Seeing Yuan Xiu's anger, Chen Changyun immediately knelt down: "Your Majesty, please calm down!!"
"Am I angry? I just raised my voice a little!"
Yuan Xiu took Yuan Yun's hand and said, "Aside from the fact that my elder sister suffered some injustice, all the news you brought back was good!"
Chen Changyun looked puzzled: "Okay?"
Yuan Xiu ascended the throne at the age of thirteen, and is now only a twenty-three-year-old youth, but a cunning and sinister smile appeared on his pale, almost sickly face.
"From your description, Zhao Cheng is a complete wastrel, arrogant, rampant, and stupid! Such a person is favored by the Right Chancellor, who has entrusted the Right Chancellor's residence to him. What does the Right Chancellor's residence have to fear?"
"With such a good-for-nothing in charge, the Right Prime Minister's mansion is doomed!"
"Zhao Cheng didn't even offer a single copper coin to He Yin, which shows that he lacks cunning and has no intention of befriending court officials. This proves that he only wants to live a peaceful life as a playboy who bullies men and women in Yanchuan."
"The Right Chancellor spent five years in Yanchuan, raising his son to be like this. Doesn't this just prove... that the Right Chancellor has no other intentions?"
This simple retelling made Chen Changyun break out in a cold sweat.
He understood all too well what the emperor meant by "having no other intentions".
Ultimately, the person the emperor was most wary of was still the Right Chancellor...
Now that the emperor sees that the son of the person he was most wary of and who was most favored is just a 'pure playboy,' he is naturally happier than angry.
As for the little grievances suffered by the eldest princess, what does that amount to?
A twenty-five-year-old princess who hadn't yet found a husband pinched the cheek of a man younger than herself... Hmm...
Since you've already pinched it, who knows who might have gotten the better deal!
Despite these disrespectful thoughts in his mind, Chen Changyun immediately said, "Congratulations, Your Majesty! The Right Chancellor's family is utterly loyal to Your Majesty, and with harmony between the ruler and his subjects, the Jingguo Kingdom will usher in an era of lasting peace!"
"You're such a flatterer!" Yuan Xiu laughed and scolded, "Alright, you've worked hard too, go home and hug your wife."
Chen Changyun sighed, "Carrying my wife is even more tiring!"
"Go to the Imperial Observatory and find Director Xie. He has some potent medicine. Just tell him it's a gift from me!"
Yuan Xiu winked at Chen Changyun: "Go home and teach that shrew a lesson!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty!!"
Chen Changyun's eyes lit up. Xie Jianzheng was the best alchemist and medicine maker in the world, but he had a strange temper. No matter how much money you offered, you couldn't get medicine from him if he didn't like you.
This reward from the emperor was more to Chen Changyun's liking than any amount of gold or silver.
Chen Changyun bowed and thanked him, saying, "Your Majesty is always so considerate of us, knowing what we love and giving us what we need. I will repay Your Majesty ten thousand times over!"
Chen Changyun's words were not entirely flattery. Yuan Xiu ascended the throne at the age of thirteen. Although he relied on the Yuan family's imperial relatives to curb the rise of Zhao Huan, who was the prime minister at the time, he also used his own abilities to curb the growth of the Yuan family's imperial relatives, and always kept the highest power firmly in his own hands.
At that time, he was just a teenager.
But he had a very peculiar ability. It is said that the emperor is lonely, but he was never short of friends.
He required his favorite ministers to open up to him, and he would also share his innermost thoughts with others.
For example, the reason he insisted that He Yin accept the gold bar was actually because he valued He Yin and wanted to protect her.
"I don't care about the national affairs you're discussing. I just want to know, how are you going to help me get revenge?"
Yuan Yun emerged from behind the imperial desk, glaring angrily at Yuan Xiu. She felt that if she didn't speak up, the emperor and his minister would forget about her.
"Your Majesty, please calm down. Zhao Cheng is nothing to me; I have a hundred ways to make you vent your anger. But..."
Yuan Yun frowned and pointed at Yuan Xiu, saying, "I don't want any buts!"
“But… the Right Chancellor just drove away the Yedan people, and Zhao Cheng has captured the Southern Zhou people. It’s not appropriate to deal with him now.” Yuan Xiu played a word game and continued, “After this matter is settled, I will find a pretext to lure him to Changsui, where you, my elder sister, can deal with him as you see fit!”
"really?"
A ruler's word is his bond!
What if he doesn't dare to come?
"All land under heaven belongs to the emperor. Unless he jumps into the sea, we'll tie him up and bring him here!"
"Okay, I've got it."
Wen Tai had been waiting outside. After Yuan Yun and Chen Changyun left, he hurriedly went into the Imperial Study and saw Yuan Xiu with a joyful expression, showing no sign that the Princess had encountered something bad.
Wen Tai also noticed that when Yuan Xiu saw him walk to the imperial desk, a hint of chestnut flashed in his eyes.
Along the way, Wen Tai witnessed firsthand how Yuan Xiu grew from a young emperor into a young ruler, and his understanding of this emperor far surpassed that of other ministers.
That look made him realize something was wrong.
But Yuan Xiu immediately greeted him with a smile, saying, "Left Prime Minister, please don't take offense. Women always have some little secrets that are inconvenient to publicize."
Wen Tai asked, "Is the Princess alright?"
"It's alright, it's alright!"
"Did Attendant Chen say anything else?"
"That's pretty much what He Yin said." Yuan Xiu waved his hand, no longer continuing the topic, and directly concluded: "Left Prime Minister, this case is clear, so let's stop placing the Right Prime Minister under house arrest and let him go home!"
Wen Tai was startled; this was not a discussion, but an order.
Just as Wen Tai was about to speak, Yuan Xiu added, "As for the relationship between Wang Yufeng and Chen Yuxian, don't you think you should investigate Wang Ren? Or should I have He Yin investigate?"
Wen Tai immediately said, "I also agree to let the Right Chancellor go home! But precisely because the Right Chancellor is old and needs to go home to recuperate, the Northern Expeditionary Army needs Wang Ren to be in charge even more. Besides, based on my observation of General Wang, he should be unaware of the Yan Chuan incident."
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