Back in Haiyuan City, Fang Xuanling began to select those talents he had cultivated, and was ready to take over the position of some city lords.

Xia Ren didn't pay much attention to this, and he didn't understand much, so he just left everything to Fang Xuanling.

The next day, after Fang Xuanling arranged those people, he came to Xia Ren's side.

"Your Highness, this is the situation of several counties around Linhai County, can you take a look?"

Xia Ren nodded, picked up the information handed over by Fang Xuanling, and looked at it.

After watching it for a while, Xia Ren probably also knew something about these counties.

Rinhae-gun is surrounded by four counties: Wanghae-gun to the south, Yeonghae-gun to the north, and Tanglin and Dongpyeong-gun to the west.

Among them, Linghai County is also controlled by the Li family, including Hailing City, and the other three counties are more or less stationed by other families or forces.

Among them, there are no relatively large families stationed in Wanghai County, they are all some medium-sized or small families, and these families will basically be the same to the outside world, so some big families will not provoke them if they have nothing to do.

As for Dongling County and Dongping County in the west, it is another big family in Donghai Prefecture, the Yuan family, a family that is not much weaker than the Li family, and the contemporary patriarch is Dongming Marquis and Yuan Dongqing.

Although the Yuan family only occupies these two counties in Donghai Prefecture, the Yuan family has a lot of inheritance time than the Li family, and the contemporary Dongming Marquis is already the fourth generation, and the Yuan family is also more competitive, and each generation can successfully hold the throne.

You must know that the throne of Great Xia is basically not hereditary, and if the next generation wants to keep the throne, they must make enough contributions to make the imperial court not take back the throne.

At the peak of the Yuan family, there were also four counties, but after hundreds of years of consumption, there are only two counties left, and the rest are occupied by some latecomers, such as the Li family, which occupied the territory of nearly four counties as soon as they arrived in Donghai Prefecture.

As long as you don't break the laws of Great Xia, then the court won't care about you, because they will definitely weaken each other's strength, and the victorious family can still govern the place very prosperously, and the court can also receive more taxes.

Of course, if you really regard these places as your own kingdom, unscrupulous and do whatever you want, then the court will not mind sending you to meet your ancestors and ancestors, and the court is still very confident that you will clean up some disobedient princes.

In fact, to put it bluntly, these marquis are feudal officials, who take care of the territory for the imperial court, the better you develop the place, the happier the imperial court is, maybe they will reward you with more territory, so that you can continue to develop, after all, there are more taxes, and he is not fragrant.

So this time the Li family was sneaky, thinking of all kinds of ways to let Xia Ren take over, and he couldn't come up openly at all, otherwise it would be terrible if he was discovered by the imperial court.

This is also Xia Ren knew that Emperor Xia's time was short, and the court was chaotic before he dared to do this, if it was the rest of the period, he would never dare to do this, as long as he did it, even if no one found out at that time, but one day it would be exposed.

After looking at the situation around Linhai County, Xia Ren raised his head and said, "What is the specific situation of this Yuan family, what is the strength, and does it have anything to do with other princes?"

Fang Xuanling replied: "The Yuan family is an old family in Donghai Prefecture, and it is one of the six great families in Donghai Prefecture that is as famous as the Li family, but its strength is not as good as that of the Li family, and now it is supported by Dongming Hou alone." ”

"As for whether it has anything to do with other princes, the subordinates have not yet found out clearly, according to the known information, it has nothing to do with it, and the forces of the other princes are mainly concentrated in the three states in the west. ”

Xia Ren nodded, "Since the Yuan family is not involved, then let him participate, otherwise Donghai Prefecture will not be too monotonous." ”

"My subordinates understand!"

"Well, you can go and cooperate with Jinyiwei in this matter, they are good at framing and reversing right and wrong. ”

Fang Xuanling was stunned for a moment, then nodded.

Watching Fang Xuanling leave, Xia Ren also fell into deep thought.

Now he must take advantage of these few months to try to subdue some territory, and when the time comes to participate in the final battle for the throne, he will be more confident.

For example, the Yuan family, if Xia Ren can successfully subdue them, then there will be people in the court to speak for themselves, and now in the court, basically eighty percent of the officials have been divided by the three kings, and most of the remaining two percent are wall grass, which is of little use.

Now that Xia Ren wants to intervene in the court again, he can only find another way, and these marquis masters are a huge help.

You must know that the words of a powerful marquis in the court are much heavier than those of ordinary ministers, and the military power in many important places is in their hands.

For example, Li Yuande is now one of the supreme commanders of the 300,000 Imperial City Forbidden Army, and he is responsible for all the security of the summer capital.

Of course, Li Yuande is only temporarily serving as the commander-in-chief, and when the five-year period expires, another marquis will come to take charge.

But this also shows that the importance of these powerful marquis is much more important than those ministers who can only quarrel, and the lowest level is a monk.

Now there are many marquis who are waiting and watching, and they have not yet participated, except for a few marquis of the prince's mother's family who have participated, most of the rest have maintained a neutral attitude and have not clearly taken sides, these people, if they can pull one over, can reach many ministers in the court.

The last time Xia Ren returned to the summer capital, Li Yuande also talked about how the successive Xia emperors of the Great Xia Dynasty successfully ascended to the throne.

Xia Ren summed it up, in fact, there are only a few points.

First of all, when the contemporary Xia Emperor is preparing to set up a successor, he will advance the ministers and the Zongren Mansion, and will investigate several contenders.

The content of the investigation is mainly in several aspects.

The first is to examine the ability to govern, to see how the territory of several competitors is run, how well they treat the people, whether they benefit the people, and whether they can govern the country well in the future.

