PNB Chapter 198: Announcement of Discontinuation of Engagement with Chu Taian
Chapter 198: Announcement of Discontinuation of Engagement with Chu Taian
Qi Wushuang didn't expect that the Prince of Subei would be fooled so easily by Ye Wuwei.
Both his father and the former emperor ignored Prince Subei.
Because it is impossible to reason with the Prince of Subei; but if you confront him head-on, the Prince of Subei will be so stubborn that he will poke a hole in the sky.
I can't really kill him for some trivial matter, so I can only ignore him.
Unexpectedly, the best way to deal with Prince Subei is to stroke him and change the subject at the same time.
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Ye Wuwei sent Prince Subei away and returned to Liangyi Palace. As soon as he arrived at the gate of Liangyi Palace, he heard Qi Wushuang talking about breaking off the engagement with Chu Taian.
Ye Wuwei thought about it and did not enter the Liangyi Hall. Instead, he stood outside the door of the Liangyi Hall and listened to the movements inside the hall.
Qi Wushuang still used the reason that he was inhumane and did not want to delay Tai'an to cancel the engagement.
“Before returning to Chamdo, I went to Yingdu and personally sought the consent of the Prince of Chu to cancel my engagement with the Commandant of Chu.
Because he had delayed the Chu Duwei for many years, he was specially appointed as a county marquis and took over the capital Yingdu as compensation.
The county marquisate of Chu Duwei can also be passed on to his descendants."
After Qi Wushuang's announcement, the officials all turned their eyes to Qi Wushuang.
No one cared much about Chu Taian taking over Ying. Anyway, if Ying was not taken over by Chu Taian, it would be taken over by someone else in the Chu family. It would not be their turn anyway.
As for Chu Taian being granted the title of County Marquis, they didn't have much thought about it.
If Your Majesty had not cancelled the engagement with Chu Taian, Chu Taian would have been the queen, and her rank would have been several levels higher than that of a county marquis.
What they care about is whether Qi Wushuang is really inhumane!
Your Majesty may look very manly, how can you be inhumane?
However, no man is willing to expose his shortcomings in public, especially one of His Majesty's status.
Could it be that Your Majesty is truly inhumane?
General Qi was a little anxious:
"Your Majesty, would you like to see a few more doctors?"
"Eight years ago, when I was injured, I sought out famous doctors all over the world, but they all said there was no way I could be saved.
Now I have accepted the reality.”
General Qi suddenly saw Shui Changqing.
"Master Shui, you know a lot of famous doctors. Why don't you ask them to take a look at His Majesty?"
Shui Changqing remained calm and covered up Qi Wushuang's lie:
"I have asked a miracle doctor to examine your majesty's illness. There is only one medicine that may be able to cure your majesty, but that medicine..."
General Qi asked anxiously, "What medicine?"
“Ice Lotus.
The ice lotus grows at an altitude of more than 5,000 meters in the Snow Fairy Mountain. It can cure all kinds of poisons, revive the dead, and turn bones into flesh.
But ice lotus is not only difficult to pick, but also difficult to preserve.
Ice lotus is shaped like a lotus, but it is frozen. Once it melts, it will turn into a pool of water and lose its medicinal effect.
The ice lotus can only be preserved in a box made of ten thousand year old cold jade.
But the Shui family does not have this ten thousand year old cold jade box.
I once heard that a strange man possessed the Ice Lotus, so I went to ask for it, but he refused to give it to me. In my anger, I burned down his residence, and I never found him again."
General Qi: "Who is this extraordinary person you are talking about?"
"The Ye family should be around eighty years old."
Upon hearing that it was someone from the Ye family, General Qi fell silent.
Emperor Jingzheng exterminated the Ye family. Even if this extraordinary person is found, he probably will not agree to give the Ice Lotus to Your Majesty.
It seems that your Majesty's illness is incurable.
Then, what will happen to your Majesty's offspring?
Who will inherit the throne of the Qi family?
Although General Qi thought about the issue of offspring, he would not ask in front of so many people. He planned to ask Qi Wushuang in private.
Ye Wuwei listened to Shui Changqing's nonsense outside the hall and thought to himself: Master is an even better liar than I am!
All the news about Binglian is true, except for Qi Wushuang's illness which is false.
But after listening to such a long paragraph of truth, it is easy for people to take those two lies seriously.
Things turned out just as Ye Wuwei expected:
After Shui Changqing's testimony, most officials believed that Qi Wushuang was inhumane.
Even some of Andu's generals believed it.
Like Lu Zhaozhong was thinking:
No wonder Your Majesty and Chu Taian have been engaged for many years but have not gotten married. It turns out that Your Majesty is inhumane!
Nie Youren was an insider, so he naturally didn't believe it.
Nie Youren thought:
It's hard for Your Majesty to find such a lame excuse for Ye Wuwei!
But it doesn’t seem to make sense without this reason!
It seems that His Majesty is sincere to Ye Wuwei, otherwise he would not put such a big blame on himself!
As a son-in-law of the Chu family, Nie Youren also thought of another question:
Since Your Majesty has announced that Tai'an will take over Yingdu, and Tai'an's county marquisate can be passed on to his children, it will not be the turn of other branches of the Chu family to take charge of Yingdu in the future.
His brother-in-law is still young, and even if Tai'an did not take over Yingdu, it would not be his brother-in-law's turn to take over.
It’s just Chu Jianghe…
The main reason why Chu Jianghe stayed in Chamdo was that he wanted to take over Yingdu.
It’s no wonder Chu Jianghe had this idea.
The people most qualified to take over Yingdu are Chu Fuchi and Chu Taian, but Chu Fuchi is the chief minister in Chamdo and it is impossible for him to return to Yingdu, and Chu Taian is going to be the queen and it is even more impossible for her to return to Yingdu.
So, the next ones to be considered in terms of qualifications are Nie Youren’s brother-in-law and Chu Jianghe.
Nie Youren's brother-in-law was still young, so Chu Jianghe naturally thought that he should take over Yingdu.
But I didn't expect that His Majesty would cancel the engagement with Chu Taian and let Chu Taian take over Yingdu.
In Nie Youren's view:
Chu Taian is much more suitable to take over Yingdu than Chu Jianghe.
Because Chu Taian is the legitimate daughter of the Prince of Chu and has many years of experience in leading troops and fighting in the army, the soldiers will be convinced if she takes over Yingdu.
But Chu Jianghe had never led troops in battle and had only held a logistics position in the Yingdu army. If he were to take over Yingdu, not to mention others, I'm afraid neither Fang Congrong nor Chen Yanchi would listen to him.
If that happens, there might be chaos in the north.
Thinking of this, Nie Youren felt that it was a brilliant move for His Majesty to cancel the engagement with Chu Taian and let Chu Taian take over Yingdu.