admiration

Emperor Hongzhi's heart was attached to the former empress, and Mo Yanchi's position as the crown prince was even more important to Mo Yanchi, but Mo Yanchi has been away for more than ten years and has not made any achievements so far. If he suddenly establishes the crown prince, it will only harm him.

Regarding Zhu Qiming's small actions, Emperor Hongzhi was like a mirror in his heart, but he always turned a blind eye to it, on the one hand to protect the face of the royal family, and on the other hand to temper Mo Yichi's character.The so-called heaven will send a great mission, he must first suffer from his will, he will always grow up.

Emperor Hongzhi was silent for a while, then sighed, and said: "Oh, your mother's queen is in the sky, seeing that you can take care of yourself, you should feel at ease."

"The queen mother... what kind of person is she?" Mo Yanchi said.

This was the first time that Mo Yichi took the initiative to ask about the former empress. He knew a thing or two from the history books, but those were too one-sided. He praised the late empress for her virtuousness, but lacked real feelings.

Emperor Hongzhi drank the fine wine in his glass and said: "She is a very good person. She is always worried about the decline of the Mo family and will not help me, so she rejected me several times because of it. For me."

Speaking of those old things, the strategizing and tenacious heart softened.

Mo Yanchi listened quietly, and suddenly felt a pity that the former queen was so nice, but he couldn't see him, and he didn't even have time to get a hug, so he was taken to the Wangxiang Terrace thousands of miles away.

"It's all my fault, I knew she was going to give birth, but I left her." Emperor Hongzhi was annoyed.

Seeing Emperor Hongzhi feeling sad again, Eunuch Li beside him hurriedly stepped forward to comfort him, persuading him, "Your Majesty, don't be too sad, the Empress Dowager Quan knows that she doesn't want you to be like this."

Emperor Hongzhi waved his hand to make him step back, and counted the past events with Mo Yichi carefully in a low voice, telling Mo Yichi not to resent the former empress, but to remember what the former empress expected of him.

Mo Yanchi listened quietly from the side, feeling very depressed.

The father and son talked heart and soul for a while, and Emperor Hongzhi came back to his senses, knowing that he had lost his composure, and let Mo Yanchi leave with a sigh, leaving him alone.

Mo Yichi returned to the mansion with a bunch of rewards, his eyes were still red when he got off the carriage, as if he had been wronged outside.

Xiao Zhijin waited for him for a whole day, and went out to greet him when he heard that he came back. Seeing that his expression was not quite right, he retreated and asked, "What's wrong?"

He lived in the second prince's mansion for a few days, Zhu Qiming and Concubine Jing's eyeliner was pulled out completely, and the vacant positions were filled with people from General Wei Ling. Now the second prince's mansion seems to belong to Xiao Zhijin. Take orders from him.

Mo Yanchi didn't realize that he was there, and never bothered about this matter.

Right now his mind was on Emperor Hongzhi's words, and he had no time to take care of it, Mo Yanchi shook his head and refused to speak.

Seeing that he was uncomfortable, Xiao Zhi didn't force him to answer, he led someone into the house and made him a cup of hot tea.

Mo Yanchi didn't answer, but instead asked: "Do you know the reason why the former empress passed away?"

"I know, the remnants of Dai's kingdom forced the palace, the former empress was overly frightened, and died of dystocia." Xiao Zhizhi said.It turned out that Mo Yanchi was sad because of this.

"Father told me this morning that it was a premeditated plan, but he still doesn't know how people from the Dai Kingdom infiltrated into the palace." Mo Yanchi said in a low voice.

Xiao Zhijin hesitated for a while, sat beside him, and said frankly: "Actually, I was entrusted by someone to investigate this matter."

It's been a long time since the battle back then, and many people and evidence have almost faded away. Even though Xiao Zhijin held a general of Wei Ling in his hand, he couldn't find out one or two.

"Who? Is it... the virtuous king?" Mo Yanchi asked.Wei Ling will reappear in the world, and some rumors and gossips have begun to spread, and Mo Yichi learned some old things after inquiring.

General Wei Ling used to belong to the royal secret guard, and has always been in the hands of the king. The first emperor appointed Emperor Hongzhi as the crown prince. He was supposed to pass on General Wei Ling to him, but Emperor Hongzhi refused on the grounds that the virtuous king was young and helpless. , Ask the first emperor to pass on to the virtuous king.

The virtuous king accepted it calmly, so that Wei Ling would help Emperor Hongzhi ascend to the throne, and he never had the intention of rebelling.

It's just that later the Empress Xian married Emperor Hongzhi, and the Xian Wang was so upset that he left the capital in a fit of anger. There is no news so far.

These things are royal family affairs, and they have been passed down to the people. Most of them are true and false, but in the end there are still a few people.

Xiao Zhijin heard the words of His Royal Highness the Xian Wang when he left, asking not to tell Mo Yichi his identity, and then looked at Mo Yichi in front of him, all the promises were gone with the water, he nodded and said: "Yes."

"Then where is he now?" Mo Yanchi asked.

Xian Wang is a poor man, he obviously likes the first empress at the same time, and he was the one who proposed the marriage first, but the first emperor betrothed him to Emperor Hongzhi in the end. The queen's heart secretly agreed, but the virtuous king suddenly felt unintentional, so he rested.After witnessing their wedding, he got very drunk and disappeared the next day with General Wei Ling.

Emperor Hongzhi was very worried about this and searched for him for 15 years.

"At Wangxiang Terrace." Xiao Zhijin chuckled lightly, "Speaking of which, you also know him."

