Finally, when the big boss finished approving the papers, Han Jiao couldn't wait to ask him: "Xie Duo, when did you start liking me?"

Xie Duo glanced at him, lowered his eyes and smiled.

"why are you laughing?"

"You can't call me that."

"I don't call you that in front of outsiders."

"The palace is full of outsiders."

Han Jiao was a little disappointed. He didn't know why, but he especially liked to call Xie Duo by his name. Only by calling him this way could he feel that he belonged to him.

Seeing that he was unhappy, Xie Duo raised the corners of his mouth and said with a smile: "My palace has been completed, there is a place where there are no outsiders, you can call me by my name."

Han Jiao looked up at him: "Where is it?"

"Bed."

Han Jiao glared at him and asked, "You haven't told me yet, when did you start liking me?"

"Hmm..." Xie Duo raised his head and recalled it carefully, and said solemnly, "When I stepped into your bedroom that night."

Han Jiao was taken aback, this answer made him very uneasy, could it be that Xie Duo didn't distinguish between desire and love?

"I lied to you." Xie Duo smiled with sharp teeth: "I have liked you for a long time, but I didn't think about that earlier."

Han Jiao became happy: "How early? Could it be that Your Highness fell in love with me at first sight?"

"No." Xie Duo said with a smile: "At first I just thought you were very interesting, I remember you took the silk book upside down and lied to me that it was convenient for Lao Ba..."

"Ah, don't mention this!" Han Jiao hurriedly interrupted the big boss's unbearable memories!

Xie Duo bowed his head and thought for a while: "I think you are very interesting, but you also want to save face and are timid, so I can't help teasing you."

"..." Is this why the big boss teased him about his addiction?

"Where am I timid?" Han Jiao retorted in a low voice with some confidence.

"After you escaped from the kidnappers, I was still trapped in the trap. I thought you had already escaped with your brother in your arms. I didn't expect you to rush back with a big wooden stake. At that time, I realized that you are a very contradictory person. He is a person who is obviously afraid of death, but also has many principles that must be adhered to." Xie Duo looked at him seriously: "I decided to make you my friend at that time."

Han Jiao raised his chest: "For you have a good vision, you don't want to be a buddy with me, just a word, show loyalty!"

Xie Duo asked him: "What about you, Han Xiaobai, when did you like me a little bit?"

Han Jiao pursed his lips and hummed with a smirk: "Only in the last half month or so."

The answer made the crown prince dissatisfied.

Xie Duo stared at him expressionlessly.

Han Jiao bragged without blushing, "Maybe in the last three or five days."

Xie Duo asked him with a stern look: "Han Jiao, do you know what I've been carrying with me recently to guard against assassins?"

Han Jiao asked curiously, "What did you bring?"

Xie Duo looked down at his side.

Han Jiao also followed his gaze and looked down, and saw that he was holding the hilt of the sword at his waist with his right hand.

Raising his head in a daze, he saw Xie Duo with a smirk on the corner of his mouth, holding the hilt of his sword in his hand as a warning, and resumed the question and answer just now: "Then what about you, Han Xiaobai, when did you like me a little?"

Han Jiao showed his white teeth in a smile, lowered his eyes to think for a while, and answered seriously: "Before you."

Two hours passed in a blink of an eye, Han Jiao wanted to go back to the guard house, but Xie Duo refused to let him go.

"I can't spend a few hours every time I come to you, or I will be gossiped about."

Xie Duo frowned slightly when he heard the words, as if he wanted to say something, he swallowed it back and obediently let go.

Before leaving, Han Jiao asked him: "Your Highness has always been thoughtful recently, is there something that is pressing on your heart? Can you let me share your worries?"

Xie Duo stared at him silently.

It felt like there was something in his heart that he didn't want to say. Han Jiao was a measured person. He didn't want to interfere with what Xie Duo didn't want to say, but he felt that this matter was serious and might hurt Xie Duo.

After hesitating again and again, he still bit the bullet and asked ignorantly, "Is it possible that His Majesty's condition has not improved? Is it severe typhoid fever?"

