travel through the past to be emperor

Chapter 172 Let him come to see me

Hearing Zhao Fei's words, Lin Wanrong was stunned.

Recently, he did have some thoughts about getting old. There must be a reason, but it must not be said to others.

But he kept this matter in his heart all the time and never told anyone about it. How did Zhao Fei know?
After thinking about it, Lin Wanrong really couldn't think of the reason why Zhao Fei knew about this matter, so he respectfully said: "This is absolutely nothing, who did His Majesty listen to?"

Lin Wanrong knew that no matter what he originally thought, when this matter was put on the table, it was absolutely nothing, so Lin Wanrong denied it without hesitation.

"It happened to be the gossip of some eunuchs in the palace, which happened to be heard by me." Zhao Fei took a deep look at Lin Wanrong, and then said: "I thought it was strange at the time, Aiqing, you are in your prime of life, and you shouldn't have it anyway. It's an old idea."

"Yes, I have no intention of suing the old man." Lin Wanrong nodded, and then said: "Your Majesty, the Ministry of Rites has already formulated the topic of this scientific examination, and it still needs to be appointed by His Majesty. I wonder when Your Majesty will be free?"

"Not today, maybe tomorrow or the day after tomorrow." Zhao Fei said.

The imperial examination is a major event for the imperial court to select officials and appoint officials every few years, so it is natural not to be sloppy.

For example, the topic of this exam is generally decided by the minister of the Ministry of Rites, the left and right ministers of the Ministry of Rites, the head of the Imperial Academy, the Jijiu of the Guozijian, and the prime minister of the current dynasty.

The general meeting sets a number of examination questions, and then submits them to the emperor for review, and the emperor will select one in court for examination purposes.

The questions will be sealed after this, and the insider will sign the sealed envelope. On the day of the exam, the examiner will open the exam questions and read them out in court.

In doing so, you can greatly avoid the occurrence of things such as cheating and leaking test questions in the exam.

The imperial court's scientific research is a major event. Originally, since Lin Wanrong mentioned this matter, Zhao Fei should naturally call a meeting of relevant people to decide this matter.

But when Lin Wanrong finished speaking, Zhao Fei saw Anping making a gesture outside, which made Zhao Fei change his attention.

Of course, Zhao Fei did not forget the main thing about finding Lin Wanrong.

That is to ask him if he has plans for Elder Gao.

But judging from what Lin Wanrong meant, even if he had this plan before, he no longer has it now.

Since he could assure himself in court that he had absolutely no intention of suing him, he would definitely not sue him in a short time.

Although he was a little strange about the reason, Zhao Fei was not going to pursue it any further.

Anyway, Lin Wanrong will not leave the court, and he will not lose a general, so why bother what he thinks.

After sending Lin Wanrong away, Zhao Fei waved Anping in.

"Did something happen?" Zhao Fei looked at Anping and said.

Zhao Fei and Anping had some agreements about hand gestures. Anping's hand gestures to Zhao Fei before belonged to the emergency type.

So Zhao Fei didn't bother to pay attention to Lin Wanrong, sent him away directly, and called Anping in.

Anping immediately said: "Master, just now the Jinyiwei sent the news that Prince Luo appeared at a position fifty miles south of Chang'an. I am afraid that Prince Luo will arrive in Chang'an in less than an hour."

"Really?" Zhao Fei was stunned for a moment, and said, "Why so fast? According to Jin Yiwei's report yesterday, wouldn't Prince Luo want to arrive in Chang'an at the earliest this afternoon?"

"The person who listened to the report said that Prince Luo did not rest at the original place yesterday, but rushed all the way to Chang'an in the middle of the night." Anping said.

"Why are you leaving in such a hurry?" Zhao Fei asked in a daze.

"This slave doesn't know." An Ping said: "But according to the analysis of Jin Yiwei who monitored the Luo County Prince's Mansion yesterday, it may be because of a carrier pigeon that flew out of the Luo County Prince's Mansion yesterday evening."

"Carrier pigeon?" Zhao Fei suddenly said: "Sure enough, I knew that there must be some connection between the father and son. Now it seems that the true guess is indeed correct."

"Your Majesty is wise." Anping offered a flattery at the right time.

For such nonsense as His Majesty's wisdom, Zhao Fei has already formed an extremely strong immunity, and immediately said: "Do you know Prince Luo?"

