The Royal Merchant of the Red Chamber

After many years, Xue Pan finally knew why Tu Zhen was so obsessed with attacking Qianxiang Kingdom.And at this time, he and Tu Zhen already had their common heir—even though the child was not born to them.

The afternoon sun became brighter and warmer, and it was still the majestic Qianqing Palace, but it was a little more warm and human than in previous years.

The crown prince Tuxuan, who has grown into a young boy, is holding a nursing baby in his arms, and looks helplessly at his little companion, Xue Yu, who is also holding a crying baby.

"Obviously they are twin brothers, why is the one in my arms so much thinner than the one in yours and still cries so much." Xue Yu said angrily, "No, I will change with you." .”

Tu Xuan sighed, stretched out his hand and patted the little baby who had finally been put to sleep, and said, "Probably the baby in your arms is hungry, why don't you give him to the nanny for a try?"

The nurse at the side immediately came up in fear and trepidation, and said with an apologetic smile: "Second master of the Xue family, why don't you hand over the little prince to me first. I think the second master is tired after holding him for a long time, why don't you sit down and rest first?"

Xue Yu gave the nanny a resentful look, curled her lips even more aggrieved, and patted the little nephew in her arms clumsily like Tu Xuan, but the little nephew cried even harder.Xue Yu had no choice but to hand the baby in his arms to the nanny, and said in his mouth: "Quickly tell him not to cry. My head hurts from crying."

The nanny responded with trepidation.

Xue Yu stared at the sleeping baby in Tu Xuan's hands even more dissatisfied, wrinkled his nose and said, "Obviously I am their uncle, and I am a generation older than you in terms of intimacy. Why don't you listen to me?"

Tu Xuan couldn't help laughing, and said, "I was used to taking care of Tu Yang when I was young, maybe I can become more proficient."

A simple sentence reminded Xue Yu of the crown prince's dissatisfaction in the past, and said awkwardly: "I didn't mean to—"

"It's okay?" Tu Xuan curled the corners of his mouth lightly, and said with a fond smile, "It's been so many years, and I've almost forgotten about it."

"Have almost forgotten what?" Tu Yang, who had just graduated from school, walked briskly into the side hall, looked at Tu Xuan and Xue Yu, and asked, "Why are Father Huang and Taifu missing? "

Before Tu Xuan could speak, Xue Yu curled the corners of his lips mischievously, pointed at the Nuan Pavilion in the back hall and said with a smile, "I'm taking a nap inside!"

"Oh!" Tu Yang stretched out his voice and revealed a tacit smile.Just when he was about to say something, he heard a faint but majestic voice from the apse scolding: "As a prince, every word and action represents the royal family. How can you do such a frivolous act?"

Tu Yang stuck out his tongue secretly, looked up, and sure enough, he saw the older and more majestic father and the still smiling and very happy Taifu beside him.

Unable to restrain his hands, he said, "I've seen my father, I've seen my grand tutor."

Tu Zhen frowned a little dissatisfied, but also knew that his young man especially didn't like the word "mother queen", so he sighed and pretended not to know.

Scanning the little baby in Tu Xuan's arms indifferently, Tu Zhen's serious face softened a little, and he walked up to him with his hands behind his back, looked at it carefully for a moment, and said, "It seems to be a little fatter."

Behind him, Xue Pan laughed and said, "It's better to be fatter, and the child is fatter and cute. Don't think of Xuan'er, who is thin and thin at a young age, it looks like he has been abused."

After a pause, he pointed to his younger brother Xue Yu and said, "Look at how stocky our children are, they look like they are used to being pampered."

After speaking, Xue Qu, who was a little baby fat, puffed out his chest proudly.But the eleven or twelve-year-old boy had to put on an air of arrogance, which made people smile knowingly.

Tu Zhen's face turned dark, seeing Tu Xuan and Tu Yang, who were holding back their laughter, snorted coldly, but did not dare to lose their temper at Xue Pan, who was open-mouthed, so he had to ask Tu Xuan, "Today's news?" Can the review of the memorial be completed, and can the homework assigned by Mrs. Lin be completed?"

Tu Xuan and Tu Yang's faces froze, and Tu Xuan said, "Father, didn't you just come down to court?"

Tu Yang also frowned and said, "Teacher Lin also just let me go from get out of class."

