Why did the emperor rebel?

Chapter 898
In the small building near the lake, watching the figures of King Yi and his son leaving, King Xiang's face was extremely gloomy.

He thought that King Yi would be difficult to persuade, but he didn't expect that he got up and left without even listening to what he said.

This attitude really surprised him.

What went wrong?
Intuition told Zhu Zhanqian that there must be the shadow of Min King Zhu Huixun among them. After all, after King Yi arrived in Beijing, he saw very few people.

If there was anyone who could say something to him, then there was only Zhu Huixun.

"asshole!"

Thinking of Zhu Huixun's smile hiding a knife, Zhu Zhanqian couldn't help but cursed fiercely, the cup in his hand was about to be crushed by him.

Seeing this situation, Zhu Qiyong, who was standing by the side, was a little worried and said.

"Father calm down, the anger hurts the body."

Obviously, Zhu Qiyong also knew why his father was angry, he paused for a moment, and asked hesitantly.

"Father, I think that King Yi saw something, so he..."

Now Zhu Zhanqian is banned from the mansion, but Zhu Qiyong can still go to Zongxue to study and freely enter and leave the ten princes' mansion, so many things are handled by him. Naturally, Zhu Qiyong also understands some things.

At the beginning, Zhu Zhanqian wrote back to King Yi, suggesting that he meet Yu Qian outside the city ahead of time. In fact, he had no good intentions. He was sure that there would be conflict between the two, and Yu Qian's character would not bow his head. Before the king entered the capital, he offended the emperor first.

In this way, King Xiang can use him to achieve his own goals.

As for King Xiang's purpose...

"Of course it is to defeat King Min and take back Da Zongzheng's position!"

While King Xiang was still angry in the small building near the lake, King Yi had already returned to his own courtyard.

These courtyards were originally cleaned, so it didn't take too long to just resettle them.

Leaning on the soft couch, facing Zhu Mianxi's question, Yi Wang took a sip of sobering tea and said calmly.

At this moment, King Yi was neither as angry and reckless as when he was with Zhu Huixun, nor calm and indifferent when talking with King Xiang. There was a hint of worry on his face, and his eyebrows were tightly frowned, as if answering Zhu Miansheng's words seemed to be muttering to himself.

"If my father didn't guess wrong, what King Xiang didn't finish just now is actually very simple. I just want to use my father to unite with other vassal kings to impeach King Min, or, if it's not impeachment, then at least it is to unite together , against the imperial court's move to rectify ancestral affairs."

Hearing this, Zhu Miansheng also said in bewildered surprise.

"So, is it true that His Majesty wants to rectify the clan affairs? Then I, Yi Fan..."

Seeing his son's impatient look, Zhu Yongyin glared at him impatiently, and said.

"What's the hurry? The sky won't fall!"

As he spoke, a thought flashed between his brows, as if he felt a little irritable, so, after thinking for a while, he ordered someone to take out the two Wenwan walnuts he had always liked, and turned them in his palms, and finally he was settled. After a few minutes, he frowned.

"Whether it's King Min's words or King Xiang's words, don't trust everything."

"However, the words of the two of them revealed the imperial court's attitude towards the suppression of the clan, so this point should be correct."

"However, they didn't have any good intentions when they revealed this to the king. They just wanted to use us."

Relatively speaking, King Xiang's attitude is clearer, which shows that he is more anxious about this matter, and King Min is more stable. Apart from his own character, it should also be related to his more stable situation.

In private, the father-son relationship between Zhu Yongzheng and Zhu Mianxi is getting closer. Zhu Miansheng has long been used to his father's temper, so he didn't take his attitude towards him at all. After thinking about it, he continued to ask .

"According to what my father said, King Xiang probably wants us to help contact other vassals. After all, he is now banned from the mansion, and his reputation in the clan has almost been ruined. Even if he wants to contact other vassals, Clan, I'm afraid no one will believe him."

"However, what does Prince Min want to do? When we first met, he didn't seem to have anything we need to do..."

Zhu Yongyin turned the walnut in his hand, sneered, and said.

"What King Min wants to do, I don't know, but King Xiang's other words may be false, but there is one sentence that is true, that is, the new King Min is indeed a character with deep scheming."

Seeing Zhu Mianxi's puzzled expression, Zhu Yongyin sighed and explained.

