My father is Jiajing

Chapter 445 Mark the Head and Remember It

"What?! What did you say?"

When Yan Shifan heard in his East Building that Hu Zongxian personally escorted Wang Zhi to the Imperial Prison, he was furious.

"Hu Ruzhen, the governor of Zhejiang and the minister of the Ministry of War, actually personally escorted the imperial prisoner to the imperial prison. What are you doing? Don't you know that such an imperial prisoner should be sent to the prison of the Ministry of Justice?"

Yan Shifan was furious when his subordinates reported the news. Although he was different from those who wanted to take revenge and kill Wang Zhi, he also didn't want Wang Zhi to be alive.

Because Luo Longwen has become somewhat famous on the sea in recent years. If he can kill Wang Zhi, perhaps Luo Longwen can replace Wang Zhi's position on the sea and continue to create unexpected huge wealth for his Yan family.

But now Wang Zhi has been sent to the imperial prison. It will be much more difficult for the Ministry of Justice to interrogate Wang Zhi and convict him.

What if Wang Zhi was so eloquent that he explained the interests at sea too clearly, causing Emperor Jiajing to become covetous? What would we do then?
Yan Shifan said angrily: "I don't care what method you use, I can't see Wang Zhi alive, he must die!"

Yan Shifan scolded the person who came to report the news harshly, which made the person feel embarrassed and at a loss. He was just thinking of running an errand, but he didn't expect to cause such a big reaction from the young cabinet minister. He was really unlucky.

Yan Shifan's mood is really unstable now, because his father Yan Song has made too many mistakes in front of Emperor Jiajing in the past two years.

Sometimes, even when he was making a recital in front of the emperor, his father would actually doze off and fall asleep on the chair given by the emperor. And that was not the worst thing. The worst thing was that sometimes when the Emperor Jiajing asked a question, his father could not answer it, and even answered the question as if it were the previous one.

This put Yan Shifan in a passive position and he could only try his best to find ways to solve these serious problems.

However, Emperor Jiajing would never give Yan Shifan and Yan Song any extra opportunities. Although he did not remove Yan Shifan from the position of Prime Minister, he gradually allowed Xu Jie to take charge of cabinet affairs.

This is an even more fatal signal for Yan Shifan.

So now Yan Shifan must plan ahead and consider the future of the Yan family after his father.

Otherwise, if he really waits until he is old and confused and is killed by Emperor Jiajing, it will be too late to say anything then.

However, although these things were very bad, there was also some news that made Yan Shifan excited. He heard that Princess Jing seemed to be pregnant recently.

If Princess Jing could live up to her promise and give birth to a boy for King Jing, perhaps Yan Shifan would still have a chance and use all his connections with the Yan Party to fight for the unattainable position for King Jing.

After all, it’s not that Prince Yu has been regulating the country all these years without any fault. If you’re willing to look carefully, there must be evidence.

When the time comes, a group of people will be mobilized to severely seize the mistakes that Prince Yu has made since he became regent, and try their best to exaggerate them. Yan Shifan doesn't believe that Prince Yu can still sit back and relax!

Therefore, Yan Shifan now placed almost all his hopes on Prince Jing. He hoped that Prince Jing would work hard and let Princess Jing give birth to a good son.

Inside Prince Jing’s Palace.

Ever since it was confirmed that Princess Jing was pregnant, King Jing was more excited than Princess Jing herself. He came to Princess Jing's courtyard every day to ask about her well-being, fearing that he had neglected her in any way.

Princess Jing also felt very complicated when looking at Prince Jing, her nominal husband.

So every time King Jing came to visit her, she would have an indescribable sense of guilt, as if she had done something wrong.

But King Jing didn't take it seriously at all.

Even in the past few years, Prince Jing often took her to Prince Yu's Mansion in the name of visiting his brother.

And every time something happened in Prince Yu's Mansion, Princess Jing would feel ashamed, but she couldn't help but want more.

Now that there was finally a result, she had fewer opportunities to go to Prince Yu's Mansion again, which made Princess Jing feel anxious.

She didn't know whether the child should come.

"Princess, you have done a great deed for me this time. King Jing's lineage finally has an heir. After a hundred years of being with you, I can finally have blood sacrifices. This is a great thing."

