Chapter 152: The beginning of civil unrest in Wei [two in one]
That night, Xiao Luan stayed at Gongzi Jie's house and taught him how to seize Wei Yu's crown prince position, and repeatedly told Gongzi Jie not to leak it.
To be fair, if he hadn't been forced to do so, Xiao Luan would never have chosen Wei Jie, a idiot like Wei Jie who only had a mind full of wine and sex. But there was no way, the sons of Zhao Si, the first king of Wei State, were more outstanding than the other, but King Wei couldn't help it.
As for these sons, except for the eldest son Wei Yu, each one is more incompetent than the last.
With the intention of being the taller among the dwarfs, Xiao Luan chose Gongzi Jie.
According to Xiao Luan's idea for Gongzi Jie, the first thing that needs to be exploited is Wei Wangfei's prejudice against Wei Gongziyu.
The next day, the young master Jie went to the palace and asked to see his father, Wang Weifei.
In the garden of the palace, Wei Jie saw his father, Wei Fei, playing with more than a dozen beautiful concubines and maids.
It has to be said that although Wei Wang Fei and the late king Zhao Si of Wei are contemporaries and are now over sixty years old, Wei Fei is not like Zhao Si who has been working hard for the country for more than 20 years. Therefore, although he is obsessed with
The drunkenness made this King Wei look bad, but overall he was in good health.
When the young master Wei Jie arrived, King Fei of Wei was playing a hide-and-seek game with the dozen concubines and palace maids. He covered his eyes with a piece of cloth to catch the few who had actually been lingering around him.
The young concubine and the palace maid, after hugging each other, use the way they raise and lower their hands to identify who it is - in short, it is a rather obscene game.
Wei Jie did not disturb his father's pleasure, but stood aside and watched. Looking at those beautiful women, he felt a little anxious in his heart.
Finally, King Wei Fei caught a palace maid and groped up and down her body with his hands. It wasn't until the palace maid was panting from being touched that he called out her name: "...Tsk, tsk, this size is...
Yi'er, right?"
Unfortunately, he guessed wrong. The palace maid in his arms gasped and said angrily: "Your Majesty, this is Lan'er..."
"Huh? How could I get it wrong?" King Wei Fei chuckled, and groped deeply with his right hand inside the woman's clothes, only to find that the woman's eyes were as charming as silk, and she was panting.
Originally, a good show of one dragon and many phoenixes would probably be staged at this moment, but because the young master Wei Jie was watching from the side, the palace maid named Lan'er was still thin-skinned and grabbed Wei with a red face.
Wang Fei's hand reminded him in a low voice: "Your Majesty, Young Master Jie is here..."
Upon hearing this, King Wei let go of the palace maid, reached out and took off the cloth that covered his eyes, and greeted Young Master Wei Jie: "Jie'er, why are you here?"
Only then did Young Master Jie look away from those warblers, cupped his hands and saluted, "Father."
"Please step back first."
King Wei clapped his hands and dismissed the young and beautiful women. When he turned around and saw Young Master Jie looking at the graceful backs of those women with longing expressions on his face, he was not angry at all. Instead, he felt a sense of "my son should be like this"——
Compared with the thrifty and self-denial Gong Ziyu, King Fei of Wei felt that Gongzi Jie was more like him.
"I haven't tasted the taste of that little girl yet, how about giving it to you?" King Wei asked with a smile.
Young Master Jie was a little moved. He thought for a while and said, "Father, I have recently bought a few Hu girls from Wei State. They are very fiery. I don't know, Father..."
The father and son looked at each other with a tacit understanding.
It has to be said that Gongzi Jie is exactly like Wei Wang Fei in terms of hobbies and flattery. This is why Wei Wang Fei loves Gongzi Jie in his heart.
In fact, to be fair, many people once said to King Fei of Wei that Gongzi Jie only knew how to flatter others. However, after hearing these words, King Fei of Wei not only did not have any bad opinion of Gongzi Jie, but he deeply hated those people who gossiped.
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What happened to flattery? I got my throne through flattery!
This is absolutely true.
When Wei Wang Fei was young, because of his mediocre abilities, his father "Wei Wang Jiu" sent him to Wei as a hostage - which can be regarded as being abandoned. However, due to a coincidence of fate and flattery, the young Fei was
The health fee won the favor of Zhao Kang, the then King of Wei.
This experience was exactly the same as when King Lu Xi of Qi saw Prince Zhao of Wei.
