Absolute protagonist

The prince, blinded by jealousy, unilaterally declared war on the fourth prince. At first, it might have been just impulsive, but later the war became more and more intense. It was because the emperor's partiality was too much.

No matter what kind of dirt they found on the fourth prince, the emperor's punishment was always mild.

Embezzling the salt tax in Jiangnan? Fine and reflect; secretly searching for beauties and allowing his men to kill innocent people? Fine and reflect; abuse palace maids and beat ministers? Fine and reflect; privately recruiting northern army soldiers and keeping secret guards? Still fine and reflect.

Who in the world doesn't know that the emperor has always favored Concubine Li, and the fourth prince is also blessed by the emperor, and has been rewarded with gold, silver, pearls and jade since childhood? Even if it is a fine of ten thousand gold, it is probably nothing to him.

The emperor's unconditional indulgence deeply irritated the prince. Both his authority as the prince and his self-esteem as a son were trampled to pieces by the extraordinary treatment of the fourth prince. As his hatred for the fourth prince grew deeper and deeper, this hatred gradually spread to the emperor who always favored the fourth prince.

But his resentment was useless. The fourth prince was not a person who could tolerate it after suffering a loss. In the process of the prince's unilateral provocation of the fourth prince, his subordinates were also retaliated by the fourth prince.

Compared with the prince who still pays attention to the rules on the surface, the fourth prince doesn't care about anything, even kidnapping people and wives. This mad dog-like biting behavior made the prince's subordinates scattered and worried all day long.

Prince's Courtyard.

"The fourth prince is really bullying too much!"

Once again received a piece of bad news. The prince couldn't help but punch the table heavily, and his face was still angry. His originally decent facial features were twisted by anger and jealousy, and even the mask of gentleness and tolerance was torn off by him. He gritted his teeth.

"Father is too unfair!"

Now every time he went to court, he always felt that the court officials were laughing at him behind his back, mocking him for having the title of crown prince, but in fact he was just a powerless and incompetent idiot, and sooner or later he would give up his position to the fourth prince!

This thought became more and more deeply rooted, and made the prince's mentality more and more unbalanced. He glanced at the staff below, and couldn't help but start to doubt in his heart: Would these people have begun to secretly question his future? What's worse, would anyone be threatened by the fourth prince's brutal and cruel methods to defect?

With this suspicion, even if the staff advised him not to get entangled in the dispute of will, as long as he was upright, he could sit firmly on the throne of the crown prince, in the prince's ears, it was just some perfunctory nonsense. Such a discussion naturally could not go on.

Late at night, after the meeting, Qu Yingfei quietly left from the back door of the prince's courtyard without disturbing too many people.

The cold wind at night blew through the long street, and Qu Yingfei, who was thinly dressed, couldn't help sneezing. A faint haze covered his face, and his eyes showed confusion that he didn't even notice.

Gurgle gurgle...

The sound of the wheels of the carriage rolling on the street sounded faintly, and a low-key and simple carriage stopped in front of him. The driver was silent, and a tattoo symbolizing his past prisoner status was printed on his left cheek.

The sky-blue curtain was opened by a hand, and a familiar face like the bright moon appeared in front of Qu Yingfei, and the young man stared at him with a smile in his dark eyes.

"I guess you must be regretting now, your choice back then was too impulsive..."

After all, Chu Si was not the prince's staff, and he would not obey the other party's instructions all the time. However, even if he didn't go to the meeting this time, he could roughly guess the prince's performance.

His straightforward words were like a sharp knife, cutting open Qu Yingfei's heart. But Qu Yingfei still tried hard not to show his weakness in front of this self-proclaimed enemy.

He said coldly: "What? Now you have the leisure to laugh at me?"

"I'm not that boring." Chu Si glanced at him with a hint of meaning, "You deliberately chose to show off when others were down and out, and finally got caught by others..."

His words made Qu Yingfei explode.

Just when the other party was about to explode, Chu Si suddenly spoke again, successfully diverting Qu Yingfei's attention.

"Don't you want to come up and talk about the prince... and your plan."

Seeing that the other party hesitated for a while, he still chose to step on the carriage. Chu Si shook his head secretly in his heart.

