The daily routine of the ancient imperial examination

After the news that King Ming bought the storybook, coupled with the other party's strong promotion of the newspaper, this made the eldest prince very unhappy with Lu Xiuyuan.

The eldest prince already had a lot of opinions when the rumors first spread, but for the sake of the old Shoufu, he didn't take too much aim at Lu Xiuyuan.

It's just that King Ming acted more and more arrogantly later on, and the second prince spread some anxious messages around him from time to time, and now the eldest prince was completely annoyed.

The other party not only directly labeled Lu Xiuyuan as a spy, but also ordered Wu Zhangyuan to drive him out of the Wu residence.

This is an obvious provocation, how can the First Prince do this?

His master and senior brothers came forward one after another to persuade him to do his homework. Lu Erlang was deliberately framed by the second prince to sow discord between the two parties, so that the first prince would not believe in the enemy's trick.

But with the character of the eldest prince, if he could listen to other people's opinions, he wouldn't be a prince now.

Seeing that the eldest prince could not be persuaded, his senior brother turned around to comfort Lu Xiuyuan. They all knew that he was innocent, and they just had to wait for the limelight to pass.

Lu Xiuyuan knew that this matter would come to fruition soon, so he didn't care about these things at all, and instead persuaded his master and senior brother that there is no need to be too serious about Prince Fa, just do what you can.

During this time, he went to the Hanlin Academy to check in every day, and then began to record in the books based on the words and deeds of the old emperor recorded by others.

His compiling duties were to master the history of the country, master the actual records, record the words and deeds of the emperor, lecture on the history of scriptures, and draft manuscripts about ceremonies.

However, due to various factors, he is now only responsible for sorting out the daily life of the emperor recorded in the cursive script of the official words and deeds. He is in a sensitive period. With this job, he can be regarded as a good ear, and he can know a lot of secrets in the palace.

For example, now, he has been indifferent by the Eldest Prince, and he doesn't know what the other party is doing, but due to work reasons, when Lu Xiuyuan sorted out yesterday's official cursive script, he easily knew what the Eldest Prince did.

Xiaohan, the eldest prince made a fool of himself during the banquet in the palace, which made the old emperor feel dissatisfied.

The cursive script even recorded the old emperor's black face several times, which is really too detailed.

Empty his mind, Lu Xiuyuan is now an emotionless copying machine.

A few days later, he soon found out on the Internet that the second prince had regained the favor of the old emperor, and the first prince had been put in limbo for the time being.

Chaotang's remarks immediately changed another weathervane.

The power of the ancient emperors is really powerful. When they say that a person is good, everyone pursues it together, and when they despise a person, everyone also adds insult to injury.

Although he hadn't met the First Prince these days, but according to his character, he shouldn't be living a very comfortable life these days.

The eldest prince was indeed living an uncomfortable life. He would watch the moon and make paper kites with the old emperor during the Mid-Autumn Festival. In just a short period of time, the other party suddenly seemed to be a different person, which was unpredictable.

Xiaohan had a party, and the weather was getting colder. He obviously wanted to persuade his father to drink some strong wine to warm up his body, but he was labeled as not caring about the other party's body. He asked himself what was his intention?

When he heard the questioning from the second prince beside him, and the concern from the other side, the eldest prince was stunned, obviously his father likes to drink the most, why are they acting like this now?

The eldest prince didn't understand, so he could only look at the old emperor, and the other party took the opportunity to suppress the tail that the eldest prince had raised recently. This time, he must be on the side of the second prince, so the eldest prince didn't understand even more.

His subordinates couldn't solve the confusion for the time being, and asked the old chief assistant, the other party felt that the emperor might want to care, even if the other party liked to drink, as a son, he should at least try to persuade him to drink less, whether he listened or not was out of consideration.

But is this really the case?The eldest prince always felt that it was impossible. He seemed to have vaguely understood the meaning of the old emperor. The other party can praise whoever he wants. When he likes you, you are right even if you do something wrong. When you don't like you, even if you are right. will be wrong.

At this meeting, many people suggested that Lu Xiuzhuan, who had disappeared for a while, come back and find a way to regain the favor of the Holy Majesty. After all, the other party was able to reverse the certainty of the matter in the previous Yellow River incident, and made the Second Prince disgusted. .

But because of the previous incident, the eldest prince hated the people from the second prince's side, and he didn't want to hear Lu Xiuyuan's name again no matter what.

