In the past half a month, Su Yu took his subordinates to inspect the entire Qingtan Demon Beast Forest several times, and spent money to dismiss the surrounding settlers, so that they could wait for the summer hunt to come back again.

In the blink of an eye, half a month has passed.

It was another morning, and the dense camp was located on the outer edge of the Qingtan Demon Beast Forest, and the smoke in the camp had already risen.

When the sun rose, the civil and military officials who had eaten breakfast had already gathered on the grassland that had been temporarily widened on the outer edge.

Emperor Wei Jin led hundreds of civil and military officials, on the temporary high platform, burned incense and prayed for blessings, praying for good weather in the coming year, and peace and security of the country and the people.

As for Su Yu, Liang Yuxuan, and Sun Xichui, they rode on tall horses and led their horses to stand on the outer edge of the pasture, as guards to maintain the order of this summer hunt.

"Brother Su, look at those seven people, they are the seven members of the cabinet, except for Your Majesty, these seven cabinet members are the most powerful people in the court."

Watching Wei Jin and the civil and military officials hold a tedious prayer ceremony, Liang Yuxuan couldn't help but introduce Su Yu to the intricate relationship in the court.

"The person standing on the right side of His Majesty is the current cabinet chief, Wang Jinghui!"

"And the two behind him are Shen Xiaohan, the secretary of the Criminal Department, and Qi Xikun, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Shen Xiaohan is also a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, and Qi Xikun is also a scholar of Dongge University."

"The two of them were supported by Wang Jinghui, and they also stood on the side of the eldest prince."

"As for the person standing on His Majesty's left, it is Huo Yu, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, who is also a scholar of the Zhonghe Temple."

"There are also three people behind him, namely Kong Jingyi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Yan Zhongrong, the secretary of the Ministry of Households, and Wu Zexing, the secretary of the Ministry of War."

"Kong Jingyi concurrently serves as a scholar of Baohedian University, Yan Zhongrong concurrently serves as a scholar of Wenhuadian University, and Wu Zexing concurrently serves as a scholar of Wuyingdian University."

"The four of them are on the side of the second prince."

"Kong Jingyi, Yan Zhongrong, and Wu Zexing are all cultivated by Huo Yu, so the four of them are a monolith, although Huo Yu is weaker than Wang Jinghui in his position, he has the support of the three Shangshu, and his power is not weaker than Wang Jinghui."

"These are the two biggest factions in the court"

"During this time, there are rumors in Tai'an City, and His Majesty is very likely to set up a prince in this year's summer hunt, I don't know if it's true."

After listening to Liang Yuxuan's introduction, Su Yu also had a general understanding of the distribution of forces in the court.

However, Zhenwu Si was separated from the court and was only responsible to the emperor, but it was far away from the disputes of right and wrong in the court.

Whoever succeeds to the throne of the emperor will naturally control the largest martial arts institution in Kyushu.

This battle for the crown prince has long been the talk of everyone in Kyushu.

The Wei and Jin dynasties have never made plans to establish a prince, and the edicts of civil and military officials have long been piled up in the palace.

And as time goes by, Wei and Jin will not be able to withstand this general trend, and they will have to elect the crown prince to settle this battle for the crown prince.

Liang Yuxuan continued: "You say, the eldest prince and the second prince, who will have the last laugh in this battle for the crown prince?" ”

Sun Xi on the side pondered for a moment, and then said: "This is hard to say, whether it is the eldest prince or the second prince, it seems that there is a chance, and if Your Majesty does not express his position, there will be suspense." ”

Liang Yuxuan couldn't help but sigh: "Yes, I don't know what Your Majesty thinks." ”

Su Yu raised his eyebrows and chuckled: "You say, is it possible that Your Majesty will appoint Lord Wei as the crown prince?" ”

Hearing Su Yu's words, Liang Yuxuan and Sun Xizhui were suddenly frightened, and their faces couldn't help but turn pale.

"Brother Su, you can eat indiscriminately, but you can't talk nonsense."

