"Is it raining outside?" The emperor slowly raised his head and raised his hand to signal King Yi not to speak.
"It's raining." Shen Jing came out to report.
"Ask someone to go out and get an umbrella and be ready."
Shen Jing nodded and obeyed the order, immediately a young eunuch put on a thick robe and went to get an umbrella outside the palace. King Yi did not dare to say anything, and only watched from a distance as the little eunuch left and Shen Jing returned to his position, and then continued: "My son is willing to fulfill his filial piety by his father's side, but he cannot let go of the people under his rule, for fear that they will say I was wrong, I thought I was going to abandon them. So I was so anxious that I uttered those nonsense words, which made everyone laugh. Fortunately, Minister Cai kindly reminded me, so I woke up."
The emperor put his hands on the dragon chair, and several soft laughs came from behind the scenes: "My son's love for the people is really commendable, how can it be called a joke? Furthermore, Ge Hanlin's proposal was also a bit hasty, so instead of No one can accept this, and the responsibility is not yours. I will handle it properly so that you will not let the people down."
Seeing that he had covered it up, King Yi secretly sighed, kowtowed twice more, and stood up with his sleeves rolled up.
It was night, with dark clouds and heavy rain. Pieces of rain hit the roof quickly, then slid down the eaves, forming a curtain of water in front of Ye Yongjia, making a splashing sound.
Ye Yongjia felt the cold wind blowing in his face, the hair on his temples was blown up and swinging wildly, and sporadic raindrops hit his face; but he remained motionless and said nothing.
"Tinglong, Tinglong!" Cai Xianqing was shivering from the cold. As she put on her fox fur, she called him from behind, "It's not an option for you to think like this! It's very cold here. Come in quickly!"
Ye Yongjia sighed, looked down at the transparent raindrops on his sleeves, wiped them away with his hand, then turned around and entered the room, taking off his black gauze hat in front of the table.
"Put it on." Cai Xianqing hooked a robe with two fingers and threw it in front of him.
Ye Yongjia did not listen, and only touched the texture of the robe with his long and thin hands, and sighed: "Junior, it is indeed cold, biting to the bone... But in this cold, you feel more urgent, and the more you are forced to think hard. Now You and I have reached a desperate situation, and the worst thing we can do is think about comfort. Isn't it good to let it sink into our bones and blood like this?"
"Desperate situation?" Cai Xianqing looked up to the sky and laughed, slapping her thigh and said, "Old man, I have lived for most of my life and have encountered everything, but I have never experienced any desperate situation!"
Ye Yongjia suddenly turned around: "What about this time? Although Prince Yi reluctantly hesitated, the emperor had already understood those words very clearly - he deliberately changed the subject and allowed people to think about countermeasures, which is proof of my speculation. !”
"You also told me that judging from Chen Dang's reaction, I am afraid that he has already discussed it with the emperor. In this case, King Yi has undoubtedly disobeyed the emperor's will! Once the father and son are at odds and King Yi loses power, how can we survive? Court?"
"Tinglong, don't forget," Cai Xianqing pulled a hair from the fox fur and looked at it carefully, "when the prince killed his brother to ascend the throne, he was much more jealous than King Yi; however, with the support of Chen Dang, , haven’t they never fallen? The two of them are indeed legitimate concubines, but in the eyes of today’s emperor, I’m afraid they are regarded as equals.”
"Should we pretend that nothing happened?"
"No, no," Cai Xianqing blew off the fox hair in his hand, "Master Ye misunderstood what I meant. I'm just correcting your mentality. After all, from the current point of view, the situation has obviously gotten worse, and we should take it seriously. I think that if we want to avoid disaster for the time being, we should let the fire burn back to the other party's door."
"I'd like to hear the details." Ye Yongjia held his fists in his hands, his eyes shining.
"For example, starting from the people around the prince and creating a shocking case in order to cover up King Yi's fault. This is called using offensive instead of defensive."
Ye Yongjia heard some truth, and saw that he was so confident and his words were not casual, so he said: "It's not easy to talk here. Please ask Mr. Cai to come to the back room and talk slowly." The two of them entered the back room one after another. Put down the curtain.
"My younger brother Cun Zhao pays homage to His Highness the Crown Prince!"
Cunzhao arrived at the study and knelt down while shouting.
The prince's face was full of joy, and he stepped forward to hold Cun Zhao's arms: "Stop with this red tape. My brother, have Chen Gongzhou and the others told you the news?"
"What's the news?" Cun Zhao saw the prince's happy face and quickly followed his wishes and asked eagerly.
The prince pulled him up and said with a smile: "Tongpao Chen has devised a plan to make King Yi fall into a trap! He has sent Ge Mingwei to report back to the palace to find out the emperor's intentions! If nothing goes wrong, King Yi will Now I have offended my father!"
Cun Zhao suddenly understood: "I was talking about why King Yi behaved so weirdly during the court meeting. It turned out that Duke Chen 'killed first and reported later', which made him a criminal who contradicted the emperor!"
While they were chatting happily, they suddenly heard a report from a confidant: "Ge Ming, a scholar of Hanlin Academy, would like to see you." The prince smiled knowingly and repeatedly called Ge Ming to come to the court; in a moment, he had arrived.
"Mr. Ge, what did the emperor say to you?" The prince asked him politely as he sat down.
Ge Mingwei did not dare to sit down, so he bent his back slightly and answered one by one: "When the emperor saw me, he first said, 'Today's court meeting will be my fault. You should not announce your memorandum in a hurry, lest others suspect you of interfering in the emperor's family affairs. , this was a good strategy to push things along, but it almost failed to be implemented." Later, when talking about King Yi, he said that he "has always had a reckless temperament, why should he tell all his thoughts?" As for the meaning hidden in these words, I think Your Highness We all understand.”
"It's done!" The prince slammed the table and shouted excitedly, "King Yi has been in glory for many days, but finally fell down at this critical moment. I can finally sit comfortably in my seat in the East Palace for a few days!"
Cun Zhao followed up with flattery: "It won't just be a few days, King Yi will be in ruins from now on. He only needs an opportunity to give the emperor a little advice, and he can be killed! Now we can take advantage of this victory, just like the autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves." , completely eliminate Ye Yongjia’s conspiracy!”
"Brother Cun is so ambitious!" The prince was overwhelmed with joy at this time, and became even more excited when he heard these words, "Mr. Ge, do you agree?"
Ge Ming was disgusted with the flattery style, so he was not willing to agree with him. He only tried hard to persuade him: "Dong Sheng's appointment has been completed, and Cun Sijin will go with him. He can only share the king's worries, how can he have the intention of causing harm?" ? Besides, border defense is very important and cannot be neglected..."
Before Ge Mingwei could finish these long words, the prince's face dropped and he interrupted: "Mr. Ge, you are also of the same mind as Mr. Chen, why are you so pedantic? Ye Thief's new policy has nothing to do with it. Unlike what Liu Dang did back then, do you want my father to be controlled by others again? Since you say so, you might as well prevent Dong Sheng from reaching the border and see how vicious this king's plan is!"
