Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Prince's Heart Is Unfathomable
The night was as cold as water, and Shi Yuqi leaned against the window without sleep. The flowers and plants in the yard have long since withered, and the early-blooming spring flowers have begun to sprout.
Although she is a freshman, Shi Yuqi is inexplicably a little melancholy, she has been on this continent for fifteen years, except for the four years when her parents were still there, she is more of a bystander to this strange world. Just like she is now watching the growth of spring flowers, she does not participate and does not escape.
If you have to say participation, there is only revenge. It was the last thing she did for her parents.
The next day, the first rays of the new day's rays of sunlight shone brightly on the snow.
Shi Yuqi handed the sign into the palace, she thought, she should ask the emperor what the purpose of giving her the word Jiayi was.
After all, if she collides with the future Xinjun, if she is broad-hearted, it doesn't matter if she is low-key. If a narrow-minded person like King Xuan becomes the new king in the future, this word alone can kill her! If she could, she would like to replace the name Jiayi.
When Shi Yuqi entered the palace, Emperor Hua was still in the early dynasty, and Gong E led Shi Yuqi to the warm pavilion next to the Qinzheng Hall to rest.
After Emperor Hua went down to court, he had already risen three poles. Shi Yuqi waited boredly in the warm pavilion, playing an arrogant princess from time to time to tease the little palace maid, and then eating snacks wholeheartedly.
As soon as Vantage walked into the warm pavilion, he saw Shi Yuqi sitting on a chair with a loud voice, lazily stuffing snacks, as if he didn't even have the strength to raise his hand.
"You girl, you're always in shape like this!" Vantage scolded with a smile, how much truth and how much sincerity is unknown.
"The sons see their father, and their father is blessed with Jin'an!" Shi Yuqi tugged at the corners of his mouth and saluted, barely sitting up straight.
The corners of Vantage's eyes twitched, "Say, what is the matter with me." Vantage did not continue to play the affectionate father and daughter with Shi Yuqi, and went straight to the point.
Shi Yuqi put down the dim sum in his hand, restrained his lazy appearance, and said, "Then the minister will say it directly." What is the intention of the father to give his son the word Jiayi? I hope it's not what she thinks, otherwise, Shi Yuqi feels that she may not be able to control the rampage.
Emperor Hua smiled meaningfully, and instructed Gonggong Wei beside him, "Wei Quan, take them down." ”
"Yes, the minions are retired!" Father-in-law Wei shook off the dust, "Do you hear that, let's go out with our family!" Wei Quan glanced at Shi Yuqi as he left, telling her to be careful. Shi Yuqi didn't know what Wei Quan meant, but he didn't pay much attention to it, just blinked to show that he knew.
Silence returned to the pavilion, white smoke rose from the incense burner, and the smell of ambergris permeated the pavilion. The earth dragon was warm, but Shi Yuqi felt a chill in his heart. She felt that maybe it was really what she thought. Vantage, in fear of the time of home. Perhaps, the death of her parents is also the handiwork of Vantage behind it!
But despite the chills in her heart, what she wanted to say, she still had to say. Shi Yuqi quietly put away the incredible thoughts in his heart, pulled the corners of his lips and smiled, "Father, the son-in-law is bold, say something rebellious, one day after the new monarch ascends the throne, he will inevitably feel that the name of the son-in-law is very appropriate." Father, is this going to uproot the Shi family with his own hands? Shi Yuqi raised his eyebrows to look at Vantage, and his disrespectful eyes made Vantage unhappy for a while.
"Jiayi, you should know who among my sons wouldn't mind your name." Vantage took a pen and wrote a few words on rice paper. Shi Yuqi couldn't see it, but if Wei Quan was next to him, he would see that Emperor Hua wrote the names of Long Yiheng, Long Yijue and Long Yicheng on paper.
Shi Yuqi squinted, his red lips opened lightly, and he spit out a few obscure words like a cloud lightly, "Brother Crown Prince." ”
"Yes, Heng'er won't care." Vantage smiled and crossed out something.
"Father, this is to ask his sons and ministers to support the crown prince and brother to seize the throne? Let a royalist of hundreds of years break his promise to do it*? Not to mention whether the crown prince and brother failed or not, once the prince and brother became the new monarch, knowing the secrets between the three major clans, would they still trust their sons? Will you still trust the Shi family? Shi Yuqi pointed out Emperor Huadi's thoughts without any scruples, "The royal family, can't accommodate the Shi family?" ”
"Jiayi, there is nothing that can be tolerated, the survival of the Shi family, the palace family and the royal family is one, I will not be stupid enough to shake the foundation of the country." Vantage sank his face and looked at Shi Yuqi with a slight warning.
"My father cares about that sentence, 'If the monarch is not virtuous, the time and the palace can replace him'." Shi Yuqi patted the dim sum crumbs on his hand and sneered. It is estimated that there is no emperor who does not care about that sentence, otherwise it would be impossible for Huaguo to produce a wise monarch.
The warm pavilion immediately became cloudy and treacherous, and the atmosphere could almost sink to the point of dripping water. Vantage and Shi Yuqi did not give in to each other, Vantage was annoyed because Shi Yuqi pointed through his thoughts, and Shi Yuqi was cold because of Vantage's style.
"Jiayi, you have too many words." Vantage's eyes were heavy, faintly gloomy. Shi Yuqi had no doubt that if she said one more thing that Emperor Vantage didn't like to hear, Emperor would not hesitate to let Long Wei kill her.
