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Over there.

Maid Zhang, you are crying.

Don't be afraid, I will hide it for you.

I won't let the queen know.

Prince III is here.

Mom.

Really it's here.

Mom, how do you know the hairpin is here?

Because you are only this tall.

When you grow up, I probably won't find it.

Maid Zhang.

I won't punish you.

But on one condition, one day

I hope you can do the same when he is in the same situation.

Maybe it's just a sentence.

I am sorry for the late queen.

I have nothing to say.

How do you know?

After all, I am the son of the late queen.

Where is she?

She didn't know, so she planned to take the opportunity to escape.

Lady.

If she escaped, I will behead me before I go to see the prince.

I will kill you of course.

The emperor is here.

Your Royal Highness

You should give it to his majesty before the world.

Crown prince, you should take this to tell the world now.

No matter how Jia Yibo smart is, how can he find the scroll I didn't write?

Your Royal Highness

The maid.

The prince wants to tell you, even if the crown prince finds the scroll,

it doesn't matter. He has a plan.

The prince has been lying to me, right?

Why it's me?

You won't want to know it.

You are firm it's a maid.

Who is she?

The crown prince can't get out of the palace tonight

Tomorrow, you escort him to the court.

Lock him up.

Uncle

Uncle

Release him after the court.

You want to keep the whole department safe.

No wonder people say easy promises will lead to disbelief.

Hope you won't overestimate yourself.

If I guess right, the maid is dead.

Am I right?

Brother.

Stop talking so childishly.

Otherwise, dad will be angry.

Chongkui.

What are you thinking about?

No.

You are thinking, the scroll is white.

It's pretty strange, right?

Am I too confused to blame the crown prince blindly?

I don't dare to.

I know they both are lying.

But prince is my first son, and the crown prince is my courtier.

You should tell him in advance tomorrow.

He should behave well not like today.

You should tell him it's only your thought.

This is not what I mean.

What did you do to that maid?

You don't tell me beforehand.

You are talking about the scroll?

Something amiss will lead to the failure.

Lady, I hope you don't mind it.

Will his majesty denounce you if possible?

You should go to see it tomorrow.

As long as he pleads guilty.

Commander, do you think I am wrong?

Your Royal Highness

You should have told the emperor at the very beginning.

I just want to know in his heart, my brother and I...

The heart of justice. Why bother testing him?

So I failed.

Qingqing

Do you still remember when prince III was young,

he used to play on the stone lions at the door?

I went to play with him when I got the time after the court.

But he ran away when he saw me.

He even said his name was not Xiao Dingquan.

So outrageous.

You should eat now, your royal highness.

From early morning till now, you barely eat anything right?

His Majesty just said so.

But he still cares about you.

Then I didn't mean to punish him.

I just need him to say sorry to me.

But he refused to say sorry to me.

He was crying for mom and uncle.

From then on, I was no better than uncle?

You just need to lower yourself and admit it, and it's over.

His Majesty won't take it personally.

His Majesty told you these?

Your Royal Highness

The court is about to begin.

He said he would protect me right?

The crown prince's capping ceremony is my family business,

also the state affairs.

Something wrong happened yesterday, so I need to give you an answer.

Crown prince.

Crown prince, I, Xiao Dingquan.

I want to plead guilty for what happened yesterday on the ceremony.

Prince Qi is one of the royal members.

He didn't go to his fief after marriage and capping ceremony accordingly.

I really doubt that.

Then I fabricated an official denunciation.

And I told the head of Shangfu department, Zhang

to throw it in front of the world.

So prince Qi might leave the capital because of this.

I didn't expect Zhang used to be the late queen's maid.

One hand, she doesn't dare to trump up a charge against prince Qi.

On the other hand,

She is afraid of implicating her family.

Under the circumstance, she chose to die.

Which invited the emperor some troubles and terminated the ceremoy

And all the subjects are frightened.

I am sinnful.

And I won't refute.

Your Royal Highness

Your Majesty

It's... -Your majesty.

Crown prince confessed.

I don't know what your Majesty will deal with this.

What the crown prince did is disqualified for the ceremony.

So cancel the ceremony.

For what his Royal Highness did,

the capping ceremony was supposed to be canceled.

Crown prince's two thousand acres and

the official's salary of three years will be confiscated.

Crown prince lives on the salary of the subjects.

Reduce his acres and salary is so insignificant.

It's not convincing for the world.

Chancellor.

Your Majesty

The matter is so bizarre.

I think we need to find out the truth.

The teacher should teach the student with justice and morality.

Minister Lu should take the major responsibility for crown prince's mistake.

Li Baizhou

You shan't push in.

Dereliction of duty.

shaking the cornerstone of our country.

Minister Lu will be discharged and prosecuted.

Your Majesty

It's my own business.

Minister Lu has nothing to do with this.

Crown prince.

Don't intervene in the politics

It's perfectly normal that minister Lu answers for his misdeed.

Misleading the crown prince and framing up the royal brother are sinful,

unscrupulously and fraudulently.

It's not the way to run a country.

I can't allow this to happen.

Your Majesty

How can the crown prince convince us with these misdeeds?

Chancellor.

