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Ying Ren shook his head and said, "Brother Prince, I won't."

"No what?"

"I won't go back and compete with my third brother for the crown prince." Ying Ren said: "I have a few catties and a few taels. I know very well that it is absolutely impossible to compete with my third brother. And...and I never thought about what to do in the past Chu Jun...!" He smiled wryly: "Brother Prince, the prince of the country is the king of the Ming Dynasty. He must have both ability and virtue. Yingren has no talent and no virtue. It is absolutely impossible. Don't worry, brother Prince, if the father really wants to If you want to abolish the royal family, Yingren will be punished by his father, so he begs his father to dispel this idea."

"It's a foregone conclusion, even if the father has no intention of abolishing the reserve, I have no intention of inheriting the great cause." The prince said firmly.

"The third brother...!"

"Many people in the court think that once my palace is abolished, the third child must be the most suitable candidate." The crown prince shook his head and said: "But I never think so. It's not that this palace doesn't look down on the third child, nor I have any prejudices against the third child, but I consider it for my Daqin Jiangshan, among the three brothers, only the third child can never become the crown prince!"

Ying Ren asked puzzledly, "This...why is this?"

The prince did not answer immediately, but slowly said: "Last year, a tsunami occurred in Fuhai Road, and countless villages along the coast were swallowed by the sea. Tens of thousands of people died, and hundreds of thousands of people were affected. Tens of thousands of people died in that tsunami, most of them died from the plague after the tsunami and were starved to death due to poor rescue. Today, there are still countless people who cannot rebuild their homes, are displaced, forced to gang up on bandits , for the sea of ​​misfortune and blessing."

"In the same year, there was a severe drought in Central Sichuan, and the national treasury was empty, unable to provide disaster relief, which caused countless people to starve to death, and their families were destroyed."

"At the end of last year, the great river on Yuling Road broke its embankment, and the memorials were like snowflakes. The treasury was short of silver and food. Up to now, the great river has only been built temporarily. A tragedy."

"At the beginning of this year, Anyi Road was in a hurry. Last winter was very cold, and many people were frozen to death and frostbitten. The defenders of Anyi Racecourse did not even distribute winter clothes. Dozens of people were frozen to death by the heavy snowstorm. And Anyi The horse bandits in the territory even took the opportunity to plunder the Anyi racecourse and stole two horses and hundreds of horses."

The prince's expression became serious, and he sneered: "The reason for all this is that the household department has no money or food. Those people who were supposed to be protected by the empire either died or gathered together because of the emptiness of the household department. , has become a confidant of the imperial court. When banditry arises, troops must be mobilized to encircle and suppress it. The military expenditures are often not paid for...!" He looked at Yingren and said solemnly: "You go to Xishan Road, leave the capital, You should also see some and hear some, the country is based on the people, if the people cannot survive, then the country's foundation will be shaken, how can we talk about stability?"

Yingren frowned and said, "Why is the national treasury always out of money? I heard from the teacher that the government's taxes have been increased over the past few years, and the people are even suffering. The treasury should have enough money. Why...why the tax increase?" So, the money is less?"

The prince smiled lightly and said: "You understand what I mean. Yes, the tax has increased, but the money has decreased. Of course, I have to ask Huang Ju. The money and food in the Great Qin Dynasty are in his hands, and the father and the emperor are all in his hands. Only him I know best where the money went.”

The garden is picturesque and beautiful, but the topics that the two princes are talking about are very heavy.

At first, Chu Huan didn't understand why the prince was talking with Ying Ren, why he asked himself to follow him, but now that the matter has involved the Ministry of Household Affairs, he vaguely understood something.

"Since you understand what I say, do you understand why I said that the third child cannot be the crown prince?" The prince stared into Yingren's eyes.

Yingren thought for a while before sighing softly: "Brother Prince, are you afraid that the third brother will inherit the great business in the future and will...will continue to let the Huang family control the money and food in the world? You are worried about the money in the treasury. After the third brother succeeds, Still so empty?"

The crown prince frowned, and said with a smile: "You have grown up. When the third child succeeds, the money and food in the world will continue to be controlled by the Huang family. Even if Huang Ju dies, he still has members of his clan. After all, he put in so much effort to help the third son to the top, and his purpose was to plan for the long-term interests of the Huang family. Although Huang Ju is already a nobleman, don’t forget that he was born as a businessman, and he was mercenary in his bones. The purpose is never for the common people, but for their own interests, in their eyes, no country is the most important!"

"Brother Prince, Yingren said something that shouldn't be said, you...don't take offense!"

"You and my brother, since we are here, we have nothing to talk about." The prince smiled and said, "Say it."

Ying Ren thought for a while before asking: "Brother Prince, the Huang family is so presumptuous, Father... Doesn't Father know? There are many disasters and people in various parts of Daqin, and when disasters start, doesn't Father know?"

