When Shi Yi thinks about Xianyu, someone always comes to disturb her.

Xie Jiu was unwilling to believe that the Chen family would have any rebellious intentions, let alone the emperor. No one was worried that General Chen would have any ulterior motives, but the shadow of the Chen family was revealed everywhere in this matter.

It is easy to fall into a misunderstanding here. The Chen family is not one person, but a whole. There are more than twenty generals and officers, both big and small, who come from the Chen family and its branches.

The loyalty of the Chen family does not mean that all the members of the branch are the same. What if the Fourth Prince colluded with the Chen family of the branch, and then used the evidence to kill all nine generations of the Chen family to threaten General Chen? The consequence would be the current situation.

On the surface, General Chen is still a loyal General Chen, but in private he has been forced to serve the Fourth Prince.

Even if he did not directly surrender to the Fourth Prince, he was coerced by him to do things against his conscience, such as concealing the news that the Fourth Prince was mining the ore in the border town.

If what Wei Dong said is true, there are both iron mines in the border town that can be used to manufacture weapons, and gold mines that can provide the Fourth Prince with a steady supply of financial support. Why should the Fourth Prince worry about not being able to accomplish his great cause?

If that’s the case, why hasn’t the Fourth Prince raised the banner yet?

Is there any key condition missing?

Behind the Fourth Prince is the Fourth Princess's family. Their family is a literary giant that teaches and educates people all over the world. Half of the people in the court are more or less related to their family.

This is also the reason why the Fourth Prince has tried to commit suicide many times, but the Emperor has not yet killed him. It is because his backers are too strong, and he cannot move easily, unless he can ignore the turmoil in the court and act on his own.

But the emperor is not confident that he can afford this price yet.

Therefore, even though they knew that the Fourth Prince had done many wrong things and had participated in the assassination attempt on Prince Dongshan last time, and the evidence was all over the court, there were still many people in the court who protected the Fourth Prince.

The emperor was so angry that he roared in the court for the first time without any regard for decency. In the end, he could not kill King Dongshan because there was insufficient evidence and his life or death was unknown.

The only option was to confine the Fourth Prince in the palace and kill all the known participants.

Therefore, the emperor felt very aggrieved. He knew that his brother had evil intentions, but he could not punish him according to the law. I am afraid his back teeth must be broken.

But who can blame it?

Does he dare to say that this is the mess his good father left him?

He had made clear arrangements for the concubines that my father had favored back then, and even their children had the most powerful backers they could find.

It was to prevent the later emperors from harming his own flesh and blood. Haha! It's really touching.

Father, you really have planned everything out. Is the current situation what you wanted to see?

Now that the princes have a backer, they dare to dream of the highest position. They are not afraid even if they fail, because you have prepared a shelter for them. Anyway, they will not die.

As a result, the country is now in turmoil, the army's morale is unstable, and the treasury is empty. His words have an echo. Haha, his good father wanted to enjoy all the blessings when he was alive.

Before his death, he even renovated his mausoleum, draining out the country's last bit of savings. He didn't care at all about how the emperor would be able to keep his throne in the future!

Prince Dongshan felt sorry for his brother in his heart. What was the point of being an emperor like him?

Think about the princes favored by their father. None of them are decent people. Some of them exploit the people, while others have wolfish ambitions. On the contrary, the princes who are not valued are relatively decent.

Xie Jiu turned over gently and listened carefully to Wei Dong's regular breathing. He forced himself to go to sleep quickly as he had to set off on his journey tomorrow!

But he just couldn't fall asleep. These annoying things kept popping up in his head involuntarily. When he was a child, he also expected to be favored by his father, but unfortunately, he was never taken seriously by his father.

So now, seeing the children he raised with care turning against him one by one, he must be even more angry!

I don’t know whether the emperor’s education was a failure or success, or whether he just wanted all his children to become emperors?

Haha! How ironic!

On the second day, Xie Jiu had two big dark circles under his eyes. Wei Dong was quite surprised and asked in confusion:

"Did you go out to race horses last night?" This ridicule was a bit hurtful. Xie Jiu rolled his eyes at Wei Dong and got into the carriage prepared for Wei Dong to catch up on his sleep.

Wei Dong shook his head, not knowing why Xie Jiu couldn't sleep. He was very busy in the morning, and when he went out, there were a lot of things waiting for him to make decisions.

It’s time for him to respond to the women brought back from the bandit’s den.

If he walked too fast, his injured shoulder would ache, so he had to walk slowly even in a hurry. He said hello to the guard and walked into the woman's tent.

The women had already packed up and were waiting for his arrival. Weidong asked:

"Have you thought about it?"

The women did not speak. After a while of silence, a woman in blue came out and bowed to Wei Dong, then spoke tentatively:

"Master, we probably can't go back home. Can we follow your caravan to make a living?" The women who had been robbed were not welcomed when they returned home. What's worse, they might have no way to survive after returning home.

They saw that the caravan had strict discipline and no one harassed them, and Weidong seemed to be a decent person, so they wanted to change their lives.

Go to a place where no one knows you and start a new life.

Wei Dong frowned and thought for a while before answering: "As you can see from our caravan, there are no girls. I cannot promise you this."

Seeing the rejection, the girls became panicked. If the caravan didn't want them, then what would they do in the future?

Weidong sympathized with their situation and was willing to provide them with some suggestions. He suggested:

"I can take you to the border town, which is not a small city. You can make a living there."

The woman in blue lowered her head and whispered, "Sir, we are women. We have no household registration and can only become playthings in brothels. Although... although we... but we don't want to..."

Although it was intermittent, Weidong understood her implicit expression.

The girls were raped by the bandits not voluntarily, they did not want to end up in brothels and become decadent.

Weidong knew they had misunderstood, and quickly added:

"Girls, you misunderstood. What I meant was that our caravan has a transit station in the border town, which can provide you with shelter. Whether you want to get married or find a job in the future, you will not be bullied."

The woman in blue suddenly raised her head, burst into tears of joy, and asked tremblingly: "Sir, is what you said true? Can you protect us women who don't have household registration?"

And they have experienced things that are hard to bear looking back on.