Since today was just a routine morning meeting, it ended before the third quarter of the year.

Zhao Hongrun, who had finished his morning court, was accompanied by Gao Li, Gao He, two young eunuchs, and Wei Jiao and other clan guards, and came to Wende Hall, where he planned to rest for a while before going to Chui Gong Hall to handle government affairs.

After a while, Gao Li, Gao and the two young eunuchs ordered the Shangshan Bureau to serve the breakfast that had been prepared.

As a prince, Zhao Hongrun's breakfast meal had the same specifications as that of Emperor Wei, which was just a bowl of porridge with eight side dishes. Overall, it looked plain and bland, and it seemed that it was not as good as that of wealthy people.

Of course, this is not actually the case. For example, that bowl of porridge with only a little bit of shredded chicken was cooked slowly for two hours by people from Shangshan Bureau. The porridge is not mushy, but there is no need to chew it at all.

The eunuch of Shangshan Bureau said that the porridge cooked like this is good for the stomach.

However, Zhao Hongrun didn't feel anything. After eating the food without chewing anything, he always felt the same as if he hadn't eaten anything.

After finishing breakfast, Zhao Hongrun did not rest for a while in Wende Hall, but came to the front hall.

The front hall of Wende Hall was the place where his father tested the knowledge of his brothers.

I remember that at that time, Zhao Hongrun was woken up by the eunuch of the chamberlain at about this time. He came to the palace full of anger and wrote a limerick in a perfunctory manner to vent his anger at being so early.

cried out in anger.

After finishing writing, he did not say goodbye to his father, but left Wende Hall and went back to Wenzhao Pavilion to catch up on his sleep.

Later, I heard that his father was furious after seeing his limerick. If Zhao Zhao, the brother of the Sixth Prince who was still in the Wei Kingdom at the time, had not intervened on his behalf, his father might have immediately sent a eunuch from the inner chamber to Wenzhao Pavilion.

Arrest people.

"It's been nine years now..."

Seeing the empty front hall, Zhao Hongrun seemed to still be able to see himself sitting in the hall, sitting in the banquet with the other brothers, staring here with a sullen expression - where he was standing at the moment.

The location where his father was back then.

All the brothers were there at that time, but nine years later, many things happened in the palace. The eldest prince Zhao Hongli retreated to the countryside, Yong Wang Hongyu burned himself in Jinxiu Palace, Yan Wang Hongjiang sealed Shanyang, and Rui Wang Hongzhao went to Qi State.

, and he, Zhao Hongrun, also unexpectedly took the position of crown prince and heirloom. Fortunately, he had written the sentence "Fortunately, this is not my ambition."

Shaking his head, Zhao Hongrun turned to Gao Li, Gao and the two young eunuchs, Wei Jiao and other clan guards and ordered: "Let's go to Chui Gong Hall."

"Your Highness, won't you rest here for a while?" Gao Li asked with concern.

Zhao Hongrun shook his head.

Although he didn't think there was anything exciting about sitting on the throne of the prince, but because he had never been exposed to this aspect, he was more or less excited at the moment - after all, he was dealing with the entire country in Chui Gong Hall.

Government affairs is a fatal temptation for anyone, even for Zhao Hongrun.

Taking the imperial guards, Gao Li, Gao He and the two young eunuchs, Zhao Hongrun walked out of the Wende Hall, and walked towards the Chui Gong Hall under the watch of a group of imperial guards outside the hall.

On the way, Zhao Hongrun also saw a group of merchant navy soldiers pointing in this direction and shouting.

Zhao Hongrun was really embarrassed to see the soldiers under his command being so unruly.

But there is no way for the time being, because the palace still needs the Shang Shui Army to be closely protected. The reason is that Li Zheng, the president of the Three Guards Army, has not yet reorganized the Imperial Guards - to be precise, he has not wanted to reorganize the Imperial Guards, because

The old prince Hongyu had 'warned' Li Zheng, which made Li Zheng realize that when the new king takes over, sooner or later they, the old people, will have to hand over their power and retreat to the second line. Therefore, now Zhao Hongrun takes the throne as the prince.

