Chapter 131： Divide equally

After walking for two days, I arrived at the temple where Shen Wen lived. Shen Xiang knocked on the door and answered. Shen Xiang entered the courtyard. Su Wanniang smiled and said, "Miss is here."

Shen Xiang looked at Su Wanniang blankly. Su Wanniang was puzzled and asked: "What's the matter!"

Shen Xiang grabbed Su Wanniang's sleeve and hurried into the room. Seeing Shen Wen, he furiously said in a low voice, "You are so stupid! You are all tanned! Is there such a retreat in the temple? Do you all play? It's wild!"

Shen Wen smiled and hugged Shen Xiang: "Big sister, how are you?"

Shen Xiang proudly pushed Shen Wen away, turned his head and said to Su Wanniang: "She is ignorant, so you don't care about her! Second sister-in-law."

Su Wanniang looked at Shen Wen, and Shen Wen faltered and said: "Second sister-in-law, she said she still wants to play outside for two days..."

Shen Xiang frowned, but then sighed: "The second sister-in-law, too, the second brother is not here, she must be bored..."

Shen Wen came over again to take Shen Xiang's arm and said sweetly: "Big sister, I miss you!"

Shen Xiang wanted to get rid of her again, but he did not move under pressure, and said sternly, "You'd better hope that the dry season will grow longer. You will fade the black on this face and gain more weight, otherwise you will return to the house. , It must make people mumble!"

Shen Wen nodded vigorously: "Surely, my Tmall won't come out in the house." Shen Wen then asked about the affairs of the next mansion. She went out for so many months and experienced a lot, but the days she stayed in the capital were the same as before, and Shen Xiang explained in a few words. Shen Wen talked with her almost, and asked: "You are here alone."

Shen Xiang remembered: "The third brother came together, do you want to see him last time when I came here and you weren't there, I didn't let him in."

Shen Wen said: "Of course I want to see him! Hasn't he been taller since I haven't seen him for so long?"

Shen Xiang rolled his eyes: "All his strengths have been used for bad-hearted eyes, how taller he is." Shen Zhuo is shorter than Shen Yi and Shen Jian. This is his permanent pain, and he wants to grow taller every day.

Shen Wen smiled and said: "Please invite him to the guest room in the front hall, I will wait for you there."

Shen Xiang went out and took Shen Zhuo to the guest room dedicated to male guests. Shen Wen came out with Su Wanniang. Shen Wen whispered to Su Wanniang, "You have to take my sister away for a while and let me talk to my third brother. "Su Wanniang nodded.

When he arrived in the guest room, Shen Wen saluted Shen Zhuo and said with a smile: "The third brother looks taller."

Shen Xiang immediately scolded: "Small bullshit!"

Su Wanniang laughed, and took Shen Xiang's hand and said, "Let's go for a walk, I have some vegetarian snacks." He took Shen Xiang and her maid Chunlu away, as if to avoid Shen Xiang scolding Shen Wen.

Seeing that there was no one outside, Shen Zhuo said to Shen Wen in amazement: "Why are you so dark and so thin! This road is good" Although he usually rides a horse to practice martial arts, he has never really traveled far away, he thought To go to the border, a group of people walked along the road for a few months. Pingyuan Hou Mansion gave the guard. Shen Wen was accompanied by a maid, and Shen Wen's light work was so good, it should not be that difficult. He could not imagine that he would pass through the disaster area and the place where Shen Wen changed their way on the way. The news that Shen Yi and Shen Jian sent from the border can not say about Shen Wen, so he saw that Shen Wen became dark and thin. Surprised.

Shen Wen didn't intend to tell him the details, only smiled and said: "The roads are all very good, but the time spent outside these months is a bit more, it should be better later."

Shen Zhuo knew that time was pressing, so he hurriedly told Shen Wen about the latest events in Beijing. From how the prince recommended a Taoist priest for the emperor, how he won the emperor’s favor, how the three princes were tempered... to how the emperor asked the prince to participate in politics.

Shen Wen listened and only nodded.

Shen Zhuo was a little anxious: "The prince has participated in politics, will he start early?"

Shen Wen slowly shook his head: "No. He can't start."

Shen Zhuo asked: "Why can't he give orders now, for example, he can replace officials, for example, he can force Dad to dismiss soldiers, or appoint officials to the border."