Even if others said that it might be a scheming scheme by the second prince, the first prince didn't bother to tell the difference, after all, he has been here for so many years, and he is not inferior to Lu Xiuyuan.

Therefore, Lu Xiuyuan was completely left out in the cold, even during the Chinese New Year.

On the eve of New Year's Eve, the First Prince's Mansion held a dinner party, and all the close officials were invited to attend, while at the Wu Mansion, the First Prince personally came to invite the old Chief Assistant and Wu Zhangyuan to the First Prince's Mansion.

As for Lu Xiuyuan and the others in the side courtyard, they were directly ignored.

Hearing the noise of carriages and horses in the outer courtyard, Shi Yunchen simply closed all the windows of the room tightly.

"This eldest prince is too bad. Even if you don't verify the rumors, you will just pretend that you are collaborating with the enemy. If the other party really becomes the emperor in the future, the court will be turned upside down."

Lu Xiuyuan was sitting on a chair drinking tea at this time, and now he couldn't help laughing when he heard the young master's complaints: "Let him go, anyway, the matter is coming to an end soon."

"This stalemate has been going on for decades, will it end so soon now?" Shi Yunchen was a little unbelieving.

After hearing this, he put the teacup back on the table with a hint of uncertainty in his tone.

"Duke Ming said that before the spring plowing, it shouldn't be much different, right? We'll just wait for the news."

He didn't know what the second prince's plan was, and he could only deduce it from the first prince's reaction. The other party seemed to be forcing the first prince to jump over the wall.

Sure enough, after the party on New Year's Eve, his senior brother secretly found him.

"Erlang, can you think of a way to make His Highness regain His Majesty's favor?"

The other party knew that Lu Xiuyuan was not favored by the First Prince now, but he couldn't just watch the First Prince fall into a doomed situation, right?

That's why his senior brother secretly found Lu Xiuyuan after the banquet.

Seeing the other party's nervous expression, he couldn't help wiping the cold sweat off his forehead with a handkerchief, and combined with what King Ming said before, he had a guess in his heart.

"Could it be that the eldest prince wants to force the palace?"

When the words fell to the ground, Senior Brother Wu took a breath, and threw himself in front of Lu Xiuyuan and tightly covered his mouth with his palms.

"Senior brother be careful!"

It seems that the previous banquet was discussing this matter.

Lu Xiuyuan is well aware of the pressure the eldest prince is under now. He has been the eldest son and the first son for decades, but now he is middle-aged, and he still doesn't know what the result will be in the future.

Either succeed in succeeding to the throne, or replace the second prince to succeed, their family will end up miserable.

This kind of pressure will increase with age, not only the eldest prince, but also the second prince may have this kind of pressure.

However, the opponent's head is better than that of the first prince, so they can only delay as much as possible, but now that there are more and more uncertain factors, the second prince and the others can only act as soon as possible.

Not to mention the bloody means of coercing the palace, it is easy to leave a bad impression. It is better to be the oriole behind the praying mantis, using various public opinions and the emperor's dislike to confuse the emotions of the eldest prince, and let the other party coerce the palace. He will finally pick another Cheap.

After Lu Xiuyuan said that he would not mention that word again, his senior brother took off the palm he had been covering before.

"This matter cannot be known by anyone. Now everyone is persuading the First Prince to give up this idea. As long as he regains His Majesty's favor, the other party will definitely not be playing tricks."

"I'm afraid it will be difficult..." Lu Xiuyuan poured cold water on it.

"The First Prince is burning with anger and rationality. According to the personality of the other party, the more others persuade him to act, the more extreme he will be. For example, the previous rumors were originally suspected by the other party, but everyone said I was innocent. The other party Instead, I will feel that there is something wrong with me.”

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This is also true, Senior Brother Wu has a headache when he thinks about it.

"Junior, is there any good way to persuade him? This is a serious crime of beheading! Even if he succeeds in the wild history, he will still be wrong!"

Well, he can't do anything about it for the time being.

Now that he and King Ming have been honest with each other, he should let the matter of the eldest prince be ignored now, and there is no need to make up his mind, whether the other party will listen or not, in case something goes wrong, it would not be good to just mess up the game again up.

But now I can't bear to see his senior brother's anxious look, so I can only say: "No matter what I say now, the other party won't listen anymore, senior brother, please relax, after all, it's been decades, and there will always be something result……"

The cold winter has come, and the old emperor had a New Year's Eve dinner with everyone in the palace.

