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The three princes, each with a table and a chair, stood behind their examination seats, waiting for the emperor to come up with a question.

The emperor made a proposition and asked the three of them to silently write "Gao Taomo" in "Shang Shu".

This is an article that Hongli and Hongzhou learned three months ago. The emperor will take the exam again after three months, and it feels like a surprise attack.

Hongli and Hongzhou still remember it, because the master explained this chapter very carefully.

After all, "Gao Tao Mo" is one of the famous "two classics and three mos" in "Shang Shu", which records the way the king governs the world.Compared with the other articles on benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, trustworthiness and conduct, princes should obviously learn these qualities and virtues of being a king.

In other words, "Gao Tao Mo" is equivalent to the key points in the textbook. If there is a final exam every year in the study room, and all the articles learned in a year are tested, this "Gao Tao Mo" must also be a compulsory exam question.

Therefore, although the emperor took the surprise exam, it was not too much to embarrass his sons.

Soon the three of them started writing.

Hongli was the first to finish writing, and after checking it, he went to the throne and handed in the "Gao Taomo" written silently by himself.

And the emperor was looking at Hong Shi's luck at this time.

The Four Books and Five Classics are the foundation of the foundation, and among the Five Classics, "Shangshu" and "Book of Rites" are the two most important books in the teaching of the court prince.

Out of curiosity, Jiang Heng once asked for the courses and sequence taught to the princes in the study room to have a look.

I found that the educational philosophy of the Qing royal family is very similar to Jia Zheng in the Dream of the Red Chamber: "It is useless to read thirty books of poetry, first memorize the four books and explain them."

The princes went to the study at the age of six, and in the two years from the age of eight to the age of eight, they only taught four books in classics and history.

In fact, except for Mencius and the Analects of Confucius, which have tens of thousands of words in the "Four Books", the other two have only a few thousand words.Such a thin textbook requires great Confucianism lecturers to teach for two full years. It is precisely to explain the original text and the annotations of the sages of the past dynasties, so that the princes can understand the truth.

Later, the Five Classics will be discussed in detail.

Only when they were ten years old could the princes graduate from the basic class in the study room and come to the advanced class. In addition to continuing to review the Four Books and Five Classics in the daily curriculum, they also added advanced courses such as riding and shooting, calligraphy and painting, arithmetic, common affairs, and policy questions.

Let’s gossip, let’s just say that the original texts of the Four Books and Five Classics are the foundation of the princes’ homework.The original intention of the emperor was to test the original text silently, and then select key fragments to test their writing strategies to see how they understand the meaning of the text.

Unexpectedly, both Hongli and Hongzhou were successfully writing the original text silently, but Hongshi performed a sweaty performance for the emperor on the spot, even scratching his ears and cheeks.

Apparently even the original text was forgotten!How can the emperor not be angry.

As far as Hongshi was concerned, he was too wronged: Hongli and Hongzhou only started to read the "Shangshu" this year, and it was fresh and hot, so they must be very familiar with it.

But he has already graduated from the basic class of the Four Books and Five Classics, and now Huang Ama has pointed out several individual masters to give him various advanced courses in turn, even astronomy and geography. big.Although the rest of the time, he still asked his original master to take him to review the Four Books and Five Classics, but how could he just review the chapter of Shangshu?

And since Hongshi was sent to the Old Summer Palace with his concubine Qi, his heart had been in a state of anxiety and it was difficult for him to concentrate on his studies.

Especially now that Shengjia has arrived at the Old Summer Palace, thinking that Er Niang, whom he has not seen for a long time, is in this garden, and Hong Shi wants to visit like an ant on a hot pot, so he can ask Er Niang, what is wrong with her? Only when Huang Ama was killed, he could plead with Huang Ama with reason.

The Emperor Piansheng allowed Hongli and Hongzhou to go back to see their biological mothers, but he didn't tell Hongshi to visit Concubine Qi.

Hong Shi was in a hurry. These days, there was only one thing on his mind, and he forgot about his homework long ago.

Maybe some people have a vivid memory, but most people still "learn like sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat."

Hiroshi was rowing and retreating quickly.

No, the emperor is now eyeing his whizzing back boat.

The emperor scratched his ears and scratched his head while watching Hong and wrote silently, but Hongli saw the words written on the emperor's case when he handed in the paper.It can be seen that the brush and ink were written by Huang Ama when she was practicing calligraphy and relaxing.

"Wear a lot of plain-hearted people, enjoy the morning and evening."

