After the rebirth, I was picked up by the prince

After Qi Zizhen formally took over as the Imperial Teacher, he returned to the court. Out of consideration for his convenience, Song Yaoxu specially arranged a sedan chair to wait under the Imperial Teacher's Pagoda at half past Yin hour every day to send him to the imperial court.

When Song Yaoxu arranged the sedan chair, he also considered allowing him to sleep a little longer. The speed of the sedan chair was not fast enough for him to catch up on sleep.

This also made Qi Zizhen step on the point where the morning court was about to start every time before arriving at the waiting place of the officials outside the palace.

The officials didn't know about Song Yaoxu's special care for him, and some of them seemed to be a little dissatisfied with it, and reported to Song Yaoxu overtly and secretly, but were all dismissed by Song Yaoxu's usual jokes.

Qi Zizhen himself didn't care much about it, this was the back door Song Yaoxu specially opened for him, and it was not in vain to leave.

Anyway, he is not a clean and honest person, and he steps on it every day with peace of mind, showing his arrogance and arrogance to the fullest.

In addition, after Song Yaoxu officially ascended the throne, Guan Wang Songping also returned to the court on the grounds that his injury was almost healed.

But after he returned to the court, he hadn't made any big moves for the time being, and he seemed to have really restrained himself because of the injury.

Of course, Qi Zizhen and Song Yaoxu would not be fooled by his appearance, and always maintained sufficient vigilance in the court.

As an old fox, Song Ping seemed to be able to hold his temper. He hardly said much in the court every day, and he was extremely quiet.

On the [-]th day of the twelfth lunar month, the sheriff on the northeastern border sent another situation report, saying that the snow disaster in the northeast region had been effectively controlled, and the displaced people had a temporary place to settle down, so that they would not become fleeing people. refugees.

At the same time, the county guard on the northeast border also highly praised Zhou Hancai's talent and seriousness in the report, saying that he was the one who contributed the most to the disaster relief.

Song Ping went forward to play the memorial after the reporter finished reading it, praised Zhou Hancai's performance since the last court, and then mentioned the fact that the position of prime minister had been vacant for too long, and asked Zhou Hancai to be made prime minister.

Prior to this, the officials only dared to express their willingness to invite Zhou Hancai to be the prime minister in private memorials. Most of the court chose to hint that after Song Ping took the lead, there were many others one after another. The officials are all willing.

At first glance, they accounted for almost half of the court officials.

Song Yaoxu didn't answer in person, but said that he would make a decision after Zhou Hancai returned to the capital.

Then he discussed this matter with Qi Zizhen again after the court went down that day.

They originally wanted to use the snow disaster to test Zhou Hancai's ability, but now they fell into hesitation again.

They had every reason to believe that it was impossible for Song Ping to push a person who did not belong to his influence to become a prime minister with one man under one man and one man over ten thousand. There must be a certain connection between Zhou Hancai and Song Ping.

If Zhou Hancai himself was Song Ping's person, the snow disaster incident was probably a bureau that Song Ping took the opportunity to deliberately make the previous three officials do nothing to make things worse, and wait for Zhou Hancai to make a "great achievement" after he passed by.

But if Zhou Hancai wasn't from Song Ping, Song Ping was probably taking advantage of their defense and hostility towards him, causing them to lose a lot of useful people.

The two possibilities will lead to completely different results, which requires them to carefully consider.

But the two of them deliberated for a long time and still had no results for the time being, and finally decided to wait for Zhou Hancai to come back and then do a few more special investigations.

And they waited until the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, the day of New Year's Eve.

On New Year’s Eve, the capital city has been surrounded by the festive atmosphere of the New Year. Red lanterns are hung everywhere, and every household puts on new red couplets, embellishing a large area of ​​prosperity amidst the white snow.

Today will also be the last day for the Ling Dynasty to use the name Hongchu, and it will be officially changed to the first year of Shunhe from tomorrow.

