Chapter 238: East Palace Troubles
At this time, the Shen family and Shen Huashan gathered a group of people and asked them to talk about their impressions of the prince. He himself had a good impression of the prince, so he was in a good mood.
But after listening to everyone, he couldn't keep the smile on his face anymore.
"The prince's heart is undecided, and Concubine Rong said that he is benevolent and kind. Zhong Cui's cat, he likes it very much, he takes good care of it personally, and he dislikes the palace maids for not taking good care of them, so he has scolded several palace maids for this. "This matter was heard by Shen Ning from Concubine Rong.
Shen Ning couldn't cry or laugh after hearing this, and then frowned and condensed. Concubine Rong means that the prince still loves cats so much, and he will definitely be able to love the people.
Perhaps in the eyes of parents, children are good. But she forgot, what is it to blame the palace maid for a cat's cane? People are still more expensive than cats? If the prince thinks so, he will be in great trouble.
For a monarch, the most important thing is the attitude towards people! People, that is, the people, court officials, etc., what will the prince think?
In fact, Shen Ning really didn't have any impression of the prince. In her previous life, before Shangguan was made the crown prince, the twelve princes died of illness, and she had never seen him in her previous life. In this life, Shen Ning has been to Zhongcui Palace a lot of times, but in his impression, he has never seen the prince.
But from the incident described by Concubine Rong, one or two can also be drawn about the character of the prince. So she told Shen Huashan about it.
Sure enough, Shen Huashan's face was a little solemn. Benevolence and righteousness are biased, which is not a good thing. For the monarch, the most important thing is to be able to carry it clearly, know what is important and what is light, avoid the light and the heavy, in order to be wise.
"The prince is quite fond of juju, and the most valued chamberlain in the East Palace, Gao Guan, Li Jin and others are excellent in juju." Gu Wenlan said.
There are many colleagues in Jixian Hall who like to keju. The prince likes to do things like Keju, and many officials in Jixian Hall know it, and he also heard this statement from others.
Shen Huashan's brows furrowed. Those who are rulers must not be indulged in fun, and even must not have obvious hobbies. Because what is good at the top will be worse at the bottom, and the king's hobby will become a disaster. It will also become a weakness and will not benefit the country.
"People can't have no fetishes, and they can't have affection." This is said to the common people, not to a monarch. Jun is mainly addicted, and it must be a disaster for this country.
The "Emperor Daojun" and "Gen Yue" mentioned in the history books are enough to alert the emperors and courtiers of previous dynasties. At the very least, Shen Huashan is very vigilant now.
Shen Yule served in Si Tiantai. can enter and leave the palace, so among the people of the Shen family, he has seen the prince the most times, and he also chose a few small things about the prince.
In general, his evaluation of the prince is: young and playful, undecided, may have a lot of problems, but it is also a piece of jade. As long as Zhan Shifu teaches well, the possibility of the prince becoming a virtuous monarch is also very high.
Shen Huashan sighed slightly, from his own observations and the descriptions of Shen Ning and several people, he could already accurately summarize the character of the prince: undecided, stubborn, sensitive and suspicious, and admitting death, he was a typical Jingzhao young man.
But this young man is the crown prince and the prince of the country, and things are really not easy; And he has an unusually close connection with the Shen family, and the Shen family helped him win the crown prince. It is really difficult to help him sit firmly on the throne of the crown prince.
He originally thought that the twelve princes taught by a smart mother like Concubine Rong were not far behind, but he didn't expect it to be this kind of heart. There is a folk proverb that "bad bamboo produces good bamboo shoots", but there is no saying that "good bamboo produces bad bamboo shoots".
Come to think of it, the prince may be young and don't have much to do. That's going to happen. - Shen Huashan comforted himself.
Since ancient times, the crown prince has been a very special character. To put it bluntly, it is a very embarrassing character, and it is not good to perform well or badly. Shen Huashan knows this very well.
No matter how a prince won the emperor's heart before he was made the crown prince, once he was canonized, his identity and role would change, and his relationship with the emperor would change unconsciously.
The crown prince, the future emperor, is above 10,000 people under one person, he is both the emperor's favorite and the emperor's troubles, the prince is too talented and will be suspected by the emperor, and incompetent will be abolished;
In addition, the crown prince has to guard against the open guns and hidden arrows of the rest of the princes, and he has to be sandwiched between the emperor and the courtiers, which is really like walking on thin ice, and he must always be cautious;
Moreover, once the position of the crown prince is established, the crown prince will lose his enterprising spirit, will be arrogant and arrogant, and will even get carried away, waiting for the emperor's great luck to ascend the throne.
Throughout the history books, Shen Huashan did not find that a few princes were able to ascend the throne smoothly, and they were either deposed or killed, so the risk of the crown prince's position is extremely great.
Now the prince supported by the Shen family also has to bear such a risk!
How to correct the position of the crown prince, let him slowly cultivate his own power, and not let the emperor be suspicious of him, this is what Shen Huashan wants to do for the prince!
Thinking of the prince's character and then thinking of his own responsibilities, Shen Huashan felt a lot of pressure, and it was not easy to do a good job in the position of the crown prince.
Fortunately, the crown prince is now quite favored by Emperor Changtai, and it will not arouse the emperor's suspicion for the time being, and the rest of the princes have made big mistakes, and the threat to the throne will not be so great.
The most important thing is that the emperor is more than 60 years old, and the crown prince's accession to the throne will not be too far away. Just get through the past few years, and the situation won't be too bad.
