Beijing, two years later.

Since Gu Yunji returned to the central government and entered the household department as a squire, the battle for the heir between the crown prince Li Jinze and the second prince Li Jinche has officially kicked off.

The two sides of the people and horses sang and we appeared, and the forces disappeared and fought with each other. In the past two years, except for Emperor Jingfeng's body weakening day by day, Li Jinze, who is gradually growing up, is under the expectation of the ministers, and the position of the prince is becoming more and more stable, the situation does not seem to have changed much.

At the end of June and summer, when I went to the school to inspect the school, I received a little cold wind, and Emperor Jingfeng's head wind was committed again. And this time the illness was particularly ferocious, Emperor Jingfeng had a headache every day, couldn't eat and sleep well, and simply issued an edict ordering the prince to supervise the country, and temporarily handed over all political affairs to Li Jinche.

When the news reached King Wu's mansion, Li Jinche was so angry that he dropped his cup.

"Prison Country! Father let Li Jinze supervise the country!"

Li Jinche clenched his fists, gritted his teeth and said, "What is the difference between my father's move and clearly supporting the princelings? Why! Li Jinze is the *** embryo of a palace girl, but he is so old older than me, why should he press me in everything! I'm not convinced!"

Fang Zigui was also in a bad mood, but he still tried his best to say in a good voice: "Your Highness, don't be impatient, now you have to calm down and think carefully about countermeasures."

"How do you tell me to calm down!" Li Jinche was so crazy that he couldn't listen to it at all, "My father's health has been getting worse and worse in the past two years, and he is going to get sick at every turn.

"Now that you can supervise the country, is the next step to let the prince sacrifice on your behalf? In the next step, my father is afraid that he will have to write an edict clearly and make Li Jinze the heir, and if we are not in a hurry, will we still have a chance!"

Fang Zigui said in a deep voice: "Now that these ministers in the cabinet are old, they are about to become officials, and it is not good to leave all the general affairs to them like before. It is reasonable for His Majesty to let the crown prince take charge of the country when he is recuperating from his illness, after all, he is a righteous prince."

Li Jinche sneered when he heard this: "Justifiable? We've worked so hard to get him, right?"

"At the beginning of the year, my father was finally persuaded by my mother to give me the title of king, and I saw that the mansion was about to be built, but Gu Yunji went up with a fold and said, 'The title of King of Wei is inappropriate, and it is unlucky to say that the former dynasty who was the king of Wei died early, and it was unlucky, so I coaxed my father to cut me into King Wu!"

In the case that there are not many sons like Emperor Jingfeng, the prince is usually crowned the prince, but between the princes, the meaning of different titles is also different.

Under normal circumstances, the most honorable kings are none other than the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period - Han, Zhao, Wei, Chu, Yan, Qi, and Qin, because of their strong national strength and great influence on later generations.

Due to historical reasons, the "King of Qin" often has the saying that the tiger and wolf are Qin, and he is ambitious and powerful. Except for some princes who have made outstanding contributions and made great achievements in the process of fighting the country, basically no one will fight for the title of "Qin" for themselves, so as not to arouse suspicion.

In addition to Qin, during the Warring States period, the Wei State occupied the Central Plains, with a vast land and a large population, which has a very good symbolic meaning, and Li Jinche is very fond of this royal name. Who knew that Gu Yunji's persuasion by quoting scriptures and classics actually persuaded Emperor Jingfeng to change his royal name to "Wu", which was directly excluded from the Seven Heroes.

What's even more disgusting is that there are also princelings who pretend to play a game, saying that they can't favor one over the other, and they want to ask the three princes to be named "King of Han". The crown prince is just that, the third prince is younger than him and lower than him, how can he be crushed on the king's name?!

Although Emperor Jingfeng did not agree in the end, Li Jinche was still very angry.

It seems to be just a king's name, and it has no actual benefit impact, but subtly, it will inevitably make the ministers biased in their hearts - just the king of Wu, listening to it, it should be sealed to the land of Jiangdong, how can he compete with the prince in Beijing for a long time?

Li Jinche's face was gloomy: "I am not the crown prince, and I do not have the natural qualifications to participate in politics, so I have to be crowned a prince in order to participate in political affairs in a proper manner. But after I really became a prince, the words of those people changed again, and they wanted me to leave Beijing and become a vassal.

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"There are even a few arrogant ones, who directly introduced me to women in Zhejiang as wives, saying that since I have been crowned King of Wu, most of them will use Jiangdong as a fief, and it is better to make marriage plans as soon as possible, so as not to involve my wife and children for thousands of miles in the future, which is really hateful!"

The more Li Jinche spoke, the more angry he became, and he couldn't help but punch him violently on the table, shaking the tea in the cup and trembling.

Fang Zigui had a calm face and drank tea without saying a word, not knowing what he was thinking.

Seeing that Fang Zigui didn't speak, Li Jinche felt a burst of irritability in his heart: "At the beginning, you told me that the matter of seizing the heir should not be rushed, and it must be done slowly. As a result, the picture came and went, and the prince's party was thriving, and they became more and more stable."

"In terms of the current situation, if my father has any three strengths and two weaknesses, Li Jinze will definitely be directly embraced to the throne by the ministers, what else is wrong with me? I can only run to Koto to take my domain!"

Fang Zigui took a deep breath, put down the cup in his hand, and said, "Your Highness is too worried, no matter how bad Your Majesty's body is, it is absolutely no problem to last for three or five years under normal circumstances, you and I still have many opportunities, and we are not without the power to fight."

"And you tell me? How to fight, how to fight?"

Li Jinze said angrily: "Father and Emperor will not have an accident for a while, but we can't afford to wait, your father Fang Shoufu is not young, and he will reach the age of Zhishi." It took two months for Shousuke to take a beggar bone, but he was retained by his father."

"No matter how important your father's status is, it's okay to keep it once or twice, but can you keep it if you have more times? I don't know when it will happen. The princeling forces are already oppressing us, and if your father leaves, we will have no support in the court."

Gu Yunji and Fang Zigui, as the backbone of their respective parties, have support behind them, Fang Shu is ten years younger than Gu Yuanhui, Fang Shu is a scholar, but Gu Yuanhui can still work for a few more years. I am afraid that Li Jinche will not be able to compete with the prince at that time.

At the mention of Fang Shu, Fang Zigui felt an inexplicable anger rise in his heart, and said coldly, "What do you have to do with my father? It is a matter between us, it is the same with him or not, even if he is a leader, I can still help you win the throne."

Li Jinche and Fang Zigui got closer, and they could faintly detect the aberrations between their father and son, and when they saw that he looked cold in an instant, he couldn't say anything, so he sulked without saying a word.

Soon, Fang Zigui's face returned to normal. He didn't know what he thought, an unknown light flashed in his eyes, and he suddenly smiled at Li Jinche: "In short, Your Highness doesn't have to worry, the crown prince wants to control the government on this matter, it's not that simple, our opportunity will come soon."