His own people are not in the palace, an edict to the cabinet, to the major yamen, to the capital of countless eunuchs brought a huge impact, the emperor has no consciousness of this, out of Zhang Yuan, he even took the four princes to the famous West Fourth Archway in the capital for a walk, then planned to go back to the palace through the Xi'an Gate.

In this way, the four princes who came out with their father today were naturally happy, and they almost didn't want to go back to the palace. However, Lu Chan, who was waiting for the emperor at Xi'an Gate, waited until he was almost ready to see through. Although his leg was not broken, he almost burst into tears when he saw the figure of the emperor and his party appear in sight.

He stepped forward like a gust of wind, and after saluting, he said cautiously: "Your Majesty, the three elders of the cabinet, the six Shangshu of the six ministries and the imperial history of Zuodu, plus a large number of ministers with heads and faces, all gathered in Fengtianmen to ask to see. Father-in-law Chu is in a hurry, and I don't know how many people I sent to look for you outside......"

Before Lu Chan finished speaking, the emperor laughed suddenly: "Chu Kuan, he is still in a hurry?" Isn't he unhurried in everything? ”

This kind of remark sounded a little angry, and Lu Chan naturally didn't dare to take it rashly. After this sentence, the emperor did not say much, but walked quickly towards the royal horses that had been prepared a long time ago. The fourth prince was not to be outdone, he took a short leg and followed closely behind, and saw that there was a horse among the royal horses that was suitable for his height, and he was satisfied.

But the height of the horses is certainly suitable, but the emperor and his party returned to the palace through the West Garden, and even if the speed cannot be said to be galloping, it is much stronger than the four princes who are beginners in riding. So he was left behind, if he hadn't found that Lu Chan was actually in the back of the battle, his face would have drooped a long time ago.

And Lu Chan saw that the emperor and his entourage had already run away and even disappeared, and today he came to report the news in person but was rejected by the emperor, so he rode his horse close to the fourth prince and gossiped with him with a smile. He had to dispel the vigilance of the four princes, and then try to find out why the emperor would suddenly anger Chu Kuan, but he didn't want the four princes to be messed with at all.

The man glanced at him, and said with a smile: "You want to ask your father why he provoked Father-in-law Chu to be angry, right?" ”

Seeing Lu Chandeng's face was extremely embarrassed, the fourth prince said angrily: "I followed my father to Zhang Yuan's workshop to see the teacher today, and I found a suspicious person inside, which turned out to be the eyeliner that was planted in our palace for the teacher!" Of course, I couldn't help but ask my father, but my father directly scolded Father-in-law Chu for doing all the extra things! ”

Lu Chan chuckled in his heart. What does it mean to see a suspicious person? What do you mean that is the eyeliner that the palace planted in Zhang Shou's place? The most important thing is, how could the emperor decide that it was Chu Kuan who did it as soon as he heard about it?

Although that was what Chu Kuan did...... It's still someone who has been selected by his hand, but I didn't expect it to be so useless!

Thinking about it this way, Lu Chan had to be inexplicably surprised, because the four princes' "straightforward and fast-talking" was famous, and even Liu Feng, who had told him confidential information, was sold all at once and was almost kicked out of the Qianqing Palace, he didn't dare to touch the little prince's moldy head, so he didn't dare to say a superfluous word.

When the four princes and he rushed to Xihuamen one after another, he learned from the guards guarding the gate that the guards who followed today were all dismounted here, but the emperor rode directly into the palace, probably going straight to Fengtianmen, he couldn't help but have a toothache.

Historically, foreign ministers have at most galloped horses in the outer imperial city, and the palace city is a complete forbidden area, even the royal family and clan relatives are the same, and even the emperors of the past dynasties will not ride horses in their own palace city as usual. But among the emperors of this dynasty to the present, there are so many who are unwilling to abide by the rules.

First is Emperor Taizu, who is the founding son of the country, then Emperor Yingzong, who endured for many years and finally returned to the court in one fell swoop, then the first emperor Ruizong, and finally ...... But he didn't win the world on horseback, but he especially liked the emperor of the palace city.

But it doesn't matter usually, today so many courtiers gather in Fengtianmen, and the emperor rides over like this, what does it look like! If the Queen Mother knew, she would probably be angry with them!

