Chapter 114
The former prince, who had disappeared from everyone's sight for three years, "recovered from his illness" and reappeared in public.
But is this for recuperation? Isn't it too much to recuperate?
In the past, I felt that this prince had a kind of gloomy and violent aura, but now, he did not have the gloomy air of a sick person at all. Instead, he had an unprecedented sense of openness and generosity.
The other princes had worked hard during these three years and looked haggard, but the prince looked radiant.
Everyone was surprised at his reappearance, and what surprised and disappointed everyone even more was that Kangxi still addressed him as the Crown Prince.
Oh, yes, Kangxi never explicitly said that this person was no longer the crown prince, but if he recovered from his "illness", wouldn't he still be the crown prince?
Everyone speculated that this person was not sick, but had angered Kangxi, so he was framed by Kangxi and was just using his illness as a cover-up.
Three years have passed, and everyone has long accepted that the position of crown prince is open to anyone. We have fought for it one after another, and then, oh, the Emperor has brought someone out again, saying that the crown prince has recovered from his illness and has resumed his government duties.
Are you kidding me?!
Is this a trap set by you two?
The Third Prince couldn't stand it when he returned and almost cried in the mansion. How could he be played like this? His Royal Father was so upset that his heart went to his feet!
The Third Prince went to find the First Prince to drink alone: "That was taught by the old man himself. He never thought of letting us do it!"
"I think we are used to help the prince clean up the court and distinguish between loyalty and treachery."
The Third Prince thought about the tension, excitement, excitement, shock, and suffering he had experienced in the past three years. He also thought about how he had been scolded by his father, forced to kneel, and confined to his residence for reflection. He said indignantly, "The old man just used us as tools. He doesn't feel sorry for us at all."
The eldest prince was also filled with bitterness, and just drank with a depressed look on his face.
The Third Prince looked at the First Prince and felt that he was better than the First Prince. He said, "But you are also the same. You can still be tricked by the Eighth Prince. Even if the Crown Prince didn't come out, you, Brother, ah!"
The third prince's unspoken meaning is that even if there is no second brother, there is no share for you, the eldest brother, so you don't have to feel too sorry.
The Third Prince's sigh really hurt the First Prince the most.
The eldest prince growled, "I just trusted him too much."
The Third Prince looked at the First Prince with a mixture of disapproval and sympathy. Losing is losing, there's nothing to say about it.
The Third Prince clinked his glasses with the First Prince: "I understand, I understand."
The eldest prince was so frustrated that he wanted to die. From the very beginning, he regarded the eighth prince as his helper, who was in a position below him. After all, the eighth prince's mother was of such a low birth, and the eldest prince never regarded him as a competitor.
Who would have thought that the Eighth Prince would bite back? He was not a mean-spirited man, and he would definitely take revenge on the Eighth Prince. No one would let the Eighth Prince take the throne.
In fact, the eldest prince would be more accepting of the crown prince than the eighth prince, but he would also be genuinely unhappy about it.
The eldest prince said to the third prince, "Don't laugh at me, you're not in any trouble either." The third prince asked a sorcerer to tell the fortune for the eighth prince, and the eighth prince was indeed severely punished by the emperor, but he also got himself into trouble.
So the third brother shouldn’t laugh at the eldest brother.
The prince appeared in public in good condition, but it was not only the eldest prince and the third prince who drank alone. In any case, many people were trapped in the void.
And he had to attend the prince's celebration banquet happily.
But they couldn't help being sour and sarcastic. They didn't want that, but the way the Emperor and his men played tricks on them was too bullying. They were not Ninja Turtles.
Fortunately, the prince was now open-minded. He did not take their strange complaints to heart and even said, "I haven't seen you for three years. I actually miss you guys so much?"
"It's just that you look more than three years older."
Several elder brothers: "..."
Who said that the prince is easier to get along with now than before?
None of these fake brothers speak nicely, so don't look down on each other.
Yinzuo watched as everyone secretly toasted the crown prince but actually forced him to drink. He just drank his own wine, because no one would force him to drink anyway.
Seeing that Fourteenth Brother had gone too far, and worried that he had angered the Crown Prince, he pushed Fourteenth Brother to the side of Fourth Brother and said, "Fourth Brother, keep an eye on him."
Fourteen was afraid of their fourth brother's cold face.
The Fourth Prince was still steady and taciturn, and was not among those who made trouble for the Crown Prince. He nodded to Yinzuo and reminded Yinzuo that the fried meatballs on the table were difficult to digest and he should not eat too much.
The others felt that they were tricked by the Emperor and the Crown Prince, and they couldn't help but toast the Crown Prince with a few more glasses of wine and speak in strange tones. However, the Fourth Prince only congratulated the Crown Prince by saying "good health" and didn't seem to feel any resentment at all.
But he was also sighing in his heart, because he thought the position of crown prince was vacant before, so he naturally tried his best to get it, but now, he had to continue to be a minister.
After three years, the prince quickly regained his grasp of court affairs, and his style of handling government affairs also changed significantly.
