The capital of Datong is Yong'an City, the capital of Sili Prefecture, and what Yong'an Yong'an wants is just a peace, and such a name is inevitably lacking a trace of domineering for Datong, a powerful empire in the world.

Up to now, Datong has been established for more than 500 years, and in the first half of the time, most of the people in the world said that the capital of Datong was called Jingshi, and foreign envoys were called Shangjing, but then the princes in Datong were in turmoil, and the state was declining, and the emperor kept dividing the princes in order to obtain the support of the ministers, resulting in fewer and fewer places under his actual control.

Datong dominates the world by relying on the warlike tigers, but the less the territory, the less taxes, and the elite tiger wolves have to eat meat all the time, the kings are getting fewer and fewer, and the princes are getting stronger and stronger, so the Jingshi and Shangjing in people's mouths have become Yongwei City.

Yongwei, the name of the former capital of the Chase Empire, takes the meaning of the eternal subjugation of the world.

Maybe even the emperor of Datong thought that the word Wei was really harsh, so he changed it to the word An.

Without a strong army, even the awe and pride faded a lot.

Sili Prefecture covers an extremely wide area, with 18 counties and more than 320 counties, and now the holy decree of the Datong Emperor can show that the royal authority cannot be desecrated

but there are only eight counties in one county.

The people in the eight counties may not know or care about who the current Emperor Datong is, but when it comes to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Guan Chengna, it is a different look, with some praising and some sad.

March of the twenty-fourth year of the Chase calendar.

The peasants in the vast fields of Yong'an City were busy toiling, wielding hoes to bring up mud stars, occasionally stopping and wiping their big hands up along their left chin until they touched the right side of their faces, and large beads of sweat were squeezed on the ground and fell into the soft soil.

The woman who followed next to her carefully sprinkled the seeds in the bamboo basket around her waist, and when she saw this, she immediately took a small hoe to cover the soil, and stepped on it a few more times by the way.

Guan Cheng saw most of this all the way out of the capital, which was the standard two-generation cooperation model of the Chase Empire.

If it is rich, the wealthy family will have long and short workers, driving the old ox to drag the wooden plow, squeaking from one end to the other, and so on.

"It's spring again, and the farmers plant seeds and wait until autumn to get food, and Qin Tianjian said that this year's rain is enough, and it must be a bumper harvest year." Guan Cheng always had a smile on his face, and nothing seemed to make him feel upset and worried.

"Is Your Highness still going to Mrs. Cao's house today?" The East Palace guard next to him, the pro-army Sima, asked.

"That's nature, I said yesterday that I would naturally go, but Lone is the crown prince, how can I talk and not count?"

Sima Ying Nuo really pouted in his heart, the crown prince, the existence of more than 10,000 people under one person, he has been on duty in the palace for more than ten years, and he has never heard of a prince of Datong who likes farm work and miscellaneous studies and even runs out to follow the farmers to cook the crops.

Even those county kings who are divided into feuds, there can be no princes.

The royal nobles, those are all golden branches and jade leaves, how can they be willing to fall all day long.

In Sima Wuchengju's view, his own prince is degenerate.

The crown prince is the prince of a country, even if what Emperor Datong says now is not much stronger than farting, it is also the co-lord of the world, known as the existence of the human emperor, even if the monarchs of the strongest vassal states Zhao and Chu come to Yong'an City, they have to wait for the summons honestly, and then kneel three times and knock nine times.

Wu Chengju traveled around the world when he was young, and went to many vassal states, and the county prince traveled on weekdays with a guard of honor, and the rectangular avoidance signs, the people of the country could only stand quietly on both sides, and the county guard had to kneel to greet and send him off.

Looking at his master again, Wu Chengju couldn't help muttering in his heart, why can't he fight for some anger?

Chase is already like this, are you still majestic out of these eight counties?

But spit and spit out, fast horses still have to keep up.

Today, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has three recognized hobbies.

One is to engage in some strange things, the old masters think that it is a strange trick, as a prince is very cheap, but the prince always listens to it in person and forgets it.

One is like to chat and chat with the countrymen, and like to stay with the mud legs to make crops, often leave a word to say hello and run out of the palace, for which His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has been punished, but he can't control it at all, a sixteen-year-old boy is not allowed to do it, the more he likes to do it.

There is another one that is considered normal, that is, books, and the prince's teachers were once very relieved, and it is not a bad thing that the future heirs of the empire like to read. However, since the age of fourteen, the prince thought that he had become a teacher, and he was clamoring to write a book, thinking that what the old masters had taught was outdated, and the knowledge he had learned now could not restore Datong's glory, so His Royal Highness the prince decided to write a book.

The arrogance of the crown prince made the old masters very angry, and they collectively begged to see Emperor Datong.

Later, I heard that His Royal Highness the Prince's buttocks were red and swollen and did not leave the palace for a month, which caused the farmers outside the palace to be a little unaccustomed.

