At dusk, a few purple clouds appear on the horizon, like crape myrtles about to bloom.

Cao Shi held a crape myrtle and silently looked at the clouds in the sky, a little loneliness and melancholy swelled in his heart.

Liuli and Shan Qing served on the left and right of the Cao family, seeing that half an hour had passed, the Cao family never said a word, after returning from the Taiji Palace, these two knew that their masters were sad because they had not seen the emperor.

Seeing that it was getting late, and the Cao family was still in a daze, Liuli couldn't hold back and called softly, "Miss, it's going to be windy, let's go back to the dormitory." ”

Slowly, the Cao clan withdrew his gaze from the distant sky, and suddenly looked back and saw a lonely face, "Shan Qing, I just wondered if there would be a flaw in our killing of Shen'er?" After all, Mrs. Shangguan went to the cold palace a few hours ago, this lady Shangguan is the queen's mother, she must have gone to the cold palace on the queen's order, could it be that the queen began to doubt us? ”

Seeing that her master seemed to be more and more favored with Shanqing, she was not happy in her heart, because she had followed the Cao family since she was a child, so she was a little presumptuous, and she liked to pout when she was not happy.

Shan Qing saw the unhappiness in Liuli's heart, but pretended not to see it, but calmly replied to Cao's question just now, "Niangniang doesn't need to worry, if the queen really senses something, we will definitely not be able to live so peacefully. ”

Cao sighed and said quietly; "I hope the palace can really sit back and relax, but the emperor has been unwilling to transfer my father back to the capital to report on his work, and I will remember my father for a day at the border, if I have been infertile, it will be difficult to have the opportunity to see my parents."

The current situation is still a little far away from the goal that Cao longs for, so it is inevitable to be lost.

Shan Qing hurriedly comforted; "The mother is discouraged, and the future will be long."

Cao smiled bitterly and comforted himself; "That's all there is to it."

Xiao Yue rises, bent like a daughter's eyebrows.

The night in the middle of autumn was much cooler than before, and the wind passed through the banana leaves, and the autumn sound began to rise.

As if a little desolation swelled up in her heart, her hand was held tightly by the man, and the temperature between her fingers penetrated into her heart little by little, but her heart no longer had the tenderness it used to be.

Seeing that the wind was blowing, Murong Yichuan hurriedly said Let's go back, the evening breeze is cool, it will hurt your body.

As if the answer was not asked; "A palace maid named Shen'er died, do you know?"

Murong Yichuan disdainfully said that she was just a palace maid, so why make a fuss.

The man felt a chill at the indifference of looking at the life and death of others like a mustard, "But Shen'er is the hero who exposed Pan's witchcraft and you also rewarded her with a hundred taels of chairs, but I didn't expect that in less than ten days, Shen'er actually jumped into a well and died, don't you think it's strange?" ”

As if these words made Murong Yichuan's heart tense slightly, "You mean that Shen'er's death is unusual?" ”

As if sorting out the green silk that was disturbed by the wind on the sideburns, he considered it; "I'm not sure, but I'm always uneasy, and when Su Su went to visit Pan Saihua in the cold palace, she desperately cried out for herself."

Hearing Pan's cry for himself, Murong Yichuan said coldly; "If I know that you are kind, but you are the master of the harem and the concubine should be punished for making mistakes, the so-called no rules are not a circle."

"Having said that, I always feel that the Pan family is not like a person with bad intentions, and besides, the Pan family is in trouble, Cao Xiujuan immediately got the Jin title, Cao" Before Murong Yichuan finished speaking, Murong Yichuan interrupted directly, "Don't think about it, Xiujuan is gentle and graceful, and she is also respectful to you, she has also interceded for Pan Saihua many times, hoping that Zhiqian can be raised by her biological mother best." ”

Murong Yichuan was so protective of the Cao family, as if he was very unhappy.

When Murong Yichuan realized that she had just made Wanruo unhappy, she was already angry, so she could only personally pick an autumn hibiscus that was about to fall and insert it in Wanruo's hair, and smiled with flowers, "It's not too early, let's go back, I still have to go to court tomorrow." “

In this way, she didn't stay long, and let the man take her hand and go towards Zhaoyang Palace.

