The Tyrant's Cannon Fodder Queen[Transmigration Book]

The battle for the throne that Xue Yao was prepared to face did not happen immediately.

The national mourning lasted three years, and the actual period of mourning was 27 months. However, the country cannot live without a king for a day. Daqi used the day to replace the month. Generally, after 27 days, the new emperor's enthronement ceremony will be held.

There is a difference between enthronement and enthronement. After the death of the previous emperor, the crown prince will be enthroned, but the enthronement ceremony will be held a month later.

Now that the situation between the DPRK and China is at a stage where the rain is about to come, no one dares to make trouble during the 27-day national mourning period, and the third prince was also suppressed by Concubine Tong and stood still.

The prince's party members have directly called the prince the emperor, and they believe that the prince is the emperor.

The members of the Tong family are very low-key, and the edict is now in the hands of the third prince. The one who should ascend the throne is King Ning, and King Ning is currently missing.

Who made King Ning disappear?Of course, the "reformed" deposed prince is the most suspected.

Half a month passed, and the Seventh Prince hadn't been escorted back yet. The Prince was burned, and people were sent to the frontier to urge him.

Concubine Xi was also burned, and all the princes returned to Beijing safely, but her son did not come back.

Xue Yao comforted her because her father, Huang Bintian, was irritated, and His Highness stayed at the border and refused to return to the palace.

Concubine Xi still had a sad expression on her face. Xue Yao guessed that most of the sorrow was due to the disappearance of her son, and the other half was because of losing the emperor's blessing and worrying about the future of herself and her child. Concubine Xi was not very sad because of the death of the emperor.

In the entire harem, only the empress seemed to have aged ten years suddenly because of the death of the emperor.

A month later, the frontier sent an urgent letter with the seal of the Seventh Prince, but the letter was not written by the Seventh Prince, but written by the Juggernaut himself.

The Juggernaut said that Lu Qian had already been found by him. This kid did not know how to get out of the pass. Fortunately, the Khitan army was nowhere to be found, and the kid did not find the Khitan King. It took three days to capture the Seventh Prince.

According to the letter, Lu Qian's temperament became a little weird, it was difficult to communicate, and he wanted to kill the Khitan king.

The Juggernaut and Master Xu were worried that the child would suffer from some kind of illness, so they planned to teach him some basic skills first, to help him avenge his father, and let him untie his knot.

This made Xue Yao heave a sigh of relief, but Concubine Xi couldn't understand why the hero of the rivers and lakes wanted to take his son as an apprentice, teach martial arts, and went everywhere to beg the queen and the prince to go to the frontier to find his son.

But without the emperor's sole favor, who has the time to talk to this concubine who was once favored?Concubine Xi refused every day, but Xue Yao was the only one who patiently persuaded and comforted her, and promised that as soon as she had the chance, she would go to the border to find the sword master and bring the little fat cub back.

At the same time, the battle for the throne finally and inevitably began.

Xue Yao, as the prince's faction, went to the court to confirm the details of the third prince's house arrest of the seventh prince and the subsequent sending of troops to hunt down the seventh prince.

The third prince quibbled that after listening to the will, he urgently protected the seventh brother and took strict precautions to prevent "people with a heart" from murdering the new prince.

He also said that if he wanted to send troops to hunt down and kill the Seventh Prince, why didn't he do it during the period of house arrest. It can be seen that those chasing troops were ordered by others!

After being acquitted of the charges, the third prince bit back and reprimanded the prince for disregarding his father's safety and leaving the camp privately, which is equivalent to a defection. Not only is he not eligible to ascend the throne, but he should be dealt with by military law. Otherwise, the prince's crimes will be announced to the world.

The second prince couldn't hold back his anger, and wanted to stand up and say that he called the prince back to the court to handle government affairs, but the prince stopped him.

Now that the crown prince has lost power due to a crime, he may not be able to gather forces outside the court again. The third prince holds the three military talismans and the edict of the late emperor, so he has a slight upper hand.

If the second prince got involved in this muddy water, he would probably be regarded as the same criminal, and lose his position as supervisor of the country, and the prince would have no place to stand.

The two factions are at a stalemate, and the government affairs seem to be the same as before. The cabinet votes and the ceremonial supervisor approves the promotion, but in fact it is not controlled by the second prince who supervises the country.

The cabinet is basically filled with the prince's people. The prince opposed eunuchs to intervene in politics at the beginning, so he offended many eunuchs in power.

The eunuchs all knew that when the crown prince came to power, their good days would come to an end. Now that they had managed to catch the crown prince, these eunuchs were more desperate than the third prince and tried their best to suppress the prince's influence.

There is no gunpowder in this battle for the position, but the positions of many court officials have changed, and both sides are pushing their own people to important positions.

The superficial calm lasted for more than two months. It was not until the second prince of Jian Guo was poisoned that this silent battle really showed its blade.

Fortunately, the poisoning was discovered in time. Xue Yao was discussing matters in the Prince's Hall at that time. After arriving at the Hall of Mental Cultivation, he immediately underwent gastric lavage, and the second prince was fine.

All the palace people involved in making and delivering meals were arrested and interrogated, but the crimes were claimed by the scapegoat arranged by the third prince.

