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◎ So, is the old Khan really alright? ◎
This time, Master Kang's tour was supposed to last about four months.
After all, this was a tour that combined the inspection of local customs and folkways, the visit and condolences to the Mongolian tribes, and the summer vacation.
It is normal that the time was dragged a little longer because of too many additional functions.
According to official historical records, Master Kang's trip to the Great Wall started on May 24th and did not return to the palace until September 15th. He even spent the Mid-Autumn Festival outside, which shows that the schedule was very tight.
It has even reached the point where he can't take care of anything and just hang out outside.
However, Master Kang's way of doing things is different from that of ordinary people. As the saying goes, "rough but meticulous", he is very good at "grasping the big and letting go of the small".
For example, no matter where he went on tour, all important memorials in the capital had to be reported to him. No matter where he was, he would spend a lot of time reviewing memorials and handling official business. He managed to go on tour while not missing any important national affairs.
It was already amazing that he could "grasp both hands and make both hands strong" in these two aspects. He even cared about his family.
Specifically, he would write a letter back to the capital as soon as he went out. He not only wrote letters to his sons who stayed behind to admonish them, but also always wrote letters back to the palace to greet Empress Dowager Xiaohuizhang.
It means that as a son, although he was away, he dared not forget his mother for a day.
The Empress Dowager was very satisfied with this. After all, Master Kang was not her biological son, so it was very good for him to be able to do so.
Moreover, it was not considered rude for such a great emperor to write back to greet
her after he went out. In addition, Master Kang would bring back any delicious and fun things he came across for the Empress Dowager to taste. It could be said that he was using the whole country's strength to support her.
Even her biological son might not be able to do so well, so what was the point of having a bicycle.
The Empress Dowager was actually very satisfied with this.
Therefore, she never asked about Master Kang's tours, and never took the initiative to write to Master Kang to trouble him, let alone delay his trip and ask him to end early and return to the capital to visit her.
So, Master Kang's words about wanting the Empress Dowager to come back this time were all excuses.
The real reason was, as expected, the matter of deposing the Crown Prince.
Originally, according to Master Kang's previous idea, he wanted to depose the Crown Prince directly in the Rehe Palace, let the eldest prince "escort" the deposed Crown Prince back to the capital and imprison him in the clan house first, and then continue his tour outside the Great Wall.
But after hearing that this decision was made, it was collectively impeached by the entire tour team - everyone really opposed his approach.
Especially the Thirteenth Prince, who opposed it most fiercely.
I heard that this child knelt outside Master Kang's bedroom for a whole night, just to ask Master Kang to take back his decision.
The reason was very sincere - although the prince had not done well in many areas, he had not made any major mistakes. He still wanted to ask the emperor to forgive the prince this time for the sake of their father-son relationship for so many years, and let him make up for his mistakes and finish the tour first.
The other ministers who accompanied him were even more confused and had no idea what was going on.
After all, Master Kang had always doted on the prince. He never thought that the conflict between the father and son had intensified to such a serious level after only a month of tour. Moreover
, it seemed that they did not have any intention of tearing each other apart for the sake of face.
Didn't they gallop on the prairie together yesterday?
And then everyone went to the training ground to practice archery together. It was a happy time, with loving fathers and filial sons.
The ministers were confused, and the leaders of the Mongolian tribes who came to pay homage were also confused.
No, our Heavenly Khan is not crazy, right?
The prince has always been famous for his virtue. For so many years, I have never heard that his highness has done anything against heaven and earth or treasonous. How come he was suddenly deposed?
The three youngest princes, the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth, were still young. The oldest, the fifteenth, was only thirteen, the sixteenth was eleven, and the seventeenth was only nine. Although they had reached the age recognized by Master Kang to accompany the emperor on the tour, they did not know what the twists and turns were in this "battle for the succession to the throne". They could only kneel with the thirteenth prince and beg the emperor to withdraw his order.
They all followed the thirteenth prince. Anyway, if there was anything, it was right to follow the thirteenth prince to prepare.
So after such a commotion, Master Kang was no longer in the mood to continue the tour.
He waved his hand and ordered the entire tour team to change direction and head directly to the capital.
Because there were so many people and there were delays for a few days, Master Kang and his party arrived in the capital a few days later than the eldest prince and the crown prince.
But during these few days, many unexpected things happened in the capital.
Although Mo Yu now has the title of a blue-feathered guard, he does not have any actual job, so he is relatively free.
But his comrades are completely different. Everyone looks as if they are facing a powerful enemy, and it feels as if the world is about to fall into chaos.
In such chaos, the fourth master is still as steady as a rock, and he still comes to Mo Yu on time every day to continue to contribute to the preparation and construction of the "National Women's University". The third prince
finally lost his patience.
His original motive for coming to help build this "National Women's University" was not pure, and now that people are in panic and rumors are everywhere, he is even more distracted and has no intention of working at all.
Oh my God!
The prince has been deposed.
The prince has really been deposed.
The "oracles" said by the Lin family kid are all true.
So will the fourth brother take the throne next?
That won't work!
If the fourth brother takes the throne directly, does that mean I, the third brother, am dead?
The prince, oh, now it's the second prince. After he steps down, it should be my turn as the third brother first.
