“You are indeed very smart. You are the only one who thought of such a good method. You are worthy of being my brother.” A sudden voice came from behind.
Liao Tingyu looked back and saw three familiar people, enemies!
“What are you three doing here? I, the county government, have nothing to ask you.” Liao Tingyu looked at the three people. He was in bad mood now.
Why was it sunny today? Logically speaking, it should rain.
General Zhao looked at the fourth prince indicatively, and the fourth prince took a step forward in understanding.
Bowing to Liao Tingyu, he said: “Sir, please don’t blame uncle. I insisted on coming here. I want to ask you, sir, to teach me and help me get out of this predicament.”
“This is absolutely impossible. You are the fourth prince and a noble man by birth. What can I do for you? The world belongs to you.” Liao Tingyu stood up in fright and quickly went to help the fourth prince.
“No, sir, you will definitely have a way. Please help me and my brother. My brother and I are in a difficult situation now. Please help me. If you can help us, my brother will definitely be grateful for your help now if he climbs the throne in the future.” The fourth prince bent over and refused to get up.
“Little brother Liao, please help them. These two children are pure and kind-hearted. Don’t worry, they will never make things difficult for you. I know you have no intention of pursuing an official career and just want to do your own thing. But you also have a lofty ambition! What you are doing now shows who you are as a great person. Although I don’t know what it is that makes you so defensive. But I can promise you, these two children will not let you down.” General Zhao was embarrassed on the sidelines, but he was in the officialdom anyway, and being thick-skinned was a basic quality.
He also felt he was right. He knew this young man had a great dream from the first sight, but he didn’t know why he kept this dream in his heart.
He was willing to give him a platform to perform, and he could also make the fourth prince promise he would never take advantage of him. He had discussed it with the fourth prince before coming here, and if he could get his help, he could treat Liao Tingyu with respect.
Liao Tingyu looked at Zhao Yuan in confusion. Of course, he had a dream, no one would want to be ordinary!
He knew that this person had good intentions, but human heart was unpredictable.
To be honest, he didn’t want to do this in vain. Would this life be wasted like the last life?
Looking back on the past, he had done many memorable things.
In the past, he had no strength or ability to do it, but now he had the ability to do it with thousands of years of knowledge. But did he have the ambition to do it?
Huang Zilan squeezed Liao Tingyu’s hand, which was shaking. He knew that Liao Tingyu was in trouble. He knew that his husband was not the kind of short-sighted person. Listening to his occasional words in daily interactions, he felt that he should not be so ordinary.
‘This may be an opportunity, not for wealth, but to make a contribution here.’
Now the fourth prince was here, if he could help him, it would be convenient for him to do whatever he wanted to do in the future.
The couple looked at each other and saw persistence: “Okay, I agree, and I don’t ask for anything else. You only need to abide by one condition. This is the premise. No matter what happens to you in the future, I will stay here, hiding my fame and don’t mentioning me to outsiders. This shouldn’t be difficult. If we agree, we will make a three-part agreement.”
When the fourth prince heard Liao Tingyu agreed, he was immediately overjoyed. Not telling outsiders about it also showed that he would not be a big person in the future. He would not intervene in major affairs of the court, which was a great thing.
He said immediately, “Please tell me, Teacher. Let alone three, I will agree even to ten.”
“Wait, why did you call me teacher?” Liao Tingyu asked in surprise.
“This is what my uncle and I spoke. Since you can help us get out of trouble, you deserve it. As a person in the royal family, what I hate the most is calculation. Only my grandfather’s family, brother, and mother have given me affection. Even my father is suspicious of us. Besides, you and my uncle are my elders. I want to get closer to my teacher. I wonder if teacher is willing to be my teacher. I will definitely honor you well in the future.”
“Forget it. I just want to fulfill my dream. I want to see if I can change anything. We all have our own needs, and what I can do to help you is limited. After all, there are so many different people in the court. It’s not something that a person like me can do. Let’s talk first and make a three-part agreement. Zilan, go get a pen and paper.” Liao Tingyu shook his head and refused. He didn’t need such an honor.
“First, my family will not be involved in this matter. If you succeed in the future, don’t invite us. After all, we never had anything to do with each other. Second, when I succeed and retire, I will leave. Don’t try to keep me. Third, my relatives are not among all the bargaining chips.”
The fourth prince looked at the contents on the paper and nodded; there was nothing wrong with these.
