Quick Wear: To get home quickly, do the task

Humph! Whether you're just trying to be clever or just feeling disheartened, you'll see clearly in two months! And I'm the master of this palace!

[Host, why on earth is King Yan here? ]

"I guess he wants to live off his wife."

[What? The King of Yan wants to live off his wife?]

"Yeah, and you want to live off me!

The food and weapons in the barracks disappeared. King Yan didn't care about anything else, but he had to find a way to get the food first, otherwise he wouldn't be able to feed those people!

Moreover, this time, he couldn't let his mother and brother know about it, so naturally no one would help him, and he wouldn't dare to sell the shop under his name openly."

"So his best option now is to take away the food in the mansion and transfer the money from Aunt Qiu's shop. Even so, he probably won't be able to hold out for a few days.

But I have to do it!

But if all the food in the palace was transported away, what would happen to the people in the palace? So at this time, he thought of the princess.

Prince Yan believed that the princess must be eager to take back the housekeeping power, so after taking over, even if she found any problems, she would find a way to fill them herself.

"Host, I have a question. While rations for two thousand soldiers are a considerable expense, he's a prince. Doesn't he have people working under him specifically to collect money for him? Isn't this a typical pattern for a prince who wants to seize power?"

“This really doesn’t exist in the original owner’s memory.

The main thing is that King Yan is lucky!

Initially, both the Empress and the Crown Prince trusted and loved him. The Empress, in particular, felt she had neglected the Prince of Yan, so she was very generous with him financially. Furthermore, the Prince of Yan's maternal family, also a well-established and powerful family, also provided him with a great deal of money.

That’s why we were able to get so much valuables from the warehouse last time.”

“In the previous life of the original owner, even if the palace hadn’t been robbed, Concubine Qiu also started doing business during this period. With the protection of Prince Yan, and Concubine Qiu really making a lot of good things, she actually earned a lot of money.

So the King of Yan really doesn't have any stigma in this regard."

[So, he's really lucky! But the King of Yan is so cold-hearted, how come so many people are kind to him?]

"Maybe he's good at pretending! Didn't he pretend to be very nice to the original owner?

But the King of Yan is not only cold-hearted, but also narrow-minded!

You said he tried to win over the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery, but he wasn't willing. Couldn't he have tried to win over someone else? Even if the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery had some prestige in the army, he had already retired due to injury.

The original owner's second brother, although a talented general, still needed to grow. For the past ten years, our dynasty had been relatively peaceful and prosperous, with few major wars on the border, so the original owner's second brother hadn't achieved any significant feats.

No matter how you look at it, the Zhongyong Marquis family isn't in a position to control the situation, so how could they be manipulated? They couldn't even win them over, and in the end, they killed their entire family? What kind of hatred or grudge is this?"

Speaking of this, Yuan Feng really felt that the King of Yan was sick.

[Host, I recently learned a new concept that seems to be applicable here! ]

"What concept?"

“Sunk costs!”

"......" No, this is how the concept is used? Yuan Feng was a little confused for a moment.

[Host, don’t disbelieve it!]

Think about it, since the Prince of Yan started to have ideas about the throne, the first step he took was to marry the original owner. It took him another three years for the original owner to give birth to the eldest son and daughter of the palace.

Then he found an opportunity to go to the border and spent two years trying to win over Zheng Ran.

"Wait a minute, first of all, he married the original owner because he asked for it. Besides, whoever becomes the princess must give birth to a legitimate son, right? Unless the princess is unable to conceive!

Besides, he went to the border not entirely to win over the original owner's second brother.

The main reason was that the prince was weak, so he went to the border to help the prince entertain the troops.

Originally, this was a visit to the troops, and he would be back in a few months. But his staff said he should stay longer so that he could have some military experience. So he's only been here for two years, right?

[This is what happened, but King Yan doesn’t think so!]

He thinks that life at the border is so hard. If I didn't want to win you over, I could have found a reason to push this matter off. Why would I suffer here?

In the mind of the Prince of Yan, he had spent nearly six years on the family of the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery, but in the end, both the Marquis and his son were so ungrateful. Do you think the Prince of Yan could tolerate this injustice?

"You do have a point! But when it comes to sunk costs, psychologically, isn't it true that the more you pay, the harder it is to extricate yourself, and then you continue to pay?

According to your logic, shouldn't the King of Yan continue to win over the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery, which would be better for the original owner?"

【this......

Is it because the Prince of Yan has regained consciousness, or perhaps been awakened by someone or something, that he is now angry and humiliated? Otherwise, why would he frame the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery for collaborating with the enemy after ascending the throne?]

After the system finished speaking, fearing that Yuan Feng might not believe it, it added, "Host, believe me! That's it!"

I really believed your lies! Why would I discuss this with a traitor? No, why would I want to study the mentality of a scumbag?

Speaking of it, this scumbag Prince Yan is really lucky!

With the protection of the Queen and the Prince, he grew up healthy and well!

As a result, I don't know why I felt that the queen was partial to the prince and neglected him a lot, so I had the idea that if my brother could be the prince, I could be the prince too.

He took two steps to do this.

He first tried to win over the family of Marquis Zhongyong. According to his own understanding, it took him six years but he still failed!

He also raised two thousand private soldiers in the mountains outside the city, but they were never used.

Because the prince died three years later, and due to health reasons, he left no offspring!

Immediately afterwards, Prince Yu forced the emperor to abdicate, but was caught by the emperor and empress who were well prepared. The emperor also passed away at this time, and Prince Yan succeeded in taking the throne directly!

It can be said that even if he does nothing, the throne will still be his!

Therefore, the entire process of Prince Yan ascending to the throne was a smooth transition in the court, and in order to show his mercy, many of Prince Yu's followers were spared... at least for the time being!

A world where only the original owner's family was harmed was achieved just like that...

But what did the original owner's family do wrong?

As a minister, is it wrong to not be wooed by the prince? Not only is it not wrong, it is also a beautiful moral sentiment! If the court is full of people like this, how much less worry can the emperor have!

Moreover, after Prince Yan ascended the throne, Marquis Zhongyong was also worried that his previous refusal would make Prince Yan dislike them, so he directly asked the original owner's second brother to return to the capital and hand over his military power on the grounds of injury!

As for the original owner, she was imprisoned in the Buddhist temple while in the palace. After the Prince of Yan became emperor, he did not give the original owner a title and directly sent her to the cold palace.

Although the Duke of Zhongyong was extremely sad about all this, he dared not say a word for the sake of his family.

That’s sensible enough!