Prison Dragon

Chapter 56

After agreeing to Zhuo Xinhong, how to settle the matter of Jingming Dao in front of Yang Ting is another matter.

Yang You asked: "Xinhong, is there anyone in your school who knows some strange arts and can speak eloquently?"

In order for Yang Ting to relax the restrictions on Jingming Dao, he must first have a preference for Jingming Dao.

What the emperor hates is not the purpose of the sect, but the power of the sect.

Anything that threatens imperial power is not allowed to exist.

This is also an opportunity that Yang You can seize.

Zhuo Xinhong thought about it for a while, and recommended a candidate to him: "My uncle Hongguang is a Taoist who has a little knowledge of strange things, and he has a good personality. I wonder if he is the kind of person the prince is looking for?"

"If you want to spread the teaching, you must consider the whole world. I would like to recommend some masters to get in touch with the emperor."

What Zhuo Xinhong was worried about was that there was no way to introduce him. Everyone knew that the emperor disliked Buddhism and Taoism the most. It was not that he did not run for the teacher, but no one dared to recommend him, so he had no choice but to give up.

Yang You has a special status, he has courage, and maybe he also has this kind of ability.

On this side, Zhuo Xinhong sent money to the teacher's door, and arranged for the Taoist priests to go to various places to help the disaster. At the same time, he notified his uncle to come from Jiangxi to the capital, and on the other side, Yang You received a special invitation.

The second prince Yang Ti invited him to the mansion for a talk.

Even more coincidentally, the Fourth Prince Yang Shi also held a small banquet on the same day.

Two invitation cards were placed on Yang You's desk.

The reason why the two imperial brothers fought like this was to clarify their party members in this Yaxian dispute, but it would be too impatient to force people to express their views before the situation is clear.

What's more, there are only a few officials in the DPRK and China who have an absolutely clear stand, and the rest are either neutral or useless.

To deal with these people, forcing a statement will only be counterproductive.

For Yang You, it's easy to guess what the Second Emperor's brother is thinking.

As the name suggests, Yang Tiren is suave and talented. He is known as "Little Chen Wang". It is said that his talent is comparable to that of Cao Zhi who was so talented back then. He wrote poems in three steps and Fu in seven steps. It has become the object of common admiration in the palace.

They have been in contact with each other for a long time. As one of the most prominent princes, Yang Ti became Yang You's observation object very early on.

Fourth Prince Yang Shi...

Under Shang Luo's guidance, he also gradually mastered the trick of getting along with Yang Shi - showing weakness.

For a self-reliant person like Yang Shi, the weaker he is, the more he looks down on you, and the less he pays attention to you. He believes that weak people can't turn their palms, but trust you more.

On the day he received the invitation, he took the second prince's invitation to Yang Shi and cried that night.

Mainly expressed his loyalty to the fourth prince, stated all the censure and bullying from the second prince that he had suffered since he was a child, and expressed that he was a weak and helpless waste who did not dare to resist the second prince, but he could not let the fourth brother down, so Ask him to make up his mind, and only the fourth brother will follow the lead.

Yang Shi helped him up from the ground with a smile, and said softly, "Fifth brother, don't cry, brother understands your difficulties. It's not been a day or two for everyone to be oppressed by second brother. Who doesn't have any grievances? Don't panic. Second brother invited you suddenly, do you know why?"

Yang You wiped his nose and complained, "How would I know? He never played with me before!"

Yang Shi was persuasive: "Think about it again, what major events have happened recently?"

How else can you say that the fourth brother has a high level of thinking, Yang You suddenly realized: "Recently... Could it be because of Yaxian?"

"That's right!" Yang Shi clapped his palms, "Think about it, you are staying in Taichang Temple, and you are the one among our brothers who can speak in front of His Majesty. He came to you because he wanted you to replace him..."

Yang Shi winked, Yang You quickly waved his hands to deny, "Fourth Brother, don't say that, I definitely support Fourth Brother, no matter who asks me, I have only one answer."

Yang Shi patted him on the shoulder in relief, like an old mother who finally saw her child grow up, and said with tears in her eyes: "Brother also knows what you want, but the second brother is powerful, and there will be no one after Lihou." People are against him, and the fourth brother can't bear that you disobey him and be targeted by him and suffer again. How about this, you don't use the fourth brother's side, go directly to the second brother's side, you agree to whatever he says, and come back Afterwards, we brothers will discuss carefully."

"But..." Yang You hesitated, "I don't know what Second Brother wants me to do..."

Yang Shi squeezed Yang You's shoulder, and conveyed his irresistible order with his body: "Do you believe in fourth brother?"

"Of course I do."

"Then do what the fourth brother said. You agree to what the second brother says first, and then come back to discuss with me."

Yang You took two breaths and said with determination: "Okay! I'll do what the fourth brother said!"

No wonder!

Yang Shi looked at Yang You with the gentle look of an old mother, very relieved and vaguely proud, really like a brother who earnestly guides his younger brother to behave in the world, "Fifth brother, I prepared a light meal, and you also Let's eat something together."

Yang You agreed.

