Zhang Weizhao was not alarmed: "If you don't become the prince, let's go far together." ”

"I want to go to the southwest, to my mother's hometown, to see what other relatives she has in the world."

"Good! We go to the Southwest. ”

"But I don't seem to know anything but being a prince." Chen Youcong smiled bitterly.

"Don't be afraid to have me. I can practice medicine all the way, why worry about not making money. ”

This is what it means to say "I raise you", Chen Youcong listened to it with a sour nose. He smiled and said, "I can also learn to trade." The port cities in the southeast, such as Quanzhou and Mingzhou, have become more and more prosperous year by year, all because of the increasingly frequent trade between overseas merchant ships and China and Turkey. We can also trade with foreign merchants, and maybe we will have the opportunity to leave Middle-earth and travel further afield! ”

"Good! I love the idea! Zhang Weizhao yearned.

"It's just that the imperial grandmother will definitely feel sad when we leave." Chen Youcong said wistfully.

"We can write to her often." Zhang Weizhao comforted. After thinking for a while, he said, "The children in the school have to be entrusted to the care of the eldest princess. "The eldest princess is very fond of those children and takes good care of them.

"When we make money, we will send more back to the children every year." Chen Youcong said.

Zhang Weizhao nodded.

The two of them held hands and discussed their plans for the future, looking at each other and smiling. Chen Youcong held Zhang Weizhao's face with his hand, and gently rubbed the tip of his nose against Zhang Weizhao's cheek.

Zhang Weizhao said: "I looked in the mirror before you came, and I found that I am now like a living ghost emerging from hell. The red marks on her face did not fade, and at first glance it was still very hideous.

"Whatever you look like, in my heart you're like that." Chen Youcong muttered in a low voice.

"I haven't washed my hair in days." Zhang Weizhao said with a smile.

"It's okay!" Chen Youcong hugged her tighter.

Zhang Weizhao also gently wrapped his hand around Chen Youcong's shoulder, avoiding the wound on his back.

They have seen each other at their worst, and they are sure that they can trust each other without reservation.

The world is impermanent, life has ups and downs, but this warm embrace will not change.

Chen Jianjun was in Xinuan Pavilion, standing up for a while and sitting down for a while. One moment muttering, the next sighing.

Is it not wasted or not? This is an extremely difficult choice for Chen Jianjun.

If Chen Youcong is abolished as the crown prince, Chen Youcong will definitely hate him as a father, the queen mother will be extremely angry with him, and the courtiers will also be in a uproar, especially Xie Qian and his protégés, who will definitely be resolutely opposed.

But if the crown prince is not abolished, in the future, if there is a storm in the future and Chen Youcong succeeds to the throne, the Jin family will definitely suffer a catastrophe. The imperial concubine now has no children and no daughters, and the only people she cares about are those in her mother's family. If the Jin family is difficult to preserve, then even if he is under Jiuquan, he will not have the face to see her again.

And Chen Youcong has become more and more of his own ideas in the past two years. Looks good, but in fact likes to make his own decisions. If this continues, I am afraid that it will become more and more difficult for me to control him. Now that his spirit is still quite strong, he dares to resist like this, if he is sick and old, he is growing stronger step by step, and he is not sure what the rebellion will become.

Thinking of this, Chen Jianjun shuddered. Back then, he had suffered enough at the hands of Emperor Shu and knew what it was like to be controlled by others. In his lifetime, he never wanted to taste it again.

He clenched his fists, turned around and shouted out the door, "Someone! ”

"The old slave is here!" Wynne walked in quickly: "What does Your Majesty command?" ”

"Swing the Anxi Palace!"

When she arrived at Anxi Palace, Jin Ling'er did not come out to pick up the car. Chen Jianjun didn't mind, and walked straight to her dormitory, only to see Jin Ling'er lying on the bed with her back to the outside, her hair scattered on the pillow, and she was almost white.

Chen Jianjun was sad for a while, sat beside her and said, "Imperial Concubine, I am here." ”

Jin Ling'er did not answer, only sobbing from time to time.

Chen Jianjun was silent for a long time, and finally made up his mind and said in a low voice: "I have already thought about it." It was decided to abolish Chen Youcong as the crown prince. ”

When Jin Ling'er heard this, she suddenly turned over and asked, "Really?" ”

"Really. I have made up my mind and will not change it. ”

Jin Ling'er pounced on him, fell into his arms and cried loudly.

Chen Jianjun patted her on the shoulder and did not continue to persuade her.

I don't know why, after saying this decision, he didn't feel relaxed, but felt like he was entangled by invisible spider silk, and his chest felt suffocated for a while.

He let Jin Ling'er hold on to him. I'm afraid that from now on he will not be able to break free from this embrace. He didn't want to break free, because after he broke free, he had nowhere to go.

A few days later, in the early dynasty, His Majesty the Emperor was furious with the prince for a little trivial matter, and asked the prince to go outside the court to punish him.

The ministers were silent, but many people felt injustice for the prince in their hearts. Everyone who understands knows that the emperor sent the crown prince this time purely to vent his anger for the Jin family.

The emperor suppressed the crown prince to get angry with his favorite concubine, and others couldn't say anything, they just hoped that after the emperor was angry, this matter would pass like this.

