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Emperor Yuanshou gritted his teeth and said: "The crown prince is related to the country and the country. Who else can take on this great responsibility except Ziji?"

Empress Dowager: "The fifth is not good, the sixth is disheartened, and there are seven, nine, and thirteen... My son is in the prime of his life, strong and healthy, and his humerus courtiers are talented, educated and well-educated. Anbang, why can't you raise a new ruler who is benevolent and capable of governing the country?"

Emperor Yuanshou remained silent.

Her Majesty could see that he was shaking, so she added more firewood.

"Mother knows that you are doing it for the sake of your son. Mother's persuasion seems to be for the sake of the grandchildren, but it is actually partial to you. Mother does not want to see the disharmony between your monarch and his ministers, father and son. It’s not that he doesn’t love his son.”

This said to Emperor Yuanshou's heart, he did show cold-bloodedness towards the sixth son of the East Palace, which doesn't mean he didn't feel guilty in his heart, it was just a little bit, and now it was deliberately magnified by the Queen Mother.

"You are the heart that loves the child, and so is the mother."

Emperor Yuan Shou was completely moved, "My son is not filial."

"Raise a child to be a hundred years old, and worry about 99 years." The Queen Mother patted Emperor Yuanshou's arm: "Think about it carefully, and don't make it so that no one is happy in the end."

Emperor Yuanshou compromised: "My son will think carefully."

In this way, the queen mother is satisfied.

***

After a verbal order, Huo Jingtang and others were able to leave the western suburbs.

Zhao Baiyu entered the county palace on his front foot, and was invited into the palace by the eunuch on his back foot. He met Emperor Yuanshou who was fishing in Longting Lake.

"My minister has seen His Majesty."

"Sit." Emperor Yuan Shou patted the seat next to him, beckoned Zhao Baiyu to sit down, and asked casually: "I plan to make Ziji the crown prince, what do you think?"

Zhao Baiyu: "Your Majesty, do you want me to answer as a courtier or as a county concubine?"

Emperor Yuanshou: "Say it all."

Zhao Baiyu: "As a minister, I don't think Huo Jingtang can be a good emperor. As a wife, I don't want him to be emperor."

Emperor Yuanshou: "Zi'an is so unbearable in your heart?"

"On the contrary." Zhao Baiyu asked: "Your Majesty, what do you think of the current situation? How are the people?"

"The country is peaceful and the people are safe, the river is clean and the sea is clean, and the world is peaceful."

"Your Majesty, do you think it is difficult to start a business or keep a business?"

Emperor Yuanshou knew the depth when he heard the words, and immediately turned his head to look at Zhao Baiyu: "It is difficult to start a business, and it is even more difficult to keep a business."

"Your Majesty thinks ZTE's career is more difficult. Forgive me and say bluntly, the ancestor is the king of entrepreneurship and practice frugality, but your majesty is the king of ZTE, especially suffering, saving the country from the turmoil, and restoring the glory of the country are all talents and general plans." Your generation, the king of superior talents, now that the world is stable and prosperous, it is the time when a benevolent and conservative monarch is needed to maintain its stability and peace. Your Majesty, do you think Huo Jingtang is suitable to be a conservative monarch?"

Knowing son Moruo father.

Huo Jingtang can be the king of Dingding Zhexing, but he can't be the king of success. He is full of blood and hostility, and his wrists are iron and blood.

The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, including the Empress Dowager, persuaded none of them to directly poke at the weakness of Emperor Zhongyuan Shou like Zhao Baiyu. Only by loving Huo Jingtang deeply could he see his true nature. Both public and private knew that Huo Jingtang was not suitable to be emperor .

"I understand why Zi Qu loves you alone." Emperor Yuan Shou put away the fishing rod suddenly, the fish bounced twice in the air, broke free after swallowing the bait, and jumped back into the lake. "Do you blame me?"

"Don't dare."

"Didn't dare, no no."

Zhao Baiyu was silent for a moment, then said frankly: "I really don't complain, you have nothing to do to me."

I have never expected special treatment from Emperor Yuanshou, so I don't feel that there is anything wrong with him for what he did out of interests or personal feelings. It is really embarrassing for me to ask an emperor for right or wrong if I don't recognize my duty .

"Know the world but not the world, and be tactful and naive. Zhao Baiyu, you are like this, don't change. I want to see how long you can go, and whether Ziyi will regret his choice today. I also want to see... "

Zhao Baiyu waited for the next sentence, but Emperor Yuanshou only waved his hand to let him go.

"That Nizi was afraid that you would die in the deep palace, so he sneaked in after you. He is waiting outside Longting Lake. If he won't let you out, he might break in and make me unhappy."

Zhao Baiyu coughed twice: "The minister will leave."

After he left, Emperor Yuanshou continued to stare at the calm lake, and after a long time murmured softly: "Zhen and Ru Niang could not end well, so I wanted to see if you can bear good fruits and die together."

***

Zhao Baiyu really saw the big watchman standing in front of Huo Jingtang as if he was dead. He had just approached, and Huo Jingtang raised his eyes and saw him.

"Xiao Lang."

The eunuch turned around and heaved a sigh of relief: "This old servant has seen Mr. Zhao."

Zhao Baiyu smiled, "Let's go."

The two left the palace side by side.

Huo Jingtang: "He didn't make things difficult for you?"

Zhao Baiyu: "After asking me some questions, I gave up the plan to make you a reserve. What have you been doing in the western suburbs these days?"

