I’m the Farmgirl You Can’t Mess With
Chapter 954 - Chapter 954 Instigation

Chapter 954: Instigation Chapter 954: Instigation Editor: Atlas Studios Little Treasure had felt conflicted the entire way there.

At this moment, he nodded firmly.

“I want to be the Emperor.” Little Treasure said that he wanted to, and not that he was thinking of becoming.

Qi Xiuyuan raised his eyebrows slightly and asked, “Why?

Aren’t you afraid of hard work and losing your freedom?” “I am.” Little Treasure wrinkled his nose and said in distress, “But more so than that, I want the people of the world to be able to eat rice every day and to have clothes to wear in winter.

Children can enter school when they want to study.

The old can retire peacefully, and the sick can afford medicine.

If I were the Emperor, it would be much easier to accomplish all that.” Qi Xiuyuan did not expect his son to have such high aspirations.

He looked at him in shock and was speechless for a moment.

However, when he thought of the education he had received and the things he had done since he was young, it seemed natural for him to have such thoughts.

Qi Xiuyuan stroked his head and asked in a low voice, “Then aren’t you envious when you see Little Bear and the others traveling all over the country and visiting the mountains and rivers?” Little Treasure nodded in disappointment.

“So, Royal Father, can I go out and play first?

I’ll come back to be the Emperor after I’m done playing.” “No.” Qi Xiuyuan stroked his head in amusement and said, “I’m afraid you won’t want to come back after you go out.

Besides, if you want to be a good Emperor, you have to keep learning.

You’re the Crown Prince now.

Do you know what a Crown Prince is?” “The Crown Prince is the prince who will be the Emperor in the future.” Little Treasure expressed his understanding.

Qi Xiuyuan laughed out loud.

“That’s right.

Because being an Emperor requires many abilities, and you’re learning those abilities now.

So, if you want to be an Emperor, you can’t play as you please.” Although Little Treasure was mentally prepared, he was still very disappointed.

He said unwillingly, “Perhaps Fourth Aunt will have a way.” Qi Xiuyuan didn’t think that Mu Yangling had a solution to that, but he couldn’t block his son’s path either.

Smiling, he said, “Then you can ask your fourth aunt later.” At the side, the Second Prince looked at his big brother sympathetically, feeling sorry for him that he had to be the Emperor in the future.

Qi Xiuyuan turned to look at his second son and stroked his head.

“Since your mother has already become obsessed, don’t tell her about this first.

You can mention it to her when she’s released from her grounding this time.

If you have any questions in the future, you can ask Royal Father or your Fourth Uncle and Fourth Aunt.

Also, you’re already a little adult.

Once you start schooling, you can’t live in your mother’s palace anymore.

Look, your Crown Prince moved out of the Palace of Earthly Tranquility as soon as he started schooling.

Would you be scared to live alone?” The Second Prince was indeed a little afraid, but he patted his chest and said, “I’m not afraid.” With a smile, Qi Xiuyuan said, “It doesn’t matter if you’re afraid.

I’ll let your big brother accompany you for a while.

When you’re not afraid anymore, you can live alone.” The Second Prince heaved a sigh of relief and took the Crown Prince’s hand before heading back.

As Qi Xiuyuan watched the two children’s backs disappear, the smile on his face fell.

He took out Little Bear’s letter again and read it.

Gritting his teeth, he wrote to him, expressing his anger at his attempt to abduct Little Treasure.

With a wave of his pen, Qi Xiuyuan punished him by not letting him ride a horse for ten days.

He would get someone to keep an eye on him secretly.

Little Bear, who had received the messenger pigeon, wailed, “Why did Brother Little Treasure show the letter to Royal Uncle?” Only then did Qi Haoran know what his son had done.

He was so angry that he chased him around the courtyard with the rattan.

He angrily added five days to his riding ban and made him write lines on 300 pieces of paper on top of Qi Xiuyuan’s punishment.

