Concubine Allure: Pick up a prince and grab the country

Chapter 202 Chapter 229
Yan Fangqing's face turned pale with fright when he heard about the murder, and he froze in place and dared not speak.

Yan Qingcheng looked up at the tall red wall on the right. The yard surrounded by the red wall was the Changxin Palace where the queen lived.

This Changxin Palace has been vacant for almost 30 years since their aunt Yan Ruyi passed away.

Speaking of Yan Ruyi, one has to mention the deep love story between the current emperor and Yan Ruyi, but only Yan's family knows about it.

The current emperor, whose name is Chu Xun, was born in a family of officials and eunuchs, but he was not yet an adult, and his family was in decline. It happened in troubled times, and the people were in dire straits.

Chu Xun thought that studying was useless, so he abandoned literature and turned to martial arts, and wandered around the rivers and lakes. Since then, he has no business and has children before marriage. His reputation is not good, but he is open-minded and righteous, so he made many friends.

Later, he was offered a huge reward by the government for being a hero and killed corrupt officials in anger. He hid in Tibet and was rescued by Ruyi, the daughter of Yan's parents.

Many years ago, the Yan family and the Chu family had a marriage rule of the eldest son. Later, because the Chu family fell, Chu Xun did not want to make progress, and the Yan family, who was in the midst of official fortune, wanted to cancel this marriage rule.

Yan Ruyi, despite Yan's father's objection, insisted on marrying Chu Xun as his wife.

At that time, Yan Ruyi could be said to be married, Yan's father loved Yan Ruyi, so he had to do what she wanted, and helped Chu Xun settle the case, and Chu Xun took advantage of the power of the Yan family to become an official, and the official worshiped the seventh-rank military commander.

Because he is sociable and generous, friends from the rivers and lakes he met before came to pay homage to him one after another, and he gathered many heroes who could fight. It took less than half a year for the fifth-rank military defense to ascend to the first-rank Wudu Division and lead troops to patrol the periphery of the imperial capital.

It can be said that if there is no Ruyi, there will be no current emperor, and no current prosperous Qi State.

Yan Ruyi silently accompanied Chu Xun, helping him rise step by step, even in order to complete her husband's grand plan, Yan Ruyi personally talked to his younger brother Yan Aoxiong about his plans. Only then did Chu Xun have the opportunity to successfully invade the imperial capital.

The husband sang and the wife followed, the qin and the harp played harmoniously, and the case was raised with eyebrows. Therefore, after Chu Xun established the Qi State, there was only Queen Yan in the harem.

Yan Ruyi has repeatedly advised Chu Xun to accept the harem widely so as to spread the branches and leaves for the Chu family.

But Chu Xun said that the queen had given birth to her the eldest son, and he didn't want other sons to compete with their sons for favor, so he refused to accept the concubine.

Yan Ruyi felt that this reason was angry and funny, but also sweet.Later, because she was pregnant with Princess Jingyi and was unable to sleep with her, Yan Ruyi specially arranged for her close maid Bai Linglong to sleep with her, and ordered someone to send a message to Chu Xun. If Linglong was not allowed to sleep with her, she would not be allowed to enter the Changxin palace.

Chu Xun spoiled his words, so he had no choice but to agree to Bai Linglong's bedtime, and made Bai Linglong a nobleman.

In Nuoda's palace, for several years, there were only two concubines, which is also a big strange thing in the harem of Qi State.

But the good times didn't last long. A few years after Qi State was established, that is, in the eighth year of Zhaoxuan, Yan Ruyi was assassinated and killed by an assassin who broke into Changxin Palace.

It is said that back then, Chu Xun was on his way to fight against the harassment of the Northern Qiang, and when he heard the news of the Queen's death, he spat out a mouthful of blood in the tent and passed out on the spot.

And regardless of the urgent military situation, they resolutely withdrew their troops and returned to Beijing. The defeated Northern Qiang hurriedly took advantage of the momentum to pursue, wanting to do everything possible to encircle and suppress Chu Xun on the road.

It was Prince Chu Jing who led the troops to rescue the siege, and returned to the battlefield instead of his father, beat the Northern Qiang back to his lair, and captured the then Northern Qiang vanguard, King Tigan, so that the Northern Qiang was so frightened that they dared not conquer the territory for five years.

(End of this chapter)