Liang Yuxuan glanced left and right, then lowered his voice and said: "Since the founding of the Great Wei Dynasty, there has never been a situation where a woman has succeeded to the throne, how could Your Majesty risk the world's condemnation to do such a thing?" ”

Sun Xichui couldn't help but echo and said: "Brother Liang is right, Your Majesty wants to canonize Lord Wei as the crown prince, which is tantamount to being difficult to ascend to the sky." ”

"Brother Su, just imagine, if Your Majesty really canonizes Lord Wei as the crown prince, can the civil and military officials agree to this matter? Can the people of the world agree to this? ”

"If Your Majesty does not have a prince under his knees, maybe there is still a slight possibility of this move, but Your Majesty has two princes, the eldest prince and the second prince, no matter what, it is impossible to canonize Lord Wei as the crown prince."

Seeing that the two of them refuted themselves, Su Yu chuckled and said, "Didn't a woman appear in the Western Zhou Dynasty to succeed to the throne?" ”

He had a faint guess that the reason why Wei Jin did not plan to make the eldest prince and the second prince the crown prince was most likely to make Wei Lianyi the crown prince!

Otherwise, with Wei Lianyi's current age, he would have already reached the age of marriage.

But Wei Jin didn't find her a match for marriage, and taught her the heaven-level martial art of dominating the world.

Isn't that enough to say a thing?

In particular, Wei Lianyi has been ambushed several times, all of which were caused by the forces behind the eldest prince and the second prince.

It can be seen that they also guessed Wei Jin's plan, and prepared to work together to kill Wei Lianyi, and then go to the snipe and clam to fight.

It's just that what they didn't expect was that the ambushes launched against Wei Lianyi several times were finally resolved by Wei Lianyi safely

Su Yu glanced at the two of them and chuckled: "Didn't there ever be a situation where the princess succeeded to the throne in the Western Zhou Dynasty?" ”

"Brother Su, the situation was different that time."

Liang Yuxuan said with a smile: "The reason why Zhou Xuan, the empress of the Western Zhou Dynasty, was able to succeed to the throne was nothing more than because the previous emperor only gave birth to her. ”

"In desperation, I had to put her on the throne."

"But you also saw the situation later, Zhou Xuan succeeded to the throne and married the national teacher at that time, Nangong Longting."

"The end result?"

"Now the royal family of the Western Zhou Dynasty is surnamed Nangong."

"Although half of the royal family of the Western Zhou Dynasty is still of the Zhou bloodline, what do you make the people of the Western Zhou Dynasty think?"

"They will only recognize today's surname, since the royal family of the Western Zhou Dynasty is surnamed Nangong, then they will think that the Western Zhou Dynasty has been stolen by the Nangong family, even if the Western Zhou Emperor still has the blood of the Zhou family in the back"

"Not bad."

Sun Xitui nodded and echoed: "Just like us men, who would choose to join the family unless it is absolutely necessary?" ”

"Although the child still bleeds your blood, he is taking the woman's surname, which is still considered to be a cut off."

After hearing Sun Xizhui and Liang Yuxuan's reasons for refuting him, Su Yu couldn't help but sigh.

In this era of extremely strong traditional concepts, men are despised like dogs whose backbones have been broken and can only wag their tails and beg for mercy.

Because the people of this era have an extremely firm idea, that is, it is impossible to die of poverty, starvation, and death outside, which leads to the severance of the family in their own generation.

Su Yu didn't have any worries about this.

Because he is immortal, he doesn't have to worry about the occurrence of the situation of cutting off children and grandchildren.

As long as you are alive, you don't have to worry about continuing your bloodline.

Because the child he gave birth to is only a short 100-year lifespan, and he can't live it.

"I really don't know what's so good about being an emperor."

Su Yu looked at Wei Jin, who led hundreds of civil and military officials to pray for blessings in the distance, and in the royal team behind him, Wei Lianyi wore a strong suit to attend the blessing event.

She will also participate in today's summer hunt.

Liang Yuxuan chuckled and said, "Brother Su, what is wrong with your words, what's so good about being an emperor?" You should ask, what's so bad about being an emperor? ”

"Who doesn't want to be an emperor in this world? One word can determine life and death! ”

"For a man, power is often the most important thing in a man's life."

