Six days later, Zhu Qishu and Zhu Dahao finally sorted out the messy situation in the Yiqu Kingdom. They began to extend their tentacles into the muddy waters. The first thing they had to do was to seek an audience with the King of Yiqu and obtain the item that the two "immortals" had left for him to complete the mission.
So Zhu Dahao had no choice but to seek an audience with this mediocre Lord of Yiqu in the early morning, when there were fewer gazes staring at the palace with ulterior motives.
The morning north wind brought with it a bone-chilling chill as it blew against Zhu Dahao's face. But he did not care that the last bit of moisture had been scraped away from his delicate skin, which had been nurtured by a pampered life. Subconsciously licking his chapped lips, Zhu Qishu calmly organized the words he was going to use to convince the King of Yiqu.
A voice in Hu came from the palace. "The King has granted you an audience! Let him in! "
"Drawing a tiger to resemble a dog!" Zhu Qishu sneered inwardly. This King of Yiqu was far inferior to his father. If the old king used the logic of survival of the fittest on the grasslands and cruelty to the weak to intimidate the ambitious nobles of the Six Tribes of Yiqu, and used the cunning and coldness of a wolf king to intimidate his strong subordinates, then this King of Yiqu would only use useless etiquette to emphasize hierarchy and protect his own power and status.
But Zhu Qishu also knew that the King of Yiqu was not the only one who needed to do this. He represented the interests of a group of people. After learning how to build cities and farm in the Central Plains, the nobles of the Six Tribes gradually forgot the cruel survival of the fittest on the grasslands. They did not want to experience such cruel training and dangerous elimination. They needed a clearer hierarchy to protect their own interests, and the King of Yiqu was only a representative of these people's interests.
Zhu Qishu calmly analyzed, but his feet did not stop. In the distance, he saw the only place in the palace that was full of life and color, the tall Deer Terrace Pavilion. The King of Yiqu used this building, which still bloomed with mandala flowers in the cold winter, to declare his authority to the nobles of Yiqu and to show the slaves and poor that it was auspicious.
For the past few days, he had been meeting his close allies and trying to rope in the nobles.
When he reached Deer Terrace Pavilion, Zhu Qishu heard the Yiqu King's reprimand from above. Then, a thin figure ran out of the palace. The figure ran very fast, like a running dog. He did not even see Zhu Qishu blocking in front of him and collided with him.
Only now did Merchant Zhu have time to see his face clearly.
His red fox fur coat was full of mud stains. His face, which still carried a bit of childishness, was now covered in bruises. His mouth had been blown open, and the gold, bronze, and all sorts of gemstones that he usually wore were nowhere to be seen.
Even Zhu Qishu's two guards didn't think much of him!
A mocking voice came from Deer Terrace Pavilion: "Chi Lei, do you still think that you are that prince that is doted on by father? I heard that you went to provoke those people from the Central Plains to see their magic. In the end, you mistakenly killed your uncle! "
"Ha, ha!" Several sharp laughs came from Deer Terrace Pavilion, clearly coming from the mouths of a few youths.
At this time, there was a dark skinned, short and fat youth that made a rude gesture at Chi Lei below the stage. He laughed loudly and said, "Chi Lei, I remember that you once insulted me in front of my face. You said that I am the son of a slave, but now that Hei Nu wants to take your mother away, you will have another father! "
"Ha, ha, ha, ha!" The princes on Deer Terrace Pavilion began to laugh.
Zhu Qishu did not find it strange. The War Hounds Hu people were not like the Central Plains, they did not care about chastity and bloodline. Although the feudal lords of the Central Plains were not willing to give their wives who had given birth to their sons to their subordinates as wives, this was no longer a matter of special preferences. This was a matter of shaking the foundation, it was related to inheritance. As long as that person did not go crazy, as long as there was an elder in the clan that was awake, this kind of thing would never happen.
But even for the feudal lords and officials of the Central Plains, giving a slave who had given birth to a son or a concubine to a subordinate as a wife was not a rare matter.
Only the War Hounds did not have a patriarchal system, there was no division of wives and concubines. Of course this did not mean that the Yi Qu King's harem was equal. On the contrary, the wives of those large nobles were so powerful that the Yi Qu King did not dare offend them. They even had more authority than the wives of the feudal lords.
Encountering a weaker chief, having an affair outside was not a rare matter.
As for the sixth prince Chi Lei, his mother's family was once strong, but it suddenly declined, so he encountered a very awkward matter. Chi Lei was not an adult prince, so he did not have his own subordinates. According to normal circumstances, not long after, his royal father, the Yi Qu King, would give him a position and his uncle would give him warriors and slaves. Adding in the population his father gave him, he would be like his two older brothers, having a subordinate tribe that was not weak.
But before these good things could happen to him, Chi Lei had already lost his backing.
He became the same as the other princes who did not have a strong mother, becoming the target of ridicule for those princes whose mothers were slaves and small nobles. Moreover, because his mother's family was the strongest among all the princes, his uncle controlled one of the six tribes and was one of the ten most powerful people in the Yi Qu Country.
So it could be imagined how the other princes who had the chance to compete for the throne would be afraid of him and how the princes who had suffered a loss against him would retaliate.
Ever since he saw Chen Ang last time, Chi Lei felt like he was living in a nightmare.
Zhu Dahao had naturally investigated this. In fact, after the banquet six days ago, the fight for power in the Yuzhi tribe was the focus of the entire Yi Qu Country. He even knew about the deal between the Yi Qu King and the tribe leader Hei Nu.
The great nobles of the Yuzhi tribe, Hei Nu, had made the first move and gained the upper hand in the fight for the power left by Chi Lei's uncle. He received the support of the Yi Qu King, but the nobles on the side of the great wizard Juyan had been thinking of ways to destroy Hei Nu's power. At this time, there were two sides. Originally, they were inclined to the Yi Qu King, but because the tribe leader was killed, they were extremely afraid of Hei Nu's power left by the former Yuzhi tribe leader. This became the key to this war.
Of course, the Yi Qu King wanted to use Chi Lei's mother to control this power, but Hei Nu was not a fool. He had more choices than the Yi Qu King. It was impossible for him to let go of this fat piece of meat. In the end, under the threat of Hei Nu relying on Juyan's power, the Yi Qu King had to agree to give his ex-wife, who had lost power, to Hei Nu as his wife.
In this way, Hei Nu could gain the loyalty of the remaining forces of the Chi Lei tribe, and at the same time, cut off the possibility of the Yi Qu King controlling the Yuzhi tribe.
As for Chi Lei's mother, in fact, she was very happy to continue to be a disfavored wife in the Yi Qu King's palace, to face the women she had once bullied, or to marry the new Yuzhi tribe leader, control the power left by her brother, and continue to act like a tyrant. The result was obvious.
She still had the hope of giving birth to a son and inheriting the power of the Yuzhi tribe.
As for Chi Lei! No matter which side he was on, he was an abandoned pawn. It was not difficult to understand why he was treated like this! During this time, he slept in the palace without charcoal. There were even people who deliberately poured ice water on him, looking at him in a sorry state without anything to warm him.
He ate the food of the slaves, and was looked down upon by the servants in the palace. In the past few days, he had been excluded and humiliated. He was almost going crazy!
His belongings were all taken away, and his father never asked about it. It was as if he had forgotten about this son. Just now, Chi Lei took advantage of the guards' carelessness and wanted to make a last effort to break in to see his father.
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