The Struggle of the Reborn Prince

Chapter 29 Huatou

The wine was the best lamb wine. Jianxi had boiled it and poured it for Huang Jingchen. "There are no outsiders here. Let's all sit down and eat together!" Zhao Tong looked at the three Jianxi who were waiting on the side and said.

"Yes!" Jianxi agreed and sat down, but Fengxi and Shunzi did not dare to sit down and looked at Huang Jingchen.

"The prince asked you to sit down, just sit down!" Huang Jingchen raised his eyelids and put down his chopsticks and said. Only when they were happy did the two of them sit down next to him, and they only dared to sit down and half-pull their buttocks.

"See, please pour some for me. Uncle Huang is too boring to drink alone. I'll drink with him, and you guys can pour some wine too, and we'll all have a good time drinking together!" Zhao Tong ordered with a smile.

"My lord, you are still young, so you should drink less!" Huang Jingchen thanked him and said with concern.

"Uncle Huang, try the cucumbers you just picked this morning, how do they taste?" Zhao Tong said, pushing the plate.

"It's like a dream to be able to eat these freshly picked cucumbers in this cold winter!" Huang Jingchen took a bite of a cucumber. It was cool and refreshing. He chewed it slowly and said with emotion.

"Haha, Uncle Huang likes to eat. We have enough in the greenhouse. It's enough for the whole house to eat!" Zhao Tong looked into Huang Jingchen's eyes and said with a smile, "You can also eat on occasion, don't be restrained!" All three of them looked at Huang Jingchen's eyes and said with a smile.

The chopsticks reached towards the fish that still had its mouth open.

"Uncle Huang, please try this eggplant again. I cooked this dish too!" Zhao Tao gave Huang Jingchen another piece of eggplant. This braised eggplant was his favorite. When he was in the army, he could eat two of them with rice on top.

Large bowl.

"Well, it tastes good. Is it different from the one made in the palace?" Huang Jingchen has been in the palace for many years and has eaten all kinds of palace delicacies, but he has never eaten eggplant made this way.

"Sir, the prince's cooking skills are even inferior to the two cooks in the small kitchen. They all want to learn from the prince!" Jianxi said.

"Your Majesty, the sage said, 'A gentleman stays away from the kitchen.' From now on, you should go to the kitchen less often. You can tell your servants to cook whatever you want to eat!" Huang Jingchen put down his chopsticks and said.

"Hehe, Uncle Huang, if this saint says something like this, it can only be said that he is a hypocrite. He is not hungry. If you don't give him food for three days, you will see if he can't enter the kitchen. I'm afraid he will have to crawl.

Get in!"

"Haha!" Everyone at the table was amused by him. The dull atmosphere just now was broken. The three little guys took the opportunity to taste every dish, with a satisfied expression on their faces.

"Come, let's toast Uncle Huang together. He works the hardest every day on things in the house. We want to thank him!" Zhao Tong suggested as he picked up the cup.

"Your Majesty, how dare I do this!" Huang Jingchen stood up in fear and said, he still knows himself.

"Uncle Huang, I am young, and I rely on you to run the house on weekdays. I respect you as a matter of course!" Zhao Tala sat down Huang Jingchen and said, first drank the glass of wine, smacked his lips, and tasted the legendary

The best wine in the Song Dynasty was not that good to drink. It was bland and tasteless. It was probably just a "low-alcohol beer" and did not suit the taste of a "modern man" like him.

Tasting the alcohol content, Zhao Tong felt confident. He held half a glass of wine and exchanged glasses with everyone. After five dishes and three rounds of wine, several people felt a little drunk, and their faces were all flushed. At this time,

Xiaohuangmen brought melon soup again.

"This is a good thing. In previous years, you could only eat it in early summer!" Huang Jingchen took a sip of the soup and said with a satisfied smile.

"Uncle Huang, I want to wait for the next batch of vegetables to be picked and send them to the palace for my father and the ladies to have a taste. Do you like it?" Zhao Tong poured more wine for Huang Jingchen and said.

"My lord, you must not do it. If you pay tribute, I'm afraid our house will never be peaceful again!"

"Uncle Huang, why is this?" Zhao Tong asked puzzledly.

"Haha, Your Majesty, you don't know much about the people in the capital. Not only the nobles in the palace, but also the people from various princes' and prime minister's palaces will come to your door!"

"I am also a prince, do they still dare to rob me?"

"My lord, you are still young and don't know the methods of those people. Although they don't dare to offend you openly, they can't stop them from doing evil behind your back. You have forgotten the words that the empress gave you!" Huang Jingchen touched his smooth chin.

said.

"Foolish and blunt!" Zhao Tong nodded, "Uncle Huang, I have learned a lesson. Your Majesty taught me to keep a low profile!"

"The word "low-key" is used appropriately by the prince. This time, the prince did a good job in handling Chen Tang's affairs. He suffered a loss and lost his fortune, but also made him grateful and unable to tell the story of his sufferings!" Huang Jingchen said.

"Oh, this guy Chen Tang won't show off at this time. I'm afraid my father will find out and say I'm fooling around!"

"Haha, Your Majesty, Chen Tang is afraid that he won't be able to hide this matter. When he goes back, he will definitely order those who know about it to keep silent. They will never reveal a word. Your Majesty, don't worry!" Huang Jingchen found the Prince's words interesting.

, said with a laugh.

"Hmph, if he dares to say a word of nonsense, we can make him roll up in bed and get out of here tomorrow. This time he was disrespectful to the prince, so he should be taught a lesson!" Shunzi interjected, he didn't seem to put this prefect at all.