, Li Zheng subconsciously planned to leave the matter of "rectifying the imperial guards" to Zhao Hongrun's people, such as Wei Jiao, the chief of the clan guard next to Zhao Hongrun.

Sure enough, when Zhao Hongrun arrived at the Chui Gong Hall, he saw Li Zheng, the president of the Three Guards Army, leading a group of guards to wait outside the hall. When he saw Zhao Hongrun, Li Zheng immediately came up to him, cupped his hands and bowed, "

Li Zheng pays homage to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

"Uncle Li, if you act like this, I will fall out with you."

Zhao Hongrun said jokingly.

He and Li Zheng were no strangers. I remember that when Zhao Hongrun was still living in the palace, Li Zheng would take care of him privately from time to time. Of course, at that time, Li Zheng only treated His Highness because Zhao Hongrun was the son of Emperor Wei.

Turn a blind eye to certain actions.

Later, after Zhao Hongrun gradually gained the attention of Emperor Wei, Li Zheng met with his highness more and more often.

Of course, even so, the relationship between the two is far less close than that of Zhao Hongrun and Sima An, Bailiba, and Xu Yin, the three generals who were also his father's former imperial guards. After all, the latter three generals are

He and Zhao Hongrun led the army to fight together, and they had a long-lasting friendship on the battlefield.

Therefore, Zhao Hongrun called Li Zheng uncle, in the final analysis, he was just giving the latter face.

"Is Uncle Li specially waiting for me here?" Zhao Hongrun asked curiously.

Li Zheng hurriedly saluted and said: "I can't bear the title of His Highness the Crown Prince..." As he said that, he seriousened his expression and said seriously: "That's it, Your Highness the Crown Prince, after all, the Shang Shui Army is a foreign army.

After all, there are many inconveniences in the palace, so I think that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince should rectify the imperial guards as soon as possible..."

"Prisonary Guards?" Zhao Hongrun glanced at Li Zheng with some confusion.

You must know that "Jiangwei" and "Jiangwei" actually have completely different meanings today. The former refers to the "Jiangwei" one of the "Three Guards", while the latter refers to the old prince Hongyu.

After integration, there were "one hundred thousand Imperial Guards" including the Imperial Guards, the Bingwei, the Langwei, the Junshui Army, the Chenggao Army, and the Fenxing Army.

However, listening to Li Zheng's words now, it seems that he has no intention of splitting up the Imperial Guard - does this mean that Baili Ba, Xu Yin, Zhu Hai and other generals have decided to officially retreat to the second line?

To be honest, the three generals Baili Ba, Xu Yin, and Zhu Hai are not as good as Sima An in terms of their ability to lead troops in battle, but they are veterans who have led troops for many years. If they are left idle, Zhao Hongrun thinks it will be a pity -

——Although these three generals are now teaching at the "Daliang Military School" to train the next generation of generals in the Wei Kingdom, that is just because the old prince Hongyu did not mean that these three generals were willing to do so.

Thinking of this, Zhao Hongrun said seriously: "About this matter, I would like to discuss this matter with the three generals Baili Ba, Xu Yin, and Zhu Hai."

Hearing this, Li Zheng was stunned for a moment, then came over and said with a smile: "This does not hinder it. I am humble enough to rectify the "Palace Guards" first... I wonder what your Highness the Crown Prince wants?"

"Yeah." Zhao Hongrun nodded.

Although the Shang Shui Army was his confidant, as Li Zheng said, this was a foreign army and it was really unreasonable to stay in the palace.

Seeing Zhao Hongrun nod, Li Zheng added: "Since His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has granted permission, Beizhi hopes to use Wei Jiao as his deputy and assist Beizhi."

"Me?" Wei Jiao interrupted with both surprise and trepidation. On the side, Lu Mu, Gao Kuo and other clan guards punched him and congratulated him.

No one is a fool. What Li Zheng said clearly meant that he was preparing to train Wei Jiao as his successor.

