Fortunate Young Gentleman

The strategy of the Tang family and King Duan against the Zhang family was very effective. The responsibility of guarding the festival fell from the left west gate guard to the right west gate guard.

The Zhang family has been keeping a low profile so far, and King Kang has fallen into such a situation. In the eyes of everyone, the Tang family and King Duan have the intention of bullying honest people. However, in the capital, the law of the jungle has always been unclarified. The officialdom is like a battlefield, and winning It is either the enemy's death or our own death. The fact is so cruel that no one will sympathize with the loser.

Even if the Zhang family has no intention of rebellion, Emperor Chen must beware of their rebellious intentions.

After leaving the palace, Emperor Chen's safety was no longer up to Yulinwei. The Zhang family had a close connection with Prince Kang. If Prince Kang rebelled, Emperor Chen would definitely not be able to bear the consequences.

Not afraid of 10,000, but afraid of the unexpected, taking precautions and nipping danger in the cradle is what he should do.

Thinking about it this way, his temporary change of generals is actually not difficult to understand.

The left and right gatekeepers often have conflicts and are not harmonious. If the left gatekeeper is in trouble, the right gatekeeper can definitely be trusted.

Emperor Chen had already considered this when arranging the sixteen guards. If the two guards guarding the same place were too close, once they started to rebel, a certain direction of the capital would be lost immediately. The situation is similar to the friction between the left and right Ximen guards.

Which bodyguard to choose for the festival is just a trivial matter, and the twists and turns that occur only make a small splash in the capital.

This round can be regarded as a small victory for the Tang family and King Duan. However, for the Tang family and King Duan, who have suffered repeated defeats and defeats in the past two years, although the victory is small, it is better than nothing.

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"It's not that easy to completely destroy the Zhang family..." In Prince Duan's palace, Prince Duan, who had not stepped out of the palace for half a month, sighed. It seemed that the Zhang family had suffered a loss this time, but If you think about it carefully, there is no big loss.

He took a long breath and said, "How great would it be if the Zhang family really rebelled?"

This time he asked people to spread rumors about the Zhang family's rebellion, but found no evidence. Instead, he cleared the Zhang family's suspicion and proved himself for the Zhang family.

If evidence of rebellion is really found in the Zhang family, the result will be different. Rebellion is a major crime against the Nine Clan, and King Kang will also be implicated. In this way, he will have one less opponent.

Next, as long as his father is eliminated within a year or half a year, it will not be King Run's turn to take the throne.

King Duan sighed leisurely, but unfortunately, imagination is beautiful, but reality always backfires...

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In Prince Kang's palace, Prince Kang stood in the courtyard, with his back to a budding plum tree, and murmured: "Father still doesn't believe me..."

Mr. Xu said calmly: "Whether you believe it or not, isn't the result still the same?"

"Yes." King Kang smiled and said: "He has been suspicious all his life, how could he trust others easily? If he could trust others easily, he would have died in the hands of those imperial uncles back then, and How could I be where I am today?”

Mr. Xu was silent for a while and asked, "Is that person trustworthy?"

King Kang nodded and said: "I'm afraid even my father has forgotten how much trouble he caused in the capital in order to fight for the throne. The whole family was affected, and he was the only one who died. Do you think , will he be loyal to his father?"

Mr. Xu said: "Be careful."

King Kang said: "Qi Yu has been helping me secretly for five years. If something happens to my king, he will not be able to escape his involvement. He will not do such a thing that seeks death."

Mr. Xu stopped talking and looked at him and said: "This matter must be done quickly. There are one hundred thousand imperial guards in the capital. If you want to succeed, you must control your majesty, hundreds of officials, and several princes in the shortest possible time." , If not, when the rest of the guards react, if they haven't captured these people, they will be doomed..."

"I know." A smile appeared on King Kang's face and he said, "I have been waiting for this moment for a long time..."

Mr. Xu looked at him and said, "Your Highness, please give it some final thought. What you are going to do next is extremely dangerous and will not leave a good reputation in the history books."

"I don't care what future generations think of me." King Kang smiled and said, "Moreover, what I am doing now was not done by my father more than twenty years ago?"

"This is what my father taught me." He clenched his fists and said: "Relying on others, you can only be a prince at most, but relying on yourself, you can become an emperor!"

Mr. Xu glanced at him, then exited the main hall, walked through several long corridors, and came to a courtyard deep in the palace.

A young man closed the courtyard door, walked into the room, and asked, "Will King Kang kill Emperor Chen?"

"No." Mr. Xu shook his head and said, "He will not succeed."

The young man wondered: "Then what's the use of helping him for so long?"

"Everything you do has to pay a price, even the emperor is no exception." Mr. Xu seemed not to be talking about rebellion, but a trivial matter. He said calmly: "A wife is separated from her children, and she is betrayed by her closest relatives. This is one of the prices he has to pay."

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Qi Mansion.

The Qi family is considered the most low-key among the sixteen generals.

This may be because the Qi family is very thin, with no one except General Qi Yu, the right gate guard, and an old servant.

There are so many great generals in the capital. There are some general families like General Qi who fell into decline and rose again. The Xiao family is one of them, but it is the only one with such a small population.

More than 20 years ago, the Qi family was involved in a fight for the throne. After that, the whole family was slaughtered and Qi Yu was sentenced to exile. Later, because of his repeated merits in the army, he saved the emperor during a certain expedition, and he got his current status.

If it weren't for the rumor that the Zhang family had the intention of rebellion, the task of guarding the sacrificial ceremony fell on the right west gate guard, and few people in the capital would have remembered this general of the 16 guards.

General Qi was summoned to the palace today, and it was already night when he returned home.

He walked into the Qi Mansion and was about to go back to his room to rest, but his footsteps suddenly stopped and his eyes looked at the corner of the courtyard.

In the darkness, a figure stood there quietly.

The man stood in the darkness, and his face could not be seen clearly, but Qi Yu could feel his gaze.

"King Kang wants to rebel?" Soon, a voice came from the darkness.

Qi Yu nodded and said, "King Kang wants to take advantage of this festival to kill all the princes and force His Majesty to give up the throne."

"That's a good plan." A moment later, a voice came from the darkness again.

The emperor's family affairs are beyond the control of the ministers. There have been many cases of killing fathers and brothers to usurp the throne in history. Although most people failed, those who succeeded also sat on the highest position as they wished.

If King Kang can achieve his goal, no one in the royal family in Beijing will be able to inherit the throne. At that time, he will be the emperor.

Of course, usurping the throne is not a good reputation. After he succeeds, the State of Chen may be in chaos or even fall apart, but that is obviously not something that a person who wants to kill his brothers and father will consider before sitting on the throne.

Qi Yu looked at him and said, "Do you want to report this to His Majesty?"

The man looked at him and said, "If you do this, you will also be implicated."

Qi Yu smiled and said, "You gave me my life, and I don't care about these things anymore."

The man shook his head and said, "Your life is your own, and no one has the power to take it away."

Qi Yu's face was calm and he asked, "So, you want me to cooperate with King Kang in a rebellion?"

The man asked back, "Why not?"

Qi Yu looked at him for a long time before saying, "Your Majesty is really sad that your own son wants to rebel against you..."

The figure in the dark was silent for a long time before speaking again, "That's what he deserves..."