high official

Chapter 851

When Zhu Zhanji hurried to the gate of Qianqing Palace, he was stopped by Yang Qing who was on duty.Yang Qing said to Zhu Zhanji with a strange face: "Your Highness, let's wait, the emperor is summoning His Highness the Crown Prince..."

"Too... my father, when did he go in?" Zhu Zhanji asked in a low voice.

"It's been almost half an hour." Yang Qing thought about it.

Zhu Zhanji's heart sank, and his face became more and more ugly.Yang Qing invited him to the side hall to keep warm and have tea, but Zhu Zhanji ignored him, and just stood straight at the gate of the palace, motionless.

After waiting for about a cup of tea, Zhu Gaochi's broad figure came out from inside.The father and son hadn't seen each other for more than a month, and when they met here and now, their expressions were extremely dull.

"Father." Zhu Zhanji bowed to the prince.

"En." The crown prince nodded, only glanced at the grandson, and said casually: "Go in quickly, Your Majesty is waiting."

"Yes." Zhu Zhanji responded, and was about to pull his legs out to go in, but when he thought about it, he stopped and said, "It's cold, father should take care."

"Understood, I will trouble you." The prince nodded slightly.

"Father," Zhu Zhanji had never heard of the prince before, and he spoke to himself in this tone. Although he was thinking about it, he still felt very disappointed: "You are too polite."

"My son is three-pointed, there is no harm in being polite." After the prince finished speaking, he nodded slightly at him again, and staggered away with the support of two eunuchs.

Standing at the gate of Qianqing Palace, Zhu Zhanji looked at the far away figure, and he knew that he and his father would never be able to return to the original place... He also missed the last chance to make amends.

'It's nothing, since we chose this path, we are doomed to part ways! His Highness Taisun took a deep breath of the cold air, secretly cheered himself up, and then resolutely turned around and entered the hall.

As soon as he turned around, Zhu Gaochi turned around and saw his son's decisive back, with deep disappointment in his eyes.With a sigh, His Royal Highness turned around and left...

.

Entering Qianqing Palace, Zhu Zhanji hurriedly knelt down to pay his respects to Grandpa Huang.Zhu Di's body has recovered a lot, and he no longer needs support when walking underground, so his mood is naturally not so gloomy.Looking at his grandson, he smiled and said, "Get up quickly, why are you late today?"

"Grandson had a few extra glasses of wine yesterday, so he came late," Zhu Zhanji said shyly, "Grandpa, please punish me."

"Oh, this looks like a young man..." Zhu Di waved his hands, smiled indifferently, and asked casually, "By the way, did you meet your father just now?"

"I met..." Zhu Zhanji's heart skipped a few beats, and he lowered his head and said in a low voice.

"Hehe..." Zhu Di looked at his gloomy look, smiled, and said happily, "You don't have to worry too much, I let him out, but it's because many kings of the kingdom have seen him come to court this time." The crown prince." His expression turned indifferent as he said: "I can live without this son, but the country cannot live without a crown prince..."

"Yes." Zhu Zhanji secretly sighed in his heart, Yang Rong and Yang Shiqi, these great scholars, are really old foxes who know the Sacred Heart well, and they can clearly feel the emperor's mind.In fact, it wasn't that he didn't believe them, but he didn't want to see his father come back from the bottom of his heart, and the emperor didn't give him time at all to think clearly and speak for his father.

"But don't worry too much," Zhu Di said, as if reassuring his grandson, "Your father is only in charge of etiquette and receiving foreign guests when he comes out, and the rest of the things are unheard of."

"Yes..." Zhu Zhanji nodded helplessly. It seemed that Grandpa Huang had made up his mind to make his father and son confront each other to the end.But isn't the current situation exactly what I want to see?
"There is one more thing I want him to do, and that is your marriage." Zhu Di looked at his grandson with a smile, and said: "After the new year, you will be twenty-two, and the marriage can no longer be delayed. I have done it for you We have settled on a marriage, and the six rituals cannot be separated from him as a father."

"Ah?!" Zhu Zhanji's heartbeat accelerated immediately, and he stammered and asked, "Marriage, marriage? Whose family is it?"

"The third daughter of Hu Rong from a hundred households of the Habayashi Guard, she is virtuous and of high moral character," Zhu Di looked at him with a half-smile and said, "I thought she was the grandson's wife."

"This..." Zhu Zhanji was stunned. He didn't know what kind of ghost Hu Rong was, and what kind of ghost Hu Rong's daughter was.Finally couldn't bear it and said loudly: "Grandpa Huang, my grandson likes other people!"

"I know. Your father also knows." Zhu Di said with no surprise, "But Uncle Zhongyong, the sister of Wang Xian, the governor of Jinyiwei?"

"Exactly!" Zhu Zhanji hurriedly said with a smile: "Grandpa Huang loves his grandson the most, and he must make good things happen to his grandson..."

"You really want to marry that Yin who is called?" Zhu Di asked.

"Silver bell." Zhu Zhanji said hurriedly.

"Oh Yinling." Zhu Di said lightly: "Your father also mentioned her. I said that you can marry her if you want to, but once you marry her, Uncle Zhongyong will become a relative and can no longer hold important positions. You have to change to an idle one. Errands, live at leisure."

