The reef doesn't remember much about five or six years ago. After he was reborn, he remembered what happened at that time through the daily chatter of his family, but he always only had a general impression, and the details were very vague.

Five or six years ago, the border city was quite peaceful. At that time, the old Khan of the Hu people had just been seriously ill, and for almost two years, he didn't care about sending troops to invade the Great Chu frontier, but was busy intriguing with the Hu nobles who were ready to move during his illness, and even Uncle Wang, who had been on his side, was on guard, and killed a big nobleman during the period.

The Hu people are not peaceful internally, but the borders of Chu and Hu are much more peaceful. When there was no fighting, caravans came and went more frequently. The Great Chu border army can also free up their hands to exterminate the surrounding sand thieves and horse bandits, and provide a safe environment for passing caravans and people. The safe environment attracted more caravans between the two countries. The Hai family was in Guazhou at the time, and they were on the business road, and they also made a lot of money thanks to the blessing of this east wind.

Haijiao vaguely remembers that he was only seven or eight years old at that time, and every day on the side of the road in front of his house, he could see familiar and unfamiliar caravans transporting goods to and fro on the road. The big car shops, taverns, and bathhouses in the city are doing very good business, and the shops and stalls on the street are always showing new gadgets. When the weather is good, he takes his sister's hand and walks all the way, often for very little money, he can find something very interesting. In his memory, those days have always been light, happy and bright.

In contrast, the situation in the capital is more murky and complicated.

At that time, Sun Guifei's son had just died, the four princes had already succeeded, Concubine Xu Xian was just the palace maid next to the Empress Dowager Zhou, the eighth prince did not even have a shadow, the emperor had no children under his knees, but he fell seriously ill, and the entire court was worried that the emperor might die at any time, but there was no heir to inherit the country.

King Ji and King An, who had fought for the throne with the emperor, have all moved, and the successor prince King Ji Shizi is even jumping up and down to seek to return to the sect, and the clan has different opinions on the selection of the royal heir, and they are arguing. The Empress Dowager left the sick emperor in Cining Palace to recuperate, and refused to let Sun Guifei enter to serve the sick, for which Sun Guifei also accused the Empress Dowager of plotting to kill the emperor, and asked Her Excellency to order the forbidden army to besiege Cining Palace......

In this chaos, Sun Ge Lao stood up to stabilize the overall situation, advocating that the prince of Yingji should return to the sect and inherit the unification. Although neither the queen mother nor the emperor nodded to agree to this matter, the courtiers felt that they had the backbone and stabilized, and there was no chaos in the capital, and Sun Ge Lao seemed to be meritorious.

It is said that at that time, the Ministry of Rites even prepared the dragon robe materials when the new monarch ascended the throne, and as long as the queen mother or the emperor nodded, they could start making it immediately, but the palace never ordered it.

It didn't take long for the emperor's condition to recover, and he didn't leave any major sequelae, he could handle government affairs normally, and even accepted a new concubine, and added an imperial heir a year later. I don't know how many people expected this incident.

After the news reached the northwest border city, Xie Wenzai and other Wu Men students who had been exiled for many years discussed the matter, and they didn't feel that Sun Ge Lao had much merit, but felt terrified.

How dangerous! Once the emperor does not survive this serious illness, even if the queen mother refuses to accept the cabinet's proposals, Elder Sun Ge will forcibly send the prince of Ji to the throne of the new monarch, right? Of course, he is sure that he will be able to stabilize the overall situation in the DPRK and China, because in the past 20 years or so, he has almost eliminated or expelled the courtiers who disagree with him, and the rest is either his henchmen or the duplicitous people who ride the wall, and no one will oppose him. Once he launches a puppet emperor, the world of Da Chu will become his hall of words from now on!

Less than two years after that, the emperor issued a decree to justify Wu Wenzheng's rehabilitation, and successively pardoned many exiled officials, recalled the former ministers who had been degraded, and there were more dissenting voices in the court. The Cabinet had been very opposed to this, but in the end it was not able to defy the holy will.

It's just that in the northwest, the pressure on the border army is also greater. The Zhou family felt unprecedentedly that the Sun family began to accelerate the pace of seizing power. If it weren't for the Sun family's selection of military generals, Sun Yonglu would have been too overwhelmed, and perhaps they would have succeeded a long time ago.

