Chapter 10: Convincing the Princess, and Harmony between the Emperor and His Subjects

"Your Highness, I was not strict with my subordinates and did not mean to offend them. Please punish me!"

Looking at Li Xiuning's sincere face, Ning Fan knew that this play should be planned by Li Yan. He nodded slightly and said, "The princess has punished them. What crime have they committed!"

"Your Highness, how about going in for a chat?"

"That's what I meant!"

Ning Fan nodded with a smile, looked at Dian Wei on the side, and said softly, "E Lai, you wait here, and don't conflict with others again!"

"Yes, Your Highness!"

After giving instructions, Ning Fan followed Li Xiuning into the main hall. After the host and the guest sat down, two young maids served tea.

"I wonder why Your Highness is visiting today?"

Li Xiuning got straight to the point. Ning Fan smiled and said, "Didn't I say yesterday that I want to ask the princess for some training methods!"

"Are you serious, Your Highness?"

"Of course!"

A strange luster flashed in Li Xiuning's eyes.

Could it be that this big playboy wants to seize the position of prince?

Seeing Li Xiuning's face full of hesitation, Ning Fan took out the method of training soldiers that he had prepared long ago from the cloth bag in his sleeve and handed it to him.

"This is my experience in training new soldiers. Please teach me, princess!"

"Oh?"

Li Xiuning was really shocked this time. She didn't expect Ning Fan to come prepared this time. However, she also had a little curiosity. What kind of training method could this big playboy who was famous in the capital come up with?

After opening it, Li Xiuning's eyes lit up. She didn't expect that this playboy had such attainments in calligraphy. However, as she went deeper, a serious look appeared on her face.

"Your Highness, did you write this yourself?"

"Yes!"

Ning Fan nodded with a serious face and chuckled, "Don't worry, Princess, you are the first person to see this method of training soldiers!"

"I wonder what you have to say?"

"Hiss!"

Li Xiuning looked at Ning Fan with shock. She had never thought that this notorious and useless second prince would have such attainments in military tactics.

I'm afraid no one can imagine how valuable the training methods recorded on these pages of paper are. She has even never heard of some novel ideas.

However, she dared to say that every method recorded on it is indeed effective.

This is her intuition after many years of military service. Once, she relied on this intuition to win one victory after another!

So, Li Xiuning firmly believed in the training methods recorded on this piece of paper!

"Someone come!"

"Yes!"

"Go, call Li Yan over to me!"

"Yes!"

Li Xiuning said to Ning Fan on the side: "Your Highness, I'll let Yan'er try these moves!"

"Hehe, the young master just got hit with a stick, I'm afraid he can't move at this moment!"

"Uh!"

Li Xiuning just remembered that she had just ordered someone to hit him with fifty sticks, and looked at Ning Fan in embarrassment. Now there were only the two of them present, and this training method was particularly important.

"Let's go to the martial arts training ground and let the soldiers try it!"

"After all, if it is really effective, even if it is a new method, it will be seen sooner or later!"

"Yes!"

The two walked side by side towards the martial arts training ground. Li Xiuning suddenly stopped and looked at Ning Fan, whispering: "Your Highness, is this for the position of prince?"

"Prince?"

Ning Fan was stunned for a moment. He really hadn't thought of this. According to Dayu's decree, all princes must be crowned as kings when they are sixteen years old, and if they want to be crowned as princes, they must have military merits!

Looking at the entire Dayu, the current prince, in addition to the two uncles, is the cheap brother, King Sheng!

Now, although Dayu's crown prince has not been established, almost all the civil and military officials in the court know that the position of the prince has already been decided, and it is the eldest son of the emperor, Ning Chen!

Ning Chen has been crowned with the halo of a genius since he was young. He knew a thousand words at the age of three, could write poems at the age of six, and began to take over the government at the age of nine, assisting Emperor Yu in reviewing memorials. Later, because of his radical ideas, he had a disagreement with Emperor Yu and was sent to the military camp at the age of sixteen!

I thought that this eldest son of the emperor who had been crowned with the halo of a genius since childhood would be lost in the crowd and lose the emperor's favor. Who would have thought that in just five years, he would kill a name of a god of war in the Western Territory!

Now he has just passed the age of twenty-one, with 100,000 troops, intimidating the Western Territory and defeating Dayan, the strongest country in the Central Plains!

From time to time, there are good news in Beijing, and Emperor Yu favors him extremely, but due to the differences in their political views, the position of the prince has been shelved!

And Ning Fan's predecessor had a good relationship with this half-brother, or in other words, the eldest brother was good to every emperor's younger brother and sister. He has been given many halos since he was a child, but he has never been arrogant and arrogant.

Ning Fan had been a naughty boy since he was young, and even several times it was this eldest brother who stood up to take the blame for him. Therefore, in the impression of the previous life, he was close to this eldest brother with a bit of awe!

"Your Highness?"

Seeing Ning Fan standing there with a dazed look on his face, Li Xiuning called him softly, and the latter came back to his senses and smiled apologetically.

For some reason, seeing Ning Fan's elegant temperament and gentle words and deeds, which were completely inconsistent with the rumored big playboy, Li Xiuning also became very curious about the big playboy's personality!

"Princess, a small training method can't be exchanged for the position of prince!"

"Besides, my background is destined that I will not be favored by my father."

"Today, I present the training method to exchange for the right to train from my father!"

"Right to train?"

Li Xiuning's face condensed, and a touch of solemnity appeared on his face. Could it be that King Xuanyong wanted to get involved in military power?

"Princess, please don't misunderstand. I just want to obtain the right to train soldiers, or to participate in the training of new soldiers, to personally verify this training method!"

"To be honest, the training method in the hands of the princess is not perfect, or it is just a castrated version, which is far from what I imagined."

"Only after verification, I will know whether this training method is feasible or not!"

Hearing Ning Fan's explanation, Li Xiuning's eyes flashed with a deep surprise. The training method in his hand was just a castrated version?

You know, even this so-called "castrated version" is enough to improve the combat effectiveness of Dayu's soldiers by one or two levels. If it is a complete version of the training method, how terrifying it would be?

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Imperial Palace.

After beating Lin Qiushi, Emperor Yu showed a satisfied smile.

This time, the old man was obviously frightened, and made a lot of concessions, and even took the initiative to retire and return home!

Although retiring and returning home was impossible, Emperor Yu also took this opportunity to take back a lot of power.

Now the position of the right prime minister is vacant, and the left prime minister's mansion is the only one in power, which is quite prestigious among the scholars, and even has a hundred responses. This has to make Emperor Yu secretly alert.

Fortunately, the old fox Lin Qiushi is also a person who knows how to advance and retreat. He guessed Emperor Yu's thoughts and took the initiative to give up power.

The old fox Lin was relieved, and Emperor Yu benefited. For a while, the monarch and his ministers were in harmony and happy.

"Your Majesty, Princess Changning and His Royal Highness Xuanyong King ask for an audience!"

"Huh?"

Emperor Yu showed a deep surprise on his face: "Why are they here?"

Lin Qiushi was also shocked. Could it be that the Jingguo Mansion saw through the rebellious son's plan and brought Xuanyong King to complain?

"Call them in!"

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