The ministers begged me to ascend the throne

Not long after the news of the death of the two sons of the Yuan family came back to the capital, Mr. Meng was about to leave the capital for the next stop, Liangzhou, to continue his lectures.

Mr. Meng's going to Liangzhou to give lectures is not a good thing for His Highness the Crown Prince and His Highness Dai Wang.Although so far, they don't think that the King of Chu will pose a fatal threat to them, but they are still afraid of the King of Chu.

Originally, King Chu had a high reputation in the hearts of literati and students. Now Mr. Meng is going to Liangzhou to give lectures, which will only make King Chu's status in the hearts of scholars more and more high.

If Mr. Meng went to Liangzhou to meet the King of Chu, then the King of Chu would replace His Royal Highness in the hearts of scholars all over the world, which would be very unfavorable to His Royal Highness.It is also not a good thing for His Royal Highness Daiwang.

His Royal Highness and His Royal Highness Dai Wang didn't want Mr. Meng to go to Liangzhou to give lectures, and they didn't want Mr. Meng to complete His Highness King Chu.Therefore, they wanted to prevent Mr. Meng from going to Liangzhou.As long as it doesn't hurt Mr. Meng's life, make him fall ill, or get injured, then he won't be able to go to Liangzhou for the time being.

When His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Royal Highness Dai Wang were thinking about how to prevent Mr. Meng from going to Liangzhou, the emperor issued an imperial decree, asking Shen Hu and Chu Ying to lead troops to escort Mr. Meng to Liangzhou.

The Emperor had already expected what His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Royal Highness Dai Wang had in their minds.The emperor deliberately warned His Highness the Crown Prince and His Royal Highness Dai Wang in the early court.It probably means that if old Mr. Meng has an accident on the way to Liangzhou, then you are the culprit.

The emperor also warned them that Mr. Meng Lao is the only great Confucian in the world.If something happened to his old man, the consequences would not be something they could bear.

Although the emperor didn't say it clearly, the meaning was obvious. His Highness the Crown Prince and His Highness Dai Wang were worried.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Royal Highness Dai Wang naturally pretended not to understand, but they were very upset.With the emperor's warning, how dare they take action against Mr. Meng.

Before Mr. Meng left the capital, Zhao Yao received a letter from King Chu.In the letter, King 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 because his fourth brother begged him in a low voice, he reluctantly agreed to go to Liangzhou to visit him and his little nephew once.

"Your Highness, didn't you say that no matter what His Highness King Chu begged you, you would not go to Liangzhou?"

Zhao Yao was a little embarrassed by what Tong Xi said.He rolled his eyes and said with a guilty conscience: "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, and he wanted to see me even in his dreams. You said How could I bear to refuse."

Tongxi kindly reminded Zhao Yao of one thing: "Your Highness, have you forgotten that the emperor will not let you go to Liangzhou?"

Hearing what Tong Xi said, Zhao Yao immediately remembered what happened, and the smile on his face froze immediately.

Tong Xi suppressed a smile and said, "Your Highness, although you can't bear to refuse His Highness's request, the emperor must have the heart not to let you go to Liangzhou."

Zhao Yao: "..." How could he forget this matter.

"No, I'll go and beg my father, and I'll beg with shame, until my father agrees."

"Your Highness, it's not the servant who hit you. The servant feels that no matter how much you ask, the emperor will not agree." After Tong Xi finished speaking, he added, "You also know that the emperor has always been hard-hearted."

Zhao Yao: "..." What Tong Xi said is right, Father Emperor has always been hard-hearted.

"Your Highness, the Emperor has always liked to bully you. The more you ask the Emperor to allow you to go to Liangzhou, the more he will not agree." Although the Emperor loves His Highness, he also loves to bully His Highness.

Zhao Yao's face darkened in an instant: "You are so 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 with you." The letter sent Zhao Yao an idea, "You might as well ask the empress instead of begging the emperor."

Zhao Yao cast a sideways glance at Tongxi, and said angrily, "Do you think it's easier to beg mother and concubine than father?" Concubine mother looks gentle and gentle, but concubine mother is more hard-hearted than emperor father.

"Then your Highness, you should give up."

"No, I have to try." Zhao Yao suddenly thought of Mr. Meng, and said brightly, "I can go to Liangzhou with Mr. Meng, maybe the 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's question, a picture appeared in his mind, and he was frightened.He was like an eggplant beaten by frost in an instant, and said dejectedly: "I can't go with Mr. Meng."

