I am a prince in Zhutian Films

Chapter 398: Taizu's lineage is restless
Anyefang.

When Zhao Huai'en brought Zhang Haohao in, they saw Song Yinzhangxing running over in a hurry, followed by Zhao Pan'er walking leisurely behind her.

"Haohao sister, I heard from sister Pan'er that you have been denaturalized?" Song Yinzhang asked happily.

Zhang Haohao was also very happy about the removal of her status: "Well, I am no longer a musician in the Jiaofangsi, I am a member of the good class."

Song Yinzhang was happy for Zhang Haohao. He grabbed her hand and said happily, "That's great. Congratulations, sister Haohao."

As she said that, she turned around and looked at Zhao Pan'er: "Sister Pan'er, wait for Sister Sanniang to come back and ask her to cook a table of delicious food so that we can celebrate properly."

"It's time to celebrate." Zhao Pan'er nodded and said to Zhang Haohao, "Congratulations."

Looking at the smile on Zhao Pan'er's face, Zhang Haohao always felt that her congratulations were different from Song Yinzhang's congratulations.

"Thank you, Princess. I'm sorry to bother you for a while."

In the past, Zhao Pan'er was just the female owner of a teashop, but now her identity is different. Zhang Haohao naturally cannot treat Zhao Pan'er with the same attitude as before. He is obviously much more respectful, and there is a bit of restraint in his respect.

Zhao Pan'er naturally didn't like this situation, but there was nothing she could do. She could only try her best to make Zhang Haohao relax through her words and actions.

"You can't thank me. It wasn't me who helped you get rid of your citizenship. If you want to thank someone, you should thank Zhao Changshi."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Haohao subconsciously looked up at the tall and handsome Zhao Huai'en beside her. Her heart beat for no reason, and then she lowered her head, her pretty face and ears slightly red.

Zhao Huai'en didn't notice her change. He looked at Zhao Pan'er's playful smile and smiled helplessly: "Princess, you were not like this before. It seems that you really learned bad things from the master of the house. By the way, where is the master of the house?"

"Eunuch Cui came just now, and His Highness went to the palace." Zhao Pan'er said, looking at Zhang Haohao and teasingly said, "By the way, His Highness said that he would help you ask for an imperial decree to grant marriage. Congratulations, Madam Zhao."

"what?!"

Zhang Haohao was dumbfounded. She thought Zhao Huai'en was just talking about giving her a status, but she didn't expect that Zhao Wei would actually ask for an imperial decree to grant the marriage.

Not to mention that Zhang Haohao was shocked, even Zhao Huai'en was a little surprised.

For a moment, both of them were quite moved.

On the other side, Zhao Wei followed the eunuch to the palace and asked, "Eunuch Cui, why did the emperor suddenly summon me?"

"Your Highness, before I left the palace, His Majesty summoned several officials from the Imperial City Department and the Palace Front Department to meet him. I think it was because of the Hat Monster case."

The city of Tokyo has not been peaceful in recent days.

There were two major events in total. One was Zhao Wei's cleaning up of the human trafficking organizations in Tokyo City, and the other was naturally the Hat Monster case.

The former caused a huge commotion, mobilizing almost half of the imperial guards. However, because it was about catching human traffickers, it did not cause panic among the people of Tokyo City. Instead, everyone applauded.

The latter was mainly investigated by the Imperial City Division and the Palace Front Division, and the Imperial City Division also arrested a criminal suspected to be a hat monster. However, the "hat monster" is still causing trouble, making people in the capital panic and unable to live in peace.

Zhao Wei nodded in understanding and followed the eunuch to the Chuigong Hall where his father was.

As soon as I arrived outside the Chuigong Hall, I heard Zhao Heng inside the hall yelling in rage. After a while, I saw several people retreating from the Chuigong Hall.

Two groups of people came out, one was Lei Jing and Gu Qianfan from the Imperial City Division; the other was the deputy commander-in-chief, Du Yuhou and Commander Cui from the Palace Front Division.