If he was like the prince of the previous dynasty, he would have to wait for more than ten or twenty years at every turn, and Shen Huashan would have the heart to cry.
The crown prince's Zhan Mansion is located next to the East Palace, and the official office with the words "Virtue, Benevolence and Righteousness" on the plaque is, but because the subordinate officials of the East Palace are concurrently served by the court officials, the half-day Zhan Mansion and the half-day court official office are such a model, therefore, there are not many officials who often appear in the Zhan Mansion.
Shen Huashan is the leader of Zhongshu Lang Yulu, in essence, Zhongshu Province and Jixian Hall are his main duties, generally speaking, he goes to Zhongshu Province first, and then goes to Prince Zhan Shifu.
After the affairs of Zhongshu Province are dealt with, he will go to Zhan Shifu to see the affairs of the East Palace on this day, and then tell the prince about the dynamics of the court situation on this day and what happened in the court. How did the emperor and the court officials view and deal with these matters, and what kind of way of government can be derived from the handling of the emperor and the court officials.
In this way, he tried to familiarize the crown prince with the government affairs, so that he would not be unfamiliar and busy when the prince ascended the throne.
Shao Zhan Shi Qiu Shengnian, Zuo Shuzi Tang Duo and others also did the same, and they were also dedicated to the prince's teaching.
After the initial adaptation and running-in, the work of the Zhan Mansion is now in normal order. The crown prince and the officials of the Zhan Mansion also got along quite well.
Shen Huashan is also very satisfied with this situation, the prince did not make trouble with his subordinates, and the officials of Zhan Shifu are safe, according to this momentum, he, the prince Zhan Shi, will be relieved, and words like abolishing the prince and killing the prince will be far away.
I was worried about it at home before. Presumably it's still too cautious, and it's chaotic to be worried, and it seems that it's not good to care too much. ——After seeing that all the affairs of the East Palace were carried out in an orderly manner, Shen Huashan even thought of it like this, and felt a lot more relaxed.
However, his heart relaxed a little early.
this day. Shen Huashan went to Zhan Shifu to inspect things as usual, but he saw that Qiu Shengnian, the young Zhan Shi, had a difficult face, and he wanted to speak and stopped, as if he had something to embarrass about. This made Shen Huashan feel strange: Could it be that something happened in Zhan Shifu? What is there not to say?
"What's wrong? Is there a difficulty? Naturally, he asked. Recently, I haven't heard anything happen in the East Palace.
Qiu Shengnian's eyes lit up when he saw Shen Hua's aftermath, and he said what he was thinking: "Just now, the prince came to report that the prince loves to bow and wants to build a bow field in the palace and have fun in his spare time. The prince said. This is also to provide a place for the emperor and other princes in the palace to have a pastime, and let the Zhan Mansion issue a charter to deal with the affairs of the bowing field. The subordinates didn't know how to deal with it, and they felt very embarrassed. ”
In fact, Qiu Shengnian thinks this move is inappropriate. Soon after the crown prince was canonized, he was going to build a bow field in the palace, which was afraid that it would cause the emperor to dislike and make the courtiers have ideas.
But the prince's attitude is very resolute, and this is where he is in difficulty.
As soon as Shen Huashan heard Qiu Shengnian's words, he chuckled in his heart. The secret path is inappropriate. Just now he also said that Donggong was calm and he could save his worries, but now the problem is here!
How could the prince want to build a bow field? It must be known that the crown prince has not been established for a long time, and it is really not feasible to build a bow field at this time. There were so many reasons that he could name a few. But he remained silent and asked Qiu Shengnian what he thought about it.
"The subordinates thought that this move was inappropriate, the prince was not long after he was canonized, and it was really not suitable to do this thing, and I was afraid that the emperor would not like it. But the prince is the master, and now he has an order, and a direct refusal will make the prince unhappy, and he is afraid of being disrespectful in the future. Qiu Shengnian said what he thought in his heart.
His meaning was very clear, he didn't approve of this matter, but he had to come up with a way to reject the prince, so as not to be reconciled between the prince and the subordinate officials of the East Palace, but he couldn't think of a way to refuse for the time being.
Shen Huashan nodded, Qiu Shengnian's thoughts and directions were the same as his own, and they were all the opposite of what the prince wanted to do.
The crown prince is the master of the East Palace, and they do things for the prince, but they don't want to do what the prince wants, they do what they do for the prince, because the Zhan Mansion also has the responsibility of teaching and admonishing.
The prince was only sixteen years old, and he didn't think about things well, maybe he just wanted to build a bow field for fun, but he didn't think about what it meant to build a bow field. Even, he may not realize his identity, he is not the Twelve Princes, but the Crown Prince!
The prince's words and deeds are of special significance, representing the trend of the wind and sometimes the standard, so the prince's words and deeds have a huge impact.
In other words, the prince said that every word and everything must be carefully considered, and Hengjian can only say and put it into action again and again, is it so simple to build a bow field? The prince is really joking!
"Let me think about this matter, what can't be decided at this moment, the prince won't be so anxious to get a plan, let me think about it. You go and find out if the prince wants to build a bow field, whether it was his own idea or whether he was prodded by others. Shen Huashan said.
If someone pries the prince in the East Palace, then it must be unpredictable, this is a hidden danger in the East Palace, and he must remove it!
As for the crown prince, it is necessary to let him not do this thing, and not to cause him unhappiness, but to think about it.
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Midnight!