Beautiful step by step

Chapter 187

Wei Zhe back at Yan Heng knew that Emperor Qinglong would definitely send someone to come again.The south of the Yangtze River is no better than the Northwest. There are hidden dragons and crouching tigers here, and ordinary people can't stop them here, so he can only send people who can clearly represent the holy will.

Originally, the prince who was of the same generation as Emperor Qinglong was the best candidate. He was born in the royal family and his seniority was high enough. A random one would be enough to deal with any evil spirits.However, in the last years of the late emperor, the conquest of the heir was extremely tragic. The originally thriving royal family died, injured, and those who survived were suppressed for various reasons after the new emperor succeeded to the throne.When people get depressed, they die early. The Qinglong brothers can count on two palms, but there are only two or three kittens left alive, and they are all sick cats that cannot be lifted by the shoulders or carried by the hands.

If there is no senior prince, then he can only choose the princes of this generation.

Emperor Qinglong's sons are not rare, and five of them lived to adulthood and were granted the title of king and built a mansion.They are Prince Wu, the eldest son of the emperor, Prince Xian, the second son of the emperor, the third son of the emperor who has not survived smallpox since he became an adult, and the humble fourth son of the emperor Duan Wang, the fifth son of the emperor Ping Wang, and Xianming are far more prosperous than the previous elder brothers. Wei Wang, the sixth son of the emperor.

The deposed prince has been imprisoned, and with the reason of witchcraft, it is absolutely impossible for Emperor Qinglong to let him out by himself. After all, the most likely ones will be King Wu and King Wei.One of the two held the military power, and the other made friends with the court officials. The Jiangnan affairs required not only leading troops to suppress bandits, but also dealing with officials with complicated relationships. The two princes and princes had their own strengths.

On the bright side, the Jiangnan matter is very risky, but with the backing of Emperor Qinglong, as long as the completion is not so bad, it will be a proper gilded journey.Whoever is sent here shows who the emperor thinks highly of.

This is the answer Wei Wei came up with after thinking for a long time.As the person who uncovered the Northwest corruption case, Yan Heng has really attracted too much hatred over the past few years.Although Emperor Qinglong is an outstanding emperor, he is over sixty years old, and there will inevitably be major changes in the court in less than ten years.And King Wu and King Wei, who are the most vocal about seizing the throne, have no friendly relationship with them. Not only are they not friendly, but the party members around them must hate them very much.

Originally, Wei Wei didn't have so many scruples, Yan Heng benefited one party by being an upright official, they just need to have a clear heart.But as her belly got bigger and bigger, she had to think about the upcoming child.At this time, she finally understood the mood of Wei's mother every time she handed her money. Parents can't bear to watch their children suffer.Maybe there are those kind of cruel parents who sell their children and sell their daughters, and there are partial parents who treat each other more after they have more children, but she and Yan Heng were taught by Wei's mother's precepts and deeds, and the other was taught very well by the deceased Webster. They are anything but that.

For the sake of future generations, even if you don't fall to any side, you should try your best not to make enemies.Wei Wei believes that with Yan Heng's ability, as long as the person sitting on the dragon chair has no enmity with him, then he will be able to be an official safely.

They have been hiding their identities to visit secretly, one is for convenience, and the other is to sell the favor of the prince sent by Emperor Qinglong.Yan Heng had just been promoted to the Commander of the Liangzhou Guard, and at his age, his official position was already impressive. Now it's not a bad thing to give up the credit and behave mediocrely.

She had already thought up the script on her side, but she never expected that Emperor Qing Long would play cards so unreasonably.

He even sent King Duan over!
Although there were two princes who came, King Ping was born with mute disease, so he was doomed to miss the throne, anyone could see that Prince Duan was the one who dominated the two princes who came this time.

"Isn't the prince planning to get married in the capital? My wife remembered that Qin Tianjian set the wedding date in July, and now it's late May."

Originally, for the prince's big wedding, from finger marriage to preparations at the woman's house, to various complicated procedures, it would take a year or two to go through the whole set, let alone say.But King Duan is another example. Two years ago, he reached the age of weak crown. According to the custom in Dai Viet that he was engaged at the age of thirteen or fourteen and married at the age of fifteen or six.After finally being able to get married, we must hurry up.

Fortunately, King Duan has a reliable mother and a father who loves him. As early as two years ago, after Emperor Qinglong's western tour revealed his meaning, Concubine Shu had already started preparing the dowry.

For other princes, Ah Tong, whose ancestor was "notorious" and exiled to the Northwest, must find ways to push her mother and concubine in the harem.But Concubine Shu is different, the Ban family and the Wei family have always been close friends, in her eyes Atong Wei is simply the best daughter-in-law.It's even more rare that her son is also satisfied, and she, who was already satisfied, will be even more satisfied now.After preparing the dowry for King Duan, she even cared about her daughter-in-law's dowry.

A well-educated and reasonable person like Concubine Shu would not embarrass anyone even if she cared about her daughter-in-law's dowry.She didn't send too expensive things by herself, and she didn't say anything to directly tell the Wei family how many things you should prepare.Instead, he cleverly used the correspondence between the Ban family and the Wei family after the friendship was restored to talk about some customs in the capital.Although the Wei family is also a heir to poetry and etiquette, after all they have been away from the capital for so many years, they are not sure what to do with the marriage in Beijing.Seeing this point mentioned in the letter from the Ban family, the Wei family immediately asked about the marriage customs.

