Prison Dragon

Chapter 138

"When will your injury heal?" Ao Chen saw that the charcoal in the furnace was a little red, so he put down his fan and started searching again.

"It's been a long time ago." Yang You replied while writing. The imperial doctor stopped the medicine for him before the end of the year, and he hasn't coughed for a long time. "Maybe I'm a little tired recently, and I have blown the wind again. It's okay."

Ao Chen said with disgust, "People are really fragile."

Yang You smiled and said, "I can't compare to you."

Ao Chen turned over the bottles and jars and made noises, causing Yang You a headache. He couldn't help looking up at Ao Chen from the memorial: "What are you looking for?"

"Boring, let's see if the emperor has anything privately hidden." Ao Chen said, "The last time the pearl was dug out in his bedroom."

Yang You: ...

"Okay, then you can look for it." Yang You said helplessly.

As he spoke, Ao Chen picked up an ice porcelain jar and shook it. Hearing a sound inside, he opened the jar and poured it down.The jade stones collided and made a clear sound, and a pile of jade//of various sizes fell on the floor.

Yang You was attracted by the sound and looked over, but what he didn't want to see were these things.

Ao Chen raised his toes and said tut-tsk: "Your father really knows how to play."

Yang You looked at the batch of things of different sizes, some of them were not only thick and big, but also had uneven particles on the surface, Yang You felt pain when he looked at them, "I really feel sorry for Wu Yizhi."

Ao Chen seemed to have found the trick. Within half an hour, he rummaged through all the hidden compartments of the cabinet in the imperial study, and found a lot...

All kinds of aids/feelings/appliances.

Yang You's face darkened.

Ao Chen looked at the pile of ointments/medicines and weird props under his feet, then looked at Yang You, "Are you sure this is the Imperial Study Room?"

"It should be..." Yang You felt that the chair he was sitting on was a bit uncomfortable.

Sure enough, Ao Chen pointed at him the next moment and said, "Perhaps the chairs, tables, and pens and ink you use are the ones where the emperor and others are messing around..."

Yang You hissed and jumped up from the chair, picked up the unapproved memorial and took a step back.

The two looked at each other and were silent for a long time.

Yang You smiled awkwardly, "Why don't I ask someone to clean it?"

Ao Chen shrugged, feeling a little regretful because he didn't find the emperor's valuable private collection, "It's up to you."

Yang You went out and asked Li Deshun to arrange for someone to throw away Yang Ting's mess, and swept up and down the imperial study, and replaced it with new furnishings.

At the end, Yang You and Li Deshun said, "Eunuch Deshun, you have been by Your Majesty's side for many years, do you have His Majesty's gadgets in your bedroom?"

Li Deshun took the memorial in Yang You's arms and nodded knowingly, "I'll send someone to clean it up right away."

Yang You thought that he had lived in Zichen Palace for more than a month, even though the mattresses were all new, he still felt a little uncomfortable thinking about it.

Ao Chen squeezed his hand and rested his head on Yang You's shoulder.

"Ao Chen," Yang You shrugged, and whispered to Ao Chen, "the ointment you used the night before yesterday was left by your father, right?"

Ao Chen tilted his head to look at him, with the tails of his eyes raised, very coquettish, "I went to the inner warehouse to find it, it's new, no one has used it before."

Yang You: ...

For a moment, he didn't know whether to praise Ao Chen for being smart or to say that he didn't understand the rules.

Anyway, no one can control where Ao Chen goes, and Ao Chen can do whatever he wants.

By the time the memorial was approved, it was already late at night.

Yang You ordered all officials to speak freely on state affairs, and there were indeed many people who wrote letters to start the performance.

These people rebelled against Yang Ting's submissiveness when he was in power, and vehemently criticized Qi's politics from the very beginning.Eighty percent of the letter pointed out that the government was not enough. Apart from those irrelevant complaints, Yang You was really worried when he read the letter.

It is important to point out the problem, but what is more important and difficult is how to solve the problem.

Regrettably, what Yang You sees so far is mostly empty talk, and very few people can come up with solutions.

