"Zhuo'er, this time you are on your southern tour with Your Majesty, if what Your Majesty does is against the people's livelihood, you must persuade more. For the father, I know that you are soft-spoken, but if you don't say the pros and cons of small things, how can you see the pros and cons of big things! The people's livelihood is closely related, and any little thing can affect the lives of the people, you must remember! While Xiao Zhuo hadn't left yet, Xiao Yu persuaded her bitterly. Now that three days have passed, and the personnel who went to the southern tour have also been selected, he is still a little worried about Xiao Zhuo, who is about to board the ship. It's just because he doesn't know that the current Xiao Zhuo is still not the son he used to be, after all, six years have passed, Xiao Zhuo has learned Taoist doctrine, and he is really afraid that Xiao Zhuo will go on a southern tour with him, and he will really turn a blind eye to everything.

And Xiao Zhuo faced Xiao Yu's advice that he was a family and a country, and that he was loyal and righteous, and he also understood that his father couldn't let go of his best friend and the people's livelihood of the Great Sui, but so what, years of forced labor have caused resentment among the people everywhere, and bandits are rampant in various counties and counties. If the Great Sui is weakened, I am afraid that these forces will be like scabies on the body, enough to rot the rule of the imperial court over the localities! And his father must be very clear about this, so in the past few days at home, Xiao Rui and Xiao Kai would be called by him to the study to inquire about the situation in various places every time they came home, and even when he returned home, he was asked where he went? Tell him to go to a courtier's house more often.

"Father, in your opinion, is there a Taoist lord or a non-Taoist king in the Holy Heaven today?" Xiao Zhuo asked rhetorically. Although he felt that his father was worried about the imperial court, he wanted to know his father's opinion of the imperial court, after all, what he did was still related to the reputation of the Xiao family, if Xiao Yu was not stubborn and stupid to the Great Sui, then he could have a lot less worries. And this question, he originally thought that Xiao Yu would think carefully before answering, but he didn't expect Xiao Yu to be just a little surprised and replied: "What is Youdao?" What is the Senseless? Qin Shi Huang's territory of the Six Kingdoms, the thousand-year-old emperor's road, its talent, its strategy, its merits, can be described as a way? However, he burned different books and endangered people's lives, but this move to consolidate the unification of the country made it fall into the name of a tyrant! Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is eloquent and strategic, Ren Liang will drive the Huns thousands of miles away, and future generations will all sing praises of merit, but for the relatives of the martyrs, how can it not be unreasonable? The common people of the world see that the emperor is interested in killing is regarded as a no-way, diligent and loving the people, and sympathetic to the people is the king, but they don't know that the founder of the dynasty in the past dynasties, which is not a person whose hands are stained with blood, and who kills the Quartet, even if there are benevolent and benevolent people, how much can they achieve, how can the emperor's evaluation be determined by the world's opinion! Xiao Yu said it word by word, it seems that he has thought about this question a long time ago.

Xiao Zhuo didn't expect his father to have such an opinion, so he asked again: "So my father still thinks that His Majesty is a Ming Jun?" ”

"I can't judge whether Your Majesty is a Ming Jun or not, but it is by no means a Yongjun! When I first arrived in Chang'an in the past, His Majesty was just an ordinary prince, and all he wanted was to be filial piety in front of the hall. But it backfired, and later the eldest princess of Anyi and the pro-Turks, His Majesty was angry but unable to do anything, and vowed in his heart that he would never separate his relatives. However, only three years later, Princess An Yi died, and the emperor ordered Princess Yi to marry in the north, and His Majesty hated that he was not the emperor, so he strengthened his heart to win the heir. After ascending the throne, in the past few years, there have been peace, turmoil, and rebellion, and the Great Sui has ever married a princess? Lost a penny of land? If this is the case, can Your Majesty be regarded as a righteous king? ”

Xiao Zhuo couldn't answer, since the Holy Shang ascended the throne, he went to Panlong Mountain, and he went for six years, where he could figure out how many things in the middle, but one thing is indeed true, that is, His Majesty did not make peace with foreign countries after he ascended the throne, and the territory of the Great Sui did not lose an inch, and even the year before last, he completely swept away the threat of Tuyuhun in the northwest.

It's just that Xiao Zhuo heard his father mention Princess Yichang, so he remembered the two wedding dresses and what Xiao Jing said when he was in Lanling, and then he also had some suspicions about the behavior of the saint today. First of all, it was only three years from the northern marriage of the eldest princess of Anyi, to the northern marriage of the eldest princess of Yiyi, why did His Majesty, who was the king of Jin at that time, not have a firm heart to win the heir when the former married in the north, but decided to take the heir when the princess married in the north, and only one year pushed the first prince Yang Yong off the position of the prince, not to mention the means, this speed alone can not be described as unfast!

"Father, how is the relationship between Your Majesty and Princess Yichang's brother and sister?" Xiao Yu didn't understand why Xiao Zhuo suddenly asked this, and Xiao Zhuo also noticed this, so he had to take Xiao Yu to his room to take out the two wedding dresses, and took out the poem "The Evil One" written on silk. And Xiao Yu only glanced at it, his eyes suddenly moistened, and his hands trembled and stretched out.

