By the time Chu Shaoyuan settled down the affairs of the city and returned to the palace, the stars in the sky had already covered the entire sky.

He stepped into the palace by starlight, did not stay for a moment, went straight to the Qianyuan Palace, and told Emperor Wen about the affairs in detail.

“… Previously, there were several battalion guards in the Jiucheng Battalion Guards who resisted stubbornly, but after they were gradually subdued by the people of the Shenji Battalion and the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses, the Jiucheng Battalion Guards also stopped, captured Sun Bian Rong and He Chenghai alive, and now they are put in the prison of the Criminal Department, waiting for their father to interrogate, and the batch of bows and crossbows that were previously placed in the Shenji Battalion, my son has seen them, and they are really a batch of very good weapons, if they are placed at the border pass, they will definitely be able to exert their original power......"

Emperor Wen looked at the appearance of the third son, and his heart suddenly rose, among the several sons, if there were really few who could compare to the third son, he really didn't want him to work day and night like this, so tired.

The more Emperor Wen thought about it, the more guilty he felt in his heart, and he sighed secretly and stopped Chu Shaoyuan's words.

"The third child is terrifying and cold?"

Although Chu Shaoyuan had been seriously injured more than once, he was young after all, and his injuries recovered very quickly, at this time, when he heard Emperor Wen ask, although he didn't know what his father was going to do, Ren Jiu replied respectfully: "My son's injury has healed, and he is young and vigorous and naturally not afraid of the cold." ”

Emperor Wen smiled, "On the first and second days of the Lunar New Year, there is no moon, and I am not afraid of the cold, so I watch the stars at night with me. ”

Chu Shaoyuan knew that Emperor Wen was going to talk to him, and he wanted to nod, but after glancing at Emperor Wen, he frowned, and hesitated: "But my father's body is ......."

"It's okay for me!" Emperor Wen said as he got up.

Zhao Yuande hurriedly stepped forward to serve Emperor Wen, and asked softly: "It's freezing this day, and the slave will give the emperor a warm pot bar." ”

Because he was tied up in the house by the prince's people before, and blocked the prince's foot for Emperor Wen, he couldn't hold it anymore, and he lay in the house for a day before he would be able to get up, but fortunately, Emperor Wen did not dislike his old age, and still let him serve by his side, so that Zhao Yuande was very grateful.

Emperor Wen nodded and went to the Star Gazing Pavilion with Chu Shaoyuan.

The so-called night stargazing, Chu Shaoyuan has also watched with Emperor Wen a few times, but most of them are on the top floor of the Star Viewing Pavilion, but what is different today is that Emperor Wen climbed to the small attic on the top floor of the Star Viewing Pavilion with him.

This is the first time Chu Shaoyuan has discovered this small attic, he originally thought that the top floor was already the closest place to the canopy, but he didn't expect that above the top floor, there was such an attic, and there were many bookshelves in this small attic, and there were many books piled up on the shelves, some of which were already old.

Emperor Wen stooped into the attic and reached out to light the oil lamp on the small square table in the middle of the attic.

Chu Shaoyuan only noticed at this time that Zhao Yuande had been standing outside and did not come in to serve, he hurriedly stepped forward and took the tung oil lamp in Emperor Wen's hand, "Father, what is this place?"

He had a gut feeling that this would be a mysterious place where many things were hidden.

Emperor Wen smiled, took out a cloth towel from under the small square table, and wiped the small square table at will, as if he didn't expect a lot of dust to fall on the small square table, and the dust flew for a while, making him cough again and again.

"Ahem, ahem...... I haven't been here for a long time, and I have accumulated so much dust," Emperor Wen coughed for a long time before stopping, and instructed Zhao Yuande to fetch some water before saying to Chu Shaoyuan, "You don't know that this place is also normal, this attic was originally the place where the emperors of the past dynasties cultivated." ”

Chu Shaoyuan was stunned.

He had heard of the rumors in the market, because the founding emperor Emperor Mingzu had entered the Taoist gate, so the Qing cultivation became a family rule that the emperors had to follow, so since the founding of Dayan, the successive emperors would always cultivate in a secluded place before ascending the throne, in order to calm their minds, get rid of desires, and protect the health of all the people in the world.

This is also the grand oath made by Emperor Mingzu when he unveiled the uprising.

Chu Shaoyuan's heart moved, such a place seems inconspicuous, but even a monarch like his father who is above tens of thousands of people has to do it himself, without pretending to be the hands of others, which is enough to show how important this place is, and he is just a prince, but his father let him come in with him, which makes him have to think about it more.

Emperor Wen seemed to know Chu Shaoyuan's thoughts, and looked at him with a smile: "The crown prince was also brought here by me, but he was only seven or eight years old at the time, and he was a child in the end. ”

Although he didn't say anything positive or negative, Chu Shaoyuan keenly heard Emperor Wen's dissatisfaction from his words.

Now that the crown prince has done such a thing, Chu Shaoyuan didn't have the heart to speak for him, so he simply asked, "Are these books all left by previous emperors?"

He had already noticed the books scattered on the shelves before, and his hands itched to look at them, but he still restrained his thoughts somewhat.

