Sui Dynasty: I, Yang Guang, am both scrupulous and stable

Chapter 355 The prince is so sick
As soon as Kong Bowang reached the door of the hall, he heard a violent cough.

"cough cough cough"

"Cough cough cough..."

Wang Yi explained: "Mr. Kong, His Royal Highness is very sick. He has been coughing badly since arriving in Qufu. The accompanying imperial doctor said that he has contracted a cough and it is contagious. Please be careful, Mr."

Kong Bowang was stunned. At his age, any cold would be fatal, really fatal, so he had always taken good care of himself. Once the weather turned cold, there would be two sixteen or seventeen-year-olds every night. The girl warmed the bed and held her feet all night long to fall asleep and avoid catching cold at night.

He suddenly stopped when he heard the sound in the room that was about to cough up his lungs.

"What's wrong, Mr. Kong? Could it be that he dislikes our Crown Prince?"

"No...don't dare."

"Then come in with me."

Entering the hall, Yang Guang was sitting at the front. When he saw a few people walking in, he coughed loudly again.

"Cough cough cough cough..."

After coughing violently, Yang Guang felt better and walked towards Kong Bowang.

Kong Bowang was extremely scared at this time, but he didn't dare to retreat, so he forced himself to smile.

"Old man, Kong Bowang, please see His Highness the Crown Prince."

Yang Guang stretched out his hand to support Kong Bowang, who was saluting, and then said: "Mr. Kong has come all the way, and it would be rude to miss him at a distance. How dare you... cough cough cough... accept the courtesy of Mr. Kong cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough... , I woke up early this morning and learned that my husband was visiting, so I hurriedly ordered someone to invite him in. I have already reprimanded these unscrupulous servants... cough cough cough... for some reason they actually asked your husband to wait outside. "

He coughed in Kong Bowang's face, because Yang Guang was a head taller, and the spittle splashed onto Kong Bowang's face.

Kong Bowang's eyes were full of fear, but he still didn't dare to retreat. It was he who asked to enter the mansion to see Yang Guang, but he withdrew because the prince was ill. If this spread, his old face would disappear.

"Your Highness, I'm sorry to disturb you."

"Sir, what are you talking about? Come...cough cough cough...see me. How can you say nagging...cough cough cough...Sir, please sit down first."

Yang Guang coughed wildly again.

"Your Highness, please take a seat first."

The two sat down. After Yang Guang coughed for a while, he took a sip of hot water and touched his chest to feel some relief.

"Sir, I'm a very old man. My father ordered me to come... ahem... When I was in Qufu, I specifically told you to come and visit you. Unexpectedly, as soon as I arrived... ahem, I fell ill. Instead, my husband came to see me. I'm so ashamed, so ashamed."

Facing Yang Guang who was so polite, Kong Bowang squeezed out a smile and said, "Thanks to your Majesty and His Royal Highness for their love, I feel deeply frightened."

Yang Guang waved his hand, and the maid came out with a box and came to Kong Bowang.

The box was opened, and inside were several ancient books.

"Sir, these are the only copies occasionally obtained at Daxing City auctions. They are all classics. I think it is most appropriate for you, old gentleman, to hold such items."

Kong Bowang's eyes lit up as he looked at the unique classic in front of him. He had not been so happy for many years.

"Your Highness the Crown Prince...this...this, I am so ashamed of myself."

"Sir, you deserve it."

The glances of the two people around him reminded Kong Bowang of his recent purpose.

Although he was reluctant to part with them, he declined these classics and said, "Your Highness, your Highness must know why I came to you today."

"Cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough..."

Yang Guang's cough interrupted Kong Bowang, and Wang Yi said with great sadness: "Your Highness, you are coughing like this. Please rest first."

"No...cough cough...cough cough cough cough."

Yang Guang said no but he was very honest. Wang Yi helped others go down.

"His Royal Highness..."

"Mr. Kong, please wait a moment. Let us let His Royal Highness rest for a while."

For a time, only Kong Bowang and the two people he brought were left in the entire middle hall.

He tried his best to lower his voice and said, "Mr. Kong, His Highness the Crown Prince and others have all gone out, and we are the only ones left."

"I see that His Highness the Crown Prince is deliberately making excuses to delay. He doesn't want to see us at all."

"No, I have pretended to cough before in order to avoid my wife. It is very difficult to pretend to cough. The way His Royal Highness the Crown Prince looked and made his voice just now was not considered fake."

"What should I do? Don't let it be contagious."

The three of them panicked after hearing this, but they had no choice but to leave.

