Not long after the news of the death of the two legitimate sons of the Yuan family came back to the capital, Mr. Meng was leaving the capital and heading to his next stop, Liangzhou, to continue his lectures.
The fact that Mr. Meng is going to Liangzhou to give lectures is not a good thing for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Royal Highness the King. Although so far, they do not think King Chu will pose a fatal threat to them, they are still wary of King Chu.
Originally, the King of Chu had a high reputation in the hearts of scholars. Now that Mr. Meng is going to Liangzhou to give lectures, it will only make the King of Chu's status in the hearts of scholars higher and higher.
If Mr. Meng goes to Liangzhou to meet the King of Chu, then the King of Chu will replace His Highness the Crown Prince in the hearts of scholars in the world, which is very detrimental to His Highness the Crown Prince. It is also not a good thing for His Highness Dai Wang.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Highness the King of Dai do not want Mr. Meng to go to Liangzhou to give lectures, nor do they want Mr. Meng to help His Highness the King of Chu. Therefore, they wanted to prevent Mr. Meng from going to Liangzhou. As long as Mr. Meng's life is not harmed, he falls ill or is injured, then he will not be able to go to Liangzhou for the time being.
Just when His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Highness the King Dai were thinking about how to prevent Mr. Meng from going to Liangzhou, the emperor issued an imperial edict asking Shen Hu and Chu Ying to lead troops to escort Mr. Meng to Liangzhou.
The emperor had already anticipated whatever plans His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Highness the King Dai had in mind. The emperor deliberately warned His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Highness the King's people in the morning court. The general meaning is that if something happens to Mr. Meng on his way to Liangzhou, the murderer will be you.
The emperor also warned them that Mr. Meng was the only great scholar in the world. If something happens to his old man, the consequences will not be something they can bear.
Although the emperor did not say it clearly, the meaning was obvious, and the people who said it made His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Highness the King uneasy.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Highness the King Dai naturally pretended not to understand, but they felt very uncomfortable in their hearts. With the emperor's warning, how could they dare to take action against Mr. Meng.
Before Mr. Meng left the capital, Zhao Yao received a letter from the King of Chu. In the letter, the King of Chu repeatedly apologized to Zhao Yao and warmly invited Zhao Yao to Liangzhou as a guest.
Zhao Yao originally planned not to go to Liangzhou, but for the sake of his fourth brother's "low-key" begging, he reluctantly agreed to go to Liangzhou to see him and his nephew.
"Your Highness, didn't you say that no matter how His Highness the King of Chu begs you, you will not go to Liangzhou?"
Zhao Yao was a little embarrassed by Tong Xi. He rolled his eyes and said with some guilt: "I went to Liangzhou not to see my fourth brother, but to see my little nephew. The little nephew said in the letter that he wanted to see my little uncle very much. He even dreamed of seeing me. You said How could I bear to say no?"
A fellow friend reminded Zhao Yao of something: "Your Highness, have you forgotten that the emperor forbids you to go to Liangzhou?"
When Zhao Yao heard what Tong Xi said, he immediately remembered what happened, and the smile on his face froze.
Tongxi held back his laughter and said, "Your Highness, although you cannot bear to refuse His Highness's request, the Emperor must not have the heart to let you go to Liangzhou."
Zhao Yao: "..." How could he forget this matter.
"No, I'm going to beg my father. I'll beg shamelessly until my father agrees to it."
"Your Highness, this slave is not attacking you. I feel that no matter how much you beg, the Emperor will not agree." After Tongxi finished speaking, he added, "You also know that the Emperor has always been hard-hearted."
Zhao Yao: "..." Tong Xi is absolutely right. His father has always been hard-hearted.
"Your Highness, the Emperor always likes to bully you. The more you ask the Emperor for permission to go to Liangzhou, the more the Emperor will not agree." Although the Emperor loves His Highness, he also likes to bully His Highness.
Zhao Yao's face turned dark instantly: "You are absolutely right. With my father's bad temper, the more I beg him, the more he will bully me." How could he forget this?
