The ministers begged me to ascend the throne

The dragon guards were very fast and arrived in Yangzhou within a few days.

"Say it again." Zhao Yao looked at the ordinary-looking man in front of him with disbelief, "What did you just say?"

The secret guard said respectfully again: "Your Highness, the Emperor wants you to go back."

Zhao Yao shouted: "Let me go back, where?"

"Go back to the capital." The secret guard added, "The emperor has told me that if you are not willing to go back..."

Zhao Yao interrupted Dark Guard Jia: "If I don't want to go back, don't I have to go back?"

"No, the emperor told me that if you are unwilling to go back, I will kidnap you back."

As soon as Zhao Yao heard this, the smile on his face disappeared completely.He said with a cold face and displeasure: "Say it again."

The secret guard deliberately raised his voice and said again: "Your Highness, the Emperor has told you that if you are unwilling to go back, I will kidnap you back."

Zhao Yao: "..." He wanted to scold his father.

"No, fourth brother and eighth brother told my father for me that I would stay in Yangzhou until I reach adulthood before returning to Beijing." Zhao Yao was unwilling to return to Beijing. "How could my father keep his word?"

"Your Highness, Tenth Highness, the Emperor has not promised His Highness the King of Chu and the King of Wei." An Guard Jia's tone was as smooth as ever, "Your Highness, the Emperor has also given you three days. After three days, you must return to the capital with me. I hope You cooperate."

"What if I don't cooperate?" Zhao Yao cursed the emperor crazily in his heart.

"If you don't cooperate, I will have no choice but to kidnap you back to the capital." The secret guard said again, "The emperor's decree is that you must be taken back to the capital."

Zhao Yao had never seen a secret guard, but he knew that the people sent by the emperor were definitely not simple.If he doesn't leave, this person will definitely kidnap him back.If he escaped, he probably wouldn't succeed.

It seemed that he could only follow this man back to Beijing obediently.However, he did not want to return to the capital.

Seeing Zhao Yao's unwillingness, the secret guard A kindly reminded Zhao Yao: "Your Highness, I advise you not to run away. No matter where you escape, I will find you and take you back."

Zhao Yao, who had the idea of ​​​​escape: "..."

"Your Highness, please pack your luggage. I will take you back to the capital in three days." After saying that, the secret guard left the prefect's mansion.

When Governor Liang and others learned that Zhao Yao was going back to Beijing, they were naturally reluctant to leave, but they did not ask to keep Zhao Yao.They actively helped Zhao Yao pack his luggage and bought a lot of things for Zhao Yao to take back.

Even though Zhao Yao was unwilling to go back, he honestly left with the Dark Guard three days later.In fact, during these three days, Zhao Yao thought of countless ways to escape, but in the end he did not implement it because he knew that the secret guard was always by his side.

Angui Jia and the others came to Yangzhou on horseback, but when they returned to Beijing, they took a boat.

Before Zhao Yao set off back to the capital, he wrote a letter to the king of Chu and the king of Wei, fiercely "questioning" them why the emperor would send someone to take him back to the capital.

The king of Chu and the king of Wei did not know that the emperor sent someone to take Zhao Yao back to the capital. They only found out after receiving Zhao Yao's letter.

Wei Mian saw that King Chu's expression turned bad after reading Zhao Yao's letter, and asked with concern: "Your Highness, what's wrong with you? Has something happened to His Highness the Tenth?"

"My father sent someone to bring the tenth brother back. The tenth brother is on his way back to Beijing."

"What, didn't the emperor promise you to let His Highness Tenth stay in Yangzhou and wait until he reaches adulthood before letting His Highness return to the capital?" Wei Mian said with a look of astonishment, "Why did the Emperor send someone to bring His Highness back now?"

King Chu had a gloomy face and said nothing.

"The situation in the capital is unclear now. It is not a good thing to bring His Highness back. Why does the Emperor want to bring His Highness back?" Wei Mian couldn't figure it out.

The King of Chu thought that Zhao Yao was captured when he was in Jinling, and the emperor ignored him and allowed Zhao Yao to fend for himself. He knew in his heart that Zhao Yao had no weight in the emperor's heart.He guessed that the emperor must have a purpose in sending someone to bring Zhao Yao back.As for what the purpose was, King Chu had to think more.

Wei Mian saw King Chu's face dark and silent, so he cautiously asked: "Your Highness, should we send someone to secretly protect His Highness the Tenth?"

King Chu came to his senses and said, "Go and make arrangements."

"The slave is going here."

King Chu walked to the window and looked towards the palace with an unclear expression.

Father, my tenth brother is also your biological son. Why are you so ruthless to your tenth brother?
In the view of King Chu, the emperor's purpose in taking Zhao Yao back to Beijing was to use Zhao Yao as a target.The purpose of Zhao Yao's target was to restrain him and King Wei.

Both the King of Chu and the King of Wei had a good relationship with Zhao Yao. The King of Chu believed that the emperor's purpose was normal.

The King of Chu had always admired and admired the emperor very much, but seeing the emperor being so ruthless to Zhao Yao made him somewhat dissatisfied with the emperor as his father.In his opinion, a tiger's poison cannot eat its seeds, but the emperor was so cruel to Zhao Yao, his youngest son.

King Chu had a very bad guess in his mind, that is, Zhao Yao would eventually become his test.

In the Prince Wei's Mansion not far from the Prince of Chu's Mansion, King Wei's face didn't look good either.He had the same idea as King Chu, feeling that the emperor did not have good intentions when he brought Zhao Yao back.

