Chapter Fifty-Eight: It's Hard to Protect Yourself

"The younger brother sees the imperial brother, I don't know what the imperial brother summoned the ministers, what is the so-called matter?" When Prince An came to the imperial study, he hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed, and then asked.

"Fourth, get up quickly, you don't have to be so polite between you and my brothers," the emperor stretched out his hand to help Prince An and said with a smile.

Prince An raised his head and looked at the emperor with a complicated look in his eyes, and said, "Brother Huang, what are you looking for your courtier?"

The emperor sighed and said in a deep voice, "Fourth, if I tell you that I want you to assist the Nine Emperor Uncles to ascend to the throne, are you willing?"

"Nine Emperor Uncles?" Prince An was stunned, and then smiled bitterly, "Brother Huang, what do you mean by this? Why can't my brother understand?"

"Alas!" The emperor shook his head and said, "This matter is a long story, and I am only guessing, not confirming, I thought, you may know something."

When the emperor's words fell, Prince An lowered his head, and only after a while did he slowly speak: "The younger brother does know something, but this matter, I'm afraid it's not appropriate, after all, the Nine Emperor Uncle and the starling have always been suspicious, and the two have always been not on good terms, Brother Huang, you suddenly let the younger brother do this, I'm afraid it will cause a war between the two countries."

"Imperial brother, I can't help it, if it weren't for that person's repeated persecution, I wouldn't have made this decision anyway, you should know that I am determined to win the throne, but I don't want to fight with South Vietnam, so I am eager to find someone to help me solve my predicament."

"The difficulties of the imperial brother are understood, but this matter is really difficult, and the younger brother and the Nine Emperor Uncles were friends before, so ......" Prince An looked embarrassed, obviously disagreeing with the emperor's decision.

"Fourth," the emperor stood up, walked up to Prince An, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "I won't force you."

"Brother Huang."

"I know your concerns, I have already discussed with the Emperor, and he will fully support me in this matter, so fourth, I hope you can agree to me." The emperor looked at Prince An seriously and said.

Prince An looked at the emperor, hesitated for a while, and then gritted his teeth and said, "Since the imperial brother has an order, the younger brother should obey it."

When the emperor heard this, he nodded with a smile: "Fourth, it's good that you can understand me, I'm very pleased!"

After the emperor finished speaking, he looked out of the door, and his eyes became sharp.

After Gu Tingyu returned to the palace from the palace, he immediately sent someone to find out the news.

Gu Tingyu's secret guards were very powerful, they collected the news quickly, and it only took one night to find out the news of the Liu family, and sent the news back to the palace.

Although the Liu family has no ancestors, it is still a big family in the capital, especially the mother family of Cold Frost, and its power is extraordinary.

"The Liu family?" Gu Tingyu sat on the chair, his fingers tapping rhythmically on the table, and muttered to himself.

"Go, bring the frost." Gu Tingyu commanded lightly.

Soon, Leng Shuang was invited, she was dressed in luxurious clothes, and her whole person was graceful and luxurious, with a proud appearance.

"The concubine body sees the prince." Cold Frost saluted.

Gu Tingyu sat on the chair, looked at the cold frost, and asked, "I don't know what you came here today?"

Leng Shuang said, "The concubine came to replace my father this time, and I want the prince to go to Liuzhou."

"Liuzhou?" Gu Tingyu frowned and asked, "I don't know what's going on in Liuzhou?"

"Lord Wang, there is a man named Mo Lingyun in Liuzhou City, he grew up with his courtier's childhood sweetheart, but he always thinks about his fiancée in his heart, there is a marriage contract between them, and the courtiers have always been obsessed with you, the prince, so the courtiers hope to marry into the Rui Wangfu and be your side concubine." Mrs. Liu looked at Gu Tingyu and said.

"Oh? Side concubine?" Gu Tingyu raised his eyebrows.

Leng Shuang said: "Don't hide it from the prince, Leng Shuang has always admired the prince for a long time, if it weren't for this disaster, Leng Shuang would have married into the Rui Wangfu and became the princess of the prince."

"Really?" Gu Tingyu looked at Leng Shuang and said, his voice calm and waveless.

"Yes," Madame Liu nodded, "Lord, you agreed to the courtier, and the courtier promised that it would be."

The princess does not discriminate equally, and will never favor one over the other."

Mrs. Liu's attitude was sincere, and it seemed that she was sincere.

"Since you have said so, then the king will promise you." Gu Tingyu said with a smile, "Don't worry, when the matter is completed, this king will treat you well."

"Lord Wang, don't worry, Leng Shuang will never live up to the prince's high hopes for Leng Shuang, and Leng Shuang will do his best to assist the crown prince to ascend the throne."

"Hmm." Gu Tingyu nodded, and then continued: "You have to worry about the matter over there of Lao Jiu, besides, you don't want to get too close to the prince, he is not worth your attention now."

Gu Tingyu nodded, with a slight sneer in his heart, he had no connection with the prince at all.

