A piece of the prince's edict made the Kyoto aristocratic circle blow up, first the prince's mansion, and then the inner courtyard of the palace, the royal relatives and nobles sang and I appeared, and used all their tricks, just to exempt the descendants of the descendants from the frontier and not to serve as soldiers in the same camp with those orphans who lacked education in their eyes.

The prince was unusually weak, and for the first time in front of the magnates, he showed his grandeur, no matter what reason you use, the reply is always a few words, and after speaking, he will serve tea and send off the guests, and the secret guard will not help but say that he will be half invited and half forced to leave the house or rely on the old and sell the old, or spoil and spoil the pampered, or cry bitterly to show mercy.

"Imperial decree, all men over the age of sixteen have the obligation of military service, the law of nobility, stand up in times of crisis and be a model for civilians, this prince is not very self-conscious, and he does not forcibly ask to go with the children's camp, and the sons and daughters of each family can not go, but if they do not fulfill their legal obligations, how can they establish a dynasty as an official, if they can't be the first for the people of the world, what face can they enjoy the honor of nobility!"

The prince's mansion could not get the desired result, and the inspector of the inspection office came to the door, and said politely, asking when he would go to the standard camp to report for duty, so as to make arrangements as soon as possible, and the special treatment that the children of the nobles should have must be prepared in advance, but the magnates heard another taste from it, and they did not report within the time limit, and then they were afraid that they would lose their aristocratic privileges for life.

The royal relatives who met the old king drooped their faces when they left the palace gate.

"If the war spreads, Lone Shang wants to drive the expedition in person, you have gone out with me in the past, made great achievements, enjoyed high-ranking officials, and more children of founding heroes, fought for the country for generations, the four kings of the border counties, which year was not busy with military affairs. This time I went to make a small fuss, there are many tigers in the door, there are no ordinary people in the Hou Mansion, but I am afraid of the enemy like a tiger, are you old, or they are too young! Go and stay voluntarily, lonely and not forced, there are hundreds of nobles in Kyoto, an example is opened outside the law, each family follows each other, you are all relatives and important ministers, and you will not let the lonely and difficult to do. ”

The old king's tricks are much hotter than the prince's, and he sent away a few groups of intercessors, so he ordered the emperor to hang the imperial list in front of the thirteen city gates in Kyoto, and the nobles who went to the standard camp to report were added immediately, and the people of the capital watched every day, pointing and pointing like a steel needle in the back of the nobles, and the face would be disgraceful if they reported a few days later, if they were ranked behind, the prestige accumulated over the years was bound to be little left, and the nobles who lost the hearts of the people could survive for a long time in the empire.

King Duguxing, the third son of the old king, the half-brother of the crown prince, sits on the throne of the beautiful main hall of the palace, his eyes swept over the faces of his cronies, and after listening to the complaints and pleads for a long time and stupid ambitions, his face is naturally not very good-looking.

"Your Royal Highness, the old minister has been fighting with the army since he was a child, and the remnants of the dead crawling out of the pile of dead, why not be afraid of its sunset iron ride, but the peaceful years are not easy to come by, and the gap is easy to open and difficult to end, not to mention the prince's spring and autumn period, if this battle is a complete victory, who else can stop him from inheriting the throne. The old minister and the prince have no personal grudges, if the prince has a queen, who dares to say this, the old minister is the first to screw off his head, Qinghui has been inherited for thousands of years, and there has never been a queen to govern the country, and the woman is outgoing. ”

Six or seven people under the throne echoed the voice, and a few cronies in military uniforms were even more eager to try, and the captain of the city guard who held the real power was not of high rank, but he played a pivotal role in Kyoto, and the wealthy families did not dare to provoke easily.

"On the side of the Praetorian Guard, I also contacted several captains, and they promised that as long as the king did not issue an edict, the edict to the prince would be deliberately delayed at that time, so as to allow us time to completely eliminate the few guards in the prince's mansion and capture the prince before the three battalion guards arrived. ”

The speaker is dressed in a green robe and dressed as a civilian, and his narrow eyes flash a sharp cold light from time to time, he is the number one think tank of the British Prince's Mansion, known as the Dugu worry-free of Zhihu, the son of the royal side branch, the ancestor lost his title for some reason, and became a commoner from his grandfather's generation, and he can only receive barely enough money and food from the royal family every year. Dugu is worry-free and full of knowledge and wisdom, if he participates in the examination of the Ministry of Civil Affairs to select civil officials, he is recognized as the leader of the Gordon, he has been disdainful for many years, and would rather eat coarse food than take the exam to gain fame, and the king of England and his acquaintance are also due to fate.