"Father is very bad." Xie Duo said frankly: "You can't say it."

Han Jiao frowned, and comforted him worriedly: "Your Majesty is in his prime of life, he will be fine with careful treatment, don't be so preoccupied."

Xie Duo looked at him and nodded.

Han Jiao felt uneasy, the emperor would not suddenly become terminally ill, right?Why did he not allow others to visit?

"The other princes haven't visited yet." Han Jiao tentatively said, "Everyone is very worried about His Majesty."

Xie Duo knew that he wanted to ask about the severity of his illness but did not dare, so he whispered: "Father needs to rest for a long time, and he may take the Zen position in advance."

Han Jiao's heart skipped a beat, never expecting the emperor to be so ill!

Xie Duo looked at him solemnly: "If I am destined to be imprisoned in the palace for the rest of my life, would you like to stay with me?"

Han Jiao pursed his lips and smiled, looking at him firmly with peach blossom eyes: "Do I have this honor?"

When leaving Xiyuan, Han Jiao felt much more at ease.

Xie Duo's abnormal mood these days was originally due to the emperor's serious illness, and he had to take on this burden as a last resort, so it was normal that it was hard to accept for a while.

But something happened a few days later, which made Han Jiao feel uneasy again——

Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Officials and the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang were impeached by officials of the Ministry of War and imprisoned pending trial.

The crime turned out to be collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country.

Han Jiao has been in the officialdom for more than a year, and he has become indifferent to why the official was convicted on the surface. He has been able to dig out the interests behind it through the surface.

The accident of these two senior officials was probably the result of party disputes.

And these two people are both elders of Xu Ge.

Looking at the results alone, they were impeached and convicted by the Duan Wang Party.

Officials in the DPRK and China believed that the prince was too reckless.

In the past two weeks, eight members of the Yan Wang Party have been dismissed or even imprisoned for various crimes, while only one official of the Duan Wang Party has been found guilty of corruption and imprisoned.

If the emperor were to deal with these impeached officials, they would never be dealt with completely according to the evidence of their crimes, but would maintain a balance between the two parties so that the royal party would not dominate.

In fact, the two senior officials who had the accident figured out that the crown prince should attack the Duan Wang party next, so they used the defeat of last year as an excuse to throw the blame on several Duan Wang parties.

The two of them took the initiative to pass the knife to the crown prince. They did not expect the crown prince to be so sincere and refused to cooperate with their performance. Instead, he raised his hand and stabbed them, thinking that the defeat was because they planned to frame their political opponents and deliberately lost the battle.

Officials in the court were all feeling that the prince was still a sensible person, but he was a little bit upright and upright like King Yan, and regardless of the fact that these two were towering trees in King Yan's party, they were all "sent to prison and punished" in one breath.

Now the Yan Wang Party and the Duan Wang Party are completely out of balance, and the prince is likely to be led by the nose by Mr. Li Ge.

Of course, this is all the analysis of officials in the DPRK and China, and Han Jiao does not think so.

He was full of fear, because in the original book, Xie Duo also made similar actions after he became the prince.

In the original book, when there was no showdown with King Yan in the early stage, the prince always put on the disguise of "uprightness" and "killed relatives with righteousness", so that when the male protagonist King Yan came back to his senses, he realized that his foundation in the court had been destroyed. The salted fish brother who was pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger was half hollowed out.

Moreover, the later part of the original book revealed Xie Duo's perspective. In fact, these officials did not take the initiative to cause trouble, but got the hint from the prince during a private meeting, and then they mustered up the courage to charge for the prince, but finally found that the one who was slaughtered was himself.

Han Jiao couldn't calm down anymore.

I want to convince myself: Xie Duo has no selfish intentions, but the prince in the original novel first replaced the imperial guards of the Eastern Palace, and then took the two big trees in the Yanwang party.

This is too coincidental.

What makes him even more uneasy is that the next plot in the original book should be about the prince's secret dealing with Yan Wang's Zhan.

