At the beginning of Mao Shi, Zhao Yao was woken up by Tongxi on time.
At this time, it was still dark.
Zhao Yao sat up, yawned, raised his hands and stretched. He heard the sound of rain falling outside the window, yawned and asked, "Is it raining outside?"
Tongxi brought a glass of warm water to Zhao Yao and respectfully held it in front of Zhao Yao with both hands.
"It's quite heavy."
"When did you drink it?" Zhao Yao took the warm water, lowered his head and drank it. The first thing he does when he wakes up every morning is drink a glass of warm water.
"It seems to be from Yinshi." Tongxi said, taking out a cloak from the cabinet, "Your Highness, it is not only raining outside, but also windy. When you go to Wende Hall later, you must wear this cloak. Don’t worry about the wind blowing.”
Zhao Yao's handsome face suddenly fell down when he mentioned the matter of going to Wende Hall to study.
"I am the only one studying now. Why do I have to go to Wendeok Palace to study? Why can't I be taught to study in Xingdeok Palace?" Now only one prince, Zhao Yao, is studying in Xingdeok Palace. The other princes have grown up and are no longer here. Reading in the Hall of Wende.
That's not quite right. Among the ten princes, there are still three princes who are underage. The Eighth Prince came of age this year, but his birthday has not come yet, so he is not yet an adult. The Ninth Prince is not yet an adult, but he joined the army three years ago. Now he is not only not in the palace, but also in the capital.
Although the eighth prince is not yet an adult, since last year, he has not been studying in the Wende Hall, but has gone to court with the prince. Therefore, Zhao Yao is the only one among the princes who studies.
"Your Highness, didn't the Emperor say that Wende Hall is a place for studying. The princes and grandsons must go to Wende Hall to study. You can't be too lazy to go." Tongxi said while helping Zhao Yao get dressed, "Your Highness, If you endure it for a few more years, you won’t have to go to Wende Hall to study.”
"I have to wait at least four to five years before I can graduate from Wende Hall." Zhao Yao said with a bitter look on his face, "Bago and the others have all grown up, but I am the only one who has not grown up. Alas, I am so pitiful. ." Why couldn't the mother and concubine have given birth to him a few years earlier, so that he and the Eighth Brother could grow up to be kings together?
"Your Highness, if you feel lonely studying alone, your Royal Highness will study with you next year." Tongxi said that His Royal Highness is the eldest son of His Royal Highness, and next year he will go to Wende Palace to study for enlightenment.
Zhao Yao raised his foot and kicked Tong Xi's butt, and said angrily: "Do I need a little brat to accompany me?"
"Your Highness, don't you like His Highness the Emperor Sun very much on weekdays?" Tong Xi rubbed his buttocks and said to Zhao Yao with a smile, "With His Highness the Emperor Sun studying with you, you also have someone to talk to, right? "
"I really like Tuanzi, but when I think of having to sit in the same classroom with Tuanzi to study, I feel uncomfortable." Alas, he was reduced to studying with his nephew. It was really miserable.
"Your Highness, His Royal Highness and you are reading different books. What are you afraid of?" Tong Xi deliberately joked, "You are still afraid of being compared with His Highness."
"I'm really not as good as him." Zhao Yao said with great self-knowledge, "Tuanzi can now recite "The Analects of Confucius" and "Mencius". It took me a long time to recite "The Analects of Confucius"."
"Your Highness, that's because you don't want to recite it. If you wanted to recite it, you would have recited it long ago." Tong Xi has been with Zhao Yao for so many years, and he doesn't know that his Highness has been pretending to be stupid.
"I don't like endorsements." Zhao Yao got dressed and went to the next room to wash up.
Tong Xi took a toothbrush, dipped it in tooth powder, and handed it to Zhao Yao.
Zhao Yao took the toothbrush and brushed his teeth with his head down.
Toothbrush and tooth powder were invented by Zhao Yao a few years ago. Nowadays, it has become popular not only in many places in the Great Zhou Dynasty, but also in various countries in the Western Regions.
Of course, toothbrushes and tooth powder were first sold by the Liang family. The Liang family later sold toothbrushes and tooth powder to various countries in the Western Regions, and they were deeply loved by people from all over the Western Regions. Not to mention other things, just these two things made the Liang family make a lot of money in the Western Regions.
The Liang family's shops have opened all over the Western Regions. However, the Liang Family Trading Firm is not the number one trading firm in the Western Region. Although the Liang family grabbed the first share of the business in the Western Regions, they could not compete with the aristocratic family.
When the wealthy families saw that the Liang family had made a lot of money doing business in the Western Regions, they immediately followed suit. The aristocratic family had a lot of money and a lot of people. Not long after they arrived in the Western Regions, they became the number one, second, or third trading firm in the Western Regions.
