"Your Majesty, if you want Your Highness to memorize the entire book, it will take up too much time. Why not let the adults present pick out a section for Your Highness to memorize?" Ming Jingzhou stepped forward and said, "This way, we can check how well Your Highness has memorized, and it can also save Your Majesty time."
"My dear ministers, don't make excuses for him. I know you are kind people and can't bear to see him lose face. But since he has said that he should recite everything, then you should just sit down and listen to him." Emperor Longfeng ordered Liu Zhongbao: "Liu Zhongbao, go and bring some tea, and let the prince recite slowly."
The minister was stunned at first, then he understood. What His Majesty meant was that he was worried that they had colluded with the Prince of Chen in advance and helped the Prince of Chen to commit fraud?
Thinking of this, they felt regret and hatred in their hearts. Why didn't they think of this idea at the beginning?
No, no, no, they are scholars, how could they have the idea of cheating?
Realizing that their thoughts were slipping, the adults looked at the Prince silently and placed all their hopes in God.
I hope God will bless the King and grant him an extraordinary memory and stunning beauty.
"Anyone who steals this book will be punished..."
"Your Highness, this sentence was printed by the bookstore, cursing the book thief. There is no need to recite it repeatedly." Ming Jingzhou coughed dryly. This drama was a bit too much, a little exaggerated, so it should be restrained.
"The ancients had it before me, so I should borrow it..."
"Which part is this?" an official whispered to the Ministry of Industry official next to him.
"Preface." The Minister of Industry replied, "The Agricultural and Mulberry Records was compiled by our officials, who collected the agricultural and mulberry skills of past dynasties and compiled them into a book. The preface was written by our founding prime minister."
"When the weather is right, don't miss it. Plant mulberry trees in spring. Mulberry trees benefit the people and should not be neglected."
The Prince recited faster and faster, speaking fluently. The officials wiped the sweat from their foreheads and observed His Majesty's expression from time to time.
"There is a tropical island in the south, where the grain is always ripe and delicious."
Two of the older officials who were sitting upright at first leaned back in their chairs. The Prince of Chen has been reciting the book for a long time. Is there too much content in this book?
Suddenly, the Prince of Chen who was reciting the poem stopped.
They were startled, looked at him at the same time, and began to have wild thoughts.
What happened? Can't remember what happened next?
What's coming next? Can you remind the prince slightly, without being too obvious?
The Prince Chen, who was worried by everyone, was not in a hurry. He picked up the teacup, drank a sip of tea, and turned to look at Jiuzhu.
Jiuzhu thought that His Highness was nervous, so she mouthed to him, "Your Highness, very impressive!"
Prince Chen raised his eyebrows proudly and waited for me to finish reciting.
Only when he carried it on his back again did the officials secretly breathe a sigh of relief, thinking, "It's good that he didn't forget it."
The way the prince looked at the princess, was he waiting for her to encourage him?
"Did you see that? Just now the princess smiled at the prince, and the prince continued to carry her on his back." Official A whispered to Official B, "The couple has a deep love for each other."
He pondered in his mind and found that since the Prince of Chen got engaged to the daughter of the Ming family, he had done fewer and fewer ridiculous things. Now he was even working hard to endorse books for the benefit of scholars all over the world.
Could this be... a prodigal son's return is worth more than gold?
Thinking of this, he turned to look at Ming Jingzhou, who had a calm expression and showed no emotion. The Ming family had given birth to a good daughter.
It takes more than half an hour to read the entire "Agriculture and Mulberry Records" fluently, but the speed at which Prince Chen recites seems to be faster than reading.
He recited it very confidently, and the officials who were responsible for judging whether he had recited it correctly were almost dazzled when they compared the contents in the book.
"Are there any mistakes?" other officials subconsciously asked the officials from the Ministry of Industry, who knew the contents of the book best.
The official from the Ministry of Industry shook his head: "It is exactly the same, without any mistakes."
After hearing this, the officials felt very complicated. How much effort did the prince put in to memorize this book?
“People are the foundation of a country. Agriculture is the basis of life.”
Half an hour later, the Prince of Chen had recited the last page. The officials, who were already a little tired, sat up straight and looked at the Prince of Chen with eyes full of infinite love and praise.
