Chapter 549 The Inexorable Wei Family

While the Yan Houfu family was cozying up for a meal and enjoying the joys of heaven, the Wei Mansion, even though it was already meal time, none of them had the heart to pass the meal, no matter whether it was in the front hall or the backyard, including the women’s families.

“Now we can only choose Lu Hehao.” Wei Xi’s face was very ugly when he uttered these words, “King Xiang and King Su have similar scenarios, both were passed out by the late emperor himself, supporting him is like helping King Su to solve the biggest trouble!”

“What about the King of Shu?” His eldest son, Wei Pi, said a bit unwillingly, “This evening, the Empress Dowager has approved our petition, agreeing to choose another heir for the Grand Princess of Chen, and not to pass on the King of Shu although Dowager Consort Xu is dead, but in the end she is a Dowager Consort, and the Empress Dowager has commanded that she should be buried in a generous manner, so she can’t say that the funeral will take place right away. Although Xu Tai Fei has died, but in the end is the dowager consort, the dowager empress has also ordered a generous burial, and it is not possible to say that the funeral immediately, always have to stop some days. If you can seize some time, during this period to let the king of Shu ascended to the throne then …”

When the Dowager Empress agreed to allow King Shu to pass on to the Grand Princess of Chen, the purpose was to avoid King Shu being dragged down by the battle for the throne.

And Mrs. Xu since . After the death of the Wei family has given up this intention, the Empress Dowager naturally will not insist on this matter after all, firstly, Emperor Xianjia’s heir is not rich; secondly, Mrs. Xu has only one biological flesh and blood of the King of Shu, and she is willing to give up her life for the sake of her son, if it is not necessary to inherit the King of Shu, this too much pity for this too much consort. The…

Now Wei Pi thought, “That Lu Hehao doesn’t have any exceptional talent, even if the royal family has no one right now, it’s really hard to convince the people by electing him to the throne! Oh, and he has a reputation for abandoning his wife and son how can he compare to King Su?”

The worst thing is, “he also masterminded the murder of the generation of the country’s eldest princess and his wife, the Empress Dowager now hate him hate to death, if it is not recently the wind and clouds of the meeting, is a very period of time, I guess the Empress Dowager can not spare him, let alone allow him to ascend to the throne as the emperor?”

“Imperial Consort Xu’s funeral can’t be delayed for long.” But Wei Xi sighed, “Not to mention that the mourning ceremony of the Imperial Concubine has its own quota, just to say that in a few days it will be the descent of the eldest princess of Changxing, it is impossible to let the catalpa coffin of the Imperial Concubine of Xu parked in the palace for too long, otherwise the two things collide together, the mourning gas washed out the joy, we do not have to care about the Su family and the eldest princess of Changxing’s opinion, but do not forget the eldest princess of Changxing’s side harnessed by the side of the Emperor’s team this time. ”

There was silence in the room.

The eldest princess of Changxing, He Qian, is the son of He Wenqiong, and although He Wenqiong has a gentle temperament, she is now an important person that neither the Weisu family dares to offend, and they still have to desperately win over!

If Wei Xi, the Minister of Ceremonies, relies on the convenience of his post and allows Mrs. Xu to have a funeral on the occasion of the descent of the Eldest Princess Changxing, not to mention how the royal family and the world will look at it, what will the He family think?

Would He Wenqiong think that this was the Wei family’s dissatisfaction and threat to the He family?

Even if he didn’t think so, how could the Su family let go of this great opportunity to sow discord?

Once He Wenqiong really completely fell to the Su family, the armies, with how many whims and fancies is just powerless to return to heaven!

“So the King of Shu is really not useful?” Wei Pi sighed, revealing a worried look, “But Lu Hehao … father forgive my child to be honest: my child really can’t see the reason why all the ministers agree with his ascension to the throne?”

This person to talent no talent, to reputation no good reputation, not live in the long, do not occupy the first, but not to establish his reasons are readily available: conspiracy to murder the eldest brother, forced the death of aunts and aunts, throwing away their wives and abandoning their children, insidious and devious, ruthless and unsympathetic …

If all of Emperor Xianjia’s heirs died out and the clan didn’t have a particularly powerful presence, he would have a chance to pick a bargain.

But now, even if King Su hasn’t solved the problem of succession, among the descendants of Emperor Xianjia, there are still the Crown Prince and the King of Shu, so who is he to be the Emperor?

To put it bluntly, if Wei Pi were to choose, even if he didn’t consider the fact that the Crown Prince is his nephew, he would rather have the Crown Prince, who is seriously injured, than Lu Hehao!

Thinking of this, Wei Pi couldn’t help but add, “What about the Crown Prince? Didn’t Marquis Yan say so in the court earlier? The previous emperor was always in poor health, but he still ascended to the throne as emperor?”

“How can the Crown Prince’s situation be compared to the late Emperor?” Wei Xi sighed with disinterest, “If I could establish a crown prince, do you think I would be willing to worry about someone who is not of our Wei family’s bloodline?”

He explained somewhat wearily, “Although it is true that the late Emperor could no longer hide his poor imperial health when he ascended to the throne, you must realize that the reason why the late Emperor became so sick that he could not return was precisely because when his position was not yet secure, he had been holding out without telling anyone, especially His Majesty the Emperor Huizong, as well as those who had supported him to see that something was wrong!”

“Later, when it was known that the late emperor’s condition had become so heavy that he might pass away at any time, the late emperor’s climate had become so established that Emperor Huizong was no longer able to abolish him!”