"Why?!" Zhu Zhanji's face changed drastically immediately, Wang Xian was his most powerful assistant, and the Jinyiwei in Wang Xian's hands was his greatest reliance in the ruling and opposition parties.The avant-garde of the government army has fallen apart, if Wang Xian and Jin Yiwei were gone, what power would he have?Don't look at myself acting as an agent of state affairs and acting like a half-lord, but if I don't have these iron supporters, the emperor can beat me back to my original shape with a decree, and there is no room for maneuver.

"Do you even need to ask?" Zhu Di said blankly, "It's an iron law that foreign relatives are not allowed to interfere in politics."

In Houhai, Wang Xian, who was getting dressed and was about to go out, suddenly sneezed several times, rubbed his nose and said, "*****, who is talking about me?"

.

"It's an iron law that foreign relatives are not allowed to interfere in politics." Zhu Di looked at his troubled grandson, and said earnestly: "The most important thing to be a king is to choose and choose. You can't have both, you can do everything you want. impossible."

"Yes..." Zhu Zhanji was very confused, and asked with blank eyes: "What did my father say?"

"Your father..." Zhu Di said lightly, "Let me ask you what you mean. I said that my son has grown up and has his own ideas. Let you figure it out."

"Let Boy go back and think about it..." Zhu Zhanji wanted to delay it first.

"No." Unexpectedly, Zhu Di didn't agree at all: "How to choose, we must decide immediately." He looked at the gold box on the table and said: "After a while, I will send the decree to the Ministry of Rites. There is no reason to change it."

"Yes..." Zhu Zhanji knew that it was impossible to change Grandpa Huang's resolute tone.He knelt there, his eyes dim and dim, and his forehead was covered with sweat.Zhu Di didn't urge him either, and just went back to the imperial case and sipped tea to read the memorial.

After reading a stack of memorials, when Yang Qing came in to refill tea, the emperor looked up at Zhu Zhanji and said, "Okay, you must have the answer. Go..."

"Yes..." Zhu Zhanji struggled to squeeze a word out of his throat, kowtowed to Grandpa Huang, then got up very hard, and retreated staggeringly. When he retreated to the door, he almost tripped over the threshold , the legs and feet seem to be worse than the prince's...

"Nothing." Zhu Di snorted coldly, Zhu Zhanji was shocked, and hurriedly puffed up his chest and walked out.

After he left, the emperor glanced at the golden box and told Yang Qing: "Send this decree to the Ministry of Rites so that they can make plans first, and go to Hu Rong's house to accept it after the new year."

"Yes." Yang Qing hurriedly picked up the gold box and went out to the Ministry of Rites to proclaim the decree.

.

Zhu Zhanji walked in the palace with one deep foot and one shallow foot. The solid bluestone road was like mud at this moment, making him unable to pull out his feet or lift his legs.Finally at the corner, he leaned on the red palace wall, bent over and panted heavily, his eyes were wide open, bloodshot in the eyes, and he looked very frightening.

He has never looked down on himself so much as now. He thought that Yinling would not marry, but under the threat of losing power, he was so easily shaken.It turns out that I have unknowingly turned into the most contemptuous appearance...

'No prospect! The emperor's voice exploded in his heart again, and he gritted his teeth with hatred. He finally felt the pain that his father had endured for many years... Imperial power naturally inflicts harm on those closest to it, and has nothing to do with feelings or grievances!It's just to guard against the Daduguo whose possibility is so ridiculously small!

"It turns out that Grandpa Huang has to be on guard against everyone, and he won't be special to me at all..." Zhu Zhanji finally figured it out. He felt that all the strength in his body had been drained, and he leaned his back against the red wall and sat slowly on the bone-chilling On the ground, he laughed at himself: "Why did you let me see it when I couldn't look back?!"

He really can't turn back. If he admits his mistakes to his father, then the power he acquired and kept after paying such a high price will definitely be wiped out... Only by continuing to confront his father can he keep everything and get more!

But!But does it really make sense?After all, he is also his father!All of that should belong to me, sooner or later...

Zhu Zhanji fully understood what it was like to ride a tiger. He knew very well that it was not his grandfather who helped him get on the tiger's back.It was me, my greed, hatred and ignorance, that made me come to this point...

At this time, a group of eunuchs passed by and saw His Royal Highness sitting here slumped, they hurried over to help them, and said courteously, "Oh, Your Highness, how did you do this?!"

"Get out!" Zhu Zhanji roared, and the eunuchs were stunned, and some of them sat down on the ground. "Get out of here! The farther you get out, the better!"

Amidst His Highness Taisun's roar, the little eunuchs scrambled and ran forward, almost bumping into Yang Shiqi and Yang Rong.

Er Yang was holding the memorial, and he should be going to face the saint. Seeing Zhu Zhanji in such a state, he couldn't help frowning, Yang Rong whispered: "Your Highness, be careful in your words and deeds!"

"You don't need to worry about it!" Zhu Zhanji got up in a panic, and stumbled away.

Looking at his back, Yang Rong and Yang Shiqi shook his head secretly, his eyes full of disappointment.

(End of this chapter)