The ministers begged me to ascend the throne

Chapter 269 The Harmful Huns
At the beginning of Mao Shi, Zhao Yao was woken up by Tong Xi on time.

At this time, the sky is not yet bright.

Zhao Yao sat up, yawned, and stretched with his arms raised.He heard the sound of pattering rain outside the window, yawned and asked, "Is it raining outside?"

Tong Xi brought Zhao Yao a cup of warm water, and brought it to Zhao Yao respectfully with both hands.

"It's not too small."

"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 to drink a glass of warm water.

"It seems to be from Yinshi." Tong Xi said, and took out a cloak from the cabinet, "Your Highness, it's not only raining outside, but also windy, you have to wear this cloak when you go to Wende Hall later, Save yourself the wind."

When it came to the matter of going to the Wende Hall to study, Zhao Yao's handsome face suddenly collapsed.

"Now I am studying alone, why do I have to go to Wende Palace to study, why can't I teach me to read in Xingde Palace?" Now only the prince Zhao Yao is studying in Xingde Palace, and the other princes have grown up and are no longer in Xingde Palace. Reading in Wende Palace.

It's not right to say that, among the ten princes, there are three princes who are not of age.The Eighth Prince has come of age this year, but his birthday has not yet come, so he is not considered an adult yet.The Ninth Prince is not yet an adult, but he joined the army three years ago, and now he is not only not in the palace, but also not in the capital.

Although the Eighth Prince is not yet an adult, since last year, he has not been studying in the Wende Palace, but went to court with the Prince.Therefore, among the princes, Zhao Yao was the only one studying.

"Your Highness, didn't the Emperor say that Wende Palace is a place to study, and princes and grandchildren must go to Wende Palace to study, so you can't be lazy." Tong Xi said while helping Zhao Yao get dressed, "Your Highness, You don’t have to go to Wende Hall to study for a few more years.”

"I have to wait at least four or five years before I can graduate from Wende Palace." Zhao Yao said with a bitter face, "Mynah and the others have grown up, but I have not grown up, alas, I am so pitiful "Why couldn't the mother concubine give birth to him a few years earlier, so that he and the mynah could become king together as adults.

"Your Highness, if you feel that you are lonely studying alone, next year His Royal Highness will accompany you to study." Tong Xi said that His Royal Highness is the eldest son of His Royal Highness, and he will go to the Wende Palace next year to be enlightened to study.

Zhao Yao raised his foot and kicked Tong Xi's ass, and said angrily, "Do I need a kid to accompany me?"

"Your Highness, don't you usually like His Royal Highness?" Tong Xi said to Zhao Yao with a smile while rubbing his buttocks, "With His Royal Highness accompanying you to study, you also have someone to talk to, right? "

"I really like Tuanzi, but when I think of sitting in the same classroom with Tuanzi, I feel awkward." Alas, he has been reduced to studying with his nephew, which is really miserable.

"Your Highness, His Highness Huangsun reads different books from yours. What are you afraid of?" Tong Xi joked deliberately, "You are still afraid of being compared by His Highness Huangsun."

"I'm really not as good as him." Zhao Yao said very self-aware, "Tuanzi can already recite "The Analects of Confucius" and "Mencius" now. I had to study for a long time before I could recite "The Analects of Confucius."

"Your Highness, it's because you don't want to memorize it. If you wanted to memorize it, you would have recited it long ago." Tong Xi has been with Zhao Yao for so many years, but he doesn't know that His Highness has been pretending to be stupid.

"I don't like endorsements." Zhao Yao put on his clothes and went to the ear room next door to wash.

Tong Xi took the toothbrush and dipped it in tooth powder, then handed it to Zhao Yao.

Zhao Yao took the toothbrush and brushed his teeth with his head down.

Two things, toothbrush and tooth powder, were created by Zhao Yao a few years ago.Now it has become popular not only in many places in Dazhou, but also in countries in the Western Regions.

Of course, the Liang family sold the toothbrush and tooth powder first.The Liang family later sold toothbrushes and tooth powder to countries in the Western Regions, and they were very popular among people in the Western Regions.Not to mention other things, just talking about these two things made the Liang family earn a lot of money in the Western Regions.

The Liang family's shops have opened all over the Western Regions.However, Liang's firm is not the number one firm in the Western Regions.Although the Liang family grabbed the first piece of business in the Western Regions first, the Liang family could not compete with the aristocratic family.