Shen Wen sneered: "He'd better not give orders at will. If he does this, he must be in trouble."

Shen Zhuo puzzled: "Why does he have real power?"

Shen Wen curled his lips: "Then what the emperor is, if he is smart, he should hold his tail and ask for advice on everything."

Shen Zhuo shook his head: "The prince is not that kind of person, he is the eldest son, he is a little more arrogant."

Shen Wen laughed: "In that case, he will be unlucky. The story that the emperor and the heir had to tell, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Wu Zetian, but it was everywhere."

Shen Wen has not yet said that Kangxi established the crown prince and abolished the prince, and that Cixi let Guangxu ascend to the throne and also imprisoned him. When Emperor Qianlong was young, he said that he would not hold the position longer than his emperor's grandfather. As a result, when he was old, he had to retire according to his promise. He chose Emperor Jiaqing, who on the surface most didn't want to be emperor. Even though Emperor Jiaqing was wearing yellow work clothes, he still had to ask for instructions early and report later, for fear that the old emperor would suddenly change his mind and push himself down again. It is said that and | is at this time and the new emperor is at odds. He has always been favored by Qianlong, unable to turn the rudder suddenly, so he is still very enthusiastic about Qianlong and indifferent to the new emperor. As a result, Ye Shi said that Qianlong was starved to death in the palace in the end. It was considered that Emperor Jiaqing couldn't bear it. After ending this embarrassing situation, he immediately ransacked the He|he family and exhaled a bad breath.

At present, in addition to the prince, the three princes are the third princes, and the emperor has obviously disliked the third princes in recent years, so the prince needn't be afraid of someone watching and waiting for him to be replaced. Wanting to understand this, Shen Wen stopped worrying about the affairs and said to Shen Zhuo: "I saw the eldest brother and the second elder brother at the border, they are all very good. The eldest brother has his own guard, and the second elder brother became a dad. Right-handed."

Shen Zhuo sighed yearningly: "I want to go to the border too! How can I be an adjutant..."

Shen Wen said: "You are also very important here."

Shen Zhuo consciously said thinly: "Every day, I just grind with the three princes, Ye Da Young. It doesn't mean much."

Shen Wen tilted his head and said: "That Young Master Ye is not easy. He had been in contact with the Third Prince a long time ago. At that time, the Third Prince was only a teenager and the queen was still there, so Young Master Ye dared to make friends with him. People feel abrupt, this is talent." When I went to Wanhualou to see Wanhua Dance, the three princes were surrounded by Duke Gu and Duke Ye.

Shen Zhuo nodded: "Yes, there is no such thing as he doesn't know people. The three teachers, the top and the bottom, all give him a face. I really don't know how he can say so!"

Shen Wen whispered: "The Ye Zhongshu behind him, as well as the officials under the Yan family, should be on the side of the third prince. I don't believe they will do something to embarrass the prince. So, for the prince, Participating in politics at this time is actually not a good thing, and occasional success can be more terrifying than failure."

Shen Zhuo finally believed, and asked Shen Wen again: "You said four years of severe drought, this is about to pass.

Shen Wen nodded and said, "It will pass after my birthday."

Shen Zhuo said: "Then I have to tell my mother that I have to prepare for you and the ceremony." Shen Wen is fifteen years old, and the ceremony will take at least a few months to prepare.

Shen Wen immediately shook his head and said, "On the contrary, you tell her not to do it. I will talk about it when I go back, lest..."

Shen Zhuo asked: "Let anyone say that we don't know the prophet"

Shen Wen lowered his voice and said, "Not only that, but I always feel that the prince will come and give me a moment. When I go back, I will prepare the code slowly so that he has the opportunity to attack me."

Shen Zhuo became serious: "How can you do this, shouldn't you avoid it as much as possible?"

Shen Wen shook his head again: "Always hide and can't hide, just let him next time, and then it can stop for a while."

Shen Zhuo said with some worry: "Sister, I don't want you to take risks."

Shen Wen smiled, eyes doubled: "There is no danger, you don't believe me"

Shen Zhuo reluctantly said: "I believe it naturally."

Shen Wen changed the subject and whispered: "Don't care about the favored Taoist priest now, the prince is not at ease."

Shen Zhuo was shocked: "What!"

