i am afraid

King Qin left, Jiang Yan sat at the table, lost in confusion.

He didn't know what he should do, and his experience couldn't tell him who he should trust. He trusted his uncle and cousin, but when his father passed away, they were the ones who turned to others the fastest in his father's old department. It won't hurt him, but over the years, most of the power that Uncle Liu has gained is from the old prince's department gathered by the Pei family, which makes it difficult for him to untie his knot.

He is not familiar with King Qin, and King Qin didn't treat him very well before, at most he was a little better than King Rui, fulfilling his uncle's responsibility, but he could clearly feel that King Qin was telling him the truth, his The voice and the spoken word are the same.

For the first time, Jiang Yan felt so intuitively that no one can help him anymore, he needs to choose his own path in the future, maybe he only has this one chance in his life.

Even if he doesn't understand current events, Jiang Yan knows that Jiangnan is rich and rich, and it is impossible to completely make it his fief. No descendants, this is beyond his acceptance.

There are countless fiefs in the imperial court. The sons and grandchildren are degraded to the first rank, and the royal family has a total of twenty ranks. After the demotion, they will be taken back. But after all, they have only left the country for five generations. Basically, the princes can be allocated a good fief to shelter their descendants.

Take away everything that belongs to him, and don't even give him the last dignity of the royal children?

Jiang Yan walked back and forth a few steps, the round jade tied to his wrist shook slightly, and hit the back of his hand, warm, he stopped and sat on the edge of the bed.

Sitting blankly for a long time, Jiang Yan also stroked Yuanyu for a long time. Finally, he spread his arms and lay back on the bed, thinking, wait for Liu Shu to come back and ask him personally.Even if Sixth Uncle's answer was a lie, he would still be able to hear it. His ability probably only had so much effect.

Because of the sudden chaos, Emperor Yuanchu's funeral has not been dealt with, and the coffin has been parked in the Chengtian Palace. King Qin came back from Jiang Yan, turned around, called everyone over, and said: "No matter what Said, the sixth child can wait, but the matter of the emperor's encoffining can't wait any longer, fortunately, it's winter now, if it's summer, when your Highness Prince Chen comes back, you don't even want to use the ready-made Chengtian Palace."

Pei Yue originally had something hidden in his heart, but being stimulated by King Qin's sarcasm, he became angry and sneered, "Your Highness is very filial, since that's the case, I don't know whose belly those pigs killed by the imperial dining room went into."

The king of Qin didn't even blush: "It's reasonable to be outside the law. If you really care about it and don't kill during the national mourning period, should those rebels be released?"

Pei Yue snorted coldly, and was pressed down by Mr. Pei. His words were too provocative. Everyone knows that people outside the city don't talk about it these days when the rebellious army besieged the city. Who is trapped in the city? I was so hungry that I was skinny and only breathed out. I was still a vegetarian, and I wanted to kill someone.

Pei Yue was pressed down, but King Rui stood up. He flicked his sleeves lightly, narrowed his eyes slightly, showing a trace of doubt.

"After encoffining, the new king must lead civil and military officials to sacrifice to the heavens, as a respectful report to the ancestral temple, can the sixth brother come back?"

Pei Yue narrowed his eyes and looked at his father. Mr. Pei's face was watertight, he pretended to ponder for a while, and said, "In about ten days, His Highness will be back soon."

If he hadn't known earlier, Pei Yue would have thought that his father was counting the time needed for His Royal Highness to come and go, this expression is too realistic.

King Rui smiled: "Then I wonder if we can let the emperor be buried first? It will be safe in the earth. The matter of offering sacrifices to the heavens may be a few days later, we just wait here for the sixth brother to come back."

King Qin gave him a hard look, as if he was very angry at his suggestion to wait for Jiang Ling to come back to offer sacrifices to heaven. King Rui glanced at him with a smile, which meant to tell him to be calm.

After all, the master and minister are different, but this remark offended Mr. Pei. He quickly said he didn't dare, but Pei Yue didn't have any scruples. Now that he has made a decision, King Qin Rui must be eradicated. what relationship?He simply nodded for his father.

"Your Majesty should be encoffined as soon as possible. Since the prince said so, we will postpone the matter of offering sacrifices to heaven. After ten days, His Highness will definitely come back to preside over the sacrifice." As for which His Highness it is, he does not know.

Gu Xi had been sitting on the side all the time, when he heard this, he rolled his black eyes and glanced at him, and an unpredictable smile suddenly appeared on the corners of his lips.

Pei Yue didn't notice, and went straight out.

The people in the palace soon left only King Qin's people, Gu Qi stood up slowly, and said to King Qin: "Your Majesty, have you noticed something is wrong?"

King Qin didn't speak, his liver ached from Pei Yue's anger.

Gu Xi shook his head, following a master who was boring and lacking in the city was really something that made people unhappy, so he had no choice but to cut straight to the point and said: "As soon as we mentioned His Highness the Sixth Highness, the expressions of General Pei and Marquis Zhen were not right. , and the people sent to Mobei today came back and said that the Mobei camp is also under martial law, I boldly speculate, could it be that something happened to His Royal Highness the Sixth Prince?"

