Chapter 31: The Road Ahead

As soon as Zhao Guangyuan entered the city gate, the news spread in all directions.

In the palace, Emperor Zhizheng turned over the fold in his hand and asked Liu Qi, who was waiting on the side: "Has King Yue entered the city?" ”

Liu nodded: "This should be entering the mansion, I heard that the King of Jin will go out of the city to greet him." ”

No matter how much it is, Liu Qi doesn't dare to take it. Say a lot and make a mistake, a companion is like a tiger, and there have been many people around the emperor over the years. It was also in exchange for diligence that he was able to enter the eyes of the emperor.

Liu Qi secretly raised his spirit.

I heard the emperor on the throne smile, "Only Thirteen is thinking about him, the imperial brother." ”

After Emperor Zhizheng finished speaking, the smile on his face was put away again. The royal kinship is weak, and I want to be like ordinary people's fathers and sons, and brothers, friends, and brothers can't be respectful.

remembered that I hadn't seen King Yue for ten years, and my heart was in a trance.

sighed again, he did all this for the continuation of the dynasty, thousands of years. Guangyuan ...... At least alive. Thinking that Shi and Gong Cao, the governor of the Yue Wang's Mansion, and other officials had not designated candidates, they began to turn over the list of officials......

In the East Palace, the prince also got the news that King Yue had entered Beijing, and instructed his subordinates: "Select some things in the treasury that can be used and send them to King Yue's mansion." ”

His seven brothers, the palace is great, but it is empty, there are only one or twenty servants, there is a shortage of people everywhere, and the officials of the palace are all empty, and they have not been allocated, and the treasury of the king's house can also run horses.

"Send more gold and silver over in case the king of Yue responds."

"Yes."

On the other side, the King of Qin and the King of Chu also got the news.

Seeing that the King of Qin was going to give gifts to the Yue Palace, the King of Chu was reluctant in his heart, "Brother Huang, that old seven has obviously been won over by the prince, and this time he was able to return to the city, and I am afraid that the credit will be recorded on the prince's head." Even if he doesn't fall to the crown prince, I'm afraid he won't be on our side. Why bother sending this and that. ”

Waste of effort.

King Qin's eyes were faint, "The fourth brother, the seventh brother is also our brother, he has been filial piety for us in the imperial tomb for ten years, and his father said that he is filial to the world, so he was called back to Beijing to recuperate." Where is the credit of the crown prince. The crown prince is the prince, isn't it normal for him to fall to the prince? ”

Fall to them, if he can get on the throne, he can fall into the dragon's work, but if he is defeated, he will be sent to guard the mausoleum?

As long as he is not stupid, he will not be chosen.

Zhao Guangyuan can only be a distant prince in this life, and a hundred years later, the palace doesn't know whose it is, fighting for what to do.

"There is no need to send gold and silver, but only some useful ones, and then pick seven or eight useful servants from the palace and send them over."

King Chu's eyes lit up, it's good to send the servants! "Then I'll send a few too. There are a lot of girls with good colors in my house, so let's give them to them. ”

King Qin was noncommittal, and only let people arrange it.

All parts of the palace learned that King Yue had returned to Beijing, and in order to show their concern, the palaces also sent a lot of things over. Like King Qin and King Chu, Empress Shen is also picking servants.

The palace people sent the selected candidate to Queen Shen and let her see it.

Empress Shen glanced at the servants lined up in two rows, the palace maids, eunuchs, and grandmothers, and the palace maids were fat and thin, all of them were gorgeous, nodded and expressed satisfaction.

Thinking that the prince wanted to win over King Yue, she, as a mother, couldn't pull her son back.

"Send some more silver tickets. King Yue is also the son of the palace, he has worked hard in the imperial tomb over the years, and he has to work everywhere when he returns to Beijing, and he has no gold and silver to be around, so he is afraid that it will be difficult everywhere. In addition, he picked up some good medicinal materials in the treasury and sent them to King Yue, telling him to take care of himself in the house, and there was no need to go to the banquet for unnecessary entertainment, and it was the right thing to take care of his body. ”

People come and go in the Yue Wangfu. Since the king of Yue returned to Beijing, the people who came to the door on this day have not been stopped.

Zhao Guangyuan sat at the head of the main hall and received the visitors.

His eyes swept over the ten servants sent by Empress Shen one by one, four beauties, two grandmothers, two palace maids and two eunuchs, their faces expressionless.

Cao Cuo on the side knelt down for King Yue to thank the queen for the reward, and said something touching from the bottom of his heart.

The old lady who came to give the gift was very satisfied with his attitude.

The king of Yue said: "These ten people are all carefully selected by the queen mother from everywhere, thinking that the king of Yue is unavailable, and the people who are selected are all useful." If the prince doesn't use it well, just give it to the queen, and the mother will punish them. ”

Zhao Guangyuan glanced at her lightly and did not speak.

The old lady only felt that the gaze cast at him was like seeing through people's hearts, and her heart couldn't help but sudden.

Retract your gaze and dare not make eye contact with it. She naturally saw King Yue in the palace in the past, and when she was a child, King Yue and the first prince were naturally pets, the prince, who would dare to despise it?