"So, Your Highness, you can't go to Liangzhou unless the empress agrees for you to go." He sent a letter to Zhao Yao with advice, "You might as well go to the empress to beg the emperor."
Zhao Yao glanced sideways at the same joy and said angrily: "Do you think it is easier to ask for the mother's concubine than to ask for the father's emperor?" The mother's concubine looks gentle and gentle, but the mother's concubine is more hard-hearted than the father's emperor.
"Then your Highness, you'd better give up."
"No, I have to try." Zhao Yao suddenly thought of Mr. Meng and said with eyes brightening, "I can go to Liangzhou with Mr. Meng. Maybe my father and mother will agree."
"Your Highness, aren't you afraid of being with Mr. Meng? Are you sure you want to go all the way with Mr. Meng to find His Highness the King of Chu?"
When Zhao Yao heard Tong Xi ask this, a picture appeared in his mind, and he was frightened. He was like an eggplant beaten by frost, and said dejectedly: "I can't go with Mr. Meng."
"Your Highness, the eldest and second young masters of the Yuan family are dead. The atmosphere in the capital is so weird now. I feel that the emperor will never let you go to Liangzhou." Tongxi said, "I feel that Liangzhou is not necessarily safe. "
"Alas..." What Tong Xi said was very reasonable, so Zhao Yao felt very melancholy.
"Your Highness, you should stay in the capital honestly." Although the atmosphere in the capital is not very good, it is safer to stay in the capital than to travel far away. If something unexpected happened to His Highness on the way to Liangzhou, he would be entirely responsible for his death.
Zhao Yao said with a puffed face: "I don't want to stay in the capital, I want to go to Liangzhou." He has never been to a place outside the capital in his life. Although Dazhou is so big, he has been trapped in the capital.
"You'd better not think about it."
"No, I have to go and ask, otherwise I won't give up." After Zhao Yao finished speaking, he headed to the imperial study room aggressively. Tongxi saw this and hurriedly chased after him. "Your Highness, please wait for me."
After the emperor received the letter from King Chu, he had been waiting for Zhao Yao to come to him. As he expected, his youngest son came to see him.
Zhao Yao entered the royal study and bowed to the emperor in a polite manner: "I have seen my father..."
Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by the emperor. Then, he heard the emperor say: "Don't even think about it."
Uh...he hasn't spoken yet.
"Father, what did you say?" He had to pretend not to understand.
The emperor said to Zhao Yao with a kind face: "I will not agree to your going to Liangzhou."
Zhao Yao: "..."
"The fourth child wrote to me, hoping that I would agree to your going to Liangzhou." The emperor said with a smile, "I don't agree, so don't even think about it."
Although I had known that the emperor would say this for a long time, I still couldn't help but feel angry when I heard my father say it with my own ears.
"Why can't I go?"
"There is no reason." The emperor deliberately annoyed Zhao Yao, "You can't go just because you can't go."
"Father, why are you so irritating?" Zhao Yao's face turned into a pufferfish with anger, and he looked at the emperor with fierce eyes.
"Also, don't even think about running away from home secretly and going to Liangzhou." The emperor guessed Zhao Yao's little thoughts very accurately. He pretended to be vicious and warned in a stern tone, "If you dare to steal If you run to Liangzhou, the consequences are not something you can bear."
Zhao Yao was so frightened that he swallowed a mouthful of saliva, but he still frowned and said: "Father, I am already eleven years old. I am half an adult. Why can't I go out? When you were eleven years old, you went with Grandpa Huang." Is there a battle on the battlefield?”
"You can compare with me." The emperor looked Zhao Yao up and down, and said in a disgusting tone, "When I was eleven years old, I was half a head taller and stronger than you. Before I went to the battlefield, I led a group of Brother, can you fight bandits?"
"How do you know I'm not good?" Zhao Yao retorted, "Let me go and I'll prove it to you."
