Chapter 2 Temples

The soldiers who can be on an errand in the Prince's Mansion have a lot of kung fu under their hands, even if they are compared with the Ouchi masters in the palace, they will not be much worse. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

Li Bao'er is just an ordinary cook, how can he be the opponent of a few tiger and wolf soldiers, but after a while, Li Bao'er was lying on the ground with a blue nose and swollen face, and there was already no breath in his mouth, and he was afraid that there was less than half of his life left.

Xuan Jing found a chair and sat in the room, looked at Li Bao'er coldly, and sneered in his heart, secretly saying that a slave is a slave after all, your uncle is still your uncle, no matter whose power you rely on behind your back, if you really provoke the master, it will not be easy to clean you up!

"Did he recruit it?" Xuan Jing squinted his eyes and asked lightly.

"Back to His Royal Highness, everyone has stolen goods, this kid can't stand the beating, recruit!" The vice-captain said and presented a confession with the handprint pressed by Li Bao'er.

Xuan Jing looked at the confession, nodded and said: "It's hard to send a few big brothers, and when Mother Feng comes, she will definitely intercede for this evil slave, I think they are also a raccoon dog, and they have to work hard for a few bad brothers." ”

Where do a few pro-soldiers still don't know Xuan Jing's thoughts, not to mention that this Feng's mother has always been extremely domineering in the palace, this time she actually dared to provoke His Royal Highness, it was easy for His Royal Highness to get angry and clean up his subordinates, even if they didn't give money, these big-headed soldiers were eager to beat this mother and son together, not to mention the great benefits!

Everyone should say yes in unison, just wait for Feng's mother to enter the palace!

Sure enough, everyone heard a noise outside the house, and the loudest voice was Feng's mother's voice: "Wronged!" What a great injustice! My Bao'er has been an honest person since she was a child, how could she steal something from the royal gift, it must be where the prince lost it, Bao'er doesn't know, she happened to pick it up! ”

While speaking, I saw Feng's mother rushing in, and when she saw her son being beaten like this, her heart was on fire, and she pushed away a few pro-soldiers, and stepped forward to hug Li Bao'er, tears couldn't stop falling, crying:

"Your Royal Highness, my wife has been in the house for twenty years, and there was no Your Royal Highness at that time! The old woman has always done her duty, and never dared to do anything out of the ordinary, for the big and small things in the house, the old woman broke her heart and was blind, who would have expected that she would end up with such a fate today! ”

"His Royal Highness, if you don't give the old woman an explanation today, the old woman will definitely not take a break, otherwise we will go to the chief manager to reason!"

Mother Feng's voice just fell, "Smack! With a crisp sound, Xuan Jing's slap had already slapped her in the face!

"What are you? What is Yu Cheng? Why should I give you an explanation? ”

"Also, if you and your son do such a thing, Yu Cheng should come to my Hongwen Academy to explain it to me clearly!"

"Mother Feng, I don't care how long you have been in the mansion, your son stole the pearl of the imperial gift, everyone has stolen money, and the confession has been signed, you still dare to trespass into my Hongwen Academy, shield this evil slave, and make shameless nonsense here, just by this one, you should slap your mouth!"

As soon as Xuan Jing's words came out, Mother Feng was immediately frightened, yes, not to mention Mother Feng herself, even if Manager Yu came, would she dare to do anything to the son? Mother Feng only realized the seriousness of the matter at this time, Xuan Jing in front of her was not just an ordinary child, he was the son of His Majesty the Emperor's golden seal of the treasure book! How can an old woman of his own be bullied casually!

Mother Feng was about to say a few words, but Xuan Jing didn't give her a chance to speak, and opened her mouth to say: "Open this Feng mother-in-law for forty and give me a hard beating!" ”

"As for this mother and son, I don't want to see the two of them in the palace in the future, if Manager Yu asks, you can tell him about today's events, and if Manager Yu has the guts, let him personally explain to me how he manages his subordinates!"

How can His Royal Highness the Prince never see Feng's mother and son in the palace again, the easiest way is, of course, to drive them out of the palace, this kind of thing does not need Xuan Jing's careful instructions at all, and several personal soldiers threw Feng's mother and son out of the back door of the palace that night.

