The ministers begged me to ascend the throne

Chapter 563: Concubine Li will never be made queen

"Isn't your mother Zhao Zheng's favorite woman?" He Lianfang felt that Zhao Yao's reaction was too strong. "Isn't it normal for him to make your mother the queen?"

After he finished speaking, he saw Zhao Yao looking at him strangely. He raised his eyebrows slightly and said with some disdain, "What's that look?"

"Uncle, you went out today, didn't you bring your brain back?"

When He Lianfang heard Zhao Yao's insults, she glared at him sharply.

"Uncle, my mother is indeed the woman that my father loves. Because of this, my father will not make her his empress." Zhao Yao thought to himself that he had been away from the Swamp House for more than half a year, so why did his uncle's IQ drop after returning? "My mother's position has never been high because my father has been protecting her and hiding her well."

"Several of the major families in the capital have fallen. No one in the palace or in the court will threaten your mother's safety. Zhao Zheng can openly make your mother the queen."

"It's more likely that the emperor will not make my mother the empress. Besides, there are still Concubine Ying and Concubine Li." Zhao Yao waved his hand and said, "Second uncle, if you think the emperor will make my mother the empress, then you underestimate him."

"Don't you want your mother to become the queen?" He Lianfang said casually, "The queen is the most noble woman in the world."

Zhao Yao knew that He Lianfang was testing him, and he found it funny in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face.

"The queen is indeed the most noble woman in the world, but also the most dangerous. I don't like my mother being roasted on the fire. Besides, my mother doesn't want to be the queen."

"Oh, your mother doesn't want to be the queen? She doesn't want to stand shoulder to shoulder with Zhao Zheng, and doesn't want to be Zhao Zheng's wife?" In He Lianfang's view, there is no woman in the harem who doesn't want to be the queen.

"She doesn't want to, and she doesn't bother." Zhao Yao felt that He Lianfang looked down on his mother. His expression became sharp and his tone became serious. "Second uncle, although my mother is a concubine in the harem, she is different from them. She and my father love and know each other, but she has never thought of becoming a queen. For her, being able to be with my father is enough. What she seeks is not the supreme status, nor does she want endless wealth and glory, but that my father and I can live in peace." If my mother wanted to be a queen, with her intelligence and means, she would have sat on the throne long ago.

He Lianfang did not speak. He originally thought that Concubine Liang would be willing to be the queen for Zhao Yao.

Zhao Yao took a deep look at the silent He Lianfang, and said in an unprecedented serious tone: "Second Uncle, not everyone likes supreme power. Just like I don't like being an emperor, and I have no interest in competing for the throne. Just like my mother doesn't like being an empress, and she has no interest in competing for favor in the harem. Neither we mother nor I have such big ambitions."

He Lianfang understood what Zhao Yao meant, but he pretended not to understand.

"Then who do you think Zhao Zheng will make his queen, Concubine Ying or Concubine Li?"

"Noble Concubine Ying has no children. Even if the emperor wants to make her the empress, the court officials will not agree." Zhao Yao followed up on He Lianfang's question and analyzed, "As for Concubine Li, she is indeed qualified to be the empress, but she will not become the empress."

He Lianfang heard Zhao Yao's confident words and asked with interest, "Why can't Concubine Li become the queen?"

"Once Concubine Li becomes the queen, it means that my fourth brother will be made the crown prince." Zhao Yao said, and sighed softly, "My eighth brother will not allow this to happen."

"Do you think the King of Wei can stop it?"

Zhao Yao nodded slightly and said, "Yes!" He then added, "If Concubine Li really becomes the queen, then she will be dead soon, and Fourth Brother will not have a good ending either."

"Are you so sure that the King of Chu cannot defeat the King of Wei?" He Lianfang asked, "Don't you expect the King of Chu to take that position?"

"That's what I expected, but things didn't go as I expected." Zhao Yao glanced at He Lianfang, hesitated for a moment, and continued, "Myna made a deal with my father."

He Lianfang, who had just picked up the teacup to drink tea, paused when he heard Zhao Yao's words, holding the teacup in the air, with a hint of surprise in his eyes. However, he quickly regained his composure and continued to drink tea.

"The King of Wei and Zhao Zheng made a deal. What was the deal? How do you know? Did the King of Wei tell you, or did Zhao Zheng tell you?"

Looking at the surprise on He Lianfang's face, Zhao Yao sighed in his heart: Second Uncle's acting skills are still as good as ever.

"I don't know what the specific deal was, nor do I want to know." Zhao Yao supported his face with his right hand and said indifferently, "Neither my father nor my brother told me, I guessed it. It's not difficult to guess."

He Lianfang sighed in her heart: Xiao Shi is such a sharp kid.

"How do you know they have a deal?"

"The King of Han is plotting a rebellion this time." Zhao Yao thought to himself that his second uncle really knew everything. "Originally, the King of Yue and the King of Dai were not involved, but the King of Han suddenly went to the King of Yue to cooperate, and the King of Yue helped the King of Dai to rebel. This is the plan of the Eighth Brother, to catch the King of Han, the King of Yue, and the King of Dai in one fell swoop."

