I am a ruler in troubled times

After the Na Zheng ceremony was completely over, Song Peiyu wanted to find an opportunity to sneak away, fulfill his promise to Chong Yi, and go to the East Palace to stay overnight.

He had just walked to the secret place, and was thinking about how to avoid the brothers who were seeing off guests at the gates and side doors, when he suddenly felt his body vacated.

...and flew up.

Song Peiyu regained her feet on the ground before she had time to fear.

Chong Yi's hand was still on Song Peiyu's waist, and he blew a loud whistle.

The sound of hooves approached, and the red horse approached Chong Yi and Song Peiyu like a gust of red hot wind. After stopping, it immediately arched Song Peiyu's face with its head.

Song Peiyu was pushed back again and again, taking advantage of the opportunity to hide behind Chong Yi.

Ever since Chi Feng and Mo General had grown into big horses, he couldn't bear this kind of enthusiasm anymore, but unfortunately Chi Feng and Mo General didn't think so.

Chong Yi stretched out his hand, grabbed Chi Feng's head with ease, rubbed his red hairy ears lightly, and in exchange for Chi Feng's pleasant humming sound, he carried Chong Yi and Song Peiyu back to the East Palace contentedly.

Fighting fiercely all night, Song Peiyu once again experienced the feeling of being completely hollowed out.

The dragon pearl and jade pendant had been combined into one, and they were placed on the bedside cabinet, but the auspicious clothes of the two were full of wrinkles and strange liquid, piled up on the ground indiscriminately.

Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the dragon and phoenix on the clothes that had changed color long ago. Song Peiyu turned her limp waist and turned her back with difficulty, not seeing it clearly.

As long as he sees these two clothes now, he will think of last night...

Chong Yi, who went to get the medicine jade, came back and saw Song Peiyu lying on the inner side of the bed, suddenly lifted Song Peiyu's leg, and stuffed the medicine jade into it with lightning speed.

"Hiss..." The place that was still sensitive and hot was suddenly stuffed with such a cool thing, which made Song Peiyu gasp, and kicked Chong Yi without hesitation.

Can't he be mentally prepared in advance? !

Chong Yi did not dodge, taking advantage of the moment Song Peiyu raised his leg, he pushed the medicine jade that was only as thick as a middle finger into it again.

Feeling the warm and moist touch from the ankle, Song Peiyu completely lost his temper, and let go of the strength on his legs. He was quite tired from lifting it, so Chong Yi can lift it if he wants to.

We're all old couples, where haven't we seen them?

Song Peiyu originally wanted to take a break and go to Qinzheng Hall to ask what happened to "Yuzhou Wuchu City Voted Zhao" when it was dawn.

After falling into the familiar embrace, the sleepiness and embarrassment that had been suppressed suddenly became violent.

Before completely falling into a deep sleep, Song Peiyu subconsciously put a sticker on Chong Yi's arms.

Hot in winter and cool in summer, that's great.

When Song Peiyu woke up, it was already afternoon.

He was the only one left on the bed, and his body became completely dry.

Song Peiyu lazily stretched her limbs, put on the clean underwear and pajamas on the bedside, and then rang the bell to let people in.

Seeing the black robe embroidered with phoenix pattern in Yin Bao's hand, Song Peiyu subconsciously raised her hand and put it on the brows that were frantically beating, "Change clothes"

Yin Bao was stunned, and asked hesitantly, "What color?"

"Change the embroidery pattern." Song Peiyu did not hesitate.

Yin Bao's face turned into a dilemma. He told Song Peiyu that all of Song Peiyu's clothes in the East Palace had been sealed up, and now the clothes she could wear whenever she could get them were all different colors, and all of them had phoenix patterns on them.

Song Peiyu was silent for a while.

Let people go out of the palace to get clothes. After the clothes enter the palace, the time for the adults who work in the Qinzheng Palace to leave the palace has long passed.

Wearing this dress casually...except for him who can't look directly at the phoenix pattern on it, no one else will feel that something is wrong.

Song Peiyu chose the latter after all.

