The substitute prince: Reported the emperor's brother at the beginning

Qin Haifeng walked in from the doorway and whispered beside Ning Yi, "Your Highness, the letter has been delivered."

"The Yang family said they would send the Crown Princess back home in the evening."

Ning Yi frowned. Send it in the evening?

The Yang family is so bold that they even disobey the words of me, the Sixth Prince.

Then I thought about it and understood that the Yang family is still afraid. I guess after they receive news from the palace, they will obediently send their daughter back.

Ning Yi nodded slightly: "I understand."

"Haifeng, I have an important task for you to do now."

Qin Haifeng was surprised, but when he saw the list Ning Yi handed over, he saw: "Officials from the Ministry of Revenue, Censors from the Supervisory Office, and officials from the Ministry of Personnel."

"This, Your Highness?" Qin Haifeng didn't know why His Highness gave him the list of these three people. It seemed that he didn't know any of them.

Ning Yi said calmly, "Don't look down on their low official positions, but they are all officials who are going to Fanghai City to provide disaster relief this time."

"And they are all former students and officials of the Prime Minister's Mansion."

"Go and invite them all here. Your Highness will treat them to a meal."

"The Prime Minister's disciples?" Qin Haifeng was stunned and even more shocked: "Your Highness wants to invite them to dinner?"

"The Prime Minister is the Fourth Prince's man. Isn't this inviting the enemy?"

Ning Yi chuckled and said, "Your Highness has his own plans. You just need to use your position as the commander of the personal guards to give these three petty officials a hard time."

After watching Qin Haifeng leave, he looked at the shopkeeper and said, "Go and have someone tell the Fourth Prince that I'm inviting him to dinner."

"Ah?" The shopkeeper was inexplicably shocked. "Your Highness wants to invite the Fourth Prince to dinner?"

"Your Highness, you can't do that. The Fourth Prince has a grudge against you. If he comes, he will definitely not have good intentions. Then..."

Before the shopkeeper finished speaking, Ning Yi's eyes turned cold and he said indifferently, "Do you need me to teach this prince how to do things?"

"I dare not." The shopkeeper immediately knelt down and saluted.

Ning Yi is a member of the royal family. He only needs one word to deal with the shopkeeper. How could the shopkeeper have the guts to make the prince unhappy?

The shopkeeper was worried that if the two princes started a quarrel in their shop and ended up getting into trouble, they would not be able to afford the compensation even if they had to demolish the shop.

On the other side, the Fourth Prince was enjoying a group of beautiful women dancing in his mansion.

The Fourth Prince was holding a wine jar in his hand, with a cold and dazed look on his face as he sat behind the desk. He didn't care much about the dancing women in the hall.

"Your Highness, something terrible has happened." The butler hurried over and bowed to the Fourth Prince.

The Fourth Prince seemed to come back to his senses and glanced at the butler calmly: "Why are you so panicked? If it weren't for the Emperor calling me into the palace again, then it wouldn't be a big deal."

The Fourth Prince is still extremely upset. It's all because of that bastard Sixth Prince that he has completely lost the Emperor's trust in him today, which is very disadvantageous for the fight for the throne.

The butler smiled bitterly, "Your Highness, how could the palace possibly be calling you now? A message came from the Sixth Prince. He invites you to a banquet at Zuixian Garden tonight."

"What?" The Fourth Prince was so angry that he threw the wine bottle in his hand away.

His action frightened the dancers in the hall so much that they dared not move.

"Wu Lingyun is going too far. Does he really think this prince is easy to bully?"

"This prince will definitely skin him alive later."

The housekeeper was startled and quickly reminded: "Your Highness, please don't talk drunkenly."

The Sixth Prince is a prince, so it doesn’t matter even if the Fourth Prince scolds him.

But if the emperor heard that he was shouting angrily and wanted to kill him, what would he think of the Fourth Prince?

"What are you afraid of?" The Fourth Prince became angry when he mentioned the Sixth Prince. "He stole my Fang Haicheng. He should be very happy now. He even has the nerve to invite me to a banquet. Is he trying to embarrass me?"

"Go and tell his sixth brother that this prince dislikes his dirty food and won't go."

The butler was just about to reply when a servant came hurriedly over: "Your Highness, there's news just now that the Sixth Prince is inviting these three officials to a banquet at Zuixian Garden."

The butler took the list from the servant, took a look at it, and handed it to the Fourth Prince.

The Fourth Prince also took it and looked at it with confusion. This look surprised him: "Hey, the Sixth Prince actually invited the students of the Prime Minister's Mansion to a banquet. What is he planning to do? Is he trying to poach people?"

"But why did he poach the Prime Minister? Is he stupid?"

The Fourth Prince knew all three names on the list. They were all disciples of the Prime Minister. Although their positions were not high, they were officials with good reputations.

The steward thought for a moment and explained, "Your Highness, aren't the three people the Sixth Prince is hosting the banquet for the three officials who are responsible for disaster relief in Fanghai City?"

"That's right." The fourth prince, who was drunk just now, suddenly came to his senses when he heard this.

He stared at the three lists carefully and turned to the servant who delivered the message: "Send someone to tell them that this time, we should disrupt Lao Liu's work and make it impossible for him to complete the disaster relief work."

The Fourth Prince's mood brightened up again. He laughed and said, "Sixth Prince, Sixth Prince, do you think you won just by snatching away my Fang Haicheng?"

"This prince can ask these officials to cause you more trouble, and you still want disaster relief? Dream on."

The more he talked, the happier he became. He could imagine the scene where Lao Liu failed in his disaster relief and was severely scolded and punished by the emperor.

The servant said cautiously, "Your Highness, the three of them have gone to the banquet."

"What?" The Fourth Prince's excited expression froze on his face. "How many of them dare to attend the banquet?"

"Are you tired of living?"

The Fourth Prince was so angry that the servant who was delivering the letter dared not stand. He knelt down in front of him, fearing that the Fourth Prince would take his anger out on him if he was unhappy.

The butler frowned and reminded: "Your Highness, don't be anxious."

"The Sixth Prince specifically invited the three of them at this time, specifically to Fang Haicheng. After all, they are the Prime Minister's disciples and dare not go against His Highness's wishes."

Having said that, the Fourth Prince was also confident that it would be easy for him and the Prime Minister to deal with these disciples.

But the Fourth Prince was quite dissatisfied. His Sixth Prince actually dared to invite my people to dinner. Isn’t this just a slap in the face?

He stood up and said, "Go prepare a carriage for this prince. This prince is going to attend the banquet."

"No, the Sixth Prince is very likely to do something bad to you, Your Highness." The butler was about to stop him.

The Fourth Prince was unconcerned: "What am I afraid of? Could Wu Lingyun really kill me?"

With that being said, how could the Sixth Prince possibly kill him?

In the luxurious private room of Zuixian Garden, the three officials invited by Ning Yi arrived.

They sat quietly on their chairs, not daring to move their chopsticks.