Yingren shook his head and said, "Brother Prince, I won't." ”

"Won't anything?"

"Don't go back and compete with the third brother for the position of prince." Yingren said: "I have a few catties and taels myself, I know it well, and it is impossible to win the third brother." And...... And I never thought about what I was doing in the past...... prince! He smiled bitterly and said: "Brother Prince, the prince of the country is the king of tomorrow, he must have both ability and political integrity, Yingren has no talent and no virtue, it is impossible." Brother Prince, don't worry, if your father really wants to abolish the prince, Yingren will be punished by your father, and I implore my father to dispel this idea. ”

"It's a foregone conclusion, even if my father has no intention of abolishing the prince, I have no intention of inheriting the great cause." The prince said in a firm tone.

"Then the third brother ......!"

"Many people in the court think that once the palace is abolished, the third child will be the most suitable candidate." The crown prince shook his head and said, "But this palace will never think like this." It's not that this palace looks down on the third child, and it's not that this palace has any prejudices about the third child, but for my great Qin Jiangshan, among the three of my brothers, only the third child must not become the prince! ”

Yingren asked puzzledly, "Is this ...... Why is that? ”

The prince did not answer immediately, but said slowly: "Last year, there was a tsunami in Fuhai Road, countless villages along the coast were swallowed by the sea, tens of thousands of people died, and hundreds of thousands of people were killed. Today, there are still countless people who are unable to rebuild their homes, displaced, and forced to gather into bandits. ”

"In the same year, there was a severe drought in Sichuan Province, the treasury was empty, and there was no way to provide disaster relief, which caused hundreds of people to die of hunger and ruin their families."

"At the end of last year, the Yuling Road river burst the embankment, the twist and turn like snowflakes, the treasury is short of silver, lack of grain, to this day, the river guard is only temporarily built, once flooded, the river embankment will break again at any time, and then it will be a tragedy."

"At the beginning of this year, Anyi Road was in a hurry, last winter was cold, many people froze to death and frostbite, and the defenders of Anyi Racecourse did not even distribute winter clothes, and dozens of people were frozen to death by the heavy snowstorm, and the horse bandits in Anyi took the opportunity to loot Anyi Racecourse and snatched two horses and 100 horses."

The prince's expression became solemn, and he sneered: "All this, the reason for this, is only because the household has no silver and no food. Those people who were supposed to be protected by the empire, because of the emptiness of the household, either died or gathered to rise up, becoming a great trouble for the imperial court. When bandits arise, they must mobilize troops to encircle and suppress them, but the military expenses are often not settled......! He looked at Yingren and said: "You go to Xishan Road and leave the capital, you should also see some and hear some, the country is people-oriented, if the people can't survive, then the country will be shaken, I am a big Qin, how can I talk about stability?" ”

Yingren frowned and said, "Why is there always no silver in the treasury?" I heard the teacher say that in the past few years, the taxes of the imperial court have been increased again and again, and the people have even been unbearable, and the treasury should be very rich in silver, why...... Why is it that when taxes are increased, there is less silver? ”

The prince smiled faintly: "You understand what I mean. Yes, the taxes have been increased, but the silver has decreased, so it is natural to ask Huang Ju. Daqin's money and grain were running, and his father and emperor were all in his hands, and only he knew best where the silver went. ”

The scenery in this garden is picturesque and beautiful, but the topic of discussion between the two princes is very heavy.

Chu Huan didn't understand why the prince was talking to Yingren at first, why he wanted to let himself follow him, but now that he heard that the matter had involved the household department, he vaguely understood something.

"Since you understand what I said, do you understand why I said that the third child can't be the prince?" The crown prince stared into Yingren's eyes.

Yingren thought about it for a while, and then sighed lightly: "Brother Prince, are you afraid that the third brother will inherit the great cause in the future, and he will ...... Will the Huang family continue to control the world's money and grain? Are you worried that the silver in the treasury will still be so empty after the third brother succeeds to the throne? ”

The prince's brows furrowed, and he smiled: "You have grown up." The third child succeeds to the throne, the world's money and grain will continue to be controlled by the Huang family, even if Huang Ju is dead, he still has clansmen, the Huangmen family climbed to the third child, and spent so much effort to help the third child to ascend to the throne, after all, the purpose is to plan for the long-term of the Huang family. Although Huang Ju has become a prince of the country, but don't forget, he is a businessman, and he is mercenary in his bones, and the purpose of their adventure has never been for the sake of the people, but only for their own interests, in their eyes, there has never been any country important! ”

"Brother Prince, Yingren said something that shouldn't be said, you ...... Don't be surprised! ”

"You and my brother, since we are here, we have nothing to talk about." The prince smiled and said, "You say." ”

Yingren thought for a while before asking, "Brother Prince, the Huang family is so presumptuous, and the father is ...... Don't you know? There are many people in Daqin, and when the disaster arises, doesn't my father know? ”