However, Wei Jiao was still hesitant. After all, according to his values, as the Zong's Chief of Guards, he should always follow His Highness to protect him at all times. How could he leave lightly?

So after gritting his teeth, he said: "Your Highness, why don't you let Lu Mu go? As a humble minister of the clan, I should follow Your Highness every step of the way."

"That's it..." Zhao Hongrun said with a smile when he heard this: "In this case, from now on, you are no longer the Zong Wei Chief, but you, Lu Mu, are the Zong Wei Chief."

Lu Mu understood, deliberately showed a flattering expression, and thanked: "Thank you, Your Highness, tsk tsk, I haven't tasted what Zong Wei Zhang feels like." After that, he glanced at Wei Jiao, who was a little dumbfounded, and waved his hand.

He urged coldly: "Hey, so-and-so, you can leave."

Amid the uncontrollable laughter of the clan guards, even Li Zheng, Gao Li, and Gao He, the two young eunuchs, Wei Jiao glared at Lu Mu in a feigned way, and then solemnly saluted Zhao Hongrun with his fists clasped.

He left with Li Zheng.

"Your relationship is so good..."

When leaving, Li Zheng couldn't help but say to Wei Jiao.

Wei Jiao was stunned for a moment, then a smile suddenly appeared on his face.

Glancing at Wei Jiao beside him, Li Zheng couldn't help but think of his old brothers. A dozen or twenty years ago, weren't they, the clan guards around Emperor Wei, also so harmonious and close?

Just so many years passed by, and His Majesty was already over fifty, and they, the clan guards, were almost at the age where they should retire.

Feeling secretly in his heart, Li Zheng stopped, looked back at Wei Jiao and said sternly: "Wei Jiao, from now on, Li will not regard you as His Royal Highness's Zongwei, and will ask you to treat others with stricter requirements.

, you have to be prepared."

Hearing this, Wei Jiao was shocked and said with a tense expression, "Yes, Lord Li Zheng!"

Nodding with satisfaction, Li Zheng patted Wei Jiao's arm and said with a smile: "But you don't need to be sullen... let's go."

"Uh...yes!"

At the same time, Zhao Hongrun had led a group of people to Chui Gong Hall.

The Chui Gong Hall is still the Chui Gong Hall in Zhao Hongrun's memory. However, his father, Emperor Wei, is no longer visible in this palace, nor is the old prince Hong Yu, nor even Lin Yuyang, Yu Ziqi, and Feng Yu.

The original Secretary of State Zhongshu was also missing, and the entire inner hall looked empty.

No, it cannot be said to be empty, because at this time the inner hall was already filled with memorials, piled in piles in the center of the hall.

Seeing these memorials, Zhao Hongrun's eyes couldn't help but twitch twice, and he exclaimed in his heart: Why are there so many?!

"Wow."

Zongwei Mu Qing stared at the memorials and exclaimed exaggeratedly. Then he blinked his eyes and suddenly held his stomach and said: "Oh, Your Highness, I suddenly felt a sharp pain in my abdomen..."

After his reminder, the more clever people such as Gao Kuo, Zhou Pu, Zhongzhao and several others said that they had a bad stomach after drinking all night last night and asked Zhao Hongrun to resign.

It was obvious that they were worried that His Highness would be able to capture a young man temporarily.

Seeing this, Zhao Hongrun couldn't help rolling his eyes.

As the saying goes, birds of a feather flock together, and people are divided into groups. Zhao Hongrun himself is afraid of trouble, and most of the clan guards around him are also like this - of course, even if these clan guards are not afraid of trouble, he will not let them help review these memorials.

.

It's not that he doesn't trust these Zongwei, it's just that the Zongwei are in military positions and have no experience in this field at all. How dare Zhao Hongrun let them help review these memorials?

But even so, Zhao Hongrun was angry and funny when he saw these people pretending.

"Come on, come on, get out of here, don't be an eyesore here." Zhao Hongrun waved his hand, indicating that these clan guards could move freely. After all, he also knew that these clan guards drank all night because they were too excited last night.
To be continued...