19 019 Despair
◎ Son! You want our family to be wiped out. ◎
Hearing Mo Yu's words, Lin Ruhai and Jia Min showed despair on their faces at the same time.
They both silently clenched their hands, ready to face the wrath of the Fourth Prince.
After all, every word of Mo Yu stepped on the minefield accurately. It can be said that he was dancing in the minefield.
But there is no way.
Even if they want to remind them, they can't do it. Seeing their son going crazy and dying all the way, even if they are extremely anxious and terrified in their hearts, they can't help.
For now, they can only pray that the Fourth Prince will leave their family intact for the sake of their family being an honest and well-known family for generations.
Not only the two of them, but all the Lin family members present, including the young Daiyu and the older housekeepers and maids, had the same idea.
It was over. Their brother was really in trouble this time. How dare he say such things in front of the Fourth Prince? It was too treasonous. It was terrible. The whole family was finished...
For a moment, the atmosphere was very strange. Even Mo Yu, who was always calm, felt something was wrong. He stopped thinking about it in confusion and looked around curiously. He had no idea what was going on.
The Fourth Prince saw all of this. He remained calm on his face, but he had already made a judgment in his heart - it turned out that the news from the sticking pole was true.
This young master of the Lin family was indeed different from ordinary people.
But...
what exactly did he mean by these words that he "said", oh, should I say "thought"?
The previous paragraph said that his Honghui and Hongyun would both die young?
No way?
And what is "wise ruler reserve service"? He knew "wise ruler", and "reserve" was not difficult to understand, but adding the word "service" was very strange.
However, no matter how strange it was, after the Fourth Prince silently recited these words several times, he suddenly gradually understood the meaning behind them.
Even if he didn't understand, he could understand it from the following sentence... ascend the throne? This kid couldn't be talking about...
Thinking of that possibility, the Fourth Prince couldn't help but feel shocked.
To be honest, he had never thought that he had the possibility of vying for that position before.
After all, he was neither the eldest nor the legitimate son, his mother was not of high status, and he was not liked by the emperor because of his unpleasant personality. Not to mention his younger brothers, the thirteenth and fourteenth brothers, who were young, smart, lively and cheerful, he was the least noticeable among his brothers of similar age, the third and eighth brothers. Moreover,
because he was given to the imperial concubine, Tong Jia, who later became the imperial concubine and the empress, to be raised after he was born, he had a very distant relationship with his biological mother, Concubine De.
Being in this environment where his father did not love him and his mother did not love him for a long time, he never had a very high opinion of himself, and he had a problem of habitually trying to please people of high status.
So he has always been on good terms with the crown prince, and his life plan has always been to be a loyal minister, to be friendly with his brothers, and to become the pillar of the country.
For this reason, he has been studying hard, intending to develop in the direction of a minister or even a minister of government.
Who would have known that he was just going out to do an errand, and on the way to help the emperor to see how strange and magical this child who couldn't even explain the sticky place was, would hear such an explosive prophecy as soon as he arrived?
It really shocked him and ignited some hope.
Yes, what loyal ministers and good generals, friendly with brothers and respectful with brothers... Born in the royal family, and the son of their emperor, who is the greatest emperor in history, it is unlikely to say that he has no ambition at all.
A brother who doesn't want to be an emperor is not a good prince. If he was a mentally sound and healthy prince, who wouldn't want to sit on the chair in the Golden Palace?
However, with the Crown Prince around, these princes had no chance since they were born - after all, the Crown Prince was the only biological son of the late Empress. The Emperor's feelings for the late Empress were so deep that no other concubine could replace her position.
Therefore, no one could shake the Crown Prince's position.
Let's not talk about anything else, let's just talk about the Southern Tour last September.
For this Southern Tour, the Emperor's Father still let the Crown Prince and Thirteenth Prince accompany him, and for the first time, he brought him along.
In fact, the Crown Prince and Thirteenth Prince were personally appointed by the Emperor's Father, and it wasn't the first time that he accompanied him on a tour. So he must have been able to go along because of the Crown Prince and Thirteenth Prince.
After all, he has always been on good terms with the crown prince, and Thirteenth played best with him among all the brothers, all thanks to the affection of Queen Tongjia. Everyone was brought up by Queen Tongjia, and they had a closer relationship than other brothers, but not much.
