The ministers begged me to ascend the throne

In Xingde Palace, after listening to Sun Doudou's words, Zhao Yao showed surprise, pointed at himself, and asked again in disbelief: "Are you sure Mr. Meng wants to see me?"

Seeing that Zhao Yao still looked unbelievable, Sun Doudou told Zhao Yao again in a very firm tone.

"Your Highness, Old Mr. Meng really wants to see you, and he wants to see you by name. The servant did not make a mistake."

Zhao Yao looked shocked and said, "Why does Mr. Meng want to see me? What can I see?"

"Your Highness, this servant just told you that Mr. Meng would like to thank you for benefiting the common people and scholars..." Sun Doudou had no choice but to say what he had just said to Zhao Yao again.

Before, Zhao Yao didn't listen carefully to Sun Doudou's words.He was dumbfounded when he heard Sun Doudou say that Mr. Meng wanted to see him, but he didn't listen to what Sun Doudou said later.Now, after hearing what Sun Doudou said, he was still very surprised.

"Just because I made printing and new paper, and Qu Yuanli, Mr. Meng wants to see me and thank me in person?" Zhao Yao's mood was a bit complicated.

"Yes, Your Highness." Sun Doudou continued, "The emperor said that it was early morning, and asked you to follow him to see Mr. Meng."

"I see."

Tong Xi sends Sun Doudou away.

Sun Doudou knew that he would go to Lingnan with Zhao Yao in the future, and he was already half of Zhao Yao's person, so he was very concerned about Zhao Yao's affairs.He was very polite to Tong Xi.

Tong Xi had always liked Sun Doudou. As Sun Kui's apprentice, he served in the Chengguang Hall. He was considered a celebrity around the emperor, but he never bullied others. On the contrary, he was kind and humorous.Most of the eunuchs in the palace like Sun Doudou very much.

"Brother Doudou, did Mr. Meng really see His Highness because of the things His Highness made?"

"Really." Sun Doudou knew what Tong Xi was worried about, and smiled at him reassuringly, "Don't worry, Your Highness will be fine."

Hearing what Sun Doudou said, Tong Xi was relieved.He suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly asked: "Apart from His Highness, are there any other Highnesses going down, are His Highness the Crown Prince and His Highness Daiwang going?"

"No, Mr. Meng only wants to see His Highness the Tenth Highness, not His Highness the Crown Prince and the Daiwang." Sun Doudou said with a smile, "Mr. Meng wants to see His Highness the Tenth Highness because our Tenth Highness is great and has done so many good things that benefit the country and the people. The emperor praised Mr. Meng for his unique insight."

"My Highness is already powerful."

Tong Xi and Sun Doudou laughed at each other while talking.

Sun Doudou wanted to go back to Chengguangdian, so he didn't have a long chat with Tong Xi.Before leaving, let Tong Xi and Zhao Yao give 120 hearts.

After Tong Xi returned to the house, he told Zhao Yao exactly what Sun Doudou had said to him.

"I'm afraid that the prince's elder brother and Dai Wang will be jealous of me." This is what Zhao Yao is most worried about.Old Mr. Meng didn't want to see His Highness the Crown Prince and His Highness Dai Wang, but he was willing to see him, the unfavored Tenth Prince.

"Ah, then, Your Highness, aren't you in danger?" Tong Xi was full of worry and uneasiness, "What should I do, why don't you go?"

"If I don't want to see it, I can't see it. Father will definitely not agree." Zhao Yao thought for a while, and most of the worries in his heart disappeared instantly. "The prince and the king may not be jealous of me. If it were the fourth brother or the seventh brother who was named by Mr. Meng, the prince and the king would definitely be very dissatisfied."

"Your Highness, do you mean that you may not be in trouble if you go to see Mr. Meng?"

"Well, there shouldn't be anything wrong. After all, I'm still a child, and I'm still an unfavored, powerless prince. If the prince brother and the others are really jealous of me, then they would be too out of place."

"Your Highness, you are right to say that." Tong Xi's worries immediately dissipated.

