The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

In previous years, the rankings for the township examinations were all posted outside the Gong Yuan.In addition to posting the list this year, the list was also published in the "Yanjing Weekly". "Yanjing Weekly" made a special issue of the rural examination.In addition to the list of candidates, three answer sheets of the top ten are also published.Except for Jieyuan Chen Ruihua's third answer sheet, the remaining 29 articles are all accompanied by vernacular translations.And Chen Ruihua's third answer sheet itself is vernacular.People with a discerning eye began to realize that the court of Yan State was going to promote vernacular Chinese.

Chen Ruihua is a child of Qi State Mansion.Mr. Chen lost the Xu family's lawsuit a while ago, so he was so sick that he couldn't hold back. Hearing that his nephew was elected, he was very happy.So he ordered to put on a show of wine.Chen Ruihua hurriedly said: "It's nothing to be a candidate. In the next year, there will be an examination. It won't be too late when my nephew wins the Jinshi. Besides, my nephew doesn't have that much time to socialize, so I have to study Well." After hearing this, Elder Chen repeatedly praised him for being sensible, so he just set up a rough banquet and a little celebration at home.Mrs. Chen breathed a sigh of relief: the family is difficult, and it is no longer as extravagant as it was in the early years.He also sent people to rush to the country of Wu to report the letter.

At the end of September, Chen Ruiwen wrote back from the state of Wu, ordering his younger brother to be a good student in Wenshu, and next year, a good student will take the Chunwei Palace Examination, and he must go to high school.Wu Guo will soon be his Chen Ruiwen's world, and then he can arrange a good future for his clan brothers.Chen Ruihua smiled lightly, and put the letter on the candlelight.

Little did they know that Chen Ruiwen didn't brag.He also had a good time, but his official career has been frustrated in recent years, and he has tasted all kinds of flavors in life.The king of Wu is old and getting dizzy day by day.Chen Ruiwen seized the opportunity to make a few rounds of wonderful flattery, and unexpectedly he regained his favor abruptly.Zhen Zangzhu, a minister of the state of Wu, sighed with his friend Bao Sanye secretly: "A few years ago, how could anyone be favored by flattering..."

In the past two years, the king of Wu saw that the son was getting more and more displeased, and Bao Sanye was not happy to mention the king of Wu, and said: "I don't know how many days the old man can live. When he returns to the west with the crane, the son will immediately let Chen Ruiwen go."

Zhen Zangzhu shook his head and said: "Don't be too happy. Chen Ruiwen is not confused. You see how cheap it is for him to slander and deceive people, but he never does it. Instead, he helps the ministers of the court to coax the prince to do serious things. Without him, Last time, the monk Bao Buqi was really able to melt away tens of thousands of silver."

Bao Sanye thought about it for a long time, and said: "Really! He hasn't done anything outrageous."

Zhen Zangzhu said: "This person is not an idiot, we just need to admit death to the Princess Regent of Yan. We underestimated him earlier."

Bao Sanye sighed: "Concubine Chen is dead, and he can still be favored again. I have really underestimated him." After thinking for a while, "Could it be because Concubine Chen is dead, and the prince misses her instead? Reuse her brother's?"

"The third master thought too much. The prince is just getting old and likes to listen to compliments. It has nothing to do with Concubine Chen."

Mr. Bao nodded, and sighed again: "The harem is also interesting. When Concubine Chen and Mei Ji were there earlier, my sister said that these two could fight until the heir succeeded. They both died in just a few years. Poor girl, Hongyan Fate."

Zhen Zangzhu smiled slightly and said, "That concubine Shen is not a fuel-efficient lamp."

Bao Sanye said treacherously: "Don't worry, the prince is gone. With how good her skills are, what's the use if she can't have a son."

Zhen Zangzhu thought for a while: "If she can't give birth to a son...it may not be able to stop her. I advise the son to join hands with Concubine Shen."

Bao Sanye was startled: "No need."

Zhen Zangzhu said: "It's best to join hands with her, lest she join hands with others." He paused, and said softly, "Zhao Feiyan never had a son, and she usually became the queen mother." Mr. Bao was slightly startled.

They are all busy in Shanghai Port right now.Bao Sanye went back to his residence and thought about it, then sent his confidants to rush back to Jinling to remind the prince with what Zhen Zangzhu said.It's too late if I don't want to.

The son hesitated for several days when he heard the news.He knew that Concubine Shen was ambitious, and it was not that he had never thought of joining forces with her.The old man won't live for a few more days, just wait a little longer.What can Concubine Shen do without a child?If we join hands with her, I'm afraid it will give her a lot of benefits.Just as he was undecided, an old eunuch suddenly came to Wu Wang's mansion, saying that the prince had something important to call his son.

The prince agreed and asked, "How is the father feeling?"

The old eunuch smiled wryly and said, "It's not very good. I'm afraid the son will be scolded back again."

The prince sighed, "I'm used to it." Then he changed his clothes slowly.The old eunuch looked at him from behind, his eyes flickering.

