Most of the people who return to Beijing every year are Yang Guang, the king of Jin, but Yang Guang is transferred to Yangzhou to be the governor of Yangzhou, and the prosperity is far better than that of the state, but the distance from the capital is several times farther than that of the state, and instead of Yang Guang returning to Beijing, he naturally became the new head of the Han Dynasty, Yang Liang. Drunken Dew Academy

In addition to the king of Han to the emperor, the queen to celebrate the joy of the winter festival, the rest of the kings and ministers of the capital also have to congratulate the emperor and empress, Yang Yong after the festival will take the crown princess and several children back to the East Palace.

"The child wishes the father and the mother good health!" In the main hall of Donggong Li, the eldest son Yang Yan and several younger brothers and sisters also congratulated Yang Yong and Yuan Qing'er.

The East Palace is divided into five halls, the building has seven halls, three squares, two palaces, a courtyard, the so-called seven halls are divided into Mingde Palace, Chongjiao Palace, Lizheng Palace, Guangtian Palace, Cheng'en Palace, Chongren Palace, Chongwen Palace, except for the latter two halls are divided into the Lizheng Palace, the remaining five halls are located in a middle line, become the five-fold palace forbidden land.

Yuan Qing'er's face was full of smiles, and she took out five sachets from behind her: "Come, one for each person, take it." ”

Yang Yan took the sachet and pinched it, it contained copper coins and broken silver, which were worth about a few copper coins, although the East Palace silver money was more than enough, Yang Yong was also pampered by several children, but he would not let them spend lavishly, each person has a prescribed monthly rule, the eldest Yang Yan has the most, and now there are five pieces of change per month, and the following is decreasing in turn, the second is only four and a half times, and the youngest Yang Lan only has three times a month.

If you can spend three times a month, you can already be regarded as a well-off family in Dasui, but it is nothing compared to their identity, and the children of other princes and even the princes have far more monthly money than them, which also makes them particularly cherish the money in their hands, and the money in the sachet is about equivalent to their monthly money in January, and the five of them hurriedly saluted together: "Thank you, concubine!" ”

"Alright, go and call your own mothers too, and the family will be together today for a happy holiday." Yang Yong waved.

Although Yun Meier and Xing'er are the real mothers of the five children, they are side concubines after all. Not only is the Zuilu Academy not eligible to enter the palace, according to the etiquette system, even in the East Palace must be restricted, and the Lizheng Hall is in the center of the East Palace, except that there are two halls on its left and right. The remaining four halls located in the middle line can only be called palaces, squares, and courtyards.

The Reishoden is usually used as the official place for the prince to welcome guests, but it is the most formal, if there is any event held in the Reissho Hall. Yun Mei'er and Xingzuo are usually not allowed to enter, but Yuan Qing'er and Xing'er themselves are masters and servants. Close relationship. And Yuan Qing'er is not a mean person, as long as Yang Yong speaks, the two daughters will not be so restrained.

Yang Yan and Yang Lan, the two little girls, jumped up and walked out, shouting as they walked, "Let's go and call my mother over." ”

This scene made Yang Yong and Yuan Qing'er look at each other and smile. After a while, Yun Meier and Xing'er each walked in with their daughters, Yang Yan. Yang Yu and Yang Ge also hurriedly stepped forward to meet their mothers.

The snowflakes outside have stopped, the surroundings are white, the charcoal in the furnace in the hall is crackling, the whole hall is as warm as spring, plus Yuan Qing'er, Yun Mei'er, Xing'er and a few children are talking and laughing, Yang Yong only feels that his eyes are full of laughter.

A gurgling sound sounded, and Yang Shi's voice came from outside the hall: "Your Highness, the King of Han is here." ”

Yang Yong sighed, thinking that after Yang Liang entered the palace to celebrate the festival, he would go back to the house directly like himself, but he didn't expect to come to the East Palace first, so he hurriedly said: "Wait a minute, the palace will come out immediately." ”

Hearing that Yang Liang was coming, Xing'er and Yun Mei'er immediately raised their mouths, and Yun Mei'er said unhappily: "This Han King, it is rare for the husband to accompany us for a day, and the weather is not good at home like this, so I have to come over." According to the etiquette system, Yun Mei'er and Xing'er can't easily meet guests, they must get up and go to the apse to avoid.

Hearing Yun Mei'er's words, Yuan Qing'er frowned: "Concubine Yun, King Han is the prince's brother, how can you talk like this?" ”

After all, Yun Mei'er did not have a close relationship with Yuan Qing'er, and she was still a little afraid of Yuan Qing'er, so she had to bow her head and respond aggrievedly: "Yes, the concubine knows." Drunken Dew Academy"

"Okay, you don't have to move, the main palace will go to the front hall to greet the fifth brother." Yang Yong shook his head and stood up with a smile.

As soon as he pushed open the ear door in the hall, a cold air slammed into Yang Yong's neck, just came out of the warm hall, Yang Yong really couldn't stand it for a while, but fortunately, Yang Yong actually came back from the snow not long ago, and he stopped to get used to it.

