After stuttering in Kowloon, His Highness Taisun was holding back evil fire in his heart, especially because the emperor would not talk about how he was "wise, powerful, young and mature," which made Zhu Zhanji even more worried and frustrated.
After returning, his father was framed again and again, and both father and son were in the most dangerous situation at the same time. This made Zhu Zhanji couldn't help but cast suspicious eyes on Zhu Gaoxu. Although there was no evidence, Zhu Zhanji firmly believed that his second uncle was behind it.
Naughty, naturally he also hated his best friend Ji Gang.
His Highness Taisun roared, and the guards of the East Palace also had a backbone, and they drew their swords one after another.
The ministers coming and going on the imperial street also scolded Jin Yiwei for being so impudent and disrespectful to the prince and grandson. Although Jin Yiwei's arrogance was arrogant, he could no longer stand it at this moment.
"Step back." Ji Gang finally came to his senses, waved his hand, and motioned for his men to leave temporarily, "I will just accompany His Highness the Crown Prince..."
"Yes." Zhuang Jing and others immediately withdrew Yu Jingjing. Ji Gang turned his eyes and said coldly to Zhu Zhanji: "Does Your Highness want to escort a minister into the Meridian Gate with a sword like this?"
"Humph" Zhu Zhanji snorted, and while withdrawing his sword, he swung the sword sharply and hit Ji Gang's face. Half of the face of the leader of the Jin Yiwei immediately turned red.
"Okay, okay, okay..." The other half of Ji Gang's face also turned red, and he stared at the grandson with burning eyes, but found that he had nothing to say.
"Go away." Zhu Zhanji glanced at him contemptuously.
Then a guard came forward and took Ji Gangqing aside.
A group of civil servants immediately gathered around them, bowed deeply to the grandson and the prince on the carriage, and said: "Your Highness, don't worry. Even if we risk our lives, we have to keep your highness safe."
"Thank you all..." At this time, the civil servants dared to come forward and say such words, which shows how high the status of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is in the hearts of the civil servants. Zhu Zhanji was moved to tears, but shook his head decisively and said
: "But you must not, please do not get involved."
"Why?" the courtiers asked in confusion, don't you two need support the most right now?
"Originally it was just a small misunderstanding. My father explained it to me and the emperor, and everything became calm." Zhu Zhanji smiled and said: "You guys are all talking, and my emperor thought that my father was using his ministers to suppress my father.
"That's what Your Highness said." When the ministers heard that, since it was a royal family matter and the grandson said it could be solved, what else could they do? They all gave up the idea of admonishing and waited to see what would happen.
After persuading the ministers to leave, Zhu Zhanji returned to the carriage. Zhu Gaochi said worriedly: "Ji'er, be careful of the black case against you."
"Isn't it too early for him to sue?" Zhu Zhanji said with a livid face: "This dog is collaborating with my second uncle. He has long regarded my father and son as a thorn in his side and a thorn in his flesh. Beating him today is easy, but I will kill him tomorrow."
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Looking at his murderous son, Zhu Gaochi realized that he was too weak, and sighed: "I just thought about it, there must be something wrong with that glass of wine, but how could Liu Mian harm me?"
"Who knows, people's hearts are separated from each other..." Zhu Zhanji's eyes flashed and he said slowly: "When I had people take him down, he had already committed suicide."
"Ah..." Zhu Gaochi's expression changed and he said, "Is it worth it?"
"Keeping it secret for his master." Zhu Zhanji snorted and said with a cold face: "Father, don't you understand? He is a spy planted by my second uncle."
"Oh, I'm so kind to him..." Zhu Gaochi was shocked and said dejectedly: "How could he..."
"Father, now is not the time to be emotional," Zhu Zhanji interrupted him in a deep voice: "After meeting Grandpa Huang, everything will be up to me. You only need to show that you are in pain."
"Why is it so painful?"
"It hurts both physically and mentally." Zhu Zhanji said every word.
"This..." Zhu Gaochi nodded hesitantly and said, "Okay."
The father and son got off the car in front of Fengtian Gate. Zhu Zhanji supported Zhu Gaochi and walked slowly to Qianqing Palace... It is said that because of the inconvenience of his legs and feet, the prince was specially given by the emperor to ride in the Forbidden City. He could sit in a sedan to see the emperor, but he asked for forgiveness. You have to look like you are apologizing.
At this time, the banquet held to welcome the emperor's triumphal return was about to begin. The palace people were busy shuttling back and forth, and the nobles and nobles were waiting respectfully. The civil and military ministers also came in groups. When they met His Royal Highness, they all saluted from a distance. No one dared to come forward to say hello.
"A minister is not as good as a junior minister." Zhu Zhanji muttered angrily.
"Don't worry, a gentleman seeks advantages and avoids disadvantages." Zhu Gaochi thought openly, "The minister knows more than the junior minister, and understands that being alone and my father is not just a superficial matter. Who dares to say whether my father will depose me? Naturally, I dare not come forward."
"Father will definitely turn danger into good fortune." Zhu Zhanji said with firm eyes.
When the father and son arrived in front of the Qianqing Palace, they met Zhu Di's Luan Yu coming out for a banquet. The father and son hurriedly knelt down by the roadside.
Seeing the prince and grandson arriving, Wang Yan hurriedly reported to the emperor in the sedan chair, but Zhu Di did not respond at all. Wang Yan had to look at the prince with helpless eyes and followed the emperor's honor guard away.
