The Prosperity of Jingdi Chronicle

"Your Majesty has been busy with political affairs recently, and he probably forgot that Ke'er has not yet chosen to study with him." The queen mother looked at her bewildered son lovingly, and reminded him softly, as if she was really just a sweetheart. old lady.

"Ke'er?" Jing Li was stunned for a long time before remembering that Concubine Zhou had indeed told him about the Sixth Prince Jing Ke's enrolment this spring. He didn't know what he was busy with at the time, so he probably just nodded After being reminded by the Empress Dowager at this time, he realized that his father seemed a little indifferent to the emperor, so he coughed in a low voice before replying, "In this case, I will trouble the Empress to help Ke. Let's choose a few suitable companions."

Jing Li knew that his mother was definitely not just choosing a companion for Jing Ke, so she solemnly asked him to talk about it.In the eyes of his empress mother, only Jing Qi, the direct grandson, is probably her grandson, and everyone else is normal. As for Jing Ke, being mentioned by the empress dowager at this time, I am afraid that it is still in the honor of others.

"Since you want to choose companions, why don't you choose a few more, and you can make up one or two for other emperors and grandchildren."

Sure enough, as he expected, after he agreed, the Queen Mother immediately said this again.

"It's up to the queen mother to decide everything." Jing Li still didn't object to this, for two reasons.

First, he believed that the Empress Dowager had a picky eye. Although the Empress Dowager had always favored Jing Qi, in her heart, Jiangshan Sheji always came first, so he didn't have to worry that the Empress Dowager would make embarrassing arrangements for him.When the older princes entered the Enlightenment School, the companions were selected by the Queen Mother, and there was nothing wrong with it in hindsight, which can be seen.

Second, Jing Qi is both a concubine and an elder. In the eyes of the world, in the hearts of the officials, she is the No. 1 choice for the crown prince because of emotion and reason. But it was never what others thought it was.

Only when the power of the monarchy falls, Li Chu will pay special attention to the prince's family, but at this time, he no longer needs to think about this issue.He has always treated this son with no pretense and harshness, but he is honing him based on the principle that a jade can't be cut into a tool.

If he is worthy of a great job in the future, he will give him a chance without the empress dowager's persuasion;As for the other princes, of course they also have the same opportunity.

Therefore, he has already made up his mind, and he will not refute the Queen Mother's wishes on these trivial matters.Besides, if the Empress Dowager really loses balance in the arrangement of companions, he will appoint a few more companions in the future to maintain the balance of power among the princes.

"Your Majesty said so, Aijia will help check the grandchildren first, draw a list and show it to His Majesty, if there are any suitable candidates from His Majesty, feel free to add them." The queen mother achieved her goal so easily, and she was in a good mood Well, the eyes looking at his son are softer.

"Speaking of candidates, I really have a few here. After two days, I will decide on the candidates, and then I will hand them over to the queen mother to choose." At this time, the smile on the corner of Jingli's mouth can also be called a model of filial piety. The meeting between mother and son came to an end smoothly in the warm spring breeze.

As in previous years, Wei Yan's birthday was celebrated at home.Although Jing Li can't wait to be with him all day long in his spare time, whenever Wei Yan appears at home, he is always very reasonable. Of course, compensation afterwards is inevitable, but he will never intentionally let Wei Yan influence him beforehand. Difficult.

Coupled with the fact that he got rid of two people who were in the way of his eyes in one fell swoop this time, Jing Li was even more happy to show his generosity, and directly gave Wei Yan more than ten days off, so that he could stay with his son all day until he left that day.

"Father, I have already told the housekeeper about the affairs of the house, and let him deal with them as usual, but you also have to ask a question or two at ordinary times, so as not to lose dignity if no one supervises you."

Wei Yan was worried about his son going out, and explained all kinds of trivial matters over and over again, wishing he could go with his son.

Compared with him, Wei Minwen is actually more worried about leaving him alone at home as a father. Grandparents are old and it is impossible to take care of everything. He is not at home. This is a matter of the Yongning Hou Mansion. You need your father to cook for you.

All the housekeepers in the family have been taught by him for many years, and they all do things well, but no one is suppressing them. After a long time, it is inevitable that someone will cause trouble. When the time comes... Wei Minwen looked at his father helplessly. He doubted that he had been fooled. Can the father who has been the shopkeeper for so many years maintain the family until he comes back?

I hope the roof of the house has not been sold by then.

Seeing that his father didn't care about the account book keys and other things he handed over, and continued to talk about the things to pay attention to on the road, Wei Minwen secretly sighed in his heart, and secretly prayed that when he came back, there would still be a cover at home. place.

No matter how worried Wei Yan was about whether his son would suffer on the road, no matter how worried Wei Minwen was about whether his father would ruin the family within a few years, Luzhu and Wei Minwen still set off on time, and Wei Yan returned with a lonely face. to the palace.

