The King's Concubine_The Feast of Masks【Complete】(148)

"What do you think?"

Mr. Liu was obviously thinking while listening, and immediately answered: "Let me see, the last move is undoubtedly superfluous, it doesn't look like the work of Prince Yong."

Li Maotian said: "Maybe he was tricked by us, and he made a wrong move out of anger?"

"Well, I don't think it's alive, but it looks like someone is taking advantage of the situation. It can't be that Prince Lu is stupid, so he made a stupid move."

"My subordinates tend to think it's the Crown Prince."

Mr. Liu's words immediately made everyone look over.

"The Eastern Palace has been in trouble one after another, first the Crown Prince, then the Crown Princess. The collapse of the building is obvious. At this time, poisoning the emperor is undoubtedly self-destructive. After all, the Crown Prince has not been abolished yet. If the emperor really dies, the crown prince will ascend the throne. For others, it means that all their efforts for many years have been in vain. No one would be so stupid as to do so. But for the Eastern Palace, this is the opposite situation.

"The emperor has always been interested in the crown prince. The crown prince has been suppressed and has long been resentful. The difference in personal morality between the crown prince and the crown princess does have a great impact on the crown prince, but don't forget that external influences also disturb people's inner thoughts. The emperor is not only the king of a country, but also a grandfather. He has watched the crown prince grow up since he was a child. Everyone says that the emperor favors the crown prince. Rather than saying it is a preference, it is better to say that the crown prince is the heir cultivated by the emperor himself, who meets all his expectations.

"Your Majesty is as disappointed with the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess as he is with the Crown Prince. This is undoubtedly a stain on something that is almost perfect. But everything should be done in moderation. Too much is as bad as too little. If it can be attributed to the poor personal ethics of the Crown Prince and his wife before, but the poisoning incident undoubtedly shows that someone is deliberately targeting the East Palace lineage and someone wants to deliberately destroy the Crown Prince. What will Your Majesty think at this time?"

Mr. Liu left a question.

Everyone knows the answer to this question. Emperor Hongjing's love for the Crown Prince will inevitably rise to a certain height. At the same time, he has the same feelings for the East Palace lineage and hates the person who did all these things. With the favor of Emperor Hongjing, will the Crown Prince still be afraid of losing power? These princes and grandchildren have always fought for the Holy Heart.

"Do you mean that the person who poisoned was the Crown Prince?"

Mr. Liu smiled and shook his fan: "Poisoning is just a means. Your Majesty will not be poisoned. It is inevitable that the matter will be exposed."

Mr. Hei and Li Maotian fell into deep thought.

After a moment, they all bowed to Mr. Liu and praised him: "Mr. Liu is wise."

This is why Mr. Liu can sit firmly in the first chair of King Jin's think tank, while others have to step aside.

Mr. Liu's mind is clever and can be regarded as unparalleled in the world.

The three looked at King Jin, and King Jin was still calm as usual.

"You underestimate the emperor, and he also underestimated him."

This "he" naturally refers to the crown prince.

Mr. Liu hesitated slightly: "Your Highness means-"

"Father will definitely suspect him."

"This-"

King Jin leaned back in his chair and said: "No matter what, the current situation is favorable to this king. If this king is not wrong, the emperor will depose the prince and leave the kings in Beijing."

There is another sentence that King Jin did not say. From the beginning to the end, this farce was not meant to defeat the Eastern Palace. The Eastern Palace was one of them. The more important thing is that the kings wanted to stay in the capital, but they had no reason to do so.

So the crown prince and Rupin had an affair, and the crown princess and the guard had an affair. And the last move seemed to be superfluous, but in fact, even if the crown prince did not take the initiative, someone else would make up the knife.

Only if Emperor Hongjing suspected the grandson he had trained himself, and doubted, disappointed, and even feared the East Palace, would the other kings have a chance.

With a rumble, the sky outside suddenly darkened. It was still sunny just now, but in an instant it seemed as if the night was coming.

But it was spring thunder, which seemed to foreshadow something.

Chapter 118

The transition from spring to summer has always been the most comfortable season of the year, but this year the capital seems to have entered the hot summer in advance.

It is the impetuousness of people's hearts, and it is also a series of things that make people dizzy.

On the day of the Wanshou Festival, there was a change in the palace. First, Queen Wei's old illness relapsed, and then Emperor Hongjing was slightly ill. Combined with the situation at the time, everyone could feel something unusual. But nothing happened afterwards, it seemed that people were just getting older and had more illnesses.

The emperor's health had not improved, so the princes who were supposed to return to their fiefs naturally stayed in Beijing.

In May, the court suddenly became lively, and there were more and more voices impeaching the crown prince.

In the past, it was not that no one had impeached the crown prince, from his character to his talents, but they were all minor. It was a bit noisy that year, but with the suppression of Emperor Hongjing and the division of the Jin princes, it gradually became quiet.

In recent years, as Emperor Hongjing's intention to pass the throne to the crown prince became more and more obvious, and the crown prince Zhao Zuo was indeed excellent, no one would pay attention to the crown prince. But in recent days, it was strange that the crown prince had more and more problems.

