The Devil's Wife, I Just Want to Survive

After sending the princess away, Wang Que sat in the living room without saying a word.

"Si Tian Jian... life-saving talisman... regret..."

Wang Que looked at the tea bowl on the table with deep eyes: "Is there any change in the Sixth Prince? Or... the Fourth Prince is still changing?"

He clenched his fist slightly: "It's a pity that I have no reason to approach the Fourth Prince, otherwise I really want to see what state the Fourth Prince is in."

"Is he pretending to be crazy or pretending to be stupid!"

"Now that the Sixth Prince is about to ascend the throne, he still hasn't made any moves..."

"When the Crown Prince ascends the throne, what else can he do to turn the tables?"

Just as Wang Que was thinking, he suddenly heard the voice of the housekeeper Lao Lu: "You all go down."

Wang Que looked up and saw the housekeeper coming, and the servants in the living room were leaving.

"Butler Lu, what's the matter again?"

The housekeeper didn't speak, but just watched the servants retreat and closed the door of the living room.

Wang Que's eyes moved slightly, and the blood in his body began to run.

"Wang Que, Wang Yunyang." Butler Lao Lu spoke slowly, but his voice was not Lao Lu's.

Wang Que narrowed his eyes and stared at the butler: "Fourth Prince?"

Butler Lao Lu smiled slightly, and his temperament at this moment was completely different from before!

"You are really pretending." Wang Que slowly stood up: "You know I am in the prince's camp, why do you take such a big risk to find me."

The smile on the face of the 'butler' did not change: "This prince has been observing you for a long time, you are not really in the prince's camp."

"Aren't you afraid that I will tell the prince?"

"If this prince is afraid, why would this prince find you?" The fourth prince said indifferently: "As long as my father is still alive, the sixth prince can't kill me. At most, he will use some shady means to torture me a few times."

"And this prince has only found you, even if you tell the sixth prince, do you think the sixth prince will doubt you."

Wang Que did not speak, but stared at the fourth prince's eyes.

The fourth prince walked slowly to a chair and sat down: "This prince knows that you are uneasy. If you have anything to ask, just ask. We have plenty of time today."

Wang Que sat down again. He did not speak, and the living room fell into silence.

After a long time, Wang Que spoke: "The prince will ascend the throne in less than a month. After the prince ascends the throne, will you still have a chance to turn the tables?"

"Why should this prince turn the tables?" The fourth prince's tone was very calm: "If he wants to be the emperor, then let him be the emperor."

"Let him be the emperor?" Wang Que leaned back in the chair: "You have been fighting for the throne for a hundred years. If you were willing to let him be the emperor, why would you pretend to be crazy and stupid and continue to stay in the imperial city?"

"If you really had no idea at all, you would have gone to the border to be a prince long ago."

The fourth prince looked at Wang Que: "Then do you think this prince has any way to stop him now?"

Wang Que was silent, and after a moment he said lightly: "You can't stop it."

The fourth prince smiled: "Yes, this prince can't stop it now. Since I can't stop it, why should I struggle?"

"Fourth prince, don't beat around the bush with me. We are all smart people. There is no point in saying these things."

"Okay." The fourth prince took the tea bowl on the table and took a sip. The tea had already cooled down.

"To be precise, my sixth brother Zhou Chengrui is a little bit of a scheming pus. Even if he becomes the emperor, he won't be able to stay for long."

Wang Que didn't speak, just looked at the fourth prince.

The fourth prince continued: "He is too impatient, and he is not qualified to compete with me for the throne."

"But the reality is that he became the prince, and you lost."

"Yes, this prince will not refute it, this is the fact after all." The fourth prince showed disdain: "Wang Que, I am not my sixth brother, I have been a prince for more than a hundred years."

"I am a tough guy who has gone through fire and water, revised government affairs, and fought border wars."

"I have read all the books you have read, and I have also read all the books you have not read. Although I can't write poems that are passed down the world, my knowledge and experience are far beyond yours."

"The reason why I use this body to meet you today is that I think you are a smart person and you should be able to understand the current situation."

"What the sixth prince promised you is nothing more than helping your wife to avenge her and giving you wealth and glory, right?"