"Your Highness, the first and second sons of the Yuan family are dead, and the atmosphere in the capital is so weird now, I feel that the emperor will never let you go to Liangzhou." Tongxi said, "I think 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.If His Highness had any accidents on the way to Liangzhou, he would be blamed for death.

Zhao Yao said with a puffy face, "I don't want to stay in the capital, I want to go to Liangzhou to play." He has grown up so much that he has never been to a place outside the capital.Obviously Da Zhou is so big, but he has been trapped in the capital.

"You better not think about it."

"No, I'll ask, otherwise I won't give up." After Zhao Yao finished speaking, he went to the imperial study room aggressively.Seeing this, Tongxi hurriedly chased after him. "Your Highness, wait for me."

After the emperor received the letter from King Chu, he had been waiting for Zhao Yao to come to him.As expected, the youngest son came to him.

Zhao Yao entered the imperial study room, and saluted the emperor politely: "I have seen my father..."

Before he finished speaking, 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 he didn't understand.

The emperor said to Zhao Yao kindly: "I will not agree with you to go to Liangzhou."

Zhao Yao: "..."

"The fourth son wrote me a letter, hoping that I would allow you to go to Liangzhou." The emperor said with a smile, "I don't agree, so don't even think about it."

Although I already knew that the emperor would say that, but 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's no reason." The emperor deliberately annoyed Zhao Yao, "If you can't go, you can't go."

"Father, why are you so angry?" Zhao Yao's small face turned into a puffer fish, looking at the emperor with fierce eyes.

"Also, don't try to sneak away from home and go to Liangzhou." The emperor guessed Zhao Yao's careful thoughts very accurately. He pretended to be vicious and warned, "If you dare to steal Running 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 stuck his neck and said: "Father, I am already 11 years old, and I am half an adult. Why can't I go out? When you were 11 years old, you went to the battlefield with Grandpa Huang gone?"

"You can compare with me." The emperor looked Zhao Yao up and down, and said in a disgusted tone, "I was half a head taller and stronger than you when I was 11 years old. Before I went to the battlefield, I brought a group of brothers Beat bandits, can you?"

"How do you know I can't do it?" Zhao Yao retorted, "You let me go, and I'll prove it to you."

"I want to use the aggressive method to provoke you, old man." The emperor saw through Zhao Yao's trick at a glance, "You are still very young."

Being seen through, Zhao Yao didn't feel ashamed or embarrassed.He continued: "You didn't even let me try, how do you know I can't do it, you test me if you have the ability."

The emperor said very ruthlessly: "If you don't take the test, I don't have time to talk to you. Where are you going to cool off, don't bother me."

Zhao Yao ran to the emperor angrily, angrily took the memorial from the emperor's hand, and threw it on the imperial table very hard.

With a bang, Sun Kui, who was standing aside, shivered in fright.

The emperor stretched out his hand and pulled Zhao Yao into his arms, let him lie on his lap, then raised his hand and slapped his youngest son's butt a few times.

Zhao Yao was no match for the emperor, he struggled desperately but couldn't break free, and was spanked several times abruptly.

"Father, let me go... itchy... hahahahaha..."

The emperor stretched out his hand to scratch Zhao Yao's armpit, and Zhao Yao, who was scratching, laughed and begged him for mercy.

"Father, I was wrong, please forgive me." Zhao Yao is not afraid of being beaten, but ticklish.

The emperor stopped and let him go.

Zhao Yao lay on the emperor's lap, angrily opened his mouth and bit his thigh forcefully.

The emperor gasped in pain: "Hiss, brat!" The emperor stretched out his hand to pinch Zhao Yao's mouth, "Are you a dog?"

Zhao Yao yelled "Wang" to the emperor twice.

The emperor was amused by his two dog barks, and scolded, "You son of a bitch."

"Father, if I were a dog, what are you?"

"Stinky boy, you are so courageous, how dare you scold your father."

"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 amusedly, "I told you, you can't go."

"Father, you..." Just as Zhao Yao was about to say something, the emperor pinched his small mouth, making him unable to utter a word.

The emperor's face changed, suddenly became very severe, and his tone was very serious.

"I'll say it one last time, don't go!"

Hearing what the emperor said, Zhao Yao didn't dare to say anything more, but his expression was still very unconvinced, and his eyes were still staring at the emperor.

The emperor patted Zhao Yao's face lightly, and unceremoniously issued an order to chase away the guests: "Go away."

When Zhao Yao was about to leave, he angrily grabbed the emperor's face, and then quickly ran out of the imperial study.

