I secretly thought in my heart that the Queen Mother was because "the pine grass pavilion is open according to the rock, and your Excellency has flowers around the terrace." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info who knocks on the thorns and frightens the crane dream, and the moon is bright and thousands of miles away. The sudden appearance of Liu Mei's big brothers was in a good mood, and they decided to take it by surprise, and just took this opportunity to change the day to the empress dowager Ming, who was full of affection, strongly asked to go out of the palace to find out, and I don't know what the situation of this Xiaofei who didn't let me worry about it, but no matter how anxious I was, it would be useless, and I could only fight in the deep palace and live like a year. On this day, the sky outside is still hazy, I am still in the magnificent hall, a pile of silk and satin paved gentle countryside snoring and sleeping, lingering in one after another yellow sorghum dreams, the turkey has smelled the chicken dancing, smelling the wind and moving, the rooster crows up, woke me up early, and said with teeth and claws: "Today in the morning, the Queen Mother wants to reward Liu Mei and others in the main hall, so-" My heart moved, and I hurriedly interrupted her words, and said with great joy:" That's great, you still deliberately came here to ask me to do something, you don't hurry up and leave, it's too late, be careful that the Queen Mother blames it, I can't help it, as for me, I won't go, you don't have to worry about me, busy with yourself. "I thought that this opportunity was rare, so I still ran away and slipped away.

The turkey pointed his mouth and chattered, "How do you talk, how can you stay out of it? You are indifferent to such a grand scene, and you don't want to see it?" You don't know how many people are looking forward to it, wanting to see the grand occasion of the court, and you can't get your wish, you are still so rejecting people thousands of miles away, it's not that the Queen Mother specially told the villain to take you forward, to open your eyes, so as not to see such a big scene in the future, after the big occasion, there will be a big mess, lose your manners, and the villain is too lazy to talk to you, then again, you little girl doesn't know where the good luck comes from, how many blessings between heaven and earth have been accumulated, let the Queen Mother take care of you everywhere, you don't talk much, go with the villain——"

No way, I had to reluctantly come with the turkey to the splendid Chengming Palace, carved dragon and phoenix, only to see the magnificent atmosphere in the hall, solemn, solemn, sacred, civil and military officials Eguan Bo belt, standing with his hands down, especially the black gauze hat of the Great Song Dynasty is unexpected, unique, strange appearance, this kind of hat is called Zhanjiao head, commonly known as the long-winged hat, with iron sheets, bamboo strips to make the skeleton, the iron wings on both sides wear two feet long, I can't help but laugh dumbly. This official hat has a special emblem, and it is equipped with a flat and long wing, which sways up and down like a swing, to prevent the ministers from whispering at will. Outside the court, soldiers in armor stood in an orderly manner, ready for battle. I took a closer look, and I actually found that there were many familiar figures in the court, including Wang Zeng, Quan Zhi Kaifeng Mansion Lu Yijian, Longtu Pavilion Straight Scholar Lu Zongdao, Zhang Zhibai and others.

The Queen Mother finally showed her face, smiled, and said in a voice like a bell: "The old body first reported a good news to the ministers, with the concerted efforts of all the ministers, we will work together to promote the good and eliminate the disadvantages, stop the construction of the palace view of the world, strike the battle of Dansha mining in Lishui County, Jiangning Prefecture, strike the battle of gold sand mining in Jiulong County, Pengzhou, and strike the battle of Lingzhi in various places, and issue an edict prohibiting the sacrifice of warlocks and Taoist officials in various places, prohibiting the destruction of money and casting bells in various places, and the cost of all kinds of red tape in various Zhaijiao dojos will be reduced. At the same time, the amnesty of the world, the reopening of the Yongfeng Canal to pass the salt transportation and other measures, the effect has been obvious in recent years, the treasury is abundant, and the people live and work in peace and contentment, it is really the blessing of the Great Song Dynasty, all the ministers have worked hard, you are all meritorious ministers of the Great Song Dynasty, come quickly, reward these real money and silver to the ministers——"

The yellow gold, the white flowers and silver shook so that the eyes of the princes and ministers were dizzying, and they were unexpected, everyone was heavy in their hands, and everyone shouted in unison: "The Queen Mother Shengming, thank the Queen Mother for his great kindness, the courtiers have nothing to repay, they must be conscientious, their hearts and brains, and they will do their best-" The Queen Mother is a good start, praise, and reward, the princes and ministers have light on their faces, their eyebrows and smiles, and the hall is full of joy.