"Have you finished reciting?" Emperor Longfeng stood up and walked around the hall. His waist felt a little sore after sitting for so long.
"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness Prince Chen has memorized the entire chapter." The two officials in charge of supervision put down the book and walked to the center of the hall to salute Emperor Longfeng.
"What's wrong?" Emperor Longfeng looked at his son and found that he had already approached the princess, waiting for her to feed the cup of tea to his mouth.
This terrible son.
"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the Prince of Chen is extremely intelligent and has made no mistakes at all." There was a hint of surprise in the supervisory official's tone.
"Is there nothing wrong with it?" Emperor Longfeng looked at Prince Chen suspiciously, "You should recite the chapter on raising silkworms in Volume 5 again."
The Prince's voice was a little hoarse as he recited the chapter on raising silkworms again.
"Father." He smiled cheekily, "I have memorized the entire "Nongsang Ji". What you promised me..."
"Since you can memorize the "Nongsangji" in five days, why didn't you study hard these years?" Emperor Longfeng's eyes became dangerous: "Liu Zhongbao, bring the stick."
"Your Majesty, you must not do that, Your Majesty." The officials who were delighted that the prince could recite the book saw that the emperor looked unhappy and hurried forward to persuade him: "Your Highness, the prince must have studied hard day and night to be able to recite this book. I think Your Majesty should be rewarded."
"Yes, yes, maybe the prince is slow to learn. He was young and ignorant in the past, but now he has turned over a new leaf, which is a good thing. If Your Majesty punishes the prince and ruins his desire to work hard and make progress, wouldn't that be bad?"
"Father, please calm down." Jiuzhu opened her arms and blocked the Prince behind her. "Your Highness has been studying hard every night to memorize this book. The emperor's promise is worth a lot of money. If you don't want to reward him, then forget it. How can you punish him?"
She glared at the eunuchs who seemed to be approaching her: "No one can touch my prince!"
"Jiuzhu." Ming Jingzhou raised his head and frowned at his daughter, saying, "Don't be rude to His Majesty. Leave."
Jiuzhu bit her lower lip and said nothing, but she did not close her open arms and her feet did not move at all.
The Prince of Chen, who was blocked by her, looked at her determined back and her tense arms. He reached out and gently held her hand, and whispered in her ear, "Silly little pig, father won't hit me, don't be afraid."
All the beautiful sights in the world were not as beautiful as the moment when she stood before him without hesitation.
He even believed that even if there were thousands of troops and flaming swords ahead, she would still stand before him like this.
With a force of his wrist, he pulled her to his side and smiled flatteringly to Emperor Longfeng: "Father, the princess is just too worried about me, please don't take it seriously."
Emperor Longfeng was silent for a moment, then suddenly laughed out loud, and the depressing atmosphere in the hall was swept away.
"Du Qing, you have a very good princess." Emperor Longfeng looked at Jiuzhu with undisguised kindness as an elder, and he did not show any dissatisfaction with her behavior just now.
He waved his sleeves and sat on the throne: "Pass on my decree. The harem has been without a queen for many years. I have called on the will of heaven to make Su the queen. This is a great joy and should be celebrated. Considering the difficulties faced by students all over the world, I will open a special examination. I hope that students will study hard and make progress and display their talents."
Such decrees must be personally sealed by the emperor, then sent to the Ministry of Personnel, and finally distributed to all provinces and counties in the country.
"Thank you, Your Majesty." The officials were so excited that tears welled up in their eyes and they bowed in greeting.
This matter was finally accomplished.
"Father, your Majesty, your daughter-in-law was rude just now. Please punish me." People's sorrows and joys were not shared. Jiuzhu hung her head, took small steps to the front of Emperor Longfeng, and performed the grand ceremony to apologize.
"Du Qing, help Jiuzhu up quickly." Emperor Longfeng looked at the depressed Jiuzhu with a smile and said to comfort her: "As a father, not only will I not punish you, I will thank you."
Jiuzhu looked up at him in surprise, and Prince Chen walked up to her and held her hand.
The two of them intertwined their fingers, holding hands in the most intimate posture.
"He is a prince, possessing power and status that countless people in the world envy. Everyone respects him and tries to please him. But no one would stand up in front of me without hesitation for him." Emperor Longfeng looked at the two people holding hands and asked with a smile: "Before you did these things, did you ever think that you might cause my dislike?"
