While Bei Kai's family of three and the surrendered ministers were living a carefree life in the small world of the scepter, undercurrents were constantly surging in the Great Yan Dynasty outside.

That's right, anyone with eyes that are not blind can clearly see that the deadline for the current emperor Bei Rong is approaching.

For this reason, the ministers in the court are all considering which prince to support to succeed the throne.

Although Bei Rong has twice asked the fourth prince, Bei Zongxun, to take over the government, the fourth prince's maternal family is not prominent, so his foundation in the court is not deep at all.

If we talk about the prominence of the maternal family, the second prince, Bei Zongfang, is the grandson of Shu Wang Meng Zhixiang, the fifth prince, Bei Zongliang, is also the great-grandson of Wu Wang Yang Fu, and of course, there is also the sixth prince, Bei Zongqian, who is the grandson of the previous emperor, the free and easy king Li Xingyun!

In the current Great Yan Dynasty, the court officials are divided into four camps.

The first camp: the court officials from the Yan Kingdom were directly moved to the Great Yan Dynasty. Of course, the first generation of Yan Kingdom officials have basically died, but their descendants have inherited the official positions of their families.

The second camp: the Tang officials of the previous dynasty, although they once did spineless things.

However, after Bei Rong ascended the throne, he still gave them some insignificant idle positions, but their descendants were very competitive. These descendants passed the imperial examination and re-entered various important positions in the court.

The third camp: the group of civil and military officials who entered the court from the fiefdoms of various princes through the recommendation of the princes and the county governors.

The fourth camp: the officials who have no foundation and entered the court through the imperial examination.

Therefore, for the current Great Yan Dynasty, no matter which prince succeeds to the throne, it will not affect the interests of the first camp, but the ministers of the other three camps have to weigh it carefully!

As the emperor, Bei Rong is naturally well aware of the disputes in the court, but at this moment, he can only lie on the sickbed and drink bottle after bottle of royal treasures.

The so-called royal treasure is the same medicine liquid used by Li Yunji and Shuliduo. Before choosing to "pass away", Bei Kai and the others ordered people to use jade to build a 12 cubic meter jade pool in the palace, and then filled this jade pool with this same medicine liquid.

"Your Majesty, this royal treasure can only maintain youth, but cannot cure diseases!" The attendant who was responsible for handing the medicine bottle to Bei Rong said so with a distressed face.

"I know that too, but..." Bei Rong raised his head again and drank a bottle of the royal treasure.

"Your Majesty, the six ministers are asking for an audience outside the palace!" Another attendant came in from outside the palace.

"Announce!" Bei Rong asked the attendants around him to take the remaining royal treasures and leave.

"Your Majesty, we are here to see you!" The six ministers knelt in front of Bei Rong.

"My dear ministers, why do you come to see me today?" Bei Rong signaled the six ministers to stand up.

"Your Majesty, we are here today to persuade you to establish a queen! After all, your Majesty once said that as long as the two queen mothers are still alive, your Majesty will not establish a queen, but now..." The Minister of Personnel said this to Bei Rong with his hands clasped on his fists on behalf of himself and the other five ministers.

"If you establish a queen early, why not establish a prince early?" Bei Rong only needs one look to see through the court officials' compromise.

"We are guilty, please forgive me, Your Majesty!" The six ministers knelt in front of Bei Rong again.

"Okay, you all go down first! I need to think carefully about establishing a queen!" Bei Rong gave these court officials a little hope.

"Your Majesty is wise! We will take our leave!" After hearing the answer they wanted, the six ministers left Bei Rong's palace happily.

Yes, to this day, Bei Rong has not established a queen. First, he wants to keep his promise and vow not to establish a queen while the two queen mothers are still alive. Second, because he and the concubines are all so old, it would be a bit out of place to hold a ceremony to establish a queen at this time.

However, when Bei Rong really thought about who to make the queen, he really figured out a lot of things.

Although he had been deliberately making the seven princescompetition, but Bei Rong never really understood his seven sons.

The eldest son of the emperor, Bei Zongyan, was actually an accident, because his biological mother was just a maid selected from Huanyinfang when Li Yunji was alive to accompany Bei Rong.

Yes, the birth of Bei Zongyan is a particularly clichéd plot. In short, Bei Rong, who was still the prince, got drunk one day, and then he and this ambitious maid, "hum hum ha hum" together... Then, the other party won just at this time!

The second son of the emperor, Bei Zongfang, as the grandson of Shu Wang Meng Zhixiang and the son of Li Fei Meng Xinrui, he is a courtier with his own reserve force in the court, but generally speaking, his family power is not that strong!

The third son of the emperor, Bei Zongyi, was born to a daughter of a civil official who was selected through a selection, and her position was only a concubine. Therefore, this son had no power of the family at all, so he often "colluded" with Bei Zongyan!

The fourth son of the emperor, Bei Zongxun, was born to a daughter of a military general who was also selected through a selection, and her position was a Zhaoyi. Moreover, this son has shown extraordinary talents since he was a child, so Bei Rong let him act as the governor twice.

But if Bei Zongxun is really to be promoted to the position of the crown prince, it will probably take a lot of trouble!

The fifth son of the emperor, Bei Zongliang, is the great-grandson of Wu Wang Yang Fu, the grandson of Hanba and Shangrao County Lord, and his birth mother is Yue Fei Yang Xiaolan, so he also has a strong support in the court!

The seventh prince, Bei Zongxun, his biological mother is the Ning Fei, Chai Rong, who had switched with Bei Rong. Unfortunately, although the Chai family is a famous family in the Great Yan Dynasty, no one in this family has entered the court as an official. Therefore, this son does not have a strong mother family!

Why should we skip the sixth prince and talk about Bei Zongxun first? That is because the sixth prince, Bei Zongqian, is the grandson of the former emperor and the current Xiaoyao King, Li Xingyun. His biological mother is the eldest daughter of Ji Ruxue, the virtuous concubine Li Ruobing.

In addition, Li Ruobing's eldest daughter married into the mansion of the former Grand Tutor, Guo Chongtao. During his life, Grand Tutor Guo's disciples were all over the world. He was a man of both civil and military skills, and cultivated a large number of civil officials and military generals for the court.

Therefore, if you take it seriously, the power behind the sixth prince, Bei Zongqian, is the strongest among the seven princes!

Thinking of this, Bei Rong suddenly stood up from his sickbed.

Yes! Since the power behind Bei Zongqian is so strong, why has he always been so submissive and never fought with anyone since he was a child? Is he deliberately hiding his incompetence?

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