13 Cinderella is a Coquettish Green Tea (13)

The prince was announced into the study room by the servant outside. Crown Prince Edward walked in with one hand sloppily placed in his pocket, brown hair sitting messily on top of his head and a lopsided smile on his lips. "Yo, what great deed did my father call me in for today."

The moment the emperor saw him, the urge to give him a mild beating rose and he couldn't help but take a few deep breaths to suppress the irritability in his heart and looked at his eldest son indifferently.

He couldn't help but feel that his ministers were right, not so much about suppressing the common people, but maybe with a family, this headache-inducing prince would calm down.

"The nobles have begun to worry about your marriage."

Prince Edward unceremoniously rolled his eyes,

"The Winchesters family are the ones that appealed the loudest. I heard that their family's eldest daughter has come for age this year."

The emperor looked up, "Do you have any thoughts?"

Prince Edward pulled out a chair and sat before his father with his legs crossed rudely, there was no respect between emperor and prince and it was obvious from the vein on the emperor's temple that this was not the first time this was done.

"Not much," Prince Edward said, "From what I've heard in the capital recently, Duke Winchester seems to want to welcome a new wife. I don't know where he has time to be a matchmaker for me."

The emperor flipped the memorial on the desk and scanned through it while answering,

"It's not just him. Many of the other noble factions want you to accept a noble wife so that you can be tied to them."

"If you accept it, then accordingly, they will also provide you with the necessary things needed to usurp me and take the throne."

The way the emperor spoke was casual as if what he just said was not reason enough to get anyone else beheaded.

Prince Edward was also surprisingly unfazed, snorting nonchalantly: "Only the stupid third prince would believe their lies. I am afraid that those nobles are really anxious not to put me on the throne but to control the kingdom with me as a puppet emperor. "

The emperor finally lifted his head and looked at his eldest son carefully, "As long as you know it best. However, you used the excuse before being an envoy in the Northern Kingdom's borders, your marriage is not something that can be delayed again and again. "

"You are also getting older. Let's first see if we can find someone suitable, and I'll delay the noble groups for now. They have been too domineering lately, and the common people are beginning to be restless."

"A banquet must be arranged to pick suitable matches even if it's just for show. The banquet will be held for all the princes"

"In addition must behave properly and suppress the rising voice's for now."

Prince Edward was thoughtful.

Isn't this just an opportunity for his foolish brother who has been making a mess recently to mingle with the aristocrats?

Prince Edward raised his lips invisibly and lowered his eyes. It seems that his presence back has caused some people to panic.

It also seems that it would be a shame for him if he didn't cause trouble. The emperor seemed to see a light twinkle in his son's eyes, and for a moment, he had a bad premonition in his heart.

He could foresee a troubled future.

He could help but take a sip of the cold tea on his desk to suppress the fire and rub his temple tiredly.

After the emperor finished handling the political affairs, he leaned back in his chair. The strong forty old man in Edward's memory seemed to have grown a few more grey hairs compared to the last time he saw him.

The emperor smiled gently and finally skipped this topic, "Tell me, you spent three years on the borders. What did you discover?"

Prince Edwards came back to his senses and finally looked serious and reported solemnly:

"What does Your Majesty want to know?"

This time, he also changed his address.

The emperor "How many places have you been to?"

Prince Edward replied: "I went all the way north from the canal, and I have already been to more than half of the tribes and counties along the northern borders."

"Then tell me what you have seen and heard in these various places."

Prince Edward pondered for a while and then started from the beginning. Along the way, he visited a lot of territories, and many of them were corrupt with the poor people being suppressed and exploited by the nobles and aristocrats. In some remote places, many of the people were thin and sallow and had to sell their daughters and sons to survive.

Even in the capital, the situation was not much better, and the people here lived a hard, if not even harder, life than those outside the capital. The corruption of the nobility ran deep within the Kingdom, and even after many years of reign, it was hard to uproot them.

He also reported an unusual situation with many reports of demons being spread in the lower corners of the kingdom, the influence of the church and the pope has also quietly expanded with new believers being added every day. This was not a good sign for the royalty, but it was also not something that could be dealt with lightly.

The emperor looked solemn, "It seems that the eradication of the nobles must be sped up before the Kingdom collapses because of those rotten leeches."

Prince Edward hummed in response. He was still thinking about the marriage, and he couldn't help but smile, and suddenly say in a low voice:

"Your Majesty, recently there have also been some speculations about you, there are already several voices in the court, and the one that is getting louder is that you are going to accept the concubine into the palace."

"Is this true? Am I getting a new younger brother soon?"

"You are so old. Can it still work?

The vein in the emperor's temple twitched.