Chapter 256: Prince Ping and King Crane
In fact, the emperor at that time did not want to be the emperor, but wanted to return the power in his hands to Prince Ping at that time.
However, the first emperor inadvertently discovered something about Prince Ping.
Speaking of it now, it is naturally all rumors, but it is not groundless, it is a rumor with some foundation.
It is said that after Prince Ping returned to Beijing, he relied on the favor of the former emperor and won the person who competed with him for the throne, and he was in the limelight for a while.
But after the limelight passed, Prince Ping naturally began to become proud, and then when the emperor was about to make him the prince, Prince Ping did something that should not have been done: he violated the wife of his subordinate.
By Prince Ping's side, there was a subordinate who had followed him for many years, named "Jiang Cang".
This Jiang Cang can be regarded as a person who lives and dies with Prince Peace, and the reason why this Jiang Cang is known to others is because he married a beautiful woman.
Back then, there was a beautiful woman who was the daughter of a small official in Kyoto Prefecture, named Kang Hongzhen.
This Kang Hongzhen can definitely be called "the first beauty in Kyoto" back then, and she is a woman with all kinds of amorous feelings.
However, Kang Hongzhen and Jiang Cang can also be regarded as childhood sweethearts. Moreover, Kang Hongzhen's family didn't want Kang Hongzhen to get involved in any battles between dignitaries and nobles, and they grew up watching Jiang Cang, and they also knew Jiang Cang's temperament, so they married Kang Hongzhen to Jiang Cang with confidence.
After they got married, they were very affectionate. In the name of trusting Jiang Cang, Prince Ping bought a small courtyard for Jiang Cang and Kang Hongzhen next to Prince Ping's mansion at that time for them to live in. Since then, Jiang Cang has become more and more loyal to Prince Ping. At that time, no one would have thought that in fact, Prince Ping had other plans for Kang Hongzhen.
Originally, Prince Ping's idea was about "the first to get the moon near the water", and after seeing Kang Hongzhen often, his status as a dignified prince naturally did not worry about Kang Hongzhen's impressedness.
However, what Prince Ping didn't expect was that Kang Hongzhen and Jiang Cang were childhood sweethearts, and they were naturally affectionate.
So after contacting Kang Hongzhen three times and twice, Prince Ping not only failed to make Kang Hongzhen like him, but Kang Hongzhen always avoided Prince Ping. But Kang Hongzhen is not an ignorant person, for the sake of Jiang Cang's future, she doesn't want to ruin the love between Prince Ping and Jiang Cang for so many years, so she has always chosen to remain silent. Thinking that when Prince Ping was canonized as the crown prince and moved into the East Palace, there would naturally be fewer opportunities for them to meet.
But the accident happened on the eve of the canonization of the crown prince.
That time, Prince Ping took Jiang Cang and was sent by the emperor to the nearby state city to do things. Things went so smoothly that Prince Ping could almost imagine that when they returned to the capital, the emperor would definitely praise them and give them a good reward.
But two days before returning to Beijing, it rained heavily. Jiang Cang needed to stay in that state city to deal with the aftermath, and Prince Ping returned to Beijing first.
Who knows, on the night Prince Ping returned to Beijing, he didn't go back to his palace, but somehow, he walked into Jiang Cang's courtyard!
Jiang Cang is not at home, and only Kang Hongzhen is asleep at home. On the way back, Prince Ping drank some wine with his guards.
So with the strength of wine, Prince Ping still did it to Kang Hongzhen in the end!
He had been in love with Kang Hongzhen for a long time, and this time he was out of control. No matter how Kang Hongzhen cried and begged for mercy, Prince Ping did not let her go.
In fact, when Prince Ping woke up the next morning and saw Kang Hongzhen, who was still crying on the side, he also regretted it in his heart. After all, Jiang Cang has been with him for so many years, and he knows that he can't live with Jiang Cang, so he told Kang Hongzhen that he is willing to compensate them and his wife. And from now on, he will never come to touch Kang Hongzhen again, hoping that Kang Hongzhen will hide this matter.
Kang Hongzhen finally agreed, and the matter was originally over.
But a month later, things have a different direction: everything originated from Kang Hongzhen's pregnancy!
Prince Ping thought it was his child, so he was anxious: he didn't want to make such a thing happen when he was about to be canonized as the crown prince, and he didn't want Jiang Cang to know, so he wanted Kang Hongzhen to dispose of the child.
But Kang Hongzhen said that the child was not Prince Ping's, it was Jiang Cang's, and he did not want to abort the child no matter what.
Prince Ping was in a hurry, so he used the power in his hand to give Kang Hongzhen a red flower.
Who knows what went wrong in the middle, such a medicine not only killed the child in Kang Hongzhen's womb, but also made Kang Hongzhen bleed nonstop, and after persisting for a whole night, he finally returned to the west at dawn!
If it's just Kang Hongzhen who dies, everything will be considered a secret, and no one will know about it anymore.
But the child in Kang Hongzhen's womb is two months old, and it is indeed not Prince Ping's. Therefore, under the anger and resentment before her death, Kang Hongzhen finally told the Kang family and Jiang Cang the matter as it was.
Jiang Cang found Prince Ping to confront him that day, and said a lot of things, and said that he would tell the emperor about it.
How can Prince Ping be accurate? Jiang Cang was immediately detained, and everyone who knew about the situation that day was killed, including the Kang family!
The Kang family was ruined overnight, but Jiang Cang had some ability and escaped from Prince Ping's mansion that night.
Even though Prince Ping ordered a hunt, Jiang Cang later appeared in front of the emperor on the second day and told the emperor what happened.
When the emperor found out, he was naturally furious. reprimanding Prince Ping for being cold-blooded and ruthless is by no means a material to be a wise man. So the throne that was about to be in his hands was given to the emperor because of this incident, so that the emperor gave the throne to the current saint.
And in order to prevent Prince Ping from threatening the status of the current saint in Beijing, the emperor also directly sent Prince Ping to the border pass.
Prince Ping is not a vegetarian, after so many years of cultivating his own power at the border, now that he has returned to the court, he has covered the sky with one hand.
When the first emperor died, Prince Ping returned to the capital.
Today's saint is not an emperor's talent, and as soon as Prince Ping came back like this, without the help of the former emperor, he was almost crushed to death by Prince Ping.
At that time, the emperor had not yet set up a prince, but in fact, he took a fancy to Ling Tianhan first. One reason is that Ling Tianhan has been very smart since he was a child, considerate and filial, and can be literate and martial. The second is also because the emperor is sincere to Ling Guifei Niangniang, and naturally has great hopes for their children.
Who knew that after Prince Ping heard the news, he went to the United Nations Division Hall to calculate that Ling Tianhan was the order of the "Lone Star", and united with the ministers to spread rumors among the people.