Brother Donggong

When I got to the front hall, Li Fang was drinking tea there.

Standing next to him are two young eunuchs, both of whom are from my palace, and these two people waited on them very carefully.

This Li Fang was with my father when he came to the throne, and he was older than my father.The tens of thousands of eunuchs in the inner court are all his disciples and grandchildren in terms of seniority, and even Liu Congrong would kneel down and call him "godfather".

He has kind eyebrows, round face, narrow eyes, smiles often and has a good temper.When my father was angry, he persuaded him, and when others did wrong things in front of my father, he protected him. I quite like him.

Because he is better at talking than my father.

So I went over, drooping my eyes, and said with a bitter face, "Eunuch Li, I'm so sick that I can't go out. You can help me go back to the prince."

When Li Fang saw me, he just said, "I know His Highness is sick, so I couldn't get up, but the prince summoned..." He smiled, as if to comfort me, "Let's see the prince first."

A soft nail pushed me back, how dare I say no again?

I could only follow him in despair, and entered the palace in a sedan chair.

The prince is in Yuzheng Palace.

As soon as I followed Li Fang into the hall, I heard Wen Zhan's voice.

"When the government is dull, the people are honest; when the government is censored, the people are lacking.

When misfortune comes, fortune rests on it; when fortune comes, misfortune rests.

Who knows the best?

It has no righteousness, righteousness turns into wonder, and kindness turns into demon.

People's fascination lasts for a long time.

Therefore, the sage is square but not cut, honest but not rough, straight but not sloppy, bright but not dazzling. "

Yuzheng Palace is still that Yuzheng Palace.

In the huge main hall, there are rows of bookcases. On the side next to the window, there are couches, desks, and benches, which have been wiped spotless.There are stacks of books, spread rice paper, well-ground Hui ink, Mi Fu's inkstone, and finely crafted Hu brushes on the desk.

Wen Zhan was sitting in front of the desk with his zither in his arms. He looked at the books spread out on the desk and asked the child in his arms, "This is a passage from Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching. Yue zither, you know what it says What do you mean?"

Yuezheng pouted, looked at the pages of the book seriously, then shook her head, "I don't know."

Wen Zhan heard us coming in, he looked up from the pages of the book, glanced at us, then lowered his head, touched the pages with his fingers, and said to Yuezheng, "Meng Bo, he said that the law and government are simple and clean, there is no tyranny, and fishing without drying up the river." , the monarch has no subjective assumptions.

Laozhuang pays attention to governing by doing nothing, and recuperates with the people.

According to the rhetoric of Shen Mo, a college student, since the three sage kings of China, Yao, Shun, and Yu, only the periods of Emperor Wen and Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty can be compared with them.What he advocated was nothing more than respectful and frugal monarchy, honest and honest folk customs, sound government and harmonious people, and the country is peaceful and the people are safe. "

Li Fang didn't speak, he led me in, saluted the prince, and stood aside with his hands down.

He doesn't speak, and neither do I.

The two of us are as safe as fish in the Yongding River.

That mouth is basically useless for anything other than panting.

The prince acted as if we didn’t exist at all, and he continued, “As for Chacha, what he’s talking about is nothing more than complicated punishments, the atrocities of the king of Jie and Zhou, the control of all officials, and the people of the world like slaves, and setting up all kinds of eyes and ears to guard against the people than fire and water. At this time, the world is full of cunning people.

When punishments are harsh and cruel officials prevail, those who are talented, courageous, and insightful will return to the mountains, or keep silent about state affairs. At this time, the rest are mediocrity, foolishness, envy and jealousy. people, or even only hawks and dogs.

If the political affairs are really caused by this, the country's energy is exhausted, so it is unbearable to ask again. "

ding ding ~~~

It's the trill of a spoon hitting the edge of a porcelain bowl.

I saw Liu Congrong coming in from the outside, holding a tray with both hands. Inside was a silver basin filled with crushed ice, and in the middle was a porcelain cup with tremella and lotus seed soup.

Liu Congrong first nodded at Li Fang who was poking at the door, then turned her face to look at me, lowered her eyelids, walked past me with her head down, and even farted.

