[Red Chamber] Mrs. Lin replaced her

"So," Feng Tang said with an uncontrollable smile on his face, "The second prince and the third prince started arguing in the court hall." Thinking of the morning court today, the second prince's line and the third prince's line were in public The dispute started, and finally the second prince and the third prince quarreled in order to protect their own people, and Feng Tang was so angry that he threw things in public, Feng Tang couldn't help being happy: "Later, Jin retreated angrily, Afterwards, the princes were called to the Imperial Study Room."

During these years when Jiazi was not in the capital, as the prince was getting older, he himself was getting old, and now he was becoming more and more worried about the prince.No matter how much he pretends to be kind today, no matter how much the prince conceals his talent, he can't bring the father and son who are drifting apart back to the intimacy they had in the past.

Coupled with the fact that the other princes have grown up one after another, in order to control and restrict the growth of the prince, they support and favor them in every possible way, and their ambitions are also growing day by day: since they are all sons of today, why should the prince be able to sit on the throne? The position of the Ninth Five Lord, they can only watch helplessly?

This kind of ambition prompted them to start working hard to cultivate their own power, to win over the important officials of the court, in order to show their talents in government affairs, and to suppress other princes headed by the prince.On the surface, they are brothers and sisters respectful, but secretly they dig pits and traps for their brothers and sisters without mercy, and they have no sense of blood relationship with their compatriots.

Faced with the courtship of several princes, all the courtiers and aristocratic families also began to stand in line one after another, fighting endlessly in the court.However, for such a chaotic situation, today they choose to turn a blind eye and let these people torment the court to be a mess.Or for today, as long as the crown prince can be curbed from growing in power - this is naturally very resentful to Feng Tang and others who have the ambition to serve the country and have a good relationship with the crown prince because of Du Ruo's relationship. , I gradually became dissatisfied with the current ambiguous attitude in my heart.

Today, of course, he doesn't know that these children who he watched and grew up, who are both obedient and sensible and can be relied on in his heart, are already dissatisfied with him.However, even if he knew it now, he wouldn't take it to heart: it's just a few fools, if he can elevate them to a high position, he can knock them down—just like Wei Cheng.

Therefore, today's behavior towards the princes is even more laissez-faire.And today's laissez-faire made the princes even more arrogant and blatant.Even Ningrong Second Mansion's declining nobles who have begun to drift away from the edge of power have begun to fall into the field of vision of caring people again.

For example, the third prince, didn't he just take a fancy to the military forces behind the Ningrong Second Mansion, and placed a "special" woman like Qin Keqing in the Ningguo Mansion, and then hoped that the military forces behind the Ning Rong Second Mansion would submit to him? him?Moreover, because of Qin Keqing's presence, if the third prince really ascends to the Great Treasure one day in the future, why don't he destroy the Ningrong Second Mansion just as he wants?

However, in Jiazi's view, it is not necessarily true that today's chaotic situation is not clear at all.However, as he got older, he no longer had the same control over the government as before.As long as the struggle of several princes does not shake the foundation of the country, it will be fine.However, this time...

"It seems," Jia Zi slightly raised the corners of his mouth after taking a sip of his tea, "Some people are going to experience the wrath of thunder right now." Find out.Of course, this identity refers to Qin Keqing's apparent identity as Prince Yizhong's "pro-granddaughter".

As for Jiazi, all he had to do was insist that the Ningguo Mansion didn't know about it: at worst, he would blame Jia Mu - Jiazi comforted himself silently in his heart.But, for some reason, she always felt a little uneasy in her heart.

"By the way," Du Ruo added a cup of tea to Jia Zi with a smile, and said with a smirk on her face, "Have you heard? Now all the houses in Beijing are in chaos."

Feng Tang and Du Ruo looked at each other and laughed in unison.

In fact, Jia Zi never thought of this before, she just asked Jia She to go to Shuntian Mansion to report the case, accuse Lai Er of murdering Jia Zhen in order to make things more perfect.Who knew that things would turn out to be unpredictable later on.

Of course, when Jia Zi reported the case, he already knew that Shun Tian Fu Yin was the second prince's man.When she did this, she also planned to use the hands of the second prince to find out the bottom line of the third prince: Qin Keqing was considered a very important pawn of the third prince, and she wanted to know what the third prince would do.

