Chapter 6: Don't Guess the Emperor's Thoughts
At one o'clock in the afternoon, the master of ceremonies supervised the class room.
Wang Tiqian took off his red robe, opened his arms to reveal his furry chest, and was holding a watermelon to eat. Two little eunuchs with pu fans stood behind him, desperately fanning him.
Suddenly, Wang Tiqian stopped eating melons and looked out of the door. I saw a group of eunuchs carrying a man and running into the courtyard quickly.
"Hurry up, the old ancestor has a heat stroke!" Someone shouted.
Wang Tiqian was shocked, hurriedly threw down the watermelon, quickly greeted him, commanded the eunuchs to put Wei Zhongxian on the cool collapse, and asked the eunuchs to quickly find the imperial doctor.
"No, our family, we can just lie down......" Wei Zhongxian reluctantly raised his head and said angrily.
Wang Tiqian had a chance to take a closer look, and saw that Wei Zhongxian's hair was in a messy bun, his face was flushed, and his whole body was as if he had been fished out of the water, and his python robe was dirty and crumpled together, and his appearance was miserable as if he had been ravaged by seven or eight strong men.
"This, old ancestor, how did you get this way?" Wang Tiqian didn't know what to say. Dongchang Gonggong, the 9,000-year-old man who leaned towards the government and the opposition, turned out to be such a miserable appearance.
Didn't you go to Xiyuan to accompany Your Majesty to train the army, how did you really feel like going to the battlefield to fight?
Li Chaoqin, who accompanied Wei Zhongxian to Xiyuan, said with grief and indignation on his face: "Your Majesty, which is training, it is clear that you want the life of your ancestors!" On a hot day, the ancestor stood under the sun for an hour, unable to even move, and if he moved, he would be whipped. Cao Huachun, that dog thing, took chicken feathers as an arrow, and dared to hit the ancestor, and he beat him five times! ”
"Ahh Wang Tiqian's mouth opened wide in surprise, and he hurriedly turned his head to see that the clothes that his factory father had just taken off really had traces of being whipped, and the sturdy python robe was torn. Looking at Wei Zhongxian's back again, several whip marks were vertical and horizontal, and they were already swollen.
"This, this, how dare Cao Huachun?"
At the beginning, Cao Huachun saw himself and others wagging their tails like pugs, why is he so bold now!
"What don't you dare, now he is a celebrity next to His Majesty, I don't think it will be long before this celebrant will have the final say." Li Chaoqin snorted coldly.
Wang Tiqian sighed, that is very likely. But he still couldn't believe it, this was an ancestor, how dare Cao Huachun do it? Could it be ......
"Don't blame Cao Huachun," Wei Zhongxian spoke, and actually excused Cao Huachun, "Not only my father, basically everyone was whipped, Zhang Shize and they were beaten harder, Zhang Shize's grandson cried and begged for mercy, and His Majesty didn't show mercy to him, in comparison, he was polite to his father." ”
"But you are an ancestor, you are nine thousand years old, how can you compare with those hairy boys?" Li Chaoqin was not angry.
"It was my father who took the initiative to ask His Majesty to join, and I can't blame others. If you want to blame it, I blame my father for not thinking it clearly in advance, thinking that His Majesty was just playing, but I didn't expect that he really wanted to train the army. Wei Zhongxian sighed.
Li Chaoqin said: "It's not that we haven't seen the military training, what the Beijing camp military training looks like like this?" ”
Wei Zhongxian sighed: "Your Majesty is only seventeen years old, but I have seen some things from books, where do you know how to train soldiers." ”
Wang Tiqian hurriedly asked, "Ancestor, will you go again tomorrow?" ”
Wei Zhongxian smiled bitterly: "What are you going to do, I'm afraid I'm going to lose my life if I go again." ”
I wanted to curry favor with the emperor so as to consolidate my position, but now it seems that it will not work.
