The bastard led Liu Sanwu, who was dressed in civilian clothes, to move forward slowly.
The flowers in the palace are all in bloom, and they are all brilliantly purple and red. The tip of your nose is filled with the faint fragrance of flowers, and you can see a colorful picture in front of your eyes.
Liu Sanwu slowly stepped across the tall threshold of the deep palace, looked at the long and familiar passage in front of him, and suddenly stopped.
"Mr. Wang, where are you taking me?" Liu Sanwu said, "Isn't this the way to go to meet the emperor?"
The bastard turned around slightly and said with a smile, "The emperor said that he will summon you not at the Fengtian Hall, but at the main hall!"
Yes, the road in front of you leads to the main hall of Wenhuadian.
Liu Sanwu has walked this road all his life.
Dabentang is the place where the emperor appointed the princes to study in the early days of the Ming Dynasty.
Just beside the Wenhua Hall, there are thousands of Confucian classics hidden there, so it is called the Daiben Hall.
Liu Sanwu's feet slowly stepped on the bluestone, and his eyes lingered on the red aisles on both sides. When he arrived outside the main hall, he looked at the blooming flowers in the courtyard, and his eyes couldn't help but be a little crazy.
In his entire life, he spent more time here than at home.
At first, he assisted Song Lian, Zhu Shan and others, teaching the prince Zhu Biao, the king of Qin, the king of Jin and other princes and princes to study here.
Things from the past suddenly come flooding back.
Prince Zhu Biao was eager to learn and study hard. He was the expectation of all civil servants. They, scholars, wished that all their knowledge could be taught to the crown prince of Ming Dynasty, so that he could become a good emperor like Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty in the future.
Later, among the teaching bachelors of Dabentang, those who were convicted were convicted, and those who resigned were retired. Later, the prince died young.
The person whom Liu Sanwu taught him became the prince's son.
The two princes of the Ming Dynasty were all his students. They did not have the title of emperor's teacher, but they had the actual status of emperor's teacher.
The King of Wu was very stubborn, especially the two kings of Qin and Jin, while the King of Huai was as studious as the prince was.
He felt very sad about this.
Because King Wu is the noble legitimate son of the crown prince’s original concubine Chang Fei. He is the inevitable successor to the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty.
Fortunately, the sky has eyes, and King Wu, who had been naughty since childhood, suddenly woke up and changed his mind.
After tremblingly crossing another threshold, Liu Sanwu looked at the ajar door of the main hall and couldn't help but burst into tears.
All of yesterday’s events are right in front of our eyes, and they are extremely real.
He still remembered that after the death of the prince, the then King of Wu stood at the door and saluted him from a distance on the first day he came to study.
"It is my blessing to have a husband waiting to teach me how to read!"
In Liu Sanwu's mind, he recalled the words of King Wu that day, the thin figure he once had, and the smile on King Wu's face that day, and he couldn't help it anymore.
"Woo!" A whimpering cry came from his mouth.
Tears kept falling along the wrinkles and fell on the stone slab in the courtyard.
Then he couldn't bear it anymore and sat on the flower bed, crying.
Are you crying to yourself?
Cry again?
Are you crying about being sent away thousands of miles away?
Grieved? Or regretful? Or missing?
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In the main hall, Zhu Yunxi was sitting behind the desk, looking at the scratches left by his childhood mischief on the table, listening to the suppressed crying outside, and for some reason, his eyes couldn't help but turn red.
"Has His Highness King Wu forgotten the difficulty of founding the Ming Dynasty?"
"Your Highness will serve as a son and carry forward his father's ambitions, and become a wise king for a generation!"
"Your Highness is so lazy in studying. Is he worthy of the emperor's expectations and worthy of the people of the world?"
In the past, as long as Zhu Yunxi was playing around with those little princes, as long as he got up late, as long as he didn't do his homework well.
Liu Sanwu would stand next to him and roar until his ears buzzed.
He still remembered that the old man beat him because of the lottery, and Liu Sanwu stumbled a few times in anxiety. He still remembered that after Liu Sanwu saw him being beaten, he felt so distressed that he shed tears in his eyes.
He even remembered that on the old man's birthday, on the day when he was announced as the grandson of the emperor, Liu Sanwu's hand holding the imperial edict was shaking.
He also remembered the tears of joy in Liu Sanwu's eyes when the old man announced his abdication.
He would always remember that the day after the death of Prince Zhu Biao, it was Liu Sanwu who told the old man that he should be the emperor's grandson.