"It's just that I really didn't expect that Mr. Meng would want to see me." Zhao Yao said flattered.

"As expected of Mr. Meng, you are different from ordinary people. You can tell at a glance that the things you make are good things, Your Highness."

Zhao Yao curled his lips and said, "I hope he is like everyone else." Before going to Lingnan as an adult, he didn't want to be too famous.As the saying goes, people are afraid of being famous and pigs are afraid of being strong.If he is too famous, he might be coveted by people with ulterior motives before he becomes a king as an adult.

"Your Highness, do you think Mr. Meng will accept you as a student?" Tong Xi said, his expression became agitated, "Your Highness, if you become Mr. Meng's student, then you will send it..."

Before he could finish his words, Zhao Yao slapped his head hard.

"What crazy words are you talking about? If I become Mr. Meng's student, then I will be finished."

"Your Highness, it's not enough." Tong Xi felt that Zhao Yao was overly worried, "I think there is nothing wrong with you becoming Mr. Meng's student."

Zhao Yao shook his head and said, "You don't understand. However, Mr. Meng is unlikely to accept me as an apprentice. After all, I don't have any literary talents." He has never written famous articles or poems. "Besides, I don't like reading, and I don't even like learning. Take me as an apprentice or let me go."

"That's right, Your Highness, you hate writing articles and poems the most." After Tong Xi finished speaking, he thought of Sun Doudou, and hurriedly asked Zhao Yao, "Your Highness, when you become king, little Eunuch Sun really wants to go to Lingnan with us."

When Zhao Yao heard Tong Xi's words, he narrowed his eyes slightly, and an unknown light flashed across his eyes.

"Your Highness, why did the emperor send little Eunuch Sun to go to Lingnan with you?" Tong Xi was not worried that Sun Doudou would take his position as personal eunuch in the future, he just felt strange.Sun Doudou is Sun Kui's apprentice, and he is the only apprentice. Sun Doudou will definitely inherit Sun Kui's mantle in the future.He didn't understand why the emperor sent Sun Doudou to follow Zhao Yao?To be honest, going to Lingnan with His Highness, there is no future in staying in the palace.

"Who knows." Zhao Yao had several thoughts in his mind, but he didn't have that one. "Sun Doudou is very clever in his work. If he really goes to Lingnan with us in the future, it may be very useful."

"That's true." Tong Xi didn't think too much about it.

"I'll go to myna." Zhao Yao was a little worried about the Eighth Prince's health.

When Zhao Yao arrived, the Eighth Prince had just finished drinking the medicine.

"Myna, how are you feeling?"

"I'm fine. The imperial doctor said that if you drink two more medicines, you won't cough anymore." The eighth prince asked, "What does Sun Doudou want you for?"

"Oh, he came to tell me that my father will take me to see Mr. Meng after he leaves court tomorrow."

"What?" The eighth prince looked shocked, "Father wants to take you to see Mr. Meng, what's going on?"

Zhao Yao told the Eighth Prince what Sun Doudou said to him.

After the eighth prince heard it, he felt relieved.

"So that's the case." Mr. Meng is worthy of being a great Confucian in the world, and he knows very well the effect of the things made by the tenth brother on the country and society. "Meng Lao deserves to be Meng Lao."

Zhao Yao showed fear on his face, and asked: "Brother, Mr. Meng only sees me, will this make the prince brother and the others unhappy?"

The eighth prince smiled gently at Zhao Yao, and comforted him gently: "No. You can go to see Mr. Meng with your father at ease."

"Really not?" Zhao Yao scratched his face and said, "I'm not good at reading, Mr. Meng only sees me, not the prince brother and Dai Wang."

"No, Mr. Meng met you because of the things you made, not because you are good at studying." The eighth prince said again, "Besides, you are still a child, so it is most appropriate to go to see Mr. Meng." Among the brothers, except for the tenth brother who will go to see Mr. Meng will be fine, and the others will definitely cause quite a commotion if they go to see Mr. Meng.