But thinking about it again, King Yue has been demoted to guard the tomb for ten years, Queen Lu has been dead for ten years, and the crown prince has also been replaced, and now her master is the master of the harem. What was she afraid of.

He straightened his back again, said a few words, and then turned around and went back to the palace.

Cao Cuo respectfully sent the people away, and asked Jinxiu to lead the people to arrange.

With a dissatisfied face, he said to King Yue: "These people sent by the queen are only afraid that it will not be easy to arrange. The grandmother also said that if they did something wrong, they would report it to the queen, and the queen would punish her.

Why was this all sent out of the palace, and it was all given to the prince of his family, and if he made a mistake, he didn't hand it over to the prince of his family to punish him, and he told the queen?

Are those people from the prince of his family or the queen? The queen didn't send a servant, but lent it to the prince?

Cao Cuo pouted dissatisfiedly.

Zhao Guangyuan didn't speak, only searched in his mind for his past impressions of Empress Shen......

This Empress Shen's family background is not as good as his mother, and even compared with Concubine De and Concubine Liu Guifei, she is scheming and not smart. But this is the kind of person who has become the successor.

The corners of Zhao Guangyuan's mouth twitched, his good father was desperate to balance the previous dynasty and the harem, and to no longer support a powerful Yue family to come out.

"Let's look at the arrangement. Do not let them go near the king's courtyard. If you make a mistake, you should be punished and beaten, even if you kill in battle, our house has the final say, if you don't accept it, just bring the person back. ”

He doesn't spend money to help people support their ancestors.

"But will this offend the queen and the crown prince?" Cao Cuo didn't want the prince to go back to guard the mausoleum. The queen and the crown prince are not easy to offend, and they still have to do the work of face.

"I'm afraid of offending people? This king is like this, if others are bullied ruthlessly, are they not afraid of the royal history to participate in them? Even though it is. ”

He didn't want to go back to Beijing to close his door, for fear of offending people, he would not go out of the house and live a careful life.

If there is no movement, he will make some noise.

As soon as he said this, Cao Cuo understood.

Next, I thanked the servants sent by each family, thanked them on their faces, happily accepted the people, and as soon as the people left, they arranged how they wanted, and if they wanted to put their eyes and ears, they would send the people to the prince to watch, it was impossible.

The main courtyard of the prince was surrounded by Fang Er and others early in the morning, and not a single fly wanted to fly in.

At the end of the day, there are a lot of people who have received, and people have been added everywhere and quickly arranged almost it, at least on the bright side, there is no shortage of manpower everywhere, although it can't be compared with hundreds of servants in other palaces, but there is only one master in Yue Wangfu, and there is no need to raise so many people.

In addition to people, cloth food and clothing have also received a lot. Gold and silver ornaments were also received.

Cao Cuo saw that the treasury was full of a lot, and he could see the teeth with a smile.

"Lord Wang, the gold and silver I received today are enough for a period of time in the house." It is not easy to live in the capital, and with such a large palace, the monthly silver of the servants alone will cost a lot of money every month.

It's not like in the imperial mausoleum, the people in the palace are all royal people, and even he is the moon in the palace. But now, he is about to receive the monthly rite of the king's house.

But the prince of his family only came back from the imperial tomb on the surface, and there was no property around him, and he was going to be poor just by sending monthly money.

Therefore, when someone sent a servant, he politely refused on the grounds that the house was poor and had little property. It made the other party's heart sour, but he didn't feel that King Yue was taking Qiao.

Zhao Guangyuan flipped through the list of gifts, and saw that they were all things that could be used, except for a bunch of flashy things such as decorations sent by King Chu and King Qin, most of them were usable.

"The roster is collected, and you will remember to return the gift when you have the opportunity in the future."

"Yes." Cao Cuo took it and put it in his arms, and took another box of pearls, "Lord Wang, King Yue sent another box of gold beads." Cao Cuo couldn't help but be happy again.

This is the gold beads that his prince sent to Dongsheng pawnshop to sell, and they are sold in limited quantities every month, and they are sold very expensive, and I heard that half of them were bought by Liu Guifei and King Jin.

Previously, the prince gave Liu Qi the box of gold beads sent by King Jin, but he didn't expect to get another box.

Zhao Guangyuan took it and looked at it, and also smiled.

"Thirteen has loved golden things since he was a child. I heard from the pawnshop that half of the gold beads were bought by him, and he said that he would send them to the palace to Concubine Liu Guifei. This month, only two boxes were consigned, and the king took back another box. ”

Cao Cuo also smiled, "King Jin is a man with a heart. Among the brothers, he was the only one who went out of the city to greet the prince. ”

Other princes were afraid of offending the King of Qin or the emperor, but the King of Jin had no scruples, remembering the kindness of King Yue when he was a child, and he went out of the city to greet him, and sent gold and silver and other things.

"Whether you keep this gold bead and give it away, or sell it for money, it's all an excellent thing. Unlike the King of Qin and the King of Chu, many of the ornaments are still marked, let alone sold, and it is not easy to give them away. ”

Cao Cuo glanced at his lips. The two brothers were used to doing flashy superficial work.

