Along the way from the gate of the capital to the gate of the palace, the people of the capital kept shouting words such as "His Royal Highness is a thousand years old" or "His Royal Highness is a hero".
Because His Highness the Crown Prince didn't care about the incident that happened before, the people didn't take it to heart and continued to shout loudly for the hero in their hearts. It seems that the louder they shout, the more they respect the king.
At first, Zhao Yao felt passionate about the earth-shattering shouts, but after listening to them for a long time, he became tired of the noise.
Seeing Zhao Yao's wrinkled face and looking a little unhappy, the fourth prince asked with concern: "What's wrong? Are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere?"
Zhao Yao shook his head and said, "Fourth brother, I'm fine, I just feel..." At this point, he did not continue.
The fourth prince asked patiently: "What do you think?"
Zhao Yao first looked around cautiously. Seeing that no one was looking at them, he raised his hand to his mouth and whispered: "Fourth brother, I think these people are shouting all the time, which is a bit noisy." After saying that, he looked at his face. He showed a timid expression, as if he realized that he had said the wrong thing. "Fourth brother, shouldn't I say that to the people?"
Seeing the panic in Zhao Yao's eyes, the fourth prince smiled gently at him: "You are right, it is indeed a bit noisy."
When Zhao Yao heard this, his big black and white eyes suddenly lit up, and he said with some excitement: "Fourth brother, do you really think it's noisy?"
The fourth prince nodded: "I don't like the noise."
Only then did Zhao Yao remember that his fourth brother was a quiet person. Seeing that Fourth Brother had the same idea as him, he said happily: "Fourth Brother, I don't like it either."
The Eighth Prince heard their conversation and said with a smile, "I don't like it either."
"I like fourth brother and eighth brother the most." Fourth brother and eighth brother are indeed his best brothers. They even think the same. "Fourth Brother, Eighth Brother, do you think their throats hurt or are they thirsty when they shout like this?" The people shouted at the top of their lungs, their voices were hoarse, but they were still shouting. Zhao Yao felt that if they kept shouting like this, his throat would be very sore when he woke up tomorrow morning, and he would be so painful that he could not speak.
The Eighth Prince looked at the people who were shouting so hard that the veins on their necks popped out, and sneered: "Don't worry about them, let them shout."
The fourth prince glanced at the eighth prince, who had a sarcastic expression on his face, and a deep thought flashed in his eyes.
"Fourth brother, eighth brother, how long will it take for us to get to the palace?" There were only the shouts of the people along the way, and there was nothing else. Zhao Yao felt a little bored.
The fourth prince looked at the team walking so slowly and estimated: "It's probably more than half an hour."
"There's still more than half an hour?" Zhao Yao was a little impatient. He suddenly thought of something and asked hurriedly, "Fourth Brother, Eighth Brother, do we still need to study when we return to the palace? No, we are supposed to learn Danqing this afternoon, so do we still need to study Danqing when we go back?" Except that he doesn't like reading. , Zhao Yao is still willing to learn other things.
"This afternoon's classes have been cancelled. We don't have to study Danqing after we return to the palace." The fourth prince deliberately teased Zhao Yao, "Although you won't teach us Danqing this afternoon, tenth brother, you can come to my room and I will teach you." read."
"Ah?" When Zhao Yao heard this, his face suddenly fell. He pouted and said unhappily, "Fourth brother, I don't want to go to your room to study."
Hearing what Zhao Yao said, the fourth prince was not surprised at all.
He asked: "Did you understand what Mr. taught this morning?"
Well……
Zhao Yao's eyes were filled with guilt and he turned his head away, not daring to look at the fourth prince.
"Fourth brother, can we not talk about studying?"
The fourth prince reached out and turned Zhao Yao's little face over, then pinched his chubby little face.
"I see you just want to play."
Zhao Yao stretched out his hand and pulled the fourth prince's sleeve, and said coquettishly: "Fourth brother, it's rare that we don't have to go to class this afternoon, so just let me play."
The fourth prince poked Zhao Yao's forehead and reminded him very ruthlessly: "Tenth brother, my father asked you to copy the Analects of Confucius a hundred times. How many have you copied and how many are left?"
With a bang, the fourth prince's reminder was like a bolt from the blue, and Zhao Yao was stunned.
Seeing Zhao Yao's appearance of being struck by lightning, the fourth prince and the eighth prince knew that he had forgotten to copy the Analects of Confucius as a punishment.
"Have you had so much fun these days that you have completely forgotten about the fine?" He reminded Zhao Yao again, "Father only gave you a one-month deadline, and there are only ten days left before the one-month deadline. "
"What?" Zhao Yao exclaimed, "Only ten days left?" This news was even more shocking to Zhao Yao, "It's over, it's over..."