"The slave has seen it in the portrait, but the real person has never seen it." An Ping said.

"Is there anyone in the palace who knows him and has seen him in real life?" Zhao Fei asked.

"Yes, Eunuch Yue must know him." Anping said: "I think some of the old men in the palace should know Prince Luo."

"That's the case." Zhao Fei nodded and said: "You go to Yue Xiaobao, just tell me what I said, and ask him to give you someone who knows Zhao Xi, and you go to the gate of the city to pick up Zhao Xi."

Your Majesty, Prince Luo did not come here according to the imperial edict, he is a guilty minister, His Majesty asked the servants to pick him up, is it too much face for him. "Anping sneaked a peek at Zhao Fei and said in a low voice.

"It's not surprising that you don't hit the smiling face with your hand." Zhao Fei chuckled and said, "Of course, you are right. Zhao Xi did not receive the imperial edict, but he is a guilty minister, but he is an elder after all, and I also The etiquette cannot be lost, the etiquette that should be mentioned should still be mentioned, but what should be mentioned should also be mentioned."

"The master's words are too profound, the slave can't understand." Anping said.

"You don't need to understand." Zhao Fei said: "You just need to know how to do things. Now you take someone to the city gate, and when you see Zhao Xi, just bring him to the palace and say that I want to see him."

"What if he refuses?" Anping said.

"Since he came to Chang'an, it means that he has recognized the fact that he is the prince of the court, so he will definitely come." Zhao Fei said coldly: "As for the oral order, you should think of one yourself!"

"Yes." Anping nodded with some embarrassment.

Anping knew that no matter how powerful he was, he was still a servant of the royal family, so Zhao Xi, who was the prince of the clan, was theoretically his master.

Now Zhao Fei asked him to be a slave to forcibly bring a master back to the palace, wouldn't that be embarrassing for him?
But Anping still has to do this job, everything he has is given by Zhao Fei, if it makes Zhao Fei unhappy, teach him how to be an obedient eunuch every minute.

So Anping took the order to find Yue Xiaobao with a sad face.

As for Zhao Fei himself, after sending Anping away, he never stayed idle, and ordered someone to call Chen San over, asking him to pay close attention to the movement of the Prince Luo Palace, and also ordered him to lead someone to secretly monitor the entire vicinity of the upper study. , the basic idea is that even a fly cannot fly in.

Afterwards, looking at the time, Zhao Fei returned to the military plane, and said directly: "Prince Luo Zhao Xi asked to see me, I have decided to summon him in the upper study, Qin Hui and Liu Yong will accompany me to see him."

"Ah!" Several ministers on duty looked at Zhao Fei in surprise.

After a long time, Qin Hui frowned and said: "Prince Luo has come to Chang'an? It seems that I haven't seen the memorial of his application to come to Chang'an?"

"It's the arrangement of the clan mansion." Zhao Fei said lightly.

Last night, the Clan's Mansion sent Zhao Fei a copy, which was a memorial for Prince Luo to come to Chang'an to visit his son Zhao Yu.

As for why it was only in Zhao Fei's hands now, according to the people in the Clan Mansion, it was because the Clan Mansion was in charge of all kinds of affairs of the royal family, and they forgot about it for a while.

Just thinking about it today, counting the time, it seems that Prince Luo is going to Chang'an, so I sent the booklet to Zhao Fei in the middle of the night.

Zhao Fei naturally dismissed this set of rhetoric from the clan's mansion, but although he didn't expose their nonsense in person, he also expressed his dissatisfaction with actions.

In front of the people in the clan's mansion, Zhao Fei casually threw the fold out.

But these are all yesterday's events, and few people saw all the events.

Now facing the questioning of the officials, Zhao Fei casually used the words from the clan mansion to prevaricate.

As the saying goes, whether you believe it or not, I believe it anyway!
That's the reason, the clan mansion's attitude towards Zhao Fei was the same yesterday, and Zhao Fei's attitude towards the ministers is also the same today.

Believe it or not, you can only get this answer from me anyway.

As for whether the answer is the truth, that is not important, what is important is that both parties have a reason, a reason to convince themselves, that is enough.

Facing the answer given by Zhao Fei, Qin Hui and the ministers looked at each other, finally accepted the reason, and followed Zhao Fei to the study.

