After all, as the king of a country, if he openly targets a minister, people will inevitably think that he is narrow-minded and not a magnanimous emperor.
He just deliberately asked Yan Zhuo to do some difficult, laborious and thankless tasks.
The Fourth Princess felt sorry for her husband and had tactfully advised Emperor Jingxi not to make things so difficult for Yan Zhuo.
However, her persuasion not only failed to work, but made Emperor Jingxi dislike Yan Zhuo even more.
Emperor Jingxi felt that it was Yan Zhuo who instigated the fourth princess to be disloyal and to side with her husband instead of her father.
At the beginning, Yan Zhuo could still endure it, thinking that the emperor couldn't always be so petty as to pick on him, a small official in the Hanlin Academy, right?
He thought that sooner or later Emperor Jingxi would let go of his prejudice and stop making things difficult for him.
However, Emperor Jingxi was really petty and kept pestering Yan Zhuo.
Those heavy and meaningless tasks kept piling up on Yan Zhuo, making it almost impossible for him to breathe.
In the end, Yan Zhuo could no longer tolerate it.
It just so happened that Emperor Jingxi had recently become obsessed with alchemy and had neglected state affairs and had no time to take care of too many things.
Yan Zhuo took the opportunity to think of a plan, and after some twists and turns, he was finally successfully sent to the northwest.
In fact, for Yan Zhuo himself, where he serves as an official is not the most important thing.
He felt that as long as he was a good official, it would be the same wherever he was.
He just felt sorry for the Fourth Princess and didn't want her to leave the capital city where she grew up freely and full of memories.
The fourth princess knew his difficulties and offered to send him away. Then the couple hurriedly brought their child to Qilian City.
The couple acted quickly and told no one about their itinerary, so Yan Cheng only knew about their arrival when they came to visit him.
Yan Zhuo smiled calmly: "Now that I'm here, I can't go back. I'll need Cheng'er to take care of me from now on."
Yan Cheng sighed and smiled, "Okay, okay."
The eldest brother didn't need his care at all, he just said this to prevent himself from caring too much about him coming to the northwest to be an official.
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Since ancient times, emperors who were addicted to taking elixirs in pursuit of immortality almost never had a good ending.
The only difference between them is that one dies earlier or later.
Emperor Jingxi was undoubtedly going to die early.
He had only been taking the elixir for a year, but his body had suffered great damage, his health had deteriorated rapidly, most of his body had collapsed, and his life was about to come to an end.
Faced with such news, Yan Cheng felt complicated and didn't know what to say.
His mind couldn't help but emerge with what happened at the birthday celebration that year.
Yan Cheng still remembers that year when someone ingeniously presented a so-called magical elixir, claiming that it could prolong people's life.
At that time, Emperor Jingxi rejected this "good intention" without hesitation and severely punished the person who offered the elixir.
Who would have thought that the passage of time and the growth of age would cause such a huge change in Emperor Jingxi.
The emperor who once scoffed at the art of alchemy is now deeply addicted to it and has pushed his body to the brink of collapse with his own hands.
Yan Cheng couldn't help but sigh with emotion, thinking to himself: As expected, the older some people get, the less clear-headed they become.
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