. " His brows were knitted tightly, and he couldn't figure it out in his mind, "Are you going to drive my sixth brother off the position of regent? But if my sixth brother doesn't regent, then other descendants of the Xuan family will be the regents. Whether it's you, me, or the seventh and ninth brothers, we don't have any friendship with them! They don't have to protect any of us."
The eldest prince asked again, "Could it be someone from the Fifth Brother's side? Or the Fourth Brother?" After thinking about it again, "The Fourth Brother is impossible. Although my father didn't sentence him to death after the quarrel with the Third Brother, his status has become much more embarrassing. It's not right to help him to the throne. The Fifth Brother is a bit possible, and I always feel that the Fourth Miss of the Feng Family is not an easy person to deal with. She must have given the Fifth Brother a lot of bad advice behind his back."
The two of them each expressed their own guesses, but Xuan Tianfeng also had his own guesses. He said to them, "You overlooked the most crucial point. They mentioned Lao Ba in their conversation."
"Old Eight?" The eldest prince frowned and said, "Even if he was mentioned, what would happen? Old Eight is indeed dead. Seventh brother said that he was the one who sent Old Eight to his death."
"Yes!" Xuan Tianling also said: "Seventh Brother's words cannot be false."
"It's true, but Old Eight's face is ruined. This is indeed true. I'm afraid that someone will make a fuss about this, and the person who makes the fuss may be related to Zong Sui." Xuan Tianfeng clenched his fist and knocked it hard on the dragon chair. "Since when did Zong Sui recruit so many people from the court of Dashun? It seems that Dashun has lived too comfortably in recent years. This seemingly magnificent country is actually full of termites."
"Sixth brother, don't be too pessimistic." Xuan Tianqi said, "In the past, when father was in the court, he seemed confused, but in fact he was smarter than anyone else. Father saw and remembered all the tricks in the ministers' stomachs. Even the identity of the queen could not be hidden from him, let alone Zong Sui's spies? Besides, there are still seventh and ninth brothers to protect us, so it is impossible for the court to be in such a mess. I'm afraid there are other things here. Let's not rush, wait and see, there will always be a day when the truth comes out."
In the square in front of Zhaohe Hall, six pugs squatted side by side on the ground, looking up at the four courtiers who were brought here. Emperor Tianwu was sitting on a chair nearby, served tea and snacks by palace servants. At this time, he pinched a piece of mung bean cake and chewed it while saying to the four people: "I am bored all day long, and I am worried that there are not many new people to accompany me. It is a good thing that you are here, which can be regarded as enriching my harem."
All the palace servants rolled their eyes when they heard this. What are you talking about, Your Majesty? Those who know you understand that this is your style of speaking, while those who don't think you are having some affair!
Zhang Yuan was even more helpless, and reminded him: "Speak properly."
Emperor Tianwu groaned, pointed at the six dogs and said, "These are also used to entertain me on weekdays. Although they are good for entertaining me, they are too troublesome to keep. Not only do I have to feed them, but I also have to take care of their poop. If I don't walk them for a while, they will poop in my hall. Oh, that smell! It really gives me a headache!"
The palace servants complained again. Your Majesty, are you worried? Dogs are hard to raise, but you are the one raising them? You just take care of them, right? When have you ever taken care of their feeding and pooping? At most, you feed them a few snacks when you are happy, but you end up sending the dogs to the Imperial Hospital.
Dog-raising professionals said that dogs should not be fed with human desserts, as this would not be good for their health. However, Emperor Tianwu sometimes forgot to remember, and as a result, the doctors in the Imperial Hospital had to learn veterinary medicine on their own.
But now it's good, the palace people thought, with four unlucky guys walking the dogs, they can relax a little. If anything happens to the dogs, these four people will take the blame, and it will have nothing to do with them anymore.
Zhang Yuan thought so too. He said to the four ministers, "These dogs are actually quite easy to raise. Take them for a walk every morning and evening, feed them twice during the day, wash them once, and the rest of the work is to talk to them, make them happy, and pick lice for them. In short, they should be kept in a full spirit at all times so that they can play with the emperor. Of course, we must also pay attention to their physical health and report any abnormalities in a timely manner. In addition, the feces of the dogs when walking the dogs must be cleaned up at any time, and they cannot be left everywhere in the Zhaohe Hall Square. My lords, do you understand?"
The four men looked at each other in bewilderment. Damn it! A dignified fourth-rank official has fallen to the point of raising dogs?
Seeing the four people standing there stupidly, seven of them were dissatisfied and eight of them were indignant, the old emperor was unhappy. "Why? You don't want to raise a dog for me? Or do you think raising a dog will undermine your dignity?"
Upon hearing this, several people quickly knelt down and replied: "Your Majesty, please understand. Asking us to raise a dog is really a bit..."
"Oh, I still feel embarrassed." The old emperor said to himself, "Walking the dog is embarrassing, so how about... walking the tiger? Is walking the tiger majestic enough? There is a tiger in the Prince Yu's Palace. It is raised by Ah Heng. It is a white tiger. I have seen it. It was cute when it was young, but it is very majestic when it grows up! How about you walk the tiger! I will order someone to bring the tiger into the palace now."
"No, no, no! No, no, no!" The four men almost fell to the ground in fear. Oh my goodness, a tiger! Walking the dog would only hurt their face, but at least their lives would not be in danger. But walking the tiger, damn, what if the tiger gets angry and opens its bloody mouth to eat them, who can they complain to? With the moral character of the Ninth Prince and the Five Imperial Concubines, can they be held responsible? According to the tempers of the two men, they would probably go to the family of the deceased to argue, blaming them for being unclean and entering the tiger's mouth, affecting the health of their tiger, right? The more they thought about it, the more they felt that this was possible, so they quickly kowtowed and begged for mercy, saying that they would never want to walk the tiger, and "happily" accepted the job of walking the dog.
Seeing the four men leading the six dogs and getting familiar with the environment under the guidance of the palace servants, Emperor Tianwu put down the mung bean cake in his hand and looked coldly at the direction they left. After a while, he snorted, "Just because I promoted you to the court, I can also drive you out of the political situation. Don't think that you are so great just because you have been showing off for a few years. If you didn't have a close relationship with Duanmu Anguo in private, how could you have caught my eye? Do you really think that you have improved your knowledge? What a joke!"
Zhang Yuan stood beside Emperor Tianwu, looking at the sharp light in the old emperor's eyes, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart: Ginger is still old and spicy! Everyone says that the old emperor is confused and impulsive, but few people know that the old emperor has his own account in his heart, and he knows it better than anyone else! These people who have dealings with Duanmu Anguo secretly think that they are well hidden and no one knows, but they don't want to escape the eyes of Emperor Tianwu. If it weren't for secretly controlling so many of Duanmu Anguo's followers, Duanmu Anguo might have caused a lot of trouble in those years in the North Boundary. But these people are at the bottom! So much so that Duanmu Anguo disappeared, and Emperor Tianwu kept them for so long, but he never waited for Duanmu Anguo to contact him. It was not until recently that I heard that the old thief Duanmu went to Zong Sui, and it was not until these few days that he hooked up with these people again, intending to let them go against the Sixth Prince in the court, making the Dashun court uneasy.
Zhang Yuan raised his lip. The old villain Duanmu was really shrewd and scheming. Unfortunately, he was no match for his Emperor Tianwu!
In a secret base somewhere in the capital, a man who looked like a servant was whispering to a weak scholar sitting next to him: "Master, I'm afraid those four people are useless..."
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