When I walked to the upper study room, the upper study room was already ready, at least it was cleaned very clean.

After Zhao Fei and the others sat down, some palace servants immediately brought tea and so on.

At the gate of Chang'an City, Anping arrived at just the right time. He happened to meet Prince Luo head-on, and at the same time saw a person who was not unexpected, Duke Luo.

"Hello, Prince." An Ping grinned at Zhao Yu with a smile, and said, "The prince's attire is a bit shabby."

Zhao Yu also smiled on his face, but his heart was full of bitterness. He came all the way in disguise, so he made up his mind to take his father home in a low-key manner, and then reported it to the court.

But now that he has seen Anping, the most favored eunuch in front of the emperor, Zhao Yu already knows that not only Zhao Fei knows about his father's old Chang'an, but Zhao Fei also has a clear grasp of his father's entry into Chang'an Chu.

In his heart, he secretly sighed that the emperor's methods were really great, so Zhao Yu could only cup his hands and said, "Hello, Eunuch An, what is this, Eunuch An?"

"Your Majesty is asking this question knowingly," An Ping said, "What does the Prince of the County do here, and what the slaves are doing here? Doesn't the Prince of the County knowingly ask this question?"

In fact, Anping's attitude is very easy to offend people, but now he has offended people by blocking people in the middle of the way.

In order to minimize the harm, Anping, who is familiar with all kinds of struggles, decided to pretend to be arrogant, try to put on an arrogant attitude, and pretend that there are people behind him. No matter what you say or do, even if it hurts your self-esteem, you have to give I suffer, who makes brother the boss?
It is one of human nature to bully the weak and fear the strong. The more arrogant you are, the less people will dare to offend you.

Of course, if someone finds out that you are pretending to be a tiger, then you must be in bad luck.

But thinking about it, with Zhao Fei, the No. [-] Bodhisattva in Tianzi, behind him, Anping didn't feel that he would be without confidence no matter how he thought.

So Anping acted very arrogantly in front of Zhao Yu, he was determined to pay attention, Zhao Yu couldn't figure out his means, so he would definitely not do anything to him.

Of course, there is also a reason why Anping dares to do what he is doing now, that is, Zhao Yu was taught the principles of life by Zhao Fei yesterday, and facing himself as a celebrity in the court today, no matter how you look at it, he will not do anything too outrageous.

Sure enough, as Anping expected, he almost satirized Zhao Yu, but Zhao Yu just smiled at him.

Being laughed at by a county king was something Anping had never thought about before, but now he feels it personally, and even thinking about it makes him a little excited.

However, Anping didn't dare to go too far. After exchanging a few pleasantries, they looked like good friends.

"Eunuch An came here today, what does His Majesty mean?" Zhao Yu said, reaching out to hold Anping's hand.

Please don't get me wrong, Zhao Yu is of course a straight man, the reason why he held Anping's hand was not because he fell in love with a eunuch, but just to send a jade pendant in his hand to Anping without anyone noticing. .

Anping was stunned, and squeezed his hands secretly. People who often play mahjong know what cards they are holding just by touching the cards. The same is true for people like Anping who often deal with various valuables in the palace. Ability, that is, just by touching, you can know whether the thing you touch is a good thing or a bad thing.

Feeling the smoothness of the things in his hands, Anping couldn't help showing a smile on his face, and said: "Your Majesty, don't think about it too much. Your Majesty ordered the servants to come here. He just misses the prince a little, so he asked the servants to come and take the prince into the palace."

"Pick my father into the palace?" Zhao Yu looked at Anping in surprise, and whispered: "There will be no problem, right? He has already reported to the clan mansion for his visit to Chang'an this time, and he definitely did not violate the court regulations. "

"What is the county prince suspicious of?" Anping raised his eyebrows and said, "Don't you think your majesty is looking for the prince not to reminisce about the old days?"

"Where is the father-in-law? How could I think so?" Zhao Yu quickly denied that he had never doubted Zhao Fei's character. Anping said in his hand: "Eunuch, I heard that you are very talented in agate appreciation. I have a ring bought from a foreign businessman. Please take a moment to help me identify it."

Anping's eyes flickered for a while, he weighed the ring in his hand, raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, what is this?"

"Please take a look, Eunuch." Zhao Yu smiled and said, "By the way, I wonder how Your Majesty is feeling today?"

