Chapter 4 Practicing Literature and Martial Arts
“I will teach your Highness what I have learned!” The two said quickly.
Zhao Xing recognized one of them when his father called them cousins.
The one wearing the crimson official uniform should be Hai Wenyou, a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy.
The Hanlin Academy is equivalent to the emperor's secretariat, specializing in making suggestions for the emperor. The Hanlin Academy bachelor with the highest management position is only the fifth grade.
There are no real rights.
But the advantage lies in being noble and being able to meet with officials from time to time.
The Hai family is also known as the Five Hanlins, and is one of the first noble families in Bianjing.
Of course, the so-called one school and five Hanlin Academy does not mean that five people from the Hai family are in the Hanlin Academy at the same time.
This is consistent with the fact that during the Three Kingdoms period, the Yuan family claimed to be the Four Generations and Three Dukes, which refers to the fact that five people from the Hai family had served in the Imperial Academy.
The official waved, and a eunuch came forward holding a ruler and presented it to Hai Wenyou and the others.
"This is the ruler given by me. If Fu'er slacks off in his studies, you can just punish him without any worries." The official said.
“Yes!” Hai Wenyou responded as he took the ruler.
Although he and another old man are both Zhao Xing's teachers, he is the one who teaches him daily. As the husband-in-law, the old man only goes over to give lectures occasionally.
"Fu'er, I have asked people to clean up Zishan Hall. Starting from tomorrow, you must arrive at Zishan Hall to study before midnight every day. Otherwise, if you are punished, I will not care. Do you understand? ?" the official said.
Zishan Hall is the place where the princes study, but nowadays when young officials succeed to the throne, several sons die within a year or two after birth, and it has been abandoned for decades.
"My son understands!"
Zhao Xing was not afraid of his father's move to scare him.
This is the same as sending a child to school and telling the teacher to just hit him if he makes a mistake.
If a fight is really going to happen, the parents should probably start making trouble.
Considering his status as an only son, if he really made a mistake, the two of them would not dare to fight.
However, Zhao Xing did not act unscrupulously or care about it.
After all, studying is his own request. Living in the palace every day and not being able to leave the palace is very boring.
And he was tired of pretending to be illiterate. Reading early would also help people get some story books to relieve their boredom.
The officials gave Zhao Xing some more instructions and asked him to go back.
Zhao Xing saluted his father and the two teachers respectively, and then left.
After leaving Longtuge, Zhao Xing did not walk, but took a buoy back to Renming Hall.
Renming Hall is the queen's bedroom. Zhao Xing moved to Renming Hall after he was one year old.
Although he couldn't let go of his biological mother, there was nothing he could do about it.
He can lose his temper, and with his father's love for him, he might agree to let him stay with his biological mother.
But doing so would undoubtedly bring disaster to his biological mother.
After all, he is the only prince. If he is not close to the queen, who knows if the queen will have other ideas.
After he moved here, the Queen took great care of him, and even took the initiative to let him visit his biological mother.
Zhao Xing walked into the hall and found out that Princess Pingning was here.
"My son has met his mother and his aunt!" Zhao Xing saluted.
Princess Pingning's father died in battle during the reign of the late emperor, that is, when Zhao Xing's grandfather was in power.
The late emperor was grateful for his contribution and made his only daughter a princess. She was brought into the palace and raised in front of the late queen mother.
Before Zhao Xing's father succeeded to the throne, the two of them were called brother and sister, so Zhao Xing called her aunt.
Princess Pingning had already stood up to salute when Zhao Xing came in. Seeing Zhao Xing greeting her, she quickly returned the salute. Her aunt was not a relative, so even if Zhao Xing called her face, she would not dare to act like an aunt.
“Brother Fu, come and sit.”
Empress Cao smiled and waved, and when Zhao Xing came to her phoenix seat, she moved to the side and let Zhao Xing sit next to her.
"Your aunt came to the palace this time because she wanted her brother Heng to read to you. What do you think?" Queen Cao asked.