Tu Zhen said with a cold face: "There is no limit to the sea of ​​learning. If you don't advance, you will retreat. As older princes, you should set an example and set an example for your younger brothers."

Tu Xuan lowered his head and curled his lips disapprovingly, while Tu Yang looked at Xue Pan pitifully.

Sure enough, Xue Pan immediately said: "They are all princes. They have to complete the memorials you gave them every day, and they also have to understand the people's livelihood and current affairs. They don't need to take the number one prize. What are you doing all the time studying so hard?"

As he said that, he hooked the corners of his mouth very complacently, reached out his hand to stop Tu Zhen's shoulder, and said more and more frivolously: "I haven't studied for a few days, and now I can't even recite the thousand-character essay. His Majesty the Emperor transferred it to his hands, this is the ability. Reading books is useless."

Tu Xuan and Tu Yang couldn't help bursting into laughter.

Tu Zhen's face turned red in an instant, and he gave Xue Pan a vicious look, and said a little uncomfortably: "My child, what do you say you have these things that you don't have?"

Xue Pan hooked the corner of his mouth disapprovingly.Tu Zhen wanted to say something, but Dai Quan came in and bowed and said: "Your Majesty Qizuo, Prince Zhonglian, Prince Zhongdun, Prince Zhongchun and Prince Zhongrui brought the princess and several princes to meet."

Tu Zhen stopped talking embarrassingly, and ordered casually, "Let them in."

After a while, the prince of the Tu family walked in with his family.Seeing the scene in the palace, Tu Huang teased and said, "Yo, what are you doing?"

Xue Pan ran up to Tu Huang, looked at the baby in his arms and said, "Look at what your child looks like, has he gained weight?"

As he said, he leaned forward to look at it carefully, and shook his head for a long time and said, "Not as fat as our family."

Then, he scanned the other heirs of the princes one by one, and finally shook his head and said, "Except for Zhongchun's baby who is a little fatter, why do your children look like they have been abused?"

Tu Huang rolled his eyes uninterestedly, and opened his mouth to argue: "This is called a jade tree facing the wind, warm and tall. It's not like your family's fine tradition, each one looks like it's inflated."

Hearing this, Xue Pan didn't do much, but Xue Baochai, who became more and more plump after giving birth to a son, couldn't help but blushed, spit lightly, bowed and smiled and said, "I'll take Cheng'er and go to the harem to meet Mrs. Empress Concubine. Empress Dowager has not seen her grandson for a long time, and she misses her very much."

Tu Zhen nodded in agreement, and Xue Pan said, "If your family is willing, you can take the concubine to live in the palace for two days, which can be regarded as a family happiness."

When Prince Zhongchun and Xue Baochai heard the words, their eyes lit up, and they immediately looked at Tu Zhen.Tu Zhen nodded and replied: "The rules in the palace allow the empress dowager to live in the palace of her adult heirs. But the time should not be too long, at most ten days a month."

Prince Zhongchun nodded excitedly immediately, and said, "Ten days are enough, thank you, Your Majesty, for your compassion."

As he spoke, he immediately urged Xue Baochai to go to the harem to announce the good news, so that his mother and concubine could also be happy.

A few people beside Tu Huang asked impatiently: "Then we..."

Tu Zhen said indifferently: "The rules in the palace naturally treat everyone equally."

As a result, the princes became more and more delighted, and the young eunuchs of Qianqing Palace quickly went to Taifei Yi, Liang Taifei and other palaces to announce the good news, and asked for some rewards by the way.

All the princes in this room were given a banquet by Tu Zhen, and they sat around the side hall.Because of Xue Pan, the rule of not talking when eating or sleeping is gone in the palace.The princes, Lin Mozhi, Tu Zhen, and Xue Pan sat around and chatted, and Xue Pan ordered the maidservant to spread a large piece of soft and smooth Persian carpet on the ground, and put the two little princes and the princes of the palace together. Put them all on the carpet, and watched with a smile on a few milk dolls crawling around in the store.

Xue Pan looked at it for a while, and couldn't help getting up.Randomly took a cloth tiger and squatted around the carpet to tease.As a result, the little buns crawled and played around on their own, and no one paid any attention to him.

