I am a cat in the palace

In July, the heat was too hot, and the emperor felt sorry for the youngest son. With a decree, the Si Tianjian postponed the auspicious day for the third and fourth princes to study with teachers to the beginning of August.

Early in the morning, I was still falling asleep by the side of the fleshy head, when suddenly my body was bumped and fell off the fleshy pillow, and I rolled around in a daze before waking up. what happened?A little confused, he raised his eyes and looked around, and saw that Rourou had already got up and was about to get out of bed.I was stunned for a while, and glanced at the east window, where there is not even a little white, what time is it, can't the meat be dreaming?I immediately stretched out my paws to pull the meat, "Meow~~~" It's too early, come back quickly and sleep for a while, I haven't woken up yet.

"Great Immortal, get up, I'm going to school today, hurry up!" Rouroupa pulled away the tips of my claws hooking his clothes, pulled me into his arms and slapped on the top of my head twice, pinching me Rubbing my face for a while, it woke me up abruptly from a half-dream and half-awake state.I yawned, and rolled a few times unwillingly on the pillow that was still warm with my fleshy body, and rubbed my hair. Really, it's just entering school, not enthroned, why are you so nervous?Of course, even if I am enthroned, I don't think there is anything to be nervous about.Hey, forget it, forget it, there is no way, who made Rourou still a child, children are always easy to get excited about some insignificant things.

Reluctantly, I followed Rourou to get up, put my paws on his pillow and straightened up, yawned again and stretched vigorously.At the same time, the maids and eunuchs who waited outside also heard the sound of the flesh, and ran in one after another to wait and wash.

Rourou got up early, of course, a servant quickly ran to inform Mrs. Chen and Fulin. Soon, Mrs. Chen came in with a big bowl of delicious Wufu noodles with a smile on her face. Rourou ate contentedly, and was soon surprised I discovered that there was a poached egg fried on both sides specially hidden under the noodles.Taking advantage of Mrs. Chen's inattention, Rourou secretly bit off a large piece of egg yolk, put it on a small plate next to it, and pushed it in front of Zhen.

I looked at the slobber at the corner of his mouth, and at his eager expression, and finally——eat it in disgust.

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After eating, Rourou arrived at the Imperial Study Room on time under the escort of Fulin.

This is Rourou and the fourth prince's first day at school, so naturally there are a lot of ceremonies to go.

They have to follow their emperor father to pay homage to Tong Fang, the sage of calligraphy, and then to the ancestors of the past generations, and then they are the real masters.

Because of Daxia's unique and special system of prince tutors, and the influence of prince tutors on the prince that can almost be said to control the fate, any powerful prince and mother clan will almost start looking for suitable candidates for the prince's tutor as soon as the prince is born. The inextricably linked interests involved in it can be described as extremely complicated. In the previous dynasties, there was a bad thing that happened because the young prince worshiped the high-ranking prince's teacher, and fought against the adult prince to fight for the throne. .

Although the princes of this dynasty are still young, the old emperor has not yet reached the end of his life, and the battle for the throne has not yet reached a tragic stage, but the courtiers still value the prince's prince teacher very much, and many people stand in line based on this. For the next 30 years, I will be safe and prosperous.

For example, the second prince's master, Lu Chaozhong, a scholar of Longyuan Pavilion, is the current leader of scholars in Daxia, a master in the literary world, and the mainstay of the Qingliu faction in the court.It's also like the fourth prince's master, Zhao Hao, a scholar of Wenlan Pavilion, who came from a century-old family. His grandfather, his father, and him, all three generations of grandparents and grandchildren are well-known in the literary world.Zhao Hao himself has not passed the qualifications, but has already held the fourth-rank real position in the Ministry of Officials as a judge of meritorious service. He is definitely a pillar of the future and a powerful figure who can foresee the future.

It seems that among the three princes, only the third prince Shang Xin's master is not well-known.As soon as the emperor ordered Rourou to appoint a master, various rumors began to spread in the palace. Among them, the most interesting ones were as follows——

The first argument is: Yongshan Palace is too low-key, the emperor even forgot how old Rourou was, the other princes were enlightened at the age of five, and Rourou was six years old, and the emperor hadn't pointed out his master yet.If it wasn't for the virtuous queen and the kind-hearted concubine Duan, who proposed to be the third prince to choose a teacher to study, the emperor almost forgot that he had a son named Shang Xin.But today's emperor has never paid much attention to the schooling of his sons. The masters of the second prince and the fourth prince were pre-determined by their respective mothers and then asked the emperor to issue a decree for canonization. It's fine even if there is no mother, the only uncle is still far away at the border, and there are only a few eunuchs and maids to take care of him every day, so poor, how can anyone think of helping him find some master in advance.Coincidentally, recently, it happened to be the big exam in Chunwei, so the emperor randomly took a copy from the papers submitted in this year's imperial examination, and after seeing that it was not bad, he pointed out this candidate who didn't even take the palace exam to the third prince Shang Xin. Be a master.