"Where did you get these two wedding dresses?" Seeing that his father's voice also became a little choked, Xiao Zhuo did not hide it, and told Lang Mengzhen and the things when he was in Lanling one by one. After a long time, I only heard Xiao Yu's long sigh: "Brother Zhang! Why can't you wait any longer! ”

"Father knows whose wedding dress it is?" Xiao Zhuo asked anxiously, but Xiao Yu's answer surprised him even more, "This wedding dress was made by your mother for the righteous princess, how could I not recognize it!" ”

"Mother...... Why did Princess Nayi make this wedding dress? Xiao Zhuo wanted to ask why his mother did it? But thinking that these two wedding dresses were obtained from the hands of another person, and although the materials of the wedding dress are of high quality, the workmanship is quite simple, just showing two "happy" words on the chest of the wedding dress, which shows that this wedding dress is probably made in private, and it is made for the princess, so naturally it cannot be known to outsiders.

"His name is Zhang Heng, he is the former imperial doctor, when His Majesty was still the King of Jin, he was just a guest of the Jin Palace, very talented, when His Majesty wanted to win the heir, Tuo Yu Wenshu went to find Yang Yue and then wooed Sikong Yang Su, it was his suggestion." Xiao Yu recalled the past, and people also found a chair to sit down, Xiao Zhuo saw this, and hurriedly went over to pour tea, and then the voice with a little vicissitudes of life said leisurely, and finally solved the mystery in Xiao Zhuo's heart. At that time, Princess Yichang was always coming to the Jin Palace, because she had been good with His Majesty since she was a child. However, due to the matter of the eldest princess An Yi, His Majesty was busy with official business and was often not in the palace, so Zhang Heng came out to receive him. After going back and forth like this, the two secretly fell in love, but because of his identity, Zhang Heng never expressed his heart to the princess, because he felt that only when he became famous could he be worthy of the princess. Later, His Majesty learned of this, so he designed to break the relationship between the two, but Zhang Heng insisted on becoming famous before he was willing to marry the princess, and the princess left this evil in order to show her affection, and His Majesty had no choice but to let them. But no one expected that only three years later, the eldest princess of Anyi, who married the Turks in the north, died, and there was no other princess to marry in the royal family at that time. At that time, Zhang Heng knelt in the Jin Palace, his head was broken, and His Majesty also asked His Majesty to retract his order three times, but at that time, Goguryeo was also secretly contacting the Turks, intending to create chaos in the north. And the day before the eldest princess was ordered to marry in the north, she suddenly came to the Jin Palace, asking Her Majesty to make two wedding dresses for her, and she wanted to wear a wedding dress for Zhang Heng, but the matter could not be known to outsiders, so I asked your mother to do it. ”

"Mother knows about it, too?" Xiao Zhuo didn't expect that his mother was also involved in this matter, but when it came to the seriousness of this matter, he felt that with his mother's status as a concubine at the time, he probably didn't know the whole story.

"Your mother doesn't know. When I told her the size of my wedding dress, she thought I was going to take a concubine again! Later, when I saw that the size of the groom's clothes was different from mine, I didn't go to your aunt to seek justice! Hearing that Xiao Yu deviated from the topic, Xiao Zhuo hurriedly opened his mouth and pulled back, "Father, how is Lord Zhang?" ”

The princess worshipped heaven and earth with him in the Jin Palace, drank a glass of wine, and returned to the north of the palace to marry after having the name of husband and wife. Later, His Majesty ascended the throne, Zhang Heng served as the imperial historian, and repeatedly asked His Majesty to visit the princess as an envoy, but His Majesty refused. Zhang Heng knew that there was no hope of goodbye, and he resigned and returned to his hometown in frustration, until two years ago when Qimin Khan died, Zhang Heng came to Beijing to ask for his life to take back the princess, but at that time His Majesty was personally conquering Tuguhun, not in the capital at all, and when His Majesty came back, the princess had married Shibi Khan, Zhang Heng was also ill, but he didn't expect that now, he went one step ahead of the princess! Ay! Providence makes people! ”

"Father's Day condolences!" Xiao Zhuo opened his mouth to comfort. After Xiao Yu's mood rarely improved, he spoke again: "Father, I was worried that these two wedding dresses would be left unattended after I left, but now it seems that it is most appropriate to hand them over to my father." Father! The boy goes first! Master Zhang's matter, the child will definitely fulfill his remaining wish! After Xiao Zhuo finished speaking, he knelt down to say goodbye to Xiao Yu again, and then walked out of Xiao Mansion.

Leaving home, Xiao Zhuo walked to the meeting place of this southern tour, just walking on Luoyang Street, Xiao Zhuo felt the vastness of this southward trip. The huge Luoyang street was already crowded at this time, coming to see the lively, seeing off, transporting goods, but more, it was the sergeant who guarded, from the dock where the boat was parked, to the street where Xiao Zhuo was located, and it stretched to the gate of the palace, it seems that the holy car is also coming. When Xiao Zhuo came to the place where the dragon boat docked, he saw nine big boats docked in the canal waterway in turn, the front four and the back four were slightly smaller, divided into two teams and lined up in the river, the middle one, the golden dragon head at the bow of the boat held its head high, the two five-clawed golden dragon claws clung to the side of the boat, and the dragon tail at the end of the boat was full and warped. On the huge hull, the fine mahogany is also painted golden, chiseled out of the scales of the water, it is actually a dragon boat, and the hull is huge, and the workmanship and decoration are gorgeous.

