As soon as Long Yu returned home, he was called by Yan Ruyi, looking left and right for fear that something was missing.

"Madam, you don't have to be like this, don't you worry about my skills, what can you do with me!"

Yan Ruyi almost cried: "You also said that you said it was okay last time, but you almost couldn't come back, and you were so seriously injured!" ”

Long Yu knew that Yan Ruyi was talking about the decisive battle with Qinmen, that time Long Yu was injured in the heart, and the situation was very critical, if it was deviated by an inch, I am afraid that it would have been a pile of loess.

Long Yu hugged Yan Ruyi and comforted: "It's okay, such a dangerous situation will not happen again in the future!" ”

As he gets older, Yan Ruyi becomes more and more sentimental, and a little thing will cause uneasiness in his heart, and he has less and less brutal temperament when he is young, and his life is comfortable and his dependence on his family is becoming more and more serious.

Of course, Long Yu could feel these changes in Yan Ruyi, so he tried to let her do everything and never quarreled with her.

After a while, Yan Ruyi eased up, remembered an important matter, and hurriedly said: "By the way, there has been a big incident in the DPRK recently!" ”

"What's the big deal?" Long Yu asked in surprise.

Yan Ruyi never asked about the government, and what happened to her ears must have shocked the government and the opposition.

"Your good big brother, the emperor is seriously ill!"

"What!!"

Hearing this, Long Yu couldn't wait to go to the court tomorrow, and hurriedly went to the palace to visit the emperor.

Just two or three days ago, when King Qicheng was arrested, the emperor suddenly fainted when he was in the last dynasty, and he was in a coma for a whole day, and then the imperial doctor diagnosed that it was overwork, coupled with the previous injury, I am afraid that it will not last long, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military have not been prepared for a while, although the emperor has been taking medicine to replenish his body, but his mental state is good, and he can't see weakness at all, who knows that he will fall ill all of a sudden, and he is .............

Sangong and Liangxiang hurriedly blocked the news, claiming that they were just suffering from a minor illness and that they could recuperate for a few days.

The three kings have not yet returned to the court, and the emperor here has an accident again, and he has to beware of people with a heart, many ministers have been walking on thin ice in the past two days, and they are afraid that someone will suddenly rebel, and before they have time to react, their heads will be cut off, and it is not that such things have happened in the previous dynasty.

People's pursuit of power will never stop, and many people have fantasized about the position of emperor, and when the opportunity is placed in front of you one day, you may be moved, and if you are moved, you will act.

For a while, people seemed to know each other and talked less, treating the people around them like thieves.

Less than a moment after Long Yu returned home, he hurriedly went to the palace to visit his good brother, the current emperor.

But it didn't get his wish, Long Yu was stopped in the palace for the first time, and Yu Deqi, the chief eunuch, was already waiting at the gate of the Wushuang Palace, telling Long Yu that the emperor's current situation was very weak and could not withstand a little cold, so he couldn't see anyone.

There is another person behind Yu Deqi who is the new personal guard Lu Yu, who also did not enter the Wushuang Palace, but guarded at the door.

Long Yu immediately thought that this time the emperor must be very sick, and he couldn't even see himself, and he didn't want to disturb the emperor's rest, so he didn't break in and retreated.

Long Yu thought of the emperor's body, and felt very uncomfortable, a good brother who had fought side by side with him for many years, might be about to leave, and he was sad.

The return of the Three Kings was warmly welcomed in the city, and some people even started the celebration on their own, serving free food and wine, forming one carnival after another, and the victory of a battle made people so excited.

How much the devastated people loved this hard-won peace, after thirty years of rule, the Qi Dynasty gradually and inevitably had some drawbacks, which were similar to many of the problems of the previous dynasties, even so, the people of the imperial dependencies still loved the dynasty that began to appear tainted, for that kind of peace.

Long Yu's martial arts are extremely high, although he is injured and has lost the possibility of further progress, but his body is still very strong, and the problems of ordinary people cannot affect him at all, but on the first night he returned to Wushuang City, Long Yu had insomnia, and he was thinking about what should happen in the future all night.

Although the three kings returned triumphantly on this day, many people were worried, some were worried about the future of the people of the world, some were worried about their own future, and some were worried about the people of the past.

The emperor's serious illness can't be hidden for long, and it doesn't matter if he doesn't go to court for a day or two, but a fool who hasn't been in court knows that something is wrong with the emperor of the Qi Dynasty.

The emperor is already over eighty years old, he is not yet at the realm of a great grandmaster, and he has injuries on his body, even if nothing abnormal happens, I am afraid that he will not live long, not to mention that there have been so many things recently, the assassination of the man in black, the killing of King Doulan, and the rebellion of King Qicheng, each of which is a heavy hammer, and it is reasonable for the emperor to fall ill now.