Shen Wen whispered in Shen Zhuo's ear: "In my dream, after the southern trip, the prince recommended a Taoist priest for the emperor. The emperor was obsessed with pill medicine and wanted to live forever, but soon died. There are rumors about the emperor. If the prince died too fast, the prince was asked to track it down. It turned out that the pill given to the emperor by the Taoist priest was poisonous, and he asked the Taoist priest to be burned alive. If I remember correctly, the Taoist priest was named Mao Daochang. What is it, the observer in the famous Xiaoyun View on the edge of the capital..."

Shen Zhuo's mouth half-opened: "He recommended Mao Daochang! But now, it's now, it's early!"

Shen Wen nodded: "Three years earlier, the prince wants the emperor..." Shen Wen rolled his eyes.

Shen Zhuo was dumbfounded, and after a long while he said, "What to do! What to do!"

Shen Wen curled his lips: "If there is something, he'd better not do it. If it does, isn't it right?"

Shen Zhuo slowly recovered from the shock, realizing that Shen Wen had a countermeasure, and the prince must have done more and wrong as before, and said with emotion: "What happened to the royal man, that is his biological father... "

Shen Wen sternly said to Shen Zhuo: "You can never tell the third prince about this!"

Shen Zhuo said hurriedly: "I understand! I just need to stay by his side, and I don't know anything else." He remembered about Shen Qiang again, and asked: "That father-in-law Gu said that the fourth brother should come to practice martial arts, and it's always so night. The time to go is too short, how can he come out?"

Shen Wen thought for a while and told Shen Zhuo: "I just wanted him to come to the temple."

Shen Zhuo nodded, presuming that Shen Xiang and the others would come back soon, and asked hurriedly: "You really think I am taller."

Shen Wen nodded firmly: "Of course, at least two inches..."

Shen Zhuo frowned and said, "Aren't you lying to me? I have to carry the fat black man on my back and keep me short!"

Shen Wen said hurriedly: "How come the third brother is much taller than me!"

Shen Zhuo despised Shen Wen: "What is taller than you is better than older brother."

Shen Wen said kindly: "Brother, you can't dream too much during the day..."

Shen Zhuo shook a fist at Shen Wen, but didn't wave it at all. Waiting for Shen Xiang to return, the two left the mountain temple and returned to the capital.

The next day, Shen Zhuo was in a great mood. He went to the third prince and found that the third prince was as indifferent as before, and Ye Da Young was also very calm and relaxed, and he didn't need to be relieved at all. He didn't find a chance to relay Shen Wen's analysis, so he was a bit disappointed.

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At the border, Ji Wenzhao and Shen Jian have completed the reorganization of the army, reduced tens of thousands of old and weak soldiers, and are ready to start the construction of city defense. In order to facilitate management, Ji Wenzhao introduced an identity card: the urban area is divided into three by three nine square palaces, each palace is numbered, becoming the first number, of which nine more districts are delineated, and then numbered, becoming the identity number. Two digits... and then the men and women and the twelve birthdays, each of which is a number, and one string down, you can roughly know where this person lives in the city, what it belongs to, and so on, which is easy to find.

While Ji Wenzhao was busy transferring people into the households to investigate, and perming bamboo cards to every resident, Zhenbeihou received the prince’s order from the prince to send the reduced soldiers to the mainland to suppress the bandits, and said that if there is a violation, there will be strict rules. Penalty.

Zhenbeihou called both Shen Yi and Shen Jian and Ji Wenzhao, who had successfully made the position as the first counsellor, into the lobby of the PLA, frowning and handing the yellow letter they received to Ji Wenzhao. He was puzzled by the emperor's sudden illness and asked him to send troops to suppress the bandits. He asked: "We have already laid off the staff according to the order, so why send troops to the mainland is too much! Is this because the people from the North Rong are doing the opposite. Make the emperor wonder if the emperor will soon find an excuse to replace me"

Shen Yi, Shen Jian and Ji Wenzhao had known that the prince was acting on behalf of the emperor to participate in the affairs of the prince. They knew at a glance that it was the prince in all likelihood, but to Zhenbeihou, they couldn’t expose the struggle between the group headed by Shen Wen and the prince. .

Shen Yi's mouth showed a cold smile: "Don't worry about Lord Hou, the court has no food and no soldiers. If anyone can do that for the father, the Emperor, Lord Hou can leave in command, and many soldiers will leave the border. , What do newcomers use to guard the border?"

