"If there's anything I dare not say, I'm just telling the truth." Zhu Gaochi said disapprovingly.
"The emperor naturally has deep meaning in doing this. As the prince, your highness should follow the emperor's wishes and always be subject to the emperor's will. You must not disobey the holy will and bring disaster to yourself." Yang Shiqi's forehead was faintly visible.
A layer of sweat broke out.
As a courtier, how can you not understand who is older and who is younger? Although Zhu Gaochi is the prince, the emperor can deprive him of his position as prince if he can make him the prince. Although loyal words are offensive, there are some things that you just need to understand in your heart.
If you say it casually, I'm afraid it will cause unreasonable disaster.
Today, he and the prince sit together and talk intimately, which is unprecedented. And when the prince makes these complaints in front of him, every sentence is a crime of beheading. If this matter is spread, he will collude with the prince and commit rebellion.
The crime cannot be washed away even if it is tried.
"Not to mention anything else, Cangcheng, the Minister of Rites, was a man of integrity all his life. He was beheaded on the spot just because he collided with the purple-clothed captain. He was a dignified second-rank official of the imperial court and the head of the six departments. The power given to this person by the Emperor Father
, a bit too big." Zhu Gaochi twisted his body and said dissatisfied.
"Your Highness should know that the purple clothes represent the imperial power. It was only after Kurenai Mochi let Kuang Kuang speak nonsense in front of the purple clothes that he was killed on the spot. It was his own fault. The punishments the emperor subsequently imposed on all officials in the court were all for the purpose of safeguarding the imperial power.
The supremacy. Your Highness, you can think about it, if everyone is like Cangcheng, who ignores the imperial gift of purple clothes, will there be order in this court? Will the Ming Dynasty be in chaos? If even those who hold the imperial salary
If the ministers cannot set an example and do not take the imperial power seriously, can the court continue?"
Yang Shiqi bowed and said.
Yang Shiqi understood that the reason why the prince said this was probably due to his jealousy of the purple-robed captain.
Nowadays, among the people in the imperial court, the most favored person is none other than Xiao Chen, the purple-clad captain. But when people are favored, they have their own reasons for being favored.
Dongchang was established just a short time ago. Not only did he capture Liao Xianghe, the governor of North Town who was hiding in Jinyiwei, but he also cracked the case of privately hoarding silk in the south of the Yangtze River that delayed the treasure ship from going out to sea. Among them, hundreds of court bugs were dug out.
For such a handy sharp knife, if the emperor doesn't favor him, who will he favor?
This is an era when the imperial power rules the world. Those who are disrespectful to the imperial power are killed on the spot. Not to mention that he is to blame for his failure, how can we still praise him for being strong and not afraid of death?
If the prince was just dissatisfied with Xiao Chen's favor, it would be fine to vent his feelings casually. If he really thought so, then this kind of thinking was very dangerous. Not to mention that the throne would not be guaranteed, and the emperor would execute him in anger.
It's not impossible.
Although the King of Han and the King of Zhao are no longer able to make waves as they have been relegated to the cold palace, they must be the emperor's biological sons. At the beginning, the emperor had the idea of deposing the prince and establishing the king of Han as the crown prince. These things should be done after the prince has overseen the country for many years.
Now that you have matured a lot, don’t you feel that the crisis is always there?
"Imperial power? Doesn't it represent the father? You should respect the emperor. But Cangcheng, as the Minister of Rites, is beheaded and should be sentenced to death according to the procedure. What right does he, the purple-robed captain, have to kill the Minister of Rites on the spot?
?" Zhu Gaochi argued vigorously.
"Alas..." Yang Shiqi sighed in his heart.
The prince's jealousy towards the purple-robed captain was not ordinary.
If this matter is allowed to develop like this, then the Prince in Purple Clothes will probably be on the side of the King of Han or the King of Zhao, and it may be difficult for the Crown Prince to secure his position as Crown Prince.
But among the emperor's three sons, only the prince's temperament is more suitable for governing the country. If one of the other two comes to power because of this matter, the people of the Ming Dynasty will have a hard time.
"Your Highness, regarding the matter of Cangcheng, the positions of the ministers and the emperor are the same. The purple-clothed captain was not at fault. On the contrary, he saved enough face for Cangcheng and even left a way for his people to survive. You are the prince.
, the future Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. The more capable his purple-clad captain is, the better it is for you. This is a peerless sword that the emperor has worked hard to build for His Highness. The emperor hopes that you will hold this sword tightly in your hands.
Rather than giving it to others.”
Yang Shiqi hunched over, his gray beard trembling slightly, and tried hard to pull Zhu Gaochi out of the corner of the horn.
Zhu Gaochi frowned slightly: "Master Yang, do you want me to put aside my prejudices and win over this person?"
"No." Yang Shiqi shook his head, "Your Highness is wrong. This person was originally tailor-made for you by the Emperor. There is no such thing as trying to win over him. Your Highness just needs to exclude him without deliberately ostracizing him. Otherwise, with the sharpness of this sword,
, once you switch sides, without a strong enough shield, you may be stabbed with scars."
Yang Shiqi wanted to say that if you go against him, you may not even be able to save your head.
But the other party was the prince after all. Although he was just a fat man with a disabled left leg, his heavy status forced him to make the words he couldn't help but say more tactful.
"Master Yang is a bit exaggerating about this person's ability. He just wears purple clothes. How could he have done so many things without the unicorn purple clothes given by his father?" Although Zhu Gaochi felt a little scared, he still couldn't do it.
He continued to show off his words.
The dignified prince, if he just changes his position casually, what big thing can he accomplish?
"Yes, His Highness is right. He is an ordinary Dongchang captain. He really killed Cang Cheng with his purple clothes, which made all the officials in the court shocked and frightened. However, that was the Emperor.
The emperor gave him purple clothes, who can take them off? Hundreds of officials in the court jointly wrote a letter against the Cangcheng incident. What will be the final outcome? Two ministers of the Ministry of Rites were executed by nine tribes, and Cangcheng's tribesmen who could have survived were also killed by the emperor.
All officials were punished and fined one year's salary. This is the price for targeting the purple-clothed captain, has His Highness forgotten it?"
When he said this, Yang Shiqi had already made a plan in his heart. If the prince insisted on having his own way, he would never come to the East Palace and wade through this muddy water again.
He did not expect that Zhu Gaochi, who seemed to be loyal and honest, actually hid such deep dissatisfaction with the emperor and jealousy of the courtiers deep in his heart.
Thinking of the new face of the Ministry of Rites, and of the officials being fined a year's salary and having to thank the emperor for his great kindness, Zhu Gaochi lowered his head completely.
The prince is the prince. If he does not ascend the throne, he has no capital to stand up and speak, and he has no right to point fingers.
Although his father has been in charge of the Ming Dynasty for more than twenty years, and although he is about to enter his forties, as long as his father does not pass on the throne, the only thing he can do is to wait.
Tuck your tail between your legs and wait patiently.