The emperor had already set up a crown prince many years ago, and now he is sixty years old, Liu Cheng, the emperor, is very strange, and does not like to use his own son, many things are not allowed to be done at all, and none of the several important positions in the dynasty are held by the prince.

The crown prince has also become a vacant position, he has no rights at all, and every time there is an important matter to discuss, the ministers are summoned, and the prince and other princes will not be present.

Occasionally, there is a situation where the prince is experienced, and the number and time are not too much.

The establishment of the crown prince seems to be prepared for this time, the emperor is seriously ill and can not take care of the dynasty, at this time there is the prince, at least the continuation of the basic law is guaranteed, the prince can be responsible for the handling of the basic government, so that the entire dynasty will not fall into chaos.

On the tenth day of the emperor's illness, the news has begun to spread wildly, and it can't be stopped at all, not to mention the Wushuang City, even outside the dynasty has already known the news, and the result of the ministers' deliberation is that the crown prince will first manage the government and stabilize the situation, and then see how the emperor's physical condition is in the future, and then discuss it!

The crown prince has been waiting for this day for a long time, people in their sixties have not yet become emperors, and they don't even have any status, as their youth passes, this chance is getting slimmer and slimmer, and the possibility of being replaced by a younger prince in the future is getting bigger and bigger.

It is useless to resist, almost all the important ministers of the dynasty are fighting with the emperor, except for the third prince and a few ministers, they all have an excellent relationship with the emperor, and the strongest army of the dynasty is also in the hands of Long Yu, and the prince does not dare to make any rash moves.

All that can be done is one ...... Wait!

After waiting year after year, the prince knew that if he wanted to become the emperor, he had to surpass his father, all the princes' martial arts were not high, and he didn't know why Liu Cheng had so many princes who had reached the great grandmaster, the environment for learning martial arts was excellent, and the martial arts secrets were superior, and there were few princes who even reached the junior grandmaster.

It just so happens that the crown prince is one, but a sixty-year-old little grandmaster has nothing to be proud of, the only use is to be stronger than Liu Cheng, the current emperor, and it is not surprising that he will definitely live longer than Liu Cheng, so as long as the prince does not make mistakes, there is still a great chance that the prince will become the emperor.

Is the crown prince the only heir to the emperor? Of course not, on the surface there are at least two princes who can compete with him.

One is the third prince, the other is the sixth prince, these two people are born to concubines, and the emperor has only three concubines in addition to a queen mother, and the status is almost the second highest, plus these two princes are also small grandmasters, usually favored by the emperor, and their abilities are also high, and they are strong competitors for the prince.

In the harem, the queen has great power, and the expenses of some concubines and eunuchs in the palace, and the food and wealth of each year are stipulated by the queen, if you offend the queen, that year may be very miserable.

Of course, not everyone, Liu Cheng has three concubines, they can control their own expenses, the emperor agrees to the Ministry of Finance to allocate funds directly, and almost some big rewards are awarded to the three concubines first.

Although the princes and concubines in the palace are all relatives of the emperor, the gap is very obvious, and it is not even obvious that this is a "family"!

Some princes are favored and can stay by the emperor's side all year round to serve, and some are not favored and have not even seen their father a few times since they were born.

This was the case with the seventeen princes before, the number of times they had seen Liu Cheng could be counted on one hand, and many princes could not appear in front of the emperor without being summoned.

The emperor has had relationships with many women in his life, but not all women can be concubines, some were expelled from the palace, and even starved to death later, the most ruthless emperor's family, this sentence is not wrong at all.

Therefore, the harem is not like a family, but a huge circle of interests, in which there are countless large and small interests, those princes who are not the emperor are attached to the crown prince, the third prince, and the sixth prince, to help them ascend to the throne, in order to ensure that they will not be "abused" by the new emperor in the future.

There are also some princes who know that they can't be the emperor, and they don't want to rob it, and they don't participate in any competition, such as the Ninth Emperor and the Seventeenth Prince, they have completely lost the possibility of becoming the emperor, and they don't participate in the competition for the throne by several princes.

The crown prince has been in the court for a few days, although he has not yet been able to sit in the position of the emperor, but listening to the officials report to him the situation in various places, asking for instructions on how to decide, this feeling is simply too tempting, more attractive than anything else in this world, like poisoning deeply trapped in it and unable to extricate himself.

After the next court, the crown prince was planning every minute and every second, how to make the power that was about to come to his hands stable, how to get rid of his biggest enemy, his two younger brothers, if this step is right, the future will be a vast sky, if it is wrong, it will be a catastrophe, and there will be no future again.