"Power, wealth, and beauty are just an addition."

Sun Xichui nodded approvingly, and said with a smile: "Brother Liang is right, in Sun's opinion, the charm of power is far more than wealth and beauty. ”

"Just like our Thousand Household Lords, who are the Martial Division, we can already control the life and death of many people."

"Power can also allow you to control the fate of others, let others become your hands, to do what you want to do but don't have time to do, your words are the Tianxian in other people's minds!"

"Brother Su, think about it, if you are not the master of the Thousand Households of the Zhenwu Division, but just an ordinary Zhenwu Guard of the Zhenwu Division, the four Oiran girls of the Jiaofang Division last night, will they throw their arms on you?"

"With power, you have everything!"

"And there are only three people with the most power in the world, namely the emperors of the Northern Qi, Western Zhou, and Great Wei Kingdoms!"

Su Yu chuckled: "Power is just an extension of force, as long as the force is high enough, power has to give way to you!" ”

When Sun Xizhui and Liang Yuxuan heard this, they both smiled bitterly and shook their heads.

"Brother Su, think about it yourself, if the force is high enough, how high is it high enough?"

Liang Yuxuan laughed and said, "Let's just say that in the Great Wei now, is there anyone whose force is high enough to subvert the imperial court?" ”

"But what you said is not bad, when a person's force is high to a certain level, it is enough to subvert the rule of the imperial power, or even unify the three kingdoms."

"But Brother Su, how difficult it is for this situation to occur, you must also know it, right?"

"The entire Great Wei has been founded for more than 500 years, and I haven't seen anyone who can subvert the rule of the imperial family over the Great Wei, right?"

"The main reason is that the martial artist on the rivers and lakes, even if he obtains the cultivation resources of the sea, it is difficult for him to reach the step of the martial saint."

"As long as he can't be promoted to Martial Saint, he will still end up with Shouyuan cut off after a hundred years."

"On the other hand, the royal family, his power can be passed down from generation to generation."

"And in this world, as long as there are no martial saint powerhouses, it will be almost difficult for the rule of the royal family to be subverted."

"In comparison, is it easier for a Martial Saint to enter, or is it easier to obtain power?"

"We're just ordinary people with better luck, but we've spent most of our lives getting to where we are today."

"If you are unlucky, the fate of Brother He will be a lesson for us."

"It is true that force can subvert power, and even rely on force to gain power, but it is difficult to ascend to heaven if you want to appear such a person."

"Even the ancestor emperor of the Great Wei Dynasty unified Kyushu and established the Great Wei when the time and place were favorable."

Liang Yuxuan's words made Su Yu fall into deep thought.

Oh, yes.

For ordinary people, the little force obtained is not enough to have any effect on the rulers in power.

On the other hand, the ruler in power can use the power in his hands to influence the life and death of these ordinary people at will.

If you see the possibility of subverting the rule, you can also strangle you in the cradle before you grow up.

Under these constraints, power is often not subverted.

Because that bit of force is far from subverting the order derived from power.

This is also the reason why everyone chooses to join if they can't beat after seeing the reality, and use their own force in exchange for a certain amount of power.

While the three of them were chatting, the blessing ceremony headed by Wei Jin finally came to an end.

"I just don't know, this year's summer hunt, Your Majesty will come up with something to reward the leader of the summer hunt."

Watching Wei Jin speak to the civil and military officials, Liang Yuxuan couldn't help but sigh.

At this moment, a father-in-law held a tray in his hand and walked quickly onto the temporary high platform and came to Wei Jin.

Wei Jin took an extremely ornately shaped sword from the tray in his hand.

When they saw the sword, Sun Xizhui and Liang Yuxuan's pupils both shrank, and they said in unison: "It's the Sword of the Son of Heaven!" ”

Seeing the two of them looking out of shape like this, Su Yu was puzzled: "Brother Liang, Brother Sun, is there any great origin of this Tianzi Sword?" ”

"Brother Su, you don't know anything."