Xue Pan's face turned dark, and after thinking for a while, he took a hand bell that could be shaken from the baby's treasure chest.The crisp sound of jingling resounded in the hall.Several little dolls immediately followed the reputation.The hand bell was made of colorful and brilliant colors, which attracted the doll's attention very much.Now there was such a crisp sound again, several little dolls crawled over here at the same time, trying to catch the bell in Xue Pan's hand.

As a result, Xue Pan became ill-intentioned, and immediately stood up and shook the bell vigorously, but the dolls couldn't reach it at all.Pulling Xue Pan's clothes to make him squat down, Xue Pan ignored it.The dolls stared at the bell with hunger and hunger, and after looking at it for a while, they suddenly burst into tears.

After one little doll burst into tears, the other little dolls also burst into tears as if they were having fun.For a moment, the quiet and solemn Palace of Mental Cultivation was awakened by the sound of a group of babies crying.Tu Zhen, who was sitting chatting aside, and several princes shook their heads and sighed at the same time.Lin Mozhi said, "Why is Pan'er still acting so frivolously and casually in her [-]s now?"

When Tu Huang heard the words, he immediately glanced at Tu Zhen, and said meaningfully: "It goes without saying, someone must be pampering on purpose."

Tu Zhen coughed lightly, got up and walked in the direction of the buns pretending to be unintentional.I saw Xue Pan sitting on the carpet with a guilty face, holding two crying babies in his arms, two crying babies on his lap, and trying to carry a crying baby on his back , the maidservants at the side were flustered by him, they asked for some bells to coax the buns, and some nurses to stop the little buns.As a result, all actions failed.

Seeing the figures of Tu Zhen and the princes coming over, Xue Pan blinked a little guilty, and opened his mouth to argue: "I didn't expect these buns to be so funny. I just wanted to make them move more, but they all cried."

Tu Zhen shook his head helplessly, knelt down and picked up a little doll, and patted it with ease, but after a couple of times, the doll stopped crying.He stared at Tu Zhen without blinking his big round and dark eyes, kept playing with the beads on Tu Zhen's neck with his small hands, opened his small mouth and smiled, and even moved his lips to reveal his cheeks Two small dimples look cuter.

Tu Huang smiled lightly and said, "Okay! The Holy Majesty is indeed a Holy Majesty, with extraordinary talents, and he is so proficient at coaxing children."

As he said that, he picked up his own little bun as if showing off, but the bun really didn't show face. It was just a twitching fake cry on Xue Pan's lap, but it burst into tears when it was in Tu Huang's hand.Seeing this, Tu Zhen snorted coldly, and glanced at Tu Huang more and more proudly.

Tu Huang snorted twice in a face-saving manner, and the fellow beside him hurriedly took a step forward to take the bun, and patted it lightly with his big hand twice, and the child stopped crying.Tu Huang said more and more uncomfortably: "I am also the father of this child, why is there such a big difference in treatment."

Before he could finish a sentence, Tu borrowed one hand and squeezed Tu Huang's lower back fiercely. Tu Huang hissed in pain, and immediately fell silent.

As if the rest of the people were not exhausted, each family took the dolls from each family and coaxed them.Just borrowing this ability, he let out a breath of relief.Tu Huang said more and more dissatisfied: "It seems that we are so shameless. Both of us are the princes of the dynasty, if we talk about the right family..."

What followed was a lot of Lori's long-winded clichés, and everyone's ears were almost callused.It's just that due to the rules of the royal family, it is impossible for Tu Zhen to agree to Tu Huang's request to be a concubine, so he has to pretend not to hear.

Tu Huang just muttered for a while as if venting, and knew how unreasonable his request was.Anyway, what he and Tujue lack now is just a title. In terms of the distance between them, they are already on the same clan, but they are closer than the other princesses and princes!

Seeing this, Prince Zhongchun immediately changed the subject and said: "In terms of freedom and freedom, the sum of the few of us can't compare to the fact that we still have the name of confinement, but we travel all over the world with the concubine Shi, going all over the world. big brother."

"That's right, our group of serious princes are all locked up in the capital. It's really uncomfortable to think that he, the eldest prince who is locked up by clear laws, can wander all over the world." Prince Zhongdun also echoed with admiration. .Then he grabbed Lin Mozhi's hand and said, "I'm still thinking about when we can go back to Jiangnan again. After all, it's your hometown, the place where you were born and raised."