"Your Majesty is in a good mood." Anping carefully put the ring into the sleeve cage, and said with a smile, "Your Majesty, don't worry too much."

"As a son of man, it's impossible not to worry." Zhao Yu said with a wry smile, "My father is old and has trouble walking. If there is anything that needs attention in the palace, I need my father-in-law to help me out."

"Don't worry, the prince of the county, these are what the slaves should do." Anping grinned, then moved his eyes, but said: "Yo, the slave is only focused on talking to the prince of the county, but he has forgotten the business, look at the carriage. It looks like it's from the county prince's mansion, right?"

"Ah?" Zhao Yu was taken aback, and followed Anping's gesture to look over. The carriage that was speeding up was not his own carriage.

"It's my father's carriage." Zhao Yu said, and went up to meet him.

The coachman who drove the carriage naturally recognized his son, and the moment he saw Zhao Yu, he stopped the carriage. Zhao Yu apologized to Anping and said, "Elder-in-law, please do me a favor. I have a few words to say to Anping." My father said, after the talk is over, the father-in-law will pass the decree and never delay the father-in-law's affairs, I wonder if it is possible?"

"Well," Anping pondered for a while, and said: "Please, the prince of the county!"

By saying this, Anping agreed to Zhao Yu's request.The reason for this is that on the one hand, Anping did not want to offend Prince Luo's family to death, and on the other hand, of course, money can turn ghosts around, which is the function of Zhao Yu's jade pendant and ring.

Anping waited for a while, then Zhao Yu picked up from the carriage, reached out to help an old man in homely clothes down, Anping glanced at an old eunuch beside him, and the old eunuch nodded to Anping.

So Anping immediately knew that this was Prince Luo Zhao Xi, and Anping's face was full of smiles, and he went up to greet him.

"Is the prince safe all the way?" Anping said.

"Thanks to Your Majesty, I'm all right." Zhao Xi had a pair of triangular eyes, and cast a cold look at Anping, then raised his eyebrows and said, "You are the most useful Anping by Your Majesty's side recently, aren't you?"

"The slave is Anping, and the prince actually knows the name of the slave, which makes the slave panic." Anping said neither humble nor overbearing.

"Hehe." Regarding Anping's attitude, Zhao Xi just smiled, and then said, "Should you pass on His Majesty's will?"

As Zhao Xi said, he was about to kneel down and kowtow to the ground.

Seeing this, Anping quickly stopped and said: "You don't have to do this, Your Majesty has already given an oral order, but it is only an oral order. Your Highness does not need to be so polite."

"Really?" Zhao Xi raised his eyebrows, his face looked much better, and said, "Then what does Your Majesty ask this king to do?"

"Your Majesty." Anping cleared his throat and said seriously: "Listen, Anping, you go to the gate of the palace to meet Prince Zhao Xi of Luo, and after meeting, say hello for me, and then invite the prince into the palace. I haven't seen the prince for many years , some miss."

Zhao Xi listened carefully, and then said, "Observe the order."

"Then His Royal Highness invited you?" Anping pointed to the sedan chair he brought and said: "This is the sedan chair that His Majesty specially asked the slaves to bring. The prince is a little tired to ride the carriage all the way. Why don't you take this sedan chair to the palace. On the way You can also take a good rest."

"Thank you, Lord Long En." Zhao Xi cupped his hands facing the direction of the palace, stretched out his sleeves, and stepped forward to sit in the sedan chair.

Seeing this, Anping grinned, knowing that it was done, and winking at a young eunuch in the distance, the little eunuch immediately trotted on a horse and galloped towards the palace.

Anping bid farewell to Zhao Yu again, and started the sedan chair with a shout.

The whole party went straight to the palace in a mighty way.

Because Zhao Xi was the prince, Anping didn't dare to be stingy, and brought a whole set of princely guards from the palace, at least in terms of etiquette, Zhao Xi had nothing to say.

So, for a while, the whole city of Chang'an was guessing which prince came to Chang'an.

In the upper study room, Zhao Fei was chatting with Qin Hui and Liu Yong about some work that the court is currently doing, and discussing the future work of the court.

After drinking a cup of tea, a young eunuch ran in sweating, knelt down and kowtowed: "Your Majesty, Prince Luo Zhao Xi has arrived at the gate of the palace."

(End of this chapter)