Fortunate Young Gentleman

Tang Ning has been reviewing countless memorials in the Shangshu Province these days. Although he seems to be living a fulfilling life, he feels empty inside.

In three years, the Tang family has fallen from the clouds to the dust, and there is no chance for them to make a comeback.

The murderer on that day has been beheaded. Tang Huai and Tang Qi have gone from being high-ranking officials to ordinary civilians, ashamed to show up in front of the public. For a family that once dominated the court, they paid a painful and almost unacceptable price.

He felt a little relieved after his revenge, but it was also very limited.

In his opinion today, even the Tang family in its heyday was no more than that. Kick the already declining Tang family out of the circle of the rich and powerful, and it would not gain much sense of existence.

Hatred has always occupied only a small corner in his heart. Tang Shui said something very right, people cannot always live in hatred. In Tang Ning's opinion, there are many things in this world that are far more important than hatred.

Thinking of Tang Shui, Tang Ning felt a little lucky. Fortunately, when he returned to Beijing this time, she had taken her mother to Jiangnan to relax. When they came back, the affairs of the Tang family had already been settled.

They were born and raised in the Tang family. Unlike Tang Ning, they had more or less an inseparable feeling for their former family.

It was a day off today, and Tang Ning did not go anywhere, but just stayed at home.

Fang Xinyue came to see Xiao Xiao again today. I don’t know where the old beggar took her to experience this time, but she hasn’t come back yet.

Without the two of them chattering in her ears, Tang Ning felt that the house was much quieter.

The court was not quiet at all. One wave had not settled, and another wave rose.

These days, Prince Duan, who rarely showed up, didn’t know what was wrong with him, and he walked in front of people again.

In fact, everyone has almost tacitly agreed that Prince Duan is the prince selected by His Majesty. Therefore, some officials in the court have been deliberately close to Prince Duan since Prince Kang was deposed. In a short period of time, many officials and dignitaries have gathered around him.

It is precisely because of this that even without the Tang family, Prince Duan's power in the court has been as stable as Mount Tai.

In the past few days, Prince Duan, who didn't know what was wrong, and his vassals suddenly broke the norm and began to attack Prince Kang and Prince Huai for various inexplicable reasons, which puzzled many people including Tang Ning.

Prince Kang has been excluded from the imperial power. Although Prince Huai often acts in the court, judging from the attitude of Emperor Chen towards him, he did not list Prince Huai as a candidate for the prince at all. Prince Huai could not pose a threat to Prince Duan at all.

In this situation, Prince Duan suddenly went crazy, like a mad dog, barking at Prince Kang and Prince Huai, biting whoever he caught. This was the most intense time between him and Prince Kang.

Regarding this matter, officials in the court generally believed that Prince Duan might want to kill all the princes in the capital to feel at ease. With his cruelty, the royal family might have to repeat the mistakes of more than 20 years ago.

It was miserable enough for Prince Kang to go from a prince to a successor prince. He had to face so many impeachments every day. He was obviously tired of dealing with it and looked haggard.

As for Prince Huai, he had not come to court for several days. He neither refuted nor responded to Prince Duan's impeachment attacks. He was strong and arrogant, and he remained unchanged in the face of changes.

But Prince Huai had to come to the morning court today.

Because what was to be discussed today was the position of the Imperial College Jijiu. The rank of the Imperial College Jijiu was not low. Although the actual power was limited to the small piece of land of the Imperial College, the people in the Imperial College were the future flowers of the State of Chen, the mainstay of the court, and the position of the Imperial College Jijiu was not something that anyone could sit on.

The Imperial College was originally under the jurisdiction of Prince Duan. In a political struggle a few years ago, Prince Kang won it. Although Tang Qi was transferred there later, he was suppressed by Prince Duan everywhere. The control of the Imperial College was still in the hands of Prince Kang.

Later, Prince Kang fell and Prince Huai took over the Imperial College. Not long after, Tang Qi was transferred again. The new Imperial College Jijiu had not yet been determined. All the affairs of the Imperial College were handled by Prince Huai. Naturally, he could not be absent from such a major event.

At the morning court today, Prince Duan still launched a fierce attack on Prince Kang and Prince Huai. Some of them were nitpicking, and some were fabricated and fictitious. In the end, even Emperor Chen couldn't help it and told him to shut up and stay aside.

The position of the Imperial College Jijiu was over at the end of the morning court, and the officials did not discuss the result.

The reason is that since Tang Ning walked in the six ministries, the transfer of senior officials in the court of Chen State has become a common thing. When a large number of senior officials fall, there will be corresponding officials promoted.

The Imperial College Jijiu is a third-rank official position, and is eligible for this position. Before this, at least a fourth-rank official seal is required.

Now, senior officials have their own duties, and the practice of robbing Peter to pay Paul is no longer allowed. Compared with the affairs of the Imperial College, the duties of those senior officials are obviously more important.

So Emperor Chen simply put the matter aside, and the affairs of the Imperial College were handed over to King Huai to manage.

When leaving the court, Tang Ning happened to walk out of the hall with King Huai. King Huai tilted his head and glanced at him, smiling: "I haven't congratulated Lord Tang on his promotion yet."

Tang Ning said politely: "It's all your majesty's love."

Among the three princes, although he and King Huai have no friendship, they are not like King Kang and King Duan who are incompatible.

Perhaps because the two have something in common, he has never had any bad feelings towards King Huai.

For example, both of them are lazy, both of them spoil their wives, and both of them have been married for several years without children...

Of course, Tang Ning has no children because the Tang family may have a big change in the next two years, and he does not plan to have one for the time being. Prince Huai has been married for so long, and the couple loves each other, but they still have no children. It may be purely because of physical problems.

In any case, men who spoil their wives are generally not bad, which is probably an important reason why Tang Ning can never hate him.

"Although my father does love Lord Tang very much, this is what Lord Tang deserves." Prince Huai smiled and walked out of the palace with Tang Ning, but did not say anything more.

At the gate of the palace, Prince Duan looked gloomy. Looking at Prince Huai who was talking and laughing with Tang Ning, he gritted his teeth and said, "It turned out to be you!"

...

For some reason, Prince Duan was like a mad dog a few days ago, grabbing Prince Kang and Prince Huai and biting them fiercely. In the past two days, he let Prince Kang go and increased his firepower on Prince Huai.

Emperor Chen has given Prince Huai many tasks in the past two years. Prince Huai is in charge of some less important departments in the court. Prince Duan cannot do anything to Prince Huai, so he points the finger at the officials under his various departments, causing many people in the court to avoid him like the plague in recent days.

In the Ministry of Shangshu, there have been countless impeachment memorials handed over from Prince Duan's subordinates in recent days. Tang Ning saw them and threw them aside.

The right chancellor of the Shangshu came over with a pile of memorials, and finally couldn't help complaining: "Is His Highness Prince Duan crazy these days? Did Prince Huai offend him again?"

Tang Ning shook his head and said, "Who knows..."

In the eyes of everyone, Prince Duan is no different from a mad dog now. Who can understand the mind of a mad dog? Maybe he just said a few more words to him after Prince Huai left the court that day. This is not impossible...