Prince Jing Zhu Zaizhen was extremely excited and was talking to Princess Jing. The two kept a good distance from each other and never got close to each other. Princess Jing looked at the excited Zhu Zaizhen and she was not excited at all. Instead, she felt a little disappointed.

Princess Jing said, "Thank you for your concern, Your Majesty. I'm tired and want to rest for a while."

Princess Jing also kept a distance from Zhu Zaizhen in her address to him. She never called herself "your servant", but always referred to herself as "I".

When Zhu Zaizhen heard Princess Jing say she was tired, he immediately stopped his excited movements and replied, "Princess, have a good rest. I will come to see you tomorrow."

Princess Jing hummed, then hesitated and asked, "When are we going to visit my brother again?"

Zhu Zaizhen stopped walking, turned around and said, "During this period, you must take care of your baby and not disturb the fetus, so we have to wait for a while before we can visit brother again."

Princess Jing said with some disappointment, "Thank you, Your Highness. I understand."

Seeing Princess Jing's disappointed look, Zhu Zaizhen was also very worried, because the imperial physician also told him to keep the princess in a happy mood at all times, which would also be good for the fetus in her belly.

So now Zhu Zaizhen is also conflicted.

After Zhu Zaizhen left Princess Jing's place, the eunuch Liu Dezhu, who followed Zhu Zaizhen closely, saw his master's reaction and, like a worm in Zhu Zaizhen's stomach, immediately understood Zhu Zaizhen's worries.

Liu Dezhu whispered, "Your Majesty, in this case, why don't we invite Prince Yu to visit our house? If Prince Yu can come, then the princess's mood will definitely improve, which will also be very good for the prince."

Liu Dezhu was very good at talking. Before anything else, he had already taken it for granted that the child in Princess Jing's belly was "Crown Prince".

After listening to Liu Dezhu's proposal, King Jing also felt that this reason was good.

He said, "Well, go to Prince Yu's mansion and send a message saying that I want to celebrate the princess's wedding and invite my brother and sister-in-law to come to the mansion for a gathering."

Liu Dezhu hummed, "I'll do it right away."

Liu Dezhu acted quickly and immediately rushed to Prince Yu's Mansion to deliver the letter.

Zhu Zaigui, who was busy reviewing the wars in the southeast in recent years and other report files, stopped when he heard that it was the eunuch who served as the companion of King Jing who came.

Zhu Zaigui has been very troubled about the matter with Princess Jing in recent years, so he has been deliberately asking Princess Jing to avoid pregnancy, but if you stand by the river too often, you will get your feet wet.

Now Princess Jing has fallen into the trap. To be honest, Zhu Zaigui is much more nervous than Zhu Zaizhen. He really doesn't know how to face this relationship.

What made Zhu Zaigui even more upset was that after Emperor Jiajing heard that Princess Jing was pregnant, he directly transferred 10,000 pieces of silk and 50,000 taels of silver from the treasury as a reward, and also promoted Princess Jing's father.

It is obvious that he wants to use the fact that Princess Jing is pregnant to stir up a dispute between the two crown princes in order to achieve his unspeakable secret.

But Zhu Zaigui could guess the purpose of Emperor Jiajing's secret with just his toes. Emperor Jiajing wanted to change the Prime Minister, but he had not yet thought of a suitable reason.

Therefore, after choosing such a dirty trick to lure the enemy into a trap and confuse those people with ulterior motives, Emperor Jiajing began to be dissatisfied with Prince Yu and wanted to transfer the crown prince to Prince Jing.

But in fact, the reason why Emperor Jiajing did this was to further help Zhu Zaigui remove some disobedient people so that Zhu Zaigui could control the court more easily.

The reason why Emperor Jiajing acted like this was because he had become wealthy in recent years and had consumed a large amount of elixirs, which made Emperor Jiajing think that he had achieved some spiritual enlightenment.

So I wanted to go into seclusion for a long time and strive to achieve enlightenment and become an immortal!
Therefore, he had to let people who truly supported Zhu Zaigui join the game in advance to replace those who had impure intentions but whose sincerity could not be seen for the time being.

That's why he came up with this idea. He wanted to test the waters and see how many people would choose to support Prince Jing as the crown prince because of the reward he bestowed on Prince Jing's wife. He also wanted to help Zhu Zaigui mark the number of people so that when Zhu Zaigui took over the overall supervision of the country, he would have an idea in mind.

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