Zhao Yao pretended to be comforted by the eighth prince's last words, and the fear and anxiety on his face disappeared instantly.

"Then I'm not afraid anymore."

"With me here, what are you afraid of." The eighth prince felt a little distressed.Although the tenth brother is still a child, the tenth brother has learned more or less in the past two years.He still doesn't understand these things, but with his intuition, he senses some danger, so he will be frightened and disturbed.

Zhao Yao nodded vigorously and said, "With myna here, I'm not afraid."

"Don't be rude when you go to see Mr. Meng tomorrow..." The Eighth Prince was afraid that Zhao Yao would be nervous and scared when he saw Mr. Meng, so he seriously told him what to do and what to say when he saw Mr. Meng.

Zhao Yao listened very carefully.

"Remember?"

Zhao Yao nodded and said, "Remember."

Seeing Zhao Yao's strange expression, the Eighth Prince hurriedly asked with concern: "What's wrong?"

"Brother, why does Mr. Meng want to thank me? He is a great Confucian?" Zhao Yao said shyly, "Besides, no one has ever thanked me."

The Eighth Prince felt a dull pain in his heart when he heard this.

Just because the tenth brother is not favored and has no powerful mother clan, the court ministers ignore the effects of these things he made.In the folk, the common people are full of gratitude for these things made by the tenth brother.The tenth brother is very famous among the people, but he has no status in the court.

"Tenth brother, I told you that the things you made are amazing, and the common people are very grateful to you."

"is it?"

"The Quyuanli you made has greatly increased the grain output in many places, and the common people are full of praise for you." The eighth prince felt sorry for Zhao Yao very much, and he deliberately teased Zhao Yao, "The common people praise you as a genius."

"Hey hey..." Zhao Yao couldn't help laughing smugly, "I'm not that good either."

"Tenth brother, you are not good at reading, but you are very good at what you do. In the future, you still have to do more things that benefit the people."

"Brother, I see." After Zhao Yao finished speaking, he remembered that it would be the eighth prince's birthday in a while, and the eighth prince would be crowned king by then. "Brother, did the prince brother tell the father to let you stay in the capital instead of fiefdom?"

"Didn't I tell you about it?"

"Ah, mynah, when did you tell me?"

The eighth prince apologized and smiled at Zhao Yao: "I forgot to tell you, the eldest brother has already told the father, and the father agrees that I stay in the capital."

Zhao Yao said happily: "That's great, so I don't have to be separated from you, starling."

Seeing that Zhao Yao was so happy that he stayed, the Eighth Prince unconsciously showed a smile.

"Why, don't you want me to go?"

"Very reluctant." Zhao Yao really didn't want to be separated from the Eighth Prince.Since King Chu went to Liangzhou, the relationship between Zhao Yao and the eighth prince has become better and better.Over the years, the two brothers have been inseparable and have never been separated. "Brother, if you go to the fiefdom, I will really be left alone." At that time, he will become a loner.

"Don't worry, you won't be left alone." The reason why the Eighth Prince wants to stay in the capital is, on the one hand, to stay with the prince and plan his affairs.On the other hand, he was reluctant to part with Zhao Yao, his younger brother.If he went to the fiefdom, there would be no one in the palace to protect the tenth brother.

"I knew that starling was the best to me." Zhao Yao stood up and ran to the side of the eighth prince, stretched out his arms to hug the eighth prince, and rubbed his face against the eighth prince's face. "My favorite starling."

The Eighth Prince raised his hand and patted Zhao Yao's butt, and scolded with a smile: "Little sycophant."

Zhao Yao sat back again, and asked curiously: "Brother, although you stay in the capital, what about your fiefdom, did the prince brother hear about your fiefdom from the emperor?"

"Brother helped me ask my father for Qingzhou."

"Qingzhou?" Zhao Yao exclaimed, "Isn't that at the seaside?" If myna goes to Qingzhou, myna will know what my uncle did in Qingzhou, and then myna will find out what he has done these years, and he will know that his tenth brother is not an innocent fool.

