Chapter 342 Father’s Partiality

No one spoke.

Prince Ming and the Eighth Prince stood there in shock.

So does the emperor.

[Just... admit it? ]

[How can I continue to look like a cool, handsome, and strategic emperor? ? ? ]

"Mother, why do you do this?" King Ming found it unbelievable.

Concubine Xin took a sip from the teacup and looked at the emperor with a smile.

"Does the Emperor know?"

The emperor came to his senses and nodded.

"I don't know if my guess is right."

However, he did not say it directly, but looked at Concubine Xin: "It is better for Concubine Xin to say it."

So Concubine Xin said: "The reason why I contacted the Chu people is because of the late emperor."

As soon as the words "late emperor" came out, An Jiu heard the emperor's voice.

[As expected.]

He breathed a sigh of relief.

An Jiu felt that he was now as stupid as the eighth prince of Ming Wang.

Concubine Xin said, "Back then, after Concubine Chun and Concubine Xian died, the late emperor realized something was wrong. He also found out that the matter was probably related to the Chu people, but he didn't know who the spy was."

"Moreover, the princes were still young at that time, and the late emperor was restrained by the aristocratic families. He felt that if this continued, sooner or later the Xiao family's kingdom would fall into the hands of others."

That's true.

The late emperor had high military power, but he was a puppet emperor. Most of the power was in the hands of the aristocratic families. In the court, he could not deal with the words and minds of those civil officials.

The harem was a mess again.

The late emperor had no choice.

Fortunately...

Concubine Xin looked at the emperor and said, "You are your father's only hope. He thinks that you are so smart because our ancestors have blessed the Xiao family. But he is also worried that you are young and have no foundation, so you can't do anything to those people."

So, the late emperor came up with some stupid ideas.

Save more money and more people for your son.

Plum Blossom Villa was run by the late emperor behind the scenes and made a lot of money.

The late emperor had some people in the capital, and there were also...

"King Ming's fiefdom has minerals, gold mines." Concubine Xin said with a smile, "The late emperor had a lot of gold mined over the years, and all the gold was used to support the soldiers. This time, we are fighting against the State of Chu, and all of it is used to support them."

After Concubine Xin finished speaking, the room fell silent.

Everyone was stunned.

Including Anjiu.

Is the late emperor so powerful?

What's so stupid about this?

What idiot could come up with so many strategies?

Prince Ming opened his mouth even wider. He looked at Concubine Xin, then at the emperor, and found it unbelievable.

"In other words, everything in my fiefdom was actually left to the emperor by my father?" asked King Ming.

Concubine Xin nodded.

Ming Wang: "How come I didn't notice anything?"

Concubine Xin looked at her son as if he were a fool. Although he looked smart, his brain was still that of their Xiao family. He was just like a fool. Don't be unconvinced. The late emperor had spent a long time choosing among his sons in order to keep his throne, and each one of them disappointed him.

Especially Ming Wang, he has a smart face for nothing.

When the late emperor faced the man who looked very similar to Concubine Xin but whose brain was like that of Prince Ming from the Xiao family, he sighed helplessly many times.

He still had the nerve to say that his father was partial? They were young and might have forgotten that compared to the emperor, they were like the difference between pigs and humans.

Even Concubine Xin herself is embarrassed to compare.

Even now, the emperor has grasped the general situation of the matter, but King Ming is still asking such stupid questions.

Concubine Xin glanced at him and asked: "How many days a year do you stay at home?"

this……

Ming Wang indulges in mountains and rivers...

Indulge yourselves in shit.

He thought of his former tutor, who said that he was a good painter but lacked inspiration and was not as good as the emperor.

Not as good as the emperor...

He was not convinced at the time.

So the tutor suggested that he could go out more often and look around, because he couldn't draw good paintings if he always stayed in the house.

That’s right…

"Master."

Concubine Xin nodded: "Yes, the Grand Tutor asked you to go out more often. To put it bluntly, it was also to prevent you from staying in the fiefdom, so that you naturally cannot discover the secret."

The King had nothing to say.

But the eighth prince thought of something.

"Mother Xin, if it is true as you said, then father will not worry. You can take the people and the money..." He glanced at King Ming.

He believed that if these things were given to the Queen Mother, she and Prince Ruyang would have rebelled long ago.

Isn't Father worried about this?

Or does he really trust Concubine Xin so much? ? ?

The problem of the eighth prince was also a problem that the emperor could not figure out.

He felt that all of Concubine Xin's explanations were reasonable, except this one.

Tiffany Xin laughed.

She called out, "Zhang Delu."

Outside, Li Defu and Zhang Delu were reminiscing about the past.

"Brother Defu." Zhang Delu called out.

They used to be Eunuch Gao's subordinates.

Li Defu, Wang Decai, and Zhang Delu.

Later, Wang Decai followed the Queen Mother, Li Defu followed the Fourth Prince, and Zhang Delu followed Concubine Xin.

"Xiao Luzi, how have you been these years?" Li Defu asked with a smile.

Zhang Delu nodded. He was Eunuch Gao’s favorite disciple back then. He was very smart and had great martial arts skills. They all thought that Zhang Delu would follow the emperor, but they didn’t expect that he would follow Concubine Xin.

"I'm fine." said Zhang Delu.

Li Defu said: "I thought I would never see you again, let's have a drink together later."

"good."

At this time, An Jiu came out.

"Eunuch Zhang, the Concubine is calling you."

Zhang Delu nodded and followed An Jiu inside, but he was full of suspicion. The big shots were talking, Li Defu was outside, but this little maid was following them...

Zhang Delu narrowed his eyes.

It seems that this palace maid has an unusual status.

After entering Guanghua Palace, Concubine Xin said to him, "Eunuch Zhang, please tell the emperor what happened."

Zhang Delu didn't ask anything and told everything quickly.

He is the godson of Eunuch Gao, who was the late emperor's confidant. He is also the late emperor's confidant.

and……

Zhang Delu said that Eunuch Gao was a rare master and the most loyal eunuch left to the previous emperor.

He was responsible for teaching the late emperor.

Zhang Delu was originally left behind by the late emperor to protect the emperor. However, because of the Southwest Gold Mine incident, the late emperor decided to let the emperor become a master himself and leave secret guards to protect him. Zhang Delu was sent to the Southwest Gold Mine to guard the emperor's business.

If something happens in the capital, troops will be sent from the southwest to support it. If the emperor cannot defend the country in the future, the southwest can also become a retreat for the emperor.

Concubine Xin is just a cover. She and Concubine Chun are good sisters. They have private interactions, but few people know about it openly.

Later, Concubine Chun died.

Concubine Xin didn't want Prince Ming to be involved in all this trouble, so when the late emperor proposed to her that they go to the southwest as a cover, Concubine Xin agreed.

Although the capital city was dangerous, Prince Ming and his mother were able to take shelter, and by helping the emperor, Prince Ming could also live a peaceful life for the rest of his life.

Even the Chu Emperor's method of training their prince like raising a Gu was stimulated by the previous emperor.

The late emperor would write letters to the King of Chu whenever he had nothing to do, mocking him for having many sons but it was useless.

He also said that his son was very smart and would definitely become a wise ruler in the future and would be able to annex the State of Chu.

At first, Emperor Chu ignored it.

Helpless, the late emperor wrote all day long, so the Emperor of Chu also came up with this idea.

How smart a son could that fool Emperor Daxia give birth to?

Just wait and see whether the son he trains will annex Daxia in the future.

So, the King of Chu went to another extreme.