Everyone in the court gasped.

Plague, Prince!

Taken together, the two are nothing short of a catastrophe.

"Your Majesty, think twice! His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is a candidate for the prince of the court, if something happens to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince at the border, it can cause turmoil in the country! ”

"Your Majesty, please think twice!"

"Your Majesty, please think twice!"

……

The two factions who had just made a fuss because of disagreement knelt down towards the emperor one after another, and even the palace maids and eunuchs in the entire court were no exception to kneel down and request.

The crown prince's face also changed, and he knelt down happily towards the emperor, kowtowed three times, and looked at the emperor with red eyes.

"Father, that's a plague! The epidemic is contagious, and if something happens to me, how can I be there for you? Father......

He took a few steps on his knees, came over and reached out to hug the emperor's thigh tightly, crying and pleading.

The Emperor snorted coldly, and glanced at them with a gloomy expression.

"Without the crown prince, will it shake the country's foundation? Hmph, where is this ridiculous statement coming from? Do you know that I'm still sitting on it? What's more, if there are so many sons under the crown prince, can't they inherit the throne in the future? ”

As soon as these words came out, the entire court was silent for a long time, and then it was like cold water poured into a hot oil pot and exploded all at once.

"Your Majesty, don't do it at this time!"

"Your Majesty......"

……

The prince of a country, where can you change it by reading it casually? Wouldn't that be a selection of Chinese cabbage?

He got up angrily, waved directly at the sleeve below, and snorted coldly.

"This matter has been decided, and I will not mention it again!"

What happened in the court quickly spread out, after all, there is no impermeable wall in the world, especially the few older princes who have been closely watching the movements of the court.

The Four Princes' Mansion.

Zhao Zijian sat on the chair with a smile, and the many staff members sitting opposite him also had full smiles on their faces.

"Haha, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is really stealing chickens now, and he has been relying on His Majesty the Emperor's favor and favor to show off his might. Now it's a shot in the foot. ”

"I think, probably His Royal Highness the Crown Prince went too far some time ago, right?"

After all, he won over his courtiers, and intercepted the New Year's gift to the emperor below, so if everyone is a fool, no one will find out?

"Who's to say it isn't? Now His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is going to be dizzy, right? After all, the holy decree has been issued in front of the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs, and the emperor can't change the decree overnight, right? ”

"Hehe, thunder, rain and dew are all Jun's grace, the emperor speaks, even if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is capable, he can only bear it this time!"

……

Listening to everyone's gloating, Zhao Zijian couldn't help coughing lightly and smiled.

"At this time, my father has already thought about His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and it is not good if we don't do something. After all, the eldest brother is leaving, so I'd better have someone prepare the required medicinal materials and the doctor to accompany him! ”

His face was now full of smugness.

The others glanced at each other, smiled, and arched their hands towards the four princes.

"The fourth prince Gao Yi, I admire it."

It's just that before everyone's laughter fell, they saw someone knocking on the door outside, and everyone looked back at it, and saw the little guy come in and respectfully handed over the things in his hands with both hands.

"Fourth prince, this is the news that Mr. Xu just transmitted."

Xu Ze?

Before Xu Ze left, he had always been the person headed by these staff, and at this time, when he remembered where he was, and then looked at the news in his hand, how could he not understand?

"Prince, take a look, is there something happening over there?"

The fourth prince took a deep breath, knowing that if it wasn't a very urgent matter, he would definitely not send two letters to himself in a hurry for two days and eight hundred miles.

It's just that after opening it, his face changed, and he couldn't help but reach out and slap the table fiercely with a blushing face.

"It's nonsense!"

Everyone, you look at me, I look at you, and I can't help but look at the letter.

A staff member took a deep breath, reached out to take the letter, and saw that Zhao Zijian did not react, so he knew that he did not reject them.

It's just that after everyone watched it a few times, they also sighed.

Who is that Zhong Gongzi?

In the past, the four princes admired him for a short period of time, not to mention, but later, in order to seek refuge, he actually sent such a deal to relieve their urgent need. Later, after experiencing a turmoil, he did not hesitate to resell all his properties at a low price, just to no longer make the first bird, and in this case, he also kept the verbal agreement with the four princes.

The silver given to them in the past few months alone is enough for the four princes to make a profit in the past year!

But if he is a smart person, a person with courage and courage, why did he take risks at this juncture and fall into the hard-hit area of the epidemic? Is it really for his brother to put his life and death on the line?

How can family affection be so precious? It's not that they haven't experienced it, but they haven't felt such a shocking move.

"I said before that he was a pure man, and everyone was skeptical. What now? ”

Zhongli sold the property before and said that he wanted to be friends with him, which was considered by everyone to be a fame and reputation, and it was a practice of retreating into advance. But now?

What else do people who can put their lives and deaths aside for the sake of their loved ones?

