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Since then, King Jing Zhao Yuanxi, King Yu Zhao Yuantong, and the future King Yi Zhao Yuanli have become acquainted with Xiao Qing, the daughter of the Xiao family.

At that time, King Jing Zhao Yuanxi and Xiao Qing had faint guesses, because all indications indicated that he would be her husband, and she would be the princess of King Jing's mansion.

However, what was supposed to be logical has changed a little.

The reason is that Zhao Yuanzuo, the king of Jing, saw the scene where Zhao Yuanxi, Zhao Yuantong, Zhao Yuanli and Xiao Qing, the daughter of the Xiao family, interacted by the fish pond in the imperial garden.

In his opinion, this is a rather unfavorable signal for his side.

Therefore, he asked to meet Zhao Yuanling, the prince of the East Palace at that time, and told the prince of the East Palace about the scene he saw.

At first, Zhao Yuanling didn't think so, because he was the eldest son of Zhao Kang, the king of Wei, and was trained as a prince since he was a child, and married the daughter of Zhai Xu, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, at that time, it was still the head of the six departments, therefore, with the support of Zhai Xu, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, Zhao Yuanling's status was as stable as Mount Tai.

However, King Jing Zhao Yuanzuo did not think so, in his opinion, although Zhai Xu had a very high reputation in the court, Xiao Qing's grandfather Xiao Yan, the Marquis of Southern Yan, was not inferior, and more importantly, his father Xiao Boyuan also commanded tens of thousands of Southern Yan troops in northern Xinjiang.

Once King Jing Zhao Yuanxi and Xiao Qing get married, King Jing's power is bound to skyrocket, and there may be a threat to the status of the East Palace.

In view of the fact that the crown princess Zhai has not come out so far, King Jing Zhao Yuanzuo persuaded Zhao Yuanling to marry Xiao Qing as a side room and never suffer in the future.

In the end, Zhao Yuanling was persuaded by Zhao Yuanzuo, King of Jing, after all, as far as his brothers were concerned, it was like him Zhao Yuanling was a mountain, and the fourth royal brother Zhao Yuanxi was a mountain, the former had the support of Zhao Yuanyan, King of Yi, and Zhao Yuanzuo, King Jing, and the latter was also close to Zhao Yuanyan, King of Yu, and their youngest brother Zhao Yuanyan.

So, Zhao Yuanling made this request to Zhao Kang, the king of Wei, through his mother Empress Zhang.

At that time, although Zhao Kang, the king of Wei, was preparing to win over the relationship with the Xiao family of Nanyan through marriage, he had not yet considered deciding which son to marry with the Xiao family - if it was not for Empress Zhang's encouragement in his ears later, then the object of the marriage was very likely to be the fourth son Zhao Yuanxi, who had not yet married, after all, the first three sons were all married.

But after listening to Empress Zhang's alarmist words, Zhao Kang, the king of Wei, changed his mind.

As Empress Zhang said, the Nanyan Xiao clan is a very powerful force, and if Xiao Qing, the daughter of the Xiao clan, marries his fourth son, Zhao Yuanxi, it may make Zhao Yuanxi have some thoughts about the throne.

And more importantly, Empress Zhang said some bad things about King Jing Zhao Yuansi in the ear of Zhao Kang, King of Wei.

For example, Zhao Yuanxi, the king of Jing, privately discussed his father, and privately boasted about "what will happen if he is in charge of the Yangwu army", and said that "if his father does not listen to the words of General Xiao, he will be defeated in a foolish battle", these words made Zhao Kang, the king of Wei, very unhappy.

After all, at that time, no one in the government and the opposition dared to discuss the "defeat of the Shangdang" and the "Yangwu Army" in private.

So, in a fit of anger, Zhao Kang, the king of Wei, decided to listen to Empress Zhang's suggestion and let Zhao Yuanling, the prince of the East Palace, marry Xiao Qing, the daughter of the Xiao family.

The only problem is that Zhao Yuanling, the prince of the East Palace, married Xiao Qing, the daughter of the Xiao family, as a side room, which is not a gift for the Xiao family of Nanyan, so Empress Zhang put forward a suggestion: The current crown princess Zhai and Xiao Qing, the daughter of the Xiao family, will give birth to the emperor's grandson first and become the crown princess.

