Chapter Twenty-Three: Three Days of the Palace (4)
Yun Ling stood outside the hall, her sleeves bulging by the night wind, revealing the snow-white middle coat inside. The night www.biquge.info cool as water, but he doesn't seem to be cold.
Zhong Si came out of the warm inner hall, and couldn't help but praise in his heart when he saw it: Yun Clan, it is really a heavenly immortal.
"Lord Yun, Your Majesty has announced that you will go in. Zhong Si said respectfully.
Yun Ling also arched her hand and put on a smile that had not changed for ten thousand years: "There is Lord Lao." ”
When I entered the hall, I saw that it was empty, and there was no one to serve, and the emperor stood alone in front of the steps, facing a plate of sand in a daze.
"CD Yun, you played this trick once sixteen years ago. The emperor said, "Is it a god or a man?"
Yun Ling knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, the Yun clan has been established for more than 2,000 years, and twenty-five years ago foresaw the decline of their country, so they came to attach the Great Zhou, but they wanted to keep a lineage. The matter of witchcraft is not only understood by the Yun family, but only the Yun family, who lives in Sichuan and Shu, has been completely inherited. ”
The emperor looked down at the sand and seemed to say to himself: "When I was young, I was frail and sickly, and I thought I would die early, but you found my hidden mansion and said that I am the true dragon son and the lord of Zhongxing. Since then, my health has improved day by day, and many things have been safely passed by your foresight, and I finally became the crown prince, and soon succeeded to the throne. At that time, Zhao Yuan and Chen Anguo were in charge of the government, and in addition to three consecutive years of droughts, locust plagues, and floods, the people's livelihood withered; externally, there were Rouran and Tatar eyeing each other, and they repeatedly committed border violations; internal and external troubles overlapped, and even I myself was not sure what would happen to the Great Zhou in the future. And when the King of Shu personally came to Chang'an to see me and begged me to leave a bloodline for Shu, I couldn't say that I wasn't shocked. ”
The emperor turned his head to look at Yun Ling, as if there was some heavenly book on Yun Ling's face: "How did you foresee it? At that time, the Great Zhou was almost stormy, and Shu was blessed with a warehouse full of fish and rice, why are you so sure that you are about to die?"
Yun Ling looked back calmly: "Prosperity and decline, it is not the same." ”
The emperor said, "Why does it prosper and why does it decline? It is impossible for the edifice to collapse all of a sudden." ”
Yun Ling said: "Probably the first king predicted more accurately. The minister lived in Chang'an for a long time, without the teaching of the previous king, only relying on blood and incomplete classics, and his foresight ability was less than one-tenth of that of the previous king, and many things were only known but not the reason. The power of ghosts and gods, which has been inherited for more than 2,000 years, is also going to decline in the minister's generation. ”
The emperor didn't seem to believe it very much, but he knew that since Yun Ling said so, it was useless to ask.
"After the dinner, I specially left the peace and let her smoke again. The emperor said, taking out a piece of wooden skewer that was hot in the sleeve of his robe, "After sixteen years, she still won this one." ”
The wooden skewer reads:
Ten days of flowers blooming and ten days of red, a hundred years of people send a hundred years.
But seeing the flowers blooming all over the season, the flowers are not seen for a hundred years.
Infinite fame, fortune, infinite suffering, limited time, limited grace.
The drunken voice is full of lofty ideals, and the prison is too peaceful.
The poems are quirky. The first sentence is full of boredom and a sense of birth, but the last sentence has great ambition to make a contribution. The emperor has been reading this poem for sixteen years, but he has not seen a reason.
"Concubine Yan was pregnant with twin sons, and you said that it was a dragon and phoenix fetus, and she was born with a majestic and murderous aura. The Emperor said, "I thought about passing on the throne to that child." Unfortunately, the boy was born stillborn. "Concubine Yan died in childbirth, and the little prince died young, even if the emperor values peace in his heart, he has been very cold to her over the years.
If that child hadn't died, the Zhao family would be much more miserable today. After all, it is useless to keep the Tian family now, so there is no need for the Zhao family to contain it.
Gu Huaizhang, the fourth son of the emperor, is from Concubine Tian, and I am afraid that he will not be able to be the prince.
