Emperor: When will the Seventh Prince rebel? I will open the city gates to welcome him.

The Qilin Guards in the Hall of Supreme Harmony responded respectfully:

"Reporting to your majesty! The eldest prince is safe and sound. He was rescued by the Prince of Zhenbei from the Yunzhou rebel leader Li Haicheng!"

"Humph! Yunzhou Emperor Hongli has been rescued. Why save him? He has already been proclaimed emperor, why hasn't the King of Zhenbei executed Hongli?"

Qilin Guard did not answer. This was not a question he could answer.

Emperor Dingdingwen showed a fiery look,

Dafeng has the King of the North, Hongxuan, whose kingdom is secure.

"Where is the King of Zhenbei? Why hasn't he returned to the capital to report? I want to hear Xuan'er tell me how he pacified the rebels in the southern border of Yunzhou."

The Qilin Guard responded respectfully:

"Although the King of Zhenbei killed 380,000 Yunzhou rebels and captured 80,000 rebels, the situation in southern Xinjiang is still unstable. Now the King of Zhenbei has sent a large army to Yunzhou to deal with the aftermath."

Yunzhou is a border city in the southern border, just like Beiyan is a border city in the northern border.

The situation in southern Xinjiang is more complicated than that in northern Xinjiang.

Because there are hundreds of thousands of mountains in southern Xinjiang, it is still unknown how many southern barbarians and bandits there are in the hundreds of thousands of mountains.

The people of Yunzhou are alienated from the Dafeng Kingdom, and the King of the North must deal with the issue properly before he can return to the capital to report.

It is possible that just as he leaves, the incident that occurred when General Zhaowu De Nianzhi was poisoned to death by a sorcerer might happen again.

Prince Hongze suddenly knelt on the ground and said loudly:

"Father! Zhenbei King Hongli is just making an excuse. He doesn't want to return to the capital to report. He must want to be crowned emperor in Yunzhou. He is in cahoots with the emperor of Yunzhou! This must be the case, this must be the case!"

The Qilin Guard, who was kneeling on one knee, said loudly:

"Your Majesty! In terms of loyalty to Dafeng, the King of Zhenbei is second to none. With his weak power, the King of Zhenbei successfully resisted the invasion of 300,000 cavalrymen from the Northern Shang Kingdom in the impoverished northern border. He led only 5,000 soldiers to quell the rebellion of more than 400,000 Yunzhou rebels in the southern border. His military exploits are outstanding, and his loyalty to Dafeng is known to the world and witnessed by the sun and the moon!"

"The King of Zhenbei has done his best, regardless of his own safety, and has been trapped in the dangerous place of Yunzhou. What he has done is for the long-term stability of the Great Feng Kingdom. But what can we do? The prince actually slandered the King of Zhenbei in this way. I ask, in this world, who can be like the King of Zhenbei?"

Emperor Dingwen Hongjing heard the loyal words of Qilin Guard.

He picked up the imperial edict that had fallen to the ground and threw it directly at the kneeling Crown Prince Hongze:

"Asshole! This is the rotten idea that your prince came up with! Ceding the power of Yunzhou to the rebel army and asking me to recognize the status of the Yunzhou rebel army is like drinking poison to quench thirst, which will lead to the destruction of the country!"

"If you have one tenth of Hongxuan, no! No! If you have one percent of Hongxuan's talent, I will be at ease handing over the Dafeng Kingdom to you. The achievements and merits created by the King of Zhenbei are beyond even my reach, yet you slander them! Get out of the Hall of Supreme Harmony and return to the East Palace to reflect on your mistakes!"

Prince Hongze hurriedly picked up the imperial edict that had fallen to the ground:

"Yes! Father! The prince should return to the East Palace to reflect on his mistakes!"

Crown Prince Hongze retreated from the Hall of Supreme Harmony in embarrassment.

Emperor Dingwen looked at the disappointing appearance of Crown Prince Hongze, and felt deeply disappointed: "I absolutely cannot hand over my kingdom to such a waste. He actually came up with such a stupid method of issuing an imperial edict."

If there hadn’t been the battle report of my Northern King Hongxuan destroying the Yunzhou rebels.

The only solution for the Dafeng Dynasty was to use the Zhao'an.

"Qilin Guard! King Zhenbei is handling his funeral in Yunzhou?"

"Your Majesty, it is indeed so!"

Emperor Jingwen, Hongjing, picked up the imperial pen and wrote an imperial edict on the table. Shen Qian, the chief eunuch in front of the emperor, took the imperial edict and handed it to the Qilin Guard.

"Give this imperial edict to our Northern King!"

"I humbly obey my orders!"

