Princess Promotion

Fu Hongxuan raised his eyelids slightly and looked at Fu Jingrui. After a moment of silence, he reached into his arms and took out a sachet.

There are a few bamboo leaves embroidered on the sachet, and it can be seen that it is an unfinished product because two of the leaves on it are just outlines.

Although it is a semi-finished product, the edges and corners of the sachet have become fuzzy, the embroidery thread has faded, and you can even see dark red stains and spots on the sachet.

These details are enough to show that this semi-finished sachet is quite old, but it has always been carefully kept.

Fu Hongxuan looked at the sachet in his hand and said, "Mother is a thoughtful and gentle person. If she really wanted to go with you, she would have finished embroidering this sachet instead of leaving it half-finished."

Fu Jingrui didn't expect that there was a loophole and Fu Hongxuan actually noticed it because of a small sachet.

Back then, he faked his own death and escaped. He found a male corpse that was completely unrecognizable but had a body shape similar to his own, and had it sent back to Yundu City.

When the news came back, Zhou Xuanli believed it halfway, but he still had some doubts.

After all, the body had been disfigured beyond recognition, so it was possible that there was a possibility of mistaken identification.

It was not until Fu Jingrui's coffin was transported back to Yundu City that Fu Jingrui's concubine, filled with grief and anger, hanged herself in the mourning hall that night.

Only then did Zhou Xuanli believe that Fu Jingrui was really dead. If Fu Jingrui was faking his death, how could he be willing to let the woman he loved most be buried with him?

Everyone knew that Fu Jingrui loved his mistress terribly, so when Fu Jingrui started planning to fake his death to get away.

Aunt Zhang's fate was already determined.

Only if Aunt Zhang died for love would everyone be sure that Fu Jingrui was really dead.

Fu Jingrui looked at Fu Hongxuan with complicated eyes. Zhou Xuanli had tried to get rid of him many times in the past.

Fu Jingrui realized that a battle between him and Zhou Xuanli would come sooner or later, and if he surrendered, he would surely die.

Of course, Fu Jingrui was unwilling to be inferior to others.

But rebellion is not easy, even though Fu Jingrui currently holds military power.

It is also related to the Yun family, the head of the civil service, but it must be said that there must be a cause for every effect.

The scene of favoring the concubine was so realistic that it deceived Zhou Xuanli and also made the Yun family suspicious of Fu Jingrui.

Although he said privately that he would discuss major plans with the Yun family, these were just verbal promises.

Their Yun family had actually paid a heavy price for a legitimate daughter, but now the legitimate daughter they had carefully cultivated had become the laughing stock of the entire Yun capital. How could the Yun family not feel resentful?

This also led to the fact that although Fu Jingrui established a relationship with the Yun family, he was never able to get actual support from the Yun family.

What is the most important thing about starting a rebellion?

That must be silver!

How can you forge weapons, buy horses, and raise private soldiers without money?

Although Fu Jingrui had some wealth, Zhou Xuanli kept a close watch on him, so he had no chance to make money.

Secondly, even if there is a chance, the money earned by spending time and energy is not even a fraction of the wealthy Yun family.

Fu Jingrui realized that his current situation was too passive, and his every move was being closely watched by Zhou Xuanli.

If Zhou Xuanli noticed anything wrong, the chances of winning would be very low if he started fighting directly.

Fortunately, he had almost won over the hearts of the people in his army, so he was able to escape directly.

In order to divert Zhou Xuanli's attention, he also tried to win over the Yun family, asking them to pay him money to secretly recruit soldiers.

Aunt Zhang is Fu Jingrui's sincerity to the Yun family.

When the time is ripe, we will raise our troops and start the rebellion, and achieve success in one fell swoop.

According to Fu Jingrui's calculations, after his death, his old subordinates in the army would be immediately disbanded by Zhou Xuanli and dispersed to other armies.

But it doesn't matter, he had planned all this from the beginning, and the old soldiers scattered among other armies were his best eyes and ears.

In this way, he could infiltrate other armies and obtain the defense map without any effort.

Once the rebellion breaks out, these old subordinates will become his most loyal spies.

Unfortunately, despite all his calculations, he did not expect those generals to form a united front with Zhou Xuanli.

After Fu Jingrui faked his death, these people started fighting among themselves over how to divide up the army Fu Jingrui left behind.

In the end, his own son took advantage of the opportunity and successfully took charge of the army.

After Fu Hongxuan joined the army, Fu Jingrui's plan was completely disrupted.

Fu Jingrui switched from being open to being covert, and the benefit he got was that he no longer had to worry about military expenses.

Later, Fu Hongxuan made rapid progress in the army, and Fu Jingrui also secretly gathered some troops, but they were still short of success.

Seeing that the success rate of the rebellion was too low, the Yun family has been trying to stop Fu Jingrui from launching an uprising.

The reason why the Yun family was willing to conspire with Fu Jingrui was because they stood on the wrong side in the fight for the throne, and Zhou Xuanli was also eyeing the Yun family covetously.

Zhou Xuanli's approach to Fu Jingrui can be said to be a decisive one, but his approach to the Yun family is completely the opposite, choosing to proceed step by step.

Therefore, the Yun family did not have Zhou Xuanli's sense of urgency and naturally did not want to take big risks.

As the saying goes, the scholar's rebellion failed after ten years.

Fu Jingrui looked at Fu Hongxuan with complicated eyes, and it really proved the saying that man proposes, God disposes.

Fu Hongxuan put away the sachet, looked at Fu Jingrui and said with a smile: "Father, I haven't seen you for many years. I didn't expect that you still have the same original intention!"

Fu Jingrui naturally heard that Fu Hongxuan was mocking him. After all his scheming, he still had nothing in the end.

Fu Jingrui smiled and shook his head, looking at Fu Hongxuan with satisfaction and said, "This is the career I have fought for my father all my life, so I must persevere!"

Fu Hongxuan nodded in agreement and said, "As the saying goes, a son inherits his father's business. Father, you are getting old, otherwise you would pass the throne to me. I will definitely not let you down!"

Fu Jingrui smiled and continued, "It's natural, but as a parent, I can't help but want to do more for my children. You are my proudest son. A hundred years from now, everything I have will be yours."

Li Yi, who had been playing the invisible man nearby, said: Wasn’t the situation tense just now, and was about to settle the grudges and hatreds of the past few years?

Why did the style suddenly change, and the father started to be loving and the son filial?

Fu Hongxuan asked casually, "Oh! Your proudest son? It seems you haven't been idle these years!"

Fu Jingrui neither admitted nor denied it, but just looked at Fu Hongxuan with a faint smile.

Fu Hongxuan slowly looked at the screen behind Fu Jingrui and said with his thin lips: "Isn't it! Zhou Chengxi...shouldn't it be Fu Chengxi, my half-brother!"