"Father!" Xia Chengxuan knocked on the door and entered, standing beside the desk and shouting respectfully, but muttered in his heart: "Father has always talked to me rarely, but I don't know what is going on today, it's all over, why do you send someone to call?"

Xia Mu leaned sideways, reading the folded book by the light of the candlestick. Hearing Xia Chengxuan shouting, he glanced up at him, smiled and said softly, "Here, sit down for a while." After finishing speaking, his eyes quickly glanced over the folded book, and when he mentioned the wolf hair, he gave a few words on the last page of the folded book, and put the folded book, wolf hair, and inkstone aside. After the case was settled, Xia Chengxuan said: "These days, are you getting along well with Yuanchen?"

"Nature is good. The child has no brothers since he was a child, and he has been accompanied by distant dust recently, and I really feel very happy in my heart! I have nothing to say to him, and he has nothing to say to me, but I want to live with him every day, and love each other like brothers!" Xia Chengxuan didn't want his father to ask this question, but when he asked, he replied from the bottom of his heart, and then added: "This month is really the happiest time for children." ”

Xia Muchao listened, nodded slightly, and said: "There are two more days to be the Lantern Festival, and after the Lantern Festival, it will be the time for Huazijian to enter the school." Siyuan has already entrusted Yuanchen to study, and I have made comprehensive arrangements, and I will send Yuanchen to Huazijian on the 17th day of the first month. He has not forgotten Mei Siyuan's entrustment, and has used the name of the prince's righteous son to seek the admission of Hua Zijian to Mei Yuanchen.

Hua Zijian is different from Wuying University Hall and Dushi Lecture Hall, and it is not easy to get admission. There are less than 200 students in Huazijian, and they are either relatives of the emperor or the heirs of noble eunuchs, or they are famous and talented students. Those who can pass the profession can enter the court as an official. More than 30 percent of the high-ranking officials above the third rank in the DPRK and China come from here, and the special features can be seen. When Mei Siyuan was young, his father Mei Wanting was ranked first-class, and his own qualifications were also good.

"Father, I'll go with Yuanchen!" Xia Chengxuan heard that Mei Yuanchen was going to leave the house to study, and he couldn't help but have to deal with his sister in the future, so he hurriedly begged.

Xia Muchao listened to his son's words, and his description seemed to be very detached, and he breathed a sigh of relief, and said: "Chengxuan, you are my only son, and I treat you differently from Yiyi after all." You will be seventeen years old in the next year, and your father will tell you all the things. ”

"Father, but please come on. Xia Chengxuan didn't know why his father's words had changed drastically, but he felt that what his father was going to say was definitely not trivial, so he immediately listened attentively.

"Twenty-five years ago, my father unexpectedly ascended the throne, which was very unexpected. Half a year later, Brother Yiwang, Mu Yang, Mu Yan and I, the four of us were named princes. He was seventeen years old, not much older than you are today. Xia Muchao's expression was solemn, and he said eloquently: "My father and emperor have been obsessed with the art of Taoist immortal alchemy since he was young, and he often lives in Taoist temples and does not return for many years. Your imperial grandmother and the ladies of the palace have always been at odds with each other, and the four of us brothers have taken care of ourselves, but we have never been separated by this. Since Brother Yi Wang is the eldest brother, it can be said that he takes care of the three of us. At that time, although the four of them were not the same mothers, they were true to each other, but they were no different from you and Yuanchen today. "Nowadays, the three kings are seizing the crown prince, and there are many battles in the open and secret, who in the court does not know? Xia Chengxuan really never thought that his father and the king had such a close old time many years ago.

Xia Muchao blinked, paused, and then said: "Since my father took the throne, everything has not been as good as before. The ministers of the court and the central government had their own advice to their fathers: King Suren was the eldest son and should be the prince; the prince of Zhen could be the crown prince because he was good at his troops; and the king of Dahua was wise and could govern the country, and the situation of the three kings seizing the prince was formed. From the three kings to the three kings' vassals, in the past 20 years, they have played games with each other, checked and balanced each other, and even constrained each other, making it difficult to determine the decree and not reaching it. I don't know how much national strength has been spent on this protracted political dispute, and how many innocent people have been injured!" Speaking of this, Xia Muchao's expression was gloomy, and he said softly: "How cruel it is to fight between hands and feet! It's not that I want to fight, but I really have to fight! ”

"Yes, Father!" Xia Chengxuan replied with a rare silence.

