Rebirth As a Fatuous and Self-indulgent Ruler

359. Could He Turn the Tide?

Translator: Storm in a Teacup

In the next ten days, almost everyone in the imperial court had known that Fang was fighting against the crown prince.

Regarding this, Emperor Zhou warned the both parties, but he criticized the crown prince more.

Therefore, everyone was thinking that Emperor Zhou cared more about the fourth prince.

It was reasonable. The fourth prince was the chosen one!

Of course, according to Fang, he and the crown prince just had different political views occasionally.

Besides, the fourth prince did everything from the interests of the people in Eastern Darkness. He did what was good for the people and didn’t fight with the crown prince in everything.

So, in the past half a month, Fang’s reputation for being considerate of the people quickly spread.

All the people grew on him.

The crown prince was angry about this, but he could do nothing to Fang.

The ministers were observing Emperor Zhou and they were very careful to take sides.

In addition, some ministers had already openly chosen to be on Fang’s side.

Fang had already had some supporters in the court.

However, Fang was still very careful when he was with those people.

When they vaguely proposed that they should fight the crown prince, Fang would appear upright and say that he never wanted to rival against his elder brother.

Why did he do that to make people think so? Destiny made a fool of everyone. He really wanted to do something for the people!

Who knew how many people would believe his worlds? But at least, no one made more suggestions about that on the surface.

In fact, Fang didn’t trust all the people who were with him.

He could only trust two or three of them.

He thought that most of them were just fence-sitters, or they were actually sent by the emperor or the crown prince!

Fang was totally right. Some ministers around him were really ordered by the crown prince and the emperor.

When Emperor Zhou received the secret report and heard that Fang had the same attitude towards the crown prince both in court and in private, a strange expression appeared on his face.

But he didn’t think it was so strange after thinking for a while.

As for the crown prince, he thought that Fang was actually acting!

In other words, the crown prince didn’t believe that Fang wasn’t hostile to him at all!

On the eighteenth day, the war at the border finally started.

Heaven Dragon launched a large-scale attack.

Because of a lack of preparation, Eastern Darkness had been steadily losing ground!

The army of Heaven Dragon fought with a crushing force, so the border of Eastern Darkness was in danger!

When the news was sent to the court of Eastern Darkness, all the ministers were shocked.

Emperor Zhou got furious.

However, he immediately saw “opportunity” here after calming down.

Therefore, after he threw a tantrum in the court, he issued several orders and decided to send reinforcements to the battlefield.

Moreover, the troops would be led by the crown prince!

What Long Xiaoyuan and Shi Qingzhou speculated was correct.

Emperor Zhou really decided to send the crown prince to the battlefield!

Of course, during the process, both Fang and Zhou Suye also asked for joining the battle. So did the crown prince.

They all knew that if they could defeat Heaven Dragon, it would be a great merit!

Moreover, they would take control of part of the army.

Would there be anything better than that?

Therefore, the three princes all volunteered to do it. In the end, Emperor Zhou chose the crown prince.

Many ministers couldn’t help but wonder whether the emperor cared most about the crown prince.

During the fight between the crown prince and the fourth prince, the emperor defended the latter most of the time.

However, the ministers weren’t stupid.

Just as the fourth prince said, he and the crown prince had some different opinions because he did everything from the interests of the people.

Perhaps Emperor Zhou defended the fourth prince just because he also cared about the people.

So, which prince did the emperor favor more, the fourth prince or the crown prince?

Many ministers began to guess.

Some ministers who hadn’t taken sides thought that they would wait until the crown prince won or was about to win the battle.

In fact, those ministers didn’t take the attack from Heaven Dragon seriously.

For a long time, they’d been having the upper hand in the battles against Heaven Dragon, so they didn’t think their opponent was powerful.

Although there had been no large-scale battles in the past few years, they could still find how strong Eastern Darkness was in some small fights.

