Qing Yuan, Governor's Palace, official residence.

"Hahahaha!" Hearing about the archway of the Imperial Chastity Festival, Cao Hao only felt very happy.

He has been in office for more than ten years, and he has been impeached without pain or itching, and he has also gone through several times. For those self-proclaimed "upright" envoys, he really doesn't have a lot of eyes on them.

is either a lackey of the powerful, or a person who tends to be famous, when "the wind is heard", it is more about "borrowing the topic to play" or "doing nothing".

The impeachment of Tang Zhiyu in front of them was lively, and even the big hat of virtue loss was buttoned up.

Yongzheng gave Tang Zhiyu's widowed aunt the "chastity archway", gave them a wife, and gave them a big ear scraper. What kind of faces will they look when they stand in front of the emperor, Cao Hao is very curious.

Jiang Jian and Song Hou didn't expect that this would be the result.

"It seems that the emperor wants to protect Lord Tang, and Lord Tang is so blessed." Song Ren touched his beard with a smile and said, "The emperor personally corrects the name, and Lord Tang should also feel relieved." ”

Jiang Jian shook his head and said, "Not necessarily." At other times, it is a family honor to be a virgin; At this time, Lord Tang may be even more embarrassed. Looking at his words and deeds in the past two years, he does have a bit of style. ”

Cao Hao nodded and said: "Fei Fei is right, Tang Zhiyu acts old-fashioned and has the style of an ancient gentleman, so he may not be happy about it." However, he understands people and should be able to understand the emperor's caring heart......"

While the three of them were talking, they heard hurried footsteps in the courtyard.

Immediately, I heard someone outside the door: "My lord, the villain has to be in a hurry!" ”

It was Zhang Yi's voice.

Cao Hao's face froze, and he got up and said, "Come in!" ”

Song Hou and Jiang Jian also got up and looked at the door.

Seeing Zhang Yi's face anxious, he came in from the door and said, "My lord, the sixteenth master is here and has already entered the gate." ”

Cao Hao listened, didn't care about asking in detail, and hurriedly took Song Hou and Jiang Jian out.

As soon as he walked to the third hall, he saw the sixteenth elder brother coming over with his guard entourage.

Cao Hao stepped forward and was about to give a salute to the sixteenth elder brother, but he was stunned.

Behind the sixteenth elder brother, two familiar faces. One is Hengsheng with admiration, and the other is looking at him with long eyebrows and thin eyes, but it is the prince Hongli.

These two teenagers are dressed as Lan Ling's guards, carrying waist knives, and they look very similar to that.

Is this the prince's micro-service?

Cao Hao only felt that his brain hurt, his eyes slid over Hongli's body, and he had already knelt down to the sixteenth elder brother: "Minister Cao Hao has seen the prince, please prince Jin'an!" ”

The sixteenth elder brother held on to him, didn't let him kneel, and said with a smile: "This king came in a hurry, I'm afraid that I want to disturb Lord Cao, and please don't blame Lord Cao!" ”

Cao Hao's mouth was busy: "Don't dare, don't dare!" ”

Sweeping over from the corner of his eye, Hengsheng and Hongli had already stepped aside from behind the sixteenth elder brother, but they had no intention of coming forward to meet each other.

Seeing this, Cao Hao didn't care about the two little ones, and bowed to the sixteenth elder brother and said, "The prince is here, but he wants to convey his will?" ”

If you bring a holy decree, you must lead it to the lobby to receive the decree, so as to show respect.

The sixteenth elder brother waved his hand and said, "The master is not a messenger, but he just carried an errand and came here like this." ”

When Cao Hao heard this, he stopped being verbose, first introduced Jiang Song's second staff to the sixteenth elder brother, and then led the sixteenth elder brother to the official residence.

When they arrived at the official residence, except for the sixteenth elder brother, only Hengsheng and Hongli followed up the house.

Cao Hao flicked his horseshoe sleeves and wanted to give Hongli a salute.

The sixteen elder brothers are not subject to Cao Hao's courtesy, let alone Hongli?

