Xuan Guoguo has been established for hundreds of years, and today's Jiangshan is the second generation of Jiangshan surnamed Cen.
The emperor of the previous generation moved the capital to Xiangcheng to build the magnificent Xuanyang Palace.
This history, like thousands of royal battles, has nothing new.
When the first emperor was in power, he made his son-in-law the crown prince. Later, he didn't know whether he was assassinated by someone or asked for trouble, in short, he lost his position as the crown prince.
Until the death of the previous emperor, the heir to the throne was never ordered—this is of course a rhetoric to civilians and foreign ministers. As for whether or not he was established, no one knows.
It was the same as what was recorded in the history books of the predecessors. As soon as such a situation appeared, the princes tore their faces and began to snatch the dragon chair.
The current emperor, Cen Mingyang, is the winner.
This victory is closely related to the Xue family, so there is today's glorious lintel of the Xue family.
Xue Ziqin did not understand politics, but he was fairly familiar with the palace. Saying goodbye to Cen Lixuan, Xue Ziqin wanted to visit places he was familiar with before, but how could he know that he met the little eunuch he had found just two steps away, and hurriedly told him that the emperor had summoned him. No way, Xue Ziqin could only follow the little eunuch to the council hall.
He was dressed in court clothes, but he was well-behaved. He quickly entered the hall, and immediately knelt down to the emperor and saluted: "My minister Xue Ziqin, I will meet the saint."
"Aiqing is free."
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your grace." Xue Ziqin got up from the ground and caught a glimpse of Xue Changfeng's dignified expression on the side.
When I saw the emperor a few years ago, the emperor was still in good spirits. Combined with what the old man explained to him, Xue Ziqin almost knew it.
The left side and the right side were on the side, and then to the outside station, it was Xue Changfeng and Wei Yuanting.
Xue Ziqin thought to himself, such a thing as a party can really be seen from a stand, and I don't know why the emperor never sees it.
"General Xue, this time, brought troops into Qin Pass without authorization, but what does General Xue mean?" The emperor's eyes were blank, and he didn't know where to look. Anyway, it was not on Xue Ziqin, so he asked him a question, Xue Ziqin didn't dare Looking at the emperor with straight eyes, he could only lower his head and answer: "Back to the emperor, it was the minister who made the decision without authorization, not the intention of the minister and father."
"Bold!" The emperor shouted angrily, and Xue Ziqin immediately knelt down.
The emperor has always been moody, and when he speaks, he is surprised. Xue Ziqin has already learned this. He was beaten by the old man yesterday, and he came to the palace today, and he was afraid that he would not be able to please him. He was still a little mentally prepared.
I saw Xue Ziqin kneeling on the ground, lowered his head and said, "Please forgive me, Your Majesty."
He couldn't see the emperor's expression, but he could catch a glimpse of Xue Changfeng standing beside him, looking very relaxed. Before he came, this group of old people had already come to a conclusion about his affairs. Thinking like this, I heard the emperor say again: "Get up, I think you have meritorious deeds against Wuqu, and it is considered that the merits have been overpaid."
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Xue Ziqin stood up again.
Sometimes he really doesn't understand what's going on in the court, and he doesn't understand why the emperor must scare people first, so he can't speak directly.
The emperor said again: "In this battle, I heard that you fought with 500 cavalry troops against 3000 troops in Wuqu. You are really young and promising."
"Your Majesty is wrong."
"I have discussed with General Xue, and I will give you the fourth princess as a wife, and choose a day to get married. I hope you will do your best to protect the people of our Xuan country in the future."
Hearing this, Xue Ziqin was a little stunned. He raised his eyes and glanced at the emperor quietly. The emperor looked at him with a kind smile. He looked at Xue Changfeng again, and Xue Changfeng had a serious expression and also glanced at him.
Xue Ziqin was stunned for a while, and Xue Changfeng immediately reprimanded: "Thank you soon."
That meant it was obvious, and he could only agree.
Xue Ziqin couldn't control his irritable expression. He was afraid that he would be killed by the emperor's sight, so he quickly knelt on the ground again and gave a big gift: "Thank you, Emperor Longen!"
