The dragon gave birth to nine sons, each of them is different, the ten princes of Qin Emperor Li Junsheng are also the same, the crown prince Li Zhao is the eldest of all the princes, he has already passed the year of the weak crown, he is twenty-five years old this year, I don't know if it is with the queen's temperament or what, there is always some assumption when he talks and does things on weekdays, the second Li Xu is a famous little wisdom and many stars in the imperial capital when he is young, and his intelligence is incomparable to other princes, the third Li Qian is quiet by nature, and he does not care about the rest of the things, but is immersed in all kinds of books, the fourth Li An has just turned sixteen this year, and has had an extraordinary interest in all kinds of anecdotes since he was a child, He is also the most generous and decent one to do things as an adult, and the fifth Li Shu has just turned fourteen this year, and he has loved to dance guns and sticks since he was a child, and studied the art of war, and the rest of the sons are still young, so I will not outline them one by one.

May can be said to be the most pleasant month of the year, no need to be wrapped in bloated for the cold, naturally do not have to try their best to cool off the heat, Li An is already an adult, moved out of the palace early to avoid being criticized, if it is said that where there are the most rare and exotic beasts in the imperial capital, it must be the mansion of the four princes, when he left, he could move most of these alien species in the palace away, but because most of them were also raised by Li An himself, the emperor was not interested in this, so he turned a blind eye.

At this moment, Li Anzheng was leisurely in his deer park, teasing the deer who came to eat from time to time, and said: "Dabao, when will the monkeys from Anxia arrive?"

Dabao is a eunuch who has been with Li An since he was a child, and the two grew up together since childhood, so they are naturally very close, so he paused and said: "Back to His Royal Highness, it will take about four or five days, and I am afraid that I have not yet arrived in Fengcheng at this time." ”

Just as Li An nodded and was about to say something, the housekeeper outside hurriedly ran in and whispered beside Li An, and after two breaths, Li An was shocked and said, "What?"

"Your Highness, this is true, the servants in the palace watched His Majesty enter the East Palace with their own eyes. ”

"It's... How could this prince do such a ridiculous thing?"

Dabao also patted his thigh when he heard this: "Who is not good for this to wear, I have to wear this hat for the emperor." ”

At this time, Li An still had the intention of blaming Dabao for his disrespectful words, and returned to the study to drink two sips of hot tea and said to Dabao: "Quickly invite Mr. Ma and Mr. Wu over, with the temper of my father, if this is true, something big must happen!"

When Dabao heard this, he hurriedly roared out of the house, and went to invite Ma Ji, the young secretary of Dali Temple, and Wu Peng, the secretary of the Guozijian Temple, Li An was walking around the study in annoyance, and he was not idle for a moment, everyone knew that he and the prince had always worn a pair of pants, and at this moment there was such a big thing going on with the prince, who knows if it will implicate himself, he has always been shrewd, and now he is a little messed up.

After a while, Ma Ji and Wu Peng rushed over on front and back, between the three of them for many years, there is no need to be polite at this time, after Li An said this straightforwardly, Ma Ji and Wu Peng couldn't help but look at each other, and after a while, Ma Ji said slowly: "The authenticity of this matter needs to be confirmed, Your Highness should not panic first." ”

"My Master Ma, alas, that slave watched His Majesty enter the East Palace with his own eyes, can this be fake? Doesn't he want to live? This father and emperor have not entered the door of the East Palace for several years, and something big must have happened on this trip! Moreover, my father does not like the eldest brother to prostitute himself during the day on weekdays, for this reason I have also said that he has been said several times, who knows that he will not change his dead nature, I think eighty percent of this time will be calculated with the new accounts and old accounts, even if there is no such thing, I estimate that it will not be much worse!"

After hearing this, Wu Peng touched his three strands of long hair and said: "Your Majesty has always planned and then moved, and everything now is only up to us to guess, it is better to go to court in the day after tomorrow, we will see what the situation is, and then it is not too late to make a decision, His Highness will do whatever he should do in the past, and do not declare it, and those who know the minions will also be instructed." ”

"That's fine, that's fine. Ang Lee muttered to himself.

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That night, the palace somehow lost a fire, the fire was so big that it illuminated half of the imperial capital, and the fire happened to be in the East Palace, fortunately the prince ran in time that night, otherwise the consequences were unimaginable, I heard that even the concubines were burned to death, not to mention the eunuchs and palace maids who died in the fire.