"The Huang family controls money and food, and my father naturally knows about it." The prince bowed slightly: "But the father and Huang Ju once had an agreement, the words of the Son of Heaven, never repent, the father wants to maintain the prestige of the emperor, there will be no rebellion, so even if he knows that Huang Ju is doing evil in the money and grain, he will not ask before, the most important thing, these years the father and the emperor have spent countless dollars, these silver are to be raised from the household, Huang Ju in the provision of the cultivation silver, but there has never been any mistakes, the father ......!" Speaking of this, he did not continue to talk about this topic, but continued: "If the people of Li are affected, my father must know one or two, but he will never know everything. My father devoted himself to cultivation and rarely cared about state affairs. I still remember that at the beginning of the founding of the country, my father often went out to patrol and inspect the world, and at that time he knew the situation in the world very well, but in the past two years, he was in the palace day and night, and he had not left the palace for several years. After Zhang Tai of the Metropolitan Procuratorate was killed, it was already difficult for his father to hear the truth......! ”

Chu Huan listened to the words of the prince in the back, and faintly felt that this prince seemed to really have some thoughts about working for the country, but he didn't know if he was just sanctimonious or heartfelt.

Chu Huan didn't know who Zhang Tai was, but Yingren did, Zhang Tai once bluntly admonished, saying that the emperor should not cultivate the Tao, because the cultivation of the Tao misled state affairs, causing turmoil in the world.

Naturally, his fate was miserable.

There are not many people in the world who dare to tell the truth, and after killing a group, those who dare not tell the truth will naturally not be able to say it, and those who hesitate have become afraid to say it.

"Yingren, Scholar Xu is a rare good minister in the court, he has backbone, but now even he won't talk about the turmoil in the empire in front of his father, how many people do you think dare to say it?" The crown prince sighed: "Since Huang Ju and his party can deceive his father, when he succeeds to the throne to the third child, they will be more powerful at that time, and they will naturally deceive the third child even more." The third child trusts Huang Ju very much, if he inherits the throne and has a traitor like Huang Ju by his side, do you think he can really govern the thousands of miles of rivers and mountains of my Great Qin? ”

Yingren thought for a moment before he said softly: "Brother Prince, do you think that the third brother will really be controlled by Huang Ju's party?" ”

"Of course he won't be reconciled." The prince said: "Now that they are together, just to deal with me, when he really becomes the emperor in the third day, he will definitely be afraid of Huang Ju." It's just that you have to understand that the third child can have today, although there is the promotion of his father, but more often than not, the Huang family is planning for him behind his back, the treasury is empty, where did the silver go? Don't think that it was all used by the father to build the Tongtian Temple, it was only a part, and some of it was used by the Huang family to buy. Officials, forming the henchmen of the Han Dynasty, the third thought that those forces were his forces, but he forgot that those people were controlled by him or by the Huang family? ”

Yingren's brows were squeezed together again.

"The tail is too big to fall, if the third child understands this truth one day, I'm afraid it's too late." The prince sighed: "The third child is smart, but Huang Ju was born as a businessman, and he was able to shrewdly take refuge in his father's emperor, which shows the depth of his scheming, and it is really uncertain whether the third child can be his opponent." After a pause, he said: "What's more, even if the third child can really suppress the Huang family and reign over the world in the end, do you think he is a wise ruler?" This question, this palace has also thought about it countless nights, if the third child is really a good ruler, this palace can even abdicate to make way for Xian and support him to take the throne! ”

"Brother Prince, many people say that the third brother is a martial artist, but I don't know if it's true or not." Yingren shook his head and said, "But I like to talk to the prince's brother, and I don't like to be with the third brother." ”

He said this with a little childishness.

The crown prince smiled slightly and said, "Your third brother is indeed a rare talent, Wu Shuangquan, but such a talent may not be a good emperor." ”

"Oh?"

"Yingren, I still remember when you were young, when I could still walk, my father took us to hunt, it just so happened that the Liaodong Red Refining Electric General sent someone to send three Liaodong military horses, and my father gave us three, at that time my father asked you two a question, do you remember?" The prince asked, staring at Yingren.

Yingren thought for a moment and nodded, "Remember." At that time, my father asked us what we would do with a horse if it was given to us! ”

"I remember you replied that you should keep the horse company, keep it fed and clothed, and let it not be bullied, right?" The prince smiled gently.

Yingren scratched his sideburns and said with some embarrassment: "That...... Those are all children's words, and the prince's brother still remembers. ”

The prince continued to ask, "Do you remember how the third child answered at that time?" ”

"Yes." Yingren nodded and said: "The third brother said that he wants to ride that horse, follow the footsteps of his father, leap the horse in the world, the horse whip pointed, all the armies will come out, expand the territory, lay a bigger country, so that where there is the sun in the world, there will be the banner of my Great Qin!" He smiled bitterly: "At that time, I thought that the third brother spoke so majestic and spirited, compared to his ambition, I ...... I'm too much off! ”