First, the slaves were allowed to commit crimes, and then the subordinates took advantage of their power to sell their official positions and earn money. The courtiers suddenly recalled that the prince was ignorant and did something wrong, and there were more voices in the court to impeach the prince. At first Emperor Hongjing turned a deaf ear, and then he ignored the information handed to him. The voice of dissatisfaction became louder and louder, and even an old minister died in court to remonstrate.

Emperor Hongjing could no longer sit idly by and ignore the situation. At the same time, Empress Wei went to Qianqing Palace to kneel down and remonstrate. As the crown prince's mother, she asked Emperor Hongjing to depose the prince. Emperor Hongjing rested for three days and finally issued an edict to depose the prince.

The whole court was filled with excitement. Prince Tao finally ended his nearly thirty-year career as prince and was named King Hui.

On the day when the imperial edict was issued, King Hui Tao came to Qianqing Palace. The father and son hugged each other and cried, which was deeply touching. Emperor Hongjing even said, "It's not that my son is incompetent, but the burden of the Qian Dynasty is too heavy, and I'm afraid it will burden my son."

Everyone knows that this is just a show, but when it comes to deposing the prince, everyone is reluctant to talk about it. In fact, to put it in plain language, you have removed the most beloved son from power. Whatever else you want to do, just calm down and stop making trouble.

After all, no one expected that it would be so easy to depose the prince, and it would be easy to feel guilty.

At the same time, there was another person facing an embarrassing situation, and that was Emperor Tai Sun Zuo.

It stands to reason that if the prince is established, but the prince is not established, there is no reason for the coexistence of the prince and the grandson, and the country and the country will not be stable. However, the prince was dull, but the grandson was very smart since he was a child. Both the Taisun Taifu and the Taisun Taishi praised him highly, and many ministers in the court also praised him. Knowing that the prince would not abdicate in favor of a worthy person, establishing a grandson seemed to be a better choice.

Therefore, Zhao Zuo was established as the grandson at the age of fourteen.

The current problem is that only when there is a prince, there will be a grandson, and the grandson must be the prince's eldest son. But now that the prince has been deposed, what should the grandson do with him?

In fact, as early as when Emperor Hongjing issued the edict to depose the crown prince, many ministers guessed that the grandson might have violated His Majesty's taboo, which was why the crown prince was deposed. Otherwise, Your Majesty would have to keep the prince for the sake of the grandson.

But the emotional involvement was so great that no one dared to discuss it. Now that the prince has been deposed, no one dares to speculate on whether the grandson can be saved.

Not surprisingly, there was a heated discussion in the court that since there was no prince, there should be no grandson. Many courtiers petitioned Emperor Hongjing to return the emperor's grandson to the throne of King Hui. This would be in line with the laws of nature. During this period, there were naturally ministers who wanted to protect the grandson. Unfortunately, firstly, this method was against the rules, and secondly, there were too many objections, and they were eventually suppressed.

On this day, Emperor Hongjing summoned his grandson Zhao Zuo to Qianqing Palace.

"You should know that this is the safest way at the moment."

"My grandson understands."

No one knows how much effort it took Zhao Zuo to understand this sentence, and what kind of struggle and pain he went through during this period.

Emperor Hongjing nodded, his face suddenly aged by dozens of years: "You are a good person. The Tian family cannot bear this kind of scandal, but I am old, but your uncles have different ideas. The emperor wants to protect you." You, I don’t want you to experience too much criticism.”

"My grandson knows, I just hope that the emperor's grandfather will pay attention to the dragon's body after his grandson leaves the palace and take care of it." Zhao Zuo, who was lying on the ground, said his voice was hard, as if he was extremely reluctant to leave.

"Silly boy, when you and your father leave the palace, you don't leave the capital. You can still come back to visit the emperor's grandfather and your emperor's grandmother from time to time." Emperor Hongjing sighed and waved his hand feebly: "Go."

Zhao Zuo kowtowed again before slowly standing up and slowly retreating.

The moment he turned around and walked out of the palace gate, Zhao Zuo's hands under his sleeves were clenched into fists, and his face was full of unwillingness and ridicule.

Protect?

It's just a show.

If he really wanted to protect him, would he depose his father? If they really wanted to protect him, his good uncles would not stay in Beijing forever.

In fact, Zhao Zuo has figured it out these days. Leaving the East Palace will actually be more beneficial to him. That is to say, the shadow of scandal can be completely swept away, and you can advance forward and retreat later. In the end, he was still unwilling to accept it. He was obviously so close to that position, so close that he could reach the thing in his bag as soon as he stretched out his hand, but he was pulled down forcefully.

In the distance are the rolling ridges, the towering cornices, and the yellow glazed tiles splashing out golden light under the sunlight, symbolizing the power and supremacy of life and death.

He will not let any of his good uncles go!

Standing on the stone steps in front of the Qianqing Palace, Zhao Zuo swore this in his heart.

As Prince Hui and his family moved into the hastily packed Prince Hui's Mansion, the court became quiet again.