Considering that he didn't have to go to court the next day, Qi Zizhen ran to the palace from the secret passage of the palace to find Song Yaoxu, but on the way he ran into Song Shi who was also looking for Song Yaoxu.

"Brother Qi!" Song Shi ran over as soon as he saw Qi Zizhen, threw himself into his arms, raised his head and his eyes sparkled, "Long time no see, Brother Qi! Xiaoshi misses you so much."

Qi Zizhen rubbed the child's head, his expression softened a lot: "Long time no see."

Since officially succeeding, Qi Zizhen only came to the palace every day when he was in court, and spent most of his time in the National Teacher Tower looking through the known information of every official in the court.

Calculated in this way, the last time Qi Zizhen met Song Shi was a quick glance on the sacrificial altar on the day of succession.

He patted the child on the shoulder, motioned for him to let go, then took his hand, and walked with him to the Imperial Study Room, while asking about his recent situation.

Song Shi himself has a lively and clingy personality, he babbled on everything from schoolwork to daily fun, and mentioned Xu Xiaoqi several times.

Qi Zizhen recalled that Song Shi seemed to have gone with Xu Xiaoqi when he succeeded, and asked curiously: "The relationship between Xiaoshi and Xiaoqi seems to be very good?"

When Song Shi heard his question, he smiled even brighter: "Because Brother Xiao Qi is a nice person~ he is as good as Brother Qi!"

Song Shi realized that he was only ten years old this year, and there was a bit of a child's milky voice in his speech, which sounded cute and sincere, very pleasing.

But when he said this, he seemed to think of something again, and his expression became more sad than before.

"Actually... I think brother Zishan is also a good person." Song Shi shook his hand with Qi Zizhen, and looked up at the blue sky outside the palace wall.

As a prince, Song Shi seldom had the opportunity to go out to play. Apart from his brothers, his only playmates were Qi Zishan and Xu Xiaoqi.

Qi Zizhen also heard from Ning Qingwei that when they went to the border to fight, Song Shi and Qi Zishan often had certain contacts, and their relationship became better during that time.

Later, Qi Zishan was deliberately confined between the prime minister's mansion and Guan Wang's mansion, and occasionally he would secretly find an opportunity to have fun with Song Shi for a short period of time.

However, now, Qi Yuan is temporarily detained in the sky prison because of his serious crimes, and is about to be sentenced to death at a later date, while Qi Zishan has already been demoted and exiled to the border area before.

Out of a small amount of selfishness, the place of exile he and Song Yaoxu finally chose was Jiuyou County, where the person in charge was "faint and incompetent". The county re-entered the civilian household registration.

Qi Zizhen thought for a while, but still didn't intend to tell Song Shi about this, but softly comforted him: "Good people will always be rewarded, maybe Xiaoshan just went to a new place and had a new start."

Song Shi could hear his consolation, but he still restrained his original emotions, raised his smile again and said, "Well! Then let's not talk about these things. If you go to play with brother Jin with a sad face, he must be worried. Yes, Xiaoshi doesn't want Brother Jin to worry."

The child was well-behaved and sensible, and immediately returned to the happy appearance at the beginning, and pulled Qi Zizhen to talk about some ordinary topics.

Qi Zizhen also listened to his babbling very cooperatively, and did not let go of his hand until he was near a place where officials might be haunted, and moved a little further away.

Now as the national teacher, he still has to keep a certain distance from the princes on the bright side.

Song Shi also knew these truths, and gradually reduced the topics, and was an arm's length away from Qi Zizhen, as if he didn't know him very well.

The two of them walked all the way to the imperial study room, and before they let the eunuch guard the door to help inform, someone came out of the imperial study room.

The man was still wearing an official uniform, and he looked a little bit embarrassed. He looked like he was traveling in a hurry and came back to the imperial study without stopping.

——This person is exactly Zhou Hancai who just rushed back from the northeast border county.

