After raising the emperor, he always wanted to marry me

Yongxi is 22 years old, and the new year has just passed.

Mr. Yi Ji, who had been playing in Beijing for several months, returned to Baiming Mountain shaking his sleeves and robes like flying through the clouds.

King Gu Hong's health is getting worse and worse.In one winter day, I got two bouts of wind and cold, and I coughed continuously for more than a month.

Once the king is ill, the number of times to manage the government will be even less.

At the moment, the storage space is vacant.In order to prove themselves to the king, those princes in their prime of life tried their best.They all began to establish prestige in their respective fields, ally with brothers, and get close to courtiers.

The courtiers in Beijing also began to assess the situation and stood in their own teams.

There are even rumors that the first emperor ended up in power for 22 years, and he is no better than the first emperor today.

King Gu Hong knew very well in his heart that it was the same situation when the first emperor grew older.He knew better how much blood he bled to sit in this position that year.

In the 22nd year of Yongxi, the first day of February.

Emperor Yongxi Gu Hong summoned his two remaining brothers after he ascended the throne in the inner hall of Chongning Palace.Prince Yucheng Gu Chao and Prince Kang Sheng Gu Jiang.

For the first time, the matter of storage was put on the table.

Prince Yucheng is the ninth son of the late emperor, following his biological mother's fiery temper, he has always been disliked by the late emperor.

Prince Kang Sheng is the seventh son of the late emperor. His birth mother was of noble birth, and he is also reserved.

The three brothers took their seats in the inner hall, the old eunuch Cui Shang dismissed everyone with great insight, and drew the curtain in the hall to prevent the fourth person from knowing today's conversation.

When everything was settled, Emperor Yongxi Gu Hong took the lead and said: "You two emperors, I think you all know the meaning of calling you here today. I am getting older, and my princes have also grown up. They fought after I died, and I thought how to settle this matter while I was still alive. You are all my brothers, and I would like to hear your opinions. Which one of my sons is more suitable? "

The two princes looked at each other without speaking, as if they were waiting for the other to speak first.

"What's the matter? There is no outsider here right now. If you don't speak any more, what did I ask you to do?" Gu Hong leaned back in his chair pretending to be relaxed: "If you have anything to say, just say it."

Prince Kang Sheng thought for a while, and then said: "Brother Huang, in fact, you are still young now, and you can take the princes to practice for a few more years. When they are all promising, you can choose another one."

"Yeah, brother, you are only in the year of knowing your destiny this year, why are you old?" Prince Yucheng also echoed, and took a sip from the tea cup.

"Okay, okay, I'm already at this age, what kind of praise are you singing for me?" Gu Hong smiled and said: "If you continue to falter and falter me like this, I will pass the board over and let you stand next to each other." call."

"Ahem, brother, how can you be as aggressive as you?" Prince Yucheng almost spit out a sip of tea, causing the other two to burst into laughter.Gu Chao saw the king smiled, and his mood relaxed: "Actually, I want my younger brother to say that Prince Rui is fine. Prince Rui is old and has heirs, and he can take care of his younger brother in the future. Brother Huang appointed him as the heir to protect the two generations. Rest assured."

"You mean Prince Rui?" Mentioning Prince Rui and Gu Zhi, Gu Hong couldn't help but think of the past when Gu Zhi did not hesitate to poison the giant bear to become the king and nearly hurt his life, and he framed Gu Xiu because of jealousy. It's just to let that hard-won young son have a solid life in the future.Prince Rui's values ​​are mediocre, his methods and brains are not worthy of his own ambitions, and his talents and abilities cannot suppress those younger brothers at all.If he is the king, it will be a bloody storm in less than two or three years.

Prince Kang Sheng glanced at the king's face, knowing that the king was not satisfied with Gu Chao's proposal just now, so he proposed: "According to my brother, it is better to be King Xun. King Xun is a virtuous and valuable person. Before the He has prestige in the court, if the emperor appoints him as the crown prince, he will naturally be able to convince the public."