When the third prince and others heard Zhao Yao's frightened cry, they all turned to look at him and asked, "Tenth brother, what is your ghost name?" After saying that, they saw Zhao Yao looking like he was about to cry, and asked funnyly, " What's wrong with you?"
"Third brother, I'm done. I forgot about my father's punishment of me copying the Analects of Confucius." Ahhhhh, how could he forget such an important thing. There are still about ten days left. Even if he has ten hands, he still can't copy it a hundred times.
"Hahahahaha..." The third prince and the others were amused by Zhao Yao's troubled words, "Tenth brother, if you are really going to die, my father will definitely not let you go."
The fifth prince gloated and said, "Tenth brother, please take care of yourself."
"Tenth brother, wish for your own good." The sixth prince said this, but there was no trace of concern in his tone.
Seeing that the third prince and the others not only did not comfort Zhao Yao, but also gloated and waited to see Zhao Yao punished by Emperor Zhou Wu, the fourth prince felt very unhappy and his face could not help but become a little colder.
"It's still too late to write now." The fourth prince comforted Zhao Yao warmly.
With the fourth prince here, the eighth prince couldn't say anything. He could only comfort Zhao Yao and said: "Tenth brother, there are still ten days, it's completely late."
With the comfort of the fourth prince and the eighth prince, Zhao Yao's grief and anxiety eased a little.
"I will work hard."
The fourth prince raised his hand and patted the back of Zhao Yao's head gently, "Do you still dare to be happy and forget about Shu in the future?"
Zhao Yao shook his head like a rattle: "I don't dare anymore, I don't dare anymore!"
The fourth prince rubbed Zhao Yao's little face and said, "Okay, when you get back to the palace, don't go to my room."
After hearing this, Zhao Yao smiled again on his depressed face.
"Fourth brother is the best."
Soon, Zhao Yao put this matter aside, sat on his horse, and continued to look at the people on both sides of the road.
After the people on both sides of the road saw the Crown Prince and His Highness the King, they turned their attention to the other princes. The fourth prince is the most outstanding-looking among all the princes. With his calm demeanor and elegant temperament, he is naturally the most eye-catching among the princes.
Many women looked at the fourth prince with burning eyes, and they seemed to be talking about something.
Today is to welcome His Royal Highness back to the capital, so the girl in the boudoir can go out to the street. Normally, a married woman cannot show her face so directly.
The fourth prince is only one year younger than the third prince. Li Bin has been secretly selecting a concubine for the fourth prince.
Many civil servants in the court supported the fourth prince, because the fourth prince's grandfather was the imperial priest.
The Li family is a well-established family. Since the previous dynasty, the head of the Li family has served as the liberator of the Imperial Academy. Over the years, the Li family's disciples have spread all over the world.
The Li family also has a very high status in the minds of scholars, not inferior to the current Kong family at all. Since the previous dynasty, many officials in the central and local governments were students of the Li family.
At first, the Li family was not willing to join the officialdom. In the previous dynasties, the Li family lived in seclusion in the mountains to study and never participated in political affairs, but they were always very famous. The emperors of the previous dynasties wanted to invite the Li family to serve as official assistants, but the Li family would rather be beheaded than go down the mountain.
The founding emperor of the previous dynasty was a good emperor who had great righteousness and thought for the people. He visited the thatched cottage three times and invited the Li family to come out. The reason why the Li family agreed to assist was, first, because the founding emperor of the previous dynasty was a good emperor, and second, because when the previous dynasty was first established, rituals and music collapsed, and there was an urgent need for people from the Li family to come out to restore the rituals, music and rules.
The Li family was a tutor at first. Later, after the Li family cultivated etiquette, music and rules, they were unwilling to serve as officials in the court, so they founded Taixue, and have been teaching in Taixue ever since.
During the reign of Emperor Xia Ling, the Li family was framed and suppressed, resulting in numerous deaths and injuries. Disheartened, the Li family left Taixue and returned to the mountains, preparing to live in seclusion again and deciding never to leave the mountains again. Later, the late emperor personally went to the mountain and invited the Li family to continue teaching in Taixue.
The Li family was moved by the late emperor's sincerity, so they went down the mountain again, reopened the Imperial Academy, and continued to teach and educate people.
During the period when the Confucius family was reviled by scholars all over the world, the Li family was highly respected by scholars. Although the Li family is not as famous as the Confucius family for thousands of years, the reputation of the Li family is much better than that of the Confucius family.
Another reason why Kong Taichang was unwilling to marry his youngest daughter to the king was that he was worried that the reputation of the Kong family would be ruined again and the scholars in the world would be disappointed again. By then, the Li family would replace the Kong family.
