For a four-year-old child, if he is praised for being smart and clever, he may be able to barely get on the top, and it is really too far-fetched to call him "kind-hearted".

However, no one around him found it funny, and no one refuted it.

The Yaque in the Funing Palace was silent, and everyone stared at Zhao Rui, who was half-sitting and leaning, some were shocked, some were expressionless, some were frowning, and some were casual.

And Zhao Hao, the king of Ji, who stood very close, did not look like others at all.

His face was full of sadness, and when he heard Zhao Rui's words, he stepped forward and shouted: "Second brother, there should be no definite number at the moment, why are you like this!" ”

Zhao Rui ignored him, but looked directly at the short child behind him, and shouted, "Zhao Xuan, come here." ”

His voice was not loud, but his tone was very serious.

Xiao'er, who was called Zhao Xuan, heard the call of the Son of Heaven, shrank for a moment, and turned his head to look at Zhao Hao on the side.

Not only did he not listen to Zhao Rui's words and go to the edge of the bed, but he also took a few steps to the left front, hugged the leg of the eldest brother on the side, and raised his head and shouted at Zhao Hao aggrievedly: "Daddy! ”

Born in the royal family, Zhao Xuan is only four years old in the end, for him, Zhao Rui is just a rare person to meet, not to mention that the other party's tone is more stern than gentle at this time, and the field is full of ministers who don't know him, and there are nearly 100 chamberlains present, many and mixed, and the atmosphere is tense, which makes him even more overwhelmed.

Zhao Xuan's reaction was seen by everyone.

Empress Yang was wiping the tears from the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief, and when she heard Zhao Rui calling Zhao Xuan, she had already put her hand down, staring at the little child with her eyes.

Although 114 years old is not very old, he can already recognize his parents and brothers, and he also knows who the real family is.

Empress Yang is not the only one who is also suspicious.

The matter of the Son of Heaven's step-heir, there have been ministers in the court since last year, and when Zhao Rui was seriously ill this year, it was finally really put on the agenda.

There are many candidates for the emperor's heir, and the ministers have their own plans, at this time, seeing that Zhao Rui is about to settle Zhao Xuan so easily, many people have something to say, but they don't have a position to speak, and it's not good to be the first to speak.

Suddenly, silence returned to the temple.

Zhao Xuan looked at Zhao Hao, and called "Daddy" for help, but Zhao Hao did not force him to respond to Zhao Rui, but said to the Son of Heaven: "Your Majesty, Xuan'er has a soft temperament and is young, so it is really difficult to take on a big responsibility!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the Empress Dowager Zhang on the side also followed: "Your Majesty, the emperor's heir is the most important thing in the society, the child is young, and he doesn't know the future, how can he be so easy to decide." ”

After tossing for a long time, Zhao Rui was already a little out of energy, he could hear Empress Dowager Zhang talking to Zhao Hao, and couldn't help but look at the political hall and several old ministers in the Privy Council.

Huang Zhaoliang's eyebrows were furrowed, only staring at the little Zhao Xuan.

Fan Yaochen's face was expressionless, neither looking at the Son of Heaven nor at the heir newly designated by the Son of Heaven.

Tongping Zhangshi Li Hui bowed his head with his hands, as if he was out of the matter.

Ren Hao, the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, disagreed, and looked straight at himself, as if he had a lot to say, but because of the current scene, it was not easy to speak.

There are other people in the audience with different colors, just looking at their expressions, they can't guess the real thoughts of everyone.

Zhao Rui's heart moved, and he turned his head to look at Queen Yang beside him.

The other party looked unpredictable, holding a handkerchief in his hand, and his eyes were staring straight at Zhao Xuan, and after a while, he turned to a child who was being held by the palace people and was only in his early two years old brought by the four kings not far away.

Zhao Rui couldn't help but sigh secretly.

The Queen Mother is right, Zhao Xuan is still young, and it is difficult to know the future.

Children are sick, even if they are raised to the age of ten, no one dares to assert that this person will definitely grow up, let alone in the deep palace. Even if the family can live a few more years, it is unlikely to take a child who is only one or two years old to choose the emperor's heir one by one.

If there are more choices when he is still in good health, at the moment he is heavily poisoned by snake venom, and the time to survive is very short, and the room for choice is even narrower.

If you choose someone who is still young, even if that person already knows people and knowledge, and wants to be the son of heaven, he will have to go through many years of study and experience, and it is impossible to immediately govern one by one, even if he himself is willing, it is impossible for the two governments to agree.

