The next day, King Yu did not notice Qin Banruo's disappearance. Normally, Qin Ban would disappear for a few days if he wanted to practice the "Red Sleeve Move", so King Yu did not become suspicious.
As for the "Red Sleeve Move", everyone thought Qin Banruo was in Prince Yu's Mansion.
?The consequences of Qin Banruo's two-pronged run in the past slowly emerged.
Wang Gang went to court as usual as if nothing was wrong. Today he needs to report on the war against Yan at the court meeting and ask for credit for those who have made meritorious deeds.
On the way to the court, Wang Gang met Prince Yu, and the fifth brother even greeted him warmly.
"Jingyan, why didn't you say hello when you came back? After the court, let's have a drink together." King Yu said to Wang Gang with a smile, which really seemed like a brother-in-law relationship.
The courtiers coming and going glanced curiously, especially the prince's people, thinking that Prince Yu and Prince Jing would not form an alliance!
In fact, King Yu wished he could take his brother to the battlefield right away and kill him.
Wang Gang was thinking about how to deal with his brother's chief adviser when he went back.
?It can be said that the two brothers each have their own agenda.
Last night, Wang Gang asked Qin Banruo to drink water soaked in poppy flowers for a night. In the past few days, she will also add spices to her food. When the addiction kicks in, Qin Banruo will have to be obedient no matter how determined she is.
That poppy flower was accidentally obtained by Wang Gang in the north. It was used by doctors to relieve the pain of wounded soldiers. After Wang Gang got it, he immediately collected dozens of kilograms and put them in the space. He also brought the seeds to Jinling for cultivation.
He wants to use drugs to control Qin Banruo, so as to obtain the "red sleeve trick" behind her.
Wang Gang even wanted to give everyone in the Red Sleeve Recruitment team some poppies to control the intelligence organization.
King Yu walked with Wang Gang enthusiastically, unaware that his good brother was trying to pry him off.
At the court meeting, the prince and Prince Yu stood at the front. Wang Gang, as the county prince, stood behind Prince Yu. Emperor Liang asked him to speak and only said a few words, which seemed unusually low-key.
Emperor Liang rewarded Wang Gang with some gold and silver, but did not raise his title.
As adult princes, the third prince, even if he was born with a disability or was raised as a pig, was named a prince, and Prince Yu was the higher-ranking Five Pearl Prince.
Prince Jing Xiao Jingyan was always in a very embarrassing situation because of his relationship with Prince Qi, and was not favored by Emperor Liang. However, he was also an upright prince himself and disdained to do those flattering things, so he was never favored, and Prince Yu was not favored.
Better at these.
This time Wang Gang made great military exploits, but Emperor Liang turned a blind eye. Previously, he had blamed him for sending troops hastily and disrespecting the imperial order.
Many ministers in the court felt unfair to Wang Gang, but it was a pity that these people were so soft-spoken that they really had nothing to say.
Nowadays, the Daliang court is basically divided into three factions, the prince faction, the Yuwang faction, and the more upright ministers who remain neutral.
Prince Jing had a good reputation among the neutral faction, and some even wanted to join him, but they were rejected by the former Jamel Xiao, leaving him alone in the court.
Wang Gang knew that Jamel Xiao did this, and it was actually Concubine Jing who secretly instructed him.
Xiao Jingyan was the younger brother raised by King Qi. His close relationship was tabooed by Emperor Liang. If he made friends with courtiers again, Emperor Liang might give him another glass of poisoned wine.
Jingbin hopes that her son will learn to be low-key and tolerant, and secretly develop his own power.
After Prince Jing got married at the age of seventeen, he took the initiative to apply to go to the border for training. It was Concubine Jing's idea to keep him away from the center and accumulate connections at the border.
Wang Gang felt that Jing Bin's strategy was right. He also wanted to stay away from the court for the time being and let the prince and Prince Yu fight dogs.
Emperor Liang again brought up the issue of poor harvests in the south of the Yangtze River at the court meeting. Some ministers suggested that Emperor Liang inspect Jiangzuo, but people from King Yu's lineage opposed it.
When the emperor goes to the south of the Yangtze River, the capital will inevitably be supervised by the prince. People in King Yu's lineage are worried about being liquidated by the prince.
