Flowers on the other side [Comprehensive Red House]

Winter is a very difficult season for older people.Many elderly people have not been able to see the coming of spring again.For example, the Empress Dowager of the Palace of Compassion and Ning, and the Empress Dowager Duan Shun.

The saddest thing is Prince Fu, he never thought of the concubine——

Concubine Duan Shun caught a cold at the Empress Dowager's funeral, and then developed a high fever, and then her condition became out of control.Prince Fu watched the imperial physician rescue him with medicine, but he couldn't save it.

After the funeral, according to the Queen Mother's instructions, the sage bestowed some of the body that the Queen Mother had accumulated over the years to the Prince Fu, and gave some to the eldest princess who had already become the son of the Zheng family. The underage princes and princesses in the palace were just like the prince and his wife. , each of them also got a few pieces, Tu Gen and Cheng's eldest family shared the rest of the Queen Mother equally.

Concubine Duan Shun left a little of her body for Tu Gen, and the rest for Prince Fu.Prince Fu hugged the things left by his mother, and cried loudly again.

There were two funerals going on in the palace, and the crown princess didn't care about the custom of not telling anyone about her pregnancy in the first three months, so the news of her pregnancy broke out on the second day after the princess passed away.The saint hurriedly asked the princess to hand over the palace affairs, and returned to the East Palace to rest to avoid being bumped.Let the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Rites accept it and have full power to manage the funeral of the Empress Dowager and the Concubine.

This year, the palace has lost a lot of the flavor of the year.

As the new year comes out and the first month is out, the garden that the sage wanted can continue to be constructed as the weather gets warmer, and the prototype has been carefully crafted.But at this time, the sage let go of his urgency for the garden, and instead moved a few low-ranking nobles who had been attached to the Queen Mother and left behind by Emperor Daxing to Shou'an Palace.

He is going to completely renovate the Compassion Palace.

The prince's way of thinking about the saint is a one-off approach. He only whispered a few words to the princess when he was lying on the bed.Then let the Ministry of Internal Affairs issue blueprints and budgets, and make an overall repair plan for the garden of the Palace of Compassion and Peace.Thinking about it, he added the Jianfu Palace, Yinghua Palace, Shoukang Palace, and Shouan Palace near the Cining Palace to the renovation.

With this repair plan, the prince went to talk to the saint.

"Father, the Compassionate Palace has not been repaired for a long time, why don't you move the nobles to Chuxiu Palace first, and repair all the palaces in this area."

"It will take a long time to renovate this area." The saint's eyes were dim, and it was difficult to distinguish his true emotions.

"Father, these palaces are to be passed on to the descendants. The thousand-year-old house has been replaced by hundreds of masters, and it has been repaired and renewed. Since it needs to be repaired, it is better to take advantage of the fact that no one lives there, and thoroughly renovate it. Anyway, there is no rush. use."

"It's not good for those few noble people to live in Chuxiu Palace forever." The saint's tone could not be said to be against the plan.

"Father, there is no draft this year, and the Chuxiu Palace is empty, so let them live there first. Or start repairing the Jianfu Palace, and when the Jianfu Palace is completed, move them out. It will only take a few months." .”

The sage asked the prince to keep the repair plan, summoned the stewards of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and told them what to do.Seeing that the sage had taken over the matter, the crown prince let go of the matter and left the House of Internal Affairs to follow the sage's wishes.

The saint's private treasury has been full in the past few years, so it is better to spend the money.

The Chunwei Examination in February was presided over by the sage in name, but in fact the sage let go and handed it over to the prince.Even regarding the matter of the chief examiner, the sage was also in the Hall of Mental Cultivation. He first sought the prince's opinion in private before announcing it at the court meeting.Listening to the candidate for the examiner announced by the sage, the prince has a villain in his heart who is holding up a sign——

Gu is a hidden emperor who does not wear a twelve-pronged crown.

whispering sound!Sounds nice.

It is a temporary worker who is doing the work of the emperor in the name of the prince, and whether he can become a regular worker or not.

Unexpectedly, before the palace test, Jia Daishan came to see the saint.

"The sage, the only son of Marquis Wending, returned to Beijing this year to participate in the Spring Festival."

"Really? How did he do in the exam?" The sage didn't pay any attention to the affairs of Gongshi. He devoted his mind and energy to teaching the grandson and repairing the Compassion Palace.

"Gongshi is in the top fifty." In Jia Daishan's tone, he couldn't help showing a little complacency and anticipation.

"Well, not bad. Old Jia, if you have anything to do, just tell me."

"Well, nothing can be hidden from the eyes of the saint." Jia Daishan pretended to sigh, but continued to speak according to the saint's words.

"It's the old minister's daughter, and she's grown up this year. The old minister thought that Marquis Wending had passed away early, and there was no one in the fifth service. There was no brother in his family who could help him. The old minister just wanted to grow up with Marquis Wending For the sake of love, I want to ask the saint to marry these two children."

What Jia Daishan said was very sincere.

When mentioning the matter of Marquis Wending, the sage was not only a little bit embarrassed, he even recalled decades ago...

"Old Jia, your idea is very good. You first greet Marquis Wending's wife, and after the palace examination, I will give you a marriage."

Jia Daishan left with satisfaction.

Waiting for the Hall of Mental Cultivation, only the grandfather, father, and son were left, and the grandson ran over from the small table and chairs on the side.

First, he waved his hands to the saint in a decent manner, and then asked in a childish voice: "Grandfather, who is Wending Marquis? What is a marriage?"

