Liu Yizhi and Fan Lubing came to the main hall at the same time, the two were just over thirty years old, their faces were thin, but they had a scholarly bearing, Li Hong was very satisfied with the two just from the appearance.

As for the literary talent and knowledge, since the Empress Wu had already let the two of them prove it in history, he was not going to take the examination for the two of them here, so he said to the point, "Liu Yizhi, can you come to Chongwen Hall to be a bachelor?" ”

When Liu Yizhi was told by the legend that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince wanted to see him, he vaguely guessed that the prince might summon him to the East Palace.

Because Li Hong is such a vigorous Taixue and Guozijian in order to revise, supplement and standardize medical works, anyone who wants to be summoned by Li Hong in person will be so similar in their hearts.

Therefore, even if he is now a doctor of law under the eighth rank of Guozijian, it is possible that if he goes to the East Palace, he can only be the school secretary of the Chongwen Pavilion from the ninth grade, but he replied without hesitation, "Weichen is willing to go to the Chongwen Pavilion." ”

"Then I'll be wronged by Dr. Liu!" Li Hong said apologetically. Because Liu Yizhi was summoned to the East Palace to enter the Chongwen Pavilion, he could only go to school with Liu Yizhi from the Chongwen Pavilion under the nine grades, and his position was pitiful, and he really did not accompany Liu Yizhi's talents.

However, Liu Yizhi doesn't think so, if he stays in the Guozijian all the time, even if he has qualifications, he may not be able to survive until the end of the day, but as long as he enters the East Palace and becomes the prince's henchman, when the prince ascends the throne and becomes the emperor, he will definitely soar.

"Being able to serve by His Royal Highness's side, Weichen is not aggrieved." Liu Yizhi said respectfully, with irrepressible excitement in his eyes.

Li Hong saw Liu Yizhi's expression in his eyes, and was very satisfied with Liu Yizhi's heartfelt words, so he moved his gaze to Fan Lubing on the side. Because with Liu Yizhi's Zhuyu in front of him, Fan Lubing knew the purpose of the prince's summoning him no matter how stupid he was, and he was a little apprehensive in his heart.

"Fan Lubing, would you like to come to Chongwen Hall to be a school book?" Li Hong asked.

"Back to His Royal Highness, the minister's current Zhou Wangfu Hu Cao joined the army, and I am afraid it will be difficult to go to the Chongwen Pavilion again." Fan Lubing did not hesitate, but immediately refused.

When everyone in the main hall heard Fan Lubing's answer, everyone's expressions froze, and they all looked at Fan Lubing like a fool, and everyone scolded in their hearts, did this person have a problem with his brain? The crown prince Naxian asked him to go to the East Palace, because he was going to train him as a confidant, and he dared to refuse and not appreciate it? Even Xiao Yuanwen, the sacrificial wine of the Guozijian, didn't expect Fan Lubing to answer like this, and looked at Fan Lubing in disbelief.

Li Hong was also a little surprised by Fan Lubing's refusal, he used his status as a prince during this time to successfully recruit Zhang Cambodia, Li Qiao, Di Renjie, and Liu Yizhi.

Because all this went so smoothly that he felt that for those who wanted to enter the palace and want to glorify the lintel and worship the marquis, his status as a prince was the best rhetoric, but he didn't expect to be frustrated by Fan Lubing, so he couldn't help frowning and asked, "Fan Lubing, if you have any concerns, just say it, and Gu will solve it for you." ”

Seeing that Fan Lubing was a little hesitant, he continued to ask, "Is it because you are from the Zhou Wangfu that you shirk like this?" ”

"This..."Fan Lubing said with an embarrassed face, "No, it's not." ”

"You go back and tell King Zhou that it means that you are lonely to come to Chongwen Pavilion, and he will naturally not stop you." Li Hong said in a somewhat unhappy tone. As the prince of the Tang Dynasty, he was refused to be invited to the East Palace in public, which really embarrassed him.