The more the Third Prince thought about it, the more he felt that he couldn't just sit there and wait for death, so he immediately began to use all his power in advance.
From the time he received the news that the prince had been deposed to the time that Master Kang returned to Beijing, he was like a monkey crossing the Flaming Mountain, restless, jumping up and down, not knowing what to do.
Unfortunately, the group of people he had were all useless, which made him even more stretched and helpless.
It's not that the people around the Third Prince are not smart.
In fact, because the Third Prince has always been an academic person, he has attracted a large number of highly educated people.
For example, Chen Menglei, these are great scholars who are knowledgeable and have good character. Originally, the quality of their talents is still quite high.
However, although these highly educated people are knowledgeable and have good character, they are not very good at power struggles.
To put it simply, they have been stupid because of reading too much, and they can't outsmart those black-hearted children of noble families or martial arts families.
In this regard, the four great masters have a great advantage.
Longkodo and others who support him have practiced the art of thick black to the extreme. They are of course comprehensive talents who can do anything as long as they can.
As for the eighth prince, he is now tied to the eldest prince. Although he has the most and most complete talents, he has been completely overwhelmed by victory and started to act in various ways.
He shouldn't have been so careless.
However, the eldest prince informed him early that "the prince has fallen."
Moreover, he directly said that the Emperor would be returning to Beijing soon, and would certainly bring up the issue of appointing a crown prince at that time, and asked the Eighth Prince to be prepared.
This made the Eighth Prince have different ideas.
Now in the court, apart from the crown prince's group, the Eighth Prince's party is the most powerful.
That's right, because the eldest prince has completely lost hope, all his previous resources have been transferred to the Eighth Prince. Now the strength of their two families has been combined, and even their mother is the same, so what can't be shared?
They have a good relationship as brothers.
It's not like the fourth and fourteenth brothers, who are not of the same mind even though they are born of the same mother.
The Fourteenth Prince is now hanging out with his Eighth Brother. I don’t know how happy he is.
There is nothing that can be done about it… Although the Fourteenth Prince is still young, he is quite capable. Most importantly, he has been close to the Eighth Prince from the beginning, and doesn’t care about his biological brother, the Fourth Prince, who is also from the same mother. He has become a staunch supporter of the Eighth Prince. I don’t know what the Fourth Prince thinks about this.
The biological mother of the two brothers, Concubine De, is also an interesting person.
Concubine De only loves the Fourteenth Prince, the youngest son, and basically doesn’t care about the Fourth Prince. Therefore, compared to the Fourth Prince, the Eighth Prince feels that he is the lucky one who has the support of his brothers and his mother’s family.
Since the situation is like this now, it is simply the will of heaven, and even heaven is helping him.
The Eighth Prince was extremely inflated at the moment, and felt that it was a done deal for him to sit on the throne of the Crown Prince, and even his gestures became more dignified. It
didn't matter that his biological mother was of humble origin, his adoptive mother was of good origin.
The most important thing was that his adoptive mother's son was also capable.
It was truly "a good wind helps me soar to the sky".
Mo Yu looked at the Eighth Prince from afar, and somehow the famous kite poem written by Xue Baochai came to his mind.
Looking closely, even the Eighth Prince himself has a bit of Xue Baochai's style.
He was born in a humble family, and pretended to be nice to everyone to gain a good relationship with people, but in the eyes of discerning people, especially smart people in high positions, he was just a little clown.
This is how Xue Baochai is in the eyes of Jia's mother, and the same is true in the eyes of Master Kang.
Therefore, Master Kang immediately turned cold and began to criticize him as soon as he came back, saying that he was so indifferent to the fact that the prince was deposed, and that he had ulterior motives. He was indeed a rebellious son born by a "lowly maid in the Xinzheku", and he couldn't even show his face. The Eighth
Prince was so shocked by Master Kang's insults that he knelt down and apologized.
But the eldest prince didn't understand the situation and was still trying to speak for the Eighth Prince, which made Master Kang even more angry.
Seeing this, the Third Prince naturally gave up the idea of wanting to show off his presence, and immediately chose to shut up and followed others to plead for the Crown Prince and the Eighth Prince.
But no one spoke up for the eldest prince, so this Prince Zhi's popularity is extremely bad.
Mo Yu squatted in the corner and watched silently, only sighing that it was really a mess with so many sons. He didn't know what Master Kang was thinking, revealing the matter of deposing the crown prince so early.
It would be fine if he just revealed it, but he didn't seem to have a mature idea, and he didn't even think about what to do after deposing the crown prince. That would be a mess.
Just when everything was in chaos, there was a rumor outside that the Empress Dowager had arrived.
The people in the room stopped the noise, quieted down, and prepared to welcome the arrival of the Empress Dowager.
Mo Yu also stood up and waited to welcome the carriage, but he couldn't help but murmur in his heart, the Empress Dowager is here?
No, this old lady won't come out easily. What is she going to do today? Is she here for the dethronement of the crown prince?
After a while, the empress dowager and her entourage appeared at the door.
The old lady was furious when she came, and even before the greetings were over, she asked Master Kang directly: "I heard that the emperor wants to dethrone the crown prince?"
[Author's words]
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