A cadre of princes and ministers was called out of the house by the eunuchs, and when they arrived at the palace, it was already past the time when the palace gate was locked. According to the rules, the palace gate must be locked on time, and it must not be opened for non-emergency military affairs! But Zhu Di ordered someone to keep the door for them, and they still didn't close the door after entering the palace, which shows how angry and excited the emperor is at this moment!

Winter is dark early, at this time the sky is already dark, the eunuchs with lanterns, leading the princes to the Qianqing Palace, no one speaks, not even eye contact, but everyone knows why the emperor called them into the palace at this moment!

Entering the Qianqing Palace, the princes saw Zhu Di with his back to the door, his hands up, looking at a picture of a tiger descending the mountain on the wall. The princes saluted the emperor, but Zhu Di turned a deaf ear and neither looked back nor let them get up.

The princes and ministers had no choice but to kneel there and wait for the emperor to attack...... Fortunately, they have been practicing kneeling for many years, and they are used to it.

The monarch and the minister were silent like this, and I don't know how long it took, but there was probably a meal, and the crown prince Zhu Gaochi staggered under the support of two eunuchs. He has bad legs and feet, and it's normal to come late, but it's really abnormal to come so late......

"Son-in-law Zhu Gaochi, meet your father." Zhu Gaochi motioned for the two eunuchs to leave, took off his robes, and knelt in front of the emperor. "I don't know what hadith my father summoned his sons overnight?!"

"Hadith dare not be a ......" Zhu Di finally said his first sentence tonight, and it was full of gunpowder: "My prince has stiff wings now, I want to ask you, what advice do you have?!" ”

"When the father says this, the son should ask for a verdict." The corners of Zhu Gaochi's mouth trembled, and his voice quickly returned to calm: "But I really don't know, how did Erchen anger his father?!" ”

"Don't talk about pleading guilty all day long?!" Zhu Di still didn't look back, and said coldly: "Even if I really want to kill you?" Can you die obediently?! Zhu Gaochi was just about to speak, but Zhu Di sneered again: "Even if you want to die obediently, your loyal courtiers will never agree!" ”

"The whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister! There is only one kind of courtier in the world, and that is His Majesty's courtier! A courtier will only be loyal to His Majesty, and will never be loyal to his son! After the emperor finished speaking, Zhu Gaochi said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty's words are the words of most of the capital coupling the country and the chaos of the state, and the sons have the courage to ask the emperor to retract this!" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty! If you don't keep it secret, you will lose your minister! Xia Yuanji, Yang Shiqi, Yang Rong, Jin Youzi and others could no longer pretend to be deaf and dumb, and they all persuaded bitterly: "What Your Majesty said is indeed not the way of a monarch and a minister, please take it back!" ”

"I don't even have to speak!" Zhu Di laughed nervously: "It's not complicit!" Ha ha! Hahaha! ”

"Your Majesty......" The crown prince and the princes and ministers had no choice but to kowtow again.

"Okay," Zhu Di raised his head and let out a long breath of turbidity, and said slowly: "I will take back that sentence on the order of the prince." As he spoke, he looked at the official who wrote the living note on the corner of the hall and said, "Don't record what you say." ”

When the historian arrived in the Ming Dynasty, he did not have the style of writing straight and not being obscure before the Tang Dynasty, basically from the Tang Dynasty, he was the emperor's order, and in this dynasty, the history books and historical pens have completely become a tool for the emperor to disguise wrongdoing and suppress political enemies. The historians were all stupid just now, how dare they write a word, and when they heard the emperor's will at this time, they naturally nodded like they had been amnesty, and nodded like pounding garlic.

"The emperor is wise...... The ministers were also relieved, thinking that a storm should pass, but who knew that Zhu Di finally turned his head, and his blood-red eyes swept over the princes with hatred. Everyone who was swept by him trembled in their hearts, and they hurriedly lowered their heads and did not dare to look at the emperor...... Except for the crown prince.

Zhu Di's gaze was also fixed on the prince, staring at the prince coldly, and the prince was not afraid, and looked at the emperor calmly. Although the prince's gaze is soft, it is as firm as a rock, and under Zhu Di's fierce gaze of subduing demons and destroying demons and intimidating the group, it is not messy at all, and it does not fall behind......

This kind of disobedient gaze made Zhu Di extremely angry and anxious, he stretched out his arm, pointed his finger at the prince, less than an inch away from the tip of the prince's nose, and his voice was cold without a trace of emotion: "You instructed them not to congratulate them!" ”

"The sons did not instruct anyone," the prince said neither humbly nor arrogantly, "and no one instructed them!" ”

"Then why are they so neatly not on the congratulatory watch?" Zhu Di gritted his teeth and said, "Do you want to say that I have lost my way?!" ”

"Your Majesty," the prince said, "this is the ...... of the people."

'Smack! Before he finished speaking, a heavy slap was slapped on the prince's face, and the sound was so shocking that everyone in the hall trembled.

Zhu Di raised his hand, slapped the prince in the face again, and said angrily: "Let's show the stuffing!" You're that person! You're the dog! As he spoke, he flew up again and kicked the prince to the ground...... In less than three months, the crown prince was beaten twice by the emperor, which is not only appalling in this dynasty, but also unique in the history of the twenty-one years.