In the evening, Jiang Xiang also came to the door with his two sons, bringing several carts of things.

Zhao Guangyuan greeted him at the inner door. I haven't seen each other for ten years, and both teachers and students have tears in their eyes.

"Yuan has seen the young master."

"The subordinates have seen King Yue."

The teacher and student held hands, relatively choking. "It's good to come back, it's good to come back." Jiang Xiang was jerky in his throat, and he couldn't spit out a word, so he only held his hand tightly and refused to let go.

"Let the gentleman worry."

"It's good to be alive, it's good to be alive." To live is to have hope.

Thinking of another disciple who died innocently in vain, Jiang Xiang's heart was sour. The first prince is the most outstanding candidate for the prince, humble, gentle and courteous, and full of the appearance of a wise monarch. It's a pity that God is jealous of talents.

Looking at King Yue again, the wanton drunkenness of ten years ago is completely gone, his face has been replaced with perseverance and calmness, and the shadow of the old days is gone, and he finally lives as the shadow of the prince.

Jiang Xiang felt a pain in his heart.

"Is the prince good, can he take care of his body?"

"No problem. Don't worry, sir. ”

"What about His Royal Highness, how is he?"

"It's all good. He was tortured by the schoolwork arranged by his husband every day, and sometimes he cried and wrote at the same time, saying that he was only nine years old, why did he do so much schoolwork, he didn't have time to play. said that Mr. must not like him and couldn't see him well, so he assigned so much schoolwork. ”

Thinking of his son complaining that there was too much schoolwork, he wanted to learn modern knowledge, and he wanted to talk about the knowledge of Daqi, Xia Er also helped him sign up for several interest classes, and he had to practice martial arts at night, so he didn't have any free time.

Last time, in order to go out to play with them, I had to stay in the field for a few days, and in order to have fun, I had to do all my homework for the next few days, and I cried while writing in the middle of the night. Said that the gentleman must not like him.

That's ridiculous. Thinking about it, Zhao Guangyuan couldn't help laughing.

Jiang Xiang's father and son were stunned, and when they heard that His Royal Highness was crying while doing his homework, he was happy.

Jiang Wentao patted his thigh, "I just said that my father assigned too much homework, and I can't wait to stuff everything I have learned to His Royal Highness, and I don't want to see how old His Royal Highness is." said that he pulled out the seedlings and helped them grow, and he was in a hurry, and my father scolded me. When I was a child, I was tortured by a bunch of schoolwork arranged by my father, and I couldn't finish writing when my hands were broken, and I also cried and scolded while writing. ”

Jiang Xiang smiled and glared at him: "You scolded me for doing your homework when you were a child?" Glaring at him, "If you don't be strictly controlled, you monkey upper body, who can't calm down for a moment, can you get the middle flower?" ”

Jiang Wentao pouted, "It's like Tanhua is very angry." Is there a Tanhua like me, I have to have an idle job, I make up books and copy books every day and sit on the cold bench, and there are Tanhua like me all day long? ”

Jiang Xiang was silent.

Jiang Xuyang saw that King Yue's face was heavy, and glared at Jiang Wentao, which pot is not opened.

said to King Yue: "Your Highness doesn't need to blame yourself, and it's not because Your Highness that Wen Tao didn't get the real difference." It's really that my father and I are both officials in the court, and he can't arrange it. ”

Zhao Guangyuan shook his head, "There are many fathers and sons who are officials in the same court. According to Wentao's talent, he was sent to Waifu County to be a foreign official, and he could be promoted in a few years. If it can't be arranged in the DPRK and China, the official positions in the foreign prefectures can still be arranged. Otherwise, why do you have to take the imperial examination every year? ”

Jiang Xiang was dragged down by him and his imperial brother, although he was an official in the court all these years, he has not been taken seriously, Jiang Xuyang is only mediocre, and he has not been promoted for so many years, and Jiang Wentao can't even be assigned a real position.

Even the Jiang clan, except for Jiang Xiang, no one from the other clans succeeded in doing so.

Zhao Guangyuan saluted Jiang Xiang, "Mr. has been dragged down by me, and Yuan is ashamed." ”

Jiang Xiang's father and son hurriedly stepped forward to help, "Your Highness, why did you say this." I have never blamed anyone, I only hate my lack of ability, so that the prince ...... in front of me."

When the four of them thought of the past, they were all sad and silent for a while.

"It will be fine in the future. His Royal Highness has returned to Beijing, and we will plan slowly in the future, and it will be fine. Jiang Xuyang comforted everyone.

"Yes. Sir, it will be fine in the future, it will be fine. Zhao Guangyuan helped Jiang Xiang to sit. He is back, and the haze that has been hanging in his heart for ten years will finally dissipate.

The father and son of the Jiang family and Zhao Guangyuan had a secret conversation in the study, and it was not until the middle of the moon that the father and son returned to the house.

Zhao Guangyuan stood under the porch with his hands in his hands, watching them leave. Looking up at the nebula, the galaxy is dazzling.