Emperor Xia glanced at everyone, and saw that no one seemed to speak anymore, so he opened his mouth and said: "The matter of the crown prince involves the national capital, and it needs to be discussed in the long run, so I will not discuss this matter for the time being." ”

After hearing Emperor Xia's words, Zhao Wenhan didn't continue to say anything, he was just talking, and it was impossible for him to support King Bei.

Few of the court officials would support the Northern King.

Ordinary princes, even those who do not participate in the succession, may have some contacts with the ministers, but the king of the north is a freak, he has no contact with any ministers, who wants to support him.

Except for the Chu family, which may be tempting, the basic plates of the other princes have hardly changed much.

After all, the king of the north has a blood relationship with the Chu family, although the Chu family now supports the eighth prince, but that is because the nine princes couldn't support the wall in the mud.

Now that the Nine Emperor Princes have achieved such great military exploits, and have even reached the point of overpowering the masters, how can they not be tempted.

I wonder if they will support the Nine Emperor Princes again.

Of course, this is definitely a great challenge for the other princes.

First of all, there are the 50,000 heavy cavalry of the North County!

If the 50,000 heavy cavalry of the North County are not resolved, the North King will always be a sword on their heads.

Even if they win the throne in the future, the military strength of the Northern County is also likely to oust them.

If the 50,000 heavy cavalry is not removed, the king of the north is not removed, and all the princes will have trouble sleeping!

Almost in an instant, all the princes in the court who participated in the battle for the succession were on the same front, that is, the North King was their biggest threat, and the North King must be brought down.

At this time, Emperor Xia continued: "Ladies and gentlemen, the Northern King has made such a great contribution, how do you think the imperial court should reward him?" ”

In the end, Emperor Xia still threw this problem to the ministers.

The credit of the Northern King is too great, and even Emperor Xia doesn't know how to reward him for a while, and the position of the crown prince is definitely not good.

He didn't plan to make a prince so early, not to mention that person was still the king of the north, a prince who didn't know if he was a child or not, how could he make him the prince.

After hearing Emperor Xia's question, the ministers in the court, you look at me, I look at you, and I don't know what to do.

This credit is so great that it seems that only the crown prince can match this credit, and the other rewards will seem insignificant.

But obviously, Emperor Xia will not hand over the crown prince to the king of the north, so what should be used to reward the king of the north, you can't reward nothing.

If you don't reward anything, the people of Daxia won't agree if they know about it, and this can't be said.

You must know that the king of the north killed the barbarians!

A barbarian tribe with a sea of blood feud with the common people of Great Xia.

Someone else killed so many barbarians in the north, but the court didn't say anything at all, how could the people of Daxia agree.

At this time, Lin Gaoyuan said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the great merit of the Northern King is that the ordinary reward is no longer comparable to it. ”

Hearing this, Zhao Wenhan immediately choked and said, "Lin Xiang, aren't you talking nonsense, what Your Majesty needs is a specific reward, not to listen to you talk about the car here." ”

Lin Gaoyuan ignored Zhao Wenhan, he continued: "The minister thinks that the Frontier Expansion Order can be used as a reward for the Northern King's merit this time!" ”

Hearing this, there was an uproar in the court.

The Frontier Expansion Order, as the name suggests, means to expand territory.

At the time of the establishment of Great Xia, Xia Taizu divided many vassal kings, all of whom had the order to expand their territory, and the territory they fought belonged to those vassal kings themselves.

But soon the later Xia Emperor discovered that this was a huge hidden danger, because the territory of some vassal kings was getting bigger and bigger, and even almost exceeded the actual territory controlled by the Xia Emperor.

With the joint efforts of the following generations of Xia Emperors, the Frontier Expansion Order was abolished, and even in order to abolish the Frontier Expansion Order, several wars broke out in Great Xia.

Later, when this generation of Xia Huang arrived, he further cut the domain, and the current vassal kings are basically fiefs arranged by the imperial court, even if they have conquered the territory of other countries, it belongs to the imperial court and belongs to the Xia Emperor, and the vassal king is not qualified to take it for himself.

If the Frontier Expansion Decree is issued to the Northern King, the Northern King's territory in the Northern County will be able to expand indefinitely in the future, as long as he has this strength, of course.

This is actually not a good thing for the imperial court, if the Northern King has too much territory, his strength is likely to be further improved, becoming a greater threat to Great Xia.

But......

After hearing Lin Gaoyuan's proposal, Emperor Xia did not immediately reject this proposal, because he found that this proposal seemed to have some effect.

Once the Northern King has the Frontier Expansion Order, it is likely that the Northern King will wage war in order to expand his territory.

War requires money and food, and it needs to consume strength.

