Back in Caofu, the Li family was already looking forward to it.

"Why didn't my daughter-in-law come back? If only I could spend the New Year in Beijing! When Li saw his son come back, he was both happy and quite inadequate: "Separate two places for the New Year, in the end it is deserted." How about God bless, are you still used to it? ”

"It's all good, it's just that my son was ordered to go to Beijing, and it's not good to bring his family. After only going out of Beijing for more than a month, he brought his wife and children back to toss, and outsiders didn't look like it. Cao Hao said: "After the fifteenth day, the weather is warm, and my mother and grandmother will go over." The folk customs over there are simple, and it is cheaper to go out and incense than in Beijing. ”

When Li Shi heard this, he couldn't help laughing, and said, "You child, I am old with your grandmother, and you still love to play like a child?" ”

The mother and son said a few words of gossip, and Cao Hao went back to Wutong Garden to freshen up first.

When it was time for dinner, the family gathered in the Orchid Courtyard, which added a lot of excitement.

Even Gao Taijun, who is not pretending to be a person, looked at Cao Hao, and added a lot of kindness and softness.

Hengsheng and Zuo live a few, full of admiration. Hearing that Cao Hao was going to stay in the capital until seven or eight days before leaving, Zuo Zhu and Zuo Cheng were even more excited, and they wanted to stop talking.

Then the two brothers looked at the Li family and then at Hengsheng, but they still didn't speak.

When Cao Hao saw it, he only felt funny, and said: "What's the hurry, if you want to go over, you can go with the old lady after the year." ”

"Really?" Zuo Cheng is already happy.

Zuo Zhu hesitated for a moment and said, "The winter vacation of the school is only for fifteen ......."

Cao Hao said with a smile: "There is a academy opposite the Governor's Palace, which was built by the gentry of Baoding Mansion. They were well-informed and heard that Mr. Feng was born in the Hanlin Academy and wanted to hire Mr. Feng as the head of the mountain. Mr. Feng went to see it and had agreed to go out of the mountain. Looking at his meaning, he was going to do a big job, and he wanted to invite a few colleagues who had retired from the Hanlin Academy from the capital to come over and sit in the town. If this can be done, going to school there is no worse than going to school in Shuncheonfu. ”

Zuo Zhu and Zuo Cheng glanced at each other, and they were all overjoyed.

In the past few years that Mr. Feng has been in the house, although his brother has gone to the official school, he has also listened to Mr. Feng's lectures in the capital, and he is a teacher who knows the official school, and he is not the same as the old gentleman who has studied books all his life in the Hanlin Academy.

They had also wondered earlier that with Mr. Feng's knowledge, but he was more than enough to be a professor in official education, why he would be willing to occupy the position of Xixi and be a teacher for children. But the adults in the house never mentioned this matter, and they are juniors, so they are not good at asking rudely.

When the father-in-law was released as the governor, Mr. Feng took the initiative to ask for him, and they thought that Mr. Feng was not giving up on his career, and he also used the identity of Xixi to take Caofu as the rank of promotion.

After hearing what their father-in-law said, the two brothers knew that Mr. Feng's ambition was not in officialdom, but in Shilin.

Only Changsheng's eyes widened and he said in a mournful voice: "In that case, wouldn't I still have to be a student for Mr. Feng?" ”

His surname is jumping, and the people he is most afraid of are not his mother and brother, but Feng Hou, the teacher who is clear about everything.

Hengsheng and the others smiled unkindly when they saw his bitter little face.

Changsheng's eyes rolled, he turned around and pulled Cao Hao's sleeve and said, "Big brother, why don't I go to Qixue and let Tianhu go to Lotus Academy?" After speaking, he felt that he was unbeaten, and he hung his head and said: "Definitely not, the fifth brother and the fifth sister-in-law must be reluctant, and the mother of the child is worried!" At the end, he sighed.

Originally, he signed up for the White Flag School, and then went to the White Flag School to study. But since he knew that his brother was released, his mother would probably go out of Beijing next spring, so Changsheng said that he would follow him.

