"How can it be! How can this be?'

While everyone in the Wende Hall was so frightened that they bowed to the ground, Zhao Yuan, the emperor of Great Wei, grabbed the armrest of the dragon chair angrily and held on to it.

He naturally understood what the eighth son of the emperor Hongrun wanted to express in that strange poem: Anyway, I Hongrun didn't want to be the prince, you play you, I'll go back to sleep.

Although because of his age, Zhao Yuanxi did not include the eighth son Hongrun in the list of candidates for the crown prince. Moreover, the eighth son Hongrun took the initiative to hint at withdrawing from the competition for the throne, which is also conducive to the stability of the royal family and greatly reduces the intensity of the competition for the throne in the future, which is a good thing for the clan and the country.

But the problem is that Hongrun hinted at withdrawing from the race for the crown prince in such an understatement, which made Zhao Yuanxi feel unacceptable.

That's the throne, the position of the Son of Heaven of Great Wei, why did you Zhao Hongrun abandon it casually? It's like throwing away a pair of worn shoes?

And what made Zhao Yuanxi most difficult to let go of was the word "haha" in the strange poem, which seemed to have a great irony in the sound of the Great Wei Tianzi!

It seems that the true meaning of that poem is: Hahaha, I, Zhao Hongrun, disdain the throne, so I just go to fight for it, and I will go back to sleep.

Yes, disdain!

Zhao Yuanxi, the emperor of Great Wei, felt a sense of disdain from that sentence of 'haha', which was the most unbearable for him!

After all, the throne of Great Wei is the foundation left by the ancestors of the Ji family surnamed Zhao, and the emperors and clans of all dynasties have worked hard for the foundation of their ancestors, why is the throne so insignificant in the eyes of you Zhao Hongrun? Does this mean that your ancestral legacy is not worth mentioning in your eyes?

"Arrogance! Arrogant! Zhao Yuanxi patted the edge of the dragon chair and scolded angrily: "Tear up the strange poem of that rebel!" ”

The little eunuch who was reciting the poem was about to tear up the piece of paper on which Hongrun wrote a strange poem, when he suddenly heard someone in the hall shouting urgently: "Don't tear it!" ”

The little eunuch was stunned when he heard this, looked up, and found that it was the sixth son of the emperor who called him, the famous royal family "Qiliner" in the capital, Hongzhao.

Seeing this, Zhao Yuanxi was also puzzled, and looked at the sixth son of the princes, Zhao Hongzhao, who was the most beloved among the princes.

I saw Hongzhao bow his hand and say, "Father, can you give that poem to the emperor?" ”

Before Zhao Yuanxi could speak, Hongxuan, who was close to Hongrun, couldn't stand it anymore, and lowered his voice and said angrily: "What does this mean by Brother Six Emperors?" Do you want my starling to continue to be troublesome? ”

Zhao Hongzhao smiled slightly when he heard this, looked back at Hongxuan and said, "What does it mean to continue to be embarrassed? The poems of the Eighth Emperor Brother, although the style of poetry is strange, but full of charm, in my opinion, it is extremely well written. What is embarrassment? What's more, what does it mean to continue to be embarrassed? …… The free and easy in the poem, its artistic conception is so high that you can not understand the young ninth brother. ”

Seeing that Zhao Hongzhao was not trying to fall into the well, Hongxuan breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, but he was a little dissatisfied with the sixth brother's words, and muttered to himself in his heart: What are you pretending, you Zhao Hongzhao is only five years older than me!

Zhao Hongzhao's words made the scholars in the hall stunned, and even Zhao Yuanxi, the emperor of the Great Wei, was surprised.

Zhao Yuanxi waved his hand to calm everyone in the hall, and then asked with an expression: "Hongzhao, do you say that your eighth brother's strange poems are well written?" ”

"It's not good, it's excellent!" Zhao Hongzhao shook his head and commented: "Father must be angry about that last sentence, but in the emperor's opinion, the last sentence of that strange poem is the finishing touch of the whole article!" Whether it is the sentence "Everyone in the world says that the prince is good, but the prince is also difficult", or "I have gotten up before the concubine gets up, and the concubine has slept and I have not slept", it is not as good as the last sentence "Haha, let him go"! In particular, the word "haha" is simply a stroke of genius, with extraordinary meaning and endless aftertaste, although it is difficult to explain the meaning of the word "haha" in thousands of words. ”

Looking at Zhao Hongzhao's intoxicated expression, the bachelors in the hall were dumbfounded, and even Zhao Yuanxi, the emperor of the Great Wei Dynasty, who was angry because of this poem just now, couldn't help but savor it.

