"Your Majesty is already sixty years old, and the Crown Prince and Prince Yu are only in their thirties. It's quite late for Your Majesty to have a child." Zhao Lin joked.
Fu Chengwang glared at Zhao Lin and said, "Don't talk about the king and father behind their backs."
Fu Wenqi explained, "Before the Crown Prince, there were other princes, and the position of Crown Prince was determined early on. However, the Crown Prince died of illness, and the other princes either died of illness or fell into the river. Even more ridiculous, there was a prince that everyone had high hopes for, but was struck by lightning and died. So the throne has been passed down from generation to generation, and it has fallen into the hands of the current Crown Prince."
Zhao Lin suddenly realized: "In other words, the Crown Prince is not the eldest prince?"
"Strictly speaking, the crown prince should be the thirteenth prince." Fu Wenqi said.
"Tsk tsk." Zhao Lin shook his head.
Emperor Chengping is so unlucky.
Out of more than a dozen sons, only these few are left.
Fortunately, he was the emperor and could afford to have many children. If he were an ordinary family, they would have no descendants.
"I am very disappointed with the Zhenbei Marquis and his wife today."
Fu Chengwang said in a deep voice, "You don't act like a parent at all. You gave birth to a son but didn't raise him, and you raised a daughter but didn't teach her. You are unworthy of being a parent!"
Li Xingye agreed, "If it weren't for the special occasion today, I would have pointed at their noses and scolded them. No wonder Zhao Lin didn't want to acknowledge them. I wouldn't acknowledge them either if I were in their place."
"Before, I wanted to mediate between them, but now it seems there is no need." Fu Chengwang said sarcastically, "Let them live with their adopted son."
"Your Majesty seems to be very dissatisfied with Zhao Jingzhou as well." Fu Wenqi said.
Li Xingye sneered, "If it were someone else, they would have issued an imperial decree to reprimand him long ago. Merely being dissatisfied is already a sign of his great favor."
"It's a pity that no one can replace him to guard Zhenbei Pass and stop the Beidi. Otherwise, what Zhao Chenhan did alone would have taken him down." Fu Chengwang sighed.
Zhao Lin smiled and said, "Just because there isn't one now doesn't mean there won't be one in the future."
Fu Wenqi smiled and said, "Do you have a suitable candidate?"
Zhao Lin said: "The world is vast, and there are countless heroes. There are many people who can handle every position, it's just a matter of whether there is the opportunity."
Fu Wenqi shook his head and said, "That's wrong. Only those who can sit in that position are considered to have that ability. If they can't sit in that position, it can only be said that they lack the ability. For example, Zhao Chenhan, he boasted so much before, but everything was exposed once he entered the officialdom."
Zhao Lin nodded with a smile and did not argue with Fu Wenqi.
Zhao Jingzhou was able to sit in Zhenbei Pass and block the Northern Di, which shows that he did have the ability.
But it cannot be said that he is the only one in the entire Daqi who has this qualification.
For example, Song Huaian, Zhao Lin felt that he should be able to replace Zhao Jingzhou.
The day before yesterday, Zhao Lin received a letter from Song Huaian.
He actually secretly controlled the Dingling City in the Golden Desert.
The owner of Dingling City was Tuoyegu, one of the nine Tiele clans. He had a strong military force, including 3,000 cavalry, 5,000 infantry, and various miscellaneous soldiers, totaling about 15,000 troops.
Although the Nine Clans of Tiele did not invade Daqi as frequently as the Northern Di, they were a scourge in the Golden Desert. They often robbed and killed merchants in the desert, causing great suffering to those who took this trade route.
Moreover, the Xiong family cooperated with the Nine Clans of Tiele and did not allow other merchants to take this route except those from the Xiong family, resulting in the Xiong family monopolizing this trade route.
The cooperation between the Xiong family and the Nine Tiele Clans was very close. Once the imperial court intended to weaken the Xiong family, the Nine Tiele Clans would immediately invade, appearing to be nurturing the enemy for their own benefit.
Now Song Huaian secretly controls Dingling City, which is equivalent to planting a nail between the Xiong family and the nine Tiele clans.
This nail will be driven deeper and deeper until it finally kills the Xiong family and the nine Tiele clans.
Zhao Jingzhou and others returned to the Marquis' Mansion.
Zhao Jingzhou's face was gloomy: "Kneel down!"
Zhao Mingya knelt down obediently.
Zhao Chenhan was startled and asked quickly, "What's wrong? Why is father so angry?"
No one responded.
Han Yuehua angrily said, "Why are you being so mean to Mingya? It's all that rebellious son's fault!"
"You're still favoring her?" Zhao Jingzhou was furious. "She almost killed the whole mansion today, did you know that?"
Han Yuehua stiffened her neck and said, "What are you afraid of? Doesn't the Emperor dare not touch you? Wait a little longer, the Emperor will pass away, and Prince Yu will take the throne. Who would dare to bring up these things?"
"you?"
Zhao Jingzhou couldn't believe that Han Yuehua would say such a thing.
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