Things took such a sharp turn, and the emperor was only in his early thirties at that time, full of ambition and enthusiasm, planning to recover the lost territory west of Liangzhou, and also planned to make Concubine Yan the queen.
Yun Ling said: "It can be seen that there are also places that we can't foresee. ”
The Emperor smiled and threw the lottery away.
If you say more unintentionally, it is already unintentional.
"I didn't plan to send Yongtai to kiss. But tonight, when the Zhao family said this, the government and the opposition were shaken, what else could I do?" the emperor sighed, "The Zhao family is powerful, and under several suppressions, it can still persecute me to such a point." ”
Judging from the news sent back from Chang'an, the Tian family also began to move, which made the emperor even more hesitant on the issue of whether to reactivate the Zhao family.
Yun Ling said: "Your Majesty, don't worry too much. At present, the fortune of the Zhao family is not declining, but there will be a day when it will decline. ”
The emperor thought for a moment and smiled, "Okay. I'll wait for that day. ”
The emperor is in the prime of life and more patient than he was more than a decade ago.
Yun Ling came out of the hall, and it was nearly four watches. Zhong Si wanted to ask the little attendant to send him back, but Yun Ling refused.
The moonlight was just right, and he wanted to walk by himself.
As I walked, I met a man next to the rose bush.
Yun Ling laughed: "Marquis Zhao." ”
Zhao An was dressed in dark and heavy clothes, almost making people think that he was standing there in a shadow.
"Taiping has been depressed since she came back, she said that she drew another lot from His Majesty, what does this mean?"
Yun Ling said softly: "Don't worry, Marquis Zhao, what Your Majesty does will definitely not be unfavorable to Princess Taiping." ”
Zhao An narrowed his eyes and said, "You refuse to tell the truth?"
Yun Ling said with a smile: "The words of the cabinet, I can't tell you." I can only say that Princess Taiping's threat to the imperial concubine has been known to His Majesty. Although His Majesty does not know how the cause and effect of the matter will be, he will protect Her Royal Highness the Princess. ”
"You'd better not be clever. If this matter is really as you say, Ben Hou will fulfill his promise, if it is not as you say," Zhao An stared at Yun Ling like a black panther, "Ben Hou will make you pay." ”
Yun Ling still looked kind: "I naturally know this." ”
The hundred-legged insect is still dead but not stiff, not to mention the once powerful Zhao Banchao.
Zhao An slowly reined in his momentum, and dusted off the rose petals that fell from his shoulder: "Yunling, Ben Hou is still young, and he can't compare to you in terms of power and strategy, this Ben Hou himself knows it." But in terms of strength, even if you really get all the power of the eldest princess of Jingyang one day, it is not as good as my Zhao family. ”
Strictly speaking, Zhang Pinghou betrayed the Zhao Mansion that day, and his son Zhao Gou could no longer continue to be the successor head of the Zhao family. The Marquis of Changping had no son-in-law in his life, and the Marquis of Changle was full of Lingnan, and the Marquis died early with the void, and only Zhao Anshuo was left in this generation. He has inherited the marquis again, and it can be said that he is the nominal head of the Zhao family. But Zhang Pinghou's father and son are too capable, and Zhao An was used to being a younger brother by Zhao Gou's side when he was young, so when the two were together, Zhao An was not the one who took the lead. The family is declining, and the family is divided, and Zhao An now says "a small family", which has a lot of meaning in it.
Yun Ling said curiously: "What Zhao Shanggong said today, is it really arranged by the Hou Ye?"
Zhao An sneered: "Her surname is Zhao." Whether it was arranged by us or not, in the eyes of His Majesty, it was the Zhao family who spoke out undoubtedly. ”
Yun Ling finally raised a trace of appreciation for this Zhao Xiaohou Ye, it seems that he still has a bit of brains, not arrogant.
Zhao Shanggong's words disrupted His Majesty's plan. If it was really the Zhao family's move, in fact, why should you be in such a hurry?" Yun Ling seemed to be bitter, "Chang'an's action, Your Majesty has already relented. ”
Zhao An snorted.
"What is in the bag, we are naturally not in a hurry. ”
Oh. Is that someone else?
Interesting. Yun Ling laughed. Zhao Gou also has retainers who can't be controlled, which is really interesting.