I don't know if this young marquis has a naive side in his nature, or if he has been pretending for many years, which has affected his true temperament, and it is easy to deal with him.

In the carriage, the young man sat leisurely, with a chess game that had already ended in front of him.

Qu Yingfei sat opposite him and said awkwardly: "What do you want to say?"

Although he went to the prison to show off his power just to conform to his character for so many years, he had to admit that he did have a faint envy and jealousy towards the guy in front of him.

If he could still laugh at this guy secretly in the past, thinking that he was just a bookworm who only knew how to read, then during this period, after seeing Chu Si's methods, he would never have such thoughts again.

"I have thought about it these days. There are so many princes under the current emperor. There is the wise and intelligent Prince Yuanqing, and the fourth prince who is loved and favored is glorious behind..."

Chu Si said while putting away the remaining chess pieces on the table.

"Three years ago, the current prince was just the unknown third prince in the palace. What is so important about him that you, the young marquis, even risked poisoning Prince Yuanqing?"

"Aren't you very powerful?" Qu Yingfei sneered and provoked a little childishly: "You can take a guess."

Chu Si ignored his provocation, looked blankly, and continued following his own train of thought: "During this period, I have not noticed any signs of being coerced, Mr. Marquis. After thinking about it, maybe... …His Royal Highness has two things that suit your needs—his status as a legitimate prince, and his gentle and weak temperament.”

"Then all the answers will be clear."

Looking at Qu Yingfei, whose expression was getting tense, Chu Si said firmly: "You need a future monarch who is weak and incompetent, and even influenced and manipulated by you, in order to achieve some of your ambitions."

"The wiser Prince Yuanqing is, the more he deserves to die."

At the end of the sentence, a smile appeared on his lips.

Qu Yingfei suddenly raised his head and looked directly at Chu Si, his eyes were sharp, and an unspeakable aura was brewing in him, which was definitely not something that an ordinary playboy could possess.

Chu Si just smiled and picked up the last chess piece. His slender white fingers looked as delicate as porcelain against the backdrop of the ink jade chess piece.

His dark eyes flickered, and he looked expectantly at Qu Yingfei, who had completely torn away his disguise: "I'm very curious about what you really want? To hold the king hostage and seize the power of a country? To harbor resentment and use the power of the king to vent personal grudges. ? Or... chasing death in the north, galloping among thousands of armies?"

Qu Yingfei's aura gradually subsided, and he became the arrogant and arrogant young prince of Quyanghou Mansion again.

He nodded coldly: "Your guess is not bad at all."

The current emperor's level of governance is average, but he is greedy for power, lustful, and fame-seeking. He has a lot of common people's shortcomings. The most important thing is that this person is very wary of military commanders.

Qu Yingfei's father, Qu Yanghou, was also a prominent general when he was young. He guarded the border and chased the Huns hundreds of miles away. The general was away leading the army, so Qu Yingfei, the legitimate son of Marquis Quyang, naturally tacitly stayed as a hostage, nominally accompanying Prince Yuanqing.

Qu Yingfei has been fond of martial arts since he was a child, and what he admires most are the famous generals who commanded thousands of armies in history books. But when he was young, whenever he expressed his thoughts, both the Prince Yuanqing and the Tutor would express disapproval, and even talked to him about the enlightenment of poetry and etiquette. The chamberlains who served him in the palace always directed his interest to eating, drinking and having fun without leaving any trace.

Qu Yingfei, who has been extremely sensitive to human hearts since childhood, is keenly aware of all this. As he grew older, he gradually understood whose instructions this was from. As a result, he became a famous dandy in Yongjing City.

"But why? Why should I spend my life mediocrely because of the emperor's unfounded fears?"

Even though the real power of Marquis Quyang was gradually removed later, leaving only the empty marquis and some false reputation, once Qu Yingfei expressed his willingness to join the army, he believed that the emperor would definitely obstruct him in every possible way. Who gave Marquis Quyang great prestige in the army and many connections?

After enduring it until he was sixteen, Qu Yingfei's unwillingness finally broke out, and he came up with an idea.

"Since this emperor cannot fulfill my wishes, then I will change him!"