The difference is that Wei Gongzi Zhao Na is really talented and knowledgeable, and Qi Wang Lu Xi is also a wise king who can judge people very accurately, while Wei Wang Zhao Kang and Wei Fei are just a faint king who likes to be praised by others.
I just met someone who is good at flattery.
But not to mention, Wei Fei really relied on flattery. As a mediator, he was adopted by Zhao Run's grandfather Zhao Kang as his adopted son. Even after Wei Fei's father Wei Jiu passed away, Zhao Kang even lent him
His army from Wei State helped him return to Wei State to compete with his other brothers for the throne.
Therefore, when someone gossiped in front of Wei Fei and accused Young Master Jie of only flattering him, Wei Fei's immediate thought was not to reprimand his son, but to secretly hate the gossip. - Young Master Wei Yu was also implicated in this.
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After all, the purpose of those gossips was simply to say good things to Prince Wei Yu. Unfortunately, it was self-defeating and made Wei Wang Fei Da unhappy.
After exchanging some experiences with royal ladies, King Fei of Wei asked his son about the purpose of his visit.
At this time, Gongzi Jie also suddenly realized: I listened to Na Gongyi's suggestion and came here specially to put on Wei Yu's shoes. Why did I discuss women with my father?
He quickly suppressed the urge to think about something in his heart and lowered his voice and said: "Father, I recently heard that the internal official Gongyan used his birthday party to win over people's hearts and intend to increase the reputation of the prince..."
Upon hearing this, the smile on Wei Wang Fei's face suddenly faded.
In fact, Young Master Jie was just making random nonsense, but King Fei of Wei believed it. The reason is very simple, because more than half of the officials were saying good things to Young Master Wei Yu, as if they wished that Wei Fei would abdicate immediately and bring him to the throne.
The throne was passed to the prince Wei Yu.
But the problem is that Wei Wang Fei is not Wei Wang Zhao Si. He neither has the latter's broad mind nor is he sick from overwork like the latter. Why did he pass the throne to his son Wei Yu so early?
More importantly, King Fei of Wei was very dissatisfied with his son Wei Yu.
Indeed, even though Wei Wang Fei and Wei Gong Ziyu are biological father and son, over the years, the relationship between father and son has been very cold. The reason is that Wei Wang Fei is a mediocre master without any ambition, but the son Wei Yu
But it's too outstanding.
This situation is somewhat similar to the situation of the father and son, Zhao Si, the former king of Wei, and Zhao Run, the current king of Wei, but the difference is that Zhao Si, the first king of Wei, is a broad-minded hero, especially for his beloved son Zhao Run.
Tolerance not only tolerated Zhao Run's misdeeds when he was young, but also entrusted his lifelong aspirations to his son, allowing the latter to carry his youthful ambitions; but the father and son, King Fei of Wei and his son Wei Yu, were exactly the opposite.
Especially during the "Five-Party Campaign to Defeat Wei", when Han general Sima Shang led 80,000 Korean troops to invade the Wei Kingdom and attempted to use the Wei Kingdom to attack the Wei Kingdom, Wei King Fei was so frightened that he lost his mind and instead of calling on all the defenders to resist Korea
The army even tightly held the Puyang Army, one of the few elite troops in the country, and only ordered the Puyang Army to stick to the royal capital, while turning a blind eye to the Korean army's attack on the eastern part of the Wei Kingdom.
This level of ignorance is comparable to that of Xiong Li, the Juyang Lord of Chu State.
When the country was in crisis, the young master Wei Yu stepped forward and spent all his money to recruit his country's rangers and civilians to join the army. Although that year, the rebel army led by Wei Yu still did not take advantage of the Han general Sima Shang and did not go out.
Unexpectedly, they suffered several defeats in succession, but in the end they were able to hold back Sima Shang, preventing him from attacking Puyang in one go.
At that time, public opinion in Weiguo was divided into two groups.
A group of people believe that it is meaningless for Prince Wei Yu to form a rebel army to attack the Korean army, because in a real sense, Han general Sima Shang was not repelled by Wei Yu - the reason why Sima Shang withdrew at that time was because Wei Guo
Zhao Yuanzuo, the king of Southern Liang, sent Wei general Jiang Bi to sneak attack Yanmen and Taiyuan, and introduced Lin Hu, making South Korea realize that they had lost this battle strategically, so they ordered Sima Shang to withdraw their troops from Weiguo.