When they arrived at the Prince Wu's mansion, the eunuch who sent the message shouted outside the palace: "The prince has arrived~~"

The son strode in, and was about to salute, but saw that the hall was full of mess and everything on King Wu's desk had been smashed, so he was taken aback: "What's wrong?"

Sitting in the hall, King Wu was already trembling with anger, pointing at him and said, "What's wrong? You asked the lonely king what's wrong? The lonely king hasn't asked you what's wrong yet!"

The old eunuch who delivered the message said in a low voice: "My lord, look at the ones with writing on the ground."

Shizi frowned—it was obvious that someone had sued him for being black.Then he bent down and picked out some paper from broken teapots, broken suet white jade paperweights, and broken Duan inkstones.I held it and flipped through it for half a day, and the more I looked at it, the more shocked I became, as if someone had poured a basin of ice water on my back in a cold day.I don't know who brought all the matter of the prince's search for property to the King of Wu in these years.King Wu loves money the most in his life, and touching his money is like touching his lifeblood.The son not only collects money, but also spends it.King Wu himself has been thinking about building a new Wu Palace for many years, but he has been blocked by servants every time, and he has not even chosen a place until now.The prince broke out in a cold sweat and hurriedly shouted: "Father, you have been wronged! These are all forged, to frame the child!"

The King of Wu said coldly: "You don't need to argue. The lonely king has already sent someone to check. Here are a few things that are the most easy to check. Even though I am old, I can understand the account books."

The son shouted again: "Father, my son is the son of Wu, why do these things?"

King Wu said: "You don't need to be in a hurry. You will know when you get the account book."

The old eunuch coughed twice, and the son remembered that he hadn't knelt down yet, so he quickly put his knees on the ground, and said with tears in his eyes, "My son is really wronged, I beg my father to investigate clearly."

King Wu said slowly: "Of course King Gu won't wrong you, but you don't want to fool Gu."

The prince was in a hurry: "Evidence can be forged. If you want to make a false accusation, you can produce ironclad evidence." Nai said bitterly, "Who stabbed me in the back? The third? Or the fourth?"

King Wu clapped the case: "You still only miss your brother? After doing these things by yourself, do you still blame others!"

The son was really anxious and frightened, so he said indiscriminately: "Father only thinks, how can the son use this? Isn't the national treasury in the future..." He suddenly choked.He looked up and saw that King Wu's complexion had turned gray, his body softened, and he couldn't kneel down and fell to the ground.He secretly hated Zhen Zangzhu.If it wasn't for that guy who often said in front of me, "Sooner or later, the state of Wu will belong to the prince, what are you doing with your own money", how could I say such a stupid thing.

After a long while, King Wu nodded: "Okay, very good. Your father is not dead yet, and the treasury is yours." Nai shouted, "Take it!" A few warriors jumped out of the hall, grabbed the prince and went Walk.

The son was shocked: "Father! What are you doing!" King Wu ignored him, and the warrior naturally ignored him.It was not until he was picked up and pushed two steps that Shi Zifang regained his composure and shouted for grievances vigorously; King Wu just pretended not to hear.

Several ministers were ordered to join forces to thoroughly investigate the prince's ink corruption case.Because the information given by the whistleblower was too detailed, King Wu's people didn't take much effort to check the whole world for the son.He was really not wronged, and he did not know how much money he had taken from the treasury of the state of Wu for many years.Princess Bao of Wu has been trying to get money for her son from the public account since the capital, and she became more blatant after arriving in Wu.

King Wu was furious.Only ten days later, an order was issued to abolish the son and the princess.Before the ruling and opposition parties of the State of Wu had time to be surprised, and before all the officials had time to persuade them, the King of Wu suddenly made No.Courtiers who have admonishments will be beaten out.

On the same day, someone went to take the new prince to move.The child was only five years old, and he cried and refused to leave his mother.The biological mother, Ding Shi, is just an ordinary beauty with a cowardly temperament and is not favored.The eunuch who sent the order advised Ding: "Your Majesty, please comfort your son. The prince wanted to give you a white silk, but Madam Shen tried her best to stop her, saying that she wanted to accumulate virtue for the prince." The Ding family was terrified and hurried to appease his son. , Persuading him to go with the eunuch.The child refused and continued to cry.

But at this moment, a maid came, and she was surprised when she entered the door: "Yo~~ What's the matter? Why are you crying?" He said to the room, "Our mother is here."

Everyone recognized this maid and knew that she was with Concubine Shen, they were so frightened that they fell to their knees.Ding hurriedly pressed down on her son: "Kneel down, kneel down quickly."

Concubine Shen walked in slowly with a smile, looked around and said: "Get up, you don't need to be polite." The little prince raised his head with tears in his eyes, his face full of grievances.Concubine Shen stroked his head, "Don't be afraid, my son. Maybe your mother will lend me a few words for a while. It only takes a while, okay?" Ding hurriedly called the wet nurse to come and take care of the little son.Concubine Shen looked at the room for a few times, and found that it was really small, so she led Ding Shi out.Others dare not follow.

