The royal family's family banquet tonight was held in a hurry, and the end was also in a hurry, and after the small episode in the middle, there was a sense of unhappiness in the end.

King Duan and King Kang were originally brothers, but because of the battle for the throne, now one is high and the other is a frightened bird, which also has a warning effect on others.

With King Duan's ruthlessness, he is like this to King Kang, and how he will treat other brothers when he inherits the throne in the future, including the concubines in the palace, and even Emperor Chen himself, must think about this question.

After the banquet, everyone retreated, and Emperor Chen's face was ugly, and anyone could see that he was in a bad mood.

He grimaced and said in a deep voice: "Before he became the emperor, he treated his brother like this, and when he succeeded to the throne, did he want to get rid of me together?" ”

No one answered him, and no one dared to answer him, Emperor Chen thought for a while with a calm face, and said: "Inform Shangshu Province that this Wenju is mainly based on the Ministry of Officials, supplemented by the Ministry of Rites, and King Huai supervises ......."

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that these arrangements are a beating on King Duan and the Tang family, Wei Jian sighed lightly and said in a low voice: "Obey the order......"

……

The imperial examination in the Gyeonggi region is still a few days away, but at this juncture, His Majesty reversed the main and auxiliary departments in charge of the imperial examination, and changed it to the Ministry of Officials as the main department and the Ministry of Rites as the auxiliary.

King Duan has just eliminated the biggest threat, and he has almost secured the position of the prince.

But this position is not so easy to sit, at least before he became the emperor, he had to act more and more low-key, and King Duan took advantage of the martial arts to win over the important ministers of the court, which caused His Majesty to be dissatisfied, and gave up the errand that originally belonged to him to King Huai, and even the Tang family of the Ministry of Rites was affected.

This is His Majesty's beating on him, and it is a very severe beating.

The purpose is to remind and warn him that he is not yet the emperor, and if he is still so unscrupulous, he may not be able to sit on the throne.

……

Duanwangfu.

Duanwang's expression was very depressed, he thought that without King Kang, he would do things in the court, and there would be no more obstacles, who would have thought that even the credit he had won with great difficulty would be handed over, and King Huai would be cheapened in vain.

Tang Qi took a sip of tea and said: "King Kang has become the heir king, it is impossible to fight with His Royal Highness for anything, His Royal Highness can continue to be the same as before, don't do well, isn't King Kang so a failure?" ”

"What did this king do?" King Duan looked depressed and said: "This king didn't do anything, he spilled the wine himself, and he knelt down by himself, what did my father blame me for?" ”

Tang Qi looked at him and asked, "Is King Kang really afraid that His Highness is afraid of being like that?" ”

"Can I still lie to you?" Thinking of King Kang's frightened appearance yesterday, King Duan was still a little relieved in his heart, but the consequences after the comfort made him difficult to accept.

Tang Qi pondered for a moment and said: "It was already unexpected that he was looking for death to stay in Beijing that day, and last night's incident was also a bit excessive......"

He looked at King Duan and said, "If you are not really frightened by Your Highness, or you are still a thief and covet that position......"

"Just with him now?" King Duan smiled and said, "Uncle thinks, does he still have a chance?" ”

King Kang has become the heir, and there is not much power around him, and there are major stains on his body that cannot be erased, and it is a fact that there is no hope of succession.

"Be careful, anyway." Tang Qi looked at him and said: "Your Highness still doesn't understand some things in the court, and you can't understand Your Majesty's mind, so don't do anything, we don't seek merit, but if we seek no fault, there will be no big mistakes." ”

"The king knows." Duan Wang nodded, and then realized that something was wrong.

He obviously didn't do anything last night, wasn't he still warned by his father, even if he didn't do it, some people would still take the initiative to provoke him......

……

Since the deposition of Prince Kang, all the advisers in the palace have left, he failed to cut himself, and after being rescued, he dismissed most of the servants in the palace, stayed in the palace all day, never out of the door, seemed to be really disheartened, and planned to be an idle prince with no sense of existence in Beijing.

King Kang's Mansion.