Therefore, it was inevitable that some people would maliciously mock the young master Wei Yu: After mobilizing troops and fighting for a long time, he finally relied on Wei to repel the Korean army.
In this matter, the prince Wei Yu and the rebels under his command had no way to argue. After all, they did not defeat the Han general Sima Shang. At best, they barely resisted, slowing down Sima Shang's advance.
But from an objective point of view, it is already extraordinary that Wei Gong Ziyu can do this.
Who is Sima Shanna?
Those were the top ten Beiyuan generals who took over the power of Daijun in South Korea after the tragedy of Daijun. Even the internal evaluation of Sima Shang in South Korea was higher than that of Baoyuan, Jin Mao, Feng Tong and other powerful generals.
, how can it be so easy to deal with such fierce generals and 80,000 Korean regular troops?
If Wei Gong Ziyu's hastily organized rebel army of tens of thousands, with little training and lack of a large amount of weapons and equipment, could actually repel Sima Shang's 80,000 elite troops, then the ten tycoons of North Korea's Beiyuan would be in disgrace.
Already.
Therefore, it is natural that Wei Yu was defeated by the Korean general Sima Shang. Even if Zhao Run were to face Sima Shang, he would not be able to defeat such an opponent. After all, the strength of the two armies is really very different.
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However, a group of people held the opposite view. They believed that although the defeat of the young master Wei Yu was glorious, at least Wei Yu bravely shouldered his responsibilities, just like the young master Wei Run who first went on the expedition. Unfortunately, compared to the
Xiong Tuo, Lord of Yangcheng, Xiong Hu, Lord of Pingyu, Han General Sima Shang, and the 80,000 Korean troops under his command, this enemy is too powerful.
At least compared to Wang Fei, a certain Wei who was hiding in Puyang and ordered the Puyang army not to go out to fight and could only stick to the capital, Prince Wei Yu was much more outstanding in that war.
It is precisely because of this that after this battle, Wei Gong Ziyu's prestige in the Wei Kingdom suddenly surpassed that of his father Wei Fei - especially in the eastern part of the Wei Kingdom that Wei Yu later recovered, Wei Yu's words
More effective than the king of this country.
And this inevitably aroused Wei Wangfei's persistence.
The so-called "high merit overshadows the master" probably refers to this situation.
"...Those people are gossiping again!"
King Fei of Wei cursed a few words in his heart, and then he asked Wei Jie: "Jie'er, do you think I should pass on to your brother?"
Wei Jie smiled bitterly and said: "If the father is passed down to the elder brother, I am afraid that the son will not have a good life in the future..."
King Wei Fei's expression froze upon hearing this.
If this is true, not only Wei Jie will not have a good life, but Wei Fei, the abdicated Supreme King, will also not have a good life.
Of course, this does not mean that the young master Wei Yu will persecute his father or brothers. The key is that Wei Yu has always been keen to invest money in domestic construction. Once Wei Yu becomes King Wei in the future, every copper coin in the national treasury will definitely be used.
On the right path, when Wei Wang Fei and his son Wei Jie died, they could never expect to have such a luxurious and lascivious life as they do today.
This is the most fundamental reason why King Fei of Wei does not want to pass the throne to his son Wei Yu, and Prince Jie does not want Wei Yu to inherit the throne - Prince Wei Yu is too stingy in this regard.
"Are those people very vocal?" After a moment of silence, Wei Wang Fei asked.
Young Master Jie nodded, and then said angrily: "Those people all seem to regard their eldest brother as their master, and secretly praise and criticize their father..."
Wei Wang Fei's face became even more ugly.
But having said that, he really made no contribution to the Wei State in his life. Although compared with when his father "Wei Wang Jiu" was in power, the Wei State has experienced certain growth in economy and population, but this is just the state of Wei.
It was just to support and take care of his younger brother, and for this, Wei Guo also paid a huge price-it was completely reduced to a vassal state of Wei Guo.
Of course, King Wei Fei doesn't think there is anything wrong with this. If his country needs any weapons and equipment, he can buy them from Wei. If he has no money, he will owe it temporarily. If he has money, he can pay it back. Isn't this costing countless more to defend his country?
Would it be more worry-free and cost-effective to study the smelting process on your own?
King Fei of Wei thought very clearly that his Wei State was just a small country anyway, and it was impossible to compete with the Wei State for supremacy. In this case, it would be better to simply become a vassal state of the Wei State and receive its protection - as long as they obey the Wei State, I believe
Wei will not annex them when they are full.