Arriving under a sycamore tree in the courtyard, Concubine Shen said to the earnest Ding family: "Sister Ding, I was originally the daughter of a small official in another country, and I was also displaced by family changes. I thought it would be like that for the rest of my life... a dream I didn't expect to be favored by the prince. This life is enough. I know that I am destined to have no children. I wanted to serve the prince. Met. Who knows..." She sighed, "The prince in the first place did such a thing out of thin air. The country that the prince worked so hard to build... How disappointed the prince is. He is the most difficult and suffering these days."

Ding was confused and didn't know how to respond, so he just bowed his head and said "yes".

Concubine Shen continued: "Sister Ding, don't worry, I have no intention of taking your son away. The little son will still visit Sister Ding every day and be filial to her. In the future, he will inherit the throne, and my sister will still be the Empress Dowager of Wu. My son, let him often stay by the prince's side, learn some etiquette of advancing and retreating, so that he can be more like the prince when he grows up in the future."

Ding cried: "I don't want him to be a prince! Doesn't he have so many elder brothers? Can't others do it?"

Concubine Shen hurriedly said sharply: "You must never say these words again. Since the prince has chosen him, he must be superior. We are just foolish women, how can a prince have a higher vision?" Ding was too frightened to say any more. Keep your head down.

After saying a few more words, Concubine Shen ordered Ding to go back to comfort the prince.Ding reluctantly persuaded her son to go with the eunuch and concubine Shen.Because the Ding family's courtyard is too small, the eunuchs could clearly hear what Concubine Shen and Ding family said, and they had to talk to King Wu when they went back.King Wu felt relieved: "Gu married the wrong woman in his early years, but now his vision is better. Gu is not old yet." The eunuch hurriedly complimented him, knowing in his heart: Concubine Shen has won.

Concubine Shen can not only deal with the prince.Xiao Shizi was sullen with Concubine Shen at first, and after only four or five days, he called her "Mother Concubine".The king of Wu then chose an auspicious day for the zodiac, and changed Concubine Shen to be the main concubine.

Wu Guofeng's direction changed drastically.The son of the first generation was placed under house arrest somewhere, and the concubine of the first Wu was ordered to become a nun.The lineage of the first son was in danger, and all the big and small officials from his mother's Bao family were wiped out.Except for Mr. Bao who is far away in Shanghai, all the men of Bao's family were imprisoned.Wu Wangnai ordered people to investigate Bao's house carefully.And sent people to chase to Shanghai Port, Bao Sanye has disappeared.

Seeing that the Bao family was doomed, Chen Ruiwen immediately tried to send a letter to Concubine Shen, asking to join hands with her.Concubine Shen knew that Wu Wang, the king of the outer dynasty, listened to Chen Ruiwen's words, so she replied with a smile: Yes.The two then joined hands to plant party members and eliminate dissidents.Fortunately, neither of them is stupid, and knows who is available and who is not.Therefore, only those from the first generation were removed, and the new recruits were not idiots.

Although the first son and the Bao family were involved in many civil servants, they were powerless to fight back when things happened.The military generals of the Wu Kingdom are headed by the South American general Wei Ruoheng, and many of those who stayed in the country have a deep friendship with him.Wei Ruoheng told his brothers repeatedly in the early years, and later sent letters to return to the country with the same words: generals are only loyal to the prince, and others will ignore them.Regardless of the son or the other sons of King Wu, none of them could win over the general; the generals also knew that the son was making money behind his back, and they were not willing to be recruited by him.Therefore, although there are hundreds of party members under the family of the first son and the Bao family, all of them have nothing to do with soldiers.What's more, Shizi himself doesn't know where he is, and the dragons have no leader.

It's just that King Wu didn't kill all his sons.The whole family of the eldest son is under house arrest in the mansion, so that the guards of the soldiers cannot leave the mansion.The same goes for the Bao family.This matter was persuaded by Concubine Shen again.She said: "Even if the son is right or not, what do you have to do with the concubine and the grandson? The case of the Bao family has not been clarified yet, so how can they act rashly? After all the adults find out, and then act in accordance with the law, we can show the prince Holy Ming." The king of Wu praised her as a kind-hearted, knowledgeable, extraordinary woman.

When Chen Ruiwen heard about it, he was puzzled and asked people to ask Concubine Shen: "Why did you keep that family?"

Concubine Shen said indifferently: "There is also a third child in the Bao family. Although he is a dude, he has even made friends with Master Zhen Zangzhu. Not to mention that Zhen Zangzhu has the trust of the prince, he was also born in the green forest, with high martial arts skills and good at flying over walls. Besides, this The person who died was an old monk and a monk from a temple in the capital. The edict of the late emperor's succession is hidden in that temple, which is obviously unusual. Therefore, if Zhen Zangzhu is not caught, the family members of the eldest son and the Bao family cannot be tampered with."

Chen Ruiwen was stunned, and praised: "Women don't give way to men." But he was puzzled: it has been more than a month since the Bao family had an accident, why is Zhen Zangzhu still staying in Shanghai?Why didn't I see him go back to Jinling to dissuade him?