The world is impermanent, and a person's status needs to be recognized by everyone.

Zhao Jia was the king in Daicheng, and there was no royal family to observe the ceremony, which was not in accordance with the law for the royal families of the countries who followed the rules of their ancestors.

All countries have surnames, but everyone is not called emperor, they all need to follow the traditions of the Zhou family, and everyone belongs to the fiefdom under the Ji family. Every monarch ascends the throne and invites the royal families of all countries to watch the ceremony, which is reasonable. And Zhao Jia didn't do this, in his eyes, Zhao Qian was too close to those royal families, even if he sent an invitation, no one would participate, it was better not to invite anyone, so as not to be embarrassed.

His idea completely ignored the feelings of the royal family.

In the Central Plains, it is necessary to pay attention to standardized etiquette, and the Zhou rite has been implemented for so many years, and it has long been deeply rooted in everyone's hearts. Such a king can only be a fake king, and even Yan Wangxi didn't dare to meet Zhao Jia in person, so he only sent Yan Dan to secretly act in private.

Yan Dan and Zhao Jia are good friends, and the royal family knows that everyone turns a blind eye. As long as Yan Wangxi does not have formal contact with him, it is not considered to break the rules, and everyone can bear it. But now there is a big problem, Zhao Jia actually concealed the Yan people and contacted the Huns in private, which caused public anger.

The Central Plains fights every year, all of which are civil wars between royal families, and everyone has a big enemy in their minds, that is, the steppe nomads. On the strongest cavalry in the world, the Qin and Zhao cavalry are the first to be recommended. King Wuling of Zhao borrowed the combat style of the grassland peoples and created the Hufu cavalry archery, and the Qin State also followed suit. Everyone knows to each other that in terms of real horse kung fu, it is still not comparable to the Huns, so countries built the Great Wall, so that the Hun cavalry could not show their horse kung fu.

Zhao Jia listened motionlessly, and was deeply afraid.

Sitting here are all young royals, and this generation of the Central Plains dispute is these people. In peacetime battles between countries, everyone can use all their power and tactics, even to the extent of their means. But when it comes to this, such a royal gathering will not talk nonsense.

The name of a man and the shadow of a tree, since the one who exits is a king, it is impossible to lie.

Some people assassinated Yingzheng, some people wanted to assassinate Yingzheng, and now there is another Zhao Jia. No matter who of these people dies, these people gathered here are inextricably linked.

Yan Dan frowned and said, "Brother Yingzheng, is someone trying to kill me?" ”

Ying Zheng nodded and replied honestly, "Yes, and there are quite a few." ”

"The first one who wants you to die is the Blood Fan Building. Back then, Gao gradually left the Xuefan Building, offered me advice, put forward the five major evils, and misled my judgment. Xuefanlou is transcendent from the world, and has always ignored the dispute in the Central Plains, if he dares to lie in Xuefanlou, he will be ready to accept the punishment of Xuefanlou. And such a strategy, we don't believe that he can come up with it alone, either Ju Wu's design, or you, Prince Yan's idea. ”

"Ming people don't say dark words, you can not admit it, but for the people of Xuefan Building, as long as you have a little suspicion, it is enough."

"The second one who wants you to die, the old man of the royal family of the nations. The main thing is that you are too restless, and the things you do are always contrary to the royal tradition. Take Zhao Jia's claim to be king in Daicheng, many royal families did not go, so you sent your staff to secretly congratulate you. ”

"Don't think that others don't know about this, but don't think anyone else knows unless you don't do it. The spies of the nations are not ornaments. In the world of Jianghu people, no matter how much harm they do, there are countless royal eyes staring, that is, they are all within the controllable range. ”

"The third person who wants you to die, I guess you can't think of it, and you haven't thought about it at all, that is your father Yan Wangxi."

Hearing this, Yan Dan couldn't sit still anymore, and suddenly got up and shouted angrily: "King Yingzheng of Qin, please don't sow discord and destroy the relationship between our father and son." I have been hostage in Qin for many years, and after returning to Yan State, my father still treats me as before, I am his own son, how can he harm me. ”

Ying Zheng said lightly: "Since you call me King Qin, how can you lie with my identity." ”

Yan Dan was silent, thinking about it carefully, Ying Zheng is now the king of Qin. With his identity, as long as he speaks the words, he is Chrysostom, and he will not say impossible words at all. But saying that Yan Wangxi wanted to harm him, Yan Dan couldn't figure it out, was that possible?

Negative suddenly said lightly: "There is indeed such a possibility. ”

"Under the knee of King Yan, there are many heirs, and you are not the only prince. It's just that according to the tradition of the Central Plains, the elder is not the young, so you can sit on the throne of Prince Yan. ”

"But we all know that you have been a hostage in the Qin State since you were a child, for more than ten years. During this period, your mother died of illness in the Yan Palace, and the king of Yan favored several concubines, and gave birth to several princes. Those princes have been accompanied by King Yan for many years, and their intimate feelings are deeper than yours. ”

"When you return to the Kingdom of Yan, King Yan will immediately promote you to the crown prince. But have you ever thought that how many of your younger brothers were close to you? Seeing that your power is getting bigger and stronger, if you ascend to the throne one day, you will probably kill those brothers. ”

Hearing this, Ying Zheng became interested, there is definitely a secret in this. Looking at the tone of his speech, he must have mastered the hidden secrets of Yan Gong that are not known to outsiders, otherwise how could he say it so surely.