However, in the eyes of King Fei of Wei, his son Wei Yu just couldn't understand this. In his opinion, it was very stupid to acquire any kind of smelting technology. No matter how good you are at it, can you still compare with Wei?
Or are you, Wei Yu, planning to leave Wei in the future?
In the eyes of King Fei of Wei, all the actions taken by his son Wei Yu were just superfluous!
But what made him angry was that most of the ignorant Chinese people seemed to think that Wei Yu would be a wise ruler, and they expected Wei Fei to abdicate the throne as soon as possible and pass the throne to Wei Yu.
This made King Wei Fei very angry: His body is still strong, but he has not been enough as King Wei!
But unfortunately, gradually, he was no longer able to check and balance the young master Wei Yu.
Even if he no longer likes Wei Yu, he must admit that this son is gradually becoming more mature. If this continues, he may be forced to abdicate sooner or later.
Regarding this matter, in fact, King Fei of Wei also thought about deposing Wei Yu and establishing another prince, for example, the prince Jie, whose personality and hobbies were very similar to his.
However, there are many obstacles to this matter.
There are two biggest obstacles:
The first lies in Wei's attitude towards this matter.
You must know that the biological mother of the current Wei King Zhao Run, "Wei Ji", is the sister of the son Wei Yu's biological mother. Although Wei Ji died due to dystocia when she gave birth to Zhao Run, it cannot be denied that Zhao Run and Wei Yu are still cousins.
None of the other princes who defended his country had this kind of relationship.
So the question is, will the new king of Wei allow him to defend the country and appoint another crown prince?
After all, if the state of Wei insists on wanting its son Wei Yu to inherit the state, even King Wei Fei will have no way to do it.
The second is the group of people in the country who currently support Young Master Wei Yu, including the army in the hands of Young Master Wei Yu.
Coupled with other reasons, although Wei Wang Fei disliked the young master Wei Yu, he still did not depose the latter.
However, as the days passed, the conflict of interests between father and son became more and more obvious. Either King Wei Fei would give up the throne to his son Wei Yu as soon as possible, or he should depose the latter, otherwise this matter would continue to be dragged on as it is now.
Sooner or later, things will cause turmoil - for example, some restless people instigated the young master Wei Yu to seize the throne by forcing the palace to seize the throne.
But on this matter, King Wei Fei was still undecided.
As if guessing Wei Wang Fei's concerns, Gongzi Jie whispered: "Father, I think there is no need to care about Wei... Wei Wang Zhao Run is indeed Wei Yu's cousin, but Zhao Run, as Wei
The monarch of the country, his priority,
It must be the interest of the Wei State. Wei Yu's actions in recent years have clearly shown his desire to escape from the control of the Wei State. How could Zhao Run easily agree?... Therefore, even if his father deposed Wei Yu, the King of Wei might not be able to do so.
I will just turn a blind eye."
"..."
King Fei of Wei looked at Young Master Jie with some surprise. He was surprised that his son could actually tell such a well-founded truth.
In fact, these words were just a copy of Xiao Luan's statement by Gongzi Jie. With Xiao Luan's vision and mind, he could of course see it clearly.
King Fei of Wei carefully pondered what Young Master Jie said, and the more he thought about it, the more he realized it made sense: So what if Zhao Run and Wei Yu were cousins? Wei Yu's behavior was obviously harmful to the state of Wei, and even if Zhao Run cared about the friendship between his cousins, he would not
Will Wei Guo be allowed to seriously break away from Wei Guo's vassal state?
In this way, the only remaining obstacles are within the country...
However, even so, Wei Wangfei still couldn't think of any good solution.
At this time, Young Master Wei Jie said again: "I have an idea here..."
As he spoke, he whispered a few words to King Fei of Wei, and King Fei of Wei nodded repeatedly.
The idea is very simple, it is nothing more than using the royal power to suppress - taking advantage of the fact that the young master Wei Yu is not in Wei State, he confiscated the troops that the latter had prepared. If the latter is unable to do anything, Wei Wang Fei can blame him from the position of his father.
Wei Yu.
Wei Fei is both the king and the father, and Wei Yu is both the son and the minister. If the sons and ministers do not obey the orders of the king and father, they are disobedient, unfilial, and commit the following crimes - if this basin of sewage is poured on Wei Yu's head
Even if Wei Yu has a very high reputation in Weiguo now, he may still be severely negatively affected.
"What a plan! What a plan!"
