Chapter 110
The group of noisy children did indeed divert a lot of Yinzuo's attention.
And because of these children, the adults have more safe topics to talk about.
In fact, although the kindergarten seems to be a weird place, the cultivation of royal offspring is indeed a very important matter. If anyone can have a great influence on the third generation of the royal family, it will also affect the future of the Qing Dynasty.
Therefore, if the eldest brother, the eldest prince, were to take up this so-called inappropriate position of the headmaster, people might not necessarily be convinced. And it is not known whether the seventh prince intentionally or unintentionally pushed Yinzuo to take the position. Yinzuo, an outsider, is quite suitable for this position.
The prince should have been involved, as it would have been beneficial. Didn't the prince think of this? No. It was that the prince was not concerned with long-term matters.
While Yinzuo spent a year playing and studying with the children in the kindergarten, the overall situation was still moving forward. Although the children in the kindergarten were laughing and having fun, they could not stop the increasingly intense turmoil in the court.
The prince had suppressed his anger and endured it for long enough, and finally exploded.
The prince knelt in the Qianqing Palace and asked Kangxi to depose him.
Kangxi thought he was hallucinating. He asked the prince in disbelief, "What did you just say?"
The prince knelt on the cold, hard ground, lowered his head, and said indifferently: "I cannot satisfy the Emperor, nor can I convince my brothers."
"I am unable to take on this important responsibility. I ask Your Majesty to depose me from the position of Crown Prince. You can choose someone else from among your brothers."
The hall was silent. After hearing the prince's words, the palace servants wished they could disappear instantly.
The prince's behavior caught Kangxi completely off guard and made him extremely angry.
Kangxi pointed at his son kneeling on the ground, his fingers trembling: "Are you threatening me?"
The prince said firmly, "I dare not."
Kangxi said coldly: "Are you trying to test me by retreating to advance?"
The prince's eyes changed slightly.
The next moment, the prince finally raised his head, and this time he seemed to want to vent all his grievances and resentment.
"I have had enough of being a crown prince."
"I, your son, must satisfy the Emperor, my brothers, my subjects, and the people. I dare not make any mistakes!"
"It's not easy for Your Majesty to be the Emperor, but it's even harder for me as the Crown Prince!"
"The Emperor's eyes are getting colder and colder when he looks at me. The other so-called brothers want to pull me down even more!"
"Now that I have power, I am sharing your authority. If I don't have any power, I am naive, stupid and incompetent!"
"If the prince keeps doing this, my son will go crazy!"
The prince's venting made Kangxi's lips tremble.
Kangxi's chest rose and fell violently, and after a while he said, "I made you the crown prince, giving you the highest honor, but I never thought that you would accumulate so many complaints!"
Who would have thought that the position of the crown prince would be despised? And the words the crown prince said also hurt Kangxi and made him very embarrassed.
Kangxi was furious at this time. The prince's accusation made his head buzz. He propped up the imperial desk with his hands and said to the prince, "It's hard to be a prince? Are you blaming me for not giving up the throne to you as emperor?"
At this time, the furious Kangxi spoke a little without thinking, but fortunately he did not say anything that was really hurtful. He actually said, "Are you dissatisfied that I have lived too long and occupied the position for too long?"
The prince's heart trembled, and he kowtowed, saying, "I dare not."
"I just don't want to be the crown prince anymore. I have no complaints about being a bald prince."
"I have been a crown prince since I can remember, and I also want to live a life where I am not a crown prince."
Kangxi asked the prince to return to the palace for self-reflection, and told the outside world that the prince was ill. Not a single word of the quarrel in the Qianqing Palace that day was heard outside.
If any word of this matter were to get out, it would definitely cause a huge uproar.
The prince used such an unconventional method to cut off the source of the problem, and Kangxi was really going to get sick with anger.
The prince's words hurt Kangxi so much that he even said that he was being driven crazy by the position of prince and that he was being driven crazy by his royal father. It was like pointing at Kangxi's nose and cursing him. Kangxi tossed and turned at night and couldn't fall asleep.
Sometimes he was angry with his son, thinking that he had no conscience, was an ungrateful person, and was an unfilial son!
After a while, he thought of how the prince looked when he was just born. Although he sounded angry about the prince's accusations, he also took the prince's words to heart and felt a little distressed. Did he force him that much?
But he couldn't help but feel disappointed in his son again. He was the crown prince, how could he be so fragile?
After tossing and turning for half the night, the emperor still couldn't control his suspicious heart. Withdrawing from the situation and retreating to advance, might this be a good move? !
He did not intend to depose the crown prince, and the crown prince had not committed any major faults. Even if he wanted to depose him, the ministers and scholars in the world would not agree.
And what happened after the crown prince was deposed? He didn't have a particular crush on any of his other sons, and he could always find a lot of faults in them.
Kangxi had not slept the whole night and was not sleepy at all. He got up and went to the morning court as usual. There was no sign of the crown prince at the court today.
The prince was 'sick' and did not attend court, so others wanted to visit him, but the prince refused to see anyone.
No one thought much about it, they just thought that the prince was too lazy to deal with people. Although they are brothers, they are also the monarch and his subjects. If they don't want to see us, they don't have to give us face.