Your Majesty

Yesterday, everyone heard crown prince

defame prince Qi on the ceremony.

If we don't punish him according to national law,

it's equivalent that prince Qi is guilty.

Your Majesty

How can you convince the court and the world?

Your Majesty

Please punish the crown prince according to the law

Crown Prince

Take him to Zongzheng Temple for introspection.

And wait for the punishment.

Your Majesty

I am the crown prince.

The place you are standing is the hall of enlightened rule.

When someone breaks the national law,

I won't show partiality even if it's you.

But last night

Li Chongkui.

You should escort the crown prince there.

I get it.

No need.

I will go on my own.

Your Majesty

Crown Prince is amiable and benevolent.

He won't do this.

Please give an imperial decree

Tell the three departments to investigate it.

Ministry of penalty, Dali Temple and Censorate find out the truth.

I agree.

Crown prince confessed all in court.

Are you sure you want to do this, minister Lu?

Your Majesty

You leave the crown prince to me.

I don't know why he confessed.

I beg you to give an imperial decree.

Tell the three departments to investigate it.

Whether what crown prince told the truth or not, I will die for it.

Here is the hall of enlightened rule.

Minister Lu is a Confucian.

What pledge are you making?

If someone dares to frame the crown prince up,

Framing up the crown prince is a treason.

It will be the collective punishment.

If minister Lu is right, I should be punished for my misdeed.

Your Royal Highness

I don't believe what you just said.

Please your highness please lower yourself and move to the temple.

After the imperial decreed, I will find out the truth and prove your innocence.

Minister Lu.

This is not the place to preach.

Your Majesty

Teacher.

I should take my own responsibility.

Teacher, you have nothing to do with this.

I think the three departments should be unnecessary.

Your Royal Highness

Minister Lu leaves from the office.

Not gloriously.

But it's decently.

Why do you put minister Lu at risk, your royal highness?

I think you should tell the truth to minister Lu again.

Yes

I told Lady Zhang to defame prince Qi.

She refused, so she jumped off.

It is my fault.

I won't refute.

Minister Lu.

Can you hear it?

The matter appears fair and reasonable in etiquette.

I will tell the truth to his majesty and the court later.

Chancellor.

You need to hear all the story instead of the half.

Let alone, just now I was reporting on my work to the emperor.

Chancellor interrupted me impatiently and made a fuss like a joker.

So outrageous.

I step back and make concession.

Teacher.

No need for the three departments to intervene in.

After all, it's not so glorious.

Your Royal Highness

No need to find the testimony and evidence.

I have them in my hand.

Bring them up.

How come?

It's not the prince who told you to come here, but the crown prince.

I have two matters.

First.

Brother and Lady Jiang have no tacit mutual understanding

like me and Jia Yibo.

We need to inform each other before doing anything

Otherwise the outsiders will exploit the advantage.

Prince wants to tell you,

the imperial interrogation has the conclusion.

It doesn't matter even if crown prince finds the scroll.

You don't tell me beforehand.

You are talking about the scroll?

Now he got no our handle.

And he can't wash himself clean.

Second.

Things need to be checked in advance before they go to the royal family

This is the minor feudal proprieties.

Prince Qi.

Remember?

Your Royal Highness.

Who is she?

I think Prince Qi should tell you and his Majesty.

Or she tells us?

Don't be afraid.

I am here.

Sister.

You really want me to wear the belt?

If you wear it, you won't leave me.

Prince has been lying to me, right?

Your Majesty

The maid of the Shangfu department.

Wu.

I can't hear you.

The maid of the Shangfu department.

Wu.

Your Majesty

Yesterday's incident on the ceremony sounds like what I said.

But the fact is...

Prince Qi ordered her to fabricate the official denunciation,

to defame me on the ceremony.

Zhang knew it accidentally.

Zhang, for the late queen's sake, told me before the ceremony.

Your Majesty

Not me.

And she pushed her off the gate.

and she threw the scroll to your majesty and the world to scapegoat me.

Nonsense.

Li Baizhou, who are you talking to?

I don't dare.

But you can swear black is white with a maid from nowhere?

From nowhere?

You seem to be more confident than minister Lu.

She will tell us the inside information she knows.

Chancellor, wanna take a risk?

Ridiculous.

How can he find the scroll I didn't write?

You are making irresponsible remarks.

You want evidence.

I will show you now.

I know what I am doing.

Brother, we can make a bet.

When it comes out, you think the world will believe you or me?

Brother, you don't believe what I said.

We should wait and see, tomorrow if I can

show your original scroll in the court.

After Zhang told me,

I wrote another scroll by imitating brother's handwriting.

and replaced it.

You are lying.

Commander, please open it now.

Please open the scroll in public.

We want to know the truth.

Your Majesty

The scroll I gave him is not...

Shut up.

Prince Qi

Explain yourself to the world.

Prince, you are speechless, so you admit it.

Frame up the crown prince, it's the collective punishment.

Assistant minister Du.

Who do you want to punish collectively?

I don't dare.

I work in ministry of justice.

I know it well that if the prince breaks the law,

he has a privilege.

It must be decided by the emperor.

But for chancellor.

Your majesty should uphold the justice.

Your majesty should uphold the justice.