Prison Dragon

Chapter 58

A few days before Mid-Autumn Festival, the palace had been repaired. Yang You entered the palace in the name of visiting his mother. After reuniting with his mother and younger brother in Qingfang Hall, he presumed that he was going for a walk and went around to Ao Chen's place.

He still doesn't know what this place is called, Aochen Lake?Black Dragon Lake?

As he thought about it, he walked to the lake. The level of the lake was like a mirror. The sunlight could only illuminate the clear surface of the lake, and anything deeper was blurry black.

"Ao Chen!" he shouted loudly.

The sound slid from one end of the lake to the other, causing constant echoes in the opposite pine forest, and only Ao Chen's name was always echoing.

Forget it, probably Ao Chen will have to rest for a long time.

Yang You kicked dirt into the lake, turned around and walked out of the woods.

This place of Ao Chen is really weird, as if it appeared in the palace out of thin air, you can't see it at the entrance, and you can't find it.

Yang You was able to walk in casually when he was a child, which is really amazing.

He has often walked around in the palace these years, so he knows a few places where he can enter and exit Ao Chen.

One of them is an old locust tree in a remote part of the imperial garden, as long as you bump up against the trunk, you will enter Ao Chen's place.

When he was a child, he once tricked Yang Xiu into hitting a tree. Yang Xiu got nothing but bumped his head. Only Yang You could go to another dimension after hitting a tree.

Yang You often thought that maybe he and Ao Chen were bound by a rope somewhere.

He came out from behind the tree and saw no one around, so he walked towards Qingfang Hall in peace.

"Hee hee..." The man's hoarse chuckle came.

Yang You rubbed the goose bumps on his arms, walked to the flowers, under the cover of flowers and leaves, he saw not far away, Yang Ting and Junyang Jun Wu Yizhi were playing in the imperial garden.

If Yang You wanted to go forward, there was only one road in front of him, and the flowers were too small to cover a living person like him.

Yang Ting's eyes were sharp, and he saw him at a glance. Yang You's face was unrecognizable, even among the flowers, Yang You was also very handsome.

"Old Five!" He removed his hand from Jun Yangjun's waist, and waved towards Yang You.

Yang You stood up, took off the flowers and leaves on his head, carefully avoided the flowers and walked towards Yang Ting.

"I have seen my father, I have seen Lord Junyang."

Yang Ting pulled his wrist to help him up, Yang You stood up straight and put down his sleeves, walked silently behind Yang Ting and stood still.

Jun Yang covered his mouth and said with a smile: "When I met the prince today, I knew that the ancients were full of pearls and jades, and felt that I was ugly, and I was not false."

Yang You smiled slightly, and said modestly: "Junyang Jun is absurdly praised, you are blessed with earth and wood, how can you get the appearance of pearls and jade?"

Yang Ting raised his hand to interrupt their mutual compliments, and asked, "Old Five, where are you from?"

Yang You was startled, he looked at the flowers he had ruined, and said, "I ate and walked around..."

Yang Ting didn't ask any more questions, Wu Yizhi supported him to walk slowly in the garden, the two laughed from time to time, and Yang Youan followed quietly.

Yang You wanted to take the opportunity to talk about Jing Ming Dao, but before he could open his mouth, an eunuch came to pass on the news, saying that Elder Lin Ge had brought six officials to discuss with the emperor about the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The emperor refused without thinking.

Jun Yang Jun frowned slightly, he hesitated to speak, "Your Majesty..."

The emperor patted his arm tenderly, "Don't worry, I remember."

Yang You saw that they were getting bored for a while, so he wanted to say goodbye first. Just as he was about to salute, the eunuch came to convey again, saying that Elder Lin Ge must see His Majesty today. Delayed, if the emperor does not go to see him, it will be a betrayal of the trust of his subjects.

Yang Ting agreed with a cold face, "Fifth, you and I will go and have a look."

"This..." Elder Lin Ge came to look for Yang Ting. Any fool knew what he wanted to say. He didn't want to get involved in the dispute between the emperor and Elder Lin Ge. Yang You was sure that Shang Luo would not meddle in the open. of.

"Father, I don't understand anything, I'm afraid it's not suitable?"

"Taichang Temple supervises the ceremony, what's wrong with you?"

Yang You had no choice but to accompany him to meet Elder Lin Ge.

Elder Lin Ge brought more than ten officials. At first glance, the official uniforms were all embroidered with beasts, either first-rank or second-rank, or third-rank or fourth-rank. Sure enough, there were no Taichang Temple people among them.Lin Ge always came to Yang Ting with only one thing in mind, which was to determine the candidates for the ceremony as soon as possible.

Looking at the noisy group of officials below, Yang Ting touched his chin and slowly put forward his own thoughts: "Is Yaxian the only one who has not been selected? I think Lao Qi is very good, or Lao Qi..."

Only then did Yang You understand what he had promised Wu Yizhi.

"Your Majesty!" Elder Lin Ge suddenly shouted loudly, "I really can't bear to see the poor livelihood of the people. For this ceremony, we must be very careful, no matter who is selected or what matters."

Yang Ting's face was ashen, and he couldn't hold back a word for a long time, so he simply stopped talking, slumped on the seat and said: "Then tell me, what do you think?"

Lin Ge didn't speak, and the people below began to make various suggestions, what clothes to wear, when... Both sides knew that these were smoke bombs, and sure enough, someone finally said the name of the second prince.

Yang You lowered his head consciously, lowering his sense of presence.

Yang Ting just paused for a while, and immediately put on a look of complete indifference, he said lazily: "Okay, let's settle this for now, and discuss it with the officials tomorrow morning."

Elder Lin Ge was overjoyed in his heart, so he stopped entanglement and led people back.