The Queen Mother said softly: "The old body has all the opportunities, for the people of the world, it is also worth it, although the emperor is out on patrol, but today the old body suddenly recruited the ministers into the palace, there is a family matter and the ministers announced, Xuan Liu Mei and others into the palace-" The ministers below listened attentively, and looked curiously at Liu Mei and others who entered the palace timidly, I don't know what it means.

They knelt down and saluted, and after the Queen Mother told them to level down, she made a speech and said: "The old body has a special happy event to share with the princes and ministers today. It is the cousin who is old in the folk and finally found it, it is the one who has just entered the palace, his surname is Gong Mingmei, because he has contributed to the Great Song Dynasty, and he died nine times in his life, today the old body is specially given the surname Liu, the emperor had this intention when he was alive, and it was mentioned before, but the elder brother has been scattered among the people, and he has not found it, so he has to give up, and now it is really a wish. Then Gong Mei's family changed their surname to Liu, named Liu Mei as a lieutenant, Zhaode Army Festival Envoy, and Concubine Song as the lady of Hanoi County. Liu Mei's eldest son, Liu Congde, was promoted to the deputy envoy of the supply and preparation library, and the second son Liu Congguang was promoted to the inner temple Chongban. Liu Meinu's son-in-law, Ma Jiliang, is extraordinary in learning and famous, so he named him a bachelor of the History Museum - what do you think?"

The ministers below said in unison: "The Empress Dowager's wise decision is the blessing of the Great Song Dynasty and the blessing of the society, and the ministers have no objections." "This is short of hands, short mouths, the Queen Mother is well versed in the art of power, not to mention that the number of people who have been rewarded by the Queen Mother is very small, and the position is just like that, these princes and ministers have benefited from it, so it is not easy to say.

However, the queen mother's kindness to these nephews and nieces of the opposite sex is really gracious, and they all become officials, but it reminds me of historical stories, speaking of this tea merchant Ma Jiliang, in fact, he is a dou who can't afford it, but this history museum is a place where only talented people can enter, and they have to pass the exam. But Empress Dowager Liu dared to think and dare to do it, so she had to make him a historian. Of course, Liu E knew that he was a few catties and a few taels, and he was only a shallow learner, so Ma Jiliang entered the examination room, and she sent an attendant to give him food. The Queen Mother has something to give, so you have to immediately ask for food, otherwise it will be disrespectful. Several examiners had no choice, so they had to let Ma Jiliang eat a lot after discussion, and the brothers thought they were unlucky, so they helped the candidate answer the paper separately. So Ma Jiliang became famous, not only entered the History Museum, but also worked until the Longtu Pavilion Straight Bachelor.

The Queen Mother continued to dance with her eyebrows and said: "By the way, the old body still has something to explain to the princes, the former emperor Li Chenfei has a younger brother Li Yonghe who lives in the people, and the emperor's in-laws are in distress among the people, and it doesn't sound very good. The old man now appoints Li Yonghe to serve as the third class, and the Wusheng army is the envoy and the commander in front of the palace, and Li Yonghe enters the palace——"

The ministers praised the Queen Mother for her benevolence, righteousness, generosity, and consideration of the overall situation.

Everyone saw that although Li Yonghe was dressed simply, he had thick eyebrows and big eyes, an extraordinary atmosphere, extraordinary, upright, neither humble nor arrogant, generous demeanor, and an awe-inspiring righteousness. The Queen Mother said to everyone with a pleasant face: "This is Concubine Li Chen's brother, Li Yonghe." ”

Li Yonghe walked to the front of the hall, knelt down and saluted and got up, and said humbly: "Empress Dowager Xie, although the villain is full of ambition to serve the country, but unfortunately the pearl is covered with dust, has been struggling to make a living, has no ambitions, failed to enter the knighthood as an official, thank you very much to the Queen Mother for giving the villain this opportunity to petition for the people, the villain does not seek to be promoted to the developed office, soaring, the villain comes from the people, knows the suffering of the people, only hopes to express their long-cherished wishes for the poor people, seek their due interests, and make our Great Song Dynasty more harmonious." ”

