Lu Bingzhen has been feeling uneasy since he learned that His Majesty granted him a marriage to the prince. She felt that His Majesty would not give in so easily and allow His Highness the Crown Prince to gain more power through marriage, but now a big stone has fallen to the ground.
She had been in a daze these past few days, as if she was in the clouds and couldn't even put her feet on the ground. Now that her grandfather had made the decision, she calmed down and knew what to do next. Although Lu Bingzhen was still worried, he was better than at a loss before.
Your Majesty probably can't wait any longer. The day for the dispatch of the army specified in the imperial edict is even tomorrow.
The next day, His Majesty visited the civil and military officials in person on the outskirts of the city to offer sacrifices, and informed the gods and ancestors that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was going to fight for his father in person. His Majesty and His Highness the Crown Prince drank a full cup of strong wine, patted His Highness the Crown Prince's shoulders and encouraged him again and again, and then allowed His Highness the Crown Prince to leave, marking the end of the sacrifice.
In the pavilion ten miles outside the city, various royal relatives and powerful families were waiting here. Among the people who saw him off, the most conspicuous one was His Highness King Yuyu.
Today, His Royal Highness Prince Yu can be said to be riding high on the spring breeze. He is sitting firmly on the tall horse. The golden bridle and jade saddle are many times more gorgeous than the horses of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who are riding in the imperial chariot today.
Many Qingliu civil servants couldn't help but shake their heads after seeing this scene. Even many officials who had always supported His Royal Highness Prince Yu felt that there was indeed something wrong with this matter.
As the crown prince of the country, His Highness the Crown Prince has to go to the battlefield where he has a near-death experience to fight for his father. However, as the biological brother of His Highness the Crown Prince, His Highness Prince Yu not only caused the scandal of riding a horse in the busy city and hurting people, but also swaggered through the city in a luxurious way, and even danced in front of His Highness the Crown Prince who was on an expedition.
There were faint voices of disapproval among the crowd, "How can this be true? How can it really be true?" "What does His Highness, Prince Yu, want to do? Is it to show His Majesty's favor to His Majesty the Crown Prince at this time?" "This Prince of Yu, Your Highness is being too wild. Anyway, today is the day for the army to set off. If he is so arrogant, won't it shake the morale of the army?"
Many officials shook their heads in disappointment, while friends and family around her just advised her to say less.
His Royal Highness has been very busy these days. Ever since His Majesty announced that His Highness the Crown Prince would be on his way to fight in person for his father, even the Queen and the Queen only met His Highness the Crown Prince for the first time today.
When mother and son met, the Queen couldn't help but burst into tears, but she couldn't say anything more in front of His Majesty and all the civil and military officials. Thousands of words turned into one sentence, "Min'er, I will go there safely."
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince held his mother's hand back with a little force and whispered, "What makes mother worry is the son's unfilial piety. Mother lives in the palace for a long time. If she has free time, she can call her sister or the Lord of Qingning County to accompany her to the palace." The queen agreed with tears in her eyes.
Queen Wen saw His Royal Highness Prince Yu being so arrogant and arrogant, and she was filled with hatred. However, she recalled Lu Bing's words to persuade her in a low voice while avoiding everyone when he entered the palace that day.
"Your Majesty, I have to say something disrespectful. Your Highness the Crown Prince's biggest enemy now is not Your Highness Prince Yu, but His Majesty's distrust. His Majesty Prince Yu's mother's family, the Gu family, seems to have deep roots and luxuriant leaves, but in fact it has no roots. As long as Your Majesty Once they stop supporting the Gu family, the tall building of the Gu family will collapse immediately.
Suppressing His Royal Highness the Prince of Yu has no benefit to His Majesty the Crown Prince. It just makes His Majesty a little more fearful and suspicious of His Highness the Crown Prince. "
Queen Wen never doubted her chosen candidates. At that moment, Queen Wen treated His Royal Highness Prince Yu in a friendly manner, without the slightest hint of anger. This made His Royal Highness Prince Yu feel very unhappy and he walked away angrily.
It's the end of April, and there's still a bit of a chilly spring.
But the powerful and aristocratic families present, even if they usually had some bad relations with the Wen family or His Royal Highness, felt chilling for the empress, mother and son at this moment. Even though decades have passed, the events of that year are still vivid in the hearts of everyone in the capital, and the sacrifice of the Queen is also obvious to all.
If His Majesty really values His Majesty the King of Yu, the powerful families may feel a little better. At least they can comfort themselves, "It is common for the emperor's heart to change. As long as you carefully figure out His Majesty's mind, you will be honored and favored." "
But His Majesty only used Concubine Gu and her son as tools to fight with the Queen and suppress the Queen and the Crown Prince. Now His Highness Prince Yu is dancing happily, but no matter what the outcome of his fight with His Highness the Crown Prince, His Highness Prince Yu will not have a good outcome.
If His Highness King Yu wins, then His Majesty will hold up another target and compete with His Highness King Yu again. If His Royal Highness Prince Yu loses, he will immediately be abandoned by His Majesty and trampled to death by the Queen and the Crown Prince.
Your Majesty treats his parents and children in this way, how can he not make all the civil and military officials in the DPRK and China feel chilled?
Before parting with the Queen, His Highness the Crown Prince took one last look back at where the Fan Yang Lu family was. Across the vast sea of people, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince didn't know if Lu Bingzhen could see him, so he could only nod from a distance.