"Your Highness——!" Fan Lubing still wanted to say something, Li Hong no longer gave him a chance to speak, so he said slightly angrily, "You don't need to say it, go down!" ”

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, this ——!" Fan Lubing was still arguing, but Xiao Yuanwen, who saw that the prince was about to be furious, immediately shouted, "Fan Lubing, the prince asked you to go down, don't you step down quickly!" ”

"No!" Fan Lubing had no choice but to bow down to receive the order, and his figure staggered out of the main hall. After Fan Lubing left the main hall, Xiao Yuanwen said with a smile, "Fan Lubing is too bookish and angry, a little pedantic, His Highness doesn't need to be angry for him." ”

Li Hong knew that Fan Lubing was a loyal and outspoken person who was not afraid of power, and there must be some unspeakable hardships in rejecting himself today, so he was not very angry with Fan Lubing, but Fan Lubing didn't give him face too much, which made me angry.

"It is enough for the people who select talents to have Zhang Cambodia and Li Qiao, Xiao Xijiu only needs to assist them from the side, and Lone will go back." Li Hong got up and said to Xiao Yuanwen. Xiao Yuanwen knew that the prince was in a bad mood, so he didn't dare to keep it, but bowed down and sent Li Hong out of the country.

"Your Highness, this Fan Lubing is too ignorant, why don't you teach him a lesson?" Chen Gong followed Li Hong and said angrily. The prince is called, this is a great honor, you dare to refuse a poor sour?

"No need, wait, when he really doesn't want to come, it's not too late for you to go and tie up for Lonely." Li Hong said.

If Fan Lubing really didn't want to come to Chongwen Hall to be a school book, Li Hong wouldn't mind being rude, because if he didn't get Fan Lubing to the East Palace now, and when he was discovered by the Empress Wu, Fan Lubing would become a "North Gate Bachelor" like in history, which Li Hong didn't want to see.

Seeing His Royal Highness the Crown Prince say this, Chen Gong was also relieved a lot in his heart, so he stopped talking.

Less than an hour after Li Hong returned to the East Palace, he saw Yan Zhuang leading a child to the study to look for him, and the two walked into the study. ”

Li Zhe is Li Xian of Tang Zhongzong, because he has not changed his name to Li Xian now, so he will call himself Li Zhe.

And because Li Zhe was already the crown prince when he was born, and his half-brother was not a vassal in a foreign country, he had already left the palace to open a government and build a mansion, and Li Zhe only had two brothers to see at home since he was a child, Li Hong and Li Xian, so that now he will call Li Hong the eldest brother.

Li Hong lives in the East Palace all the year round because of his poor health, and he rarely meets his two younger brothers Li Xian and Li Zhe, so he is very unfamiliar with the two, and Li Xian and Li Zhe do not come to the East Palace to visit him when he is sick, and they usually do not come to the East Palace. Therefore, Li Zhe suddenly appeared in the study today, which made him quite curious, so he asked, "Liulang, why are you here?" ”

"Of course I'm here to give someone to my eldest brother!" Li Zhe said with a smile, he saw that Li Hong was a little confused, so he continued, "Big brother, didn't you fall in love with Fan Lubing in my mansion today?" I sent him to you specifically. ”

Li Hong saw that Li Zheren was small and ridiculously treacherous, so he asked lightly, "Liulang, I'm afraid this matter won't be so simple, right?" ”

"Of course." Li Zhe said seriously, "He didn't want to come to the East Palace, but it was my younger brother and I who worked hard to persuade him, so he was willing to come to the East Palace Chongwen Hall to be a school book." ”

"Rokuro, say it! How do you want the big brother to thank you? Li Hong said in a light tone. For Li Zhe at a young age, he knows how to get a return after paying, but he can understand, because he was born in the royal family, who doesn't have the slightest scheming.

"Big brother, I heard that the queen mother gave you Zhao Hongshi, is it true?" Li Zhe asked expectantly.

