The Crown Prince of Zhao rushed to the capital and wanted to exchange the land for Su Cheng, but Jia Cong refused with an awkward expression. The young man beside Jia Cong frowned slightly and advised: "It is not easy for our ancestors to obtain the inheritance. How can the Crown Prince throw it away casually?"
Prince Zhao hummed, "Who cares?" and walked away with his arms folded.
Jia Cong said leisurely: "If you don't make a living, you can't compete with your father-in-law, it's useless to rely on others for help." Prince Zhao turned around angrily. "If you are willing to trade your country for a woman, why don't you run away from home?
Didn't the King of Chu just give up the idea?" Jia Cong paused and said, "Oh, by the way, if you don't like your wife, you can make peace with her."
Prince Zhao shouted: "Harmony? Is that old witch willing to agree?"
Jia Cong immediately understood who the old witch was, and spread his hands and said: "She doesn't even agree to divorce, how can she agree to your divorce? Are you ashamed that you are in your twenties and still being controlled by your mother?"
Prince Zhao shouted even louder: "She is not my mother!"
Jia Cong's brows twitched, and he immediately guessed that it was a way to kill the mother and keep the son, and said in surprise: "Since she is not your mother, what are you taboo about?"
Prince Zhao's eyes turned red: "My mother is in their hands!"
"Hiss..." Jia Cong took a breath.
The young man pulled Jia Cong's sleeve in confusion: "What did he say?"
Jia Cong patted him on the shoulder and sighed: "Families like yours probably rarely do things like this. It's probably that the eldest wife snatched the son born by the younger wife and said it was hers, and then arrested the younger wife and threatened the son to listen to her.
If you want to marry her niece...well, niece, otherwise you will bully your little wife."
The young man was dumbfounded: "There is such a thing in the world!"
"There are too many. It's common in the backyard." Jia Cong said, "It's common for a powerful little wife to kill the elder wife's son." He glanced at Prince Zhao, "The King of Zhao only has this son, I'm afraid there is also the princess's son."
means."
Prince Zhao lazily said: "That's not true." Jia Cong was stunned. Prince Zhao said coldly, "He only has one son and it's not the tricks of the old witch." He snorted and approached Jia Cong, "I heard that the prince
It is the lower realm of heaven and man. If you can guess the reason here, I don’t need to marry Mr. Su, but I will still give the Kingdom of Zhao to you, how about that?"
Jia Cong glanced at him a few times: "The amount of information is too little to guess." He thought for a moment, "Your Majesty, can you tell me if you have a girl you admire?"
Prince Zhao's expression suddenly changed: "What does it have to do with you?"
Jia Cong nodded: "Then there is a clear precedent of your cousin eloping with his lover. Why don't you follow suit?"
Prince Zhao's face twitched, he closed his eyes for a while and said, "Didn't I tell you that my mother is in their hands?"
Jia Cong looked at him and said: "This is one of the reasons, there must be others." Nai waved his hand, "Okay. I'll check other information and then make a guess. You can go and pack your luggage. I wish you good luck in Yan.
Have a good time." Then she ignored him and dragged the young man away.
Prince Zhao watched them from behind for a long time and asked the clerk: "Who is that serious kid? He looks like an idiot."
The clerk said: "Young master from Duke Yansheng's mansion." Prince Zhao stuck out his tongue.
Kong Yunxian was still young and had a simple experience. When he turned a corner, he seemed to be surprised and sighed: "Such a thing could happen."
Jia Cong sighed: "My brother Baoyu almost died at the hands of my second uncle's wife. My grandfather's concubine had two or three of my grandmother's sons killed. Women's abilities are so great that men often cannot imagine them. This ability
It’s a pity that all of it is spent on killing each other’s sons, it would be better to use it to build the country. It’s such a waste.”
Kong Yunxian nodded unconsciously: "It seems that it makes sense for women to go out to do things." Nai asked curiously, "My lord, can you guess it?"
Jia Cong said: "The information he provided is enough, I just need to verify a few more details."
"ah?!"
While they were talking, they were almost at the gate of the post house. Jia Cong smiled and said, "Let's go, I'll take you to check!"
The two got on their horses, and Jia Cong led Kong Yunxian around most of the capital to an alley in the west of the city. There was a shop at the entrance of the alley, and a signboard hung at the door with the words "Falcon Bookstore" written on it. Approaching the bookstore,
There were two or three customers inside who were reading, a child was lying on the counter practicing calligraphy, and a middle-aged man stood beside the child and watched.
Jia Cong waved: "Hello, Brother Liu Si."
Liu Si raised his head: "What kind of wind brought the prince here?"
"I want to buy something from you." Jia Cong said, "How is the relationship between King Zhao's concubines who gave birth to princesses and the principal concubine Zhang? Do their natal families like their daughters?"
Liu Si said inexplicably: "How can such a thing be readily available? We have to check it out."
Jia Cong smiled and said: "Just ask the special envoy of the State of Zhao to buy it. What else do you need to check? Anyway, I paid more than you, so you will make a second-hand profit in vain."