From the East Palace to the Hall of Qinzheng, every courtier and courtier Soong Peiyu met took the initiative to stop to greet him, and they all called him "His Royal Highness Yuanjun".

Soong Peiyu had the illusion that he and Chong Yi were married yesterday.

Song Peiyu was lucky. When he arrived at the Hall of Qinzheng, Emperor Yonghe was about to discuss with his courtiers the matter of "Yuzhou Wuchu City Voted to Zhao".

After listening to the ins and outs of "Five Chu cities in Yuzhou voted for Zhao", Song Peiyu subconsciously grabbed her palm.

Pain, not a dream.

The courtiers clenched their fists and turned their heads to observe Song Peiyu's expression at the same time.

Seeing the surprise and disapproval on Song Peiyu's face, the courtiers breathed a sigh of relief, and only then did they think about analyzing the situation in Chu State.

Although Zhao Guoming's superficial staff had all withdrawn from Chu State three years ago.

But after all, Zhao Guo has been operating in Chu State for ten years, how could it be possible that there is no secret manpower?

Compared with Chen Guo, who was far away and always full of defense and hostility towards Zhao Guo, Zhao Guo knew the news of Chu State, especially Chu Jing, well, and could be called a well-informed one.

Ever since the frequent changes in Yuzhou, or since the marriage between Princess Jiayi, the daughter of Prince Chu, and Emperor Chen Guoxuantai was brought up again, and Prince Chu transferred his energy from Yuzhou to Chujing, the conflict between Prince Chu and Chu officials has become increasingly fierce. They were all seen by Zhao Guo.

The Zhao officials imagined many possibilities, and even thought that before the conflict between Prince Chu and Chu officials broke out completely, the Emperor Chu, who had no longer cared about worldly affairs, would intervene.

They never expected that Crown Prince Chu would look like Chen Guoan's undercover agent in Chu State.

Shang Shuling shook his head, and said with a half-smile, "Prince Chu...I'm afraid he was fooled by Chu Chen."

Song Peiyu's finger that was randomly tapping on the armrest of the chair suddenly stopped, and a sudden flash of light flashed in his eyes.

For those courtiers who do not understand this sentence, please humbly ask Shang Shuling for clarification.

Shang Shuling didn't hold back, he took a sip of tea to moisten his throat, and started talking about three years ago when the old crown prince of Chu State just passed away, when King Jia and the eldest grandson of the emperor competed for the position of heir.

At the beginning, the two sides competed for the position of crown prince.

At the beginning, it was the eldest grandson of the emperor who had the upper hand.

The old prince has been in power for many years and has a stable position, so he will naturally leave manpower for the eldest grandson of the emperor.

Until King Jia regarded Yuzhou as his last chance and begged Emperor Chu to allow him to send troops to Yuzhou.

Ever since King Jia erected the Chu flag on the first city in Yuzhou, the status of him and the eldest grandson of the emperor has gradually changed.

King Jia, who took over one-third of the city of Yuzhou, has completely suppressed the momentum of the emperor's eldest grandson, and even successfully persuaded Chu Chen to give up the country of Zhao, which he had been friends with for many years, and change his alliance with the country of Chen.

"Prince Chu still thinks that he can gain the upper hand in the competition with the emperor's eldest grandson and get the crown prince by winning one-third of the city of Yuzhou." Shang Shuling shook his head as he spoke, his eyes full of disgust.

In fact, it was because the emperor's eldest grandson's temperament was too cowardly, and he couldn't even control the confidants left by the old prince, but was controlled by the confidantes left by the old prince.

Neither the Emperor Chu nor the courtiers of the Chu Kingdom would allow such an eldest grandson of the emperor to become a prince.

When the "Dianxi Rebellion" broke out in Chujing, the prince was assassinated on the way back to Chu from Yuzhou in a hurry, not by the eldest grandson of the emperor, but by the eldest grandson's "subordinates" and other brothers of King Jia.

Emperor Chu not only had two sons, the old prince and King Jia, but as an emperor who lived an exceptionally long time, he had many sons.