Yang Shi's cook should also be from the Northwest. He said it was a simple meal, but he was indeed a whole meal of roasted whole lamb. open.

On weekdays, Yang Shi would eat with his subordinates, and he regarded this method as a means to win people's hearts.Today, in order to make Yang You feel that he is different in the eyes of the fourth brother, he ate alone with his two brothers.

Yang Shi personally cut off the freshest and fattest meat from the sheep to Yang You. When the two of them ate almost the same, Yang Shi rewarded the soldiers with the rest of the mutton.

When Yang You went back, he hiccupped again and again, feeling that even the crevices of his hair smelled of mutton.

Yang Yuchun drove the car ahead, betting with Yang You because he didn't eat any meat.

Yang You followed Yang Shi's instructions and went to the second prince's banquet.

The second prince is surrounded by world-renowned literati, and people like him, who can't even read the Four Books and Five Classics since childhood, can't get into their speeches. face.

Of course, they were not very enthusiastic about Yang You.

The second prince is of course centered on his own henchmen, and Yang You is just an object to be wooed by the way.I also know that in the current situation, Yang You should know that if Grand Master Qian is gone, his grandfather, Mr. Lin Ge, will be the next minister in power.

Yang Ti just wanted to let Yang You and the outside world know that they were on the same boat through this behavior.

After all, it is a literati's banquet, and there is an indispensable theme. According to Yang Ti's idea, this banquet is specially held for this natural and man-made disaster. They wear plain clothes collectively, fast all day, and then each write poems for the common people. arts.

Yang You didn't quite understand the practical significance of this banquet?

A group of sons who have never even been to the disaster area are here to force what new worries are...

Fortunately, Yang Ti knew him well, so he didn't intend to ask him to write poems from the beginning, but arranged for him to sit in the banquet, and then went to talk about poetry and current affairs with his people.

Yang You's status is here, so he can't sit too far away from Yang Ti. Yang Ti's circle is full of scribes, and he can't sit too close, so he was placed in the middle seat, and there is no one he knows anywhere, so he has to sit awkwardly. Sitting, because of fasting, I don’t even have snacks to pass the time, so I can only sit bored.

Fortunately, he was not the only one who found it boring.

Cui Jue and Yang Xiu sat on both sides of him.

Cui Jue is a warrior, and he didn't like the messy things his brother Cui Yan and the second prince did, and his face was like earth, frowning desperately to bear it.

Yang Xiu gave him a distant smile.

Yang You looked at his thin figure in white clothes, and asked with concern, "Are you okay?"

Yang Xiu was a little surprised, as if he didn't expect Yang You to care about him, he smiled lightly and said, "It's okay."

Seeing his indifferent expression, Yang Yo couldn't bear to say: "The two of us grew up together, even if something happens, we are still brothers."

Yang Xiu sighed, and looked at him helplessly and disappointedly, "Don't you understand? I don't regard you as a brother."

Whether it's a wooing partner in order to live a good life, a rival for the throne, a friend who has fun together, or a ignorant crush, he never regards the two as brothers.

In the past, Yang Xiu could still get along with him without piercing the window paper, but now that all the ugliness has been exposed nakedly, why does Yang You still have these naive thoughts?

Let him regard Yang You as a brother. In the past, it was difficult for others, but now it is not?

Yang You's eyes widened, momentarily at a loss.

"Forget it," Yang Xiu took a sip of tea, lowered his eyelashes, "I don't expect you to understand."

"Okay..." Yang You looked away resentfully, and looked down at the wood grain of the table.

"Yang You..." Yang Xiu read his name.

Yang You looked up at him, it was less than a year since he became king, Yang Xiu seemed to have experienced decades of wind, frost, snow and rain, his eyes were old and gloomy.

"What?" Yang You asked in confusion.

But Yang Xiu closed his eyes, "Nowadays everyone is trembling like walking on thin ice. Even if you can't protect yourself, you should take care of yourself first. I'm a man anyway. You don't worry about me."

Cui Jue snorted coldly, and said in a strange way, "The sixth prince has always been with eunuchs and face-to-face. I never imagined that he could guide others to live their lives."

Yang Xiu also sneered: "This king is talking to the emperor, when is it your turn to intervene?"

The eyes of the two passed through Yang You, and they confronted each other.

Yang Xiu's mother's family is powerless, and he himself ascended to power through that method, and those who know the inside story look down on him.The only thing he can win is the male favorite and eunuch who are also attached to the emperor.

After Qian Taishi resigned, the political situation in the court changed, and the emperor made an exception and handed over the East Factory to him for management.

Because of this level of collusion, he suffered a lot of criticism. All the ministers in the DPRK and China thought he was a curse, and wrote letters alluding to Yang Xiu from time to time.

The emperor just laughed it off.

Seeing the tension between the two, Yang You hurriedly smoothed things over, pulled Yang Xiu's sleeve and said, "I haven't seen the green garden of Second Emperor Brother, let's go for a walk?"

Yang Xiu shook off his hand, "It's not my king's turn to go."

Cui Jue slapped the table, stood up suddenly, and pulled Yang You's wrist away, "It's just right, I always feel uncomfortable here."