Today, the outside of Shili Pavilion was crowded, and many people from the capital even came to see him off. Most of them were relatives and friends of the sergeants of the three armies. The battlefield is dangerous. We say goodbye today and wonder if we will see each other again in the future. Many people who see each other off are crying profusely. Even the soldiers are affected and can't help but burst into tears.
Seeing this scene, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince did not immediately order the army to set off, but instead ordered everyone in the three armies to be filled with wine. Then His Royal Highness the Crown Prince took the lead in drinking the wine in one gulp, and all the soldiers followed His Royal Highness' example and drank the wine in one gulp.
"Dendrobium in the north has disrupted our rivers and mountains, captured my people, and plundered our property. Many cities in the north are now in danger. I hope that together with all the soldiers, we will not put an end to the rebellion of Dendrobium and never return south."
After saying that, His Royal Highness the Prince broke the wine glass on the spot and ordered the army to set off.
The officers and soldiers of the three armies were all affected by the words of His Highness the Crown Prince, and they burst into earth-shaking responses. "Okay! The Immortal Hulu Rebellion will never return south."
Seeing that the momentum was established, several unknown soldiers who were originally hidden in the team quietly left their scattered positions and returned to their original positions. One of the young generals cupped his fists and saluted, "Sir Pei, we have completed your instructions." Pei Jian calmly nodded slightly, and the young general retreated quietly, as if he had never appeared.
These are the secret guards that His Royal Highness has secretly trained over the years. Only his confidants Wen Zheng and Pei Jian know about them.
As soon as the team left the capital, they began to hurry up. This was the advice of His Royal Highness the Prince's military adviser. The soldiers are very quick, and now they want to suppress Hulu Khan's arrogance before he becomes a climate in the North. If we wait until Hulü Khan becomes the leader, we will have to work hundreds or thousands of times to achieve the same effect.
This military advisor was recommended by the Wen family. After His Royal Highness took the exam, he found that this man indeed had real talent and learning. Only then did he take this person with him on this expedition.
Over the years, Queen Wen's natal family, the Wen family, has declined increasingly under His Majesty's suspicion and suppression. But the reason why centipede insects are dead but not stiff is irrefutable. Therefore, the Wen family, who started out with military exploits, still helped a lot with His Royal Highness the Prince's personal expedition on behalf of his father.
The current head of the Wen family, Mr. Wen, is the father of Queen Wen. Of course, he is planning so painstakingly to elevate His Royal Highness to the throne. As long as a family enjoys the scenery of the descendants once, they will not want to let it go, and the same is true for the Wen family.
However, there is another unspeakable reason why the Wen family is working so hard this time, and that is that the Fanyang Lu family, the wife of His Royal Highness, is far more powerful than the Wen family. If the Wen family fails to help His Highness the Crown Prince in this time of crisis, then when His Highness the Crown Prince ascends the throne in the future, it will not be the Wen family of His Royal Highness's mother's family, but the Fanyang Lu family of His Highness's wife's family.
This is something that the Wen family, who have endured for many years and devoted themselves to protecting Queen Wen and His Royal Highness, cannot accept.
Today's Fan Yang and Lu family are not only here to see the prince off, but the delegation led by Wang Jian, the seventh son of the Wang family, is also setting off today. However, compared to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's personal expedition, the mission went quietly.
Lu Bingxi has a lively temperament, and he can feel that his cousin Wang is taking care of him, so he naturally becomes more and more bold. Wang Jian actually indulged him and kept answering all his questions. It was not until Lu Bingxi asked about the secrets of this mission to a foreign country that Wang Jian stopped talking and asked him to stop talking.
Seeing that the army and the envoys sent to foreign countries were leaving one after another, the various powerful families and even the common people gathered outside the Shili Pavilion gradually dispersed.
Although Fan Yang and the Lu family were worried, they could only go home for the time being and wait for news from the army and the mission. Fan Yang and the Lu family, who returned home, seemed not to be disturbed by today's events at all and were still living their lives as usual.
The Dragon Boat Festival is at the beginning of May, and it will only be seven or eight days later. The Fan Yang Lu family has always attached great importance to the Dragon Boat Festival, and they must not show any timidity at this juncture. For this reason, Mrs. Li specially ordered a restaurant by the river on Leyouyuan for family members to watch dragon boats on the Dragon Boat Festival.
It's just that this time the young ladies and young gentlemen who went out were missing the fifth lady and the seventh gentleman. Relatives and friends are not surprised by Lu Byung-hee's absence. It's just that the Fifth Lady's absence made people ask a few more questions.
Regarding these curious doubts, Mrs. Li always smiled and said, "My father-in-law said that the marriage has been decided for the fifth lady and the son of his old acquaintance. As a young lady who will get married soon, it is naturally inconvenient for the fifth lady." Get out."
As soon as these words came out, many people who were listening were very surprised, "I had never heard that your fifth wife was getting engaged before. How come you suddenly decided to get married?"
Ms. Li still said calmly, "I heard from my father-in-law that we decided to get married as early as 10 years ago, but we were afraid that the children on both sides would not grow up and that the other would be known as a husband and wife." , so we didn’t publicize it.”
This answer is quite reasonable. Many powerful and aristocratic families in Beijing only give tokens to their children when they arrange marriages, but do not publicize it to the outside world.