You must know that Zhao Hongzhao was born with a unicorn, although he was young and talented in his chest, but he was not pretending to be those scholars, and the poems he wrote were highly respected by scholars, even the now deceased Shilin scholar, the former Hanlin Academy Taishi Ling Wang Linzong also exclaimed: People are born to know?

Regardless of whether this rumor is exaggerated or not, it is undeniable that Zhao Hongzhao, the sixth son of the emperor, is known as the most outstanding talent in the Chen capital Daliang, and his reputation among the scholars far exceeds that of the rest of the princes.

And Zhao Yuanxi, the son of the Great Wei Dynasty, also loves him very much because of this son's talent, otherwise, with Zhao Hongzhao being eighteen years old this year, he would have been able to leave the palace a long time ago, and he would have to stay in the palace. The reason why the emperor of Great Wei kept this son in the palace was nothing more than that he was reluctant to leave his side.

Not to mention, after the analysis of Zhao Hongzhao, a unicorn, Zhao Yuanxi tasted the strange poem again, and really realized a little free and easy. As Hongzhao said, the word "haha", aside from that trace of irony, there is really a kind of artistic conception of "although thousands of words are not enough to explain".

Originally, Zhao Yuanxi felt that this strange poem was the only one in the whole poem, "The concubine has not gotten up, I have risen, the concubine has slept and I have not slept", but now I feel that this sentence is really not as good as the word "haha".

Of course, I don't know that everyone agrees with the words of the Sixth Highness, and more people don't think so, such as those scholars, they don't think that the poem is brilliant, the whole poem is weird, the upper and lower sentences don't rhyme much, and the number of words in each sentence is even stranger, there are four words, there are six words, there are seven words, the whole mess is nonsense, bullshit.

But they didn't talk too much, maybe in their opinion, Zhao Hongzhao is just for the round, after all, Zhao Hongrun's strange poem made the Son of Heaven furious, now since he can reveal the past and not mention it, who would be stupid to be more serious?

In this regard, Zhao Hongzhao could only shake his head, he could only say that the realm of these people was not enough to understand the unfathomable nature of his Eighth Emperor Brother's poem.

While carefully folding the piece of paper into his sleeve, Zhao Hongzhao wondered when he would visit the eighth brother, no matter what others thought, but this novel poetic style really interested him.

The restlessness caused by a song "Wende Hall Chaofu" was revealed by Zhao Hongzhao, and everyone in the palace just didn't happen.

But because of this incident, Zhao Yuanxi gradually became interested in his eighth son, Zhao Hongrun.

He suddenly wanted to look at Zhao Hongrun's "The Wealth of Nations" to see if this eighth son was really as outstanding as his favorite son Zhao Hongzhao said.

However, he didn't dare to let people read it anymore, lest something go wrong.

So, the emperor of Dawei took advantage of the convenience of accepting the achievements of several emperors, and slowly walked to the examination case of Bazi Hongrun, and pretended not to care about picking up another piece of paper on it.

But just by glancing, the Great Wei Heavenly Son frowned.

This time it is not a question of whether the writing is good or bad, the reason is that the "Wealth of Nations" by Yazi Hongrun is too simple, and there are only four words in the whole article, "the people are rich and the country is strong".

It's just perfunctory.

"Bullshit!" Zhao Yuan couldn't help muttering angrily, and secretly said in his heart that his favorite emperor, Zhao Hongzhao, was probably blind, how does this eighth son Hongrun look like a talented person? It's clearly a straw bale!

But when Zhao Yuanxi was about to leave the eighth prince Hongrun behind and go to check the examination papers of the other princes, he suddenly seemed to realize something, picked up the paper and looked at it carefully.

"The people are rich and the country is strong?"

After looking at it carefully a few times, Da Wei Tianzi was stunned.

You must know that the common saying in the world is "the country is rich and the people are strong", but what Bazi Hongrun wrote is "the people are rich and the country is strong", although it seems that the order of the two words is just reversed, but the meaning of it has become completely different.

But he didn't dig any deeper, muttering "bullshit" to confuse the rest of the hall as he quietly slipped the paper into his cuff.

Because those four words have a lot to do with it!

Most of the people in the hall laughed secretly because of the sentence "bullshit doesn't make sense" by the emperor of Great Wei, thinking that the eighth prince Hongrun had written some kind of embarrassing article, but few people noticed Zhao Yuanxi's action of receiving the piece of paper into the cuffs of the dragon robe, such as the second son of the emperor "King Yong" Hongyu, the third son of the emperor "King Xiang" Hongjing, and the sixth son of the emperor "Qilin'er" Hongzhao.