"Father is really cruel." King Wei didn't care how the emperor treated him, but when he saw the emperor treating Zhao Yao so cruelly, he was very angry. "In order for the fourth son to ascend to the throne, it is not enough to sacrifice one son, but another son must be sacrificed."

When Yu Hai heard what King Wei said, he was very worried.

"Your Highness, what are we going to do? Are we going to prevent His Highness from returning to the capital?"

"My father sent secret guards to pick up my tenth brother. We can't stop him." King Wei raised his lips and mocked, "In order to let my tenth brother return to the capital safely, my father actually sent his secret guards to pick up his tenth brother. He is really well-intentioned. It’s bitter.”

"Then we can only watch His Royal Highness being brought back?"

"Although it is safest for the tenth brother to stay in Yangzhou, it is not completely dangerous for him to return to the capital." King Wei said, "When the tenth brother comes back, I will protect him and never let him become a pawn in the hands of my father." He would never let his father take advantage of him to harm his tenth brother. "You send someone to secretly protect the tenth brother."

"Yes, Your Highness."

"Father, in your heart, only the fourth child is your biological son, and no one else is, right?" King Wei's eyes were full of anger, "The tenth brother is your youngest son, and he is not yet an adult, and you actually Treat him so viciously." The emperor in the royal study sneezed several times in succession, which frightened Sun Kui. He was about to call the imperial doctor, but the emperor stopped him.

"It must be that brat Xiao Shi who is scolding me." The emperor said with a smile, "scolding me for sending someone to take him back."

"Your Majesty, you know clearly that His Highness is unwilling to return to the capital, why did you send someone to bring His Highness back?"

"He must come back," said the Emperor significantly.

"His Royal Highness Ten will definitely make trouble with you when he comes back."

"I will wait for him to make trouble." The emperor was not afraid of Zhao Yao making trouble, but he was afraid that Zhao Yao would not make trouble.

He Lianfang also received a letter of complaint from Zhao Yao.He had already guessed that the emperor would not let Zhao Yao stay in Yangzhou for a long time, and also guessed that the emperor would bring Zhao Yao back at this time.

He wrote a reply to Zhao Yao, but did not tell Zhao Yao in the letter why the emperor asked him to come back.Instead, he said it was just a good time for him to come back and he had many things to tell him.

A few days later, Zhao Yao received letters of apology from the kings of Chu and Wei. He decided to forgive them and not be angry with them.However, the emperor still had to be angry.

Under the protection of the dragon guards, Zhao Yao returned to the capital safely.

In the imperial study, the emperor was a little restless.From time to time he looked up at the door.

Sun Kui rarely saw the emperor looking nervous, "Your Majesty, His Highness the Tenth Prince should be back soon."

When the emperor heard this, he glared at Sun Kui: "Who said I was waiting for that brat?"

"You didn't wait for His Highness, it was your servant who was waiting for His Highness to come back."

The emperor snorted, then lowered his head and continued to read the memorial, but after looking at it for a while, he raised his eyes and looked at the door again.

Just when the emperor was waiting a little impatiently, he heard the sound of saluting Zhao Yao coming from outside the imperial study room door.

The emperor quickly sat down and put on an expression as if he was concentrating on reading the memorial, completely missing the look he had just been looking forward to.

Sun Kui saw the emperor's change of expression and said with a smile in his heart: Your Majesty, what are you pretending to be?

Sun Doudou walked in, bowed respectfully to the emperor, and then reported: "Your Majesty, His Highness the Tenth Highness is at the door asking for an audience."

The emperor said calmly: "Let him come in."

Soon, Zhao Yao walked in.

"My son sees my father."

While the emperor quietly looked at Zhao Yao, he pretended to be casual and said, "Get up." After a few months of not seeing each other, the brat had grown a lot taller and lost some weight.This brat went to Jiangnan. He wouldn't just eat snacks and not have a good meal.

"Thank you, Father."

When the emperor saw Zhao Yao lowering his head and not looking at him, he felt a little nervous, but it didn't show on his face.

"If I don't send someone to pick you up, do you not plan to return to Beijing?"

Zhao Yaocheng said in fear: "I don't dare."

When the emperor saw Zhao Yao's low-brow look, he felt a little weird and wondered what happened to this brat.

"Why don't you dare?"

As soon as he finished his words, Zhao Yao knelt down and said, "My son is guilty, please punish me."

When Sun Kui saw Zhao Yao's appearance, he was very surprised: What happened to His Highness, why did he become so well-behaved?

The emperor was also frightened by Zhao Yao's "well-behaved" appearance, "You brat, why are you so crazy?" What was this brat doing?

"My son is guilty, please punish me."

The emperor felt that the younger son was very strange. He stood up and walked to the younger son and stretched out his hand to pull him up.

After Zhao Yao was pulled up, he still lowered his head and did not look at the emperor.

The emperor looked at his youngest son's "cowardly" look, and felt displeased no matter how he looked at it.

"Why, you went to Yangzhou and came back mute?"

"Father, what do you want me to say?"

"Tell me what you did in Yangzhou?" the emperor said softly, "How are Prefect Liang and the others doing?"

"Prefect Liang and the others are very good."

The emperor couldn't stand the respectful look on his younger son's face, so he raised his hand and gently knocked on his head.

"Speak to me nicely."

Zhao Yao: Don’t think that just because you are my father, you can do whatever you want to me╭(╯^╰)╮

Emperor: What the hell is this brat doing, so weird?