Two days later, King Rong Li Chengwen asked himself to leave Beijing, and took his mother and concubine to Shu to guard.
Li Xi was taken aback for a moment, and then he agreed, "Shu is indeed a good place, and it has never been managed by anyone. It is suitable for you to go. I agree."
After all, it is also a father-son battle. If Li Chengwen is willing to withdraw from the palace fight, he is also willing to let him live.
After Li Chengwen left, Xiang Nan took a bow and came to the residence of King Yun Li Chengyuan.
"Fourth Brother~" He bowed respectfully.
"Fifth brother, please sit down." Li Chengyuan smiled.
Xiang Nan nodded, and after sitting down, he pretended to be careless and lifted the chessboard covered by Li Chengyuan.
The chess game on the chessboard is exactly the game that Li Yu and his three brothers played that day.
Now that Li Chengyuan is replaying this game of chess, he is obviously trying to figure out the emperor's mind.
This also shows that he is dull in aptitude. Xiang Nan played the winning chess game at that time, and he still hasn't cracked it.
"Sure enough, I guessed it right, the fourth brother is playing chess with himself!" He said with a smile.
"I usually practice blindly by myself, why did my fifth brother come here today?" Li Chengyuan quickly covered it up.
Xiang Nan smiled and didn't ask further, "Fourth brother, I'm here this time to give you a gift!"
"Gift?" Li Chengyuan was taken aback, then smiled, "The fifth brother sent it, it must be a treasure!"
Xiang Nan smiled, "It's not a treasure. I don't think there is any shortage of rare treasures in Sige's house, so I brought one specially today, a special gift."
As he spoke, he opened the gift box, only to find a bow inside.
Li Chengyuan was a little surprised when he saw it, "This is..."
"Did the fourth brother forget? When I was young, before my father taught my brothers to learn archery, they had to learn how to make a bow first." Xiang Nan explained, "The back of the bow was polished by the elder brother, and the surface of the bow was made by the second brother. With this bowstring, it is the best bowstring chosen by the third brother.
I still remember that you, the fourth brother, insisted on rushing to practice with a heavy bow, and unfortunately injured yourself. So my brothers gave me this bow, and I kept it carefully.
Now, the eldest brother has been buried in the earth, the second brother was bestowed to death by his father, and the third brother has also gone to Sichuan. Now among the brothers, only you and me are left. "
Li Chengyuan couldn't help but smile when he heard Xiang Nan mentioning his embarrassing things when he was a child. But when he heard him mention the experience of the three brothers, his smile froze immediately.
Li Xi had five princes, and now the eldest, second, and third sons can die and go, and he and the fifth son are the only ones who can compete for the crown prince.
"I will give this bow back to my fourth brother. I hope that our brothers will respect each other and support each other in the future." Xiang Nan handed the bow to Li Chengyuan and said.
Li Chengyuan took it thoughtfully, "Thank you fifth brother, I know how to do it."
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On the same day, Li Chengyuan came to the palace to meet the Holy Majesty, "Father, my son has been weak and sick since childhood, so I am willing to go to the south of the Yangtze River to recuperate myself, and I hope my father will be fulfilled."
Li Xi was taken aback for a moment, then nodded, "Jiangnan is indeed a good place. You have a gentle personality and love literature and ink. That place is very suitable for you, I'm sure."
"Thank you, father." Li Chengyuan kowtowed quickly.
After Li Xi left, he broke out in a cold sweat, tilted his body, and fell to the ground.
From Li Xi's response, he knew that he was never valued by his father and regarded as a candidate for the crown prince.
Otherwise, he wouldn't be as straightforward as he promised.
Because of this, if he didn't recognize the situation clearly, he came to resign, but competed with Xiang Nan for the crown prince. I'm afraid that the eldest brother and second brother lying outside the city at the moment are his best role models.
