The ministers begged me to ascend the throne

Chapter 568 Impatient
In the Prince of Han's mansion, Zhao Yao was reading memorials while eating a cold drink made by the Princess of Han.

The progress of the Beishan Laboratory had stopped again, so Zhao Yao had to return to the Han Palace. Moreover, he had not come back to attend the morning court for a long time. If he did not attend the morning court again, Wen Daoji and his men would quit.

In the past few days, Zhao Yao went to the morning court every morning to discuss government affairs with the ministers. After the court, he honestly reviewed the memorials.

Most of the memorials were reviewed by several ministers in the cabinet, but some important memorials still needed to be reviewed by Zhao Yao. However, since Zhao Yao had been busy doing rubber experiments in the Beishan laboratory recently and could not come back to review important memorials, they were still reviewed by the ministers in the cabinet.

Last year, Zhao Yao returned to the capital, and all matters of his small court, big or small, were decided by the officials of the cabinet. Of course, the big matters were decided by He Lianfang.

The memorials that had been reviewed by cabinet officials from last year to this year were piled up like a mountain. What Zhao Yao had to do was to read them all. Although these memorials had already been reviewed, he still had to read them carefully to see if there were any problems with them.

Tongxi stood aside and saw Zhao Yao frowning, looking cold, curling his lips in disdain, and showing an impatient expression. He said in his heart: Here it comes, His Highness is here again. One, two, three...

With a bang, Zhao Yao slammed the memorial in his hand onto the table.

Tongxi laughed in his heart and said: Your Highness, you are indeed impatient.

Zhao Yao looked at the memorials piled on the table, feeling a headache. He said impatiently, "How long do I have to wait to see this?"

Tongxi quickly brought a cup of tea, "Your Highness, have some tea and take a rest."

Zhao Yao grabbed the teacup and drank it in big gulps without any manner.

Tongxi took the teacup away and saw Zhao Yao staring at the memorial in front of him with hatred. He almost couldn't help laughing.

"Tongxi, bring me a candle. I want to burn this pile of memorials."

"Your Highness, this is not allowed." Tongxi advised, "Your Highness, you'd better take a look at it quickly."

"I don't care." Zhao Yao exuded an unhappy aura. "Why are there so many memorials? Where do all these things come from?"

"Your Highness, these memorials have been accumulated for almost a year, so of course there are a lot of them." Tongxi continued to coax, "Your Highness, the ministers have reviewed the memorials for you, just take a look."

"Don't you think my father is tired from reviewing so many memorials every day? Doesn't he find it annoying?" By reading the memorials, Zhao Yao once again sighed in his heart: Being an emperor is not a human job, fortunately he doesn't want to be an emperor.

"I don't know."

Of course the emperor was annoyed. Every day when he reviewed the memorials, he would often complain. Sometimes he would curse loudly, sometimes he would lose his temper and say he didn't want to be the emperor, and sometimes he would throw all the memorials on the imperial desk to the ground.

"Whoever wants to be the emperor can be the emperor, I don't want to be the emperor anymore." This is a sentence that the emperor often said when reviewing memorials. There is also this sentence: "The emperor is really not a human job, I live worse than a dog."

Although the emperor complained every time, he would still review the memorials carefully from morning to night and would not allow any mistakes to be missed.

After Zhao Yao complained for a while, he continued to read the memorials.

At this moment, Dark Guard A suddenly appeared.

"Your Highness, a secret letter from the capital."

Tongxi took the secret letter and held it in front of Zhao Yao with both hands.

Zhao Yao immediately threw away the memorial in his hand, opened the secret letter and took a look. After reading it, he raised the corner of his mouth slightly: "Fourth brother did not lose."

Tongxi heard this and asked curiously, "Your Highness, what happened to His Highness the King of Chu?"

"Fourth brother didn't let eighth brother go to Qingzhou." Zhao Yao signaled to Tongxi, who immediately understood and brought a candle. Zhao Yao burned the secret letter on the candle. "Fourth brother wanted to go to Qingzhou with eighth brother to pick up seventh brother, but father didn't let them go in the end and directly asked the people from the Ministry of Rites to bring seventh brother back."