Zhenbeihou reprimanded: "How can you say that we are so dry? Bei Rong immediately sent troops. For many years of drought, our country has no power to fight. Bei Rong plunders the people more than tigers and wolves. Once we retreat, Jiangshan will not. Bao! My Shen family is not only for the court, but also for the people to stay here, even if the emperor really wants to replace me, you can't leave with the soldiers, you must stay firmly to the end!"

Shen Yi said gloomily: "If the emperor intends to change people, those who still have good intentions will find fault and pick us out one by one and kill us, and we may not be able to guard anything if we stay..."

Zhenbeihou was so angry that he took the case and took the case: "What are you talking about! Don't think I don't know that you are prejudiced against the prince, so you go to make friends with the third prince! Now that the prince is participating in politics, the emperor is acting like this, it must be because the prince is dissatisfied with my family. The emperor prefers the prince! Is Saburo too close to the third prince in the capital!" He is a military commander who has been away for many years, and he is very bad at political affairs. I feel that the prince has participated in politics, and the purpose of coming down from the capital must be the emperor's intention.

Seeing his father's anger, Shen Jian smiled and said, "I haven't heard of this..."

Zhenbeihou frowned and said, "But I heard that the third prince in the capital's "Wen You Ye Da, Wu Kao Shen San", isn't this San Lang!"

Shen Jian said hurriedly: "That's all rumors! Hou Ye don't listen and believe, why didn't I hear it." He looked at Shen Yi and Ji Wenzhao and asked, "Have you heard?"

Ji Wenzhao concentrated on reading the letter, but Shen Yi didn't lift his eyelids: "The third brother, the guy who can't be a martial artist, I often beat him when he is at home. What can he do..."

Shen Jian smiled, and said to Zhenbeihou, "Master Hou, you don’t know that you want to have fun with your third brother every day. How could the three princes rely on him? It must be passed on blindly." If Zhenbeihou recognizes the truth. , Shen Zhuo is also called to the border, there is no Shen family man in the capital, will it be inconvenient for Shen Wen to act

Zhenbeihou hasn't seen Shen Zhuo for many years. When he left Beijing last time, Shen Zhuo was a boy. Compared with his two adult sons, he was indeed immature, and he was not like someone who might become the right-hand man of the third prince. , He was dubious.

Ji Wenzhao finally put down the paperwork and said seriously: "Master Hou, we can report back to the court, and send troops according to the will, and send the details of the soldiers to the capital..."

Zhenbei Hou shook his head and said: "We are already short of soldiers and food, and weapons and horses are not rich. How can we divide the troops and suppress the bandits"

Ji Wenzhao said: "The imperial decree is here. If you don't obey the order, you will fall into the handle. Lord Hou must be cautious and obey orders to appear respectful..." Shen Yi looked at Ji Wenzhao in doubt, and Ji Wenzhao continued solemnly. : "...As for the military supplies for the journey, we were beyond our means, so we had to put down our self-esteem and spoke to the court."

A few people were taken aback before they laughed.

Zhenbei Hou patted Ji Wenzhao on the shoulder: "The literati are cunning! I really don't have this face, you can do it!"

Shen Yi and Shen Jian agreed and said, "That's right, it's up to the military division."

Ji Wenzhao said proudly: "Trivial things, I swipe a big pen, and it's done overnight."

So Ji Wenzhao wrote a memorial full of enthusiasm and helplessness. First of all, he firmly supported the will of the court. He immediately assigned the reduced soldiers and prepared to carry out the task of suppressing bandits, and attached a detailed list. But when he left, there was no food and armaments. Perennial droughts have caused armaments to be nearly exhausted, frontier horses are in short supply, wagons are outdated, and weapons are worn out. In the name of Zhenbeihou, Ji Wenzhao sobbed and asked the court to send more military supplies. By the way, he screamed to be vigilant against the movement of northern Xinjiang. Bei Rong set up a barracks on the border and had to fight for a long time. The war was only sooner or later... Anyway, the writing was very sincere Touching is particularly convincing.

After reading, Zhenbei Hou agreed, signed and sealed it, and felt that it was very convenient to have a bright-minded literati around him.