Shangluo's idea was to start with the administration of officials. Yang You and Liu Hui were worried about the separatist regime caused by excessive local power, and wanted to limit the development of feudal towns and aristocratic families first.

Instead, Lu Shanjian made a suggestion that caught his eye.

He suggested that in the future scientific examinations, the papers should be sealed and handed over to the designated person for copying, and then the copied papers should be handed over to the examiner.

In this way, it is possible to avoid the occurrence of candidates visiting the examiner in advance and the examiner setting the ranking in advance.

In fact, it is already the norm in Qi State that the examiner decides by default. Many scholars have to go to the capital first to pay respects to senior officials during the scientific examination.

It is conceivable that in the end, except for a few people who are the best in the world in terms of talent, learning and appearance, most of the other candidates on the list come from aristocratic families.

One of the important reasons why the aristocratic family has been able to last for many years is that they hold the right to speak about the imperial court's employing people, occupying fields in the local area, and forming a school of their own.

It is impossible for Yang You to wipe out all the aristocratic families as soon as he came to power. The only plan for the present is to take it slowly, so that the poor can have more opportunities to ascend to the imperial court.

Lu Shanjian told Yang You before that he learned all his skills not to be a national teacher, but to be a person like Zhuge Liang.

I didn't expect him to be really capable.

Yang You put Lu Shanjian's papers in the pile to be discussed at court tomorrow.

Rui Fang came in to refill him some tea, said hesitantly, "Your Majesty, Prince Rui is asking to see you."

"What is Lao Liu looking for me so late?" Yang You rubbed his eyes, "Let him in."

Yang Xiu stood outside the door for a while before entering.

"what's up?"

Yang Xiudao: "Prince An wanted to commit suicide by swallowing gold, but he was rescued. Now that Prince An's mansion is in chaos, Concubine Wu Hui wants His Majesty to take a look."

Yang You frowned, "Didn't I tell you to go to Lao Qitong to get angry? He can save his life, why did he commit suicide?"

"Who knows," Yang Xiu said coldly, "Be afraid."

Yang You was a little tired, but he still went to Prince An's mansion, and agreed with Yang Lun that as long as he lived in the capital peacefully, everything would be fine except that he could not be an official in the court without the throne. Same as before.

As for the martial arts family, Yang You said that he was powerless to help, and he should make a decision as the law decides.

Yang Lun's heart was ashamed, and he was frightened, fearing that Yang You would blame him, his heart turned back and forth, although he wanted to try his best to protect the Wu family, but it was a foregone conclusion.

He asked in a low voice: "Your Majesty, it's better for him..."

Yang You held Yang Lun's hand, "What difference does it make if he lives or dies, just forget about him."

Yang You released Wu Yizhi not long ago, gave him a new identity, and completely erased Wu Yizhi from his household registration.

Since then, the mountains are high and the waters are far away, and there is no such person as Wu Yizhi.

How to live and die is his own responsibility.

Concubine Wu Hui sat there without crying or speaking, and accepted the ending calmly.

She is a married woman, so even if her mother's home is raided, she will not be implicated.

The samurai family has planned for several generations, even at the expense of their aunts and nephews, but in the end everything turned into an empty dream.

She just felt more and more pitiful.

I have been buried in the deep palace all my life, fighting with the emperor, women and men of the emperor, never stopping for a moment, fighting back and forth, even I am lost in it, unable to turn back.

Yang You left Prince An's Mansion in a walking chariot, the capital was under curfew, only the pagodas of the Thanksgiving Temple were lit with ever-burning lights, layer by layer, as if they were going to extend to the sky.

It is the place where the long lanterns of the ancestors of the Yang Dynasty are enshrined.

Gratitude Temple...

A strange idea suddenly popped up in Yang You's mind, why should the ancestors be enshrined in the Thanksgiving Temple outside the palace?It's not that the palace cannot build pagodas by itself.

What is even more strange is that Yang Ting was not the first emperor to restrict Buddhism. Before that, three emperors had implemented measures to restrict Buddhism during their reign. The Thanksgiving Temple did not seem to be affected much, and it still stands intact. In the core area of ​​the capital.

Even when Yang Ting was in power, he did not touch the Thanksgiving Temple, at most the monks in the Thanksgiving Temple were restricted from going out.