Xia Muchao nodded and said with a smile: "Father thought that he would be able to win the battle for the crown prince after all, hehe!"

"Father, even now, you still have a good chance of winning. Xia Chengxuan was naturally quite clear about the strength of the palace, and immediately said.

Xia Muchao didn't seem to hear him speak, and then said: "I have personally experienced the battle for the crown prince, how can I not know how dangerous this matter is, how to mislead the country and the people? ”

Once upon a time, Xia Chengxuan thought many times, which of the other royal relatives and relatives of the palace is not a group of heirs, why is only his own family so thin? looked at his father at the moment, and he was even more solemn and respectful.

"The battle for the throne will not happen overnight. If the king is good at martial arts, the world will take precautions against it; if the king is benevolent, the world will think that he is falsely benevolent; I am known for my wisdom, and everyone in the world will think of me. If you know what you are good at, you can try to control what you are good at, but how can you easily succeed in what you are good at? Xia Muchao looked at Xia Chengxuan meaningfully, as if he was summing up, and seemed to be alert: "Showing weakness and making people think that it is confusing, just like your behavior in Ruiyun Building that day, it is very good." ”

"The child knows that he cannot escape the eyes of his father. Xia Chengxuan replied with a smile. On that day in Ruiyun Tower, King Zhen persuaded Mei Siyuan to defect in person, he stood up and asked loudly, it was indeed intentional.

"Cheng Xuan, the image of you and your father is like my rebirth, how can I not know you?" Xia Muchao chuckled, and then said in a straight voice: "You should know that Siyuan is the secretary of Anxian Salt Transportation, and I will protect it, but you don't know why your father allowed me." ”

Born in the emperor's family, he has been immersed in political affairs for a long time, and Xia Chengxuan knows the stakes far more than ordinary people. Mei Siyuan, who was strongly recommended by his father before, went to supervise the salt transportation of Anxian, and Xia Chengxuan always thought that his father had made a plan to turn decay into a miracle, so that the difficult thing was done. "The child does not know. Xia Chengxuan said.

"I have made a solemn oath to my father that I will never think of ascending to the throne again in this life, and that no matter who the new king is in the future, I will do everything I can to help, and I have made an oath as proof. That's the price I paid for it. ”

"Father!" Xia Chengxuan was shocked and shouted in a trembling voice.

"The three kings are fighting, and my father is also very difficult in his eyes, I have said goodbye, how my father does not like it, this salt transportation secretary from the first product naturally allowed me. Everyone in the world thinks that I want to fight for the throne, and I want to succeed, how difficult and dangerous, it is better to retreat. Xia Chengxuan was still caught in all kinds of thoughts, and only vaguely Xia Muchao said: "I don't want to fight for the throne, I don't mean that my son doesn't fight!" What I want to tell you today is that my father's unfinished business will be handed over to you to complete, and my father will do his best to help you ascend the throne!"

"Boom~~~" These words came like five thunderbolts, which made Xia Chengxuan wake up in an instant, and looked up at his father blankly.

"You are the grandson of the emperor, you are already within the succession order, and you are in line with the etiquette and law, this is the first opportunity. You and I were born in the emperor's family, there are many things that can't help themselves, fortunately, my son is very intelligent, gifted, and knows how to raise obscurity since childhood. It's not up to me to plan things, it's not up to me to make things happen, it's just a matter of encouragement from you and my father and son!" Xia Muchao put his right hand on Xia Chengxuan's shoulder, looking at him, as if looking at himself more than twenty years ago.

Xia Chengxuan's thoughts could not calm down for a long time, and his father's words lingered in his ears, and the words were like needles. At this time, thinking of the past and the future, the blood was stirring for a while, and it was difficult to kneel on the ground, and said categorically: "The child failed to relieve his father's worries in the first place, and he was really unfilial! Since the son is so stubborn, the father is still planning such a big thing, and the son really doesn't know how to repay it. From today onwards, the child should devote himself to his heart and plan, learn and then use! Since the father gave birth to me for my father, he is now my teacher and teaches me to plan, please accept the son's three bows!"