This moment was almost a bang, not thunder, but an initiation.

At this moment, even Gu Zhengde, who has been in the court for many years, couldn't help but tremble slightly, all this sounds like a fantasy, but in fact, it is true and straight into the hearts of the people.

At this moment, he finally understood why he was so calm on the day when Ge Lao left, and he would say that sentence without panic.

"The king wants his ministers to die, and the ministers have to die. ”

The emperor who sat in the Qianqing Palace deceived the whole world, but the only one who understood him best was Zhang Huaizong, who was given death by a decree.

It turned out that Ge Lao had already guessed his ending, so he would entrust him in every possible way, it was not an expectation thousands of miles away, but the last words of Yin and Yang, life and death.

He should have understood.

The former Majesty and the Cabinet Elder may have mutual trust and dependence, but the longer the Cabinet Elder sits in the Cabinet, the more stable he sits, and the protégés are all over the place, until he walks to the position of the first assistant, the moment he wins the support of everyone, they are already breaking up.

It was not a simple refusal of the Taoist temple, the contradiction of making new clothes, but the struggle for power, from the moment His Majesty was eighteen years old to fight the former Shoufu, drive him out of the capital, and sit firmly in the Forbidden City, he knew that this young emperor who stood out from all the princes and won the throne was not only a son of heaven who was in charge of life and death, indifferent and ruthless, but also a powerful schemer with a deep mind.

As he did thirty years ago, the once most trusted deputy has gradually taken power and become the new chief assistant, and his words, sometimes supported by many civil officials, have invisibly constrained the imperial power in his hands.

Even as a weak and incompetent emperor, he will still be a little discouraged, let alone Emperor Jianheng, who has a lot of ideas.

Therefore, from beginning to end, the Yan father and son, who seem to be in charge of the new power, are just a knife that is still easy to use, eradicating all threats and constraints on the road to power for the emperor.

In the eyes of the courtiers and in the eyes of the people of the world, it was the Yan father and son who separated Emperor Jianheng and Zhang Ge Lao in front of the emperor.

Emperor Jianheng was just confused.

In fact, all this is just a huge black cauldron, and the Yan father and son are just maintaining the emperor's sage, while maintaining the emperor's sage, they have done this eternal evil man for the emperor, and they have carried the anger and resentment of the people of the world.

The reason why Gu Yanling can see these things that others can't see clearly, she understands very well that this is not her talent, but because of the decades of getting along in the past, she used to exist as a daughter-in-law, serving in front of the sickbed, watching this scheming emperor plan his life, holding the whole world in his hands, but he couldn't fight old age and died regretfully.

And in the past, as the queen mother of the curtain, she also understood the means of the former father-in-law in weighing and killing one after another.

Perhaps at the beginning of seeing Jishuiji, Emperor Jianheng was angry, but after the anger, he was more relieved, and was glad that the Yan father and son, as an excellent leader, would carry the infamy of the world for him, and remove all of Zhang Huaizong's protégés and fellow party members for him, so that his imperial power would not be constrained, so that he would no longer feel threatened.

"In the past, Elder Zhang Ge and Elder Yan Ge were like above the scales, when the Zhang family was completely suppressed, the Yan family had gradually become bigger, how could Your Majesty watch this scene come again. ”

Gu Yanling quietly looked at the letter in Gu Zhengde's hand, then raised his head and said calmly: "Now that the Zhang family has no possibility of recovery, Your Majesty will find an opportunity to suppress the Yan family in the limelight at this time and support new forces. ”

After all, this game is so simple, whether it is Zhang Huaizong, or Yan's father and son, or Gu Zhengde, in the eyes of the emperor, it can only be a chess piece, and it must be, all he needs is to be obedient, once he finds that the chess pieces under his hands have their own ideas, they will be ruthlessly abandoned, such as Zhang Huaizong.