"No, I didn't have time to think about it." Jiuzhu looked at him cautiously: "Father, you won't hit your Highness, right?"
"He is such a grown-up, even if I beat him, he won't learn his lesson." After saying this, Emperor Longfeng saw Jiuzhu turned his head and smiled at his son, and he laughed very happily.
The look in her son's eyes when he looked at her was full of pity, love and cherishment.
This is the look of a mature man looking at his most beloved woman.
This child who never grew up finally had someone he wanted to protect, and became a man of his own standing.
"Father, if you say that, Jiuzhu will think that you used to beat me often." Prince Chen laughed and pretended to whisper to Jiuzhu: "From childhood to adulthood, father has never been willing to beat me. What he just said was just a bluff."
Listening to his son's "whisper" to his daughter-in-law, Emperor Longfeng waved his hands in disdain: "Go, go, go quickly, or I will really beat you."
"Father, we haven't spanked before, but we're starting to spank now. People call it opening the seal." Jiuzhu reminded in a low voice: "Beating a child on the last day of the year can be called sealing. Do you want to open the seal on His Highness?"
Prince Chen looked at his princess in disbelief. What was going on?
Just now when her father said he wanted to beat him, she stood in front of him so bravely. Why is she now taking the initiative to mention the various popular terms for beating children?
"Father, I'll take my leave now." Prince Chen realized something was wrong and quickly ran away, dragging his wife with him.
Looking at the backs of the young couple, Liu Zhongbao smiled and said, "Your Majesty, the prince and the princess are a perfect match."
"Yes." Emperor Longfeng laughed from the bottom of his heart: "My son has such a personality, it is his fortune to meet the young lady of the Ming family."
"The princess is indeed kind-hearted. When I first saw her, I thought she had pretty features and looked blessed."
"Yes." Emperor Longfeng sighed. If Du Qing hadn't happened to meet the little girl from the Ming family on the way to the accident at the Royal Stables that day and accompanied her to choose a pony...
There are some things that, as a father, he dare not think too much about.
Because he simply could not accept such consequences, even thinking about the possibility made him feel terrified.
To Du Qing, he is just an ordinary father in the world.
I hope he is healthy and not sick, I hope he lives a long and peaceful life, I hope someone loves him, I hope he knows how to love. When he and his eyebrows grow old and there is no one to accompany him, the people who love him and the people he loves are still there, even if his hair turns to frost, he will not be lonely.
"Your Highness, Your Highness Prince Chen, please stay!"
The officials walked out of the Taiyang Palace and quickly caught up with Prince Chen and Jiuzhu. They bowed deeply to him and said, "We, the officials, thank you on behalf of all the students in the world."
"Students all over the world are the people of Dacheng. As the prince of Dacheng, what is there for me to thank you for reciting books for my people?" Prince Chen glanced at the officials who came to him. They all looked familiar.
This man with two-inch floral patterns embroidered on his official robe was impeached in the court two years ago for forcing someone to jump into the river.
And there is this man with five-inch floral patterns embroidered on his official robe. I said a year ago that he was unlearned and incompetent.
But he was a magnanimous person, and considering their contributions to Dacheng, he didn't bother with them.
"In the past... we may have misunderstood Your Highness." The official in purple robes bowed and said, "Thank you for your magnanimity and for not holding it against us."
Prince Chen was afraid that if they continued talking, they would tell Ming Xiaozhu what he had done in the past, so he quickly interrupted them: "These are all trivial matters, please don't take them to heart."
Stop talking now. If you continue like this, my image of being omnipotent in front of the princess will be ruined.
"Fourth brother, is the person surrounded by those adults your fifth brother?" Prince Jing saw several officials standing in a circle outside the Taiyang Palace. He stopped and looked carefully for several times: "I wonder if fifth brother has memorized the book?"
Yun Yanze looked at the smiles on these officials' faces and his heart sank a little.
"Lord Wang once said that my fifth brother was unlearned and unskilled, but today he smiled at him in a very friendly way." Prince An's eyes lit up: "Could it be that my fifth brother has memorized the entire "Nongsangji"?"
That's amazing! I want to cling to your powerful fifth brother!
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