Wang Tiqian persuaded: "Ancestor, don't worry, Your Majesty is young after all, if you want to play a play, you may get tired of playing it in a few days, maybe you will play others, we still have a chance." ”
Wei Zhongxian nodded, his expression was very melancholy: "I hope." ”
The so-called son of heaven and a courtier, can he really stay in the Chongzhen Dynasty? Wei Zhongxian didn't dare to think about it, and he was not reconciled.
British Mansion, British Duke Zhang Zhiji frowned and looked at the embarrassed Zhang Shize, "Did you go to see the emperor or flee, how did you make this ghost?" ”
"Daddy!" Zhang Shize's mouth was deflated and he cried, "Dad, the child almost can't see you." ”
"Stop, stop, catch your breath and say." Zhang Zhiji ordered the servants to change Zhang Shize's tattered clothes, and asked people to pour a bowl of iced sour plum soup.
Zhang Shize came to his senses and began to talk about what had just happened.
"One stop is an hour, I don't even let my breath breathe, and I will be whipped if I move a little. Dad, I was beaten ten times! ”
"But I'm fine, Liu Shaozong's grandson is even worse, he was beaten more than 20 whips, he couldn't stand it and pretended to faint and lay on the ground, His Majesty ordered someone to wake him up with cold water and continue to practice."
"The most terrible thing is that Your Majesty said that from tomorrow, you have to practice every day, and you must get it at three o'clock, I estimate that many grandchildren will not be able to get up at all tomorrow."
Speaking of people who performed worse than himself, Zhang Shize couldn't help but gloat.
Zhang Zhiji pondered, the emperor's approach surprised him very much, it is not impossible to train soldiers, Emperor Wuzong Zhengde likes to train in the leopard room. But there are soldiers in the Beijing camp, and there are homeless people outside Beijing, so there is no need to the delicate and expensive princes, right?
"Then will you go to Xiyuan tomorrow?" Zhang Zhiji asked his son.
Zhang Shize showed hesitation on his face, but he still nodded and said: "I'm afraid it won't work if I don't go, who would dare to disobey His Majesty's holy decree?" ”
Zhang Zhiji said: "Don't be afraid, if your father and I give up this old face to intercede for you, Your Majesty will agree." ”
Zhang Shize hurriedly shook his head: "Don't, don't!" If you do this, I am afraid that my son will be really shameless in front of His Majesty in the future, and it will not be my son's turn if there are good things in the future. ”
Zhang Zhiji nodded with satisfaction: "It's very good that you can think of this layer." In the future, I will accompany His Majesty to practice, and I must work hard without the slightest complaint. ”
"The side affairs are erosive, the border army is unbearable, the civil and official parties of the court are fighting endlessly, Your Majesty is diligent and studious, young and vigorous, and must have the ambition to sweep away the decadence of the court, this opportunity may be a signal that Your Majesty wants to reuse our honors." Zhang Zhiji said with a smile.
Since the civil fort, under the suppression of the civil officials, the life of the nobles has been better day by day, and now they can live with the breath of the civil officials. It is not the turn to lead troops to fight, and they have no right to speak on national affairs, and the nobles are not angry, they only know that they are corrupt and pervert the law, rob and oppress the people, and embezzle military salaries, and they have almost become waste.
There are also many knowledgeable people among the nobles, and they don't want to see the current situation, but they can't help it, because the civil officials do not allow them to rise.
Thinking of this, Zhang Zhiji was faintly looking forward to it.
But does Your Majesty really think so? Could it be that because they are only familiar with Broad & Bright, they can't find other people to train with Broad & Bright, in order to get over the addiction of military training?
Zhang Zhiji shook his head, feeling that he couldn't guess the emperor's thoughts.
In fact, he was not the only one who couldn't guess the emperor's thoughts. The cabinet in the palace is on duty, and the cabinet elders are also distressed because they can't guess the emperor's thoughts.