The Qilin Guard took the imperial edict and left the Hall of Supreme Harmony.

Emperor Dingwen Hongxuan heaved a sigh of relief and sat back on his throne. He never expected that the rebellion of hundreds of thousands of troops in Yunzhou in southern Xinjiang would be resolved in this way.

Just a few days ago, he received information from the Jinyi Secret Guard that Xiangzhou had also fallen and the situation was extremely dangerous.

Emperor Dingwen Hongjing was thinking.

"How did Hong Xuan turn the tide? How did he command the 150,000 newly recruited soldiers to fight against the vicious mountain bandit rebels?"

Even a person with great military talent would not be able to command new soldiers in battle.

The name of Zhenbei King Hongxuan, the military god, spread throughout the entire Dafeng Kingdom.

In the court, the reputation and prestige of the King of Zhenbei far exceeded that of the emperor himself.

Yet all this.

Emperor Dingwen was delighted, after all, the one who surpassed him was not a foreign minister, but his own son.

Hongze from the Eastern Palace of the Imperial City had a ferocious look on his face.

He held the imperial edict in his hand and it made a clattering sound.

"Hongxuan! How on earth did he do it? Father will never pass the throne to me. I am the crown prince in name only."

"Bang!"

"Bang, dang, dang!"

Prince Hongze was so angry that he smashed the porcelain.

At this time, Queen Zhu, wearing a phoenix crown and looking elegant and graceful, came to the Crown Prince's Mansion in the Eastern Palace. When she saw her prince, she smashed the precious imperial porcelain.

"Zer! Why is this happening? Who provoked you?"

Prince Hongze showed a look of despair:

"Mother! Zhenbei Prince Hongxuan has made great military achievements. I am afraid that in the near future, my son's position as crown prince will be lost. Even if! Even if I am the crown prince now but have no merits or virtues, how can my father pass the throne to me!"

"Today! My father told me to get out of the Hall of Supreme Harmony! My father is extremely disappointed in me."

When Empress Zhu heard what Prince Hongze said, her expression changed drastically:

"My son, tell your mother everything about the Hall of Supreme Harmony in detail! Do not leave out anything, and do not conceal anything."

Crown Prince Hongze carefully told Queen Zhu what had happened in the Hall of Supreme Harmony.

Queen Zhu naturally knew the current situation of Dafeng Kingdom, and the danger posed by the rebels in southern Xinjiang was extremely serious.

When she heard that King Zhenbei had used 150,000 new recruits to destroy more than 400,000 rebels in Yunzhou, killing 380,000 and capturing 80,000, such a record was unheard of.

Empress Zhu's shocked expression was the same as Emperor Dingwen's when he heard about the Qilin Guard, full of disbelief.

"Your Majesty! You will not pass the throne to Ze'er!"

Queen Zhu also made the same judgment.

Almost all the ministers in the court made such a judgment.

The emperors of every generation in the empire hoped that the successors they chose would make the ruling dynasty more prosperous.

The military exploits and achievements made by the King of Zhenbei were enough for him to inherit the throne and become the king of a country.

Queen Zhu's eyes were slightly cold:

"If Ze'er wants to become the emperor of Dafeng Kingdom, there is only one way now!"

Prince Hongze was distraught. He felt deeply powerless about the achievements made by Zhenbei King Hongxuan.

Queen Zhu said to the palace maid:

"Jinxiu! Take all the palace maids, eunuchs, and guards to the garden. No one is allowed to come out without my order."

The personal maid Jinxiu bowed respectfully to Queen Zhu:

"As ordered! I will do as the Queen commands immediately!"

Wait until the personal maid Jinxiu called everyone to the garden courtyard.

The door of the prince's study was closed, leaving only Empress Zhu and Crown Prince Hongze.

Queen Zhu looked at her son Hongze and said:

"If Ze'er continues like this, do you think he can still become the emperor?"

"Mother! I feel powerless. I will never be able to take the throne!"

Queen Zhu said bluntly:

"Zer! If you want to ascend to the throne, there is only one way for you now!"

"The only way? What is the Queen Mother's way?"

Prince Hongze couldn't wait to ask Queen Zhu.

Queen Zhu looked into Hongze's eyes and said:

"Ze'er! The only way is that your father will fall seriously ill in two days! He will never be able to recover! Ze'er, take advantage of the fact that Zhenbei King Hongxuan has not returned to the capital and ascend the throne!"

Prince Hongze stared at his mother in a daze, his pupils shrank slightly, and his expression showed unprecedented fear.

suddenly!

His lips were trembling, and the corners of his mouth curled up unconsciously, revealing an unprecedented expression of desire and excitement.