After being turned into cannon fodder, I relied on involution to survive

Chapter 57 Classmates
The boy guarding the door usually followed Yu Tong to run errands for him. Yu Zizhen had a slight impression of him. At this time, he was pulling the frowning middle-aged man hard to signal him not to block Yu Tong's office in the courtyard. At the door of the house, he said, "It's not that I'm unwilling to be accommodating. It's just that the prince happened to be looking for the housekeeper. You'd better come over later!"

The middle-aged man's face was even more sorrowful, "Your Majesty. Alas."

Yu Zizhen: What's going on? It seems like she fed this elder brother three pounds of coptis?
She looked at Yu Tong who was sending her out.

Yu Tong was a little embarrassed, "This is the gardener who was responsible for taking care of the flowers and trees in Sanjin Courtyard."

Yu Zizhen raised his eyebrows. No wonder he had this expression when he mentioned her. It turned out to be the servant who entered the courtyard three times and was driven away by her.

Seeing his miserable look as if the sky was about to collapse, Yu Zizhen asked Yu Tong, "Why is he looking like this?"

Yu Tong was even more embarrassed. He lowered his voice and said, "He is the only one in their family who works in the government. Now that he has lost his job, their family will soon run out of food."

Yu Zizhen frowned and looked at Yu Tong with four big words written clearly in his eyes - Don't coax me.

Yu Tong understood, and he explained vaguely, "This Jiang Yunshan is different from others. He is from outside, and he is stubborn in doing things."

Facing Yu Zizhen's half-smiling face, Yu Tong changed his words, "If he hadn't really been capable, others would have pushed him away long ago."

Yu Zizhen snorted unintelligibly and walked out of the yard, "Jiang Yunshan, right? Come to Lumingxuan this afternoon and let me see if you are really capable."

Jiang Yunshan and the boy who was dragging him turned around, with almost identical guilt and fear on their faces.

Oh my god, when they were talking about their heir apparent, the ill-tempered heir happened to hear them. What should they do?
Yu Zizhen was amused by the two people's expressions as if they were seeing ghosts. She turned to Yu Tongtang and said, "I'd like you to take his identity with you, too."

Yu Tong respectfully responded "Yes".

Yu Zizhen waved his hand to him, indicating that he didn't need to send it off anymore, then turned around and went to Dr. Feng's yard.

Dr. Feng had just woken up and was practicing Wu Qin Xi slowly in the yard. When he saw Yu Zizhen, he quickly stopped and came over to greet him.

Yu Zizhen said to him straight to the point: "Can you please come to my place this afternoon? There are seven new girls here. I would like to ask you to help them take care of themselves."

Doctor Feng is still very kind when conditions permit. It turns out that when he was on duty at the palace in the north, he would also treat the illnesses and injuries of the palace's guards and servants in his free time, so Yu Zizhen asked him to give treatment to that palace. Seven girls checked their pulses, but he didn't feel insulted just because the other girl was just roughing the maid.

When the two of them made an appointment for Dr. Feng to go there, Yu Zizhen rushed to the palace with Yao Guang.

On the carriage, she closed her eyes, seemingly taking the opportunity to close her eyes and rest her mind, but in fact she was listening to the system introducing her classmates to her.

Mr. Jiang had someone give her a copy of similar information last night, but she was busy writing plans and doing homework last night, so she just briefly flipped through the information Mr. Jiang gave her and put it aside.

Combining the information provided by Mr. Jiang and the system, Yu Zizhen came to the following conclusion:
There are two royal children in the South Study Room, one is the eldest prince Xiao Yuanjin, and the other is the late emperor's youngest son Xiao Shaoke who is raised by the Queen Mother.

Xiao Shaoke's two companions were Lu Heng, the maternal nephew of the Empress Dowager Da Lu and the direct cousin of the Empress Xiao Lu, and Wan Jingrong, the eldest son of Wan Shitai, the Lu family's in-law and the Commander-in-Chief of the Left Army of the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion.The two were related by marriage and had similar temperaments. Relying on the power of the Lu family and the great prestige of the aunt and nephew in the palace, the two of them not only ignored the frail and unhealthy eldest prince. Here, he also looked down upon Xiao Shaoke, the youngest son of the late emperor, who looked up to the great Lu family.

Invisible to the teachers, not only did they often show disrespect and contempt for the eldest prince Xiao Yuanjin, but they also privately bullied the late emperor's youngest son Xiao Shaoke. They could be said to be the real tyrants in the Nan Study Room.

And the two companions of the eldest prince Xiao Yuanjin.

Fan Zhongming was born in the famous Fan family, and his grandfather Fan Ting was the chief minister of the dynasty. Like Lu Tong, the elder brother of the Da Lu family, he was also one of the three princes and one of the important ministers appointed by the late emperor as the auxiliary minister.

In addition, Fan Zhongming also has a father, Fan Bowen, who is the Minister of Household Zuo.

In addition to the father and son who are officials in the court and hold great power, there are more than ten people in the Fan family who are officials in various places in Daqi. There are countless in-laws, old friends, students, and contemporaries of each family in the family. .

Ordinarily, the Lu family should prevent such a person with a strong family background and an extremely smart and alert person from becoming the eldest prince's companion. The reason why they did not do this is because the Fan family simply did not have this idea in their minds. The so-called concept of loyalty to the emperor means that when they do anything, they will only give priority to the interests of their family.

Rather than charging forward to support orthodoxy, they are more willing to think about how to make the Fan family last forever.

Therefore, although Fan Zhongming is one of the eldest prince's companions, his protection for the eldest prince is very limited, and his loyalty is almost non-existent.

He is the qualified eldest grandson of the Fan family. Like his grandfather and father, he weighs the pros and cons before doing anything he does, and subconsciously puts the interests of the family first.

Completely opposite to his character is Yang Shixian, another companion of the eldest prince.Yang Shixian is not inferior to Fan Zhongming in terms of intelligence and agility. The most rare thing is that he is also good at both civil and military arts.

Influenced by his grandfather, he devoted himself to maintaining the royal family's orthodoxy. He had always been protective and very loyal to the eldest prince, who was the emperor's eldest son.

His grandfather, Yang Zhengde, was the censor of Zuodu, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and his father died early due to an assassination. Although there was no evidence, the family knew that his father actually died in revenge of the Lu family against his grandfather.

The Yang family's ancestral home is in the south of the Yangtze River. Yang Zhengde was born in a poor family. He was a representative figure of officials from the Qingliu/Han family in the court. He was also a staunch royalist, and therefore had many conflicts with the Lu family.

The Lu family was so powerful that the Fan family and Qingliu, headed by Yang Zhengde, had to form an alliance with each other. However, because of their different ideas, while they were cooperating, they were actually secretly guarding against each other.

The same goes for Fan Zhongming and Yang Shixian, who are the companions of the eldest prince. They formed an alliance because of their interests, but they were always on guard against each other.

In addition to these two factions, there is also Xiao Shaoke in the South Study who is not dependent on either side and forms his own faction.

Xiao Shaoke is the half-brother of Xiao Shaoyuan, the current emperor of Da Qi. His biological mother died young, and he himself has been raised by the Queen Mother as a backup emperor.

However, because the current emperor Xiao Shaoyuan is obedient enough, the Queen Mother Dalu has no intention of changing the emperor for the time being, so Xiao Shaoke is not taken seriously by the Queen Mother.

(End of this chapter)