Ever since Lu Fang sent the news, King Jing Zhu Zaizhen fell into a deep panic.
Since the twelfth year of Jiajing, Zhu Zaizhen has been relying on various excuses to stay in the capital, not wanting to go to the fiefdom to become a vassal.
In his opinion, his father's delay in establishing the crown prince was clearly dissatisfied with his third brother, right?
So out of this consideration, Zhu Zaizhen began his journey to seize the throne.
He took this opportunity to expand his party members aggressively, and Yan Song, the chief minister of the cabinet, stood clearly under King Jing's banner, which greatly increased his power and prestige in the court.
The child in the belly of Imperial Concubine Shen made him feel a great sense of crisis.
Although he and Prince Yu were the eldest sons, in terms of legitimate concubines, the child in Shen's belly had a much more respected status than them.
What can be foreseen next is that the child in Shen's belly will definitely be favored by his father, and will most likely take his place by then!
With this in mind, Zhu Zaizhen took action.
Originally, he planned to use some means to abort the child in Shen's belly, but the means previously arranged by Jiajing were quite strict. Even the incense candles in the daily room were replaced by special personnel.
In addition, Mr. Shen himself is very cautious and never touches anything unfamiliar!
Therefore, the plans laid out by Zhu Zaizhen failed many times.
Time passed like this day by day, and Zhu Zaizhen's remaining patience was gradually exhausted.
He wanted to take a gamble and determine the position of the crown prince before the child in the belly of the imperial concubine Shen was born!
From this, he began to send people to give gifts to the imperial concubine Shen, hoping to please Jiajing.
But soon, people from Dongchang came to the door and arrested all those who had previously worked for him, and there has been no news since!
In addition, Lu Fang, the eunuch of the Supervisor of Ceremonies, personally came to inform him that he and Prince Yu should go to the palace to meet his father.
These two incidents gave Zhu Zaizhen a huge blow, and he began to panic all day long.
"Your Highness, here is the letter sent by Mr. Yan Ge!"
Just as Zhu Zaizhen was still thinking about how to respond next, the report from his subordinates brought him back to reality.
When he learned from his subordinates that this was a letter sent by Yan Song, he hurriedly gave instructions like a drowning man seeing a life-saving straw.
"Hurry up and bring the letter to me!"
"Yes, Your Highness!"
The subordinate's face was full of respect, and he immediately handed Yan Song's letter into Zhu Zaizhen's hands.
When Zhu Zaizhen couldn't wait to open the letter and saw the content recorded on it, he couldn't help but be dumbfounded.
There is only one short sentence above.
"Your Highness, you are His Majesty's son, you'd better admit your mistake to Your Majesty as soon as possible!"
Zhu Zaizhen seemed unwilling to give in and read the contents of the letter several times.
Then, he tore the letter into pieces, kicked over the desk in front of him, and said angrily.
"Trash, it's all trash!"
"Yan Song, you are such a loser. It's just that you can't make any useful suggestions. You actually want to admit your mistakes alone!"
"Gu is right, Gu is right, father has made it clear that he is dissatisfied with the third brother!"
"As long as you persevere, you will get the title of crown prince one day. Yes, just persevere!"
"I don't need your help, I want to get everything I want by myself!"
Just like that, I saw Zhu Zaizhen clenching his fists and becoming more determined about his goal.
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Capital City, Yan Mansion.
In the study, Yan Shifan looked at Yan Song with a rather worried look and said slowly.
"Father, do you think Prince Jing will listen to your advice?"
After hearing what Yan Shifan said, Yan Song slowly put down the book in his hand, shook his head, and answered.
"No, it won't. According to my understanding of King Jing, he won't listen!"
"Presumably, at this moment, he was furious and became more determined about what he was thinking."
After hearing Yan Song's words, Yan Shifan became even more confused and asked immediately.
"Then...in that case, father, why did you still write that letter?"
"Isn't this just increasing the risk? If His Majesty gets to know about this, wouldn't it be..."
Yan Shifan envisioned the possible results in his mind. Immediately, his whole body trembled and he did not dare to continue talking.
Yan Song glanced at Yan Shifan and said lightly.
"No matter what the final result is, this letter must be written!"
"In recent years, we and King Jing have achieved mutual success. Without his support, we would not be where we are today!"
"Correspondingly, without us, King Jing's side would not have the prestige it has today."
"Just think of that letter as a final break!"
After Yan Shifan listened to Yan Song's words, he immediately put on a thoughtful posture.
After a long time, I saw that he was full of energy, turned his eyes to Yan Song, and said excitedly.
"Thank you father for your teaching, my child understands!"
Seeing Yan Shifan's enlightened look, Yan Song couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and asked with interest.
"What do you unserstand?"
"Father, we can take this opportunity to bet on the unborn child in the imperial concubine's belly!"
After Yan Song heard these words from Yan Shifan's mouth, he stroked his beard quite angrily and reprimanded.
"You idiot, do you know what you are talking about?"
Yan Shifan was frightened by Yan Song's sudden rebuke. He quickly knelt on the ground and admitted his mistake to Yan Song.
"Father, my child accidentally said something wrong. I hope my father will punish me!"
Yan Song stood up from his seat, came to Yan Shifan, leaned down and spoke word by word.
"Do you think that changing the family is something that happens overnight?"
"It's easy to get on some buses, but it's difficult to get off."
"You idiot, if His Majesty gets to know what you just said, it would be easy to kill everyone!"
"If you dare to say such stupid things in front of me again, don't blame me for being rude!"
Yan Shifan was shocked by the aura exuded by Yan Song, and nodded in agreement while trembling all over.
"Yes, father, the child knows."
"Well, get up."
Yan Song sighed helplessly and ordered like this.
After getting Yan Song's permission, Yan Shifan slowly stood up from the ground, with a look of panic still on his face.
Then, Yan Song seemed to have thought of something, turned around, put his hands behind his back, and said slowly.
"Actually, what you said before was not wrong."
"It's just that the decision-making power does not lie with us, but with His Majesty!"
"Only if His Majesty shows signs of this, can we move closer to the child in the belly of Imperial Concubine Shen."
"Before this, any act of arrogance will lead to death!"
"Yan Shifan, do you understand?"
Yan Song's voice was not loud, but it shocked Yan Shifan greatly at this time!
Then, he lowered his head respectfully and said slowly.
"Thank you father for your teachings. The child knows that he was wrong."
Yan Song saw that Yan Shifan understood what he meant, and immediately sighed with emotion.
"If you know this earlier, you will be able to make fewer mistakes in the future."
"Xu Jie's group is not easy to deal with. After all, I can't stay with you forever!"
"You have to learn to walk the rest of the way alone."
(End of chapter)
