He actually didn't know exactly what happened. What he understood was that the items on the list in Xiao Zengzi's hand were all the relics of his mother. Eunuch Cao sent the list and asked people to check the warehouse. He didn't
Knowing the results of the investigation, his father was obviously furious now.
Why?
Li Shao glanced at the things that were put away one by one.
Isn't this all here?
Li Shao quietly glanced at his father again.
He remembered the things he had done before.
Whether he secretly exchanged the tribute wine or was found out by Shan Shen from Chenmi Hutong, he did make his father angry, but his emotions at the time were more exciting than fear and fear.
That kind of shuddering feeling gives Li Shao goosebumps whenever he thinks about it.
Very exciting.
He likes it very much and would like to try it again when he has the chance.
But now, he didn't feel any excitement at all, and all he felt in his heart was confusion.
Because he had no idea what happened or why his father was angry, so how could he tremble?
After thinking for a moment, Li Shao simply walked to the edge of those things and got closer to take a look.
This look finally gave him some clues.
Things are damaged.
The embroidery on this screen is stained, and the porcelain bottle is missing a mouth...
Big and small, each has its own flaws.
Li Shao's brows also wrinkled, why is this happening?
The East Palace warehouse occupies a large area and is managed by dedicated personnel. These things are stored in it. They cannot be blown by wind or rain, so how can they be damaged?
The queen's relics were in such bad condition, no wonder the father would be angry.
How much my father misses and respects my mother!
Li Shao thought that he was also angry. After all, she was his mother. Even if the impression was shallow, the blood relationship was here.
Whoever manages the warehouse like this will be punished.
He and his father share the same hatred.
Father's anger was also directed at the people below, not at him. After all, he was not the one who damaged the items, nor was he in charge of the warehouse. He was completely kept in the dark.
Beside me, Eunuch Cao has finished reading.
Eunuch Guo wiped the sweat from his forehead and said: "Your Majesty, except for the nine missing pieces, the rest of the damaged ones are already here."
The Holy Emperor had a sullen face but had not yet spoken. Li Shao stared and said, "Is there anything missing? Where are they?"
Eunuch Guo smiled, which was not much better than crying: "It should be that the man who took care of the warehouse before has lost it..."
"Lost?" Li Shao curled his lips.
If you ask him to tell you, he might be a thief.
He is not a master who knows how to read the warehouse books. If the little steward in charge has an idea, it is possible that his hands and feet are not clean.
The palace has its own rules. In the past, there were incidents in some palaces where maids and eunuchs stole things and sent them out of the palace in exchange for money.
"It's an advantage for them." Li Shao said.
The first batch of people had all been replaced before. I heard that the punishments were particularly harsh. Some were killed with sticks, tortured, and kicked out of the palace. It was not feasible to bring them out alive again.
The Holy Father, who had been silent all this time, walked to the side and carefully observed the damaged items.
He looked at it very seriously, some glanced at it, some stopped and stared for a long time, and stroked it from time to time, as if recalling many old memories.
Seeing this, everyone fell silent, and even their breathing became much lighter.
Even Li Shao stopped cursing and waited patiently.
After a long time, the Holy Emperor turned around and looked at Li Shao quietly for a while: "Shao'er, who did you just say you got an advantage over?"
Li Shao was stunned for a moment and then replied: "The person who used to look after the warehouse."
The Holy Master nodded slightly and said, "What about yourself?"
This question really confused Li Shao.
He thought for a while and then asked: "You mean, the son should be responsible? Why? The son didn't know that they made the queen's relics look like this!"
On the side, Eunuch Cao suddenly raised his eyes to look at Li Shao, then immediately lowered his eyes.
Why!
He sighed deeply in his heart.
Eunuch Cao was not surprised that His Highness the Crown Prince would think so. He also used this reason to excuse the Crown Prince before His Majesty came to the East Palace, but it was obviously not satisfactory to His Majesty.
In the Holy Sage, it is wrong to be lax in governing, and it is even more wrong not to govern.
However, the crown prince is still the crown prince after all, and the son is still a son after all.
Don't discipline your children in front of others.
Every time the Holy Emperor was angry with the prince, he always avoided people. Even his Eunuch Cao could only guard the door and shut his ears.
"Your Majesty," thinking like this, Eunuch Cao stepped forward and advised softly, "It's getting colder these days. It's hard to keep the wind blowing. Why don't you and Your Highness go to the inner hall to talk?"
