Chapter Ninety-Seven: Spiritual Birth
The fiefs of the other princes are all distributed around Shangjing, and they are definitely not as far as Yingzhou, and the father and emperor want to trap themselves by the mountains when they are clear.
But for so many years, his ambition has always been well hidden, indulging in wine every day, pretending to be deaf and dumb, the purpose is to hide people's eyes and ears, and it is impossible for his father to detect it!
Could it be that Shen Mushi is doing a ghost behind his back?
No, if Shen Mushi sued, why was King Lu also transferred to Qishan?
This is a strange matter, and we must not mess with ourselves......
Shen Yuanan's clenched fist slowly loosened, the essence in his eyes flashed, and the fangs that had been lurking in his heart for a long time were finally about to be revealed.
Shen Mushi gritted his teeth slightly, and was as puzzled as them: King Law has always been good friends with him, and he can be regarded as the prince's man.
Now that his father suddenly blasted everyone away, it seemed that he was protecting him, but transferring King Law away actually weakened the strength of the East Palace.
Next, will the father slowly cut off the military power in his hands?
Shen Mushi kept thinking about what happened during this time, and suddenly understood something, his body paused, and he glanced at Shen Changyuan beside him expressionlessly.
The second prince, Shen Changyuan, behaved the most abnormally, moving from head to toe, as if he had expected today's events, and there was an incomprehensible sneer on the corner of his mouth.
Shen Chuji followed Shen Mushi's gaze and also found Shen Changyuan's abnormality.
Smart people all think the same, just at a glance, they know what Shen Mushi is thinking in an instant.
King Lin has long been an adult, why will this time be assigned to Biancheng, which is the closest to Shangjing? If he remembers correctly, his maternal grandfather's house is in Biancheng, and Biancheng is strong and has the support of his relatives, if King Lin wants to rebel.........
Shen Chuji gasped, and his expression changed suddenly. In fact, it is not to blame him for being suspicious and thoughtful, since ancient times, there are many examples of the dictatorship of foreign relatives, and his suspicion of King Lin is not groundless.
But there is another layer to Shen Mushi's thoughts.
He believes that King Lin is just a scapegoat, and the real mastermind behind it may be someone else.
King Law is young and inexperienced, and he has not yet been as scheming as a few of them, and he has always had worry on his face, so Shen Mushi had to keep comforting him with his eyes, signaling him to be calm and not impatient, and King Law received hints from him many times, so he could hide his dissatisfaction a little.
The second prince, Shen Changyuan, knew that Shen Mushi and Shen Chuji doubted him at the same time, but he had no time to take care of the two.
The fire at the city gate affected the pond fish, and he looked at Emperor Chu Wei in confusion, although he was puzzled, but after all, he just raised his eyebrows and did not speak.
The princes are full of gunpowder and suspicious of each other, and the harem concubines are not fuel-efficient lamps.
The virtuous concubine of the head of the four concubines has always been very deep in the city, and she has always been moody.
Her eyebrows were already burning, but she still looked flat, slowly flicking a string of coral beads in her hand, and she didn't know what she was thinking.
Concubine De and the fourth prince Ye Wang Shen Helin were the most excited, like a needle in the buttocks.
Concubine De is such a son as the fourth prince, who has just passed his eighteenth birthday, and this little eagle has just grown wings, where is he willing to go to such a desolate fiefdom!
wanted to open his mouth to intercede but was afraid of touching Emperor Chu Wei's moldy head, and opened his mouth several times to ask for mercy, but he retracted it, his face was red and white, and he was obviously very anxious.
For a while, the atmosphere in the hall was extremely strange, everyone looked at each other, and only the heavy breathing of the man was heard.
"Why is Your Majesty suddenly in such a hurry?"
Concubine De couldn't bear it after all, and she was stupid enough to be a bird.
Really.
Shen Mushi sneered.
"Suddenly? Several princes have long passed the year of the weak crown, and according to the ancestral system of this dynasty, they should have been sent to the fiefdom a long time ago, before I was busy with the government and had no time to take care of this matter, who knew that it made someone with a heart have wolf ambitions! How? Concubine De is not satisfied with my arrangement? ”
Emperor Chu Wei glanced at Concubine De coldly, his expression full of mockery.
Concubine De has a lot of ink about the establishment of the prince, and often whispers in his ear about the prince's wrongness.
Shen Yuanan is ridiculous, Shen Mushi is cowardly and incompetent, Shen Chu is indecisive, Shen Changyuan is calculating, Shen Jiyu is cunning like a fox, in short, the adult prince can't fall into her mouth, and it's useless to be unified, and it's difficult to take on a big responsibility.
Only her son is the best prince in the world, and he is the crown prince.
But Concubine De is stupid, she is really stupid.
The fourth prince, Shen Helin, is indeed a manufacturable material, gentle and polite, virtuous, literary and riding and archery, and the prince's virtue is indeed excellent.
However, since the time of the Jijia Dynasty, the four princes did not shy away from frequently making friends with courtiers, wantonly discussing court politics, and quite an up-and-coming posture.
In addition, Concubine De's mother, the Chen family, is flourishing and rich, and the relationship with the court is even more intertwined and difficult to shake, which is also one of the biggest reasons why Emperor Chu Wei canonized Chen Yitong as the fourth concubine.