I was taken aback.

Liu Congrong was as quiet as a wandering spirit.

He put the tray aside, and didn't dare to disturb Wen Zhan's lecture on the zither, so he quietly stepped back, took a white square towel from the side, and began to wipe the bottles and cans on the wooden lattice shelf.

Liu Ya has been serious since he was a child, and his skills in cleaning up the messy house are excellent.

When he was young, he followed the second prince, Yaoguang, and my second brother, Yaoguang, is now practicing in Wutai Mountain. His temper is exactly the same as that of the three thousand Buddhas, all the prosperity - like a dream bubble, like dew and like electricity.

To put it bluntly, he is not a mortal and has aura, but to put it bluntly, he is mentally ill.

He laughed out loud after reading the Buddhist scriptures with disheveled hair, and then tore off the pages that he thought were exquisite, and threw them all over the floor.

Those Buddhist scriptures are all written in Devanagari language, each word is twisted and twisted, and they look like the fish and insects sold at the foot of the north wall of the Temple of Heaven. Except for my second brother and his mother who became a monk since childhood, there is no third person in the entire Dazheng Palace. personal acquaintance.

Liu Congrong didn't know him either.

But he just had the ability to paste back page after page of Buddhist scriptures that he couldn't understand at all.

A book with hundreds of pages made Liu Congrong stick to it.

Later, he followed the prince, and he took care of the study in the East Palace.No matter how complicated or messy the study room was, he could keep it in order, and the prince couldn't do without him.

Yuezheng saw me standing next to me and wanted to rush over, but the crown prince pressed his shoulder. Yuezheng looked up at Wen Zhan, but didn't dare to move or speak.He sat obediently in Wen Zhan's arms, like a kitten.

The prince pointed to the page of the book again, and asked Yuezheng, "I said the meaning of the previous few sentences, Yuezheng, think about it for yourself, what does this 'no righteousness, righteousness becomes strange, and goodness turns into a demon' mean? "

Ding~~~~~~

Liu Congrong slipped his hand when he was packing his things, a jade bookmark hit the ground, and there was a trembling sound, the crown prince just slightly turned his cheek to that side, the corner of his eyes didn't catch Liu Congrong, Liu Congrong quickly knelt down , Li Fang went over to pick up the bookmark, put it back, the prince did not speak, Li Fang pulled Liu Congrong up, and he let Liu Congrong continue to clean up.

The prince turned a page.

The following pages are notes.

I am familiar with this book, I used to read it often in Yuzheng Palace, but I just couldn't read it.The language is written in a dark and unclear way. If there are ten people in one sentence, there are ten interpretations.It is really annoying that the public says the public is right, and the mother-in-law says that the woman is right. It is really not as good as "Xiuta Wild History".

The chubby zither pointed at the pages of the book, and said softly, "Odd, it's because it's weird; demon..." He looked up at Wen Zhan, "Sixth brother, do you want to explain this demon? There are better words than demon." explain?"

However, Wen Zhan didn't seem to be answering Yuezheng. He said, "If people's hearts are not righteous, they will do good with their intentions, but they will be sins. All good intentions will be misinterpreted as malicious by others."

"You spend your heart and soul for others, but he doesn't appreciate it."

The prince suddenly raised his head and stared at me, that look, like a bone-penetrating nail, pierced coldly into my heart.

He said, "Not only is it ungrateful, but it also breeds troubles and acts recklessly. Good deeds will eventually turn into monsters and disasters!"

clang! ~~~~~~~~~~~~

It is the evening drum and morning bell of the evening class of Huguo Temple in Yuanshan.

I took a step back in horror.

The prince smiled, as if he had just seen me, and said gently, "Chengyi is here. I haven't seen you for a few days, how are you doing? Yongjing is hot in summer, and you are not in good health. You need to rest more. Originally, I I don't want to ask you to come here, but, if you don't tell you some things in person, you won't listen to them."

"If, because you refused to listen, you became self-righteous and did something wrong...I'm afraid, it would not be as simple as drinking a glass of water and wine from Liu Congrong, Eunuch Liu, and bringing Chu Qiangsheng in."