This is a poem by Tao Yuanming.

Suxintang... is the house where the concubine Xin concubine lived in the frank and open hall.When Emperor Ama brought them to the Old Summer Palace last year, he also visited the various courtyards in the garden. Hongli has a good memory and remembers them very clearly.

There are no difficult allusions in Tao Yuanming's poem, and this sentence is even more straightforward. He expresses his heartfelt wishes and the simple-minded person, and they are always together day and night.

Maybe this is a poem that Huang Ama thought of at random, and wrote it down casually.

But Hongli also got a glimpse of Huang Ama's concern for the concubine Xin and the fourth younger sister. Huang Ama would point her to Su Xintang, but I don't know where his own mother lives. Does Huang Ama know?

Hongli's thoughts were interrupted by the emperor standing up suddenly.

He hastily stepped back two steps, lowered his hands to the side, and watched why Huang Ama got up suddenly from the corner of his eyes.

The reason why the emperor got up was to stare at Hong Shi's silent writing at a close distance.

Hirotoki is smearing.

He has also memorized "Gao Taomo" many times, but now his memory is blurred, so he racked his brains to recall while writing here, and it is inevitable to scribble and change the words.

If it wasn't for one person and one long case, Hongshi really couldn't see clearly, and he really wanted to take the opportunity to copy Hongzhou's.

However, just when he was considering whether to move towards Hong Zhou's direction to test his eyesight, a shadow fell over his head.

As soon as Hongshi raised his head, he met Emperor Ama's cold face and eyes, and he was so frightened that a white layer of sweat immediately formed on his back.

No exaggeration.

When the emperor stopped like this, Hongshi's little calculation of copying other people's papers was in vain, and because of his panic, his mind became more blank, and his dictation became more flustered.

However, the emperor is not the kind of invigilator who is a "gentleman who watches chess without speaking".

At this moment, he was standing here, whenever Hongshi wrote a wrong word, he would hum.When Hongshi heard this, he was struck by lightning, and he wanted to quickly paint it—but the problem is that Hongshi wrote it wrong because he couldn't remember the correct one!I don't know how to keep silent even if I painted the wrong one.

Hiroshi was in great pain.

He thought desperately: No one in this world will understand how painful I am.

In fact, Hongshi didn't know that in this era, there is really one person who can understand his pain, and that is Jiang Heng.

She had an exam before, and once it happened that the head teacher supervised her in the exam room. The head teacher often stood next to her throughout the exam, watching her write the paper, and let out a small sigh of disappointment from time to time. That exam gave Jiang Heng pain: you What are you doing, teacher, or you can tell me the answer quickly, or you can just walk away and don’t read it, and let me write it before sighing.

It is true that the questions that could be calculated before were all stared at by the teacher and could not be calculated.

But just as Jiang Heng didn't dare to ask the homeroom teacher to go away, Hongshi didn't have the courage to say to his Huang Ama, "Please go away", so he had to write more and more tremblingly.

The emperor is a person impatient with heat, so Jiuzhou Qingyan arranged it extremely cool, with many ice basins, people wearing summer single clothes would even feel a little too cold when they came in.

But now Hiroshi is in a state of sweating profusely.

What made him even more uncomfortable was that soon Hong Zhou stopped writing.Originally, this was not a long article.

After Hong Zhou finished writing and handed in the paper, he stood next to Hong Li, and then peeked at Hong Shi Nao Le.

Hong Zhou is a child with a big heart, but he is by no means a stupid child. Hong Shi looked at him like a younger brother, and he realized very early on that it was not the way an elder brother loves his younger brother, but rather the way he looks at his own haha ​​beads or It's accompanying reading, that kind of "you listen to me and I'll cover you" looking down.

And in the past six months, Hongshi became more and more impatient with their attitude.

Because Concubine Qi was sent to the Old Summer Palace, Hongshi was very irritable. Every time the two of them went back to the harem to meet Erniang, Hongshi would not show them any good looks.

So Hong Zhou was really happy to see the third brother so nervous and suffering this time.

He gently stretched out his elbow and bumped Hongli next to him.

Hongli shook his head slightly, signaling him to wait respectfully with his head down: the one who is staring at people is Huang Ama, and the one who is being stared at and made a fool of himself is elder brother.They are all people they should respect in terms of etiquette. It is not the right choice to watch jokes at this moment.

Hongzhou had no choice but to bow his head like Hongli, and then rolled up his eyes to take a peek.