It was this suggestion that made Xiao Qing, the daughter of the Xiao family, regarded as a thorn in the side of the current crown princess Zhai in the future, and targeted in every way.

When the holy will of the vertical arch hall was issued, Zhao Yuanxi, Zhao Yuantong, Zhao Yuanyan's three brothers, and Xiao Qing, the daughter of the Xiao family, were all shocked.

They never thought that Xiao Qing, the future princess Jing, would actually become a candidate for the crown princess.

"How so?!"

Zhao Yuanxi was shocked when he learned of this, and despite the dissuasion of Zhao Yuantong, the king of Yu, he was angry for a while, and took Zhai Cheng, the chief of the sect's guard, to the vertical arch hall to argue with his father Zhao Kang, the king of Wei.

On the same day, news came out from the palace that Zhao Yuanxi, the king of Jing, collided with Zhao Kang, the king of Wei, at the top of the vertical arch hall, which was contrary to the father and son, the monarch and the minister, and was escorted to the Zongfu to face the wall and think about it.

A few months later, under the control of the mother concubine of King Jing Zhao Yuanxi, he escaped from the Zongfu, but at this time, the imperial court had announced the news that the prince of the East Palace was marrying Xiao Qing, the daughter of the Xiao family, and the marriage could not be changed.

On the day when the crown prince Zhao Yuanling married Xiao Qing, the daughter of the Xiao family, King Jing Zhao Yuanxi attended the wedding with an expressionless face accompanied by Zhao Yuantong and Zhao Yuanyan.

Afterwards, Zhao Yuanxi did not go to the East Palace to attend the wedding banquet, but came to the latter's Tingfeng Pavilion with Zhao Yuantong, the king of Yu, and Zhao Yuanyan, and drank to relieve his depression.

At that time, Zhao Yuanxi told Zhao Yuantong and Zhao Yuanli the two brothers what happened in the Vertical Arch Hall that day, and he told the two brothers that their father and emperor had been dumbfounded by him at that time, but because he was the father and the king, and he was the minister and the son, their father, Zhao Kang, the king of Wei, was angry and imprisoned him in the Zongfu.

When he was half drunk, Zhao Yuanxi smashed the wine jar in his hand and said to the two brothers expressionlessly: "I want to be a king!" ”

At that time, Zhao Yuanli was stunned, but Zhao Yuantong, the king of Yu, was not surprised, and he was also very dissatisfied with this marriage.

He also felt that their father, Emperor Zhao Kang, was too partial to the crown prince Zhao Yuanling, just like Zhao Yuanxi said after getting drunk, if he couldn't treat everyone equally, what would he do if he had so many sons?

Since then, the brothers Zhao Yuansi and Zhao Yuantong began to plan to form their own forces.

One day in the tenth year of Zhaowu, Zhao Yuanli heard that the Crown Princess Zhai of the East Palace had targeted the Xiao family several times, and his heart hurt, but he didn't know what to do, so when Zhao Yuanxi and Zhao Yuanli came to visit him, he told the two brothers about it.

In this regard, Zhao Yuanxi was also annoyed in his heart, but he had no choice, after all, he had no reason or qualification to intervene in the internal affairs of the East Palace.

And just when he was troubled, Zhao Yuanli's chief of the sect's guard, Wang Qi, came to report, saying that a female official in the palace came to ask for a meeting, saying that he wanted to see Zhao Yuanxi, the king of Jing.

Go to Tingfeng Pavilion to ask to see King Jing Zhao Yuanxi? Tingfeng Pavilion is Zhao Yuanlian's Prince's Pavilion.

The three brothers wondered in their hearts, so they summoned the female official into the cabinet.

At that time, the female official told Zhao Yuanxi about the tragedy of Xiao Qing being deliberately targeted and tortured by the current crown princess Zhai after marrying into the East Palace, and even told Zhao Yuanxi that Xiao cried in the bedroom every night and missed Zhao Yuanxi.

These words only made Zhao Yuanxi angry.

In the end, the female official told Zhao Yuanxi that she had a way to let Zhao Yuansi meet Xiao, and there was also a way to make the two meet privately, but Zhao Yuansi had to meet one condition for her.