The second is to examine the ability of virtue and ability, to see how many people in the court support, and the number of people who support it means that the character is good, and all the ministers are satisfied, of course, it may also be a matter of interests, but it is also a certain ability to successfully persuade the courtiers.

The third is to examine the military ability to see how many military exploits and contributions have been made in the past, because the Great Xia Dynasty was originally established by force, and each generation of Xia Emperors would go to the front line to prove that he was not a weak emperor.

The last is to examine the comprehensive strength of the princes, which is also the most important point.

At that time, the Xia Emperor will assign a task to each of the contenders, for each contender to complete, supervised by the Zongren Mansion and the ministers, who can mobilize all their own forces, including those who serve themselves.

Of course, the premise is that it cannot affect the operation of the Great Xia Dynasty.

According to the assessment tasks of the past dynasties, Xia Ren estimated that the assessment task this time should be to fight with the barbarians or the Chu people.

Because Great Xia and these two countries are hostile relations, so the border often rubble, and from time to time there will be wars, and the current Xia Emperor was to annihilate countless Chu troops in one fell swoop, and beat the rest of the contenders before he successfully sat on the throne.

Of course, although this point is the most important, it is not the only requirement, and the other three points must also be met, which is what Emperor Xia said to Xia Ren some time ago, don't just care about the development of the army, internal affairs talents and the support of the court are also very important.

Xia Ren listened to these words, so now he started to act, the first step is to win over the Yuan family, first salute and then soldier, and the Yuan family can't help but disagree, anyway, Xia Ren is eyeing him, because Xia Ren now urgently needs supporters to speak for himself in the court.

Now it is not enough to rely on one Li family, the rest of the three kings, none of the mother family is weaker than the Li family, and they can't take advantage of it at all.

Some time ago, Xia Ren also asked Li Yuande to see if he could persuade the Southern Sun family to stand on his own, the Sun family must now understand his own strength, and he and the Sun family have also cooperated many times, plus he saved Nanban Prefecture, it should not be a problem to convince the Sun family.

After thinking about it for a long time, Xia Ren straightened everything out, his thinking became clearer, and he was also sure of the upcoming assessment.

Since Emperor Xia can tell him that his time is short, he probably wants to tell him that in these few months, the assessment of the successor Emperor Xia will begin, so that he can prepare in advance.

Because he has not developed anything except for his military strength, this period of time is the development time left by Emperor Xia.

As for the final result, Emperor Xia didn't care, he just gave him extra care for the sake of Xia Ren's rescue of the Southern Barbarian Prefecture and his good military strength.

......

The Sharp Warrior Legion at this time.

Xia Wen was talking to a middle-aged man in the study.

"General Cao, there is still no news from the palace now?"

Cao Daming shook his head and said: "No, now Your Majesty still hasn't left the customs, no one has seen him, my father has also asked to see him a few times, but he hasn't seen him, and even the queen hasn't seen him for nearly three years." ”

Xia Wen frowned, "So, since my seventh brother was crowned king three years ago, my father and emperor appeared once, and until now, he has never shown up again?"

Cao Daming nodded.

The two were silent for a while, and Xia Wen said in a low voice: "General Cao, can you guess how long my father and emperor have to live?"

When Cao Daming heard this, his face changed slightly, he thought for a while, and said in a low voice: "It shouldn't be more than two years, I heard that the Wuji Demon Palace dispatched two Holy Fetus High Supreme Elders and the Holy Fetus Five Contemporary Hall Masters to assassinate His Majesty together, although the two Holy Fetus High Supreme Elders were killed by the royal family, and the hall master was seriously injured and escaped, but His Majesty was also dying at that time, and it was the royal ancestor who spent a lot of effort to save his life." ”

"Now that almost ten years have passed, Your Majesty has not yet left the customs, and it is estimated that the injury is about to be overwhelmed, and within a year or two, the assessment is estimated to begin. ”

Xia Wen nodded after hearing this, and then asked, "Has the Wuji Demon Hall already taken refuge in Da Chu?"

Cao Daming nodded, "Yes, after they assassinated His Majesty back then, the Imperial Ancestor killed the Wuji Demon Palace, and killed the two Supreme Elders in front of everyone, and left safely. ”

At this time, Xia Wen was a little puzzled and said, "Why did the Wuji Demon Palace assassinate my father back then, didn't they know that this would be retaliated by my Xia family's madness?"

Cao Daming smiled bitterly: "This is also the helpless move of the Wuji Demon Palace, your majesty is majestic and strategic, and wants to completely solve the problem of the Great Xia sect, so I am ready to do something against the Wuji Demon Palace first, because the Wuji Demon Palace does things by unscrupulous means, not only wantonly kills the people, but also often betrays my Great Xia interests to Da Chu." ”

"When the Wuji Demon Hall learned that His Majesty was preparing to do something to them, the Wuji Demon Palace was not ready to sit idly by, the people in the Demon Sect have always been flawed, so after they were ready to assassinate His Majesty, they all evacuated Daxia and took refuge in Dachu. ”

"But they didn't expect that His Majesty's cultivation was profound, and he actually blocked their Taishang Elder from dying with a blow, and successfully dragged to the arrival of several royal family worshippers, but two people were killed and one person was seriously injured, and later the royal ancestor learned that he went directly out of the Xia Capital and killed all the way to the Wuji Demon Palace, and finally because of Da Chu's help, only a Taishang Elder survived in the Wuji Demon Palace. ”

After hearing this, Xia Wen also sighed, their father was indeed ambitious, but he was assassinated, otherwise he didn't know what it was like now, and he probably wouldn't have had the opportunity to get so close to that throne.

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