Conversation

The two siblings chatted for a while, and then the eldest princess brought the topic back to the past.

"Since you already know, the princess has nothing to hide."

"You should know something about what was going on in the capital back then."

King Jin nodded. Although he was still young at that time, he could still feel the atmosphere around him.

"The battle between the royal brothers is very fierce."

"Yes, it's not only intense, it's even very dangerous. Just think that a group of dignitaries in the capital are divided into multiple factions."

"Among them, each of your royal brothers is behind you, some are royalists, and some are neutral factions."

"I won't talk about the last two, let's just talk about your royal brothers. Everyone wants to gain more support and defeat the others."

"In addition, my father was already in bed at the time, so two of them had already made plans to launch palace coups to seize the throne."

Anyway, neither of them are good people, and no one who takes the top position will be good news for them.

Having said this, the eldest princess paused, turned to look at King Jin and asked, "Do you know who the princess he chose?"

Moreover, King Zhao is also the eldest among the princes and princesses.

"I became his first choice."

"Moreover, he secretly contacted the chieftain of your land, hoping to imitate King Zhao and marry the princess to gain support from your land."

Even more terrifying than King Zhao. After all, King Zhao kept everything in the open, but King Shu did not. He always tolerated it, just like a dormant poisonous snake.

"We did have a very difficult life back then, and that's why you treated my father so hard."

This is not an exaggeration. At that time, there were two princesses who were suggested to marry by the imperial concubine, and they were all used to seek benefits for King Zhao.

"At that time, other princesses had to be protected by their mothers, concubines, elder brothers or emperor brothers. The King of Shu did not intend to fight with these people, so the target could only choose those princesses who had no background and no big backers."

In that deep palace compound that eats people without spitting out bones, one can imagine the life of three children.

Even though two of them were princes, the late emperor had more than ten sons and so many concubines vying to serve them, and he had no time to take care of the three of them day by day.

"The King of Zhao and the King of Shu."

However, the prince's health was not very good and he died at a young age. The late emperor was very sad about this, so he did not establish a prince for a long time.

King Jin shook his head.

"If he had paid too much attention to us, I'm afraid the three of us would have become one of the many resentful souls in the palace."

"Well, I know this. My father has praised him more than once."

"Do you know who these two are?"

It is necessary to mention here that in fact, during the reign of the late emperor, there was a prince at the beginning, who was the eldest son of the royal palace.

"No, at the beginning, I felt that it was because of my father's indifference that the lives of the three of us, siblings, were difficult."

King Jin knew this.

And judging from what the emperor left to him in the end, it is possible that the father-emperor did not pay attention to them in order to protect them, as the eldest princess said.

In the palace, the eldest princess and the mother-in-law of Emperor Hongwen died early. They were almost transparent people in the palace when they were young. It was only later that they met the mother-in-law of King Jin, which improved the lives of the two siblings a lot.

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"The situation was very critical at that time, and after I learned about King Zhao and King Shu's plans, I kept thinking that if they were allowed to take power, we, the three of us, would not end well."

Let’s talk about the King of Shu. From the words of the eldest princess, it is not difficult to tell that this is a sanctimonious king. He does not show it on the surface, but what he does secretly is probably no better than King Zhao.

"However, I did not succeed and was directly discovered by my father."

It is undeniable that the crisis mentioned by the eldest princess does exist. Needless to say, King Zhao has always regarded other princes as a thorn in his side. If he ascends to power, even if he and Emperor Hongwen survive, the end will not be good.

"There is no need to say anything about King Zhao. You know very well that since he was a child, he relied on the power of the imperial concubine to be domineering in the palace. If nothing else, you, me and the emperor have been bullied and humiliated by him.

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Hearing this, King Jin fell silent.

"He was the first among the princes to go to his own fiefdom, and he took care of his fiefdom in an orderly manner."

As for the eldest princess, I'm afraid she will become a tool in his hands.

Coupled with the death of the prince, it also dealt a huge blow to the queen. As a result, the harem was controlled by concubines. With a favored mother concubine, and being the eldest, King Zhao almost regarded the future throne as his own.

What's in the bag.

"So I don't hate him, but I don't like him either."

"But as I grew up, I discovered that he was actually indifferent to us. Isn't it a kind of protection?"

If the prince is the eldest son, then King Zhao will be the second. After the prince dies, he will be the eldest.

After hearing this, King Jin nodded. What the eldest princess said is indeed very reasonable. Sometimes it is not a good thing to be paid attention to by the emperor.

But the days were not very long, and King Jin's mother-in-law suddenly died of illness, leaving behind three and a half children.

After all, his father had handed over the most important Shadow Guards and the hidden elite military power to him.

If he didn't pay attention, how could he keep all these things to himself?

Although he could understand the choice made by the eldest princess in the situation at that time, King Jin still had a thorn in his heart about her attack on his father.

"Yes, but you only know that he takes good care of his fiefdom, but you don't know that he has raised 200,000 private troops in his fiefdom, right?"

"So I took action first."

The King of Zhao was not a good person back then. He could not get along with almost all his brothers and sisters. He always suppressed and humiliated all his brothers and sisters because his mother was a favored noble concubine.

"The King of Shu looks dull, but he is actually very cruel at heart."

"Yes, the person he chose is me."

Once he takes action, people will die.

Naturally, he would not like other princes, and in his opinion, those princesses are nothing more than marriage tools used to consolidate his imperial power in the future.

Having said this, the eldest princess slowly raised her head and looked at the horizon, with a look of memory on her face.

He has already asked such a question, but King Jin can't think of it.

"Father didn't blame me, and although he was bedridden, he was very aware of the situation outside and knew exactly why I did what I did."

"That's when I realized that my father knew everything. He knew everything, but because his body didn't allow it, otherwise it would be King Zhao and others who would act recklessly."

"He is really powerful, wise and decisive."

When talking about decisiveness, the expression on the eldest princess's face was very complicated.
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