Rebirth of the second ex-husband

Chapter 266

Just when King Xian was thinking about the changes in the situation, he thought of a person—— King Jin.

King Jin is the third son of the Empress Dowager and the younger brother of the current emperor, but King Jin doesn't like the current emperor very much, and is even very dissatisfied with the current emperor's words.

Because the king of Jin thought that the current emperor's original second brother's throne was not right, so he murdered his elder brother, the eldest son of his elder brother, the queen mother, by extraordinary means, so the second brother ascended to the throne.

The eldest prince and his eldest brother loved and supported King Jin deeply, so King Jin also had a personal plan. On the one hand, he wanted to avenge his elder brother, and on the other hand, he also wanted to take back the country that originally belonged to him for him. .

King Xian took advantage of King Jin's heart, and the two had been colluding secretly for a long time.It's just that the virtuous king feels that his strength is insufficient, and there is always no suitable time.

They also guessed early in the morning that if the queen mother conspires and the emperor fights with the queen mother, they originally wanted to make a profit secretly, and they agreed to take the opportunity to make trouble during the prince's coronation ceremony. How could they know that the queen mother had no secret plan, but the emperor caught them all in one go.

After going through this incident, the two felt that the time was not yet ripe, so the virtuous king immediately hid his strengths and bided his time. Except for the invitation of Princess Linghua, the rest of the time was closed to thank guests, studying at home, or tending flowers and plants.

However, seeing that the emperor started to suppress the Queen Mother's power, King Xian and King Jin couldn't sit still. They didn't understand the so-called cold lips and teeth. Once the Queen Mother's power was wiped out by the emperor, they would be the next one.

Now the emperor has clearly distrusted these princes, and is reducing and suppressing their power intentionally or unintentionally.

Besides, the emperor felt that the dragon riders often needed to go to the front line and guard against border wars. Once the dragon riders went to the border, the defense forces around the capital would be weak links.

The emperor established the left and right falconers in the capital, and deployed [-] elite soldiers from the Dragon Knights and various places to fill them in. He also promoted his personal bodyguards Yang Qiye and Ma Quan to be the left and right falconers to lead the left and right falconers. Arbitrary, power to strike first.

Originally, there was no money in the national treasury to expand the Eagle Division. Fortunately, there was money from Princess Linghua’s foreign business and the money confiscated from the Liu family and Liu Jinghe. After deducting other expenses, there was still room for 20 taels of gold. The 20 taels Gold can be regarded as a solution to the urgent need of the emperor.But in this way, the national treasury is once again faced with an empty situation.

In order to counteract the [-] imperial guards in the Tiger Guard camp in the hands of the virtuous king, the emperor appointed Song Fei as the commander of the left, and took the post of minister of the right army department to further strengthen the garrison of Gyeonggi.

The emperor's health went up and down, and he himself was deeply worried, so he stepped up the process of these matters, so as to clear the way for the prince to take over the Liuli Kingdom in the future.

Although on the surface, King Xian and King Jin thank guests behind closed doors and cultivate themselves at home, in fact, their contacts are closer and more secretive behind the scenes.

King Jin didn't have much military strength from the outside. Although he was the emperor's brother, his fief was not rich, so he didn't have extra money and food to recruit troops and prepare for military strength, so he could only hope for the military power of the virtuous king.

However, King Xian had his own plan, and King Jin didn't know it.Among them, the hidden virtuous king has never been told to outsiders.This secret made King Xian deeply feel that he was short of troops, especially after the emperor installed a new falconer, he felt even more stressed.

He had to find a new joint force. Looking at the princes and grandsons, the fourth prince, Zhou Yingjie, entered the vision of the virtuous king.The fourth prince, Zhou Yingjie, was also the emperor's brother, but his mother was not very favored by the emperor during his lifetime, so he was the only one among the many princes who was not crowned king.

He was granted the title of Lord of Enjoyment by the former emperor, and the fiefdom was in a remote place far away from the capital.But I heard that the fourth prince, Zhou Yingjie, has outstanding talents, both civil and military. Although it is a remote and barren place, he manages it in an orderly manner, and the people live and work in peace and contentment.

What's more important is Zhou Yingjie, the fourth prince of Xiangle Gong. Although he is a duke, he has military power.

Because the fiefdom of the four princes is located in a barbaric land, the people there are tough, and foreign tribes often invade the southwest and harass the border people, which has always troubled the Liuli Kingdom.

The first emperor had sent troops to suppress it many times, but it had no effect. Every time the imperial army arrived, these border residents would flee into the mountains and turn into ordinary people, and there was no way to find out.

Moreover, the mountains are high and densely forested, the terrain is complex, the mountains are shrouded in clouds and mists all year round, and the direction does not change, which is not conducive to the march of the army at all.Therefore, many conquests have failed.In the end, they had to relocate their own residents to the interior and sent troops to guard them, but they still couldn't escape their attacks.

What's more, in this barren land, it often costs a lot to send troops to garrison, and the gain outweighs the loss, which troubles the court endlessly.

After the current emperor came to the court, he divided up his brothers again. Although Zhou Yingjie, the fourth prince of the previous emperor, had increased his fiefdom, he was still in a remote place.

These years, Zhou Yingjie has privately sent a lot of gold and silver property to the court ministers every year, so this one has a relatively good reputation among the many princes, and there is not much gossip inside and outside the court.

But the more everyone speaks well of the fourth prince, the more worried the emperor is. Originally, the border guards stationed in the southwest were only [-] for many years, but they have secretly increased to [-].This is obviously worried about the fourth prince.

A few months ago when Princess Linghua woke up, the fourth prince even specially sent someone to send a pure white fox fur to Princess Linghua.

This fourth prince, Zhou Yingjie, and the former Princess Linghua were quite compatible and had always been on good terms. Zhou Yingjie loved this half-sister very much.

It's just that Zhou Yingjie was entrusted to this remote place later, unable to return to the court, but every year, he sent someone to bring some interesting gifts to Princess Linghua.

After Princess Linghua woke up, she was not the original Princess Linghua, but she also knew something about the past of the fourth prince Zhou Yingjie and Princess Linghua from the people around her, so Princess Linghua also respected and loved the fourth prince.

The fourth prince, Zhou Yingjie, showed generosity, benevolence and love for things externally, without any ambitions, but internally, he was diligent and caring for the people, and won the support of the local people.

However, after years of management by the four princes, the border troubles have not been alleviated, but have intensified. Now not only the four princes' fiefdoms have been invaded, but even places farther away have been invaded.

The fourth prince asked the current emperor to send troops to help, but the imperial court did not have any extra troops to help him suppress the chaos in his own fief, so the emperor authorized the fourth prince to recruit troops to stop the border troubles.

After the four princes were granted the right to raise their own troops by the imperial court, they recruited a large number of troops and formed a team of 5000 people at once, which made the emperor feel worried, so he decided to increase the frontier troops.

(End of this chapter)