He is a virtuous man, and his character is precious.Gu Hong snorted coldly in his heart, his fourth son is good in everything, but his superficial skills are too good.Just like those ice brick shops in the midsummer of last year, the dignified prince went so far as to be a philistine, even this small windfall.On the surface, he always looks wise and friendly, but he is just a father who doesn't have the patience to investigate how dirty he is behind the scenes.

Coupled with his mad dog, the prime minister's uncle who paved the way for him to bite people everywhere, if he is really allowed to inherit the throne in the future.None of his remaining sons died well.

Gu Hong watched these two people argue silently, all he thought was: Prince Rui is very stupid, King Xun's relatives are detrimental to the country, King Duan is sick and weak, and King Ning is ignorant of world affairs.

These two people talked back and forth, but no one mentioned Gu Xiu, the King of War.

If you think about it seriously, Gu Xiu is the real virtuous and valuable person.In the past few years when he was in charge of the army, the frontier fortress of Da Zhou was much more peaceful, and he also handled the six official documents that King Ning Gu You pushed to him in an orderly manner.

He entrusted Gu Xiu with [-] points, and Gu Xiu would always give him [-] points.

However, this child's brain does not have a string of scrambling for heirs. Looking at the princes and courtiers in the past few days, all of them have sharpened their heads and cling to each other.

As if he was the only one who didn't see it, he went to patrol the frontier without saying a word, and stabilized the morale of the border army for him, the father.

Although the child Gu Xiu is cold and reticent on the surface, he is kind and filial in his heart.If it wasn't for Gu Xiu carrying a criminal Yun family behind his back, he really wanted to take this child by his side to practice for a few years before entrusting the country to him.

It's a pity that there are not so many ifs in the world.

From winter to spring, the king's health improved a lot.Once again, he was able to govern the court in good spirits every day, and the disputes among the courtiers about the reserve position were over.

Those princes who solicited influence for themselves while the king was recuperating all put their tails between their legs.

Only the two little ones, Gu You and Gu Xiu, were happier than each other when they greeted the king.

Gu You, who had been holding back all winter, hugged the king's arm and coquettishly complained, saying that one day Gu Xiu ate two more boxes of snacks that Gu Jin hadn't eaten before.For a while, it was said that Xu Jingrou withheld his salary in the mansion, so that he didn't even have money to reward the servants on weekdays.At one time, it was said that Concubine Li Jin twisted his ears on a certain day, and at another time, it was said that Gu Xiu was busy with military affairs all day and completely forgot his birthday.

Only then did Gu Hong realize that during his illness, he actually missed Gu You's birthday.Look at the day and it's not far from Gu Xiu's birthday.So the old eunuch Cui Shang rewarded each of them with a soft fur as a gift for their birthday celebration.One in raven blue and one in royal blue.

The two brothers had the same eyes, they both fell in love with the royal blue one, and both reached out to grab it.

"Seventh brother, you look good in crow blue, give this to sixth brother if you are obedient."

Gu You pulled the soft fur to his side twice, but Gu Xiu didn't let go.In an instant, Gu You lost his burden of being an older brother, and returned to his boyish appearance when he was a teenager: "Gu Xiu! Give it to me!"

"No." Gu Xiu pulled hard, and directly lifted the soft fur over his head.

"You usually wear green clothes, why are you robbing me!" Gu Xiu was much taller than Gu You, and Gu You couldn't touch the edge of the soft fur even when he was hopping, he turned around anxiously and called out: "Father, look at him!"

"You'er, you're an adult now, why are you still as domineering as you were when you were a child." Gu Hong suppressed a smile, shook his head and said, "Be obedient, and give it to your seventh brother."

Gu You pursed his lips, and turned around with an unhappy face: "Here you are, I don't want it anymore, anyway, it's all rewarded by the emperor."

Gu Xiu first thanked the king, and then handed the soft fur with his arms full to Gu You: "Here you are."

"Forget it, give it to you if you like it, who made me your brother."

"What Sixth Brother said is that I still look good in blue." Gu Xiu said and pushed the soft fur in his arms towards Gu You's arms.