He had known his position since he was very young, being a good younger brother to the crown prince, and a good older brother to other brothers such as Thirteenth.
For this reason, no matter what the crown prince ordered, he would take it silently and do his best to do it. When Thirteenth asked him something he didn't understand, he also tried to be a good brother and explain it to him in a simple and clear way.
It's funny to say that he once taught Thirteenth mathematics.
It can be said that the opportunity to accompany the emperor on the southern tour was hard-won by him after years of "brotherly friendship and respect".
However, such a rare opportunity was lost because of the prince's cold.
They set out from the capital on September 25, and the prince fell ill just after arriving in Dezhou. The emperor was very worried, and immediately put aside all his plans to accompany the prince to recuperate in the palace in Dezhou. After
recuperating for more than half a month without any improvement, the emperor was frightened and immediately ordered to ride back to the palace, because he firmly believed that there were better doctors and medicines in the capital who could make the prince better...
The southern tour that the whole country had been preparing for for so long was interrupted.
Although the emperor said that he would resume the southern tour in spring, who knew what would happen then.
The emperor really loved the prince! The relationship between them was not like that between a monarch and his subjects, but was no different from that between father and son in the common people. Because of this, all the princes, including him, felt that they had no chance of becoming emperors.
But was it really so?
The Fourth Prince did not speak, but stared at Mo Yu with a burning gaze, as if he wanted to see something more from his face.
It was not that he did not want to punish him, but the key point was that he simply could not think of it at the moment...
Even though he had seen with his own eyes that this child could use telepathy to "say" some shocking "prophecies", the Fourth Prince was still a little bit unbelievable.
I don't know what else this child knows. It would be great if he could say more about the things in the court.
As if sensing his desire, Mo Yu and the Fourth Prince stared at each other with wide eyes. After a moment of stunned silence, seeing that he had no intention of speaking first, they began to let their thoughts fly again.
[Why is this gentleman looking at me like this? Could it be that he is still looking for the shadow of his deceased child in me? Although it is said that beautiful children in this era all look similar, there is no need to do this... I will be shy...]
The Fourth Prince (suddenly confused):? ? I am not, I don't...
Lin Ruhai, Jia Min (both with despair on their faces): Help! This child can't be kept! Who will come to collect it...
Maybe because he finally saw the legendary four masters, Mo Yu was a little too excited, so he habitually ignored all kinds of abnormalities on the scene - anyway, he was just a little kid who was going to die soon, and it didn't matter what the adults were doing... It's better to seize the time to continue to watch historical celebrities up close! Just
kidding, these are the four masters!
The living four masters!
You must take a good look at them.
Of course, it's not interesting to just look at them, and you have to continue to read the related gossip and unofficial history to make it more interesting...
[In fact, history has proven that it's really good that the four masters ascended the throne in the end. Although this master committed ten major crimes including "murdering his father", "forcing his mother", "killing his brother", "slaughtering his younger brother", "being murderous", and "killing loyal people", and made many controversial "bad policies" during his reign, it was also his fault. Without such iron-blooded tactics, how could he have cleaned up the mess left by his father, Master Kang...Master Kang was good at everything except spending too much money. He made six southern tours alone, not to mention other large and small tours. Whenever he went out, he would bring a bunch of sons, dozens of officials, and even concubines to accompany him... That money was really spent. 】
【In his later years, he was even more excessive. He knew clearly that there were corrupt officials everywhere in Jiangnan and Northwest China, and buying and selling official positions was rampant, but he was too lazy to intervene, and even called it "benevolent governance"... Forget it, what kind of benevolent governance is that? It's just raising rats and pests to the country. 】
【It can be said that the only correct decision he made before his death was to choose the fourth master as the emperor. The fourth master was a man of iron fist. If he hadn't been frugal and severely punished corrupt officials and recovered a lot of debts, he would have died long ago... Poor fourth master, he never enjoyed a day of happiness since he ascended the throne. He worked so hard that he died young. He died of exhaustion on the throne after only thirteen years in office. 】
【Alas, I really don't know whether this throne is a blessing or a curse for him. Anyway, I guess I won’t be able to see it…】
【Oh, by the way, I don’t know how far the nine princes’ fight for the throne has progressed… Calculating the time, it should be the eldest prince and the prince who are fighting now, right? The other princes are still watching in secret… If you say that the eldest prince has no brains, he will be fooled and of course he will be the first to be eliminated…】
The fourth prince was originally speechless by Mo Yu’s sudden self-praise and intoxication, but he didn’t expect that a large wave of shocking information would come to him immediately.