"Your Highness the King of Chu didn't allow Your Highness the King of Wei to go to Qingzhou?" Tong Xi asked in astonishment, "Did Your Highness the King of Chu discover something?"

"I don't know what fourth brother discovered, but fourth brother did not let eighth brother go to Qingzhou, which means fourth brother will not lose for the time being." Zhao Yao initially thought that the King of Chu would allow the King of Wei to go to Qingzhou, but he did not expect that before the King of Wei went to Qingzhou, the King of Chu actually proposed to the emperor that he also wanted to go to Qingzhou.

Naturally, the King of Wei was not happy to see that the King of Chu also wanted to go to Qingzhou.

When the King of Wei heard that the King of Chu had come to the palace to ask for an audience with the emperor and apply to go to Qingzhou, he hurried to the palace to see the emperor and said that he could take the King of Jing back to the capital alone and did not need the King of Chu to accompany him. However, the King of Chu said that the King of Jing was his younger brother and as the elder brother, he should take the King of Jing back to the capital.

The two were in the imperial study at the time, neither of them giving in, and neither wanted the other to go to Qingzhou alone.

The emperor was annoyed by the quarrels between the two of them, so he simply didn't allow either of them to go. He asked people from the Ministry of Rites to pick them up and asked them to stay in the capital.

The originally planned things were interrupted by the sudden interference of the King of Chu, and the King of Wei was naturally unhappy.

The two walked out of the imperial study with cold faces, neither of them even glanced at each other, as if the other did not exist at all. After they walked out of the palace gate, the King of Chu spoke: "I will not let you go to Qingzhou."

Upon hearing this, the King of Wei turned around and looked coldly at the King of Chu, curling his lips and smiling contemptuously: "You do have some brains, but that's all." After saying this, he turned and left.

The King of Chu sneered and turned away.

When they returned to the Wei Palace, the King of Wei did not react, but his confidants were a little anxious. They did not understand why the King of Chu suddenly proposed to go to Qingzhou, and whether he knew something.

The King of Wei was sure that the King of Chu did not know about Qingzhou. The reason why he proposed to go to Qingzhou with him was probably because he felt that there was something wrong with him going to Qingzhou to pick up the seventh brother.

Yu Hai asked, "Your Highness, now that we can't go to Qingzhou, what should we do next?" The King of Wei played with Zhou Zhong's teacup, and raised an interested smile on his face, "If he lets me go to Qingzhou, then my victory will be meaningless." If the King of Chu really lets the King of Wei go to Qingzhou, the King of Wei will be very disappointed with the King of Chu. "Not going to Qingzhou for the time being will not affect the overall situation. We will proceed according to the plan next."

"Your Highness is right. Whether the King of Chu goes to Qingzhou or not, he will lose. It's just that it's too late now."

"If it's my tenth brother, he must know what I'm doing in Qingzhou."

"Your Highness, the entire Qingzhou is under the control of His Royal Highness the King of Han. How could you possibly hide what you are doing in Qingzhou from him?" Fortunately, Your Highness has a good relationship with His Royal Highness the King of Han, and fortunately, His Royal Highness the King of Han does not interfere in the affairs between Your Highness and the King of Chu, otherwise His Royal Highness the King of Han would definitely tell the King of Chu what they did in Qingzhou.

"The tenth brother is more far-sighted than me." When the King of Wei arranged for people to go to Qingzhou, Qingzhou had already been controlled by Zhao Yao. "If the tenth brother was my opponent, I would be much happier." It's interesting to have a worthy opponent, but unfortunately the fourth brother is not his opponent. The only one who can fight with him is the tenth brother. However, the tenth brother is not his opponent.

"Your Highness, if His Highness the King of Han is our opponent, we will be in big trouble." His Highness the King of Han is really too smart, not inferior to Your Highness at all. "Fortunately, His Highness the King of Han is your good brother."

"Yes, compared to my opponent, I still prefer the Tenth Brother to be my younger brother." The King of Wei tapped the table lightly with his finger, "Next, let's get rid of the Fourth Brother's men."

"Yes, Your Highness."

Zhao Yao, who was thousands of miles away, was in He Lianfang's study at this time.

"What do you think the King of Wei will do next?" He Lianfang had already learned that the King of Wei could not go to Qingzhou.

