The winter solstice has arrived.
In the Sui Dynasty, it was said that the winter solstice was as important as the new year, so this day was a very important festival.
According to the etiquette of the Sui Dynasty, all civil and military officials would enter the palace to pay homage to the two saints on this day.
After the court meeting, you still need to go to the East Palace to greet His Highness the Crown Prince.
Yang Ming now holds the title of Prince of Hedong County and is nominally one of the hundred officials, so he has to go.
Last time, the guy named Zhao Yichen from the East Palace came to remind Yang Ming and asked him to take Chen Shuyi with him when he went to pay homage to the Crown Prince during the winter solstice.
"How's it going? Are you going?" Yang Ming finished dressing and looked at Ms. Chen with a smile.
Chen Shuyi said angrily: "I am your female officer, I will go if you ask me to."
"Why are you so good this time?" Yang Ming said with a smile, "Just stay in the palace."
Chen Shuyi pouted playfully, helped Yang Ming onto the sedan and drove him out: "If he asks, how will you reply?"
Yang Ming waved his hand indifferently: "I just said you have diarrhea and can't get out of bed."
Chen Shuyi: "-_-||"
.......
The audience ceremony was not complicated, but very boring. It was just kneeling in the square in front of the emperor and following the ceremony officer to shout long live and congratulations over and over again.
None of the four princes of Jin, Qin, Shu, and Han were in Beijing, so Yang Ming, the prince of the county, knelt at the forefront of the Yang family clan, together with King Yang Xiong of Guangping, King Yang Shuang of Wei, King Yang Hong of Hejian, and others. The descendants of the clan are together.
After kneeling for two full hours, the ceremony was finally over.
Then, all the civil and military officials went to the East Palace to congratulate Prince Yang Yong.
After the congratulatory gift was completed, all the ministers, including the clan, clung to Yang Yong like shit plaster and fawned over him.
And Yang Yong was also in high spirits. He took his officials to enjoy the lake and gardens. Those who didn't know it thought he had already ascended the throne.
This scene made Prince Xima Li Gang very angry. He felt that the Prince was a bit too high-profile. It was obviously a congratulatory gift, but the ceremony was as grand as an audience ceremony.
Meetings and congratulations are different.
But Yang Ming was quite happy, because a banquet was held in the East Palace, the meat was fragrant and the wine was fragrant, music was playing, and it was very lively.
Yang Ming kept his father's teachings in mind, and as soon as the gifts were finished, he ran to pay his respects to the Crown Princess Yuan Zhen.
Concubine Yuan didn't like the excitement, so she sat in the pavilion by the lake to hide in peace and quiet, and stay away from the disturbance of the officials.
"My nephew Yang Ming, I would like to pay my respects to my aunt," Yang Ming neatly knelt down outside the pavilion and kowtowed twice.
The pale Concubine Yuan, after seeing Yang Ming, a long-lost smile overflowed from the corner of her mouth and she hurriedly waved:
"Silly boy, the ground is cold, get up and come here quickly."
Yang Ming stepped forward with a smile, and was pulled into her arms by Concubine Yuan. A dried fruit was stuffed into her mouth.
"Qilin'er hasn't come to visit me for a long time. Have you almost forgotten about my aunt? Oh my, you've grown a lot taller and your body is very strong..."
Concubine Yuan's intimacy with Yang Ming was sincere.
She had a very good relationship with Empress Dugu, so Yang Ming was often played with by Concubine Yuan when he was a child.
At this time, Concubine Yuan looked haggard and her face was as white as paper. It was obvious at a glance that she had serious deficiencies.
This is a poor woman. Due to the extremely disharmonious relationship between husband and wife, Concubine Yuan, who was already weak in character, has psychological problems and her body is deteriorating.
According to historical records, she was about to die of illness in one year, the nineteenth year of the founding of the Emperor.
Concubine Yuan was born into the Yuan family, a descendant of the clan of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and one of the six powerful lords in the Sui Dynasty today. Her original surname was Tuoba.
In order to complete the great integration of Han and Hu in the Northern Wei Dynasty, Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty ordered to change the compound surname of Xianbei to the single-yin Han surname Yuan, and changed the Ba family to the Changsun family, the Dugu family to the Liu family, and the He Lou family to the Lou family...
