"Lord Wang, please ask, Weichen must know everything." The Tartar prefect said respectfully.

"I heard that you recognized the son of the shopkeeper of the Shunfeng Dart Bureau as your godson, and Jiangnan City is rumored that you want to give him the position of the Jiangnan prefect, this is true."

Tuoba Tatar's face changed, and he said uneasily: "Gu Shun is indeed the godson recognized by Wei Chen, and I and my insiders have always regarded him as our own. Gu Shun is a kind and intelligent kid by nature, loyal to Daqi, and Wechen thinks that he can inherit Wechen's official position and become the prefect of Jiangnan.

Weichen has a total of two sons, the eldest son died on the battlefield, and the younger son Tuoba Hao also died of a serious illness before, which hit us a lot. I'm getting older, and it's time to find an heir, so I'm going to have that plan. If the prince does not agree, Weichen will immediately withdraw his order. ”

"No, Uncle Tartar has been loyal and good for generations, serving the Great Qi, and conscientious, I trust Uncle Tartar's judgment. Young Master Gu is your godson Uncle Tartar, my Great Qi Dynasty has always paid attention to the succession of father to son, brother to brother, what's wrong with this.

Moreover, the former emperor once vigorously promoted the intermarriage and friendship between the Han and Xianbei, and this kind of thing should be vigorously promoted.

When the king was just visiting Jiangnan City, he heard some rumors in the market and asked. Far from objecting to Uncle Tatar's approach, this king very much agreed with giving the position of the prefect of Jiangnan City to Young Master Gu in the future.

In the eyes of this king, Young Master Gu is a person who attaches great importance to love and righteousness, has excellent martial arts, is clever and intelligent, and if Jiangnan City is handed over to him, he will definitely be able to guard Jiangnan for my Great Qi Dynasty, and even pay homage to the marquis in the future. ”

Hearing Tuoba Han's evaluation of Gu Shun, the Tartar prefect and Chu Xiuru who were present were also surprised that the prince valued Gu Shun so much.

Gu Shun is only six years old this year, and Tuoba Han's age is almost twenty years old, the two are more than ten years apart, but they talk extremely speculatively, it seems that Gu Shun's communication skills are simply full.

"Thank you to the prince for appreciating this child Gu Shun, Weichen will live up to the prince's trust and train him to become a talent."

"The little woman Xiuru thanked the prince for appreciating the dog, with the prince's words, the slave family must spur him well, so that he can be of great use as soon as possible." Chu Xiuru also bowed slightly.

Tuoba Han nodded heavily.

After a long conversation with Gu Shun last night, he found that Gu Shun was not as simple as it seemed.

This also strengthened his idea of tying the Gu family to his chariot, and with the influence of the Gu family in Jiangnan and the wealth of Jiangnan, he could gain a huge backer in the increasingly hot battle for the throne.

Since ancient times, the ruthless emperor family, although he is a prince, he knows that once he participates in the seizure of the heir, the price of failure is destruction.

But he had to do it, and it all started with his origins.

His mother was not a Xianbei nobleman, but a Han girl.

When the first emperor was alive, he once forcibly promoted the reform of the Han system, wore Han clothes and wrote Chinese characters with Han surnames, used the laws and systems of the Han family to govern the country, and dreamed that Xianbei would quickly realize the national leap and integration with the Central Plains tribes.

From a backward and uncivilized nomadic people, to an immortal dynasty that can rule in the Central Plains for generations.

His own mother was also chosen by his grandfather at that time to marry his father, who is now a saint.

However, with the death of the first emperor, those Xianbei clans had long hated the practice of forcibly promoting the Han system, so this Sinicization change was quickly abandoned.

The Han people in the court of Daqi became the target of Xianbei nobles and officials for a while, and the Han women who married into the court were also targeted and excluded by Xianbei and other tribal women.

Although Tuoba Han's mother is a big family, because of his mother's Han status, since his father ascended the throne, he has been bullied in the court even more than Zhang Yi'an.

This is also the reason why Tuoba Han is particularly sympathetic to Zhang Yi'an, their experiences are very similar, they are not treated by their fathers, their biological mothers are bullied, cowardly, humiliated but have to endure it, and they seem to see themselves in him.