Jing Li had expected this situation a long time ago, and had already thought of countermeasures.Except when Wei Yan went to the Jinwei camp to handle official business, at other times, he never forgot to hook Wei Yan by his side. No time to think about anything else.

For Jingli, this is really a day that gods don't change.Needless to say when he was free, he naturally instructed this and that, and let Wei Yan circle around him. Even when he was in charge of politics, all the things he should do were thrown on Wei Yan's head.

Wei Yan asked Wei Yan to take the memorial and present it to him, and then showed him page by page. After reading it, Wei Yan asked Wei Yan to think about it for himself.And what he has to do is to help Wei Yan bring tea and water when he is busy, and to hug and love him in his spare time.

Such a carefree time passed so quickly that he didn't know what year it was.

Several days passed so beautifully, one afternoon, the Empress Dowager sent a servant to send the prince's accompanying list she had selected.

According to the practice of the past few days, Wei Yan obediently took over the list and showed it to him without his order.

In theory, it is a hard job to accompany the prince to study. The princes learn well, and the one who gets the praise will never be the companion. His parents were reluctant to send their children to the palace to be accompanied by the princes.

However, accompanying the prince to study is a very good political investment, especially now that the reserve position has not been determined, the income of this investment is even more considerable, and the children of the family usually have to live for the interests of the family, so this sharpened their heads and tried to gain money. There are not many aristocratic families that let their own children be the prince's companions.

As soon as the news that the Empress Dowager wanted to choose companions for the sixth prince and other princes was released, there was an endless stream of imperial family members and officials who entered the palace to greet the Empress Dowager, almost breaking through the threshold of the Palace of Compassion and Ning, and even Jingli's side, He also received all kinds of hints, and those courtiers and ministers who are favored by his side may have made a lot of money secretly.

Although spying on the holy will is taboo for kings, but on such a major matter related to the interests of the family, if they can figure out the emperor's will in advance, press the right treasure among the five princes, and send their own children to the future prince, they will be able to do so in the future. The return is naturally the greatest.

If you want to guess the emperor's will, the internal servants are naturally more accurate than the foreign ministers, so those aristocratic families who desire to reap the greatest rewards are not stingy at spending. It is also reasonable for those favored internal servants to receive a lot of money bingo.

Jing Li knew these things well, but he kept watching with a cold eye and nothing happened.If someone can guess what he wants, that would be hell, because he himself doesn't know which one he really likes.

So he is looking forward to which aristocratic families have made the right bet when the answer to the mystery is revealed, and then he will have a different view of the helmsmen of those aristocratic families.After all, there are often Chollima, but Bole does not often have it, especially the Chollima, which seems to have no shadow, is a test of Bole's skill.

Maybe those people shouldn't be called Bole, but Banxian is more appropriate.

The emperor was meditating there, no one dared to disturb him, the entire Zhaoren Hall was very quiet, not even the sound of breathing could be heard.

Others are like this, even Wei Yan is the same.

Others were afraid of alarming the emperor and causing disaster, but Wei Yan was afraid that the emperor would suddenly ask for his opinion.I don't know how many things he should have meddled in these years, but he didn't feel uneasy at all, those were state affairs, he asked himself without any selfishness, so he could naturally feel at ease.

But only this matter, he didn't want to interfere, it was the emperor's family matter, and the emperor should decide for himself.It is difficult for an upright official to decide on housework. Even a saint, if he speaks about this matter, he is not guaranteed to have selfish intentions, let alone he is just a mortal.The only way to be impartial is to say nothing.

"Xie Zhenghong, Xie Meng's youngest son." Jing Li scanned down slowly, and suddenly saw a name. After pondering for a moment, he turned his face and asked Wei Yan, "Did your brother Xie send you a letter recently?"

"No." Wei Yan wanted to pretend to be an invisible person, but unfortunately he was such a big man sitting next to the emperor, how could he suddenly disappear? The improvement has not reached the level of Chang Tong's letters. For a while, he didn't quite understand the intention of the emperor's sudden question, "Why did your majesty ask this question?"

"It's okay, I'm just asking." Jing Li smiled, stopped making a sound, turned his head and continued to look down.

He has thrown Xie Meng's family to the Northwest for several years. He has no relatives in Beijing, and he has little friendship with others. Although Wei Yan did not get along with Wei Yan because of old affairs, Xie Meng should also know Wei Yan's temper. Although Wei Yan I felt awkward in my heart, if Xie Meng really asked him, he would not be able to refuse.

Now that Xie Meng sent her precious young son, who was born in old age, to Beijing to study with the prince, but did not write a letter to Wei Yan who could take care of him, it was a bit wrong no matter how I thought about it.

Could it be that he wanted to show that sending his son to Beijing was only the Queen Mother's intention, not his original intention?

A mocking smile slowly emerged from the corner of Jing Li's mouth.