"Pah, pah, pah—"

Chu Si clapped his hands with a serious look on his face and couldn't help but say, "That's amazing, little Marquis!"

Although the young marquis's methods were too impulsive and the candidates he chose seriously deviated from his original expectations, in ancient times when the idea of ​​loyalty to the emperor was widespread, it was really rare for someone to have such a treasonous idea.

With Qu Yingfei's confused look on his face, Chu Si said calmly: "It's a pity that the current prince obviously cannot fulfill the wishes of the young marquis."

Given the duplicity of the other party, he may be another current emperor in the future.

"—But I can."

He spoke softly, looking through the opened car curtain towards the silent imperial city in the night, with little rays of light shining in his deep eyes.

"The times make heroes, and heroes wait for the times. When the world is in chaos, it is your best time."

The prince didn't know that someone was secretly poaching him, and he was still fighting against the fourth prince without looking back.

It was just that the biased emperor was here. Even though his head hurt, the enemy was not hurt at all. Instead, all the courtiers saw clearly that he was a prince in name only.

Realizing that as time passed, his situation would only become more and more unfavorable, the prince finally made up his mind to take a risk. As a collaborator, Chu Si provided the other party with an exclusive secret medicine pill at a friendly price.

Not long after, news came from the palace that the emperor was seriously ill. Although the specific condition of the disease was kept secret, those three ministers and nine ministers who had their own information channels in the palace still learned the truth——

When the emperor was playing with a few newly minted beauties, he suddenly suffered a stroke and collapsed, unconscious.

The three princes and nine ministers secretly sighed in their hearts that they really knew how to play. On the surface, they rushed to the palace in a hurry to observe the emperor's situation.

…

When the news reached the harem, Princess Xinhua was suddenly shocked.

She was originally immersed in her own fantasy and was still planning one hundred and one ways to pursue the male god. She immediately cleared all the messy thoughts in her head, stood up and tightly grasped the hand of the palace maid.

"Is everything you said true? My father is too ill to govern, so he ordered the prince to supervise the country?!"

Cui Rong, the personal palace maid who had just heard the news and rushed over to spread the word, felt a sting on her hands and her nails dug into her flesh. However, she did not dare to resist. She just nodded repeatedly: "It's true. How dare you deceive the princess?"

Princess Xinhua let go of the palace maid's hand in a daze, and walked around the palace alone: ​​"How could this be? Obviously, this is not the case in history..."

Although she didn't remember exactly when the emperor died in history, in so many adapted TV dramas, there has never been a plot where the emperor was seriously ill and the prince was the regent.

——It should be the fourth prince who killed his father to succeed the throne.

In a trance, the official eunuch also came to Princess Xinhua's palace and summoned all the princes and princesses to the emperor's bedroom. Princess Xinhua's luck was no longer there.

No matter how afraid she was of the fourth prince, her brother, she knew that her future glory and wealth depended on him... Could it be that eliminating the prime minister's mansion in advance would cause the fourth prince to miss the throne? Then what should she do?

For a while, Princess Xinhua was extremely regretful.

Anyway, Lu Yingying, that woman, is gone. As long as she remains infatuated, there will always be a day when she can impress Chu Yuzhi. She has persisted for three years, so why should she take a different approach?

The author has something to say: I don't know if this story will seem too boring to the little cuties. I feel that political scheming stories without any emotional lines and pure plots seem to be more suitable for male readers.

The author, with his IQ just reaching the standard, writes political scheming head-on. I hope Chuchu's character setting is not broken. If it is broken, you can ia the author and let Chuchu go.

Thank you to the little angels who voted for me or irrigated nutrient solution~

Thank you to the little angels who cast [mines]: Mingge, Xuanpin, Langlai, Xuzhu Chenjiu, Jun Muchen 1;

Thank you to the little angels who irrigated [nutrient solution]:

Gongzi Nanqiao 44 bottles; Yuebai Fengqing, Taohe 30 bottles; Su Luoruo, Fusheng 20 bottles; Yuan 12 bottles; Mo Yan 10 bottles; Langlai, Yunxiao Yuji 3 bottles; Chenmi 2 bottles; Yueran, Luowei, Yanjiang, Azheng 1 bottle;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!