Chapter 109 is really smooth
Zhao Yushan and Zhao's plans and actions have always been in King Ming's eyes.

Zhu Chengwu and Zhao Qingya, the daughter of the Zhao family, Minan and Zhao Xingyi, a new generation of genius of the Zhao family...

Even the youngest daughter Zhu Xiulan, who had not yet reached the age of marriage, was accompanied by several Zhao playmates of similar age...

What Queen Zhao and Zhao Shi were planning was Sima Zhao's intention, and everyone knew it!

This was also one of the reasons why King Ming allowed his favorite Zhu Chengwu to go to Xuzhou to be enfeoffed when he came of age, and why Zhu Chengwu easily got King Ming's permission to marry Cui's daughter.

When King Ming first ascended the throne, Zhao was indeed his most important supporter.

But the problem is that Zhao was too arrogant, too proud, and too self-righteous.

At that time, due to the encirclement and suppression of the Demon Cult, the royal Zhu family was in a weak period, strong on the outside but weak on the inside. At that time, in addition to Zhao Yuguang, many geniuses emerged in the Zhao family!

Including Zhao Jincheng, the genius of the Zhao family who was once as famous as Duke Yan Zhu Chengyi!

Now, people all over the world are lamenting the fact that many of the Zhao family's former grandmasters have failed to break through to the grandmaster level, resulting in the current situation where the Zhao family has no successors.

However, who remembers the strength and arrogance of the Zhao family, which produced many grandmasters at that time?

For more than 20 years, there has been a clan master named Zhao Yuguang who is in his prime, and many Zhao family members who are expected to become masters!
In the past, Zhao forced King Ming to stay in Jiao Shu Palace every night!

This doesn’t mean that Ming Wang is really so lustful!
He is over 20 years old, but he is still obsessed with Zhao Yushan, who is in her s!

But the King is afraid!

I’m afraid that if Queen Zhao Yushan doesn’t have a legitimate son for a long time, the hopeless Zhao family will directly “wear the yellow robe”!
I was afraid that if he stayed overnight in other palaces, his head would no longer be on his neck the next day!

It was not until Zhao Yushan became pregnant that King Ming felt a little relieved of his fear!
It relieved the dark circles under his eyes.

But after Zhu Chengwu was born, King Ming became afraid again!

The reason for fear this time is different!
King Ming began to fear that the Zhao family would stage an "accident" and enthrone the young king.

That's why King Ming was so good to Zhu Chengwu and responded to every request!
At one point, Zhao was even convinced that King Ming would make Zhu Chengwu the crown prince!
This was also one of the reasons why the prince couldn't help but make trouble for Zhu Chengwu after he became the crown prince.

until…

The current Duke of Qi, the then prince of the Duke of Qi, became a master.

In addition, he was the only Zhu clan master who survived the encirclement and suppression of the Demon Sect.

In terms of the number of grandmasters, the royal Zhu family finally gained the advantage again.

Crown Prince Zhu Chengzhi was also made crown prince at that time!
But with more Zhu clan masters, another problem appeared before the Ming King!
That was the master who survived the campaign to encircle and suppress the Demon Sect. He was none other than the old Duke of Qi.

It’s a good thing to have more Zhu family masters!
But the two masters of the Zhu family are both descendants of the Duke of Qi, and they are father and son. That is not a good thing for King Ming!

To guard against his uncle and cousin!

At that time, King Ming had to bestow great rewards on the Duke of Qi's Mansion in order to calm the hearts of the Duke of Qi's descendants.

On the one hand, he had to rely on the Zhao family, which was at its peak and had great potential at the time, to contain the lineage of the Duke of Qi.

The Zhao family's status as second only to the rest of the clans was achieved under such circumstances.

This situation continued for several years.

It was also during this period that Zhu Chengwu obtained the magical skills manual and the rare fire lotus.

Until the old Duke of Qi died of old age!

It was not until some secret arrangements made by King Ming took effect that Zhao Jincheng, the pride of the Zhao family, failed to break through to the Grandmaster level.

