In the imperial study, everyone turned their attention to Eunuch Mo.

And Eunuch Mo lowered his head and replied, not noticing the surprise of everyone.

After he finished speaking, the imperial study was so quiet that it could be heard that the needles were falling, and Eunuch Mo was also beating a drum in his heart.

He didn't dare to look up.

"Okay, you can find it quickly." The Emperor's voice was low, hidden with thunderous rage.

Mrs. Mo listened in her ears, and her heart trembled slightly. He wondered if he had said something wrong or done something wrong.

He hurriedly kowtowed and said yes.

Before leaving, he glanced at King Jin.

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

Eunuch Mo was even more puzzled.

He hurried back, took his things, looked at them carefully, and found nothing unusual, so he took them in his hands and hurried 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 this jade pendant, he looked at it carefully, and then threw the jade pendant into the box, regardless of whether the jade pendant was broken, and then said in a loud voice: "Show the prince and the king of Jin, see what this thing is!" ”

Eunuch Mo didn't know what was going on, but he also understood that this jade pendant was a little hot.

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

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

Seeing Eunuch Mo coming over, the prince didn't look at it, but just took a few steps forward and said, "Father, the third brother cried so pitifully, saying that his jade pendant was stolen, and the sons and daughters saw him like this, and they were eager to protect their hearts, so they ......."

There was a crisp thud, and the emperor slammed the cartridge in front of the desk to the ground.

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

The eunuchs who served were all holding their breath, and their legs trembled with fright.

The emperor interrupted the prince's words by throwing something, and his eyes fell on his other son, King Jin.

"Yanshan, what did you tell the prince?" The Emperor's voice was lower.

He was now trying to endure the roaring wrath of the crowd. As a result, the sound was even lower than usual.

King Jin wowed and cried non-stop: "...... Erchen ...... Erchen didn't know that it was the prince's brother who harmed Erchen......"

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

King Jin bites the crown prince, which seems to be illogical.

The emperor heard a truth from this: it was the crown prince who forced the king of Jin to complain......

King Jin has been pampered since he was a child.

Compared with the crown prince, the emperor never had high hopes for the king of Jin, so he loved him even more. The emperor did not criticize King Jin for biting at the moment, but only felt that King Jin was just a child.

The child is not sensible.

The king of Jin was only six years old, and the emperor did not ask a teacher to enlighten him. The truth he knows is that they are all women from the Forbidden Palace.

He cried so much that he didn't know what to do whenever something happened, and even put the responsibility on the crown prince. It is not a defect in his personality. It's just that I don't know the world.

King Jin is weak and incompetent at the moment. It can also let the emperor see the shadows of the concubines.

The emperor was heartbroken.

These two sons, one weak and the other stupid.

"Father, son-in-law doesn't." The prince saw King Jin climbing and biting him. immediately knelt down and said, "Father, Erchen only has three brothers and one brother, how could Erchen harm him?" It was he himself who said that his jade pendant was stolen......"

But the cry of King Jin resounded throughout the entire hall, covering up the prince's quibble.

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

Zhu Zhongjun gently protected his son and stood aside silently.

"Don't cry!" The crown prince scolded King Jin sharply. "You useless thing, you cry like a at every turn! Tell me what you said to me, or ......."

"How else?" Emperor Interface.

The crown prince was upset by the crying of King Jin, and he did not choose to speak. It's a bit of a gaffe of jumping off the wall in a hurry, but it is looked at by the emperor.

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

The King of Jin is still young and can still be educated, and the prince is almost twenty years old, and he has long lost the possibility of sculpture.

The emperor's anger disappeared in an instant.

He has always been dissatisfied with the crown prince, and it was only at this moment that he made up his mind in his heart: after he cleaned up the Mongolian Warat and Tatars this time, the first thing he did when he came back was to train the king of Jin and let him replace the crown prince Yanxue.

The crown prince was answered by the emperor, and he kowtowed in fright, and said, "Father, the emperor ......"

The emperor said, "The prince should get up." I'm tired today, so you all retreat. ”

The crown prince also said that the emperor had given the eunuchs around him a look and asked them to invite the prince down.

King Jin was also too frightened to cry.

The emperor also asked him to follow Eunuch Mo down.

When only the emperor and Zhu Zhongjun's father and son were left in the imperial study, the emperor said to Zhu Zhongjun: "I know that Yan Ying has been wronged, and there are a lot of jade pendants in it, so I asked Xiang Liang to pick a few pieces for Yan Ying to ......."

He's going to make such an understatement to get things to light.

The emperor's son falsely accused Lai Yanying, but in the end, it was not suitable to be widely advertised, so that the crown prince and the king of Jin were disgraced.