"What do you want?" Zhao Yuanxi asked.

The female official seemed to be about the same age as Zhao Yuanxi, and said without hesitation: "I want to be your concubine, His Royal Highness King Jing." ”

These words made Zhao Yuanxi, Zhao Yuantong, and Zhao Yuanli brothers all stunned.

After a long time, Zhao Yuanxi asked, "What's your name?" ”

I saw that the female official looked at Zhao Yuanxi intently, and said, "The slave maid is the daughter of the Wang family of Zhengcheng. ”

Hearing this, Zhao Yuanxi and Zhao Yuantong were still a little unimpressed, after all, the Zhengcheng Wang clan at this time was still just a middle-class nobleman, and there was no comparison with the Zhai clan and the Xiao clan.

Therefore, Zhao Yuantong laughed and said: "The daughter of the little Zheng Township gentry, trying in vain to get involved in my brother's main room? Why are you? ”

The female official Zhengse said: "Just by virtue of the slave maid, she has won the trust of the crown princess Zhai. After that, she turned her head to look at Zhao Yuanxi, and said: "You are Your Highness, I am the princess, if you sit on the throne, then I will be the queen...... As long as His Royal Highness agrees to this, the slaves and maids will do their best to help His Highness, whether it is Concubine Xiao or the big position. ”

Zhao Yuanxi and Zhao Yuanxi glanced at each other, and finally began to look at the female official, during which Zhao Yuanxi asked, "What is your name?" ”

The female official bowed her head and said respectfully: "The slave maid is a branch of the Wang family of Zhengcheng, the daughter of Wang Yu, Wang Huan." ”

This female official was the later Princess Jing, and the queen Wang after Zhao Yuanxi became the son of Wei Tianzi a few years later.

The female official Wang Wan is indeed the confidant maid of the crown princess Zhai, and with her help, Zhao Yuanxi successfully had a private meeting with Xiao Qing.

In this matter, Zhao Yuanxi also recognized Wang Huan's wrist.

Because at that time, the crown princess Zhai tried her best to beat Xiao Qing to the cold pavilion, and at that time, she also specially sent a little eunuch to guard it, and the female official Wang Wan bought off the little eunuch.

And this little eunuch called "Feng Lu" also became Wang Huan's absolute confidant a few years later, and became another celebrant eunuch on an equal footing with the chief eunuch Tong Xian.

Once a tryst, absorbing the marrow and knowing the taste, since then, Zhao Yuanxi, who couldn't stop, often sneaked into the palace from the old mansion in the city through the secret passage to have a private meeting with the Xiao family.

On the other hand, Zhao Yuanxi also gradually revealed his intention to compete for the throne with Zhao Yuanling, the prince of the East Palace.

I have to say that it was quite difficult at first, after all, the government and the opposition were optimistic about Zhao Yuanling, the prince of the East Palace, and even Zhao Kang, the king of Wei, favored the East Palace.

Therefore, Zhao Yuanxi was inevitably reprimanded and taught a lesson by Zhao Kang, the king of Wei.

And at this time, Zhao Yuantong, the king of Yu, who had been prepared, deliberately asked people to spread rumors in Daliang, saying that Zhao Kang, the king of Wei, "established a long man but not a virtuous", which caused an uproar among the government and the opposition.

I have to say that "Lichang" or "Lixian" has always been a controversial matter between the DPRK and China: Lichang is the ancestral system, and Lixian is the foundation of a strong country.

But the key is that even if Zhao Kang, the king of Wei, is biased towards "Lichang", he can't veto the statement of "Lixian", otherwise, wouldn't it put an end to the way for virtuous ministers to defect.

At that time, Zhao Yuanling, the prince of the East Palace, relied on Zhao Yuanling, the king of Jing, found Zhao Yuantong, the king of Yu, and asked Zhao Yuantong why he made such a move.

Zhao Yuantong bluntly told Zhao Yuanzuo: "You stand over there, and I stand on this side." ”

Zhao Yuanzuo left indifferently.

From this day on, Zhao Yuanzuo, the king of Jing, and Zhao Yuanzuo, the king of Yu, became old enemies.