Until Zhu Chengyi, the pride of the Zhu family, lived up to the expectations of the wise king, became a master, and succeeded to the throne of Duke of Yan.

Only then did King Ming feel slightly relieved!
He also initially gained control of the court!

But the old Duke of Qi was dead, and Zhao Jincheng also failed to break through to the Grandmaster level!
However, there are still many other potential masters in the Zhao family!

Once one of them succeeds in breaking through!
The Zhao family, with two masters, will be a huge threat.

After all, the two grandmasters of the Zhu family are both newly promoted grandmasters, and their strength cannot catch up with Zhao Yuguang, who has been a grandmaster for a long time.

In addition to the Zhao family’s deep roots in the military, Zhao Yuguang has many comrades-in-arms!
Therefore, under the secret intervention of the Ming King, the Zhao family has not been able to obtain new rare treasures, resulting in several talented Zhao family members being forced to reach the Grandmaster level...

Of course, in the end, they all failed as expected!

Unable to obtain the rare treasures of heaven and earth through conventional means, the backbones of the clan failed one after another in their attempts to break through to the master level. Zhao and Zhao Yuguang finally realized that something was wrong and sensed traces of King Ming's covert interference.

Unfortunately, the situation of strength and weakness had changed by that time!
Zhao had no confidence in turning against King Ming!
Forcibly overturning the chessboard will only result in losses for both sides!
Plus the presence of Zhao Yushan and Zhu Chengwu...

Therefore, Zhao could only swallow his anger and endure this wave of humiliation!
During that period, Zhao hated Zhu Chengwu so much that he and his family were also affected!

The rift between Zhao and Zhu Chengwu began to develop during that period!

Afterwards, Zhao, unwilling to be controlled by King Ming, decided to take whatever he wanted and began to plunder by trickery and force.

Wherever there is news about rare treasures in heaven and earth, you will see them!

Finally, they finally got a rare treasure from heaven and earth!
But perhaps it was because the Zhao family committed too many sins during that period!

God still did not stand on Zhao's side that time. The genius Zhao carefully selected and who took that rare treasure from heaven and earth ultimately failed to break through.

This was something Zhao had never expected!
You have to know that the first-rate peak breakthrough masters who have the assistance of rare treasures from heaven and earth and magical manuals have an average success rate of more than eight levels!

But the genius that Zhao carefully selected failed!
This time, the Zhao family was on high alert, and no one interfered with the breakthrough of this Zhao family genius...

That failure was a huge blow to the Zhao family, and almost destroyed their will to directly resist the Ming king.

Because during that period, several of Ming Wang’s confidants who were vigorously cultivated successively became masters and junior masters!
Compare the two!

Some superstitious elders of the Zhao clan even began to believe that the Ming King was the one destined by heaven. They...

Finally, learn from the pain!

Zhao, realizing that he could no longer confront King Ming head-on, began to focus most of his energy on building momentum for Zhu Chengwu and competing for the position of crown prince!

They want to take back everything that "belongs" to them!
Seize the achievements developed by Ming Wang!
Let Ming Wang, the villain who repays kindness with enmity and secretly commits murder, die with regrets!
But since the Ming King had the ability to suppress the Zhao family who had the upper hand at the beginning, how could he easily let the Zhao family turn the tables...

All of Zhao's actions to build momentum for Zhu Chengwu...

All of them were resolved quietly and subtly by the Ming Wang!
King Ming even took advantage of Zhao's wishful thinking of pushing Zhu Chengwu to the position of crown prince and deliberately did not express his opinion, in order to keep Zhao hanging with the position of crown prince.

Let Zhao guard the border for him and quell the rebellion...

Don’t you, the Zhao family, want prestige and status, and want to build momentum for Zhu Chengwu, who has Zhao blood, to become the crown prince?
Then the King will help you, Zhao!
Arrange all of your Zhao family’s descendants to the most dangerous and difficult places!

