Princess Yan looked up at Xiao Rui and took a deep breath.

There are some things that she knows and can talk to her husband Yan Wang, but she can't reveal them to Xiao Rui.

So she didn't admit her suspicions, but just said to Xiao Rui: "Chonglin, the prince and I both know that you are a good boy who doesn't care about fame, fortune and power, and is willing to live a peaceful life. Accountable ...... That's not how it counts! You already know the experience of the prince, and you know what it is like for him to be adopted to the Yanwang Mansion at a young age, and live alone in Beiping, thousands of miles away from Beijing. And about your mother...... He never complained, and always respected and loyal to the emperor. He fulfilled his responsibilities as a younger brother and a courtier. Any promise the emperor made to him was what he deserved. He never made excessive demands, but just asked for a duty, can't he do this? To the point where he did, he still couldn't get justice? ”

Xiao Rui opened his mouth, but he didn't say anything after all.

Princess Yan sighed: "The emperor has always trusted the prince very much, and he is willing to reuse him, and he has never had suspicions. The prince proposed to make you the prince, although the emperor hesitated, he still agreed, but let us not publicize it to the public for the time being. This is the tacit understanding between their brothers, the prince made a promise, and the emperor accepted it; The emperor made a promise, and the prince has always trusted it. If now, because of a few words from Concubine Xiao and because Lin Zhaoyi died, the emperor is going to break his promise, then what is the insistence of the prince who keeps his promise?

"What's worse is that it's the emperor, the prince's beloved brother! Even if he did something to make the prince sad, the prince couldn't play with his temper, so he could only endure it! But the prince can focus on the overall situation, and it is not a reason for him to be wronged! What the prince did, the world saw in their eyes. If he has done so much and still has to be treated badly, how will others think of the emperor? At that time, how many people in this world are left who are willing to be loyal to the emperor and the Ming court?! ”

The Cao family, who once helped the emperor ascend the throne, has fallen to the end of the queen's death and the crown prince's abolition; The Lin family, who used to be the forward of Emperor Dou Cao, has no good results now; Xiao Mingde, who used to be the emperor's confidant, has now lost his military power and his reputation has been discredited. If a courtier commits a crime, the emperor will deal with it severely, which is reasonable; But the courtiers have no grievances, and their interests are damaged, and the emperor is too stupid! The frontier war has just come to an end, and a few months ago, the ceremony of offering prisoners to the Taimiao was held, which made the emperor feel beautiful, and in a blink of an eye, the emperor was about to unload the mill and kill the donkey? Sometimes people don't necessarily know the whole truth, but they think about what little information they know. The emperor can't stop the people in the world at all!

When the emperor's faint name spreads all over the world, it is time to fall apart and the government and the opposition are in chaos!

Therefore, Princess Yan warned Xiao Rui very seriously: "If you don't want things to be so bad, you have to take precautions!" Now that the emperor has signs of confusion, let's quickly pinch this sprout! Yan Wangfu will not force what it shouldn't get, but no one can snatch what it deserves! The prince hopes that you can enter Beijing and settle the matter of knighthood, which has his own reasons. You just have to follow the orders of the prince, while the emperor is still hesitating at this time, the third prince will definitely not be willing to be succeeded, and he must still be trying to persuade the emperor to dispel his thoughts and sit down your identity first. Even if you can't seal the world, at least let the world know that there is still an heir to you in Yanwangfu! The queen mother is still here, and the emperor has always relied on the brother of the prince, and when he saw that the courtiers knew that there was still a you in the world, he couldn't pull his face to break his promise! ”

Xiao Rui understood and nodded: "The child understands." Then he hesitated again, "What if...... When the child arrives in the capital, the emperor has already made up his mind to let the Third Highness succeed? ”

Princess Yan smiled slightly: "The Queen Mother is still in the capital, and the emperor can't do it for the time being to deprive her of her grandson's title in front of her old man, and it should be after the Queen Mother leaves Beijing." However, the Queen Mother has never violated the holy will on the surface, and will only persuade in private. Therefore, as long as the emperor does not make an order for a day, you go to the queen mother, just make the appearance of filial piety to your grandson, so that the queen mother has the opportunity to point out that you are her grandson in front of people, and one or two clan elders will help you, and this matter will be done! ”

Princess Yan said it very confidently, but Xiao Rui was not very confident in the emperor's thoughts. Everyone would want their son to benefit more than to favor their nephew. Even if the emperor had made a promise to King Yan, no one could guarantee that he would not break his oath. Is the princess's idea too naïve?