Liu Si thought for a while: "It works."
When Liu Si's son saw the adults talking, he stopped writing unconsciously, raised his little face and rolled his eyes. At first glance, he looked like Pan Mingyi when he was a child. Jia Cong suddenly remembered something: "I remember Zhuang'er is the second child.
Who is their boss?"
Liu Sidao: "It's long gone."
"All right……"
Liu Si wrote a piece of paper and called a clerk to give it to the special envoy of the Zhao State. He turned to Jia Cong and said, "We have introductions to several wealthy families in the Zhao State."
"Oh, then buy one first."
Liu Si went to the back and looked for a brochure. Jia Cong bought it and left. Liu Si's son shouted loudly from behind, "Welcome to visit next time~~". Kong Yunxian was so fresh that he looked back after everyone had gone out.
.Seeing them leaving, Liu Si looked at his back and hummed: "Bringing other people's children into trouble again."
Jia Cong then found a small teahouse on the roadside and took Kong Yunxian in to ask for a seat. The two of them had some tea and snacks and read the brochure. It was clearly written in the brochure that the maternal families of the three princesses of the Zhao Kingdom were all from wealthy families in the Zhao Kingdom.
Ranked after Princess Zhao's Zhang family, and all the others are led by the Zhang family. Including Yu Minzhong's family, five families are closely related to each other, supporting and caring for each other. Among them, the Zhang family is the leader.
Minzhong has gradually caught up with the Zhang family in recent years. The other three families are all dependent on the Zhang family and have good relations with the Yu family. There is a picture of the in-laws of the five Zhang families at the back of the booklet.
After reading it, Jia Cong said with a smile: "Since this is the case, there is no need to buy any information from the special envoy of the State of Zhao. It is already clear."
Kong Yunxian said blankly: "Isn't this the case in all countries?"
Jia Cong raised his neck and drank the tea from the cup and said: "The Crown Prince of Zhao just said something very clearly: King Zhao only has one son, and it was not the princess who used her tricks."
Kong Yunxian was an honest child, and said: "Every child has its destiny, what can the princess do?"
Jia Cong couldn't help but stand up and crossed the tea table and patted his head: "It's really rare for a family to be as clean as you these days." Then he sat down and turned to the page of the in-law list and pushed it in front of him, "
Take a look, what can you see?"
Kong Yunxian's family has been devoted to Confucianism for sixty or seventy generations. How could he have thought about these things? Fortunately, he was talented and smart. After looking at it, he pointed out: "The Yu family is different from other families. The other four families all have many children. Yu Min
There are only one son and one daughter, both of whom are children of the wife. But one is the first wife and the other is the second wife who has been strengthened."
Jia Cong nodded: "Continue."
"Yu Minzhong's daughter-in-law was married from the country of Wu where she was originally from, and Mrs. Fuzheng's daughter married the prince."
"Not bad. Come again."
Kong Yunxian looked at Huizi again: "These three families... have all suffered some losses in their marriages with the Zhang family. The legitimate son married the concubine of the Zhang family, and the eldest daughter of the eldest daughter married the second son of the third family of the Zhang family. It is obvious that they are attached to the Zhang family. And this
The marriage between the three families is fair."
"besides."
This time Kong Yunxian looked at it for a long time without seeing anything, so he looked at Jia Cong and said, "Please give me your advice."
Jia Cong pointed out: "The eldest daughter of Zhang's family married the Zhao family, a prominent local family in Handan, as the eldest grandson. However, King Zhao's own second princess married the second eldest son of the Zhao family. The daughters of the Zhang family, regardless of whether they are legitimate concubines,
If you marry in the State of Zhao, only the second daughter of your second wife will marry in the State of Qin. This is too far."
Kong Yunxian frowned and said, "The Zhang family is actually riding on King Zhao's head?"
"Not yet." Jia Cong said, "They rode up after King Zhao died." Without waiting for Kong Yunxian's reply, he put down his tea cup and said, "Obviously Yu Minzhong is a foreign technician and is not the same as the other four.
Hey, what about the other four families...Yunxian, do you know what things people usually value the least?"
Kong Yunxian was completely unaware that Jia Cong's name for him was much more affectionate, and said honestly: "When I was chatting with Tong Zhimo and the others, I heard that the things that are the least cherished are the things that are easy to get."
"Well, I don't cherish that either. But it's not the least cherished. The things that are least cherished should be other people's things." Kong Yunxian was stunned. Jia Cong held up his cheek, "The thing that the prince of the Zhao Kingdom least cherishes is the Zhao Kingdom.
Territory, I wish I could give it to me just for any excuse."
Kong Yunxian frowned, and after a while, he said pitifully: "It seems that he was crushed to death by his mother's family and his in-law's family."
Jia Cong shook his head: "No. In that case, he should try his best to take Zhao Guo back. But he only wanted to give it to me. Guess why?"
"Please give me your advice, Your Majesty."
