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Chapter 81 Emperor Yuan Jing's Longevity Festival

Later, under the pressure of the ministers, the officials had to choose a child from the clan to enter the palace.

This is the first adopted son of Emperor Yuan Jing and Empress Yang, Chai Ziyan.

Chai Ziyan was smart since he was a child, and he would never forget his poems and essays after teaching them once, so he was very popular with the officials and queens, and once awakened the dead hearts of the officials.

So Chai Ziyan was established as the prince when he was 13 years old, and he was named King Rong, and he was directly established as the crown prince the next year, which shows the importance and love of the officials.

But Chai Ziyan was not destined to be emperor, and died of illness in August of the 14th year of Yuanjing at the age of 22.

This was a big blow to Emperor Yuan Jing. Since then, the official has rarely shown a smiling face in front of everyone, and even suffered from "social phobia", and is generally unwilling to go to the court to listen to politics without major issues.

The affairs of the court were mostly arranged by Cui Miyuan, while the affairs of the palace were presided over by Empress Yang, and he himself became a clay sculpture Bodhisattva instead.

However, the issue of the successor of the Great Zhou had to be resolved, so under the personal auspices of Empress Yang, a child was selected from the clan to enter the palace.

This time, Empress Yang learned to be smart. Instead of choosing only one person, she chose two well-behaved children from among the many eldest sons.

In order to prevent their biological parents and brothers from intervening in politics in the future, Empress Yang deliberately selected two eldest sons who were far away from the royal family, whose parents died and had no brothers or sisters, to enter the palace. They were adopted sons in name.

Empress Yang has selfish intentions, such a child does not have support from outside the palace, so it will be convenient for her to control herself in the future.

Since the two children entered the palace, they have started strict study and teaching by famous Confucian teachers from all walks of life, as well as orthodox royal education.

Moreover, Empress Yang did not confer too much on these two "adopted sons" from the beginning, but each conferred a low-level "literary official" such as Chengfeng Lang and Cheng Wulang.

The purpose is still to listen to his words, observe his actions, and then choose a suitable prince from among them, and the other one is just as a spare tire.

After years of "selection", Empress Yang observed that the two "adopted sons" had very different personalities.

Chai Ziyun has an extroverted personality, a lack of grandeur, too much cleverness, and a bit conceited.

And the other adopted son, Chai Zijin, is honest and honest, he doesn't fight or grab, but because of this, he seems relatively dull and pedantic, and doesn't know how to adapt.

As an emperor, if you are too honest, the monarchy can easily be emptied.

Just like today's official Chai Honghua, he doesn't care about anything and listens to others in everything.If it hadn't been for her Empress Yang's ability to firmly grasp the imperial power and military power, otherwise Cui Miyuan would have taken him out of the way.

So Empress Yang, who had suffered enough from the honest people, chose "Chai Ziyun" as the prince, named him "Cheng Guogong", and began to participate in the government affairs of the court. team.

It's a pity that he was not clearly defined as the "Crown Prince".

However, anyone with a discerning eye could see that the officials and Empress Yang had cultivated Chai Ziyun as the "Crown Prince". Not surprisingly, he would definitely inherit the throne in the future, so a group of "Princelings" soon formed around him.

There are too many smart people, everyone wants to have the merits of being a dragon, and be regarded as the servant of the prince's hidden residence, so that they can become prosperous in the future.

It is very important to follow the boss, and you must invest in advance.

And the other adopted son "Chai Zijin" is not very popular at this time. Although he was also named "Yi County Duke" and given him a big house, he also arranged for people in the palace to serve him.

But he was not allowed to participate in the government affairs, but he was just planning to keep him rich and honored all his life, and did not interfere with what he did in daily life, and let him fend for himself.

For such an important celebration as the Wanshou Festival today, this "Yi County Lord" did not come to celebrate his birthday, which made the ministers in the Zichen Palace look down on him even more.

Not as good as a spare tire.

Only a small number of core officials, such as Cui Miyuan, knew that the reason why Duke Yi did not appear in the Zichen Palace was because of his "good brother", Cheng Guogong Chai Ziyun, who was obstructing it.

After all, he is also the "adopted son" of the official family, so Chai Zijin always has a little "threat".

In order for Chai Ziyun to ascend the throne smoothly in the future, he must rule out all possibilities and threats now, even the slightest possibility will not happen.

At this time, the golden bell in Zichen Hall was rang.

With a high-pitched voice, the eunuch shouted: "The official is here, the empress is here~~~~"

When the officials in Zichen Palace heard this, they knelt down one after another, "I wish you the best of luck, and my best wishes for your mother's peace."

Yuan Jing Emperor Chai Honghua and Empress Yang Guizhi, wearing the most solemn court clothes at this time, slowly stepped onto the throne with the support of many eunuchs.

Emperor Yuan Jing was very thin, with no smile on his face as usual, if he was not wearing this imperial suit and sitting high on it, if he met him on the street, he would be regarded as just an ordinary little old man.

On the contrary, although Empress Yang is already 50 years old, the years have not left traces on her face. The whole person looks graceful and luxurious, with elegant temperament. Sitting on the throne, she looks at the ministers below from time to time.

It's no wonder that Empress Yang was originally born as a ditty singer, a literary worker, or simply a female star, she must be the kind who is beautiful, has a good temperament, and can dress up.

Sitting together, there is really a feeling of a father taking his daughter to court, young and old.

But this kind of thing, everyone can only slander in their hearts,
These two are the masters of the empire, the emperor and queen who have the power over everyone's life and death. If anyone is disrespectful, the mad dogs at Yushitai will teach you how to behave in minutes.

After being charged with disrespect, the whole family went to the vegetable market to get a boxed lunch.

Emperor Yuan Jing made a gesture of support, but he didn't even bother to speak.

Li Hu, the chief eunuch next to him, saw it, and hurriedly shouted again: "Pingshen~~~~~"

Then the program started. First, Cui Miyuan’s congratulatory speech on behalf of all the officials was written in official documents, and the content was nothing more than all kinds of flattery.

Prime Minister Cui's voice echoed in Zichen Hall for a long time, over half an hour, and it ended when everyone's legs were numb.

Then came the part where the courtiers presented birthday gifts. Chai Ziyun was the first to stand up, with both queens raised high above his head, and said loudly:
"The birthday of the official family is the blessing of hundreds of millions of people in the Great Zhou Dynasty. My ministers specially presented this picture of blessing and longevity on behalf of the people. There are tens of thousands of people in the Great Zhou Dynasty spontaneously writing the characters of blessing on it. I wish the official family a long life without boundaries. , Fu Lu Tian Qi."

The eunuchs slowly opened the picture of blessings and longevity in front of Emperor Yuan Jing, but the officials just nodded slightly and didn't speak, making it like "closed mouth meditation".

Empress Yang looked at it and nodded with a smile: "My son has a heart."

Others would surely smile when they saw the Queen's award, but Chai Ziyun just stepped aside in a routine way, and didn't even pay any polite flattery.

The light in Cui Miyuan's eyes who was standing behind him flashed again.

(End of this chapter)