Seeing that the Liang family had made a lot of money doing business in the Western Regions, the aristocratic families immediately followed suit.The powerful family has a lot of money and a lot of people. Not long after they went to the Western Regions, they became the No. [-] or No. [-] or No. [-] business firms in the Western Regions.

Although the aristocratic families didn't take the Liang family seriously, they didn't make things difficult for the Liang family because they were imperial merchants.Furthermore, the Liang family is also very smart and witty, and never competes with powerful families for business.

The Liang family is not as good as the aristocratic families, but the Liang family's business is still very good.Over the years, he has been making a fortune silently.

After Zhao Yao washed up, the people from the small kitchen brought over the prepared breakfast.

A year ago, Zhao Yao had just moved into Xingde Palace, and he lived in the former house of the Fourth Prince.

Zhao Yao is a half-grown kid now, he can eat very well, and he eats a lot for breakfast every day.Today's breakfast includes a drawer of siu mai, two bowls of meat porridge, two steamed buns, two meat buns, two sesame cakes, two boiled eggs and a bowl of goat milk.

Even though he ate so much for breakfast, he was hungry before noon, so milk tea and snacks were prepared for him in the small kitchen.When he was resting, Tong Xi took some snacks from the small kitchen and sent them to Wende Hall for him.

Seeing that the rain outside was getting heavier and heavier, Tong Xi hurriedly took out a coir raincoat and put it on Zhao Yao.

Seeing that it was raining heavily outside, Zhao Yao didn't want to go to the Wende Hall to study: "It's raining so hard, why don't you go to the Wende Hall to ask for leave, maybe the master will agree."

"Your Highness, give up. Unless you have a knife in this world, you must go to study." Tong Xi ignored Zhao Yao's words and put on his coir raincoat. "Your Highness, we have to leave quickly, or we will be late for studying. The first class today is Mr. Xiao's class. If you are late, Mr. Xiao will hit you."

"Mr. Xiao won't hit my palm." Zhao Yao said proudly, "He is also reluctant to hit me as an old man."

"Then you can't rely on Mr. Xiao to love you, be late."

"Okay, I get it." Zhao Yao waved his hand and told Tong Xi to step aside, and he tied up his coir raincoat by himself.

Tong Xi took the book Zhao Yao was going to read today, held an umbrella and followed Zhao Yao out.

The Qingming Festival has passed, but it rains from time to time in the capital, making the weather that has finally warmed up become gloomy and 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 a smiling face: "Morning, starling."

"Morning, tenth brother." Seeing that Zhao Yao was wearing a coir raincoat, the eighth prince felt relieved. "I saw that it was raining this morning, so I didn't ask you to have breakfast in my room."

On weekdays, Zhao Yao went to the Eighth Prince for breakfast and dinner.For lunch, Zhao Yao will go to the Kunde Palace to eat with Concubine Liang.

"Brother, without me having breakfast with you, you must have no appetite, you haven't eaten much."

Yu Hai, who was following the Eighth Prince, said: "Your Majesty the Tenth Prince, you are 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."

"Brother, I knew you wouldn't have a good meal without me." Zhao Yao looked at the thin body of the Eighth Prince, and shook his head bitterly, "Brother, I didn't mean you, you look thin It’s like a bamboo pole, a strong wind can blow you away.” In the past few years, he has been forcing mynah to eat more, but mynah still has a small bird’s stomach and can’t eat much.

"It's not as exaggerated as you said." The Eighth Prince laughed, "I'm not as thin as a bamboo pole."

"Almost there."

"I see that you eat a lot on weekdays, and I haven't seen you gain weight." The eighth prince teased Zhao Yao, "You are not much fatter than me."

"Brother, I'm growing my body now, no matter how much I eat, I won't get fat, because I want to grow." Zhao Yao stretched out his hand and gestured for the height of him and the eighth prince, "Brother, after a while, I will grow up." He's taller than you." Zhao Yao is now only half a head shorter than the Eighth Prince. "Brother, if you don't eat well, you will become the shortest of our brothers."

The Eighth Prince didn't care about this, and said in a nonchalant tone: "I don't need to be so tall, the shortest is the shortest."

When Zhao Yao heard what the eighth prince said, a very speechless expression appeared on his face.

"Brother, do you even care that you are the shortest?"

The Eighth Prince squinted at Zhao Yao and said, "Why do you care?"

"Brother, 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. "Brother, a man who is seven feet tall is a real man. You and I don't even have six feet now, so you don't care."

"If you are less than seven feet long, you are not a man?" The eighth prince didn't know why Zhao Yao cared so much about his height, "Your starling, I am not a man, am I a woman?"

