Princess of the auxiliary country

Chapter 363; There is another deeper meaning

Only King Qi returned directly to his mansion after going to court, and became furious as soon as he entered the door.

He even ordered two servants to be killed because they made some noise while doing their work, and everyone in Prince Qi's mansion was instantly silenced.

After getting the news, Princess Qi came over and also went to invite the staff in the palace.

The two have been married for many years, and she knows her prince's temperament best. Although his methods are ruthless, he is still relatively tolerant towards the people in the house. Unless something big goes wrong with the people in the house, he will generally not kill him. .

If he is so abnormal today, something must have happened in the court, which made him feel bad.

She didn't know much about the affairs in the court, so she invited her staff to see if they could make suggestions for the prince.

When she arrived at the front hall, King Qi was sitting on the main seat with a gloomy expression. The servants serving beside him had their heads lowered and did not dare to breathe. If you look closely, you can see that their bodies were trembling slightly. It was obvious that they were The fear was at its peak.

Upon seeing this, she waved her servants to leave, then walked to King Qi and sat down.

"My lord, what happened today?"

Seeing the princess coming over, King Qi's gloomy expression softened slightly.

"The prince and the King of Chu are two bastards who are too abominable, as well as the father."

As soon as he said this, the princess coughed and interrupted, and at the same time lowered her voice and said, "Your Majesty, be careful what you say."

Although their Prince Qi's Mansion seemed to be monolithic, they both knew very well that there must be someone from the Crown Prince and Prince Chu hidden in it.

It's just that they hid it so well that they didn't investigate it, but they knew very well that it must be there, so they paid attention to what they said on weekdays. They even said that a person with a ruthless character like King Qi would be kind and tolerant to the people in the house, and even more so. Most of them are afraid of being caught by others.

After all, Emperor Zhaowu didn't like cruel people.

Therefore, they are still very careful about what they say on weekdays, fearing that if someone listens to some treacherous words, they will cause trouble.

"Hey, I probably did something wrong again unintentionally, which made my father unhappy."

After being reminded by the princess, King Qi also reacted and instead of continuing to complain about Emperor Zhaowu, he took the blame on himself.

To put it bluntly, he was reflecting on himself to express his inner dissatisfaction with Emperor Zhaowu.

Princess Qi hurriedly comforted her. After a while, a servant outside came nervously to report that the staff had arrived.

"The prince has something to do, so I will leave first."

King Qi nodded and sent the princess out, then turned and went to the study. Upon seeing this, several staff members quickly followed.

When they arrived at the study, King Qi stopped pretending and said angrily, "What do you mean, father? This is obviously to suppress me. Does he already know about the arson?"

As he spoke, his eyes were fixed on a gray-haired Confucian scholar.

It was he who proposed the matter and arranged its execution.

On the way out of the palace just now, King Qi had been analyzing today's events in his mind. Emperor Zhaowu was clearly dissatisfied with him. Otherwise, according to Emperor Zhaowu's past habits, he would never have done this to give those two people a chance, but he The practice of not giving yourself a chance.

Emperor Zhaowu's treatment of his sons was always very fair. Even if there was occasional favoritism towards the prince, it was not too much, and everything was within the acceptable range of him and the King of Chu.

After all, as a prince, there will always be something special about him.

But regarding today's matter, Emperor Zhaowu's attitude was obviously wrong. He was obviously dissatisfied with him, which King Qi couldn't tolerate without thinking too much. "Your Majesty, I will handle this matter very cleanly, and no one will know about it."

This is true. He did it very cleanly at the beginning. If it wasn't clean, the prince wouldn't have been able to investigate for so long without finding any clues.

However, Emperor Zhaowu investigated and found out that there was no way. After all, there was still a lot of power hidden under the hands of a generation of emperors, and their authority was extremely large.

If he, as an emperor, cannot fully control even the capital city, then he has failed too much as an emperor.

"Your Majesty, I also think Mr. Zhuang did a very clean job. In recent times, the prince has been arranging people to investigate, but there are no clues at all, so I don't think it is because of this matter."

"If it's not because of this incident, then why is my father dissatisfied with me?"

King Qi had some doubts in his heart. He also knew that the prince had never investigated anything.

At that time, he also praised Mr. Ichiban Zhuang very much, saying that he was able to do things well.

But now, as he thought about the past period of time, he didn't do anything that would displease his father.

It was even said that his people were killed inexplicably and he lost 20,000 yuan. The murderers were still the prince and the king of Chu. He was a proper victim.

"Maybe it's not because I'm dissatisfied with you. Have you ever thought about it, maybe the emperor has a deeper meaning in doing this?"

"Is there another deeper meaning?"

King Qi looked at Mr. Zhuang in confusion, and he really didn't understand what he meant by this sentence.

This obviously increased the power of the prince and the king of Chu, allowing him to watch from the sidelines.

"The Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of War have always been under the personal control of the Emperor. Even if the people inside are not the Emperor's absolute confidants, they are still people he can trust."

"I feel that even if the emperor lets the prince and the king of Chu go to these two departments, they may not be able to win over anyone."

"It's even possible that the emperor just wants to see what they will do."

King Qi nodded thoughtfully, his words were not false at all.

They had not thought about recruiting some people from the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of War to board the ship in the past, but they failed in the end, so later, they planned to secretly arrange for people to get in.

Naturally, the result was unsuccessful. Now after hearing Mr. Zhuang's words, King Qi calmed down.

Since it's hard to get them to join the gang, why did the emperor arrange for these two guys to go to those two departments?
Is it really just a matter of asking them to help prepare for the expedition?
"My lord, have you ever thought that because of what happened in Qingshi Lane, the emperor is already a little disappointed with the prince and the king of Chu?"

"Are you saying that my father seems to value them by doing this, but actually he has other plans?"

He was the absolute victim of the Qingshi Lane incident. Emperor Zhaowu was also very angry at the time, and it was absolutely impossible to benefit them both, but he, the victim, had no benefit at all.

"I think there must be something wrong here, but we have to look at what it is specifically."

"Actually, my lord, you don't have to worry so much. This situation is good for you."

"Benefits? What benefits? This expedition must be a big move. It doesn't matter if I can't eat meat, and now I don't even have soup or water. What kind of benefit is this?"

King Qi was very angry. Going on an expedition was a big deal, and it was easy to get credit. And if things were done well, everyone would gain some favor from everyone up and down.

The most important thing is that taking this opportunity to contact the army openly is an opportunity to gain the goodwill of the generals and soldiers.