Start with the humble bridegroom

Chapter 324
From Yuema Street via Yujie Street to Jinshuifang, and then around the palace city, passing through the most prosperous Sanfang in Chang'an, it took an hour to complete this circle.When Zhang Zhe returned to Zhuchi Xiaoyuan, Huo Bingcheng and Jiang Shangyang were already drunk.

On September 24, the emperor temporarily returned to Chang'an. One hundred and three newly promoted scholars headed by Zhang Zhe were ordered to meet in the Longhua Hall.

One hundred and three people, all wearing blue official uniforms and wingless gauze caps, lined up amidst the distant sound of whips.

Although it is an audience, if the emperor has no special order, he is not allowed to look up at the dragon seat.Zhang Zhe stood in the first position, with sweat on his back, even he could only see a pair of dragon boots.

Sun Ge, who was standing on the side, was in charge of presiding over the entire audience. He was keenly aware that His Majesty was a little abnormal today.

Ordinarily, His Majesty should give instructions to many new Jinshi, but His Majesty just smiled and asked the internal officials to read the imperial edict.Sure enough, as in previous years, Zhang Xinzhi, Li Zhaofeng, and Chen Yuanchen, the top three, entered the Shizhong Temple. Zhang Xinzhi was the servant of the sixth rank, and Li Zhaofeng and Chen Yuanchen were the ministers of the seventh rank.

Erjia No.1 Guo Xunran and Erjia No.2 Jiang Shangyang, who were also appointed by the emperor, were the servants of the seventh rank servants.

Ten members of the second class and the top ten of the top three entered the Zhongshu Province, Dali Temple, and Yushitai to observe politics, while the rest of the top three Jinshi went to the six departments to observe politics.After these people observe politics for half a year, they will take a unified examination. The bottom ten of the top two and the top ten of the three will generally be retained as Beijing officials, while the rest will be sent to local officials.

Sun Gezheng and Li Danian looked at each other, and they realized that it was not Sanfu who announced the decree this time, but Sanfu was standing by His Majesty's side with a smile on his face, and the two assistant ministers were puzzled by this.

After Zhang Zhe led a group of Jinshi to thank him, he bowed his head and retreated out of the hall. He gathered with Jiang Shangyang and Huo Bingcheng and prepared to leave. Zhou Ziying also followed.

Just on the imperial way out of the palace, Jinshi from the same discipline were getting to know each other and greeted each other, and Zhang Xinzhi, the number one scholar in the undergraduate course, was their primary friend.After busying each other for a while, someone proposed to find a place to get together, and at this moment, an internal official came over.

"The imperial edict, Xuan Shizhong Chengzhe Zhang Zhe, Shizhong Shidu Jiang Shangyang will accompany you."

Zhang Zhe and Jiang Shangyang hurriedly saluted, and then followed in a daze.Zhang Zhe winked at Huo Bingcheng as he walked, telling him to go back and report.

Zhang Zhe was not surprised at all when he was summoned, but what surprised him was that the emperor skipped Li Zhaofeng, Chen Yuanchen and Guo Xunran, and asked Jiang Shangyang to accompany him.

The two of them followed the internal officials all the way through the palace, turning left and right, and came directly to a heavily guarded place.

This is a small palace, but it is not full of bookshelves and full of books.

Zhang Zhe guessed, could this be the Imperial Study Room?

After the internal officials retired, only the two of them were left behind.Jiang Shangyang continued to stand respectfully, while Zhang Zhe looked around.Just when Zhang Zhe was about to whisper to Jiang Xiaodi, a person turned out from behind the bookshelf.

This is an old man, wearing a python robe, with arrow sleeves around his waist, looking very casual, holding a book in his hand as if he was just flipping through it.Jiang Shangyang hurriedly bowed his head and remained silent, but Zhang Zhe, who was about to bow his head too, got stuck in his neck for a moment.