Five years ago, Dugu Wuwu traveled alone in the East China Sea of the empire, unfortunately contracted the cold, had no heavy money and could not erase the face of the rich family to ask for help, nested in the inn at a loss, seeing that the condition is getting worse and worse, between death and face is at war between heaven and man, it happens that the king of England inspected the sea frontier, heard about this matter and personally visited the door, spent a lot of money to find a good doctor to save his life, afterwards there was no intention of coercing the grace to repay, the broken knot handed over to the brothers commensurate, and the two became close friends.

"Mr. Worry-free also thinks that the time has come, this matter is feasible?" In five years, Zhihu helped the British king deal with countless difficulties, and established his prestige among his cronies early, seeing that he spoke in favor of besieging the prince's mansion, everyone felt even more excited, and some people's eyes shone brightly, as if the hereditary title of high-ranking official Houlu was within reach.

Dugu Wuwu smiled indifferently, his tone changed, and he stared at the eyes of the king and said: "Suddenly send troops, it is easy to besiege the prince's mansion, if you want to capture or kill the prince, it is tantamount to an idiot's dream! ”

Kyoto Phantom Prince, peerless swordsmanship, perennial stealth in the Prince's Mansion, according to legend, and the Crown Princess is the same sister, and some people secretly rumored that the Prince and her ambiguous relationship, but both of them are surnamed Dugu, although they have been separated by an unknown number of generations, they are still hindered by the royal face and are not allowed to marry openly, the apprentices of the Phantom Boy are all the children of the powerful in Kyoto, who dares to touch the prince lightly, Zhihu said politely, everyone only understood the true meaning of his words at this time, besieging the Prince's Mansion, purely self-defeating.

"In the opinion of the gentleman, what about this king?"

The British king is in his early thirties, although his mother has no queen's name, and the Xian imperial concubine has been in charge of the inner courtyard of the palace for many years, and has always had the upper hand in the battle, the son is expensive because of the mother, Dugu Xing was able to be crowned king at an early age, and Wen Taowu is the leader of the kings when he becomes an adult, the mother is proud of the son, and the status of the imperial concubine is more stable, the mother and son are corresponding inside and outside, and the momentum is faintly catching up with the prince, and there is no shortage of people secretly throwing themselves into the door in the Manchu Dynasty.

"As the crown prince, he has been in charge of the country for six years, so why should his position be consolidated by war, but there are advantages and disadvantages to everything, and if he loses this battle between the soldiers and the soldiers, how will His Majesty the King view the prince's martial arts? Hehe, hundreds of noble sons and daughters of Kyoto are flooded with the front line, and when the time comes, there will be heavy casualties, how will the nobles treat the future king? The old general patrols the border on behalf of the prince and takes charge of the military affairs of the border passes, which is a rare opportunity, and it is not difficult to lose this battle, and the more thoroughly he loses, the better. ”

"Sir is as wise as the sea, and this king is taught. Zhihu's words were exactly what he wanted, and the king of England admired it, and then looked at the military minister with a bad face, and gently comforted: "The old general will inevitably be implicated, and endure humiliation for several years, and then the king will return justice to you, and the hereditary princes and the royal family will take the blame together." ”

It is not easy to get out of the thief ship, the military minister is annoyed by Zhihu's cunning, losing the battle, the prince is only affected by his reputation, as a border patrol minister, whether his head can be kept is still between the two, and he heard the hereditary princes, and he made up his mind.

"The old minister is willing to serve the British king, and he will definitely live up to the high expectations of the prince. ”

The Minister of Military Affairs said goodbye, and the others left one after another when they had nothing to say, only the King of England and Zhihu were left in the main hall, the two looked at each other silently at first, and Zhihu sighed softly for a long time: "Brother Xing, you are a noble nobleman of Tianhuang, and you are a very human minister on the throne when you were young, with your wisdom, you will not be able to see that the odds of winning this game of chess are not great, why fight for the throne of hard work?"

The King of England let out a long sigh, his words did not match his age, and there was a desolate connotation in the heaviness.