Qin Wang suddenly turned around and looked at him, his eyes stared into two copper bells, it was really scary in the dark night, Gu Qi didn't care, he thought for a while and said: "Although I don't know what the Sixth Highness's side is, The specific situation, but we can verify it. Just now, the Pei family army took over the Wucheng Bingma Division and is responsible for patrolling the city tonight. Tomorrow, the Wucheng Bingma Division should resume normal operations. He, then..."

King Qin thought for a while, and said: "If something really happened to the sixth child, the Pei family has so many soldiers, it would be easy to take down the king. The third child and I can't even raise our troops."

Daxian claims to have 200 million troops, but in fact it is only about one million, except for the three branches of the Southeast Army, the Mobei Army and the Beiling Army.There are 36 counties in the world, and there are still about 50 troops in various places. They are in charge of the prefects of each county. The strength of the troops varies from region to region. In the event of a rebellion, the prefect can lead troops to quell the rebellion, but since Daxian founded the country, there has never been a precedent for a local mobilization of troops.

Gu Qi's tone didn't change much, he said: "The Pei family will not rebel, and they dare not rebel. They are most likely to be the ones who control us, establish a new king, and act as puppets."

King Qin was furious, and he waved his hand: "This king will not be a puppet even if he dies!"

Gu Qi was silent for a while, and swallowed back the words "The new monarch is most likely the young master". Qin Wang's face, which can only be found by lighting a lantern at night, is too different from the young master.

"The Pei family has the right time, place and people this time. We only have two choices now."

King Qin narrowed his eyes and stared closely at Gu Qi, only to see a sneer on that fox-like face: "Either, immediately flee back to the southeast immediately, recruit troops and buy horses to fight back to the capital, or let them stand in the East Palace. That one is the emperor."

King Qin's eyes suddenly shot out a sharp light like a blade, and he went straight to Gu Qi: "How dare you! Cheng Yuan is my king's nephew, why do you want to involve him?"

Gu Qi's sneer faded away, he looked at the King of Qin, and suddenly said: "Your Highness, do you still remember Miss Pei's appearance back then?"

The King of Qin looked at him coldly, and Gu Qi smiled: "Your Highness still remembers Miss Pei, so more people will remember the prince. The separation of the old part of the prince is a last resort, and there are countless interests involved, so they all fell down so quickly. His Royal Highness Xiang Liu. The crown prince passed away only five or six years ago. If the one from the Eastern Palace sits on the throne, these people will immediately turn from a piece of loose sand to a piece of iron. At that time, do you think the one who pushed the one from the Eastern Palace to the throne Can the Pei family live a peaceful life?"

"The Pei family is not stupid."

Qin Wang said something coldly, Gu Qi smiled more gently, and he said: "Because the Pei family is not stupid, they know that the one who established the East Palace is the emperor, not only will they not become rebellious officials and thieves, but If you get Conglong's work, if you do it well, maybe it can bring their Pei family to a higher level."

King Qin paused, he walked back and forth a few steps, he seemed a little hesitant, Gu Xi stopped talking, he knew that King Qin would always find the right answer in his suggestion, what's more, even if they didn't move here, Rui The king should not be able to sit still.

The only blame is to blame the generals of the Pei family. He has enough brains, but he doesn't know what real acting skills are.

Gu Xi cast his gaze out of the window, and there was a bright moon outside, just in time.

After a sleepless night, when he woke up the next day, Jiang Yan felt a little dizzy. He called the imperial doctor and found that he had contracted a cold. Thinking about it, it was right. If it was so cold, he would have been hiding in the room in normal times. If you don't go out to Maodong, it's not like being caught, escaping, and tossing in the underground palace these days. His body is weak, so it's strange that he doesn't get sick.

Jiang Yan was ill for ten days, and he didn't feel the undercurrents in the outside world. In the past ten days, he had read two story books, one chess record, and practiced three pieces of music. Had a great time.

The day for the funeral for Emperor Yuanchu will come soon, Jiang Yan got up early, the mourning clothes issued in the palace are all handled by King Rui, it is only a thin layer, even if he can't see it, Jiang Yan will put the clothes inside Changed to a plain one. Although I have no affection for this grandfather, and complained about the fact that he had a moth on his deathbed that caused the army to enter the city, he always had to save face.

Having kept filial piety for his father for three years, Jiang Yan knew these things very well. He thought that there would never be another experienced person like him in the whole palace.

The author has something to say:

"Because I didn't finish talking"

Jiang Yan: I keep filial piety and wear white.

Traitor A, B, C, and D: Good, good, good!

Jiang Yan: I don't keep my filial piety anymore, I wear red.

Traitor A, B, C, and D: Good, good, good!

Jiang Yan: I wear black to be more majestic, wear black.

Traitor A, B, C, and D: Good, good, good!

Jiang Yan: Why are you always so nice?

Traitor A, B, C, D: Well, well, beautiful...