Girl, there's something wrong with you

They visited the entire military defense zone of the Beifu Army, which was an eye-opener for Yu Yuangui and the two princesses.

The armament status of the Beifu Army can be described in one sentence as "high-tech extensive mode."

For example, the internal structure of the meat grinder used to harvest puppets is actually very complicated. It uses a lot of Yangzhai Chu's unique technology, and Long Xiang's army cannot imitate it.

The stacking of so many advanced mechanical and material technologies resulted in a simple and crude meat grinder, which made Yu Yuangui feel a little depressed - wouldn't you build a self-propelled drone? Build a meat grinder, it's so stupid.

Another example is the flying suit. The normal idea is to leave it to the scouts to go deep into the Central Plains to detect the enemy's situation. After all, the enemy-occupied areas are too dangerous. Meeting a large group of puppets on the surface will be a disaster.

As a result, the Beifu military was equipped with a flying suit dragnet and regularly patrolled the northern area of ​​​​Jingkou as a patrol team. It's not impossible to use it this way, but it's just too extravagant to treat the superpowers of the Cheng and Xing tribes as ordinary soldiers.

If the commanders of the Longxiang Army, Shenwu Army, Yulin Army, etc. were here, they would not be able to afford such luxury. Otherwise, the superpower families would have rioted long ago - even the members of the five surnamed families would be the same here.

Wang Maohong couldn't help but let so many aristocratic families work for him for free without taking out enough benefits.

But Cheng Jinyang was able to do it. According to Yu Yuangui, there are three reasons:

1. He has the blood of a family with supernatural powers, and he is considered one of his own in terms of camp.

2. His potential strength has reached the first level and he has enough investment potential. The Five Surnames do not need him to return immediately.

3. He is affectionate but not overly sentimental. The eldest daughter of a family with the fifth surname can marry him and quickly establish a trusting relationship.

These three points are indispensable, so the emergence of Cheng Jinyang is a special case that is rare in a century, something that can only be encountered but cannot be sought.

Yu Yuangui sighed with emotion. Now he had no other ideas. He just wanted to marry off the eldest princess of Nankang as soon as possible, so as to prevent the fifth surname family from betting more and more on him and risking their lives to fall out with the royal family.

In this way, it seems that before Su Zigao's rebellion, he called him to Taicheng once, and he really wanted to find him as his consort.

At that time, he had not been bet by so many aristocratic families! Why didn't I persevere? It's a mistake to insist on doing something like "make great achievements in exchange for a consort" with him!

What a regret.

After the inspection of the military camp, just like the last time Xi Daohui visited, it was time for a banquet to talk about feelings.

The father-in-laws who were visiting the clan's temporary residence came out one after another to toast Yu Yuangui at the banquet. The latter's face turned red from drinking, but his expression was not that good-looking.

There are too many competitors, how can Yu Yuangui rest assured?

Empress Dowager Yu thought that as long as the emperor gave the decree, those aristocratic families would obediently give up their position as head wives. That was simply a delusion.

Take a look at Jingkou Town! People have invested so much money in their son-in-law regardless of the cost, so they will let you pick the peaches with just a will?

Hey, wait a minute, there is only one legal wife, so how do these aristocratic families divide her?

Yu Yuangui lowered his head to drink tea, pretending to relieve his hangover, and quietly observed the expressions of the guests.

The strange thing is that there is no hostility towards each other in their expressions or eyes when they are talking to each other.

After another round of toasts, Yu Yuangui felt that something was wrong. He seemed to be targeted by these people together.

Toast me for the wheel battle! This is it!

After drinking again for a while, he pretended to be too drunk and confessed to everyone in advance to avoid it.

After drinking tea and sobering up for a while, Yu Yuangui woke up a little and went out to the banquet venue. Suddenly he heard a voice coming from the side room next to him:

"What the prince means is that Yu Yuangui's visit this time is not a good one, and he is clearly trying to bring out the emperor's will to suppress people..."

Yu Yuangui was suddenly shocked. Isn't this the voice of Cui Congyan, the leader of the Cui clan?

"Even if the emperor issued an order, he wouldn't pick peaches so roughly, right? Do you really think that his Yu family alone has the final say in this world?"

This time it was the voice of Lu Jiru, the elder of the fourth Lu family, and Lu Qingyun’s father.

The Cui Lu family has always advanced and retreated together, and Yu Yuangui was not surprised by this. But listening to what they said, it seemed that Wang Maohong was using him to integrate the five surnamed families.

Yu Yuangui sneered inwardly and continued to listen to the conversation inside.

"The Taiyuan Wang family also has bad intentions. If the Yu family hadn't intervened, the position of head wife would most likely have fallen to Wang Wanrou."

"It's just that now that the eldest princess of Nankang has ended, the Taiyuan Wang family doesn't have much confidence, so they want to ventilate with us and say that they will not have a legal wife for the time being. In fact, it is just a delaying tactic."

"That's true, but brother Cong Yan, if Yu Yuangui really wants to push the eldest princess of Nankang, then we can only unite and break up with him. Mr. Wang knew this, so he suggested that everyone should not snatch the first wife, and wait until they get married. It depends on the abilities of each generation."

"This is a conspiracy. Even if you see through his intentions, you still have to follow his plan. Everyone competes equally after passing through the family. Why should the eldest princess decide her fate before she gets married? Now? This is not an era when imperial power was strong!"

"If you want to follow the rules, then let's follow the rules. After all, it is not good for both parties to break up. But based on your understanding of Yu Yuangui, this person has always been arrogant. He probably relies on his status as a relative and will not give us a five-surname family. Face. From this point of view, we can only unite with the prince..."

The more Yu Yuangui listened, the more frightened he became. I bet he hasn't expressed his stance yet, but the Five Surnames have already decided that he is overpowering others and plan to form a group to fight against him!

To be honest, if there was only the Wang family in Taiyuan, Yu Yuangui would dare to compete with Wang Maohong because of the support of the Queen Mother Yu.

However, with so many aristocratic families united to fight against him, even the Queen Mother Yu was frightened. The fierce public sentiment was no joke.

If the aristocratic family union has become a reality, then the marriage of the eldest princess of Nankang will not be possible - for the sake of His Highness's marriage, he has to endure the wave of condemnation from the entire noble family, which will have a great impact on the reputation of the royal family, and the clan will not allow it. Yu acted so unscrupulously.

Fortunately, according to Cui Lu's family, they are also competing within themselves, so they are not really close to each other.

After all, there is only one head wife, and everyone is a competitor. Being able to unite to attack the person with the greatest advantage is their limit...

Thinking of this, Yu Yuangui became a little upset.

If the five surnamed families were really united, he wouldn't have to worry about it. He could just explain the relationship to Nankang and give up.

However, the reality is that the Aristocratic Family is also scheming.

If they show strength, they will be forced to unite to resist, which will pose a huge threat to the imperial power, and the situation must not develop to this point.

But as long as they are a little gentler, they will immediately be wary of each other.

In this way, to persuade the Queen Mother and Nankang to give up the marriage, the arguments would be unconvincing.

Moreover, he is a first-class consort after all. If you give up the marriage with him rashly, you will probably regret it in the future...

Thinking of this, Yu Yuangui got a headache and thought, could it be possible that I would have to be like them and give up on settling the status before marriage and let the eldest princess come through and compete with them fairly?

But she is the eldest princess after all!

Forget it, let’s ask Nankang what he means first.