King Wei Fei praised him repeatedly and said in disbelief: "How did Jie'er come up with such a clever plan?"
Wei Jie's face was stern, and he managed to force out a smile.
Because this strategy was not thought up by him at all, but by Xiao Luan who had the pseudonym Gongyi.
Without further ado, the next day, King Fei of Wei used the excuse that the armies under the direct control of Young Master Wei Yu were in disarray, and sent several generals to rectify it - in fact, the rectification took the opportunity to exclude those loyal to Young Master Wei from those armies.
It is true that Yu's generals should appoint people who are loyal to him to defend Wang Fei.
Even though Wei Wang Fei is quite ignorant in the hearts of the people of Wei State, among the domestic aristocratic forces, Wei Wang Fei still has many supporters. The reason is that although Wei Wang Fei does not govern state affairs, he treats the domestic nobles very little.
Quite tolerant, on the other hand, the young master Wei Yu often harmed the aristocracy and even the nobles for the sake of popular support.
As for the interests of the royal family, in this case, unless they are families or individuals who share the same goal of making the country stronger and stronger like Prince Wei Yu, most of the aristocrats who pay attention to interests will not be willing to support Wei Yu -
—Who is willing to support someone who will in turn harm their interests?
A few days later, several generals sent by King Fei of Wei came to the current main city of Young Master Wei Yu's power, "Wuyan" in Dongjun.
After learning the purpose of these people's arrival, "Xia Yu", the general under Wei Gongziyu's command, was very puzzled at first: With everything going on, how could King Fei of Wei have the leisure to send people over to help them organize the army?
Considering that it was difficult to disobey the king's order, Xia Yu chose to cooperate, obediently handed over the tiger talisman, and handed over the general power to the generals sent by King Fei of Wei.
Unexpectedly, in just one day, more than a dozen key generals in the army were dismissed from their posts. Xia Yu felt completely baffled by this.
You must know that although most of the dozen or so military generals who were dismissed were from ranger backgrounds and had little education, they were loyal to the country and to the prince Wei Yu, and they were brave in battle. They were rare talents of brave generals. How could we not distinguish them?
Was he dismissed from his post for nothing?
On that day, the dozen or so generals who had been dismissed from their posts without any reason ran to Xia Yu to complain.
Xia Yu temporarily appeased them because he was confused at the moment.
It was not until just two days later that the few generals sent by King Wei Fei withdrew and demoted the generals of Prince Wei Yu's line. At the same time, they promoted some low-level generals who had not been outstanding in the past for no reason, and even
So, they simply transferred people from outside, and Xia Yu gradually saw the clues: these people were not here to help them reorganize the army, but wanted to take the opportunity to steal military power.
Xia Yu's generals clamored to show off the gang, but Xia Yu stopped them.
To be honest, Xia Yu was not worried about his military power being stolen by those generals from Wei Wang Fei's line.
In the Wei State, even if they get the Tiger Talisman, no one can steal the military power of the Yanling Army and the Shangshui Army from the original King Su and today's King Zhao Run of Wei. As long as Zhao Run appears in front of these two Wei armies, he can
It plays the role of a tiger talisman - because the prestige is there.
The same is true for the armies under Wei Gong Ziyu. Even if the generals sent by King Fei of Wei have replaced the generals, as long as Wei Yu says a word, or even Xia Yu says, those guards will be defeated.
The generals sent by Wang Fei were unable to command ordinary soldiers in the army.
The key point lies in one point: What does King Fei of Wei want to do? Why does he want to steal his son's military power?
After thinking about it, Xia Yu felt that before his troops took any action, it would be better to send someone to inform the young master Wei Yu who was currently in Daliang of Wei State, because he felt that this matter might not be that simple.
A few days later, after participating in the "Alliance of Nations" and preparing to return to the Kingdom of Wei, Wei Gong Ziyu received a letter from his general Xia Yu.
This incident made him temporarily give up his plan to return to Weiguo immediately.
Because it is obvious that his father, King Wei Fei, is suppressing him, and the intensity is stronger than ever before. In this case, if Wei Yu returns to Wei Kingdom, it will inevitably cause conflicts between the two parties, and in his heart,
He has not yet decided how to deal with the relationship with his father, King Wei Fei.
Suddenly, he thought of someone, his cousin Zhao Run.
He wanted to hear his cousin Zhao Run's opinion on this.
Furthermore, if he wants to become the king of Weiguo, the attitude of his cousin Zhao Run is also crucial.