Today, I know that my heart is a Buddha, and my predecessor is not a monk.

After all, compassion is good, but it is also her fatal wound.

Everything has its own two sides, one side is peaceful, and the other side is blade.

As if she knew that her gentleness and compassion were not suitable for being in the harem, even if she was scarred, she still couldn't let go of her gentleness and couldn't leave compassion.

There was nothing to say all night, and in the blink of an eye, Murong Yichuan got up early to go to court as usual.

Because Pan Li was expelled from the Privy Council, so that the position of the deputy envoy of the Privy Council was still vacant, Murong Yichuan planned to try his best to fill this vacancy, so he asked the privy envoy Qin Jun and the official secretary Zhongli Wenjun to recommend suitable candidates, and after the dispersal of the dynasty, Murong Yichuan kept these two people.

Murong Yichuan faced the two ministers and asked directly. "Have you decided on the candidate for the Privy Council?"

The privy envoy Qin Jun hurriedly gave a deep salute and said solemnly; "Emperor Qiqi and Lord Zhongli each have a candidate, please ask the emperor to decide."

Murong Yichuan saw that the two disagreed, so he hurriedly asked the two to name the person they had chosen.

Zhongli Wenjun recommended Chen Yongkang, the deputy envoy of the Pastoral Division, and Qin Jun recommended Cao Wenbin, the general of Bishui Customs.

Both Cao Wenbin and Chen Yongkang Murong Yichuan know them very well, "These two people are rare talents in our dynasty, but Chen Yongkang has just entered the Pastoral Division, and he is quite diligent in his work, and I don't want to remove him for a while, and Cao Wenbin is Cao Shuyuan's father, and I have appointed Pan Li as the privy deputy envoy before, and there are many officials to talk about, saying that I am nepotistic, and I also need capable people to guard the border passes, Cao Wenbin is qualified." ”

Murong Yichuan thought about it for a while, and then said to Qin and Zhongli; "I want to appoint Zhao Lun as the deputy privy envoy, what do you think?"

Hearing this, Zhao Lun's second sons, Zhongli Wenjun and Qinjun, were taken aback, "Your Majesty, this Zhao Lun is a civil official, and he is not suitable to go to the Privy Council." Zhongli Wenjun admonished, this Zhao Lun and Zhongli Wenjun are the same year Jinshi, this person is not allowed to write a good article, and smart, he entered the court to see the dispute between King Fu and the East Palace at that time, and decisively wanted to take refuge in King Fu's camp, he was a speech official at the time, because he offended Emperor Tiande because of talking about General He Ximen Donghai, so he was relegated to the place to do Zhizhou, during this period Murong Yichuan often had correspondence with him, and after Murong Yichuan ascended the throne, Zhao Lun was transferred back to the court from Qingzhou, first Ren Yushi Zhongcheng, Now it is the book of the Criminal Department.

Murong Yichuan didn't say anything about Zhongli Wenjun's opposition, and his sharp gaze fell on Qin Jun.

Qin Jun knew that since the emperor had said the appointment of Zhao Lun as a privy envoy, he must have a ruling in his heart, why did he bother to go against the emperor, thinking of this, Qin Jun rushed to the front and bowed deeply; "Lord Zhao Lun has a very good official reputation, so he is loved by the emperor, and the ministers have no objections."

In fact, the boss of Qin Jun was not happy to let a civil official enter the Privy Council, but this was the emperor's decision, he didn't want to offend the emperor because of his stubbornness, after all, he didn't have the special identity of a concubine like Zhongli Wenjun to take care of himself.

Zhongli Wenjun still stubbornly insisted that civil officials should not enter the Privy Council, but Murong Yichuan ignored this, and immediately ordered Qin Jun to draft an edict for himself, Zhao Lun, the secretary of the Criminal Department, as the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, and at the same time, Xin Dexing, the left attendant of the Criminal Department, was the secretary of the Criminal Department.

Since then, the Privy Council has ended the era of military generals, and civilian officials have entered the Privy Council one after another, and a few years later, the Privy Council, a military and political institution, has only seen civil servants, but not military generals. Murong Yichuan lacked direct trust in military generals, and in his hands, the Taizheng Dynasty began to move towards a complete emphasis on literature and light on military force.