Haijiao recalled the past and sighed to Haitang: "Maybe Zhou Shuyi saw that Sun Ge Lao was in the middle of the court at that time, and the Zhou family was in a difficult situation, so she gave birth to the heart of clinging." The old lady of the third room of the Zhou family has passed away, and Mrs. Ma has very little contact with the Zhenguo Mansion, and she is not familiar with the border army, so she is biased towards her daughter, and it is not incomprehensible to fund her to tie up with the Sun family and seek a way back for her children and grandchildren. It's just that...... Later, Sun Gelao's prestige in the court declined, and after the number of officials who dared to oppose him increased, the decline of the Sun family became more and more obvious. Zhou Shuyi is in the capital, it is impossible not to know this, and she even continued to go all the way to the dark, with no intention of restraint at all, and Mrs. Ma was also confused, so I don't understand what they are thinking. ”

Haitang said: "No matter what they think in their hearts, since they have taken this step and completely ignore the overall situation, it is no wonder that the Zhou family also ignores their interests." In fact, Zhou Shuyi is really not very smart, and it is not wrong to find a way back for herself, but why did she set her sights on the Sun family? The Sun family not only has intentions for the Zhou family, but her style is not upright, she has no wealth, but she has no reliance, and at the same time she is against her mother's husband's family, how can she dare to believe that the Sun family will not harm her, and she is still in a hurry to send money to people? ”

Haijiao smiled: "So she's a ghost!" ”

Zhou Shuyi was obsessed, and the Sun family took advantage of her delusions, and in turn used her to pit Zhou Zeng's family.

Yes, not only the Zhou family, but the Sun family did not even let go of the Zeng family of the Yingchuan Hou Mansion.

According to Zhang Pinggui's confession, Sun Yongbai deliberately created an opportunity for him to show his skills in front of Zhou Shuyi, and then was reincorporated into Zhou Shuyi's command by virtue of his clever and light skills similar to his deceased father. It's a pity that the Marquis of Yingchuan already had two sons at that time, and there was no point in drugged, so Zhou Shuyi did not send Zhang Pinggui to do the tasks that his deceased father failed to complete, but just sent him to do some things like stealing account books and hiding things, the purpose was just to fight the concubine of Mrs. Yingchuan Hou in the inner house, or frame the officials who were not in harmony with him in social situations.

But what the Sun family told Zhang Pinggui to do "by the way" is not such a pediatric matter.

Zhang Pinggui has peeked at the letters of Yingchuan Hou and others many times. The Sun family seems to want to find the handle of the Marquis of Yingchuan and seize the power of the forbidden army from him, but the Marquis of Yingchuan is loyal to the emperor and has never had any black material. Those letters also revealed that the emperor's trust in the Marquis of Yingchuan was higher than Sun Ge Lao thought, and even privately ordered him to do something that the pillow people and the cabinet did not know.

Sun Ge Lao was more vigilant in his heart, but on the surface, he changed his attitude towards the Marquis of Yingchuan and began to consider marrying him.

It's just that the eldest lady of the Sun family, who is the princess of King Ji, had an unexpected dystocia, one corpse and two lives, and the Sun family did not expect it. In order to maintain the alliance between the Sun family and King Ji, they must find someone to take the position of the princess of King Ji.

Compared with the prince of King Ji, who can continue the glory of the Sun family, the weight of the Marquis of Yingchuan is not so heavy. The Sun family didn't want to offend him, but they wouldn't give up King Ji for him.

When the Sun family had murderous intentions towards the Hou Shizi of Yingchuan, they first verbally instigated Zhou Shuyi through Sun Yongbai's wife to re-birth the idea of seizing the throne of the prince, and then created an opportunity for Zhang Pinggui to send him to the northwest to carry out the assassination mission, and then sent a few more people to escort Zhang Pinggui to ensure that he could successfully complete the task.

Zhou Shuyi thought that everything was planned by herself, but in fact, from beginning to end, she was just a marionette in the hands of the Sun family, and all her thoughts and actions were under the control of the Sun family.

(End of chapter)