From the beginning to the end, Liu Sanwu was the person who silently contributed most to him, the direct grandson of the Ming Dynasty. But without knowing where to start, Zhu Yunxi and this teacher in name only drifted apart.
Slowly, Zhu Yunxi stood up, walked to the door, reached out and pushed open the ajar door.
The crying in the courtyard stopped suddenly.
Liu Sanwu, who was dressed in civilian clothes, kowtowed tremblingly, but Zhu Yunxi was one step ahead of him.
"Student, I have met the teacher!" Standing in the door, Zhu Yunxi saluted Liu Sanwu as if he were the grandson of the emperor back then.
In an instant, Liu Sanwu suddenly howled loudly.
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty!"
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"Old minister is guilty!"
"In the beginning, I hoped that the emperor would not have any selfish motives when I came to study!"
"But later, the emperor changed from the grandson to the king of Wu, from the king of Wu to the prince, and now he is the emperor. The old minister had inappropriate thoughts in his heart and lost his original intention."
"Now I have lost my face and my reputation has been ruined. I am the one who deserves the blame!"
Zhu Yunxi sat next to Liu Sanwu on the flower bed, listening to his choked words.
"In my heart, I don't blame you!" Zhu Yunxi said lightly, "In fact, my happiest time was in this school, listening to the teachings of several bachelors."
This is the truth. At that time, he was thinking about how to become the final winner in the battle for the crown prince. To this end, he gathered all the forces around him and racked his brains to calculate.
Only when studying in school can these things be temporarily forgotten.
"I will never forget the bachelor's love for me!"
"Your Majesty!" Liu Sanwu burst into tears and couldn't help himself.
"Actually, you taught me very well!" Zhu Yunxi asked the bastard to hand over a handkerchief and personally wiped the old minister's tears, "It's just that I can't become the emperor you hope for in the end!" He said with a long sigh, "The Ming Emperor.
The second generation of kings must inherit the martial arts of the founder of the country and bring about peace and happiness for the people!"
"Literary and martial arts are indispensable. Mounting a horse can govern the army, and dismounting a horse can govern the people. Be kind and virtuous, but also not angry and powerful. Be a saint on the inside and a king on the outside. Be gentle and gentle in all directions."
"I could never have become the emperor you have in mind from the beginning!"
"Because the path I want to take is different from the path of the so-called virtuous kings of Bi Chao in the past!"
"Speaking of which, I am getting further and further away from your original expectations. Not only can I not be the emperor you hoped for, but I am becoming more and more like the old man!"
"I will not share the world with the scholar-bureaucrats!"
Liu Sanwu wiped away his tears and said in a trembling voice, "The emperor is talented and intelligent, so he is naturally a hero of his generation. He is an old minister. An old minister is unworthy of the emperor, so the prince is even more unworthy of the emperor!"
"There is nothing to be ashamed of!" Zhu Yunxi sighed slightly and said with a smile, "You have traveled thousands of miles, so you have to take care!"
Liu Sanwu burst into tears again, "I am already eighty-five years old. This time I leave the capital, I may have to die in a foreign country!" As he said, he looked at Zhu Yunxi's face and said, "Your Majesty, please take care of yourself. I know that the Emperor has great ambitions, but there are some Things cannot be rushed, and the Emperor cannot do everything himself."
"Your Majesty is still young and cannot be exhausted!"
As he spoke, he tremblingly knelt down and kowtowed again, "Now that I'm gone, I'm afraid I'll never see the emperor again. Old minister, please kowtow to the emperor once more!"
"What are you doing?"
"Your Majesty!" Liu Sanwu kowtowed stubbornly, "The Emperor said that day that I would like to teach you how to dress the Emperor. I am a scholar with a meager salary and a humble body. If I can serve the Emperor, I will live my life in vain!"
As he spoke, he burst into tears again, "Old minister, I have made it my own fault today. To be able to take my own life and be sent thousands of miles away is a sign of the emperor's benevolence. I am deeply grateful!"
As for the scientific examination, Liu Sanwu, as the chief examiner, naturally cannot absolve himself of the blame.
But when Zhu Yunxi punished him, he only lightly gave him a charge of unfavorable supervision.
"Your Majesty guarantees that the guilty minister Liu Sanwu will resign!" Liu Sanwu kowtowed again and stood up.
Sitting Zhu Yunxi sighed sadly, "Wait a minute!"
After saying that, he sighed again, "You don't have to go to the northwest?"
He looked at the old Liu Sanwu and said, "Go back to your hometown to study! I will allow you to go back and build an academy." As he said that, Zhu Yunxi laughed, "You have taught me that after you go back, use your love for me in those things. On a poor student!"