Cao Hao saw him help him up, so he also got up.

Although I know that I will have to kowtow to this kid in the future, it is better to have one less time.

This is the good thing about going out of Beijing, except for returning to Beijing to see His Majesty and receive the holy decree, he can stand and speak.

After seeing the national ceremony, it was the turn of the family ceremony, and Hengsheng stepped forward to greet Cao Hao.

Cao Hao invited the sixteenth elder brother and Hongli to sit down, and the tea was served before he spoke: "The son of a daughter, you can't sit in the hall, the sixteenth master and the fourth elder brother have a noble status, and they descend to the Qing Yuan, and the ministers are terrified." ”

The sixteenth elder brother took two sips of tea and said, "It's not that someone wants to toss yet, this old arm and old leg is really impatient to travel on the road, and he is tired and half dead." Fortunately, the weather is not too hot, if it is another half a month, he will not move the nest. ”

Although I don't know the details, listening to these words, Cao Hao also understands that the sixteenth elder brother is here to "accompany the prince to study", and Hongli is the guest and guest.

Hongli had already gotten up and said to the sixteenth elder brother: "It's all my nephew's fault, so that the sixteenth uncle is tired!" As he spoke, he explained to Cao Hao the reason why the two of them went to Qingyuan.

It turned out that Yongzheng was determined to promote winter wheat in Jin, Luyu and Henan, and wanted to arrange for Zhili to collect wheat seeds. You can also take the opportunity to inspect the provinces of Zhili to see the harvest of winter wheat.

Hongli happened to be in front of the emperor at the time, and after hearing about this, he took the initiative to ask for orders to come to Zhili. He was already 16 years old, and although he was still in his study, he had also begun to study government affairs.

The people take food as the sky, and the new wheat seed is related to the farming of the four northern provinces, and it is also a matter of great importance to the emperor.

When Yongzheng was so old, he had already started to work on errands, and he was naturally happy to see his son motivated.

But Hongli's identity is different, he is afraid that the news of the prince's departure from Beijing will spread and the villain will be in trouble, so he will explain the errand on the bright side to the sixteenth elder brother, and let Hongli Weifu accompany him.

In this way, after some training, it can not attract attention.

Looking at Hongli's smiling face, Cao Hao could only praise the words "young and promising".

After the greetings, the sixteenth elder brother flicked the invisible dust on his body and said, "If you want to stay in Qingyuan for a while, you have to talk a lot. First arrange a place for the fourth elder brother to wash the sweat of this body, and then go to Mrs. Tai to say goodbye. ”

When the fourth elder brother heard this, he also got up.

Cao Hao listened, and personally led the two to the Yin Hotel. The best courtyard is where the tenth elder brother once lived, please ask the sixteenth elder brother to stay. In the courtyard behind him, please Hongli took someone to live.

After settling the two uncles and nephews, Cao Hao sent people out of the city again, and brought the 500 guards who came with the sixteenth elder brother to the camp of the superintendent.

The fifty palace guards and twenty palace guards who accompanied the sixteenth elder brother into the city were placed in the empty courtyard around the residence of the sixteenth elder brother and Hongli.

After arranging these, Cao Hao ordered someone to send Liang Chuanfu, the general of the governor's mansion, to increase the 500 garrisons in the governor's palace to 1,000, increase the intensity of the guards, and make sure to guard the governor's palace like an iron bucket.

From the moment these two masters left Beijing, the safety was not only the responsibility of the accompanying guards and soldiers, but Cao Hao, the governor of Zhili, could not escape; Now that he has entered the governor's yamen, the responsibility of guarding the safety of the two nobles has fallen on Cao Hao.

In addition to arranging the security in the governor's palace, Cao Hao also sent people to the prefect's yamen and the guard yamen to invite Zhu Zhilian and Xie Tianlai.