Later, in northern China, many Han people actually had Xianbei ancestry. The Tuoba royal family's initiative to give in to the Han people created the most successful Han-Hu fusion in Chinese history.
Such a tough natal family background still failed to win the serious treatment of the prince Yang Yong. The couple had been married for nearly 20 years, but they did not have a son and a half daughters.
Queen Dugu asked the hospital to help her many times. It turns out that Concubine Yuan can have children, and it turns out that Yang Yong can also have children, but there is no relationship between them. This is the biggest reason why Queen Dugu hates Yang Yong - he has no legitimate son.
Concubine Yuan was very happy to see Yang Ming, with a long-lost rosy color on her face. She asked about her welfare and chatted with Yang Ming for a long time. Finally, she returned to the inner palace because her body was too weak to withstand the long-term wind and cold.
Yang Ming thought he could sneak away, but he was stopped by someone sent by Yang Yong.
Zhao Yichen led Yang Ming to a side hall, where a slightly tired Yang Yong was sitting alone drinking tea.
"I said, nephew, you are not a very particular person."
Yang Ming pretended to be stupid and said: "As my uncle said, my nephew is definitely a very particular person."
Yang Yong snorted coldly: "Where is she? Why didn't she bring her?"
"To be honest, uncle, she has disappeared..."
"puff!"
Before Yang Ming finished speaking, Yang Yong sprayed a mouthful of hot tea directly on Yang Ming's face and said in shock:
"Such a beautiful woman still has diarrhea?"
"That's not true," Yang Ming wiped the water stains on his face and said, "Maybe I had a bad stomach and had diarrhea for two days, which made my Yuehua Palace stink."
Yang Yong suddenly looked disgusted, as if the fragrant tea in his hand smelled of feces and urine.
"I heard someone say that Yu Wen Yumin is actually the old Princess Chen? Chen Shubao's legitimate daughter?"
Yang Ming said: "Uncle, who did you listen to? Why doesn't my nephew know?"
"Young lady, you are pretending!" Yang Yong said angrily, "You think I didn't know about you going to find Chen Shubao?"
Yang Ming was surprised: "Uncle, are you following me?"
"Ahem..." Yang Yong said awkwardly: "Don't say it so harshly. It's just someone who happened to see it. Chen Shubao's daughter being a concubine for Gu is not an insult to him. Let's do it tomorrow, tomorrow You bring her here, uncle, your benefit will be indispensable here."
"That won't work!" Yang Ming said with a slumped face: "She is mine, the female official of Yuehua Palace appointed by my grandmother. Uncle, you have no shortage of women, so why do you care about your eldest nephew?"
Yang Ming had already guessed in his heart that a large part of the reason why Yang Yong wanted to take Chen Shuyi as his own was because he knew Chen Shuyi's identity.
Bringing Chen Shuyi into the East Palace can play a role in making good friends with the Jiangnan nobles, which can dilute the father's influence on Jiangnan.
You're thinking shit!
Yang Yong narrowed his eyes and said sternly: "You are getting more and more outrageous. Don't think that because your father, the emperor and your mother are supporting you, you can act arrogantly in front of me. I'll beat you. It's only natural and right."
I'm willing to risk everything. If you don't hit me today, you won't be able to do anything! ...Yang Ming gritted his teeth: "Then you fight."
"Hey! Isn't it a slap in the face?" Yang Yong rolled up his sleeves, stepped forward and picked up Yang Ming, just like a few big mouths...
"Pa bang bang..."
"Oh oh oh oh..."
"Stop, don't fight anymore!" Prince Xi Ma Li Gang, who happened to be passing by, heard the screams coming from the palace and was about to break open the door to stop him, but was stopped by Zhao Yichen.
The latter smiled sinisterly and said: "Master Li, wait a minute. It is only natural for elders to teach younger generations. It seems that Master Li is not qualified to take care of the prince's family affairs, right?"
Of course, Li Gang couldn't get rid of Zhao Yichen's obstruction despite his age. He blew his beard angrily and glared:
"You idiot! Your Highness can't fight."