After leaving here, Yang Guang rushed back to the backyard: "Where's the antidote? Cough cough cough cough."

The accompanying imperial doctor immediately handed over a bowl of soup: "Your Highness, what's wrong?"

Wang Yi said reproachfully: "What's the matter with your medicine? Your Highness wanted to take it and fool the old man in front of you, but now you really can't stop coughing?"

It turned out that Yang Guang's cough was true. He took the medicine specially prepared by the imperial doctor for acting, but he didn't expect it to be very effective.

After Yang Guang drank the antidote, he calmed down and said, "This medicine of yours is too powerful. I almost coughed out my lungs."

The imperial doctor apologized: "Your Highness, I deserve death..."

"I don't mean to blame you. I have to take the medicine myself. I really can't take medicine randomly next time."

Wang Yi asked at this time: "Your Highness, what should I do? How can you fool the old man in front of you if you don't cough?"

"You went to report it and told them that I had to take a rest and asked them to wait. When it was time to order food, they were embarrassed to ask to see me because of the cough I had just now."

Wang Yi then went to the front. When Kong Bowang and others saw Wang Yi, they stood up and asked: "Eunuch Wang, how is your Royal Highness?"

Wang Yi frowned and said, "His Royal Highness has just taken the medicine from the imperial doctor. The medicine is very powerful. After taking it, he felt sleepy. The imperial doctor told him to have a good rest, so he fell asleep first."

"Ah? Then...then we..."

Before the people around Kong Bowang finished speaking, Wang Yi frowned deeply and said with disgust: "What? Your Highness, the Crown Prince, just coughed like that. Can't you see? His Highness, the Crown Prince, was already feeling uncomfortable. I have to talk to you so much. If something happens to His Royal Highness, can you bear it?" Seeing Wang Yi's anger, several people did not dare to say anything more. Kong Bowang could only sigh and said: "Eunuch Wang Yi, , then I’ll just wait here, and after His Royal Highness wakes up, we’ll make a long story short.”

"Hmph, if you want to wait, just wait."

Wang Yi turned around and left. As he walked, he complained maliciously: "You don't even know who you are? You really think that our Crown Prince is bullying him because he is so gentle and polite."

The three people looked extremely ugly, but Kong Bowang asked them to calm down.

Sitting in meditation is easy for Kong Bowang, but not easy for the other two.

From early morning until dusk, when the sky was dark, Yang Guang came to the front hall from the back.

Seeing Yang Guang, who was supported by Wang Yi, approaching, Kong Bowang and others immediately stood up and said hello: "Your Highness, the Crown Prince."

Wang Yi immediately complained dissatisfiedly: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has just woken up and has to come to see people. Even ordinary people have to rest when they are sick. Why do we, the Crown Prince..."

"Wang Yi must not be rude."

Yang Guang scolded Wang Yi and then said apologetically to Kong Bowang and others: "Mr. Kong, don't blame me. Wang Yi has been with me since he was a child. He has never read any books and doesn't understand any principles. He just doesn't do anything or speak at all." There is a lack of etiquette, so please don’t blame me.”

Kong Bo looked back: "Your Highness, the prince is right in scolding you. We are indeed rude."

In order to avoid being interrupted again, Kong Bowang directly entered the topic: "But even if it is rude, I still have to meet His Highness the Crown Prince. I have an unkind invitation."

"Mr. Kong, you are speaking harshly. I wonder what you are talking about?"

"His Royal Highness, a few days ago, Cui Chengjun, Governor Cui, arrested many Confucian scholars in the city and put them in prison. I hope Your Highness will be kind and let these people go."

Yang Guang looked puzzled: "Mr. Kong, I'm completely confused by what you said. I don't know about the arrests of Prefect Cui. I don't know why these people were arrested?"

Kong Bowang looked embarrassed when he asked this question even though he knew it. Yang Guang pretended not to know. Kong Bowang couldn't say to his face that it was your prince who ordered the arrest, otherwise people would say you framed him.

But this reason is a bit ugly for Kong Bowang himself.

It's ugly. Kong Bowang has lived for so many years, but he still has some thickness in his face.

"Your Highness, on the day you entered the city, many Confucian scholars in the city shouted at your motorcade that they only respect Confucianism. The young people acted impulsively, and perhaps they bumped into His Highness, and asked Your Highness to show mercy."

"Mr. Kong, what you said is wrong."