When Yinzuo heard that the prince did not go to court, he thought that his illness must be serious, because if it was just a minor discomfort, the prince would still go to court to work as usual. He was very strict with himself.
When Yinzuo thought about this, he became a little worried and could not sit still.
Yinzuo went to the East Palace. It was not because he thought he had a great reputation or that the prince would not see him instead of others, but he thought it would be okay to ask the palace servants how the prince was doing. Besides, maybe the prince would be in better spirits and could see him. He would not disturb others, and the prince would not have to entertain him.
Yinzuo saw the prince, but unlike what he thought, the prince was resting in his bedroom to recuperate, the prince was actually in the study.
Yinzuo was stunned for a moment after hearing this. He walked into the study room complaining. Before he even entered the room, he said, "Brother Crown Prince, why don't you take a good rest when you are sick? You are tiring yourself too much."
Yinzuo disagreed: "If the disease is cured slowly, won't it delay things?"
The prince's voice rang out, "I won't be tired anymore."
Um?
Yinzuo did not understand what the prince said for a moment.
However, when he saw the prince sitting at the desk and writing, he felt at a glance that the prince was different today.
I originally thought that what I would see was the sick prince, but how come the prince didn't look sick at all, and instead looked better than usual?
Even his smile was brighter than usual, and there seemed to be a sense of ease and joy between his brows, which made Yinzuo stunned, because he seldom saw the prince like this.
Yin Zuo blinked, came back to his senses and asked, "Is there any good news for the Crown Prince?"
The prince pondered for a moment, then said to Yinzuo, "It's just that I put some things down, and suddenly I felt loose, as if I had been freed from shackles."
ah?
Yinzuo's face was full of confusion.
Yinzuo asked, "Is the Crown Prince ill? He didn't go to court, so I thought he was ill."
The prince looked at Yinzuo and suddenly asked, "What if I don't become the prince anymore? What do you think?"
ah?
ah!
Yinzuo's eyes widened as he looked at the prince who was smiling like thunder and digested these words with difficulty.
The prince seemed to be amused by Yinzuo's surprised look. He smiled and said, "Are you scared?"
Anyone would be scared, right?
Yinzuo found a chair and sat down, finally finding his voice and asked, "What happened?" Yinzuo tried hard to think about whether something big had happened in the court or whether the emperor scolded the prince again?
Prince: "Nothing special has happened, I'm just tired after all these years."
"When I told my father that I didn't want to be the crown prince anymore, I suddenly felt more relaxed than ever before."
Yinzuo: "Have you already told the Emperor?"
Prince: "Yes."
Yinzuo was still shocked and trying to digest this matter. He had always felt that the Crown Prince had too many things on his mind and was under too much pressure. He wanted to let the Crown Prince be influenced by Buddhism and Taoism and learn a little bit of their detachment from the world.
But what he wanted the prince to let go of was to let go of some worries and not be too hard on himself. He did not expect the prince to let go completely.
Yin Zuo couldn't help but ask anxiously, "Could it be that I have collected too many scriptures for the Crown Prince? Has the Crown Prince been affected to this extent?"
The prince said, "Don't flatter yourself."
Yin Zuo's heart was in a mess. He looked into the eyes of the Crown Prince and asked seriously, "Brother Crown Prince, are you sure you have made up your mind?"
"Are you sure you won't regret it later?"
"I am worried that the prince will regret his sense of responsibility to the Qing Dynasty and his ideals and ambitions."
The prince replied to Yinzuo: "Think carefully about it."
The Emperor was in good health, but if he continued to sit on the throne of Crown Prince for another ten, twenty, or thirty years, he would feel as if he were sinking into a quagmire that was suffocating him. The Crown Prince really felt that he was going crazy.
But was he supposed to rebel and usurp the throne? He couldn't succeed.
Being a crown prince can only lead to a few different outcomes. He can no longer wait for his father to abdicate with a calm mind, as he is worried that his brothers, who are as ferocious as wolves and tigers, will dethrone him before that day comes.
The position of the crown prince seems glorious, but isn't he now in a situation where he is surrounded by enemies on all sides?
He had a bad feeling that if he continued as he was, things would not end well for him, so he was seeking a change.
And now is his change.
There was a moment of deepness in the prince's eyes. His royal father suspected that he was retreating to advance, which was actually not wrong. After all, there is no construction without destruction. When trapped, you have to jump out. It's just that a risky move may lead to a dead end. If you jump out, you may never be able to get in again, and you will be really out of the game.
But even if there is a high possibility that the move will end in failure, he can accept it. He no longer wants to be the trapped beast in the quagmire.
The prince's change and his alternative approach caught everyone off guard.
He himself had a better sleep than ever last night.
The prince was quite happy when he thought about how he had posed a great challenge to his royal father. Thinking about the possible chaos in the future, he would be even happier when his brothers would have no targets to fight each other.
He said to Yinzuo: "I am very happy now."
"You should be happy for me too."
"You don't have to worry about me so much in the future."
Yin Zuo: "...if the Crown Prince has really thought it through."
"I, I stand with my brother, the prince."
The prince laughed and said, "Call me second brother from now on."
"Second brother." Yinzuo changed his tone according to what the prince said.
(End of this chapter)
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