"The emperor's side, you have to pay attention, the emperor seems to have noticed that you and the prince are involved, he asked me to tell you, don't act rashly, so as not to provoke fire, if the emperor is in need, you must help, otherwise, don't blame me for being ruthless." As he spoke, Prince An brushed his sleeves and left the imperial study.

Gu Tingyu looked at Prince An's back, and the corners of his mouth hooked up a sneer.

"Lord, aren't you angry?" The personal guard looked at his master and asked.

"If you're not angry, why should you be angry?" Gu Tingyu asked rhetorically.

"The slave doesn't understand," the personal guard said suspiciously, "The emperor asked you to kill the crown prince, and the matter of that Su Gongzi was also investigated by the emperor and the slave, and now the emperor actually wants you to help him solve the Nine Emperors, why doesn't he solve it himself?"

Gu Tingyu snorted coldly: "He wanted to go, but that old fox is now a mud bodhisattva crossing the river, and it is difficult to protect himself."

"What does the emperor mean by this?"

Gu Tingyu didn't answer him, but changed the topic and said, "We have more urgent things to do now."

When the personal guards heard this, they didn't dare to continue asking, but they were puzzled in their hearts, what they had to do now was to take care of their injuries! What could be more important than recuperating at this time!

"Lord, what do you mean by that?" The personal guard asked, puzzled.

"We still have two months to go, and during this time, we must control the forces in the northern frontier as soon as possible, so that we can compete with the emperor." Gu Tingyu said.

"Yes." The personal guard said respectfully.

Gu Tingyu sighed and said, "You are ready to prepare and leave for the Xishan Military Camp tomorrow."

"Yes."

Early the next morning, Gu Tingyu took 500 elite soldiers to the Xishan military camp.

Gu Tingyu's speed was extremely fast, and he arrived at the Xishan Military Camp three days later, and when he first arrived at the Xishan Military Camp, he found that the Xishan Military Camp had changed hands.

"Subordinates, see the prince." When the leading soldiers saw Gu Tingyu, they hurriedly saluted.

Gu Tingyu bowed slightly, and asked, "Who are you?"

The leading soldier hesitated and said, "The subordinate is the prince's person."

Gu Tingyu sneered when he heard this, and said, "The prince's people? What about the prince?"

"The prince is in retreat and can't come out for the time being." The leading soldier replied truthfully, "Therefore, only his subordinates brought 10,000 soldiers to the king."

"Oh, and who is your commander?" Gu Tingyu asked.

"It's General Chen."

After hearing this, Gu Tingyu was silent for a moment, then raised his head and said, "Okay, you can retreat first!"

After the leading soldier retreated, Gu Tingyu's face instantly became gloomy, and then he picked up a pen, ink, paper, inkstone and wrote a letter and handed it to the little guy next to him, and the little guy hurriedly ran out.

"Lord Wang, what are you writing about?" The personal guard on the side asked strangely.

"You don't have to worry about it," Gu Tingyu said and walked in the direction of the tent.

"Are you stupid, how can you not carry out the prince's orders?" The personal guard grabbed the little servant, then handed his burden to the little servant and said, "You go and hand over the letter from the prince to General Li."

"Didn't the prince say that I should convey his meaning?" The little guy asked.

"Our king

Ye means that you personally hand over the letter from the prince to General Li, as for how to deal with it is General Li's business, the prince doesn't care, you go quickly, if it is delayed, you will be responsible at that time, I still have things to do, so I will leave first." The personal guard said.

"Okay, you walk slowly."

After the little guy left, the personal guards searched around again, and finally found a few guards, explained it to them, and then rode away.

The guards looked at each other, where should they go at this time?

And Gu Tingyu, who was far away at the border, had already arrived at the border at this time.

"Are you sure there's a secret room there?" Gu Tingyu frowned and asked.

"Yes, my lord." The man said with his head bowed.

Gu Tingyu's eyes fell on the map, and after looking at it carefully for a long time, he reached out and clicked on the blank space and said, "This place does exist, but there is no food in that place."

"Yes, my lord." The man replied.

"Then send someone to investigate."

"Yes, Lord."

Here, when Gu Tingyu was inquiring about the news, Gu Tingyu's personal guards were looking around for the mysterious medicinal materials that Gu Tingyu said.

"You say, is there really a medicinal herb hidden in this capital?" One of the guards suddenly lowered his voice and said to the other three guards.

The other three guards shook their heads and said, "Probably not! Although this is the capital, it is a border land after all, how can there be such a thing!"

"Then why did the prince ask us to go around and collect medicinal herbs?" Another guard said, "I always feel that there is something strange about this matter, but since the prince has commanded it, we can only do it."

The other two guards nodded yes.

"Why don't you just ask the general to find medicinal herbs? Wouldn't that save a lot of effort?" One of the guards said, "Just let the general do this kind of thing."

"You don't know, it is said that the prince once saved the general's sister, so the general is willing to be loyal to the prince, and we will definitely follow the general when we go on this expedition."