How can I bow my head and serve the powerful officials?

Chapter 296 Shen Yuan, feeling an ominous premonition, ran away Xie Shoujun

Inside the Wude Hall.

Xie Shoujun was still reviewing those old memorials.

When Shen Yuan arrived, he saw Xie Shoujun holding a square piece of wood, dipping it in ink and stamping the memorial with it, and then the word "read" was stamped on it.

Xie Shoujun was very quick in "stamping" memorials.

Seeing Shen Yuan, he raised his eyes and glanced at him calmly, then retracted his gaze, "Why are you here instead of taking care of Xie Jinyu?"

"Your Highness the Crown Prince is going to Jizhou to look for the Second Prince." Shen Yuan's eyes swept over the memorials. "Your Highness the First Prince, don't you feel aggrieved to review these useless memorials?"

Xie Shoujun paused with his right hand, looking up at Shen Yuan with deep eyes, as if he had something else to say, "Then you will approve it?"

Shen Yuan shook his head, "I may not be a minister for now, but I must be a minister."

Xie Shoujun laughed coldly, "That's quite boring."

"Your Highness the Crown Prince, are you really not going to consider it?" Shen Yuan asked again.

"Does the prince know that you are here?" Xie Shoujun looked at him with a half-smile, "Aren't you afraid that he will target you?"

"It's fine for him to target me. I'm just afraid that he will force the Second Prince." Shen Yuan looked straight at Xie Shoujun, "Your Highness the First Prince is not the same kind of person as Your Highness the Crown Prince."

Xie Shoujun smiled inexplicably.

"Who knows." He retracted his gaze, "Compared to me, compared to the royal family, I like you more."

He only wanted to see that no one from the Xie family could sit on the throne, and that the twenty years of planning by Emperor Jian and the Cao family would be in vain.

Shen Yuan chatted for a while, but seeing that he couldn't persuade Xie Shoujun, he could only shake his head slightly and turned to go to Yufu Palace.

Let’s ask the Fourth Prince again.

Although the Fourth Prince is not as good as the Crown Prince in political tactics, at least he has money and can support Jian'an's army.

Shen Yuan strolled to Yufu Palace, and inside the palace, when Concubine Rou, Xie Ping'an and Xie Shu heard the palace maid say that Shen Yuan was coming, they were so scared that they jumped up from the desk. Xie Ping'an and Xie Shu piled all the memorials they were reviewing in front of Concubine Rou and ran quickly to the inner room behind the screen.

Concubine Rou piled up the memorials, then picked up a brush and pretended to review them, "Go and call Lord Shen in."

Shen Yuan walked in and saw Concubine Rou reviewing memorials. He couldn't help but twitch his eyebrows and had a bad feeling.

He extended his hand and saluted, "Greetings, Concubine Rou."

"Ahahaha, Lord Shen." Concubine Rou laughed dryly, "How come you have time to come to Yufu Palace?"

Seeing Shen Yuan's eyes falling on the memorials on the table, Concubine Rou hurriedly asked, "But do you think we, uh, you think the Third Prince and I are too slow in reviewing?"

Shen Yuan shook his head. "Your Majesty, you are joking. These memorials are all about chronic illnesses. They are just used to test the Third Prince's ability to govern the country."

The art of statecraft...

Concubine Rou's heart was pounding, and she was almost scared to death by these four words.

Could it be that Shen Yuan wanted to support Xie Zimiao in becoming emperor?

No, she doesn’t want to be the queen mother!

Xie Zimiao's support in the court is so few that it can be counted on five fingers. If she allows him to become emperor, it means that she will have to win over ministers every day and think all night long about how to help Xie Zimiao sit firmly on the throne. From then on, she will worry about Xie Zimiao all her life and lose the beautiful and comfortable life in the harem.

She doesn’t want it!

She just wants to eat, drink and have fun!

She just wants Xie Zimiao to grow up healthy, happy and confident!

So when Shen Yuan asked where the Fourth Prince was, she immediately jumped up and yelled, "He sneaked out to play! He's not in the palace!!!"

Shen Yuan: ...

Shen Yuan took a deep breath.

Apart from following Concubine Rou back to Yangzhou to visit relatives, where else can the Fourth Prince go to play?

