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Chapter 181 Incident
The emperor staggered out of Huiyuan's courtyard, the expression on his face fluctuated, and the attendants cautiously followed him from a distance.

The emperor was full of thoughts, "At the beginning, the father preferred the second brother, but the second brother had an accident when he was out hunting, and the Hou and Li families stood behind him, and the second brother competed fiercely with several older brothers and younger brothers before he was alive. , He has always been out of conflict, but he didn't expect to take advantage of it. The second brother's people turned around and defected to him."

"Father said before leaving that although he can't expand the territory, he can defend it!"

"Father also said that to protect the family and defend the country depends on the Hou and Li families, but to govern the country and rejuvenate the country depends on the Kou family! The current suzerains of these three families are loyal to the country, but who can guarantee that the future generations will also be loyal to the Great Zhou? So Father asked him to uproot these three families before he left. In order to prevent the country from being useless during the war, it was necessary to provoke a local war with the Tatars, recruit more new people, and train new generals. One day, there was no Marquis The Li family can also keep the country; we need to open more imperial examinations, reuse newcomers, and prevent the Kou family from becoming bigger in the civil service..."

"But the three families are deeply entrenched. How can they be pulled out as soon as they can be pulled out? He wants to use newcomers on the battlefield, but the newcomers always lose the battle. The Hou and Li families sent generals, won the battles, and trained his newcomers. , although the newcomer can go to the battlefield, he has also become a newcomer to the Hou and Li families... Fortunately, the influence of the Kou family in the civil service has been getting smaller and smaller in the past ten years, and it has been separated by the Shang family and the Han family. few……"

The emperor raised his head and looked at the sky. He seemed to be always unsuccessful in doing things in this life. How would future generations comment on him as Emperor Longqing?
Ah, yes, why did I forget, I have a good son, the courtiers all say that the prince is good, the Hou and Li families are also satisfied with the prince, even the little emperor uncle said he is worthy of great responsibility!
"Father said that anyone in this world can harm me, only the little emperor! The people who hurt him are all people who are obsessed with power, but the little emperor doesn't like power. The throne was originally the little emperor's. , but the little emperor didn't like it, so he gave up the throne to his father and became a monk himself."

"Uncle Xiaohuang has a weak relationship and usually doesn't care about outside affairs, but he is smart and sees everything far away. Even for the sake of me being his nephew, he would mention a few things, so the emperor asked him Listen to what the little emperor says!"

"But just now, the little emperor told him that the Hou and Li families are trustworthy for the time being, and that the prince is the destiny, so let him protect the prince well..."

His heart was a little sad. When people mentioned him, they would not say that he had made any great achievements, but that he gave birth to a good son.But he couldn't abolish the crown prince, otherwise, not to mention what future generations would say about him, even Da Zhou would be finished.

But he didn't understand, what little Huangshu meant inside and outside the words was to make him be careful of the Queen and Concubine Ou.

The queen knows that this woman is terrible, she was the one who pushed him to the throne... Among his many brothers, there is only one King Ping left. When they fought for the throne, King Ping was only 11 years old. Even when he was an adult, he didn't like government affairs. He wrote poems and fus about these words, and the princess he married was also an elegant person...

But Concubine Ou Gui can only recite poems and compose Fu, and she has no son, how could she harm him?Just by killing her, what can she gain?
The emperor was puzzled, and he couldn't help complaining in his heart, the little emperor's uncle said vaguely, and he didn't know how to remind him clearly, which made him guess.

The emperor issued an imperial decree on the second day after returning from Baiyun Temple, conferring the sixth prince as county king. The sixth prince was the first prince to be conferred, but the faction of the sixth prince was not necessarily happy. It is equivalent to cutting off the opportunity of the sixth prince to compete for the throne, and he can only be a county king for the rest of his life!
The queen is not very happy, the prince's power is getting bigger and bigger, she previously wanted the sixth prince to restrain the prince, but now that the sixth prince is defeated, isn't Xiao Wu going to confront the prince?
"Your Majesty, the imperial physician is here!" The palace maid led the imperial physician in, and then retreated cautiously.

The empress glanced at the imperial physician who was kneeling on the ground, lowered her eyes, and asked indistinctly, "How is the prince's health?"

"The prince's condition is very stable, and his body is gradually improving."

The queen's face turned cold, and she smiled instead: "Didn't you say that the medicine is not enough?"

The imperial doctor shuddered, and said in a steady voice: "Marquis Changping came twice more, His Highness seems to be taking medicine all the time, I found many reasons, His Highness refused to show the medicine to my ministers, so..."

"You don't know what medicine he's taking, and you don't know where the medicine came from. What's the use of me sending you to the Prince's Mansion?"

The imperial doctor froze, knowing that once the empress recognized him as a useless person, there would be no way out.Sweat broke out on his forehead, he thought about it, and said: "Even if His Highness's condition is stable, it will be difficult to eradicate it."

The queen gave an "oh" in interest.

