Rong sighed, "Yes, the last escape route Concubine Wan left us wasn't Yanbei, but Hezhong. She told us to wait until Yanbei and the imperial court had truly fallen out, and when the two sides were fighting and had no time to spare, we could return to Hezhong Prefecture. Your grandfather still has an imperial edict from the previous emperor, which conferred him the title of King of Hezhong. The date on the edict is after the previous dethronement edict."
"While the snipe and the clam fight, the fisherman benefits?" Ren Yaoqi asked in surprise.
She had always been a little puzzled. During the decades of fighting between Concubine Wan and Empress Dowager Yan, they were evenly matched. Concubine Wan even had the upper hand for a long time. Why did Concubine Wan suffer such a crushing defeat in the end? Not only did her power completely collapse, but she not only failed to protect her son, but also lost her own life.
It now seems that the situation of Concubine Wan's side was not as disadvantageous as she thought, and the forces in the Hezhong area that she had managed did not fall apart as the outside world believed.
She brought King Xian under the nose of King Yanbei, so that King Xian's life was protected by the Yanbei Palace, and the Hezhong forces were able to escape the sight of the court and continue to develop and stabilize in secret.
At this time, she had to admire Concubine Wan. She used strategies and tactics to understand people's hearts perfectly, and even planned what would happen after her death so far in advance.
Rong sighed again, "That's right, but I didn't expect that before the fisherman could even get his chance, one of the snipe and clam would come looking for him."
Ren Yaoqi immediately thought of Xiao Jingxi's last visit: "You mean, Second Young Master Xiao?"
Rong nodded and sighed, "The young are truly formidable!"
Ren Yaoqi was thinking that before she passed away in her previous life, the contradiction between Yanbei and the imperial court had become clear, and the situation between the north and the south had become unprecedentedly tense. However, she still did not live to see the day when King Xian took the late emperor's edict to Hezhong to become king. It might be that the time had not come, or it might be because of the intervention of the second young master Xiao that something unexpected happened.
"He knew about the retreat route that Concubine Wan left for you in the river, so he used this to threaten you to work for him?" Ren Yaoqi didn't want to think badly of Xiao Jingxi, but when it came to court struggles, there was no way to measure a person by good or bad. The only thing everyone could insist on and rely on was their stance.
Rong shook his head and said, "No, he just proposed mutual benefit."
Seeing Ren Yaoqi looking at her, Rong smiled and reached out to smooth Ren Yaoqi's hair. "It's an alliance. The Xian Palace will form an alliance with the Yanbei Palace. We will lend him our forces in Hezhong when he needs us, and he will ensure our safety in Yanbei. When we return to Hezhong, the Yanbei Palace will not hinder us and will recognize the late emperor's decree of ennobling us."
I see!
Ren Yaoqi thought that her previous guess that there was an agreement between Xiao Jingxi and Prince Xian's Mansion was not wrong, but she did not expect that this game would be so big.
Seeing Ren Yaoqi bowing his head and remaining silent, Rong sighed and said, "We were the ones who let your mother down back then."
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