West Chang'an Street is full of princely mansions, among which the highest regulation is not Yan Ge's hometown, let alone Xu Ge's old family, or even Lu Taibao's family, but the two princely mansions of Yuwang Mansion and Jingwang Mansion.

King Yu and King Jing are also the only two sons of Emperor Jiajing alive. Because Emperor Jiajing's throne was chosen, he was very eager to have a son, but because his body was relatively weak, he never made a son. For this reason, there was no less taking the elixir, practicing the cave Xuanzi, praying to heaven, and later with the help of Shao Yuanjie, a Taoist priest of Longhu Mountain, in August of the thirteenth year of Jiajing, he had his first son, Zhu Zaiji.

What is a carrier base? Carrying the meaning of the country's foundation, this name can not be borne by anyone except the prince, which shows Jiajing's love for the eldest son of the emperor, but unfortunately the little doll did not have the emperor's life, and died in February only.

Emperor Jiajing fell into great grief and asked Bu Cangtian how he could keep his successor...... There is a lesson from Brother Zhengde's past, and I believe that his feelings are strong and true.

At this time, Tao Zhongwen, one of the two great heavenly masters of the Jiajing Dynasty and Shao Yuanjie's successor, came up with the infamous proverb 'the two dragons do not meet' - the emperor is the true dragon of the Son of Heaven, and the crown prince is the hidden dragon...... Although it is potential, sooner or later it is necessary to take over the real dragon class, so the emperor and the crown prince are born to rush, it is best not to meet, otherwise it is either the real dragon that kills the hidden dragon, or the hidden dragon who kills the real dragon, anyway, there will always be one who will be unlucky.

Emperor Jiajing, who is extremely smart, is superstitious but has a fight than the ignorant village woman, and when he heard Tao Zhenren, who has always been very accurate in fortune telling, said this, he was scared, so two years later, he had three sons in succession, Zhu Zaiyu, Zhu Zaizhen, Zhu Zaizhen, rejoicing, remembering the proverb that 'two dragons don't meet', he decided that it was okay not to see this hard-working doll, and he did not call the prince...... Although it is a little cold, after all, it is still his and his son's lives that matter.

The ministers didn't know the emperor's hardships, but they only knew that the early establishment of the prince was the fundamental national policy, especially the Daojun Emperor loved to cultivate and took various elixirs for a long time...... Beginning with Qin Shi Huang, the lovers of immortality among the emperors of all dynasties have collapsed again and again, proving the high risk of this hobby.

Therefore, the ministers had no faction, and they all took the same position on this matter, and they all wrote to Jiajing to ask Jiajing to establish the prince as soon as possible, and the wide desk in the imperial study could not be filled.

To be honest, Jiajing was still a little suspicious of 'the two dragons don't meet' at the beginning, although he would rather believe that he has it than not believe it, and began to have some abnormal evasions on the issue of the prince, but he was still deeply pleased that he could have a prince to stand, after all, his righteous cousin left the throne to himself because he had no son.

So after some arguing, he finally named the second prince Zhu Zaiyu as the crown prince, and gave a lecture in the cabinet at the age of fourteen...... The prince's exit from the cabinet is actually the prince's coming-of-age ceremony, the crown ceremony of the children of the common people, and a set of ceremonies, not to mention the royal family who is an example of etiquette in the world?

So Jiajing presided over the prince's exit ceremony according to the rules, and inevitably met with his long-lost son, and said a few words of encouragement such as 'study hard and make progress every day', and then the prince Zhu Zaiyu fell ill, and it didn't take long for him to die...... Emperor Jiajing remembered Tao Zhongwen's words again and again afterwards, and while remorseful, he wrote a note to Tao Zhongwen and said: "I have been persuaded by Qing as early as possible, how can this be the case!" Since then, I didn't ask the common people to ask the ghosts and gods, and finally became completely superstitious...... He has two sons dead, and there are two left, which makes Jiajing dare not do anything risky, whether it is for his son, or for himself, in short, he must take all possible measures to avoid meeting and contact with these two princes, let alone let one of them be the prince. Emperor Jiajing, who is already a Shinto, will not allow a dragon to appear again.

