Another painful early morning.

After getting out of bed, Ye Jingchen thought of the moment he rushed to the Taiji Hall early yesterday and decided to go to the training ground first today.

The route to the East Palace's drill ground is completely opposite to that to the Taiji Hall. If one runs fast, it only takes half an hour to travel from his sleeping quarters to the drill ground and back.

There's still time to take a look.

I could not get up before, but now that I am, there is no reason not to take a look.

Lin Xun kept telling him that Ye Jinghe had a great talent for martial arts and was a promising talent. He wanted to go and see just how talented Ye Jinghe really was.

When Ye Jingchen arrived, Ye Jinghe was practicing his sword.

Over the years, he had learned a little bit from the tutors at the Crown Prince's Palace. Although Xie Chang'an ridiculed him for his "showy but ineffective skills," he still had basic observation skills.

Ye Jinghe's swordsmanship was fast and ruthless; with each thrust, the afterimage of the sword was accompanied by the sound of it cutting through the air.

His sword-wielding posture was also swift and decisive, without the slightest hesitation.

Ye Jinghe is only eleven years old now. Lin Xun is right, he does have talent.

However, he still had a lingering concern: could he really use such a fast sword?

Ye Jingchen was somewhat worried.

"Your Highness, time is running out," Xiao Qizi reminded him from the side.

He didn't look again and ran towards the Taiji Hall.

Ye Jinghe felt a gaze upon him, but he was at a crucial moment in his swordplay and could not afford to be distracted.

After he finished practicing a set of sword moves, he looked in that direction and saw a familiar figure running away.

"Brother!" He instinctively wanted to chase after him, but then he remembered that his brother should be rushing to court at this time, and even if he caught up, his brother probably wouldn't have time to talk to him.

He felt a pang of regret; he should have stopped when he noticed his brother's gaze.

"Fifth Prince, why did you stop practicing?" Lin Xun noticed that he had stopped practicing and came over to ask.

While Ye Jinghe was practicing, Lin Xun was also practicing swordsmanship not far away from him.

However, unlike Ye Jinghe, he could control his sword at will and stop at any time.

Ye Jinghe seemed to be deep in thought.

Lin Xun once said that his sword was too fast, and it was easy to hurt others and himself, so he always concentrated on his sword practice and dared not be distracted in the slightest.

He practices fast sword because he values ​​its lethality.

But watching his brother's departing figure, he regretted not stopping immediately.

This is the first time his older brother has come to the training ground to see him!

This feeling of frustration lasted until his morning practice ended.

"After I step down, summon Imperial Physician Zhang," Ye Jingchen said to the palace servants behind him as he ran.

After all, he exercises every day, and once he starts running, all the palace servants are left behind, and the distance between them gets farther and farther.

He received no response to his words. As he ran, he glanced back. The palace servants who were closest to him were now at least ten meters away and naturally could not hear what he had just said.

He smiled and quickened his pace.

When I climbed the steps in front of the Taiji Hall today, there were hardly any people on the steps anymore; it's probably almost time.

He took a deep breath and quickly climbed the steps. After taking a deep breath and waiting for his breathing to calm down a bit, he strode into the Taiji Hall.

There were quite a few people in the Taiji Hall, and they were much more enthusiastic when they saw him than they had been the previous two days. I guess the imperial edict that his father sent to the Ministry of War yesterday, delivered by Eunuch Zhang, had already spread.

He greeted everyone as he walked to the front, and before he could even catch his breath, his father appeared on the imperial platform.

The courtiers shouted "Long live the Emperor!" and Ye Jingchen followed suit, bowing and shouting as well, but his mouth movements were so precise that not a sound came out.

There was no other reason; he hadn't caught his breath and couldn't make a sound.

Today's morning court session was quite lively, beginning with Censor Du impeaching the Crown Prince for improper conduct in ascending the imperial platform and walking along the imperial road yesterday, and ending with the Minister of Justice impeaching the Vice Minister of War for embezzling military funds.

Every single thing is related to Ye Jingchen.

Regarding the impeachment of Imperial Censor Du, his father calmly took full responsibility for the matter.

If Censor Du were any wiser, this matter should have ended there.

Those who become imperial censors all think they have an iron head and can fight a rock with an egg.

Seeing that the emperor had taken responsibility, Censor Du turned to impeaching the emperor, and in the end, he was rewarded with ten strokes of the cane.

As for the Vice Minister of War, embezzling military funds was no small matter. He was dismissed and investigated, and Ye Jingchen naturally took over the post.

The fact that the Vice Minister of War embezzled military funds was not exposed earlier or later, but only when he was about to go to the Ministry of War, clearly shows that his father had long had a handle on this Vice Minister and was just waiting to remove him from his position on an occasion like today!

However, as princes, Ye Jingming started as a minor clerk in the Ministry of Personnel and worked diligently for more than a year before being promoted to Assistant Minister. He, on the other hand, became Vice Minister and the second-in-command of the Ministry of War as soon as he arrived. His father was really not afraid that his second son's mentality would collapse!

If the old father were so biased, what would happen if it were him—

Forget it, if it were a lazy bum like him, he'd just be happy to see it.

If this happened to an ambitious prince, he would definitely turn to the dark side!

This morning at the court session, Ye Jingchen was the focus of attention and had no chance to doze off.

Nevertheless, the Prime Minister's gaze remained fixed on him, as if it were nailed to his body.

"Prime Minister, from this day forward, you are the person I admire most!" Ye Jingchen said, patting Prime Minister Wang on the shoulder after the morning court session.

"Keep up the good work tomorrow, keep it up!" he encouraged before leaving.

Today he still walks along the imperial road, following his father like a little tail.

The stubborn Imperial Censor Du was flogged ten times and screamed horribly as he was dragged out to be executed. When he was dragged back to the main hall after the execution, his back was covered in blood, and even Ye Jingchen, who was standing at the front, could smell the strong stench of blood.

He stood there swaying, as if he would collapse at any moment.

When Eunuch Zhang announced the end of the court session, he also collapsed.

Having probably seen this kind of thing many times before, Eunuch Zhang calmly instructed the palace servants to send Imperial Censor Du home and kindly helped him summon the imperial physician.

With this precedent in mind, the court officials kept their eyes closed and pretended not to see anything when the Crown Prince walked on the imperial road again.

"Father, on my first day on duty at the Ministry of War, you appointed me as a vice minister. Isn't that a bit inappropriate?" Ye Jingchen asked hesitantly after returning to Chengqian Palace.

He didn't care about the opinions of the court officials; he was just worried that Ye Jingming would be upset.

"I originally intended for you to start as a physician, but since the Vice Minister of War has been impeached, it means that this is the will of Heaven. We might as well go with the flow," the emperor said nonchalantly.

Ye Jingchen was somewhat surprised to hear this. Could it be that he guessed wrong? Was it not his father who instructed the Minister of Justice to impeach the Vice Minister of War in court today?

After all, given his father's personality, if this was at his behest, he would have been showing off by now, instead of maintaining this nonchalant attitude.

But wasn't Minister of Justice Zhang Li, a confidant of his father?

If it wasn't his father, could it be Xie Chang'an?

Xie Chang'an seems to have used Zhang Li before!