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Zhao Xi returned to the palace, and before he had time to have a cup of tea, he was taken to Daning Palace by Zhang Maze, who was sent by Zhao Zhen.

"Your son greets father! I wonder what you have to discuss with me by sending Zhang Zhongguan to summon me here?" Zhao Xi asked respectfully while bowing.

Zhao Zhen, who was concentrating on marking notes, suddenly heard his son's voice. He looked up, a happy smile appeared on his face, and he thought to himself, "This kid finally decided to come back."

Zhao Zhen quickly put down the letter in his hand, stood up, walked towards his son with a smile on his face, his eyes full of love and concern.

Zhao Xi walked up to his father's side. He no longer had the dignity of a crown prince that he had displayed outside. He was just like any other ordinary, slightly indifferent teenager. Apart from his noble air, all that was left was the edge and sharpness of a sword.

He seemed to be born bolder and thicker-skinned than other children. Facing Zhao Zhen's ardent and expectant gaze, he showed no fear or embarrassment, and even took the initiative to meet his father's gaze.

Zhao Zhen secretly sighed in his heart, this child is really becoming more and more promising! At this moment, he seemed to have forgotten that his beloved son has always been like this, and sometimes even bolder than now.

After Zhao Xi greeted his father, he found a seat and sat down. He picked up a document on the table, read it carefully, and then began to review it like a deputy emperor.

I saw him frowning from time to time, as if thinking about something; nodding slightly to show his agreement; and making some annotations on the notes with a pen. His movements were skillful and natural, as if he was used to it.

Zhao Zhen stood quietly by the side and watched his son, with a warm feeling in his heart. He knew that this smart and clever only child would definitely become the hope of the Song Dynasty in the future. Thinking of this, Zhao Zhen's face could not help but reveal an expression of relief and pride.

After Zhao Xi finished reviewing a few books, he saw that his father had not sat down yet, so he looked at Zhao Zhen with some confusion.

Seeing his son looking at him in confusion, Zhao Zhen shook his head pretending to be bored, sat down with the obviously upside-down notebook in his hand, and "looked at" it with unfocused eyes. The way he "carefully" marked the paper made Zhao Xi's mouth twitch.

"Dad, your notes are upside down. If you want to ask, just ask directly. I will tell you everything I know. There is really no need for us to do this." After saying that, he put down the notes he had reviewed, motioned Zhang Maozhe to bring some more, and then buried his head in his work.

Zhao Zhen: "Have you seen the eldest daughter of the Sheng family today?"

"Your Majesty, I have seen it." Zhao Xi buried his head in a pile of notes and answered without even raising his head.

Zhao Zhen smiled slightly, stretched out his hand to stroke his long beard, and then asked curiously: "So in your opinion, what do you think of the eldest daughter of the Sheng family?"

"Uh...very beautiful." Zhao Xi's answer was concise and clear, without any hesitation. She was just a ten-year-old girl. No matter how satisfied he was, he really couldn't say those words against his will.

"Do you just think she's beautiful?" Zhao Zhen seemed dissatisfied with the answer and asked.

Zhao Xi finally raised his head slowly after hearing this, and looked at Zhao Zhen with clear and sincere eyes, his face full of confusion and doubt, "Then what else can I do? I do think she is very beautiful! Although she is not as good as me, she is not unpleasant to look at."

Zhao Zhen could only smile bitterly and shook his head, sighing helplessly, "Alas~ I heard that the eldest daughter of the Sheng family is not only outstanding in appearance, but also talented, noble in character, and very friendly to my younger brothers and sisters. Don't you have any other feelings at all?"

After hearing this, Zhao Xi first touched his chin with his hand, and then scratched his hair, "Hmm... let me think about it. Oh! I think she is very suitable to be my Crown Princess."

Zhao Zhen couldn't hold back any longer when he heard this, and he couldn't help but burst into laughter. "You kid, you are really... Never mind, since you are so satisfied, I will grant you marriage."

Zhao Xi pretended to be surprised and looked at Zhao Zhen, "Dad, she is only ten years old now. We have to wait at least five years before we can get married. Isn't it a bit early to grant her marriage now?"

Zhao Zhen glared at him and said, "Marriage is a serious matter, how can it be treated as a joke? Since you think she is good, then you should get married as soon as possible and announce it to the world, so that she won't be snatched away by someone else."

Zhao Xi secretly cried out in his heart, he just said a few words casually, how could it turn out like this! However, he couldn't "reject" Zhao Zhen's kindness, so he could only bite the bullet and agree.