The princes and ministers hurriedly separated the father and son of the heavenly family and allowed the emperor to beat the crown prince, which was a shame for the country and a stain on everyone present......

Those historians closed their eyes in pain, regretting that they could not record the rare and powerful scene in this world......

The ministers worked hard to hold the angry emperor, and Zhu Di was still furious and said: "Before dawn, if you don't come up with a remedy, I will abolish you, the prince!" After saying that, the emperor left his stunned courtiers and brushed his sleeves away.

Xia Yuanji and the others looked at Zhu Gaochi and saw that his cheeks on both sides were red and swollen, so they hurriedly asked the eunuch to fetch crushed ice and wrap it in a handkerchief to reduce the swelling of the prince. The prince crushed ice in one hand and pressed it on both cheeks, looking very strange. However, except for King Zhao, no one was in the mood to make fun of the prince, even if it was King Zhao, he could only secretly laugh in his heart......

'Before dawn, if you don't come up with a remedy, I will depose you, the prince!' ’

The emperor's angry words before leaving, although no one really took it seriously, no one dared not pay attention to it. If there are not enough congratulatory watches before dawn, the embarrassed and angry emperor is likely to cancel the palace transfer ceremony, and then he will lose face in front of the vassals of the Fan State, and the emperor will put all the sins on the crown prince's head, and it is not impossible to abolish the prince......

"Guys, what should I do?!" Jian Yi looked at everyone worriedly, he was the head of the hundred officials who were the secretary of the ministry and the courtesy. Although the cabinet scholars are now extremely powerful and are jokingly called prime ministers, they cannot be compared with the six ministers. Therefore, Jian Yi became the initiator of the topic.

"What else?" Zhao Wang Zhu Gaosui got up from the ground, although the ground of the Qianqing Palace was clean, he still patted his leg carefully, and said indifferently: "Let the hundred officials write a congratulatory table." ”

"Lord Wang, if they are willing to write, they will still get to this point?!" Jian Yi smiled bitterly: "It's not a secret, we, the heads of ministries and courts, have been persuading each other these days, and we have used all kinds of methods of coercion and temptation, but those guys just don't get in the oil and salt." ”

King Zhao sneered faintly, and said in his heart that of course they don't get in oil and salt, otherwise this king's hard work for so long will not be in vain?

In fact, King Zhao's method is still the same as the one used in Nanjing, so that the famous Qingliu declared: 'Whoever dares to go to the congratulatory table is to isolate himself from his colleagues!' The more the same thing is said, the more and more people believe it, and the power of the word multiplies, and it becomes more and more the anger of the people. The hundred officials know that the law does not blame the public, and the threat of the peak is actually not powerful, but if anyone dares to be on the table, he can be sprayed to death by a colleague with a mouthful of spit!

"The emperor has pointed out the way," His Royal Highness Taisun, who had been silent, suddenly said coldly: "As long as you tell those officials what the emperor said today, they will naturally comply......"

"That's ...... nature," Jian Yi nodded, but shook his head again: "But this way...... It's also a great inadequacy! ”

Of course, it's a big mistake! This is tantamount to making the contradiction between the emperor and the prince public, and it is equivalent to confirming the prince's accusation of confusing the public to resist, so how can His Royal Highness the prince deal with himself!

"I don't care about it so much, let's go over the current level first!" Zhu Gaosui was already complacent, and in this dispute over moving the capital, others thought that Taisun had made a profit. But anyone with a discerning eye can see that the grandson was pushed to the front line of the competition with the prince's father and son by the emperor, even if he won a little power, he lost a reputation that was 10,000 times more precious! This dispute over moving the capital turned the emperor and the crown prince against each other! Let the prince and the grandson turn against each other! The real winner is him, Zhao Wang Zhu Gaosui!

"This ......" The ministers frowned, not daring to respond to His Royal Highness King Zhao.

"Not bad." His Royal Highness the Crown Prince finally spoke, and under the gaze of everyone, he put down two handkerchiefs wrapped in crushed ice, and said calmly: "The top priority at the moment is how to make tomorrow's ceremony go smoothly, so that my Heavenly Dynasty will not lose its dignity in front of the subject country, and will not leave regrets in the history books." After a pause, he said, "As for the others, they are all secondary......

"Your Highness!" Jian Yi Xia Yuanji and the three scholars had tears in their eyes and knelt on the ground. They are all veterans who have experienced the sea and have insight into people's hearts, where do they not know everyone's calculations?! They know that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince does not have to be like this and should not be like this! It was for the sake of the Ming Dynasty, for China, and for the people that he came to this step of sharp opposition to his father...... It's just that in the end, it still doesn't help......

It was already the middle of the day, and the time was extremely urgent, so everyone hurriedly split up, and each gathered familiar officials to tell them about the current crisis of His Royal Highness the Prince, hoping to impress their hearts and get the damn congratulatory watch!

Walking on the way out of the palace, Jin Youzi suddenly had a strange face, and whispered to Yang Shiqi on the side: "Brother Shiqi, you said that the emperor lifted the ban on His Royal Highness the Crown Prince before and let him be in charge of the ceremonies, is it a pit dug for the prince?!" ”

Yang Shiqi didn't speak, but nodded slightly.