Chapter 104: Brother
The second prince is also the queen's concubine.
Unlike the imperial brother, the talents of the second prince are very outstanding, perhaps too outstanding.
The second prince is an outstanding master of calligraphy and painting, and he is the best at landscape. His paintings are full of atmosphere, very majestic and precipitous, coupled with a handful of grass iron pen silver hooks, his works are sought after by countless people, but there are very few in the market, showing a state of price without market.
The civil officials who support the second prince are the mainstay, and most of them think that the second prince is a good emperor because of his excellent calligraphy and painting, and he will naturally be a good emperor.
The supporters of the three princes are mainly military attachés. Without him, in addition to being greedy and lustful, the third prince also has a hobby rarely seen in the clan: studying military books. This prince of the chubby world couldn't bear the hardships of practicing martial arts, so he changed to talking on paper. In the past, he often studied various historical battles, so he made friends with some generals and generals.
The death of the martial third prince at the hands of a woman cannot but be said to be a kind of irony.
The fourth prince himself took the golden mean, neither showing particularly outstanding talents to be taboo, but also not so obscure that Taoguang was ignored, and he was a figure who was not lost.
Except for the five princes in the middle, the youngest adult prince, the sixth prince, Zhuang Jiezheng, is just sixteen years old this year. When a man is sixteen and vigorous, he is an adult male.
The sixth prince was only appointed to marry last year, and he has not yet married, nor has he been placed on an errand, so he has not shown his ability to do things. However, the biological mother of the six princes, Jin Guiren, is an extremely famous beauty, and the six princes are not far behind, born tall and handsome, and the tongue gives the mouth a very sweet mouth, so it is very favored.
Among the ministers, the first assistant Sun Shangzhi and the second assistant Wang Yuanqi are both biased towards the six princes. This position is well understood. The six princes were young and had not experienced any storms to deal with, and their biological mother was beautiful and had no foundation, so of course the authority would fall into the hands of the cabinet.
The four princes were weighing their brothers one by one, and Li Shijin waited for a while, and then replied softly: "Mr. Wu in Jingli sent someone over and waited outside." ”
Well? The fourth prince glared at Li Shijin with extreme dissatisfaction: "Why is such an important thing only said now?!" Hurry up and let people in. ”
Li Shijin just didn't see it. Xindao, you are delicate and expensive, the ghost door has been closed for a trip, and now you are still empty. Who knows if it is good news or bad news that Mr. Wu has brought him, in short, he must be tired, if the injury is repeated, it is not a little person like us who eats and hangs.
It's just that the four princes are in good spirits when they see them in person, and thinking that people are coming, they are obviously in a hurry. It should be extremely important news, and Li Shijin said it in return.
Mr. Wu is a state, and his name is a country.
When he was young, he was extremely famous, and he was a man of the year in the right area of the river. It's just that people's talents are too much, and they can't help but have a bad temperament. Somehow offended people, and was put on the head of a bandit.
The young Mr. Wu was furious and rushed to study the theory of the Yamen, but he had been dismissed from his reputation at that time, and he no longer had the treatment of a scholar, and was driven away by the old fist of the official guarding the door, and he did not even see the Master of Xuezheng. After returning home, he cried for three days. He cried and was blind in one eye.
Later, the celebrity Wu Bang disappeared for many years, and when he was found by the four princes, he was actually doing the work of a butcher.
Now Mr. Wu has lived in the Dongjing Mansion for many years, and he and the four princes have always been half-teacher and half-friend.
Li Shijin knew that the four princes had many secret things that Mr. Wu was helping him arrange, but he couldn't find out the details. Because of this, I am also worried that if I stop the people sent by Mr. Wu, I may mistake some secrets, but it will be difficult to clean up.
Although he can be regarded as having someone behind him, since he has served as the long history of the Four Princes' Mansion, he is also a person in the same boat anyway, if it is the Four Princes, what is the difference. Li Shijin has no confidence that the people behind him can save him.
Li Shijin went out to find someone with his front foot, and Lin Hui immediately bolted the door from the inside with his back foot.
One on the left and one on the right, you can't let people come in casually.
Soon, Li Shijin brought back a young man in his twenties.
Lin Hui's instructions were very clear: first go to the clean room next to her to take a bath and change clothes. Otherwise, don't even think about getting in.
Not negotiable.
After a short stalemate, the people from Beijing were very assertive, no longer paid attention to Li Shijin, and went over to freshen up first.
There are always maids in the clean room, not only serving and bathing, but mainly always preparing hot and cold water. It is often used in the main house.
The little ones have long been instructed to know what to do if someone comes. Soon he brought a large wooden barrel, and with a bubble brush, wiped the young man red, and put on a clean cotton robe of primary color, and then let him go.
The man had been holding a wax pill in his hand while bathing. This thing will never dare to leave it. Fortunately, the wax pill is not afraid of water, and even the outside of the wax pill is washed clean by the way.
The wax pill was handed from one hand to the other.
The hands of the Four Princes.
After carefully checking the seal on the wax pill and confirming that it was really made by Mr. Wu, engraved with a secret mark, and not damaged, the fourth prince retracted his thumb and the remaining four fingers and ...... Pinch......
Pinch it again......
I couldn't pinch it.
The wax pill was sealed firmly, and the four princes were weak and had no strength, and after comparing their strength a few times, the four princes handed the wax pills back stupidly.
The young man first rolled up his sleeve to his elbow quickly, to show that there was no possibility of dropping the contents of the bag. Then he took the wax pill, pinched it hard, and handed back the paper ball that had clumped inside.
Although the paper ball is small, this paper is specially made, extremely thin and tough, and it is half a foot square when it is unfolded, and it is full of words written in dense small letters.
The fourth prince carefully read Mr. Wu's letter twice, and his heart became heavier and heavier.
According to the practice of the previous dynasty, about a month ago, except for the crown prince who stayed behind to assist the government, the rest of the adult princes all set out to express their condolences to the Quartet.
Soon after the princes set out, the emperor fell ill.
The news was not made public. Not many people know.
The emperor's illness is a big or small thing.
In fact, unless he was too sick to get up, the emperor rarely used the excuse of illness to miss court meetings or sacrifices.
Sitting on this majestic throne with no sides on all sides, you must always make a posture of "I sit firmly".
The emperor is a lonely profession.
Once you show that there is a physical problem, then it is likely that other problems will also come.
Another reason why there was no clear message to let people chase the princes back, it is said that the emperor was not seriously ill.
If you recuperate with great fanfare and let the princes come back to serve the sick, it is likely to cause a lot of discussion.
The emperor's insistence on not agreeing to let the princes come back even gave rise to another conjecture: perhaps...... The emperor was not sick at all. (To be continued.) )