The Warm Jade of the Red Chamber

In fact, since the news of Lin Hai and Zhuang Yu's accident came, the undercurrent in the capital was absolutely beyond what Daiyu could have imagined. Compared with the real danger, the temptation towards her was nothing to look at.

In the past few years since Emperor Chunyou succeeded to the throne, he has treated his brothers with utmost kindness and righteousness, not to mention how kind they are. He has not killed the loyal prince Zhuang Sheng who once fought with him for the throne. For one thing, the Supreme Emperor Still, if Emperor Chunyou takes action against Zhongshan, it will make the Supreme Emperor feel loyal and pitiful, and favor him. Although it will not have much impact on his increasingly stable throne, Emperor Chunyou and the Supreme Emperor get along fairly well, and they don't want to There was a rift because of loyalty, so that the evening festival could not be guaranteed.Secondly, Emperor Chunyou and Zhuang Ye have been gradually encroaching on and suppressing Zhuang Sheng's forces without leaving a trace, and have achieved great results. Maybe it won't take long before they can be completely banned without causing a storm.

It was precisely because of this that Zhuang Sheng was driven into a hurry, and he wanted to catch Emperor Chunyou and Zhuang Yu. It was not because it was not easy for Princess Zhengui to apply eye drops, and Emperor Chunyou gave a lot of rewards to the princes and younger brothers. , It's just that they are all fancy things but not useful, but the problem is that "fancy" is fine!Today's Emperor Chunyou, whether in the eyes of the Supreme Emperor or the ministers, is a rare emperor in history who is kind to his brothers. Some ministers even feel that Emperor Chunyou is too peaceful and tolerant, and they are quite heartbroken. look.

Zhuang Sheng was about to vomit blood, and if Emperor Chunyou and Zhuang Ye were to fight like this without bloodshed, when the Supreme Emperor died, he would be a powerless and naked prince, and Emperor Chunyou could deal with him as he wanted. Cleaned him up.

Therefore, in order not to let himself fall into the final situation of no one to rely on, he finally decided to fight hard. If he succeeds, he will be king, and if he loses, it will be nothing but death anyway.

Zhuang Sheng's power has suffered a lot over the past few years, and now the only one who can still be counted is the Zhen family in Jiangnan, where a dead camel is bigger than a horse.

Zhuang Sheng's biological mother, Concubine Zhen Gui, was born in the Zhen family in the south of the Yangtze River. The Zhen family and Zhuang Sheng are grasshoppers on the same line, and they are most inseparable from Zhuang Sheng.

It's just a pity that the Zhen family has not been able to escape Emperor Chunyou's calculations in the past few years, and has become more and more declining. After Emperor Chunyou ascended the throne, he sent his own people to Jiangnan from time to time to erode the power of the Zhen family in Jiangnan. Whale swallowed, the Zhen family's undisputed status in the south of the Yangtze River has long since disappeared.If Emperor Chunyou hadn't been concerned about the Supreme Emperor's affection for the Zhen family, the Zhen family might have died long ago.

Zhen Wenyi passed away two years ago. Although the Zhen family was gradually declining at that time, the airs were still there. Even if Emperor Chunyou wanted to uproot it, he would have to pay a lot of price.But Emperor Chunyou didn't confront the Zhen family head-on, and slowly dragged on, only looking at the Zhen family themselves, disintegrating from the inside.

After Zhen Wenyi died, Zhen Yingxia inherited the position of the head of the Zhen family. After all, Zhen Yingjia was far away in the capital, and his influence on the Zhen family in the south of the Yangtze River was not as great as that of Zhen Yingya who stayed in the base camp. Besides, Zhen Wenyi took Zhen Yingya by his side to teach in the past few years. In the eyes of others, it means that Zhen Yingxia wants to succeed to the throne.Only a few people understood that the reason why Zhen Wenyi brought Zhen Yingya by his side was because he was afraid that his self-righteousness would cause unmanageable disasters and implicate the Zhen family.

In fact, before his death, Zhen Wenyi expressed the idea that he wanted Zhen Yingjia to inherit his position, but unfortunately he died of illness soon, and Zhen Yingjia didn't even see Zhen Wenyi's last face.

Therefore, some people speculated later that Zhen Wenyi's death was probably not that simple.In fact, if Zhen Yingjia hadn't been taken care of by Zhuang Sheng in the capital, Zhen Yingxia might have killed this big brother who was threatening to him.

Although Zhen Yingxia and Zhen Yingjia are brothers, their talents are really different. Zhen Yingjia has been in the capital for the past few years. He worked conscientiously and conscientiously, and later he was promoted to a half-rank, and became the fourth-rank Honglu Temple Minister.

On the other hand, Zhen Yingxia was fine when Zhen Wenyi was watching, but minor misfortunes kept happening, but there was no chance of causing major mishaps.But when Zhen Wenyi died, and Zhen Yingxia really took control of the power of the Zhen family, his arrogance that had been suppressed by Zhen Wenyi broke out even more recklessly, and became more and more intense.

Zhen Yingxia is not a person who can see the situation clearly, so he is still as arrogant and domineering as before, so he has been constantly losing the network and power that the Zhen family has accumulated over the past few decades.

Favourites, even if they want to pay them back, very few people are willing to sacrifice themselves.When Zhen Wenyi was alive, even if he threatened others to do things for him, he was willing to help him conceal it, because in this way, he had seized a new opportunity, and if there was a chance next time, he could continue to cooperate.But Zhen Yingxia is a fool. She doesn't know how to protect those who are threatened by her to help her do some illegal things. She really throws them away after using them. She often has no sense of proportion. Do things that you can't do at all, and if you don't agree, shake off the scandal.