"Brother worry-free, the prince's title is hereditary for three generations, if the descendants do not make great contributions to the country, and then gradually decrease, six or seven generations later, everyone is gone, brother today's misery, is the portrayal of the descendants of the younger brother, people live only a hundred years, how can I not fight! Even if I let go, how can the prince be resigned to the throne, and the momentum has been achieved, and no matter whether it is success or failure, it has to go on.

The guest and the host looked at each other speechlessly, but the Minister of Military Affairs who walked out of the British Prince's Mansion was stopped on the street, his thin body swayed, and the knights who guarded him retreated one after another, and the person who blocked the way was the Minister of Military Order, who was invited with a smile in civilian clothes, and the Minister of Military Affairs had no choice but to follow him into the tavern on the street.

On the dilapidated square table in the corner, a pot of wine and four small dishes, the two of them drank a few glasses, and the minister of military order wrote two lines of words on the table with his fingers dipped in wine, and then got up and left.

"The lord of Ying County will go to battle with the battalion, and if he is defeated, he will be destroyed. ”

The words left by the Minister of Military Command were like a thunderbolt from the sky, the tone was too familiar, Xuemei Island poisoned hundreds of relatives, the old king's methods were already terrifying when he was young, and he couldn't see the depth of the country for many years, these two sentences were obviously warnings. The palace conspiracy was leaked in less than an hour, and the military minister did not understand that the secret inspector of the inspection department among the king's cronies was most likely one of those captains. Now that the identity and attitude are exposed, if the lord of Ying County is defeated and has a mistake, he will not wait for the old king to make a move, and he will lose his only beloved daughter, the prince is desperate, the guards and the cavalry battalion are in power, and the several captains of the city guard army recruited by the British prince are far from enough to protect themselves, and I am afraid that nearly half of the magnates will fall above this court and become the martyrdom of the lord of Ying.

The Minister of Military Affairs and the nobles of Kyoto were worried about the future of the children of the family, but the children of the small and medium-sized nobles in the counties of the empire were overjoyed, and the prince's edict gave them the opportunity to regain the glory of their ancestors.

The front of the eighty-one mansion standard camp was overcrowded, in the past, the brocade robe slowly led to the noble children who were high, one by one the armor was distinct, the swords, guns, bows and shields were complete, leading the war horse with the guards, squeezing the head to compete for the quota in the camp, even if it was used as a miscellaneous servant, so that the orphans and soldiers were moved in their hearts, this is the imperial aristocracy, it turned out that the squirms were just a few people, the vast majority of people did not forget the honor of the nobility, when the empire faced a crisis, they were more enthusiastic than civilians to sign up for the army.

In front of the standard camp of Xiangyun County, the parents sent their children to the battlefield, and the beautiful woman parted with a bow and arrow, not like she was about to go to the battlefield, but like she was participating in the selection of officials.

"A good move, all the people are soldiers, if the king refuses, he will immediately offend countless nobles, block the way of wealth and wealth, no different from the sea of blood and hatred, this game the king loses convincingly. Quicksand Hou, you have also seen it, the people's hearts are terrifying, this battle must not be lost, the original plan is completely adjusted, you stay in Quicksand City, Ning Ze waits to lead the army to Jicui City, and this king personally sits in Fengyun City. ”

Quicksand waited for Chen Ang to be unwilling: "The soldiers are only going into battle, Prince He Lao and Old Marquis Ning Ze are out of the horse, and I am enough to deal with it alone." ”

King Xiangyun glanced at him and sighed: "I know that you feel sorry for your beloved son, and it is human nature to want to take revenge, but the timing is not right, don't give someone a handle, otherwise it will be too late to regret." Don't underestimate this move, think about it, half of the children of the nobles of the empire gathered in my Xiangyunbian City, if they were defeated and suffered heavy casualties, wouldn't they regard this king and you as enemies of life and death, under the anger of the masses, the empire took advantage of the situation to raise the banner of raising troops to take revenge, what excuse do we use to prevent them from entering the territory, and then the iron that has been shouting for countless years of cutting down the feudal domain will definitely become a fact. ”

"According to the king's military order, each city should give priority to the supply of the standard camp, and the soldiers and horses must be excellent, and those who violate the order will be beheaded. If the soldiers lose, our road will come to an end, the enemy must be in the same boat, but the Kyoto magnates are secretly making an obstacle, who lays out this game of chess, this king wants to see how he ends, you must not be confused in this joint, we can only deal with this game of chess silently. ”