Sure enough, this young master of the Lin family is really something.
He actually knew that the eldest prince had this idea all along?
In fact, this eldest brother of theirs has always been a brave but not strategic person, and he has always disliked the prince, so what’s in his heart is no secret in the eyes of them.
The eldest prince and the crown prince were originally of similar age, and he was the eldest son. However, he was never as good as the crown prince because his mother was not the empress. But
throughout the dynasties, there were cases where the eldest son was made the crown prince. In addition, he was the oldest, brave and good at fighting, and had military merits, which made him have these thoughts about the position of crown prince.
But the emperor did not show any obvious disgust, which gave the eldest prince many opportunities.
I heard that he had done a lot of small things behind the scenes, and even secretly colluded with several important officials in the court to set up some kind of Da Qiansui Party...
This big move basically announced to the world that he was going to fight against the crown prince. I just don't know what the emperor thinks about this.
According to his observation, the Emperor's father knew all the movements of his sons, but it was hard to understand what he was thinking.
It doesn't matter if you don't understand. It's better to be still than to move. No matter how strong the wind blows or how strong the waves are, I will just stay still.
Because he has always been good at observing and understanding people's hearts, the Fourth Prince has always been building a Buddhist and harmless personality. He was also a Buddhist, so there was no sense of disharmony after such an operation.
What surprised him even more was that both the Emperor's father and his brothers were very satisfied with his performance.
So his personality became more and more stable.
On the one hand, he vigorously developed his leisure hobbies such as calligraphy, painting, and Buddhist philosophy. On the other hand, he did his job in a disciplined and down-to-earth manner. He also knew that he had always been called "Iron-faced Old Four", but it was just because he was a little jealous of evil, enforced the law impartially, and never covered up any private matters.
Therefore, the task of checking the accounts in Jiangnan this time really fell on him again.
He was not surprised at all, but he did not expect that he would receive a special instruction from the emperor before leaving - that is, he must go to Suzhou to see the legitimate son of the Lin family. There was nothing else, mainly because the sticking rod office secretly reported that the child was very strange, and it was said that he had the ability to pass on messages and leak secrets.
That's...
But what secrets were leaked, that's unknown.
It seems that it's not unknown, but it can't be passed on by word of mouth, and can only be heard in person...
This is even more magical.
It's rare for the emperor to be interested in something, and he himself is also a little curious, so he came.
But before that, he still had to do his business first.
This time he came to Jiangnan, he came to check the accounts.
He had heard about Jiangning's embezzlement of ink and silver a long time ago, but because he had never been in charge of the affairs of Jiangnan, he did not pay special attention to it.
After all, Jiangnan is the place where the second brother of the crown prince lives.
The water is not ordinary deep.
Fortunately, he came prepared, and the doctor Lin Ruhai of Lantai Temple appointed by the emperor was also capable, so the progress of this account check was faster than he expected.
The only thing that he did not expect was indeed the young master of the Lin family...
So how should he report this matter to the emperor?
To be honest, judging from the "impassionate speech" just now, sentencing him to "extirpation of nine clans" would be a light punishment.
Can the affairs of the royal family be discussed casually?
But he just felt that what the child said made sense... Suddenly he felt that he didn't want the child to be punished by the emperor. Why...
But this matter certainly couldn't be kept secret...
So what should he do?
The fourth prince, known as the "iron-fisted fourth prince", was in trouble for the first time. Seeing that the young master of the Lin family was staring at him excitedly and "thinking wildly", he finally became tired and seemed to be unable to hold on and fell asleep again. The fourth prince pondered for a moment and finally made a decision.
【Author's words】
Hahaha, I accidentally exceeded the word count, but I updated an hour earlier than yesterday (not really)!
※ Regarding the historical facts, I referred to Baidu and various unofficial history gossips, just have fun...
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