As a result, the innocent King Yu and King Jing were treated indifferently for a long time, just like their father was not their father, and their grandmother was not their grandmother...... No one cares about life, no one cares about school, and even marriage, Jiajing doesn't care about it, and he can drag it on day by day, until he relies on his two sons to become older young people, and if he doesn't get married, he will delay the third generation of heirs, so he reluctantly let the Ministry of Rites give them a marriage match in a 'small family in Beijing'.

You must know that at their age, even Shen Mo, who thinks he married late, has become the father of his three sons...... Not only that, the two sons wanted to see their own Lao Tzu, which was more difficult than Zhu Di wanted to arrest Emperor Jianwen, and even if they met, he had few words, as if he was afraid that his sons would borrow money from him.

In comparison, King Jing's situation is better, because his mother Concubine Jing Lu Niangniang is very favored, she can speak in front of the emperor, there is a pillow wind blowing, King Jing's mansion, schoolwork, and marriage can still look like a prince, which is a hundred times stronger than His Royal Highness King Yu, whose mother was neglected.

Fortunately and unfortunate, Zhu Zaiyuan, the king of Yu, lived a miserable, depressed, depressed, poor, and lonely life for many years, married the daughter of a small landlord, and they did not have a common language with each other. His mansion on West Chang'an Avenue, from the outside, looks tall and magnificent, with strict regulations, and is noble and gorgeous for the children of the Heavenly Family, which does not disgrace his father at all.

But what if you go in and have a look? You will be shocked speechless, except for the main hall is quite bright, the rest of the more than 100 houses are all low and cramped, the materials are simple, the doors and windows of many rooms, and even the wood of ordinary people, painted with a layer of black paint on it, try to create a solemn feeling.

Walking inside, it is also jaw-dropping, and the furnishings inside are extremely simple...... Or it is shabby, the furniture, tables and chairs are all made of jujube wood, if it is not for a large number of potted plants, and only the prince can use the bright yellow gauze decoration, it will really make people think that this is a mistake into the homes of ordinary people.

To put it mildly, even the average wealthy family is much more generous than this.

But this is indeed the only palace of Prince Daming, the eldest son of the current emperor, the first heir to the throne de jure, and the only palace of Zhu Zaiyuan, the king of Yu.

In fact, it was not so shabby originally, when King Yu went out of the palace to open the mansion, Jiajing gave him this mansion, which was the residence of his grandfather when he was not in disrepair, but from the inside to the outside of the glorious bearing, always make people feel the royal wealth. Helplessly, a fire a few years ago, the Yuwang Mansion was burned to the ground, and when it was rebuilt, it caught up with the country's economic tension, and the household department really couldn't take out the silver, so he was allocated 50,000 taels of silver to repair the palace.

What you want to repair is the prince's mansion, which has a very high standard, how can this money be enough? The Ministry of Industry said that this money could not be done, and the Ministry of Household said that there was no more, and the two sides quarreled so much that the construction did not start for a long time.

His Royal Highness King Yu, who was still waiting for his new home, was benevolent, and asked someone to send a message to the officials of the two departments, saying that he would use this money to repair the door face first, and then build the main hall, and the rest of the places could wait until there was money later.

Shang Shuxin of the two parts said: 'I've been waiting for you for a long time! He repaired the Yuwang Mansion into the ghost appearance of the current golden jade outward.

King Yu waited at first, but later heard that the imperial court opened a port in the south of the Yangtze River and made a lot of money, so he asked someone to go to the household department to make peace and see if he could not allocate the next stage of the project, but the household department replied that the hole owed by the imperial court in the past ten years was too big, and the income of the city department was not enough to pay off the debt, and there was no money to do anything else.

As a result, after a few years, the palace is still the same as it is now, and King Yu realized that compared with the old oilmen of the officialdom who are proficient in thick and black, he is too stupid and naïve, and he knew that the dignity of the court could not afford to lose, so he should not agree to repair the skin first...... At the beginning, he should have insisted on either ruining the walls or restoring them to the original state, and now he is sure that he has lived in a new and orderly prince's mansion.