On the third day, when the court was on the third day, there was still a faint smell of fireworks in the air in the palace, and Ma Ji and Wu Peng, who were among the hundred officials, looked at each other in unison, and they both saw a trace of sorrow in each other's eyebrows.

Today, Li Jun never sat behind the bead curtain again, the anger in his eyes was afraid that even a blind man could see it, and the officials didn't know how to get it today, and they were very well-behaved and didn't even let out a fart, the new Ministry of Industry Shangshu Shuiyi was unlucky, and was inexplicably scolded by Li Jun, and was fined for half a year, and Wang Zhi, who was exiled to Chongren County, was even more unlucky。

After Li Jun finished his anger, Ren Xian'an, as the first assistant, said cautiously: "Your Majesty, the resolution proposed by the hundred officials last time to reduce the land of honorable lords has been drafted, do you think it?"

Li Jun rubbed his brows when he heard this, then waved his hand and said, "Since it is ready, I will send it to the convenience office first, if there is any problem, the widow will look for you again." After that, he walked down on his own, leaving only the stunned Baiguan at a loss, and he didn't shy away from seeing that this was also embarrassed, so he cleared his throat and said, "Retreat!"

Li Jun, who returned to the palace, was irritable in his heart, so he ordered Zeng to invite Yuan Xi over, because the Imperial City Division was in the Zhengyang Gate in the palace, Yuan Xi hurried over at the time of a pillar of incense.

"Jing Chun, the news hasn't leaked, right?"

Yuan Xi said with a look of embarrassment on his face when he heard this: "Your Majesty, you went in a hurry that day, half of the people in the palace saw it, if it was guessed by someone with a heart, I am afraid it is not difficult to guess, but the person who really knows is definitely out of life." ”

"If anyone dares to chew my tongue indiscriminately, you will cut off his head for the widow!" Li Jun said viciously.

"Whoa!"

"Why do you say that the widow gave birth to such an unfilial son! Isn't this a joke for the world to let the world see me? Could it be that the widow is really at fault?"

"Your Majesty, don't blame yourself, as the saying goes, good rice raises a hundred kinds of people, everything is the prince's own fault, what does it have to do with Your Majesty?"

Li Jun nodded when he heard this, "What about that slut?"

"Still in prison. ”

"Go and check it out for me, the widow always thinks that this matter is not so simple, no matter how absurd the prince is on weekdays, this kind of thing still doesn't have the courage to do it, why can he do such a thing now? I'm afraid that he will be bewitched by someone with a heart!"

"My subordinates will do it!" Li Jun nodded and waved his hand tiredly, Yuan Xi saw this and bowed and retreated.

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The Pingde Hall of Beiyuan was abandoned as early as the Hongzheng period, and in the Xuancheng period, it is rumored that the young Li Jun seems to have been frightened here, or something, in short, he has not repaired it, and it has been abandoned like this, and now if anyone in the palace makes a mistake, he will be sent here to be locked up, and now the prince of the East Palace who has been burned down is imprisoned here by Li Jun.

Li Zhao was imprisoned in a tiled house in the backyard of the Pingde Palace, the entire backyard was overgrown with weeds, there was no trace of popularity, even the suburbs of the imperial capital, it was much better than here, this time it was different from the usual people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but all of them were replaced by people from the Imperial City Division, even a bird may not be able to fly out, Li Zhao sat unkempt on the ground, I don't know what to think in his mind, this is the most embarrassing moment in his life, before it was still one person above ten thousand people, but now it seems to have fallen into the dust at the bottom of the world.

Li Zhao raised his head violently, because he seemed to faintly hear the voice of the queen mother, and then listened attentively, but after a pillar of incense, there was no movement, and after two pillars of incense, Li Zhao couldn't help but feel a little lost, it seems that he was a little auditory hallucinations just now, he did such a stupid thing, how could his father let the queen mother come to see him? But the wooden door in front of him was slowly opened, and the long-lost sunlight spilled into the house, and then a graceful and luxurious woman rushed in, looking at this scene and couldn't help crying.

"My son, why did you get it like this?" Seeing the way the queen mother Wei cried, Li Zhao couldn't help but burst into tears.

"Mother, it's all my fault, and my father is willing to punish me. ”

After the mother hugged her head and cried for a while, Wei looked at her yellow-faced and skinny son, and then hurriedly ordered the minions behind him to take out all the food they had prepared, Li Zhao had been locked up for four days at the moment, and there was only one bowl of gruel every day to satisfy hunger, if it was the same as before, it would be a strange thing.