Later, when the emperor said some irrelevant scenes, Xue Ziqin didn't listen carefully.
The fourth princess was born by the queen, and it stands to reason that she is the enemy of their Xue family. No matter how you think about this marriage, the marriage is inappropriate, but the old man didn't refuse, so he couldn't refuse either, which made Xue Ziqin very puzzled.
In the palace, after all, it is not their territory, and there will be enemies' eyes and ears at nowhere. After coming out of the parliamentary hall, Xue Ziqin did not speak except in response to Wei Yuanting's hypocritical congratulations, and followed closely behind Xue Changfeng until the announcement was made. Yang Palace, the two of them rode their horses back to the mansion.
"Foster father, what is the meaning of this?" He couldn't help but wonder in his heart, and immediately asked as soon as he left the palace gate.
Xue Changfeng's face was not very good, and he said to him: "The emperor is to appease our Xue family, the fourth princess is the first princess, marrying to another country is for the future, I promise you, it is nothing more than wanting the Xue family to support the queen's lineage, I'm afraid It's a bad situation."
"So, the emperor has the intention to make the eldest prince the heir?"
"should be."
Xue Ziqin felt very annoying when he heard all these things, and he said without hesitation: "Then it's better to promise my foster father, and the anti-righteous father is not married."
Xue Changfeng turned to look at him, if he hadn't been on the horse, he would have slapped Xue Ziqin right away: "You bastard, the fourth princess is only seventeen, would you like her to be your mother?"
"No, no..." Xue Ziqin wilted when he heard "Seventeen", and then said, "But I've been fighting outside, so she got married and lived as a widow?"
Xue Changfeng sighed and said, "Do you think this is really a reward for you? The emperor probably intends to let you stay in the capital."
"Isn't that going to cut my military power?"
"That's what it means."
"Damn it, I don't want to marry, so hurry up and oblige me."
Hearing Xue Ziqin's words, Xue Changfeng's face turned ashen, feeling that he would punch him at any time, then turned and sighed again.
"Can you grow up? Do you think this is shopping for vegetables, and you can still bargain? The emperor wants you to marry, but you can only marry." After Xue Changfeng finished speaking, he was still very annoyed. It just so happened that Xue Ziqin's horse walked faster and ran alongside him. Xue Changfeng raised his hand and slapped Xue Ziqin on the back.
The back was injured only yesterday, and Xue Ziqin grimaced in pain when the palm came down.
"Why did I keep you bastard?"
"… I was wrong."
Without words for a while, they all went back to Xue Mansion. Butler Zhang was waiting at the door, and when he saw the two coming over, he quickly brought someone up to lead the horse. Xue Changfeng spoke out and arranged with Butler Zhang: "The emperor gave the marriage, and the fourth princess will marry Qin'er. You will start preparing in the next two days."
"Congratulations to the Major General then!" Butler Zhang congratulated Xue Ziqin with a happy smile when he heard the news.
When Butler Zhang first became a butler, Xue Ziqin was a major general and rarely met Xue Ziqin, so he forgot to change his tune for a while. Xue Ziqin didn't care about this, he was full of marriage matters, and he was so annoyed that he said, "Don't congratulate, I'm annoyed." Xue Ziqin said, and walked towards the gate of Xue Mansion without turning his head, "I'm going back to my room to rest. , my back hurts."
Xue Changfeng knew that he was not happy, and did not stop him.
Xue Ziqin's back pain was fake, but he was unhappy. He didn't go back to his room, but went to Zhou Xiao's room instead. The door of Zhou Xiao's room was closed, Xue Ziqin reached out and knocked on the door, and then saw Zhou Xiao still wearing his underwear and came over to open the door: "Are you back?"
"Um."
"What's wrong, this look is not happy." Xue Ziqin entered the room and sat down on the chair. Seeing him like that, Zhou Xiao sat down and quickly poured him a cup of tea.
"I'm getting married."
"So suddenly?"
"Well, the emperor bestowed the marriage."
"With the sixth princess?"