It's good now, the appearance is bright, and there is an explanation to outsiders, and those old guys are not in a hurry. His Royal Highness King Yu had to be grieved in this cramped and cramped palace, and he didn't know what year and month he was the head...... The ancients said that 'each other is born from the heart', and His Royal Highness King Yu, who lives in an unsatisfactory situation all the year round, looks much older than his actual age...... In fact, he was the same age as Shen Mo, but his face was sad and his body was thin, and he seemed to have passed the age of standing before.

Originally, his health was not very good, and the recent death of his second son gave him a heavy blow, and he has been sick since a few months ago. After a period of recuperation, he was gradually able to get out of bed, but his hair was a little gray, his body was a little rickety, and his movements were slow, like a little old man.

At this moment, His Royal Highness King Yu was quietly distracted by a picture of "Sad Autumn Picture" painted by the Song people on the wall, and whispered in his mouth: "The wind is urgent, the sky is high, and the ape is howling, and the white bird of Zhu Qingsha flies back." Boundless falling trees and Xiao Xiaoxiao, endless Yangtze River rolling ......"

This is the first half of Du Fu's "Ascending", and the second half is: "He is often a guest in the sad autumn of thousands of miles, and he has been on stage alone for a hundred years. Hardship, bitterness, hatred, frost and sideburns, pouring down a new turbid wine glass. Although King Yu did not chant, the desolate and depressed state of mind was undoubtedly revealed.

This made the middle-aged official who accompanied him on the side frowned, the man was forty or fifty years old, burly, with a strange appearance, a Chinese face, a beard, a deep 'Chuan' character between his eyebrows, and the corners of his mouth were thin and drooping, looking lonely and straight, and people did not dare to get close to him at a glance.

Who is this? Daming Taichang Siqing, Guan Guozi supervises the sacrificial wine, and Gao Suqing is also. This person is different from the mainstream southern scholars in the DPRK, but he is a Yan Zhao man with a big waist and a round waist. His grandfather, Gao Kui, was raised during the Chenghua period, and the official was promoted to Langzhong of the Ministry of Works; His father was noble and virtuous, Zhengde 12 years of Jinshi, successively served as a scholar in Shandong according to the judge, and the official to the Shaoqing of Guanglu Temple, which is an authentic scholarly family and an official eunuch family.

In such a family, Gao Gong received a strict family education, 'five years old good couple, eight years old to recite a thousand words', the head of the hanging beam, the cone of the strands, at the age of seventeen to the 'Book of Rites' in the township, but then in the imperial examination on the road for thirteen years, before the examination of the Jinshi, elected as the Jishi. Jiajing was appointed as the editor of Hanlin in 21 years, and after completing the examination in nine years, he was promoted to Hanlin to study. In the thirty-first year, King Yu opened the palace and received the scriptures, and Gao Gong was elected as the chief lecturer and entered the palace to speak. At that time, the crown prince had been dead for two years and the new prince had not yet been established, King Yu and King Jing both lived in the capital, and the preface should be established as King Yu, but Jiajing seemed to pay attention to King Jing. King Yu's future is uncertain, and the court is full of speculation and discussion.

Under this kind of stormy situation, His Royal Highness King Yu, who was originally surnamed Weak, was afraid to die every time, and even thought of becoming a monk for peace several times, but fortunately, at this time, Gao Gong appeared, and he won the trust of King Yu with his strong personality charm, and went in and out of the palace for him, and protected him in many ways, giving King Yu a great relief, and became his backbone and pillar.

Gao Gong worked in the palace of King Yu for nine years, and in these nine years, he taught the scriptures, applied the Chen, and used things carefully, so that King Yu was deeply instructed. Although Gao Gong was promoted to Taichang Siqing at the beginning of the year and no longer served as a lecturer in the palace, the two have established a deep and unbreakable relationship between the prince and the minister, teacher and student.

Even after Gao Gong left the palace, there was no matter how big or small the palace was, and King Yu would order the eunuchs to inquire, and his trust in him had reached the point of dependence and even attachment. This time, King Yu said that there was something, so he hurried over, and without avoiding suspicion, he heard the voice of His Royal Highness's 'sad autumn'.