The atmosphere between the two sides was cold and they were not at all friendly towards each other, but when they saw Zhao Wei outside, they greeted him politely.

"Your Highness."

"Your Highness the King of Han."

Zhao Wei nodded in response, then followed the eunuch into the Chuigong Hall.

Both the Imperial City Division and the Palace Front Division glared at each other badly, and then left the palace one after another.

As soon as Zhao Wei entered the Chuigong Hall, he felt the depressing atmosphere in the hall. All the eunuchs and palace maids were trembling slightly and were very cautious.

The emperor father, who was sitting in front of the dragon table, was still furious, with dissatisfaction and anger still lingering in his eyes. When he saw Zhao Wei coming in, he immediately started complaining.

"I'm so pissed off, they're all trash!"

"Father, is it because of the Hat Monster case?"

"Well, you've been investigating cases lately, so you must have heard about the Hat Monster case."

"I've heard a little bit about it. I heard that they were originally from other places and recently came to the capital. It's just a trick. I believe that the Imperial City Department and the Palace Front Department will soon arrest all of them."

Zhao Heng nodded in agreement: "You are right. Although I believe in Taoism, it does not mean that I am stupid. The incident of the hat monster must have been caused by someone deliberately."

Although he has vigorously promoted Taoism in recent years, this case of the hat monster was obviously deliberately fabricated by someone who took advantage of his belief in Taoism.

After all, he had been the emperor for more than 20 years, so Zhao Heng was not so stupid as to fail to see this conspiracy. It was just that the Hat Monster case happened at the local level at the beginning, so he didn't pay much attention to it.

But who would have thought that not only did the local officials fail to solve the hat monster case, they also allowed the so-called hat monster to come to Tokyo City to disgust him. More importantly, the Imperial City Division and the Palace Front Division had not made any gains, which made Zhao Heng very dissatisfied.

"I ordered the Imperial City Department and the Palace Front Department to jointly investigate this matter, but there has been no substantial gain, which makes me very disappointed. Now the Hat Demon has been stirring up trouble again and again, which is really abominable, so I want you to investigate. The Imperial City Department and the Palace Front Department are in the open, and you are in the dark. You must investigate this matter with all your strength."

"Father, I have a case on my hands. The underground human trafficking organization in Tokyo is huge, and it didn't happen overnight..."

Zhao Heng interrupted, "Put aside the case on your hands for now and investigate the hat monster case first."

"It's not impossible to investigate the case of the hat monster, but father, you have to agree to one condition of mine first."

Zhao Heng was used to Zhao Wei always looking for opportunities to make demands on him, so he asked directly, "What are the demands?"

"Write an imperial decree granting marriage."

"Imperial decree granting marriage?" Zhao Heng was stunned: "Didn't I grant marriage to you and Zhao Pan'er?"

"It's not me, it's Zhao Huai'en, the chief historian of my son's palace."

"You are quite good to your subordinates. The one Zhao Huai'en likes is not also the daughter of a merchant, right?"

Zhao Heng was not unfamiliar with Zhao Huai'en. After all, a portion of the assets that Zhao Huai'en had built for Zhao Wei in the Song Dynasty flowed into his private treasury.

The annual income of nearly 100,000 strings of cash made Zhao Heng covetous of Zhao Huai'en. He always wanted to recruit Zhao Huai'en for his own use. However, Zhao Huai'en had set his eyes on Zhao Wei, and no amount of temptation could win his heart.

He has always felt somewhat resentful about this.

Zhao Wei shook his head: "That's not the case. She is a woman who just got married from the Jiaofangsi."

"Another lowly woman who turned good?"

Why say it again?
Because both his queen and Zhao Wei's princess were women who had become good women from lowly families.

Although Liu Wan was created based on the historical Liu E, she is somewhat different from the historical Liu E. The historical Liu E was not a prostitute, but Liu Wan was. Also, Liu Wan had never been married before she met Zhao Heng. After selling herself as a slave in her early years, she was sent to the governor's mansion to become a singing girl. Later, she met Zhao Heng, and the two of them sparked a love affair, and Zhao Heng staged a drama of hiding a beautiful girl in a golden house.