And then everything was as Xuan Jing expected, even if Yu Cheng was the housekeeper of the palace and powerful in the palace, he was definitely not stupid enough to question the prince of the dynasty for a Feng mother, on the contrary, Yu Cheng also strictly forbade anyone to talk about anything related to Feng Ma in the mansion.

According to the ritual system of the Jin Dynasty, the officials above the fourth rank in the Emperor began to discuss politics at the time of the day, and the court dispersed at the time of the day, which was called the 'small dynasty', also called the 'Chang dynasty'. The 'Great Dynasty' is only available when the festival is celebrated and sacrificed, and the envoys come to the court.

Emperors are over sixty years old and rarely go to court. Most of the time is presided over by the emperor's eldest son, Prince Cheng Xuanbu, the daily court meeting, if there is a major matter after the dispersal of the dynasty, King Cheng please see the inner palace, report to the emperor to decide. And all the trivial matters of the court on weekdays are handled by King Cheng at his discretion. The Chinese book was recorded on the side, and it was written as a fold and presented to the emperor.

The emperor had a total of five sons, and except for the youngest Muwang, who died young, the other four sons all grew up.

The eldest son, Xuanbu, was the queen of the queen, but the queen died early, leaving the king Xuanbu alone, when he was a teenager, he made outstanding achievements in war, and in the past ten years, he was crowned a prince, supervising the country on behalf of the emperor, and governing the country in a good way.

The second son Xuanye, the biological mother Huan Guifei is a beauty who paid tribute to the Dongyi Kingdom, she was born beautiful and charming and amorous, and was most favored by the emperor, and gave birth to Xuanye and Xuanxu for the emperor. In recent years, Xuanye has become more and more favored in the court, and he is more capable of doing things on weekdays, good at court methods, able to win people's hearts, and please the emperor, and was also crowned Prince Kang by the emperor three years ago, assisting the king to co-lead the government.

The third prince, Yu Wang Xuance, is a literary and elegant son, and the mansion often gathers some famous literati and scholars near Digi to chant poems together, drink wine and enjoy flowers.

The fourth prince, King Meng, and Prince Kang Xuanye are brothers of the same mother. In his early years, he obeyed his second brother's arrangement and has been serving in the army. He had quite a lot of military merits, and later won the unanimous recommendation of Concubine Huan and King Kang, took charge of the defense of Diji, led the post of General Jin Wuwei, and held the heavy troops of the capital.

It's just that King Yu and King Meng are currently only titled county kings, and they have not been crowned princes.

Several ministers in the court were talking about something, until the eunuch in charge of the palace sang: "His Royal Highness Prince Cheng has arrived!" The hundred officials bowed in silence.

Prince Cheng is about forty years old, with a square face, no anger between his eyebrows, and a burly and tall figure. Today, Prince Cheng wears a bright red brocade court dress embroidered with a four-clawed golden dragon, which is the prince's system.

"Greetings to His Royal Highness Prince Cheng!" Hundreds of officials in the court knelt down and saluted together, only Prince Kang stood upright and did not move, until Prince Cheng walked to the first place of the hundred officials in the hall, Prince Kang bowed his hand and said: "Brother Brother welcomes Brother Wang!" ”

Although Prince Kang and Prince Cheng were both born to the emperor, their appearance is similar to that of their biological mother, Concubine Huan, with a melon seed face, a white face and a slight beard, around forty years old, thin and long eyebrows, a pair of peach blossom eyes, and a face that seems to be extremely kind, but it is impossible to figure out.

Prince Cheng first returned the half-salute to Prince Kang, and then signaled to the hundred officials to be flat. Looking around the court, he said, "If there is anything to discuss today, please play." ”

"The minister has something to do!" At this time, an old man in a brocade official robe stood out, with a white beard and serious eyebrows, it was Hu Yue, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites.