This incident reminded Xue Yao of the period when Wei Zhongxian was in power in the Ming Dynasty. The newly ascended Emperor Chongzhen hid the big cakes he brought in his clothes and refused to eat the food in the palace. He was afraid of being poisoned and did not dare to sleep in the palace. Wei Zhongxian's men assassinated.

In that case, even if Wei Zhongxian killed Chongzhen, he would not be able to become the emperor himself. He could only set up a young emperor as his own puppet. But now, if the second prince encounters an accident, the third prince does not need a puppet and can do it himself.

This made Xue Yao feel horrified.

If the Seventh Prince returns to the court at this moment and becomes the prince's puppet, can he resist eating the things in the palace?Can you deal with traitor assassins in all directions at all times?

Little Fat Cub's triangular cat kung fu has no chance of winning against ordinary practitioners, and it is fair to say that he has no chance of winning against masters like Zhang Si.

So Xue Yao selfishly did not want the little fat boy to face the current danger, and even felt that it was a wise decision for the little fat boy to choose to stay with the Juggernaut at this time.

As in the original book, if the little fat cub can practice superb swordsmanship in two years, to ensure his own safety, he can launch the final duel by monitoring the governors of the provinces through the disciples of the Jianzong sect, instigating against the external forces of the third prince, and gaining military power. Return to court with the identity of the orthodox crown prince.

After that, Xue Yao followed the people sent by the prince to go out to Beijing to look for the seventh prince, not to find him back, but to personally urge the little fat boy to study hard.

The prince's people didn't know where the Juggernaut was, and Xue Yao didn't disclose it to outsiders. He went to Baixing Mountain alone, and searched for three days according to the map drawn by Zhang Si, before he found a bamboo forest that was close to the location on the map.

It's enough to get here, Zhang Si told him not to go deep into the bamboo forest, otherwise he would keep beating the wall until he died of starvation or exhaustion.

According to Zhang Si's instructions, Xue Yao walked around the bamboo forest and found two mahogany pillars. Between the pillars was a plaque with the words "Chaoyilin" written on it, which seemed to be named after the sword master and the old man Xu. I don't know if the two seniors both live here, but the relationship seems to be pretty good.

After finding the plaque, Xue Yao sat down beside the pillar, waiting patiently for the Juggernaut to appear.

The temperature in the northwest in early autumn was still mild. Xue Yao just sat outside the bamboo forest and waited for the whole day, but he didn't wait for the Juggernaut to show up.

You can't wait in the mountains at night, because you will wait for yourself in the belly of the beast. You can only go down the mountain to the inn to sleep all night, and then go up the mountain to wait at dawn.

Seven days later, the Juggernaut still hadn't appeared.

It's time for Xue Yao to return to the team, otherwise the people sent by the prince will take the news of his disappearance back to Beijing as news of death and report it to the prince.

The prince can't bear any more bad news, and now there are not many "insiders" who can support the prince, and Xue Yao can still accompany him in private to think of ways to relieve the pressure.

The empress and the sick concubine are both heavy burdens on the prince's shoulders. If he collapses, these two women will also be finished.

The prince has not dared to tell the princess that he has lost the position of prince because he came back to see her, and he is worried that she will aggravate her illness because of self-blame.

After half a month, Xue Yao returned without success.

Not long after returning to the palace, the second prince ascended the throne and became the puppet emperor who was supposed to be the missing seventh prince.

The crown prince was renamed Prince Rui, and the struggle with the third prince intensified.

Xue Yao often had nightmares, dreaming that the little fat cub had actually died by the Khitan king's sword.

He began to worry, worried that the letter was written by the Juggernaut to comfort him, so the Juggernaut deliberately refused to show up because he couldn't hand over the little fat cub.

Since the system's sense of security was cleared, there has been no ups and downs, and the last link between Xue Yao and the little fat boy has been broken.

No circle is immune to the rule that bad money drives out good money. The longer the infighting lasts, the more the prince's incorruptibility will put him at a disadvantage.

One year later, half of the cabinet members and princes in the six ministries have defected.

Xue Yao's grandfather, Zhou Chong, is the second assistant of the cabinet, and also works as the secretary of the Ministry of Industry. He is also one of the only two remaining princelings in the cabinet.

At the end of the year, the accounting department's Daqi account check records recorded a deficit of 200 million taels in the account of Zhou Chong's Ministry of Industry.

This amount of money was supposed to be allocated to the Ministry of Industry for the transportation of materials for garden repairs. The gardens were built by the late emperor before his death. After the death of the late emperor, there was no rush for the construction period. This money was requested by the Ministry of War to use to build warships.

The Ministry of Industry did not dare to talk nonsense. At that time, the Supervisor of Rituals had approved the redemption, but at the end of the year, the Ministry of War refused to admit the account, and the Supervisor of Rituals also did not admit it. They united and put Zhou Chong together.

Zhou Chong, who had a bumpy official career, was almost dismissed from office for the second time. Under the protection of the emperor and the prince, he was dismissed pending trial.

The third prince has reached out to the center of the court, and the factions of both factions know that the day of a decisive battle is approaching.

Before Zhou Chong was arrested, he asked his daughter and grandson to return to Xue's house for refuge. Xue Yao, who thought that he could get rid of this struggle without being an official, was also involved in the center of the whirlpool because of his grandfather's crimes.