In this game, the emperor knows almost everyone clearly, he knows that Zhang Huaizong is a practical loyal minister who has gone through two dynasties, but he wants to do too much, so he has to give up, but such a loyal minister can't be arbitrarily abandoned like Xu Yan, who is a self-inflicted person, so he can only go around in a circle and let Yan's father and son jump up and down to do it for him.

For Emperor Jianheng, the Yan father and son are not honest and honest ministers, but they are obedient and easy to use. But no matter how close you are, you have to be like your father, and beat with a stick from time to time, so as not to turn against the sky and go up to the house to remove the tiles.

At this moment of epiphany, almost all three people in the room looked at this girl who was only fourteen years old in shock, even if she was an old minister who had lived in the court for many years, she might not have seen it so thoroughly.

Gu Zhengde looked at his granddaughter in front of him, both sighing and regretting, and finally said slowly: "Ah Jiu, it's a pity that I supported my daughter." ”

Gu Yanling smiled faintly when he heard this, and said without the slightest arrogance: "Ah Jiu is just on the outside. ”

Gu Zhengde nodded thoughtfully, solemnly pinched the evidence in his hand, and thought for a long time, but looked up at Xie Yun and said: "If this thing is handed over by you as Ah Jiu said, I am afraid that it will be more effective with half the effort, just look at whether you are willing or not." ”

Xie Yun heard this, and looked at Gu Zhengde's trusting gaze, and Gu Yanling on the side did not stop him, Xie Yun cautiously took the letter, and then said, "Xie Yun is willing to do this." ”

In everyone's eyes, the Xie family and the Gu family are originally a family, and what Xie Yun does is what the Gu family does.

But this incident is also an opportunity, which is enough to help Xie Yun gradually enter the center of this court, and he is no longer just a new Hanlin who has entered the court.

……

When exiting Gu Zhengde's study, under Xie Yun's persuasion, Gu Jingxi returned to Jinghe Courtyard first, and Xie Yun personally sent Gu Yanling to Liuli Courtyard.

The sound of "creaking" sounded in my ears, and even if there was no wind, I could feel the chill, which almost made people's minds clearer, and the drowsiness was completely dissipated.

"Cousin, don't you think it's strange? ”

The girl's inexplicable voice sounded in her ears, Xie Yun, who was walking side by side, paused slightly, stopped there, and when she turned sideways, the girl looked at her quietly, quiet and peaceful.

Following the light under the corridor in the distance, Xie Yun shook his head, and the two continued to walk forward in tacit understanding.

"You're smart. ”

Xie Yun seemed to be groaning, and when Gu Yanling had not yet spoken, he sighed with relief and seemed to be a little helpless: "I didn't expect that after a few years, the former Xiao Jiu'er has become a woman who does not let her eyebrows go." ”

The corners of Xie Yun's lips were happily hooked, as if he remembered the past, and when he turned his head to see the slight movement on the girl's face, he realized that his name was a little out of shape.

"I-"

Gu Yanling didn't think much about it when he saw this, he just wanted to break the depression of this change in the court, and deliberately said slyly: "So, it should also be called, Shibei should be impressed for three days." ”

Xie Yun was slightly stunned when he heard this, and looked at the girl with a peaceful smile in front of him, and was a little stunned for a while.

Suddenly, he wanted to protect such a peaceful smile.

But almost as soon as he thought about it, he knew that this peace was no longer guarded by him.

Not only that, but he also gradually discovered that the girl in front of him, who was superior to ordinary women in wisdom and strategy, may not belong to him by nature.

She is very dazzling, dazzling like a phoenix in the nine heavens.

And the Xie family is not the sycamore.

Digression: I don't know how to say it, I feel that Emperor Jianheng is very complicated, not a simple brutal and faint monarch, but an aspiring Ming monarch, but he will also kill for power, knowing that it is a "stumbling block" for ruling the world, not obsessed with beauty, not obsessed with money, only obsessed with power.