In eyes.

"Shunzi, you've drunk too much, don't talk nonsense!" Huang Jingchen glared and scolded, Shunzi was so frightened that he lowered his head and did not dare to say a word.

"Uncle Huang, if you say that I am rectifying Chen Tang, do you think I am too bad?" Zhao Tong looked at Shunzi and asked.

"Haha, how could the prince think like this? What Chen Tang committed was that you could confiscate his home and destroy his clan, or you could have him dismissed from his position and never be able to stand up again, but the prince only made him lose a little money.

, even if others know about it, they will say that you are generous and kind!" Huang Jingchen listened to the prince's childish words, shook his head and said with a smile.

"It's better to have a fucking emperor father. No one can compete with his father, but he can't compete with him. Although he has taken advantage of it, it's not much different from Ming Zhan. Everyone has to say that he has a good reputation, but he can't afford to offend his father!

"Zhao Tong thought so in his heart, but he couldn't say it like this, "Really? I still think it's too much to do this!"

"The prince should kill him to avoid future troubles. He escaped this time, so he will inevitably have some disobedient feelings!" Shunzi seemed to have drunk too much. After drinking a glass of wine, he poured himself a glass of wine and said.

"Shunzi, what you said is wrong!" Zhao Tong tapped the fish on the plate with chopsticks and said, "I said, 'To govern a big country, it is like cooking small delicacies.' Do you understand what this means?" He pointed again.

They asked happily.

"You mean running a country is like cooking, right?" Shunzi guessed literally. Zhao Tao shook his head and said nothing, looking at Fengxi.

"Doesn't it mean that running a country is as simple as cooking?" Fengxi thought for a while and said, seeing Xi, he secretly curled his lips and said nothing. He knew that the prince must have a deeper meaning when he asked this question, and he would definitely not be able to figure it out.

What Xi said is even more unreliable.

"Your Majesty, tell me!" Huang Jingchen was stunned. Why would the Prince say such a thing? Does this child have any ideas?

"This sentence comes from a story. At the end of the Xia Dynasty, Yi Yin suggested that Shang Tang stop paying tribute to Xia Jie and see how Xia Jie acted to detect Xia Jie's strength. Xia Jie was indeed very angry and mobilized the troops of the nine barbarians to attack Xia Jie.

came to attack Shang. Yi Yin immediately advised Shang Tang: Xia Jie can still mobilize his troops, but the time for us to attack him is not yet mature. So Shang Tang paid tribute to Xia Jie again. When Yi Yin saw that the time was ripe, he stopped again

Yi Yin paid tribute to Xia Jie, but because of Xia Jie's atrocities, he was unable to mobilize the army this time, so Yi Yin suggested to Shang Tang to raise troops. Shang Tang quickly defeated Xia Jie's army and exiled Xia Jie to the south.

Nest, the Xia Dynasty perished from then on, and the princes supported the virtuous Shang Tang in one fell swoop and established the Shang Dynasty for the emperor. Based on this allusion, the sage Laozi realized the way of governing the country, 'governing a country is like cooking fresh food'." Zhao Tong took a sip of wine and said,

"Since then, my understanding of this statement is that benevolent people have different opinions. My understanding is: doing things is like cooking, you must master the heat. When the fire should be big, it should be big, and when it should be small, it should be small. Only by combining civil and military skills can the taste be good!

"

"Your Majesty, what does your reasoning have to do with this matter?" Shunzi scratched his head and asked.

"Hey, Shunzi, you need to read more books!" Huang Jingchen sighed and said. At this time, he could see that the prince was by no means an ordinary child. What he said was very meaningful, "Shunzi, you

Think about who Chen Tang belongs to?"

"Chen Tang was born as a minor official under Cai Jing and Prime Minister Cai. He was always able to deceive superiors and deceive others, which earned him his trust. After Cai Jing resigned as prime minister, he still wanted to be as filial as before. After returning to prime minister, he was immediately promoted to the prefect of Gongzhou, and he was promoted six times in a row.

They are, but we don’t need to be afraid of them!" Shunzi seemed to know these very well, and answered immediately after thinking for a moment.

"Well, that's right. After Cai Jing returned to power with the help of the imperial concubine, he immediately squeezed out and attacked dissidents, and promoted his cronies. Even the cats and dogs in their hometown had different backgrounds, and now they have followers all over the central prefecture.

, has the potential to lose its tail!" Huang Jingchen said, "As the saying goes, it depends on the master who beats the dog. Chen Tang is Cai Jing's disciple. If the prince kills him, he will offend Cai Jing. Although he can't do anything to us, it will inevitably cause dirty things.

, if you alienate us, some people will take advantage of you and try to keep you in check. Now the prince just wants to teach him a lesson. Not only will Chen Tang be more honest, but Cai Jing is also a smart man who will not understand the truth and will only make good friends with us. The prince

, is what the old slave said right?"

"Haha, Uncle Huang, I didn't think that much. I just felt that we bullied the prefect. If Chen Tang is still an official, no one will dare to bully me again in the future!" Zhao Tong said with a smile, still pretending to be confused.

"I drank a little too much today. If I'm happy, you go to the kitchen to make a bowl of sobering soup. If Shunzi is happy, come to my room and make me a cup of tea with 'Xiaolong Tuan'!" Huang Jingchen pinched his forehead with his fingers and ordered.

, the three people agreed and went out, leaving Zhao Tong and him alone in the room.