"You mean that the emperor may pass the crown prince to King Qi because of his guilt?"
Bao Ying understood what Yu Shilin meant.
Yu Shilin nodded.
"That's right."
Yu Shilin said affirmatively.
The road to supremacy, the position of the crown prince, cannot only rely on the emperor's appreciation. The prince's appreciation can only mean that you become the crown prince, and the chances of the crown prince are higher.
But not absolutely.
If you want to become a prince, you must start from all angles.
There are many factors here, such as filial piety, you have to be filial, let the emperor think you are a big filial son, maybe you can become a prince.
Or guilt, making the emperor feel guilty, in order to make up for it, you may become a prince.
In short, the competition for the crown prince is not based solely on ability. You have outstanding literary talents, and you know astronomy and geography. This is not an inevitable requirement.
The three discussed leaving the palace.
Zhou Heng was called to the imperial study by Emperor Guangxiao.
"My son kowtows to my father!"
"Get up!" Emperor Guangxiao asked Zhou Heng to stand up, glanced at Zhou Heng, and smiled, "Do you feel that you have been wronged by the affairs of the court today?"
Emperor Guangxiao asked.
"My son dare not!"
Zhou Heng replied respectfully.
"There is nothing to dare, if you are wronged, just say it. I know that this matter is not your fault, it is the six big families, but I have to weigh it. I can't completely offend the six big families just because of you alone. Clearly understand the influence of the six major families in my big week."
Emperor Guangxiao explained the matter to Zhou Heng.
"My son understands!"
Zhou Heng nodded, he was naturally clear about this matter.
"Just understand, come!"
Emperor Guangxiao asked Zhou Heng to come forward.
Zhou Heng walked to the desk.
Emperor Guangxiao took out an imperial edict.
Opening the imperial decree, it turned out to be the edict of the crown prince.
"Look, I have already written the imperial decree. If it weren't for the six major families, with your military achievements this time, you can definitely sit on the throne of the prince. However, because of the affairs of the six major families, this matter needs to be resolved later. Postponed for a while."
Emperor Guangxiao said to Zhou Heng.
He can't punish Zhou Heng today, and make Zhou Heng the prince tomorrow. Wouldn't he become dishonest in that case?
Therefore, the matter of the prince still needs to be pushed back.
"My son knows."
Zhou Heng nodded, indicating that he understood Emperor Guangxiao's good intentions.
"If you really manage to get things done during this mission to the Northern Wei and Northern Qi, I will definitely confer on you as the crown prince. I believe that even the six major families will not have any complaints."
Emperor Guangxiao made a promise to Zhou Heng.
"yes!"
Zhou Heng nodded
After Zhou Heng was sent away, Emperor Guangxiao summoned Xu Rui.
"My minister kowtows to the emperor!"
"My father-in-law, please stand up. Above the main hall, you and I are monarchs and ministers, but here you and I are sons-in-law." Emperor Guangxiao hurriedly asked Xu Rui to stand up, and at the same time asked Wei Gao to give him a seat.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Xu Rui said.
"I don't know, what's the reason for the emperor to let the humble minister come?" Xu Rui asked Emperor Guangxiao. Xu Rui felt that Emperor Guangxiao asked him to come here to beat him.
"I asked my father-in-law to come here because I wanted to talk to him about something."
Emperor Guangxiao put down the memorial.
"Does father-in-law know about Xu Ang?"
"Weichen doesn't know." Xu Rui shook his head, he really didn't know much about this matter.
"good!"
Emperor Guangxiao nodded, since you don't know, let you know, Emperor Guangxiao took out the testimony and handed it to Xu Rui, asking Xu Rui to take a good look at the above content.
"Hitting the soldiers of the three armies is a matter of implicating the nine clans."
Emperor Guangxiao reminded Xu Rui that some things can pass, and some things cannot pass.
"The Xu family is a relative of the emperor, a real relative, but Xu Ang really disappointed me by doing this. This is to destroy my great Zhou."
Emperor Guangxiao began to complain.
When Emperor Guangxiao spoke, he was also sincere, every word was full of complaints and unwillingness, he didn't say anything to the Xu family, but the Xu family reciprocated himself in this way.
"What the emperor said is that this matter is indeed??It is my Xu family who is sorry for the emperor. "
Xu Rui heard the meaning of Emperor Guangxiao, which made it clear that he had to admit his mistake.
"Your Majesty, my Xu family is willing to hand over the death-prevention scroll!" Since admitting a mistake requires an attitude of admitting it, Xu Rui decided to set an example, and the Xu family was the first to hand over the death-prevention scroll.
"good."
Emperor Guangxiao said yes immediately, this is what he was waiting for.
"Then Xu Ang?"
Xu Rui wanted Emperor Guangxiao to pardon Xu Ang's crimes, after all, he had already set an example.
"I'm very sorry about this matter. Xu Ang committed suicide in fear of crime in the cell." Emperor Guang Xiao said that he didn't have any feelings when he said this.
"What?"
Xu Rui only felt a tight pain in his chest, and fell down from the chair when his eyes went dark.
Xu Ning died, Xu Ang also died, and the Xu family was completely hopeless.
"Your Majesty!"
Looking at Xu Rui who fell on the ground, Wei Gao looked at Emperor Guangxiao.
"Notify the imperial physician!" Emperor Guangxiao said lightly
Zhou Heng returned to Prince Qi's Mansion.
"You guys are here!"
After entering, Zhou Heng saw that Jun Buqi and Su Nuanyu were also in the mansion.
"Um."
The two nodded.
"Where is the person?" Zhou Heng asked Su Nuanyu if he brought Qiu Shang here.
"It has been handed over to the Ministry of Punishment. How is your place?" Su Nuanyu answered Zhou Heng's question and also asked Zhou Heng what is going on now.
"Xu Ang is dead. He was silenced."
Zhou Heng said.
"In this way, there are other people behind this matter, and Xu Ang and Qiu Shang are just running errands." Su Nuanyu guessed that it must be because someone was worried that Xu Ang would speak out about herself, so they silenced it.
"It's not easy to kill people in the prison of the Criminal Ministry, and the identity of the other party may not be simple."
Jun Buqi said.
That is the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, not Caishikou, not everyone can enter, and not everyone can order people from the Ministry of Criminal Justice to do things.
"Then you have to be careful yourself. The other party can kill people in the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice. If it is against you, it would be easy."
Su Nuanyu said worriedly.
"Don't worry, I'm the king of the county now, they shouldn't bother to pay attention to me."
Zhou Heng shrugged and replied.
Now that I am the king of the county, I believe that Zhou Zheng and the others' hostility towards him has also decreased, and the risk factor should have dropped a lot.
"The king of the county? Why is that? Didn't you make meritorious service in Luliang City? Why did you become the king of the county instead?" Su Ningyu said in shock after hearing Zhou Heng's words.
?He himself has changed from the King of Qi to the King of the County after going out for a day. Does that mean that he will change from the King of the County to an ordinary person tomorrow?
"My sister is right, why on earth is this?"
Su Nuanyu also asked anxiously.
"Originally he wanted to canonize me as the prince, but the six major families suddenly killed me. The emperor confiscated the six major families' death-preventing iron scrolls. In order to appease the six major families, he changed me from the king of Qi to the king of the county."
Zhou Heng explained with a smile.
"This is too unfair. Why do you have to pay the price to appease the six major families?" Su Nuanyu said unwillingly.
"Things above the court have never been fair, only the pros and cons are weighed, and this matter has been handled very well."
Zhou Heng could quite understand what Emperor Guangxiao did. (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com