"Your Majesty, please think twice." Although he said this, Yu Qizhe's tone was indifferent.
Emperor Mingzheng said angrily, "That evil creature has committed many heinous crimes. If I continue to protect him, how can I stop the people from talking about him? I will also be sorry for the people of the world." He said to Yu Qizhe, "Okay, you don't have to persuade me anymore."
After that, he asked Guo Changsheng to draft an edict to depose the crown prince.
Emperor Mingzheng was not really going to depose the crown prince in a fit of rage, but he realized that this was a good opportunity. Even if Dingbei Marquis Feng Zheng was dissatisfied and really wanted to force the emperor to abdicate, he would not be able to get back from Liangzhou for a while. Besides, Zhu Yu was guilty of solid evidence, and the Feng family had no justification for treason. Shen Tian would stabilize the previous dynasty for the sake of the child in Xue Rong's belly and would not cause chaos in the court.
Zhu Zhui was drinking in the East Palace with a handsome young eunuch, feeling lucky to have survived the disaster. When he received the imperial edict to depose the crown prince, his face was full of disbelief. He knelt on the ground, his face pale, and was unwilling to receive the imperial edict.
Guo Changsheng looked down at Zhu Yu, then glanced at the trembling eunuch beside him, and forced the imperial edict into Zhu Yu's hand, "Second Prince, I have delivered the imperial edict. Please keep it. The emperor is still waiting for me to report."
As soon as Guo Changsheng left, Zhu Yu opened the imperial edict in his hand and stared at the words on it. After a long time, he threw the imperial edict to the ground. How could it be possible? Who revealed that he had privately mined copper in Yongzhou to make copper coins?
Thinking that after he left the Palace of Tranquil Longevity, Yu Qizhe was summoned by Emperor Mingzheng again, Zhu Yu gnashed his teeth in hatred and said that it must be Yu Qizhe who exposed this matter!
But how did Yu Qizhe know about this? The copper mine in Yongzhou had been mined out. In order to prevent the news from leaking out, he ordered to kill all the people who went to dig for copper. Those who should have disappeared had already disappeared. Even if Yu Qizhe had the ability to reach the sky, it would be impossible for him to find out everything in such a short time, not to mention that he had not been to Yongzhou at all during this period of time. There must be something wrong with the people around him.
Zhu Yu's face was as dark as water. He thought of those who knew the inside story of Yongzhou Copper Mine. He quickly locked onto one person. His face was horrifying. He said to the guards, "Go find Cui Mubai." At the end, he added, "If he doesn't come, tie him up and bring him here."
The guard was unaware of the situation and left after receiving the order.
Zhu Xun went to Empress Feng's palace. As soon as the edict to depose the crown prince came out of the Yangxin Palace, all the palaces received the news.
Empress Feng sat on a cushion in the small Buddhist hall, still reciting scriptures with her eyes closed.
Emperor Mingzheng disliked Buddhism and only respected Taoism, but Empress Feng set up a small Buddhist temple in her bedroom and Emperor Mingzheng did not interfere. It would be more accurate to say that he never set foot in Empress Feng's bedroom and treated the palace and the people in it as if they were nothing.
Zhu Yu angrily entered the small Buddhist hall. Seeing Empress Feng kneeling on the futon, as still as a mountain, a sense of sadness surged in his heart. He walked forward and snatched the rosary from Empress Feng's hand. "Mother, did you know that your son was deposed? If you knew, why were you still reciting the scriptures?"
Empress Feng opened her eyes after the rosary was taken away from her. Her eyes were calm, as if she had transcended the world. She said, "Everything is fate. You shouldn't be obsessed with one thought. What is yours is yours, and what is not yours, you can't get it no matter how much you plan, and you can't keep it even if you get it."
Zhu Yu sneered and crushed the rosary in his hand. "Why don't you tell these things to father? Didn't father fight for the throne? If he behaved himself, he wouldn't be able to sit on the throne! Father killed his father and brother to sit on the throne, so why can't I, who was born as a prince, do the same?"
"Yue'er, be careful with your words!" Empress Feng's face changed slightly. She glanced at the palace maids in the hall. All of them were silent as a mouse and left the hall obediently.
Zhu Yu's face was grim. "I'm already the deposed crown prince. What else can I not say? Back then, Li Si, the Imperial Astronomical Observer, said that my father had no luck, but what was the outcome? History books are written by winners, and the winners are kings and the losers are bandits. Didn't my father still sit on the throne for more than ten years? Mother, you never fight, and you never fight for me. Do you never treat me as your child? There is no mother as cruel as you in this world. If I had a mother who was born to protect me and think about me in everything, how could I have come to this point today?"
Empress Feng closed her eyes and said, "You are already the crown prince. Why do you have to do those little tricks? If you behave yourself, no one can change your position as crown prince."
Zhu Yu threw the rosary in his hand hard to the ground, and the beads broke into pieces and rolled all over the floor.
He was at the end of his rope, like a trapped beast, he raised his foot and ruthlessly rolled over the beads on the ground, "You are not as good as Xue Rong, how could I have such a cruel mother like you? Born in this heavenly family, if you don't fight, you will die. If I had behaved myself, I would have been eaten by others in this palace!"
Zhu Xun was filled with hatred. His mother was the Empress Dowager, but she ignored him. His grandfather held a large army, but he was unwilling to help him at all. He worked so hard just to secure his position as the Crown Prince, but in the end, his biological mother said that he should not fight for something that did not belong to him.
"You have used my name to harm and please people over the years. Aren't there enough wrong things you have done?" Empress Feng's eyes turned red with anger. How could she really be indifferent? It was just that there was a sword hanging over her head, and when the day came to depose the crown prince, she felt that the sword had finally fallen.
"With your grandfather and me here, no one can take your life. Even if the emperor doesn't allow you to participate in politics, what can you do? You are too impatient, which led to today's bad results!" Empress Feng tried to calm down. "I have advised you to be law-abiding and that you will get through it one day, but you insisted on fighting with Xue Rong. Don't mention that she didn't have children before. Even if she has a child now, the child may not be born. You are too narrow-minded, only looking at the corner of the corner, and you are not kind to tolerance, which is why we are in this situation today! You resent me and your grandfather, but have you ever thought about the difficulties of your grandfather and me?"
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