"Yingzhou Dongyi sent an envoy to visit, and he can arrive in Digi on the tenth day of this month. The mission sent a deputy envoy to arrive first, and now lives in the Digi Post House. The deputy envoy brought a handwritten letter from the ambassador of Dongyi, in which he said that this time Dongyi had found rare treasures and wanted to present them to the country, which was also one of them; Another thing is that the Toyi Kingdom proposed a peace affair, and this time the envoy came with the young daughter of the Toyi Province and the Emperor of the Ha Dynasty, Princess Zelan. I heard that the little princess was still young, not yet twelve years old, and asked me to appoint a prince of appropriate age to be engaged. ”

The matter of Dongyi coming to the court is the biggest news in Digi in recent days, and now it is basically known to women and children in the streets and alleys. It's just that this Dongyi country behaves sneakily, and only says that he wants to offer treasures, but as for what treasure he is, he doesn't say a word. The courtiers of the Jin Dynasty were waiting for the envoys to see the treasures when they arrived in Diji.

As for the peace between the two countries, in fact, it is not the first thing to suffer. The emperor's eldest daughter, Princess Yamadaira, married Prince Chunfu, the younger brother of Emperor Yingzhou and Yu, twenty-four years ago.

The Jin Dynasty and Dongyi were separated by the Fuyuan Strait, and the two countries had been fighting and making peace for many years. Four hundred years ago, at the end of the Feng Dynasty and the beginning of the Jin Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, and the princes rose in all directions.

At that time, the feudal dynasty collapsed, the world was in chaos, and the princes said that Dongyi relied on a specially built Toyotomi warship to force the Aquila Strait. In the melee of the Central Plains princes, the state was weakened, and none of them could compete with the Dongyi Guowu Soldier Regiment. In just 30 years, Zhongzhou, Yuzhou, Bingzhou, and Yuezhou were all plundered by the Dongyi Kingdom, and the war was raging, and the lives were devastated.

Later, the Jin Dynasty's ancestor Xuanlou rose up martial arts, led the world's heroes with a three-foot sword, and fought more than 100 bloody battles, which took more than ten years to drive all the Dongyi warriors out of Middle-earth.

However, the war with Dongyi also greatly depleted the strength of this ancestor and failed to achieve the unification of the world. When later historians studied the troubled history of the late Feng and early Jin dynasties, they all agreed that the Jin Gaozu Xuanlou was the man who was most likely to unify the world.

After the defeat of the Dongyi Kingdom and the retreat of the Tianying Strait, the country was also in a depression, and it had no ability to make waves for nearly four hundred years. Since Gaozu, the Dongyi State has been a vassal to the Jin Dynasty for generations, and sends tribute every year. The national letters of all dynasties called the Jin Dynasty 'Shangguo' and called themselves 'Xiabang'.

"The king has already learned about the mission of Dongyi, but he didn't expect that the deputy envoy of the mission has entered Beijing. I wonder what the rare treasures of this offering are? Prince Kang smiled slightly and asked.

"This, Deputy Envoy Dongyi didn't mention it, only said that this treasure was going to the Golden Palace, and the chief envoy would present it to the Holy Envoy in person." The Ministry of Rites bowed and replied.

Prince Cheng Xuanbu frowned slightly: "The two countries have not intermarried for 20 years, and today the mission is coming to the court, how can I mention the matter of harmony again." At present, among the children of the royal family, there are not many people of the right age with this little princess, not to mention that the two sides have to exchange eight characters, which can only be decided after being approved by the two Qin Tianjian. ”

Prince Kang Xuanye rolled his eyes and said: "Brother Cheng, I forgot, this prince of the right age, there is one right now, if the younger brother remembers correctly, Xuanjing's nephew seems to be twelve years old this year, and he doesn't match this Zelan princess."

As soon as Xuanye's words came out, the courtiers full of civil and military courtiers were in a boil. Everyone in the court knows that the emperor is now over 60 years old, and the major events in the court are all focused on Prince Cheng Xuanbu.

Xuanbu has only one son under his knees, Xuanjing, and in the future, in the Jin Dynasty, nine times out of ten, it will be Xuanjing's turn to sit. The matter of peace between the two countries, as usual, the princess of another country married to the Jin Dynasty, which can only be used as the main room. If Xuanjing and Princess Zelan make a marriage contract, maybe the queen of the Jin Dynasty in the future may be from Dongyi.

In fact, Xuan Ye had a deeper thought in his heart, his own mother was a beauty from Dongyi Kingdom to pay tribute. With a humble status, she was fortunately favored by the emperor and gave birth to two princes before she was awarded the position of concubine. The emperor's harem has not had another empress since the empress's death. And Xuanye has been able to do things effectively in recent years, and he usually has a wealth of means, and he has attracted some important ministers in the court. Coupled with the efforts of his two brothers in the court, his mother made an exception and was crowned a concubine.

