Chapter 16 The Occasion of a Thousand Autumns
The queen asked the palace maid to watch the tea, I just sit, I didn't even need to give a look, and the fragrant peach automatically stepped forward and reached out to take it, just put it on the desk, and didn't move.
I casually threw a deputy to Ma Jinbao to call, but I didn't expect him to be really neat in doing things recently, no matter how much I ordered, it was like a roundworm in my stomach, which really nourished my stomach.
This morning, too, the color and fragrance of the breakfast in the dining room did not fall, I didn't control it, so I ate a few more pieces of peony cake, and it was enough to smell the tea at this time, and I drank it.
I'm afraid that the tea leaves in the queen's palace will not be suitable for the stomach, and I will have to vomit it when I go back to the Zhaosheng Palace.
The queen didn't put on that indescribable makeup today, a thin grease powder on a small face, even Hua Tian and lip fat are the same style of red, not gaudy or thick, with her slender and narrow eyebrows, but there is a sense of gratuitous imminence, don't open your mouth first, just take the corner of your eye, tsk, that depth, that cold light, change to a lower-level concubine, Bao Zhun immediately can't stand it.
Leave a word, it's still a serious matter, the queen doesn't mind how disrespectful my attitude is (and I don't mind), but I just gave me a relatively superficial, but very practical conversation on the current issue of diplomatic relations, roughly after the Shangyuan Festival, put aside the lengthy palace affairs and miscellaneous matters, and then hold Fu Ji's Qianqiu banquet.
When I think of Fu Ji, there is a trace of sweetness in my heart, I didn't expect that his lonely and introverted temper was born in the summer when the sun was blazing. Now just wait for the spring cold to pass, the concubines can change into lighter summer clothes, and try to make their makeup not outstanding and decent, so as to strive to brush their faces in front of Fu Ji.
But the point is that on the occasion of a thousand years, the envoys of neighboring countries will also come to congratulate.
Listening to the queen's tone, it seems that this is not an ordinary ceremonial official and civil official.
The Hou Ye of the People's Republic of China was present in person, even if he didn't put on the congratulatory table, he only brought a gift, and the significance was not ordinary.
Take a step back and say, what if people don't bring any gifts, and only bring the princess of Fucheng back to save their relatives?
The problem is huge.
Everyone knows that Fu Ji is the most taboo about the princess being forced to marry back then, who rushed to pick up this hot potato?
I don't want to take it, and the queen doesn't want to take it.
Beware of the queen setting me up, I have a sentence to answer, I don't easily say things to death, and I don't nod my head easily, it's easy to say anything, and it's not easy to say anything.
Look at me like this, the queen is not easy to fool, she knows that neither of us is a good person, neither of us has any good intentions, and we can't get under the trap, so we will go around the bend with me over and over again, and if you can't do it, then you will be fooled openly, it doesn't matter if you don't pick up the stubble, she has something to say.
After a few rounds of fighting, the queen was not in a hurry, squinted her eyes, completely covered the blade in her eyes, and only smiled and crooked, and was kind to me, so she simply said it clearly.
She said: "Li Zhaorong has a gentle temperament, cotton-like, and is also used to being thrifty with the palace, but the Qianqiu banquet is about the saint, and with her temperament, I am afraid that she will not be able to control the minions of the Introspection Bureau, and the palace has a heart, but this body is really embarrassed, I am afraid that I will have to ask the concubine's sister to help more in the future." After speaking, he asked people to go around the screen and go inside, and after a while, he took out a few wooden boxes, and if he didn't open them, he knew that the boxes must be valuable and good.
When it comes to this, even the gift is taken, if I don't agree again, the queen will be really anxious.
"Yes, the concubine understands. I nodded, and it was not good to say that I didn't want to do it, so I had to admit dryly: "The holy matter is the most important, the concubine naturally has to do her best, the queen is not in good health, she should rest more, there are concubines in everything." ”
When the queen heard this, she probably didn't expect me to be so good at talking, and her eyes were a little surprised.
But no matter what, someone is willing to carry the burden with her, instead of hiding behind like Li Zhaorong's straw bag and not making a sound, in general, she is still satisfied, so she nodded and smiled: "With a word from my sister, this palace will be relieved." ”
When I went back, the fragrant peach was holding a small wooden box of three or two, a pair of jasper hairpins that the queen had just awarded, a pair of jasper handpieces, and two walnut-sized night pearls.
The jasper hairpin carved a pair of geese on the head, meaning that the wings fly together, the queen is generous, and the color and intention are good, and it will be enough to use it as a makeup for Changyun, but I am still a little unhappy in my heart.
The queen is really good, she moved out Fu Ji and Chang Yun to press me, and gave me a few hairpins, which put the palace affairs on me.
is willing to spend so much effort to envelop me, it can be seen that this Qianqiu banquet is really difficult to do.............
It makes sense that I have always refused to take care of the palace affairs in a big way, the queen has always been strict with the inside, but the strictness is too much, and the probability of changing the guard of the palace people is great, at this time, I have to come out and say good things about the concubine, and I can't do big moves, but I caught a small magnification under the queen's nose, secretly protected a lot of people, and got a good reputation in the minions, just maintaining a delicate balance with the queen's face.
