The wooden box is made of mahogany throughout, and there is nothing special about it except for a hole in it that allows you to reach your hand.

It's just that looking at this novel way, everyone present looked at this place intentionally or unintentionally.

There is no other reason.

Traditionally, the imperial examination has been presided over by the Ministry of Officials, and even if there are people from the royal family involved, most of them are designated by Zhao Chongyuan to participate.

After all, although it is said to be a supervisor, it is only to supervise the entire examination process, as for the questions, the selection of invigilators is all preliminarily prepared by the ministry, and finally determined by the emperor himself.

Who should be chosen and who should be eliminated is basically the emperor's own question.

And the prince who is in charge of the prison has very little power.

In the past, when Prince Yiwen was there, Prince Yiwen basically replaced the royal family with the supervisor, and after the death of Prince Yiwen, it stands to reason that Zhao Qingzhan, the eldest grandson of the emperor, was in charge, but unfortunately Zhao Qingzhan was known to be unreliable throughout the dynasty, in order to prevent chaos, it was presided over by the elder of the royal family, that is, the emperor's own uncle, Prince Li Zhao Chengqian.

But because this royal patriarch, who is also Zhao Chongyuan's own uncle, is very old, this year's assistant supervisor was selected from among them.

But what people never expected was to use the lottery method.

All of a sudden, everyone present, you look at me, I look at you.

Not to mention that Zhao Ding didn't expect it, even Zhao Qingzhan, the eldest grandson of the emperor who had the closest relationship with Zhao Chongyuan, didn't expect it.

After all, although the duties of the superintendent are not very important, the imperial examination is related to national affairs after all, and it has always been an important way for the imperial court to select reserve officials, and it is also an excellent opportunity to reasonably contact the officials of the ministry.

Therefore, even if you do well, there is not much reward, but for those princes who are interested in competing for the throne, they are all looking at this opportunity.

I want to see if I can take advantage of this opportunity to encompass some of the officials.

For example, Zhao Hua, who had just been transferred back by Zhao Chongyuan's edict, and the rest of the princes who had not been very valued by Zhao Chongyuan like Zhao Hua.

Such as Zhao Chen, the sixth son of the emperor, Zhao Chen, the seventh son of Wei, Zhao Jin, the eighth son of Xiangwang, Zhao Yu, and the fifth son of Zhao Zhe.

That is, Zhao Zhe, the king of Qi who was shouting and then playing music and dancing in Yanzhou, and was hung up and beaten by Zhao Chongyuan.

This guy and Zhao Ding belong to the same tempered master.

I want to be a free prince, and I never get involved in the heart of the throne.

But in addition to Zhao Zhe, whether it is Zhao Hua, King of Han, Zhao Chen, King of Yong, Zhao Jin, King of Wei, and Zhao Yu, King of Xiang, they are all people who have coveted the throne for many years.

These princes saw that Zhao Ding, who was originally the most favored, was punished, and Zhao Gang, the most powerful king of Qin, and Zhao Heng, the king of Jin, were not in the imperial court when they were ordered to be outside, so they felt that their father Zhao Chongyuan would decide the candidate for the prince after consulting with the ministers, so after being transferred to the capital by Zhao Chongyuan's edict, they did not have a relationship with the courtiers who had the right to speak in the court.

After all, these are all princes who have long been divided from the outside world, and the princes who are crowned kings by becoming a family, as long as they are not blatantly forming parties for personal gain, Zhao Chongyuan has always turned a blind eye to the practice of winning over the ministers of the DPRK and China.

After all, this is the rule of the game for the princes of the great cadres to compete for the throne: within the scope of the rules, the rules are unscrupulous.

But the problem is that none of them expected that Zhao Chongyuan finally decided to use the lottery to choose the prince who was assigned to the prison.

This made the princes and princes, including Zhao Hua, who had been busy running up and down since they entered Beijing, depressed in their hearts.