Huo Jingtang briefly described the public opinion, the courtiers and the Empress Dowager's remonstrance: "First I express my position, and then the people's public opinion, but it cannot shake His Majesty. At this time, the courtiers objected, and the others were not enough. Uncle Ten, several prime ministers and Grand Master Chen is very eloquent and quick in thinking, and can sway His Majesty by citing scriptures and classics, letting him know that no one in the world except him agrees with me as the heir apparent. Finally, please move the Great Buddha."

"The queen mother?"

"On the night of the family banquet, you told me about the Queen Mother's attitude, and I knew she would persuade His Majesty, and only she can truly persuade His Majesty."

"If Your Majesty is stubborn and refuses to listen to anyone, what will you do?"

"What can I do? Let me elope with you."

Zhao Baiyu laughed, swayed his body and slammed into Huo Jingtang: "Not serious."

"...To be honest, have you ever thought about having an heir?"

"If I had the obsession with heirs, I would have planted them long before the poison had entered my limbs and bones."

"I want to eat roast suckling pig with snow wine."

"You turned the topic a little quickly...it's still early, so you can get a seat now."

"Then hurry up. To be honest, I was called into the palace to make full mental preparations, thinking that I would be given a glass of poisoned wine—"

"Please read less of the script, my little Mr. Zhao, your calm and intelligent mind is about to be corroded."

"This is entirely possible, don't blame the storybook... I haven't said the secret play pictures you secretly hid, don't think I don't know that you are a frequent visitor to those bookstores, you must be the one who buys new goods every month I just said why there are so many tricks in the handwriting of the purchase—Huo Jingtang, don't say anything, tsk, walk slowly!"

On the palace road, the conversation between Mr. Zhao and the King of Lin'an gradually became indescribable. Fortunately, there were no one around, otherwise there would be a new romance in the capital.

***

After careful consideration, Emperor Yuanshou finally canceled the crown prince, but the ceremony of making Cui Qingru his successor remained the same, and Huo Jingtang's status as the eldest prince still had to be restored. He could not tolerate his son's name being listed under Prince Jing's genealogy.

The fifth prince still stayed in the household department of the Kyoto Prefecture to run errands, and the sixth prince asked Dingzhou to be a fief. He set off after the Double Ninth Festival. If there were no accidents, he might not return to the capital.

Before leaving, he went to the Wende Palace to ask for Taoism's will. Only his close relatives knew that he begged Emperor Yuanshou for mercy, not to let the body of the noble concubine be buried in the concubine's mausoleum.

Although it was inconsistent with the etiquette, Emperor Yuanshou agreed to the request out of guilt.

After such an encounter, everything is settled, but the crown prince still has to put it on the agenda. Emperor Yuanshou intends to select from several young princes for reeducation. This time he intends to let the three princes and nine ministers teach.

All the princes are treated equally, and the most suitable one will be selected from among them.

The idea was finalized, and no one objected. Emperor Yuanshou drew up a private decree, appointing Zhao Baiyu as the prince's junior teacher, and in the future, the crown prince will be the prince's grand teacher, assisting the prince until he ascends the throne.

The youngest of the princes is less than ten years old, and Emperor Yuanshou can still reign for at least ten years. When the prince ascends the throne, Zhao Baiyu, as the prince and grand teacher, will definitely have to help stabilize the court. The emperor will definitely not let anyone go. Do you have to wait another 20 years before you can resign?

Huo Jingtang drove the eunuch who came to proclaim the decree out of the county palace, thinking that Emperor Yuanshou was deliberately blocking him, but he had no choice but to force Emperor Yuanshou to bow his head and take a big step back a while ago. Now there is no reason to enter the palace to make trouble. Suffered his little Bodhisattva.

Because of this, he was depressed and sullen himself. In the early morning, he was wielding knives and guns in the courtyard. Before venting his anger, he ran into the Buddhist hall to knock on wooden fish for half an hour, copied Buddhist scriptures for an hour, and suddenly ran to Zhao Baiyu on the way. In front of him, looking straight at him.

Zhao Baiyu remained calm, what should he do.

On the contrary, seeing Yan Bing who came to ask about the scientific examination questions made his heart shudder, seeing Huo Jingtang sitting for a while and then leaving without saying a word, he couldn't help but be full of doubts: "Wu Lang, what provoked the county prince?"

"It's a bad loss, and I'm angry with myself." Zhao Baiyu laughed happily, and answered Yan Bing's doubts with a few short sentences, which made him suddenly enlightened. Then he picked up the story book and continued to read. It happened that he saw the comment on the protagonist in the book. , and read it out by the mouth: "This life is free and easy, and the sky is not asking, since ancient times, everything has flowed eastward."

The sun shines into the house through the window sills, and casts the clusters of lily lily flowers hanging from the roof outside the window. The orange-yellow bell-like flowers sway with the wind, swaying and swaying, vibrant and charming.

Zhao Baiyu stretched his waist, his nose smelled of the fragrance of flowers, the freshness of sunlight, and the smell of books with ink stains still on it. He breathed in his lungs and his heart suddenly became brighter.

"After spring and autumn, there are so many worries in the world, so enjoy yourself in time."

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The episode is quite long, I think hahaha, I'm inexplicably excited, it's weird.

PS: The new king is taught by Xiaoyu, and the torch is passed on from generation to generation.

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