"Father, the emperor has indeed deposed the crown prince." Su Wenzhou looked a little excited. Isn't this just the right time?
Nowadays, the position of the East Palace depends on who has the ability, isn't it? Su Wenzhou is most optimistic about the third prince, and they are in-laws, so the third prince can trust them to a certain extent.
Su Jinxun sighed. Although it was expected, it was still disappointing.
"To say that he committed suicide himself, he has 50,000 private soldiers, which is quite a lot. Everyone knows about his rebellious intentions. How can the emperor not be angry?"
Su Yiyuan felt that the prince was just too stupid. The emperor was old and not as strong as before in recent years. Couldn't he wait?
Ginger is still old and spicy, which shows that the emperor is also worried about the prince.
Father and son are suspicious of each other, this is the royal family relationship.
Su Jinxun frowned when he heard this, "Yuan'er, don't speak nonsense. Although the eldest prince has been dethroned from his position as prince, I think the emperor still cares about his old relationship."
Su Yiyuan was quite dissatisfied. The deposed prince had lost power. Even if the emperor stopped pursuing him, the eldest prince would only have the status of a prince and have no real power.
Su Yizhao did not participate in the conversation of several people, but began to think about it.
The deposed prince has been released from the clan's mansion and is now imprisoned in the prince's mansion.
The emperor has been hesitant about how to deal with the prince. Su Yizhao believed that the emperor was taking care of the queen. When the matter reached this point, he probably had to settle the matter.
The queen is the mother of a country and cannot be deposed easily. The deposed prince was only found to be raising private soldiers, and his military strength was not enough to carry out rebellion.
As long as the queen is here, the deposed prince does not have to worry about his life.
"Father! Now the position of the East Palace is undecided. The court officials are all admonishing the emperor to reestablish the East Palace as soon as possible. Which prince do you think has the best chance of winning?" Su Wenzhou suddenly asked.
Su Jinxun went through the other four princes in his mind. These four princes were all very capable. If it were before, the second prince and the third prince would have had an advantage. After all, they were older.
But in the past two years, the fourth prince and the fifth prince have grown up, and they are doing well in errands.
Especially the fifth prince, even though he is the youngest, he is actually the most scheming.
His greed for money was just his illusion, but in just a few years, he had become more mature and grown to a level that no one could ignore.
When everyone was shocked, his behavior was shocking.
"All four princes have opportunities and are capable. It just depends on the emperor's wishes."
"Grandfather! In fact, the emperor prefers the fifth prince the most. The emperor has completely different attitudes towards him and the eldest prince."
Su Yiyuan felt that maybe the emperor was interested in the fifth prince. After all, the errands entrusted to the fifth prince by the emperor in the past two years had become increasingly important, and he often praised him a lot.
"Xiao Qi, what do you think?" Su Jinxun listened for a long time and didn't hear Su Yizhao speak, so he asked.
Su Yizhao came back to her senses after hearing this, and shook her head, "Today is different from the past. Before, there was a prince standing in front of him, so it is understandable that the emperor prefers the youngest son. But now that the position of the East Palace is vacant, the emperor will definitely think twice before choosing the prince.
OK."
Su Jinxun nodded. It would be child's play to reestablish the crown prince. This person must be chosen carefully.
"Perhaps the emperor already has a candidate in mind, but with the current situation, the East Palace may always be in doubt." Su Yizhao said solemnly.
"Oh? Why?"
Su Jinxun was a little surprised. He had made some ridiculous guesses before. Maybe the emperor had been waiting to depose the prince for a long time, and he was just being tolerant to the prince because he was worried about something.
Only the emperor himself knows whether he has followed the plan this time or not.
And why you want the prince to give up the throne? It means that the emperor already has a candidate for the East Palace in mind. Now that the opportunity has come, why not re-establish him?
Su Yizhao shook his head, "It's just an intuition."
A sneer flashed across Su Yiyuan's lips, "Even if the emperor has not thought of a good candidate for a while, the position of the East Palace has been hanging, and even the ministers of the court have not agreed! What's more, the emperor has no reason not to announce it. Anyway, it is one of the four princes.
one person."
"Father, in this case, all four princes will have a chance, but this is also an opportunity for us! The prince has not yet been re-established. If we choose a prince to join him, and he ascends the throne in the future, our Su family will not
Do you also want to enjoy the supreme glory?"
The more Su Wenzhou thought about it, the more excited he became, the opportunity was right in front of him!
"The ministers in the DPRK have already taken sides, and even the officials from the eldest prince's line have switched to other princes. We still have to make plans early, or else wait until later?"
Su Wenzhou paused for a moment when he said this. What he meant was that when a new emperor takes the throne in the future, he will not reuse the favored ministers of the previous emperor at all.
Su Jinxun hesitated when he heard this. He looked at Su Yizhao again, only to see Su Yizhao frowning and shaking his head.
"Just wait! There is no need to rush. Anyway, I believe that the emperor will not re-establish the crown prince so soon."
Because she thought of the queen, didn't what the emperor said to her in the imperial study imply that he was being held hostage?
Who is this person? It can’t be the Queen Mother, right?
Who else can equal the status of the emperor but the queen? And the queen must have something to do with him, otherwise the emperor's attitude towards the prince would not be so subtle.
However, this matter was just her guess, and she naturally couldn't tell Su Jinxun and the others.
"Father! It's better to do it sooner rather than later. If it's a foregone conclusion and we keep rushing forward, people won't appreciate it. I think the third prince is good. His mother's family is powerful and he himself is very talented. It's even more rare.
Since he is related to our family by marriage, it will be easier for us to be reused if we take refuge in him."
Su Wenzhou simply said it directly. Anyway, he was most optimistic about the third prince.
"Grandfather! I think the fifth prince has a good chance of winning. After all, it is obvious to all that the emperor prefers him." Su Yiyuan also said.
Su Yijue suddenly said: "Grandpa! But I think the fourth prince is not bad. He has a stable temperament. He is not as flamboyant as the fifth prince, nor as strong as other princes. He is relatively inconspicuous, but maybe he can catch the emperor's eye."
The relationship between the emperor and his sons is very complicated. They are father and son, but the emperor's suspicion cannot be eliminated even if they are father and son.
Even because the princes are the heirs of the country, the emperor is even more suspicious of them.
When it comes to power, it's not an exaggeration to say that your relatives don't recognize you.
Will the Emperor feel relieved about those princes who are sharp-edged and ambitious?
Su Yizhao glanced at Su Yijue in surprise, and suddenly felt that there was really a hidden dragon and crouching tiger in this house, and there was a lot going on secretly.
Su Jinxun had a severe headache, and the emperor's attitude was unclear. If he had rash contact with the princes, he might be displeased.
"We will discuss this matter later. We have just deposed the crown prince, so there is no need to rush."
After the discussion, Su Yizhao planned to go back to his yard, but halfway there, he suddenly bumped into Su Wenqing who was returning home.
It's just that Su Wenqing's face was not friendly at the moment, and he was still mumbling when he came in from the outer courtyard.
"But someone has made father unhappy?" Su Yizhao quickly stepped forward to salute and asked upon seeing this.