Emperor Jianxi turned a few pages hastily after Huang Chongde's handover, and he raised his eyebrows slightly, "...... There are still such people in Beizhen Fusi, how come I haven't heard of them before. ”

"The slave maid has checked, this person has been a small flag official under Zhao Baihu for a long time, probably acting too straight, so he has been pressed underneath," Huang Chongde said softly, "But I have sharpened my skills." ”

Emperor Jianxi closed the fold, threw aside the old and new volumes, and said in a low voice, "This person has a few brushes, and he can catch the opportunity when it comes, he is a promising one, what is his background?" ”

"Back to the emperor, he and that Baizi Secret Guard Wei 14 are both officials of the Suppression Division who entered the twenty-sixth year of Jianxi."

Hearing Huang Chongde mention Wei Fourteen, Emperor Jianxi raised his eyes slightly, "There is a relationship?" ”

"There are some." Huang Chongde replied, "The two children were originally sent to Beijing by local officials as auspicious tributes, Wei Shixi because of the snow-white skin and hair, and Han Chong because of a red birthmark on the back of his neck, which is the same as the love horse that the Queen Mother lost in the twenty-first year of Jianxi. ”

Emperor Jianxi frowned, it was more than twenty years ago, and it seems that he still has some impressions when he thinks about it carefully......

At that time, the Queen Mother saw that these two children were cute and liked them very much. The palace originally wanted to cleanse them and then send them to the Queen Mother to serve, but the Queen Mother took pity on the two children, so she handed them over to Wei Ying, the secret guard at the time, to learn some skills. Later, Wei Ying died, Wei 14 took his place, and Han Chong still stayed in Beizhen Fusi to do things. Huang Chongde smiled, "It's been more than 20 years. ”

Emperor Jianxi's face gradually turned cold, he thought for a moment, and his gaze fell back on the two volumes, "Then continue to grind for a few more years, let me take a look." ”

"Huh." Huang Chongde leaned over and sorted out the two scattered volumes, and replied softly, "The slave understands. ”

……

"The child is really fine, when I went, I guessed that my father would definitely do it again today, so I took precautions in advance." In Prince Gong's mansion, in the princess's small garden, the prince took off his coat and revealed the cotton vest inside, "I just wore it all the time, and it was so hot." ”

The princess looked at the lively prince in front of her, laughing and tearing for a while, she pulled the prince closer, and carefully looked at the wound on his left cheek, which was fine, it was indeed not very serious.

But this gap on his face can't be eliminated without ten days and half a month.

Shizi took off the cotton vest and threw it on the ground, "Grandpa Huang said that he would use Jiaolong skin to give me armor, I feel that Jiaolong skin can be cooler when worn on the body, and it is estimated that it is quite a beating." ”

"The next time you suspect that your father is angry, and he calls you out, you will come to your mother," corrected the princess, "and the armor that your grandfather gave you is not for this." ”

Shizi nodded, "Got it!" ”

Looking at the indifferent expression on Shizi's face, Zhen knew that he probably wouldn't listen, maybe the boy was like this when he was older, and he would rather be beaten than have a reputation for shrinking. She glanced at the wound on Shizi's face again, and couldn't help but sigh.

"Mother, I've been thinking about a question these days." Shizi dragged the heavy stone bench and sat next to his mother, "I originally wanted to discuss it with Master Zhang the day after tomorrow, but I also wanted to ask my mother what she thought." ”

"Tell me about it." Zhen said softly.

When the prince got permission, he said softly, "My Taizu of the Great Zhou Dynasty destroyed Qi and Zhao and reunified the world, and when the last emperor of Qi and Zhao was written in the history books, one was close to the beauty and gradually abandoned the court affairs, and the other was to connive at his relatives and let the queen Liu interfere in the government affairs, so that the yin and yang were out of order, and finally the country was destroyed.

"But a few days ago, Master Zhang brought me a book of local chronicles of a small county in the south of Zhaoguo Shangjing, and some tax items of this county for several years, which are really shocking, the people have no permanent property, they have nothing to do with their parents, they have no way to save their wives, they are hungry and hard to endure in good years, and they can only leave their hometowns and flee in the year of hunger and famine, and the county has ten rooms and nine empty.

"If you go back in time, to the fall of the Great Chu and the rise of the heroes, my Great Zhou, Qi and Zhao all have their own edges, but before and after only two hundred years, the people's livelihood withered within the borders of Qi and Zhao......"

At this point, Shizi paused, and gradually showed a confused expression.

The princess seemed to have guessed what he was going to say next, and a slight smile appeared on her face, and she lowered her head to drink tea.

"I'm just strange," Shizi said softly, "Don't historians know that the extinction of Sheji is not an overnight thing, the imperial industry has been passed down from generation to generation, once the son of heaven and a courtier, the bitter fruit planted by this generation often has to be tasted by people after more than ten years or even decades, and what they do has to be borne by their descendants, so that it is difficult to return in the end...... With such a myriad of things, why can it be covered by a light sentence of yin and yang disorder, emperor greed and beauty? ”

Zhen looked at the flower garden in the distance and said with a smile, "The prince really shouldn't come to ask me about such a thing, he should go to you Master Zhang." ”

"I know," Shizi hurriedly said, "But Master Zhang has been resting for the past few days, and the more I look at those historical records, the more strange I feel, and I always feel that there are some places between the lines that are not explained, and some places are inconsistent......

Shizi frowned, "If you don't understand this, I won't be able to read those books." ”

Zhen was silent, she stood up and walked slowly in the small garden, and the son followed behind her mother.

"I don't care about your schoolwork, just leave it to Master Zhang to solve your doubts." Zhen said with a smile, "But I've also thought about this concubine." ”

"I want to hear about it."

Zhen smiled, "I often advise you fathers and sons to be cautious in what you do, to be a good prince and a good son." If you can act openly and uprightly, guard against arrogance and rashness, there will always be a strong stroke of your mark in the annals of history. But if it's the opposite...... I can't escape some infamy and have to bear some infamy. ”

Shizi was stunned.

The mother's words fell into my ears, and they sounded familiar again.

"Is it a fault that a woman is beautiful?"

The girl who always meditated behind the rockery in the Imperial Garden once said the same.

"For the sake of the concubine, the emperor wants to risk the disapproval of the world, whose fault is this? Or in your opinion, no matter whose fault it is, in the final analysis, it is the fault of the concubine? ”

Zhen said softly, "History books are always written by people from the previous dynasty, and they can't be trusted. As for the rise and fall of Sheji, there was Chu before Qi and Zhao, there was Sheng before Chu, and before Sheng, there was Jin, Li, Kangyuan...... Some things may be unclear once you look at them, but you can also go to the pile of old papers in other dynasties to find clues and compare them to take a look. ”

Zhen said that, and walked a few steps forward, only to find that Shizi had not followed.

He stood there looking at the flowerbed beside him, and his face looked a little embarrassed because of his hard thinking.

Shizi only felt a knot in his chest, and many things and many faces came to his mind in an instant, which made him a little uncomfortable.

"What's wrong?" Zhen asked.

The son came back to his senses and looked at his mother, "The child will be a good son, and he will be a good prince in the future, and he will not let his mother's reputation be dusty." ”。