In the past two years, Wei Wei's business has also brought a share of the Wei family, and gradually the Wei family has also become rich.Although she couldn't afford ten miles of red makeup, she could still buy a decent dowry for Ah Tong within her ability, at least not to make her inferior to other royal wives.

The Wei family thought so, but Emperor Qinglong disagreed!When the other princes were fighting to become cross-eyed, only Houxi was his filial son with peace of mind.Moreover, Houxi was born so handsome, and he was loved by him since he was a child. For such an excellent and filial son, the wedding should be more lively no matter what.Rewarding Houxi was too eye-catching, so Emperor Qinglong turned a corner and began to give favors to Wei's family.He just ordered to completely overthrow the public opinion of the previous court, pardon Wei Xiang's innocence, and return the confiscated family property at the same time.

Uncle Wei and Aunt Wei are not patriarchal people, they love their only pair of children equally.With such a windfall, and at such a timing, Uncle Wei also guessed some of the emperor's intentions.It was enough for the Wei family's unjust case to be vindicated, and he would cry bitterly and open the ancestral hall to comfort his ancestors. As for things outside of the body, such as money, it doesn't matter if he gave it to his daughter.

Adding a generous dowry to Uncle Wei, who couldn't afford it at first, will completely create a red makeup.

Of course, this is something for later, but as his cousin Wei Wei, she is aware of the scale of Ah Tong's dowry and the urgency of the entire marriage.Because she was too rushed to make some clothes, she went to the shopkeeper Ning in the Jinxiu Pavilion to order a batch of brocade clothes and sent them to the northwest urgently before she was ordered to leave Beijing.

Seeing that there are still two months to get married, why is Duan Wang sent out at this time?

"Isn't it because I have a good younger brother?" King Duan glanced at King Ping, who was smiling but silent, "His Highness Prince Ping ran to his wife's family who worked in the Ministry of Internal Affairs every day, which caused excessive force there. Originally, the next The preparation can only be done at the end of the month and it will be completed one month in advance. The father saw that after His Royal Highness abolished the confinement, the elder brother and the sixth younger brother were very busy. .”

King Ping next to him smiled and said nothing, as if he didn't hear King Duan making arrangements for him.

"Then let's really hurry up, and we can't delay His Royal Highness Duan Wang's happy day." After speaking, Yan Heng looked at the villagers who rushed over: "These are the two sons and daughters of the current Holy Majesty, His Royal Highness Duan Wang and Ping Wang. Your Highness, they came to attack the Japanese pirates on behalf of the emperor. I may not be able to protect you if I speak lightly, but the two highnesses are nobles and sons of the phoenix, and they will definitely wipe out the Japanese pirates in one fell swoop.

If other princes came over, Yan Heng would not dare to speak so casually.According to his plan with Ah Mao, the evidence collected in the past two months should be handed over first, and the cause and effect should be clarified before asking for instructions. In short, how to do it safely.

But Duan Wang is different, since he received a secret decree on the night of his marriage three years ago, the two have become friends.Later, whether it was the friendship between the Ban and Wei families, or the fact that King Duan liked the delicious food of Guangyuanlou, or that Ah Mao was friends with the ninth princess, or that King Duan checked the accounts according to his account books during the Shengjia's west tour, all kinds of things have been experienced in three years. People already have a deep friendship, so they can speak more bluntly.

Sure enough, King Duan didn't blame him at all, instead he preliminarily clarified the truth through Yan Heng's few words.

"According to what Yan Heng said, they want to recruit water bandits, and use their familiarity with waterways to attack Japanese pirates fleeing through waterways?"

"It's almost like this, Your Highness, let me listen to my ministers in detail. Presumably His Highness is also wondering why the soldiers of the Jiangnan government have achieved outstanding results in fighting against the Japanese every year, while the Japanese pirates have become more and more tyrannical over the years. Because those outstanding achievements come from ordinary people. Soldiers dispatch tasks layer by layer, and if they fail to complete the tasks, they randomly catch fishermen to make up the number. The common people not only have to be attacked by Japanese pirates, but also suffer from exploitation by the government. Safety."

King Ping, who always had a smile on his face, finally changed his face, and King Duan cursed directly: "It's unreasonable, these soldiers still have the slightest respect for the imperial court in their hearts. The heinous Japanese pirates have become their fish and meat. An excuse to run amok in the countryside."

His chest heaved for a while, and for the first time, Duan Wang realized the difficulty of his father these years.It seems that he is sitting on the palm of the hand of the world, but the officials below are corrupt, obsequious and vicious, and one after another, he is simply playing him for a fool.The glory of belonging to the royal family stirred in his heart, he is the son of his father, no matter what, he couldn't see these moths eroding the beautiful country of Dayue like this.

He personally helped up a few villagers who were frightened and frightened. He clasped his fists and saluted, with an infinitely sincere expression on his face: "I trouble the villagers to go back and tell the water bandits. Report to the emperor to reward the meritorious deeds."

The few people were originally ordered by the patriarch to bring tokens to ask Lord Yan for help.Unexpectedly, they not only invited Mr. Yan, but even the high-ranking prince might make a promise.They were so moved that they didn't know where to put their hands, and they would no longer have any doubts in their hearts.

Gather the brothers in the water village and beat back the gang of Japanese pirates who did all kinds of evil.

(End of this chapter)