Chapter 366: The Governor of the House is Uneasy (Part 2)
(Automatic publishing is unreliable. It was not sent out at 8 o'clock. I'm sorry.)
"But there is one thing, I really don't appreciate you," Zhao Zongji changed his subject and said with a straight face: "Instead, I want to settle accounts with you."
"Brother..." Zhao Zongyi quickly tried to dissuade him with his eyes, but Zhao Zongji ignored him.
"Your Majesty, please speak." Chen Ke still said calmly. He had a clear conscience and was naturally not afraid of settling accounts.
"You messed up my sister's marriage, how do you settle the score?" Zhao Zongji said with a straight face.
"This..." Chen Ke couldn't help but smile bitterly: "No wonder you didn't comment on this matter. It turned out that you planned to come back to settle the score with me."
"Brother." Zhao Zongyi is a gentleman. He didn't understand the meaning of Zhao Zongji's words and defended Chen Ke: "You didn't know the situation at that time..."
"I knew that he had messed up my sister's marriage again," Zhao Zongji said with a sullen face, "Tell me, do you not want her to marry someone else?"
"Ahem..." Chen Ke was so embarrassed. He said to himself, "I have always regarded Xiang'er as my younger sister. Naturally, I don't want her to marry far away in the wilderness of the northwest. Besides, the royal court of Xixia always
It's so dirty, there are so many rich and powerful relatives, and a weak woman from Xiang'er goes away alone, isn't it like a sheep walking into a tiger's mouth? Everyone here is her brother, who dares to say that he can bear it, I will accept the punishment."
"Hey..." Zhao Zongji pretended to think about it, and finally couldn't help but laugh: "Don't be so serious, it's just a joke. I can't apologize to you, brother. You see, you have already married two wives.
What about marrying Xiang'er again?"
"What a great idea!" Zhao Zongjing immediately praised: "Why didn't I think of this before?"
"Ahem..." Chen Ke coughed: "It doesn't seem like you can make the decision."
"That's right." Zhao Zongjing nodded and said, "When Brother Zhong Fang married two ladies, it was a special order from the official family. If he wants to marry my sister again, he will definitely need the official's nod."
"That's right." Zhao Zongji nodded with a smile and said, "I'll ask the officials what they mean another day..." Then he asked Chen Ke, "You haven't said yet whether you agree or not?"
"This..." Chen Ke thought about it, nodded and said, "I agree to everything."
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Zhao Zongji rested at home for two days, and on the third day he was summoned to the palace by the officials.
When he arrived at the Funing Hall, he saw all the ministers there. He hurriedly bowed respectfully, and then stood in front of Mr. Han. He asked softly: "Is Mr. Han okay?"
At the suburban welcome ceremony three days ago, Han Qi was absent due to illness, so Zhao Zongji asked this question. Although everyone knew that he was just pretending to be sick, but he was still putting on a show, Xianggong Han still coughed twice and said:
"Thank you for your concern, Your Highness. I'm out of the way. But it was a sin to be absent from the prince's ceremony that day."
Zhao Zongji shook his head and said it didn't matter. The two of them were chatting indifferently. Then they heard Hu Yandui singing: "Your Majesty is here!" Everyone hurried to greet him.
Zhao Zhen wore casual clothes and a net scarf on his head. He looked in good spirits and sat down with a smile.
After everyone sat down, Zhao Zhen looked at Zong Ji kindly and said, "Ji'er, have you rested?"
"Back to my father, my son is as strong as an ox and is already tired." Zhao Zongji stood up and said with a smile.
"It's good to be young." Zhao Zhen smiled and nodded: "In this case, I will give you a new job."
"Listen to your father's instructions!" Zhao Zongji said, cupping his fists.
"Sit down and talk." Zhao Zhen smiled, turned to the ministers and said, "I invite you to come here today to talk about King Qi's new mission."
"Please give me your Majesty's orders," the ministers responded.
"Because of his military exploits, King Qi was awarded the title of Secretary of the Central Committee, and he was responsible for the administration of the country." Zhao Zhen said slowly: "But at such a young age, how can he be the general secretary of the Central Committee and the governor of the country? It is obviously impossible."
Han Qi, Wang Gongchen and others said, "Isn't this nonsense? For a hundred years, the title of Zhongshu Ling has been empty."
But Zhao Zhen changed the subject and said: "But I am old and have low energy. Every time I go to court, it is like fighting a battle. What's more serious is that with my eyes, I can't even read the words on the cover of the memorial clearly.
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All the ministers felt sorry for each other. Many of them had watched Zhao Zhen grow from a weak boy to a weak-sighted old man year by year. They couldn't help but secretly sigh that as the official family got older, so did they themselves...
Only Han Qi's eyelids were twitching, but he could only listen to the emperor's words.
"So I plan to ask King Qi to read memorials to me from now on." Zhao Zhen laughed and said, "It can be considered that his appointment as Zhongshu Ling was not in vain."
"Your Majesty, how can you kill a chicken with a bull's knife?" Han Qi said bravely: "For the reading of the memorial, just let the Imperial Academy Bureau of the Ministry of Internal Affairs select a few eunuchs. If you ask the Prince of Qi to come down...it will be overkill and underuse."
"You can't say that," Zhao Zhen shook his head and said, "When a person gets old, he is willing to have his son by his side. Ji'er, if you feel that you are incompetent or don't want to face an old man all day long, just forget about it?
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"Father..." Zhao Zongji said quickly: "My son, it's not too late for my son to be happy."