"Four princesses."
"Princess, the emperor values you." Zhou Xiao joked with a smile.
"Fart, the emperor wants to keep me in the capital."
"Explain?"
"The old man said it."
Zhou Xiao is quite a person who understands these things. He understood the emperor's meaning in a few words, and lowered his voice and asked, "Are you going to establish a reserve?"
"I guess so." Xue Ziqin said, drank the tea from the cup in one gulp, put the cup back on the table vigorously, and made a sound.
Zhou Xiao knew his temper, and poured him another glass with a smile: "Well, it's useless for you to be annoying."
"I originally thought that if I marry a princess and leave it alone, I'll go to war, and it's not a big deal. If this makes me scolded this girl every day, I can't scold me fiercely, and I won't suffocate to death?"
"You just take good care of her, what do you care about."
"You speak lightly."
"It's very light."
"You can do it." He said, picked up the tea he had just poured, and drank it all in one gulp. After taking a sip, he realized that the tea didn't taste very good, and frowned and said, "Why does it have a strange smell? Son."
"Why didn't you feel like you were drinking it just now?" Zhou Xiao laughed loudly, "This is from last night, I haven't gotten up yet."
"...you pour me the overnight tea?"
"You don't have to drink it."
"Alas." Xue Ziqin sighed, and did not bother with the cup of tea any longer. He changed the subject and asked, "How many days did my soldiers come from Yanzhou?"
"If it's all disabled, it will take four or five days."
"Okay." Xue Ziqin thought about it, and thought about Cen Lixuan again.
When he met Cen Lixuan being bullied in the palace, he never wanted to understand the entanglement. It happened that Zhou Xiao knew more about it than him, so he asked casually, "I met the ninth prince in the palace."
"Um?"
"I saw the second prince and the fourth prince bullying him."
"I remember that the ninth prince was born by the concubine Jin?"
"Yes, that's my aunt." Xue Ziqin said while playing with the teacup in his hand, "Isn't she always favored in the palace, why does the queen's son dare to be so blatant?"
Zhou Xiao thought for a while and said, "It's a bit strange. I heard that a few years ago, the emperor was very fond of the ninth prince."
"Why?"
"Young sons are generally favored."
"If you say that, then it shouldn't be." Xue Ziqin said.
In any case, since the emperor loves him, he is expected to inherit the throne, and it is impossible for Concubine Jin to let anyone bully him. Taking 10,000 steps back, even if there is no hope of succession, according to Concubine Jin's temperament, if the queen's people bully her son, it will definitely turn upside down in the palace. Thinking about it like this, it's even more strange that the second prince and the fourth prince dare to act so daringly.
"But I heard..."
"What did you hear?"
"Hey, it's just some rumors." Zhou Xiao said halfway, but didn't say anything. Xue Ziqin's curiosity was completely aroused, and he bumped Zhou Xiao with his elbow: "Speak."
"I heard that the ninth prince is very masculine and has had lewd affairs with the guards in the palace." Zhou Xiao said.
As soon as these words came out, Xue Ziqin frowned, and his expression became even more unsightly.
He didn't continue to ask, and he didn't ask whether the matter was true or not. Instead, he criticized Zhou Xiaolai: "You are a big man who fights wars every day. Why do you know all about this kind of gossip?"
This sentence made Zhou Xiao laugh and cry, and explained: "That is to listen to the people under his command about this matter, and spread the truth based on falsehood."
"Then it must be false."
"Whether it is or not, the ninth prince may not be very pleased with Concubine Jin." Zhou Xiao analyzed, "Concubine Jin has three princes, and the ninth prince is optional. It just doesn't exist on weekdays."
Hearing this analysis, Xue Ziqin thought of Cen Lixuan's indifferent eyes. From the look in his eyes, it can be seen that Zhou Xiao's analysis is somewhat reliable. How would you describe Cen Lizhen's eyes? Xue Ziqin thought of several words in his head, and finally felt that it was more appropriate to feel ashes.
"We can't control what's going on in the palace." Zhou Xiao looked at his thoughtful expression and added another sentence.
"I know."