King Huainan and King Ruyang have been in high spirits recently, and they seem to walk with wind. Even though the affairs of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Households are piled up, the two who have never dealt with these trivial matters before are so busy, but thinking of their busyness, they can If there is a reward, they will be full of enthusiasm.
Originally, the relationship between King Huainan and King Ruyang was pretty good, but when they discovered each other's ambitions, their relationship soon fell apart, and the two began to fight against each other.
After all, there is only one supreme position, and both of them want to sit in that position, so how could they back down
They started to stumbling each other non-stop, and they greeted each other with endless conspiracies. At the beginning, they might cover up a thing or two, but as time went by, the two had become He got angry, and the methods he used became more and more intense.
And the ministers who had originally swayed left and right and didn't choose who to stand behind were also forced by the two of them to choose whose camp to join.
After all, His Highness the Crown Prince's abolition seems to have become a certainty. The original undercurrent was surging, but now it is almost brought to the surface. The current Emperor has four sons, and His Highness the Crown Prince has become a useless person, and King Qinghe is too young. Apart from running to the palace and crying, I can't do anything.
The people with the highest voices are naturally King Huainan and King Ruyang.
King Huainan felt that he was an elder brother, and His Royal Highness was no longer able to do so, so naturally he had to be the top one. King Ruyang was younger than him, so he had no right to snatch it from him anyway.
But King Ruyang felt that his scheming and resourcefulness far surpassed that of Huainan King. Huainan King only had a handful of brute force, and a person like him was only suitable to be a fierce general, not an emperor.
The two originally looked like they were incompatible on the surface, but their relationship was not bad in private, but when the other party revealed that they had thoughts about the position of the Ninth Five Lord, their relationship broke down completely. Then it dropped to freezing point.
Originally, the ministers swayed left and right, hesitating whether they should stand in line, but the ambiguous attitude of the current emperor made those ministers start to hesitate. After all, the emperor is old, although looking at the body now does not seem to be There is no big problem, but he is already in his sixties, who knows when the emperor will fall
Everyone wants Conglong Zhigong, so except for some strong-willed ministers, the remaining ministers have chosen who they want to follow.
The emperor looked at all this coldly and had no intention of intervening. Even though King Huainan and King Ruyang had made their struggle clear, the emperor remained unmoved, as if he hadn't noticed all this.
But the emperor's attitude seemed to acquiesce to the two princes competing for the throne, and the ministers became more confident. In order to show themselves, those ministers began to charge forward for their master.
However, King Huainan and King Ruyang were evenly matched, and for a while they fought inseparably, no one could do anything to the other.
It is not so easy to tell the winner. The two forces are fighting each other, and because no one can win an overwhelming victory, they want to ask for help.
The object they are looking for is naturally King Qinghe. Although King Qinghe has no great ability, he is a prince after all, and his mother's family has some influence. If he can stand in one of the forces, he can definitely change the situation of the battle. .
King Huainan and King Ruyang made up their minds that they both wanted King Qinghe to occupy their camp, so they resorted to various means and began to fight for King Qinghe.
King Qinghe obviously didn't expect that he would become a favorite now, he was in a dilemma, he didn't know whether to choose King Huainan or King Ruyang.
It was probably because he didn't want to hurt the hearts of his two older brothers. After much deliberation, King Qinghe came up with a bad idea. He went to help King Huainan and King Ruyang for a while, which led to the relationship between King Huainan and Ruyang. The power between Wang and Wang is constantly being consumed.
At the very beginning, the two of them gained a lot of good reputations in the capital, and they also got into the eyes of the public through this. In the eyes of ordinary people in the capital, the two of them can be regarded as beings with excellent reputations.
But because of the joining of King Qinghe, their good reputation slowly began to show flaws. King Huainan bullied men and women and seized the good land of the common people; while King Ruyang deliberately increased the taxation of the fief, adding a lot of exorbitant taxes out of thin air.
The strange thing is that although the two of them kept exposing scandals, because neither of them was clean, the power between them remained on a delicate balance.
King Qinghe's behavior of swaying left and right angered King Huainan and King Ruyang. They went to King Qinghe and asked him what he thought.
"Fourth brother, isn't the second brother good enough for you? You should know how the second brother has treated you for so many years. Why do you help your third brother deal with me?"
"Fourth brother, has the third brother treated you badly for so many years? If you want anything, the third brother will do everything possible to find it for you. Back then, when you were still living in the palace and hadn't come to the fief , which year did the third brother bring you nothing when he came to the capital? If you want to help the second brother, where will you put me?"
Faced with the questioning of King Huainan and King Ruyang, King Qinghe only felt his head was like a big fight. He kept begging for forgiveness to his two elder brothers, and repeatedly promised that he would not do this in the future.
"Second brother, I will always remember your kindness to me. Don't worry, I know what I should do."
"Third brother, compared to second brother, you treat me the best. Don't worry, I will definitely listen to you."
King Qinghe's stupidity has always convinced Huainan King and Ruyang King. They have never doubted King Qinghe. They both think that it was because he was too stupid before that they didn't understand what they meant.
Now that King Qinghe has shown his loyalty, all he needs to do is to watch him do it from now on.
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However, the two of them reassured too early. Not long after, King Huainan and King Ruyang received an anonymous letter at the same time.
"Do you really think that King Qinghe didn't know how he fell off the cliff in the first place? Pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger is what he is best at. Why don't you think carefully about what he did? He used tricks to kill people with a knife. Thirty-six tricks were played by him." Out of tricks, your plan may not be as deep as his."