The emperor laughed helplessly and cursed: "Stinky boy!"

"Your Majesty, my servant looks at His Highness the Tenth Highness and wants to go to Liangzhou to find His Highness the King of Chu. Why don't you agree to the Tenth Highness going?" Sun Kui thought to himself, if the Emperor is worried about the Tenth Highness's safety, he can send someone to escort the Tenth Highness down.Besides, haven't there been secret guards who have been secretly protecting His Highness the Tenth Prince.

The emperor said in a deep tone: "He can't see the fourth child."

"Why can't I see His Highness the King of Chu?" Sun Kui didn't understand what the emperor meant.

The emperor glanced at Sun Kui and didn't speak.

Sun Kui's scalp tingled from seeing this.He hurriedly lowered his head to plead guilty: "Your servant is talking too much, 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 didn't succeed with the emperor, so he went to beg Concubine Liang again.No matter how much he begged, Concubine Liang never agreed with him to go to Liangzhou.

Although he had already guessed that this would be the result, Zhao Yao was still very angry.

Concubine Liang knew that her son was full of tricks, and if she refused to allow him to go, he would find a way to go by himself, so she had to threaten him.

"If you secretly go to Liangzhou behind my back, I won't recognize your son!"

Zhao Yao saw that Concubine Liang was not joking, but very serious.He couldn't help but stared blankly at Concubine Liang.

Concubine Liang said in a serious tone, "I didn't joke with you."

"Mother Concubine..." Zhao Yao didn't understand why Concubine Liang would say such words?He just wanted to go to Liangzhou to meet his fourth brother, and he didn't want to do anything bad. Why did the concubine mother say such serious and scary things about not recognizing his son?

Concubine Liang didn't speak, but 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 Highness King Chu is fine."

"Then why are you concubine mother..." Today's concubine mother is too abnormal, he has never seen such concubine mother before.

"I don't worry about you going to Liangzhou." Concubine Liang eased her expression slightly, "I don't need to tell you what the situation is in Beijing and China now, you should understand that I am really worried about you going to Liangzhou at this time." Of course, the reason is not this.

"Mother Concubine, then you don't need to scare me into saying that you don't recognize my son."

"Don't scare you, you won't be obedient, I don't know what kind of temper you have." Concubine Liang warned Zhao Yao again, "I'm not joking with you, if you dare to sneak to Liangzhou, I don't want your son .”

Zhao Yao: Something is wrong, very wrong.

"If you don't believe me, you can try it."

Zhao Yao: "..."

"Mother Concubine, you are already like this, how dare I try." Zhao Yao asked again, "Mother Concubine, is Fourth Brother really okay?"

"fine."

Zhao Yao was full of suspicion: If the fourth brother is really fine, why is the mother concubine's attitude so strange?Is there something the concubine mother is hiding from him?
"His Royal Highness King Chu is really fine, if you don't believe me, you can check."

"Then mother concubine, you..." Even if mother concubine was worried about him going to Liangzhou, she would not say such frightening words.He intuitively felt that the mother concubine had something to hide from him, and she was not young. "It's not that there is something wrong with the fourth brother, is there something going on in the capital?"

Liang Bin said: "I don't know if there is any accident in the capital, but I don't allow you to go to Liangzhou."

"Mother, are you hiding something from me?"

Concubine Liang smiled and said, "Is there anything I can keep from you?" As she spoke, she glanced at a row of sparrows standing on the window sill.

Zhao Yao thought so too, but he still felt a little abnormal.

"Okay, I just don't worry about you going to Liangzhou, there is nothing else." Concubine Liang reached out and tapped Zhao Yao's forehead, "The situation in Beijing is not very good now, and the crown prince and the king Dai are not so good to the king of Chu. What kind of attitude, don't you know? Do you think I can let you go to Liangzhou without worry?"

"I'm not going."

Hearing what Zhao Yao said, Concubine Liang was relieved.

"After two years, when you grow up, you will go to Liangzhou again."

"Okay, then I'll wait another two years." Although Zhao Yao felt strange in his heart, he didn't talk about this matter again, and changed the subject to the death of the two sons of the Yuan family.Then, he talked about the fact that King Chen was about to be killed.

"Mother and concubine, does the emperor know about this?"

Concubine Liang was slightly taken aback, then shook her head and said, "I didn't ask."

Zhao Yao looked at Concubine Liang, and opened his mouth to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything.