Back then, Xie's family was quilt, but there was actually one branch left behind, which was Xie Meng's side branch.For Jing Qi, the Empress Dowager did whatever she could. She even tied her former favorite to Jing Qi, without asking whether her favorite was willing or not.

He doesn't care about the prince's family, the real prince's family, what role can the prince's family be so far away?

"Wei Yan, do you have a nephew in your family who wants to be the prince's companion?" Last time Jing Li was not in Beijing, when the queen mother chose to accompany him, she didn't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, she just forgot about the Wei family. When Jing Li was in Beijing, he thought of asking Wei Yan what he meant.

Wei Yan was watching his mouth, his nose, his nose and his heart, and sat upright, trying to keep the emperor from seeing him, but he failed. After a while, the emperor threw an embarrassing question on his head.

"I don't have any nephews of the right age in my family." He racked his brains for a while, and finally thought of a very suitable reason for his refusal.

It was the emperor's favor that his nephew was chosen to accompany the prince. If he showed any signs of unwillingness to accept it, he would be the one who would be unlucky in the end.It is not unwilling but impossible, so the emperor should have nothing to say.

"No one of the right age?" Jing Li was just asking casually. If Wei Yan really wanted his nephew to be a companion, he would have a headache which prince did the nephew of the Wei family go to, but he saw When it came to Wei Yanxian, it was because of this list that he wished that he was just sitting next to him like a piece of furniture. When he asked him, he looked embarrassed. After thinking of the reason, he felt relieved, and suddenly he didn't want to let him go easily. " Isn't Wei Min, the youngest son of the Marquis of Zhongyi, the right age?"

Generally, princes will choose children of the right age to accompany them. The nephews and nephews of the Wei family are mostly older. Wei Minwen and Wei Minshi are the two younger ones, but even the youngest Wei Minshi is older than the eldest second prince. How old is it, but the emperor wants to say that it is the right age, Wei Yan dare not say that it is not the right age, so he can only continue to find ways to evade.

"Minshi hated literature and martial arts since he was a child... and was pampered by his grandparents, and he couldn't bear to be taught, so he really didn't dare to send him to the prince to cause trouble." As parents in the world, nephews have the opportunity to show their faces, and everyone should praise them In the last few sentences, only Wei Yan, who is an uncle, demoted Wei Minshi again and again, for fear that the emperor really took a fancy to his family's treasure "Little Overlord".

"It's just that I can't bear to be taught, so I have to let the tutors teach me well." Jing Li suppressed a smile, motioned for someone to bring a clean silk scarf, and wiped the thin sweat from Wei Yan's forehead.

"Your Majesty, minister..." Wei Yan muttered, not knowing what to say, and if he continued to evade, it would be "unable but unwilling", but how could he be willing to agree to it.

Let’s not talk about the drudgery of the prince’s accompanying study, whether his family Minshi can do it, just say that he and their Wei family, as the emperor’s most trusted courtiers, should not interfere in this matter. This is the emperor’s family business. The courtiers just need to watch quietly.

He is the emperor's servant, and will always be the emperor's servant, and the Wei family is the same. They don't need to worry about this kind of thing, and everything can be arranged by the emperor.

Seeing Wei Yan's expression of "I don't want it, I just don't want it" on Wei Yan's face, Jing Li endured it for a while, and finally laughed. He put him in his arms, kissed Wei Yan's forehead, and comforted him. Only then did he speak:

"Wei Yan, what are you embarrassing about?"

"I'm not in trouble." Being hugged by the emperor in his arms and comforted carefully, Wei Yan also understood that the emperor must have deliberately embarrassed him because he refused to tell the truth, and finally said what was in his heart, "This is your Majesty's family matter, I don't want to Intervene."

"My family affairs are also your family affairs. Who said you can't meddle in my family affairs." Seeing that Wei Yan's family is so clearly divided, Jing Li thought of the regret of not being able to turn Wei Yan into a family member last time. There is a bit of a negative taste.

"Your Majesty." Seeing the emperor suddenly becoming displeased, Wei Yan knew that he must have thought of those things, and hurriedly hugged his back to comfort him, "I don't want to interfere, but I just want a bowl of water to be level."

People's hearts are inevitably eccentric, and it is not easy to want a bowl of water to be flat, but Jing Li can accept this reason, and it is quite comforting in his heart.The princes are still young, what kind of disposition they are, and whether they can take on great positions, they still need to be observed slowly. At this time, there is really no need to be too anxious. Before he made a decision, Wei Yan's attitude of being calm is indeed true. It fits his heart best.

If Wei Yan had an early tendency in this matter, he might be affected. Moreover, he didn't want Wei Yan or the Wei family to get involved in the reserve position prematurely.

"You, what should I say about you..." Although Jing Li complained in his mouth, his heart was sweeter than eating honey.

Wei Yan is stupid in some things, but in some things, he has been able to communicate with him, even if it is only unconscious.