Jinling.

Royal Palace.

Golden Palace.

Xie Duan stood under the hall and looked at the dragon throne above.

The eldest prince stood beside him, his eyes flashing.

"Uncle, what should I do now?" Zhao Gang sighed, "The father went to Yanzhou. What should I do? If it really doesn't work, I will go to Yanzhou too? I will not be able to deceive my father."

Upon hearing this, Xie Duan sneered, "Are you going to go to the trap? Don't you know how to get the imperial edict to make you the crown prince?"

Zhao Gang shrank his neck. He had heard from his mother that the imperial edict was forced to come.

"Brother, you're thinking of a way. The emperor has made Yancheng the imperial city now. It's obvious that he doesn't want to come back. Yanzhou is the territory of King Yan, so we can never go." At this time, Empress Xie walked in from outside the door.

She had just come from the harem. Although Dou Wei and Xiao Cheng did not burn the palace, they even scraped away the gold foil on the palace wall.

"What should I do? Humph, King Yan took advantage of the chaos in Jinling and plundered the emperor and used the emperor to command the princes. His intentions were ill-behaved. The country should not be without a king for a day. The eldest prince was the crown prince established by the emperor. He inherited the throne and ruled the world in times of crisis." Xie Duan said.

Originally, he wanted to rescue Zhao Heng and force Zhao Heng to abdicate the eldest prince and find a way to get rid of Zhao Heng.

Later, he regarded himself as the orthodox royal family and took over the royal prefectures and counties.

After completely controlling these prefectures and counties, we will join forces with other powerful clans to deal with the King of Yan, who is too big to lose.

But Zhao Heng went to Yanzhou and disrupted all his plans.

First of all, when Zhao Heng arrived in Yanzhou, this was equivalent to a complete break with the powerful clan.

Yanzhou is the territory of the King of Yan, and the power clan cannot influence it at all.

Zhao Heng thus broke away from the control of the power clan.

Moreover, Zhao Heng has no foundation in Yanzhou, so he still has to go with such a big risk.

This is equivalent to turning to the King of Yan in full.

From now on, Zhao Heng's meaning is basically the meaning of King Yan.

Not only his Xie family, but other powerful families are absolutely intolerable.

This means that in the future, his Xie family will respect a vassal king like the King of Yan who massacred a wealthy family and was completely contrary to their powerful family's interests.

Although in the past, their Xie family had cooperation with the King of Yan.

But that was to gain the support of the King of Yan for the eldest prince, he pinched his nose and did it without any hesitation.

In fact, he was full of disgust in his heart.

Now that Zhao Heng has gone to Yanzhou, their interests are no longer consistent.

Trust will naturally disappear.

Even if the King of Yan continued to say that he supported the eldest prince.

But the eldest prince went to Yanzhou to ascend the throne, and wouldn't he fall into the hands of the King of Yan and be at his mercy?

So, after thinking about it, he thought that there was only one way to go now.

That is to immediately let the eldest prince ascend the throne in Jinling.

Let the eldest prince raise the banner of royal orthodoxism and take down the royal prefectures and counties.

In short, the King of Yan cannot be allowed to take the imperial edict and occupy the highest moral point of the Great Song.

Furthermore, Zhao Heng's escape to Yanzhou is equivalent to declaring war on the powerful clan.

When Zhao Heng was in danger, he forced him to set up the position of crown prince, and there was no room for reversal between them.

At present, Dou Wei established the country in Xiangcheng and established Nanliang.

He simply tore his face and fell down.

However, the threat from the King of Yan also exists in substance.

He was also a little worried.

Although the powerful tribes parted due to the dirty things that Dou Wei did.

But he felt that after the eldest prince ascended the throne, he should send someone to other powerful clans to discuss strategies for dealing with the King of Yan.

Each family is independent and fights, but in the face of common threats, it also needs cooperation.

But even if he cooperated, he sent the Dou family out.

Dou Wei looted Jinling City, and he was so angry that he was about to die.

"Brother is right, just do it. The emperor is so cruel. He left our mother and son to Yanzhou. Why bother him to take care of him anymore and just think he is dead." Queen Xie said.

In her heart, her son's throne is much more important than Zhao Heng.

Zhao Gang didn't care about Zhao Heng's life or death. He was already thirty-two years old.

I had long hoped that Zhao Heng would die and that he could become emperor.

Hearing this, he smiled and said, "Thank you uncle."

Xie Duan nodded, "No need to delay, I have arranged a ceremony for the throne in the past few days to avoid the night of dreams."

In fact, in his heart, he hoped that the Xie family would establish a country like the Dou family.

But the royal prefectures and counties and the remaining imperial guards are more attractive.

At present, the Dou family and the Xiao family are allied, while the Wang family and the Han family are as close as a family.

Only he is alone in the Xie family, but if he succeeds in taking over the territory of the royal family.

The territory controlled by the Xie family will be the largest of the seven families.

In addition, the food in the world came from the Xie family, and he had food and soldiers, so what else was there to be scary?

And this is the fundamental reason why he was eager to get the eldest prince to ascend the throne.

...

Xiangcheng.

Dou Wei and Zhao Mu, Dou Mu, were discussing the construction of the palace in the city.

Although he ascended the throne, he became the Emperor of Nanliang.

But there is no place to live in line with his identity.

But he didn't care about this, but his father Dou Wei was very obsessed with it.

"Father, it's better to recruit troops and horses. My wish is to unify the world, not this," Dou Mu said.

Now that his wish is fulfilled, he has endless ambitions.

"The wealth brought by Jinling is enough to build a palace for you. Now you are the king of a country, so you must be worthy of your identity. The imperial carriage is the majesty of the royal family. It cannot be saved and will not affect your struggle for dominance in the world." Dou Wei said with a smile.

The two were talking when a Dou family cavalry arrived on horseback.

Stopped in front of Dou Wei, the cavalry wanted to salute Dou Wei.

But Dou Wei glared at the cavalry, and the cavalry understood and turned to Dou Mu, saying, "Emperor, news came from Wuguan that the Northern Di envoys arrived. They said they would come to Xiangcheng and congratulate the establishment of the country of Nanliang."

"Baidi people." Dou Mu subconsciously looked to the north and looked at Dou Wei. He said, "You go to Wuguan immediately and lead the Northern Di envoys to meet."

"Yes, the emperor." The cavalry responded yes.

Dou Wei said at this time: "Bei Di must have made an appointment with me, Nanliang, to resist the King of Yan together. The emperor should take advantage of this opportunity to cooperate with the people of Beidi. In this way, the border market can continue to bring profits to the Dou family, and can also cooperate with Beidi and the north and south to restrain the King of Yan."

Dou Mu nodded. After the establishment of Nanliang, he had to think about the next layout.

In his opinion, Nanliang had just established a country, so it was not advisable to conquer the city and territories immediately.

This will arouse hostility from other power clans.

We have to wait for the movements of other power clans to talk about.

"Also, news came from Yanzhou that Zhao Heng went to Yanzhou and was in Yancheng at the moment." The cavalry said another sentence.

Dou Mu and Dou Wei's faces sank at the same time.

Dou Wei said: "Zhao Heng went to Yanzhou, and the King of Yan was like a tiger with wings. Now he must regard himself as the orthodox royal family, but don't worry about it. The most nervous ones now should be the Han family, the Wang family and the Xie family. Let's just watch."

"But if the King of Yan defeated each one, I will be alone in the end." Dou Mu said worriedly.

"Haha, the emperor is worried too much. Now the various families are afraid that they still have grudges against our Dou family. Let them suffer first. In this way, they will think of the good things of our Dou family." Dou's face was confident.
Chapter completed!