The Queen Mother admired Li Yonghe's heartfelt words very much, and said loudly: "Bring gold and silver and reward it to Lord Li." "The reward shall be as before, and the money given by the officials above the assassin level may be taken for private use. And Li Yonghe said righteously: "The villain is very grateful to the queen mother for her great kindness, and he will be smeared with liver and brain, and he will die and live up to the emperor's grace, but the merit is not good, and there are villains who are used to living a coarse tea and light meal outside, indifferent and bright, and there is nothing else to ask for, and now the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty are defending the country in the front, fighting bloodily, without their strong backing as a guarantee, there will be no peace and contentment in our rear, and the minister is willing to use all the queen mother's gifts as military expenses." Thank you again for the grace of the Queen Mother. "Everyone is full of praise for this Lord Li. History records that in the first year of Kangding, he served as the deputy commander of the infantry army of the guards, and later changed to the Ma army. He was dismissed from his military post in old age, and then he worshiped the envoy of the Zhangxin Army Festival and the Pingzhang of the Tongzhong Shumen, and was dismissed with illness. Renzong Qingli entered the part-time service for eight years. After his death, he gave the Taishi, Zhongshu Ling, and the king of Longxi County, and was courteous. His son Li Zhangyin made up for the office, and moved to the Wusheng Army Festival to make the envoy and the commander of the palace, and Renzong had written a plaque of loyalty and filial piety to Li Zhang.

The Queen Mother said again: "I heard that you don't even have a property in the capital, and you are still renting a house everywhere? It's really too difficult, why don't your family move into Fanglin Garden first, and then find a good house for you in the future?"

Li Yonghe said sincerely: "Thank you for the grace of the Queen Mother, thank you for the Queen Mother's kindness, but the villain is used to living in a bamboo fence hut, walking as a car, living in Beique Zhu Palace, BMW Xiangche also tortured the villain, the villain only seeks to serve the court, serve the country, and never be a person who tends to be inflammatory. ”

The Queen Mother nodded with satisfaction, "Brother Liu Mei's eyes are like blazing, and he recommends that Li Yonghe is indeed a great talent of the country, and the ministers should also learn from Lord Li Yonghe, and learn from his indifferent and selfless spirit. ”

From the regimental training envoy, the young tooth filling general, the right Shenwu general, the direct secret pavilion, the servant Shaoqing, the tired relocation of the Ministry of Works, and the privy envoy Qian Weiyan, who was promoted step by step, echoed and said loudly: "Even if the queen mother says, the ministers have to learn from Lord Li and Lord Liu." "Zhenzong period of high-ranking officials, the former Wu Yue Wang son Qian Weiyan although is the former dynasty remnant, but has been smooth sailing, he is currently the largest official to the privy envoy, is already a very big official position, he and Tongping Zhangshi, Zhongshu Province together called "Zaizhi", Tongping Zhangshi is the prime minister, the privy envoy is second only to the prime minister in charge of the military. But he kept lamenting that he hadn't signed the yellow paper. Because only the prime minister --- Tongping Zhangshi can sign the holy decree. Therefore, the biggest ideal of his life is to achieve the most important last jump, to enter the phase, the greatest glory of the ages, to be the prime minister above the ten thousand people under one person, and he is already old, if he wants to catch the last tail of fate, he has to tend to the power and tie up with the powerful, and the fastest of them is political marriage. Now he sees that the opportunity has come, and his heart is moved, and he is thinking about it.

Qian Wei took a step forward and said: "Congratulations to the Queen Mother for winning talents, the Great Song Dynasty is really full of talents, the Queen Mother's family affairs are also state affairs, congratulations to the Queen Mother, congratulations to the Queen Mother, the villain's sister has been waiting to be married, and she is also an old girl who is not small. The minister is willing to marry the little sister in the family to Lord Liu as his wife, and the queen mother will be happy from then on. ”

He saw that the Queen Mother was thoughtful, and continued with a look on his face: "Anyway, when the old minister married his daughter, the villain paid attention to it, and when he saw the words, it was the silversmith Gong Mei, who was also responsible for the box utensils that Lord Liu was responsible for building before. However, he did not explain that he married his daughter to Ding Wei's son, and secretly thought that he was fortunate that he had a wide range of connections in the court and China, and he was not implicated in this, and now he wants to climb another high branch, and marry his sister to the queen mother's brother Liu Mei, and the queen mother became in-laws, so once and for all, sit back and relax.