Therefore, after the death of the old crown prince, the new crown prince can only be born among the eldest grandson of the emperor and King Jia.

If more than a dozen sons and dozens of grandsons of the Emperor Chu had wrong thoughts, the state of Chu would surely fall apart.

It can be said that King Jia became the crown prince of the Chu Kingdom, which was well-received by everyone.

Only Crown Prince Chu couldn't understand the reason why he could become the crown prince. After becoming the crown prince, he put all his energy into Yuzhou and allowed the power left by the old crown prince to be divided up by the old officials.

Finding that the old ministers 'changed their faces', Prince Chu took the military exploits of Yuzhou and the support of Chen Guo as his greatest confidence as a matter of course.

Putting the cart before the horse even more, focusing on Yuzhou over Jingzhou.

Prince Chu made a crazy decision to give the 'Chu City' to Chen Guo, and sell the Chu army to Chen Guo.

I'm afraid he wants to stabilize his crown prince through the alliance with Chen Guo as he did three years ago.

As everyone knows, as long as he doesn't commit suicide, no one can shake his position as the prince of Chu.

His biggest bargaining chip has never been Chen Guo's support, but Chu Huang's support.

Emperor Yonghe couldn't help but feel bad for Emperor Chu.

The Emperor Chu's love for Prince Chu was far more than that for the old prince and the eldest grandson of the emperor.

Since King Jia became the crown prince, Emperor Chu not only gave King Jia the greatest authority, but also never summoned any descendants in private.

The only two king Xiang and Princess Lingyun who don't hide their love, one is just a nephew and the other is just a daughter, and both of them don't care about power, so they won't pose any threat to the status of Prince Chu.

Even after the "Chun County Change", the prince still refused to repent, and the emperor of Chu did not promote his son or grandson to warn the prince, but comforted the ministers of Chu with King Xiang, who was unlikely to inherit the throne.

Emperor Yonghe had no doubts that if Prince Chu could have one-tenth of the success of his Suzaku, the Emperor Chu would have given the military power firmly in his hands to Prince Chu long ago.

It's a pity... Prince Chu not only can't understand Emperor Chu's deep affection, but instead regards King Xiang as an enemy who threatens his crown prince.

Prince Chu didn't even think about it, even if Emperor Chu was confused, he wanted to pass the throne to King Xiang.

Will his dozen brothers and dozens of nephews agree?

Will the courtiers who are related to his dozen brothers and dozens of nephews agree?

Instead of worrying that King Xiang would threaten his crown prince, it is better to appease and win King Xiang so that King Xiang will not support his brother and nephew.

In contrast, Emperor Yonghe looked at Song Peiyu more lovingly.

It's better to be his Suzaku, or the raccoon slave.

They are all smart and sensible children.

More and more Zhao Chen showed enlightenment on his face, which made Zhao Chen who hadn't understood it even more uncomfortable. He looked left and right like ants on a hot pot, but refused to speak easily, for fear that he would appear extraordinarily stupid. .

It didn't take long before Zhao Chen, who still didn't understand how Prince Chu was fooled by Chu Chen, fully understood the meaning of this sentence.

Half a month later, Chong Yi and Song Peiyu began to perform the fifth of the six rituals, please wait.

As the name suggests, this is the process of discussing the date of marriage between the two parties.

According to the old practice, Emperor Yonghe asked Qin Tianjian to prepare several auspicious days, ranging from two months to half a year later, and he would personally bring Chong Yi to the Song Mansion several times to discuss the wedding date.

Song Hui repeatedly refused, and proposed to postpone the wedding date on the grounds that she did not want to give up Jiaer.

The exact date of the big wedding depends entirely on which party is more dark-hearted.

Today, it was the first time that Emperor Yonghe took Chongyi to the Song Mansion to discuss the wedding date.

Not only Emperor Yonghe and Chongyi came to the door in person, but also nine matchmakers from Princess Chang, King Su, He Chongyi and Song Peiyu followed behind Emperor Yonghe and Chongyi.

It can be seen how urgent Emperor Yonghe wanted his son to get married as soon as possible.

