Chapter 16 Gains and Losses

"Erlang, what's wrong with you?" All the Taoist priests were taken out of the hall by the guards, and Zhao Ji suddenly found that his son was still standing there stunned with a knife, and hurriedly asked.

"Dad" Zhao Ta looked pitiful and pitiful, "I beat Guan Gong, he won't come to me for revenge at night, right?" He asked uneasily.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, Daddy has arrested them and put them in prison!" Zhao Ji hugged his son and dragged his back to comfort him.

"Well, aren't they immortals, they won't turn into gusts of wind and escape, right?" Zhao Ta sniffed and asked again.

"Hehe, why weren't you afraid when you hit them just now?" Zhao Ji looked at his son and said funny.

"That Guan Yu was rude to his father just now, how could he agree to be a son, I only had my father in my heart at that time, so I was not afraid at all!" Zhao Ta raised his face and said with a righteous and awe-inspiring appearance.

"Good boy, those are all tricks played by demons, and what they summoned is not a fairy at all, Daddy wants to torture them well, what is his intention!" Zhao Ji said indignantly.

"Didn't he also say just now that he saw the gods and demons?" Zhao Ta pointed to Li Yan, who was standing on the side, and said.

"Hmph, I forgot about him, someone came to tie up this dog and beat this thing to death!" Zhao Ta reminded him like this, Zhao Ji also remembered this guy who told him the story just now, and thought that the people around him had colluded with outsiders to deceive him, and he was even more angry.

"Big official, help" Then Li Yan was already frightened when he saw that Zhang Tianshi was tied up, and when he heard this, he immediately jumped up and knelt at Yang Jian's feet, hugged his thighs and cried.

"You slave, you actually colluded with outsiders to deceive the saint, you can't be spared, drag out of the rod and die!" Yang Jian was also furious in his heart, kicked Li Yan and shouted, and quickly cleared up the relationship with him, and the two wrestlers immediately stepped forward and punched Li Yan's jaw when they heard the order, "Dragged him out of the jaw, and after a crackle, there was no sound outside."

"Damn, the big man can't kill you, kill the small ones first, and the province will harm people in the future!" A slight sneer appeared at the corner of Zhao Ta's mouth.

"Yang Jian, you will find out this matter and report it, you are tired, go back to the palace first!" Zhao Ji has long lost interest after such a toss," he said dejectedly.

"The emperor drove back to the palace!" The chamberlain shouted loudly, Zhao Ji took Zhao Ta's hand and walked away, leaving a stunned Yang Jian, the emperor has never been so close to any prince, including Zhao Ji, who was the most favored in the past, has never enjoyed the treatment of his fellow "I made it difficult for him in the past, and today he killed one of his cronies in front of the emperor in a few words, how is this good?"

A few days later, "Baoce Palace séance case, with the result, Zhang Jixian deceived the monarch in vain, was canceled all titles, the emperor remembered the old feelings, exempted from the capital crime, expelled from the capital and repatriated to his hometown, and was managed by the local government: the two "great gods, failed to survive the first round of torture" Li Yan deceived the saint and had already subdued the law, and was spared the pain of a knife, and all the Taoist priests of the Tianzheng Sect were dismissed and expelled from Beijing, and the Baozhen Palace issued an edict that all Taoist temples were not allowed to take in Tianzheng Christians! Although it is close to the New Year, but Zhang Jixian, who has infinite scenery in the past, braved the wind and snow under the escort of the officials and left the Beijing Division, the scene is not miserable, before leaving, he looked at the majestic palace city and said: "Penglai water is shallow, and the sea is going to become a mulberry field!" But no one could understand the implications.

Wang Laozhi was frustrated, Zhang Jixian was demoted, and Wang Zixi was left with the great god of Beijing, he didn't know what method Lu Dao used to escape this catastrophe, and his favor was still undiminished. He has become a transcendent giant, and the decrees of the state and the hierarchy are not in his eyes.

He wandered around the palace, went in and out of the minister's house, traded power and money, participated in various gatherings of dignitaries, and completely became a member of the country, and was no longer a behind-the-scenes celebrity in the hidden world.

With the approach of the Spring Festival, Zhao Ta's mansion is also lively, Xiangyi Zhuangzi winter vegetables have begun to enter Beijing for sale, the villagers will be filled with the palace to visit, the prince will also take time to meet with everyone, leave them to eat, as always, and the same as before. Whoever has a problem in Beijing, as long as he speaks, the prince will also help and never shirk, giving everyone the feeling that the prince after entering Beijing is still the previous prince, or everyone's intimate person, protecting God, and not abandoning everyone.

However, all discerning people in the court will find that the number of times the second prince should enter the palace has increased, and when the emperor receives foreign guests, attends ceremonies, and accepts the court, he often appears by his side, and he is no longer the favorite Zhao Wei in the past. The reward of this year's Spring Festival, Prince Chong got obviously more than other princes, and among the rewarded items was a treasure knife that Emperor Taizu had used during the war, and the emperor's attitude towards Zhao Ta quietly changed, which caused a commotion inside and outside the government and the opposition, and various rumors began to circulate among officials, that is, the emperor was ready to be established as the prince after the crown ceremony in the coming year. ,

"Why did God treat me like this?" In the warm pavilion of Dingwang's Mansion, a melancholy young man stared intently at the various golden carps swimming freely in a huge porcelain jar, and suddenly he reached out and scooped up a fat golden carp from the tank, regardless of its desperate struggle, tightened his fingers. His palms clenched tighter and tighter, and the fish's mouth opened wide, and both eyes burst out.

