If not abolished

Chapter 275: Bite Back (1)

"Don't be afraid, Your Highness. I will not leave. I will stay here with you." Wang Jundai comforted him.

Zhu Zhanqi kept holding her hand and never let go for a moment.

Wang Jundai had no choice but to let him hold her still.

The next day, Zhu Di announced that he would suspend court for three days, and no one dared to offend him at this time.

In the Yikun Palace, Zhu Di has been staying in the Yikun Palace for the past few days, and Concubine Wang can only accompany him.

"Your Majesty, even if you don't attend court, you still have to deal with government affairs. You can't hide here with me, can you?" After two days, Concubine Wang saw that Zhu Di did nothing and was in a daze every day.

"Don't we still have the crown prince? Not to mention that I won't attend court to handle government affairs for three days, even if it's three months, the crown prince can handle these things alone." Zhu Di said nonchalantly. He still trusted the crown prince about this.

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid that you will still be like this in three days. Zhanhe is watching you in heaven. He is such a filial child, he definitely doesn't want you to be so depressed." Concubine Wang directly brought up Zhu Zhanhe to persuade her.

"Yes, you are right. He is indeed a filial child. How could God be so cruel to let me lose my grandson at this age? In the past, when Taizu lost Xiongying, I was probably even more heartbroken. That child is no less than Agui. If I had lost Agui, I am afraid I would not be able to live well in the future."

"What are you talking about, Your Majesty? Bah, bah, bah, Agui is fine, may he live a long life, please don't talk nonsense. Speaking of Agui, he has locked himself up in Qingyun Palace these past few days and has not seen anyone. He and Zhanhe used to have a good relationship, but I'm afraid he is in great pain this time."

"Agui has been too impulsive in his recent actions and is not calm enough. He needs more experience in the future."

"Agui is just a child, and he still needs to be taught by His Majesty and the Crown Prince. How can he be like you?"

"Yes, and I and the Crown Prince are supporting him." Zhu Di thought about it and agreed.

"Speaking of these children, they are all sensible. Zhanqi looked young before. He has become much more mature after spending more than a year in the capital."

"He... who knows what he is working towards?" Zhu Di said somewhat unhappily.

"A few days ago, you suddenly left someone in the palace. Wang was so worried that she came to ask me about the situation. I could only say that you probably had something for him to do. Fortunately, he went back in two days, otherwise I don't know what would happen."

"Hmph, among the children of the second son, none of them look like me. One is too docile and can't control the second son, but being an idle prince is not a bad thing. The other one looks exactly like the second son, but has ambition but no ability. Although the prince doesn't look like me either, fortunately Agui looks like me, which is not bad."

"Your Majesty, this is too demanding. As the saying goes, every son of a dragon is different. In my opinion, every child has his or her own merits. You can't expect all of them to be good."

"That's right, not all of them are outstanding. They just fight and quarrel all day long. If they all had abilities, who knows what it would be like?" Zhu Di thought about it and thought of Taizu's children. There were many capable ones among their brothers.

As soon as the third day arrived, Zhu Zhanqi went straight to the Qianqing Palace after leaving court.

"Your Majesty, Prince Qi requests to see you." Wang Jinghong walked in and announced.

"Let him in." Zhu Di said after putting down his things.

"Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you." Zhu Zhanqi bowed politely.

"Stand up, you didn't go back home after the court session, is there something you came here for?" When Zhu Di saw him and thought about what he had done, a feeling of disappointment surged in his heart. Thinking about the ancestral system, the Crown Prince of Han was gone, and the next Crown Prince would sooner or later be the grandson in front of him. It was only a matter of time.

"Today I would like to ask Your Majesty for your opinion." Zhu Zhanqi not only did not stand up, but also kowtowed again.

"What are you doing? What happened?"

"Grandpa Emperor, there is something your grandson must report to you." Zhu Zhanqi pleaded.

