"Your Majesty, Tian Meiren asks to see you."

It was half dark, and in the Heart Cultivation Palace, Wang Lishi's voice sounded from outside the door.

In the room, Zhao Chongyuan pushed away the mountains of folds in front of him, rubbed his brows, the look on his face was slightly displeased, and he looked out of the door coldly and said, "I don't see it." ”

After speaking, he continued to pick up the unprocessed folds on the table.

Although Daqian has a cabinet, and the ministers of the cabinet will also help deal with the twists and turns, Zhao Chongyuan still likes to read the twists and turns of each cabinet in detail.

After all, the affairs of the state are no small matter, especially when he took over a lot of messes when he ascended the throne.

Even after 20 years of his work day and night, he still sews and mends.

Old diseases need to be recuperated slowly, not in a day.

This is especially true of governing a court that has lasted for three hundred years.

After a while, Wang Lishi's voice sounded from the outside again, "Your Majesty, Tian Meiren said that she stewed lotus seed soup for you with candied dates, and she has brought it over, so she will be placed here in the slave maid, do you want to drink it while it is hot?" ”

In the room, Zhao Chongyuan listened to Wang Lishi's words, frowned, and couldn't help but scold: "Dog minion, you can't hear what you say, right?"

Get lost! ”

"Huh."

Outside the room, listening to Zhao Chongyuan's scolding in the Heart Cultivation Palace, Wang Lishi involuntarily touched his nose in embarrassment.

Turning his head and forcibly squeezing out a smile, he looked at the beautiful woman who was about forty years old standing behind him, and said with a smile: "Tian Meiren, why don't you go back first, Your Majesty may really not have time to see you at this moment." ”

"There is Father-in-law Lao."

Listening to Wang Lishi's words, Tian Meiren subconsciously lifted the basket in her hand, squeezed out a smile, and after bowing to Wang Lishi, she turned around and walked to the steps outside the Heart Cultivation Hall with a slightly gloomy figure.

After watching Tian Meiren leave.

Only then did Wang Lishi retract his gaze.

The personal little eunuch on the side looked at the back of Tian Meiren's departure, and couldn't help but lean over to Wang Lishi and whispered: "Grandpa, why is Your Majesty not seen every time this Tian Meiren brings food."

I see that other mothers bring food, and even if Your Majesty doesn't eat it, he will let them leave it. ”

Wang Lishi raised his head and glanced at the little eunuch whose face was still a little immature, and said with a smile on his white-faced bearded face: "Don't inquire about the master's affairs, otherwise you won't know when your little head will be lost." ”

Hearing this, the little eunuch's expression turned grim and he hurriedly confessed.

……

"Coming back?"

Inside the Prince's East Palace.

As soon as Zhao Qingzhan entered the door, a woman in palace clothes was already sitting in the room, looking at him with expectant eyes.

But looking at the look in the woman's eyes, Zhao Qingzhan had a slight hint of fear on her face, and subconsciously took two steps back, and said in a timid voice: "I'm back." ”

"Then did your imperial grandfather say anything?"

The woman's eyes still looked at Zhao Qingzhan with expectation.

Hearing this, the cowardice in Zhao Qingzhan's eyes became even heavier, and he was a little embarrassed: "Mother, your son and I are not the material to be the emperor, this matter of accompanying the prisoner is very important, even if the imperial grandfather has a heart, he will never let his son and me do it." ”

"What's not for you to do? You are the eldest grandson of the emperor, the first heir to the throne of the Great Qian, if you can't do it, who else can do it? ”

The woman listened to Zhao Qingzhan's words, and seemed to be extremely angry, with an indisputable look of anger on her beautiful face, she looked at Zhao Qingzhan and said: "This throne belongs to your father, your father is dead, and you have been made the eldest grandson of the emperor. ”

Hearing this, Zhao Qingzhan looked at his mother concubine Qi with a distressed expression.

Since Zhao Ding came back, especially after his imperial grandfather showed his preference for Zhao Ding.

The mother concubine, who had never cared about the affairs of the court in the past, seemed to have changed as if she had changed.

Although he also knew why his mother was like this.

But from the bottom of my heart, I am a little repulsed.

Because he really didn't have the slightest nostalgia for that throne.

"Mother, Uncle Nine is not that kind of person."

After thinking for a while, Zhao Qingzhan looked at his mother and concubine a little timidly, and argued.

Qi sneered: "Knowing people and knowing faces but not knowing hearts, if he Zhao Ding is really not the person you think he is, then why did he come back?"

Isn't it good to be his comfortable prince in his Youzhou?

Why should you participate in this pool of water? ”

Qi looked at Zhao Qingzhan with a sneer.

Listening to his mother's words, Zhao Qingzhan could feel that something was wrong, but he couldn't find a place to refute it.

Did the concubine say something wrong?

No.

But it's not entirely true.

Because Zhao Ding did not come back by himself, but his imperial grandfather and imperial grandmother teamed up to deceive him back, he knew about it, and he also told his mother and concubine.

His mother also knew.

Looking at the tangled look on Zhao Qingzhan's face, Qi's eyes couldn't help but show a hint of pity, stepped forward and gently touched Zhao Qingzhan's head, took it into his arms, and said softly: "Qingzhan, if you are in another position, the mother concubine will never spend the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, but you must understand that you are the eldest grandson of the emperor, and you are the prince of the great Qian."

Who has had a good end after the dethronement of the prince since ancient times?

No!

Whether it is Daqian, Dayu, or even the Dali Dynasty, which once dominated the land of the five countries of the Central Plains, none of the deposed princes can die well.

Do you know? ”

Qi looked at Zhao Qingzhan and said word by word.

"Queen Mother, but..."

Zhao Qingzhan wanted to speak and stopped.

But before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Qi Shi raising his hand, shook his head and said: "No, the struggle for power, if you want to blame it, we were born in the wrong place, and your father and king also died too early, otherwise, why would our mother and son be like this."

You must know that even if your ninth uncle Zhao Ding does not have the intention of killing you and my mother and son, but by his side, or in other places, there are too many people who want to use your status as the emperor's eldest grandson to make a fuss!

Any king, for the sake of the stability of imperial power, will inevitably be wary of the former prince.

It's not for him to decide, it's for people's hearts.

Do you understand? ”

Qi said faintly.

She was born into a large family and has been familiar with the classics since she was a child.

For the classics of history, I don't say that I have memorized them backwards, but I also have them at my fingertips.

History is like this, and so is people's hearts.

One way or another.

Zhao Qingzhan, as the former eldest grandson of the emperor, once he completely loses the inheritance of the crown prince, the result will inevitably end badly.

This is not something that Zhao Ding can decide, but the person sitting in that position must do so.

Otherwise, once it is used by someone with a heart.

At worst, the imperial power is unstable, and if it is heavy, the country will be broken.

There are too many people who want to use Zhao Qingzhan, the former emperor's eldest grandson, to make a fuss!

Zhao Qingzhan stood in place, silent, and didn't speak for a long time.

After a while, he raised his head and looked at Qi Shi and asked, "Queen Mother, what do you think I should do?" ”