The current Emperor had not appointed a Crown Prince, but there were ten princes under him.
In the years that Eldest Princess Jing An had been in charge of the Northern Garrison Marquis Manor, there were two reasons why she had been at peace with these overt and covert battles. Firstly, the Marquis of the Northern Garrison did not have many children, and secondly, the legitimate son was still young.
But now that Xie Xingyun had become an official in the palace examination, he would probably become a faction that all the forces wanted to rope in.
Not only because his mother was the eldest princess of the late Empress and his uncle was the current Emperor Wu Xuan, but also because Xie Xingyun's grandfather had been conferred the territories of Nanzhao by the late Emperor and was conferred the title of feudal king. Nanzhao had always been a place that military families had to fight for.