I wanted to use the power of Concubine De's mother's family to balance the Xiao family behind Queen Xiao, but who knew that Concubine De only saw the immediate interests in her eyes, and the ambition of a good prince was really rotten and could not be carved.
When Emperor Chu Wei saw the note handed by the secret guard, which read: There have been rumors among the people, "King Ye loves the people like a son, and he will be a benevolent monarch in the future", he was angry on the spot, and almost went to see the Buddha.
The status of the Chen family in the court was not high, and the biggest official was a four-grade Dali temple, and then somehow, quietly infiltrated the court, and slowly more and more Chen family members became officials, and the idea of climbing up was obvious, like a new force that rose wildly, and when Emperor Chu Wei found out that it was not good, its power had expanded to the point of uncontrollable, and it could even compete with the most powerful Dexiao family.
Concubine De also changed her former submissive and childish temperament, and when she was promoted to the fourth concubine, she began to become arrogant and domineering, with a straight waist, and she argued with the queen everywhere.
King Ye made trouble in the previous dynasty, Concubine De was powerful in the harem, and the two of them stepped on the footboard of Emperor Chu Wei again and again, which was really presumptuous!
Now that the saint has not died, King Ye has begun to have a reputation as a benevolent monarch, isn't he on an equal footing with the emperor?
Also, where did the name of this benevolent monarch come from?
Isn't it just that King Ye asked people to give money to those beggars, or it was to give porridge to the monks to gain a good reputation?
Emperor Chu Wei praised himself as a strict ruler, established the rule of law, and valued agriculture and commerce, and after so many years of painstaking management, he finally won the peace of the four seas, and the soldiers were strong and the people were rich.
Isn't it because he once set the rules: the people of Chu and Wei are hardworking, men and women weave and embroidery, the common people must work first if they want to exchange for grain and silver, and the beggars and thieves who are lazy and lazy on the street are all sent to the riverside to dredge or build embankments, and they are all provided with food and lodging and a little money, which can be regarded as contributing to the country.
However, there are still some beggars who do not want to do hard work, preferring to squat on street corners and beg for a living.
And the monks are also unearned.
Most monks were unwilling to face the world and suffering, and Emperor Chu Wei was extremely disgusted with such passive rats.
The dignified man has intact hands and feet but is unwilling to work, burns incense and worships the Buddha in the temple all day long, and relies on folk incense to make offerings, which is useless in the imperial court.
King Ye knew that he hated these people, but he went to the dead corners of the streets and alleys where beggars gathered, and distributed money every once in a while, isn't this just a slap in the face of him, the emperor?
Father and son are not of the same heart, let alone monarchs and ministers? In the past, they couldn't bear to move their mother and son, but now they can't bear it anymore, and they just transfer King Ye away from the interface of the seal, and the Chen family has no backbone, see if they are still messing up!
"Then why was King Lin able to stay in Shangjing?"
Concubine De's brain is really tendoned, and everyone didn't dare to ask, only she continued to ask because her mother's family was strong and not afraid of death.
Biancheng is twenty miles away on the outskirts of the city, and it can be returned in half a day, which is actually equivalent to living in Shangjing.
King Lin has always been unfavored, his biological mother died early and was helpless, his maternal grandfather's family was not a prominent family, he used to be raised under the knees of the queen mother, and when he was ten years old, he was put in the prince's house to be taken care of by his nursing mother, and he has never had a sense of existence, why can he stay in such a good place as Biancheng? Moreover, King Lin is in charge of all the royal forest army, and it is nothing if he takes advantage of his position to stay in the palace from time to time, so wouldn't he be an adult prince who can stay in the palace with the crown prince?
In this way, it is normal for Concubine De to regard him as a thorn in her side.
"King Lin is calm and resourceful, and he is a good person to assist me. Isn't it better that Ye Wangren loves the people and gives kindness to others, so he should go to the local area to experience and show his consistent demeanor of loving the people like a son? ”
Emperor Chu Wei still had to guard against the Chen family in the end, although he was obviously about to vomit blood in his heart, his face was still light.
At this time, King Ye finally understood the true intention of Emperor Chu Wei: although his father praised himself for his benevolence and love for things, he was also implying that he was not a good politician.
When he was angry, he couldn't care about anything else, and blurted out something that offended several people at once:
"Father, is he saying that the son-in-law, eldest brother, third brother and seventh brother are not as good as the second brother?"
King Ye doesn't have any city government, and Concubine De is also a cheerful person, and any unhappiness is written on her face in words and deeds.
He deliberately belittled himself, and by the way, he also pulled several other princes into the water, just to make this pool of muddy waters more and more chaotic before he was willing.
Look at his unruly appearance, he has learned to sow discord at a young age!
Emperor Chu Wei's heart ached, and he sighed that if he had a mother, he would have a son, and his ambition was also great!
Immediately, his eyebrows were coldly raised, and his palms slapped heavily on the royal table and scolded loudly:
"Presumptuous! How dare you speculate on my thoughts! I just said that not only are you brothers and brothers, but you are also disrespectful, and you even forget the courtesies of kings and ministers! Once upon a time, when you were young, you said the wrong thing and did the wrong thing, and I never blamed you! Now that they have all been crowned, the prince is still so open-mouthed! The heart and eyes are despicable, and they really can't be made! Waste your reputation as a benevolent king! ”