Lu Chan was worried, but the four princes were inexplicably excited. He shook the reins directly, and actually broke into Xihua Gate with him. A few of the guards tried to stop them, but when they saw the pony and the little guy on horseback, they retreated after a second thought. With the emperor's connivance with his two younger sons, this little thing in the Chima Palace is nothing at all.

I want to be the queen...... After the abolition, he didn't condone the eldest prince and the second prince to do this!

And the fourth prince tentatively broke into Xihua Gate, and found that no one stopped him, so he suddenly became more bold, only when Lu Chan's call behind him did not exist.

Although the riding skills are a little jerky, there may be a few royal horses in the palace that are selected at the request of the emperor and have a bit of temperament, but the ones who really give the emperor and princes like him daily riding are all docile and obedient.

Therefore, even if the fourth prince has such a bad riding skill, he can still control this docile pony well. When he saw that he was about to reach a small gate, he hurriedly stopped, and then clumsily flipped off his horse, and did not care what the little horse was, and as soon as he stood firm, he rushed to the side of the little gate.

He looked over and saw the black crowd of people in the square in the distance. Although it was still far from the point of Fuque, he realized that this matter was probably not small.

Although he didn't understand what was going on, curiosity drove the four princes to sneak out and tiptoe closer there. If it is usual, even if others are small and inconspicuous, after all, such a big living person will not be ignored. But today, the attention of both parties was on each other, so no one noticed him at first.

As a result, the bold four princes approached smoothly and smoothly to a place twenty or thirty steps away from the ministers. Because he came from behind, except for the emperor, he thought that no one else would find out about him, but even so, for the sake of safety, he found that the father and the emperor and the ministers in front of him were in a stalemate, and he still honestly stopped.

And the next moment, he heard a voice from the crowd.

"Your Majesty, the eldest prince and the second prince are also royal bloodlines after all, even if they are guilty, they can't let one of them fend for themselves in Zongzheng Temple and the other in Qiongzhou Mansion, right? What's more, the two of them are adults, and they have mentioned the matter of concubines before, but now they have stopped abruptly, wouldn't it be detrimental to spread the word......"

"What's the loss? Damage to my reputation? The emperor angrily interrupted the heartbroken old Shangshu's words, and said impatiently, "I heard that Lao Aiqing's family has a young daughter who is very good, do you also plan to learn from Yue Shanchang and are willing to marry to the eldest prince?" ”

It's actually for the eldest brother and the second brother? The four princes had already heard that their eyes were about to pop out, and Rao was no matter how big he was, he couldn't help but regret coming to join in the excitement at this time. However, he had only taken two steps back in his own way, and he saw the emperor's eyes looking at him, and his face was as pale as earth, so he simply stood there and watched his nose and nose, and did not dare to move any more.

And the emperor's extremely mean rhetorical question really made the old Shangshu stay on the spot. But in the end, it is a person who has been in the sea for a long time, and the trembling old Shangshu was only stunned for a moment, and then he took a deep breath and said: "If the emperor is ......"

"No, I just said it casually, and you don't have to be so impassioned to push your little lady with a pear blossom and a begonia into the fire pit!"

The emperor interrupted Lao Shangshu's words again with a tiger face, and then looked at the rest of the people: "Since ancient times, the history has been commented by later generations, even if Emperor Taizu is right, it is not that no one is writing some messy things behind his back, let alone me." I'm not afraid of being said to be mistreating my son, because I used to indulge them too much, so that they grew crooked! ”

"Now that it has grown into a crooked neck tree, if I raise more crooked neck trees, it will be better to have a long pain than a short pain! Da Lang is completely hopeless, if Erlang is willing to stay in Qiongzhou Mansion to plant the magic medicine for treating malaria, he is still my son at that time, and the prodigal son will not change his money, and he will naturally be worthy of the famous Shuyuan! ”

Regarding the emperor's obviously hard-hearted attitude, while Confucius University had a headache, the premonition that was already haunting his heart suddenly became stronger. Although he is not the first assistant, he is now the highest-ranking cabinet minister, and he has to stand up at the moment and ask their biggest questions on behalf of the hundred officials.

