"Please forgive my transgression, Your Highness the Princely Heir."
Inside the grand tent, the Old Marquis, accompanied by Guan Qingfeng and Guan Hongluan who had returned to his side, bowed to Yang Xi, who had lost an arm.
By rights, he was a Marquis, his rank not low.
But, that depends on who you're comparing to.
Although he was a Marquis, he was merely a County Marquis, while the young prince opposite him was a genuine Commandery Prince of the Imperial Court, one who could genuinely establish a small court of his own in his dominion.
Even though the Feather King is still in the capital and hasn't been assigned a fief, that's because the royal family holds him in high regard.
Now in his prime, yet still not assigned a fief, combined with the current emperor's reign of eighty-nine years without appointing a Crown Prince, it indicates that the Feather King is one of the princes with a chance to contest for the throne, especially with the support of the Jiangnan Party.
