When the emperor learned that his two young sons were being troubled by Zhang Shou, his first reaction was to angrily scold him: "Zhang Shou, why does he always pick on Sanlang and Silang?"
But after scolding him, he dismissed the eunuch from the Imperial Household Department, walked back and forth in the room, and then suddenly turned his head to ask Liu Feng, the manager of the Palace of Heavenly Purity, "Tell me, is it because Zhang Shou has never been able to finalize the matter he asked Yingying to come to the palace to talk to me, so he plans to use Silang as a raft to try to divert attention?"
Although Liu Feng had suffered a lot because the Fourth Prince betrayed him unintentionally, and was almost driven out of the Palace of Heavenly Purity by the Emperor, he did not dare to have the mentality of revenge, because the Fourth Prince was treated as a child by the Emperor, and all mistakes would be forgiven as long as they were not principled. Moreover, he and Zhang Shou did not have any good relationship, so he just wanted to keep a distance from him.
Therefore, he really didn't want to answer the emperor's question, but under the emperor's gaze, he had to bite the bullet and said, "Dr. Zhang should just be talking about the facts, right? After all, the fourth prince was not selected to the Jiuzhang Hall before. If he just brazenly goes to the class every day and spreads it, wouldn't the previous written test and interview become a joke?"
Liu Feng thought about it and finally decided to be fair. But after being fair, he was once again sneered at by the emperor: "There is no such thing as absolute fairness in this world. Zhang Shou must know this. Rather than torturing Si Lang, it is better to say that he is letting this child truly understand the hardships of studying, and by the way, tempering San Lang's previously timid character."
"But I'm afraid he'll go too far! If Sanlang and Silang's personalities were to swap places, I'd have a headache!"
Liu Feng imagined the possibility of this situation and immediately felt his scalp tingling: "Is the emperor worried that the Third Prince will become more outgoing, but the Fourth Prince will suffer too much setbacks and lose his edge?"
Seeing that the emperor did not make any comment, he recalled some rumors from the Imperial Household Department and said cautiously, "Didn't the emperor decide that the third prince would have morning classes in Jiuzhang Hall and afternoon classes in the palace? Now that the third prince spends all day in Jiuzhang Hall, the fourth prince has also followed him there. In this case, will those wise men who were invited think..."
Liu Feng deliberately did not finish his words, leaving a hook for the emperor to think about it himself, but he was calculating with some malice in his heart. Although Zhang Shou and Chu Kuan, the seal holder of the Imperial Household Department, were not very close, it was said that this prince's teacher was also favored by Chu Kuan in front of the emperor in the past. So he would hold him back from behind. Anyway, he did not want to see Chu Kuan get everything he wanted.
When he said this, the emperor suddenly paused, and the emperor, who happened to be next to the table, slammed the table and cursed angrily. He originally thought that his words worked, but who knew that what the emperor said was not the case at all!