"Yes, it's me."

Zhang Hao tidied up the hem of his clothes: "The old minister has been waiting for His Highness here for a long time. ”

Hua Luo glanced at the two tea bowls on the table: "Are you waiting for me?" How did you know I was going to be here. ”

Zhang Hao put aside this topic: "Knowing that His Highness will come, the old minister has specially prepared a cup of tea, I wonder if I can invite His Highness to play a game of chess?" ”

"What does Master Zhang mean by this, you are one of the best chess players in the Apocalypse Kingdom, although this palace can play chess, but it is definitely not your opponent."

"It's okay, Your Highness can accompany the old minister casually."

Zhang Hao was already sitting there steadily, Hua Luo felt that she should not lose her momentum, and also sat opposite Zhang Hao: "Okay, then Bengong will play chess with you." ”

In this way, Hua Luo held the white son and Zhang Hao held the black child and began to play chess.

After a cup of tea, Hua Luo placed a white seed on the chessboard and made a crisp "pop" sound.

Zhang Hao laughed at the chess piece, and played another black piece, and the white piece was completely surrounded by the black seed.

"Your Highness, if you make this move, you will lose the whole game."

Yes, why didn't she see it just now, and thought it was the most advantageous step.

Hua Luo frowned when she heard this, she was only eight years old, and her heart was not very stable, so she subconsciously stretched out her hand to take Bai Zi away and replay it.

Zhang Hao intercepted Hua Luo's hand that wanted to regret the chess: "Hey, Your Highness, there is no regret about the son." ”

Hua Luo had no choice but to retract her hand, Zhang Hao took a sip of tea, and said with emotion: "The world is like chess, Your Highness, as the future ruler of the Apocalypse Kingdom, is like a person who holds chess, you must know how to use chess pieces reasonably, maybe one wrong step, you will lose the whole game, just like the truth of no regrets." ”

Hua Luo felt that Zhang Hao's words were profound, and fell into deep thought for a while.

Zhang Hao continued: "Although His Highness is still young, he will still find a way to resolve it when he sees the people of Yanzhou rebelling, which shows that His Highness has always had the intention of being in power and regards the Apocalypse Kingdom as a thing in his pocket, so he can't bear to see someone in his life, right?" ”

Hua Luo didn't think there was anything wrong with this: "This palace is the crown prince, is there anything wrong with this idea." ”

"There's nothing wrong with nature." Zhang Hao groaned, "Then has Your Highness thought clearly, you really have to bear the responsibility of being the king of a country, if Your Highness feels that you are powerless, it is okay to go back and abdicate as soon as possible to let Xian." ”

Hua Luo shook her head: "Lord Zhang is a smart person, how can he not understand that once he sits on the throne of the prince, he will become the target of public criticism, if this palace has never been established as the prince, he will not think about this position." ”

"But once it is established, if you want to live a peaceful life, you can only sit on it, if you really go back to abdicate and make way for Xian as Lord Zhang said, I am afraid that the new prince will be jealous for a lifetime, and I don't know how to die at that time."

"Besides, who doesn't want power?"

Zhang Hao nodded: "In fact, it is not easy to be a qualified ruler, especially the empress, has Your Highness ever thought about why most of the men are emperors in the tens of thousands of years of history of the Xuanwu Continent?" ”

"In fact, men do have many advantages over women."

Zhang Hao stood up, looked into the distance, and listed a few: "First, most women are delicate, sensibility is greater than rationality, and they can't always maintain a rational and clear mind. ”

"Second, most women pay more attention to their handsome faces than their own abilities, as emperors, their own abilities are far more important than their handsome faces, and they must have the courage to pull out the mountains and cover the world in order to convince the hearts of the people in the world."

"Third, most women are soft by nature, and as emperors, they should be decisive in killing, and they must be ruthless and unintentional when necessary, so that they can centralize power."

"Although Your Majesty has created a good era for women to be emperors, so that everyone has no prejudice against women as emperors, Your Highness can only be a good empress by overcoming the habitual weaknesses of these women in the world."

"And these are just the first steps, for the monarch, you have to always have a ruler in your heart, you can neither become a weak and incompetent puppet emperor, nor can you become a tyrant who kills indiscriminately and paranoidly, everything is between His Royal Highness's thoughts, His Royal Highness can carefully consider it, just like playing chess, one step at a time."

After Zhang Hao finished speaking, he picked up the white seed that Hua Luo was surrounded by, and put it in another position with a snap.

Suddenly, the dilemma was solved.

"Your Royal Highness is eight years old this year, but you haven't taught you the way to be a king, the old minister has assisted the emperors of the three dynasties, I don't know if you are still qualified?"

Hua Luo was deeply impressed when she heard these words, and without hesitation, she knelt down in front of Zhang Hao, touched the ground with her forehead, and kowtowed three times: "Sir, please accept the students' three bows." ”

Zhang Hao raised his hand to signal Hua Luo to get up, and then said: "Your Highness has already said in front of the people of Yanzhou that you want to solve this drought, I wonder if Your Highness has an idea in your heart?" ”

Hua Luo shook her head, she was just in a hurry to take this matter at that time, and now she hasn't thought of any good ideas, so it is indeed difficult for her to turn the tide by herself.

"Does Your Highness know how many people there were in Yanzhou three hundred years ago?"

Hua Luo replied without thinking: "About 100,000." ”

"And how many people are there today?" Zhang Hao's snow-white eyebrows raised.

Hua Luo did not think twice: "Eighty thousand people." ”

As soon as the words fell, Hua Luo seemed to think of something: "Yanzhou has an abnormal climate, complex terrain, is an eventful place, and the past three hundred years have not been peaceful, earthquakes, droughts and floods have only lost 20,000 people to this day?" ”

"I remember that the drought more than 200 years ago was much worse than this one, and how they persevered, as if the records in this section of the history books were blank."

"This also shows that it is not impossible to do anything."

Seeing Hua Luo's inferences, Zhang Hao was very pleased: "Your Highness is really teachable." ”

The prince led Yanzhou to plant rice in the city, which has the characteristics of general speed, drought and easy storage, and is thoroughly the food of 10,000 people; In the following year, the flood in Yanzhou came, and he made a plan for himself, and he drummed the people into an embankment and was also great, which won the hearts of the people.

In the history books, just ten words summarize Hua Luo's five years in Yanzhou.

When she was thirteen years old, the empress issued a decree to summon her back to Beijing to govern herself.

On the eve of departure, Xiahou Qian's mother found her.

"See His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

Xiahou Qian's mother knelt on the ground.

Hua Luo stirred the spoon in the bowl a few times: "Get up, what's the matter with you?" ”

"I heard that the prince will return to Beijing tomorrow, and the women have the courage to ask the prince for a favor." Xia Houqian's mother shook her hands and was very sincere.

"Say it." Hua Luo put down the bowl, "How can you say that your family has also taken in this palace for so many years, this palace should thank you before leaving, what grace do you want." ”

These words undoubtedly gave Xiahou Qian's mother courage: "His Royal Highness the Prince, the family of the people was also the official eunuch family of the capital in the past, and they were exiled to Yanzhou because they made mistakes, and the women did not dare to ask His Royal Highness the Prince to forgive the sins of the Xiahou family, and only asked His Royal Highness the Prince to take Qian'er away from Yanzhou together." ”