When Xun Zu and Xun Fan walked out of the palace, there was no one on the palace road. The two brothers walked silently in the long corridor. Xun Zu remained silent. Halfway through, he turned to look at Xun Fan, "Brother has already done this.
Choice? Otherwise, why didn’t you remind me at the palace banquet?”
Xun Fan was silent for a while and then said: "Your Majesty... has no wisdom. I taught him "The Great Learning" and let him listen to the general when he was in charge of politics. I occasionally asked him for his opinions."
"No matter how much we doubt her, judging from her achievements, she is indeed trying her best to teach His Majesty to be a good emperor, but it is obvious that His Majesty is not hiding his clumsiness."
Two cents for future generations.”
It means that the little emperor is really clumsy and cannot be a qualified emperor.
"But Your Majesty is the orthodox member of the Jin Dynasty..." Xun Zu was a little excited, "Zhao Hanzhang is still young. If you think His Majesty is not good, just marry the middle palace, give birth to a few little princes and train him carefully."
Xun Fan sneered: "Third brother, Zhao Hanzhang is not a friendly person, nor are the people under her. Do you think the current harmony can be maintained for more than ten or twenty years?"
"If Emperor Hui hadn't learned from the past, if there hadn't been the Eight Kings Rebellion, I might agree with you, but... you and I are both witnesses of this chaos," Xun Fan stopped and faced Xun Zu in tears.
He said: "Wars, wars, do you really want the country to be in chaos again? From the time when Empress Jia was rebellious to today, there are dozens of members of our Xun family, and now only you and me are left."
When Xun Zu heard this, he was speechless for a long time.
The Xun family was not prosperous, but there were some well-known families, and several members of the family depended on them for life. Since Empress Jia went into chaos, people began to die in the capital, and the Xun family was no exception.
After several battles, there were more than 300 people in the family, including dozens of people, including the guards and slaves, and in the end only Xun Fan and Xun Zu were left.
Xun Zu has no wife or children, and his beard has turned gray. Xun Fan's two sons have been separated. He has been asking people to inquire about them, but there is no news so far. It seems that there is no good news.
The common people suffered from war and chaos, and the nobles suffered equally.
No matter how high they are, they are all the same under war, food shortages, and natural disasters.
Xun Fan and Xun Zu experienced the moment when they took the young emperor and King Yuzhang to escape. At that time, they narrowly escaped death. Not only were they hunted, but they also starved. They were people who were on the verge of death several times.
Xun Fan really didn't want to bear that feeling again.
He wanted to adhere to the orthodoxy of the Jin Dynasty, but the premise was that the young emperor had the talent and the heart. Now, he has neither the talent to govern nor the heart to be an emperor. They thought they were good and went to fight for him.
Is it really good for him to fight?
Xun Zu whispered: "Brother, are you sure that Zhao Hanzhang can do it? Now that she is in power, she looks fine, but what about one or two years later?"
"Think about what Gou Xi, who was such an upright and honest person, became in the end?" Xun Zu said: "And there is King Langya in Jiangnan. You don't do anything at this time. Once she changes, I
Even if you want to protect the emperor and the court, you can no longer protect the world."
Xun Zu did not believe that Zhao Hanzhang could remain unchanged.
He had been frightened by the pattern of the Jin Kingdom's powerful officials turning bad. From the Eight Kings to Gou Xi and other powerful officials, one after another, they all became proud and complacent after gaining power, let themselves go, and then completely degenerated.
He didn't believe that Zhao Hanzhang could be this accident.
Xunfan didn't believe it before, but this time together made him more confident in Zhao Hanzhang, "The emperor doesn't want to do it anyway, so you might as well teach him to read with peace of mind, and wait a few years to see what Zhao Hanzhang will become.
It’s never too late to take action like this.”
"It will be too late by then!"
"It won't be too late," Xun Fan said confidently: "If you don't believe in Zhao Hanzhang or Ji Yuan, you should also believe in Ming Yu."
"Ming Yu has been with Gou Xi for more than ten years and is his confidant. Under such circumstances, because Gou Xi was disqualified, he left. How long has he been with Zhao Hanzhang now? Do you think if Zhao Hanzhang betrays him, he will not react?
Xun Fan said: "When the time comes, you can do what you want to do now and get twice the result with half the effort."
Xun Fan said meaningfully: "This world never lacks people who care about the world, benevolent and ambitious, and there is also no shortage of ambitious people."
Xun Zu lowered his head and thought.
Their conversation with the little emperor tonight was indeed not hidden from Zhao Hanzhang. As soon as Xun Zu and Xun Fan left, Zhao Hanzhang received the real-time broadcast.
After she finished reading, she threw the paper into the brazier and burned it.
Fu Tinghan himself was very curious, "If they don't know, will you know?"
"I know, I also know that they know that I know, this kind of thing is just tacitly understood."
Fu Tinghan: "Then how can you be sure that what they say is true or false? What if they say it on purpose to confuse you?"
"So, what you hear may not be what you believe," Zhao Hanzhang said with a smile: "For this kind of thing, it just depends on what they do next. I never judge their thoughts."
"However, information is still very important, and the palace does need to recruit some more people. There will be a group of people to serve, and a group of people to assist in handling government affairs." Zhao Hanzhang said: "We will make an announcement after the New Year.
Let’s recruit talented people from all over the world.”
"Now that the world is temporarily stable, there should be more people coming to take the exam than in previous years," she touched her chin and said, "I need to show my voice to the public and let the inns and restaurants in the capital prepare."
But you can do these things slowly because there is still a lot of time.
After the palace banquet was over, Zhao Hanzhang decided to live a happy new year. The first thing he did was to sleep until he woke up naturally.
As a result, her biological clock was so accurate that she woke up on time every morning.
Fortunately, the weather was cold. She felt very at ease while lying in bed listening to the whistling north wind outside. Although she still couldn't fall asleep, she didn't want to get up, so she just pinched her fingers in bed and counted who was missing letters for this year's New Year.
Didn't receive it, whose letter was not answered?
Counting, counting, Fu Tinghan grabbed his finger, "What are you counting?"
"Counting the letters that need to be completed before the seventh day of the Lunar New Year." Zhao Hanzhang put his hands behind his head and sighed: "Now that I am free, I am a bit unaccustomed to it. How about we go hunting after dinner?"
Fu Tinghan: "Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year."
"That's right, it's not appropriate to kill people on the first day of the new year," Zhao Hanzhang gave up, "Forget it, let's stay at home and play. The shops and workshops outside are also closed today. Otherwise, you can still go out to see people's livelihood, or go to Liulifang to try it out.
Telescope lenses.”
For three days in a row, Zhao Hanzhang and Fu Tinghan just visited relatives, ate with their families, and met the guests who came to visit them for New Year greetings. Sometimes they were too lazy to see them, so they just asked the concierge to accept the gifts, write down their names, and treat them to a cup of hot tea.
Send away.
She accepted all the gifts she received, regardless of whether they were valuable or not, and opening them became the happiest part of every day.
This leisurely and happy life only lasted four days. Early in the morning on the fifth day of the lunar month, Zhao Hanzhang mounted his horse and took Zhao Erlang, Zeng Yue and others out of the city to hunt.
Fu Tinghan didn't want to ride on a horse to catch the wind, and felt that his archery skills were not up to the level of hunting animals in winter, so although he followed him out of the city, he turned around and took his escort to Liulicang to make lenses.