Since he expressed his observance of the imperial order, he must be fair and honest. Ji Wenzhao naturally chose the question book of the contents of the memorial. When it arrived in the hands of the prince, he had already circulated it in the department of collecting and sub-checking memorials. Naturally, he would soon get it done. Everybody knows.

How could Ye Zhongshu and Yan Jing and others let go of this opportunity? They immediately instructed the students to raise public opinion.

After the establishment of the dynasty, although there were soldiers from Beppu, Shen Jiajun was the most famous, perhaps because there were no enemies as strong as Beirong on the periphery of other borders, and the previous battles were not so fierce. For example, after Pingyuan Hou calmed down southern Xinjiang, southern Xinjiang remained silent, so Pingyuan Hou was able to let go of his military power. There has been no war on the northwest front, and Dingxihou, who is guarding the long northwest front, is old and still able to cope. The north has always been a major disaster, and people know that the Shen Jiajun is the strongest defender, and they feel safer in their hearts. Now everyone knows that this powerful force has not only reduced its troops and generals, but also has almost gone out of rations, and that the inland bandits will not be able to make a move, so how can the sense of security of resisting the raiders have been greatly reduced!

Suddenly, various opinions from the ruling and opposition parties abruptly, most of them criticizing the imperial court for not supporting Shen Jiajun.

The prince didn't think there was any use in the discussion outside. He was the one who wrote a brief memorial to the emperor, and he could make memorials he didn't like disappear. He can appoint and dismiss officials, and most of the people in the court are his people. The mess in the market shouldn't reach the emperor's ears.

The emperor also cooperated with the prince very well, and even the court meeting was reduced to every five meetings. Talking about lajin with Mao Daochang on weekdays became the main content of daily life. After waiting for more than two months and seeing it almost, the emperor was ready to take action to correct the prince's mistake.

On this day when he went to the court, the emperor said to Sun Gonggong: "He has been irritable since he was a child, but he still can’t hold his breath when he grows up to this age! Tossing without a firm footing, once or twice, he doesn’t always learn to be smarter. I really bother him!"

Grandpa Sun hurriedly stepped forward and said, "The prince still needs guidance from His Majesty."

The emperor said to Sun Gonggong: "You are still my person. I thought you would remind him, but you didn't."

Grandpa Sun fell on his knees, trembling all over: "Your Majesty! The slave and maid are your majesty's! Really! It's just that sometimes the maidservant and the prince pass a good word, but the slave and maid are really your majesty's!"

The emperor slowly nodded: "This is good. During this time, I found that many people were sneaking up at me, probably thinking about how to please the East Palace. I haven't died yet, so they changed their minds. ......" He said with emotion.

He was not only referring to the eunuchs, but also the concubines in the harem. Don't think that he doesn't know that every time the prince comes to ask for peace, someone will dangle in front of him. Even Xue Guifei, her favorite concubine, asked her children about interesting things when they were young. Her child is now left with the prince and the estranged third prince plus a disabled fourth prince. Whose prince was she interested in when she was a child! I thought I didn't understand these snobs!

Grandpa Sun said again and again: "Your Majesty! Your servant and maidservant are loyal! No two hearts! Nothing about your Majesty has been revealed during this period of time!" Fortunately, he was careful! The emperor didn't really want to authorize the prince, he just wanted the prince to help. In the past, when Empress Jia was in power, he vigorously wooed him, so that he sometimes told the emperor what he meant, or said good things to the prince. Now that he died after the abolition, whether he would help the prince again, but it all depends on his mind. He didn't tell the prince that the emperor was actually staring at him every day. On the one hand, he was afraid that the emperor would know. On the other hand, the prince hadn't made any promises to him over the years. If one day the prince really took over the power, he would be the best next to him. The position of the **** has no weight, and the first person next to the prince is not himself. Let the emperor stay in power for a long time, and the prince had better not be early.

The emperor smiled: "Some people can't listen to them, and they have to fight so hard to learn to behave."

Grandpa Sun trembling: "Your Majesty is wise!"

The emperor was satisfied, said a few words, and finally said: "You go to make arrangements."

Only then did Grandpa Sun get up and whispered: "The slave and maid must follow suit." First stepped out.

