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King Hui and Prince Xuanguo sat opposite each other on the couch.

The maid brought the tea, brought the blue and white porcelain tea bowls to the front of King Hui and the Xuanguo Mansion, and then picked up the tray and bent her knees to the side.

The prince of Xuanguo picked up the tea bowl and put it in front of his nose and sniffed it, and praised it: "Good tea!" ”

King Hui looked at him and smiled, and said: "This is the Longjing before the rain that just came up this year, only the father, queen and mother in the palace have it, and these of the king's are sent by the mother concubine." If my uncle likes it, I'll take it back to taste it later. ”

The prince of Xuanguo shook his head and said, "Since there are not many, it is better for His Highness to keep it to entertain distinguished guests." ”

King Hui didn't say anything, but glanced at the people in the house.

The great eunuch who was waiting for him next to him understood, waved his hand, and led the people to bend their knees to King Hui, then withdrew, and closed the door.

The prince of Xuanguo drank two more sips of tea, and then put down the tea bowl and said to King Hui: "Since the matter of Wang Dalang's high school has already made trouble, I will simply make a big fuss about him, and encourage the scholars in the entire capital, it is best to let people connect with the harem and relatives to interfere in politics." ”

King Hui's eyes moved, the queen has established a good name over the years, and the prince, the prince, has become more and more stable in the court, which has brought more and more oppression to King Hui, making him feel that he is getting farther and farther away from the throne.

His father had said before that he was allowed to compete fairly with the crown prince, so he had worked hard all these years, but his father didn't look at it. In the past two years, he has felt more and more that the fair competition promised by his father is a lie, and his father has no intention of giving him a chance at all, and the prince in his mind has always been the crown prince. The father was just using him to test the crown prince, and using him to make the Xuanguo Mansion take the initiative to give up a huge wealth of property to realize his own imperial ambitions.

Since his father was so ruthless to him, he couldn't sit still.

The queen has been in charge of the middle palace for ten years, and she has bought people's hearts and left a good name inside and outside the court, and the Lin family has the name of loyalty and martyrdom, which has brought a lot of support to the prince.

If you take advantage of this incident to discredit the queen and the Lin family, it is indeed a good opportunity.

However, King Hui was also worried, and said to the prince of Xuanguo: "A plan is a good strategy, but this king is worried that if he annoys his father, he may make his father dissatisfied with us." ”

The prince of Xuanguo rubbed a jade wrench on his finger, paused for a moment, and then said lightly: "So we should encourage these scholars to make trouble, especially those scholars who have fallen behind, so that they think that the queen and the Lin family have interfered in the selection of this Spring Festival, causing the impression that this Spring Festival is unfair." At this time, His Royal Highness proposed to the emperor again that in order to calm down the anger of the public and for the sake of fairness, this year's Spring Festival and the palace examination will be held again, and those scholars who have fallen will naturally echo His Highness. Doing so can not only allow His Royal Highness to leave a good reputation among scholars, but also ruin the reputation of the Empress and the Lin family. However, even if the emperor is angry, but the law does not blame the public, he can deal with one or two scholars, but when hundreds of scholars make trouble, the emperor also has to consider the consequences.

In this world, the most unoffending person is the reader, and the reader's mouth can kill people invisibly. If the emperor really dares to deal with all the scholars, these scholars will dare to scold the emperor as a faint king, how will the emperor be written in the history books a hundred years later. ”

King Hui still shook his head and said, "My father will not reopen the Spring Festival and His Royal Highness, and those who have passed the Jinshi and Tongjinshi examinations will not support the proposal put forward by this king." ”

Prince Xuanguo smiled and said, "Your Highness, do you say that there are more people in the exam or more people who fall behind?" The imperial court held a spring festival every three years, and after the spring and palace examinations, 234 jinshi and fellow jinshi were taken, but there were tens of thousands of scholars who fell behind. ”

Ten years of hard study, just for a moment of fame, the most important fame and fortune in the world are scholars. If they see the hope that they can retake the test, they will definitely support it.