Wu Chengju was already numb, and his own father couldn't help but give up what he was worried about.

It is also thanks to the two sons of Jinshang, the younger son is not yet three years old, otherwise the position of the crown prince is really difficult to say.

A group of people chased after the horse's buttocks, whistling along the official road, and soon reached the nearest village.

Next to it is a fertile field.

A young girl had just poured a bowl of water for her father when she heard the sound of horses' hooves, and more than a dozen knights were already clearly visible in her eyes, and it was His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who was the first to start.

Seeing this, a touching smile appeared on the girl's face.

"Huh~~~"

Guan Cheng controlled his mount, turned over and dismounted, jumped a little anxiously, and felt a little numb pain on the soles of his feet.

"Your Highness, drink water!" The girl ran over with a bowl and two words written on her blushing face: bold.

Wu Chengju commanded the sergeants to take out a full set of equipment, and more than a dozen sturdy men poured into the ground one by one, digging pits and sowing seeds and burying soil.

"Ling'er, the water you gave to Gu is so sweet." Guan Cheng adjusted the expression on his face as handsome and handsome as possible, and specially set aside a lock of hair hanging down on the side of his face.

The girl smiled and said, "What did Your Highness say, didn't this water come out of the well?" ”

Guan Cheng drank all the water in the bowl and said: "Your water is definitely different, it is better than honeydew, I want to drink it every day." ”

The girl gave Guan Cheng a charming white eye, and then picked up the bamboo basket and tied it around her waist.

Two men stood on the ground, one in front and one behind.

The peasant next to him was still very frightened when he saw the prince for the first time, and he knelt on his knees with a hula, and the whole field was full of butts in Guan Cheng's eyes.

Later, everyone gradually found out that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had no shelf at all, and often helped the lonely and widowed elderly, sending food and cloth.

Ordinary people don't know what it means to buy people's hearts, but they know who is really good.

Everyone said that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince would definitely be a Ming Jun in the future.

Guan Cheng once said: "Is it that Mingjun doesn't know, the place that the Datong Dynasty can directly control now is so big, just these eight counties, I can make the people of this county fill their stomachs in the future is a qualified emperor, if there is still a book to read, can read and understand, then it is Mingjun." ”

Some of the common people are veterans who have been discharged from the army, and they know the bitterness in His Royal Highness the Prince's words, but most people don't understand it, they believe that the prince will definitely do it, and at that time, his doll can also read, and only after reading can he be regarded as a good person.

At that time, Guan Cheng was only ten years old, a half-old boy.

Later, everyone found out that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was very interested in the little girl of the old Cao family, and the people in the bureau thought they were clever, and tried their best to show their wisdom so that others could not see that they were shy, but the old man who came over, who was not like this when he was young.

Everyone knew in their hearts, it turned out that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and our old man had a favorite aunt when they were the same, but no one opened their mouths to break it, and if they liked it, they could only like it, and it was impossible for the prince of a country to marry a peasant woman.

The ministers of the court exhorted the prince to know how to be respectful and inferior, to distinguish between upper and lower, and also quoted scriptures to say that if you are far away, you will complain about what is near, and if you are close, you will not be inferior.

Guan Cheng smiled when he heard it and said, "Could it be that the beasts above the temple think that the people in the fields are villains?" ”

The ministers did not respond, but the answer in their hearts made Guan Cheng feel even more uncomfortable, and the people who supported the entire empire were not even human beings to the adults who sat in the carriage in official robes.

Guan Cheng was once called by his father to the dormitory with a stick and smoked for half an hour, and then thought about it, Guan Cheng, who was crying in pain, was shocked after seeing the huge map.

Guan Cheng's eyes turned around on the map, and the pride instantly took root in his heart. However, there are still hundreds of vassal states in the world, and the places directly controlled by Datong are divided into pieces on the map, even if they are put together, they are not as big as the places of a third-class vassal state.

After his father came back, Guan Cheng immediately ran forward and threw out all his doubts, but his father, who was in the impression of the majesty of the mountain, instantly straightened his back and looked at Yutu for a long time.

Emotions are pervasive in the silence, and the unwillingness to lie dormant in the young heart.

From that moment on, Guan Cheng seemed to be sensible, but he also seemed to be more deviant.

The officials and lords in Yong'an City don't care whether the prince is sensible or not, the princes in the court have the support of various vassal states behind them, and attack each other, Datong has ruled the world for hundreds of years, the nominal legal principle is still there, and many vassal states in the world also need a fig leaf.

Guan Ze was powerless in the face of this situation, and even the smallest vassal states were larger than eight counties.

No one cared about the royal mind, and the more people in the center of power, the more reverence they lacked for the emperor on the throne.