When they arrived at the court, the ministers played the matter one by one. Now, those who can gain a foothold in the court are all members of the Lu family or those who are wise to protect themselves and will never cause trouble. The prince let out a word, and the emperor didn't like the disaster report. Moreover, everyone also understands: Up to now, the court has done everything that the court should do, and there is no other way except for the emperor to sacrifice to the sky and the next sin. Therefore, no one wants to annoy people, so they should tell some trivial good things, more than how to find a hundred-year-old auspicious old man, where they found hundreds of years of Ganoderma lucidum and so on.

The emperor listened with a smile, looking very satisfied, and the prince was also in a good mood: this kind of power alone feels really good! Everything is up to you, who you like, promote; who you hate, demote; you don’t want to let the emperor know about memorials, suppress and destroy them. Every day I see other people’s diligent smiles. If it weren’t for the need for Lu’s support, and I had to look at the princess’s cold and ironic expression, my life would be almost perfect...

When he was thinking, when there were steps, there was the sound of the front guard pressing people down, crying: "Your Majesty, the slave and maidservant have been wronged! Forgive me!..." The voice was blocked.

The prince frowned: "Fight out!"

The emperor raised his hand slightly: "What's the matter, I haven't spoken yet, you will be the master of me." This is a pun, and the prince immediately respectfully said: "Father, this is the time when the court is discussing matters. Non-rank officials cannot Go to the palace, how can you allow an unknown person to cry out for injustice, maybe an assassin?"

The emperor tilted his head and said to Grandpa Sun behind him: "Go and see if it's an assassin."

Grandpa Sun nodded and walked out of the hall without looking at the prince staring at him. The ministers all over the court were silent. The prince looked suspiciously at the three princes who were standing on one side. Seeing the three princes' expressions of disinterest, he wondered if it should be his method.

Not long after, Grandpa Sun came in and went to the emperor’s side and said, “He’s a young **** who received memorials. He saved a cursive list. Today, he asked about the whereabouts of a few memorials. He took out a cursive list for comparison. But it was found to be inconsistent with the official memorial entry records. The person above wanted to kill him. He felt that he was right, so he fled and cried out... "The sound is not loud, but everyone can hear it.

The emperor laughed: "There was such a memorial and the wrong recording made him come in. I will ask him."

The prince took a step and said: "Father, the child can take care of such trivial things, and the father can take a good rest and take care of his body."

The emperor was still smiling, but the smile became cold: "The cursive record of the memorial collected does not match the original, which shows that the prince has any guesses."

No one made a sound in the court hall, and the crown prince’s forehead was full of beads of sweat: He had no idea about the collection of "cursive records" and "original" memorials! He stammered: "This is obviously, this is clearly the private recording of the eunuch...The collection of private recordings of memorials is not allowed! He should be executed!"

The emperor nodded to the outside and said, "Bring someone in and tell him that the prince will execute him! See what he has to say..."

The prince’s court clothes were already sweating. He faced the emperor with tears in his eyes and stammered: "Father...Father..."

The emperor looked at the prince condescendingly, his eyes were full of contempt, and the prince suddenly understood: the **** who so-called cursively recorded the memorial is the emperor's person!

The prince's tears flowed: "Father...Father..."

The three princes who watched on the side frowned and moved their eyes away, not wanting to see this picture of the royal father's kindness and filial piety.

The emperor snorted: "My country has been drought year after year. It's because some people are not filial or loyal, insincere or unbelief, they are right and private, and they deceive the emperor. Now there are complaints between the ruling and the opposition, do you think I really don't know!"

The prince finally knelt down: "Father! I dare not dare! The children are really to reduce the burden of the father. Because the children have limited knowledge, they may be wrong, but they are definitely not unfaithful to the father. Unfilial heart! Father Mingjian!"

The ministers knelt down one after another: "Your Majesty, the prince has been exhausted recently to share state affairs for your Majesty..."

"The emperor, the prince is true filial piety, although there is a difference, it is not a fatal mistake..."

"Your Majesty, the prince often said that His Majesty is the eternal king, who shines on all generations, and he is the light of flying, which can not be compared with your Majesty..."

"Holy, the prince is dedicated to the holy..."

Hearing that the whole hall was arguing for the prince, the emperor sneered, and said to Grandpa Sun: "Go and ask, see how much the memorial collection of Cao Luzhi is different from the original!"

The prince trembled all over, walked forward on his knees, and reached the emperor's steps: "Father! Your son is wrong!"