As His Royal Highness's teacher, Gao Gong had the obligation to solve his worries and doubts, so he cleared his throat and said: "Your Highness, you are in the early spring and autumn, and you still have a lot of youth, even if you encounter some hardships for a while, you can't be too sad, sooner or later it will pass, and your hope will not be dashed." ”

The teacher and student have been together for ten years, and they have understood each other in their bones, Yuwang naturally understood the subtext of the master, and said softly when he heard the words: "I can regenerate the child, but once my younger brother takes the seat, I will definitely be dealt with as ......soon as possible."

Gao Gong shook his head and said, "Your Majesty didn't say that you want to establish King Jing as the crown prince?" ”

"Maybe it's my cup bow snake shadow ......" King Yu smiled, turned around and said, "But the fourth brother recently gave birth to a son, and that is my father's only grandson." ”

"Your Highness is afraid that King Jing will be expensive with his son?" Gao Gong understood King Yu's worries, he shook his head and vetoed: "Since ancient times, when choosing the prince, they were all established as long and long, and now there is no son-in-law, as the eldest son of the emperor, you are the prince in law, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty will swear to defend you to the death!" ”

"Defend to the death?" King Yu smiled bitterly, pointed to the palace with four walls, and said, "Look, is this like the bedroom of the prince of a country?" It's not that my father doesn't allow me to build a palace, and the Ministry of Household and Ministry of Industry is neglecting me, so I can't blame him for the old man! ”

Looking at King Yu in front of him, Gao Gong was speechless, everyone knew that he was the rightful prince, but Jiajing's indifference to him and the stubbornness of the prince led to speculation among the government and the opposition...... Does the emperor have the intention of making King Lijing the crown prince?

If before the Jiajing period, this kind of worry was completely groundless, and it was ridiculous. Because at that time, the court was full of diehards who swore to defend the ancestral system and Taoism, and these people would defend the throne of King Yu regardless of their personal safety, and no one could shake it unless the crown prince was resurrected.

But now it is the 40th year of Jiajing, and after 20 years of great etiquette discussions, Emperor Jiajing has replaced those hard bones who are outspoken and daring to admonish, 'the country has raised soldiers for 150 years, and the righteousness of the war is dying and righteous, and is now saying', and replaced them with soft and charming people headed by Yan Song.

There is a way that is preferred by the upper and lower, and under the change of Emperor Jiajing's taste, there are many ministers who adhere to principles in this court...... But most of them are unambitious petty officials, and the real power positions are mostly held by some villains who are in charge of the words, and they are all weighing who should support at this time, whose side they should stand on, and who they should wave their flags for. Supporting King Yu will naturally not be spurned, but there are also some people who are used to speculation and want to follow King Jing in this battle for the prince.

The reason is very simple, people die for money, birds die for food. Obviously, if you succeed in following His Royal Highness King Jing, the benefits will inevitably be greater than those from following King Yu. This kind of thinking was not strong at first, but as Yan Shifan and King Jing became close to each other, they began to give Yan Dang a signal - after a long period of deliberation, their father and son seemed to be going to mix with King Jing.

This is almost an inevitable choice for the Yan family's father and son, because they need greater credit to let the future emperor keep his glory and wealth, and more importantly, not to be liquidated. At this point, King Yu, who has always been honest, is of course not as good as King Jing, who has a bad stomach, and is more in love with them.

And King Jing, who is only one month younger than King Yu, finally under the encouragement of this good situation, really started the dream of being an emperor, and wants to fight for the position of prince with his half-brother!

When King Yu's son died and King Jing's son was born, everyone thought that the balance of victory had tilted towards the latecomers...... In fact, this is the first time that Gao Gong has set foot in Yuwangfu after stepping down as the official of the palace, just to give him confidence! Let him not be crushed by the pressure in his heart before the war has started.

Therefore, Gao Gong had to cheer up King Yu no matter what, thinking of this, he smiled slightly: "I think of a person, if you can let him belong to His Highness, then everything will be fine!" ”

"Who?" King Yu's eyes radiated a rare brilliance, just like a drowning man, grasping a life-saving straw, tightly clutching Gao Gong's hand and saying, "Say it quickly!" ”

(To be continued)