SFS Chapter 543 The Grand Prince and Mr. Jin
Chapter 543 The Grand Prince and Mr. Jin
Capital city, the eldest prince’s palace, the meeting room.
The eldest prince sat on the main seat, holding the intelligence sent by his subordinates. After reading it, his face turned very dark, as if dark clouds were covering the city and a rainstorm was about to fall.
However, no matter how angry the eldest prince was, he raised his head and did not get angry at the man sitting below. Instead, he said calmly: "Mr. Jin, the third prince not only completed the disaster relief mission of the two prefectures last year, but also went to Beiling City and defeated the Beimo army. Such a great military achievement poses a great threat to this prince."
"In addition, the third son learned from somewhere that black stones can be used as fuel, and made something called honeycomb coal for heating. Last winter was so cold that a lot of honeycomb coal flowed out of Qingshan Prefecture. They were also sold in the capital. Many people didn't have firewood to keep warm, so they bought honeycomb coal. As long as you pay attention to ventilation when burning, there will be no problems. These things combined have strengthened my father's determination to pass the throne to the third son."
"Mr. Jin, you said you would help me get that position. Now that the Third Brother has so many credits, what hope do I have?"
Mr. Jin was looking at the big house on the main seat and complaining, and he was very anxious. He also knew that the eldest prince was telling the truth. Judging from what the third prince did in Qingshan Prefecture and Beiling City last year, if the emperor was not confused and made the third prince the crown prince, it would be for the welfare of the people of the world.
Although he knew this truth, he could never let the third prince become the crown prince. The position of crown prince must belong to the eldest prince.
It’s just that the eldest prince’s chances of winning are not very high, but if you think about it carefully, it is not impossible.
"Prince, do you still remember Li Mengyue whom I told you about last year?"
"Of course, Prime Minister Yun raised a daughter for more than ten years, but later it was revealed that she was switched at birth. Prime Minister Yun's biological daughter was raised by a rural couple. Later, Prime Minister Yun wrote a letter of severance and expelled Li Mengyue from the family tree. She is no longer a member of his Yun family. This prince knows all these things. Last year, you said that Li Mengyue had a large sum of money. I sent someone to bring Li Mengyue to the mansion, but she escaped."
At this point, the eldest prince was unwilling to give in, because he really coveted the money in Li Mengyue's hands.
You have to know that the money he spends every year on the secret army he maintains is not a small amount. Even though he has a lot of gray industries and people below him pay him regular tributes, those are just barely enough to support him and he has no more.
He has been thinking about where to get the money, but he just can't find the right way.
Although he earns a lot every year, he spends a lot of money. He also knows that if he wants to achieve great things, he can't be obsessed with money.
When he learned that Li Mengyue had a large amount of money, he became interested.
As a result, last year he had someone bring Li Mengyue to the capital, but not only did he fail, he also lost power in Qingshan Prefecture, which made him feel like he was losing more than he gained.
Thinking that Li Mengyue was just a little girl and had caused him to fall into trouble time and time again, he was so angry that he wanted to kill her.
However, many people were sent out, but none of them succeeded once.
That would have been fine, but what he didn't expect was that Li Mengyue was actually hanging out with the third brother.
He received a tip that a woman appeared next to the third brother.
He didn't believe it. After all, he was very clear about the third brother's physical condition. It was impossible for him to have children, let alone a woman.
Originally, when he learned that the third brother was disabled, he no longer regarded him as a threat. He thought that no matter how they had fought in the past, the third brother had no chance of becoming emperor, and he could still tolerate him as a brother.
When he comes to power in the future, he will let the third brother guard the border, and he will not treat him unfairly.
However, the news he received did not make him feel at ease about the third brother. On the contrary, after repeatedly confirming that the woman next to the third brother was Li Mengyue, he had the urge to kill the third brother immediately.
Even though he knew this was not very realistic, he couldn't help but have that thought, because Li Mengyue was pregnant.
Since Li Mengyue and the third brother are together, it goes without saying that the child in Li Mengyue's belly is the third brother's.
This really surprised him. After all, who would have thought that the third brother, who had been betrayed by the imperial physician and had difficulty in having children, had the ability to make a woman pregnant.
Later, he thought about it and understood that the imperial physician only said that it would be difficult to have children, not that it would be impossible to have children in the future.
The fact that the third brother could make Li Mengyue pregnant only shows that he is lucky enough and has been blessed by God.
But so what? Even if the third brother is lucky and gets a woman pregnant, it doesn’t mean that he will definitely give birth to a son.
If Li Mengyue gave birth to a daughter this time, it doesn’t mean that the third child will be so lucky and let Li Mengyue get pregnant again.
Every time he thought of this, he couldn't help but pray that the third child would give birth to a daughter.
But Li Mengyue was the money bag he had his eyes on, but the third brother got there first. How could he swallow that?
In order to teach Li Mengyue and Lao San a lesson, he sent out several groups of assassins, but they returned empty-handed every time, forcing him to temporarily give up the idea of assassination.
After all, he knew that no matter how many people he sent, they would not succeed. What's more, Li Mengyue gave birth to a daughter, which would not make much difference.
Because he felt that even if the third brother got Li Mengyue, Li Mengyue would be willing to give a large sum of money, which would be a drop in the bucket for disaster relief.
You have to know that the number of refugees in the two prefectures is not tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, but hundreds of thousands. It is absolutely impossible to settle all of hundreds of thousands of refugees in a short period of time.
But the fact is that the third brother somehow came up with an idea for a water conservancy project. He recruited refugees to build reservoirs and dig canals. It took only two months to complete the huge water conservancy project, shocking the entire government and the public.
When he learned about this, he knew that it was a foregone conclusion that the third brother would become the crown prince.
In the end, God chose to "abandon" the third brother. The sudden extreme cold weather plunged the entire northern part of the Great Zhou into extreme cold weather.
No one knows exactly when the weather will warm up again, because this has never happened before. This is the first time, and many things are unknown.
He felt that the extremely cold weather was not a bad thing. Instead, he was glad that God gave him some buffer time.
In extremely cold weather, the third brother would definitely not rush back to the capital from Qingshan Prefecture. Besides, before he returned to the capital last year, he had been stationed in the northern border.
The reason why the third brother was stationed in the northern border for a long time was to stop the people from the northern desert.
Since the northern part of the Great Zhou has fallen into extremely cold weather, the Northern Desert is no exception.
In previous years, when winter came, the Northern Desert would send cavalry to rob the people living on the border, and this year was no exception.
He knew that the Third Brother would definitely not return to the capital, but would definitely go to the northern border to prevent the Northern Desert from breaking through the defenses of Beiling City and entering the inland of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
The result was exactly as he expected. The third brother went to the northern border. Logically speaking, when the third brother was fighting in the northern border, he would definitely be in a stalemate with the people of the Northern Desert for a period of time.
He also heard that all the military rations of the Beiling City garrison were buried under the snow-capped mountains. Without food, let alone fighting, even survival was uncertain.
However, even in such a desperate situation, the third brother managed to turn the tide. Not only did he defeat the Beimo army, he also carried out disaster relief in Beiling City, so that the casualties of the people in the north due to the snowstorm were not as heavy as imagined.