And although he is already a prince, in front of him, after all, there is the mountain of Prince Cheng Xuanbu. The Manchu Dynasty did not know in their hearts that although the Jin Dynasty did not set up a prince according to the ancestral system, the emperor was old, and it had been ten years since Prince Cheng was in charge of all the big and small affairs in the court. If it weren't for the fact that Princess Kang was deeply favored by the emperor, and with her own ability, if she wanted to get the title of prince on her current head, I am afraid that it would be hopeless in this life.

But if Concubine Huan can further crown the queen, then the mother will be the world, and King Kang, as the queen's son, will be able to compete with Xuanbu for the throne.

It's just that Concubine Huan came from a humble background and is a native of Dongyi. Even if the emperor had the intention to seal it, Xuanye also led a group of courtiers to wave the flag for Concubine Huan all day long. But no matter what, this kind of thing must not bypass the threshold of Xuanbu, the prince of the prison country. It just so happened that Xuanbu's mother was the late Empress Zhuang of this dynasty, and if Xuanbu wanted to agree to be the queen of Lihuan, I am afraid it would be more difficult than letting Prince Kang be the queen.

Xuanye's thoughts, Xuanbu naturally didn't know. Xuanbu fought for half of his life and made great achievements for the Jin Dynasty. In recent years, the court has been singing and dancing, half of which are Xuanbu in the court, and Kyushu is afraid of its military might and does not dare to act rashly.

However, Xuan Bu has always been upright and upright, and he hates the flies and dogs in the officialdom, and he never does things like forming parties for personal gain, which makes Prince Kang take advantage of the loophole in vain.

"Well, Xuan Jing is indeed the same age as Princess Nazelan, but Xuan Jing is still young, and he is far from the age of marriage." Xuan Jing said.

"Brother Cheng Wang is too worried, this dynasty decrees, men must be sixteen years old, women can only be married when they are fourteen years old, how can the younger brother not know. As long as the eight characters of the two parties are approved by the Qin Tianjian as a general match, the two countries can form a marriage contract first, and when the prince and Princess Zelan are old, it is not too late for the two parties to complete the marriage. Genno said.

King Kang's remarks are reasonable and well-founded. On weekdays, King Kang tried his best to win over the courtiers, and half of the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were under the command of Prince Kang, and at this time they came out to admonish, but most of them agreed with the marriage of Xuanjing and Princess Zelan.

Xuanbu thought about it for a long time, but there was no reason to shirk it. The prince was born in the emperor's family, and he had no freedom to marry. Isn't he an example, he was engaged to Xu Gelao's granddaughter at the age of fourteen, and he got married at the age of sixteen, and he didn't come over after half his life. What's more, Mrs. Fuzhong is knowledgeable, smart and virtuous, although she is not the love of her heart, she has many regrets. However, if this Prince Cheng's Mansion had not been taken care of by the princess, it would never have such a stable atmosphere as it is now.

Besides, Xuanjing will be twelve years old next month, and there is no harm in ordering this family business for him in advance. I think that Princess Nazelan is also a princess of a country, even if she does not have the appearance of sinking fish and geese, closing the moon and embarrassing flowers, she should have a middle-class posture. Besides, Xuanjing is currently only the son of the world, and the other party is the biological daughter of Emperor Heyu, if he can marry Jing'er, it will not be a humiliation. And Dongyi will inevitably mobilize the strength of the country in the future, and it will support Jing'er, and it will be beneficial and harmless to the family and the country.

Thinking of this section, Prince Cheng did not object to it again, only saying that the matter would be agreed upon after the Dongyi delegation entered Beijing and submitted its credentials. What's more, the marriage between the royal family is unusual, although the parties themselves have no right to decide, but generally before the contract must be arranged for both men and women to meet secretly in private, if they really don't like each other, they can also discuss before the marriage contract is announced, so as not to hurt the face of both families.

There were some discussions in the court about the reception of the mission, and in the blink of an eye, the eunuch in charge of the palace shouted "Disperse the court", and the ministers retreated in turn. The two princes, Xuanbu and Xuanye, could not return to the palace according to the system, and had to enter the palace to ask the emperor for peace......