The crowd was speechless in astonishment.

"He's actually a madman!"

One of them widened his eyes and spoke in a staggered manner.

Zhao Zijian couldn't help but smile bitterly, stared down at the letter Xu Ze gave him, slowly closed his eyes, and something stirred in his heart.

Being in the royal family, for that position, who is not hypocritical and smirk?

But when he met such a person who didn't play cards with common sense, but especially valued his family and family affection, he actually ......

Some envy and jealousy, why is he not his younger brother?

He suddenly remembered that Zhongli had told him many times before that his family had ancestral training and he was not allowed to enter the office. He thought it was a joke, but now it seems that he probably really thinks so.

Therefore, even if he has the talent of the world, even if he has ideals and ambitions, he can only stop at the ancestral training, and never enter the ranks.

He took a deep breath, exhaled slowly, then turned his head, looked at the few people in front of him fixedly, and made a new decision.

"I want to enter the palace, I want to replace His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and enter the epidemic area!"

"Four princes, no!"

"Your Highness, think twice!"

……

Heavy snow began to fall again.

The entire palace was silent, except for a few little eunuchs who were shivering with cold and shivering, who were struggling to clear the snow and the guards who were standing upright, there was not even half a figure.

Zhao Zijian waited for the eunuch to report, and then respectfully entered the imperial study.

Just opened the curtain, and a thick heat came to his face, and he looked expressionlessly at the many civil and military ministers who were kneeling on the ground in front of him, and the dim light in his eyes flashed quickly, and he swept past them briskly and entered the inner room.

Inside, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was kneeling below, his head bowed, and he couldn't see any expression clearly.

The smell of incense in the room was a little strong, so he couldn't help frowning and looked at the emperor who was concentrating on painting with a brush in his hand.

He lifted his hem expressionlessly, knelt down towards the emperor with a plop, his voice raised and his attitude firm.

"Father, the son of the emperor implores the father to allow the son to go deep into the epidemic area instead of His Royal Highness the crown prince!"

Not to mention that the prince standing next to him quickly glanced up at Zhao Zijian, and even the many civil and military ministers outside couldn't help but slowly exhale a breath of turbidity.

The emperor's hand holding the paintbrush paused in the air, and the ink of the pen fell on the rice paper, slowly spreading out.

The emperor frowned, stretched out his hand and slammed the brush in his hand on the case in displeasure, and looked at Zhao Zijian expressionlessly, with an inquiring look in his eyes.

In the whole hall, there was still no one to speak.

However, Zhao Zijian looked at the emperor fixedly, and handed a letter of request in his hand to the personal eunuch next to him.

"Take it, I'll see it myself!"

The emperor snatched the small note from the eunuch's hand and frowned.

"Who is this Xu Ze?"

Zhao Zijian had already thought about the draft, and smiled at the emperor when he heard this.

"Father, this person is the official who greeted me when I went to the border gate before. And the Zhong Gongzi he said was a businessman I met at the border. The quilt that Erchen sent to the palace before was made by this merchant. ”

The emperor has always been suspicious, and when he heard this, he squinted his eyes and looked at his fourth son, and snorted coldly.

"Really? It seems that you have made it a lot easier for him. ”

Zhao Zijian's face changed, and he directly bowed down to the ground, it was obviously a cold winter day, but cold sweat flowed down his cheeks, he swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva, trying to make himself look calm at this time.

"My father's words are wrong, and my son sees that this businessman has some ability, and wants to invite him to take the exam, so that he can also attract a talent for his father. But because there were too many younger brothers and sisters in the family, and they were too young, he decided to stay for the time being. ”

The Emperor narrowed his eyes and muttered for a long time without speaking.

And Zhao Zijian glanced at His Royal Highness the Prince, who was still kneeling, and then bit his lip and continued.

"And this letter was sent to me by Xu Ze, whom she knew before, asking me to help buy a little medicine and send it to Qingping Town."

Qingping Town?

Whether it was His Royal Highness the Crown Prince or the civil and military officials kneeling outside, their ears were pricked up one after another.

Qingping Town, but it is the location of General Wang's military camp!

The emperor also raised his eyebrows, pinched the paper and sat on the dragon chair, looking at his son with a smile.

"So you want to go to Qingping Town for the prince this time, not to share your father's worries, nor for the sake of the people of Limin, but for this man?"

Zhao Zijian couldn't help but have a black line, he didn't say anything just now, right?

He kowtowed again and shook his head, "No, Erchen is impressed by his friendship, my father may not know that this Zhong Gongzi, who rejected me for his younger brothers and sisters, because his third brother who was a soldier in the barracks contracted the plague, and without saying a word, he used the money to buy batches of land and things and entered the barracks." ”

At this time, not to mention the emperor, even the faces of the people kneeling outside couldn't help but have a look of surprise.

This man...... Are you really not afraid of death?