"I want to use the provocation method to provoke you." The emperor saw through Zhao Yao's little trick at a glance, "You are still very young."
Zhao Yao didn't feel embarrassed after being seen through. He continued: "You didn't even let me try. How did you know I'm not good? If you have the ability, you can test me."
The emperor said very ruthlessly: "No test, I have no time to talk to you. You can go wherever you want, don't bother me."
Zhao Yao angrily ran to the emperor, angrily took the memorial from the emperor's hand, and threw it on the imperial table very hard.
The thud made Sun Kui, who was standing aside, tremble in fright.
The emperor reached out and pulled Zhao Yao into his arms, letting him lie on his lap, and then raised his hand to spank his youngest son's butt several times.
Zhao Yao was no match for the emperor. He struggled hard but couldn't break free, and was spanked several times.
"Smelly father, please let me go... itchy... hahahahaha..."
The emperor stretched out his hand to scratch Zhao Yao's armpit, which made Zhao Yao laugh and beg for mercy.
"Father, I was wrong, please spare me." Zhao Yao is not afraid of being beaten, but he is ticklish.
The emperor then stopped and let him go.
Zhao Yao lay on the emperor's lap, opened his mouth angrily and bit his thigh hard.
The emperor gasped in pain: "Hey, you bastard!" The emperor reached out and pinched Zhao Yao's mouth, "Are you a dog?"
Zhao Yao called out "woof" twice to the emperor.
The emperor was amused by his two barks and scolded him with a smile: "You son of a bitch."
"Father, if I were a dog, what would you be?"
"You brat, you are so courageous. How dare you scold me?"
"I'm going to Liangzhou to see my fourth brother!" Zhao Yao suddenly said very loudly, startling the emperor.
The emperor grabbed Zhao Yao's nose and said funnyly: "I told you, you can't go."
"Father, you..." Just as Zhao Yao was about to say something, his little mouth was pinched by the emperor, and he couldn't say a word.
The emperor's face changed, and suddenly he became very stern, and his tone was also very serious.
"I say it one last time, you are not allowed to go!"
Zhao Yao didn't dare to say anything after hearing what the emperor said, but his expression was still very unconvinced, and his eyes still stared at the emperor.
The emperor patted Zhao Yao's face and ordered him to leave without politeness: "Go away."
When Zhao Yao left, he angrily grabbed the emperor's face and ran out of the imperial study room quickly.
The emperor smiled helplessly and cursed: "You bastard!"
"Your Majesty, I see that His Highness the Tenth Highness wants to go to Liangzhou to find His Highness the King of Chu. Why don't you agree with the Tenth Highness to go?" Sun Kui thought to himself, if the Emperor is not worried about the safety of His Highness Tenth, he can send someone to escort the Tenth Highness down. Besides, haven't there been secret guards secretly protecting His Highness the Tenth Prince?
The emperor said in a deep tone: "He cannot go to see the fourth child."
"Why can't you see His Highness the King of Chu?" Sun Kui didn't understand what the emperor meant.
The emperor glanced at Sun Kui and said nothing.
Sun Kui's scalp was numb at this sight. He hurriedly lowered his head to apologize and said, "This slave is too talkative. Please forgive me, Your Majesty."
The emperor withdrew his gaze, picked up the memorial that Zhao Yao had just taken away, and continued to read.
Zhao Yao failed with the emperor, so he went to Liang Concubine again. No matter how much he begged, Liang Concubine never allowed him to go to Liangzhou.
Although he had already guessed that this would be the result, Zhao Yao was still very angry.
Liang Pin knew that her son was scheming, and if he didn't agree to go, he would find a way to go by himself, so she had to threaten him.
"If you sneak away to Liangzhou behind my back, I will not recognize you as my son!"
Zhao Yao saw that Liang Bin was not joking, but was very serious. He couldn't help but froze and looked at Liang Bin blankly.
Liang Bin said in a serious tone: "I'm not joking with you."