Little Bear wrote to Little Treasure overnight, asking him to plead for mercy on his behalf.

Not riding a horse for half a month was simply asking for his life.

Meanwhile, Mu Yangling had also received letters from Little Treasure and the Second Prince.

This time, she still wrote back to them.

Other than answering their questions, she continued the previous topic.

Regarding Little Treasure’s worry about not being able to travel, Mu Yangling felt that this was not a problem at all.

She could not understand why the Crown Prince of the previous dynasties could not leave the capital and had to stay in the capital.

As the Crown Prince, he would have to manage the entire country in the future.

He would be facing the entire world because as a ruler he could not only focus on just his own country.

That would be very narrow-minded.

Therefore, the problem was that as the future ruler of the country, one’s understanding of their country shouldn’t only come from books and documents.

To think the previous rulers had never even gone to the counties to take a look, nor had they gone to the borders.

Other than personally leading the troops, they had almost never left the capital.

Therefore, Mu Yangling suggested that Little Treasure could request permission from the Emperor to leave the capital to broaden his horizons when he was a little older and had learned enough.

Just like scholars who went to other places to study after becoming a xiucai or juren, it was better to travel a thousand miles than to read ten thousand books.

This was applicable to anyone.

However, Mu Yangling hoped that Little Treasure would remember that his purpose for traveling wasn’t to play, but to deepen his understanding of this country so that he could govern it better in the future.

In addition, when he had a good successor in the future, he could pass on the throne to him.

In their golden years, one should do things that they had always wanted to do but could not do when they were younger, such as sightseeing or sailing out to sea.

Or, they could learn some skills that they’d always wanted to learn in their younger days but could not or did not have time to learn.

As the Emperor, this was obviously impossible.

Because every move of his affected the people of the world, it was better to do those things after abdicating.

Mu Yangling told Little Treasure that people who were past 60 should not tire themselves out anymore.

At this time, they could just abdicate and let their descendants deal with all that hard work.

After doing some calculations, Little Treasure felt that 60 years old was a long time away.

It was better to convince Royal Father to let him leave the capital to gain some experience first.

As for the second clause, he would wait until he had a son.

Little Treasure went to plead with his Royal Father.

Qi Xiuyuan had wised up by now.

After hearing Little Treasure’s request, he asked to see the letter, even Little Bear’s.

He felt that although Mu Yangling was good at educating children, her teaching might not be so suitable for the Crown Prince, so he should be more cautious.

If she wrote something that she shouldn’t have written, he could correct it in time.

What Qi Xiuyuan saw almost scared him out of his wits.

Every word in Mu Yangling’s letter was a little treasonous.

If the contents of the letter were to accidentally leak out, the courtiers would definitely impeach her for having ulterior motives.

Why couldn’t the Crown Prince leave the capital?

That was because the Emperors were guarding against their sons.

If the Crown Prince did not leave the capital, the Emperor would more or less know about the influence he had developed under the Emperor’s nose.

However, if he left the capital, who knew what he was doing outside?

At that time, would the world belong to the Crown Prince or the Emperor?

Secondly, it was too dangerous for the Crown Prince to leave the capital.

How many princes were there fighting for the throne?

Historically, princes had fought to the death for this ultimate position.

There was also the clan standing behind the princes.

Even if the princes did not want to deal with the Crown Prince, their maternal clans would probably force them to do so.

In the capital, under the Emperor’s nose, the Crown Prince’s safety would be guaranteed.

However, anything was possible outside the capital.

Therefore, for the safety of himself and the Crown Prince, historically, the Emperors had never allowed the Crown Prince to leave the capital.

Other than being ordered to investigate corruption and provide disaster relief, the Crown Prince would never leave the capital, nor was he allowed to do so.

If it were someone else who did not know Mu Yangling well, they would definitely think that she was instigating Little Treasure to rebel or wanted to lure him out of the capital in a bid to get rid of him.