Yan Dan was puzzled: "What does Brother Negative mean by this?" Although I don't agree with my own brothers, the infighting between the prince and the prince is also the tradition of our royal family, which doesn't mean anything. Is it because of this that my father will kill me? ”

He said affirmatively: "Now that you still have use value, King Yan will not kill you, but he will also be afraid of you." Once the time comes when you can't bear it anymore, you will definitely be secretly executed. ”

"You talk to me about the alliance, but this alliance was not issued by King Yan, and it has already exceeded the rules. Who has not experienced a palace struggle to ascend to the throne? In this regard, King Qin and I are somewhat similar, so before talking about the alliance, you have to do some research on the Yan Palace, as well as what happened around you. ”

"According to my intelligence, the actions you have made in the Yan Kingdom have gone beyond the scope of what you should be like as a prince. Not to mention, take the Yishui organization as an example, this force has always been controlled by Ju Wu. The leader of Yi Shui was Jing Ke, who was very loyal to Ju Wu because Ju Wu had saved his life. ”

"And Ju Wu's control of Yi Shui is completely what King Yan meant. But after you returned to China, knowing about this, you still had to fill your own manpower in Yishui and train so many dead soldiers to come out, what are you doing? This is to set up the power of Jing Ke and Ju Wu, how can King Yan not know? ”

"There's another piece of information that you may not know yet. That's your mother, is it really sick and dead? I can tell you now that it was at the hands of a certain noble concubine, and that person's brother was Juwu-sama. Not only some old guys of the royal family knew about this, but Lord Ju Wu also knew about it, and even King Yan himself knew about it. ”

"But King Yan did not punish the concubine, and there were three reasons why he did not punish him: first, King Yan favored those concubines; the second is that the concubine gave birth to two princes; The third is the power of Lord Juwu. You can become the crown prince, mainly because you are older than those princes, and once they grow up, or King Yan feels that he is about to die, he will put you to death before he dies, so as not to cause the tragedy of fratricide. ”

"The same king, this mind doesn't need to be guessed at all, just know the reason with the wrench."

Zhao Qian interjected and said with a smile: "The internal competition within the royal family must be within a controllable range, once there is an unsolvable grudge, the king must raise the butcher's knife to avoid too much loss of royal blood." This kind of hatred is the same as me and Zhao Jia, and my hatred with him can't be reconciled by outsiders at all. ”

Zhao Jia frowned, and continued: "Prince Yan, I didn't expect you to have such a hidden danger. The grudge between me and Zhao Qian also came because of this. He was able to become the crown prince, mainly because he was too powerful and scheming, and my mother did not fight, so she died. Your situation is more serious than ours, at least my mother was killed by the queen of advocacy, and your mother is probably killed by the hand of the concubine by King Yan, otherwise why is it a secret? ”

Yan Dan's face turned pale, and he understood what they meant. King Yan executed a certain concubine, and outsiders had no right to interfere, and there was no need to hide it from anyone. Since he concealed it, he didn't want him to know, so King Yan wouldn't be able to tolerate him.

The reason why he was given the position of crown prince was mainly because except for Yan Dan, the other princes were still young, and none of them were adults. In order to stabilize the throne, he can only give him the position of the crown prince, and when those princes grow up, the deposition of the crown prince, secret execution and other means will be staged, these are the usual methods of the royal family.

Ying Zheng smiled: "Xiao Dan don't be nervous, with my understanding of King Yan, he won't kill you for the time being, because you still have use value." After all, none of your younger brothers are too young to take on big responsibilities. ”

"But you have to be careful Ju Wu, that old fox definitely has the intention of killing you."

Yan Dan sighed, got up and saluted Ying Zheng, and said, "Thank you King Chu for your warning, I really don't know about this matter." Brother Yingzheng, if Ju Wu wants to kill me, when do you think he will do it? ”

Ying Zheng thought for a while and guessed: "According to the information of the negative man, I estimate that it should be in the next few days." ”

Suspicious: "So sure? Let's hear it. ”

The people sitting here are all the best in the royal family, and it is impossible to be untargeted. Yan Dan even raised his mind and listened carefully to the conversation between Yingzheng and Yingzheng. Those who can sit on the throne have only secured that position through a lot of political struggles. People who are not in that position always have limitations in seeing the problem.

Ying Zheng habitually knocked on the table and said slowly: "This time Beigong is discussing the sword, all the forces in the rivers and lakes from all over the country are coming, and it is the ideal environment for assassins to carry out assassinations. This is the North Palace, there are so many royal brothers, one thing is for sure, none of us took the initiative to come, everyone had to come here for various reasons. ”

In other words, there is always an invisible hand behind us, forcing us to come. This feeling is very bad, and when we are in this position, we should take the initiative and not be driven by others. ”

"Take Xiao Dan's matter as an example, if you want to form an alliance with the negative man, what occasion is not easy to choose, why did you come to Zhongnanshan? In my territory, even if an alliance agreement is reached, how can I not know? ”

"What's even more strange is that I am not here, I arrived in Fanjia Village, and then you arrived there, magnifying my goal, why not expose your figure in front of all the people in the rivers and lakes. From Yanguo to cross the Yishui River and come to Zhongnan Mountain, you don't need to go through Fanjia Village at all, and you just took a detour. ”

"Before that, Gao Yuanli met me in advance, and you will be there in two hours. I'm sure you can meet me in Fanjia Village, it's you who is Gao Yuanli noticed, right? ”

Yan Dan nodded and said, "Yes, but what does this mean?" Walking with Brother Yingzheng is indeed safer, Jing Ke didn't come, and Yi Shui didn't have many masters coming, it's hard for me to refuse the reason given by Gao Yuanli. ”

Ying Zheng frowned, and said bitterly: "It's a big mistake, you can hear from your tone that we were all deceived by Gao Yuanli, and this little brother deceived me again." ”