Master Cheng's Dream

　　Since then, emperor Yuan Sheng thought of countless different ways to send his children away from the capital one by one. He conferred different t.i.tles to them, gave them land and then sent them off to their designated locations.

　　None of the six princes were incompetent. They all had their own skills. Emperor Yuan Sheng was aware that once the dragons would feel restricted and struggle once they left the capital. However, he wasn't willing to let them stay in the capital and hurt each other as they schemed against one another. The emperor's three elder brothers died because they fought over the throne. While two tablets for two of his brothers could still be found in the royal family's cemetery, he knew that the ground below was empty. When his two brothers died, their corpses weren't intact, so what could they have buried?

　　After two years of work, he sent the green, teal and blue prince to their designated places just like the yellow prince.

　　Because the eldest prince, the red prince was the pillar of the nation and his eldest son, he decided to keep him in the capital. He didn't grant him any land. The only one left was the orange prince.

　　But it wasn't so easy to send the orange prince away.

　　The influence of the harem cannot be underestimated. The most challenging thing for a man to deal with in this world is his lady, or in this case, ladies.

　　And the most difficult one for him to deal with was none other than the empress.

　　The empress gave birth to the second prince, the orange prince, and the third prince, the yellow prince. The emperor had planned to send them off to their designated locations, but the empress wouldn't agree. The emperor and empress were together since childhood and eventually married each other. Since the emperor was someone with the type of personality to treasure old relations.h.i.+ps, he showed her the most respect, and usually wouldn't act against her wishes.

　　She was the empress of the world who was very strict with herself. While she sometimes goes overboard with her methods for dealing with the other members of the harem, she doesn't create problems for the overall picture. She always kept the overall picture in mind, and she was daring and decisive, rightfully making her the number one woman in the world.

　　Back then when the emperor intended to move the capital to Bei Ping, he went there on a tour with just a few men to see what it was like. At the time, one of the generals of the imperial court wanted to revolt and took that opportunity. He led his men and sieged the capital, attacking day and night. He also sent skilled warriors to sneak into the city to a.s.sa.s.sinate officials of the imperial court. He also tried to open the city gates.

　　At the time, Nan Jing fell into chaos. The emperor was still very young at the time while the princes were still newborns, and therefore, there was no one to lead in the imperial court.

　　It was the empress who stepped up alone, managed the harem and put the officials at ease. She ordered the masters within the court to split up into seven directions and risk their lives to ask the three of the seven champion white princes to come and help suppress the chaos. That was how the revolt was resolved.

　　The traitorous general was a powerful general in the imperial court. He was considered one of the most skilled fighters and brightest strategists. At the time, the traitorous general only had one city which he could defend, and he had what it took to go up against the imperial court. So if he were able to successfully take over the capital, the consequences would be infinite.