Are there no downsides nowadays
Of course there are, there are a lot of them, otherwise they wouldn't be scolded by Wei Zhi every other day.
In order to set a good example for the emperor, Wei Zhi had no more than five servants in his family. He was obviously a better chancellor, but he lived a poorer life than ordinary wealthy households.
But Confucianism emphasizes that the son does not talk about the father's faults, so it is impossible for Confucius to offer wine to the prince and read the "Book of Filial Piety" to teach him by taking the current and former emperors as examples.
Most of the explanations of the "Book of Filial Piety" are based on the background of the Han Dynasty's Wen Jing Han Wu, or go further, when it comes to the Warring States Period, the Spring and Autumn Period, and the rule of two weeks.
It would be fine if the prince was an ordinary prince, he would definitely attend class obediently, maybe he would really be filial to the emperor's father and son.
But this prince is not ordinary, he has a heart knot, and the emperor didn't set an example, let's not talk about how he came to power, most recently, didn't he kill his younger brother King Yizhou last year in vain
Don't talk about dying on the battlefield, others don't know, how can the prince not know why
It is said that the behavior of parents is the easiest way for children to learn how to handle things, and the prince is naturally the same.
The emperor always said that Prince Gong resembled him the most, but Mr. Zhuang felt that the crown prince was the one who resembled the emperor the most.
It's just that one is introverted and the other is extroverted.
Both the father and the son had many problems, but Kong Jijiu taught the filial piety, and he could not use the emperor as an example, so he could only keep admonishing the prince. One was earnest, and the other was bored. It's like the tip of the needle is facing the wheat awning.
Mr. Zhuang didn't treat the prince as an ordinary student, but more as a prince.
He has been thinking all this time, what kind of prince he hopes the prince will be in the future, and what kind of emperor he hopes he will be in the future...
After thinking for two months, he decided to let go of the prince's teaching, and then take it a little while teaching.
Not only did he not shy away from talking about the mistakes of today, but even the things that the late emperor did not do well, Mr. Zhuang also pointed out.
Then he asked the prince, do you want to repeat the mistakes your parents made, and repeat the things your parents regretted
Mr. Zhuang said: "Your Highness is different from His Majesty. I remember that there were courtiers who wrote four times to request the abolition of the crown prince, but they were all suppressed by His Majesty. Your Majesty's fatherly heart is still higher than that of the late emperor."
This time the prince no longer showed any sarcasm, nor did he lose his mind, but remained silent for a long time without speaking.
Mr. Zhuang talked dryly. When he picked up the teapot to pour water, he found that there was no water. When he looked outside, he realized that the time passed quickly. The sun outside was obviously past noon.
Mr. Zhuang said: "Your Highness, let's end today's class here."
The prince got up to leave, but Mr. Zhuang suddenly stopped him, "Your Highness, any kind of relationship in this world needs communication, even between father and son, and between mother and son. You and Prince Gong are both His Majesty's direct sons. You are still the eldest son, have you ever thought about why His Majesty favors King Gong so much?"
The prince said directly: "Because the third child can cry."
Mr. Zhuang, who was ready to speak, choked for a moment. For some reason, he suddenly thought of Man Bao. He paused for a long time before he found his voice, "Your Highness sees His Majesty again, why don't you pour a cup of tea for His Majesty, or take care of him?" His Majesty's body."
The prince left immediately.
Eunuch Wu has been guarding the door, the voices of the two of them are not high, but not low, not to mention that as a servant, good ears are the basic elements of survival, so he heard everything.
It was also because of what he heard that Eunuch Wu didn't dare to let outsiders come over to disturb him. He deeply felt that it's no wonder that Mr. Zhou and Mr. Bai are so courageous, because the husband who taught them is so courageous.
He dared to say these words to the prince.
No, he dared to say these words.
It was Kong Jijiu, he scolded the prince a lot, but he never dared to use His Majesty as a counterexample to the prince.
As soon as the crown prince came out, Eunuch Wu trotted and followed him. After he walked for a while, his speed began to slow down before he dared to catch up and asked in a low voice: "Your Highness, it's already past noon. Don't want some food?"
The prince was still thinking about the class he had just attended, so he answered without distraction, instead of going back to the West Mansion, he went directly to Zhan Shi Mansion.
Yang Heshu not only had lunch, but also took a nap. He was drinking afternoon tea when he saw the prince coming in. He immediately got up and saluted, then took the three folders on the desk and presented them to the prince, "Your Highness, this is Zhou Man, Bai Shan and others sent me a note today about the matter of using medicines for relieving summer heat in the Imperial Hospital, I read it and think most of them are feasible, would you like to take a look at it, Your Highness?"
The prince took the booklet, threw the other two books on the table, and then opened one to read. Looking at it, he felt that something was wrong, and asked: "The two handwritings before and after are similar, but why don't they look different? Was it written by the same person?"
Yang and Shu had been reading their notebooks all morning, and now they figured it out. He said with a smile, "It should be written by Yin Ru and Bai Cheng. They both imitated Zhou Man's handwriting."
The prince turned to the end to read the inscription, and saw the names of four people on it. After a long silence, he closed the booklet, "What's the point of imitating? Write faster?"
Yang He wrote: "Look, Your Highness, the names and handwriting of their inscriptions are not all the same."
The prince looked at it carefully, and then reached out and took the other two books to read. Yang Heshu introduced to him, "This book should be written by Zhou Man himself, and this book should be written by Bai Shan himself. Your Highness can Take a look at their suggestions, these four children are not bad, even the expenses are listed one by one, but it is not complete."
These children obviously forgot that the officials also had to spend and spend when they went to the countryside to provide disaster relief.
The crown prince scanned ten lines at a glance. The notebooks written by Bai Shan were quite concise, while the notebooks written by Bai Cheng and Yin Ru were mostly statistics. When the crown prince scanned, he only paid attention to the specific numbers and then skipped. Not quite.
But they are all very practical suggestions.
The prince pondered, knocked on the table and asked: "Isn't Zhou Man the imperial doctor of the imperial hospital? The imperial medical office was still her idea, why didn't she give the book to Xiao Yuanzheng?"
Yang Heshu said with a smile: "Your Highness, the Imperial Medical Office is currently being prepared by the minister, and His Highness is supervising it. It is no problem to hand over the documents to Zhan Shifu."
The prince raised his head to look at Yang Heshu, thought for a while and said, "Bring Zhou Man here, and ask her alone."
Yang Heshu responded, and turned around to ask a servant to look for someone, but the servant came back quickly and reported, "Master Zhou has gone to Daming Palace and hasn't come back yet."
The prince was making up for lunch at the moment, when he heard that he looked at the hourglass in the corner of the room, he immediately knew that Zhou Man was playing in the Daming Palace again.
He had seen Zhou Man ask the princess's pulse, he basically felt his pulse, felt his belly, and then talked, it took a quarter of an hour at most.
The rest of the time is basically just playing.
Thinking that she was so busy that she had to find time to eat, and she was so idle as a subordinate, the prince was a little unbalanced.