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From May to July of the 20th year of Hongde, the structure of the Wei court underwent tremendous changes.

First of all, Zhao Hongli, the prince of the East Palace, was criticized for the "Beiyi Military Camp Incident". Under the attacks of the five princes Yong Wang, Xiang Wang, Yan Wang, Qing Wang, Su Wang and many officials, his reputation in the government and the public plummeted.

Finally, under Luo Yao's persuasion, Zhao Hongli, the crown prince of the East Palace, presented a petition to the Chui Gong Palace to remove himself from the title of "Prince". He then moved out of the East Palace and built another mansion in the city. Finally, he had a glimmer of hope and was not completely eliminated by King Yong and others.

Forced to a dead end.

But it is undeniable that Donggong has been completely defeated. Although there is still the possibility of a comeback, in terms of the current form, it is far less prestigious than King Yong.

As the saying goes, when a tree falls, the monkey will scatter. When the big tree of the Prince of the East Palace fell, all the former nobles and aristocratic families of the East Palace Party who once enjoyed the shade under the tree changed their homes one after another. As a result, Zhao Hongli's new mansion in the city was deserted and almost no one cared about it.

The world is in a hot and cold state, which is commonplace.

Today, the East Palace Party only has a few aristocratic families that are related to or married to the former East Palace Crown Prince Zhao Hongli, such as the Empress Wang’s natal family “Zhengcheng Wang Family” and the former Crown Princess’s natal family “Jiyang Li Family”.

There are also some families who have marriage relationships with these two families.

In addition, even a part of the Zhao royal family that once implicitly supported the East Palace Prince Zhao Hongli now adopts a wait-and-see attitude.

It is no exaggeration to say that today's East Palace Party only has one-tenth or two-tenths of its original size.

Correspondingly, with the loss of power of the former prince Zhao Hongli, Yong Wang Hongyu's popularity increased greatly, and he gradually became one of the powerful candidates for the crown prince, and the other one was Qing Wang Zhao Hongxin.

Qing Wang Zhao Hongxin is the only prince among the current princes, except Su Wang Zhao Hongrun, who has military support. The 50,000 "Northern Second Army" of Zhao Yuanzuo, the king of Nanliang, and the retainer of the Tianshui Wei family, General Jiang Bi,

Fifty thousand "Northern Three Armies", a total of 100,000 troops, which is quite impressive.

"The prince left the scene sadly, now it's the showdown between King Yong and King Qing..."

In the study room of Prince Su's Mansion, Zhao Hongrun said with emotion to the Zongwei Chief Wei Jiao.

It is not uncommon for brothers to fight against each other in the royal family. On the contrary, it is commonplace. Zhao Hongrun had predicted this incident before Prince Zhao Hongli fell.

The only deviation is that the prince Zhao Hongli relied on Luo Yao's move to retreat and continue a glimmer of hope, but that was it. If there were no special circumstances in a short period of time, the former prince could not expect to make a comeback.

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However, these matters have nothing to do with Zhao Hongrun. After all, between King Yong and King Qing, Zhao Hongrun had no ill feelings towards the two royal brothers. The reason why he assisted King Yong in the first place was just to be annoyed that Prince Zhao Hongli had sent his younger brother, King Huan, Zhao Hong

Xuan dragged him into the water, so he stretched out his legs and kicked him in retaliation.

Unexpectedly, although the East Palace collapsed, his brother Zhao Hongxuan insisted on reorganizing the Northern First Army. For this reason, the two brothers had another quarrel over this matter in the past two days.

What makes Zhao Hongrun even more displeased is that yesterday his brother Zhao Hongxuan somehow persuaded their father, so that Emperor Wei actually agreed to the matter and allowed Zhao Hongxuan to leave Daliang and go to Anyi to rectify the Northern First Army.

What are you doing?!

Don’t the father and son know what the situation of Beiyi Army is now?!