"Yes." Li Hong nodded slightly, but couldn't help but exclaim, "Liulang, you don't want to beat her, right?" ”

"What? Is the eldest brother reluctant? Li Zhe saw that Li Hong had seen through his careful thoughts, so he complained and said, "Eldest brother, in order to make Fan Lubing agree to serve in Chongwen Pavilion, my younger brother gave him the only maid in the house who knows how to play piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, singing and dancing, and now he is from your East Palace, why do you have to compensate me?" ”

When Li Hong heard Li Zhe say this, he frowned and asked, "Could it be that he agreed to come to the East Palace to serve on the condition that he got this maidservant?" ”

"Not really!" Li Zhe said angrily.

Li Zhe is still young and doesn't understand the affairs of children, so naturally he can't say that he has a crush on Zhao Hong's skirt, but he likes to play, and there is only one handmaid in the palace who can sing and dance, and knows how to play piano, chess, and calligraphy.

As for why he had to send his maidservant to let Fan Lubing come to the East Palace, it was not that Li Zhe was honestly thinking about Li Hong, but because of Li Hong's crown prince, although the two are brothers, Li Hong has always been the prince, and he will inherit the throne in the future.

"This bastard-" After listening to Li Zhe's explanation, Li Hong couldn't help but burst into a foul language. He was angry with Fan Lubing, because he saw what it was like to be a ghost and a merry scholar under the peony flower today, isn't this Fan Lubing?

Suddenly seeing Li Zhe's embarrassed look, Li Hong said, "Liulang, it's not that the eldest brother doesn't want to give you Zhao Hong's skirt, it's just that when the queen mother sent someone to send her, she personally said that she wanted Zhao Hong's skirt to serve Gu's daily life, are you sure you want her now?" ”

Li Zhe is very clear about what personal service represents, so when Li Hong said this, Li Zhe understood what Li Hong meant, so he hurriedly said, "Since this is what the queen mother meant, then the eldest brother should be the younger brother who didn't say it." Brother, if you have nothing to do, my brother will leave first. ”

"Hmm!" Li Hong nodded slightly, and said to Yan Zhuang, "Yan Zhuang, you send Liulang." ”

Yan Zhuang bowed down to receive the order and sent Li Zhe out of the study. When Yan Zhuang returned to the study again, Li Hong asked with a thoughtful expression, "Yan Zhuang, do you know the names of the cronies around King Zhou?" ”

Yan Zhuang was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and hurriedly replied, "This, the minister doesn't know very well. Your Highness, is there something wrong? ”

"yes!" Li Hong sighed, "Don't you see that this brother is not simple? ”

Historically, Li Xian (Li Zhe) of Tang High School wanted to use Wei Yuanzhen, the father of Empress Wei, as his subordinate because he reused Empress Wei's relatives, but Pei Yan thought it was impossible. Li Xian was furious: "I give Wei Yuanzhen the world, it's okay, do you still regret a servant?" After Pei Yan heard this, he reported to Empress Wu, who was greatly annoyed by Zhongzong's actions, and after only two months of succession, he demoted him to King Luling and demoted him from Chang'an.

The history book commented that this was a manifestation of the incompetence of Tang Zhongzong Li Xianyongrou.

But this is not the case.

Because the situation at that time was that his power had been hollowed out by Empress Wu, and there was no one around him to use, he wanted to consolidate the throne that was not stable at that time, so he had no choice but to reuse Empress Wei's relatives, with Empress Wei's father Wei Yuanzhen as his servant, and wanted to try to form his own team.

Otherwise, how could his actions provoke the anger of the Empress Wu and even abolish him?

"Why don't you send someone to investigate?" Yan Zhuang said cautiously.

"Forget it!" Li Hong thought about it and said, then motioned for Yan Zhuang to retreat.

Now Li Zhe can't threaten him, and he doesn't need to focus on Li Zhe to displease Gaozong and Empress Wu, what he is worried about now is the Huaxian tragedy, Zhang Deyu, the young secretary of Dali Temple, has been to Huaxian for more than ten days and has no news, which makes him have a bad premonition...