He must have gone to Jizhou to find Xie Chengze.

No wonder he had a bad feeling just now.

But Shen Yuan still felt that something was not right.

Rubbing his temple, Shen Yuan turned back. When passing by the Wude Hall on the way, he suddenly saw Xie Shoujun, who was supposed to be reviewing memorials in the Wude Hall, not far ahead. He was carrying a dark black spear with a red tassel wrapped in black cloth, with a bulging thin bag hanging behind the tip of the spear.

"Your Highness the Crown Prince? Where are you going?" Shen Yuan almost broke his voice.

When Xie Shoujun heard the voice, he paused slightly.

Then he used his Qinggong skills to run quickly, and his hurried steps gave people the feeling of being discovered slacking off and running away.

Shen Yuan:!!!

Don't run, come back to me!!!

Don't leave me alone in the capital! Do you understand that a country cannot be without a ruler for a day?

Shen Yuan, who was a handsome, upright and loyal man, could not help but swear at this moment. He wanted to crush these useless princes with one punch.

He wants to sue Empress Cao! Sue Empress Cao!

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Empress Cao said that she could temporarily rule the country from behind the scenes for a few days.

Although the prince ran away, Xie Chengze would probably urge him to come back as soon as possible to handle state affairs, so Queen Cao was not worried that the prince would not come back.

As for the ministers, although they were dissatisfied with the future empress dowager's behind-the-scenes ruling, this dissatisfaction gradually dissipated when they found that Empress Cao handled state affairs with reason and evidence, her methods were very swift and decisive, her mental state was much better than that of the crown prince, and she even made them very happy.

Fearing that Xie Chengze would spoil Xie Jinyu too much, Shen Yuan specially wrote a letter and sent it to Jizhou, asking Xie Chengze to send back the crown prince, the eldest prince and the fourth prince as soon as possible.

Unexpectedly, the prince came back angrily, threw the letter at him, and angrily said, "Shen! Yuan! Can you please stop interfering in other people's business!"

Shen Yuan's expression was natural, and he said as a matter of course, "If not, how could the prince come back earlier to handle court affairs?"

"Oh, do you think I came back so early because the letter you wrote persuaded my second brother?" Xie Jinyu sneered, "My second brother is not in Jizhou at all, he ran away!"

Shen Yuan:?

Shen Yuan finally understood why he couldn't get rid of the ominous premonition in his heart when he was in Yufu Palace.

The Fourth Prince didn't go to visit Xie Chengze who was recuperating from his injuries. He clearly ran away with Xie Chengze! He ran to Pingcheng to "cause trouble"!

No wonder the prefects have been saying one after another recently that the people are very cooperative and are ready to move. I thought these prefects were lying, but it turns out that Xie Chengze was secretly working behind the scenes!

Shen Yuan raised his head and pinched his brows, sighing, feeling helpless and distressed, "I told him to take good care of his injuries and stop worrying about him."

You are always disobedient. When will your body get better?

"Now do you know why I forced him to stay by my side?" Xie Jinyu sneered, his eyes full of contempt and ridicule for Shen Yuan, "I've already said that you are a stranger and have only known my second brother for a short year. You don't understand him at all."

What lucky star...

All of them cost their lives.

"Is it because you are useless? If His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had connections, he wouldn't have to worry so much." Shen Yuan couldn't help but sneer. He couldn't help but hate the way Xie Jinyu was acting. It was as if he was the only one who understood Xie Chengze. He was so ostentatious and boastful, but unwilling to share.

I'll snatch it from him someday.

Oh no, it was originally his.

He was recognized by Emperor Jian.

Shen Yuan quickly regained his composure. Looking at Xie Jinyu, whose face had turned sinister due to his words, he softened his tone and said, "Your Highness, attend court properly and don't hold the Second Prince back."

"Got it!" Xie Jinyu waved his sleeves and left, "How annoying!"

Shen Yuan chuckled.

He is even more annoyed.

He didn't even dare to tell Xie Jinyu that the eldest prince and the fourth prince had gone to Pingcheng to join Xie Chengze.

But... that guy, how come there is no news at all when he went to Pingcheng? The prefects did not explain what method they used to make the people cooperate so well.

It's impossible that he believed Xie Chengze's lies and empty promises again, right?