In this way, according to the current situation, there can only be someone to hang the curtain.

I know my own affairs, even if I become the rightful mother of the new Son of Heaven in the future, the queen mother of the world, how can my own queen fight my own wife.

In the end, no matter who ascends the throne, the real person in charge is still the queen mother.

Zhao Rui hesitated for a moment.

There are Huang Zhaoliang, Fan Yaochen, Sun Bian and others in the political hall, Li Hui and Ren Hao in the Privy Council, Chen Hao in Guangnan, Guo Hui, Su Yun, Zhou Qing in the west, and Xu Shunyi in the north.

When these old ministers are old, the little emperor should also grow up, and there are newcomers such as Gu Yanzhang, Zheng Shixiu, Zhang Alcohol, and Wang Ruilai, and the court will naturally alternate between the old and the new, and they will be endless, even if something really happens, as long as there is a steady stream of talents in the world and all the talents are used by the Zhao family, it will not be able to move the fundamentals.

The court was fine, and Zhao Rui turned his thoughts to the harem.

He has no children, and his brothers are already adults, each with their own family business, so there is no need to worry about it.

In addition to these, all he needs to think about is a mother and a wife.

Empress Dowager Zhang is a fierce person, and there is a deep-rooted mother's family behind her, that is, there is no way ahead, she can also fight a bloody way, and no matter who she succeeds, that person will be her own grandson, so she doesn't need to worry about her own family.

Empress Keyang...... Not only is her mother's family weak, she can't help at all, her personality is even more soft and cowardly, and she is mediocre, she can't do anything, and she can always leave her feet when she is whimsical.

The most important thing is that she still doesn't like Empress Dowager Zhang.

If her family is here, she can still help perfunctory, but once her family is gone, she is alone, and she doesn't know what virtue she will be bullied into.

No one in the hall spoke, and no one answered, Zhao Rui was a strong spirit, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that his whole body was weak, even if he wanted to move his hands and feet, he was a little overwhelmed, and when he got to the back, he didn't know if it was his delusion, he only felt that even breathing was a little difficult, and the sleepiness in front of him hit him one after another, making him want to sleep, and he didn't have the time to think about the rest.

Everyone present had their own thoughts, and the first to notice that something was wrong was Empress Dowager Zhang.

She saw that her son's eyelids drooped, and the whole person gradually changed from half-leaning on the head of the bed to sleeping down, and couldn't help but shout: "Your Majesty! ”

Zhao Rui's eyelids had slowly closed, and in a trance, he seemed to hear someone calling him, he wanted to respond, but he was too tired to make a sound.

Several imperial doctors hurriedly surrounded them and rescued them.

The rest of the people all looked forward to it, but none dared to make a sound, only staring at the movements of the people in the bed tent.

Empress Dowager Zhang waited for a moment, couldn't bear it anymore, and shouted, "Li Zhu! Your Majesty was bitten by this ring of silver snakes, is there any treatment! ”

The imperial doctor who was called by her had no choice but to come out and reply: "Niangniang, the lower officials and others discussed, although this snake is like a ring of silver, but it is not all ring silver, so I can only do my best to ......."

This time, without waiting for Empress Dowager Zhang to ask, Empress Yang on the side was already screaming: "What do you mean by like?!" The snake corpse is still there, and you can't even recognize it?! How can this be true! ”

That Li Medical Officer was also very aggrieved in his heart, but in front of the Queen Mother, the Queen and a group of important ministers, how to get rid of his own involvement, although he knew that this matter was strange, once he could say it, he was afraid that he would suffer a catastrophe, but if he didn't say it, he would generally not be able to be alone, so he simply did not hide it, but explained honestly: "Your Highness doesn't know, the ring silver snake, also known as the money white flower snake, is mostly haunted in the deep mountains and miasma in Yunnan, Guangnan and other places, although it is extremely poisonous, but it has a gentle temperament, and is very timid, and rarely hurts people...... Wechen has been in Beijing for more than 50 years, and has been treating diseases for 40 years, and he has never seen this kind of snake......

As he spoke, someone shouted behind him, "Li Fengyao, Tanzhong acupoint can't be needled!" ”

Li Zhu didn't care about Empress Dowager Zhang or Empress Yang, so he hurriedly bowed and hurriedly returned to the bed.

However, his words were enough to shock everyone in the audience.

can stand in the Funing Palace at this time, except for Queen Yang, almost none of them are not relying on their own ability to fight up, listen to a dragon word, and immediately help you make up all the twelve zodiac signs, and can also write seven or eight praise articles without repetition, all of them are human spirits, how can you not guess the next question.