The Queen Mother laughed heartily, and said beautifully: "It's still Lord Qian who thinks about it thoroughly, very good, very good, although the eldest brother has been accompanied by Xiaoqing all these years, but the position of the wife has been vacant, it is not unfortunate, your sister has never been married, it is a match made in heaven, the old body promised, naturally promised, find an auspicious day of the zodiac to do this matter another day, let everyone come to congratulate Chaohe, happy and happy——"

Lord Qian said happily: "The Queen Mother is really happy, not only found her cousin, but also took our in-laws, the villain will be the strong backing of the Queen Mother, and the prosperity of the Great Song Dynasty will add bricks and tiles, this happy event is wrapped in the villain, the Queen Mother can rest assured, she will be able to do it beautifully and decently." ”

The Queen Mother said happily: "By the way, there is another happy event, that is, the big wedding that the emperor benefits." As we all know, the emperor himself was the daughter of Wang Mengzheng, who was devoted to the peerless appearance, and the old body originally had this intention, but the imperial doctor said that the emperor's body is thin and needs to be well conditioned, and he will remarry in a few years, but the woman is worried about marrying, and the daughter of the king is in her youth, and her demeanor is moving, and she can't be delayed. Now it just so happens that my Liu family's nephew Liu Congwen Taowu is a rare fast son-in-law in the east bed, and the old body will be a big matchmaker today, and the daughter of Wang Mengzheng will be officially married to him, and you will quickly handle it properly and comprehensively on the next day. ”

"What does the emperor mean, do you want to wait for the emperor to come back and then discuss? Isn't the emperor's choice just-" Lord Wang was silent just now, but now he couldn't bear it anymore, and said a little unwillingly.

The Queen Mother smiled slightly: "You don't have to worry about the emperor's wedding." By the way, everything is busy, the old body forgot to inform everyone, the emperor's wedding, the old body naturally did not dare to slack off, the diary of the day is concerned, the old body has prepared candidates for the emperor, and selected a few girls with status to enter the palace, they are still young, budding to be released, after two years the flowers are just right, just as the queen's best choice, the old body will listen carefully to you, including the late Zhongshu Ling Guo Chong's granddaughter Guo, the late Xiao cavalry general Zhang Mei's great-granddaughter Zhang, but now there is no hurry, compared to the emperor's body to win weak, it will take a while to talk about it. ”

In fact, I heard the Queen Mother privately complain about Wang Mengzheng's daughter, thinking that this woman is too charming and not conducive to the young and restless emperor, and now this move is really killing two birds with one stone. History records that Renzong first fell in love with Wang Mengzheng's daughter, fell in love at first sight, fell in love at first sight, and mentioned the matter to the Empress Dowager Liu, but the arbitrary Empress Dowager ignored it at all, under the pretext that the woman surnamed Wang was too charming, and she was afraid that it would not be good for the young master, so she insisted on marrying this beautiful girl to Liu Mei's son Liu Congde, probably because he was afraid that the emperor would forget her mother if she got this beautiful daughter-in-law, which seriously violated the rules of marriage freedom in modern society.

It is said that Liu Congde has served as a magistrate and has limited ability, but Empress Dowager Liu is good at discovering his shining points. For example, when he was the governor of Weizhou, there was a county official Li Xifu who was very good at sycophancy, so he recommended him. Liu E immediately promoted this small official to be a Beijing official, and praised Liu Congde with a smile: A child can recommend a scholar, and he knows why he is in charge. However, Liu Congde was blessed with shallow and was in a promising future, but he died of illness on the way back to Beijing at the age of 24. It's just a pity that this woman surnamed Wang is going to be a widow at an old age, and I am full of sympathy for this daughter of a rich merchant who has never met before. Liu E was extremely saddened by the death of her nephew, and promoted Liu Congde's in-laws, friends, and dozens of slaves to become officials. Dai Rong, an assistant, was also promoted to the judge of the third division. The promotion record attracted everyone's attention, and the imperial historian Cao Xiugu, Yang Kai, and Guo Quankai together with Duan Shaolian, the official of the promotion, opposed it one after another. Empress Dowager Liu was grieving, and in a fit of rage, she demoted them all.

Although Wang Mengzheng was a little reluctant and unwilling, he had no choice but to say: "Thank you for the queen mother's kindness, the villain first thanked the queen mother for the little girl's appreciation." ”

The other ministers also chattered about some inconsequential things for a long time, and I listened to them in the court with itching, their mouths like a hanging river, and they talked endlessly, and their mouths were dry for a long time.