Not long after Mo Zheyan left, the eldest princess came belatedly.
After the Holy Emperor imprisoned the little prince in Yong'an Lane, he asked her to go there to comfort him.
This puzzling decree made her quite frightened.
The first thing the eldest princess said when she saw Junze was: "You are becoming more and more reckless now."
Junze remained silent, the depression in his heart never dissipating.
The eldest princess said: "Seeing that the Holy One did not allow me to pick you up today, he instead sent me to Yong'an Lane to appease the little prince. Now that you have come back from suppressing the rebellion, the Holy One has kept silent about your achievements. The impact of this is self-evident.
The fifth prince's performance in the south study is mediocre, Queen Xu is pregnant again, and Gu Yu and Gu Guifei, who belong to the sixth prince's faction, are currently in the limelight. If you continue to be so careless, we will have no chance of winning."
Junze said: "Mother, it's not that I am unscrupulous, but that you have been worn down by the Holy Emperor over the years and have lost your spirit. I even doubt the rumored eldest princess who supported the Holy Emperor in the bloody palace.
It’s still not you I’m talking about.”
The eldest princess's expression changed and she said, "If you were not my son, I would pull out your tongue right now."
Junze raised his eyes, like a lazy lion, and the sharpness he showed inadvertently should not be underestimated.
Junze said: "Mom, do you know what I went through in Jiangnan?"
The eldest princess frowned. The official newspaper was naturally far from reality.
But her son, like her husband Jun Jin, was brave, resourceful, and good at fighting. Now that he had returned safely and calmed down the war in just a few months, she was able to put her worries aside for the time being.
Junze said: "If it hadn't been for the kindness of my third uncle, I would have returned to Kyoto with only my clothes and not even my bones."
The eldest princess's face changed drastically and she said: "Your third uncle...what happened in Jiangnan to make you say such a thing!"
Junze turned his wrist slightly and said: "Maybe my mother was right. I was too reckless to think that I could reverse the situation alone..."
He inevitably thought of Gu Yu. Both he and Gu Yu were born gamers, they loved to risk themselves as pawns and were arrogant.
In the city that never sleeps, relying on his mother's comment about Prince An's "gentle nature", he went deep alone and eventually fell into a trap, like a lion trapped in a pack of wolves. No matter how ferocious it is, it cannot stop the siege of the wolves.
Fortunately, Gu Yu rescued him, otherwise no matter how gentle Prince An was, his right hand holding the sword would have been destroyed by Prince An.
Junze said calmly: "When we were in the dungeon, my third uncle said that I was very similar to my mother. He said that my mother was domineering and indulgent, and she often turned the palace upside down. How have you been doing these years?"
Junze watched the eldest princess fall down on the chair and continued: "Mom, how have you been doing these past few years?"
The eldest princess burst into tears instantly and said, "How did you tell him?"
Junze smiled sarcastically and said: "Fire is cooking oil, and flowers are blooming like brocade."
The eldest princess burst into tears.
Junze said: "Second cousin said that third uncle had unresolved feelings, but he died on the road, so I have to ask mother on behalf of second cousin and third uncle, mother, do you regret supporting the Holy Emperor?
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The eldest princess sobbed and said, "My mother had no choice back then."
Junze's peach blossom eyes showed doubts, and he said: "There is no choice? You set up an ambush in advance for the prince to force the palace. It's okay for him to be rebellious, but what about the third uncle who came to reinforce him? Why did you wait for him after he was injured?
, dragged him back, and supported the Holy Lord who was hiding behind the Duke of Zhen Guo? Obviously you, the prince, and your third uncle are of the same age, shouldn't the friendship between the three of you be deeper? Why the Holy Lord?"
This issue was a knot that Prince An and the deposed prince could not resolve until their death, and now it has also become a knot in Junze's heart.
It is true that the current Holy Emperor is a diligent and wise king who loves the people, but he is obsessed with the emperor's checks and balances, making the eldest princess's palace walk on thin ice.
The eldest princess wiped away her tears, looked at the closed door, and said slowly: "The late emperor, my father, is recorded in the history books as being debauched and immoral. But during his reign, did any major national affairs go wrong?
Do you think that today’s prosperous world was created by the Holy One alone?”
Junze narrowed his eyes and began to turn the ring on his hand. After returning from Jiangnan, he no longer needed to hold the knife, so he put on a ring again. He would subconsciously turn the ring when thinking.
This is very similar to the Holy One. The Holy One also likes to spin the eighteen-child bracelet, otherwise he always feels that there is something missing in his hand.
When the Holy Emperor came to the throne, war broke out. The Duke of Zhen led his troops and forced the Data tribe, which had been troubled in the north for hundreds of years, back to the grassland. Their vitality was severely damaged. For more than ten years, they had been faithfully offering sacrifices and did not dare to intrude on the border again.
And when the war breaks out, it will definitely waste people and money. The emperor is still young, so where can he get so much money, unless the treasury is full during the reign of the late emperor.
What the Holy One took over from the late emperor was not a mess, but a foundation that allowed the Holy One to flex his muscles.
Junze begins to doubt his past knowledge. Is it true that His Majesty was rejected by His Majesty because his biological mother, Yun Bin, was an obscene harem?
Junze said: "Why?"
The eldest princess said: "The late emperor seems to be fatuous and debauched, but he is actually very clear-sighted. Prince An arrived in time when the palace changed, because the former prince had discussed it with Prince An in advance. If the first prince's incident goes well, everything will be fine."
Okay, if it fails, let Prince An rescue him in time and force the late emperor to write an edict granting Prince An the throne.
But they all underestimated the late emperor. Everything they did was under the control of the late emperor. This is why the Zhenguo Gong, who had always been neutral, would firmly protect the emperor during the palace change. Why did you and I protect him?
The situation was maintained in such a timely manner.
We all received the late emperor's secret order before the palace change, and we waited for the first emperor to depose the prince and help the emperor ascend the throne."
Junze still didn't understand, and said: "Didn't the Holy One's biological mother, Yun Bin, have an obscene harem that made the late emperor and the Holy One despise her? Why are you trying so hard to get the Holy One to take the throne?"
The eldest princess said: "Because the Holy Emperor's biological mother, Yun Bin, became the sin slave of Yeting because it was planned by the late emperor."
The doubts in Junze's mind became even more intense, and he said: "If the late emperor couldn't find what kind of woman he wanted, why did he go to all the trouble to make Yun Bin's family into slaves, and then go to Yeting to rescue her and make her Yun Bin?"
The eldest princess smiled bitterly and said: "Because Yun Bin was married before entering the palace and was pregnant with a daughter. The most important thing is that Yun Bin didn't love the late emperor at all. It could even be said that she hated her. The Holy Emperor got her, but
I can’t win her heart.”
Junze's eyes widened. He felt a little disgusted. He had already known about the late emperor's debauchery. Not to mention robbing wives, he had even done it with sisters sharing the same bed.
But he saw that his mother was obviously crying, but there were no tears in her eyes.
He was full of doubts, and a voice shouted in his heart, don't ask anymore, don't ask anymore.
If you ask further, the result will not be what you want to hear.
But the unresolved knot in his heart forced him to continue sitting here.