Zhao Yao said silently in his heart: Myna, if you look at your appearance, everyone will think you are a woman.

The Eighth Prince, who was about to grow up, had opened up his facial features, and his appearance became more and more outstanding.However, because of his thin body and a face that is whiter than a woman's, his eyebrows are more feminine.

"Although I'm not six feet tall, I'm not the shortest in the court." The eighth prince didn't think he was short, and compared with the ministers in the court, he was still tall.Of course, compared with the princes, he is indeed the shortest.

The Zhao family are all tall.The first emperor had six feet, and the emperor had seven feet.

Most of the court ministers were less than six feet tall, and even many generals were less than six or seven feet tall, about the same height as him.

"Brother, but you are the shortest in our old Zhao family." Zhao Yao urged the Eighth Prince to say, "Brother, in fact, you can grow taller, but you have to eat more."

Hearing Zhao Yao's last words, the Eighth Prince knew Zhao Yao's purpose of calling him short, and couldn't help laughing: "Tenth brother, you really took great pains to make me eat more."

"It's a pity, starling, you ignore my painstaking efforts." Zhao Yao showed a hurt look on his face, "In order to let starling eat more, I really tried my best, but you... oh..."

The eighth prince smiled and said: "I want to eat more too, but unfortunately I can't. Whenever I eat too much, I feel sick." For so many years, the imperial physician has been taking care of the eighth prince's stomach, but it has not completely healed the stomach.Although it's not like the cold sweat that often hurts when I was a child, I can't eat too much. If I eat a little too much, my stomach will feel uncomfortable.

"Mynah, 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 pigs can't eat so much."

"Brother, if you can grow as fat as a pig, then thank God."

The eighth prince reached out and knocked the straw hat on Zhao Yao's head.

The two brothers talked as they walked, and soon arrived at Wende Hall.

The Eighth Prince sent Zhao Yao to Wende Hall, and then turned to Chengguang Hall.

Not long after Zhao Yao sat down, Mr. Xiao walked in with a book.

Mr. Xiao was not in a hurry to teach Zhao Yao, but chatted with Zhao Yao first.After chatting for a while, Mr. Xiao gave Zhao Yao a class.

On the other side, the Eighth Prince went to court not long after he arrived at Chengguang Hall.

The eighth prince was not crowned king, nor did he have any official position.However, because he is the prince, he stood behind His Royal Highness.

As for the other princes.His Royal Highness Dai Wang continued to stay in the capital for the past few years and did not go to his fief Jizhou.The third prince originally wanted to stay in the capital forever, but was driven to his fief Jiaozhou by the emperor two years ago.

The fifth and sixth princes became queens as adults, and they immediately went to the fief just 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 has also become an adult, but he did not go to the fief, but stayed in the capital, staying because of his poor health.

A few years ago, the Seventh Prince was participating in an autumn hunt, and fell off his horse 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 of his poor health, he didn't have any official position in the court, so he was an idle prince.

The Ninth Prince is currently a sixth-rank young general in the Forbidden Army camp outside the capital.

There is a big event in the morning court today, that is, Xin Modun Shanyu is about to send an envoy to Dazhou.

Since the end of last year, the northern border has not been peaceful. From time to time, a group of Huns came to harass the northern border, making the people in the northern border uneasy.

Of course, Da Zhou couldn't let the Xiongnu continue to harass the northern border, so he sent troops to exterminate them. As a result, these Huns were as inflexible as loaches, and they couldn't catch them at all.

The emperor wrote a letter asking Xin Modun Chanyu what he wanted to do. Xin Modun Shanyu said he didn't know about it, and he didn't send anyone to disturb Da Zhou.

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 Huns royal court.

The emperor naturally did not believe Xin Modun Shanyu's words.He knew in his heart that this was Xin Maodun Chanyu testing Da Zhou.The emperor strongly stated that if the Huns did not give Da Zhou an explanation, then Da Zhou would seek justice by himself.

Seeing that the Emperor Da Zhou was so tyrannical, Xin Mao Dun Shanyu felt a little uncertain, and hurriedly said that he would send people to catch these bandits, and then send them to Da Zhou to let the Emperor Da Zhou deal with them.

As a result, the Huns came to envoy to come to Dazhou.

The emperor and ministers all knew that the purpose of the Huns sending envoys to Da Zhou was to investigate the real situation of Da Zhou. Not only could they not take it lightly, but they also had to deter the Huns.

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