Chapter 1240 Prince Li’s Extra Chapter  Admitting Mistakes

Chapter 1240 Prince Li’s Extra Chapter Knowing the Mistake

“I underestimated you. You actually had a relationship with the generals under my nose.”

Murong Zheng’s words were mixed with too many emotions, joy, disappointment, and of course, more surprise.

He didn’t expect that the eldest prince had cultivated his own power without his knowledge.

“If I really give the position of the crown prince of the Great Zhou to Jie’er, what will you do?” Murong Zheng asked softly.

“I will not let my father do whatever he wants.”

In a word, Murong Zheng already understood that the power under the eldest prince was probably something he could not contend with.

“Who is it?” Murong Zheng now only wanted to know who betrayed him.

“Father, all the troops that can be mobilized inside and outside the city will follow me.” The eldest prince’s words were still calm, but his answer set off a huge wave in Murong Kai’s heart.

"They worked together to nip the Dong family rebellion in the bud. Father, are you going to punish them?"

"If so, then father, please punish me. They are obeying me."

"I just don't want the foundation of our ancestors to be destroyed by you, by a woman."

After Murong Kai finished speaking, he knelt down and confessed his guilt with a good attitude, which made Murong Zheng's anger have nowhere to vent.

"I'm not so stupid as to be controlled by a woman." Hearing Murong Zheng say that the foundation of his ancestors was destroyed by a woman, Murong Zheng was a little indignant. He thought he was still clear-headed and not so stupid.

However, thinking about the fact that the Dong family could even kill the king and falsely convey the imperial edict, it seemed that destroying the foundation of the Great Zhou Dynasty was just a matter of thought.

"Even if you don't want to say it, I know why you can mobilize troops inside and outside the capital." This time, Murong Zheng's words were firm.

The eldest prince looked at Murong Zheng with confusion in his eyes. He had no contact with the generals before, so how could his father know this?

"More than a decade ago, the Empress Dowager told me that what she was most worried about was that our ancestors' foundation would be destroyed in the hands of a woman."

The words of that year overlapped with the words of the eldest prince today in his memory.

Since the Empress Dowager knew that there would be such a day, she would have taken precautions long ago.

The Nine Gates Admiral and the generals of the North and South Camps were all veterans of his father's time. They were loyal to the Great Zhou and the Empress Dowager. If the eldest prince showed up with the Empress Dowager's token, they would also risk the world's disapproval for the sake of the Great Zhou.

So all this was not his son's effort to turn the tide, but the Empress Dowager, who had laid the foreshadowing of today many years ago.

"Did the Empress Dowager leave you a token before she went to Hanshan?" Murong Zheng asked curiously. When the Empress Dowager left the palace, she left nothing but a message for him. Thinking of his son being told by the Empress Dowager, he felt sour in his heart.

"No."

"Then you..."

"My younger brother told me that Princess Jiaoyang of Bei'an has a phoenix jade pendant given by the Empress Dowager."

"Show it to me."

The eldest prince took out the jade pendant from his sleeve and handed it to Murong Zheng. Murong Zheng looked at the jade pendant in his hand, and his face changed again and again.

He used to dislike such crude carving, but today, when he saw the phoenix pattern on it that looked more like a phoenix than a chicken, his heart was full of warmth.

He always thought that the imperial grandmother was extremely disappointed with him, left, and would never care about him again.

But he didn't expect that she had predicted everything today many years ago, and had laid the foreshadowing many years ago.

Even though he hurt her heart and separated from her, she had never forgotten to help him stabilize the government.

Looking at the jade pendant, Murong Zheng seemed to see the imperial grandmother who looked at him with a doting face when he was a child.

Imperial grandmother, your grandson knows his mistake.