Isn’t there a saying?
The more dangerous the place, the easier it is to achieve results!
Once people have something to ask for, once they are eager to achieve it, they are easily caught by others and their weaknesses are calculated by others! Although salted fish may seem bad!

But lying down is the way to deal with the least possibility of being calculated, exploited, and squeezed out of surplus value by others...

Zhu Chengwu also experienced it for a long time and observed countless things closely before he finally realized that it was impossible for him to become the crown prince by winning the favor of the Ming King and succeed the next Ming King...

Because compared to the prince, he lost from the very beginning.

Lost in the stomach!

Lost because of the conflict between King Ming and Zhao!

Unfortunately, Zhu Chengwu realized it too late!
By the time Zhu Chengwu saw everything clearly and understood everything, the King of Ming had already truly grasped the power of the court!
He became the true king of the Ming Dynasty who had the final say!
In fact, Zhu Chengwu did not feel too regretful about this.

Because his last name is Zhu!
Although he came out of Zhao Yushan's belly, he still has half of Ming Wang's blood!
If Zhao wins, Zhu Chengwu's fate may not be better than it is now!
In Zhu Chengwu’s previous life, there was a case where a grandfather killed his own grandson after seizing the throne from his grandson!

That is Emperor Wen of Sui, Yang Jian!

Zhu Chengwu doesn't want to become the second "Emperor Jing of Zhou"!
Now, Zhu Chengwu has at least grown up safely and has a relatively stable development environment.

Such conditions are enough for Zhu Chengwu!
Because Zhu Chengwu never thought of relying on others to achieve great things!
If you rely on the mountain, the mountain will fall!
What's more, Zhu Chengwu is a reincarnated person with the "Jade Book" in his brain.

His own martial arts ability has been the goal that Zhu Chengwu has set since he was born!
Fortunately, Zhu Chengwu has never slacked off or gone astray since he was born...

Therefore, after discovering that he could only gain King Ming's superficial favor but could not become the true successor in King Ming's heart, Zhu Chengwu was not too panicked.

Because Zhu Chengwu already had basic military power and a way to break the impasse.

To be honest, Zhu Chengwu really had no interest in the throne at the beginning!
With the memories of his past life and the "Jade Book" in his mind, Zhu Chengwu's initial pursuit was the highest peak of martial arts and immortality!

Isn’t there a saying?
Changsheng can accommodate all desires!

In fact, it was precisely because Zhu Chengwu did not care about the throne at the beginning that Zhu Chengwu was favored by the Ming King and received the Ming King's magical book and rare treasures from heaven and earth.

Otherwise, no matter how afraid he was of the Zhao family at that time, King Ming would not have created such a serious trouble for himself!
As for the possibility of Zhu Chengwu acting!
King Ming didn't think that a child who grew up under his nose could keep secrets from him from childhood to adulthood without revealing a single flaw!
Although Zhu Chengwu has been precocious since childhood!

In fact, it is indeed the case!

Even if Zhu Chengwu is a reincarnated person with memories of his past life, he was just an ordinary person in his previous life.

It is impossible to completely hide it from the top person in this world who lives with him day and night - Ming Wang.

King Ming had noticed Zhu Chengwu's abnormality since he was a child!

He tested Zhu Chengwu many times.

Fortunately, Zhu Chengwu is well aware of his own ordinariness!
Except for the two most crucial secrets, "Jade Book" and "Reincarnation", all others are laid out in the open. If you can't act, don't act. If you can't hide it, don't hide it!
In the end, King Ming, who could not find any more flaws, looked at the "honest" Zhu Chengwu and could only slowly and helplessly accept the reality that Zhu Chengwu was just "precocious".

This "precocity" was once very much loved by King Ming, because this "precocity" brought Zhu Chengwu nothing but the attribute of being a diligent martial arts fanatic.

Including ambition for the throne!

And diligence is precisely the quality that Ming Wang appreciates most.

However, recent events have slapped King Ming in the face.

The sentence "You don't have to be a prince to become a wise king" made the wise king suddenly realize!

