Dali Temple in the capital.

"Open the door." The second prince Zhao Jian was about to enter the Dali Temple to meet his younger brother Zhao Hao, but he never thought that he would be stopped at the gate of the Dali Temple.

"By the emperor's order, no one is allowed to enter Dali Temple, I don't know if His Royal Highness the Second Prince can have the emperor's order? If not, then His Highness will not be able to be put in. Xiao Yu, the secretary of Dali Temple, said respectfully.

"I'm going to see my own brother, and that's not okay?" Zhao Jian stared at Xiao Yu and asked, facing his old minister, Zhao Jian was willing to give him a chance.

"Without the emperor's will, no." Xiao Yu replied, "Please also ask Your Highness to go to the emperor to receive the will, and the lower officials will naturally let him go." ”

"You will ask for it, and I will see you now." Zhao Jian said indifferently, "As for how you say that it is your business when you get to the emperor, now, get out of the way." Zhao Jian said that he was going to go in.

Xiao Yu stopped Zhao Jian one step at a time, bent down and said respectfully: "Please don't embarrass Your Highness." ”

Zhao Jian also bent down and put one hand on Xiao Yu's back, pressed Xiao Yu's ear and said, "Do you think my father will blame me if I kill you?" Then he slapped his palm hard, knocked Xiao Yu to the ground, and strode into Dali Temple.

Since the fourth prince Zhao Hao was imprisoned here, the criminals who were originally imprisoned here were transferred. Zhao Jian walked straight to the deepest part.

"My good brother, tell me, how did you end up locked up here?" Zhao Jian said with a smile.

"Second brother, you are finally here, eldest brother he wants to kill me, in order to protect myself, I can only take a compromise method, and it has become like this... Zhao Hao replied.

"You have to know, the eldest brother is the prince, you must have done something to make him feel that the position of the prince is not steady, right?" Zhao Jian asked with a slight sigh.

"Yang Liangru is my teacher, that was decided by my father back then, and I don't want to, now that his position as the crown prince is unstable, he will come to kill me, what is the reason?" Zhao Hao said angrily, "Besides, who doesn't know how his position as the prince came about, if it weren't for his mother's life, the position of the prince would be the second brother's, and it wouldn't be his turn to be the prince if he said anything." ”

"Dad let Yang Liangru be your teacher back then, so that after the eldest brother ascended the throne, he could take Yang Liangru to establish his authority, Dad killed a lot of ministers in the court and the central government when he ascended the throne, and the eldest brother has lived in the deep palace for a long time since he was a child, if he does not establish his authority, no one is afraid of him." Zhao Jian explained.

"In this way, I will go to my father to intercede for you, let him release you, and you will go to the south with me, although this capital is good, it is not a place for us to stay."

"My father didn't give us the title of king after he was the crown prince, I was wondering about this matter at the beginning, it turned out to be for the two of us to give his son Liwei, we are also the sons of our father, why did my father treat us like this!" Zhao Hao said angrily.

"Second brother knows that you have a lot of grievances in your heart, but you can't help it, who told our father to pave the way for our eldest brother, so let's hide far away." Zhao Jian said soothingly.

"Second brother, I have listened to you for everything since I was a child, but this is not the case! My father wants him to ascend the throne as an emperor, so I will make him unable to even sit still as an emperor, second brother, don't worry, in my heart, you have always been the most suitable to be the emperor! Zhao Haole said.

"You are my own brother, how can I look at you... Zhao Jian turned his head to hide his face and cry.

"Second brother, don't worry, I still have to watch you ascend to the throne, and I will protect myself." Zhao Hao said with a smile.

"I'll go to my father and ask my father to let you out, the second brother is fighting for his life, don't let your father let you go!" Zhao Jian swore an oath.

"Second brother, I believe in you!" Zhao Hao nodded.

When Zhao Jian walked out of Dali Temple, he wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and said softly: "Although these tears are not valuable, they can make people who believe in it work hard for it, my stupid brother, don't blame me when you go underground in the future, if you want to complain, you will complain that you were born in the emperor's family, and your heart is so simple." ”

In the main hall of the palace, in the emperor's bedroom.

"Father, my son has come to see you." Zhao Jian said with concern, "How is my father doing lately?" ”

"You still dare to come back?!" Zhao Wu lay on the bed and was furious.

"Father, the son cares about his father's body, and rushed back from the south thousands of miles away to take care of his father, and the father treats the son like this?" Zhao Jian said.

"You brute! Get out! I don't need you to take care of me even if I die! Zhao Wuqiang stood up and scolded.

"Since my father said so, then I don't feel guilty at all, father, if a concubine becomes the emperor, isn't my father afraid of the world's ridicule? Since ancient times, it has been a succession. Zhao Jian got straight to the point, "Look at the current appearance of the eldest brother, it's not certain whether he can wake up, father, it's still too late to change the crown prince." ”

"Someone! Come! Take this rebel down on me! Zhao Wu shouted loudly, but no one came in.

"Someone." Zhao Jian shouted.

A person came in from outside the door, it was Bai Ziqian, the pillar of Zuo Guozhu, "The minister is here." Bai Ziqian said respectfully to Zhao Jian.

"You! You guys! You're going to rebel?! Zhao Wu ran to the saber on the side of the bed, and was about to pull out the saber, Zhao Jian rushed forward to help Zhao Wu onto the bed, and said: "Father, you are old, these things of dancing knives and guns are still handed over to your sons, you pay more attention to your body." ”

"Where is Long Wuwei!" Zhao Wu pushed Zhao Jian away, and shouted sharply.

As soon as the voice stopped, dozens of people stood with swords from all sides, and the first person was Cui Zheng!

"Second prince, is this a rebellion?" Cui Zheng drew his sword to protect the emperor and said: "And you, Bai Ziqian, who followed my ass to eat the position of Zuo Guozhu back then, do you still want to be my position now?" ”

"Master Cui, what do you mean by this? Rebel? How could it be, I just want to help my father to lie on the bed, since my father doesn't want to, just let the minister go. Zhao Jian said after briefly weighing the pros and cons.

"In that case, then please ask His Royal Highness the Second Prince to leave now!" Cui Zheng stood still and did not move to protect the emperor.

"The father and the emperor pay attention to rest, and the son and the minister retire." Zhao Jian said that, and left the dormitory with Bai Ziqian.

"This brute actually wants to kill his father!" Zhao Wu lay on the bed and coughed uncontrollably, scolding angrily.

"The emperor is angry." Cui Zheng persuaded on the side that it was better for him to interfere less in the matter of the change of throne, otherwise it would be inevitable that some people would think more.

"Let him go back to the south tomorrow, never be able to enter Beijing, let the county guards around the capital secretly transfer thousands of elite soldiers into Beijing, before Zhao Jian enters the south, once there is a change, you will arrange it." Zhao Wu ordered.

"Yes!" Cui Zhengying said.

After Zhao Jian left the palace, he rubbed a dagger on his neck a little, and immediately rushed to Dali Temple to see his younger brother.

"Brother, my father doesn't want us anymore, I still don't want to let you out if I force my father to die, the second brother can't stand you, the second brother has no face to see you, but my father blames me for why I didn't summon the order to enter Beijing without permission, let me go back to the south immediately, after thinking about it, I still came, after seeing you, I will leave, don't blame my father." After that, he inadvertently revealed his neck, and no matter what Zhao Hao said behind him, he left Dali Temple without looking back.

After leaving the capital, Zhao Jian looked back at the huge Lai'an City, and secretly swore in his heart that one day I would come back.