I have to say that after reading Hongrun's sentence "the people are rich and the country is strong", the rest of the princes' "The Wealth of Nations" made the Great Wei Tianzi feel a little boring, whether it is the decent sage theory, or the more domineering "strategy of strengthening the country by force", or the pros and cons of the imperial court policy, no matter how wonderful the writing is, it makes the Great Wei Tianzi feel a kind of scratching his boots.

And the sixth son Hongzhao, who was most favored by Zhao Yuanxi, also wrote the most brilliant theory of strengthening the country, and commented on the pros and cons of various policies of the imperial court. But even so, it can't match the four-word article of Bazi Hongrun.

Of course, even so, this imperial test Zhao Yuanxi still handpicked the article of the six sons Hongzhao to be the most outstanding, and asked the princes and scholars to circulate it to each other.

After all, Bazi Hongrun's four-character "Theory of a Strong Country", Zhao Yuanxi felt that it was not suitable to put it forward.

But there is one thing that the Great Wei Tianzi has been sure of, that is, his eighth son Hongrun, just like the sixth son Hongzhao said, does have his talent!

After the imperial examination, the emperor of Great Wei rewarded several princes with outstanding articles, and also rewarded the scholars of Zongxue who taught them knowledge, and after that, Zhao Yuanxi let them retire one after another.

Sitting on the dragon chair in the Wende Palace, only the great eunuch Tong Xian was waiting by his side, at this time, Zhao Yuanxi couldn't help but take out the piece of paper, and looked intently at the words "the people are rich and the country is strong" written on the paper.

I don't know how long it took, but the great eunuch Tong Xian reminded in a whisper: "Your Majesty, the time has come, it's time to move the vertical arch hall." ”

"Hmm." The Great Wei Tianzi nodded.

Vertical arch hall, is the Great Wei Dynasty Emperor to deal with the government, the approval of the palace of the chapter, take the meaning of "vertical arch and rule", probably the first emperor of the Great Wei Dynasty hoped that his descendants would do nothing, this Great Wei is also the wife of peace, so the palace of the Great Wei Emperor to deal with national affairs is named the Vertical Arch Palace.

But in fact, the emperors of the Great Wei Dynasty in the past dynasties, as long as they were wise and wise kings, were almost tired and vomited blood in this vertical arch hall, so this name is actually quite ironic.

When Zhao Yuanxi, the emperor of the Great Wei Dynasty, moved to the vertical arch hall, there were already three courtiers in the hall to help approve the chapters. These three courtiers are He Xiangxu, who is sixty years old, Lin Yuyang, the left secretary of Zhongshu, and Yu Ziqi, who is in the prime of life.

These three are the officials of Zhongshu Province who assisted the Emperor of Great Wei to approve and perform the chapters, and they do not belong to the palace ministers, and can be understood as the personal staff of the Emperor of Great Wei, although the authority is not comparable to those Shangshu and generals, but the status is transcendent, after all, this is the official of Zhongshu Province, and it is the "inner courtier" of the Emperor of Great Wei, and many key policies that need to be pondered, most of the Son of Heaven of Great Wei are discussed with these "inner courtiers" to reach conclusions.

Of course, for some government affairs involving the six ministries, the emperor of the Great Wei Dynasty would also summon the six Shangshu to participate in the Inner Dynasty.

As for the daily early dynasty, it was actually a routine for the various Shangshu to report their work to the emperor of the Great Wei and other colleagues, or a show for some political needs, and the meeting that could really determine the national policy of the Great Wei was the "inner dynasty" set up by the emperor of the Great Wei in the vertical arch hall.

Because of the transcendent status of the Inner Dynasty, the chapters and recitals presented here are basically major events related to the entire Great Wei Society, for example, the border guards will be harassed by the enemy, and they can't swallow this bad breath and want to fight back.

The chapter of the border guard will be submitted to the Zhongshu Province, that is, this vertical arch hall, and will be determined by the emperor of the Great Wei himself. The Son of Heaven said to fight, then fight, and the Son of Heaven said not to fight, and the guard general could only endure this breath.

As for what kind of disaster relief and grain release, this kind of 100,000 urgent matter will not be submitted to the Vertical Arch Palace, and the household department under Shangshu Province will handle this matter on its own, and the officials of the household department will immediately order the mobilization of grain for disaster relief after receiving the urgent official letter from the local official, otherwise if even this kind of thing has to go through the early dynasty or the inner dynasty, those victims will starve to death.

Therefore, the government affairs handled in the Vertical Arch Hall are basically those major events that are not very urgent, but are related to the prosperity and decline of the national strength of the Great Wei for a long time in the future, that is, the national policy. For example, digging canals, building imperial tombs, increasing or decreasing taxes, or establishing diplomatic relations and alliances with other countries.