Although the second prince is the son of the heir, he also bears the name of a son of the first son on his head.But in terms of favor, he is not as good as the son of the empress of the Yuan Dynasty who was brought up by today's single-handedly, the present prince; The third prince born to Concubine Zhen in the palace of Zhen's family in the south of the motherland.Therefore, it was a rare opportunity to sell to the Ningguo Mansion, and he would not let it go easily.

Although the Ningguo Mansion seems to be on the edge of the capital's power now, Jia Daihua's military prestige is still there, and he has a high reputation in the army. He has fought under his command.What's more, the Ningguo Mansion produced the only female general in this dynasty, Jia Zi, who was even more famous and involuntarily admirable; and Jia Zi's husband was Lin Hai, the hand-picked Tanhualang of today; Trust, the official residence patrol salt censor.Therefore, if Jia Zhen's case can be sold to Ningguo Mansion, Jia Zi and Lin Hai, the second prince is naturally very willing.

Under the hint of the second prince, Shuntian Fu Yin quickly settled the case. Not only was Lai Er wanted by the whole country, but also Lai's house was seized under the pretext of a search.It was this that caused the chaos in Beijing.

No one expected that Shuntian Mansion found so many treasures in Lai's house, and most of these treasures came from their master's house: Ningrong Second Mansion.

Since Shuntian Fu Yin did not cover up anything when he did this, the matter was quickly spread.Now, the families in Beijing are not calm: since the Jia family can have such a bold servant, will there be such a thing in their family?

All of a sudden, people in all the prefectures in Beijing were panicked.The masters looked at their slaves with scrutiny in their eyes, wanting to see if the slaves beside them who have been using them for several years, or even ten or decades, are clean in their pockets, and whether they have kept their own things. As their own home?The servants also felt the creepy eyes shot at them from time to time, their master looked like he would rush up and strip them naked at any time.Among them are some slaves with ghosts in their hearts. Some of them confessed directly when they were seen by such eyes.Even if it was carried to death, the doctor has already started to ask the doctor to boil the medicine.

In fact, the affairs of the various families in Beijing are nothing more than minor disturbances.The one that is really lively is the imperial palace.When Jia Zi invited a few good friends over for dinner under the pretext of thanking Feng Tang, Du Ruo and others for helping Zhang Luo and Jia Zhen in the funeral, the palace was already in chaos.

If the second prince and the third prince were restrained in the court, once they entered the imperial study, they completely exposed their true nature.

Listening to the second prince and the third prince talking tit for tat, it gives me a headache.This kind of headache reached its worst when the second prince mentioned that there was a nanny next to Qin Keqing who came from the third prince's mansion.

Looking at the eyes of the third prince, I now know that the third prince must have regarded Qin Keqing as the real granddaughter of Yizhong——At the beginning, after Jiazi found out all the facts about Yizhong's illegitimate son in Gusu, now he is also The capital found Qin Keqing.However, in today's eyes, Qin Keqing is just an insignificant little person, so he doesn't take it to heart.However, he never expected that his son would have something to do with Yizhong's past...

The prince stood aside without saying a word, and a slight undetectable sharpness slipped through the corners of his slightly covered eyes: If Jiazi hadn't told him, he would have almost believed that Qin Keqing was the granddaughter of Prince Yizhong—after all, almost everyone They all thought so.Unexpectedly, today is the real old fox, who has concealed the identity of the real loyal illegitimate son so deeply.Now, maybe even Qin Keqing doesn't know her true identity.

As long as he thinks of this, the prince is a little startled: If his father's mind has really reached such a terrifying level, then he secretly contacted Jiazi, Lin Hai, Wei Cheng, etc., who are absolutely loyal ministers in today's eyes, what will happen now? do you know?Did he really not know, or was he simply pretending to be confused?

Although the prince was distracted thinking about his own affairs, he kept paying attention to the current situation there.Therefore, today, trembling with anger from the third prince's sophistry and the second prince's fierce pursuit, he finally spit out a breath of blood uncontrollably, then rolled his eyes and fainted, the prince was the first to react .

"Father!" Regardless of a group of people who were completely stupefied, the prince rushed up, grabbed the fallen body, and shouted to the eunuch next to him, "Quickly send the imperial doctor."

"Father..."