"Yes, but the emperor did not agree."

"Why?" Zhao Yao listened, heaved a sigh of relief, and then thought about it, it is impossible for the father to hand over Qingzhou to myna.Although the father still doesn't know the true face of his eighth son, but because of the relationship between the starling and His Royal Highness, the father will not give the "money bag" of Qingzhou to the starling.Once it is handed over to the starling, it is tantamount to being handed over to the Duke of Zhen. The emperor will never feed Qingzhou into Duke Zhen's purse.

It's not easy for the eighth prince to tell Zhao Yao, so he can only say: "It's not suitable for me." When the prince wanted to help the eighth prince ask for Qingzhou, the eighth prince knew that the emperor would not agree.Although Qingzhou is a small seaside city, after the sea ban was lifted, Qingzhou became very important and very rich.

Zhao Yao asked: "Where did the emperor give you a fief?"

Yu Haizui said quickly: "The emperor did not confer a land on His Highness."

"Ah?" Zhao Yao was stunned, "Father didn't grant the land, is it true?"

The eighth prince glared at the talkative Yu Hai, and then said gently to Zhao Yao: "I won't leave the capital for the time being, so the emperor won't entrust me with the land for the time being."

As soon as this matter was mentioned, Yu Hai felt wronged for the Eighth Prince.He muttered softly: "That's not the case." The emperor deliberately refused to grant the fief to His Highness.

"Didn't the second brother also leave the capital? Why does the second brother have a fief, but the eighth brother can't?" Although I always knew that the father didn't like my son, but I didn't expect that the father would not even give the myna a fief. This is really too much.

"I can't compare with my second brother." The eighth prince didn't pay much attention to this matter, "There is nothing wrong with not having a fief for the time being. Besides, with a fief, I can't stay in the capital to help elder brother with peace of mind."

Yu Hai couldn't listen anymore, and said unfairly on behalf of the Eighth Prince: "Your Highness, all princes will have a fief when they become queens when they become adults, but you don't. Isn't that..." Yu Hai's eyes were red, and he didn't dare to finish speaking.However, after thinking about it, he still couldn't help but said, "Your Highness, you are the emperor's own son, why did the emperor treat you..."

The Eighth Prince interrupted Yu Hai, and stared at Yu Hai sternly.

Yu Hai was too frightened to speak anymore.

"Seventh brother stays in the capital, doesn't he also have a fief, why doesn't the father grant you a fief, the father is too much." He didn't understand why the father hated the starling so much, and the starling didn't do anything wrong, let alone did anything heinous.Over the years, at least on the surface, the starling is very honest, and has been doing his best to assist the prince's brother.No matter how angry the father is with the starling's mother and concubine, he can't always vent his anger on the starling. This is too unfair to the starling.

"Brother, I'll help you ask your father tomorrow why he didn't give you a fief."

Seeing Zhao Yao's angry appearance, the eighth prince hurriedly said to him: "Tenth brother, don't ask your father. If you ask your father, you will make your father angry. Besides, I don't care if there is a fief." Whether there is a fief is not important to him.

"But……"

"No, but, listen to myna, don't worry about this matter." The eighth prince was happy that Zhao Yao was angry for him, but he didn't want to involve his tenth brother. "You angered the emperor, and you will be fined to copy the book."

"Brother, even if the emperor punishes me for copying books [-] times, I will still be sorry for you." When Zhao Yao said this, he felt a little guilty, because the emperor was partial to his youngest son.

"I'm really fine, you don't have to be angry for me." The eighth prince comforted him for a long time, and finally made Zhao Yao dispel the idea of ​​helping him vent his anger.

"Brother, I just feel sorry for you." Mynah thought that he was not favored by the emperor just like him. If mynah finds out that this is not the case in the future, I don't know if mynah will hate him. "Father is unfair to you."

"I don't care." The eighth prince stretched out his hand and rubbed Zhao Yao's little head, "It's enough for the starling to have you as a younger brother." He had long since given up on his father's love.For him, having ten younger brothers is enough.