The second theory is more legendary: the emperor went out of the palace in low clothes many years ago, and encountered difficulties on the way. A father and son helped the emperor a lot. The emperor always wanted to repay his favor, but after returning to the palace, he sent people to search everywhere. It will be many years before the whereabouts of the benefactor and father are not found.But this time in the big exam in Chunwei, the emperor found a familiar name in the examination papers, and when he called people, he saw that it was the youngest son of the father and son who helped him back then, and the emperor immediately wanted to repay his gratitude.It happened that the third prince Shang Xin was looking for a master, so the emperor directly pointed out the young Juzi to the third prince Shang Xin as a master. Anyway, the third prince has already been crowned king, and he will go to the fiefdom when he turns 16. It has nothing to do with the country and society whether you succeed in learning or not, but as the prince's teacher, this little benefactor of His Majesty the Emperor can live a lifetime of prosperity and wealth, without worrying about food and clothing.

The third type is more realistic and credible than the first and second types. It is said: The reason why the emperor would randomly designate a son to be the teacher of the third prince is that the queen and concubine wanted to completely eliminate the three princes. The threat of the prince Shangxin to the throne is a rare one, and he bullied the third prince without a strong mother clan's protection. In the examination of Chunwei, the third prince was found to be a poor student who had no background influence and had no connection with the factions in the court to be his master.

But no matter what stories these sayings tell, there is only one thing that is the same, that is, the master of the third prince Shang Xin is——

No status!No background!No power!No qualifications!Uneducated!Poor kid with nothing!

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The prince's apprenticeship is considered a major event in the court, so even though this apprenticeship ceremony has nothing to do with the second prince, he was still required to attend. Of course, his master, Longyuan Pavilion University Scholar Lu Chaozhong also attended with him.

The three princes first paid homage to the emperor in order of age, and then followed the emperor to pay homage to the book sage Tong Fang and the ancestors, and then began the most important and most nervous part for the princes—the ceremony of apprenticeship.

The second prince is already nine years old and has been in school for four years. Of course he doesn't have to attend the apprenticeship ceremony. This time he and his master Lu Chaozhong are only present to observe the ceremony.

Flesh daddy - His Majesty the current emperor is the most intolerant of red tape. At his request, the various etiquettes of the royal family have been greatly simplified compared to his father, the second emperor of Daxia.Just like the prince's apprenticeship, if the rules of his grandfather's generation were followed, the prince would not only have to go to the Shusheng Temple to pay homage to the Shusheng, but also go to the Taimiao Temple to pay homage to the ancestors.Probably the old emperor still clearly remembered his pitiful appearance of being exhausted and exhausted when he was a child, so since the eldest son of the emperor started to study, he changed the rules, stipulating that the prince only needs to worship the portrait of the sage in the palace, and then go to Tianyuan Palace After offering incense and enshrining the portraits of Taizu and Taizong, you can go to the imperial study to worship the master.As for the apprenticeship ceremony, everything is simple, you only need to kneel down three times, and then offer a cup of tea.This kind of ceremony, which originally took three days to complete, only took half a day. After the ceremony, he could still keep a few prince teachers in the palace for a meal and chat with them about his son's studies. Everyone was happy.

According to the information I got in advance, when the three princes follow the emperor to pay homage to their ancestors and holy books, the three princes will be escorted to the Imperial Study Room to wait in advance.

The old emperor took it with him in person, so I don't worry about what kind of moths will come out of Rourou. What I'm more curious about is that there is no place in the rumor!No background!No power!No qualifications!Uneducated!Poor kid with nothing!So I took advantage of the time when there were few people in the imperial study room and rushed in first, and found a hidden corner to live in first.

Sure enough, not long after, the eunuch led three people in.

The second prince, Shi Lu Chaozhong, is an old man with a white beard in his 60s. He has a handsome appearance and is extremely polite.

Zhao Hao, who is about to become the teacher of the fourth prince, has a white face and no beard, is not tall, and is only 27 or [-] years old, but he already occupies a high position. Everywhere is not precise to the extreme.

I have seen the two in front of me before, so I don't have much time to look closely. My eyes are only focused on the strange man at the end. That man should be the master that the emperor pointed out to him——Wei Yin.