Hearing this, Zhao Xing smiled and said: "My cousin, it would be great if he could come and study with me, so that I can have a companion." His father originally intended to find some companions for him. Read, it has not been decided yet.
Later generations often describe themselves as accompanying the prince to study.
But it was different in ancient times. The prince's companionship was actually to cultivate the prince's confidants.
At the same time, it is also a grace for the ministers of the DPRK.
Zhao Xing also wants to find some reading companions to train him from an early age, who will serve as his confidants when he becomes emperor in the future.
He has not been idle in the past few years, trying hard to understand the internal situation of the Song Dynasty, which can be said to be very optimistic.
The problem of three redundancies is very serious and has reached the point where it cannot be changed.
If he can cultivate some good team members, when he becomes emperor in the future, he can promote his confidants to occupy high positions, and it will be much easier to implement reforms.
Qi Heng’s ability is quite good, so Zhao Xing naturally has no reason to refuse.
“Thank you, Your Highness.” Princess Pingning was overjoyed when she heard this and thanked her quickly.
She often goes to the palace, but she knows Zhao Xing's status in the hearts of the officials.
If she goes to the officials to talk about this matter, even if the officials agree, it will be useless if Zhao Xing does not agree.
"Aunt is so polite. My cousin can come to study with me. I should be the one thanking my aunt." Zhao Xing said with a smile.
Princess Princess Pingning smiled when she saw that Zhao Xing respected her so much.
Her current status depends on the official family.
Although Zhao Xing has not been established as the prince yet, there is only one son in the official family, so it will be a matter of time.
Zhao Xing is so close to her, and Qi Heng can be Zhao Xing's companion, so there is no need to worry about the Qi family's wealth in the next few decades.
After chatting for a while, Princess Pingning resigned and left.
"Brother Fu, have you seen the teacher your father chose for you?" Queen Cao asked.
"We have already met. I know that one of them is a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, and there is another one who I haven't recognized." Zhao Xing said.
"Haha, the other one is Han Zhang, Grand Prime Minister of Han, who has just been transferred back to Bianjing from a local promotion by your father and serves as the Tongping Zhangshi. These two have outstanding talents and have a high reputation among scholars. , you have to learn from them, you know?" Queen Cao warned.
It turned out to be Han Zhang. Zhao Xing was a little surprised when he heard this.
He didn't like Han Zhang very much.
In the play, he helps Zhao Zongquan fight for power with the Queen Mother, which is not wrong.
After all, the infighting between the Queen Mother and the Emperor is not good for the country.
But his support for Zhao Zongquan to pursue his biological father as emperor is enough to prove that he is not as upright as he appears.
Huang Kao is the emperor's name for his father. Logically speaking, Zhao Zongquan's inheritance of the throne is adoptive, so he can only call the late emperor Huang Kao.
However, Han Zhang agreed with him in naming his biological father, and even called the late emperor the emperor's uncle.
Although Zhao Zongquan made such a move to pursue the title, it was an excuse to seize power with the Queen Mother.
But this is a matter of principle, and Han Zhang actually supports it, which is very disgusting.
"Brother Fu, what's wrong with you?" Queen Cao asked.
"It's okay." Zhao Xing came to his senses, shook his head and said, "Mother, my son wants to learn martial arts."
"Why are you learning martial arts? You are a prince. If you want to inherit the throne in the future, you only need to learn how to govern the world." Empress Cao frowned.
"Mother, my sons and I learn martial arts for the sake of physical fitness and for no other purpose." Zhao Xing said.
Since the predecessor did not have any genetic diseases, it means that he died because of some disease that was not cured.
Zhao Xing didn’t know what disease his predecessor died of, and there was no way to prevent it.
In addition to maintaining a good daily routine and hygiene habits, practicing martial arts to keep fit is the only thing he can do.
After hearing this, Empress Cao hesitated for a moment and said: "This matter requires your father's consent. I will ask him later."
(End of Chapter)