The prince of Xuanguo continued: "As for whether the emperor will agree to reopen the spring festival and His Royal Highness...... If the emperor agrees, it will be your Royal Highness's credit to those scholars, and if the emperor does not agree, it is the emperor who offends those scholars, and what does it have to do with His Highness. His Royal Highness just made a suggestion, and the emperor was dissatisfied at most, but he couldn't give advice to His Highness for this punishment. ”

King Hui nodded.

Since no matter whether his father was dissatisfied with him, he would not let him be the crown prince, he could only seek other forces from other ways to achieve his goals.

King Hui said: "But this person who instigates the scholars to make a big deal can't be done by the king's people, nor can it be done by the people of the Xuanguo Mansion, so you have to find a suitable person." ”

The prince of Xuanguo said: "Your Highness, rest assured, I have already thought about this person, His Highness and the Xuanguo Mansion are not suitable to come forward, but there is one person who is suitable?" ”

King Hui let out an "oh" and asked, "Who is my uncle talking about?" ”

The prince of Xuanguo smiled meaningfully, then dipped his hand in tea and wrote a person's name on the table.

King Hui's eyes moved, and he was indeed a good candidate.

King Hui and Prince Xuanguo talked for a while, and Prince Xuanguo stood up and said goodbye and prepared to leave.

As a result, as soon as he walked out of King Hui's study, he was stopped by Aunt Wu's maid who was waiting outside.

The maid smiled and said to the prince of Xuanguo: "My aunt knows that the prince is here, and I want to invite the prince to sit in the courtyard." ”

This Aunt Wu is the daughter of the Xuanguo Mansion sent to King Hui's Mansion, she gave birth to a child for King Hui a month ago, because it was a daughter, King Hui and Concubine Wu were disappointed, so she did not publicize it much.

The Xuanguo Mansion was also a little disappointed in her, King Hui's eldest son was so weak that he didn't seem to grow up, and if Aunt Wu could give birth to King Hui's second son, she would be a child with the blood of the Wu family.

Today's backyard of King Hui's Mansion is divided into two factions, with the two side concubines Du and Hai and Aunt Wu forming a faction; Princess Hui and a cousin of the same clan sent to King Hui's mansion by the Gan family formed another faction with King Hui's only son. King Hui respects Princess Hui, who has military power, but he favors the excellent sea side concubine and the fifth aunt. The two factions are equal in strength, and then they fight endlessly for favor.

Now the two side concubines did not succeed in fighting for King Hui's eldest son last time, and now they are trying to assist Aunt Wu, who has no health problems, to rob Mr. Huiwang's second son. And Princess Hui is also not confident that King Hui's eldest son can grow up safely, and she also wants her cousin to give birth to a son as soon as possible.

It is worth mentioning that Aunt Gan was diagnosed with a happy pulse in February, but a few days later when she was feeding the goldfish by the lotus pond, the railing she was holding on broke and fell into the cold lotus pond, and then she had a miscarriage. In the end, after checking for a long time, only one steward in charge of the garden railing was disposed of, and it was not done.

Aunt Wu stopped the prince of Xuanguo, naturally in order to show Princess Hui her family background and the importance that the Xuanguo Mansion attached to her.

But the prince of Xuanguo frowned when he heard this, and was a little dissatisfied with Aunt Wu's actions, and said: "I don't have time, if my aunt has something important, I will go to the Xuanguo Mansion to invite the ladies over." If there is nothing important, she has just given birth to a child, let her recuperate well, and don't have anything to do, and cause trouble to His Highness. ”

After saying that, he left.

The maid looked at him, stretched out her hand and said "Huh", thinking of the dark face of the prince of Xuanguo, she didn't dare to stop him, so she could only stand there, worried that she would not be able to make a bad deal in front of Aunt Wu when she went back. (To be continued.) )