"Because of this, do you think the King of Wei had a deal with the Emperor?"

Zhao Yao said: "Isn't this obvious?"

"No one would guess that the King of Wei and Zhao Zheng had a deal because of this." If he hadn't known about it in advance, he wouldn't have thought that the King of Han's rebellion was part of the deal between the King of Wei and Zhao Zheng. Zhao Yao shrugged and said arrogantly, "Maybe it's because I'm too smart." He habitually overthinks, and it seems too coincidental to him that the King of Han and the King of Dai rebelled together. He immediately guessed that it was done by Bage. Father has the Dragon Guards around him, so he couldn't have been unaware that the King of Han and the King of Dai were colluding with each other to rebel, but he didn't stop them. This means that Father knew about this a long time ago and also knew about Bage's arrangement. After Father learned that it was Bage's plan, he didn't react at all, which means that Father and Bage had a deal. Otherwise, given Father's dislike for Bage, it would be impossible for him to be indifferent to this matter.

"If it's really as you guessed, your good fourth brother is in danger." This little guy has a very clever mind, but he doesn't focus on the real thing. It's really... infuriating.

"So, before I left, I begged Brother Ba again and again, and finally spared Brother Si's life." He was not worried about Brother Si's fate now, after all, Brother Ba would not kill him for his sake. What he was most worried about was his stinking father.

The father obviously did not take the starling seriously, thinking that the starling's schemes and methods were not worth mentioning in front of him, and they were not worth being afraid of. If the father underestimated the starling, he would fall into a big trap.

He had reminded his father before, but his father obviously didn't listen. He wanted to remind his father again, but he couldn't do it.

Before leaving, Zhao Yao had another frank talk with the King of Wei.

At that time, King Wei was shocked when he heard what Zhao Yao said.

"Tenth brother, why do you think I'm against Father?"

"My dear, you have never been liked by father since you were a child, and father has never really valued you. Father has used you for so many years because you are a very useful chess piece." Zhao Yao originally did not want to say these words to the King of Wei, but for the safety of the emperor, he decided to say it out loud, "You want to prove to father that he is wrong, and that you are smarter and more capable than anyone else."

The King of Wei had always thought that he had hidden himself well, but he did not expect that Zhao Yao saw through him at a glance.

"I didn't expect you to see it."

"My dear brother, you also want your deceased mother to see that you can do it, so the last person you have to deal with is your father." The person who knows the King of Wei best in this world must be Zhao Yao.

King Wei felt that he had underestimated Zhao Yao. He raised the corners of his mouth and smiled slightly: "Tenth brother, how come I didn't know you were so smart."

"Myna, I have always been very smart, okay."

King Wei thought of what Zhao Yao had done before and chuckled, "Yes, you have been smart since you were a child. Since you know that the person I will deal with in the end is my father, do you want to stop me?"

"Myna, can I stop it?"

"You can't stop me, and no one can stop me." The King of Wei narrowed his eyes slightly, with a fierce light in his eyes, "Even you can't stop me."

Zhao Yao had an expression that he had expected this, "I know." If he really tried to stop it, he might succeed, but the price would be high. With Bage's temper, he would probably end up in a desperate situation. "Bage, you..." He didn't say, Bage, no matter how bad your father is, he is still your father, you can't be so treasonous as to treat your father like that.

Don’t advise others to be kind before you have experienced their suffering. Moreover, he has seen the sufferings that the starling has gone through since childhood, and no one understands the sufferings of the starling from childhood to adulthood better than him.

Because of this, he couldn't persuade Bage to let his father go because he was his biological father. But, his father was also his father, and he couldn't watch his father being killed by Bage...

He had always been sandwiched between his fourth brother and his eighth brother since he was a child, but he never expected that one day he would be sandwiched between his eighth brother and his father. It was really difficult for him to be the sandwich.

Zhao Yao didn't finish his words, but King Wei knew what he wanted to say.

"Don't worry, I won't kill my father."

The words of the King of Wei were what Zhao Yao wanted to hear the most. He instantly breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good." If the myna really wanted to kill his father, he would never sit idly by.

"Tenth brother, please don't interfere in the matter between me and my father." King Wei looked at Zhao Yao with a slightly pleading look in his eyes, "I want us to solve the matter between him and me ourselves."

The King of Wei could clearly threaten or warn Zhao Yao not to interfere in the affairs between him and the emperor, but he didn't. Instead, he discussed with Zhao Yao in a pleading tone.

Zhao Yao had no choice but to agree not to interfere in the matter between the King of Wei and the Emperor.

Seeing that it was getting late, Zhao Yao stood up and said to He Lianfang, "Second Uncle, I will go to have dinner with the princess, you can do as you please."

"Go."

Zhao Yao walked out of He Lianfang's yard and sighed helplessly: "Second Uncle, you knew that Bage had a deal with my father, but you pretended to be completely unaware of it. Your disguise is really first-rate. Also, you have been in contact with Bage all the time. Do you really think I didn't notice it at all?"

Whether it was his stinky father, his second uncle, or his myna, they all really underestimated him.