Zhou Hancai came out of the imperial study room, happened to meet Qi Zizhen's gaze, glanced at him without emotion, and then said hello: "I have met Mr. Guoshi."

Said it was a greeting, but in fact, the tone and posture were perfunctory, and it didn't look very respectful.

However, Qi Zizhen has long been used to this kind of attitude, and he didn't show any abnormality. He nodded in return, and watched him go out of the palace without staying long.

Qi Zizhen looked at his back as he walked away a little bit, thoughtfully, until the eunuch sent a message to remind them that they could go in, then he regained his composure, closed his eyes and walked in.

In the imperial study room, Song Yaoxu was still sitting in front of the desk, holding a memorial in his hand, and smiled when he saw two people, one big and one small, walk in: "Why did you come here together?"

"I happened to meet on the way here." Song Shi replied with a smile, very energetic.

Qi Zizhen also echoed from the side, and then asked about Zhou Hancai's matter just now: "Did Your Highness discuss something with Zhou Shilang just now?"

Song Yaoxu nodded, handed him the memorial in his hand, and did not shy away from Song Shi who was still in the imperial study, and said directly: "It was Zhou Shilang who took the initiative to ask for an interview, saying that the first batch of three officials sent to embezzle Part of the disaster relief food funds were used, which made the snow disaster more serious at the beginning."

While listening to him, Qi Zizhen also opened the preview of the memorial at the same time, and found that there was a difference of nearly [-]% between the amount allocated by the imperial court and the amount actually reached the northeast border according to his observation.

Nearly [-]% of the relief food is not a small amount.

The Ling Dynasty punished corrupt officials quite severely. Even the most Buddhist Emperor Hongchu imposed capital punishment on many corrupt officials during his reign.

Moreover, the first batch of officials sent there were not high-ranking officials, so they shouldn't have the guts to embezzle so much public funds.If what Zhou Hancai said is true, then the scope of his involvement is very wide.

Qi Zizhen roughly finished reading the memorial, frowning and lost in thought.

At this moment, Song Shi, who was listening on the sidelines, asked curiously: "Brother Qi and Brother Jin are considering whether that person can be trusted just now?"

Song Shi was naturally keen, and if he could vaguely detect that it was just a matter of corruption, they shouldn't be so hesitant.

Song Yaoxu didn't hide it from him, nodded and said, "We don't know much about that person, and we don't know whether he is on the side of the bad guys or on our side."

Listening to what he said, Song Shi tilted his head and said with a smile, "But Xiao Shi thinks it doesn't really matter whether he is a bad guy or not."

Qi Zizhen and Song Yaoxu froze for a moment, unable to understand what he meant.

Song Shi continued: "Although the Taifu told Xiaoshi that it is not necessary to suspect people and not to employ people, the Taifu also said that the officials and officials are just a pawn to help the emperor govern the world."

"Since it's just chess pieces, why do you have to guess their minds? Isn't it the easiest way to grasp their fatal weakness and throw them away when they are used up?"

The child's way of thinking is still very simple, so Qi Zizhen asked him: "So what if there is no fatal weakness for him?"

Song Shi smiled sweetly: "If you want to commit a crime, there is no excuse."

Shocked by his words, Qi Zizhen and Song Yaoxu looked at each other, and then Song Yaoxu asked again, "Did the Taifu teach Xiaoshi this too?"

"No." Song Shi shook his head lightly, "Xiao Shi came up with it himself."

The smile on his face was as pure and innocent as usual, his clear black eyes were clean and pure, his nasal voice seemed a bit milky, but the words he said were unreasonably chilling.

... Is this really their innocent and lovely Tenth Prince? ? ?

The author has something to say: System: Ding Dong ~ Your friend [Song·Sesame Stuffed Rice Balls·Shi] is online

What bad thoughts can Xiao Shi have, he is just an innocent and cute baby (fog)

Zizhen is also about to open the door to a new world, and the road to hooliganism is gone forever hh

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Thank you [An Arctic Rabbit] for the nutrient solution mua!