Lin Mozhi lightly hooked the corners of his lips, and said with a peaceful smile: "The place where the heart is at ease is the hometown."

The crowd curled their lips in disgust, but Xue Pan sighed and said, "When you say that, I miss Jia Baoyu a little bit. He is now the most famous person in the world. The so-called sentimental son is empty-minded, I really don't know Yunnan What does Dali look like?"

Tu Zhen suddenly said, "If you want to take a look, it's not impossible."

Xue Pan's eyes lit up, and he looked at Tu Zhen with hope.Tu Zhen smiled and said, "My ancestors had six tours to the south. Now that I am an emperor, it is reasonable if I want to tour the world."

Hearing the words, he frowned and said, "It's just that the emperor goes on tour and makes a big move. It's not beautiful if it wastes money and people."

What he didn't say was that a few years ago, Tu Zhen dismissed countless officials on the grounds that the four kings and eight princes took over from the previous emperor, so Ku Kong took office.It's only been a few decades now, and now it's time to inspect the world, I'm afraid it will remind people of what happened back then, so it's hard to stop Youyou's mouth.

Seeing this, Xue Pan immediately said, "I can solve this—as long as the Holy Spirit makes a decree and orders our Xue family to take over."

After all, Xue's shops are all over the country, and the most important thing is money.

Prince Zhongdun also nodded and said: "If you don't cultivate palaces, bridges, roads and streets, it won't cost much if you just pick up the driver."

After all, in those years when the local reception was inspected by the superiors, there were also a lot of routine ice charcoal tributes.

Tu Zhen nodded and replied: "It's just to inspect my beautiful rivers and mountains in person. The takeaway can also be casual and open-minded. If it's a waste of people and money, it's not interesting to take the opportunity to embezzle. "

Everyone nodded.

So Tu Zhen, under Xue Pan's instigation, immediately drafted an imperial decree, preparing to tell all the ministers about the inspection by the emperor.It also ordered that local officials be prohibited from repairing palaces, bridges, roads and streets in the name of pick-up.Even the matter of picking up the driver in each place is mostly in charge of the queen's mother's family.In the end, it was clearly stated that if any officials embezzle money and oppress the people by taking advantage of the holy car, once they are found out, they will be dismissed and the nine clans will be exterminated.

Such a severe warning immediately dispelled the eagerness of many officials.Today's Holy Majesty is good at scheming, deep in resourcefulness, and has sticky sticks in his hands. Xuedizi and the three spies of Jinyiwei are investigating all over the country.Almost thousands of miles away, the magistrate of a county married Aunt Fang, and the sage could know it in Beijing.Under such a powerful intelligence search, local officials hardly dared to make too much movement.Fortunately, the Holy Majesty also knows how to be flexible, and the usual filial piety every year is tolerable, as long as you don't do it too much, the Holy Majesty will turn a blind eye and close one eye.

So the news of Shengjia's southern tour was just like a small stone thrown into the water among the local officials, causing ripples, but that's all.After waking up, the officials of each government still did their own work, and no one paid attention to this.

On the contrary, the senior officials in Beijing were very opposed to Shengshang's southern tour.On the grounds that the son of a daughter can't sit down, they expressed their feelings one after another, hoping that the Holy Majesty can dismiss this idea.However, Tu Zhen has been on the throne for more than ten years, and the court has long held it firmly in his hands.Although several ministers jumped up and down, their objections were invalid.Under Tu Zhen's insistence, he had no choice but to give up resentfully, and instead arranged for the specific matters of the Holy Lord's southern tour.

So one month later, Shengshang made a southern tour, accompanied by Prince Zhonglian, Prince Zhongdun, Prince Zhongrui, Prince Zhongchun, King Dongning, King Beijing and the princess, Prince Tuxuan Jianguo, Prince Zhongyu, Prince Zhongli, Xue Zhizhang, Minister of the Household Department, Wang Ziteng, a scholar of Longtuge University, and Lin Ruhai, a scholar of Longtuge University, Shangshu of the Ministry of Officials, spread the imperial decree throughout the country.

At the same time, Prince Zhongyong, who was far away on the southwest border, looked at the secret letter in his hand and sighed silently, feeling a little headache.

Because of the secret letter, His Majesty Tu Zhen casually said: "Second Brother is ready to pick you up, I will wait for you."

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