"Yeah! It's true!" Gu You's face was filled with joy, and he hugged the soft fur, and rubbed it with the side of his face in joy: "Father's reward is good, the material is really comfortable."

"Okay, I also saw that you have been crazy all morning, so go and show your mother and concubine a new fur." ​​Gu Hong smiled and waved to the two children.

"Yes, I'm leaving." The two teenagers replied in unison, put on new furs, and retreated briskly from Chongning Palace.

Seeing the backs of the two children going away, Gu Hong suddenly felt a tickle in his throat, followed by a violent cough, and his throat was full of fishy sweetness.

In the 22nd year of Yongxi, the spring day of March.

The Turkic Yi people who had disturbed the border for more than [-] years suddenly issued a letter of war to Guochao, demanding that Guochao cede the four thousand miles of grassland in Mengshi to raise horses with them, otherwise the twelve Turkic tribes would attack Guochao and fight Wang Guxiu led the army again.

At the same time, the twelve candidates who failed the ranking of Qiu Wei walked into the lobby of Jing Zhao Yin's Mansion hand in hand.

The door of the yamen asked briefly, and everyone said that they came to Beijing to surrender.The prefect Jiang Li didn't dare to neglect, and immediately went to court to hear the case.

The leader's name was Zhou Zisheng, and he confessed to Jiang Li that he had been selected as a candidate in the previous Enke, and he was thinking that he would be a Jinshi in the fall of this year, he would be named on the annual gold list, and he could enter the court as an official.

Before the Qiuwei Township Examination, a person who claimed to be a close friend of the examiner contacted them and said that he could sell them the examination questions of that year.Only 500 taels of silver.

They didn't believe it at first, until the man showed the name of King Xun Gu Yan's belt.Only then did they believe it one after another, and a total of hundreds of people paid money and took the test questions.

They review and answer according to the content of the exam questions and prepare properly.Unexpectedly, after entering the examination room and seeing the papers, they discovered that the questions they bought with money were completely made up.

Those cheaters expected that they would not dare to sue the officials, so they ran away with their money in such a cool and unrestrained way.

Some candidates who broke their fortunes and bought exam questions were so angry that they ran into the examination room and died.Seeing that the matter was getting worse, the local officials and examiners of the southern generation, and even His Royal Highness King Xun who was acting on behalf of the emperor, didn't care about any of them.

They just pressed down the examinees one by one and put them under house arrest.He also threatened them not to speak too much, otherwise their actions would be regarded as fraud, not only would their official careers be hopeless, but they might even lose their heads.

These hundreds of people originally thought of letting it go, but when they thought of how they had been let down by this charlatan day and night during their hard study, they couldn't be more angry.They are indeed opportunistic, trying to cling to the emperor's favor, and they are willing to bear all the responsibilities for this, even if they lose their fame and fame and commit crimes by beheading.I also want to bring to justice the charlatan who entrapped them all their lives.

Therefore, the twelve of them fled all the way to the capital after hiding for half a year with hundreds of petitions in their arms.Hope the king can make decisions for them.

As soon as this incident happened, Yin Jiangli of the Jingzhao Mansion became overwhelmed, and hurriedly reported this incident to the king, but he couldn't hold it back.

In an instant, the whole matter exploded in the court.

Enke cheated and turned out a charlatan.If there is no protection of officials and officials, how can hundreds of people be deceived?Why are they still holding on to the life lawsuit?

Even if the magistrate and the chief examiner were not involved, it would be hard to escape the guilt of not doing anything.

The ceremonial department that hosted Enke was charged with dereliction of duty, even those who swept the floor at the door could not escape.

The most important thing is that the whole incident also involves a king, Gu Yan.Not to mention that the liar was bluffing and cheating under the banner of King Xie Gu Yan.Just talking about the report that Gu Yan, the king of Xuan, reported all the success of Jiangnan Enke when he returned to Beijing, is enough to ask for the crime of deceiving the superior and concealing the inferior.