However, Tuoba Han's character was more fierce, he chose to resist, and finally won the treatment and dignity that a prince deserved in front of his father.

Originally, Tuoba Han didn't want to compete for this throne, to be an idle prince who had been won with great difficulty, and he didn't care about the world, although he couldn't inherit the unification, but it was good to live a chic and comfortable life.

But what happened after that changed him completely.

A few months ago, he followed his mother home to save his family, and the sight of starvation and bandits everywhere along the way deeply stung him.

He couldn't figure out why Daqi had fallen into such a state, Xianbei people did evil, bullied and dominated the market, robbed the people's daughters, and expropriated violently, and the people complained, daring to be angry but not daring to speak.

If this continues, it won't be long before the rule of Great Qi will crumble until it collapses.

After returning home, Tuoba Han immediately wrote to his father, hoping to be benevolent to the world, sympathetic to the Han people, recuperate, and severely punish the Xianbei people who did evil, otherwise there would be a danger that the country would be shaken and the building would collapse.

Seeing this letter, Tuoba Han was scolded by his father, and at the same time demoted him from the Marquis of Qi to the King of Yuzhang, and he ascended and descended secretly.

Yuzhang is located in the old land of Chu State, although it is not far from Jiangnan, but the degree of development is very different from Jiangnan.

Large miasma swamps, wet and damp, with a small population, low food production, frequent infestations of poisonous insects and tigers and leopards, and some people claim to have seen wild people.

Treat such a place as a fief, and when his father dies, he will have no future.

This also prompted Tuoba Han to decide to compete for the throne. When he was a child, he was often bullied among many princes because his mother was a Han Chinese, which also developed his strong character.

Since his father and those brothers are unreliable, he has to rely on his own hands to ascend to the throne of the emperor of Daqi, change the face of the Han people being bullied, so that no one dares to underestimate their mother and son.

After deciding to participate in the succession, Tuoba Han immediately took action, he wanted to increase his political influence and make his father recognize his ability in order to have a chance to be elected as the crown prince.

So on the one hand, he recruited some Hanchen, and on the other hand, he was ready to seek the support of some external families and forces in the rivers and lakes.

However, these families are also the objects of competition among other brothers vying for the throne.

Winning the throne is itself a big gamble, the loser is out, and the winner is all-round.

Those big families are all ghosts, and I heard that Tuoba Han himself is in the court, and he is not valued by today's saints, and he once angered the emperor because of the book, and demoted Yuzhang to be the prince.

Naturally, no one dared to stand behind him and support him. It was also at this time that many of his guests in the capital recommended to him the Shunfeng Dart Game that is now famous in the south of the Yangtze River.

The dart board in the rivers and lakes is not only the bodyguard escort business, but also has a good martial arts force and connections in the rivers and lakes, Shunfeng dart board is the rise of the leader in recent years, the prestige in the south of the Yangtze River is incomparable.

Once he gets the support of the Shunfeng Dart Bureau, he will also have the wealth of Jiangnan as his backing, and his competitiveness in competing for the throne will be greatly enhanced.

In order to get ahead of the other brothers and take the Shunfeng Dart Bureau under his command, Tuoba Han Yirong sneaked out of the capital and rode south alone.

While inspecting the situation everywhere and thinking about the way to save Daqi, he was ready to meet with Gu Fan, the shopkeeper of the Shunfeng Dart Bureau, to discuss the cooperation between them.

"Lord Wang, I have set up a banquet in the Yuelai Teahouse in Jiangnan City, and I hope that the prince can bend to the banquet and taste the food of Jiangnan." Although the Tartar prefect has not stayed in the capital for many years, he has heard of the current intensity of the imperial court's prince's seizure of the throne.

At this time, King Yuzhang came to Gu Fan, which must have something to do with the struggle for the throne.

Although the Tartar prefect wanted to remain neutral and did not want to get involved, Tuoba Han was the prince after all. When the prince visits, the number of etiquette must always be prepared and thoughtful.

"No need, this time the king came to Jiangnan City, not to play and have fun, but to visit the Gu shopkeeper of the Shunfeng Dart Bureau, I didn't expect him to return the dart, and the king didn't stay much.

This king is going to go to his fiefdom Yuzhang Gujun to have a look, and when the shopkeeper Gu comes back, this king will come to visit again. ”