Therefore, after realizing it, Li Chengyuan was very glad that he thought clearly and did not blindly get involved in the struggle for the heir apparent, so he was able to go to the south of the Yangtze River and become a rich prince.
Otherwise, he would die in minutes without a place to bury him.
Li Xi then invited Xiang Nan to taste tea.
"Cheng Yin, can you taste what herbs are added to the tea?" Li Xi asked.
Xiang Nan sniffed it with his nose, then replied with a smile, "It's a hibiscus flower."
"Yes. This is a medicine for great cold and great coolness. It is used to remove fire. When I am very angry, I will use this flower as medicine." Li Wei nodded and said.
He knew that his son knew medicine. Last year, Princess Mingyuan was dying of illness, and it was Xiang Nan who cured her with medicine.
"Father, my son thinks that if the fire is full, you should not use cold medicine suddenly, but use warm medicine." Xiang Nan replied immediately.
"Then I ask you, if there are treacherous ministers in the country, making the country stagnant with heat, shouldn't we use cold medicine to reduce them immediately? Get rid of them?" Li Wei asked immediately after hearing this.
"Father, if there are really sycophants, so that the country's body stagnates, it can be seen that its vitality has been damaged, it should use the way of traditional Chinese medicine, gradually, and don't irritate the other party at once, so as not to use too much and hurt the bones." Xiang Nan replied.
Li Xi pondered for a moment, then nodded with a smile, "Okay!"
Xiang Nan breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, knowing that he had successfully passed this level.
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Sure enough, two days later, it will be an auspicious day.
Xiang Nan was officially canonized as the prince.
"There is a decree from the sage, the fifth prince accepts it!" Cao Ji, a close servant, unfolded the decree and read it.
"Under the door, Shun went to the four evils and made great achievements in the world. Wu has seven virtues and determined the people of Li. Therefore, it is known that those who have great honors will receive the blessings of the gods, and those who stand up for righteousness will be the masters of the universe. Today, the five princes are entrusted with Yin, and they are unified. The glory of the Dragon Tower, the omen of the Jiaguan, should be honored by Mao Dian and granted to belong to Yuan Liang. It can be registered as the crown prince, and the order will be prepared for the ceremony on a certain day, and everyone will implement it!"
"Bai!" Cao Ji presided over the ceremony again.
Xiang Nan immediately bowed to the aloof emperor Li Zhen with five body bows.
"Certificate of Conferment!" Cao Ji shouted again.
Subsequently, the Crown Prince's Jade Book was awarded to Xiang Nan.
"Blessing!" Cao Ji continued to shout.
Subsequently, the prince's treasure, that is, the prince's seal, also came to Xiang Nan's hands.
"Thank you again!" Cao Ji shouted.
Xiang Nan threw himself into the ground again!
"Get up!" Cao Ji shouted, "Hey!"
Xiang Nan got up, turned and looked at everyone.
Immediately, all the ministers lifted their robes and knelt down, shouting, "Long live the Holy One, long live the prince, and a thousand years for the prince."
Xiang Nan looked at the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, but knew that his crime had just begun.
Because the East Palace is more dangerous than the imperial palace, and the crown prince is more difficult than the emperor. What a prince is to an emperor is treason!
He not only wants to fight against Gao Ming, Zhang Meiniang, Li Yu, etc., to keep his crown prince. Even if he sits on the throne in the future, he won't have many blessings to enjoy.
"Journey to the West" said it well, if you are an emperor, you will not sleep at dusk and sleep with five drums, and you will be uneasy when you hear side reports; and you will be sad and helpless when you see a famine.
After all, tens of millions of Li people live in one body, so it is not as leisurely as imagined.
Besides, although it has only been more than 50 years since the founding of the rich dynasty, there are already many disadvantages, which are hard to recover.
If you want to reform, you don't know how much energy and effort you will have to waste, and you don't know how many heads you will lose... In short, it will be hard to be free in the future.
I just hope that I can be a good emperor that everyone loves, and I don’t want to come to this world for nothing.