Song Jinyu had already expected today's battle, besides his own brothers, he also invited many friends to help out in the verbal battle.

Most of the court gathered in the Song Mansion.

Although they were discussing the wedding date of Chongyi and Song Peiyu, the two of them still had no say. They could only sit at the end and listen to each other's tricks.

Thinking to deal with the Eldest Princess and the Eldest Princess, Mrs. Song, Mrs. Ye and Mrs. Liu were also sitting in their seats ready to go.

Song Peiyu had no choice but to ask people to make more tea to soothe their throats, so that everyone would be too hoarse to speak at the court meeting tomorrow.

At the moment when the atmosphere in the flower hall was getting more and more intense, suddenly eight hundred miles rushed to send them one after another.

The two expedited [-]-mile letters came from Chu Jing, and they were the letter of credence and the letter of surrender.

The eight hundred miles sent back by Zhao Guo's eyeliner in Chu State followed closely behind.

The excitement was interrupted, and the sleepy-faced people immediately showed excitement when they heard the word "Jiang Shu", and looked at Eunuch Meng who was holding three [-]-mile urgent letters without blinking.

Emperor Yonghe complied with the expectations of his courtiers and asked Eunuch Meng to read the letter of surrender first.

The state of Chu was willing to surrender to the state of Zhao, and immediately gave up the city of Chu in Yuzhou to the state of Zhao, opened the northern fortress of Jingzhou, welcomed Zhao Jun and Zhao Chen into Jingzhou, and handed over the military power and political power of Chu state to Zhao state.

At the end of the letter of surrender, it is mentioned that Zhao Guo can wait for the emperor of Chu to die before formally accepting Chu's surrender.It was signed by the Prince of Chu, and it was stamped with the jade seal of Chu State and the private seal, but the private seal was not the seal of the Prince of Chu, but the seal of King Xiang.

After King Su personally identified the handwriting on the letter of surrender, he swore that the letter of surrender was written by King Xiang himself.

Before Emperor Yonghe could react, King Su had already snatched the letter of credence from Eunuch Meng's hand, and read out the contents above.

Prince Chu became a deposed prince, and was demoted to a commoner, and sent to the old prince to guard the mausoleum.

The new prince of Chu is the King Xiang whom no one expected.

After reading the letter of surrender and the letter of state of Chu, everyone was at a loss.

King Su simply dismantled the only eight hundred miles left in the hands of Eunuch Meng.

"Hey!" King Su's eyes widened suddenly, and he cursed, "Zhuzi!"

Everyone was waiting for Su Wangnian to hurry up. Unexpectedly, Su Wang was so involved that he completely forgot about them. Suddenly, the impatient person walked directly to Su Wang's side, and stretched his neck to read the letter regardless of his appearance. Content.

However, no matter how many people went to Su Wang's side, no one told the people who were still waiting anxiously about the content of the eight hundred miles of express delivery.

It wasn't until King Su came back to his senses that everyone knew what the contents of the expedited [-]-mile letter sent back by Zhao Guo's eyeliner in Chu State were.

After the news of "Five Chu cities in Yuzhou voted for Zhao" was sent back to Chujing, the abolished prince not only did not wake up, but fell deeper and deeper.

The deposed prince apparently wanted to execute the family members of the leader of the garrison of "Zhao Chucheng" to attract the attention of the courtiers of the Chu State, but secretly let Chen Jun, who was disguised as the Chu Army of Yuzhou, enter the Chu capital, intending to use the power of the Chen State to initiate a palace change.

The abolished prince thought that as long as the Chu emperor died, he would be the new emperor of the Chu country, and he could justifiably take over the military power firmly held by the Chu emperor.

Unexpectedly, the process of letting Chen Jun, who was disguised as a Chu army, enter the Chu capital was all seen by the Chu emperor.

The Emperor Chu was also willing to give the aborted prince the last chance to rein in the horse, until the aborted prince personally scooped up the poisonous soup to be fed to the emperor, and then the emperor completely gave up on the aborted prince.

