Seeing Ge Zhengfeng leave angrily without even taking the tea bag with him, Song Xing finally couldn't help but said, "Master, isn't this... a bit..."
"Hey, what do you know?" Li Xian looked at the guards around him and said solemnly, "The theory of enriching a country through industry and commerce is the art of war for governing a country. Have you ever seen anyone spread his art of war to the world? These things must be kept secret, but what Mr. Ge said is something that everyone knows; these two things cannot be confused. Okay, Song Xing, you will deliver this tea to Mr. Ge. If you have a chance, you can tell Mr. Ge these words, otherwise forget it."
Song Xing picked up the tea leaves and chased after Ge Zhengfeng. When he saw Ge Zhengfeng, Ge Zhengfeng was still angry. He simply drove Song Xing away, but snatched the tea leaves away, leaving Song Xing speechless - the temper of an old man is something that young people cannot guess.
Just as Song Xing was about to leave and return to the mountain, he heard someone shouting at the gate guarding the imperial mausoleum, "Song Xing, another messenger is here."
When I arrived at the door, I saw two groups of people delivering letters. One group was from the Li Mansion, which were letters from Li Yulong, and the other group was from Anyang, which was also a big package.
After Song Xing exchanged tokens with the messenger, he immediately delivered the "letter" weighing more than ten pounds to Li Xian.
Li Xian, who was leisurely sipping tea, suddenly changed his expression when he saw so many letters. "Life is so helpless. I have already run two thousand miles away, and you still won't let me go."
Song Xing held back his laughter and quickly prepared the tables, chairs, pens and ink.
The first thing Li Xian read was his father's letter; the letter his father sent was very thin, but it must be very important. As soon as he opened it, Li Xian's face became solemn; indeed, there were not many words, but it was very important.
What Li Yulong was talking about was the change in the imperial capital, or more precisely, the competition among the princes! As the competition among the princes began, officials, families, and so on also began to take sides!
First, the eldest prince.
The eldest prince was disgraced, but he owned Baofeng County and had been running it for seven or eight years, with more than 500,000 soldiers. Compared with the second and third princes, the eldest prince was more scheming and was a figure worthy of attention.
The Minister of Revenue Zhang Yuan, the father of Li Xian's "good brother" Zhang Quan, directly surrendered to the eldest prince. The Ministry of Revenue, which controlled a large amount of wealth, immediately sent the eldest prince hundreds of thousands of taels of gold and millions of taels of silver.
In addition, Yuan Cai, the eldest son of Grand Commandant Yuan Yong, also serves under the eldest prince and seems to be very loyal!
In addition to Zhang Yuan and Yuan Cai, the eldest prince has another biggest helper - his grandfather! The eldest prince's mother, Xiao Yu, is the daughter of Xiao Liming, the governor of the northwest of the Great Xia Kingdom. Xiao Liming has more than 500,000 elite soldiers and hundreds of thousands of other miscellaneous troops, claiming to have a million soldiers. Xiao Liming has been operating the northwest of the Great Xia Kingdom for decades and has a strong foundation. He is an absolute local emperor!
Therefore, among the three princes, the eldest prince is still the "eldest" prince.
Now the situations of the eldest prince and the second prince are just reversed; the eldest prince has the power of the crown prince but not the title of the crown prince, while the second prince has the title of the crown prince but is a commander without any troops.
Although the Second Prince has the title of Crown Prince, he has no strong support from outside and faces resistance from within - the Wang family, Concubine Hua, and even the Queen.