"The Huang family controls the money and food, so the father knows it." The crown prince nodded slightly: "But the father and Huang Ju once had an agreement, and the emperor will never repent. So even if he knew that Huang Ju was doing evil on money and food, he would not have asked about it before. The most important thing is that his father has spent countless money on cultivating the Tao these years. , but there has never been any mistake, father...!" At this point, he did not continue to follow this topic, but continued: "If the people of the people are affected by disasters, father must know a thing or two, but absolutely I won't know everything. Father devoted himself to cultivating the Tao, and has rarely intervened in state affairs. I still remember that at the beginning of the founding of the country, father often went on tour to inspect the world. At that time, he knew the situation of the world very well. But in the past two years, he Ye is in the palace, and he has not left the palace for several years. He only knows about the outside world from the mouths of his courtiers. Someone once said that the world is in chaos in front of his father, but Huang Ju and other elite officials reprimanded Zhichen for being a fool. It is alarmist talk, but the father is getting old, he no longer likes to hear those blunt words, and he doesn't want to hear the crisis in the empire. After Zhang Tai of the Metropolitan Procuratorate was killed, it is difficult for the father to hear the truth... ...!"

Chu Huan listened to the prince's words behind him, and felt vaguely that the prince really seemed to have some intentions to do things for the country, but he didn't know if he was just being polite or speaking from the bottom of his heart.

Chu Huan didn't know who Zhang Tai was, but Yingren did. Zhang Tai once spoke out, admonishing the emperor, saying that the emperor should not practice Taoism, because practicing Taoism misunderstood state affairs and caused turmoil in the world.

His end was naturally miserable.

There are not many people who dare to tell the truth in the world, and a group of them were killed, and those who dared not speak the truth naturally would not speak, and those who hesitated in their hearts became afraid to speak because of this.

"Yingren, Grand Master Xu is a rare good minister in the court. He has backbone, but now even he won't talk about the turmoil in the empire in front of the emperor. How many people do you think dare to say?" The prince sighed: "Huang Since Ju Yi Party can deceive the father, when he succeeds to the third child, they will be more powerful at that time, so they will naturally deceive the third child. The third child trusts Huang Ju very much. If he succeeds to the throne, Huang Ju With such a strong minister by his side, do you think he can really manage the thousands of miles of rivers and mountains in our Great Qin?"

Yingren thought for a while, and then said softly: "Brother Prince, do you think the third brother will really be controlled by Huang Ju's party?"

"Of course he won't be reconciled." The prince said: "Now they are together, just to deal with me. When the third child really becomes the emperor in the future, he will definitely be afraid of Huang Ju. But you have to understand that the third child can have today's ri, although there was the promotion of the father, but more of it was Huang's party who planned for him behind the scenes. The treasury was empty of money, where did the money go? Don't think that it was all used by the father to cultivate Taoism and build the Tongtian Temple, that is only part of it , and some of them were used by the Huang family to buy off officials and form Hanwang party members. The youngest thought that those forces were all in his hands, but he forgot whether those people were controlled by him or by the Huang family. Clan control?"

Yingren frowned again.

"The tail is too big to lose. If the third child understands this truth one day, I'm afraid it will be too late." The prince sighed: "The third child is smart, but he was born as a Huang Ju businessman. He was able to seek refuge with his father shrewdly, which shows the scheming of his heart." Shen, whether the third child can be his opponent is really uncertain." After a pause, he continued: "What's more, even if the third child can really suppress the Huang family in the end and rule the world, but you think he is a Is the ruler a good ruler? This question, I have thought about for countless nights, if the third child is really a good ruler, I can even abdicate to let the virtuous, and support him in the position!"

"Brother Prince, many people say that Third Brother is gentle and powerful, but I don't know if it's true or not." Ying Ren shook his head and said, "But I like talking to Brother Prince, and I don't like being with Third Brother."

He said this with a bit of childishness.

The prince smiled slightly and said: "Your third brother is indeed a rare talent, both civil and military, but such a talent may not be a good emperor."

"Oh?"

"Yingren, I still remember when you were young, when I could still walk, my father took us to hunt. It just so happened that General Chidian of Liaodong sent three Liaodong army horses, and my father gave them to me. The three of us, at that time, the emperor asked you two a question, do you still remember?" The prince stared at Yingren and asked.

Yingren thought for a while, nodded and said, "I remember. At that time, the emperor asked us, if we were given a horse, what would we do with that horse!"

"I remember you answering at that time, you want to be with the horse, feed it and clothe it warmly, and keep it from being bullied, right?" The prince showed a gentle smile.

Yingren scratched his temples, and said in embarrassment: "That...that's all children's words, the prince still remembers."

The prince continued to ask: "Do you remember how the third child answered?"

"Remember." Ying Ren nodded and said: "The third brother said that he would ride that horse and follow in the footsteps of the father, leaping across the world, pointing to the whip, all armies would come out, expand the territory, lay down more Great country, where there is the sun in the world, there will be my Daqin banner!" He smiled wryly: "At that time, I thought that the third brother spoke so majesticly and pompously, but compared to his ambition, I... I am too far behind. Too much!"