Mo Yichi recalled the people he knew from Wangxiang Terrace, and suddenly there was a gentle and elegant figure who was often provoked by him, he was silent, and hesitated for a long time before asking: "Master... Master?"

Xiao Zhi didn't answer at all, just smiled with his lips curled up.

Mo Yanchi's scalp is numb, the person who committed suicide when he was young was actually his uncle, if he reveals his identity in the future, then his life is still in danger?

"Isn't he a failed candidate?" Mo Yanchi struggled.

Xiao Zhijin smiled treacherously, and said: "How can you completely believe what he said?"

When Ming Shu first came to Wangxiangtai, he was full of luxury, and the villagers also had a little gossip, but they were still young at that time, so naturally they didn't take it to heart.

Mo Yanchi's expression changed a lot, both happy and sad, Xiao Zhi watched it happily, and added another knife: "Before leaving, His Royal Highness King Xian specially asked me to let you study hard. In the future, I will have a chance to test your knowledge. .”

"...Oh." Mo Yanchi said dejectedly.

Probably even Emperor Hongzhi never imagined that his son and younger brother were all in the same place after disappearing for more than ten years.However, His Royal Highness King Xian misplaced the noble prince in Beijing, went to a remote place to teach, and was angry with his nephew for many years.

Except for Jiang Wan's identity, which is inconvenient to say clearly, Xiao Zhi definitely revealed everything to Mo Yichi, without missing anything.

Because King Xian ordered not to reveal his whereabouts, after Xiao Zhijin finished talking to Mo Yichi, he asked him to reassure him that he would never tell anything.Mo Yanchi kept his promise, and kept silent when he saw Emperor Hongzhi again.

Recently, the DPRK and China have been stable, there has been no war on the frontier, and several vacancies in the military department have been filled one by one. Only then did Emperor Hongzhi take a breath, and another accident occurred in the official department.

Liu Qi, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, was impeached for his preference for masculinity. After marrying his wife, he raised several prostitutes in the back garden.Min Chao wasn't very masculine, but the upper-level officials would play around occasionally, and it didn't cause any big impact, so no one cared about it.

But this Liu Qi not only doted on child prostitution and caused his wife to have a miscarriage, but also snatched many other people's children and kept them in the mansion for him to have fun. Looking for a reason to be relegated from Beijing, the people reported to the officials to no avail, so they could only swallow their anger and wash their faces with tears every day.

Originally, this matter was well suppressed, but some time ago, there was a big thief, stealing money was not counted, and he also snatched away the child prostitute in Shang Shu's mansion. He sent the man back and taught him a trick.

Since it was useless to report to the official, I wrote the crime and knelt and cried at the gate of the palace in the early morning. Sooner or later, someone would pay attention.Several families thought it over, the left and right children had no hope in this life, they might as well fight it out, so that they wouldn't have to be bullied by this dog official in the past.

So it hit it off, the robber originally asked them to kneel directly at the gate of the palace, but these people actually held the crime written by the robber from the gate, knelt all the way, shouted Liu Qi's crimes, and when they reached the gate of the palace, their knees were broken .

The matter of Minister of the Ministry of Officials is not considered a secret in the court, but he is attached to the eldest prince, those officials dare not speak out when they are angry, for the sake of official career, they all keep silent.

Those common people knew that officials and officials would protect each other, and came here with hopeless expectations. They didn't want to kneel there for a while. A man in a black uniform embroidered with four dragons got off the carriage and asked why in a low voice.

When the common people saw that someone paid attention to them, the tears they had finally held back rolled down again. They cried out to let this man do justice, and gave him the crime.

This man had a handsome face, after accepting the accusation, he took only a few glances, frowned and said: "This king can't decide on this matter, if you trust me, you can follow me into the palace."

The people smashed their pots, nodded, and supported each other into the palace. The man saw their knee injuries, and asked the servant to help them into the carriage.

The people tremblingly got into the carriage and asked the young man's identity.

Only after asking this question did he know that this person is the second prince of the dynasty.

The young man outside the car is thin and has long flowing hair, which makes people feel at ease.These common people have been perfunctory by the guards too many times, and now because of the unfavored second prince, their grievances can be heard by the heavens. They looked at Mo Yichi's figure and were extremely grateful from the bottom of their hearts.

Above the court hall, several common people knelt in front of the emperor, and after expressing their grievances, the hall fell silent. Liu Qi, who was in the row, looked at the increasingly gloomy face of Emperor Hongzhi, and was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat.

Emperor Hongzhi looked at Liu Qi and said coldly, "Is this true?"

Liu Qi rushed out of the queue, knelt on the cold stone slab, and shouted: "I report to Your Majesty that I have been wronged, and I beg your Majesty to learn from you." There are tens of thousands of corpses.

Emperor Hongzhi didn't fool the emperor, he was furious when he heard the words, patted the dragon chair and said: "They have all sued me here, so it's possible that they dare to frame you on the charge of deceiving the emperor!"

The emperor was furious, and all the officials fell to the ground. Liu Qi kept wiping the cold sweat on his forehead, and said in a dying struggle: "I... I don't know why this happened..."

Emperor Hongzhi glanced at him, and said: "Since that's the case, then let people check it out and fix the atmosphere in Beijing."

The hearts of the people trembled, if this matter could not be resolved in the court, their fate would be in danger after the court.

One of them boldly said: "Your Majesty, Caomin requests the Second Prince to investigate this matter..."

Mo Yanchi frowned, and came out and said: "Your Majesty, these people were brought by my ministers, and my ministers have the courage to ask your majesty to send my ministers to investigate this matter, and give justice to the Minister of the Ministry of Officials."