However, things did not go in the desired direction. After the punishment of kneeling, the emperor reprimanded the prince for being arrogant and disrespectful, and asked him to go back to Changning Palace to think about it, and there was no need to come to the court again.

Sensitive people have sensed that the wind is not in the right direction. Is the crown prince going to be replaced?

There are even rumors in private that the imperial concubine is optimistic about the three princes and wants the younger and obedient three princes to succeed Chen Youcong as the new prince. Recently, the emperor has also repeatedly mentioned the three princes on various occasions, praising him for his intelligence and filial piety, and he will become a great weapon.

How can the emperor's son be considered a great weapon? This sentence has a deep meaning.

Hearing these discussions, some of Xie Qian's protégés began to lose their breath, and they came to discuss with Xie Qian, otherwise they would state to the emperor that the crown prince should not be abolished lightly, otherwise the country would be shaken.

Xie Qian thought that when the situation was uncertain, he should not act rashly. Abolishing the crown prince is not a trivial matter, and the emperor cannot do it arbitrarily. At the very least, he would consult with the cabinet ministers and the eunuchs of the celebrants' palm seals before making his move. If he recklessly issued an edict to abolish the crown prince and caused turmoil in the court, the consequences would be unpredictable, and the emperor would not be able to bear it.

By mid-September, the weather was getting cooler by the day.

One evening, the Queen Mother sent someone to invite Chen Jianjun over for dinner.

Chen Jianjun knew that the Queen Mother invited him over at this time, and she must have talked about topics related to Chen Youcong. He felt a headache when he thought of this, but about the matter of the abolished prince, sooner or later he had to find out with the queen mother, so he gritted his teeth and went.

At this dinner, Chen Jianjun's favorite food was placed on the table, and the Queen Mother also persuaded him to use more of it very lovingly, saying that he had lost weight recently. When Chen Jianjun was eating, the Queen Mother looked at him with a pleasant face, and saw that Chen Jianjun's heart was furious, and he couldn't eat anything.

He put down the jade chopsticks and said, "Does the queen mother have anything to say?" ”

Seeing him ask, the Queen Mother simply asked directly: "Emperor, a few days ago, Cong'er made you angry, you scolded and scolded, and punished him, should you also appease him a few words?" And if you have to do anything, let him do it for you. He is also so old, and he is always idle in Changning Palace, which is not the case. ”

Chen Jianjun sat on the chair, staring at the dishes in front of him on the table, speechless for a long time.

The Queen Mother couldn't hold her breath anymore and called softly: "Emperor? ”

Chen Jianjun let out a sigh of relief and said in a low voice, "I plan to abolish the crown prince. ”

When these words were spoken, Chen Jianjun's head was buried even lower, and he didn't dare to look at the Queen Mother's eyes at all.

He thought that the Queen Mother would reprimand him harshly, but after waiting for a long time, there was no movement. Chen Jianjun slowly raised his head and looked at the Queen Mother.

I saw that the Queen Mother's face was full of tears, her lips trembled, and she couldn't say anything.

Chen Jianjun didn't know how to persuade him, and he also knew that once he said this, no matter how he persuaded him, it would be useless. He stubbornly continued:

"I will give him a rich fief and let him live in wealth and comfort for the rest of his life. If he ......, if he wants to marry Zhang Weizhao, he can do what he wants......" The more Chen Jianjun said later, the lower his voice became.

The Queen Mother shook her head, tears spilled one after another: "You have also been the emperor for so many years, you say, according to Cong'er's current situation, if his position as crown prince is abolished, and the Jin family will appoint another person she likes as the crown prince, and then she will arrange someone to be the crown princess, will Cong'er still have a good life in the future?" To put it more ugly, will he be able to save this life? ”

"With me here, no one can touch him. He was always my son. Chen Jianjun said.

"Good! Good! In that case, I ask you, do you know how your uncle and emperor died? The Queen Mother asked coldly.

Chen Jianjun was silent. His father Chen Huaishen took advantage of Chen Huaiyu's illness and waited for an opportunity to reset, and less than a month later, Chen Huaiyu was seriously ill and died.

He said he was seriously ill, but in fact he was strangled to death. The battle for the throne is so cruel.

"Now Cong'er is the eldest son, and he has been made a prince since he was a child, his position is stable, and the court and harem are stable. He will succeed to the throne in the future, and his brothers will not have any delusions, and An Ansheng will be a rich and noble prince. But if you abolish the long and young, let everyone see that the position of the crown prince can actually be contested, so people's hearts are turbulent, and what will happen in the future is not something you can predict today. "The Queen Mother is not a person with political talent, but she is a person with experience, and her words, although simple and straightforward, go straight to the essence of the problem.

But when the Queen Mother talked about this, Chen Jianjun still lowered his head and remained silent, looking stubborn.

The Queen Mother was a little anxious: "Are you just trying to please a golden bell, do you ignore the ancestral foundation and your own son?" ”

Chen Jianjun raised his head and said: "The queen mother only knows how to blame me, don't you see that Chen Youcong has repeatedly disobeyed me, and now he doesn't take me as a monarch in his eyes at all?" ”