That is, the teacher of King Yan——Liu Tong.

This person is Elder Xu Ge's confidant, and because he is also Zhan's official in King Yan's residence, he can ventilate for King Yan and Elder Xu Ge.

Once this thread is cut off, the connection between Mr. Xu Ge and King Yan will become much more dangerous.

Because the two of them had no teacher-student relationship, and as the chief assistant of the cabinet, they had a close relationship with the prince in private, which was a big taboo. All the officials except Liu Tong had no reason to go to Prince Yan's mansion frequently.

As Xu Ge's old confidant, Liu Tong stayed in the small official position of Zhan Shi for so many years, because he was trusted by both parties at the same time, and he happened to have the name of teacher and student with King Yan, and he was responsible for the important task of contacting the two parties.

In the original book, King Yan started to fight back after his teacher had an accident. He would first go to the ninth brother to intercede.

In the book, the prince has a business-like attitude, insisting that the evidence of impeaching Liu Tong will not let go, which completely hurt King Yan's heart.

The apparent break between the two brothers began at that moment.

Han Jiao went to Xiyuan early the next morning to ask for a meeting.

He couldn't keep calm anymore, he needed to know what Xie Duo was thinking.

Xie Duo was very happy to see him coming to find him, but when he heard what he couldn't wait to ask, he restrained his smile again.

"Are you familiar with these two people?" Xie Duo asked him.

"They are such high-ranking officials, how could they know me well!" Han Jiao denied.

"Then why do you care about this?"

"I wonder why you disposed of them."

"Haven't their charges been announced?"

Xie Duo's prevarication made Han Jiao very uneasy: "Does Your Highness really believe that the two of them are collaborating with the enemy and treason?"

Xie Duo stared at him silently for a moment, then replied in a low voice, "I only believe in evidence."

"The evidence may be fabricated." Han Jiao said: "I have consulted several veteran generals. The defeat in Fujian and Zhejiang last year was due to a problem with the coach's judgment, and he was not instructed by anyone to deliberately lose the battle. I think the two At most, the criminals want to use that defeat as an excuse to hold the Duanwang faction responsible for the main battle, and it has nothing to do with the cause of the defeat."

Xie Duo tilted his head to look at him: "Since when did you care about party struggle?"

Han Jiao said anxiously: "I don't care about party disputes, I just want to know what you want to do!"

A moment of silence.

Xie Duo asked him in a low voice, "What do you think I want to do?"

Han Jiao clenched his fists tightly, his breathing became short, he paused for a moment, and said in a low voice: "I feel that you want to deal with Mr. Xu Ge."

Xie Duo raised the corner of his mouth: "You can speak more clearly."

Han Jiao's heart beat violently, looked at Xie Duo in disbelief, and asked in a trembling voice after a while, "Do you want to deal with King Yan?"

Xie Duo lowered his eyes and snorted, "It still takes such a big trouble for me to deal with him?"

Han Jiao looked into his eyes suspiciously: "Then what do you want to do?"

"Since I take over the position of Prince Chu," Xie Duo narrowed his eyes slightly, and said in a deep voice, "Naturally, I will tear apart the spider webs that others have laid in the court. Don't worry, I won't hurt Sixth Brother."

Han Jiao's face turned pale in an instant, and he stared at Xie Duo in astonishment: "Why? King Yan has no intention of competing for the crown."

"Since there is no such thing, why keep this net?"

Han Jiao said nervously: "He hopes that you will properly arrange the people who followed him in the past."

"Aren't I making proper arrangements? Sixth brother has no objection, but you came first to complain for them."

"Sooner or later he will have an opinion!" Han Jiao stepped forward and looked at him, earnestly said: "Xie Duo... King Yan is convinced of your talent, stop targeting the former King Yan party, I... I'm afraid you will do something that you will regret in the future."

The author has something to say: Little Cotton Essence: I don’t care what the Yanwang Party is like, I’m just afraid that your stinky brother will commit suicide for no reason ahhhhhhhhhhhhh

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