Why did the poisonous snakes that haunted the south suddenly enter Beijing, and they could still wander around in the court, obviously tame, and finally really bit the Son of Heaven.

Everyone thought about it, but still no one spoke.

In a moment, several medical officers got out of the way, and Zhao Rui finally woke up leisurely.

He shook his head, as if trying to make himself more sober, Fu took a few deep breaths, and then asked, "I want to succeed the emperor, do you have a suitable candidate?" ”

Before Zhao Rui could say this, Fan Yaochen had already sighed secretly.

Your Majesty has really been sick and rushed to the doctor, how can the matter of the emperor's heir be brought out for the officials to discuss, if it is ordinary, at this moment, you must know in your heart, and you can quickly cut through the mess in order to solve the matter one sentence.

The more people there are, the more miscellaneous they are, how can these people negotiate such a scene and come up with a result!

Fan Yaochen's thought just flashed in his heart, and an official had already stepped forward to recommend Zhao Xuan, the son of Zhao Hao, the king of Ji, who had just been pointed out by Zhao Rui, and the reason was also ready-made, but he changed a few words, saying that he was smart and clever, and he was kind-hearted.

With this person at the beginning, soon, everyone will say a word to you and a word, and each of them will propose their own candidates.

Some people say that the youngest son of the four kings has been smart since he was a child, he can write poetry at the age of three, and he can write at the age of five, and now he has grown to the age of seven, with a healthy body and his own chest block.

Some people say that the eldest son of the three kings has reached the crown, and once he succeeds, whether he is in school or in charge of the dynasty, he will come more smoothly than ordinary young children, not to mention that the older ones have an advantage and have become adults.

One by one, as Fan Yaochen thought, no one can convince others, and everyone has their own opinions.

In the midst of the noise, I suddenly heard someone on the side: "Your Majesty, according to what the ministers have seen, for the sake of the Great Jin, there is no need to succeed the emperor's heir......"

As soon as the man's words came out, everyone turned their heads to look.

"The minister thinks that now everything in the court is complete, there are Jiaozhi in the south, barbarians in the north, vassal people in the west, and the east is not peaceful, and there are floods and droughts, and there is almost no peace.

He took a step forward and said loudly: "Your Majesty has three brothers, why not follow the example of Emperor Taizu, brother...... Let my brother and? ”

As the last four words fell, the Funing Palace, which was still noisy, returned to the quiet of a moment ago in an instant, and this time it was not as quiet as Fang Cai, it was simply terrifyingly quiet.

Everyone stared at the man who spoke, and two thoughts came to their minds almost at the same time.

The first is: finally someone said the exit.

The second is: what about him!

Since the founding of the dynasty, only two emperors have inherited the throne of Laozi by normal sons, and the rest are almost all successions.

However, there is one case that is very unusual.

The founding emperor of the Great Jin Dynasty died unexpectedly, and after his death, he passed on his younger brother to Jin Taizong. Emperor Taizu had an adult son, but he did not let his son succeed to the throne, but passed the throne to his younger brother.

This thing is very unreasonable, even now, the people often question it privately, but at this time, the person suddenly moved it out, whether it is the story or the founding emperor, for a while, everyone is not good at words.

Others are still listening, but Queen Yang is already pale.

Brother let brother that is, this is a nice thing to say, but in fact, it is just brother and brother.

If the Son of Heaven is gone, and the new emperor is actually one of several vassal kings, what about the old queen herself?

The name is not right, the word is not good.

You can't get out of the palace, you can't enter the palace......

It's really better to go underground with the Son of Heaven!

She thought so, staring almost viciously at the official who had come up with such a bad idea.

Empress Yang was not familiar with the government and politics, so she naturally couldn't help the name of Minister Zhu Zi who was standing among the officials not far away, but if Gu Yanzhang was here, she could recognize it at a glance, this person was an old acquaintance.

Yiyi was Wu Yi, who once joined hands with him left and right in Yongzhou City, almost causing the entire city of Yongzhou to fall, but was stabbed dozens of times by thieves, and fortunately picked up a life.

And Zhao Hao, the king of Ji, who was standing a few steps away from Queen Yang, secretly clenched his palm in his sleeve into a fist.

One by one is finally here.

How can the son who passed out still be his own son?!

The son is the emperor, how can he compare to Lao Tzu as the emperor?!