"Precocity" not only brought "ambition" to Zhu Chengwu, but also brought "ambition" to Zhu Chengwu that was far greater than King Ming had imagined!

At the same time, "precocity" also brought Zhu Chengwu the great treason of being unfilial and unfaithful to his father and the king!
Did Zhu Chengwu's "treason" exist before he was enthroned, but was it just that Zhu Chengwu had excellent acting skills since he was a child and was able to hide it from the Ming King who watched him grow up?

Or is it only after the queen was crowned and influenced by other people?
After receiving the news from Xuzhou, King Ming thought about it for a long time!

Because this involves the Ming Wang's confidence in his own vision and judgment...

But in the end, the King of Ming realized it!
He is now just an old man who has entered the countdown of his life!

What’s the use even if we understand all this?

The most important thing now is to suppress Zhu Chengwu who "deceived" him and committed "treason".

After spending so much energy and paying so much price...

Only then can you become the real king who has the final say.

Ming Wang will not give up so easily and give up his position so easily.

However, King Ming was also prepared for the worst!

That is Zhu Chengwu's son, a genius. Even if he takes action himself, he cannot suppress this son.

Then he must cut off and reduce the connection between Zhu Chengwu and the Zhao family as much as possible before he dies.

From previous intelligence, King Ming could see that his son Zhu Chengwu did not trust Zhao 100%.

He was also on guard against the Zhao family!
This is right!

This is what he, Zhu Xingyu’s son, should be like!
As for why King Ming, under pressure from desperation, would rather accept the success of the "treasonous" Zhu Chengwu than accept the revival of the Zhao family?
After all, Zhu Chengwu has the blood of the Ming King!
Of course, what is more important is that after becoming King Ming, he spent almost his entire life in alliances with the Zhao family.

When he just ascended the throne, the shadow left by the fact that Zhao forced a fifty-year-old man to accompany Zhao's eldest daughter, who was in her twenties, in revelry every night was still a source of uneasiness to the King Ming when he thought about it!
Moreover, he spent decades and used countless methods to suppress the Zhao family...

All of these made King Ming unable to accept the situation of Zhao's revival.

This would make Ming Wang feel that his decades of efforts were all in vain, and his decades of career as Ming Wang was a joke.

Also, if Zhao rises again, what will happen to his reputation after his death?
Will the new wise king, under the instigation of Zhao, allow the historians to "slander" him?
For an old man whose life is entering the countdown, his reputation after death is also something he needs to consider!
Of course, if possible, King Ming would still like to let Zhao Yushan, the woman who has been with him for more than 30 years, have a good end.

If there is really no other way in the end, King Ming is willing to take Zhao Yushan with him and be buried with Zhao Yushan!
Although, the prince's biological mother, the first queen of King Ming, was King Ming's true love.

But more than 30 years of sleeping together in the same bed told King Ming that Zhao Yushan is really very tender~~

If it weren't for the fact that Zhao Yushan was really fertile, after the birth of Zhu Chengwu, the legitimate son who appeased Zhao, the two daughters Zhu Xiumin and Zhu Xiulan would never have crawled out of Zhao Yushan's belly!
At that time, the quality of the offspring produced by the Ming King who was over 60 years old dropped significantly!
It’s easy to see how much effort King Ming put into making Zhao Yushan pregnant!

Of course, there is another possible purpose in arranging a marriage for Min'an, just in case!
There’s no need to tell the prince this reason!

If the Crown Prince knew that his father had lost confidence in completely suppressing Wu Ge'er, he would have made two preparations just in case.

Then the prince will become even less confident!
The prince cannot lose confidence now!

He is already old, the future belongs to the young!
If others could see that the prince had lost his confidence, even if he acted as a powerful king, it would inevitably lead more people to secretly side with Xuzhou.

As long as there is a slight possibility, King Ming still wants to suppress Zhu Chengwu and let the crown prince succeed to the throne.

After all, this is the original intention and will of him as the king!
And the king does not want his original will to be changed!
(End of this chapter)