Of course, in addition, Zhongshu Province also had to assist the Great Wei Tianzi to supervise the work of the six departments of Shangshu Province, and approve some of the recent incidents submitted by the six departments one by one. If there are omissions and deficiencies, they will be sent back to the ministries and let them revise them immediately.

Don't look at it as just a final approval step, but in fact, the workload is extremely large, even with the assistance of officials from Zhongshu Province, the emperors of the Great Wei Dynasty are almost tired and vomit blood, as if they are constantly watching all kinds of recitals and twists every day, and reviewing the work of various ministries.

The work of the entire six departments involved the entire Great Wei, and almost every day they had to submit hundreds of chapters and recitals to Zhongshu Province, and it was no wonder that Zhao Yuanxi, the emperor of the Great Wei Dynasty, was only forty-two years old and already had gray temples.

"Your Majesty."

Seeing that Zhao Yuanxi, the emperor of the Great Wei Dynasty, walked into the vertical arch hall, the three of them, who were approving the chapter, Ling He Xiangxu, Lin Yuyang, the left Cheng of the Chinese book, and Yu Ziqi, the right of the Chinese book, hurriedly got up and bowed.

"No courtesy." Zhao Yuansi waved his hand, and Gu Zi walked to his dragon case and sat down.

At this time, the three ministers of Zhongshu Province in the hall have already placed some of the more sensitive chapters and folds on the dragon case, stacked one by one, piled extremely high, and there are probably dozens of copies in a rough count.

This is not the end, because in the process of approving the chapter fold by Zhao Yuanxi, the emperor of the Great Wei Dynasty, the six departments of Shangshu Province successively sent people to send the latest chapter folds to the Vertical Arch Palace, and these three ministers of Zhongshu Province picked out the more sensitive ones after the preliminary trial and submitted them to the dragon case of the Emperor of the Great Wei Dynasty.

This is a cycle that repeats itself, and even a wise king like Zhao Yuanxi will not have the time to deal with all the chapters and twists on the dragon case. If one day there really will be no more concerts and twists on the Dragon case, it means that the Great Wei is about to die.

After two or three hours of this, the chapter folds on Zhao Yuanxilong's case have not decreased.

Looking at the stack of chapters on the dragon case, the Son of Heaven of Great Wei sighed with feeling: "Everyone in the world is good for the Son of Heaven, but it is difficult for the Son of Heaven to be ......."

Hearing this, the three ministers of Zhongshu Province stopped the pen in their hands, and looked at Zhao Yuanxi in unison, praising one after another.

"Good sentence!"

"What a sentence, Your Majesty!"

Zhao Yuansi stroked his beard, pondered for a while, and then groaned: "Before the hundred bureaucrats get up, I get up first, and the hundred bureaucrats have already slept, and I have not slept." It is not as good as the rich man of Longyou, and the sun is high and five are still clothed. ”

The three ministers of Zhongshu Province were moved when they heard this, after all, Zhao Yuanxi's poem can no longer be measured by whether it is good or not.

The three of them left the table one after another to bow, and shouted in their mouths: "Your Majesty, Lord of the Holy Ming, my Great Wei has Your Majesty here, and it is really a great journey to the country!" The blessing of the Great Wei, the blessing of the community, and the blessing of the people! ”

"What are you doing here? Hurry up, hurry up, I'm just whining. ”

Zhao Yuanxi waved his hand and asked the three ministers of Zhongshu Province to get up, in fact, he was also happy at this time, after all, he only changed the poem of Bazi Hongrun slightly, and added two sentences, and he happily vented the bitterness of the past ten years.

"Your Majesty seems to be very interested in poetry today." Zhongshu Ling He Xiangxu stroked his white beard and said with a smile. Although he felt that the poetic style of that poem was not from the Book of Songs, he was very happy to see the Son of Heaven, so he naturally did not talk much.

"Where, I am ......" Zhao Yuanxi was about to say that he just listened to the strange poem of the eighth son Hongrun and felt it, when suddenly his heart moved, and he took out the piece of paper written by Hongrun from his sleeve "The people are rich and the country is strong", and summoned the three ministers of Zhongshu Province to his side, and asked: "Three Aiqing, what do you think of this sentence?" ”

The three ministers of Zhongshu Province walked curiously to the dragon case and glanced at the paper on the dragon case.

"The people are rich...... The country is strong? ”

Suddenly, the three ministers of Zhongshu Province looked at each other, and their faces changed slightly.

They look at me, I look at you, and no one dares to offend them.

is just four words, but it has such a power, it makes the three ministers of Zhongshu Province secretive.