"Mother concubine..." Zhao Yao didn't understand why Liang Bi said such words? He just wanted to go to Liangzhou to see his fourth brother, not to do anything bad. Why would the mother and concubine say such serious and scary things about denying his son?
Liang Bin said nothing and looked at Zhao Yao with a straight face.
Zhao Yao suddenly thought of something, and his face suddenly changed.
"Did something happen in Liangzhou?"
"No, His Royal Highness King Chu is fine."
"Then why are you..." Today's mother-in-law is too abnormal. He has never seen such a mother-in-law.
"I'm not worried about you going to Liangzhou." Concubine Liang softened her expression a little, "I don't need to tell you what the situation is in Beijing now. You should understand that I'm really worried about you going to Liangzhou at this time." Of course, that's not the reason.
"Mother, there is no need for you to scare me into denying my son."
"I'm not going to scare you, you won't be obedient. I don't know what your temper is." Liang Bin warned Zhao Yao again, "I'm not kidding you. If you dare to sneak away to Liangzhou, I don't want your son." .”
Zhao Yao: Something is wrong, very wrong.
"If you don't believe it, you can try it."
Zhao Yao: "..."
"Concubine, you are like this, how dare I try it." Zhao Yao asked again, "Concubine, is the fourth brother really okay?"
"fine."
Zhao Yao's face was full of suspicion: If the fourth brother's side is really fine, why is the mother-in-law's attitude so strange? Is the mother-in-law hiding something from him?
"His Royal Highness King Chu is really fine. If you don't believe me, you can go check it out."
"Then Concubine Mother, you..." Even if Concubine Mother was worried about him going to Liangzhou, she would not say such shocking words. He intuitively felt that his mother-in-law was hiding something from him, and she was not young at all. "It's not that there's something going on with Fourth Brother. Is there something going on in the capital?"
Liang Bin said: "I don't know if anything will happen in the capital, but I won't allow you to go to Liangzhou."
"Concubine, are you hiding something from me?"
Liang Bin smiled and said, "What else can I hide from you?" As she said this, she glanced at the row of sparrows standing on the windowsill.
Zhao Yao thought so, but he still felt a little abnormal.
"Okay, I just don't trust you to go to Liangzhou. There is nothing else." Liang Bin reached out and tapped Zhao Yao's forehead, "The situation in Beijing is not very good now, and the prince and the king are not interested in the king of Chu. Don’t you know what my attitude is? Do you think I can let you go to Liangzhou with confidence? "
"I'm not going."
Liang Bin was relieved when she heard what Zhao Yao said.
"After two years, you will grow up a little, and then you can go to Liangzhou."
"Okay, then I'll wait another two years." Although Zhao Yao felt weird in his heart, he didn't talk about it anymore and changed the subject to the death of the two legitimate sons of the Yuan family. Then, he talked about King Chen’s imminent death.
"Mother and concubine, does your father know about this?"
Liang Bi was slightly startled, then shook her head and said, "I didn't ask."
Zhao Yao looked at Liang Bin and opened his mouth to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything.
Seeing her son's hesitant expression, Liang Pin knew what he wanted to ask.
She smiled tenderly at Zhao Yao: "Your father and I only meet and talk to you at the end of the month. Your father and I rarely see each other on weekdays." Although they lived in the same palace, Liang Concubine and the emperor did not. Rarely meet and talk. "When your father came, I rarely asked him about the affairs of the court. After all, the harem cannot interfere in politics."
"Concubine, your father..." Zhao Yao did not say any more, but Liang Bi understood what he wanted to say, "Your father is very good to me, and I am very satisfied now."
Hearing what Liang Bin said, Zhao Yao said nothing more.
"Yao Yao, there is something you need to know. Whether your father is facing me or you, his first identity will always be the emperor, the emperor of Zhou Dynasty, and the emperor of the people. So in your father's eyes, In the emperor's heart, the country, the country, and the people are the most important." Liang Bin's tone was very solemn, "If in your father's heart, the personal relationship between his children is the first priority, then your father is sorry for the people of Zhou Dynasty."