Although the wealthy families did not take the Liang family seriously, they did not embarrass the Liang family because they were royal merchants. Furthermore, the Liang family is also very smart and knowledgeable, and never competes with wealthy families for business.
The Liang family is not as good as other aristocratic families, but the Liang family's business is still very good. Over the years, I have been making a fortune in silence.
After Zhao Yao finished washing, the people in the kitchen brought over the prepared breakfast.
A year ago, Zhao Yao moved into Xingde Palace, living in the fourth prince's former house.
Zhao Yao is now a half-year-old boy and is very good at eating. He eats a lot for breakfast every day. Today's breakfast includes a drawer of Shaomai, two bowls of meat porridge, two steamed buns, two meat buns, two sesame seed cakes, two boiled eggs and a bowl of goat's milk.
Even though he ate so much for breakfast, he was already hungry before he finished school at noon, so milk tea and snacks were prepared for him in the small kitchen. When he was resting, Tongxi took some snacks from the kitchen and brought them to him in Wende Hall.
Tongxi saw that the rain outside was getting heavier and heavier, so he quickly took out a raincoat and put it on Zhao Yao.
When Zhao Yao saw the heavy rain outside, he didn't want to go to Wende Hall to study more and more: "It's raining so hard. If you don't go to Wende Hall and ask for leave, maybe your husband will agree."
"Your Highness, please give up. Unless there is a knife in the world, you must go to school." Tong Xi ignored Zhao Yao's words and put a raincoat on him. "Your Highness, we have to set off quickly, otherwise we will be late for studying. Today's first class is Mr. Xiao's class. If you are late, Mr. Xiao will slap you on the palm."
"Mr. Xiao won't hit my palm." Zhao Yao said with a proud look on his face, "He is also reluctant to hit me."
"Then you can't rely on Mr. Xiao to love you, so be late."
"Okay, I understand." Zhao Yao waved his hand and told Tong Xi to step aside while he tied up his raincoat.
Tongxi picked up the book Zhao Yao wanted to read today, held an umbrella and followed Zhao Yao out.
The Qingming Festival has passed, but it rains from time to time in Beijing during this period, making the weather that finally warmed up become cold again.
As soon as Zhao Yao walked out of his yard, he saw the eighth prince walking towards him holding an umbrella. He immediately raised his smile and said, "Good morning, myna."
"Morning, tenth brother." The eighth prince felt relieved when he saw that Zhao Yao was wearing a raincoat and had not been exposed to any rain. "I saw it was raining this morning, so I didn't ask you to have breakfast in my room."
On weekdays, Zhao Yao would go to the eighth prince's place for breakfast and dinner. For lunch, Zhao Yao went to Kunde Hall to spend time with Liang Concubine.
"Myna, without me having breakfast with you, you must have no appetite and not eat much."
Yu Hai, who was following the Eighth Prince, said, "His Royal Highness, you were right. Your Highness had a bowl of porridge and a sesame seed cake for breakfast."
The Eighth Prince glared at Yu Hai: "You are the only one who talks too much."
"Bago, I knew you wouldn't be able to eat well without me." Zhao Yao looked at the thin body of the eighth prince and shook his head with hatred, "Bago, I'm not talking about you, look at how thin you are. Like a bamboo pole, a strong wind can blow you away." In the past few years, he has been forcing the myna to eat more, but as a result, the myna still has a bird's stomach and cannot eat much.
"It's not as exaggerated as you said." The Eighth Prince said with a smile, "I'm not as skinny as a bamboo pole."
"That's almost it."
"I see that you eat a lot on weekdays, and I don't see you gaining weight." The eighth prince teased Zhao Yao, "You are not much fatter than me."
"Bago, it's time for me to grow. No matter how much I eat, I won't get fat, because I want to grow taller." Zhao Yao stretched out his hand to show the heights of him and the eighth prince, "Bago, after a while, I will be taller." Taller than you." Zhao Yao is now only half a head shorter than the eighth prince. "Myna, if you don't eat well, you will become the shortest among our brothers."
The Eighth Prince didn't care about this, and said in a nonchalant tone: "I don't need to be that tall, just be the shortest."
When Zhao Yao heard what the eighth prince said, he had a very speechless expression on his face.
"Bago, you actually don't care at all that you are the shortest?"
The Eighth Prince looked sideways at Zhao Yao and said, "Why do you care?"
"Bago, don't you think it's embarrassing for men to be short?" Zhao Yao is not satisfied with his current height. He wants to grow to seven feet. A seven-foot man is a real man. However, if it is less than seven feet long, it must be at least six feet long. "Myna, a seven-foot man is a real man. You and I don't even have six feet now, and you don't care."
"If he grows less than seven feet, he is no longer a man?" The eighth prince didn't know why Zhao Yao cared so much about height, "You, my eighth brother, are not a man, are I a woman?"
Zhao Yao said silently in his heart: Brother Bage, if you look at your appearance, everyone will think you are a woman.
