In the imperial study room, everyone cast their eyes on Eunuch Mo.

Eunuch Mo answered with his head bowed, not noticing everyone's surprise.

After he finished speaking, the imperial study was so quiet that a needle could be heard, and eunuch Mo's heart was pounding.

He didn't even dare to look up.

"Okay, go find it quickly." The emperor's voice was low, with thunder and anger hidden.

Mrs. Mo listened in her ears, trembling slightly in her heart.He was thinking, did he say something wrong, or did something wrong?

He quickly kowtowed and said yes.

Before leaving, he glanced at King Jin.

King Jin shrank his shoulders, his eyes were confused, and he looked at Eunuch Mo for some reason.

Eunuch Mo was even more puzzled.

He hurried back quickly, took the things, looked carefully, and found nothing unusual, so he held them in his hands and rushed to the imperial study.

The emperor asked eunuch Mo to open it in public, and stepped forward to show him.

As if he didn't know the jade pendant, he carefully looked at it back and forth, and then threw the jade pendant into the box, regardless of whether it was broken, and then said in a stern voice: "Show the crown prince and King Jin, look at it!" What is this!"

Eunuch Mo didn't know what happened, but he also knew that this jade pendant was a bit hot.

He took it down respectfully and walked up to the prince.

The prince's face turned purple, his fists were clenched tightly, and his veins were all bruised.

Seeing Eunuch Mo bring it over, the crown prince didn't look at it, but just took a few steps forward and said, "Father, the third younger brother cried so pitifully, saying that his jade pendant was stolen, and my son saw him like this, so he was eager to protect him, so... "

There was a crisp bang.The emperor dropped the ink cartridge in front of the case heavily to the ground.

The emperor's face was fair, and at this moment he was flushed with anger.

The serving eunuchs held their breaths, their legs trembling with fright.

The emperor interrupted the prince's words by throwing something, and turned his attention to another son, King Jin.

"Yanshan, what did you tell the crown prince?" The emperor's voice was even deeper.

Now, he tried his best to hold back the roaring public anger, so his voice was lower than usual.

King Jin let out a wow.Crying loudly: "...my son...my son doesn't know, it's the prince's elder brother who harmed my son..."

The prince was so angry that he almost spat out a mouthful of blood.

It seems illogical for King Jin to bite the prince.

But the emperor heard the truth from it: it was the crown prince who forced King Jin to sue...

King Jin has been pampered since he was a child.

Compared with the prince, the emperor never had high hopes for King Jin, so he loved him more.The emperor didn't criticize King Jin's clinging at the moment, he just thought that King Jin was just a child.

Children are not sensible.

King Jin was only six years old.The emperor did not ask a teacher to enlighten him.All the truths he knew came from the women in the Forbidden Palace.

He cried at a loss whenever something happened, and even recommended the responsibility to the prince. It was not his personality defect, but just ignorance of the world.

King Jin's weakness and incompetence at the moment can also make the emperor see the shadows of the concubines.

The emperor was heartbroken.

the two sons.One weak, one stupid.

"Father, my son didn't." Seeing King Jin biting him, the prince immediately knelt down and said, "Father, my son has only the third brother and one brother, how could my son harm him? It was he himself who said that his jade pendant was stolen Stolen..."

But the cries of King Jin resounded throughout the hall.Covered up the prince's sophistry.

Yanying was frightened by them and asked Zhu Zhongjun to hide behind him.

Zhu Zhongjun gently protected his son.Stand aside silently.

"Don't cry!" The crown prince sternly yelled at King Jin, "You useless thing, you cry like a bitch at every turn! You tell my father exactly what you said to me, otherwise..."

"Otherwise what?" the emperor asked.

The prince was upset by King Jin's crying, and he would not choose what to say when he spoke. He was a little anxious and lost his composure, but the emperor saw it.

This son is not enough to entrust the country, the emperor thought at this moment.

Jin Wang is still young and can still be educated. The prince is almost 20 years old and has long lost the possibility of sculpture.

The emperor's anger disappeared immediately.

He has always been dissatisfied with the crown prince, until now he has made up his mind: After he has dealt with the Mongolian Oirats and Tatars this time, the first thing he will do when he comes back is to train King Jin to replace Crown Prince Yan Ze.

The prince kowtowed in fright when the emperor answered the words, and said, "Father..."

But the emperor said: "Prince, get up. I am very tired today, you all step back."

The prince also said that the emperor had already winked at the eunuchs around him and told them to invite the prince down.

King Jin was too frightened to cry.

The emperor also let him go down with Eunuch Mo.

When only the emperor and Zhu Zhongjun and his son were left in the imperial study room, the emperor said to Zhu Zhongjun: "I know that Yanying has been wronged, and there are a lot of jade pendants inside. I will ask Xiang Liang to pick a few pieces for Yanying..."

He wants to understate the matter like this.

The emperor's son falsely accused Lai Yanying, after all, it was not appropriate to publicize it widely, so as to embarrass the crown prince and King Jin.

The emperor could scold his son, but he didn't want Zhu Zhongjun to get to the bottom of it.

Zhu Zhongjun accepted it as soon as he saw it, knowing that the emperor was grateful for saving face now, so he said, "Thank you, brother, for the reward."

Besides, he didn't say a word.

He took Yanying and went out from the imperial study.

Immediately, the emperor sent someone to go to the inner storehouse, found ten pieces of high-quality jade pendants, and sent them to Yanying.