When the emperor finally told him to stop writing and stop embarrassing Hong Zhou, Hong Zhou raised his head—feeling that he had used all his strength to the point that the lines on his forehead had grown.

The emperor pointed at Hongshigai's gaudy roll noodles with his hand, and shouted: "This is your warm book?! In the past six months, you have become more and more impetuous and lazy. I have taught you many times! Just thinking that you are the eldest son , so I didn't reprimand you in public before, it was to save face for you, but now it seems that this face doesn't matter!"

The emperor pointed to the corner of the wall: "Today you go stand there in front of your younger brothers and recite the book a hundred times!"

Sacrifice Hiroshi one to fulfill everyone.

Because the emperor was annoyed, he didn't want to test his sons' strategies anymore: what else to test, the eldest son didn't even write the original text silently!Hongli Hongzhou is still young after all, so he probably won't have any good ideas in the exam.

So I just assigned this homework, and asked the two youngest sons to ask the teacher to write an article on the motto "Knowing people is wise, and peace is beneficial to the people".

And the emperor did what he said, and really asked Hongshi to go to the corner to memorize the book in front of Hongli Hongzhou.This is really a severe punishment in the court where there are distinctions between seniors and young. Hongshi's face was flushed red, and he thought it was good to face the wall, otherwise he would really be ashamed to see others.

On the sidelines, the emperor criticized the articles written by Hongli Hongzhou silently, and circled the well-written words in them as encouragement.

Su Peisheng poked his head outside the window.

Hu Xiaoshun was standing next to him, stretching his neck too.

When Su Peisheng turned his head, the two of them almost faced each other. Su Peisheng was startled, and said in a low voice, "Why are you stretching your face so long?"

Hu Xiaoshun smiled apologetically: "I, I'm just anxious. That mango is something I can't let go."

That's right, today is the day when Mango arrives in Beijing.

Prince Lian delivered goods from Annan directly to the capital—not only mangoes, but also various local fresh fruits in Annan, and several types of sea fish that are rarely seen in Beijing from the coast of Annan were transported to the capital together with ice. .

It is also specially included in the brochure to emphasize: "The purchase and delivery of the tribute does not use the expenses of Yunnan officials. This is the tribute from King Annan, and all the consumption comes from the private treasury of King Annan."

Prince Lian skillfully plucked the wool of King Li, who was so sincere to him, and said to the emperor: "There are a lot of tributes, I beg the emperor to read that I am far away from the border, and give a little reward to my mother and concubine." Shi Ye and others deliberately didn't mention it again, and it was the emperor's decision to reward these princes of the Qing Dynasty.

The brochures and tribute list submitted by Prince Lian came to Beijing one day before the fresh fruit, the emperor read it and said to Su Peisheng: "At that time, let the Nanguofang inspect the fresh fruit and see if the seafood is worn out, and then report it to me again. "

The tributes Annan sent to Beijing were all chilled along the way—the method of chilling was studied in the Ming Dynasty, and there was a poem by Yu Shenxing in the Ming Dynasty that explained it in detail: "In June, the shad is cold with snow, Thousands of miles to Chang'an."

It can be seen that the frozen fresh technology is quite complete, and if it is transported from the closer Jiangnan to the capital, the loss will be much smaller.

But Annan was a bit far away, and even if it was frozen, there would be wear and tear along the way.This kind of top-notch goods in Xia Ri are rare, and the emperor needs to allocate them properly, rewarding both inside and outside the palace properly.

So today, after the tribute vehicles entered the Old Summer Palace, Hu Xiaoshun led his people to work overtime and didn't even bother to eat. He quickly counted the number of "good fruit, slightly flawed fruit, and bad fruit" of various fruits, and rushed to report to the emperor. .

Seafood also has its own people in the big dining room to count.

As soon as the calculation was completed, Hu Xiaoshun rushed over, thinking about reporting to the emperor and distributing it quickly: Otherwise, if it is overnight, among these fruits, the good fruits may become slightly flawed or even bad. Nanguofang couldn't get the amount allocated by the emperor, so he had to hit the wall.

But when he came over, he happened to catch up with the emperor who was furious inside.

Su Peisheng didn't dare to go in and be scolded.

We had to stretch our necks with Hu Xiaoshun and wait for the door to open. As long as the princes came out, Su Peisheng would have an excuse to go in.

Two necks were not enough, and after a while Chang Qing also came, with a booklet pinned to his waist - he also counted the seafood, and followed in a hurry outside.

After the emperor finished marking Hongli Hongzhou's paper, he turned his head and relaxed his eyes.