"Brother, if I have a fief in the future, I will give you half of my fief."

"Okay." The eighth prince didn't talk about this matter again, and changed the subject to talk about other things.After talking for a while, he reminded Zhao Yao that it was getting late and he should go to bed.

Zhao Yao originally planned to sleep with the Eighth Prince tonight, but because of a guilty conscience, he dared not stay overnight.

The eighth prince happened to have something to do, so Zhao Yao's not staying was exactly what he wanted.He asked Yu Hai to send Zhao Yao out.

"Yu Hai, did the prince brother help the mynah fight for the fiefdom?"

"Yes, but the emperor still said that His Highness will be entrusted with land in the future." Yu Hai felt aggrieved for the Eighth Prince, "His Royal Highness said that he will give His Highness a good place to be a fief in the future."

"Fortunately, there is still the prince's elder brother who is kind to the starling."

Zhao Yao said a few more words to ask Yu Hai to take good care of the eighth prince, and then left.

After returning to his yard, Zhao Yao sighed heavily: "Oh..."

"Your Highness, do you feel sorry for His Highness the Eighth Highness?" Tong Xi deserved to be Zhao Yao's personal eunuch.

"A little bit." Zhao Yao rubbed his nose guiltily and said, "If myna knows the truth in the future, I'm afraid myna will hate me to death."

"No way. Besides, Your Highness, you didn't deliberately hide it from His Highness the Eighth Highness. After all, you didn't know about it before." Tong Xi said, "Also, no one can see it. It is impossible for His Highness the Eighth Highness to know."

Zhao Yao thinks about it, and thinks so.If it wasn't for that assassination, he wouldn't have found that his father cared about him.

"Hey, my father really treats the mynah... making mynah look like he picked it up."

"Really." My colleague asked curiously and perplexed, "Your Highness, what did His Majesty's mother and concubine do to make the Emperor hate her and her son so much?"

"I asked the concubine mother, and the concubine mother only knew that the starling's concubine climbed onto the dragon bed while the emperor was drunk, and didn't know anything else."

"Your Highness, if this is the case, the Emperor wouldn't hate the Eighth Highness and their mother and son so much."

"There must be other things." Zhao Yao had a guess in his mind that it should be related to the Southern Wei Dynasty.Although Starling's mother and concubine are not from the Southern Wei Dynasty, they must have a close relationship with the Southern Wei Dynasty, otherwise the father would not be so angry.

"Your Highness, although the Eighth Highness is powerful, he is really pitiful." Dad doesn't love her, and mother doesn't love her.

Zhao Yao sighed again with a melancholy expression: "Oh..."

Tongxi said: "Your Highness, if you feel guilty, you should be nicer to His Highness Eighth."

"Do you think I should ask my father tomorrow?" Zhao Yao was torn in his heart. He had been pretending that he didn't know anything for the past few years. If he went to ask his father, would he puncture the layer of paper.To be honest, he felt that getting along with his father like this is quite good.If the layer of paper was punctured, he would not know how to face his father, and would always feel embarrassed.

"Your Highness, it's not that His Highness the Eighth Highness doesn't let you take care of it. I think that the Eighth Highness must have his own ideas. You should stop interfering. Maybe you will be a disservice to the Eighth Highness."

"You're right, then I won't ask tomorrow." He could see that mynah really didn't care whether he had a fief or not.With Starling's means, and the power of the Southern Wei Dynasty behind it, maybe Starling has already had his "fiefdom".

Speaking of which, what did the starling ask Uwe to do and succeed?

At this moment, Xiao Jin flew back from the outside and landed on Zhao Yao's arm.

Zhao Yao saw that there was a letter on Xiaojin's feet, so he quickly took it off to read.

Seeing that Zhao Yao's expression suddenly became very shocked, Tong Xi hurriedly asked with concern: "Your Highness, what happened?"

Zhao Yao said with a serious face: "The second cousin of the sixth brother, the second son of the Yuan family, died."

Zhao Yao: I'm afraid my starling will beat me to death in the future.

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