Ding! ! ~~~~~~~

Liu Congrong shook his hand again, this time he knocked down the basin containing the crushed ice and smashed it on the ground, spilling the crushed ice all over the floor.

The prince looked at him sideways and said softly, "You are afraid."

Liu Congrong knelt on the ground with a puff, her forehead hit the floor, as if she was heartbroken and unable to speak. Prince S said, "Liu Congrong, what are you afraid of?

You are not on duty in the Supervisor of Rituals, but Li Fang, who is in charge of the Supervisor of Rituals, will give you some thin noodles.

When you go to pray for the palace with a 60-year-old Taidiao, everyone thinks you are from the East Palace. Even if I don’t know that you are going to pray for the palace, they will think that the prince let you go.Who made you the crown prince?

When you arrived at the palace, my notoriously tricky elder brother also drank your wine and fell ill from your fright. He lay in the palace for a few days and couldn’t control his subordinates, causing them to stir up trouble everywhere in Yongjing. , Trying to fish in troubled waters, cheat the sky! "

I was in a cold sweat listening to it.

At this point, wow! ! With a cry of ~~~~~~, the seventh younger brother Yuezheng was so frightened that he cried out.Wen Zhan hugged him, and said softly, "It's okay, it's okay, don't cry. Good boy Yuezheng, Brother Six and your brother Yi have something to say, you go back first?"

Yuezheng Xiaopang held him tightly, and wanted to shake his head, but he looked up at Wen Zhan, and nodded hastily again with tears in his eyes.Only then did Wen Zhan say, "Wei Jin, you send His Highness Seventh back first."

The Wenxiu little eunuch hurried over, took the zither from the prince's hand, looked at me at the gate of the palace, and hurriedly left with his head bowed.

Don't dare to say a word, dare not stay for a moment.

There was a dead silence in Yuzheng Palace.

But I saw Lu Zhi took a porcelain bottle and walked in from the outside.

"Based on my Dazheng's tax money, the collected money will be divided into ten parts, eight parts will go to the treasury, and two parts will go to them. The father and the emperor have recognized it, and Xiao Wang has also recognized it."

The prince paused, and then said, "Take a step back and say that seven points go to the treasury and three points go to them. The emperor gritted his teeth and accepted it. However, human nature is like turbulent water. Xiliu. No matter what things are, they are rolling away, and the desire is hard to fill."

"Li Fang!"

The prince said suddenly.

Li Fang bowed.

Wen Zhan said, "Show Chengyi the bad debts that Tiqi brought back from Jiangnan. Cui Bicheng has been operating in Jiangnan for seven years, and he has bribed about one million taels of silver, and the money he has entered is immeasurable. Tea, porcelain, silk, as well as copper and silver wares, covered half of the Zheng Dynasty's expenses! As an official businessman of the Yongjing Manufacturing Bureau, he is really worth it!"

Li Fang gave me a meaningful look, and led me to the side where there were four large wooden boxes filled with blue leather account books, one by one, neatly stacked.

I didn't move.

I just felt blurred in front of my eyes, and my ears began to buzz.

Then my body softened, and Li Fang quickly supported me, preventing me from collapsing on the floor.

The crown prince glanced at me and asked Li Fang, "What's wrong?"

Li Fang said hastily, "His Royal Highness has been ill for three days. If it's hot today, he must be dazed. The medicine has been decocted by the Imperial Medical Bureau, and Lu sent it directly. Just eat one cup."

The prince looked at me, his face was very ugly compared to mine, he nodded slightly.Li Fang hurriedly asked Lu Zhi to pour the medicinal juice from the porcelain bottle into the porcelain cup, and held it in front of me, and he asked me to sit on the embroidered pier beside me and drink it.

The prince suddenly said, "Let him drink standing up!

A dignified prince, an important minister of a country, his relatives are as rich as an enemy of the country, he has friends all over the world, implicated the cabinet, even the famous lonely minister Chu Qiangsheng was dragged into the water by him, such a person, he can stand! "