The Minister of Household Affairs proposed that an adult prince should replace Emperor Liang and inspect the fourteen states on the left side of the Yangtze River. Wang Gang was interested, but he also knew that such advantages and disadvantages would not be his fault.
Sure enough, Emperor Liang asked the prince: "Prince, which prince do you think is suitable for inspecting Jiangzuo on my behalf?"
The prince came out and said loudly: "King Yu has outstanding abilities and is the leader of all kings. He is worthy of this great responsibility."
Emperor Liang was stunned. He did not expect that the prince would recommend his rival, King Yu.
However, Emperor Liang soon realized that the prince wanted to transfer King Yu away from the capital and take the opportunity to deal with his followers.
Emperor Liang did not object to his two sons competing for the throne. In fact, the more fierce the fight between the prince and King Yu, the more secure he would be as emperor.
Twelve years ago, the former prince Xiao Jingyu, the king of Qi, was sentenced to death not because he conspired to rebel, but because he had the ability to rebel.
At that time, King Qi had the support of the whole court and the support of the Red Flame Army, and his power once surpassed that of Emperor Liang. Sometimes memorials from various places were first presented to the Prince's East Palace and then to his desk.
The reason why King Qi had to die was not that he was weak, but that he was too strong.
Later, Emperor Liang appointed the current prince as heir apparent because he thought he was mediocre and easy to handle.
But even so, in order to prevent the incident with the former crown prince from happening again, Emperor Liang still secretly supported Prince Yu and let him fight against the crown prince.
The balance of power.
"King Yu." Emperor Liang glanced at King Yu and said, "Would you like to share my worries?"
The emperor had already asked, what else could King Yu do? He could only kneel down quickly and said: "My son is willing to go to Jiangzuo."
Emperor Liang nodded with satisfaction.
At this time, the Minister of War came out and said to Emperor Liang: "Your Majesty, I received an urgent report from the northern border last night. The barbarians in Beidi are ready to move and intend to invade our border."
"Beidi?" Emperor Liang asked in confusion: "Aren't Beidi and Daliang separated by Dayu and Dayan? How could they invade our border?"
The Minister of War explained: "Beidi's 50,000-strong army bypassed Dayu and took advantage of the Ye Qin Kingdom to come northwest of Daliang."
Emperor Liang was furious and said: "Ye Qin dared to use the road, they have eaten the courage of their ambitions!"
It's no wonder that Emperor Liang was furious. Ye Qin was a small country to the west of Daliang. It always looked up to Daliang and paid tribute every year. It's not an exaggeration to say that it was a vassal state of Daliang.
Now that Ye Qin was using Beidi's path, he would completely break up with Daliang.
This Beidi is somewhat similar to the grassland regime. It is not so much a country as it is an alliance composed of the major tribes on the grassland.
The characteristic of nomadic people is that they like to beat the autumn wind. Once the grassland encounters any major or minor disaster, Beidi will dispatch cavalry to the south to plunder.
In the past, because Dayu and Dayan were in the way, Daliang could hardly encounter the Beidi cavalry.
This time, Beidi bypassed Dayu and took the route of Yeqin. Even if they made a big detour, they still had to go to Daliang to catch the autumn wind. It must be said that the national power of Daliang has declined sharply in the past few years, and everyone wanted to take advantage.
"Do you have any good strategies to defeat the enemy?" Emperor Liang shouted angrily, "Who is willing to lead troops to fight against Beidi?"
The civil and military officials of the entire dynasty looked at me, and I looked at you, and finally they all looked at Xie Yu, the Marquis of Ning Guo, who was the first among the generals.
Xie Yu hesitated, glanced at the prince carefully, and found that the prince was winking at him. It was obvious that he didn't want him to leave Jinling.
The prince finally managed to get King Yu away, and was about to show off his power to eradicate King Yu's influence. Why would he want his top adviser to leave?
Xie Yu lowered his head silently and said nothing.
When Emperor Liang saw that no one was saying anything, he couldn't help but think of Commander Lin of the Red Flame Army.
If something like this happened before, Lin Shuai would always be the first to ask for a fight!
Emperor Liang shook his head and forced himself to wake up.
At this time, King Yu came out and said: "My ministers recommend that King Jing lead the army to attack Beidi."
Now everyone's eyes were focused on Wang Gang again, including Emperor Liang.