The Eighth Prince, who is about to come of age, has long facial features and an even more outstanding appearance. However, because of his thin body and a face that is paler than that of a woman, his eyebrows are more feminine.
"Although I am not six feet tall, I am not the shortest in the court." The eighth prince did not feel that he was short. Compared with the ministers in the court, he was quite tall. Of course, compared to the princes, he is indeed the shortest.
The Zhao family are all very tall. The late emperor was six feet tall, and the emperor was only seven feet taller.
Most of the ministers in the court were less than six feet tall, and even many generals were less than six or seven feet tall, almost as tall as him.
"Bago, you are the shortest in our old Zhao family." Zhao Yao encouraged the eighth prince, "Bago, actually you can still grow taller, but you have to eat more."
Hearing Zhao Yao's last words, the Eighth Prince realized Zhao Yao's purpose for saying he was short before and couldn't help but laugh: "Tenth brother, you really took great pains to make me eat more."
"It's a pity that Bage, you ignored all my hard work." Zhao Yao had a hurt look on his face, "In order to make you eat more, Bage, I really tried my best, but you...sigh..."
The Eighth Prince smiled and said, "I also want to eat more, but unfortunately I can't. When I eat too much, I feel nauseous." For so many years, the imperial doctor has been recuperating the Eighth Prince's intestines and stomach, but he has not completely taken care of his intestines and stomach. Although it is not like the pain that often caused me to break out in cold sweats when I was a child, I cannot eat too much. If I eat too much, my stomach will feel uncomfortable.
"Myna, you can't eat too much at once, but you can eat a few more meals. Eight meals a day is good."
"Eight meals a day, even a pig can't eat that much."
"Myna, if you could grow as fat as a pig, thank God."
The Eighth Prince reached out and knocked the cap on Zhao Yao's head.
The brothers talked as they walked and soon arrived at Wende Hall.
After the Eighth Prince sent Zhao Yao to Wende Hall, he turned around and headed to Chengguang Hall.
Not long after Zhao Yao sat down, Mr. Xiao walked in with a book.
Mr. Xiao did not rush to teach Zhao Yao, but chatted with Zhao Yao first. After chatting for a while, Mr. Xiao gave Zhao Yao a lesson.
On the other side, the Eighth Prince went to the morning court not long after arriving at Chengguang Hall.
The eighth prince has not been crowned king, nor does he hold any official position. However, because of his status as a prince, he stood behind His Royal Highness.
As for the other princes. His Royal Highness, King Dai, has continued to stay in the capital in the past few years and has not gone to his fiefdom of Jizhou. The third prince originally wanted to stay in the capital, but two years ago the emperor drove him to his fiefdom in Jiaozhou.
When the fifth prince and the sixth prince came of age and were crowned queens, they immediately went to the fief like the fourth prince. They didn't want to go to the fief either, but the emperor wouldn't let them stay.
The seventh prince had also become a king when he came of age, but he did not go to the fiefdom, but stayed in the capital, citing poor health.
A few years ago, the seventh prince fell off his horse during an autumn hunt and was seriously injured. Since then, his health has not been very good.
Whether the seventh prince's health is really bad or not, all the ministers in the court know well.
Because he was not in good health, he did not hold any official position in the court, so he was an idle prince.
The Ninth Prince is currently a sixth-grade young general in the Forbidden Army camp outside the capital.
There is a big event this morning, that is, Xinmaodun Shanyu is about to send an envoy to Dazhou.
Since the end of last year, the northern border has been uneasy. From time to time, a group of Huns come to harass the northern border, making the people in the northern border uneasy.
Naturally, the Great Zhou Dynasty could not allow the Huns to harass the northern border, so he sent troops to destroy them. As a result, these Huns were as slippery as loaches and could not be caught at all.
The emperor wrote a letter asking Xinmaodun Shanyu what he wanted. Xinmaodun Shanyu said that he did not know about this and that he did not send anyone to disturb Dazhou.
Later, he sent people to investigate and said that the Huns who went to disturb the northern border of the Great Zhou Dynasty were a group of bandits and had nothing to do with the royal court of the Huns.
The emperor naturally did not believe what Xinmaodun Shanyu said. He knew in his heart that this was Xin Mao Dun Chan Yu who was testing Da Zhou. The emperor firmly stated that if the Xiongnu did not give Da Zhou an explanation, Da Zhou would seek justice on his own.
Seeing that the Emperor of Zhou was so tyrannical, Shanyu Xinmaodun felt a little unsure, and hurriedly said that he would send people to capture these bandits and then send them to Da Zhou to let the Emperor of Zhou handle them.
So, the Huns came to envoy the Great Week.
The emperor and ministers all knew that the purpose of the Huns sending envoys to Dazhou was to find out the true situation of Dazhou. Not only could they not take it lightly, but they also had to frighten this group of Huns.
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