The Holy Master glanced at Li Shao lightly, did not reject Eunuch Cao's suggestion, and strode towards the main hall.
Eunuch Cao quickly signaled to Li Shao to follow him, and urged Eunuch Guo to prepare some tea and send it outside the palace gate, and he would personally deliver it in.
Eunuch Guo hurried away, much faster than Li Shao who didn't think he was at fault and left reluctantly.
Eunuch Cao did not delay and caught up with the Holy Master.
Outside the warehouse, a group of servants were left, you look at me, I look at you.
Finally, a bolder man stood up and asked, "Eunuch Zeng, do you want these things to be moved back inside?"
Xiao Zengzi had a dull face, with "I don't know" written all over his face.
In the inner hall, the Holy Father sat down.
When Li Shao came in, he naturally wanted to sit down. He was looked down upon by the Holy Emperor, so he could only straighten up his bent waist and stand aside.
Eunuch Cao took the tea tray from Eunuch Guo, dismissed the people, went in to serve the tea, and then quickly exited to guard the door.
The Holy One took a sip of tea.
He is trying to calm down.
Over the years, he has reminded himself more than once to control his impatience. The late empress complained most about his impatience when he was still alive. If he had not had such a hot temper, he would not have had an unhappy relationship with the late empress in Dingguo Temple.
scattered.
Before the yin and yang were separated, their last meeting was spent in a quarrel. This was the most annoying scene for the Holy Emperor in so many years.
He even blamed himself.
Therefore, in the past ten years, he has been trying hard not to get angry with the people around him, let alone with Shaoer, who was left behind by the late empress.
When he came to the East Palace, he was very angry; when he saw the damaged relics, he was also very angry; when he heard Shao'er's words, he was even more angry, but now, he has stabilized.
He wanted to reason with Shaoer.
"Why do you think it has nothing to do with you that the warehouse is like that?" the saint asked.
Li Shao said: "I just said that I am not in charge of the storehouse, and the relics were not damaged by me. I don't know about it at all. If I knew about it, could I let them ruin my mother's relics like that?"
"The warehouse in the East Palace is not your place? The chamberlain in charge of the warehouse is not your staff in the East Palace?" The Holy Emperor asked, "Only the things that are broken in your hands are considered your responsibility?"
Li Shao was stunned for a moment by the question.
Is this considered responsibility?
This is called looking for trouble!
But he could scold Xu Jian for looking for trouble, but he couldn't say that about his father. Li Shao could only write his dissatisfaction on his face.
From the look on his face, the Holy Spirit knew that he didn't listen.
"I ask you, if a local official accepts bribes, should his superiors be held responsible?"
"On the battlefield, if the vanguard sent out is defeated, should the generals who arranged the troops be held responsible?"
"I personally ordered the censor to patrol and turned a blind eye to local problems. Am I responsible for that?!"
He asked three questions in a row, which made Li Shao's head buzz.
He wanted to say, how could this be the same?
He would rather say that if the people below are doing whatever they want, then that is their business.
"Government, rule under rule, how you treat the people below depends on how you treat them," the Holy Master took a deep breath, steady his voice, and said, "You haven't taken care of it, you don't know, you said it very lightly.
Shao'er, you should understand that the problem today is only in the warehouse of your East Palace. The people are alive and the relics are dead. Even if you destroy all your mother's relics, your mother will not blame you.
However, you are the crown prince, and one day you will replace me on the dragon throne. You are in charge of civil and military officials, and tens of millions of people in the world. If they have problems, you have to say that it is local officials who can control them.
No, you have no idea what they are doing?
People are alive! If you can’t cure people, you can’t cure the world!
Do you still want me to continue telling you what will happen to an emperor who cannot rule the world?"
Li Shao's face seemed to have been painted three times with whitening paste, and even his lip color was dull.
He just stared at the Holy One blankly, unable to say a word for a while.
In all these years, it seems that he has never heard his father say such serious words.
Of course he had been scolded. When he came back from Yumenguan, he was scolded bloody in the imperial study room, but that kind of scolding was not the same as the harsh words now.
It was like Mount Tai pressing down on his head, so heavy that he couldn't even lift his neck.
At this moment, he was not trembling with excitement, nor was he afraid or uneasy. He was just aggrieved and confused.
It was just a warehouse, the things in the warehouse were not properly stored, but my father spoke as if the entire Li family had been destroyed by him.
Is this how you can see the big from the small?
Let Li Shao say that among the many champions in recent years, none of them have published such an article that uses small things to make a big difference!