When he turned his head, he saw Su Peisheng and two eunuchs stretching their necks to look at the main entrance outside the half-open window.

The emperor saw clearly that it was Hu Xiaoshun and Chang Qing, and remembered the brochure given by Lao Ba yesterday, knowing that the tribute had arrived, he raised his hand and knocked on the sapphire chime on the table to let them in.

Hu Xiaoshun not only came with a list, but also personally carried a basket with sample fruits in it.

Sure enough, the emperor read the list and said, "Take out that mango and let me have a look."

Lord Kangxi wanted to eat mangoes once before, but he didn’t want them after that. The princes have never seen fresh mangoes.

Hu Xiaoshun hurriedly took it out: he was very careful, besides the good fruit, he also brought slightly flawed fruit, to show the emperor what the slightly flawed fruit looks like, to see if it is to be used as a reward, or because the peel is slightly flawed, all of them will be scrapped to make fruit Dry.

After all, it was his first time classifying mangoes, so he was not very sure, so he had to classify those with slight bumps and shapes that were different from others into slightly flawed.

There are four kinds of mangoes that Annan sent, one is the largest blue mango (Hu Xiaoshun explained: it is not unripe), one is the palm-length yellow mango, there is a reddish long mango, and the smallest one The small golden mango looks like a loquat at first glance.

The emperor smelled it and thought it should be delicious.

After reading it, he had an idea, so the emperor took four samples of good fruits and distributed them to Hongli and Hongzhou: "Today's Mo's essays are quite proficient. Don't slack off when you go back, and continue to study hard."

Not forgetting to point to the typical Hongshi on the opposite side and say: "Otherwise, it will be your role model!"

Hong Shi, who was endorsing the book in the corner, really wanted to die: not only the younger brothers saw his embarrassment, but even the eunuchs saw it too!

And I don't have any mangoes to eat yet!

Hong Zhou took a red mango and put it under his nose to smell it. He felt that the heavy mango looked very pleasing, like a chubby younger sister, so he quickly thanked him and said, "Thank you Huang Ama." The two mangoes parted and said, "One is for Er Niang, and this red son is for my younger sister to eat!"

The emperor smiled when he heard the words: "You are filial and care about your younger sister. You really look like an older brother." Then he said softly: "Your younger sister is still young, so I'm afraid you can't eat it. It's enough for you to have this heart. Keep it for yourself." Go ahead and eat, your mother-in-law will naturally have some."

Hong Shi in the corner was distracted while reciting the book absently while spitting in secret: Ah bah, the cunning Hong Zhou still sells this trick!

Hongshi felt that Hongzhou was pretending to be good on purpose, but Hongli saw it clearly from the side. Hongzhou should have really subconsciously thought of the fourth princess - I heard from Erniang that as long as Hongzhou went back to pay her respects, Concubine Yu would be happy as long as there was nothing wrong with her. Taking Hongzhou to see the fourth princess, Hongzhou often talks about his sister.

And unlike Hongli and the others, he didn't call the daughter of Empress Xinbi the fourth younger sister, but directly called her younger sister, as if she was a sister of the same father and mother.

Hongli has always known in his heart that Huang Ama loves young girls, so Hongli often reminds himself to always be respectful to brothers and sisters, especially sisters.Ever since the fourth princess was born, whenever there was a festival, Hongli never forgot to go to the concubine's place to say hello, and to visit the fourth sister for a while. During the Dragon Boat Festival, Hongli also specially sent the Dragon Boat Festival ornaments made by Jingren Palace on behalf of Erniang. .

But after all, there is no such closeness between Hong Zhou and Yonghe Palace, or in other words, there is no such closeness from the bottom of the heart as Hong Zhou.

At this time, compared with Hong Zhou's natural expression of concern, it is slightly inferior.

Hongli couldn't help thinking that he had to spend more time on this and do it more realistically. Huang Ama should be happy to see the prince's filial piety.

Growing up is actually a very personal thing.

Some people are naive or confused all their lives, unable to see their own way, just drifting with the flow, living happily when they are living well, and scolding God for being unfair when they are not living well.

Hongli is not such a temperament.

It is his nature to be prepared for danger in times of peace, perhaps it was inherited from Er Niang, or it may be his nature.

Since he became the prince, he has grown very fast.

When he first entered the palace, he was as innocent and happy as Hong Zhou for a while: from being one of the hundreds of grandsons of the emperor to the only third prince, their lives had undergone a qualitative leap.

