The eight countries stand side by side, and the world is like a chess game. And he wants to hold on to his son.
After guarding the border for two years, the sixth prince Jiang Ye returned from the wind and sand in northern Xinjiang. He brought back not only military exploits, but also a game of chess that had been eight years in the making.
Above the court, the prince's gentle mask hides murderous intent; his father is aging, Qi is suffering from domestic and foreign troubles; the Eight Kingdoms are watching, and Qi is trapped in a corner of the East China Sea. Everyone thought this was just an ordinary princely battle.
Until Jiang Ye asked for orders in front of the civil and military officials of the court:
"Thirty thousand frontier troops, Northern Expedition to Yan Kingdom."
What he wants is not military glory or the position of prince.
What he wants is to completely overturn the chess game of Qi, which is rotten to the core.
By the Yishui River, fire burned the sky.
In a carefully planned night crossing, three thousand cavalry penetrated the hinterland of the Yan Kingdom like daggers.
The map Jiang Ye drew with his own hands, the reefs he dug, the Yan generals he bribed - every step was an echo of his eight-year strategy.
Deep in the court, there is a turbulent undercurrent.
The prince looked at the report of the Northern Expedition with a gentle smile: "Sixth brother, you think you are the chess player, but you don't know..." He picked up a pen and wrote down a secret order, and a strangulation against the Northern Expedition was already on the way.
And the real chess game has just begun.
When Jiang Ye took the Jinan Plain and pointed his sword at the world, he discovered:
The biggest enemy is never on the opposite border.
The deadliest knife often comes from the person you trust most behind the scenes.
This is a story about ambition, betrayal and rebirth.
See how the border prince uses one country as a chess piece, in the troubled times of the Eight Kingdoms——
Break the game first, then start the game, and finally win the game.