Zhu Di had a feeling that it was not going to be a good thing. "If you have anything to say, stand up and talk."

"If you don't agree, I will kneel and die here today." Zhu Zhanqi threatened.

Zhu Di was rarely threatened like this. If a minister or someone else threatened him like this, he would have dragged the person out and executed him.

He was already very angry, but he silently said in his heart that the King of Han had just lost a son, and no matter what, he could not stand in the way of any harm.

"Okay, I promise you, you can tell me now." Zhu Di didn't care whether he got up or not. He could just kneel down if he wanted. Kneeling wouldn't kill him anyway, right?

"Your Majesty, the matter I want to mention is that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said last time that I arranged people around him to spy on the palace and took away the confidential documents in his study."

"Isn't this matter over? You didn't defend yourself at the time. Now, after so long, you come here and say you will take care of it for you. Are you playing me like a monkey?" It would have been fine if he didn't mention it. As soon as he mentioned it, Zhu Di wanted to hit him again. Could it be that this kid came here deliberately to anger him and take revenge on him today?

"Grandpa Emperor, I admit that I did have people in the palace gathering information, but the theft has nothing to do with me. I didn't have anyone doing that."

"Just by snooping around in the palace, I can depose you from your position as a prince. Believe it or not, you still dare to say anything about your defense."

"Yes, I understand. This is indeed my fault, but is everything His Royal Highness said true? Doesn't he have any selfish motives? He and that palace maid had an unclear relationship, but in the end he said that she was my person and that I asked her to do those things? But the palace maid gave me a blank piece of paper in the end. What I got was of no use at all. If she was really my person, then why would she betray me? Either she was bribed, or she was not my person at all. Is this all a trap? A trap to frame me, then who is the beneficiary of this matter? I... My father is no longer in the capital, and my elder brother has only been in Anle for a short time... His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has not even let me go. My father and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince did have some conflicts in the past, but we are all family. The Crown Prince has always said that he does not hate us, but he allows His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to do this. Grandpa Huang, we really don’t want to do anything to the East Palace. Before my father left the capital, he told me to do a good job for you and not to make mistakes. I was obsessed with wanting to know the news in the palace because I was afraid that you would be angry. "Zhu Zhanqi later cried while talking.

Zhu Di knew that this was not credible. The prince was his son, so how could he not know his character? Over the years, his other two sons had used so many tricks, but the prince had never had a chance to retaliate. How could he attack Zhu Zhanqi, a junior this time? Even if this was true, it was probably Agui who did it. Agui's character was not like that of the prince, who would basically take revenge. Zhu Di looked at him with a scrutinizing eye. He was playing dirty tricks in front of him. These were all left over from his tricks twenty years ago.

Although he didn't want to admit it, he knew very well how he got this position. But just because he and his nephew competed for the throne, it didn't mean his descendants would do the same. However, this incident could be used to warn the prince. In the past few years, he was often away from the capital, and all the affairs of the court were handled by the prince. Some officials were even promoted and appointed by the prince. If this continued, wouldn't people only know the prince and not the emperor? That's why he had to warn the prince from time to time.

"Since you said you were wronged, I cannot just listen to your one-sided story. So call those two palace maids over and have a confrontation. Wang Jinghong, go and invite Agui over yourself, and don't alarm the crown prince."

"Yes." Wang Jinghong went out immediately.

"Your Majesty is wise." Zhu Zhanqi was prepared this time. Even if he couldn't involve the crown prince, he had to at least make His Majesty suspicious of him. His father had said that the emperor hated the crown prince the most if he had the intention of seizing power. In the past, the crown prince was well-behaved, but the emperor always suspected him. If it was true this time, the emperor would definitely be very angry.

"Why don't you get up first? What are you doing kneeling like this?"

"Yes." Zhu Zhanqi had been kneeling for so long that he was a little unsteady on his feet when he stood up, but he could not lose his manners in front of the emperor.