The other princes also reacted, and couldn't help crying loudly, looking like filial sons and grandsons.Looking at that scene, if someone didn't know the inside story, he would think that today is dead!

The prince didn't pay attention to the pretentious appearance of his younger brothers, he just hugged Jinjin tightly in his arms, and prevented his younger brothers from grabbing him until the imperial doctor came in.

The results of the imperial doctor's examination also came out very soon: I was so angry that I had a stroke, and I don't know when I will wake up.Moreover, even if I wake up today, I can't work as hard as before.

After that, things went smoothly.Today, he is seriously ill, and the prince supervises the country.The prince didn't talk nonsense, he locked up the second prince and the third prince directly, and waited for him to wake up today.These two people are the chief culprits who have caused the dizziness today, and the prince must be punished.Otherwise, it would be difficult for him to have an explanation to the clan, the previous dynasty, and the world.Even if he might get a reputation for taking the opportunity to suppress his own brother, he had to do it.Otherwise, when he wakes up today, this will become his handle.

The prince's actions naturally aroused strong dissatisfaction between the successor and Concubine Zhen.It's just that the prince's actions are well-founded, and they didn't take the opportunity to bully the second and third princes, so they didn't dare to make trouble.Of course, the real reason why they dare not make trouble is because they are sick today and they dare not make trouble.

However, even so, there are still rumors that the prince is taking advantage of the current illness to suppress his younger brother.

"Damn it!" Feng Tang slammed his fist on the table: "The second prince and the third prince have not stopped until now, and they... actually let out such rumors! They should announce their crimes to the world, and let the world see , How did they two disobedient sons stun my father?" Such things, outsiders may not know the truth; but Feng Tang and others are the prince's confidantes, so how could they not know?

Wei Cheng glanced at Feng Tang, and said helplessly: "How do you ask Your Highness to explain? At this time, His Highness can only take care of the government affairs while taking care of the present, which is the most correct way. Azi, what are you thinking? ?”

"I was thinking," Jia Zi gently turned the water glass in his hand: "If I wake up today, what will happen?"

"Azi," Feng Tang sat down on the ground in fright: "Don't think wildly, don't come up with ideas!"

Jia Zi kicked Feng Tang helplessly: "How did I know you? What are you thinking? What I mean is: with today's temperament, when he wakes up, how will His Highness the Crown Prince deal with himself?"

Jazi's words aroused everyone's common contemplation: They all know that there is a lot of power in today's society.In the early years, he could barely be called a virtuous person today, but now...

The current court, under the current laissez-faire, has been stirred up by several princes: the government is corrupt, corruption is rampant, the treasury is empty, the soldiers are few, and the people are suffering...

The prince has long wanted to reform, but because of the current situation, the prince can't move, and he doesn't dare to move.Now, the crown prince can supervise the country with great difficulty, but because he is not the emperor, he can't make big moves.

"Could it be..." Wei Cheng thought of something, and couldn't help staring at Jia Zi with wide eyes: "You..."

Jia Zi nodded lightly: "Didn't you hear that even if you wake up today, you can't work too hard? If that's the case, don't you think..." Before Jia Zi finished speaking, he was hit twice on the head

"Azi," Wei Cheng interrupted Jiazi directly: "Don't talk nonsense. There are some things that you and my servants can't say."

Feng Tang also put away his usual hippie smile, and said with a rare serious face: "Azi, you must not talk nonsense like this, do you hear me?"

Knowing his friend's kindness, Jia Zi nodded angrily, but he was extremely unconvinced: Obviously this time is the best time to send the prince to the throne!

Seeing Jia Zi's unconvinced look, Wei Cheng and Feng Tang looked at each other, feeling helpless.At that moment, Feng Tang stood up and walked toward the door as if exercising his muscles and bones, while Wei Cheng lightly patted Jiazi on the shoulder, and said softly: "We must never say such things, do you understand? "

Jia Zi glanced at Wei Cheng bitterly, and muttered in a low voice, "Old fox."

After a while, the prince hurried over under the escort of Chen Ruiwen and Du Ruo.In fact, Jiazi and the others also heard Du Ruo's letter today, saying that the crown prince had something to look for, so they gathered at Feng Tang's house.

Seeing the Prince's expression is calm, but Du Ruo's face is full of anger, Jiazi and others can't help but look at each other: What happened again?