The prince was still engrossed in the case, fighting with the daily and never-ending memorials, as if he hadn't heard the conversation between his son and his father.

Taisun is now the age to ask a hundred thousand whys. Fortunately, he asked the saints questions when there were no outsiders.The sage liked to explain to him from the very beginning, but now he is a little afraid of his grandson's questions.

"Marquis Wen Ding was the one who assisted the Tai/ancestor to rule the world when the country was founded. He was a strategist and a powerful man who made decisions thousands of miles away while strategizing."

The prince's ears trembled imperceptibly, hum!Saints don't have long memories.What kind of "strategizing" should I mention.Just wait for Taisun to ask each noun one after another.I hope that the sage will not be hoarse this afternoon, and he can explain the strategy to the little man clearly, and he will not go astray.

Sure enough, as the prince expected, by the time of dinner, the prince had finished correcting all the memorials, and the sage's "strategy" had extended to the decisive battle between Han Xin and Xiang Yu.

The prince arranged all the approved memorials by category on the imperial case, and left it to the sage to check after dinner.Seeing that the saint's voice was half hoarse, he was still enthusiastic, so he stepped forward to persuade him.

"Father, rest first, let's talk after dinner."

"Finish this paragraph." The sage was not bad today, so he gave the prince a reply.

"Han Xin asked people to sing the songs of Chu's hometown at night, and the soldiers of the overlord of Western Chu had no intention of fighting, so they fled in the night."

"Why did the soldiers run away when they sang the songs of Chu's hometown?"

"The soldiers thought their hometown was occupied by Han Xin."

"Grandfather, what are the hometown songs of Chu State?"

"The folk songs of the Chu State often contain the character 'Xi', such as the last sung by Chu Overlord Xiang Yu's 'Strengthening the Mountains and Conquering the World', which is a dialect feature. Of course, there are also dozens of poems in the "Book of Songs" with the word 'Xi' , such as the beautiful woman in "Jane Xi", who is from the west. There is also the word "Xi" in "Green Clothes", and the word "Xi" in Beifeng is used the most."

Before the sage continued, the prince said: "Father, let's talk about it after dinner, he can't remember all these things at once."

The grandparent and grandson eat at the same table, the prince looks at the grandparent and grandson, you pick it for me, and I pick it for you, pretending he didn't see it.What etiquette, what not to say, all disappeared in front of the saint's next-generation relatives.

After dinner, the prince took his grandson back to the East Palace, and the saint had his own night life.

The prince pulled his son, and walked slowly towards the East Palace in coordination with his son's broken leg.

"Father, who is Marquis Wending? What is Marriage?" The grandson happily listened to the story all afternoon, and then he remembered that he didn't know Marquis Wending and Marriage.

"Marquis Wen Ding, like Duke Rong, is your grandfather's companion. The gift of marriage is a decree from your grandfather to Wen Dinghou's son and Rong Guogong's daughter, saying that the two of you are engaged."

"What is an engagement?"

The prince started to get a little crazy, why did he ask himself here now.If you don't stop right away, the little one can go to sleep.After struggling with the memorial all afternoon, he doesn't want to explain any more terms now.In fact, what he is most afraid of is the explanation of a term, which will lead to more questions.

So he perfunctorily said to the grandson, "You will understand when you grow up."

"My son Minger will ask the imperial grandfather." In Taisun's heart, the imperial grandfather is omnipotent.Father Wang and Mother Concubine love to say "you will understand when you grow up."

Maybe they don't know either...

During the palace examination, the sage went around Gongshili, and finally asked Lin Hai to be the candidate.How can one say this?Lin Hai could be in the top ten in the essay; if he added his achievements in physical examination and numeracy in the tribute examination, Lin Hai would be too reluctant to win.

Fortunately, when the members of the cabinet were looking for flowers from the sage, Jia Daishan muttered, "Marquis Wending has this son, and someone will inherit the mantle, and he can rest in peace under the nine springs."

Come on, everyone understands, Jia Daishan, you are telling everyone that Lin Hai is the son of Wen Dinghou, and the background is that the old man and the saint are old, and you are old, and he is also the companion of the saint.

Let's explore the flowers!

Chen Shilang from the Ministry of Rites is the chief examiner for this session. If he doesn't show up, others don't want to contradict the saint for a chance.More importantly, everyone present quietly knew that this might be the last time the sage presided over Chunwei.The sage had confided to Liubu Jiuqing the day before that he wanted the Zen seat, and Qi Shangshu, the Ministry of Rites, was leading people to prepare for the ceremony of the Zen seat ceremony.

The top three have been selected, and the rest of the tributes are ranked by the prince, the chief examiner of Chunwei, and the cabinet ministers.When the sage was working overtime to mark the test papers, he asked Liang Jiu to send people to the Lin Mansion and the Rongguo Mansion to promulgate the decree he had prepared.

The next day when the cabinet ministers found out about this, Jia Daishan's eyes turned green.

Duke Rong, can you be more shameless?

Before Chunwei, Zhang Taifu wrote a letter to be an official, but the saint kept him.Calling him to the Hall of Mental Cultivation, the monarch and his ministers talked behind closed doors for a long time.Zhang Taifu came out of the Hall of Mental Cultivation, although he kept silent about his official career, he slowly put the work of the household department on Chen Shilang's shoulders.

The affairs of the cabinet have gradually been pressured to the second assistant and official Hao Shangshu.

The cabinet ministers knew that Zhang Taifu's appointment to office would be delayed for a while, and he was doing the handover of political affairs for his appointment.