Hengsheng followed his father's side, watched him make arrangements one by one with a solemn face, and said with shame: "When my son heard about this, the fourth elder brother had already asked for a decree in front of the emperor. If he had known about this, his son would have found a way to stop him. ”

Cao Hao shook his head and said, "The fourth elder brother is very assertive, not like he can listen to persuasion." It's none of your business, and you don't have to blame yourself. ”

Hengsheng thought about Hongli's surname, and it was true, and said: "Father doesn't have to worry too much, on the way here, the son has secretly begged the prince, asking him to tie up the fourth elder brother and not let the fourth elder brother move lightly, so as to save the birth of trouble and cause trouble to the father." ”

Seeing that he had this heart, although Cao Hao was pleased, he also taught: "Although the heart is good, there is a suspicion of abolishing the public for personal reasons." The fourth elder brother is the prince and the sovereign, you are his companion and belong to the courtiers, how can you interfere with the prince's behavior because of your own selfishness? ”

Hengsheng lowered his hand and listened, his face turned red, and he bowed his head and said: "My son is clumsy and inconsiderate, please punish my father!" ”

Cao Hao said: "No matter what you think in your heart, you have to act well." Take this matter as an example, you are also asking the Sixteenth Master to restrain the Fourth Elder Brother, you can regard it as reducing trouble for me, but you can also regard it as you care about the safety of the Fourth Elder Brother, and you are really worried, so you can't help but ask the Sixteenth Elder Brother. Of course, it was behind the back of the fourth elder brother, begging in private, and it was a matter of going against the will of the fourth elder brother. But you have a heart to protect the Lord, even if the fourth elder brother knows about this and is slightly annoyed, he can't blame you, and he will accept your affection in his heart. ”

This is not the first time Cao Hao has said similar teachings.

Hengsheng also understood, his eyes were bright, he held his small chest, and said: "The son knows, just as his father taught in the past, even if he accompanies the prince, what he says and does must be in line with his own identity, and he will not forget the word 'loyalty'." ”

Seeing that his son was transparent, Cao Hao nodded with a smile and said, "Go and say hello to the old lady and wife, knowing that you are back, they will be happy." ”

Hengsheng responded, but he didn't go down immediately, and hesitated and said, "Father, do you want to tell the old lady and wife about the fourth elder brother?" ”

Cao Hao said: "The old lady will hide it first, so as not to surprise the old lady, and the wife will tell it quietly." ”

Hengsheng retreated at this time, and at this time, the prefect Zhu Zhilian and the guard Xie Tianlai also arrived.

Cao Hao said that Prince Zhuang drove down to Qingyuan and would temporarily live in the Governor's Palace, and ordered the two to clean up the security of Qingyuan City and not to make any baskets.

The sixteenth elder brother took seventy or eighty guards to the governor's palace, and five hundred escorts entered the city later, which was also something that could not be hidden.

Zhu Zhilian and Xie Tianlai responded in their mouths, but their expressions were a little strange.

Seeing this, Cao Hao said, "Are the two adults scared?" Ben Governor was frightened. As soon as Wang Jia was in Qingyuan, everyone had to take on the responsibility, but fortunately, it would not be too long, at most one or two months. ”

Zhu Zhilian nodded and said, "It's really scared, the clan of Qingyuan has been ...... in the past two years That's a lot ......."

Xie Tianlai has a deep relationship with Prince Zhuang's mansion, and his face can no longer hide his worry, and he is full of concern: "My lord, isn't it, is it that the prince has encountered difficulties in Beijing?" ”

When the tenth elder brother "temporarily lived" in the governor's palace, he did not hide it from the outside world, and the officialdom of Qingyuan knew a lot; Brother Jiu "temporarily lived" in the Governor's Palace, although he was "low-key" a lot, he did not hide it from anyone who had a heart.

Now, the sixteenth elder brother has become the third royal brother to "temporarily live" in the Governor's Palace, and it is reasonable for Xie Tianlai to have such doubts.

Even Zhu Zhilian looked at Cao Hao with a solemn face, waiting for his answer.

He didn't pay attention to the affairs of the clan, but knew that the sixteenth elder brother was one of Cao Hao's backers, and he was worried that Cao Hao would be implicated......

(To be continued)