"Azi," the prince asked Jiazi directly after he came in, "how is Lin Hai's investigation going?" The matter of the Jiangnan officialdom.

"Almost." Jia Zi nodded: "However, the Zhen family seems to have noticed something. After all, the Zhen family's roots in Jiangnan are too deep."

The crown prince nodded: "Trouble you and your wife. Don't worry, I will definitely transfer him back as soon as possible." The crown prince knew in his heart that Lin Hai's current position is too dangerous: no one has ever been in the position of Xunyan Yushi He has been sitting on the seat for so many years—but now he has never considered Lin Hai's safety.Besides, in the eyes of the prince, Lin Hai is a capable minister, and there should be a more suitable position for him.

"Really?" Jazi's eyes lit up.It's no wonder that Jiazi is happy, although the Xunyan Yushi has a high position and weight, but that position is too conspicuous.Jia Zi hopes that Lin Hai is safe.

Seeing Jiazi's appearance, the prince and others helplessly shook their heads.Then, the prince chatted with several other people about other things, then hesitated for a while, and finally made up his mind: "What do you think I should do now?"

Jia Zi glanced at Wei Cheng secretly, with the appearance of "I didn't say anything".

Feng Tang hastily repeated Wei Cheng's argument to cover up for Jiazi.

The prince gave Feng Tang a funny look: "It's not like you can say such a thing. Forget it, I'm serious." Seeing a few people still looking like that, the prince threw out A bomb: "Father has woken up at noon today."

Seeing the prince's expression, Jia Zi and the others knew that there must be something to say, so they didn't say anything; they didn't say any polite words like "Congratulations, Your Highness", which would be extremely hypocritical at first sight.

"As soon as the father woke up," the prince clenched his fists and said, "the second and third younger brothers were released. In this way, who am I?" As long as he thought of this, the prince would be very angry: although he had expected After such a consequence, the crown prince couldn't swallow his breath when he heard the vague and slobbering oral instructions.Especially when he thought of how the second and third princes looked like villains in front of him, the prince became even more angry.

Looking at the silent expressions of these people in front of him, the prince really missed Lin Hai very much: if Lin Hai was here, he would definitely find a way for him.Lin Hai has been clever since he was a child, and has a lot of ghost ideas, so he will definitely be able to speak out what he thinks on his own initiative.It's not like now, the few he faced could make him vomit blood with anger.

"What do you think?" The prince finally took the initiative to express his plan after thinking for a long time and deliberating over and over again: "How about I just ascend the throne? After all, the emperor's health is not good now, and the imperial doctor also said that the emperor should not be too tired ..." After saying what he wanted to say the most, the prince was much more relaxed.

Jiazi and the others looked at each other and breathed a sigh of relief at the same time, with the appearance of "you finally said it, if you don't say it, we will all be unable to hold back".

"I'm afraid His Majesty..." Kicked each other a few times with a few bad friends, and finally Jiazi couldn't help asking: "It won't be so easy to abdicate, right?"

When Jia Zi opened his mouth, the others, such as Feng Tang, couldn't hold back for a long time, and quickly expressed their opinions.The prince was finally satisfied when he heard some of his little friends talking like this: this is the right way, this is how he looks like his confidant!

"I also want to ask for an idea." The prince said directly: "I just want to find a better reason. In fact, I believe more in your abilities." Chen Ruiwen is in charge of the military department, and Wei Cheng is also in the Imperial Guard Coupled with Feng Tang's Xiaoqi camp, Qiu Liang of the Wucheng Army and Horse Division is Jiazi's old subordinate, and Huang Shan, who was transferred from Hangzhou to Gyeonggi Camp not long ago, is also Jia Daihua's old subordinate. Being used to leading troops in battle, the prince already has the confidence to fight to the death.What's more, in the former prison country, the prince also made everyone see his talent and ability, so naturally he was no longer willing to go back to the time when he could only pretend to be a quail.

"I heard," Jia Zi thought for a while, then said softly, "Next month, the prince of Qianxiang Kingdom and the chieftain of Tibet will come to the capital to worship. At that time, there will be a state banquet." Jia Zi's meaning is obvious : Since it is a state banquet, it is necessary to attend it today. This kind of thing cannot be replaced by the prince.