The current Beiyi Army is reviled by the whole people!

Therefore, Zhao Hongrun decided to go to Chui Gong Hall today to discuss matters with Emperor Wei.

What he didn't expect was that he had just decided to go to Chui Gong Hall today, and not long after, he was summoned by his father and ordered to enter the palace to see him.

Zhao Hongrun did not dare to delay. After all, Emperor Wei rarely summoned him on his own initiative, usually only when some major event had occurred. Therefore, he did not even bother to eat breakfast and rushed to the palace with all the guards on horseback in a hurry.

After entering the palace, Zhao Hongrun went straight to Chui Gong Hall.

However, when he came to Chui Gong Hall, he unexpectedly found that there was no Emperor Wei in Chui Gong Hall. Instead, there was a man who rarely appeared here in the past, King Yong Hongyu.

It has to be said that when he saw King Yong Hongyu, Zhao Hongrun subconsciously wanted to ask: Why is the emperor here?

But when he saw an extra table in the Chui Gong Hall, and King Yong Hongyu was sitting behind the table helping to review memorials, he suddenly realized: King Yong had already entered the stage of "supervising the country".

"Hongrun, why are you here?" Noticing Zhao Hongrun's arrival, Yong Wang Hongyu put down the brush in his hand and asked curiously.

At this moment, the three ministers of Zhongshu in the Chui Gong Hall put down their brushes one after another out of courtesy and bowed their hands towards Zhao Hongrun.

Zhao Hongrun returned the courtesy with his hands in turn, and then said truthfully: "I was summoned by my father, so I came to Chui Gong Hall."

"Father?" Yong Wang Hongyu was stunned for a moment and said in confusion: "Father, the dragon has not been well these past two days and is resting in the Manna Palace. Since the father has summoned you, you should go to the Manna Palace."

"Ganlu Hall?" Zhao Hongrun was slightly startled and asked in confusion: "It's not Yanfu Hall, but Manglu Hall?"

The reason why he asked this question was because the Ganlu Hall was like the study room of Emperor Wei, while the Yanfu Hall was the sleeping room of Emperor Wei.

Under normal circumstances, the Emperor of Wei rarely rested in Yanfu Hall, which is the same reason that Zhao Hongrun rarely slept in his own master bedroom in Prince Su's Mansion, but almost stayed in Bei Xiaoyuan where his female relatives lived.

In a mansion, the master bedroom is almost dispensable for the male owner, because many owners of the mansion are accustomed to using the study as a bedroom, such as Zhao Hongrun.

But the problem is that Yong Wang Hongyu just said that Emperor Wei "is resting in the Manlu Hall because the dragon body is not healthy." This is wrong. How can he rest in the study? Why should he go to the Yanfu Hall at this time? Yanfuyan

Fu, this name with great meaning is not given for nothing.

Facing Zhao Hongrun's doubts, Yong Wang Hongyu shrugged, showing an expression of "I don't know".

Seeing this, Zhao Hongrun didn't ask any more questions, said goodbye, and went straight to Ganlu Hall.

Not to mention, when Zhao Hongrun came to the Ganlu Palace, he actually saw Emperor Wei in the palace. The latter was practicing calligraphy on the desk with great interest. Zhao Hongrun did not think that his father was "not in good health".

"Hongrun is here?"

From the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of Zhao Hongrun walking in from outside the palace. Emperor Wei smiled and said hello, and then said with a smile: "Come and take a look at my handwriting... How about it?"

Zhao Hongrun walked over as he was told, glanced at the paper on the desk, and said casually: "It's okay, just fine... It's good to be able to maintain this level of reviewing memorials every day."

Emperor Wei, who was waiting for his son to praise him, seemed to have poured cold water on him. He rolled his eyes angrily and said, "Can you speak? My calligraphy and painting are priceless!"