The banquet was full of officials of rank five and above, so Lu Xiuyuan couldn't go there, but after he came back, he heard from his senior brother that the First Prince was also neglected during the New Year, and he sat in a corner drinking alone.

It was cold, and the eldest prince's heart was even colder. During the banquet, he drank heavily and reviewed his life. He found that he had achieved nothing in his 30s.

One jar after another, almost unconscious after drinking.

The other party also knew that his personality might not be suitable for being a wise king, but so what?At the beginning, his father had promised his mother that no matter how stupid he was, the other party would arrange for a humerus minister who could assist him in managing the court.

The old Shoufu and the head of the Imperial Academy are the same. Although they don't usually give advice, they have absolutely no problem in learning, and the staff under him can be regarded as having their own strengths...

But with so many advantages, why did he fall into this state?

After drinking another jar of wine, the First Prince seemed to have found the answer.

It turned out that his mother was gone.

No matter how much the father promises in front of his mother, no matter how much he loves his eldest son, when the new queen is canonized, all of these will not count.

There was a mocking smile on the corner of his mouth, the First Prince didn't know whether he was mocking himself or others.

Finally, in the corner of the banquet, he fell into a deep sleep with the wine jar in his arms.

The Chinese New Year is the coldest time of the year. If you accidentally die drunk in this kind of place, you may freeze to death, so when the eldest prince woke up in the warm pavilion, he still couldn't react.

He was in the corner at the time, and most people couldn't see him unless they looked for it.

"Who sent me here?" The other party stared at the palace man next to him, his voice trembling, and his tone was tentative: "Did the emperor see it..." Then he sent him here because he cared about him.

"Father indeed saw it..."

A voice came from behind the palace man, and then the second prince came into sight.

"Brother Huang, I was so drunk at the New Year's Eve banquet that I made such an ugly appearance, it really embarrassed my father!"

what?

Unlike the expected scene, the eldest prince was completely stunned.

He has always tasted very good wine, but he just sleeps after getting drunk, so how can he be so ugly?

"Who doesn't know that my wine tastes good, and when I'm drunk, I'll just fall asleep, and my second younger brother doesn't know how to find a good example." A trace of disdain flashed in the eldest prince's eyes.

With a puff, the second prince was amused by the first prince's speech.

His good emperor brother is quite self-aware, he will only sleep soundly when he is drunk, isn't this just a drunken bag?

"Emperor brother, don't you believe me, how can a younger brother lie to you?" The second prince said distressedly: "Otherwise, the emperor will rest here for a while, the eunuch delivering the imperial edict will arrive soon."

Hearing this, the eldest prince's pupils shrank, what did the other party mean by this?

After saying these things, the second prince turned around and left the Nuan Pavilion, leaving only the palace servants and the first prince who stayed in place in the room.

Not long after, the eunuch who came to pass the decree came in.

"His Majesty's oral order, the eldest prince loses his morals after drinking, and will be fined for one month of confinement. I respect you~"

With just a few words, the eldest prince who heard it directly fell back on the bed.

Drunk and immoral?How come he has no impression at all?Thinking of this, he hastily grabbed the eunuch who came to deliver the decree.

"Eunuch Fu, are you sure this is the imperial father's oral order? The imperial father really ordered me to be grounded for a month?"

The eunuch was thin and thin, and the arm caught by the eldest prince was about to be broken, and now he lost all good looks.

"If the Eldest Prince thinks that our family is spreading rumors indiscriminately, then you can ask His Majesty in person."

Hearing this, the eldest prince felt as if all the strength in his body had been taken away. Now he was not only rejected by his father, but also kept under ground for another month.

Being treated like this during this period, does it also mean that the father completely dislikes himself?The future crown prince should also be passed on to the second prince?

That's why his good second brother came over to taunt him in person just now?

The more he thought about it, the more unwilling the eldest prince finally slammed his fist on the bed next to him when the eunuch closed the door and left.

The phalanx was knocked out by the fine mahogany wood, but the First Prince didn't care about it.

This little injury is nothing compared to his current situation, but since the father and son are so ruthless to him, don't blame him for being unreasonable!

The author has something to say: Hey, there is an assessment this afternoon, and I have to be on duty in the evening, and the second is more likely to follow the fate.