"Xiao Zhuo!" A familiar voice sounded behind him, Xiao Zhuo turned around and looked, it turned out that Yuwen Chengdu was leading the Son of Heaven Luan to drive over, behind Yuwen Chengdu, the Son of Heaven Yang Guang and Xiao Meiniang and Zhu Guier sat on top of the Luan car, and the accompanying royal concubines followed each other in turn, all of them were Zhu Yan Cuiqiao's appearance, the posture of hibiscus and jade willows, the ring fat and swallow thin, and so on, I am afraid there are dozens of them. Xiao Zhuo couldn't recognize who these people were, but judging from the clothes and the location of each person, he could also tell that they were all harem concubines, but it was these concubines who made Xiao Zhuo's heart gush with unprecedented fear!

It turns out that the harem is really full of demons?

Xiao Zhuo looked at those concubines, all of them smiling smartly, green and gorgeous, their demeanor was even more elegant and graceful, revealing infinite charm between movement and stillness, but no matter how they concealed it, they still couldn't completely hide the demonic power in their bodies after all, especially when they were getting closer and closer to Xiao Zhuo, the ground behind Xiao Zhuo trembled even more than the movement when he carried Tianlan!

"Xiao Zhuo, Your Majesty has granted you permission to take the dragon boat with the royal family, and I will take you to your cabin when I board the ship." After Yuwen Chengdu conveyed the Holy Lord's message, he immediately stood aside with Xiao Zhuo. His mission is to protect the Holy Lord's boarding, and now that the royal family has arrived on the riverbank, no one can go up until His Majesty has boarded the ship!

"Hmmm! Chengdu, what are the other ships for? Xiao Zhuo asked. And Yuwen Chengdu also knew what the other ships he was talking about, so he replied: "The front and rear ones are the materials needed for the southern tour, that is, palace concubine costumes, orchestral silk bamboo, and the like; The two in front of the dragon boat are the court officials and their families, and the last two are the palace maids, singers and servants of the officials brought out of the palace. ”

"And what about Your Majesty's safety?"

"You can rest assured that there are three hundred Xiaoguo guards stationed on the dragon boat, and there will be fifty Xiaoguo guards on other ships, and there are still 20,000 troops on the riverbank after departure, absolutely foolproof!" Speaking of his Xiaoguowei, Yuwen Chengdu also seems to be in his chest.

"It's so detailed!" Xiao Zhuo said with emotion. In this southern tour, there were hundreds of civil and military officials and harem concubines alone, and the servants and palace maids who served these people in their daily lives were at least thousands. That's not even counting the kabuki and escort soldiers, if these people are counted, the entire fleet is probably no less than 3,000 people. It's okay for these 3,000 people to live on a boat, but what about eating? Neither Yuwen Chengdu nor he had seen it with his own eyes before, it seemed that he had not seen anyone transporting ingredients!

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!" As soon as Yang Guang, the son of heaven, boarded the dragon boat, hundreds of officials, soldiers and palace concubines around him bowed their heads one after another.

"Hehehehehe! Sister! That was your nephew just now? You're pretty handsome, aren't you? Taking advantage of this time when the concubines were all gathered together, a palace concubine teased Xiao Meiniang and Xiao Zhuo.

"Give me a stop! If any of you provoke him, don't blame me for not protecting you! Xiao Meiniang scolded sharply: "Although you can go south with you this time, it is best not to leave the dragon boat, that kid is Yuan Tiangang's junior brother, and it is inconvenient for him to make a move in front of everyone, but if you leave the boat, I may not be able to protect you!" ”

"Flat!"

Yang Guang looked around and saw that everyone had bowed their heads and bowed, so he raised his hand and motioned for everyone to get up and board the boat. When everyone was on the boat, he nodded again, but listened to the eunuch's voice "Open the boat!" The trumpets all around made in unison, the sound of drum music shook thousands of miles, the eight boats before and after the dragon boat followed the canvas, on each canvas, there was a golden dragon seal engraved on it, but seeing the dragon sail with the wind and drumming, the nine big boats finally slowly drove away from Luoyang.

[Follow-up spoilers]

"Brother, you have to remember that after I die, this book will be offered to the descendants of the Xiao family in the ancestral hall of the Xiao family, and the descendants of the Xiao family can only turn a page every fifty years, and they must not read more!"

Looking at Xiao Zhuo, who was still leisurely drinking tea in front of him, Xiao Rui almost suspected that he had heard it wrong: his fourth brother was explaining what was going on? But Xiao Zhuo doesn't look like he's about to die?

"Fourth brother, you ......"

"Brother, you heard it right, I did really explain the future, what I said, brother must let future generations remember, if there is a mistake, the Xiao family is in danger!"