The courtiers didn’t know what to do, and then they said something nice: "Your Majesty, Your Royal Highness has repented..."

"His Royal Highness is really sincere..."

Seeing that the emperor’s face became more cold, the prince turned his face and shouted: "Shut up!" Everyone was stunned on the spot, and the prince turned and cried to the emperor: "Father! Your son is really wrong! Father, forgive me!"

At this time, Grandpa Sun came in and stood aside when he saw this. The emperor looked at him and ordered: "Say!"

Sun Gonggong whispered: "There is a difference of 1,147 copies between the cursive record and the original..."

For a while, the whole hall was silent. The courtiers looked at each other, and no one thought that the prince would dare to destroy so many memorials! Of course, no one would be impressed by the achievements of those civil servants who worked hard day and night. By this time, everyone also understood: The **** who shouted injustice outside the temple was obviously the emperor's pawn, and it was to expose the prince's behavior. If the two records differ by dozens of copies, or even a hundred copies, it can be inferred that people have lost and scattered. Now the difference is so great, it can be seen that the prince not only destroyed the memorial, but also tampered with the entry list. This is deliberately deceiving the emperor! If others dared to do this, it would be a crime worthy of death, but this is the prince, the future emperor, the courtiers are extremely entangled in their hearts: if they do not attack the prince, the emperor will know that he is not loyal to the emperor, and the emperor is still in power. Tang can be dismissed from office. On the other hand, if the prince is attacked, he will become the throne in the future, and what can he do if he can spare himself! Many officials were suffering in their hearts, frowning, looking at a loss.

The third prince closed his mouth tightly and looked depressed on the side. He was not happy at all, he only felt very upset.

The emperor glanced at him and felt that he hadn't fallen into the trap, and he was still a lover. He suddenly remembered a gentle smile in his trance, and his heart pierced suddenly... He immediately shook his head, focused his attention, and looked at him. The prince who was crying at his feet and the officials who had been speechless all had an angry expression on their faces: the prince was begging for mercy, and now that the prince had made a mistake, no one dared to criticize him openly!

Finally, when a courtier saw the emperor’s face, he thought of the emperor’s words of scolding the prince, and realized the significance of the emperor’s artifice today: the four-year drought has exhausted all the money and food of the court, and now it is the emperor’s sacrifice to the world and sin. It's time for Jizhao. The emperor didn’t want to lose this face. He scolded the prince for being unfaithful and unfilial, blinded the prince, and made the prince so embarrassed in public. This is the book that he wants the prince to sacrifice to heaven and sin for him.

The courtier said carefully: "Your Majesty, the prince made a serious mistake. You can confess to the heaven by offering sacrifices to the heaven, and pray to the heaven for rain on behalf of the emperor."

When the prince heard this, he immediately said: "Father! Your son is really wrong! Let your father forgive your children! Please let your son go to the altar to pray for the rain, confess your sins to the heaven, and ask for forgiveness from the heaven!"

The emperor's complexion eased, and he sighed and said, "You are my prince, and you will succeed me in the future." It's a successor! After I die! "As a prince, you can behave indiscriminately, which makes me very disappointed! Born as a royal son, what you do is related to the peace of heaven and earth. How wrong you do is to warn you of natural disasters, and you should also go Sacrifice the heavens and repent, pray for rain for the people.” In this way, the possible human factors of the disaster were pushed to the crown prince.

The prince hated to death in his heart: dare to believe that the drought in the past four years was caused by my disorderly behavior, dare you say that! You are an emperor. You didn't say that you did something wrong, but you caught me as a scapegoat! The prince didn't believe in the principle of God's Scourge because of human behavior. This was obviously a political method played by the emperor, and he wanted to slap him in the face of his officials. But no matter how much he hates, no matter how annoyed he is, he can't show anything, and still crying miserably: "Thank you father Huang Yuanyou! My son and minister must concentrate on confessing to the sky, and from then on, he will change his mind and honor his father faithfully. He will never dare to do anything wrong again ."

The emperor sternly said: "Those officials who have been dismissed in the past two months will be restored to their posts, and those who have been promoted will be removed from their posts. From now on, the three princes will have to look at the memorials summarized by the prince to determine the accuracy." In other words, the prince’s two-month business was wiped out.