"My Eighth Brother will deal with Fourth Brother's people next."

He Lianfang asked: "Who do you think they will deal with?"

Zhao Yao said without thinking: "Shangshu Pushe, what do you think, uncle?"

He Lianfang said: "I think the King of Wei will not touch the people of the King of Chu in the court for the time being, but will touch the people of the King of Chu in the fiefdom, such as the Prime Minister."

"Prime Minister?" Zhao Yao chuckled and said, "Second Uncle, have you forgotten that Fourth Brother's Prime Minister is the son of General Zheng? It is unwise for Eighth Brother to touch General Zheng's son right away."

"It's because he is the son of General Zheng." He Lianfang said meaningfully, "To catch a thief, you must first catch the leader, and to kill a snake, you must hit it at its weakest point."

"My dear brother must know what it means to touch the son of Zheng Taiwei." Zhao Yao did not agree with He Lianfang's point of view. "Although Zheng Taiwei has long been out of office in the palace, his influence is still there. There is no civil or military official in the court who does not respect him. If my dear brother makes a move against his eldest son, he will be hitting an iron wall."

"Why, do you think your good mynah brother wouldn't dare to touch the son of Zheng Taiwei?"

"To touch Zheng Taiwei's son means to oppose Zheng Taiwei, and will also offend many ministers in the court." Zhao Yao said seriously, "Not to mention the ministers who support my brother and fourth brother, the ministers who remain neutral all hope that Zheng Taiwei can return to the court. If my brother touches Zheng Taiwei's son, these neutral ministers will not let him go. Besides, although Zheng Taiwei's eldest son is not as good as his father, he is not bad either. It won't be easy for my brother to touch him right away."

"Only by touching the eldest son of Zheng Taiwei can the King of Chu be intimidated." He Lianfang asked, "You have the two sons of Zheng Taiwei in your hands. If the King of Wei really touches his eldest son, will you help him?"

Zhao Yao said without hesitation: "No, he has nothing to do with me."

"What are you going to do if his two brothers want to rescue him?"

"It's their right to go and save brother. I won't stop them, but I won't help them." Zhao Yao raised his eyes and looked straight into He Lianfang's eyes. His tone became serious. "Second Uncle, I said I won't interfere in the affairs between Fourth Brother and Eighth Brother, so Second Uncle, don't test me again and again. You are not annoyed, but I am." Zhao Yao was already a little impatient with He Lianfang's testing.

He Lianfang didn't expect Zhao Yao to say it so directly. She was slightly stunned, then said calmly: "Okay."

Zhao Yao showed his usual nonchalant smile on his face, "My eighth brother will not take action against my fourth brother's prime minister. He may try to make a feint to the east and attack in the west, but the person he is really targeting is the Shangshu Pushe."

"Then I'll wait and see."

Zhao Yao did not stay with He Lianfang for long. After talking for a while, he left.

After returning to the Prince of Han's Palace, Zhao Yao's face suddenly fell.

Seeing that Zhao Yao looked unhappy, Princess Han asked with concern, "Your Highness, what's wrong with you? Did something happen?"

Zhao Yao put away the worry on his face, shook his head lightly and said: "Nothing happened, I'm just annoyed." His second uncle kept testing him again and again, making Zhao Yao more and more impatient.

Princess Han didn't know what happened, but she knew Zhao Yao had returned from He Lianfang. She didn't dare to ask any more questions, so she changed the subject and said, "Your Highness, I asked someone to make a lot of dried fruits and jams, and I will send them to your mother in two days."

"Okay, send some fresh fruits and keep them in ice so they won't spoil easily."

"I also selected some medicinal herbs and will send them back together when the time comes."

"Don't forget to send some to your family." Zhao Yao said with a smile, "Lingnan doesn't have much other things, but there are a lot of fruits, food and medicinal herbs. You can send more to your family."

Princess Han was touched and said with a smile, "I understand, Your Highness."

The couple chatted about family matters for a while and then went to the dining room to eat.

He Lianfang next door was not angry at Zhao Yao's impatient words, but was very happy instead.

"Your Highness has made it so clear, why are you still laughing?" said the man standing in the shadow of the study. "Your Highness the King of Han is tired of your probing."

He Lianfang smiled and said, "This is a good thing."