Looking at Li Zhao who was gobbling up in front of him, Wei Shi looked even more sad, and said in his mouth: "Zhao'er, don't worry, I'll go to the old man's house to plead with the queen mother, Your Majesty doesn't feel sorry for his son, I don't believe that the old man doesn't feel sorry for him as a grandson!"

Although Li Zhao is usually a little stupid, he has a clear grasp of his father's temperament, otherwise he would not have been able to sit in the position of the lord of the East Palace for so many years, so he said in a hurry regardless of the food in his mouth before he swallowed it: "The son begs the queen mother not to go to the imperial grandmother to intercede, which will only make the father even more annoyed." ”

When Wei heard Li Zhao say this, he also calmed down, and he naturally knew his husband's temper, although going to the queen mother to intercede can get the emperor out of his current situation, but I am afraid that the future will be even more difficult, not to mention whether the position of the prince can be kept, even if he is exiled to those poor and remote places to give some land at will, it is not impossible.

This can't be done, that can't be done, can only be left to fate, if something happens to Li Zhao, most of the time she, a mother, will not have any good fruit to eat, Wei Shi couldn't help but feel sad when he thought of this, so he began to continue to sob.

In the mansion of the fourth prince Li An, all the masters have been present at this moment, even Zheng Tie, the official secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Mr. Zheng has been present, Zheng Tie is the oldest and the oldest in the field, seeing that he did not speak, the rest of the people are naturally inconvenient to speak, but Li An did not have so many worries, so he said directly: "The masters are saying something, but I am in a hurry." ”

Seeing this, Ma Ji was naturally not good at hiding it, so he said: "Your Highness, in this matter, it is most appropriate to follow the standard of reason." ”

Wu Peng also nodded after a pause: "In my opinion, this method is also the most secure at present, and the Second Highness and the Third Highness are also indifferent at this time, it seems that they don't want to touch this mold!"

Needless to say, Li An is naturally clear about this truth, but he frowned and turned his head to Zheng Tiedao: "Master Zheng, what do you think of the old man?"

"What Shaoqing and Si Ye said is not unreasonable, and I think it is not impossible for His Highness to do this. ”

Li An understood what Zheng Tie meant when he saw that he had something to say, and said in a deep voice: "Since this is the case, the students have a plan in their hearts, so the masters should go back and rest early." Ma Ji and Wu Peng are naturally also interested people, and they both left the mansion after saying goodbye.

After the two of them left, he said, "Master Zheng has something to say now." ”

I saw him ponder for a while and then said, "I just want to ask Your Highness, does Your Highness dare to be interested in the position of the crown prince?"

This sentence is a taboo for courtiers, if it is replaced by Ma Ji, Wu Peng and they will not dare to say this, and Zheng Tie dares to do this, Li An also knows Zheng Tie's temperament, otherwise he will definitely be suspicious, but Rao frowned like this and said, "I don't know what Master Zheng means by this?"

"Your Highness just has to answer my question. ”

After pondering for a while, Li An nodded heavily, and Zheng Tie then said: "In this case, His Royal Highness will take care of this matter of the prince no matter what, and the old man will start writing." As he spoke, he walked to the desk behind him.

Seeing this, Li An couldn't help but be a little puzzled, so he hurriedly grabbed Zheng Tiedao and said: "Why is Master Zheng like this? Big brother has made such a big mistake now, if I want to do that position, it will already be good if I don't fall into the well, and I have to take care of it to the end, isn't this a fire?"

"Your Highness, the Sacred Heart is unpredictable, if you still remain neutral or step on it fiercely at this time, the old man thinks that this will only make Your Majesty feel cold, if His Royal Highness has sparse contact with the crown prince on weekdays, it is not necessary, but now it must be done. ”

Li An was a little ignorant after hearing this, but he was still puzzled: "If I try my best to protect the crown prince, what good is it to sit in this position with me?"

"If the prince's mistake is really as you said, then it will be irreversible, even if His Majesty spares him this time, but what about the future?" Speaking of this, Zheng Tie shook his head slightly.

"Does Master Zheng mean that my father will find an excuse to abolish the crown prince at will in the future when he has a suitable candidate?"

Zheng Tie nodded without saying anything when he heard this, and Li An's face became even more cloudy when he saw this.

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