? ! ”

Pei Shufan's eyes narrowed sharply, his chest rose and fell with anger, and he said in a deep voice: "Shut up!" - Do you know that what you said just now is enough to make the Marquis of Ningyuan's Mansion full of beheadings and bring disaster to the Chu clan! ”

Pei Shufen laughed loudly: "Eldest sister, you underestimate me too much. Although I have not read the pedantic and backward subsets of the scriptures and histories of your Great Qi Dynasty like you, I have discussed the procedures. But I have read so many more books, seen things, traveled roads, and recognized more people than you...... No matter how knowledgeable you are, you are also a woman living in the backyard of this mansion, how have you ever seen this world, no, in other worlds, women can also turn the clouds and rain, and they can also hold up half the sky! Saying that, Pei Shufen looked at Pei Shufan with pity, shook her head and said, "Eldest sister, stop it." - I will not give this letter to my mother. ”