After I lost my job, I started to get rich from plane trading.

In fact, the purpose of the new emperor of Western Chu was indeed similar to what they suspected.

However, he himself is more inclined to the third point. As for the fourth point - following Feng Lan in the fight, he is still hesitating.

The main reason is that the treasury is out of money, and continuing the war requires a lot of money, which he cannot afford to spend.

The fact that the national treasury was empty actually existed a long time ago, especially with the state of the treasury now. He also added fuel to the fire, which made the new emperor hesitate and fail to make the decision to fight Feng Lan.

In order to compete with his imperial brother for the throne, he had made great efforts to recruit a group of talents around him.

Of course, money was needed in this process. Fortunately, his uncle was at the Ministry of Revenue at the time and got him a sum of money. Otherwise, the prince would have starved to death with his salary.

Who would have thought that a prince's life could be so tight?

At that time, he even felt envious of the second prince. His uncle had to be secretive to get him some money, but his younger brother had bandits around to steal money for him!

Especially when the situation was unstable, the group of bandits robbed so many properties of foreign merchants. The people he sent to the Second Prince's Mansion to keep an eye on them replied that there were many cartloads of property stolen from outside the city late at night. Sent to the prince's palace.

The eyes of the new emperor, the eldest prince at that time, were almost red. It was not that he had never thought of exposing this matter. In the end, it was the news sent by his staff and Li Shouyuan when he surrendered that made him give up.

Li Shouyuan controlled the entire Kyoto patrol guard at that time. Although it was not as powerful as the Imperial Guard, there was indeed a surprising amount of news.

Especially after he participated in the suppression of bandits, he somehow gained the favor of the old emperor at the time and asked him to do some shady things, which gave him more sources of information.

The message Li Shouyuan sent was simple, but very useful. The effect was no less than pouring a large basin of ice water on the head of the eldest prince whose brain was about to explode - there was the shadow of the old emperor behind those bandits.

In fact, if you think about it, you know that there must be a backer behind those bandits. Otherwise, how could they have been entrenched in places like the suburbs of Beijing for so many years?

Why were the previous anti-bandit operations "loud and rainy"? Why do those "remnants" reappear not long after each bandit suppression?

All of these, the eldest prince seemed to have found the answer at once.

No wonder, if his father was involved in this matter, it would be clear.

How absurd it is for the supreme ruler of a country to have his hands on his hips behind a group of bandits!

The eldest prince couldn't even imagine how many of these "bandits" were real bandits, or were his father's people?

If those bandits were his father's people and were related to his "no background" imperial brother, then it would make sense that these properties were constantly being sent to the second prince's mansion.

His good father is such a loving father!

In order to gain more family fortune for his younger son who had "no family support", he did not hesitate to send people to commit banditry!

This is the first time in a long time that the eldest prince has discovered that his father is such a dim-witted monarch.

In the past, he only felt that the old emperor was partial, but considering that his imperial brother was helpless, and his mother's family was a wealthy family, and there were many people who were powerful in the court, it was reasonable for him to be feared and not favored.

But news came one after another, and his suspicions were slowly verified. Only then did the eldest prince realize how ridiculous the "father-son relationship" he thought was.

It was also at that time that he firmly decided to seize the emperor's throne.

That's right, it's a robbery, not a fight.

Judging from his father's behavior, he will probably not pass the position to him.

If his father didn't give it to him, he would have no choice but to rob it. Otherwise, the eldest prince believed that if his younger brother ascended the throne, he would never be given a chance to survive.

Now is no longer the time for him to fight or not. He has his mother clan and several aristocratic families who support him behind his back. They have invested so many resources in him and will not give him a chance to give up.

The eldest prince made a desperate bet. His bet was successful and he became the new emperor of Western Chu.

The life after becoming emperor was not as good as he imagined.

Want to use money? The treasury was empty, and the old emperor's private treasury was almost squandered by him in his last years.

Want power? There are also a bunch of old people left by the old emperor who rely on their old age and sell their old age. No matter how much he hints, they will not hand over power. His plan to promulgate a new deal is blocked at every level.

All kinds of obstacles made the new emperor hate these people.

So he asked them to "dog eat dog" - let the old dog who was unwilling to hand over power bite the moths, and then asked Li Shouyuan to ransack the house.

What if someone comes to ask for mercy?

That's really embarrassing. After all, he is just a "puppet emperor" with neither money nor power, and he can't do anything.

Although this strategy is a bit cowardly, the effect is obvious. At least Li Shouyuan, who now has military power, has become the primary target.

The new emperor felt that he was not a person who did not miss his old friendship, but who made Li Shouyuan ignorant of praise?

If Li Shouyuan could hand over his military power, he wouldn't mind giving him a title of Duke to protect his descendants for generations to come. If he wanted to continue to be an official, he could give it to him, but he just grabbed such power and refused to talk about it. killed his uncle.

With such behavior, the new emperor no longer intends to leave him a way to survive. Now he continues to assign jobs to him and kills those who are hostile to him, which can be regarded as "making the best use of everything".

As for the other people, when he takes back his military power and has people in his hands, he will be confident in facing off against those old guys.

Now that the situation has been stirred up, Li Shouyuan has also asked Li Shouyuan to kill a lot of people who deserve to be killed.

Li Shouyuan's reputation was already ruined among the powerful, so he would be missing an opportunity next.

If Li Shouyuan wanted to kill him, the person who killed him could be someone from the old emperor, someone from the second prince, a powerful person, or even a remnant of the bandits, but it couldn't be him.

However, although everyone in Western Chu hated Li Shouyuan, except for the aristocratic family, no other force had the ability to take action.

As for the Aristocratic Family...according to the information reported by his subordinates, it seems that they are in contact with Li Shouyuan recently.

Therefore, he might not be able to count on them, so he would have to look for someone outside.

Feng Lan's side is definitely not acceptable. They are at war. Even if there is no commotion recently, he will never choose a country that invades Xichu as a partner.

Excluding Feng Lan, the target is almost certain - Apocalypse.

Although he was far away in Western Chu, the new emperor was still paying attention to the current situation and knew that Tianqi had undergone great changes recently - the Xiao family, which had been in decline before, suddenly emerged, and the head of this generation became a leading figure.

When the news reached Xichu, the new emperor immediately thought about it - cooperating with this rising star seemed to be a good choice.

After discussing with his confidants, the new emperor decisively sent someone with a seal to come to Xiao Yin quietly while avoiding Li Shouyuan.