"The King of Qi's party is making an effort? How can the emperor sit idly by and ignore it? The Crown Princess does not need to worry too much." Zu An comforted, but he also understood that it would not be a small matter to make the important ministers of the Crown Prince's party lose their composure like this.
"It's not that simple," the Crown Princess sighed. "Today in the morning, officials from our group challenged the King of Qi. After all, the previous assassination case was inextricably linked to the King of Qi. It didn't matter how the King of Qi tried to clean it up.
To clear up our relationship, we all have ways to deal with it. But I didn't expect that King Qi was so cruel and directly admitted all the crimes, but put all the blame on Cheng Xiong and his son."
"Although many people on our side later questioned it, there was a lack of key evidence. King Qi also had many officials. More and more people came out to speak for him, so the matter was settled."
Zu An wondered: "This should be expected. Why are you so frustrated?"
"It would be nice if it was just like this," the Crown Princess sighed, "Soon, people from King Qi's faction began to fight back on this topic. Some people suggested that the Crown Prince can't even protect himself, how can he inherit the country in the future?"
You must know that the Great Zhou Dynasty established its country by force, and its status in the country was determined by spiritual practice.
Originally, although the prince was a bit of a loser, he had an invincible father. Although everyone was dissatisfied, they couldn't say anything.
As a result, the assassin's trouble with the prince was almost solved by the assassin, and everyone finally began to face this problem.
In order to criticize the King of Qi, people from the Prince's lineage had exaggerated how critical the situation was and how many times the Prince's life was hanging by a thread.
The results all became evidence to support the views of King Qi's lineage.
Many neutral ministers in the court were originally very dissatisfied with the stupid prince as the crown prince. After this incident, everyone finally couldn't stand it anymore.
Imagine that the prince becomes the emperor in the future, and then dies due to a casual assassination. Wouldn't the whole country fall into chaos?
Those people did not speak for the King of Qi, but out of public interest, so that the Emperor had nothing to blame.
Of course, the emperor was not a pushover. From the beginning, he vigorously pushed out some of the loudest people and punished them with sticks, hoping to suppress this tendency.
But those people seemed to have made an appointment, and they stood up one after another. Each one of them was not afraid of death at all, but felt that it was an extremely glorious thing to be pushed out and punished.
The emperor, who cared so much about reputation, certainly knew what these guys were thinking. They wanted to leave a name in history.
The emperor himself had done so much, and all he wanted for immortality was to leave his name in history. How could he be willing to let these people get the same treatment after being beaten?
What's more, if this incident is really recorded in the history books, it's really hard to say whether the emperor will leave his mark in history or remain infamy for eternity.
So in the end, after the denunciation of the King of Qi and his party, and the
With the cooperation of the Li faction, the emperor had to adopt a compromise plan.
An examination is held for the prince. If he can pass the examination, it will prove that he is qualified to inherit the throne and has the ability to govern the country in the future.
If you can't pass the exam, you have no choice but to abdicate and make way for someone better.
The King of Qi and his party were very satisfied with this result, because they knew that with the level of the prince, it was impossible to pass the exam, so that King Qi could legitimately become the crown prince.
The emperor agreed to this proposal because as long as the examination was conducted by humans, there would be room for maneuver.
He was caught off guard in the court today, and now he can use the exam to buy him some time and find a solution.
But for the Crown Princess, hearing the news just felt like the sky was falling.
Others may only know that the prince is a bit naive and stupid, but she knows that the guy is extremely stupid. He knows nothing except eating, shitting and having fun all day long.
She even played some mentally retarded games for fun, such as backgammon, which she was obsessed with recently. She thought it was simply vulgar, and she didn't know who invented this thing.
If you pick up a random person on the street - no, if you pick up a random kid to take the exam, he is guaranteed to be much better than a prince.
After listening to the Crown Princess's explanation, Zu An finally understood why they were so worried. The fat man really couldn't make people have confidence in him.
"What will be tested in this exam?" Zu An immediately grasped the key point.
The Crown Princess shook her head: "The specific content of the exam is not clear yet, but it is nothing more than cultivation, governance and other things. What exactly will be tested requires a game between the two parties."
She felt gloomy in her heart. No matter what test she took in the end, the prince would fail.
Zu An comforted him: "You don't have to worry too much. After all, the prince is the emperor's eldest son, and he will not ignore it."
"I hope so." The princess had no hope in her heart because she couldn't think of anything the emperor could do.
"By the way, I heard that people from the Shi family are making things difficult for you at the palace gate?" the princess asked, cheering up.
Zu An replied: "I have already taken care of this little matter. Princess, there is no need to worry."
The Crown Princess hummed: "Then please step back."
It was a pity that what happened to Shi Kun last time completely offended the Shi family and would probably push them towards King Qi. However, she really didn't have the time to care about these things now, so let him do it.
Looking at Zu An's back as he left, he sighed in his heart, if only the prince could be as worry-free as he was.
After Zu An left the East Palace, a young eunuch came to summon him, and the emperor summoned him.
He couldn't help but look helpless. The concubines in the harem were eager to see the emperor one more time, but he didn't want to but had to meet the emperor every now and then. What a sin he had done.
Complaints are complaints, the situation is stronger than others, so I can only follow him to the imperial study room.
After entering the royal study, he noticed the emperor's gloomy expression, and he immediately saluted knowingly: "I have met the emperor."
Now that the other party is angry, it is better not to get into trouble.
The emperor hummed in response, then held up a memorial and said, "Today someone is impeaching you for committing an attack at the palace gate and beating up Shi Jun, who was supervising the appearance of all the officials. Is this relevant?"
"It's unfair. I obviously have no problem, but that Shi Jun deliberately targeted me..." Zu An was about to explain, but was interrupted by the emperor.
"What I'm curious about is another thing. Why did his pants fall off when you said his pants fell off? According to the intelligence, during the last battle between you and Han Fengqiu, it was you who said something and his pants fell off," the emperor
His eyes instantly became very sharp, "Do you have the blood of the Dragon Clan and have their speaking skills?"
Zu An hurriedly explained: "Your Majesty Mingjian, there are dragons who want to kill me on my way to Beijing. How can I have anything to do with them, let alone the skills of speech and spirit."
These skills must never be told to the emperor, otherwise he will definitely die miserably. No emperor will trust someone who is out of his control.
"Then why do their pants fall off? I don't believe it's such a coincidence." The emperor looked at him coldly. One of them was at the ninth level, and the other was at the seventh level. How could their pants fall off so easily?
Zu An hurriedly explained: "I'm still confused about how Han Fengqiu's pants fell off, but that incident gave me inspiration. Didn't Shi Jun use his appearance to suppress me? I just slapped him when I got close to him.
, quietly cut off his waistband. He was in extreme shock and anger and did not notice it at the time."
The emperor was stunned at first, and then he couldn't help laughing: "You are quite an eccentric kid. You have made Shi Jun so miserable. I'm afraid I won't have the shame to take on the responsibility of supervising the appearance of all officials in the future."
Seeing him smile, Zu An secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, I reacted quickly.
But the emperor is really cool. The Shi family has made great contributions to the Zhou Dynasty. The head of the Shi family is also one of the most respected eight princes in the court, but he doesn't care about the face of the Shi family at all. He must be angry with them.
Go to King Qi.
At this time, the emperor said again: "You should have heard about the prince's exam. You always have a lot of clever ideas. Do you have any ideas?"
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I should have made up for yesterday's, but luckily I didn't break my promise.
This chapter has been completed!