He stared blankly at the old man's smiling face, and his breathing stopped.

There are five claws on the dragon body on the python robe, this is the emperor!This is the emperor?Mr. Jiang! ! !The blue veins jumped on Zhang Zhe's head. At this moment, he felt a feeling of extreme fear. He just wanted to rush up and grab the old man and run out of the palace.

Is this kind of clothes you old man Jiang can wear? !Who could be so harmful?
The words "disaster to Chi Yu" and "scratch all over the house" swirled in front of Zhang Zhe's eyes, and he finally uttered the two words bitterly and dryly.

"real.?"

The old man chuckled, and nodded casually: "If I harm you, I won't involve my grandson."

Hearing these words, Zhang Zhe's legs softened, and he knelt down spinelessly.

Jiang Shangyang was feeling nervous because he was getting along with the emperor for the first time, and he couldn't hear the emperor's accent for a while.He was frightened to kneel when he saw Brother Xin who had always been brave, so he hurriedly knelt down too, and put his head on the ground.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Zhe poked him in despair: "Look up for yourself."

Jiang Shangyang was scared out of his wits by Zhang Zhe. Second brother, did you take the wrong medicine? Can you say such rude words?

"Your Majesty, Zhang Xinzhi probably acted impulsively after meeting the Holy Empress, please forgive me, Your Majesty!"

The python robe came in front of Jiang Shangyang, and the emperor seemed to squat down. The next second, Jiang Shangyang, who was lowering his head, was stunned because the emperor also poked him with his finger.

"Look up, what are you afraid of?"

this voice? ! !
Jiang Shangyang raised his head sharply, and came face to face with Mr. Jiang.

"grandfather!"

"Hey, grandson."

Jiang Shangyang was paralyzed by fright: "Grandfather, you are going to change your clothes soon, so you can't joke around!"

The emperor laughed: "Even your uncle, today's crown prince would not dare to ask me to take off this clothes, you are so brave, tiger!"

Zhang Zhe on the side bowed his head and said nothing, no wonder the test question he gave was the strange one he made.

Jiang Shangyang was stunned, and couldn't help hesitating to slap himself.

pain!
"It's fine if you hit him, but it's not the same if you ask him if it hurts?" The emperor pointed to Zhang Zhe with his chin.

"Grandfather, Your Majesty, I..."

Seeing Jiang Shangyang's incoherent speech, the emperor helped Jiang Shangyang up, and then kicked Zhang Zhe, indicating that this one can also get up.

The emperor felt a little unhappy when he saw the bitter expressions on both of their faces.

"Boy Zhang, we can be regarded as relatives in the future, but who do you want to show this sad look?"

Zhang Zhe hastily said that he didn't dare. In fact, he just raised the idea of ​​canceling the marriage between the third sister and Jiang Shangyang. In his opinion, being a relative with the royal family is the most troublesome thing.

"Zhang Xinzhi, write a letter as soon as you get home, telling everyone in the Gu family to come to Beijing. Huzi's marriage, I will handle it myself! Huzi stay with me, keep your mouth shut for now, and step back first. .”

When Zhang Zhe exited the imperial study room, he couldn't help but look up at Little Brother Jiang.He was also looking at Zhang Zhe eagerly. It seemed that Zhang Zhe's departure made him lose his last sense of security.

Although, the emperor in front of him is indeed his own grandfather.

"Little brother is actually the emperor's grandson? Isn't Uncle Jiang also the emperor's son?" Meng Xiaowan couldn't close her mouth in surprise after hearing the news.After Zhang Zhe returned home, he only told Meng Xiaowan about the matter, but kept it from other people, saying that Jiang Shangyang had gone to find his relatives.

After a few days, Mrs. Shentu arrived in Beijing.

On the day she arrived in Beijing, she asked He Linggu to pick up Meng Xiaowan. Meng Xiaowan was thinking of asking her master to find out about Jiang Xiaodi's situation, but she met Jiang Xiaodi's father, Uncle Jiang, in the Grand Master's Mansion.