But Xiao Rui won't say much. Yan Wang and his wife both want him to enter Beijing once, then he will go. Even if he still can't be canonized as the prince in the end, and even has to accept the terrible reality that the third prince will become the future master of the Yan Palace, he will not lose his temper. If he can get the official canonization of the county king, he will be able to have his own palace in the future, and he will be able to stand on his own, instead of staying in the Yan Wangfu for the rest of his life and being at the mercy of his future heirs.

Of course, he will fulfill his responsibilities, and he will also help the Yan Wang couple and his sister Zhu Pei, the lord of Yongping, as well as Zhu Pei's future husband Yuan Xie, to grasp the overall situation of military power in the north, and will not let the three princes with great ambition and talent ruin the good situation in the frontier......

Xiao Rui quickly took Xiao Hong and rode back to the Yanwang Mansion in Beiping City.

King Yan solemnly retreated, told him the contents of the secret letter of the eldest princess of Yongning again, and added some information heard elsewhere: "After the third prince knew Xiao Guifei's plan, he had already cried in front of the emperor, saying that he only had one father for the emperor and was unwilling to recognize others as his father. The emperor has stabilized for the time being, but no one can guarantee that Xiao Guifei will not speak again. She and the mother and son of the third prince obviously have different ideas, but she is a ...... If she is stubborn, the third prince may not be able to stop her movements. ”

Xiao Rui frowned and said, "But what can Concubine Xiao do?" She is still wearing a guilty body now, and even seeing the emperor is not as convenient as the third prince. The third prince is unwilling to cooperate with her, what can she do except continue to cry and beg the emperor? The Xiao family has now lost its military power, and its momentum is not as good as before. Besides, with General Xiao's temperament, it is impossible to go against the emperor's will and help her do anything. In such a predicament, what can Xiao Niangniang do? ”

King Yan sneered, lowered his voice and said: "Lin Zhaoyi was imprisoned in the cold palace, and all the palace people around her were disposed of after Empress Cao's assassination, and the second prince didn't visit her much, I don't know how she knew the news of the second prince and the Cao family, and how she hid the henchmen sent by the emperor around her, and committed suicide after writing a suicide note." But I once received reliable information that confirmed that Lin Zhaoyi was really crazy and not pretending! She couldn't have written such a long and organized letter before she died! The handwriting on the letter is indeed very similar to hers, but when she was in the palace in the past, she used to help the emperor privately handle the documents, and she wrote a good pavilion style. And the pavilion body ...... It's always the easiest to copy! ”

Xiao Rui was taken aback, and suddenly looked up at King Yan: "What does Father mean...... Was Lin Zhaoyi killed?! This has something to do with Xiao Guifei?! ”

King Yan sneered: "How Lin Zhaoyi died, I'm not sure, but her suicide note...... There must be something wrong! She and Empress Cao have long been mortal enemies, Empress Cao is too busy to take care of herself, where is the spare strength to help the second prince and the Lin family? If Lin Zhaoyi hadn't gone crazy, she wouldn't have been stupid enough to conspire with Empress Cao and frame herself! I believe that Empress Cao calculated her, but I don't believe that these two women still have the possibility of cooperating! Concubine Xiao Guifei bullied Lin Zhaoyi, but Lin Zhaoyi did not mention her resentment against her and the third prince in the suicide note, saying that there was no problem with this suicide note, who would believe it?! ”