When Zhao Chengji was still the eighteenth prince who was like a dog around Prince Zhao Chengzhi, he had no preferences of his own.
All his standards are based on the prince.
When Zhao Chengji finally became the prince, he found that he still could not be the master.
The biggest difference from before is that in the past, he acted as a dog for Zhao Chengzhi alone, but now, he has to act as a dog for a group of people, and he still cannot have his own preferences.
He cannot have things he likes, but he can have things that are useful.
But what are useful things?
The first time Zhao Chengji wanted something strongly was for Su Nianyun.
He didn't know what was going on.
Obviously before, he felt that Xiao Changfeng had repeatedly failed to win and could not let Su Nianyun leave, so he wanted to take action to keep Su Nianyun.
Unexpectedly, he found a different emotion from others in this.
After ascending to the position of prince, Zhao Chengji has always acted cautiously.
But when Li Yushi criticized Su Nianyun, he couldn't help but stand up.
After he almost suffered a loss in Su Nianyun's marriage because of Shunyang's relationship, he realized his father's thoughts and consciously began to maintain a relationship with Su Nianyun in private.
However, he can control his own behavior, but he cannot control two hearts that are close to each other.
The more Zhao Chengji told himself that it was impossible, the more interested he became in Su Nianyun.
That day, he had the shamelessness to make trouble for two people they were dating together with Shunyang, which showed that he had an impure mind.
Of course, his defense of Su Nianyun in front of everyone could easily arouse suspicion from others, especially Nangong Ren, the Minister of War.
Zhao Chengji led his troops outside this time and was able to avoid the overt and covert attacks of Zhao Chengzhi's party. The reason on the surface was that the Marquis of Xiao no longer added insult to injury, but the reason behind the scenes was Nangong Ren.
Because, Zhao Chengji was involved with Nangong Ren’s daughter Nangong Yue.
Nangong Yue, he has been secretly paying attention to him for a long time, and he knows this person in detail.
Therefore, after Zhao Chengzhi insisted on divorcing his wife, he succeeded in getting the beauty back.
Nangong Yue, with a heart of awakening, succeeded in getting her father to stand beside Zhao Chengji.
After going to court, he immediately faced Nangong Ren's aggressiveness, and Zhao Chengji made it clear to him.
"Su Nianyun is mine!"
"Sure enough," Nangong Ren said, "I felt something was wrong when I was in the court. You..."
Zhao Chengji continued, "I'm not the kind of person who has a relationship between men and women."
Nangong Ren was stunned.
Zhao Chengji said, "I was in Mobei, and Nangong Shangshu silently helped me in the court, so that I would not die in the strife of these brothers."
"But in Mobei, Princess Nianyun's contribution is far beyond what the imperial court knows."
"Nangong Shangshu, do you know that this Su Nianyun has a quick mind. If she is determined to continue to expand her business, she will be even more generous than the Fu family, which is the best in the world!"
"Prince, what do you mean..."
Only then did Nangong Ren understand his purpose of protecting people, "You mean, this Princess Nianyun is yours..."
Small vault?!
He did not continue to say what the two of them knew well.
"Nangong Shangshu, I know you won't believe it for a while, but today you heard it with your own ears in the court. Su Nianyun can easily give out a million taels of silver. This is not something that an ordinary righteous daughter of the Queen Mother can do!
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Nangong Ren nodded, "The prince is right. If such a person is used by us, he will be even more powerful than a tiger."
"So, will you feel relieved?"
"Your Highness, I...this is also because I care about you. After all, you are the one who will inherit the throne in the future. I am really afraid that you and Princess Nianyun will spread some bad rumors,"
"After all, the emperor had doubts before..."
"Don't worry, nothing like you are worried about will happen."
With Zhao Chengji's words, Nangong Ren's heart was not relieved.
In other words, you should be more careful. If this person is really useful to the prince, based on the prince's character, he will stay by his side.
Therefore, Zhao Chengji's supposed honesty made Nangong Ren even more wary of Su Nianyun.
So, when he returned home, he told his daughter Nangong Yue about the incident.
"Father, I think it is absolutely impossible for you to say something like this!"
Nangong Yue directly rejected her father's idea without even thinking about it.
"Why do you think it's impossible? Don't think that just because you've experienced something, you can see through everything in the world!"
"Dad, I'm not that arrogant yet, but I've met Su Nianyun before, and she's not someone who will have feelings for the prince. Besides, isn't she about to get married to Xiao Hou now?"
"Do you think it's okay if Su Nianyun doesn't want to?"
"The marriage is imminent, but after all, it's not done yet, so there may be variables."
"Dad, no, Su Nianyun is definitely not a woman who will be controlled by the prince."
"You are not familiar with Su Nianyun after all. How can you be so sure about this person?"
"Yue'er, your father is right," Mrs. Nangong said, "your father has crossed more bridges than you have eaten salt."
"Father, mother," Nangong Yue nodded, "I understand what you said, and I will pay strict attention to it."
"As long as you understand!" Seeing that his daughter listened and went in to advise, Nangong Ren nodded.
It has to be said that although his legitimate daughter had an invalid marriage to the former prince, it cannot be said that this was not a blessing in disguise.
Fortunately, the former prince didn't like her and divorced her, so that she could escape unscathed from this incident.
Not only that, his daughter was even attracted by the new prince.
Of course, most of the reason why he was favored was because of his position as Minister of the Ministry of War, but at the very least, he was useful to the new prince.
Unlike the former prince, who relied on the queen's favor and only thought about himself, he was able to divorce one of the two daughters of the Nangong family, especially the legitimate daughter.
The fact that he was divorcing his wife caused a stir in both the government and the public, which completely made him, the Minister of War, embarrassed.
Although he became a joke at the time, these people couldn't have imagined that in thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi, his legitimate daughter who was not liked by the original prince would soon become the new prince's favorite concubine in the future, and the prince had already promised the position of queen.
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Nangong Yue left Nangong Mansion and returned to the separate residence the prince had bought for her.
As she walked, she thought about what her father said.
Her father always judged people very accurately. Even though she said she didn't believe him and she said she believed the prince, she couldn't help but be curious.
She simply packed up and went to Yang's house, Shangshu of the Ministry of Justice.
She went to Yang's house to meet Chuxue, who had just given birth to her daughter and was still in confinement.
Chuxue was very curious about Nangong Yue's arrival.
"You never like to go to other people's houses to make trouble. It's us who come to find you. Why do you take the initiative to come to my place this time?"
"Now that you are having a baby and are in confinement, will I still follow the same rules as before? Don't think of this person as being so ignorant, okay?"
"Really?" Chuxue didn't believe it, "Do you have something to ask Yang Ming?"