It turned out that Mrs. Shentu was Uncle Jiang's biological mother.

He Linggu clapped her hands fearing that the world would not be chaotic: "Oh, it's messed up! Wan'er is of the same generation as the senior brother, but she recognizes the senior brother's son as her uncle, and she is still a cousin-in-law later on."

Mrs. Shentu was full of smiles, and immediately rewarded He Linggu with a pat on the head.

"What a mess, let them talk about it! I recognize the two of you as apprentices, not to give you seniority."

On September 28, an oracle came out of the palace, almost turning the whole Chang'an upside down.

The emperor made Mrs. Shentu a noble concubine, and changed the Grand Master's Mansion to Lanxiu Palace for the noble concubine to live in.Yang Zongchao, the son of the noble concubine, recognized his ancestor and returned to the clan, and was granted the title of Prince of Zhaoyang County.

On the side of Zhuchi Xiaoyuan, Zhang Zhe happened to send people from Zongzheng Temple out.

These people were ordered to write an appointment book for Gu Shuyi. After two years, the royal family will let Gu Shuyi come over to be Jiang Xiaodi's concubine.

Probably the emperor and Concubine Shentu had guessed what Zhang Zhe and his wife were thinking, and could not allow them to regret the marriage at all, so they finalized the marriage early.

The original Prince Qi's Mansion is now the Prince's Mansion of Banan County.

The plaque in the Yin'an Hall has been removed, and the plaque in the main hall is empty, not obtrusive.

But the former king of Qi, the current king of Banan County, has been kept empty.

"Is everyone here?" On the throne, Yang Zongxi, who was nearly forty years old, asked coldly.

On the first seat on the right side of the throne, Chang Shi Li Teng returned unhurriedly: "My lord, those who are supposed to come and will come are already here."

Yang Zongxi glanced at the palace, compared to when he was King Qi, the number of people willing to continue to come to his palace to discuss matters has decreased by [-]%.

The remaining ten or so people are all partisans he painstakingly managed to accept, and they can be regarded as loyal to his palace.

"There are many advantages to having more people, and there are also advantages to having fewer people!" Yang Zongxi, who had just ended the confinement, did not seem to be knocked down by a series of blows, and the light in his eyes seemed to be sharper after being deposed.

"Lu Cheng!"

A big man got up: "My lord, my subordinates!"

"How's the investigation on the incident in Jiangling? Is it the work of the crown prince?"

What Yang Zongxi was asking about was the case of "he colluded with King Han in Southern Wu", which was also the source of his misfortune.

"Returning to the prince," the big man said with shame on his face, "Luanyiwei's hands are too clean, and there are almost no insiders left. The subordinates came into contact with some people, but they almost alarmed Luanyiwei, so they had to withdraw their hands temporarily. In a few days, this subordinate will go to Jiangling again, and he will definitely avenge the prince."

Yang Zongxian shook his head: "There's no need to go, that's the territory of the father and the crown prince. If you go, I'm afraid there are countless nets waiting for you to make mistakes."

He turned to look at a man in casual clothes.

"Master Luo, how about the household department? Our people can still use it?"

The man known as Mr. Luo nodded confidently: "Don't worry, my lord. The man's main room only has a daughter, but the outer room has a son. Now the outer room and his son are in our hands. Don't be afraid of him." Disobedient. Besides, what we want him to do is not a big deal on the surface."

"Don't be careless," Yang Zongxi pointed out to this person, "This person is now supervising the food and grass in Xuehou's army, and our turnaround is all on him!"

Master Luo hurriedly nodded in agreement.

Yang Zongxian looked at Lu Cheng again: "Old Lu, go to Qing County, find him, and do as we discussed before."

Lu Cheng immediately grinned: "Don't worry, my lord, there are a few lines of conversation between the little one and Dai Guo, you just wait for the news of Xuehou's defeat!"

