Nine dragons fight for the throne, I don't want to sit on this throne

In the imperial palace and the ancestral temple, incense was burning brightly, and the smoke from the burning incense covered the area like a sea of clouds and mist.

Rows of memorial tablets are placed in different positions according to age. At a glance, there are at least hundreds of them.

There are three cushions below the spirit tablet, and a person is kneeling in the middle, it is the prince!

After being ordered by the emperor to kneel in the ancestral temple, although he was resentful, he did not dare to disobey the emperor's order.

But in his heart, he cursed Chu Ning countless times.

He can't even handle such a small thing and even got himself into trouble. What an idiot, a complete idiot!

The prince became angrier the more he thought about it. He clenched his hands, his eyes turned red with anger, and his whole body looked like a man-eating beast, extremely ferocious.

At this time, the guards of the East Palace came from outside: "Your Highness, it's bad. The Prince of Penglai wants to take away all the antiques and paintings in the main hall of the East Palace!"

The prince, who was already furious, was furious when he heard this. He suddenly stood up and rushed out of the ancestral hall, grabbed the guard by the collar, and asked viciously:

"What do you do for a living? Why don't you stop him?"

"Your subordinates...Your subordinates cannot stop you."

"Garbage, they are all a bunch of gamblers!"

The prince was so angry that he yelled, "With hundreds of guards in the East Palace, are we just going to let Chu Ning do whatever he wants? I really have raised a bunch of good-for-nothings."

After he finished speaking, he threw the guard to the ground, turned around and ran towards the East Palace angrily.

I was punished to kneel by the emperor, and then the East Palace was raided by Chu Ning. If this matter gets out, how can I hold my head up in front of others in the future!

The furious prince rushed back to the East Palace as quickly as possible.

But when he entered the palace, what he saw was an empty main hall and... the Crown Princess Ling Feiyan with a dazed look on her face!

The prince's face was livid: "My beloved, what's going on? Where are the antiques and paintings in the palace? Also, where is this golden nanmu table of mine?"

Ling Feiyan came back to her senses when she saw the prince, and said bitterly, "Your Highness, my father fined the Eastern Palace and confiscated one year's salary. Chu Ning brought 30 imperial guards here to ask for money. I dare not make the decision, so he used the antiques and calligraphy and paintings in the palace to pay off the debt.

As for the golden nanmu table that His Highness loved the most... he also moved it away personally."

The prince was furious when he heard this: "Damn Chu Ning, I won't forgive you, my beloved concubine, how long has he been gone?"

"Just left, should have just left the palace now."

"Come on, gather all the guards and chase them immediately!"

How could the prince remain calm when his own house was robbed? With a command, hundreds of guards from the East Palace rushed towards the palace gate.

At this moment, Chu Ning, with thirty imperial guards pulling a dozen horse-drawn carriages, had already left the palace gate. Outside the gate, a hundred guards from the royal palace were waiting for them.

"Thank you all the Imperial Guards brothers today. Zhao Yu, give each of them 20 taels of silver!"

Chu Ning was in a good mood. The things he looted from the East Palace this time were very valuable, and he didn't mind giving more silver.

When the imperial guards saw that the silver was twice as much as agreed before, they all smiled happily.

However, just as they received the silver and were about to go back, they heard footsteps in the palace.

Then, a voice as cold as a thousand-year-old ice came: "Eighteenth brother, where are you going to take my things?"

Everyone's heart sank and they turned around to look, only to see a man wearing a dragon robe, a purple gold crown on his head, with a gloomy face, coming to ask for punishment!

"Greetings to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!" Everyone bowed.

The prince walked quickly to Chu Ning and said in a cold voice, "Do you still have me as your prince in your eyes? How dare you move things from the East Palace? Who gave you the courage?"

Chu Ning smiled awkwardly, "Brother Crown Prince, calm down. These things are only to cover the annual salary of the Eastern Palace. Father agreed to this. If you don't believe me, you can go ask Father."