"If you don't believe it, you can ask your opponents to see what King Qinghe said to him?"
Sometimes one leaf could not see Mount Tai. They believed too much in the Qinghe King they saw. The two of them believed in their own judgment. They never thought that the person they saw was the other person they wanted to see for them. of
Ever since King Huainan and King Ruyang got into a stalemate, they had been arguing over the position of the Ninety-Five Supreme. The two of them hadn't sat together and talked for a long time, until they received the anonymous letter and saw the letter The two of them became suspicious of what was written above, and they secretly contacted each other, trying to find out from each other what King Qinghe had said to them.
What King Qinghe did could not stand up to scrutiny at all. What he used was the unequal information between the two parties. As long as the two parties were drawn together and had an open and honest talk, they would understand what King Qinghe was doing. What role did you play.
"The fourth brother has already promised me that he will help me."
"Coincidentally, that's what he told me too."
The two have been brothers for so many years, and their relationship has been very good before, so that they understand each other somewhat, the two tried each other out, and soon found out what the other was doing.
"I got a letter."
"me too."
The two took out the anonymous letter they received at the same time. After comparing, they found that the content written on the letter was exactly the same, even the handwriting was the same. Obviously, someone wrote the two letters at the same time, and then It was handed over to them at the same time.
When they saw this letter, the two felt a chill rising from the bottom of their hearts. King Huainan and King Ruyang looked at each other, and suddenly said at the same time: "Could it be that he did that?"
King Huainan and King Ruyang jointly designed King Qinghe before, and the bandit attack that King Qinghe encountered was the result of the two of them, but they kept everything secret, trying to make King Qinghe think it was an accident, but they didn't Thinking of their secret being peeped.
"The matter of the prince... is it you?"
The two spoke at the same time again, but when they saw the expressions on the other side, they knew what the answer was.
They all thought that the person who used bandits to attack His Highness the Crown Prince was the other party, but they didn't expect their cognition to be wrong due to the misleading of others, and the attack on the Crown Prince was not done by the other party.
King Huainan wiped his face and sat down with a gloomy expression. He slapped the table hard, and the teacup on the table jumped up.
"What a King Qinghe, what a Li Chengyu, but this king underestimated him."
When King Huainan was drinking with King Qinghe, he once heard the drunk King Qinghe say something. He said that the prince's attack had something to do with King Ruyang.
"It was the third brother who did it... why did the third brother do that? The prince brother is so kind, why did he plot against the prince brother?"
King Huainan and King Ruyang drank wine with King Qinghe quite a few times. Both of them knew that King Qinghe's wine was not good. What did he say when he was drunk? He told a lot of secrets before, and King Huainan and King Ruyang both knew this, and they both verified it. Just like what he said, drinking The drunk King Qinghe will reveal some secrets he knows.
So when King Qinghe was drunk and told the secret of the prince's attack, they all thought that the person who did it was the other party.
At this time, a cold smile appeared on the face of King Ruyang, he hooked the hook, and a strong sarcasm appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"Second brother, we have all been played by this younger brother. I am afraid that he has already started to make arrangements a long time ago. He will tell the secrets he knows when he is drunk. It is just that he deduces it for us two to see. We are all fucked." His time."
In fact, King Ruyang and King Huainan have experienced similar things, but what King Huainan heard was that the prince was attacked by King Ruyang, and what King Ruyang heard was that the prince was attacked by King Huainan. of.
It is absolutely impossible for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to ascend to the throne of the emperor after his legs are disabled. The two of them have long been disobedient, so their goal has always been the supremacy of the throne.
The two joined forces before, just to bring down the Crown Prince, and using bandits to attack King Qinghe was just for experimentation, to see if doing so would leave any lies, so after King Qinghe said it was the other party When the gangsters were used to attack His Royal Highness, none of them had any doubts, and they didn't even go to the other party to collect evidence.
Both of them think that if they master this secret, they are tantamount to pinching each other's life. After all, what a crime it is to attack His Highness the Crown Prince. When they throw this matter at the end of their struggle, the other party will have nothing to do. The land of rebirth.
So after knowing this secret, the two people whose relationship had not been broken before all chose to hide it, and did not tell each other about it. It is precisely because of this that King Qinghe's plan succeeded. King Qinghe took advantage of their thoughts, Let them mistakenly think that they know the great secret, but in fact the person who masters everything is King Qinghe.
The two of them competed for the emperor's attention, but King Qinghe kept hiding behind his back. He watched all this silently. In the eyes of King Qinghe, the two of them were probably clowns.
"A few days ago, this king went to see King Qinghe, and he personally promised me that he would help me."
King Huainan suddenly said such a sentence, and after he finished speaking, he raised his head and looked at King Ruyang who was opposite, and King Ruyang also showed a strong sarcasm smile as expected, and said.
"What a coincidence, he also said the same thing to the king, he said he would help the king."
As a result, King Huainan and King Ruyang both went to King Qinghe, and the seemingly stupid existence was the smartest among them.
If it weren't for the existence of this anonymous letter, the two of them probably wouldn't know what King Qinghe did, and they would never get together to ask each other. King Qinghe took advantage of this, because they were enemies, So he can swing back and forth between the two of them, constantly fanning the flames.
King Huainan and King Ruyang have not yet reached the point where they will never die. They looked at each other and quickly understood what the other meant.