Shi Yuqi smiled slightly, "The son has exceeded the rules, and the father forgives the sin." Actually, why should my father bother? When the family has no children, why worry? Because of that prophecy, the boys of the Shi family lived a very hard life. Therefore, when Shi Yuqi was born, Xiang Wanyi would have such a sigh of emotion.
"Huaguo is not without empresses." Vantage looked at Shi Yuqi, and the talent and value she showed made him staggered. So he had to guard against it, he didn't dare to believe it, Shi Yuqi didn't want to be the emperor. If Shi Yuqi wanted to be the emperor, Long Yiheng would not necessarily be able to stop or even stop Shi Yuqi.
Hey, sure enough, every emperor has a common problem, suspicion, and it is very serious.
Shi Yuqi smiled, didn't take Vantage's temptation to heart, and spread his hands indifferently, "So what?" Does my father still remember what his son once said? As long as my father kills the person who killed my parents, the son will be the sword in your hand. Erchen has been a 'watchdog' for you for so many years, and the father is still not worried about Erchen? Shi Yuqi no longer believed every word Vantage said. She said, why with the power of Long Wei, she couldn't find out the truth for eleven years, and the Blood Killing Pavilion didn't even have a clue. It turned out that Vantage was probably also involved.
"Watch dogs?" Vantage was incomprehensible to this explanation, why Shi Yuqi surrendered his identity and compared himself to a watchdog.
Shi Yuqi smiled and hid the sarcasm in his eyes well, "Isn't it?" The Shi family has guarded the door for the royal family for nearly 500 years. Resist Beirong in the north, reach southern Xinjiang in the south, resist the Japanese in the east, and attack foreign thieves in the west. I don't dare to say much, for more than 400 years in China, at least one percent of the generals are Shi family members, right? At least forty percent of the generals were brought out by the Shi family's army, right? "There are not many heirs of the Shi family, because the Shi family rules cannot accept concubines, so every child is a descendant, and eighty percent of the boys are generals.
It is because of this that Vantage is extremely jealous of Shi Yuqi. If Shi Yuqi wanted to rebel, the 400,000 Shi family troops would definitely follow her, not counting the generals who were favored by the Shi family.
Shi Yuqi has military talents, and he also knows it. Shi Ting is a generation of famous generals, how can he not teach Shi Yuqi the art of war!
Xiang Wanyi is the daughter of the martial arts clan again, and the martial arts strategy is naturally not a problem.
Fortunately, he holds the weakness of the Shi family in his hands, the secret that has been passed down since the founding of the Chinese country.
When the family has a son, it will be a child!
Huaguo has always advocated Buddhism, and the successive national teachers represent the authority of heaven. The first national teacher asserted that the founding emperor of Huaguo was a generation of Ming monarchs, so the founding emperor unveiled the uprising.
Living up to expectations, the Founding Emperor revolted successfully and created the Dahua Empire, which lasted for more than 400 years.
As the ancestor of the Shi family and the palace family who made the first contribution, he was naturally once powerful.
The emperor was very jealous and had the intention to suppress it, but after all, the Shi family and the palace family were die-hard families that accompanied the birth and death of the founding emperor, and if they were suppressed, it would seem that he was narrow-minded.
Later, the national teacher calculated the fortunes of Dahua and the current dynasty according to the nebula map once every fifty years, and told the founding emperor some things.
There is one of them, when the family has a son, it will be a child.
In order to control the Shi family, the founding emperor suppressed this hexagram and successfully took the Shi family for his own use.
There is another one, that is, every hundred years of the palace family, there must be a child born in the sun and the moon, and this son is the reincarnation of the demon star! The demon star will surely bring disaster to the world. Either of these two prophecies can destroy a family.
When the Founding Emperor took control of the two families, the three families reached an alliance. In order to protect the family, the Shi family, and the palace family promised to protect the royal family forever, and the royal family promised to seal the two secrets.
At the same time, in order to appease the two families, the founding emperor promised that if the future kings were unkind, the Shi family and the palace family could replace them.
With that secret check and balance, the three clans lived peacefully for hundreds of years. It can be said that the emperors of the past dynasties had a great relationship with the palace family and the Shi family killing traitors.
Although the successive emperors always had fears and doubts, they never wavered to the two families. If it moves, Huaguo will definitely not be able to continue to this day.
Although today's Huaguo is constantly suffering from foreign troubles, it can be regarded as a prosperous era. The praise of the old ministers, the luxurious enjoyment on weekdays, Vantage inevitably felt a little proud in his heart.
Therefore, he began to think about the military power of the Shi family and the Gong family.
At the beginning, in order to suppress all parties, the founding emperor naturally ruled the country by force. But after gradually becoming peaceful, the generals were of little use, but held a lot of real power. In order to balance the power, successive emperors began to promote literati. The history of hundreds of years of governing the country with culture made Emperor Hua somewhat look down on warriors. Although Emperor Hua also knows martial arts and Xiaochang is military, he is always influenced by those scholars in the court who claim to be the great Confucian in the world, and they feel that the warriors are rude, arrogant, and do not know the etiquette, and they also think that the so-called "everything is inferior, only reading is high" is somewhat reasonable.
For various reasons, Shi Yuqi has already handed back half of the military power, and King Huayuan has also retreated bravely and handed over half of the military power. dared to hand it over with confidence, more because he knew that this half of the military power would come back sooner or later.
As long as Emperor Hua does not drive the expedition in person, the next time a foreign enemy comes to attack, if the 200,000 soldiers and horses in his hands are not enough, then half of the military power will be returned.
Because, it is impossible for the Emperor to hand over the military power he holds to others. As for why this is not enough, it depends on what reason they think!