Wei Cheng raised his eyebrows lightly: "The Holy Majesty must attend this kind of thing. Otherwise, things will not go well." Ever since Jiazi defeated Qianxiang Kingdom on the battlefield, Qianxiang Kingdom's superficial Since then, he has always been obedient to the Southern Dynasty.However, if they came to pay homage on purpose but did not show up today, it might cause strong dissatisfaction in their hearts.Besides, Tibet, although it seems to have surrendered to the Southern Dynasty, once there is a chance to expand its own territory, who would give up?Therefore, although the two countries are worshiping this time, it will definitely not be that simple.

Feng Tang also quickly said: "But, didn't the imperial doctor say that the Holy Majesty can't work too hard! So..."

Chen Ruiwen glanced at the prince, and said softly: "Let me just say it, the food and horses of the Ministry of War are afraid..." Chen Ruiwen is an official of the Ministry of War, so he naturally thinks deeper than others, and knows that the food and horses of the Ministry of War are now It is simply impossible to support both sides of the war at the same time.Therefore, once there is an emergency...

"Isn't that..." Du Ruo thought for a while, "But, the Holy Majesty probably won't agree easily." Du Ruo found out that the problem came back after a detour: how to let the present abdicate and hand over the throne to the crown prince.

The prince's mind turned slightly, and he couldn't help but patted Du Ruo on the head like he did when he was a child: "I'll go to the clan to discuss it first. This kind of state affairs, why can't the royal family lose face?" The prince couldn't imagine it at all. Facing the envoys from Qianxiang Kingdom and Tibet, what a "beautiful" scene it would be to be trembling and drooling, unable to even speak clearly.

"Brother Prince," Du Ruo rubbed his head, "If you hit me again, I'll be even more stupid."

"What?" Jia Zi raised his eyebrows slightly, "Do you still know that you are stupid?"

Du Ruo pointed at Jiazi angrily: "You..."

After that, the prince went to the people of the clan.Although the opinions of the clan are different, most people agree with the prince's opinion.It's just that, today, he refuses to sign the edict of abdication, only expressing that he will consider it.

That night, the prince was left to wait on him today.No one knew what Jinjin had said to the prince, but only knew that the next morning, Jinxia abdicated and passed the throne to the prince.

Faced with all kinds of guessing eyes, the new emperor and the original prince would naturally ignore them.Do you want him to tell these courtiers: His good father is still waiting for his health, and he wants to take back the throne from him!

However, now, no, he should be called the emperor now, and his wishful plans are bound to fail.Not to mention that the new emperor will not abdicate because of him, even he himself was once again pissed off by the second prince and the third prince: two princes who have been planning for many years, naturally cannot just sit and watch the throne fall into the hands of others Therefore, after knowing the news that the emperor had abdicated, the two of them united together, went to see the emperor, asked if the emperor was threatened by the new emperor, and even said that they would send troops to attack the new emperor. Emperor, Qin Wang to calm the chaos...

The emperor was once again overwhelmed by these two people, and the Tai Hospital was once again in a hurry.In the end, the emperor's life was saved, but it was hard to say when he would wake up and what he would look like after waking up.

Naturally, the new emperor no longer needed to take care of it. While neatly imprisoning the two troubled princes, he arranged for the emperor and the concubines to move to the palace.As for the Empress Dowager and Concubine Zhen Gui who are determined not to move, it is even easier to handle: If you don’t move, I will move it for you, but it’s none of my business to move something broken...

In this way, the sky in the Southern Dynasties changed.Jia Zi finally returned to Yangzhou...

The author has something to say: Today, who is not a thing, finally stepped down, and was angry with his son... Actually, this kind of brain-burning intrigue is still not well written, so it is better to simply let the prince take over!

Mother Lai: I have worked so hard to flatter the old hag for decades, but now I still have nothing

Jia Amnesty: It’s okay for you to steal something from my house. Hurry up and return the money, or I will sue

Second prince: I am the most wronged now, okay?What did I do, I was circled

Jia Mu: I have an inexplicable feeling that I want to be a scapegoat

Jia Jing: My younger sister is the most powerful. With one Qin Keqing, she brought down the two princes.Yizhong is indeed today's nemesis, whoever told you to marry my sister to a frail scholar deserves it