Kangxi looked at the prince, feeling gratified and relieved: "You have made a lot of progress in the past three years outside."
The prince smiled, but was not modest. In the past, he only looked at things from a high position, but during those three years, he gained a deeper understanding and learned to look at things from the bottom up.
The prince's mentality is now much calmer. Even if there are still things he does that make Kangxi unhappy, he is not anxious.
Compared to the prince three years ago, the current prince handles things more easily and calmly.
There are a lot more people standing in the court now than three years ago. These people standing in the court now don't want to get involved in the affairs of the royal father and son for the throne. Those who are bold, like to show off, and are ambitious have suffered a lot in the past three years, but now they are not so bold.
They just want to be officials in peace and stability. Whoever the emperor says is the crown prince is the crown prince, and whoever the emperor says will succeed to the throne is the successor. They all listen to the emperor.
Yinzuo was also surprised that the prince was still the prince again. He did not blindly guess that Kangxi and the prince were playing tricks on him. He was just worried that the prince's mood would return to his old ways.
However, he found that this time, being the prince seemed to be much more relaxed than before. He was not as busy as before. The prince even came to their kindergarten several times.
The oldest child in the kindergarten was no longer a child, but his name was not changed for the time being. During these three years, Yinzuo was not there, and the brothers were a little slack, but their family would never lack a teacher.
Now that Yinzuo is back, mainly because the fight for the crown prince's position has come to an end, everyone has resumed their schedule of giving their children a lesson every few days.
Yinzuo asked the prince in confusion: "Second brother, I thought you would be very busy now."
The prince said: "Give more work to others. I don't want to live a miserable life anymore."
On the one hand, the prince has indeed made progress in handling matters, and can often do so with ease.
Another aspect is that people are easy to use. Most of the ministers in the court are now able to do their work honestly, and his brothers have also become less active and no longer work together to trip him up. He is now trying to use these brothers. Although they are all troublesome, they can be quite useful if used in the right place.
The other thing is that I have become more calm and peaceful, unlike before when I was anxious and wanted to control everything in my own hands.
The current crown prince sometimes even wants to push things onto his royal father. He is very good at using people and even wants to use his royal father.
But Kangxi didn't want to do so many things now. When the prince pushed things to Kangxi again, he scolded him, saying, "You have been playing for three years and you are so lazy."
"Your Royal Father is so old, doesn't he want to live a carefree life? You are an unfilial son."
The corners of the prince's mouth twitched. Now he was the prince again, but his royal father's tone towards him could not be changed. When he was unhappy, he would still casually call him an unfilial son or a bastard.
Later on, gradually, not only did Kangxi arrange more things, but he also began to put some important powers in the hands of the crown prince, and the crown prince began to feel uneasy.
"Father Emperor, what are you doing?"
Kangxi sighed. During the three years when the prince was away, he had reflected and thought a lot.
When a person sits on the throne for too long, it is difficult for him to give up power, and he is no exception. Looking at the history books, many kings and emperors become foolish when they are old, and are generally not as good as young and strong. Sometimes he laughs at himself and thinks that he may also be in the situation without knowing it.
He himself could feel that his physical strength and energy were not as good as before. Since he had to entrust the country to others, he hoped that he could hand it over smoothly instead of letting go hastily at the moment of death.
So, Yinzuo said that he felt the prince was not busy, but gradually he became busier. Fortunately, even when he was busy, he was in good spirits and did not encounter any situation that would make Yinzuo worry.
The Emperor had more and more free time. He could hang out in the capital with Yinzuo, cultivate his rice seeds in his imperial farm, do some small experiments with Yinzuo, go to the science and technology college founded by Yinzuo, and of course, go to their royal kindergarten.
I don’t know if it was because he got along well with his son Yinzuo, or because he had too many sons, but Kangxi did not show the kind of affection that an old man has for his grandchildren.
At first, he said that after teaching so many sons like Yinzuo, he didn't want to teach more grandchildren. But after going to the kindergarten twice, he and Yinzuo sighed and worried that each generation would be inferior to the previous one.
So Kangxi had another worry.
In the third year after the crown prince's return, Kangxi had handed over most of the matters to the crown prince. And in the summer of that year, Kangxi formally abdicated the throne to the crown prince, which surprised everyone yet not so surprising.
As for Kangxi after he abdicated, he also had a lot of things to do, and he couldn't let his descendants become worse than the previous generation.
So Kangxi rolled up his sleeves and went to the kindergarten himself to take charge.
Yinzuo smiled and said, "Father, do you want the position of the headmaster? I can give it to you."
"But to be honest, Father Huang, you are not as popular as your son."
He is the uncle most loved by those children, and the Emperor is the Emperor that those children fear the most.
Who could have thought that when his father abdicated, those little ones would suffer.
Kangxi was disdainful.
And the princes had never expected that they would finally hear Kangxi praising them. Kangxi said to their sons, "Your father was so and so in the past, but you are not as good as your father, and each generation is worse than the previous one!"
Although I criticized their son, I praised them, right? I praised them, right?
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(End of this chapter)
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