"Very good." Zhao Zhen smiled and nodded. He was fair to everyone: "What do you think?"
All the ministers were awestruck. The official summoned them, but only announced that Zhao Zongji would read the memorial. It seemed to be making a fuss, but in fact it had a profound meaning... In the future, all memorials submitted to the official must go through Zhao Zongji's mouth. Naturally,
All the emperor's criticisms will be made in front of him.
Even with the simplest thinking, this can allow Zhao Zongji to practice political system, fully understand the state affairs, and learn how the emperor handles government affairs. What does a prince do by learning how the emperor handles government affairs? Naturally, he is preparing to become an emperor...
"My Holy Emperor!" Wen Yanbo naturally sang a hymn.
Han Qi was heartbroken, so he had to speak again: "There are five sons in the official family. If His Royal Highness, King Qi, is the only one who enjoys the pleasure every day, he will inevitably favor one over the other. It is too hard work for His Highness. In the opinion of the old minister, it is better to leave it alone.
The five highnesses take turns reading memorials for the officials. Wouldn't it be possible for the rain and dew to be equally shared and not be too hard?"
"Is this..." Zhao Zhen seemed to be quite moved and began to think about it.
Zhao Zongji couldn't help but beat his heart, and secretly prayed, "Dad, I'm not afraid of getting tired, but you must stop raking your ears..."
"It's not necessary for the time being." This time, Zhao Zhen did not keep the ministers waiting for too long, and said slowly: "The right way is not to bother the two masters, not to mention that the memorials I read every day are very limited, Ji'er can read it alone.
"After a pause, he said: "As for the so-called 'favoring one and favoring the other', my husband is too worried. The brothers greet him every morning and evening, and we see him every day. But Zongji, the kid, has been traveling around for several years, so I don't see him much."
"Then, the old minister is overly concerned..." Han Qi felt sad, knowing that Zhao Zhen had already made up his mind. Naturally, such a 'trivial matter' did not require two strategies. Once the emperor made up his mind, he could not change it.
"Okay, everyone is busy." Zhao Zhen smiled and said, "I won't keep you here."
"Yes." The ministers stood up and left, but Zhao Zongji stayed.
"Is there anything else?" Zhao Zhen asked with a smile.
"Father, I want to go see my sister." Zhao Zongji said softly: "I brought her some unusual things from Guangxi..."
"Alas..." Zhao Zhen felt a pain in his heart when he mentioned Huirou, and said sadly: "Let's forget it."
"What?" Zhao Zongji asked in surprise.
"Alas, her illness is getting worse and worse. She is fine if she is left alone. But once someone comes to see her, she becomes ill, shouting...'Give me back Liang Huaiji', and is looking for death." Zhao Zhen's eyes were moist, and he said sadly:
"I only dare to look at her through the door every day..."
"Father..." Zhao Zongji frowned, and after a moment he seemed to have made up his mind and said, "I dare to ask, is Liang Huaiji dead or alive?"
"Alive." Zhao Zhen said calmly: "Still working in the Xijing Palace as a sweeper."
"I beg you, father, to transfer him back to the princess!" Zhao Zongji said solemnly.
"Nonsense!" Zhao Zhen subconsciously refused: "The scandal between the two of her is no longer a secret. It would be merciful for me not to kill the adulterer, and then call him back..." He sighed dejectedly: "You
Do you still want to cause an uproar?"
"My son thought that Huirou had been pure and pure since she was a child and would not mess around with the palace people." Zhao Zongji protested: "Huirou has been strong since she was a child, and everything goes as she pleases. However, from the moment the marriage was decided,
Then she couldn't be independent. The reason why she didn't abandon Liang Huaiji was actually to pin her dissatisfaction with the marriage and her hostility towards her mother-in-law on this person. Therefore, she regarded this person's going or staying as a conflict between herself and her mother-in-law.
The outcome of the marriage struggle is why we are so obsessed with it..."
"So, I am wrong?" Zhao Zhen's face looked very ugly.
"Only your feet know whether the shoes fit properly," Zhao Zongji raised his head and said, "If the shoes don't fit, you don't have to wear them. If your marriage doesn't work, you can also... separate."
"Absurd!" Even though Zhao Zhen said this, he looked at Zhao Zongji with a gentler look than before, and sighed: "If Huirou was a commoner's child, we would just make peace with each other. But she is the daughter of the Tian family, the royal family.
Her behavior must set an example for the world. This is an obligation she must bear while enjoying the dignity of a princess. How can she generalize it to ordinary people?"
"Then remove her title of princess..."
"As long as she is the daughter of a widower, she is a princess, whether she has a title or not."
The two looked at each other worriedly for a moment, then Zhao Zongji said softly: "Then, let the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Xijing report Liang Huaiji to death violently, then change his name and surname, and quietly transfer him back to the palace without letting anyone know about it."
Zhao Zhen was quite moved, but worried: "The fire cannot be contained in the paper."
"When the time comes, I will just take full responsibility." Zhao Zongji said firmly: "It is important to let Huirou get better first, and we will talk about other things later."
"Okay, good boy..." Zhao Zhen looked at Zhao Zongji with increasingly gentle eyes, and sighed softly: "Manager Hu, do as King Qi ordered."
"Here." Hu Yan responded.
"My son, I have resigned..." Seeing that the emperor was a little tired, Zhao Zongji stood up and said.
"Go and see the Queen." Zhao Zhen nodded and said, "She misses you very much too, and then come back to have lunch with me."