The emperor can scold his son, but he doesn't want Zhu Zhongjun to investigate deeply.

Zhu Zhongjun accepted it when he saw it, knowing that he was saving face for the emperor now, the emperor was grateful, so he said: "Thank you Brother Huang for the reward." ”

He didn't say a word about it.

He took Yan Ying and went out from the imperial study.

Immediately, the emperor asked people to go to the inner hide, found ten good 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.

This time there was an expedition, and the emperor was not sure in his heart. He went on an expedition with the emperor once, and also went to the front once.

But that time, if it wasn't for Shen Guogong Xu Qin who saved him, he almost lost his life.

That incident became a joke in the army.

Everyone else said that the prince was useless, just a hairy boy who looked like a woman and had not dried up.

In the hearts of the border generals, he is only afraid that his status is not as high as that of Jiang Liang, the Marquis of Yuanping.

In recent years, the morale of the northwest has become more and more depressed.

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

If such an important town is not recovered, the morale of the imperial court will be even lower, and the Mongol tribes will always fight to the capital one day.

The emperor must be personally enlisted.

This time, he has not left yet, just like looking in a demon mirror, revealing the prince's true nature.

The prince's problem was that the emperor knew far more about it in the past.

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

Nicely put. The prince called the grievances clear; To put it mildly, the prince is willful.

His character, if he is an ordinary child, is so straightforward and enthusiastic, and he is quite popular.

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

This preparation for the personal expedition made the emperor see the prince thoroughly.

The emperor's heart was already half cold.

And now in this matter, the prince clearly wanted to take revenge on Zhu Zhongjun for refuting his words in the morning, and dragged King Jin to the emperor without even going to investigate. And in front of the emperor. It is both satirical and satirical to Zhu Zhongjun. and insulted the king of Jin.

If he were only a son, the emperor would have forgiven him.

However, he is the crown prince.

His actions were rash and reckless. If the world is in his hands. Sooner or later, it's going to be messy.

Changing the crown prince is not an easy task......

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

In a month, he's on his way.

He really didn't worry about handing over the capital to the prince.

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

If the prince offends Zhu Zhongjun, he offends the emperor.

Pity. Judging from today's events, the crown prince did not understand the emperor's meaning at all. Maybe he understood, but he wasn't afraid at all.

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

He didn't need to curry favor with the emperor at all.

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

*****

At night. Zhu Zhongjun returned to the Ping Palace.

Gu Jinzhi was waiting for him to come back.

The jade pendant rewarded by the emperor has been delivered.

“…… What did the emperor say? Gu Jinzhi asked Zhu Zhongjun to put down the child, and the couple talked privately, "I saw that I was rewarded with so many jade pendants, and it must be the matter of King Jin that the emperor knew." Did the emperor tell your father and son not to mention it again? ”

Gu Jinzhi's jade pendant is a hush money.

Actually, this is not false.

These jade pendants do mean this.

Zhu Zhongjun pulled her in his arms and hugged her gently, before whispering: "I'll go and deal with the matter." No one in the palace knows about King Jin's compensation for the jade pendant to Yan Ying, as long as Yan Ying and Yan Shan don't talk about it......"

Gu Jinzhi's heart was slightly confused, and he said, "Will the emperor come back to his senses and feel that something is wrong?" ”

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

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

Gu Jinzhi thought that during the seven years he was in Luzhou, the money he sent to the capital every year accounted for thirty percent of the Luzhou treasury. That's a lot of money.

Now it seems that all that money is being spent on the cutting edge.

Gu Jinzhi nodded.

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

Gu Jinzhi didn't mention this matter anymore.

Later, the Queen Mother faintly heard a little wind.

The emperor is so angry, it is impossible for the queen mother, who has always been clear-eyed, not to know.

She sent someone to investigate.

As a result, she didn't find out about King Jin smashing Yan Ying's foot, but she just heard that King Jin met the prince in the imperial garden, and the prince lost his temper and scolded King Jin a few words.

In the end, the crown prince took King Jin to the imperial study to complain and frame Yanying.

The Queen Mother thought about it, and the mastermind of the whole thing was only afraid that it was the prince.

She was angry.

Stealing is not a great sin in terms of law, but in terms of personality, it can erase almost all the virtues of a person. If Yan Ying is saddled with the name of stealing, she will probably be inferior in this life.

The Queen Mother felt that the contradiction between the prince and Zhu Zhongjun in the court actually involved a little child, and the means were both lowly and vicious.

What if the Queen Mother makes the prince dissatisfied in the slightest in the future?

Will he do the same to the Queen Mother or even the Emperor?

The prince's former filial piety has become insignificant.

The Queen Mother felt very chilled.