After the matter was explained, the emperor sat alone in the imperial study and did not summon the ministers again.

The emperor was not sure about the expedition this time.He went to war once with the first emperor, and also went to the front line once.

But that time, if Shen Guogong Xu Qin hadn't saved him, he would have almost lost his life.

That incident became a joke in the military.

Others said that the crown prince was useless, just a brat who looked like a woman and was still wet.

In the hearts of the border generals, he might not be as high as Yuan Ping Hou Jiang Liang.

In the past few years, morale in the Northwest has become increasingly low.

If the first emperor was still there, it would be impossible to just lose a town of Guyuan.

Such important towns, if not taken back.The morale of the imperial court will be even lower, and the Mongolian tribes will fight to the capital one day.

The emperor must personally conquer.

He hasn't left yet during this personal conquest, it's like a demon mirror, revealing the prince's true nature.

The problem of the prince is that the emperor knew far more than before.

In the past, the emperor felt that the prince still had merit.The prince is a gentle and kind child, but he is easily agitated.

To put it nicely, the prince said that grievances and grievances are clearly distinguished; to put it bluntly.The prince is willful.

If he was a child of an ordinary family, he would be so forthright and enthusiastic, which would be quite popular.

But as a king, his character is his fatal point.

This time we are preparing for a personal conquest.Let the emperor see the prince thoroughly.

The emperor's heart was already half cold.

But now in this case, the crown prince obviously wanted to retaliate against Zhu Zhongjun for refuting his words in the morning, so he dragged King Jin to the emperor without investigating at all, and even satirized Zhu Zhongjun and insulted King Jin in front of the emperor.

If he is only a son.The emperor can also forgive him.

However, he is a prince.

his behaviour.Reckless and reckless.If the world is entrusted to him, sooner or later there will be chaos.

It is not easy to change the prince...

The emperor was most concerned about the expedition.It takes a month to deploy troops.He didn't have time to think about the prince first.

In another month, he will be leaving.

He was really worried about handing over the capital to the prince.

Therefore, he lifted Gu Yantao to the position of chief assistant first, and then left Zhu Zhongjun behind.He elevated Zhu Zhongjun's status in front of the prince, and even scolded the prince in front of Zhu Zhongjun.I just want the prince to understand: Zhu Zhongjun is the emperor's most trusted person, and the emperor does not hesitate to face the prince...

If the prince offends Zhu Zhongjun.It is to offend the emperor.

Unfortunately, judging from today's events, the prince did not understand the emperor's meaning at all.Maybe he realized it, but he wasn't afraid at all.

He probably felt that his crown prince position was firm and unshakable.

He didn't need to please the emperor at all.

At this point, the emperor was both disappointed and shocked.

*****

In the evening, Zhu Zhongjun returned to Pingjiu Hall.

Gu Jinzhi was waiting for him to come back.

The jade pendant bestowed by the emperor has been delivered.

"...What does the emperor say?" Gu Jinzhi asked Zhu Zhongjun to put down the child, and the couple had a private conversation, "I see that so many jade pendants have been rewarded, so the emperor must have known about the King Jin. The emperor let you father and son Don't mention it again?"

Gu Jinzhi treats the jade pendant as hush money.

In fact, this is not true.

These jade pendants indeed mean this.

Zhu Zhongjun pulled her into his arms, hugged her gently, and then whispered: "I'll go and deal with the matter. No one in the palace knows that King Jin gave the jade pendant to Yan Ying. As long as Yan Ying and Yan Shan don't Say it..."

Gu Jinzhi was slightly confused, and asked, "Will the emperor come to his senses and feel that something is wrong?"

"...No. Unexpectedly, the prince was involved in today's incident, and he was scolded." Zhu Zhongjun smiled, "The emperor is now full of dissatisfaction with the prince and worries about going to war. He doesn't Will have the energy to keep an eye on me."

Zhu Zhongjun's ability to handle things so successfully in the palace shows that he has a lot of contacts in the palace.

Gu Jinzhi thought that during the seven years in Luzhou, the money he sent to the capital each year accounted for [-]% of the Luzhou treasury.That's a lot of money.

Now it seems that the money was spent wisely.

Gu Jinzhi nodded.

Zhu Zhongjun patted her on the back and let her go.

Gu Jinzhi no longer mentioned this matter.

Later, the Queen Mother faintly heard a little wind.

It is impossible for the empress dowager, who has always been clear-eyed, not to know that the emperor was so angry.

She sent someone to check.

In the end, she didn't find out about King Jin smashing Yanying's foot, she just heard that King Jin met the prince in the imperial garden, the prince lost his temper and scolded King Jin a few words.

In the end, the prince took King Jin to the imperial study to file a complaint against Yanying.

The queen mother thought for a while, and the mastermind of the whole thing might be the crown prince.

She is angry.

Stealing is not a serious crime in terms of law, but in terms of personality, it can almost obliterate all the advantages of a person.If Yanying was accused of stealing, she would probably be inferior in her life.

The queen mother felt that the conflict between the prince and Zhu Zhongjun in the court actually involved a little child, and the methods were both humble and vicious.

What if the queen mother dissatisfied the prince in the slightest?

Will he do the same to the empress dowager or even the emperor?

The prince's previous filial piety has become insignificant.

The Empress Dowager felt very chilled. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.)

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