Seeing Wang Yan reading the letter with a broad smile on his face, Xiao Mei could not help moving closer.
"What good news has you so happy, husband?"
"The Crown Prince has been deposed and confined within the inner palace. The Prince of Jin has become Crown Prince." As he spoke, Wang Yan handed the letter in his hand to Xiao Mei.
She read through it once. It had been written personally by Yang Guang. Yang Guang's calligraphy was quite good, yet the characters in this letter were wild and scrawled, revealing just how stirred his emotions had been when he wrote it.
"That's wonderful, husband. Now that the Prince of Jin has become Crown Prince, your days ahead will surely be far better than before. No matter how they try to block you, you'll be able to climb higher."
Wang Yan shook his head with a laugh. "It's not that simple. Even His Majesty cannot settle every matter with a single word, much less a Crown Prince. Besides, maritime trade is the priority right now, and the navy is essential. I can't leave. At the very least, I'll have to serve another two or three years, until they've carved up the navy among themselves. Only then will they transfer me away."
At the mention of this, Xiao Mei was also indignant. "Husband, are we really just going to watch? Not take any action at all? This is the foundation we've built."
"What foundation do we have? It's not as if you can't see it. If we resist and refuse to cooperate, we'll only be courting death. But we certainly won't sit around waiting to die, either. The navy won't be so easy to divide up. I've made my own arrangements. In the future, I'll always be able to command