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At night, the five of them sat together. Huang Zilan originally planned to avoid suspicion, as it was all men, but Liao Tingyu asked him to stay. After all, they would share weal and woe in the future, and Huang Zilan could not remain ignorant of everything.
“What’s going on with your brother now?” Liao Tingyu asked.
“It’s very bad because my father is jealous of my grandfather’s family and thinks they are proud of themselves and doesn’t take him seriously. So, my brother was suppressed by his father in the court and was bullied by the second prince. After I left Beijing, he was tricked by the Wang family into a brothel, father was furious and grounded my brother. My brother was supposed to go on a trip but it was taken by the second prince.”
“So, the Wang family has surrendered to the second prince!” Zhao Yuan looked angry, and the cup in his hand broke because he couldn’t bear the temptation.
“The Wang family is also a famous family, but I didn’t expect them to be involved in this conspiracy. I respected them very much before, but I didn’t expect them to be such two-faced people.” The fourth prince looked haggard. In fact, his brother originally followed that person from the Wang family probably because he wanted to win over them.
But he didn’t expect they had already turned against him and he was being played around like a monkey, which no one would be happy about.
“It seems that you are surrounded on all sides now, but I am very surprised. I have seen the current emperor from a distance once. He seems to be in good spirits. I can judge from his facial features and say he will live for five years. There is no problem, why are you arguing so much? Are you hoping that the person above will go early….” Liao Tingyu’s words were not finished, but it woke up the two people.
Yes, it was his brother was now in charge of the East Palace. Although the emperor was dissatisfied with them, at least the position of the East Palace remained in their hands, and the emperor was in his prime. There was no need for intense fight.
So how did this start? The two people looked at each other in confusion.
Liao Tingyu saw that these two people had realized the problem: “Now that you have military power, you should mainly focus on three aspects: first, you must have money, and second, you must secretly win over some people, and this person cannot be attracted clearly, you must be careful. It’s good to have the favor of those neutral factions. Now that the fighting in the court is so fierce, there must be times when some ministers suffer misfortunes. At this time, extending a helping hand appropriately, they will definitely be useful in the future. Third, you must restore the emperor’s heart, you quarreled every day but he did not blatantly let the prince step down, so you only need to be a filial son on the surface, and show your respect to your father.”
These were all answers that come from TV series.
Huang Zilan felt extremely proud when he listened to his husband’s remarks.
The prince of a great country actually had the time to seek advice from his husband. There were not many people in the world who could do that.
General Zhao looked at the talker and felt he had never understood him before. He was too good.
With such a wretched development, they could reap the benefits by waiting for those people to become red-faced. He gestured his thumbs secretly.
Looking at Zhao Yuan’s face, Liao Tingyu knew that Zhao Yuan understood what he meant and smiled modestly. These were all trivial matters.
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The fourth prince, who finally knew what he should do, returned happily and found a carrier pigeon without even sleeping. The words he talked about last night were conveyed to Beijing by a flying pigeon.
Zhao Yuan sat next to him and looked at the nephew who wrote the letter: “Do you really listen to what he says? He can’t be wrong, right?”
“No, what he said makes sense. Those advisers have always asked the eldest brother to fight, and the result is getting worse. My brother lost the emperor’s heart. In the past, my father would give eldest brother something to comfort him and praise him a few words, but now he only scolds him.” The fourth prince felt very distressed when he thought of that difficult situation.
Those courtiers were just a bunch of villains who act according to the wind. On the surface, they were magnificent, but in their bones, they were just a pile of ashes, blowing in the wind.
In the past, when the elder brother was in power, they would surround him. But now that the elder brother had lost power, they would immediately stay away from him.
Absolutely ridiculous.
He had no choice. If his eldest brother got into trouble, he would be finished. He had not been as smart as his eldest brother since he was a child, and he had not worked as hard as his eldest brother. The only thing he could do now was to send what he learns to his eldest brother and let him judge.
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The crown prince, who was still sitting in the room with a sad look on his face, sighed.
He calculated the power in his hands now, and more counselors had left him, leaving only idlers.
Calculating one’s own capital, the position of the East Palace was already in jeopardy.
His mother died early, and everyone in the harem was eager for him to give up the throne quickly. His father used to pity him for not having a mother, but now he was extremely displeased with him.
What could he do? He was not the only son of his father. People in the harem were used to blowing pillow wind. What about him, ha!
The prince looked at the gorgeous palace bitterly, wondering how long he could sit here.