King Kang had gauze wrapped around his head and stood in the courtyard, listening to a report from a subordinate.

The man stood behind King Kang, bowed down, and said respectfully: "Back to Your Highness, your subordinates have inquired clearly, the matter of Wuju, Your Majesty has all handed over to King Huai, Wenju has also seized the power of the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Officials has gone up, and everyone said that this is Your Majesty knocking on King Duan and beating the Tang family......"

King Kang's expression was neither happy nor sad, but he said with some regret: "It's cheaper Li Rui......"

He looked at the man and asked, "What about Mr. Xu?" ”

The man said, "Mr. has gone out." ”

King Kang looked at the sky outside the wall and muttered, "What Mr. expected is really good......

Jingshi, above the main street.

Middle-aged scribes dressed in green clothes walked through the vast flow of people, pacing slowly, sometimes stopping at a stall on the side of the street to look at the goods and chat with the stall owner.

When he walked to a certain calligraphy and painting stall, he picked up a fan and looked at it.

The stall owner, a young man in shabby clothes, looked at him with a smile and asked, "Which one does the gentleman like?" ”

The middle-aged scribe looked at him and asked, "How do you sell this?" ”

The stall owner said, "Three words." ”

The middle-aged scribe continued to ask, "Do you sell three of the ten texts?" ”

A hint of hesitation appeared on the stall owner's face, and he said, "For the sake of Mr. being an old customer, he sold ...... at a loss."

The middle-aged scribe took out ten pennies from his sleeve, put them on the table, and said, "Take three." ”

The stall owner took three fans, wrapped them, and when he handed them to him, he whispered, "What's the matter with King Kang?" ”

The middle-aged scribe said lightly: "I don't know." ”

The young man said with a calm face: "There is only one strategist left in King Kang's Mansion, do you not know what he wants to do?" ”

The middle-aged scribe said, "He still doesn't trust me yet. ”

The young man said, "Do you think I will believe it, or do you think adults will?" ”

The middle-aged scribe said lightly: "Since you don't believe it, I'll just leave King Kang's Mansion." ”

The young man's face changed, and he immediately said: "We don't mean that, you continue to stay in King Kang's Mansion, if there is anything, report it immediately......"

The middle-aged scribe put away the fan, glanced at him, and said, "Tell your lords, if King Duan dies by himself and pushes the throne out with his own hands, you can't complain about others......"

The strategists of this Duan Wangfu have complicated faces, and Duan Wang has been a little carried away these days, doing things on his own, and not asking them about these strategists, so there is today's suppression by His Majesty.

He glanced at the middle-aged scribe and said in a low voice, "Thank you, Mr. Xu, for reminding ......."

……

The matter of Duan Wang being beaten was learned by Tang Ning from Zhao Man the next morning.

Yesterday, King Kang knelt down at the family banquet, and the banquet broke up unhappily, and then those things happened.

Zhao Man's expression was a little complicated, and he said: "Is it really so terrible for Emperor Brother Duanwang, yesterday Emperor Brother Kang just accidentally spilled wine on his shoes, he was so frightened that he knelt on the ground, wiped it for him with his sleeve, and begged his father to spare him, and broke his head......"

Tang Ning shook his head and said, "He's not scared. ”

"Huh?" Zhao Man looked at him suspiciously and asked, "Why is that?" ”

"Although it was King Kang who was scared yesterday, it was King Duan who suffered in the end." Tang Ning looked at her and said, "After yesterday's incident, your father handed over the martial arts that should have been his responsibility to King Huai, and this is a blow to him. ”

Zhao Man looked at him and said in disbelief: "Could it be that Brother King Kang did it on purpose?" ”

Tang Ning nodded and said, "Not only yesterday, but he even hanged himself last time, most of them pretended to be in order to stay in the capital and make trouble......

Zhao Man looked incredulous, and muttered: "How is this possible, is people's scheming so deep?" ”

"You don't know, they are ......playing conspiracy, their hearts are dirty," Tang Ning took her in his arms and said, "The outside world is very dangerous, you just stay by my side obediently, and I will protect you......"