Besides, the King of the North is in the North County, and there is only one option to expand his territory, and that is to expand to the north.

The north is the territory of the barbarians, so the war between the king of the north and the barbarians will continue.

For Great Xia, this not only weakened the strength of the Northern County, but also weakened the threat brought to Great Xia by the barbarians moving south to a certain extent.

It's a good way to do it.

It's just that once the expansion order is used, if you want to take it back in the future, I'm afraid that the only way to do it is to break out into war, or let the Northern King be the next Xia Emperor.

Once the king of the north has the order to expand the territory and opens up the territory, he will definitely not hand over the land in his hands to the imperial court, which is something that he does not need to think about.

Emperor Xia pondered for a moment.

Then he said: "Proposed decree, the king of the north killed 200,000 barbarians, captured more than 100,000 barbarians, and shot the barbarian wolf king on the battlefield, made a great achievement, and rewarded 2 million taels of silver, 200,000 horses of cloth, and a frontier expansion order." ”

Seeing that Emperor Xia gave the order to expand the territory like this, the ministers were a little confused, the previous generations of Emperor Xia finally withdrew the order to expand the territory, and this generation of Emperor Xia actually gave it again.

However, no one among the ministers said anything at this time, because compared with the expansion order, people are more concerned about the position of the crown prince.

If a frontier expansion order is exchanged for the position of a crown prince, then they can still accept it, anyway, the north is also the territory of the barbarians, and the king of the north can only expand his territory to the north.

If he goes south, it will not be an expansion of territory, but a rebellion.

As long as the king of the north is not the crown prince, everything is easy to say, and it is okay to give him the frontier expansion order.

Meanwhile.

At the north gate of the capital, a soldier carrying a small red flag was riding a horse and shouting: "Beijun is victorious!! ”

"The king of the north led the soldiers of the northern county to kill 200,000 barbarians and capture 100,000 barbarians!!"

The soldiers rode their horses and shouted as they ran in the direction of the palace.

This kind of victory itself is to be shouted out, to let the people know.

It's just that Lin Xiuming and the prison army told them not to shout in the capital before sending the red silk messenger, and to shout when they arrived at the palace.

Because the credit of the Northern King is too great, this matter must wait for the imperial court to discuss how to reward the Northern King before the common people know the best, otherwise the public opinion of the people will definitely create some pressure on the imperial court.

But Lu Chen didn't think about it so much, he thought that sooner or later the people would know about this matter anyway, so he sent the Red Silk Messenger to shout vigorously on the road, and specially prepared dozens of kettles for the Red Silk Messenger.

Only when the common people of Great Xia knew that the king of the north had killed 200,000 barbarians in the north county, did the court dare not do anything to him.

With such a great merit, if the imperial court did not reward it, but thought about cutting the feudal domain, or saying that he rebelled, he would definitely lose the support of the people at that time.

At this moment, the common people in the capital were stunned when they heard the battle report of the Red Silk Messenger.

They heard you right, right?

The King of the North led the soldiers of the North County to kill the army of 200,000 barbarians?

Really?

Isn't the King of the North a waste prince?

He, a prince who is powerless and has been hollowed out by wine, can achieve such a feat?

They didn't dare to suspect that it was fake.

Although the common people have no sense of politics, the common people also know that this kind of extremely fake war report is unlikely to be fake, because no one dares to pass on such a fake war report.

What's more, it's the news that the Red Silk Messenger has sent back to the capital!

For a time, the people of the entire capital were boiling.

Of course, most ordinary people are questioning the veracity of this news.

After all, this news sounds too unbelievable.

It is obviously impossible for a recognized waste, just changing places, to have changed so much.

At this time, the spies of other countries or dynasties in the capital also heard the news delivered by the Red Silk Messenger, although they were also very suspicious of it, but they were different from ordinary people.

After the spies of other countries heard the news of the Red Silk Messenger, they immediately used the connections of all parties to inquire about the movements of the court.

Whether this is true or not, those ministers must know.

Soon, the spies of other countries found out that the battle report that the Red Silk Messenger said was true, which made the spies of various countries dumbfounded.

They have collected information in the Great Xia Dynasty for so many years, and they have never put the Northern King in sight, thinking that he is just a waste prince, there is no need to know the Northern King at all, and this kind of waste prince cannot become the crown prince of the Great Xia Dynasty.

Outcome......

As soon as this battle report was confirmed, it proved that the information they had collected about the Northern King for so many years was false, and all of them were deceived by the Northern King, and the Northern King was the prince with the greatest potential and the deepest scheming in Great Xia!

Although some could not accept this fact, the spies of various countries quickly transmitted the information they had heard about the Northern King back to their respective capitals.