As for when they were in Sheng Mansion, Zhao Zonghe promised Sheng Chenlan that he would announce the matter to the world after she came of age, and it had nothing to do with him, Zhao Xi. He only knew that if he was satisfied, he would take advantage of her as soon as possible to avoid others from spying on her.

Although Zhao Zhen had just said that he would issue an edict to grant the marriage as soon as possible, his actions were not as quick as he said. After all, choosing a concubine for the crown prince was a big deal and required long consideration.

Even if they already have a candidate, if the officials obstruct it, given Zhao Zhen's temperament, there might not be any results for a year or two, if not a month.

Zhao Xi certainly understood his father's personality, so after agreeing to Chen Lan, he agreed to Zhao Zhen without hesitation. However, he himself could not guarantee whether he would do anything in the process.

Just as he thought, as soon as Zhao Zhen brought it up in the court, the civil and military officials in the hall began to recommend their close families one after another.

Zhao Zhen was already accustomed to such scenes. He thought they would stop arguing after a while without any results. However, he did not expect that the scene today was somewhat out of control.

Originally, everyone was just arguing out of habit, but civil officials and military generals were not on the same level in this regard. After arguing for a long time, no one knew who started the fight first. When Zhao Zhen realized that the situation was not right, some ministers in the palace had already been beaten.

What's even worse is that the civil servants of the Song Dynasty also emphasized the six arts of a gentleman. Although none of them could be said to be both civil and military, they were not weak gentlemen. As a result, the fighting was quite fierce for a while, and even if Zhao Zhen wanted to stop it, it was too late.

When Crown Prince Zhao Xi "heard the news" and "anxious"ly rushed over with people from the Imperial City Bureau, he saw that the palace was in a mess, with many civil servants lying in all directions, and even some military generals who had deliberately lay down.

After their anger had subsided, the ministers looked at the scene in front of them in horror. Especially when they saw the Imperial City Bureau appear, they acted as if they had just woken up from a dream and realized the seriousness of the matter.

So, they knelt down on the ground silently, lowered their heads, not daring to be negligent in the slightest, and quietly waited for the punishment from the government, praying that the government would be lenient with them.

You know, normally these ministers didn't need to kneel down and salute when they saw the emperor, but at this moment, they knew they had made a big mistake, and their hearts were filled with fear and anxiety. They could only use this way to express their awe for the emperor, hoping to get leniency from the emperor.

Zhao Xi curled the corners of his lips when he saw this, until he saw his teacher, Fan Zhongyan, looking at him thoughtfully, then he quickly suppressed his smile and stood below the emperor with a serious face.

"The ministers who did not take action just now should stand up first. As for the others, please kneel for a while to wake up your brain."

He turned his gaze to his beloved son, and immediately changed his expression. He asked gently, "Crown Prince, I wanted to choose a Crown Princess for you today, but I didn't expect these ministers to fight in the Chuigong Palace. This was caused by you. Tell me how I should punish them."

"Reporting to Your Majesty, I think that how to choose the Crown Princess and who to choose as the Crown Princess are all family affairs of our royal family. Even if the Crown Princess is the future queen mother, we should not bring the affairs of the harem to the previous dynasty."

"Therefore, I think that you are the only one who needs to decide who will be the Crown Princess. After all, since ancient times, it has always been important to follow the parents' orders and the matchmaker's words."

He turned his head sideways and looked at the group of civil and military officials kneeling on the ground, with a hint of coldness in his eyes. "As the crown prince, even if I can't choose the crown princess, my father is still here. What, do you want to exercise paternal authority on my behalf?"

Except for the loyal ministers in the court headed by Fan Zhongyan and Di Qing, several civil officials and nobles who had just quarreled most fiercely, including Cao Guojiu, turned pale as paper when they heard the prince's sharp words. The moment they collapsed, it seemed as if all the strength in their bodies was drained away.

After realizing what the prince said, he couldn't stop shaking. He kowtowed and crawled on the ground, shouting in panic, "Your Majesty, please understand! Your Highness, please understand! I dare not have such a rebellious thought!"

The voices echoed in the court, making people look sideways. Their voices were full of fear and helplessness, as if they were afraid that the prince would punish them for their previous words and deeds, and seemed to want to force the prince in this way.

