Chapter 75: Fang Huaiying
Fang Huaiying is Wei Guogong's cousin who has not been out of five suits, and after Wei Guogong brought him home, Wei Guogong's brothers who heard the news immediately found Wei Guogong with great momentum.
They united with the old lady of the Weiguo Mansion who reported to the other sons of the Weiguo Mansion, and strongly opposed the acceptance of Fang Huaiying as the heir of the Weiguo Gong.
They believe that since Wei Guogong wants to pass the heir, he should give priority to his own brother's son, rather than Fang Huaiying, a distant nephew who can't beat with eight poles.
They are fighting fiercely, and they all want their sons to inherit the title and family business of the Duke of Weiguo. However, Wei Guogong felt that his brothers and nephews all valued profit over righteousness, and their hearts and character were really unbelievable.
He had a hunch that once he succeeded one of his nephews, the others who had not been succeeded would definitely be targeted at that one who had been inherited, and not only would he have a restless house, but the army under his command would also become a bargaining chip for them to win over and divide, which would bring instability to Western Xinjiang.
Not to mention that after his death, will they treat his only daughter well, who has no backing and value.
With all the above doubts, Wei Guogong naturally refused to let go of his mother's and brothers' proposal, but for the sake of Fang Huaiying's personal safety, he finally took a step back and changed his words to say that he did not plan to put him in his name.
He even beat him up, saying that his mother should not have seen him come back with a child, so she thought he was going to pass by, so she hurriedly reported to his brothers.
Wei Guogong said that he just saw that this child had a poor background and a talent for martial arts, so he would bring him home and raise him carefully, not to give him the position of the son.
With a straight face, he emphasized the importance of the position of the prince of the country, saying that he would never so rashly determine the future commander of the 200,000 army.
His mother and brothers were skeptical, but in order not to completely provoke Mao Weiguogong, they still didn't make any more trouble in the end.
During the stalemate between the two parties, the imperial court suddenly issued a holy decree to let Wei Guogong pass his step-heir and send his son to Beijing to read with him, and Wei Guogong conveyed the content of the holy decree to his brothers and nephews, and directly asked them who wanted to enter Beijing to be the prince.
Of course, Wei Guogong's brothers and nephews did not want to enter Beijing as hostages, they fought for the position of the prince, in the final analysis, what they fought for was the power and the army represented by this position, and now that the power and the army are gone, whoever is the prince will enter Beijing as a hostage, and they will continue to grab this position if they are stupid.
Everyone died down, no longer fighting openly and secretly, but tacitly brushed the finger at Fang Huaiying, who had been living in the Weiguo Mansion for three years.
Fang Huaiying, as Wei Guogong's first impression of him at the beginning, is indeed a rare good child, Wei Guogong and Wei Guogong's eldest daughter Fang Huaixuan like him very much, Wei Guogong has even been taking him with him to teach him personally, if you ignore the old lady of Wei Guogong Mansion who always gives him a look, then he has a really good life in Wei Guogong.
However, the more he liked Wei Guogong, the more Wei Guogong's wife, brothers and nephews looked at him unpleasantly, no, finally there was a chance to kick him away, and the group immediately opened fire on him.
They unanimously recommended Fang Huaiying to enter Beijing, if it was not clearly written in the holy decree, the person who entered Beijing must be the prince of Weiguo, and they even wanted to let Fang Huaiying enter Beijing only in the name of the heir of Weiguo, not the prince.
Wei Guogong was not surprised at all by their reactions and behaviors, after all, it was not the first time he had seen their mercenary intentions.
If there is a benefit, they will move forward, and if they want to take responsibility, they will go back, and they have not changed at all for more than ten years.
On the contrary, Fang Huaiying is a child, and he has no intention of shirking responsibility. After being "mentioned" by the old lady of the Weiguo Mansion, he took the initiative to find the Duke of Wei Guo and expressed his willingness to enter Beijing by order.
Wei Guogong touched his adopted son's head and told him for the first time about his follow-up arrangements for him and Fang Huaixuan.
He has an old injury, and if he is lucky, he will have no problem living for more than ten years, but if he is unlucky and suddenly the old injury attacks, he will probably not live for two years.
His daughter has grown up and can get married, and the husband and husband he chose for her have been seen by him for many years, and he can rest assured that Fang Huaixuan will be entrusted to her future husband.
But Fang Huaiying is still young, if he dies suddenly, Fang Huaiying will inherit his duke title and military power, and it is still unknown whether he can live safely until he is buried.
Wei Guogong will not underestimate the evil thoughts and greed in human nature, rather than letting Fang Huaiying stay in the Weiguo Mansion, facing his brothers and nephews like jackals, tigers and leopards, Wei Guogong feels that he might as well take this opportunity to send Fang Huaiying to the capital.
If he lives for a day, Fang Huaiying, the prince of Weiguo, will be able to live a better day in the capital, if he dies, Fang Huaiying will lose his role in balancing him at most and become an outcast.
But even so, the Lu clan has eight out of ten. Nine would not deliberately kill a distant cousin who was originally his temporary successor.
His life will not be threatened, and he has a family business in his hand, not to mention that Fang Huaiying is rich and wealthy in the future, and it is no problem to live his own small life in peace.
In the plot of the original book, Fang Huaiying did survive safely in the end.
Although because he is actually only Wei Guogong's distant nephew, many people have preconceived ideas that Wei Guogong succeeded him and made him the son of the world, just to let him prevent disasters for his own nephew, and also looked down on him because of this and excluded him openly and secretly, but in addition to these innocuous contempt and exclusion, Fang Huaiying did not experience all kinds of swords and swords that he should have experienced.
Unlike the eldest prince and the original Yu Zizhen, not only did the life be thrilling, but the final ending was also capitalized and not good, which can be said to be miserable.
Of course, with the help of the system in this life, Yu Zizhen will never let himself and the eldest prince follow in the footsteps of the original owner.
Time gradually passed in Yu Zizhen's repetitive daily routine of checking in to the Zheng family's restaurant every few days, and the rest of the time taking the lead in involution, she didn't mind being ridiculed, no matter what Lu Heng and Wan Jingrong said, she was as diligent and serious as ever.
It is worth mentioning that with her continuous efforts, the relationship between her and the eldest prince has gradually become closer.
From just greeting each other at the beginning, to later when she secretly brought out-of-palace food to the eldest prince, pestered the eldest prince to ask about schoolwork, and now she can naturally help the eldest prince push a wheelchair, Yu Zizhen only took less than two months.