Li was not worried about his young son, so Cao Hao promised to let him go to Baoding next year.

On the Qixue side, the quota is not easy to waste. Cao Hao discussed with Cao Fu and arranged for Tianhu to go over to study after the New Year.

Among the brothers of the Cao family, the young immortal is not counted, and Cao Fu's official position is the lowest. With his identity, whether he is admitted to the Eight Banners Official Academy or Guozijian, he is not qualified to send his children to school. He originally planned to escort the heavens to the next academy in Shuntian Mansion, and when he saw that there was a better place to go, he was extremely happy.

Tianyang is two years younger, but he is not in a hurry to be sent outside to study.

Cao Hao said: "You know your mother's heart, so you are willing to stay in Beijing and let your mother worry about it?" ”

Changsheng shook his head vigorously and said, "Of course I can't bear it, I must follow." It's just that I didn't expect to study in front of Mr. Feng......"

Cao Hao heard this, but smiled silently.

In fact, asking Feng Hou to be the head of the Lotus Academy was the one behind him. Otherwise, who would have the courage to go to the Governor's Mansion to dig the foot of the wall.

The purpose is really selfish, and he wants to arrange a good place for his son and younger brother to study. Tianyou is only fourteen years old, although he has been by his side and is familiar with the rules of officialdom or something, but after all, he is young, and it is not good to throw his homework aside.

Lotus Academy is a local school, and most of the people included are children from poor families. The children went over, and it was good to grind the rich atmosphere. Save in the capital, and be tempted to learn badly.

The atmosphere in the capital is really too bad, the children of the powerful and noble people are social, if they are unfamiliar, they are willing to pretend to be polite people; If you are familiar with it, you will be dissolute. If you have a bad heart and you can't see it, you may be infected with bad habits. Teenagers are curious about everything.

Based on Cao Shuo's experience, Cao Hao has always attached great importance to the upbringing of Caofu's children, so he has the above arrangements...... The next time, Cao Hao went to Prince Chun's Mansion and Prince Ping's Mansion, and sent people to several scholars and Liubu Jingtang to hand over the worship post, along with the worship post also presented "charcoal respect".

Then, according to the usual practice, several princes in the palm also sent "charcoal respect".

It is said that it is "Tan Jing", but it is actually a "New Year's gift", which is to be given before the year, and the relative "Bing Jing" is sent before the Dragon Boat Festival.

Cao Hao didn't want to send it, but there was no way, this was a common practice in officialdom. He had no choice but to follow Li Weijun's old example last year to add 20% and scatter his wealth in the capital.

The money was withdrawn from the Bank of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

This is the beginning of December to the capital to escort the tax of Zhili, together with the capital, a total of 160,000 taels, of which 100,000, used as "charcoal"; The remaining 60,000 will be the "Bing Jing" in April next year.

This is only the distribution of silver on the surface, in addition to these cash silver, but also according to the relationship is different, plus antique calligraphy and paintings and other valuable objects.

In the next few days, several Jingtang, who had more relations with Zhili, sent a reply. Cao Hao ran two or three families, fortunately, he has been a Beijing official for many years, has good popularity, and has a close relationship with several palaces, but no one wants to collect money from him.

Seeing that Cao Hao's envoy sent more "charcoal respect" than last year's, he was also satisfied.

As for the palace, it has always only received cash, and rarely received foreign officials, just to avoid it.

Even Prince Yi's Mansion and Prince Zhuang's Mansion are like this, as long as Cao Hao is the governor of Zhili, there will be fewer contacts.

However, even if Cao Hao wanted to go to meet the two princes, the thirteenth elder brother and the sixteenth elder brother were not in the mansion. The thirteenth elder brother is also an errand in the household department and the ministry of work, and he is in the yamen every day; The sixteenth elder brother is staying in the palace to guard, because the second elder brother is gone.

The second elder brother's sting, without warning.