Zhao Yao understood what Liang Bin meant and nodded gently.
"Yao Yao, in the future, when you become a king and go to Lingnan, you will put the people of Lingnan first, do you understand?"
Zhao Yao nodded obediently: "Concubine, I know."
"Your father may not be a good husband or a good father, but he is a good emperor." Liang Bi said with some pride and pride in her tone, "To be a good emperor, the first thing you have to give up is the personal relationship between your children. .If the emperor cares too much about his children's personal affairs, then the people will suffer. Your father promised your grandpa to protect and take care of the people of Zhou Dynasty, so that they will no longer live in dire straits like the people of the previous dynasty. "
She added: "In order to be a good emperor, your father gave up a lot of things and forced himself to become ruthless."
Zhao Yao complained in his heart: So what are the benefits of being an emperor?
"How your father wants to treat Prince Chen is not something you or I can interfere with."
Zhao Yao nodded and said: "Mother, I understand." He mentioned Sixth Brother's matter, not because he wanted to help Sixth Brother, but because he wanted to know his father's attitude towards Sixth Brother's upcoming murder by the Southern Wei people.
Seeing that Zhao Yao knew what she meant, Liang Bin said no more. Change the subject and talk about the fifth princess.
The fifth princess went back before giving birth and did not stay in the palace to give birth to the child. It is the greatest grace for a married princess to allow her to return to the palace to raise the baby for a few months. It is impossible for her to stay in the palace to give birth.
Before leaving the palace, the fifth princess had a big quarrel with Poppy, and the quarrel was very fierce. She even had a fetal movement and almost had an accident.
Some time ago, the fifth princess gave birth to a daughter successfully. Poppy was worried about her and kept asking Zhao Yao to visit her.
Zhao Yao visited several times and carefully inquired about the physical condition of the fifth princess. The fifth princess lost some vitality when she gave birth and needs to be replenished, but nothing else.
Concubine Liang, Poppy and the others kept sending tonics and supplements to the fifth princess, so that the fifth princess's health was well maintained.
The fifth princess's mother-in-law and husband were not dissatisfied with her giving birth to a daughter. On the contrary, they liked her very much, but the fifth princess herself did not like it.
After she was out of confinement, Zhao Yao visited her and saw that she looked unhappy, so he thought she had postpartum depression.
He learned about postpartum depression from Zhao Yao in his dream. He was worried that the fifth princess had postpartum depression and that she would do something to harm herself or the child, so he repeatedly told the fifth princess's husband to take good care of her. Unexpectedly, the fifth princess was unhappy not because of postpartum depression, but because the second princess was pregnant again. For this reason, Zhao Yao gave the fifth princess a harsh speech. As a result, the fifth princess not only did not appreciate it, but also scolded him for being nosy, which made him very angry.
"Mother, concubine, let's not interfere with Fifth Sister's affairs anymore." Zhao Yao said angrily, "If we continue to interfere, Fifth Sister will hate us to the core. Let her do whatever she wants."
"Your Concubine Yu..." Concubine Liang sighed softly, "Oh... I feel sorry for her..."
"Alas..." Zhao Yao really couldn't do anything to the fifth princess. He persuaded and scolded, but to no avail.
"You'd better go see Xiao Wu when you have time, otherwise your concubine Yu will have trouble sleeping and eating."
"Okay, I'll go see it tomorrow."
After Zhao Yao talked to Concubine Liang for a while, he returned to Xingdeok Palace.
As soon as he returned, he was called over by the Eighth Prince.
The eighth prince learned that Zhao Yao wanted to go to Liangzhou. When he saw him, he said, "Tenth brother, you can't go to Liangzhou."
Friends, I'm sorry, I came back late because I had something to do today. I didn't have time to code and update. I will update it tomorrow.
Emperor: Xiao Shi can’t go see Lao Si.
Liang Bin: I understand.
Zhao Yao: I don’t understand.
Old guys, do you understand?
Finally, I still ask for a monthly ticket!