Zhao Heng didn't care about Liu Wan's past at all. Not only did he support Liu Wan to become the queen step by step, but in order to stabilize Liu Wan's position in the harem, he erased everything that had happened in the past. Very few people in the world knew about this.

The Night Banquet Picture is a flawed painting.

In short, Zhao Heng really doted on Liu Wan. After all, for an emperor to do this for a woman, there could be no other reason other than deep affection.

Zhao Heng himself was a romantic man, so he did not think there was anything wrong with Zhao Wei marrying Zhao Pan'er, something that seemed unreasonable and incomprehensible to others. Instead, he felt that Zhao Wei had inherited his deep affection.

Now hearing Zhao Wei say that Zhao Huai'en was also going to marry a woman who had changed her origins from a lowly family to a good woman, he naturally did not show any ridicule or contempt. He just felt a little strange when he thought of the fact that his wife and Zhao Wei's princess were also women who had changed their origins from a lowly family to good women.

Of course, he was also curious about what the woman that fascinated Zhao Huai'en looked like.

"What kind of extraordinary woman is this that Zhao Huai'en could be so obsessed with her that he would even ask me to grant her marriage?"

You know, in order to win Zhao Huai'en over to his side, he also used the beauty trap, but unfortunately it failed in the end.

"Speaking of which, Father, you may also know Zhang Haohao from the Jiaofangsi."

Zhao Heng thought for a moment and said with a smile, "So it was her. She sang well. I remember that I once gave her colorful clothes and allowed her to parade on the Imperial Street. Okay, I agree to this."

"Thank you, Father."

Zhao Wei bowed, then put away the smile on his face and said, "Speaking of the hat monster case, I investigated it while investigating the human trafficking case, and I gained a little bit."

Zhao Heng was immediately alerted when he heard this, and urged, "Have you found something? Tell me quickly, what did you find?"

"I have discovered that someone is deliberately stirring up trouble behind the Hat Monster case in order to disrupt the government, causing panic among the people and spreading rumors so that they can take advantage of the chaos to fish."

"Let's get to the point. Who did you find out was the mastermind behind this? Or in other words, what force was it?" Zhao Heng said unhappily.

What Zhao Wei said was pure nonsense. He could see it without anyone telling him.

After being the emperor for more than 20 years, if he didn't even have this little vision, he would not be sitting on the throne listening to his son's nonsense, but lying in a coffin with weeds overgrown on his grave.

He even had some guesses about the mastermind behind the Hat Monster case, but he had no evidence, and the matter was of great importance, so he asked the Imperial City Division and the Palace Front Division to jointly investigate, and asked Zhao Wei to investigate secretly.

"I am not sure who or what force it is yet. After all, I just did some research. But what is certain is that the mastermind behind the Hat Monster case is a senior official in the court with a very high status."

"Just the senior officials in the court?"

Hearing this, Zhao Wei's face changed. It seemed that his father had guessed a lot of things. Should he say it directly?

Zhao Heng did not notice Zhao Wei's sudden change, and suddenly asked, "My son, do you know what Lei Jing and Wan He who just left said?"

"How to say?"

Zhao Heng's eyes flashed with anger, and he said, "Wan He told me that the case of the hat demon might be instigated by the Imperial City Division, so the Imperial City Division has been unable to find the murderer, while Lei Jing said that the case of the hat demon is related to the Palace Front Division, and the reason is similar.

However, Lei Jing also said that the Imperial City Division captured one of the murderers, but he was taken away by the Palace Front Division and eventually tortured to death. He said that the Palace Front Division did it on purpose to destroy evidence.

My son, tell me, who is more trustworthy, Lei Jing or Wan He? "

My goodness, are the Imperial City Division and the Palace Front Division really having a falling out?

But if you think about it carefully, it seems normal.