"Lord Wang, what's wrong with you?" Wang Fu praised Geng Nanzhong to see that the prince's expression was wrong, and hurriedly asked.

"It's nothing, I'm a little irritable!" Zhao Huan let go of his hand, and the fish slid into the tank from his hand, but it turned white, it struggled hard, trying to turn over, but failed again and again, and said with a cruel smile on the corner of his mouth.

"The prince is worried about the storage position?" Geng Nanzhong sighed and said, they were at a disadvantage from the beginning of this matter, Cai Jing, who did not express his position, and the important ministers of the court almost overwhelmingly opposed the establishment of the king as the prince, earlier a Jia king had overwhelmed them and was difficult to parry, and now the king suddenly came out again, turning the whole situation around, pushing them to the bottom, and the prospect was bleak, making people unable to see a trace of the future.

"Hmph, look at the carriage and horse street over there, the flow in and out, what kind of storage space are you talking about!" Zhao Huan smiled bitterly and pushed open the window of the warm pavilion, pointing to the Chongwang Mansion next door, all kinds of people lined up outside the door with gifts, and in front of his own mansion, not to mention the stream, not even "The carriage and horses are scarce, I can't talk about it, only two doormen shivered in the cold wind, looking over there."

"The prince must be calm, you are the eldest son, no one can shake your status, let's just wait and see what happens, there will be people who can't hold it back!" Geng Nanzhong stroked a few beards under his collar and said with a smile.

"Cranes and mussels compete, scum gains!" Zhao Shu looked at the Jiawang Mansion in the west, a smile appeared on his face, the golden carp in the porcelain jar finally turned over, but it seemed to lose its balance, crooked his arms in the jar in a circle, and the fish food floating on the water surface could not be eaten in his mouth.

"Throw it out, throw it all out!" In King Jia's mansion, Zhao Yan roared angrily, like a mad shrew, and the ground was littered with smashed glass paperweights, pen washes, pen holders, and glass ballasts flickering in the candlelight, like eyes that mocked him.

"The prince is angry, these are all rewards from the emperor, and I am afraid that it will not be good for the prince!" Chang Gui, the head of Jiawang Mansion and Ran Mansion, asked Xiao Huangmen to clean up the house, and gave Zhao a cup of tea and said.

"Hehe, the emperor's rewards, but they are all tricks of the demon to please his father!" Zhao Yan smiled angrily and said coldly, these things are indeed Zhao Ta's tribute, but his father thought this thing was very good, so he rewarded it to his third son, but he didn't expect Zhao Lu, who was about to go crazy and tortured by frustration, to see these as a mockery of him.

Yesterday, Zhao Yan asked to see him with two of his new works, and wanted to ask his father for advice, but he was turned away on the grounds that he was busy with affairs, and gave him something to send him back, but he was "familiar with each other, and the little yellow door clearly told him that King Chong was summoned into the palace early in the morning, and he was accompanying the emperor in the apse to bow." This makes Zhao Ji even more jealous, although he is not short of money, but compared with the second brother of the multimillionaire, it is still a few grades behind, think about the past self and his father to talk about poetry and painting, how elegant it is, but now the father is confused by Zhao Ta's food and beautiful utensils, and he is becoming more and more alienated from himself.

"Don't worry, Lord Wang, Daguan Yang and Liang Chengzhi have already met with several rulers, let us not act rashly, they are trying to prevent all parties from discussing the matter of establishing the prince, although I don't know the opinion of Cai Xiang in Ludao, but he has also privately expressed dissatisfaction with Prince Chong's acceptance of Wang Laozhi, let's just wait for the opportunity!" Chang Gui whispered in his ear.

"Hmph, these people are just grass on the wall, once that demon is allowed to sit big, I'm afraid they will be abandoned, I have made arrangements, don't worry about them!" Zhao Yan said with a sneer.

"Could it be that the prince has already sent it." Chang Gui suddenly saw that the Taoist priest Changfeng who accompanied the prince was gone.

"Yes, he will die tonight!" Zhao Yan said with a hideous face, and a piece of "Goshawk Picture" painted by the emperor himself was manipulated into a ball of waste paper by him.

On the fifteenth day of the lunar month, Zhao Ta Fengyu accompanied his mother to the Great Xiangguo Temple to pray for blessings, he entered the palace early in the morning with the queen's guard of honor out of the Xuande Gate, along the royal street to Bianhefu Street into the Xiangguo Temple, because with his mother, the number of guards of honor was large, Zhao Ta also only brought the two small yellow doors of Jianxi and Wangfu and Laifu, and a group of guards let him send him back to the house, leaving a message for Zhao Zhong and others to pick him up outside the palace gate in the afternoon.

This Xiangguo Temple is located on the riverside street in the east of the state bridge, and is located in the most prosperous area of the capital. Interestingly, the emperor believed in Taoism, but when it came to such important days as praying for the New Year, eliminating disasters, celebrating and enjoying fun, he also went to Buddhism to seek benefits. Since the Song Dynasty, the emperors have tried their best to expand the temple, the building is magnificent, the scale is large, there is "the Imperial Temple, it is called, it is the largest temple in Kyoto, it has been in use.

I don't know if the queen feels sorry for her son or also wants him to relax, she has incense, applied sesame oil money, and has eaten fast in the temple, Zheng Hongmei did not rush back to the palace, but played in the temple with Zhao Ta accompanied by Shen Shi until Shen Shi drove back to the palace, and after Zhao Ta said goodbye to his mother, Zhao Zhong and others were not seen outside the palace. (To be continued.) )