It wasn't until the thirteenth day of the lunar month, when the emperor was at the small court meeting, that the second elder brother was seriously ill and wanted to visit in person, but he was persuaded by Prince Yi, and several ministers on shift did not hear the news of the second elder brother's illness.

When he said, the sixteenth elder brother asked for instructions on the funeral, and the emperor instructed to prepare the second elder brother's funeral with the gift of the prince.

When the next time he said, the second elder brother was simple.

In the clan, only Prince Cheng and Gong Yun have a few elder brothers who wear filial piety; The Minister of Civil and Military Affairs is just a mask in front of Xian'an Palace; As for the clan Fujin and the Beijing official women. Because "it was the middle of winter", they were not allowed to gather.

Although Cao Hao is not a Beijing official, he is a Heshuo forehead, and he also entered the palace with the royal family.

In the Xian'an Palace, a piece of vegetarian food.

Looking at the red walls and glazed tiles, it seems to be no different from other buildings in the palace.

Cao Hao knew that this was a cage. After the second abolition of the prince, there were 300 guards and 40 guards, divided into four shifts, and guarded this place day and night.

Now the guards and guards are gone, and only the women and children are left kneeling on the ground.

Because of the special identity of the second elder brother, although everyone in Xian'an Palace experienced the pain of bereavement, no one dared to cry loudly, only crying in a low voice.

There are only a few young little brothers and little Gege, I don't know if they were infected by the grief of adults, or if they suddenly saw so many people uneasy, and cried loudly, which made this scene even more bleak.

Wang Honghui of Lijun had a haggard face, his eyes were dilated, and he followed the official to be a filial son.

The second elder brother was said to be buried, and the five dragon pavilions by the sea of the Lingling Imperial Garden were moved, and the spirit was stopped there.

The next follow-up is not something that Cao Hao's identity can participate in. What he was quite concerned about was his mother's reaction, afraid that his mother would be sad because of his blood relatives.

No, Li listened to the funeral letter, just sighed, and everything went as usual.

Cao Hao saw it and put his mind at ease. Think about it, even if it is a blood relative, but I haven't even seen it, where will there be any grief.

Then, the emperor posthumously crowned the second elder brother as the prince of Li, nicknamed "secret", and canonized the second elder brother as the side of Fujin and the mother of Honghui as the side of Prince Li, and was taken out of the palace by Honghui to be raised.

The minor children of the second elder brother will stay in the palace to raise them; If you have a concubine room for your children, you can let your children raise them, or you can live with the side of Fujin, and those who don't want to do both will also be given to the house, and their food and clothing will be abundant for the rest of the year.

I don't know the details of the second elder brother, when I hear this will, I will praise the emperor's kindness.

There are only sixteen elder brothers, and they are full of slander in their hearts.

The second elder brother has twelve sons, four of whom died young, and eight of whom survived. Except for the second son Honghui, who is an adult, the other seven little brothers, the eldest is only thirteen years old, and the youngest is not yet a hundred days old.

These people are nominally kept in the palace, but in fact they are just detained in a different courtyard.

Among the seven little brothers, a few young ones are okay, and they are blessed to have their biological mothers to take care of them; The older brothers are all over ten years old and haven't read a day yet.

No one dared to mention this, and no one knew what the emperor was thinking.

Although the sixteenth elder brother has mercy, he only ordered him to go down and not to withhold everyone's food. As for the rest, although he is the sect commander of the sect, he is not qualified to say anything.

The second elder brother's sword is not related to Cao Hao, but Cao Hao remembered that in the "Honghui Conspiracy" case, many clans were implicated, and when he saw the sixteenth elder brother, he mentioned this matter.

didn't say anything shocking about rebellion, but just persuaded the sixteenth elder brother to be careful. After all, in the clear stream, the voice of the second elder brother, the concubine of the queen mother, has not stopped.

When the sixteenth elder brother heard this, his expression was unpredictable, but he didn't say anything......*

(To be continued)