"At that time, you didn't come to Beijing with your father, so you don't know. When the kings came to the capital to congratulate, His Majesty had a big banquet for the clan. During the banquet, King Guangtong and King Yangzong made a big fuss. They sued Zhennan King to frame his elder brother. , but there was a moment of shock."

"Although it was finally resolved satisfactorily, if this matter is really what we saw last, it may not necessarily be the case. It's just that the final ending is what the court needs, and His Majesty needs it."

"Whether it's true or not, in the end, such a sensational case can be survived safely, and the means will not be simple people."

"In the carriage just now, King Min didn't say anything. It's not that he didn't have any needs, but his methods were better than King Xiang's."

"Of course, King Xiang is not a good thing. At present, it seems that the imperial court wants to suppress the clan. At this time, King Xiang used the matter of Yifan to let us go to conflict with Yu Qian. It is obviously a dig. pit, wait for me to jump down."

"It's a shame that I was careless for a moment and fell into his way!"

"I'm afraid that at this time, he is proud of himself!"

Across the bleak autumn wind outside the window, a faint anger floated in Yi Wang's eyes, and the walnut in his hand was almost a little faster.

At the same time, after drinking two more glasses of wine, Zhu Zhanqian, who felt that his restlessness was relieved a little, faced Zhu Qiyong's worry, and said with a sneer.

"So what if he sees it? Now, does he have a choice? Or, can he swallow this breath?"

Zhu Zhanyu admitted that he was indeed wrong in his judgment of Zhu Yongyin. This person is not a vassal vassal who only knows how to behave indiscriminately and has no brains at all as rumored.

However, the rumors will not be groundless. Over the years, this King Yi has done bad things in the fief, and they are not fake.

In particular, he instigated gangsters to attack court officials, ostentatiously threatened magistrates with banquets, and now he had such a conflict with Yu Qian outside the city.

These things are all real!
That being the case, it meant that even if King Yi had some resourcefulness, he could not escape the common fault of many vassal kings, that is, his arrogant and self-centered temperament.

With the status of a vassal king, he has this capital, and he doesn't take anyone seriously. This is the root of the success of King Xiang's strategy.

King Yi himself didn't know, was Yu Qian an important minister of the court?He didn't know that when Yu Qian came out of Beijing, he was targeting Yi Fan?

Of course he knew it, but he didn't care about it because of his long-standing habit of being superior and the privilege of the vassal king.

No matter how important Yu Qian is in the court, it is impossible for him to really do anything to the majestic vassal. Therefore, he knows that there may be conflicts when they meet outside the city.

However, he feels that he can bear the price, or in other words, he has always acted like this, and it is not something that can be changed overnight.

What can really make him restrain his temper is only when he is facing a vassal king like him, or the emperor.

Therefore, this is the reason why King Xiang did not take great pains to conceal his intention to induce a conflict between King Yi and Yu Qian.

Glancing at Zhu Qiyong, Zhu Zhanqian's mood slowly calmed down, and he spoke.

"King Yi overestimates himself too much. He thinks it's okay to offend Yu Qian, but he doesn't know that Yu Qian is different from ordinary court officials. The emperor protects Qian in all kinds of government affairs in the court. It can be seen that in the heart of the emperor, Yu Qian's The status is not ordinary."

"If you offend other ministers, even if you are ordered to rectify the army, but after all, considering the affection of your clan, the emperor will not care too much, at least not on the surface, but you have provoked Yu Qian..."

"The hour outside the Meridian Gate should have awakened Prince Yi quite a bit, but what's the use? The emperor will not get angry easily, but if he is really angry, it will not be easy to appease!"

"Right now, King Yi is the same as this king, isn't it hard to get off a tiger?"

Yifan's bad deeds had already made the emperor displeased.

Now, he provoked Yu Qian again, and even made the emperor furious. This can be seen from the treatment of Prince Yi and his son in the palace today.

Having stayed in the capital for such a long time, King Xiang had some understanding of the emperor's temperament and style.

When things are done today, people don't like to do things to the extreme. No matter how serious the matter is, there will be some leeway in order to show kindness and generosity.

But this time, he didn't even see King Yi, and directly left the two of them outside the Meridian Gate, basking in the sun for an hour, and at the end, he sent them away with a sentence of banning them from ten palaces.

This kind of treatment does not seem to be serious, but in fact, it is much uglier than scolding Prince Yi and his son.

