The palace maid Tong Qing'e stayed in the East Nuan Pavilion to serve the emperor, and soon laid the bedding and helped the emperor change into his sleeping clothes.

Han Ruzi had long been accustomed to being mercilessly at the mercy of the waiter, and had a lot of thoughts in his mind. The Queen Mother, King Donghai, Meng E, Yang Feng and others took turns to appear, not giving him any free time. It took a while before he found Tong Qing'e was still standing by the bed, but he had already changed his clothes and just waited to lie down to sleep, so there was no need for others to feel comfortable.

"Is there anything else?" Han Ruzi asked politely, but thought to himself that there must be many palace maids with "E" in their name. Meng E and Meng Che may be both pseudonyms.

Tong Qing'e blushed for no reason and said softly: "I serve Your Majesty and go to bed."

Han Ruzi had never seen any palace maid as shy as hers, and smiled and said, "You have served you."

"Yes." Tong Qing'e didn't move.

"Is this the first time you serve others?" Han Ruzi was very willing to chat with others. She had been begging for it before. The eunuchs and palace maids ran faster than the other, and no one wanted to stay with the emperor. This was the first time that someone refused to leave after finishing their work.

Tong Qing'e nodded and shook her head, "This is my first time... to serve Your Majesty."

"I don't have any special requests, that's fine. Other waiters usually sleep on the couch over there. If you think it's small, you can go to another room to sleep. I'll sleep heavily at night and never call anyone." Han Ruzi hoped that there would be no outsiders in his bedroom.

Tong Qing'e's face turned redder and her voice became lower, "I can...can...sleep in His Majesty's bed."

Han Ruzi turned his head and looked at his bed. It was a very wide bed, which could almost be used as a small room. However, a palace maid made such a request seemed a bit too much. Han Ruzi thought for a while and asked, "Are you used to the chair?"

Tong Qing'e lowered her head and said nothing.

"Yes, that chair is very small, I have to curl up when I lie on it, and you will be even smaller when you fall asleep."

Tong Qing'e is five or six years older than the thirteen-year-old emperor. She is half a head taller and looks a little plump, and indeed takes up more beds.

"Okay, you sleep in my bed." Han Ruzi agreed. He has never been domineering to any servants since he was a child, and he would not even know that after entering the palace, "But don't tell others, you know, the palace is strictly in charge. If someone finds out that you don't follow the rules, you may be punished."

Han Ruzi still remembers the two eunuchs who were beaten hard just because they didn't see the emperor secretly writing a letter.

Tong Qing'e nodded slightly and sat slowly beside the emperor, very close to him, so close that she could almost hear each other's breathing.

"Then let's take a rest and have a good night's sleep." Han Ruzi stood up, smiled at Tong Qing'e, walked to the table, blew out the candles, came to the chair and couch in the dark, and lay on it. There was a small pillow and thin quilt that the palace maid had prepared long ago. The weather was not too cold, and it was just right to cover it.

"Your Majesty..." Tong Qing'e's surprised and confused voice came from the other side of the bed.

"You sleep in my bed, I slept on a chair and couch. It doesn't matter. The bed I slept on before was not much bigger than a chair and couch. I'm really not used to sleeping in a big bed. Oh, remember to wake me up early tomorrow so that we can change it so that people won't be discovered." Han Ruzi turned over and fell asleep, thinking that this was really a strange palace maid, but it was a good thing to be willing to speak or even dare to ask the emperor.

Soon, he began to think about other things again, whether it was "retire after success" or "not to leave after success"? Has there ever been such a precedent when he followed the former emperor's reign title? After thinking too much, he always felt that the word "success" seemed a bit ominous.

Then he fell asleep. He thought he would be pushed to wake up by Meng E in the middle of the night, but he slept until early the next morning. The palace maid Tong Qing'e woke the emperor up and served him to dress him, and then notified the little eunuch outside. The little eunuch called more eunuchs and palace maids who had been waiting outside the house, and began to wash and dress up the emperor, preparing to pay tribute to the empress dowager.

Han Ruzi discovered something strange. Tong Qing'e looked a little depressed. She was not only not grateful for the emperor's actions of letting him go, but also seemed to be very disappointed.

There were too many people around him, and Han Ruzi couldn't ask about it. She just felt that the palace maid was even more strange than Meng E and was even more difficult to please. If she hadn't been afraid of implicating her, she should have asked Yang Feng what was going on.

Yang Feng did not appear at all today. Usually, he would escort the emperor to pay tribute to the empress dowager first, and sometimes he would send the emperor to Lingyun Pavilion to attend classes, and then go to other things to do. Today he disappeared and completely left the emperor to the imperial concubine Shangguan.

When Yang Feng went to Lingyun Pavilion after breakfast, he still did not appear. In the imperial garden, the number of noble servants who met with the emperor suddenly increased from fifteen or sixteen to nearly fifty, lined up in several rows. Under the guidance of the ritual officials, he respectfully knelt down to the emperor.

The emperor had as many as four or five hundred noble servants, and most of them could not see the emperor himself. The empress dowager had chosen fifteen or sixteen young men of the same age as the emperor to enter the imperial garden. This time it increased to three times the quota. The oldest was in her thirties, and several of them had a deep nose, which looked like princes who were attending the distant country.

The strange feeling became deeper and deeper in Han Ruzi's heart. He could clearly feel that these servants were more awe-inspiring than usual. Although there were many people, they were silent when they knelt down.

Correspondingly, the eunuchs and guards escorting the emperor also increased to more than a hundred, and the corridors in the imperial garden were a little crowded.