But as Concubine Nian continued to be favored, as Hongli saw Er Niang's forbearance in the harem, and later Emperor Ama dealt with Long Keduo and Nian Gengyao vigorously, and Xin's concubine became pregnant, there were more in the palace. a little princess...

Hongli has been constantly absorbing knowledge and growing in these changes.

He is now almost certain that among the three existing brothers, Huang Ama should value him more, and his chances of becoming the prince are greater than those two combined.

Hong Zhou is so naive, and the third brother is really... so Hongli feels pity and rejoicing: the elder brother is so much stupider than him, it is really a pie in the sky.

If there is any accident, it is the future prince.

Especially the prince of the concubine Xin: Empress Dowager Xin is even younger. They may have a prince in the future, or even more than one.

If he really had a younger brother, Hongli asked himself that it would not be as good as talking about his family background and Er Niang's favor.

Then he has to do better in other areas.

He is determined to be a good prince who is respectful and knowledgeable, so good that even if Huang Ama prefers the younger son, he still hesitates. It seems that such an excellent older son should not give up.

What Hongli didn't know was that the emperor was indeed hesitating.

When he looked at Hongli, he often couldn't help but feel: the word "passing on from generation to generation" is really true. Perhaps the former emperor Ama looked at Hongli quite differently among his grandsons, precisely because he valued that his grandson was essentially like himself.

Even if Lord Kangxi and Hongli never met each other in this life.But the emperor still felt that the older Hongli grew up, the more he looked like he was taught by Huang Ama in his previous life.

Probably he was such a child.

But the emperor is not a person like Lord Kangxi.

He remembered that when he was still a soul floating in the Forbidden City after his death, he not only saw the posthumous title given to him by the officials, but also saw the imperial decree issued by Hongli as soon as he became the throne.

In his previous life, Zeng Jing, a traitor, listed "Ten Crimes" for him and spread it everywhere.The emperor wrote "Da Yi Jue Mi Lu" to refute it, thinking that what he did was worthy of the world, and he should refute it to the world.

They even deliberately kept Zeng Jing and asked him to be a living witness.

However, as soon as Hongli came to the throne, he ordered the death penalty to deal with Zeng Jing and others, and took back all his "Dayijue Milu" and burned them to prevent the world from reading and mentioning them.

The emperor does not deny that Hongli's approach is also effective, at least since then people in the world are afraid of being killed and dare not talk about the royal family anymore.

But what the emperor cared about was that Hongli couldn't wait to change his old policy when he came to power, just like he started to call for the payment of the owed money within 27 days after he came to power.

Because he disapproved of Lord Kangxi's actions and endured for many years, he couldn't help but issued an imperial decree to collect debts when he came to power-in other words, what Hongli couldn't wait to do as soon as he came to power was precisely because he also forbeared himself, the Ama, for many years!

The only similarity between the two father and son is that they both deny the many political actions of their biological father.

The emperor naturally hesitated, if he was no longer the emperor for 13 years in this life, but for 23 years or even longer, would Hongli still be a qualified heir.

Will he keep suppressing his dissatisfaction with various policies in his heart, just waiting for him to be overthrown after he takes office?

Zeng Jing's reputation is fine, but what about the other political actions?If he overturned his decision to reform the land and return it to the family, and the family and the family, wouldn't his life's hard work be in vain?

This is something that Hongli, who had resigned with mango in his arms, could not know at this time.

The emperor was already full of thoughts, and he couldn't help being annoyed by Hongshi who was studying with his head hunched in the corner.

"Okay, shut up, don't be in front of me. Go back and read the book! If you are tired and lazy, I will announce the board!"

The emperor felt merciful and pardoned Hongshi, but Hongshi refused to resign, so he came up and asked, "Huang Ama, can I see Erniang?"

The emperor hardly has the energy to get angry, is this my son?It’s true that I asked the sky and he answered the ground. Today, I wrote the most basic article silently and wrote it like this, but I still have the face to ask, can I go to see Concubine Qi!

When the emperor moved Concubine Qi away, Shi Hongshi came to plead for mercy, and the emperor said: the affairs of the harem have nothing to do with you.Your mother is sympathetic to Nianshi, but I just let them be companions, not punishment.

Hongshi struggled for more than half a year and didn't say anything, but he dared to make a request after making a mistake.

The emperor waved his hands without saying a word, signaling Hongshi to step back quickly.

Hongshi had no choice but to resign due to grievances: What are you doing, you don't even say a word, Huang Ama is so indifferent.