Seeing his son's hesitant expression, Concubine Liang knew what he wanted to ask.

She smiled softly at Zhao Yao: "Your father and I will only meet to talk at the end of the month, and I rarely meet your father on weekdays." Obviously living in the same palace, but Concubine Liang and the emperor Rarely meet and talk. "When your father came, I rarely asked him about the court affairs, after all, the harem cannot interfere in politics."

"Concubine Mother, your father..." Zhao Yao didn't continue, but Concubine Liang understood what he wanted to say, "Your father is very good to me, I am very satisfied now."

Hearing what Concubine Liang said, Zhao Yao didn't say anything more.

"Yaoyao, there is a saying you need to know, whether your father is facing me or you, his first identity will always be the emperor, the emperor of the Great Zhou, and the emperor of the people, so in your father In the emperor's heart, the country, the country and the people are the most important." Concubine Liang's tone was very solemn, "If in your father's heart, the love of children is the first, then your father is sorry for the people of Dazhou."

Zhao Yao understood what Concubine Liang meant, and nodded slightly.

"Yaoyao, in the future when you become a king and go to Lingnan as an adult, you want to put the people of Lingnan first, you know?"

Zhao Yao nodded obediently: "Mother, I know."

"Your father may not be a good husband, nor a good father, but he is a good emperor." Concubine Liang said with some pride and pride in her tone, "To be a good emperor, the first thing you have to give up is the relationship between your son and daughter. .If the emperor cares too much about his sons and daughters' personal affairs, then the people will suffer. Your father and grandfather promised to protect and take good care of the people of Dazhou, 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 be ruthless."

Zhao Yao complained in his heart: So what's so good about being an emperor.

"It's not up to you and me to ask how your father treats King Chen."

Zhao Yao nodded and said, "Mother Concubine, I understand." He didn't want to help Sixth Brother when he mentioned Sixth Brother's matter, but wanted to know Father Emperor's attitude towards Sixth Brother's imminent murder by the Southern Wei people.

Concubine Liang saw that Zhao Yao knew what she meant, so she didn't say any 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.It is the greatest grace for a married princess to allow her to return to the palace to raise a baby for a few months, and 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 Yu Meiren, and the quarrel was very fierce.She also moved her tires because of this, and almost had an accident.

Some time ago, the fifth princess successfully gave birth to a daughter.Poppy was worried about her, and kept asking Zhao Yao to visit her.

Zhao Yao has been there several times and carefully inquired about the physical condition of the fifth princess.The fifth princess hurt a little bit when she gave birth, she needs to make up for it, nothing else.

Concubine Liang and Yu Meiren have been sending the Fifth Princess tonics and supplements non-stop, and the Fifth Princess' body has been well maintained.

The mother-in-law and husband of the fifth princess are not dissatisfied with her giving birth to a daughter. On the contrary, they like it very much, but the fifth princess herself doesn't like it.

After she was confinement, Zhao Yao went to see her, saw her unhappy appearance, and thought she was suffering from postpartum depression.

He knew about postpartum depression from Zhao Yao in his dream.He was worried that the fifth princess was suffering from postpartum depression and that she would do something that would hurt herself or her child, so he repeatedly asked the fifth princess' husband to take good care of her.Unexpectedly, the fifth princess was depressed, not because of postpartum depression, but because the second princess was pregnant again.For this reason, Zhao Yao gave the fifth princess a hard time, but the fifth princess not only didn't appreciate it, but also scolded him for meddling in his own business, which made him very angry.

"Concubine Mother, let's not bother with Fifth Sister's affairs anymore." Zhao Yao said angrily, "If we continue to manage, Fifth Sister will hate us to the bone, let her do it."

"Your Concubine Yu..." Concubine Liang sighed softly, "Oh... I feel sorry for her..."

"Alas..." Zhao Yao really had no choice but to take the fifth princess.He persuaded and scolded, but to no avail.

"You should go and see Xiao Wu when you have time, otherwise your mother and concubine Yu will have trouble sleeping and eating."

"Okay, I'll go see it tomorrow."

After Zhao Yao talked with Concubine Liang for a while, he went back to Xingde 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, and when he saw him, he said, "Tenth brother, you can't go to Liangzhou."

Old irons, sorry, I came back late today due to something, and there is no time to update the codeword, so I will update it tomorrow.

Emperor: Xiao Shi can't see Lao Si.

Concubine Liang: I understand.

Zhao Yao: I don't understand.

Old men, do you understand?
Finally, ask for a monthly ticket!