For clan vassals like them, the actual punishment is painful, but what they care more about is face and dignity.

When the Son of Heaven does this, it is typically not very harmful, but extremely insulting.

Let the majestic vassal king, exposed to the sun, surrounded by a group of low-level officials to watch and discuss, Yi Wang was able to bear it and leave without turning his head, which already impressed King Xiang with admiration.

You know, the last time Zhu Huixun "pleaded guilty" outside the Meridian Gate, although the scene was similar, but at that time, he was just a county king, and he had a conflict with a prince like King Xiang. respect.

Of course, it's not accurate to say that, because Zhu Huixun's seniority is higher than him, and the clan can't just look at the title, but in the final analysis, this is a matter within the clan, and the status is equal.

However, this time, no matter how important Yu Qian was, he was just a courtier.

He had a conflict with King Yi, no matter how you put it, it was an offense to Wang Jia. Even if King Yi was at fault, there is a difference between respect and inferiority, and King Yi should not be punished alone.

But the Son of Heaven did just that. For King Yi, the physical harm was secondary to this kind of behavior, and the psychological humiliation was the most unbearable.

Therefore, with King Yi's self-respecting personality, it might not be easy to swallow this bad breath.

What's more, he was not liked by the emperor, and now that he caused such an incident, the emperor might not be interested in saying a word to him.

In this way, if he wants to solve the matter of Yi Fan, he can only cooperate with King Xiang!

This is what King Xiang said, that riding a tiger is hard to get off, but...

"King Xiang is good at calculating, but he overestimated himself, or rather, he underestimated his opponent!"

Thinking of what happened to him outside the Meridian Gate, blood welled up on Yi Wang's face, but in the end, he suppressed it and sneered.

"He feels that this king has provoked Yu Qian and hated the emperor, so he can only cooperate with him, inciting the clan to fight against the court, and push him to the throne, but he forgot that in this capital, he is not the only one who can do what the clan did. One!"

"Father means, Uncle Min Wang?"

Zhu Mianxun also frowned and asked.

Zhu Yongyin nodded and said.

"It's because I didn't think carefully about provoking Yu Qian. Although there have been rumors from the outside world that His Majesty relies heavily on him, it's really beyond my expectation that His Majesty is so angry with a mere civil servant."

"The letter from King Xiang was an understatement. It was simply avoiding the important and taking the light. Your Majesty's first favorite... King Min's reminder is not just about Yu Qian. The king has made a plan!"

Zhu Mianxun blinked his eyes, and then realized that what King Min said when he left for the last time actually meant this.

That's right, if it wasn't for his reminder, I'm afraid that the father and son would not have linked the punishment they received outside the Meridian Gate to Yu Qian.

It is more likely that they will feel that the emperor is angry with Yi Fan for causing trouble.

Then, Zhu Mian said.

"Father is right. King Xiang wants to use us to unite with other clans to defeat King Min, but King Min is not easy to mess with. Before he rushed us to meet King Xiang, he revealed the twists and turns here to you. Father, I just hope that we will not trust King Xiang lightly."

"But what is his purpose?"

After hesitating for a moment, Zhu Mianxun continued.

"Also, even if the father guessed this, but this time about Yu Qian, His Majesty was obviously moved by thunder, and with the incident caused by Yifan, we are afraid that we really hated His Majesty this time, Sacred Heart If this is the case, if you really want to rectify the clan affairs, you will definitely use Yi Fan as a knife, you can't just sit and wait for death?"

Zhu Yongyin's face darkened.

He knew in his heart that this was King Xiang's plan, but as for how to solve it, he didn't have a good solution for a while.

Frowning and thinking for a moment, he pressed his forehead and said.

"Don't worry for the time being, if there is no accident, then even if we hold our noses, we have to make a promise to King Xiang."

"But now, since King Min has stepped in, there may be other turning points. Now King Xiang's intentions are known, but King Min doesn't know what he wants to do."

"If you don't have anything to do, you will have something to ask for. He will definitely come to the door again. The matter of Yifan will not be resolved in a day, and wait..."

Outside the window, the breeze blows and the autumn leaves fall.

The sunset was slanting to the west, and the brilliant sunset glow dyed the whole sky, fiery red like blood.

However, in this capital city, there are probably very few people who are willing to appreciate the beautiful scenery...

(End of this chapter)