And unite the country, this is definitely an immortal achievement, even if the Longlai country is only a small country, but the national strength of the Longlai country is not weak, Longlai masters the sea transportation, and also has trade contacts with Tianhua, so the economy is very prosperous, at the same time, whether it is shipping or fishery, it is manual work, so the Longlai people's physique is also very strong, if the force occupies Longlai, even Tianhua must pay a lot of price, labor and money are certain.

It is precisely because of the strength of the Longlai Kingdom that it is not easy to take a soldier or arrow to annex the Longlai Kingdom to Tianhua without a single soldier or arrow, whether it is the formulator of the plan, that is, the elders of the Chen family, or the executor of the plan, that is, the descendants of the Chen family headed by Chen Shu, as a participant in this plan, it will definitely be recorded in history, that is to say, Chen Shu is actually a famous figure in history.

If it is really as Chen Shu said, the executors of that plan are centered on him and led by him, then he can be regarded as the first hero of the merger of Longlai Kingdom on the surface, to this extent, if he inherits the position of the head of the family, there must be no problem, even if he does not want to inherit and wants to divide the family alone, the court will give him a new title, and it is even possible to give him a land to become a new lord and establish his own family.

Splitting the family and doing it alone, this kind of thing is not an uncommon thing for the nobles, especially for the Tianhua nobles, this situation rarely occurs in Auckland, what they admire is to make the family bigger and bigger, so at the beginning of the Lance family, it will be so difficult for the Wolf family to be separated, but in Tianhua, because of the restrictions of the imperial court on the aristocracy, it is impossible for a family to develop to too large-scale, when it reaches a limit, it is difficult to continue to improve, Let the children of the family who are talented but difficult to inherit the title be divided to form a collateral family. It has become a more common practice.

Of course, some collateral families are because the family in order to expand its influence, because the family can not develop vertically, so it is the result of adapting and taking a roundabout path of horizontal development. With the support of the imperial court, a collateral family is established, and such a family basically has little to do with the main family, and sometimes it may even stand on the opposite side.

The Chen family, comparatively speaking, is quite enlightened, and does not say that they lose their inheritance rights because they are concubines, or they are not the direct children of the head of the family, even if there are talented children who have not been able to become the head of the family for various reasons, they can also become the steward of the family. And eventually become the elder of the family, even if someone is dissatisfied, they can speak out, and then divide it to become a side family. But no matter how you look at it, Chen Shu doesn't seem to be in the situation of separating from the Chen family to establish a side family.

"Originally, the diplomatic team led by me had roughly reached an agreement with the rulers of the Longlai Kingdom." Chen Shu continued: "Of course, Tianhua's side also paid a certain price, such as titles and land. There are also official positions and so on, but this is a very normal thing in diplomacy, and the price paid by Tianhua is also within the scope of the imperial court. The two sides were left with the final decision, and then the contract was signed, and finally it was the ceremony of the Longlai Kingdom to bow down, and until this time, things were still going well. ”

"No, you can't say that." After saying this, Chen Shu shook his head and said: "It should be said that until this time, it seemed to be very smooth on the surface, but at this time, the conspiracy was actually already being prepared, and I was still young at that time, and I didn't see through the conspiracy, and I thought that things were under control, and I didn't realize the sinister nature of human nature at all, even if I knew that the eldest brother who did not succeed in becoming the dominant one, and the followers of the eldest brother, would not give up, and naively thought that they would compete within the so-called rules, but in fact, From the very beginning, the rules were only one of success. ”

Chen Shu said a little sadly: "Our team has finalized the relevant matters of merger with Longlai Kingdom, and then returned to Tianhua with the son of the lord of Longlai Kingdom, that is, the prince of Longlai Kingdom, the original plan was that Prince Longlai would pay a return visit to Tianhua as a diplomatic envoy of Longlai Kingdom, and then discuss more in-depth and specific matters with the imperial court, at the same time, Prince Longlai is also a hostage, which is a proof that Longlai is sincere to join Tianhua, so no matter what, we must ensure his safety, This is also the responsibility of the suzerain. ”

