The eldest prince felt that he had never seen Kangxi speak to him so calmly before, which is why he suspected that the person in front of him was not Kangxi.
"Who exactly are you? How dare you impersonate the Emperor? Be careful, or I won't be so polite!"
Kangxi deeply regretted his actions; he shouldn't have harbored any illusions about his eldest son, this reckless fool. "You unfilial son, whose father are you?"
Seeing Kangxi's angry expression, the eldest prince finally believed that the person in front of him was indeed Kangxi. "Father, this is how you should be! The way you spoke to me just now made me suspect that you had been replaced!"
Kangxi, panting heavily, repeatedly told himself, "Don't be angry, he's my own son! Don't be angry, he's my own son..."
"Baoqing, come here!" Emperor Kangxi beckoned to the eldest prince with a kind smile.
Upon seeing this, the eldest prince hopped and skipped to the door, ready to escape at any moment, and looked at Kangxi warily. "Father, please say what you have to say like this. I feel more at ease this way!"
"Come here, I have something to say to you!" Kangxi said with a gentle smile.
Seeing Kangxi's expression, the eldest prince felt even more that he harbored ill intentions, and nervously walked up to Kangxi.
Emperor Kangxi grabbed the eldest prince's arm with one hand, "You unfilial son, how dare you say I'm petty!"
"Smack!" Then the other hand slapped the eldest prince on the forehead.
"Saying I'm too suspicious!" he said, and then struck me again.
"And you still want to incite the Crown Prince to rebel!" Then he struck him three more times.
The eldest prince couldn't run away even if he wanted to; he could only grimace and hide, since Kangxi was really hitting him hard.
Emperor Kangxi only released the eldest prince after he was tired of beating him.
The eldest prince touched his forehead, feeling as if he had grown taller. "Father, you tricked me!"
"You call yourself a military commander! Don't you know the saying 'all's fair in war'?" Kangxi said irritably.
"Father, is there anything else? If not, I'm leaving the palace. Please don't ask me to come and read your memorials with you anymore!"
"Baoqing, do you really not want to be the crown prince?"
"Father, please stop testing me. I'm not interested in that chair under your bottom. Will sitting on it grant you immortality?"
"To be an emperor, you have to sleep later than a dog and get up earlier than a rooster! I don't want that!" the eldest prince said with considerable disdain.
"Lacking ambition!" Kangxi said with disdain.
"Father, do you want to see us brothers fight tooth and nail over that broken chair, just like the Eighth Prince and his mother, scheming against the Crown Prince at every turn?" the First Prince retorted.
Emperor Kangxi was speechless for a moment when asked by the eldest prince. Of course, he did not want to see his sons kill each other. He was doing this now to prevent such a thing from happening in the future.
The eldest prince leaned closer to Emperor Kangxi and said, "Father, are you really going to depose the Crown Prince? The second prince has been doing a very good job as Crown Prince, he's been very diligent!"
Or are you planning to scam someone again?
"Get out!" Kangxi realized he was wrong; he shouldn't have tried to test the eldest prince.
"Your subject takes his leave!" the eldest prince said immediately.
"You must not tell anyone what I have told you!" Kangxi said to the eldest prince.
"Don't worry! Your son understands. It's not a good thing! Your son won't spread it around!" After saying that, the eldest prince quickly left the palace, afraid that if he was a step too late, Kangxi would keep him there again.
Kangxi picked up the paper on the table, put an X under the name of the eldest prince, and said that the third prince was next.
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