Liang Yuxuan said with a solemn face: "Generally speaking, the Sword of the Son of Heaven is a token of the emperor, and it is also an important token passed on by the emperor to the crown prince. ”

"It can be seen that the rumors circulating in Tai'an City are probably true, Your Majesty will take advantage of this summer hunt to elect the prince candidate!"

"Oh?"

Su Yu raised his eyebrows, and couldn't help but say in surprise: "Play so big? “

And the appearance of the Sword of the Son of Heaven also caused a lot of uproar among civil and military officials.

It seems that they did not expect that Wei Jin would actually take out the Sword of the Son of Heaven as a reward for the leader.

"This summer hunt, the leader who hunted the largest number of demon beasts and grades, I will give him this Son of Heaven sword!"

Facing the face of the civil and military officials, Wei Jin held the sword of the Son of Heaven and said loudly.

Wow!

When Wei Jin said this, the faces of the civil and military officials changed in unison, as if they didn't expect that the prince of Wei Jin would be so childish and would take a summer hunt as the standard.

However, as the seven members of the cabinet, they were calm and relaxed at the moment, looking at their noses and noses, as if they had already known Wei Jin's plans.

After everyone came back to their senses, Wei Jin looked around and said with a chuckle: "The summer hunt held in previous years is the same, and it is too uninspiring. ”

"This year's summer hunt, I'm going to change the rules of the game."

"Those who participate in this summer hunt, in the next half an hour, can choose a companion to watch and help each other and participate in this summer hunt together!"

"Which team has the highest level and number of demon beasts hunted is the leader of this summer hunt!"

"What do you think of this proposal?"

The civil and military officials saluted one after another, and said in unison: "Your Majesty Shengming! ”

The civil and military officials who can stand here are estimated to be empty when they pull out their hairs.

They naturally understand that in today's summer hunt, the protagonists are the eldest prince and the second prince in the field.

What the Sword of Heaven symbolizes, the people present know better than anyone else.

Since they came to be a foil, and the seven members of the cabinet acquiesced in the matter, they naturally had nothing to say.

"In that case."

Wei Jinmu looked around at the Xia Hunt team and said loudly: "I announce that this summer hunt will be held as scheduled in half an hour, and those who participate in this summer hunt can use this half hour to find companions to participate in this summer hunt!" ”

"Yes!"

Everyone responded in unison.

Wei Zongyuan and Wei Zongyue glanced at each other, and there was a strong battle intent surging in their eyes.

In this battle for the crown prince, the winner is finally going to be decided.

At the same time, Wei Lianyi, who was standing on the side, frowned slightly and fell into deep thought.

Wei Jin's proposal was undoubtedly beyond her expectations.

She originally wanted to take advantage of this summer hunt to let Wei Zongyuan and Wei Zongyue die in the Qingtan Demon Beast Forest in an unexpected way.

But because of Wei Jin's proposal, Wei Zongyuan and Wei Zongyue could find the warriors of the Hidden Dragon Realm to help them hunt the demon beasts in the demon beast forest.

With the Hidden Dragon Realm martial artist by his side, the possibility of an accident between the two of them is greatly reduced.

This calculation of the two of them was also re-transformed into the battle for the crown prince.

"I tolerated it three times twice before, and this time, I won't let it go again."

Wei Lianyi's eyes flashed, then he looked at his personal guard, and ordered, "Go and call Master Su over." ”

The guards were stunned at first, and then immediately responded: "Yes!" ”

Watching the guards run towards Su Yu in the distance, Wei Lianyi finally made a decision in his heart.

She is ready to use this summer hunt to break the relationship between the two, and then ask Su Yu to help her compete for the top spot of this summer hunt!

"Master Su, Lord Wei asked you to come over."

The personal guard came to Su Yu and said respectfully.

The three Su Yu, who were chatting, couldn't help but be stunned.

Su Yu frowned slightly, puzzled: "Lord Wei is looking for me for something?" ”

"I don't know."

The guard shook his head.

Su Yu nodded, and then said, "Then you lead the way." ”

"Yes!"

Immediately, under the leadership of the guards, Su Yu rode his horse all the way to Wei Lianyi's location. (End of chapter)