"Come on." Zhao Hongrun curled his lips and said disdainfully: "It's hard to find a lot of money, but it depends on the father's private seal on the calligraphy and painting, not the father's calligraphy and painting... I just found a child's graffiti at random.

, and if you ask your father to stamp it with a private seal, you can still sell it for a thousand pieces of gold."

"You..." Wei Tianzi was choked and speechless.

Beside, the old eunuch Tong Xian and the Zong Wei Chief Wei Jiao snickered secretly.

In fact, to be honest, Emperor Wei's calligraphy is quite good, but as Zhao Hongrun said, Emperor Wei has reviewed memorials every day over the years and has rarely had time to practice calligraphy. Therefore, his writing is inevitably not as good as before, at least in this period.

In the Imperial Academy, there are a lot of bachelors who have better handwriting than Emperor Wei.

"No more practice!" After being ridiculed by his son, Emperor Wei's interest was greatly reduced. He threw the brush in his hand on the desk, picked up a cup of tea from the table and drank it.

After taking two sips, he glanced at Zhao Hongrun and asked with a half-smile: "Come from Chui Gong Hall?"

Upon hearing this, Zhao Hongrun couldn't help but rolled his eyes and said angrily: "Father, is it fun to play with your son like this?... When you summoned your son, why don't you just say that it's over in the Manlu Palace? I have to do it with my son.

Is it interesting to go to Chui Gong Hall again?"

Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Emperor Wei smiled slightly and said calmly: "Of course I have my intention in asking you to go to Chui Gong Hall... Didn't you find that there is something more over there?"

Zhao Hongrun was stunned for a moment, then seemed to realize something, frowned and said, "How many more cases are there?"

"Yes, there is an extra table." Emperor Wei said with a smile: "There is an extra table... someone is already sitting on the table... You have made so many trips to and from Chui Gong Hall, but you still haven't found a place to sit, right?

Are you envious?"

Of course, Zhao Hongrun understood the meaning of Emperor Wei's words, rolled his eyes and said: "I don't care about getting a seat there... Such a big place, the air is not good, sitting there all day long reviewing memorials, it is simply worse than being in jail."

It’s even worse!”

"Bastard!" Emperor Wei became angry and cursed: "Who among your royal brothers doesn't want to sit in that position?"

"The emperor's brother is the emperor's brother, and the son-in-law is the son-in-law. Father, please don't get confused." Zhao Hongrun said calmly.

Emperor Wei shook his head when he heard this, and then he seemed to have thought of something, and said with a smile: "Hongrun, do you know, that day I asked Hongyu if he wanted to be the prince, and Hongyu coyly said he didn't want to.

, I made a joke with him at that time, saying, "Since you don't want to, then the position of prince should be vacant." At that time, his whole face changed... Hahahaha."

"What a bad taste, Father." Zhao Hongrun curled his lips and said lightly.

Emperor Wei shook his head, ignored Zhao Hongrun's ridicule, and asked himself: "Hongrun, tell me, what was Hongyu thinking in his mind at that time?"

"How can I know this?" Zhao Hongrun shrugged.

After hearing this, Emperor Wei said with a smile: "I know... In fact, I was also considering at that time, if I neither gave him the title of 'Prince' nor the honor of 'Supervisor of the Country', guess what?

What will they think? What will the courtiers think?"

"..." Zhao Hongrun took a deep look at Emperor Wei and said with a cold expression: "I don't know what other people think of me, but I will choose to die with my father!"

Emperor Wei was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter.

Seeing Emperor Wei laughing so happily, Zhao Hongrun said angrily: "Father, the emperor summoned you today just to make fun of his ministers?"

After hearing this, the smile on Emperor Wei's face slowly faded, and then he asked seriously: "Hongrun, I heard that you and Hongxuan were in a quarrel?"

"..." Zhao Hongrun nodded silently.

Seeing this, Emperor Wei said as if to give some advice: "Hongrun, do you know that you are following my old path?"
Chapter completed!