They didn’t believe that Heaven Dragon would be able to attack the inland areas! That was just impossible!

Almost all the ministers of Eastern Darkness were so confident. So were great generals and Emperor Zhou.

Emperor Zhou was just using this war to pave the way for the true heir.

However, he also knew that the emperor of Heaven Dragon was no longer fatuous, so some of his sons had been eliminated and there were almost no forces left there.

Even if a few people were still hiding there, they wouldn’t achieve something big!

In this regard, Emperor Zhou thought that those princes were really useless and only his Suye was the best.

If it was Suye who did everything under his instructions, perhaps the emperor of Heaven Dragon had already been changed!

If someone just wanted to be partial to a certain person, nobody would stop him.

The situation in the imperial court was just like that. The crown prince was about to go to the battlefield with the army.

It was a very grand occasion as the emperor led all the ministers to see off the troops.

The people in the entire imperial city also had great expectations for the crown prince.

However, there were still some people talking in a low voice.

“Why isn’t it the fourth prince?”

“Right. The fourth prince is the chose one. If he’s sent there, heaven will bless our nation.”

“Shhh, don’t say that. The fourth prince will be harmed.”

“Yes, the crown prince isn’t as kind as the fourth prince.”

Some people were whispering to each other. The crown prince and the others who were far away naturally couldn’t hear them clearly, but it didn’t mean that they didn’t know there was such gossip.

Therefore, the crown prince gave Fang a cold look when he left, while Fang looked at him innocently.

Zhou Suye also knew what the people were talking about, so he secretly clenched his fists.

The chosen one… He didn’t believe that Fang did nothing to create that fire dragon last time.

Zhou Suye thought Fang was upright on the surface, but in fact he had wild ambitions!

It was a pity that his father trusted Fang and he still had no evidence…

Zhou Suye slowly dropped his eyes. Over the years, he had learned to hide his capacities and bide his time.

So, he wasn’t afraid to wait. He could also afford to wait!

He wanted the throne. That was his wish since childhood.

To this end, he had paid a lot and expected a lot.

Now that he had finally resumed his identity, he would definitely fight for that position. He wouldn’t mind it even if he needed to charge through fire and water!

He wouldn’t let go of anyone who tried to stop him!

Thinking of this, Zhou Suye’s eyes flashed with coldness.

His father had never shown him any affection for decades.

He also had no feelings for that person.

So, if the emperor decided to pass the throne to another man… he shouldn’t blame his youngest son for being cruel!

Emperor Zhou didn’t know what his favorite son was thinking about. If he knew that… he would feel sad, right?

No matter what, he must reap what he sowed!

Once Fang returned to the mansion, he went to meet Long.

Shi wasn’t there. These days, he had been taking action with Wang Qi and the others.

In addition, they received the message from Ying Feng that nothing went wrong there.

Tianxiangzi didn’t come to criticize Fang because of the “portrait” earlier and she just pretended nothing had happened. Fang naturally wouldn’t go to argue with her.

Tianxiangzi had shown her sincerity in the cooperation.

Therefore, they carried out some missions together.

Of course, all those missions were “not important”. Even if something went wrong, other people wouldn’t find any evidence to accuse Fang.

Tianxiangzi should have known this, but so what?

From the time when she took the initiative to talk to Fang, she should’ve known that some things couldn’t be decided by her at all…

Moreover, Fang didn’t think that this woman had no other intentions!

So, they were just using each other at the moment.

Ying Feng was the one who had been sent to keep an eye on her!

Long and Fang entered the room.

Fang described what happened in the court in detail and then analyzed it with Long.

It was what they often did recently.

Long could always give Fang a lot of advice.

After Fang finished speaking, Long said, “Well, now let’s see if your big brother can turn the tide. But I don’t think there are many people who want him to achieve this.”

Fang smiled upon hearing this. “That’s right, and he doesn’t have the ability to turn the tide,” Fang said with a sneer.