"Where has Mr. Yang been?" Han Ruzi couldn't help asking Zuo Ji beside him.

Zuo Ji didn't always smile like he usually did and replied in a low voice: "Mr. Yang was entrusted by the Queen Mother to leave the capital."

Han Ruzi was shocked and stopped. The long line of teams behind him also stopped quickly. The people behind him were unable to stop and collided with each other. Fortunately, no one fell down.

"Leave Beijing? Where have you gone?" Han Ruzi felt like he had been abandoned. Without Yang Feng, he was a little at a loss.

Zuo Ji was also surprised and regretted that he was talking too much, but he could not take back his words. He had to say: "The Empress Dowager recruited envoys and went to various vassal states in Guandong to pass on imperial edicts. Yang Gong responded to the imperial edict and set off with the right censor Shen, the Censor of the Rights.

Han Ruzi was even more surprised and turned around to look at King Donghai, and found that he was the same as himself. Yang Feng's departure from Beijing was obviously decided later yesterday. It is unknown whether he volunteered or was forced to take the order.

"What imperial edict?" Han Ruzi asked.

Zuo Ji was getting more and more embarrassed. The emperor didn't know the decree he issued. This was a bit unconventional. He had to say in a lower voice: "Your Majesty was angry in the Qinzheng Hall and ordered the prince of Qi to bow down and beg for mercy. Your Majesty sent an edict to the world, ordering all the vassal states to send troops immediately to attack the rebels..."

"I understand." Han Ruzi stepped forward, and he helped the Empress Dowager a great favor. If he could defeat the King of Qi, the benefits outweigh the disadvantages. But he really hoped that Yang Feng could be by his side at this moment and give some more guidance.

Today's lecture was Luo Huanzhang. Even he seemed a little polite, but he did not ask the emperor to give a question and started directly: "The war in Guandong has not yet ended, so let's talk to Your Majesty about the last rebellion of the princes."

When Han Ruzi's Emperor Gaozu, Emperor Wu's grandfather, and Emperor Lie reigned, there was a rebellion of princes in Dachu, which was larger than this time. A total of five major vassal states and a total of seventeen counties participated.

Emperor Lie was once panicked and even made plans to move the capital to the south. However, the war lasted less than four months. The seemingly aggressive coalition of princes was blocked outside Hangu Pass. After only a few small battles that were not determined, the princes fell apart. The Chu army took advantage of the situation to launch a decisive battle and won in one fell swoop.

After the war, the Lie Emperor took the opportunity to reduce the vassal states, and the territory of the vassal states was reduced since then. Today, Qi State is only half the size of it.

Han Ruzi closed his mind, listened carefully, and asked, "Is it because the princes and kings do not practice the way of benevolence and righteousness?"

King Donghai laughed sneer, Luo Huanzhang glanced at him sternly, and King Donghai immediately lowered his head and focused on reading.

"At that time, the five princes and kings respected the wise and the inferior, reduced the rent and tax of the people, respected the elderly and raised the young, which was a way of benevolence and righteousness."

"Then why are there nowhere to escape after the defeat?"

"It's like a knife, a hero swings a sword, and fights ten, and a child swings a sword, which hurts oneself. Benevolence and righteousness are the powerful tools of the world. Every man takes it to benefit the village, the kings and princes do it to benefit a country, and the emperor does it to benefit the people. The benevolence and righteousness of the five princes is not as good as the benevolence and righteousness of the lieutenant emperor, and it is inevitable that he will be defeated and killed. Your Majesty is in the supreme position, and benevolence and righteousness are just like a sharp sword to a martyr, and a good saddle to a BMW. It complements each other and makes great profits unspeakable."

Han Ruzi felt that Luo Huanzhang was also a little pedantic, and suddenly felt a sharp gaze coming. Turning his head to look, King Donghai had already lowered his head. Han Ruzi understood something, and then looked at the two eunuchs at the door. They didn't understand anything and were standing there in a daze.

Luo Huanzhang was the first foreign minister to take the initiative to contact the emperor. Although the words were quite concealed, Han Ruzi still understood it.

He didn't know how to respond.

Luo Huanzhang did not make any further tests, and the next story is about the past of Emperor Lie excluding the Five Kings.

The morning class is shorter than usual, and there is still half an hour before noon. Zuo Ji comes in and asks the emperor to move.

Han Ruzi came to Qinzheng Hall again. From this day on, he would take time out every morning to sit in Qinzheng Hall for a while and watch the ministers handle government affairs. He knew his status and there were so many eunuchs around him who always reminded him of this, so he never talked too much, just watched and listened.

At least this is much better than being trapped in the palace and knowing nothing. He can learn a little about the progress of the war in Kanto, the deployment of troops across the country and the customs of counties.

But on this day he was unable to find out where Yang Feng was going and when he would come back.

As usual in the afternoon, Meng Feng became more and more pedantic, saying more and doing less, and occasionally punching and stabbing, which was enough to surprise the emperor and his servants.

Han Ruzi felt for the first time that the emperor's life was busy, but unfortunately this busyness was just an illusion. He gained little from it. Until that night, there was something that he needed to do by himself and could not let outsiders do it.

He was very tired at that time. After washing up, he changed his clothes and just wanted to go to bed quickly. As for whether to sleep on a bed or a chair, he didn't care.

The palace maid who served him was still Tong Qing'e, her face was still very red, but her smile was different from last night, and her words were even more incredible, "Your Majesty is about to get married, aren't you interested in the way of husband and wife?"

Han Ruzi's first thought was to remember Luo Huanzhang's "the way of benevolence and righteousness".

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