Chang Shi Li Teng just averted his eyes from the faces of the people present, and nodded secretly at Yang Zong.

Yang Zongxian received Li Teng's signal and clapped his hands.

The door of the palace was suddenly pushed open, and two warriors carried a gagged man in.

"Hey, isn't this Manager He? My lord, but what did he do?"

Yang Zongxi didn't say anything himself, but it was Lu Cheng who spoke for him.

"Our Manager He actually imitated the real man and raised a small house outside. He went back and forth to save money, so he sold some things in the house as news to outsiders."

Director He looked at his master in horror, desperately trying to speak, but unfortunately his hands were tied.

Lu Cheng looked at Yang Zongxian, saw him nodding, and clapped his hands: "Bring it up!"

The door opened again, and two palace warriors walked in carrying a wriggling sack, and threw it beside Mr. He.

"You're a little one, but you belong to the King of Linsi," Lu Cheng sneered, "Today I'll let you be a pair of mandarin duck ghosts! Drag it down and bury it!"

Seeing Director He and the woman being dragged away, there was silence in the hall, and everyone knew that the county king was killing chickens and scaring monkeys.

Li Teng laughed: "By the way, the prince invited everyone here today, and he also wanted everyone to discuss the eighth master, who is the seed of the Shentu family!"

"What are you talking about? This great-grandson has already been established," someone said indifferently, "Even if His Majesty likes this new son, the Datong will lose his share."

Li Teng began to guide everyone's thinking: "That's what I said, but if this eighth master is different from others after all, then he is the son of a noble concubine, and now Concubine Chen, who is in charge of the harem, is just a concubine. If it is on this master Think hard, I'm afraid our crown prince won't be able to sleep well."

Among the people present, there were those who could see clearly and did not take Li Teng's thoughts seriously.

"This noble concubine Shentu sees it very clearly. Otherwise, why did she agree to take over the position of noble concubine after she became a grandson? I heard that the marriage contracted by the prince of Zhaoyang County is a woman from a private family. The one in Zongzheng Temple Bian just recorded a disc, if there is a little bit of thought over there, he would not be in a hurry to order the marriage of Dumiao! Obviously Wansui and the imperial concubine are guarding against people making fuss here, so we may not be able to take the initiative to send it up. wonderful."

Yang Zongxi smiled and applauded this man.

"My lord Zhao is the clearest in seeing things." He praised first, but then sneered, "Father is naturally waiting for someone to jump into this trap. I thought, since the fourth child cares so much about the affairs of the palace, Why don't you let the fourth brother provoke my eighth brother. What do you think?"

Seeing that Li Teng and Zhao Guo both nodded, everyone agreed with the idea.Under the command of the former King of Qi, Li Teng had always been the planner and Zhao Guo was the judge.

Everyone in Banan County's palace discussed matters until dark. After Zhao Guo left the palace, he quickly returned to the palace from the back door of the palace. Yang Zongxi and Li Teng were waiting for him in the study.

"How?" Li Teng asked impatiently as soon as Zhao Guo sat down.

"My lord," Zhao Guo said in a deep voice, "I'm afraid this Lu Cheng can't stay. According to what my subordinates see, there are nine out of ten he is the sixth lord's man."

"Hey," Li Teng sneered, "this plan will definitely let the sixth master know how powerful my palace is, and that he has plotted with foreign countries to murder bad generals. I don't believe that the king of Taining can handle such a big matter. Hold on! As long as he exposes the prince, we can reveal the fact that the sixth master has placed spies in various mansions. At that time, the Jiangling pot can also be put on the sixth master. Our prince is actually framed by the sixth master. .”

Zhao Guo suddenly smiled: "This matter has finally been clarified. After the prince is picked out, it is not impossible to continue to do the matter of defeating Xue Hou."

(End of this chapter)