If he said that he was already putting the finishing touches on it, wouldn't he offend his colleagues again?
Qiu Yifan, who lives in the same room as him, hasn't even finished half of it! However, Qiu Yifan's ritual volume is more complicated than his own.
"Oh? Then you should hurry up, but I heard from Zhang Aiqing that you do things quickly. After you came back to cancel your leave, you devoted yourself to compiling the ceremony. I think you must have completed a lot."
Officials of the Hanlin Academy not only have to compile the canon, but also have a lot of other things to do. It is good to be able to squeeze out an hour every day to compile it.
Sometimes I have to compile other histories or write congratulations, etc., and I don't even turn to the canon for several days.
Zhang Hai did not send him any errands. He only sent him the compilation of the ceremony, and did not urge him to complete it.
Just thinking about it, Gu Chengyu felt that Zhang Hai took great care of him.
"When you returned to the capital, did you hear about the assassination of the eldest prince?"
The emperor just had a casual chat. He didn't come to Gu Chengyu just to chat about family matters.
Gu Chengyu had already prepared a plan before he came, and the emperor would not ask him to chat for no reason.
He guessed that the emperor would definitely talk about this matter. The biggest thing that happened recently was that the eldest prince was assassinated.
"Back to the emperor, I have heard something before. I didn't expect that someone would assassinate His Highness the eldest prince in broad daylight. This is really a shameless person who regards the majesty of the royal family as nothing!" Gu Chengyu pretended to be indignant.
typical.
The emperor opened his mouth to predict, but Gu Chengyu continued to say: "But fortunately, His Royal Highness, the eldest prince, has his own destiny and finally averted the danger."
Upon hearing this, the emperor glanced at Gu Chengyu and suddenly smiled.
This Gu Chengyu is really pretending to be confused because he understands. Everyone knows about this because of Li Chu. Doesn't Gu Chengyu understand?
"Then who do you think is going to assassinate the eldest prince?" The emperor turned around and asked calmly.
Gu Chengyu frowned slightly, "What? I really don't know, maybe they are desperadoes!"
Gu Chengyu lamented in his heart, it was indeed no good for the emperor to call him here. This is a fight for the crown prince, what does it have to do with a little shrimp like him?
"Desperate? Well said!" The emperor sneered, looking at Gu Chengyu with a look of dissatisfaction.
Gu Chengyu's talent is indeed remarkable, but his temperament is too flexible. He is as slippery as a loach and is very difficult to control.
Gu Chengyu's heart trembled, and he made countless twists and turns in his heart. He didn't know what the emperor's purpose was in summoning him today.
Just when Gu Chengyu was trying to figure out the emperor's intentions, the emperor sighed.
"Jin Yu! They say that the whole world is the land of the king, but this desperado doesn't take me seriously. The eldest prince escaped this time, but what about next time? Will he be so lucky next time?
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As soon as the emperor called his cousin, Gu Chengyu's heart skipped a beat.
Gu Chengyu also wanted to sigh. The emperor still had to pretend to be confused about something that was obvious. Wasn't it all the fault of your sons?
"Your Majesty! If you want to wear the crown, you must bear its weight. Since you were born into the royal family, while enjoying the honor and wealth, you also have to endure pain that ordinary people don't have to endure."
"Oh? If you want to wear his crown, you must bear his weight? This is a good saying. He deserves to be the number one scholar with literary talent!"
The emperor recited these words silently in his heart, feeling that these words could not be more appropriate for their royal family.
Even he had to pay a high price to sit on this throne.
When it was his sons' turn, they would naturally have to pay the price.
There is only one throne, and everyone wants it. If you want it, you have to fight for it yourself.
If you don't have this ability, even if you get the throne, you won't be able to sit still.
Since ancient times, succession has been full of bloodshed. Who can successfully ascend the throne?
"If you don't experience wind and rain, how can you see a rainbow?" Gu Chengyu thought of a sentence from his previous life, which can also be applied here.
This is survival of the fittest, it just depends on who can persist to the end.
The emperor couldn't help being shocked when he heard this, yes! He is really old and soft-hearted.
Seeing his sons starting to kill each other, he felt angry and heartbroken, but so what? The winner is the king, and the loser is the bandit!
I went through the same thing back then, so I should have a deeper understanding.
But now he has become a person like his father, an indecisive person, but he has never realized it.
The emperor frowned, closed his eyes, and slowly leaned back in the armchair.
Seeing this, De'an quickly started to rub the emperor's temples.
Gu Chengyu could feel the contradictions in the emperor's heart. Such a tired and confused look and tone all showed that the emperor was really struggling with the selection.
But the emperor has missed the best opportunity. The princes are older and in the prime of life. But the emperor is old and can no longer suppress his sons.
Just like his father, we don't care about what happened before. But his father must have made a mistake in his treatment of his second brother.
His father is getting older and can no longer control his second brother.
"A treasure map has appeared in Hejian Mansion, do you know about it?"
Gu Chengyu was immersed in his own thoughts, but the emperor suddenly spoke and talked about the treasure map.
He was surprised, how could the emperor know so quickly? Ma Zhihong had only set out three days ago, and the fastest he had just arrived at Hejian Mansion. How did the emperor know?
Could it be that the emperor also sent another imperial envoy to Hejian Mansion, and this imperial envoy must have arrived earlier than Ma Zhihong, otherwise it would be impossible to explain why he knew about it.
Unexpectedly, he had found out about the treasure map. Gu Chengyu had to say that this imperial envoy was very capable, but he didn't know who in the court he was.
He was glad that he had not intervened, otherwise the people sent by the emperor would have found out, and they might have thought that he was ambitious and wanted to change the country!
Gu Chengyu was only confused for a moment, and then quickly replied in surprise: "Treasure map? What kind of treasure map is it?"
He had a puzzled look on his face, and his surprised expression didn't seem to be fake.
The emperor opened his eyes and stared at Gu Chengyu's face for a moment before looking away.
Gu Chengyu suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. This was the majesty of the emperor, which made people feel stressed.
"It is said that it is Wang Mang's treasure. Wang Mang looted a lot of gold back then, but the gold disappeared later. But now this treasure map has appeared. It has attracted many aristocratic families to take action. They are all like bees that have smelled the fragrance, swarming around
They all flew away, including my son."
The emperor's old eyes were still sharp. When he said this, there was a hint of helplessness in his tone, but more of it was anger.
"Is it really Wang Mang's treasure?" Gu Chengyu ignored the princes and did not mention it, only appropriately showing his doubts about Wang Mang's treasure.
"That's right!" The emperor nodded, his face looked a little uglier than before, but his eyes looked at Gu Chengyu with a look of scrutiny.
"I want you to go to Hejian Mansion and bring back the treasure map!"