Chapter 320: Mud cannot be helped
Actually, if you were to say that the prince is that bad, he isn’t.
He didn't kill anyone or set any fire, and he didn't do anything that would anger God or people.
He's just incompetent.
It would be fine if he was really born stupid, but unfortunately, he was the type who was a little dumber than ordinary people, but still within the normal range.
The key is that he is not hardworking at all.
He was extremely lazy, and was greedy for pleasure and the desire for food, but to say that he was extravagant and debauched was not to that extent.
To put it simply, if you ask him to recite a poem, he will drink tea and eat snacks and just enjoy himself. After enjoying it, he can't recite it in the end, and he still looks like "I'm just stupid"... He is very confident and not ashamed of it at all. Instead, he uses his "stupidity" as a support.
Asking him to practice Kung Fu would, needless to say, be tantamount to asking for his life. Even if the palace servants knelt on the ground, begged him with all possible means, he knew that the servants dared not do anything to him, and he would not move at all.
Even if Emperor Mingpei or Xiao Tai went there in person... would he be afraid?
Of course he is afraid, so he will try hard.
He only tried for a short while, and when he was a little tired, a little painful, or had his skin scraped off, he would collapse and tremble like a sieve, unwilling to try again even if he died... He was still afraid, but even if he was afraid, he would not try even a little bit.
Even if Emperor Mingpei or Xiao Tai were cruel enough to beat him, he would lie on the ground crying and would not get up no matter how much pain he was in.
His idea was, you don’t dare to beat me to death anyway, if I endure the pain once, I can rest for a long time, and I can also eat and drink well to support myself. If I get up, I will be in pain again, and I will have to work hard for a long time, and I have to learn this and that after I finish learning…
So he just held on and couldn't get up.
He has always used this method to "cleverly" deal with everyone, completely using "stupidity" as a weapon to get away with it, and he won't respond to any persuasion. Encouragement and comfort are useless.
You have to know that when Emperor Mingpei was still a latent dragon, it was the time when Mobei was in chaos. His two sons died in succession. After that, he had only one son, the crown prince, for ten years. He really loved him like a treasure. Even these little flaws of being spoiled and greedy were cute.
Therefore, as soon as Emperor Mingpei ascended the throne, he made him the crown prince.
He was only six years old at that time, and these problems did not seem serious. Who would have thought that it would be like this now.
The Dayan royal family, since Emperor Taizu, has attached great importance to the training of children from aristocratic families. Among these people, there are quite a few who are both civil and military, but the prince is so mediocre that no matter what competition it is, it is very difficult for the subordinates to give in.
After a series of jokes such as falling off a racehorse, sitting on his buttocks in wrestling, making typos in literary competitions, getting the steps of a ceremony wrong, and so on... the royal family lost all face, and the prince's reputation for incompetence spread beyond the court and throughout the capital. Emperor Mingpei completely gave up and no longer cared about him.
In fact, the position of crown prince has been shaky since that time.
Because the crown prince is like this, the second prince and the third prince all have supporters, but the crown prince only has Xiao Tai.
Xiao Tai didn't want to care about him either.
But everyone can ignore him, except him.
The Xiao family had few descendants and had only one son for several generations. By the time of Xiao Tai's generation, he was still the only male heir.
Therefore, the Xiao family has always been protective of their children.
Since the death of his elder sister, Empress Xiao, Xiao Tai has been protecting his nephew.
He was only four years older than him, but he worried more about the child than his old father. Even though he really didn't like this "child", he still couldn't bear to ignore him.
But as I said before, Xiao Tai holds the military power, he is the emperor's man, he is actually a member of the imperial party! !
To put it bluntly, when the prince is the prince, he can protect him, because the prince is also the monarch... But once the prince is no longer the prince, he can at most support him with good food and drink, but will not give him any help, because at that time, he is just his nephew, no longer the monarch.
The emperor understood this matter, Xiao Tai understood it, and many people with discerning eyes understood it, but the crown prince was the only one who didn't understand it.
In fact, Emperor Mingpei felt guilty. He often said in private that it was because he had spoiled his son too much when he was young that he developed such a character.
But how long can such guilt last? So it is said that the current position of the crown prince is really in name only, but no one dares to say this until a clear decree is issued.
Xiao Tai strode into the East Palace and bowed deeply: "Your Highness, I, Xiao Tai, pay my respects to you."
The prince raised his chin and said, "No need to be polite." After a while, he said, "Stand up."
Xiao Tai stood up, his face calm.
He is a big man, but he is not stupid!
He doesn’t care about many subtleties, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t understand!!
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Even if he were to meet the Emperor, he wouldn't need to perform such a grand ceremony! !
You should know that the so-called "great kowtow" is the "most important" of all kowtows! When performing the ceremony, you kneel on the ground with your knees bent, prostrate yourself, and when your head touches the ground, you need to stay there for a while. This is a complete etiquette.
Therefore, if you really want to exempt yourself from the formalities, you can do it before people kneel down, or at the latest before their heads touch the ground.
It was not until he had completed the entire ceremony that they told him to stop, and they also asked him to kneel on the ground for a while before they told him to stand up... It was really impossible not to notice this.
But he was used to it. He only dared to ask him to perform such a great ceremony among all the civil and military officials in the court, because he loved him! When he got up, the prince smiled and said, "Uncle, I heard that my second brother was in trouble?"
Xiao Tai nodded: "Yes."
The prince was very annoyed by his way of speaking word by word, so he frowned and said, "I also heard that Yuan Weiming became the right prime minister?"
Xiao Tai still nodded: "Yes."
The prince stopped smiling and stared at him in a self-righteous manner.
Xiao Tai stood very calmly. The prince sighed for a long while and said with suppressed anger: "Uncle, why don't you try to win over Yuan Weiming? After all, he comes from a family of imperial tutors. He has a good reputation and is well-educated. Scholars trust him. If you can win him over to our side, I will have my uncle in martial arts and Yuan Weiming in literature. Wouldn't I be invincible?"
Xiao Tai was speechless for a long while.
He is not a person who understands politics and state affairs, but at least he is still a human being with a human brain! These words sound like those said by a lackey who can't read a single word and doesn't know shit.
It is not surprising that the servant wants to go a step further and persuade the master to fight for power with sweet words. If such words were said by a servant, it would not be obvious that they are stupid...
But the crown prince of a country actually believed it and said such naive and stupid words... Yuan Weiming would only support such a crown prince to take the throne, right?
But the problem is, as a minister, he can't say such things! ! If the prince is a scheming person, it would be fine for the uncle and nephew to say a few words behind closed doors, but the problem is that the prince is a fool, and he dare not say a word of gossip.
Xiao Tai only said: "Your Highness, please be careful with your words. Prime Minister Yuan and I are one civil and one military, so we can't talk to each other."
(End of this chapter)