The prince was stunned.

What did the Emperor say?

how can that be!

Even if the emperor wants to fine the Eastern Palace one year's salary, it would just be a show for the ministers to see, and it would not be a real move.

"nonsense!"

The prince narrowed his eyes and angrily shouted, "When did father ever say that he would use the things of the Eastern Palace to pay off the debt? In my opinion, you must have acted on your own initiative!"

Chu Ning shrugged, took out the emperor's jade pendant and handed it over: "Brother, please look, this is my father's personal belongings."

The prince's face changed slightly. He took the jade pendant and took a look at it, and recognized that it was indeed the emperor's jade pendant.

Could it be that my father really wanted to teach me a lesson and deliberately asked Chu Ning to go to the East Palace to get some things to pay off the debt?

Father, you have such a cruel heart!

Even if I have colluded with Zhao Feiyan, you can't slap me in the face like this.

If these things were to be sold, I would become a laughing stock in Kyoto.

No, we must not let Chu Ning take these things away.

The prince's eyes rolled and his expression eased a lot: "Since the emperor has ordered to fine the East Palace a year's salary, I will naturally pay it back. Why are you so anxious, Eighteenth Brother?

How about this, give me some time, and when I have collected all the money, I will give it to my Eighteenth Brother. Today, I will put these things back, how about that?"

Anyway, Chu Ning will go to the front line soon. If he dies there, who will remember this matter?

But Chu Ning knew what the prince was thinking, so he refused on the spot: "Brother, it's not me who is anxious about this matter, but father.

If the peace talks fail today, war will surely break out on the front line, but the owed military pay and food have not yet been settled. Father, isn't he planning on having me take the fine from the Eastern Palace and go to the front line as military pay?

I will be leaving soon, and I am afraid I won't have enough time to wait for you to collect the money, so why not sell these things and get some cash as soon as possible."

This guy won't listen to anything!

A hint of murderous intent flashed in the prince's eyes.

"Humph, I have explained it very clearly. Don't you understand, Eighteenth Brother?"

The prince waved his hand and said, "Someone, take all these things back!"

Since we can't reach an agreement, let's just take action.

Are the hundreds of guards in the Eastern Palace afraid of the hundred people around Chu Ning?

At the command, the guards of the East Palace rushed out.

Chu Ning raised his lips slightly, and said calmly to the imperial guards guarding the city gate: "This is the gate of the imperial palace. If a fight breaks out here, none of you will be able to escape."

As soon as these words were spoken, the thirty imperial guards who were originally working with Chu Ning immediately drew their swords and blocked the exit at the city gate.

At the same time, the leading sergeant shouted to the leading man at the palace gate: "General Zhou, we can't let the Crown Prince and His Royal Highness come into conflict, otherwise His Majesty will blame us, and we can't afford it!"

General Zhou, who was guarding the city gate, hesitated for a moment, but seeing that the thirty imperial guards below had already drawn their weapons, he could only wave his hand and give the order:

"Hold them off!"

The palace guards immediately took action. They blocked the East Palace guards and closed the palace gates to prevent them from coming out.

Seeing this, General Zhou shouted to Chu Ning, "Your Highness, leave now!"

Chu Ning chuckled: "Thank you, General Zhou!"

"Zhao Yu, take the things back to the palace!"

At the command, the palace guards drove away in the carriage.

The prince's face was gloomy. He wanted to stop it, but he didn't dare to.

At this moment, he was the only one outside the palace and was powerless to stop Chu Ning and others from leaving.

What's more, he was holding the emperor's personal jade pendant in his hand, and knowing that the emperor had tacitly approved of this matter, he dared not take any action.

But he was really unwilling to just watch Chu Ning leave like this.

He could only watch Chu Ning's departing back and said fiercely, "Eighteenth brother, I will remember today's shame, but I want to see who dares to buy my things!"