Chapter 196 Find a scapegoat
There was a long silence in the imperial study room.
The second prince made up his mind to play a cruel trick, and he was so sincere that he hit his smooth forehead on the floor of the imperial study room. After a few blows, little blood stains appeared on his forehead.
The second prince sobbed and said, "Please forgive me, my father. I really realize my mistake..."
The emperor's heart was also made of flesh. He couldn't bear to wave his hand and asked the eunuch to help him up and said, "Do you really realize your mistake?"
"I know I made a mistake, and I won't do it again. Father, please give me another chance."
The eunuch helped the embarrassed second prince, pretending to be surprised and said, "Hey, second prince, your head is bleeding."
The emperor pressed his painful temples and said angrily, "Go and ask the imperial doctor."
The imperial doctor treated the second prince's wounds and left, and the serving eunuch wisely left the royal study room to the father and son.
There were no outsiders in the room, and the emperor said tiredly, "Second brother, you tell me how you want me to explain to the officials."
It's a pity that the flattery was slapped on the horse's leg.
But Zhang Si’s calculation was wrong. Instead of asking the second prince to come to the palace to reward him, the emperor asked him about his crime!
He finally figured it out. This Pei Mo was deliberately pretending to be crazy and acting stupid. Since it couldn't be used by him, then he would be completely destroyed!
The second prince choked and did not dare to say anything more. He could only return to the house full of anger.
In the general's mansion, Murong Qingcheng was terrified. She found out from Pei Mo's mouth that he had secretly built a plank road to visit Chen Cang. She was so frightened that she hammered Pei Mo's chest and complained that he dared to do such a risky thing.
But the second prince didn't even notice who was on the 'bench' under his feet.
There is a seed planted in my heart, which will one day take root and sprout.
Pei Mo, Pei Mo, you too have today. If you had been obedient and blocked people outside the capital, how could you have ended up like this?
"Why?" The second prince said with a look of shock and dissatisfaction, "But Pei Mo has been neglecting his duties a lot lately."
"Come here! Pull this ignorant bitch down to His Highness and beat him to death with a stick!"
Pei Mo smiled playfully to comfort her.
Every time he thought about Pei Mo, the younger generation, the emperor was always in a trance, as if he had seen himself many years ago. Especially when Pei Mo was deep in thought, he always liked to stare at his toes. No one knew that the emperor also had this habit when he was young.
"Father, I have a choice for you."
"You don't need to worry about this matter anymore. If it's not enough to succeed, it's more than enough to cause failure. You still need me to deal with the aftermath. Go back to your prince's palace and think about it!"
The emperor had not yet spoken, but the second prince seemed to see Pei Mo being reduced to a prisoner, with everyone shouting and beating him, begging for mercy, and looking in such a miserable state.
"It's up to you who to look for." The emperor only felt a headache.
What he was thinking in his heart was the same thing. At least he had to pretend to do it verbally. The second prince said, "Father, please punish me to confinement. I will accept the punishment. I am willing to put all the money in the house into the national treasury. Please
Father, don’t expel your sons and ministers from the capital."
This congratulation was very harsh in the ears of the second prince, and he sneered, "Congratulations? What kind of congratulations do you have? You dog slave, you dare to laugh at my highness!"
Hearing the word "Lao Er", the second prince knew that his head was saved, and he began to settle old scores in his mind.
The second prince was so angry that he vomited blood. He was clearly sure of victory, so why did he fall halfway?
"General Pei is a great general who governs the country. He has won the hearts of the people and has contributed to Dashun. If he is touched, I am afraid that the royal family will shake the people's hearts. Furthermore, the soldiers at the border will not accept it."
The second prince walked down the steps, knelt on the ground and kowtowed to apologize, "Thank you very much, father, for sparing my life. I will never dare to do it again in the future."
The emperor waved his hand and turned away in anger.
The old emperor sighed, "That's all, I'll let you go crazy this time, and you won't be allowed to do it again. Don't make the family scandal public. Find someone who is incompetent to kill you. Even if this is over, if you do it again in the future, I will never let you off lightly!"
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Zhang Si did not give up and followed the second prince obsequiously. He did not notice the angry face of the second prince. He just said to himself, "Congratulations to the second prince. Congratulations to the second prince. The disaster relief in Cangzhou has been successfully completed. From now on, the court will
Above, it is not our Second Highness who has the final say. Little Zhang Si sincerely wishes His Second Highness to take the position above those ten thousand people as soon as possible!"
"Shut up!" the emperor scolded the second prince, interrupting what he was about to say, "Have all your sages' books been read into the dog's belly? It's useless for you to say such a thing. You can't repay your kindness! Feiniao
You can learn the principle of hiding a good bow and hiding a cunning rabbit until it is cooked by a lackey."
After hearing this, the second prince pretended to think, but in fact he already had a scapegoat in mind, that damn Pei Mo.
"Right now, Dashun is peaceful and there is no war. Besides, I, Dashun, am not the only general like Pei Mo. Moreover, this Pei Mo is becoming more and more arrogant. He doesn't even take our royal family seriously. Father.
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At this time, Zhang Sizheng at the door of the Second Prince's Mansion was eagerly waiting for the return of the Second Prince. Just to say a few auspicious words in front of the Second Prince, it would be best to be remembered by the Second Prince, so that he could run errands in front of His Highness.
This way, you no longer have to be looked down upon by those bully boys in the house.
The emperor said with his hands behind his back.
The second prince's eyes widened angrily and he cut out the slave fiercely. He wished he could eat his flesh and drink his blood alive.
The second prince said righteously, "Why don't we let General Pei Mo take the blame? I heard that General Pei always didn't come to court during the disaster relief period, so I decided to put him in prison on the grounds that he had a guilty conscience."
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The second prince was talking to himself, but he didn't realize that the emperor's face was getting darker and darker.
Even some time ago, the emperor had heard rumors that General Pei was suspected of being of royal blood, but he did not delve into it. But deep down in his heart, he felt more and more that Pei Mo's eyebrows were somewhat similar to his own appearance when he was young.
"Get out of the sedan chair—" shouts rang out, and Zhang Si, seeing the opportunity coming, hurriedly knelt down under the sedan chair as a human-shaped stool, and let the second prince step on his back to get off the sedan chair.
"General Pei?" The emperor thought for a moment, "No, choose someone else."
The second prince's sedan chair turned out to be getting closer and closer, and Zhang Si was extremely nervous.
The emperor asked, "Who is it?"
But Murong Qing was always worried, and immediately sent a letter to Ruyan asking Ruyan to arrange for someone to keep an eye on the second prince to see if he was going to make any big move recently, so that she could prepare countermeasures in advance.
Ru Yanfei Ge passed the letter, and the content in his heart frightened Murong Qing.
When the second prince returned to the palace, he became furious and beat a slave to death. At night, he had his body carried to a mountain in the suburbs and thrown away without even a roll of straw mat. The body was left to the wild beasts on the mountain.
Food was given.
Not long after, there was new news. It was said that the second prince was drinking in the palace, and when he was drunk, he was shouting Pei Mo's name through gritted teeth.
Chapter completed!