Bianjing, Imperial Palace Garden.
Taihe Pond.
The weather in April changes all the time. The sun is still shining in the morning, but it starts to drizzle in the afternoon.
There is an antique wooden Spring Breeze Pavilion in the center of Taihe Pond. The four corners of the pavilion look like four jumping carp, and it is very beautiful when paired with red paint.
In the pavilion.
There were two people, a middle-aged man and a young man, sitting opposite each other at the moment.
Between the two of them is a stone platform half a person's height. There are two stone benches on the stone platform, and the two of them sit down just apart.
These two people are none other than the emperor of the Song Dynasty and the prince and his son.
He gently picked up a sunspot, thought for a moment, and then dropped it.
The black piece on the chessboard suddenly drew a big dragon, surrounding the white piece, and the white piece was about to lose.
Zhao Duan immediately chuckled and said: "Hahaha, the prince's chess skills have declined a lot recently. He will be defeated in just half an hour."
When Prince Zhao Ming, who was sitting opposite, heard this, he shook his head and said with a smile: "It's not that my chess skills have declined, but that my father's chess skills have improved. I am no match for him now."
Looking around, he saw that Bai Zi really had no power to recover, so Zhao Ming had no choice but to drop the Bai Zi in his hand and admit defeat.
Several young eunuchs quickly came up to clean up the chessboard, but Zhao Duan asked with a smile: "Oh, what do you think the prince said?
I feel that my chess skills are no different from before. Could it be that the prince is unwilling to lose and is looking for an excuse? "
Zhao Ming smiled slightly, nodded to Cao Shuang, and immediately two cups of steaming fragrant tea were placed on the table.
The father and son each picked up a cup and gently used the tea lid to skim off the foam and tea residue on the surface of the tea. Zhao Ming explained:
"My father used to have a lot of worries when playing chess, and there were too many things to think about. So when I played chess with my father before, I only needed to guess my father's early layout, and I could easily know my father's next move, and I would be able to Respond easily.
Because the son the father has lost will never exceed the limits that the father has set for himself. "
After skimming off the foam from the fragrant tea in your hand, take a sip and feel the hot tea flowing through your body. The spring rain outside the pavilion is falling, and the spring breeze that blows at any time brings the remaining chill of winter, making people feel all over. Chills.
After taking this sip of hot tea, my whole body felt so comfortable that I almost moaned.
Feeling more comfortable, Zhao Ming put down the tea cup in his hand and continued: "Today, my father no longer sticks to the old routine, and his behavior is as unconstrained as a horse and a horse, making people unable to figure it out.
It seemed that he was cheating again, so his acting style became bold and wild. He was so direct and clean that the autumn wind swept the fallen leaves and defeated Erchen from the beginning. In the end, he used the general trend to completely crush him, allowing Erchen to make a slight comeback. There is no chance. "
After a pause, Zhao Ming continued: "Father's sudden change made me, who had adapted to his rhythm, really mishandle it. Then I fell into the hands of his father with almost no ability to resist. It was really a blow. It caught me off guard!"
"Ha ha ha ha!"
After Zhao Duan heard this, he immediately laughed heartily, pointed at Prince Zhao Ming and said with a smile:
"Hahaha, you, you, you've been like this since you were a child. You can't explain anything clearly, you have to use metaphors.
how? Do you think I was wrong in letting that boy Lao Liu use troops to clean the house? "
"I don't dare."
Zhao Ming lowered his head slightly and said in a calm voice.
Zhao Duan laughed and shook his head: "Don't you just think from the bottom of your heart that I am wrong?"
"The sixth brother is just a vassal king. If he does such a thing, he will definitely arouse criticism from the courtiers, especially the first stop, the Zhang family in Le County.
The censor Zhongcheng Zhang Heyi would definitely not give up. Once the incident happened and the news spread from Gaodong to Bianjing, there would be a commotion in the court and a storm.
As one of the chief officials of Yanguan, Yushi Zhongcheng, with Zhang Heyi's strength, the sixth brother will inevitably become the target of public criticism and be criticized crazily! "
Zhao Duan held his cup of fragrant tea and took a sip while listening to the prince's words. After the prince finished speaking, he put down the tea cup and continued: "Do you think Lao Liu is stupid?"
Zhao Ming frowned and then shook his head: "When I was in Beijing, although my sixth brother was naughty, he always did not behave in a royal manner."
Thinking of this, he thought of the pair of straw sandals that his family's sixth son wore all year round. It was said that he had knitted them himself.
I couldn't help but my forehead was pounding.
Then he continued: "But for more than ten years, the sixth brother has been able to grow up steadily. He has neither a good name nor a bad reputation inside and outside the court. He must not be stupid."
The meaning of the prince's words is very obvious. As a prince, you can stabilize your thoughts and stay out of things like a transparent person, whether in the court or among the people. This is not something that a fool can do.
As the prince of the Song Dynasty, he will receive everyone's attention from the moment he is born. Anyone who can escape from this kind of attention cannot be a fool.
Zhao Duan smiled and nodded: "That's the case.
In this case, Lao Liu is not stupid. He knows that doing this for me would be very risky, so why would he do it? "
"this……"
Zhao Ming was stunned and puzzled.
After giving him some time, Zhao Duan continued to give the answer unhurriedly after a long while: "Because of my confidence!"
"Confidence?"
Zhao Ming was puzzled.
Zhao Duan nodded heavily: "That's right, it's confidence!"
Then he explained: "Lao Liu is different from us. We are in the center of the whirlpool, and all the power in our hands is restrained by others, forming a stable balance with everyone. This is the current balance situation of the Song Dynasty. .
Therefore, we have scruples and cannot move. If we move, it will be like pulling a hair and affecting the whole body, which will cause huge unknown changes, and whether this change is good or bad is unknown.
So we can't bet!
But Lao Liu is different! "
"What's different about Sixth Brother?" Zhao Ming asked.
Zhao Duan glanced at him and shook his head, seeming a little disappointed.
Then he said: "He is an outsider and the best game-breaker!
Not only is the position of his Yunzhou County independent of our Song Dynasty, but its strength and power are also independent from anyone else and will not be involved by anyone.
Although I don’t know the full extent of its current strength, judging from its ability to retreat the Tatars, it must not be underestimated.
In this way, he himself is invincible.
Others are afraid of him, but he can be unscrupulous toward others!
To put it simply, others are afraid of his strength, but there is nothing they can do to restrain him.
So he is very free.
Unlike us, although my royal family is stronger than others, in order to stabilize the situation, we are also restrained by others using various means and cannot do anything we want to do.
In this case, there was an opportunity for Lao Liu to help Da Song clean up.
Even though the final result was limited, it could make the terminally ill Da Song much more comfortable.
And no matter how much others criticize him, what can he do? They can still attack Yunzhou County with troops.
Even if you lead troops, are you sure you can beat him?
Can't we just watch?
This is the main reason why I borrowed his hand.
He has nothing to worry about and no need to worry! "
Zhao Ming suddenly realized.
…
First, don’t say I’m short! Although I only have more than 2,000 words at a time, I update three times a day, with 6,000 or 7,000 words, which is much better than those 4,000 words.
Secondly, I also want to write more, but I actually have work, so I am slow to write in this category. Although it is just idle, sometimes I still have to check the information.
It takes a lot of time to find information, so it is normal for the word count to be small. Please understand, and stop being too short.
If this continues, Piaoxue is not short, but you are about to say it is short. What people say is terrible! (Dog Head) Do you understand? whee……
(End of chapter)