Even so, Emperor Chu still left a way for the deposed prince to survive.

Letting the deposed prince guard the mausoleum of the old prince is both punishment and life-saving.

No matter how much the Zhao people had grievances against Chu, they would not attack the deposed prince who could only guard the old prince's mausoleum for the rest of his life.

I just don't know if the abolished prince can appreciate the last loving heart of Emperor Chu.

After the prince was abolished, before a dozen of his sons and dozens of grandsons began to fight for the crown prince, the Emperor of Chu announced at the Great Court Assembly that the Chu State would surrender to Zhao, but he would not be the king of subjugation. King Xiang became the king of subjugation for him.

The Emperor Chu made an order on the spot to make King Xiang the new crown prince, and the canonization process was simplified, taking only half a cup of tea.

Then immediately let King Xiang write the letter of descent and the letter of credence, and send it to Xianyang urgently within eight hundred miles.

Chu Chen once tried to stop Emperor Chu, but suddenly found that when Emperor Chu made up his mind to do something, such as surrendering to Zhao Guo, they had no way to stop him.

They knew very well in their hearts how embarrassing the situation of Chu was among the only three remaining kingdoms in Kyushu.

If you have to choose between Zhao Guo and Chen Guo, of course you should choose Zhao Guo who has never deceived Chu State, at least he has not taken the initiative to set up a trap for Chu State.

Moreover, the State of Zhao has already annexed Wei State, Dongliang, Xiliang, Yizhou, Yanzhou, and Qingzhou. It has never killed innocent people indiscriminately, and is willing to use ministers who surrendered to the country.

...It is not unacceptable.

The Emperor of Chu said that "Chu State broke its trust in the Chu-Zhao Alliance, and Zhao State may not accept Chu State's surrender, so he wanted to make King Xiang, who had a close relationship with the royal family of Zhao State, as the prince, and let King Xiang personally write the letter of surrender." ' For the reason, Chu Chen couldn't find any reason to refute King Xiang as the prince.

Of course they hope that the prince or grandson who is related to them can become the new prince and replace the king of Chu as the subjugated king.

Judging from previous experience, a subjugated king can become the prince of Zhao.

But they couldn't bear the consequence that after the person they strongly recommended became the prince, he wrote a letter of surrender to the state of Zhao but was rejected by the state of Zhao.

He could only watch helplessly as King Xiang became the new prince of Chu.

The Emperor of Chu has already made a plan. As long as Zhao State agrees to the surrender of Chu State and is willing to give Chu State the same treatment as Xiliang, Yan State, Qingzhou and other places, he will immediately abdicate to King Xiang and let King Xiang accept the surrender on his behalf.

As the new emperor of the state of Chu, King Xiang can also be a prince in the state of Zhao. In addition to his good relationship in Xianyang in his early years, he will not worry about peace and wealth in the second half of his life.

The Emperor of Chu did not specifically explain how King Xiang would write the letter of surrender.

Based on King Xiang's experience in Xianyang, no one knows better than King Xiang what kind of surrender letter can impress Zhao Guo.

As long as Jingzhou can not suffer from the war, he is worthy of his ancestors.It doesn't matter even if King Xiang yelled at him in the letter of surrender, and blamed him for the breach of trust of Chu State back then, it doesn't matter, the Emperor Chu thought happily.

However, when King Xiang showed him the written letter of surrender, Emperor Chu almost couldn't hold back the sourness in his eyes.

Three consecutive letters of [-] li urgency made all the people present focus on the Chu country thousands of miles away, completely forgetting why they gathered in Song Mansion.

Emperor Yonghe's dissatisfied gaze swept over the excited or thoughtful expressions of the crowd, and leaned towards Song Jinyu who was sitting on his right, and the sound of thunder made everyone present come to their senses.

"Today's request for a date, and great joy from heaven, it can be seen that God also wants Suzaku and Li slave's good things to go smoothly, why not follow God's will and set the wedding date on September [-], how about it?"

September nineteenth was the closest day among the days calculated by Qin Tianjian.

Only two months away.