“And those who supported the late emperor either poured too much effort into the late emperor and could not stop there; or they were designed by the late emperor and greatly offended the side of Shentu Noble Consort and Lady Zhenyuan, resulting in them not falling into the hands of those two to suffer all the insults, but also had to harden their heads and follow the late emperor down one road to black!”

Speaking of this, Wei Xi revealed a touch of regret and regret in his eyes and sighed, “Most importantly at that time, His Majesty had already been born!”

“Although His Majesty was still in infancy at that time, His Majesty has always been robust, and this, greatly reassured those who supported the late Emperor!”

“After all, as long as the late Emperor lasts until Emperor Huizong’s death, even if the late Emperor follows immediately after Emperor Huizong’s death there’s still Your Majesty!”

“The Crown Prince suffers from being so three or five years behind, not yet married, and without an heir!”

“If the Crown Prince has a son now, it doesn’t even need to be a firstborn son, even if it’s from a palace maid we’d have a reason to push for him to ascend the throne!”

Wei Xi smiled bitterly, “But the crown prince is childless! So how can the people not worry that once the Crown Prince dies before he can survive the birth of an heir, the royal family will have to start another battle for the throne?!”

This kind of risk of a family tragedy if you’re not careful, no one wants to run into it three days in a row when the stakes of being on the right team are even higher.

After all, most people wouldn’t like to play hard to get every day.

Wei Pi was silent again for a long time before he said in an astringent voice, “But Lu Hehao, apart from having a slightly advantageous name over King Bisu, is really nothing!”

“But King Su was succeeded by the late emperor himself, how hard would it be to solve this problem?” Wei Xi stroked his long beard and said, “And Lu He Hao throwing away his wife and abandoning his son also has an advantage, that is, his backyard is now empty, so he can use this to make an article, and there should be some people who will be interested in the descendants.”

“It’s not just the descendants either.” Knowing that his family had no choice, Wei Pi pinched the corner of his forehead, steeled himself, and began to consider how to increase the chances of victory for Lu Hehao, “Having an Empress in the family, although honorable, the actual benefits, may not be much. The focus is still on whether or not we can produce an Empress Dowager so we can pull in three or two families to help Lu Hehao!”

“Three or two families at most.” Wei Xi nodded slightly, if there were too many, Lu He Hao was not a good boy in the first place, so it was not unlikely that he would rely on his harem to get rid of the Wei family’s control, or even pit the Wei family against him in turn.

Most importantly, just as Princess Xu had worried during her lifetime, if the current Crown Prince had a child in the future, if that child was not a shortlived one.

Then the Wei family would definitely want this child who is related to them to replace Lu Hehao.

So even though they were in desperate need of allies now, they couldn’t possibly let Lu Hehao grow too big the Wei family didn’t want to be a burden for others.

After discussing the matter in this manner, the father and son returned to the back hall and asked the subordinates to bring up the meal that had already been warmed up a few times.

Just after dinner, Queen Wei’s secret messenger knocked on the corner door of the Wei House, bringing the Queen’s message Wei family intends to support Lu Hehao to ascend the throne, of course, can not only close the door to their own discussions, certainly also have to speak with Lu Hehao side.

And Lu Hehao was originally planning to the throne, for the present opportunity is naturally eager to.

But he made an extra request: he wanted his future harem to include at least one Wei clan female.

“The Empress Mother said that concubine Lu Hehao has no other requirements for this clan daughter, but she must be of the Wei bloodline, not a recognized righteous daughter or anything like that.” The secret envoy said, “The Empress Mother thinks she can grant him.”

“Since Your Highness said so, then let it be done!” Wei Xi agreed after a brief consideration, “But it is not appropriate to mention this matter at the moment, we have to wait for the big picture to be settled before we can fulfill it.”

Although the Fengzhou Wei Clan had declined quite a bit from their ancestors, there were still quite a few clansmen.

Among so many people, there are always a few unpopular and unappreciated clan daughters who are not willing to be mediocre for the rest of their lives and would rather go to the palace to be pawns.

Wei Xi understood why Lu He Hao made this request, it was simply because he hoped that he could give birth to an heir with Wei Clan’s bloodline with the Wei Clan’s son, in order to weaken the possibility that the Wei Clan would replace him with the crown prince’s son in the future.

After all, although Empress Wei was Wei Xi’s own daughter, the Empress’s relationship with the Wei family could not be said to be particularly intimate Empress Wei’s character was not the kind of person who would let her mother’s family use her own flesh and blood as a puppet such an Empress for the Crown Prince, although she was a good mother, but for the Wei family, it was not pleasing anymore.

Lu Hehao used this hand to avoid being used up and thrown away, although the hope is not very big, but the world is unpredictable, it is not possible to escape from this?

Of course for both of them, the most important thing at the moment was to snatch the throne first so for Lu Hehao’s calculations that he obviously couldn’t trust the Wei family, neither Empress Wei nor Wei Xi counted on it.

“Let’s see what happens at the court tomorrow!” Wei Xi said to Wei Pi, half selfcongratulatory and half expectant, “Even if that Lu Hehao’s reputation isn’t as good as King Su, who was carefully cultivated by the Su family, there are advantages to being devious and cunning, at least it’s not so stupid that you’d turn a great situation into nothing on your own, like His Majesty did!”

The Wei family was destined to have a heavy mood tonight, but in fact, the atmosphere of the Su family’s current conversation was not exactly light and pleasant either.