Chapter 412: The sea is difficult to measure, and the king’s heart is even more unpredictable
Xia Gongming looked at the gorgeous bead curtain that gradually stopped shaking for a moment with complicated eyes, and lowered his hands holding the hut high with a lonely expression on his face.
Liu Song, who was standing by the stove, saw the somewhat lonely look on Xia Gongming's face. He coughed lightly and trotted to Xia Gongming's side and stopped.
"Mr. Xia, sir... Your Majesty, he was feeling a bit unwell because of the heavy snowfall last night. You'd better go handle the government affairs first.
When His Majesty regains his energy, once he has any instructions, the younger one will immediately inform you and other gentlemen, the elder, and the younger one will go to serve His Majesty first."
Liu Song helped his young master round out his words, and ran directly to the Longtai without waiting for Xia Gongming's reaction. He reached out and grabbed the documents that Liu Chengzhi and his brother had reviewed and rushed straight to the back hall.
When Xiao Chengzi saw this, he immediately shook the whisk in his hand and shouted sharply.
"Retreat from the court."
As soon as he finished speaking, Xiao Chengzi straightened the fly whisk in his hand, showed a kind smile to the complicated-looking civil and military officials in the hall, and then turned around and walked towards the back hall.
"Xia Shoufu, this...this...what does your majesty mean?"
"What Mr. Yang said is also what I'm thinking. Sir, what is your Majesty's intention with this move? Why can't I understand it at all?
I have been in power for decades, and I have never been so confused. The Second Prince and Princess Jingyao are about to move into the East Palace. What is the difference between this and being appointed as the Crown Prince?
Looking at ancient and modern times, who doesn’t know that only the crown prince can live in the East Palace?
However, His Majesty insists on saying that allowing His Highness the Second Prince to live in the East Palace is just for him to live in the East Palace and has nothing to do with the appointment of the Crown Prince.
This... this... this... alas...
I am really confused, I have served the emperor in court for decades in vain!"
"Sir, do you think it's possible that His Majesty has decided to appoint the second prince as the crown prince? This is just to temper the second prince's character, but to see if he will be a qualified crown prince?"
"Hey, I think it's not that simple. If Your Majesty has decided to appoint His Highness the Second Prince as the Crown Prince, why do you need to let the three His Highnesses wear dragon robes together today?"
"I feel the same way. I always feel that the situation in the court today is a bit too strange, so strange that it makes people feel unsure!
His Majesty’s holy will is really difficult to fathom.”
"Sir, Wei Fu, Tong Fu, you guys should come up with an idea, what should we do now?"
Xia Gongming was already getting tired of listening to the chatter among the officials.
However, I didn't have the slightest idea for a while, so I had to choose to turn a deaf ear to the noisy words of my colleagues around me.
After quietly putting away the Chao Hut and pondering for a moment, Xia Gongming looked thoughtfully at Liu Chengzhi, his three brothers, and his three brothers who had already stood up.
The military attache looked at the group of civil servants surrounding Xia Gongming, and subconsciously moved towards Cai Jun, the Honorable Marquis.
"Marquis Cai, your Majesty's move makes people confused. What should we do?"
"Yes! I thought that His Majesty was going to decide which of His Highnesses would be appointed as the Crown Prince today, but in the end it turned out like this.
This result is really puzzling.”
"Marquis Cai, you said..."
"..."
Rongwei Hou Cai Jun listened to the muttering words of his colleagues around him, glanced at the civilian camp that was also gathered together, retracted his gaze, scanned the colleagues around him, and snorted softly.
"snort!"
All the military attachés were stunned for a moment subconsciously. They looked at each other with a somewhat unkind expression on the face of Marquis Rongwei. They didn't know why the old Marquis suddenly snorted coldly.
Cai Jun was silent for a moment with hesitant expression, then quietly put away the Chao Hut in his hand.
"I have told you a long time ago that you should not have too many interactions with those civil servants. They just refuse to listen to their advice. If you continue, you will regret it sooner or later.
If now you have begun to dislike the few soldiers in your hands and it is too hot to handle, then you can just pretend that I have not said anything at all.
Those who are content are always happy. Isn’t it enough to guard one-third of an acre of land and live a down-to-earth life?
Don’t think about things that aren’t yours, and don’t touch things that don’t belong to you.
You know, sometimes if you stretch your hands too long, not only may one of your hands be broken, but in severe cases, it may even lead to death.”
After finishing his words, Cai Jun, Marquis of Rongwei, did not wait for the military attachés to react. He put his hands in his thick cloak, squeezed out a group of colleagues, and walked towards the outside of the Qinzheng Hall with a steady and powerful step, hunched over.
Cai Jun's steady and powerful footsteps naturally attracted the attention of the civilian camp. Hearing Cai Jun's footsteps, Xia Gongming, who was observing Liu Chengzhi and the others, subconsciously looked back.
Watching Cai Jun's figure walking out of the hall, Xia Gongming seemed to realize something in his heart.
"This is the main hall of the Qinzheng Palace. How can you behave in such a mess?
Your Majesty has already issued an order to withdraw from the court. Why don't you go to the cabinet to deal with the government affairs in your hands? Why do you surround me like a talkative woman and talk nonsense?
Your Majesty is the king of a country. Whatever you want to do or want to do has its own reasons. How can you and I, my ministers, interfere with it?
What? Do you still want to influence His Majesty’s thoughts and interfere with His Majesty’s decisions?”
Xia Gongming's words made all the officials tremble suddenly, swallowed their saliva and shook their heads hastily.
"Of course I don't dare to do it if I'm a lower-ranking official. I don't dare to do it if I'm a lower-ranking official."
"Disperse and go about your duties."
"Yes, I'll go ahead and wait for you."
When all the officials surrounding Xia Gongming heard Xia Gongming's words, they all started to walk outside the palace with different thoughts.
Upon seeing this, the military attachés also stood up and left the hall after thinking about it.
"Veteran Xia Gongming, I have met your three highnesses."
Liu Chengzhi, Little Cutie, and Liu Chengqian hurriedly waved their hands.
"No gift, sir."
"Thank you, Your Highnesses. If Your Highnesses have no other instructions, I will go to the cabinet to deal with the official documents in my hands."
"My three brothers and sisters have nothing to do to trouble you, sir. Please excuse me."
"Thank you, your three highnesses. I will take the first step."
"Go slowly and don't see me off."
Xia Gongming straightened up and walked straight out of the palace. When he reached the palace gate, Xia Gongming glanced back at the back hall, smiled bitterly and went straight to the cabinet hall with a complicated expression.
There are five emperors: Weihe, Xuande, Taihe, Yongping and Taiping.
For decades, he had assisted five generations of emperors successively. Even Ruizong Li Zheng, whose thoughts were the most difficult to guess, he could vaguely figure out his thoughts.
However, after meeting the emperor Liu Mingzhi, I didn't expect that I would also fail here.
The deep sea is unpredictable, and His Majesty's thoughts are even more unpredictable.
Xia Gongming's back gradually moved away from the Qinzheng Hall, and Liu Chengzhi turned to look at the little cutie and Liu Cheng.
"Yue'er, third brother, it's time for us to go on duty at the Ten Kings Palace."
"Your Highnesses, please take a step slowly. Your Majesty is waiting for your three Highnesses in the Imperial Study Room."