Emperor Wen took out a book and counted it, brushed off the dust on it, and took a closer look at it with the tung oil lamp, "It's not all, some of them are astrological books left by Emperor Mingzu, which not only has the way of I Ching gossip, but also the law of the operation of the heavenly tracks...... None of these later ancestors could calm down. ”

After Emperor Wen finished speaking, he handed the few books he had sorted out to Chu Shaoyuan.

Chu Shaoyuan looked down, but there was really a lot of dust, and when the pages were opened, he only felt a puff of dust coming to his face.

Zhao Yuande panted and brought the water to the attic.

Chu Shaoyuan naturally wouldn't let Emperor Wen do it, he cleaned the attic by himself, and wiped the dust on the small attic inch by inch with the previous cloth towel, and as soon as the used cloth towel was put into the water, Zhao Yuande's basin of water was dyed black, and it was not until the water was changed several times that the attic was clean again.

Chu Shaoyuan took the warm wine from Zhao Yuande's hand again, and by the way, there was a cut roasted muntjac leg.

Emperor Wen and Chu Shaoyuan sat cross-legged in front of the square table, the skylights in the attic were all opened, and the starlight in the sky seemed to be sprinkled into the attic.

"You must be wondering in your heart, why did I bring you here?" Emperor Wen did not play dumb riddles with Chu Shaoyuan as usual, but asked him directly.

Chu Shaoyuan nodded: "Since there is an edict from Emperor Mingzu here, it is a little inappropriate for the identity of the son to enter. ”

Emperor Wen poured the wine into the wine cup, raised his head and took a big sip, "What's wrong, you're not right, it's okay for the two of them to come here? Don't tell me that you don't want this position of mine!"

The loud words made Chu Shaoyuan stunned, and the wind blew in from the skylight, blowing the candle flame on the small square table flickering.

After a while, Chu Shaoyuan lowered his eyes, nodded slowly, and then shook his head again.

"It's not that I don't want to, I just felt that this matter depends on the wishes of my father, and I did my best to obey the mandate of heaven, and in the past ten years, before my son never returned to the palace, I never dared to think about returning to the palace, and after returning to the palace, most of the people I met were ......."

Chu Shaoyuan picked up a piece of muntjac meat and put it in his mouth to chew: "Father may not know, at this time of last year, Erchen was uncertain about life and death, and was rescued by the Tatar prince passing by, eating this muntjac meat every day, and the half-cooked jerky choked Erchen wanted to vomit, but if he wanted to live, he couldn't give up the chance to survive because the meat was too fishy, and my father asked me if I wanted to ......."

"Erchen, I want to!"

Chu Shaoyuan's undisguised words made Emperor Wen smile on his face.

"Okay, then tell me why you want to. ”

Why?

If it were the crown prince, it would probably be said that for the sake of his dead uncle and cousin, in order to take revenge, in order to trample those who once looked down on him under their feet.

As for the four princes, it will be said that it is naturally for the supreme right and the freedom to be able to rule the world, and to let those who have offended him live worse than death.

But Chu Shaoyuan didn't think so in his heart, or rather, he didn't quite think so in his heart.

There was a gentle smile on the corner of his mouth, and the smile was very light and light, as if a breeze could blow the smile away.

"Erchen has people who want to protect, and Erchen wants to protect her for the rest of his life and not let her suffer anything, this is what his son thought at the beginning,

"Later, gradually walked more places, went to the northwest, entered the tribe of the Tartars, for the first time knew that there was such a place, even the wind and sand will kill people, before only knew that the poor in the world had a hard time, but did not expect that the people of the whole tribe can eat meat porridge people can not pick out ten households, the big tribe oppresses the small tribe, the people of the small tribe can not survive, they are starved to death and froze to death, Erchen thought at that time, if it can really ...... At least Erchen must do his best to protect my Dayan and prevent this kind of thing from happening to the people of Dayan. ”

Emperor Wen sighed slightly: "The tribe of the Tartars? The Tartars have always regarded our Dayan as their granary, since the founding of Emperor Mingzu, almost every year with the Tartars, until the treasury was empty, had to retreat, so north of Yanmen Pass, it was divided into ten states to go out to the Tartars.

"When it came to Emperor Taizong, he gradually recuperated, and Emperor Taizong took the iron horse to level the Tartars north of the Red Cloud Mountain, and recovered ten states, and then to Emperor Wuzong, who was more important in suppressing the military, and most of the treasury was hollowed out by the generals with grain and grass and military salaries, so even the mausoleum of Emperor Wuzong was not as good as Emperor Taizong, and then when I came to me, the country left to me was full of devastation, and I demolished the east wall and could not make up the west wall.

"It is the emperor who raises the army, but it is the people who suffer, you need to know that no matter what decision the emperor makes, the people of the world are really suffering from these killing decisions of this emperor!"

Emperor Wen sandwiched a piece of muntjac meat and put it in his mouth, the cold roasted muntjac meat had lost its original deliciousness and became hard to swallow, while the dusty past in memory kept emerging from his mind.

Chu Shaoyuan sat silently opposite Emperor Wen, since he returned to the palace, from Wei Feng in the northwest, to Chen Jing in Fujian, from the nobles to the military generals, and then to the civil officials of the six departments, which one is not for himself, greedy and greedy, for fear that the looting will not be enough, and who has thought about the people of Li and the people of the world?