"Because the State of Yan is adjacent to the State of Zhao. The State of Yan is much stronger than the State of Zhao and the other states that were separated from the State of Chu. If he gave the State of Zhao to others, they would still have to rely on the Zhang family and other families to govern it. If
If it is given to Yan State, the old witch Zhang will be angry to death. He has made such a great contribution, so it must not be difficult for him to ask me to help him save his mother."
Kong Yunxian was confused, and said after a while: "He asked the prince to help him deal with his mother's family, and why can't he give you some other benefits? Why do you need to sacrifice your country?"
Jia Cong smiled and said, "I just said that Zhao is 'other people's property.'" Kong Yunxian was still puzzled. Jia Cong thought for a moment, "Besides Zhao, there is another country that is troubled by its heirs. It is Shu.
The Crown Prince of Shu also took many concubines and gave birth to batches of daughters, but not a single son. The first question here is probability. If he cannot have a son with various women, it is probably because of the Y-chromosome sperm of the Crown Prince of Shu.
The survival rate is too low, and he may not be able to give birth to a son in his life. However, King Zhao also has many women, but only Princess Zhang has a son, and the daughters of the three affiliated families of Zhang's natal family each have one, and each of them only has one.
, daughter. From the probability point of view, this is wrong. The usual guess is that Princess Zhao has calculated and wiped out many of King Zhao's descendants. But just now, the Crown Prince of Zhao said that this matter had nothing to do with Princess Zhang. Then I can only do another way.
Guess: King Zhao’s x-chromosome sperm and y-chromosome sperm have low survival rates. In other words, King Zhao himself is infertile. No matter which woman he is with, he will not be able to have children.”
Kong Yunxian was stunned: "Where did the prince come from?"
Jia Cong shrugged: "Yes, where did the prince come from? And those three princesses. Why did the daughter of the Zhang family marry better than the princess? Usually the princess would let the prince marry her niece, why did Princess Zhao let her
The son married his niece, and the niece's mother was just her distant clan sister rather than her biological sister, and she was still a concubine." Kong Yunxian was still at a loss. Jia Cong pointed to the five in-laws and said, "The second wife of the Zhang family who married far away from Qin State.
The second daughter must be the woman that Prince Zhao likes. But they...even if they are not biological brothers and sisters, they must be cousins, and they can never get married. Therefore, the crown prince is quite decadent. People who don't care about love don't care about it; once they care about it, others
Injuries can drive people crazy and lead to death."
Kong Yunxian was dumbfounded. For a long time, he still didn't believe it: "You mean, the Crown Prince of Zhao is not the son of King Zhao, but from the Zhang family?"
Jia Cong nodded: "It can only be from the Zhang family. If it's not from the Zhang family, is it from another family? This prince was born in the capital. At that time, the world was not divided. The Supreme Emperor had been in power for more than ten years. King Zhao was one of the second princes.
Concubine. Stealing a dragon and turning into a phoenix... Eh? It's not easy..." He pondered, "How strange." He called a guard in, "Go to the Falcon Bookstore and ask them to find the special envoy of the State of Zhao.
Did anything special happen in the second prince's house when the prince was born?" The guard agreed to go. Jia Cong thought for a long time, "Although he is a not very eye-catching bastard, it is still difficult for the eldest wife of a serious man in the prince's house to give birth to a child.
It’s all manipulation. After all, the second princess needs a reputation for being virtuous.”
Kong Yunxian's outlook on life has been recast, and he has become stupid. "This is too incredible..."
Jia Cong said lazily: "Anyway, once King Zhao dies, the Kingdom of Zhao will have no heir. It's such a big piece of fat lamb. I'm thinking about getting it."
"Wait a minute!" Kong Yunxian said hurriedly, "The matter is not clear yet."
Jia Cong stretched and said, "Okay, let's wait until we figure it out."
This teahouse is very close to Falcon Bookstore. Not long after, the guard came back and said: "Fourth Master Liu checked the information and said that the Crown Prince of Zhao was born prematurely. Originally, he was not born until June, but he was born in March.
.It was the time when the late Emperor’s old concubine passed away.”
Jia Cong looked at Kong Yunxian with a smile: "What did I say? There must have been other things in June, and the mansion would be busier. But in March, the old concubine suddenly passed away, and all the nobles in the capital were married to Zhao.
The king and everyone inside went to send the spirit. In this way, the backyard of the palace was empty, and it was much easier to play tricks. Zhang was the legitimate wife, so the second princess would pay more attention when she was pregnant. The rest of them were all concubines, so naturally they were pregnant.
Mrs. Zhang presided over it in their own courtyard. It would be so cheap to get a few baby girls! I suspect that these three were not concubines originally, but became princesses. As for things like asking a doctor to take a pulse, it is very easy to do.
.”
Kong Yunxian picked up the book and looked at it again, and sighed: "There is such a thing in the world..." Then he put down the book and said, "Since it is like this, the prince will bring Zhao Guodeng."
"Eh? Do you agree?"
Kong Yunxian said sternly: "Anyone can get the land without an owner. The life of the people will be easier under the rule of the prince." He pointed at the book and said, "It is better than falling into the hands of these sycophants."