Zhu Di did not let him get up, so the father and son had to kneel there for more than an hour...Zhu Zhanji was young and strong, with copper skin and iron bones, but his knees felt like knives cutting, and his whole body was in pain. Not to mention Zhu Gaochi, who was fat and weak. The disabled man, looking at his face as white as a sheet of paper and his shaky appearance under the sweat, the palace attendants on the side wanted to hold an umbrella for the prince.
The person who said "go away" turned out to be Zhu Zhanji. He shouted sharply: "Are you still dissatisfied that my grandpa Huang is not angry enough?"
Zhu Gaochi moved his cleft lips a few more times. He wanted to ask for a glass of water, but after hearing his son's words, he stopped talking.
The father and son knelt for another quarter of an hour, and finally waited until Zhu Di returned. This time Luan Yu stopped in front of the two of them for a moment. Zhu Di glanced at the drowned prince, snorted with disgust in his eyes, and then drove back to the palace.
After a long while, the prince finally couldn't hold on any longer and collapsed. He hit his head on the stone pavement and suffered a bloody head injury.
"What are you still waiting for? Save my father!" Seeing that no one dared to step forward, Zhu Zhanji's eyes widened with anger, he jumped up from the ground, and cursed: "Go and report to my grandpa the emperor!"
"Yes" The person next to me is aggrieved. Didn't you not allow us to come forward... He hurriedly stepped forward to help the prince, and called the imperial doctor. He bandaged the prince first, then pulled open the front of his robe and used moxa sticks. Moxibustion on his chest finally woke up the Crown Prince.
As soon as Zhu Gaochi opened his eyes, he saw Wang Yan standing in front of him, grabbing his hand and looking at him pitifully.
"Your Majesty, please come in." Wang Yan sighed softly and said, "Prince, I will help you in." Then he and Zhu Zhanji walked to the left and right, supporting Zhu Gaochi into the Qianqing Palace.
In the Qianqing Palace, because he did not live here permanently, Zhu Di did not change out of his court uniform. He was still wearing a yellow tuanlonggun uniform, which showed the respect and majesty of the emperor. At this moment, he was sitting on the dragon chair with an expressionless face and cold eyes. He looked at the prince who staggered in with the help of two people.
As soon as Zhu Gaochi entered the hall, Zhu Di asked sarcastically: "The prince has sobered up?"
Zhu Gaochi hurriedly broke away from the support, knelt in front of the emperor, kowtowed heavily and said: "My son, I have been discourteous today. I have behaved well in the country and failed the emperor's favor. Please punish me severely."
"You are more than rude." Zhu Di snorted and said, "I have returned triumphantly from an expedition to Mobei. All the civil and military officials of the court and foreign envoys were waiting for me at Longjiang Pass. Only you, the crown prince who oversees the country, are actually hungover.
Get up and greet the driver when he is missing." The emperor became more and more angry as he spoke. He slapped the armrest heavily and cursed: "You have embarrassed me.
"My son is aware of his crime." Zhu Gaochi kowtowed vigorously: "Please punish me, father."
"Do you think that if you plead guilty to me, I will let you go? Go ahead and dream." Zhu Di said coldly: "As a prisoner, you drank too much, drank too much, drank too much, and wasted your life and dreams. As a prince, you have no father and set an example for others.
How can I, who is so disrespectful, hand over this great country to someone like you who is disrespectful and has no country, no king and no father?"
Zhu Gaochi heard the implication of his father's words and did not hide his intention to abolish the crown prince. He couldn't help but tremble all over, but he knew that he could not explain it because his father had already hated him. He would be disgusted by anything he said, which would only be counterproductive. He had no choice but to do so.
He kowtowed vigorously and said: "My son, let me be punished by my father." He secretly shouted in his heart, "My son, it's all up to you."
Zhu Zhanji stepped forward as expected. He was kneeling behind his father, but now he stepped forward, raised his head and said loudly to Zhu Di, who was full of anger: "Grandpa Huang, my father is a loyal and honest man, quick in actions but slow in words.
, the grandson sincerely requests Chen Zuo on behalf of his father."
"Don't mess around," Zhu Di said with a straight face, "You have no place to speak here, so get out of here quickly.
"No, if my grandson doesn't cry out for injustice, it would be a trivial matter for my father to be innocently wronged, and for the emperor to misunderstand the prince. It would be terrible for the deceased to suffer and for the enemy to be happy." Zhu Zhanji's character, and his father
Quite clearly, he had never been a submissive person, but could not tolerate any grievance. This time after leaving Jiulongkou, he had been filled with resentment. At this moment, in front of the emperor, it finally burst out. With tears streaming down his face, he said: "Grandpa Huang,
You are so wise and powerful that you are unparalleled in the world, why can't you even see through this little trick?"
Zhu Di didn't want to talk to him at first, but after hearing this, he snorted coldly and said, "Tell me, I can't see through any tricks."
"My grandson, may I ask Grandpa Huang, do you know when my father returned to the East Palace last night?" Zhu Zhanji asked loudly.
"How do I know?"
"It's actually very simple, because my father has been planning today's ceremony with the Ministry of Rites, Honglu Temple officials, and the internal supervisor last night. Grandpa Huang only needs to send them a message and they will know after asking."
"Speak directly if you have something to say, don't talk in circles," Zhu Di said with a frown.
"Yes, when my father returned to the East Palace last night, it was already the fourth watch." Zhu Zhanji said loudly: "Excuse me, Grandpa Huang, with your strong spirit, if you work until the fourth watch, do you still have the energy and mood to go?