Wang Que did not speak, he just looked at the fourth prince.

The fourth prince sneered: "But do you really think that the sixth prince can beat the right prime minister?"

"Who is the right prime minister Qi Yuehai? He is a member of my father's team. He is only over a hundred years old and he can be appointed as the right prime minister!"

"Such a person, do you think he will be simple?"

"You did outshine him at the imperial banquet, but the only place you outshine him is Confucianism. Qi Yuehai is notXiuwen, he studies political schemes. "

"He did swear to the heaven not to touch you and your family, but he can secretly surround you and your family. If he doesn't kill you, he will kill you."

"My sixth brother, who is the sixth oldest, is so cunning. Do you believe that he will be killed by the right prime minister after he ascends the throne?"

After saying this, the fourth prince paused. Seeing that Wang Que didn't speak, the fourth prince smiled and said, "My father, Emperor Yunlong, has been the emperor for more than a thousand years."

"For a thousand years, he had to attend court once a week. How many weeks are there in a thousand years?"

"A thousand years is like a day. Attending court is a habit engraved in my father's bones."

"Now he says he wants to abdicate. Even if he can really let go of the power in his hands... those old ministers in the court can't let go! ”

“These old ministers, how many generations have they climbed, how many years have they climbed, and how many resources have they spent to climb to their current status?”

“Will they think about paving the way for their sons? Will they think about letting their daughters marry into a powerful family of the same or higher status?”

“Who of their relatives and friends doesn’t want to rely on them to rise to prominence?”

“They are no longer living for themselves!”

Wang Que was shocked. He had thought about these things before: “But are you so sure that the prince can’t pacify those old powerful people?”

The fourth prince heard this and curled his lips slightly: “He can’t pacify them. The right prime minister is rooted in the court, and 70% of the officials are his people.”

“How can they compete with the right prime minister with only the new group of powerful people? How can they get anything from the right prime minister?”

“Wang Que, let me tell you this, my sixth brother, he is stupid because he is Xu Nuo!”

“He doesn’t have many handles on the ministers in the court.” "

"The reason why he became the crown prince was that I saw through him and stopped competing with him. And I really couldn't compete at that time. If I continued to compete, my father would only transfer me to the border. "

Wang Que concentrated: "Why?"

The fourth prince's face darkened: "My mother is not as favored as the sixth son's mother."

"The reason why I pretended to be crazy... It's because the sixth son's mother plotted against my mother, and my mother was killed."

Speaking of this, the fourth prince's tone became more gloomy: "The sixth son's mother is very scheming, and she is also the woman our father loves the most."

"My mother was plotted against. If I compete for the position of crown prince again, the sixth son doesn't need to do it. It only requires his mother to whisper in our father's ear... Hehe. "

"So after my mother died, I could only pretend to be crazy, and I had to pretend to be crazy to stay in the imperial city! ”

“My followers far exceed those of the sixth brother. Among his four or five thousand followers, at least one-third are my people!”

“Not only them, at least half of the old dignitaries in the court have their handles in my hands!”

“When my sixth brother ascends the throne, he will indeed be the emperor, but he can't move our father's team. He can only use those new nobles, but those new nobles can't get promoted. What use can they be?”

“And I said, don't underestimate the means of the right prime minister. He can not mess with you, because no matter how strong you are, you can't surpass his position. He can control you.”

“And, my father has named you Yunyang Daru, the second rank.”

“But, do you have real power?”

“Do you have a soldier in the imperial city now? ”

“You are just an empty position, you only have a reputation, if you really dare to call on those scholars in Yunxiao Academy...”

“If an imperial decree is issued to usurp the throne, how many scholars dare to rebel against you?”

“But I am different. I have the blood of the Great Zhou Dynasty flowing in my body. If I fight for the throne again, it is also our internal affairs of the royal family. The world will not think there is anything wrong with it.”

“And if the dynasty is in turmoil, I say that it is the new emperor who is not in power. Who do you think will blame me? Who dares to blame me?”

“So, you just wait and see, wait and see the power of the sixth brother being hollowed out, and then, hehe.”

“Oh, by the way, there is one more thing I have to make clear to you.” The gloom on the face of the fourth prince had disappeared, and at this moment he continued...