Coming out of the Lizheng Palace, you have to walk through the Chongjiao Hall to reach the front of the Mingde Palace, but Yang Yong took Yang Shi out of the Chongjiao Palace, only to hear a noise from the Mingde Hall in front, the sound was loud, as if there were as many as a hundred people, Yang Yong frowned slightly, and asked Yang Shi: "In addition to the King of Han, is there anyone else coming?" ”

Yang Shi shook his head: "Back to Your Highness, when Weichen came over just now, it seemed that only King Han brought a few entourage, but when I heard King Han vaguely mention it, he just came first, as if someone else would come over with him."

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Yang Yong paused, stopped, and ordered: "You go to the front first to see, how many people are coming?" ”

"Yes!" Yang Shi was stunned for a moment, not understanding what Yang Yong meant in his words, but he still strode towards the Mingde Palace.

It's just that Yang Shi just took a few steps, and the family commander Zou Wenteng had already run over out of breath, and when he saw Yang Yong, his face was suddenly overjoyed: "Prince, it's amazing, it's amazing." ”

"What's the matter?" Yang Yong asked suspiciously.

Zou Wenteng took a breath before saying: "Your Highness, there are many people in the front hall, in addition to the King of Han, there are also King Wei, King Hejian, King Teng, Duke Shenguo, Duke Song Guo, Duke Cao Guo, Duke Huazheng, Duke Xinyi, Duke Taiping...... It's all coming. ”

A series of titles of the prince and the prince of the country emerged from Zou Wenteng's mouth, not only Yang Shi was stunned, but Yang Yong also couldn't come back to his senses for a long time, Yang Shi asked in a daze: "Is there anything else?" ”

Zou Wenteng's chest straightened, as if so many people came to the East Palace, and he also had honor: "Of course, the six Shangshu of the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Crime, the Ministry of Officials, and the Ministry of Rites are here, as well as the servants of various ministries, and most of the generals of the Twelve Guards are also here." ”

"The winter solstice is as big as a year." It's just that in previous years, except for a small number of ministers who would quietly come over to congratulate the prince, basically the ministers went home separately when they came back from the palace, how could it be like this year, now almost all the important ministers in the front hall have come, no wonder Zou Wenteng will say so much.

Yang Yong's eyes were dark when he heard this, and all the officials gathered in the East Palace, if it reached the ears of his father, what would his father think?

There was a sound of footsteps outside, and Tang Ling, the right concubine of the East Palace who was in charge of the rites and music, ran to Yang Yong's side, gasping and asked: "Your Highness, the King of Han, the King of Wei, the King of Teng, the King of Hejian and the various princes and ministers have arrived, do you want to prepare for the ceremony?" ”

Yang Yong glared at Tang Ling: "Go down!" ”

Seeing Yang Yong's dark face, Tang Ling felt a sigh in his heart, he didn't know who offended the prince, and even misunderstood that the prince asked him to go down to prepare the ceremony, so he hurriedly responded: "Yes, Weichen will do it immediately." ”

"Come back, what are you going to do?"

"This ...... Wechen ...... Wechen is ready to make a ceremony. Being drunk like this by Yang Yong, Tang Ling didn't know what he had done wrong, and stammered.

"This palace told you to get down, who wants you to prepare the ceremony?"

"Yes, Wechen will get out of now, get out right away." Tang Lingxing rushed over, but he could only return in defeat.

Looking at Tang Ling's disappearing back, Yang Shi and Zou Wenteng were thoughtful, Yang Yong turned his head and said to Zou Wenteng: "Zou Aiqing, when you go to the front hall, you will say that the palace occasionally feels cold today, and now you are taking medicine, it is inconvenient to meet guests, thank you for coming to the East Palace to celebrate the festival, today can only be lazy, if you wait for the cold in the palace to heal, you will definitely come to the door again to thank you in the coming day."

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Zou Wenteng was dumbfounded: "Prince, I ......" Although he is the family order of the East Palace, as the saying goes, the prime minister has seven officials, not to mention the East Palace, but there are not only many important ministers in the front hall, but also the prince and the prince, and any person in it is not something he can offend, everyone rushed to congratulate the prince, and the prince avoided it, what is this about, who believes that the prince has just come back from the sacrifice in the morning, and he will be sick in the afternoon.

"What am I, don't go yet!"

"Yes, Wechen will go right away." Seeing Yang Yong's face without a smile, Zou Wenteng had no choice but to bite the bullet and step by step towards the Mingde Palace, his heavy steps seemed to be about to rush to the execution ground.

Seeing Zou Wenteng go to the Mingde Palace, Yang Yong breathed a sigh of relief, took Yang Shi back to the Chongjiao Hall behind, just sat down, and immediately ordered Yang Shi: "Go to the front and see how the situation is...... That's it. ”

"Obey." Yang Shi also turned around and went out.

Yang Shi went out, but Yang Yong did not relax at all, all the officials went to the East Palace to congratulate the festival, this matter is not big, it is not small, if it is left a few years ago, even if it reaches the emperor's ears, the emperor will laugh at it, but in the past few years, as Yang Jian gets older, more and more suspicions have arisen.

Yang Jian's personality was originally impatient, coupled with suspicion, in the past few years, he has reinstated the cane system, often imposing cane punishment on ministers in the palace court for trivial matters, and because the tortured person is immortal and blames the cane people, thinking that they are not effective in walking the cane, and the cane walker will be executed together.

Did the officials come spontaneously in this matter, or was someone instigating it, and what was the purpose of their instigation? Yang Yong sat on the chair and thought silently.