Knowing this, why should they be busy running around, counting on those ministers who have the right to speak in the court to speak for themselves and win this prison.

Especially what is most difficult for them to accept is that Zhao Ding, who "just made a big mistake", is actually among them, and he has the same way of drawing lots as them.

This makes it even more difficult for them to accept.

Zhao Ding "provoked" such a big "disaster" for them, not to mention being stripped of the throne, it was a basic operation to be directly imprisoned until death, but Zhao Ding actually stood in the Palace of Heart Cultivation so grandly after being imprisoned for nine days, and he also had the right to draw lots with them.

It's a bit uncomfortable for them.

But it's uncomfortable, but they dare to say anything, after all, this is what Zhao Chongyuan meant.

Not to mention that they are still a prince now, even if they really become the lord of the East Palace.

I am not qualified to say anything about it.

After all, it's not their turn to speak.

"Now that everyone is here, let's get started."

Zhao Chongyuan sat leisurely on the dragon chair, handed Wang Lishi the notes that had been written in his hand with the names of different princes, and asked Wang Lishi to fold the nine notes separately, throw them into the wooden box, and shake them from side to side.

Seeing that Zhao Chongyuan was about to reach out and grab one of the notes, the princes who were quite enthusiastic about the supervision suddenly tensed their nerves, and secretly prayed that they could be selected.

But at this moment, Zhao Ding suddenly opened his mouth and interrupted Zhao Chongyuan's hand that was about to be stretched out: "Father, this move is unfair. ”

Listening to Zhao Ding's words.

Zhao Chongyuan was stunned for a moment.

Not only Zhao Chongyuan was stunned for a moment, but Zhao Hua, Zhao Yu, Zhao Chen, Zhao Jin, Zhao Qingzhan and others all looked at Zhao Ding in surprise.

How is this unfair?

"What's unfair?"

Zhao Chongyuan frowned slightly, and looked at Zhao Ding with a slightly unhappy expression.

I saw Zhao Ding step forward, arched his hand at Zhao Chongyuan and explained: "Father, the son is not saying that it is unfair to draw lots, what the son of the minister means is that it is unfair to draw lots like this.... How did the sons know that the father had secretly written down the piece of paper and deliberately did not choose it? ”

"It's. . . Questioning the father? ”

The princes' faces changed slightly.

Even Zhao Qingzhan's face changed.

questioned the emperor, his own uncle Wang is really brave.

On the contrary, Zhao Chongyuan glanced at Zhao Ding with interest.

Is this kid transgendered?

Thinking of this, Zhao Chongyuan was patient and asked with a smile: "Then you can tell me, how can it be considered fair?" ”

"Uh..."

Zhao Ding didn't speak, but raised his head, secretly glanced at Zhao Chongyuan, and arched his hand: "Before that, Erchen wants to ask his father, if Erchen doesn't win, can his father let Erchen out?" ”

The so-called going out is naturally to lift the confinement.

"That's impossible, you'd better die of this heart."

Zhao Chongyuan didn't want to even think about it, and directly rolled his eyes and refused.

Zhao Ding: "......"

"Since the establishment of my Great Qian, there has never been a precedent for a prince who made a mistake to lift the confinement in advance, unless you have the opportunity to make up for it, otherwise, you will honestly stay in your Yanwang Mansion until the end of the period of solitary confinement."

Seeing that Zhao Ding didn't speak, Zhao Chongyuan said with a smile.

Looking at Zhao Chongyuan's smug posture, Zhao Ding was so angry that his teeth itched, but he couldn't say it.

After all, it has reached a critical juncture.

Now I can't help but blow myself up, and all the preparations in front of me are in vain.

Thinking of this, Zhao Ding looked at Zhao Chongyuan and said, "How did the ministers know that their father called their sons here, did they deliberately tease their sons?" seems to give Erchen a chance to make up for his mistakes, but in fact, he didn't write Erchen's name on paper? ”