Chapter 1090 Admonition
The next day, Duke Yu entered the palace alone.
Tomorrow is the Double Ninth Festival, and the emperor has to prepare to offer sacrifices to heaven. Although this sacrifice is not very large and cannot compare with the first sacrifice on the first day of the first lunar month, offering sacrifices to heaven is no small matter, so preparations must be made early.
On the eighth day of the first lunar month, the emperor was still very busy.
But despite his busy schedule, the emperor still met with Yu County Lord in the imperial garden and even held his hand personally.
How could the Duke of Yu dare to ask him for support? He quickly took a step back with his crutches, bowed and let the emperor go first, and he followed behind.
The emperor knew his temperament. He looked timid and thin, but he was extremely strong-willed. When he was in office, he was even more stubborn than Wei Zhi.
So the emperor smiled and walked ahead. When he arrived at the imperial garden, he found a pavilion to sit down. Seeing that Yu County Lord still did not speak, he waved his hand and asked the palace servants to leave.
After everyone had gone far away, the emperor smiled and said, "Your Majesty Yu, you came all the way here, didn't you? Did you really come here just to get a basket of rice cakes in the capital?"
The Duke of Yu County bowed and said, "Your Majesty, I heard this when I was in Yuezhou."
"Some say the Crown Prince's childlessness is a punishment from Heaven, because he is not legitimate and disliked by the late Emperor. The Crown Prince's childlessness is only a small warning. If order is not restored, Heaven may bring disaster upon the entire world."
The emperor's face darkened, and a pale tinge appeared on his face. "What do you mean by that? Who is the one who is in chaos, and who is the one who is in righteousness?"
The Duke of Yu shook his head. "I don't know who the loyal ministers are, but Your Majesty should know who the rebels are."
The emperor clenched his fists, then loosened them after a moment. He chuckled and looked at County Magistrate Yu and asked, "Does Lord Yu also think that my position was not legitimate?"
The emperor stood up, spread his sleeves and said, "Even if I can make all the people in the world live a peaceful and prosperous life, I still can't get the recognition of the orthodoxy from the ministers?"
The Duke of Yu asked, "Does Your Majesty care?"
The emperor turned around, raised his chin slightly and said, "I don't really care. The right and wrong, merits and demerits, will be left to future generations to judge."
"So Your Majesty still cares about it," said the Duke of Yu. "This is a good thing. It is better for an emperor to seek fame after his death than not to do so."
The Duke of Yu sighed and said, "Your Majesty, I am a man of three dynasties. I was born in the Chen Dynasty, served in the An Dynasty, and have been an official since then. To me, in troubled times, there is no such thing as orthodoxy."
Those who can become emperors have their own abilities.
If he really cared about orthodoxy, even if he did not commit suicide when the Chen Dynasty fell, he should have died with the last emperor of the An Dynasty. How could he have served as an official in the Jin Dynasty first?
The emperor was also puzzled. "Since Yu Qing didn't care, why did he specifically pass on such words to my ears?"
The emperor has always known that the world has criticized him, and it is precisely because of this that he wants to do better.
Seeing that he didn't understand his meaning, the Duke of Yu County pointed out, "Your Majesty, the late Crown Prince and the three kings have all passed away. Have you ever considered who the person in the rumor is?"
The emperor was stunned and began to think.
The Duke of Yu County said, "Actually, I don't really care who this person is."
emperor:……
"But has the struggle for the throne in the palace become so serious that it's damaging the Crown Prince's reputation among the people?" County Magistrate Yu asked. "Right now, the country is stable, and Your Majesty is diligently governing. No one can rebel. But if a struggle for the throne and a court struggle breaks out again, everything will become uncertain."
"Your Majesty, the world has just begun to settle down and cannot withstand another upheaval," said the Duke of Yu. "Although the Crown Prince has no children, he is the foundation of the country and cannot be touched."
The emperor said expressionlessly, "I know. It's not me who's anxious now. It's him who has lost his composure. Yu Qing, look at what he's done in the past few years."
The Duke of Yu County stood up and knelt tremblingly on the ground, "Your Majesty, please allow the Third Prince to be enfeoffed and reduce his title."
The emperor frowned, "Demotion?"
"Your Majesty, you have conferred upon him the title of Prince now. What else can he confer upon the Third Prince when the Crown Prince ascends the throne?"
seal up?
The emperor thought, with the prince's bad temper, it would be good enough if he didn't turn the prince into a duke. Did he still expect him to become a prince?
So it would be better for him to do it in one go and make the third son a prince.
Yu County Lord immediately understood the emperor's intentions and sighed, "Your Majesty favors the Third Prince so much, it's no wonder the Crown Prince is anxious."
The emperor said angrily, "I will give him the whole world. I just gave his brother a princeship. How can I be partial to him?"
Yu County Magistrate asked: "But Your Majesty, does the Third Prince only want to be a prince now?"
The emperor was silent.
"Although I've been away from the capital for a long time, I've often heard people praising the Third Prince, saying he's incredibly intelligent and courteous to the wise and humble. I've also heard many ministers petitioning to retain the Third Prince in the Hanlin Academy to oversee the compilation of books. Your Majesty," the Duke of Yu County bowed deeply, "according to the rules of our dynasty, a prince must marry and be sent to a fiefdom. You've forced the Third Prince to stay in the capital, believing it's a father's love for his son. But in the eyes of others, even the Third Prince, this is a sign that you intend to replace the Crown Prince with the Third Prince."
"How dare you!" The emperor was so angry that he slammed the stone table, causing his palm to ache and go numb.
The emperor was in so much pain that he almost cried, but he held it back.
Yu County Lord still lowered his head, not afraid of the emperor yelling at him. After all, he had been yelled at a lot when he was an official. He continued, "Your Majesty, you can ask the crown prince to perform the sacrifice to heaven tomorrow."
The emperor fell silent for a moment, then said, "You must be exhausted from the journey, Lord Yu. I will have someone escort you back to your residence to rest."
The Duke of Yu looked up at the emperor, bowed, and stepped back.
Gu Zhong, who was watching from afar, saw this and immediately trotted forward to support the Duke of Yu. After looking at the emperor, he helped the Duke of Yu out of the palace.
Although the emperor felt very uncomfortable and couldn't breathe out, he still issued an edict in the afternoon.
He said that he was not feeling well and that tomorrow's ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven would be presided over by the prince.
The unprepared prince was pushed to the front of the stage, but this was not difficult for him, because not only did he follow his father's side during the annual sacrifices to heaven, but he had also offered sacrifices to heaven independently when he was regent.
So he was not panicked at all, it was the Ministry of Rites that was panicked.
It happened so suddenly. Where could they find suitable clothes and crowns for the prince in such a short time?
You can't wear old clothes, right?
Even if the old one could be used, the prince has grown taller and stronger in the past few years, and even his head is a different size, so it would not be suitable at all.
The Minister of Rites was almost mad with anger. He didn't know where he got the news from, but he rushed directly to the Yu family to meet the Duke of Yu.
The Duke of Yu went to bed early, saying that he was tired, sleepy and sick, and could not see any guests anyway.
So the Minister of Rites caught up with Minister Yu and gave him a good scolding.
If you want to persuade them, do it earlier. Even if you persuade them yesterday, they will have one more day to prepare, right?
There are only eight hours left until tomorrow's heavenly sacrifice. How can they prepare?
Didn’t your one visit to the Emperor make our hair turn white?
The Duke of Yu also lay in bed, sighing, "Your Majesty is too stingy. Why did you spread the news?"
Minister Yu, who had just been implicated in a case, didn't want to talk to his father.
See you tomorrow
(End of this chapter)
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