"Your Majesty, now that the eldest prince and the second prince have seen their crimes, if the East Palace is still as empty as before, then the officialdom and the people will probably feel uneasy. Previously, the emperor never established the crown prince on the grounds that the East Palace was established early and disputes continued, but now it seems that if some people can be cut off as soon as possible, there may not be anything before. ”

This is a statement of condemnation of the emperor's actions, Wu Ge Lao asked himself, anyway, he would never dare to be so direct. And Zhang Yu, the junior bachelor with the least qualifications in the cabinet, opened his mouth, but he didn't dare to rush along in the end.

The two ministers were silent, and although the courtiers gathered here today seemed to be majestic and high-spirited just now, they were all silent at this time.

Following the Confucius scholars, accusing the emperor's ambiguous attitude is the root cause of the two princes' downfall? This is also shocking!

However, after the initial slight stunned, the emperor was not furious because of the accusation of the Confucian scholar, but nodded lightly, and said very plainly: "Kong Qing is right, I once blamed the concubine for being a biological mother and teaching her son in no way, but there is a way that the son does not teach, and the father's fault, in fact, as a father, my sin is even greater. ”

"I took away the throne of the eldest prince before, and did not sacrifice to the temple, but now I should officially sacrifice to the temple, and personally ask the ancestors and the ancestors for the fault of this godson." When he said this, the emperor's pale face showed a bit of ridicule, "Or do you want me to make an edict?" ”

As soon as these words came out, there was an uproar when the head was lowered. Even the Confucian scholar who had just been strong enough to question the emperor but was not blamed was a little unable to stand, and immediately bowed down and did not dare to say anything. As a result, the four princes saw that the ministers in front of them were suddenly shorter. When he was highlighted, he only felt fear and resentment in his heart.

What frightened him was that he encountered the scene where his father wanted to deal with the two brothers - although the two brothers were not familiar with him at all, he not only did not experience brotherhood, but also experienced deep hostility.

And what he was angry about was that when he was still the queen in the past, his father had also ordered the two to move to the East Pavilion to study, but the queen turned a deaf ear and refused to let them go, and even claimed that as long as he was the queen for a day, he would protect his two sons from being bullied...... Not to mention that the eldest prince and the second prince are the best from the teacher to anything.

At this time, he even wanted to shout, why is his father not good to them, why is he going to sue the temple to ask his ancestors for sin!

But the emperor faced the ministers who knelt on the ground, but he didn't personally help anyone, and later a good show of the monarch and ministers relieving their previous suspicions. He just looked at the back of his head quietly, and said word by word for a long time: "I still have two sons now, and the concubine in the palace is already pregnant with Liujia, if it is a boy, then I am fortunate that I will add another son." ”

"But the seat of the East Palace will no longer be empty. The three princes are of noble character, gentle and virtuous, and can be regarded as the East Palace. The Ministry of Rites went to check the ceremony of canonizing the crown prince, and then drew up a simple but solemn ceremony for me to see. ”

The fourth prince stood there in a daze, and it took a long time before he came back from his trance and suddenly realized that his father was actually going to canonize his third brother as the crown prince! Although he has been well protected by the emperor since he was a child, and his only shortcomings are pampering and impulsiveness, it doesn't mean that he really doesn't understand the affairs of those adults.

In the past, he had also talked to the third prince in a whisper, if one of the eldest prince and the second prince became the crown prince, what would happen to them, and he was not without confusion in his heart. But now, these two mountains have been moved, and his best and favorite third brother is about to become the prince!

The four princes, who had fully woken up, suddenly waved their fists at the sky excitedly, and then they no longer cared about what the occasion was, so they turned around and ran. And the emperor, who saw him running happily, had a faint smile on his face, but immediately after, the smile turned into a trace of melancholy.

He remembered clearly, thinking that when he swore to take over this country in front of his seriously ill father when he was young, the same young King Lu innocently asked him, it is really good that the imperial brother has become the emperor, can I do whatever I want in the future? What did he answer categorically at that time? It's like a completely thoughtless promise – of course, you can do whatever you want!

But later, he watched the younger brother who grew up since he was a child, not only for gold and silver beauties, but also for his country and his life.

I only hope that his sons will not repeat the fate of their fathers......

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