The Cannon Fodder and Villain’s Happy Ending
chapter-511

Chapter 511

Initially, when Gu Xi, the third son of Wang Yu came to see him, Lord Chengen was hesitant. Although the second prince married Tang Fengchun as his consort, a relative of Wang Yu’s family, Lord Chengen still felt that Wang Yu was out of the question. The emperor hated Wang Yu so much that the hatred between the two parties could not be reconciled at all, once they joined Wang Yu, the emperor would completely hate them. It was like the second prince had almost given up the possibility of succeeding in the throne from the emperor.

This was unwise.

Therefore, Lord Chengen had no intention of cooperating with Wang Yu at first and even wanted to persuade Gu Jing not to get too close to Tang Fengchun, after all, Tang Fengchun’s heart must be towards Wang Yu’s.

It was not until the fire at Tai’an Palace spread throughout the capital that Gu Xi quietly brought Consort Fang back to Yuzhou. When he heard the news, Lord Chengen felt that the situation was not good.

Wang Yu has always been ambitious, especially after seeing he tried his best to cause this incident. In other words, he chose this time to send Gu Xi to the capital to pick up Imperial Consort Fang, and the reason for this was, Wang Yu thinks this was the best time for his northern expedition. After thinking about it, this was the only reason this was plausible.

Now that Wang Yu has an excuse for the northern expedition and there was no hostage in the capital, and with this, it could be said that Wang Yu’s northern expedition was unstoppable.

Over the years, Wang Yu has hoarded troops and food in Yuzhou. He has both money and soldiers, it could be said that he has the right time, place, and people.

Wang Yu and Yuzhou were at their peak, but what about the imperial court?

After more than ten years of foreign wars, internal strife, and natural and man-made disasters, the imperial court was somewhat lacking in military strength; there was a shortage of soldiers and generals. The most troublesome aspect was that the court was short of money.

War was the most expensive thing; if this war broke out, hundreds of thousands of taels would be just a small amount, and could even easily exhaust a million taels. The two sides may even fight for several years, could the national treasury pay enough to support this war?!

Just thinking about this, Lord Chengen’s heart felt heavy.

He knew it best; during the bandit suppression in Jinzhou, the emperor had to compromise and use the second prince to collect money.

The treasury was empty to such an extent that if they fought with Wang Yu, he was afraid that the court’s chance of victory would not be high.

This forced Lord Chengen to seriously consider Gu Xi’s proposal and secretly discuss it with Gu Jing several times.

Gu Jing persuaded him eloquently. “Grandfather, once father establishes a crown prince, I will have no hope at all. It is difficult to establish a crown prince in this dynasty and it is difficult to depose him, even though the emperor’s father was so partial to Wang Yu at the beginning, in the end, he could not withstand the opposition to abolish the crown prince and establish Wang Yu.”

“Are you still unclear about this matter?”

Indeed, Lord Chengen was unclear about this matter.

There was such a large turmoil over the later emperor’s dethronement of the crown prince, and for over the years, he thought that he might not have been able to keep the crown prince’s position. However, in the end, the late emperor still compromises under the kneeling admonitions of Lord Qin and his ministers and could only vent his anger by exiling Lord Qin to Minzhou.

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