Seeing that Kangxi was summoning people other than the Crown Prince one after another, Suo'etu immediately became restless. He thought that without the ambitious Eighth Prince, the Crown Prince's position was secure.
However, Emperor Kangxi did not want the Crown Prince to be too comfortable, so he constantly created trouble for him.
Suo'etu saw that he was extremely anxious, but the Crown Prince did nothing. He spent his days handling state affairs and then spending time with He Xue in Yuqing Palace.
Soetu believed that the Crown Prince was completely bewitched by He Xue, and he had also heard that Kangxi had sent two concubines to the Crown Prince. It seemed that the Crown Prince's illness had been cured, and he could now carry out his plan.
The eldest prince summoned the third and fourth princes together.
The eldest prince didn't say anything, just stared straight at the two of them.
The Third Prince and the Fourth Prince felt uneasy under the First Prince's gaze.
"Brother, just say what you have to say! Your words are giving me the chills!" the Third Prince said to the First Prince.
"What did Father Emperor say to you when he summoned you?" the eldest prince asked.
"We didn't say anything, just chatted casually!" the Third Prince said somewhat guiltily, having promised Emperor Kangxi he wouldn't tell anyone.
"Me too!" The Fourth Prince felt that since he had promised Kangxi, he should keep his word.
The eldest prince could tell from the expressions of the third and fourth princes that they weren't telling the truth.
"Is it because Father Emperor forbids you from telling anyone?"
The Third Prince and the Fourth Prince nodded slightly.
"Father only said you shouldn't talk about it, but he didn't forbid you from writing it down, so write it down!" The eldest prince placed the prepared pen and ink in front of the third and fourth princes.
"Will this work?" the Third Prince asked doubtfully.
"Don't worry about it anymore. I feel like Father is either lying to us or he's planning to make a move against the Second Prince!"
The Third Prince and the Fourth Prince also felt that what the First Prince said made sense, so they didn't care about anything else and wrote down everything that Kangxi had said to them.
The eldest prince also wrote down what Kangxi had said to him.
The three of them looked at each other and found that their ideas were almost identical. Kangxi asked them what they wanted to do and told them some anecdotes about Kangxi and the late emperor.
They thought it was a little secret between them and Emperor Kangxi! But Kangxi told everyone, showing impartiality. It has to be said that Kangxi treated everyone equally.
The eldest prince, with a gloomy face, crumpled the paper into a ball and threw it on the ground.
"What is Father Emperor doing? Is he really going to change the Crown Prince?"
"Father, perhaps this is a test for us!" the Fourth Prince said.
"A test? How will it be conducted?" the eldest prince and the third prince asked in unison.
"Father Emperor probably just wants to know if we have any disloyal intentions! Maybe he doesn't want to see something like what happened to the Eighth Prince again!"
"Father doesn't trust anyone! The second son is the crown prince, and he's always suspicious of him."
We are not the crown prince, yet we worry that we might compete with the second prince for the crown prince position!
"I think we should just put the second prince on the throne!" the eldest prince said decisively.
"Brother, why are you thinking about rebellion?" The Third Prince even suspected that the First Prince had fought too many wars and always wanted to solve problems by force.
"Father Emperor also summoned Fifth Brother, Seventh Brother, Ninth Brother, and Tenth Brother. Did Father Emperor say the same things to them?" Fourth Prince asked.
"That goes without saying, definitely!" the eldest prince said with absolute certainty.
"However, none of them will have any ideas. Ninth Prince only cares about making money, Tenth Prince will never think about it, and as for Fifth and Seventh Princes, it's even more impossible!" the Third Prince analyzed.
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