Meanwhile.

Royal Palace, Imperial Garden.

After Emperor Xia came to the pavilion where Situ Ce was, he asked, "The national teacher should already know about it, right?" ”

Situ Ce said, "Got it. ”

When Situ Ce found out what the King of Bei did in Beijun, the reaction of the others was the same, they couldn't believe it, but some shadow guards directly showed him the information they had collected, and he gradually accepted the news.

Situ Ce said at this time: "Congratulations to Your Majesty, with a prince like His Royal Highness the Nine Emperor Princes, who is brave and good at fighting!" ”

Hearing this, Emperor Xia said coldly: "National Teacher, are you mocking me?" ”

Situ Ce immediately said: "Don't dare! ”

Emperor Xia snorted coldly, and then said: "Xiao Jiu is really hiding deep enough, 50,000 heavy cavalry, the imperial court can't afford to raise so many heavy cavalry, but a northern county suddenly drilled out 50,000 heavy cavalry!" ”

Situ Ce said at this time: "Your Majesty, it seems that Deputy Commander Bai's information is not wrong, His Royal Highness the Nine Emperor Princes most likely did not cooperate with Xuanyue Palace, because he does not need to rely on Xuanyue Palace at all. ”

Emperor Xia said: "Didn't the national teacher think about it, how did Xiao Jiu's heavy cavalry come from? ”

"What is Beijun like, the national teacher shouldn't know, how long has he been in Beijun, how can he build 50,000 heavy cavalry?"

Situ Ce asked, "Could it be that Your Majesty thinks that His Royal Highness the Nine Emperor Princes are colluding with other dynasties, and these heavy cavalry are from other dynasties?" ”

"However, as far as the minister knows, except for Great Xia, Beijun only borders the Dayue Dynasty, if there is such a large heavy cavalry passing through Dayue, it is impossible for the shadow guard to have no news at all."

Hearing Situ Ce's words, Emperor Xia fell silent.

Situ Ce is right, the heavy cavalry is the focus of the surveillance of the major dynasties, and any dynasty that uses heavy cavalry will know about it, so that there will be no news at all.

And there is no dynasty that is willing to send 50,000 heavy cavalry to others, this is obviously impossible, then only the last possibility remains, these 50,000 heavy cavalry are indeed built by the king of the north.

However, both in terms of time and resources, the North County is not enough to build 50,000 heavy cavalry.

It is difficult for his son to summon soldiers out of thin air.

At this time, Situ Ce said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that this is probably a good thing for you. ”

Emperor Xia asked, "Why does the national teacher think so?" ”

Situ Ce replied: "You don't know where these 50,000 heavy cavalry came from, the ministers of the court don't know either, and the family doesn't know either. ”

Hearing Situ Ce say this, Emperor Xia reacted.

Situ Ce meant to pretend that the North King was supported by him, and anyway, the others didn't know where the North King's heavy cavalry came from.

The North King was divided into the North County by himself, and it can be said that the North King was able to achieve today's military exploits without the Xia Emperor himself.

Therefore, it is very likely that Emperor Xia knew what kind of person the real Beiwang was from the beginning, and he also knew that Beiwang had been hiding all along, and he arranged Beiwang in Beijun, which was probably an important task.

Maybe all this is the layout of the Xia Emperor!

Heavy cavalry construction requires a lot of resources, and it can't be completed in a day or two, and Beijun doesn't have so many resources, and now the entire Great Xia can support Beiwang with 50,000 heavy cavalry, only one person!

That's the current Xia Huang!

At this time, Emperor Xia asked, "Does the national teacher think that I can use Xiao Jiu's heavy cavalry to confuse the major families?" ”

Situ Ce said: "Yes, Your Majesty, now you are the only one who can make Beijun have 50,000 heavy cavalry, no family, or any dynasty, has such ability, and it is you who personally sent Beiwang to Beijun." ”

Emperor Xia put his hands behind his back, looked at the lotus pond in front of him, and pondered for a long time.

The 50,000 heavy cavalry in the northern county can indeed be used a little, but after using it, how to solve it is a troublesome matter.

After a while, Emperor Xia spoke: "National Teacher, I need you to go to Beijun. ”

Situ Ce had already expected Emperor Xia to say this, so he immediately said, "Yes, Your Majesty." ”

Emperor Xia continued: "After you went to Beijun, you told Xiao Jiu that I intended to make him the crown prince, and I hope he will not live up to my expectations. ”

Situ Ce said: "Minister, understand. ”

Emperor Xia then turned around and said, "Okay, the national teacher is ready, let's go to Beijun." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, the old minister retires."

(End of chapter)