Yang Ting didn't talk to Yang You affectionately as usual, but just sat quietly on his throne, his expression was no longer frivolous and restless, only deep melancholy remained, "Back off."

Yang You stood aside, bowed and retreated after listening to his words.

On the morning of the second day, someone really wrote a letter asking the second prince to be Yaxian.

Lin Ge looked at Yang Ting anxiously, Yang Ting didn't mention what he said yesterday, and casually threw a blue book in his hand under the steps, "Come, come, show me all of you."

Yang You's eyelids twitched, and he always felt that the book looked familiar.

Looking at Yang Ti again, he obviously knew what was in the book, but he didn't know why Yang Ting took it out now. He was waiting for Yang Ting's appointment in high spirits, but now he hesitated.

Elder Lin Ge picked up the book first, only glanced at it briefly, and his face turned ashen-colored.

Yang Ting ordered coldly: "Pass it down and let them see."

Elder Lin Ge tremblingly passed the book on to the next official.

Yang Ting sneered and said: "The second son's literary talent and military strategy are comparable to the current king of Qin, so should I abdicate as soon as possible to let the king of Qin show his ambitions?!"

He violently overturned all the pens, ink, papers and inkstones on the table to the ground.

Yang Ti was like the prince not long ago, kneeling in the hall with a pale face.

If the book continues to be passed on, the meaning is not great anymore. Everyone knows what the emperor means.Yang You finally saw the title of the book—"Shigutang Collection".

The attention of the courtiers was all centered on the emperor, the second prince, and Linge Lao.

Cui Jue looked at Yang You meaningfully, and the right corner of his mouth was slightly raised, revealing a smile that disappeared in an instant.

Yang You turned his gaze to Yang Xiu.

Yang Xiu's loose clothes fell to the ground, and he stood silently, just turning his gaze to Yang You.

Yang Xiu didn't care that this was a serious courtroom, he lowered the corners of his eyes, and directly gave Yang You a bright smile with crooked brows and eyes.

Yang Xiu was in charge of the eunuchs and Dongchang, that is, the eyes and ears of the emperor.

That day in the green garden of the second prince, Cui Jue heard correctly, there was really someone outside the window...

"You still want to be Ya Xian? How can Ya Xian be worthy of the status of King Qin?" Yang Ting scolded angrily, his face was flushed, and the veins on his forehead were bulging, "I don't think I need to go to this Mid-Autumn Festival, you can go for me. "

Yang Ti hurriedly kowtowed, "I dare not!"

"Why don't you dare!" Yang Ting pointed at him angrily.

"My son knows that his words and deeds are wrong, so he asks to be punished by lowering his rank."

At this point, Yang Ti didn't want to be a Laoshi Ziya. It's important to keep himself safe first. The content in his book, if you say it lightly, is a reckless discussion of government affairs, and if you say it seriously, it is a blatant anti-poetry.

Yang You looked at Yang Shi carefully, his fourth brother was startled for a moment, then the change in his expression was interesting, he kept a faint smile all the time.

However, Yang Ting didn't want to do anything to Yang Ti, he just asked him to resign from his official position in the court and go back to think about his mistakes behind closed doors. Mr. Lin Ge then removed a few vacant posts.

What's interesting is that King Guangwu, who obviously only used various reasons to forcefully stay in the capital, got a land document, and Yang Ting officially granted him a palace, specifically allowing the fourth prince to stay in Beijing for a period of time every year.

Taking this opportunity, the emperor proposed to let the Seventh Prince Yang Lun be a gift.

Yang Shi didn't dare to intervene this time, he had already gained some sweetness, that was Yang Ting's signal to him, telling him not to hinder his arrangement.

Today Yang Tinglei is very popular, who knows if he has any other tricks?If it makes him unhappy, some more evidence will not be worth the candle.

In the final analysis, Yaxian is just a name, which is the icing on the cake, and it doesn't have much effect on people who haven't reached a certain status.

After the court, Yang You looked at Yang Xiu's back, and couldn't wait to catch up with him to ask him, but someone held his hand.

"My lord..."

Shang Luo grabbed Yang You and asked, "What can you see today? From your point of view, who is our favorite?"

In the past, Yang You only thought that Yang Ting was a weak and cowardly puppet emperor manipulated by powerful ministers, but now, he only thinks that he is a big ass who sees the emperor in this way.

He finally saw clearly Yang Ting's means, Yang Ting's scheming and courage were inferior to others, he only used one thing to control his subjects - checks and balances.

Grand Master Qian supported him to take the position and acted arbitrarily, so he let the power of the princes develop.Taishi Qian lost power, and the next elder Lin Ge who had arbitrary power was also dealt with by him.

If whoever is strong will be punished thoroughly, that is not called checking and balancing, it will only create the next powerful minister.

The most reasonable way is that everyone is evenly matched, and everyone contains hope.

Punish the second prince, weaken Lin Gelao's power, and let the fourth prince restrain the second prince, with one piece of paper and one military force, to restrain each other.Plus Yang Xiu, who is in charge of the East Factory, and Yang Lun, who is mentioned from time to time.

Four people guarded against each other and fought with each other, and in the end none of them could threaten him.

"Father does not like anyone." Yang You replied: "Unless it is the last moment, he will not choose anyone."

Was it also Yang Ting's ulterior motives that he was arranged to go to Taichang Temple?Could it be that Yang Ting knew everything about everyone in Taichang Temple?

Yang You couldn't help being puzzled.

Shang Luo patted Yang You on the shoulder, and smiled, "After all, you are the smartest, what's the point of fighting for it? It should be arranged for you, the emperor has his own arrangements, maybe it will arrive at any time."