However, facing these ministers who were so frightened that they lost their composure to an exaggerated degree, and whose actions and words seemed to be begging for mercy or forcing others to do something, the prince remained calm and composed. His eyes were calm and deep, as if he had already seen through the ugliness hidden beneath their glamour.

After a long silence, Zhao Zhen finally spoke slowly, "Prince! Today's events are all caused by your marriage. Now that this group of lawless people have caused such a commotion, how do you think we should deal with them?"

His voice was calm and deep, with an irresistible majesty. Perhaps because he had the confidence to succeed him, Zhao Zhen changed his previous passive attitude in the court and gradually became stronger after he was appointed crown prince.

After hearing what his father said, Zhao Xi fell into deep thought. He lowered his head and stared at the ground. The tablet in his hand fell to the ground without him noticing, as if he was thinking about how to solve this problem.

The group of officials kneeling below showed panic on their faces at first, but they were actually very calm in their hearts. They knew very well that the current emperor was kind and weak in character, and this action was just a show to establish the prince's authority.

However, as time passed, some husbands with poor psychological endurance gradually began to panic.

The originally pretended panic gradually turned into real fear. Even those men who were always confident and sure of victory in front of the emperor on weekdays could not help but feel an elusive uneasiness in their hearts when facing the crown prince who showed his prowess for the first time.

Because they knew clearly that the emperor was extremely indulgent towards his only son, and could even be said to be doting on him to the extreme.

It can be said that the one who has the final say in the palace now is not Concubine Zhang, who is the most favored concubine in the harem, nor Empress Cao, who cannot even maintain her reputation as a virtuous woman, but His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who has not yet tied his hair.

It can be said that as long as His Royal Highness the Crown Prince makes a request, the Emperor will do his best to satisfy it even if it means reaching for the stars and the moon.

Thinking of this, the husbands' previously feigned fear became more real at this moment, for they were afraid that they would become victims of the Crown Prince's wrath and become a tool for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to establish his authority when he first entered the court.

Watching the change in attitude of the ministers in the court, Zhao Xi looked at Di Qing with appreciation. Di Qing felt Zhao Xi's gaze and nodded slightly in response.

Seeing that the desired effect had been achieved, Zhao Xi slowly adjusted her sleeves, her movements lazy and elegant, and watched with satisfaction as her husbands began to feel uneasy following her movements, and then she said:

"In our Song Dynasty, there is an unwritten rule that officials are not subject to punishment. However, whether you are considered as a scholar-official or not, and whether you are qualified to be a real scholar-official, is not determined by your fame and official position, but by whether you are loyal to our Song Dynasty and whether you care about the officials above and the common people below. You know this."

As soon as Zhao Xi finished speaking, a group of civil and military officials, including the ministers, began to truly take Zhao Xi, the crown prince, seriously for the first time and understood the direction of the court in the future.

From this moment on, some members of the royal family who had been ready to make some moves no longer dared to make their plans public, which reduced a lot of obstacles for Zhao Xi's subsequent campaigns and reforms.

"As for the selection of the Crown Princess that you discussed earlier, the Emperor has already made a decision, so you should not make any more irresponsible remarks in the future. If you have excess energy in the future, you might as well think about how to solve the increasingly serious three redundancies problem of our Song Dynasty and how to recover the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun as soon as possible!"

"We will remember the teachings of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and will devote ourselves to the country of the Song Dynasty until our death."

Zhao Zhen watched his son display his divine power and nodded in satisfaction, almost saying, "My son has the potential to be an emperor."

"Duke Ying, Di Qing, the Song Dynasty has been established for nearly a hundred years, but the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun are still in the hands of the Liao people. We even have to spend a lot of money every year to buy peace. Can you, the generals, sleep peacefully?"

When the Duke of Ying and Di Qing heard the Crown Prince's reprimand, they responded excitedly: "Your Highness, please rest assured. We, the generals and the nobles of the court, have been preparing to recover the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun. Now, as long as Your Majesty and the Crown Prince give the order, we will not dare to disobey."

When the civil officials heard the prince's words, they understood what he meant and immediately wanted to submit a memorial to refute him.

But just as they were about to move, the pain in their legs immediately woke them up. Now they were still just waiting for punishment. If they went to refute the prince's opinion now, they might not even be able to leave the door of Chuigong Hall today.

As a result, they all stopped their movements, except for one or two stubborn ones who, as everyone expected, were brought out by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to establish his authority.

The wind direction in the court changed in an instant before everyone could react, and from that moment on, all the civil and military officials in the court truly recognized Zhao Xi as the crown prince.