Mo Jiuye hugged He Zhiran and jumped up to a nearby wall to watch.
Prime Minister Xue was seen staring at Nan Yu, Nan Rui and Nan Qi with disdain.
"Are the two princes planning to resist the decree?" He didn't know Nan Yu's true identity yet, so the two princes only talked about Nan Rui and Nan Qi.
The recent events have greatly reduced Nan Qi's morale. If Nan Yu hadn't been reminding him, if things continued like this, he might even have lost his life, let alone the fact that he wouldn't be able to get the throne.
In order to save his own life, Nan Qicai had to come forward to confront the queen's people.
Called it a confrontation, the scene was unbearable for Nan Yu to watch.
Every time he was persuaded to come forward, Nan Qi always looked arrogant. However, after meeting the Queen and the Xue family, he quickly lost his arrogance.
It was the same today. Nan Yu and Nan Rui worked hard together to successfully pull the person out.
If the queen's party hadn't done such a thing, Nan Yu would never have discovered Nan Qi's timid side.
Fortunately, with the repeated persuasion of Nan Yu and Nan Rui, Nan Qi also brought a thousand private soldiers that he raised today.
Speaking of this private soldier, the prince of the Dashun Dynasty was allowed to raise a certain number.
For example, Nan Rui and Nan Qi were both princes and kings. Their poverty was higher than that of other princes. The court allowed them to raise up to two thousand private soldiers.
Of course, as long as it does not exceed two thousand people, the number of private soldiers mainly depends on the financial resources of the people who support the soldiers.
Nan Qi was not good at managing money, and his income was not very large. Therefore, he only raised a thousand private soldiers.
Originally, because of financial constraints, he wanted to let go of some of his private soldiers. Later, Nan Yu persuaded him that now that the crown prince has not been established, everything will be variable. The more people he can use, the better.
Fortunately, Nan Yu persuaded him at the beginning, otherwise, he wouldn't be able to get even these one thousand private soldiers today.
Nan Rui had no interest in the throne in the first place, but after Mr. Simeng used poisonous insects to control Concubine De, he had no choice but to raise a private army.
Moreover, the number of private soldiers is also the two thousand required by Mr. Simeng.
Later, he rushed to the northwest with Concubine De, who had faked her death, and hastily disbanded the group of private soldiers before leaving.
This time, in order to help the Mo family save his mother's life, Nan Rui returned to the capital and re-contacted those loyal men in the past and called back some of the disbanded private soldiers.
To this day, Nan Rui has 1,500 private soldiers in his hands, which shows his sincerity in helping the Mo family.
The total number of private soldiers of the two princes was 2,500.
If it were in the past, having such a large army in the capital would be quite scary.
The Xue family had been planning for many years. They originally wanted to help Nan Heng reach that position. Now that Nan Heng is gone, their ambitions have become even greater.
On the surface, it seemed that they helped the fourth prince adopted by the queen to win the position of crown prince. In fact, everyone with a discerning eye knew that the fourth prince was just a pawn of the Xue family.
When the time comes, the Xue family will definitely change the name of the Dashun Dynasty.
Prime Minister Xue had laid out the plan long ago. Although he could not openly raise private soldiers like the two princes, he had worked hard secretly.
There were also some generals who had some military power and fell to their side under the inducement of the Xue family.
Nowadays, all the troops in the capital, in addition to the private soldiers secretly trained by the Xue family, are brought by the generals who are useless. They are now working for the Queen's party, just thinking that it won't be long before the fourth prince ascends the throne, and they will become famous.
Therefore, the troops currently held by the Queen's party include those who control the entire palace, and the number is at least 20,000.
Just now, Prime Minister Xue walked out of the palace, followed by a team of at least three thousand people.
This was also the real reason why Nan Qi was so scared that his legs were weak.
Nan Yu looked askance at his cowardly look and reminded: "Your Highness King Qi, things have developed to this extent and there is no room for us to back down. We can only say that success or failure depends on this one move."
Nan Qi looked at the team behind Prime Minister Xue again, and whispered to Nan Yu: "They obviously have more people than us, how can they win?"
The more Nan Yu saw him like this, the angrier he became, but Nan Qi was still useful at this time, not to mention that his true identity as the prince had not yet been revealed. At this time, he could only continue to endure it.
"The purpose of our coming here is not to take action, but to inquire about the situation of Emperor Xue, the old thief."
Nan Qi was reminded like this and realized the purpose of coming here today.
Just when he finally mustered up the courage to speak, Nan Rui had already calmly walked across from Prime Minister Xue.
"Prime Minister Xue, I have no other purpose today. The imperial edict states that my father is ill. As his son, my third brother and I have the obligation to go to the bedside to perform filial piety.
What's the point of bringing so many people to stop our brothers?
Could it be that my father is not ill at all, but has been poisoned by you? "
In fact, there were many civil and military ministers present, some of whom were neutral like He Shangshu, and a few who secretly supported Nan Rui and Nan Qi.
And most of them are a group of people who took advantage of the situation and turned the rudder towards the Xue family.
No matter who they are, they have had such doubts in their hearts.
It is suspected that Emperor Shunwu was not simply ill, but had been assassinated to death by the Queen's people. Now that this news has not been made public, it must be because the Queen and her party still have some unfinished business.
Therefore, when Nan Rui asked the question, everyone's eyes fell on Prime Minister Xue, and they all wanted to know how Prime Minister Xue would answer this question.
It has to be said that Prime Minister Xue is a very cunning and cunning man.
After Nan Rui asked such a question in public, the old guy didn't show any guilt on his face. Not only that, his answer sounded justifiable.
"Since His Royal Highness Prince Rui is asking questions in public today, I might as well say what I have to say directly today.
The emperor has not shown up for a long time. It is true that the reason is that he is ill, but he also personally told the old minister that he was extremely disappointed with the abilities of the two princes, His Highness King Rui and His Highness King Qi.
I hope that the old minister will use his own abilities to assist the fourth prince and train him to become a qualified prince.
Just because the emperor was disappointed with the two princes and became ill, he specifically ordered the old ministers and the queen to not need the two princes to come forward when they were sick, so that you can reflect on your incompetence in the past twenty years. "
This is true. If it is true, it can be said that Nan Rui and Nan Qi were slapped in the face.
Nan Rui will not say it. He does not want to pursue that position, but Nan Qi is different. He has only one goal since he was a child, and that is to stand out after defeating Nan Heng and become the next emperor of the Dashun Dynasty.
Now Xue Cheng is calling him incompetent in front of so many people. Even though he has too much fear in his heart, he can't bear it at this moment.