In other words, what I'm good at is dark kung fu, looking for holes in people's weaknesses and loopholes.
I really don't dare, I'm afraid that there will be more palace power in my hands, Fu Ji will be at ease with me, and second, I'm afraid that the queen will cooperate with the queen at the moment when Changyun and Fu Sen are married, and Fu Ji will be even more suspicious, thus endangering the status of our Lu family in the court.
The most I dare to do is to kneel.
Fu Ji has never told me about state affairs, but I can't stand that I have a sister who promised to be close to the country, Fu Sen and Chang Yun's marriage is a certainty, and it must be a family in the future, and it is still close to the heart across the belly, so naturally there is anything to say, like Chang Yun mentioned to me when he returned to the palace, the harvest has not been good in recent years, and God does not give face, Runan and Jizhou will have a locust plague every once in a while, or a drought;
There are ways, but you can't take one of them, Cheng Guogong is a fine one, naturally he knows that Fu Ji has always been suspicious, and there is a little bit of indescribable soft-heartedness, maybe he pokes which nerve he has poked, and he will commit the stinky problem of a woman's benevolence;
If you want to say why Fu Ji is getting more and more depressed day by day, most of it is because of this reason.
Cheng Guogong's old winter melon, just understands Fu Ji too well, and understands his rival Fu Sen too well, so he deliberately took advantage of this locust plague to make trouble, first suggested that Fu Ji had better open a warehouse to release grain, or he would be exempted from taxes for half a year, so as to stabilize the twelve continents in the south.
But less than three seconds after Cheng Guogong's words came out, Fu Sen began to argue with Cheng Guogong, fighting for a sentence, grain can be released as appropriate, taxes and death can not be less, otherwise where will the money come from to raise soldiers, where will the money come from to consolidate the border defense, the people's will is important, but it can't be ignored by the life and death of the soldiers, Cheng Guogong can't always manipulate the heart of the literati and only care about the empty things.
In the end, Fu Sen may be a little anxious, so his tone is a little bad.
As for whether he said in front of Fu Ji that Cheng Guogong was a short-sighted old horseman, then I don't know.
After all, I'm not there either.
The quarrel between the two ministers with heads and faces must be endless, and even if Chang Yun doesn't say it, I can guess that it must be arrogance everywhere, and it is reasonable everywhere.
Fu Ji sat on the dragon chair, even if he didn't speak, he would definitely think in his heart that there were uncles on both sides, holding the lifeblood of the military and government and the government, and he couldn't offend either of them, he had to rub them on both sides.
It's just a little aggrieved.
Fu Sen has a reason, but his attitude is not good; Cheng Guogong's attitude is good, but his reasoning is crooked.
However, in the end, it was Cheng Guogong's words that prompted Fu Ji to make a decision.
This sentence is not long, only five words.
He first bowed to Fu Ji to the end, and said the old saying that the people are the foundation and the army is the outer shield, and then he turned around and said to Fu Sen,
"The prime minister said this too much, you must know that this is not a family matter. ”
It's not a family affair either.
No one had ever said these five words before, and when Cheng Guogong said this, the effect must have been huge, and he immediately blocked all Fu Sen's words.
He is indeed surnamed Fu, the son of the first emperor, with the name of the prince on his head, and the post of minister of state on his shoulders.
You see, the prime ministers have reached out to take care of the affairs of the emperor.
Can Fu Ji be afraid when he hears it?
Being prepared for danger in times of peace is the emperor's business, and no matter how capable or ambitious the people below are, they can't care about this.
But no matter what, he is watching the decline of his family and country, and whoever cares about it is a chaotic minister and thief, and if he cares about the emperor, he will end up with the same end.
Fu Sen has not been cut off, the prestige of the prison country is there, he is still the minister of state, but Fu Ji obviously does not mean to listen to him, Cheng Guogong is indeed worthy of the old treacherous and cunning four words, he guessed Fu Ji's mind, being the emperor cares most about his own country, followed by his own reputation, they all want to be famous for a hundred years, do not leave a name, open up the territory and expand the territory that is all in the past, the ancestors are almost the same, there are twelve continents in the south, four continents in the north, rich in the south, and the north is in danger, if Fu Ji wants to be a Ming Jun, then in a short period of time, he can no longer raise soldiers。
Even though he knew that several suggestions made by Cheng Guogong had more or less hidden dangers, Fu Ji gritted his teeth and still approved it.
Although I sit in the harem, but because my father is the mainstay of the imperial court, and my sister is the future princess Yu, even if I am a deaf person, there is no shortage of what should be heard in my ears and what should not be heard; for Changyun, and for the protection of the rest of my life, I can only secretly persuade myself, try to let myself think better, even if I think Fu Ji is suspicious, I can still distinguish right from wrong in my heart, I should not be about the Minister Fu Sen, quarrel and quarrel, but brothers are brothers, outsiders are outsiders, Cheng Guogong's crooked reasoning, it is not reasonable, maybe he still acquiesces to Fu Sen and worry about himself。
But what if?