In the end, the Zhen family's connections were almost lost.Those who had a clue in the hands of the Zhen family, some were shaken out by Zhen Yingxia; some of the crimes were minor and they simply confessed and subdued the law, and they refused and did not dare to believe that Zhen Yingya continued to hook up with him. Go on; some people owed favors to the Zhen family but had no reason to fall into the hands of the Zhen family, and they would rather be said to be ungrateful than to get on the boat of the Zhen family.Only those who committed the crime of ransacking the family and exterminating the clan dared not and could not leave the Zhen family, and could only be ordered around by Zhen Yingxia.

The power has been suppressed, and the network has been almost destroyed. What is left of the Zhen family now is the money accumulated and searched for decades. Although Zhen Yingxia has squandered a lot, there are still 300 million Two denarii.

As the saying goes, a lean camel is bigger than a horse, but the Zhen family is still a strong straw that Zhuang Sheng can grasp at the last moment.

Zhuang Sheng sent someone to find Zhen Yingxia early in the morning, and agreed to Zhen Yingxia's series of requests for the title of Marquis and Prime Minister, and finally got 200 million taels of silver from Zhen Yingxia, and then quietly handed it over to Zhen Yingjia for operation.Zhuang Sheng believed in Zhen Yingjia more than Zhen Yingxia, who had great eyesight and low abilities.

Zhuang Sheng himself was watched closely by Emperor Chunyou, and he didn't dare to make any big moves. The one he trusted and relied on the most was Zhen Yingjia. He often regretted that if he had fought hard in front of the Supreme Emperor, it would have been Zhen Yingxia who had been sent to Beijing. Could it be that the Zhen family in Jiangnan is a different scene now?However, I knew it was too hard to buy, and now it is too late to regret it.

Fortunately, before Zhen Wenyi died, he expected something, and wrote a letter to Zhen Yingjia in private. In the letter, the last manpower of the Zhen family was hidden in the dark, and some evidences enough to make people in important positions have to obey Zhen Yingjia. Handing it over to Zhen Yingjia made Zhuang Sheng more confident in this final fight.

Not only that, because Zhuang Sheng didn't get strong support within the dynasty, for his own way of life, he even did not hesitate to collude with Qian Xiangguo to get the help he wanted by selling out his country.

When the news came from the East Sea Navy that the left wing of the navy led by Zhuang Ye disappeared after being surrounded by the Qianxiang National Navy, Zhuang Sheng couldn't help panting heavily. He knew that his last chance had come.

Zhuang Sheng hated Emperor Chunyou, but he hated Zhuang Ye even more. If there was no Zhuang Ye, he might have replaced Emperor Chunyou long ago.

However, what Zhuang Sheng was most afraid of was Zhuang Ye, and now even his son Zhuang Yu.

Transferring Zhuang Yu and Zhuang Ye out of Beijing had almost exhausted most of the strength that Zhuang Sheng could use.

Zhuang Sheng was very anxious. When Zhuang Yu had an accident, he could still hold himself steady and wanted to find out. However, when the news came that Zhuang Ye was surrounded and disappeared, he was unwilling to wait even a day.

The East China Sea is much closer to the capital city than Hunan.What's more, through the canal, Zhuang Ye may return to the capital within two days. Zhuang Sheng doesn't think how long the navy of Qianxiang Kingdom can besiege Zhuang Ye—even if he managed to steal it a few years ago. The warship manufacturing drawings of the Dajing Navy were given to Qianxiang Country, and it was impossible to change Qianxiang Country's absolute disadvantage when facing the Dajing Donghai Navy.

Zhuang Sheng spent a lot of money - 50 taels of silver to buy the husband of Queen Qianxiang Kingdom. This husband is more handsome than a woman, and he is quite favored by Queen Qianxiang Kingdom. After saying the words "gold and jade on the outside, but on the inside", this imperial husband has an empty stomach and no talents. The reason why he has not been harmed all this time is because of his good luck, and he had a baby with the empress, which can almost be called She was a stunningly talented princess who was capable of writing at the age of three and martial arts at the age of four. Now she is only seven years old, and she has already been named the crown princess by the empress.

Because of her extreme love for the emperor's husband and the emperor's daughter, the empress was finally persuaded, and sent sailors to conduct naval training in the sea area adjacent to the Dajing Dynasty, making an appearance of a possible invasion, but in fact, The queen didn't intend to let the navy take a step beyond the thunder pool.She made a good idea, if Zhuang Sheng wins, she can naturally ask for benefits; if Zhuang Sheng loses, she has a reason to say, it's just training, it's Da Jing who misunderstood herself, and she will make an apology at that time, presumably with Da Jing Jing prides himself on the capacity of the heaven and the kingdom, so he is too embarrassed to care too much about her.

It's a pity, how could Zhuang Sheng let his 50 taels of silver be spent so unjustly?He sent someone to contact the imperial husband in private, persuaded that brainless imperial husband, and privately mobilized the army to surround Zhuang Ye, buying precious time for Zhuang Sheng.

Maybe everything is not ready yet, but the east wind that Zhuang Ye is trapped in has come, and Zhuang Sheng can only grit his teeth and give it a try.

This night was destined not to be peaceful, and I don't know if God had expected this, the sky darkened in the evening, and the wind and rain did not stop all night.