"However, on the night when Prince Longlai returned to Tianhua with our diplomatic team, we were assassinated, and the target of the assassination was Prince Longlai, although our guards resisted desperately and finally saved Prince Longlai's life, but at the last moment, he was taken captive, at that time I realized that assassinating Prince Longlai is tantamount to cutting off the possibility of peace talks between Tianhua and Longlai, and the forces that want to watch Tianhua and Longlai go to war are not possible to reach out to Tianzheng Ling."

"That is to say, the enemy has no intention of assassinating Prince Longlai at all, their purpose is to take Prince Longlai away, and at the moment when Prince Longlai was taken away, the matter was already out of my control, and I lost my son, so it is naturally impossible for the lord of Longlai to remain silent, and we who have not been able to protect Prince Longlai are the primary targets to be blamed, followed by the Chen family and Tianzheng Ling."

Chen Shu said this, combined with the situation he said before, He Ping also roughly guessed the progress of the matter: "The situation after that, was it that the lord of Longlai put pressure on the Chen family to find the prince of Longlai, and the Chen family mobilized everyone to search, and in the end, it was your eldest brother who successfully found Prince Longlai and protected him to the Tianhua Imperial Capital, took over your team, and became the new leader in charge of this diplomatic plan, while your team was abandoned because of ineffective work?" ”

Chen Shu nodded helplessly, and agreed with He Ping's statement, he said: "Everyone can see what is going on, everyone knows that it is actually my eldest brother who planned this abduction plan, he knew where Prince Longlai was from the beginning, and he was naturally able to find Prince Longlai, as for the so-called thief who was disposed of by him and kidnapped Prince Longlai, it must be the scapegoat he found in advance, but, after all, it was our guards who were unfavorable and let Prince Longlai be taken captive, so we are absolutely unreasonable, and even if the matter is exposed, Because Prince Longlai is still alive, the eldest brother can also explain that this is to test the strength of the guards, and he will not be held accountable. ”

After that, things were even simpler, Chen Shu's team was not good at guarding, and let the key people be taken away, which was already a great dereliction of duty, which could already cancel out all their previous achievements, and Chen Shu's eldest brother turned the situation around at a critical moment, helping Tianhua avoid an impossible war, and also took over the next diplomatic plan, becoming a participant in the final contract between the two countries, and becoming a figure recorded in the history books.

With such a thing, the possibility of Chen Shu inheriting the head of the family is very low, and the brothers who were originally attached to him before were just a community of interests, seeing Chen Shu's loss of power, they naturally saw the wind and steered, most of them were invested in Chen Shu's eldest brother's side, and the rest were just some people who had a bad relationship with Chen Shu's eldest brother and could not be accepted, or who would definitely be put on small shoes after being accepted, these people were suppressed together with Chen Shu, and finally had to drag their families to leave Tianzhengling, leave the Chen family, and go to other places to fend for themselves.

He Ping asked: "In other words, the current head of the Chen family is your eldest brother, and the elders and stewards of the family are also his followers?" ”

"That's right."

Wen Fang continued: "More than ten years ago, the merger of the Longlai Kingdom, I didn't expect this to happen, and now the head of the Chen family, if I remember correctly, it should be Chen Tai, is that your half-brother?" ”

Chen Shu nodded silently.

Seeing Chen Shu nodding and admitting, Wen Fang was also embarrassed, originally, Chen Shu was also a big man who could leave a name in history, but now he has been reduced to forming a gang in a border city. faction, but this also explains that Tianque will be a few big gangs. The faction has the shortest history and the thinnest foundation, but it can be compared with other big gangs. The reason for the equalization of the pie and then, Wen Fang looked at He Ping, the meaning is very simple, after the gossip, it is time to get down to business. (To be continued......)