Yang Guang's face immediately became serious, and he continued: "What you said is as if I ordered Cui Taishou to arrest the person. I gave Mr. Kong the original ancient books out of respect for him, but I didn't expect that he thought of me like this." In this way, I thought that my husband came to meet me at my door, even though he is seriously ill, I still have to meet him, but I didn’t expect that my husband came to ask me for punishment? "

Hearing Yang Guang's tone suddenly turned serious, Kong Bowang was helpless for a moment. He was good at suppressing others with courtesy, but now that Yang Guang was seriously ill, everything he said seemed wrong.

"Your Highness, please don't misunderstand me. I have no intention of raising an army to investigate. But now that so many Confucian scholars have been arrested in Qufu City, every household is very worried. I would also like to ask Your Highness to go and persuade Prefect Cui."

Yang Guang still had a slight anger on his face: "Prefect Cui is the prefect of a county. Could it be that he would neglect his duties and arrest people at will? Since he is arresting people, there must be some violation of law and discipline, so I can't interfere. "

"Your Highness, these young Confucian scholars are all young people who know etiquette. They are just expressing their inner thoughts. Please forgive me, Your Highness."

"Mr. Kong seems to have decided that it is Gu who wants to take action against this group of young Confucian scholars, who wants to arrest them and send them to prison, or who wants them to die?"

Kong Bowang had met many people in his life, including many who were great and powerful, but in front of Yang Guang, he seemed to feel a suffocating sense of oppression for the first time.

This sense of oppression is not the sense of oppression from a high position, but an indescribable sense of violation.

Give Kong Bowang a feeling.

The man in front of me really dared to do the most outrageous thing in the world.

People in high positions in the world always care about reputation, but Yang Guang gave Kong Bowang the feeling of being ready to flip the table with you at any time.

There are so many people. If you talk and reason with you, some people won't listen. They only care about their own ideas and reasons. But if you say you want to overturn the table at this time, you have the ability to overturn the table at any time. , he will probably sit down and reason with you.

"Your Highness, this is not what I mean. I just hope that Your Highness will think about these young people. They are all young men who have been studying hard for more than ten years. They all have the ambition to serve the country and can become the pillars of the imperial court in the future. He shouldn’t be imprisoned because of recent events, and it’s a good thing that your Highness ordered his release.”

"Mr. Kong, it seems that you really take Wang Fa as a joke. It seems that you just want to let people go as soon as you say something, without any verification. In order to arrest people, without verification, is it possible to release them?"

Kong Bo saw that Yang Guang refused to let go, so he had to kneel down slowly.

Wang Yi quickly supported him with quick eyes and hands: "Mr. Kong, why do you kneel down when you say so? You are a leader, so you can't kneel down."

Kong Bowang still wanted to kneel down, but Wang Yi held him tightly and refused to let him kneel down.

Did he kneel down to beg for mercy?No!
He knew very well that by kneeling down he was forcing Yang Guang to give in and compromise. He was very aware of his own weight and how to use this weight.

Once Yang Guang is accused of disrespecting the elderly, etc., his reputation will be affected.

While Kong Bowang and Wang Yi were arguing, Yang Guang's voice came: "Mr. Kong, can I ask you a question?"

"Excuse me, Your Highness the Crown Prince."

"Old sir, since you said it was the group of students you captured alone, and you think it's because they blocked my carriage that I hold a grudge, then why do you think they blocked my carriage and shouted that they should depose hundreds of schools of thought and only respect Confucianism. "

"I'm very curious about this question, why do they do this?"

Kong Bowang answered tactfully: "Your Highness, I don't think you hold any grudge. I just ask you to help the Confucian scholars if you have enough."

"Mr. Kong, you didn't answer my main question just now. Why did they stop my carriage and shout that they should depose all schools of thought and only respect Confucianism?"

Kong Bowang looked at Yang Guang's face and knew that Yang Guang would not give up until he answered this question.

"Since you are a Confucian scholar, you should seek a place for your own knowledge. Your Highness must allow others to speak, right? They are a little impulsive in doing things. Perhaps they think that the etiquette in the school is completely chaotic now and they do not respect Confucianism, so they take this step. I hope Your Highness understands."

Yang Guang looked doubtful: "Understand? I don't understand. Why do you say that Confucianism has a place? I understand your arrogance and your obstruction. But listen to what you are shouting. Destroy hundreds of schools of thought and only respect Confucianism." It is to exclude all other knowledge, as if you are the one who does not give people a place."

When it comes to these things, Kong Bowang has rich experience: "Confucianism is the study of governing the country..."

But before he could start his tirade, Yang Guang interrupted him directly.

The thick voice was like the roar of a turbid dragon.

"Confucianism is very good, do you think you are the only one?"

"no!"

(End of this chapter)