You must know that he was hand-picked by Yubi in Jiangnan, and hundreds of temples were searched.

This is unreasonable, but because the Thanksgiving Temple has always been low-key, and he mostly pays attention to government affairs, he didn't notice it.

Maybe there is something that the emperors have passed down from generation to generation, and Yang Ting didn't tell him before his death.

The original founder of the Thanksgiving Temple was Master Xuanhai, who lived in the reign of Emperor Gaozu Zhenhua.

During Gaozu's reign, it happened that Han Wang Yang Yan had rebelled against him and was later killed.

Lu Shanjian said that the Moyu in his hand was left by a rebellious prince.

Will there be any connection between these two?

Yang You was more and more attracted by his own thoughts, and he didn't care about the midnight, so he asked his men to lead a horse and went to the Thanksgiving Temple overnight.

Passing through the pitch-black pine forest, Yang You knocked on the gate of the Thanksgiving Temple.

A young novice led him to meet the abbot.

The abbot of the Thanksgiving Temple, Daoman, has white beard and hair, and thick earlobes. He was adding oil to the ever-burning lamp. When he saw Yang You, he put down the oil spoon in his hand, clasped his hands together and said, "I have seen you, Your Majesty."

Yang You stepped forward, looked up at the ever-burning lamps piled up layer upon layer with no end in sight, and began to carefully look at the names under each lamp.

Basically, they are the names of the clan's children, closely packed together, from the time of Gaozu to the present.

"Amitabha," Daoman presided over said, "Your Majesty, the ever-burning lamps of the former emperors are not enshrined here, but at the top of the pagoda."

Yang You nodded and followed Daoman up to the pagoda.

This ancient seven-story pagoda made a sound when Yang You stepped on it.Behind Yang You were two young eunuchs named Sanbao and Sanfu.Sanbao asked Yang You in a low voice: "Your Majesty, why don't you go back, this place seems very dangerous, it will collapse at any moment."

Daoman turned back and comforted: "Your Majesty, don't worry, it's very safe. People come up every day to maintain and clean it."

Yang You wasn't too scared, and soon they reached the top of the tower.

There is a small attic on the top of the tower, and there are rows of ever-burning lamps, arranged in two rows on the left and right, the left is bright and the right is dark, and there is only one lamp at the highest point in the middle, which should be the lamp of the great ancestor Yang Shuo.All lamp engravings are gilt.

Daoman stepped back half a step, stood behind Yang You and said, "Your Majesty, this is the Emperor's Everlasting Lantern enshrined in the pagoda."

Yang You turned around and wanted to ask a few sentences, but saw Ao Chen quietly standing beside him at some point.He almost screamed in shock.

Ao Chen just stared at Yang Shuo's ever-burning lamp.

Yang You thought for a while, and said to the others, "You all stand back and wait."

Daoman left the room with the two young eunuchs. Hearing the sound, he should have walked to the next floor of the pagoda.

"What did you find?" Yang You hooked Gou Aochen's finger.

Ao Chen glanced at him with complicated and profound meanings in his eyes, and quickly turned away. He stretched out his hand, and Gaozu's ever-burning lamp flew into his hand.

On the lamp is written Shenyao, Great Sage, Daguang, Taiwu and Emperor Filial Piety, which is the posthumous title of the great ancestor Yang Shuo.

"Is there a problem?" Yang You didn't dare to start, fearing to insult his ancestors, he could only ask Ao Chen.

Ao Chen pursed his lips and turned the ever-burning light around.

There was a layer of dust on the back of the lamp, and Ao Chen wiped it away.

Yang You's eyes widened.

Behind the ever-burning lantern, facing Gaozu's posthumous title, is written——

Han Wang Yang Yanyan

The rebellious king of Han and Gaozu enjoyed the sacrifice of incense and the protection of the ever-burning lamp.

Yang You tightly grasped Ao Chen's fingers, unable to believe what he saw.

How could a rebel be put together with Gao Zu!

Ao Chen rubbed the only five characters repeatedly with his fingertips, and the candlelight danced on his face.

"There's something else."

He said looking up.