Although the status of the Palace Front Department is higher than that of the Imperial City Department, and Lei Jing appears to be a coward, it does not mean that Lei Jing and the Imperial City Department are easy to bully. The Palace Front Department puts such a big pot on Lei Jing's head, it would be strange if Lei Jing did not turn hostile.

But why did Dad ask me all of a sudden? Did he know that I had secret connections with the Imperial City Division and the Palace Front Division, and took this opportunity to test me?
Or are you just asking what I mean?
Zhao Wei thought so in his mind, but he said: "Father, the Imperial City Division and the Palace Front Division..."

Zhao Heng interrupted, "My son, I trust you more than the other two. You must know that my throne will be yours sooner or later. You must make your own judgment. Now tell me what you think."

Generally speaking, if the emperor says he trusts you, you have to be careful, even if it's between father and son, not to mention that he has to speak frankly about something as sensitive as the throne.

Of course, Emperor Hongwu Zhu Yuanzhang and the most stable crown prince in history Zhu Biao are exceptions.

But he was not Zhu Biao, and Zhao Heng was not Zhu Yuanzhang, so Zhao Wei did not believe a word of what Zhao Heng said.

He pretended to be thinking and remained silent for a while, then replied, "Father, I am not familiar with Lei Jing and Deputy Commander Wan, but I feel that the case of the hat monster is a serious matter. If there is no substantial evidence, words alone are not credible."

The Palace Front Department and the Imperial City Department are both important institutions directly under the emperor. If his son were to interfere in these two institutions, Zhao Heng would probably not be able to sleep well.

However, from the current perspective, the Imperial City Division and the Palace Front Division are blaming each other and shirking responsibility, but his son has no intention of taking sides, so he feels quite satisfied that his son has not yet extended his hand into his territory.

So even though Zhao Heng didn't get an answer, he wasn't angry at all. Instead, a smile flashed in his eyes.

Then, he waved his hand and ordered, "All of you go down."

Eunuch Cui took away all the palace maids and eunuchs, leaving only the father and son in the Chuigong Hall. Only then did Zhao Wei speak again.

"Tell me, who did you find out?"

"Didn't your son tell me? For now, we can only confirm that it is a senior official in the court."

"Then tell me who you suspect. Don't fool me. I know who is the mastermind behind the Hat Monster case."

Zhao Wei looked at his father and was silent for a while before replying, "Father, I suspect that the case of the hat monster may be related to Duke Anguo. There may be someone in the court who is supporting him, but I don't know who it is."

"Well, it's almost what I thought. Taizu's lineage has started to become restless again. Once we investigate further, I'm afraid it will cause trouble again. Forget it, don't investigate Anguogong. Just give him a warning." Zhao Heng sighed: "Tell me, who do you suspect is his accomplice in the court?"

Judging from Zhao Heng's appearance, he seemed not to be planning to attack Taizu's lineage, but Zhao Wei noticed the flash of murderous intent in his eyes.

"Father, this...I really don't know."

"do not know?"

Zhao Heng snorted, "You are kidding me. I don't believe you. Can't you see that this hat monster case is also targeting Xiao Qinyan? Why? Because your teacher is Ke Zheng, he is a representative of the clean stream, so it's hard for you to say it?"

"Father, please understand. The teacher would never use such a conspiracy or trick."

"I know that Prime Minister Ke is always upright and would not do such a thing." Although Zhao Heng did not like Ke Zheng, he also understood Ke Zheng's character. Seeing Zhao Wei eager to speak for Ke Zheng, he was very unhappy: "Isn't he your teacher? I am still your father, but I have never seen you care so much about me."

"Father, your words are very sad. You suddenly fell into a coma before, and I was busy every day, and..."

"Stop!"

Seeing that Zhao Wei was about to start rambling, Zhao Heng quickly interrupted him and waved his hand: "Go and investigate your case. You can investigate Qingliu boldly. I promise you that I will never take my anger out on Prime Minister Ke because of this."

"Yes, I obey your orders."

(End of this chapter)