The prince was stunned. He looked up at the emperor. There was a sarcasm on the corner of his mouth. The prince quickly lowered his head and said, "Yes!"

The third prince frowned, just about to shirk, but then remembered the nagging that Da Young Master Ye usually said in his ear, so he frowned and said, "Thank you for your trust, Father."

Seeing the three princes' expression of not buying it, the emperor had a fire in his heart, and he scolded the three princes for the ten thousandth time for not knowing good or bad!

The emperor got up and said: "Stop the court!" Angrily, he left the court, leaving the prince and the chilling courtiers limp in front of the throne.

The third prince went back and talked to Master Ye and Shen Zhuo. Master Ye laughed out loud. The third prince looked at him, and Master Ye knew that the third prince thought of fratricidal rivalry in his heart, so he immediately purged his expression: "It's nothing, it's nothing. "

Shen Zhuo also secretly breathed a sigh of relief, saying that Shen Wen was really right. No matter what happened, the prince was obviously hacked, and he couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "It's like...people say that occasional success is more terrifying than failure."

Master Ye clapped his hands and exclaimed, "That's right! That's right! What a quatrain!"

The third prince sighed: "My father asked me to read his summary of the memorials. How can I have this thought!"

Young Master Ye thumped his chest and feet: "This is the equal division of state affairs, equal division of state affairs! The emperor asked you to restrict the prince's authority!"

The three princes made a disdainful expression: "But I don't want to read those nonsense! Those memorials that require military supplies have become a sentence, what's the use?"

The prince Ye was helpless, and said to the third prince: "As long as you can't make a big mistake, the emperor will still know what's going on."

The third prince sneered: "If he knows, his attitude over the years still doesn't understand that he doesn't want to increase troops in Zhenbeihou. Anyway, I don't want to look at it, it depends on you!" After that, he got up and went to practice martial arts.

Young Master Ye had to say to Shen Zhuo: "Let's help him watch together."

Shen Zhuo slapped his chest and said, "Don't worry, Wu Shuangquan will see what is difficult in the summary of the memorial!"

Young Master Ye showed a little contempt: "Although it is not good for scholars to treat each other well, I really can't agree with you about yourself."

Shen Zhuo smiled and said: "Let's go to the martial arts field and try to see if you can do the same."

Young Master Ye stood up and said, "I am almost ten years older than you. I have a family and a family. Looking at you people, it's so naive!" After that, he hurried out and went home.

Da Young Master Ye returned to the mansion, and when he saw his father, he rushed over, bowed deeply to his father, and stood up and said: "Father is foresight, really the present Zhuge!" Then he whispered the matter again, and Ye Zhongshu let out a sigh of relief. Tweet Xu said: "Those kids really didn't write in vain. I heard that paper is expensive in the market for a while. It can be seen how many people have done this, not just on our side."

Young Master Ye was so happy that he patted his hands like a child, and said to Ye Zhongshu: "Father, Shen San said that occasional success is more terrifying than failure. It's a perfect fit."

Ye Zhongshu also laughed: "This is the truth when you climb high and fall fiercely. Come on, let's have a drink." Young Master Ye nodded flatteredly, and the father and son drank a pot.

Yan Jing received all the reports in the future, and he sighed in a low voice: "More than one thousand and one hundred copies, except for us, Ye Zhongshu must have done his best. Probably, Old Master Liu has no sleeves either... "

The person next to him said: "The good news is that our exempted officials have also returned to their positions."

Yan Jing nodded: "From then on, the prince will no longer appoint and remove officials at will." The prince used to streamline officials in the past, with the emperor's approval, he naturally did it smoothly. Now I know that I do it alone, but I won't be allowed.

The discussion in the capital soon subsided. Everyone knew that the prince was going to confess to the heavens, and that Shen Jiajun's suppression of the bandits would not stop. Some people speculated that it was the prince's idea to divide the Shen's army, but the emperor disagreed! But the emperor didn't pick this problem. He did it somehow. It didn't show Zhenbeihou's face and wouldn't let the prince bring Shen Jiajun down. The emperor was really amazing. Everyone thinks that the emperor still understands things, and the prince is the ignorant. Some people also mentioned the caress between the prince and the second daughter of Zhenbei Hou many years ago, and they all felt that the prince was endless

The most unhappy, of course, is the prince.