The imperial doctor explained: "Although His Highness is unwilling to show us the medicine, he asks us to take his pulse every once in a while, so I know that His Highness's blocked meridians have not improved much, but the medicines he took are continuously being provided to His Highness." Vitality, that’s why His Highness’s condition has not deteriorated.” He paused and said, “The medicine I gave His Highness before also had this effect, but it was only three-point poisonous. A lot of disadvantages, plus long-term use of those medicines, the body's ability to absorb these medicines has weakened a lot. I don't know what kind of medicine His Highness took this time, which can provide such great vitality without leaving poison !"

The queen also lowered her head in thought, and said after a while: "You go back to the Prince's Mansion, if there is any change in his body, please notify me immediately."

"Yes."

The imperial doctor left the Kunning Palace, only to find that his back was wet with sweat again. In fact, there was one more thing he hadn't told the queen. It's just that His Highness's body changed again and again. Who knows what medicine Chang Pinghou will find?So this is his hole card, and I hope this hole card can save his life by then.

What the imperial physician and the queen didn't know was that when the imperial physician went out from the side door wrapped in a black cloth, there were people from the Prince's Mansion in the distance watching the imperial physician snaking into his yard, only to turn around.

The prince sat under the lamp, waved back the man in black, looked at the lamp, his face was indistinguishable, his nanny said that although the queen mother didn't like him very much when he was young, when she looked at him, there was a gleam in her eyes. The smile is always sincere, but it seems that everything has changed since the fifth brother was born.

That memorial...

The prince's heart moved, but he shook his head again, that was the next plan!
No matter what these people think, the Jiang family is very happy!
In the middle of the night, Mr. Jiang Er and Mr. Jiang Liu stayed up and looked at the gifts they had finally brought out. Mr. Jiang Liu happily said, "Second Brother, this gift should be enough, right?"

The second master Jiang stroked his beard and nodded, "When we meet Chang Pinghou tomorrow, we should bring our things and prepare the gifts for the Liang family. When we see someone tomorrow, the boss will bring someone to deliver to the Liang family. "

"Will it appear that we are too powerful?" Uncle Jiang asked with some concern.

"No." Master Jiang Liu sat on the chair with a smile on his face and said, "I have talked with him a few times. Although he is a scholar, he is also a straightforward person. What can we say? If we play tricks on him, he will not like it." gone?"

Mr. Jiang, who was sitting by the side, snorted coldly, "Such a mercenary person is not worthy of being a scholar. After all, he is from the countryside, and he can do things for others with a little money. If he hadn't been lucky enough to climb to the Marquis of Changping, He's not even worthy to carry my shoes! It's a disgrace!"

Mr. Jiang Liu's blue veins twitched, and he smiled back in anger: "Could it be that someone like you is worthy of Confucius?"

Master Jiang Er also felt that he was too ignorant of good and bad, so he didn't step up to fight as usual.

Third Master Jiang glanced at Master Jiang Liu complacently, and said with disdain: "How can you, a person who smells like copper, say the word 'Confucian Saint'?"

Master Jiang Liu suddenly calmed down, looked at Third Master Jiang with a sneering smile and said, "So this is your 'Sage Kong'? Did Confucius teach you to disrespect your elders? Is it true that I am Uncle Six? The blood of the family is right? You look down on the Jiang family and feel that the Jiang family is not worthy of talking about 'Confucius', so what are you talking about now? Or are you saying that 'Confucius' taught you to deceive teachers and destroy ancestors?"

Third Master Jiang's complexion changed, he looked at the three of them lividly, seeing that the servants in the hall hadn't retreated, and were still standing there straight, he was even more annoyed that he taught him a lesson in front of so many people!And it also revealed the scar he cared about the most!
Looking at the servant who was still standing in the hall, his eyes flashed sternly. After all, he is a merchant, and the servant is so ruthless!

Second Master Jiang's complexion was not very good either. He glanced at Third Master Jiang indifferently. He thought that he was a scholar. Maybe he could talk to Liang Yilin. He didn't expect that Liang Yilin didn't like him, but he was straight-tempered. The sixth younger brother and the honest eldest nephew look at each other differently.

The third nephew has always been brooding about his parentage, he knows it, but he didn't expect that the Jiang family is like this in his heart, so in the past [-] years, the Jiang family has devoted themselves to nurturing and raised a white-eyed wolf?

There was a chill in his lowered eyes, so don't blame him for being cruel. The Jiang family can keep useless people, but they will never keep people who are harmful to the Jiang family!
Looking at the third younger brother who left in a huff, Uncle Jiang was also very helpless. His grandfather was a wise man, but he did not expect to have children and grandchildren like the third uncle and the third brother.

In order to enhance the status of the Jiang family, the head of the Jiang family asked his second son to marry the daughter of a down-and-out scholar. Unexpectedly, the second son was controlled by the daughter-in-law, who said that studying is the most important thing all day long, and the rest are things outside the body. The son is ashamed of the Jiang family. He reaches out to the family for food and drink on weekdays, but he looks down on the Jiang family.

The raised daughter was brought up according to the "Girl's Commandment", and she hardly stayed with the sisters in the family. If they met but couldn't help but sneer, the family members would detour when they saw them.It was even more uncomfortable for the third uncle to be caught in it.

And grandpa couldn't manage the affairs of his son's house, so the third aunt got even worse. Every time the mother and the third aunt came back from meeting, they would complain to their father for their grievances!
(End of this chapter)