And the cause of the incident was just a tiger bone.
Because Xu Jian asked Ning An to come and ask for a tiger bone.
Subconsciously, Li Shao clenched his back teeth tightly. He was not angry, he did not accept it, but he was facing his father.
He must bow his head.
Li Shao glanced at a book placed on the couch.
Before his father came over, he was flipping through this book casually, listening to Feng's wife talking about external affairs. When he heard that his father had arrived, he was so happy. He thought that his father had come to relieve him of his confinement. Unexpectedly, his happiness was instantly overturned.
Break up, he is still being trained.
This kind of ups and downs made Li Shao's heart turbulent.
He wants to get out, he has to get out.
"Er Chen..." Li Shao spoke, his voice was stiff, he cleared his throat, "I know I was wrong."
After he finished speaking, he glanced at His Majesty. His father showed no sign, as if he was waiting for him to continue.
Li Shao had no choice but to bite the bullet and continue: "It's because I was young and didn't control the people below, so that I let them fool around and make the warehouse look like that. In the future, I will put more restraints on the people in the East Palace and won't let them."
They won’t make mistakes like this again.”
According to Li Shao's past experience, if he honestly admits his mistakes and shows his attitude, his father will be able to calm down in all likelihood.
After all, he is his father's favorite son.
Sure enough, he found that his father's frown relaxed a little.
After receiving the results, Li Shao quickly followed this train of thought and said: "I am very sad and guilty for damaging my mother's relics. In a few days, it will be my mother's death anniversary, and I want to kowtow to my mother."
The late Empress Xia was buried in the imperial mausoleum.
The imperial mausoleum is outside the capital, so it's not that far. You don't need a fast horse, and even if the ceremonial guard moves slowly, it will only take three days.
Being able to go to the imperial mausoleum means that he can get out of the East Palace, and the confinement is lifted, so he doesn't have to be confined again when he comes back. Li Shao thought, he really had a good idea.
"My son misses his mother very much," Li Shao said. "I miss people when I see things, my son..."
At this point, Li Shao suddenly couldn't speak anymore, because he keenly noticed that his father's expression turned tense again.
What did he say wrong?
"Seeing things and thinking about people?" The Holy Master chuckled, but there was no smile in his eyes. "Then tell me, what did you see and what did you think about?"
Li Shao was speechless.
He was just over four years old when his mother left. What can he remember?
The Holy One said: "I am the one who thinks about people when I see things. I can remember where those things were originally placed, whether your mother liked them back then, and what she said to me about those things.
I know you were young at that time, and when I rewarded you with things, I told you those stories one by one.
Shao'er, did you listen?"
Li Shao opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but nothing came out.
He did listen to it at that time, and it didn't go in the left ear and come out in the right ear, but it had been so many years since he heard it, and he really couldn't recall it for a while.
After all, they were all stored in the warehouse. If he hadn't glanced at the list, he would have forgotten that there were such things, so how could he have remembered any stories.
"If you are like this now, what can you say when you go to your mother's tomb?" The Holy Sage sighed, "Do you think you can satisfy your mother now?"
You stay here and think carefully about how to govern the East Palace and how to govern the court.
When you come up with some ideas, let me know."
Li Shao was stunned.
He vaguely realized the meaning of his father's words.
If he cannot be released from confinement before the anniversary of his mother's death, then how long will he be detained?
Li Shao couldn't help but become anxious: "Father, do you want to lock up my son until the New Year?"
"I didn't say that," the Holy Emperor stood up, walked to Li Shao, and pressed his shoulders with his hands, "I just hope you think more. You are still young, and you don't understand many things in the court.
But you can’t not think about it.”
Li Shao's eyes were red and anxious.
He wanted to say that he didn't think about it, he thought about it a lot.
He even knew that the incident this time originated from Xu Jian, that someone was using the topic to his advantage, and that Xu Jian wanted to suppress him...
But what did he say?
Did he file a complaint against Xu Jian with his father?
The Holy Father didn't say anything more and walked out.
When Eunuch Cao saw him coming out, he followed him. He turned around and saw that the prince was nowhere to be seen.
The imperial driver left the East Palace, and the door was tightly closed again.
Along the way, there were many palace people who avoided respectfully and cautiously, and saw that the Lord was in a heavy mood.
The news spread everywhere, and a guess was pieced together.
The prince may have angered the emperor again.
The prince's confinement may not be lifted before the death anniversary of the late queen.