Guan Cheng didn't care about awe, and he couldn't see any words in the history books he had read except for the sword soldiers. As long as someone has a sword, a gun, and armor, then he has the right, and the vassal states dare to disrespect the order, isn't it because the army in the emperor's hands is too small, and there is not even an army of 10,000 people.

There are a lot of ancient trees on both sides of the road, and now they are pulling out green shoots one by one, and the stars are very good-looking, Cao Ling'er's favorite is spring, which is neither hot nor cold, and the wind blows over and is just right, and it is mixed with a good smell.

Old man Cao didn't dare to really let His Royal Highness the current crown prince work, and sent his daughter to the field to rest.

The girl's shyness corresponds to the restlessness of the young man, but all the courage dissipates without a trace when she is alone, and the atmosphere is a little warm and makes Cao Linger's face burn red.

"Your Highness."

"Huh?"

Cao Ling'er broke this awkward silence, but she didn't know how to speak.

On the contrary, Guan Cheng was a little annoyed, why was he so useless today.

"Ling'er Gu heard that your father is going to find your relatives?"

Cao Ling'er was a little flustered when she heard this, but she still nodded and said, "I heard my father and mother say last night that I am fourteen years old this year, and it's time." ”

"And what do you think?"

Cao Ling'er shook her head frantically, but said again: "But my father also said, you are the prince, the prince of Datong, I am just a peasant girl, even if the ancestral tomb is smoky, it is impossible to become a concubine, let alone the crown princess." ”

Not only is it smoking, it is impossible for the ancestors to collectively deceive the corpse of the eighteen generations, this is what Father Cao said.

Guan Cheng didn't know how to answer, and he didn't know that his father had recently started to look for a candidate for the crown princess for him, but what was embarrassing was that those princes and nobles, the humerus minister's family, suddenly had no women of the right age.

Guan Cheng's face crackled.

But even so, the crown princess cannot be Cao Ling'er.

The two of them were pressed with things in their hearts, and even the desire to chat was suppressed.

"Well, what if I wasn't the prince?"

Guan Cheng looked up to himself and asked, but Cao Ling'er was startled.

"Your Royal Highness can't talk nonsense, God has a fate, how can you change it indiscriminately, you are His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Datong, the future co-lord of the world, one in the sky and one underground, this is the difference between cloud and mud."

Guan Cheng smiled: "Ling'er has been reading a lot recently, and what she said is so reasonable." ”

Cao Ling'er's face instantly turned red again, and she was buried deep in her arms.

Not far away, butterflies flapped their gorgeous wings and landed on the flowers, attracting the attention of the girl.

"I'm going to catch you." Guan Cheng patted his ass and was about to act

Cao Ling'er grabbed Guan Cheng's sleeve and said urgently, "Your Highness, don't." ”

"What's wrong? You don't like it? ”

"I like it, but you can't take it just because you like it, can you? Your Highness must have never seen butterflies when they were children, and they waited a long time for the day when they could fly. ”

Cao Ling'er's words aroused Guan Cheng's interest, "Isn't a butterfly just a little butterfly when you were a child, isn't it born to fly?" ”

Cao Ling'er shook her head and said with a smile: "It turns out that His Highness also doesn't understand." ”

Guan Cheng was not annoyed and said smoothly: "Then you tell Lone." ”

Cao Ling'er's gaze returned to the butterfly and said: "Butterflies were insects when they were young, small insects with no wings and no legs. ”

"Bugs? Can bugs turn into butterflies? Guan Cheng's face showed disbelief, this kind of thing is too bad.

Cao Ling'er said: "Yes, butterflies are small insects, I didn't know before, once I saw a white cocoon and thought it was a silkworm and took it back, but after a few days it was a butterfly." I thought it was strange so I caught a few butterflies and locked them in the firewood room, and after two or three days, there were a lot of small insects, and then after half a month, they began to spit white silk like silkworms, and after another half a month, it was a beautiful butterfly. ”

"Breaking out of the cocoon into a butterfly?"

"Your Highness is really good at writing, and it is so appropriate to say it casually." Cao Ling'er saw Guan Cheng's eyebrows furrowed together, and she didn't bother thoughtfully.

"Bugs, butterflies...... How can a bug without wings and legs turn into a butterfly? It's amazing! ”

The more Guan Cheng thought about it, the more he felt as if he had grasped something, sometimes clear and sometimes vague, and he felt as if he needed to tear open a thick layer of cocoon to see the world.

"Lone seems to have come to some enlightenment! Ling'er, you are really a lonely lucky star! Guan Cheng suddenly grabbed Cao Ling'er's hands, and his eyes burned.

"Ling'er, you go back and tell your father to let him wait, go back to the palace alone, you may not be able to come out in the past two days, and I will come back to look for you in these days." After that, Cao Ling'er, who was blushing with a blushing face, rode away.

The tranquility of Yong'an City is about to be gone.