Beiming Imperial Palace, Imperial Study.

Emperor Xuanwu closed the folds vigorously, and in the successive readings, the ministers repeatedly mentioned that the crown prince was weak and incompetent, hinting at the change of the crown prince, and a thin layer of anger gradually gathered in his eyes. Thinking of his sons who have been fighting all day long, I feel depressed in my chest and feel exhausted.

The position of the prince has been set early, and the princes have long been sealed and built a mansion, just because they are afraid that this group of cubs will fight for this position, but the prince has always been a rotten wood that is not angry, which makes other princes disagree, and they also want to pull the prince off the throne.

Emperor Xuanwu sighed heavily in his heart, now the situation in Nanling is declining, and the spies lurking in Nanling have been wiped out, and the new spies under the defense of Emperor Dehui can no longer go deep into the interior of Nanling City to find out the secret news, plus Beiming is far away from Nanlingche, and he has lost the opportunity, I am afraid that the other two countries are already thinking about how to swallow the meat of Nanling, but they are at a loss and are dizzy by these little rabbit cubs all day long, what a bastard!

This breath had been suffocating in his chest for a long time, and in a fit of anger, he swept all the stacked folds on the desk to the ground, and the palace people who were waiting on the side were so frightened that they knelt on the ground one after another.

Seeing this, Lu Yao, the chief eunuch in front of the imperial eunuch, picked up the music one by one and put it back on Emperor Xuanwu's bookcase, and softly comforted: "Your Majesty, you have to take care of the dragon body!" ”

Emperor Xuanwu rubbed his temples with a gloomy expression, closed his eyes slightly, and only after a while did he slowly exhale a breath of turbidity, and ordered in a deep voice: "Let them go down." ”

Lu Yao waved the dust whisk in his hand at the palace people who were kneeling on the ground, and the palace people immediately retreated as if they were about to be amnestied.

Emperor Xuanwu slowly opened his eyes, the tiredness in his eyes made him look a little haggard, and even his usual majestic voice revealed a trace of exhaustion: "Lu Yao, it is said that the royal family values the heirs, and the heirs can only protect the country for thousands of years, and there are people from generation to generation, and the three palaces and six courts use the imperial heirs as a means to compete for favor." But I found that having more sons is not necessarily a good thing. ”

"Your Majesty is worried about the princes?" Lu Yao picked up a poured hot tea and respectfully handed it to Emperor Xuanwu.

Emperor Xuanwu originally had nine sons, but he was the most ruthless emperor's family, and for that position, the brothers were against the wall, and behind them were all kinds of sinister calculations, and they did everything they could. Except for the second prince, who died of illness since he was a child, the other princes have lost half of them in the open and secret battles over the years.

Although Emperor Xuanwu was furious, the forces of the various families in the harem of the previous dynasty were intertwined, plus he was more than half a hundred years old, and the royal bloodline always needed someone to pass it on, so he could not and could not bear to punish the few remaining sons with serious crimes, so he would use the Feng family to balance the forces between the prince and the family behind him.

Prime Minister Feng Lanzhi worked hard for the Beiming Dynasty, always maintained a neutral attitude towards the party struggle between the princes, and never formed a party for personal gain, so he gave his son the military power to protect the city in the year of Fenggui, so that the Feng family was unique in the court. On the one hand, its intention is to show that the royal family has clear rewards and punishments and stabilize the loyalty of the Feng family to the royal family, and on the other hand, it is to use the Feng family to weaken the relatives and other forces in disguise, so as to control the situation of the entire government and the opposition.

Emperor Xuanwu frowned slightly, took a sip of the tea that was presented, and said smoothly: "It is said that the nine sons of Longsheng are different, and I see that they are all equally ruthless!" I didn't expect them to be brothers, friends and brothers, but at least I should understand that I didn't want to see them kill each other, and I didn't want them to be so ignorant of restraint, and they had been fighting to the death under my nose all these years. ”

"Bang", the tea cup was slammed on the bookcase, and at the same time, his angry voice sounded, and suddenly, there was an invisible layer of coercion in the entire imperial study, "No matter how bad the prince is, he is also the prince canonized by me, for so many years, they have been uniting with the people of their mother clan to suppress the prince, have they ever put me in their eyes?!" I haven't died yet, so I've been thinking about this position all day long, don't I still want to kill the king and kill my father?! ”

Lu Yao stood aside with his waist bent, quietly waiting for Emperor Xuanwu to vent the anger deposited in his chest, and then gently persuaded: "Your Majesty is angry, beware of the dragon body!" No matter how big the idea is, the princes still respect Your Majesty very much, and they will never dare to have such a rebellious mind. ”

"Don't dare?" Emperor Xuanwu's eyes were slightly cold, and he couldn't help but sneer coldly, "Hmph, I see that their wings are not yet full, if it weren't for the Feng family's obstruction, this group of rabbit cubs would have turned the sky upside down!" ”

He closed his eyes, sighed deeply, and said, "If they are willing to put more of their minds on national affairs and less chaos for me, Beiming will not miss many opportunities." is so unassailing, how can I rest assured that the country will be handed over to them? ”

Lu Yao secretly observed Emperor Xuanwu's expression, and saw that the anger on his face gradually dissipated, and his heart was slightly relieved, revealing a deferential smile, and said in a flattering manner: "Your Majesty, since ancient times, it is an auspicious omen for the dragon to give birth to nine sons, since God has given nine princes, it must mean that Your Majesty is a true dragon, and God will also protect Your Majesty's country." ”

Emperor Xuanwu's brows stretched slightly, he turned his head to look at Lu Yao, and said with a smile: "You old thing, you are used to slapping horses, and you always like to pick out some nice things to say to me, but you know how to make me happier than my sons." ”

Lu Yao smiled humbly: "How can the old slave have the ability to make His Majesty happy, it's just telling the truth." ”

Emperor Xuanwu moved his gaze to the outside of the hall, the smile on the corner of his lips gradually faded, and the bottom of his eyes revealed an indescribable deep meaning, "I don't know if it's old, I always think of Emperor Dongchen recently, I have been secretly fighting with him for many years, although their respective positions are different, but I have always regarded him as the most powerful opponent, and I really admire his courage in many things." It's like he originally only had three sons, but he was willing to sacrifice his heart and soul to keep one of them, so that no one could compete for this position, this move was ruthless and accurate, and it had to be admirable. ”

"Emperor Dongchen's blessings are shallow, there are only three princes under his knees during his lifetime, and he doesn't even have a princess, how can he compare with His Majesty's blessings?"

"It's not that there isn't, it's just that it can't be had." Emperor Xuanwu's gaze stared ahead for a long time, as if he had passed through the vicissitudes of life, staying in those unknown pasts, his eyes swept through countless intricate emotions, and finally he only sighed deeply, "What a shrewd person he is, he made up his mind to abandon the car and protect the marshal from the beginning, he wants a prince who can inherit the unification, not a princess." Back then, he calculated everyone and secretly removed many obstacles for Emperor Jingren, even if Emperor Jingren was not from the empress, in the end, the queen's huge mother family was still desperate to serve Emperor Jingren, which is really clever! ”

The corners of his mouth hooked up a smile but not a smile, with a bit of appreciation, "But this kid of Emperor Jingren has not lived up to his expectations, he is ruthless and decisive and governs the country in a way, he is indeed a natural emperor, no wonder he dared to make a desperate bet back then." ”