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After learning the news of the earthquake, the ministers were also very worried, and they all made suggestions, and in the end, the meeting unanimously approved that the crown prince Zhao Yuliang would lead Guo Mao, the secretary of the military department, Feng Hong, the secretary of the ministry, Bai Zekui, the secretary of the Dali Temple, and Peng Wentao and Liu Yan, the cabinet scholars, to Sichuan to assist and guide the disaster relief work, and sent 20,000 soldiers to help.

When Empress Jingzhuang learned the news, she didn't care about eating, so she hurried to see the emperor.

Everything else is okay, but when it comes to the prince's safety, it is difficult for her to be calm.

Entering the Qianqing Palace, Empress Jingzhuang knelt down towards the emperor and said: "Your Majesty, the crown prince is the crown prince, and his personal safety is very important, do you think you can change someone?" ”

The emperor was reviewing the recital, and he was worried about the disaster in Sichuan, and he was not in a good mood, but now when he heard the queen say this, his brows furrowed.

Seeing this, Empress Jingzhuang hurriedly explained: "After all, the earthquake site is very dangerous, and there may be aftershocks, and the concubine is afraid that it will ...... in case" Before she finished speaking, she was already in tears.

Seeing her pear blossoms with rain, the emperor suddenly felt a little soft-hearted, but after all, that decision was unanimously passed by the participants, and the prince himself agreed, so naturally it was not easy to regret it. What's more, he also intends to take this opportunity to train the prince. He put down his pen, stretched out his hand to help Empress Jingzhuang, and said softly: "I know that you are very worried about the safety of the prince, but these officials who went with him this time are the people I trust the most and have the ability to protect the prince, so unless they don't want their own heads, they will never dare to take the prince's safety as a child's play." ”

Seeing that the queen was still worried, the emperor said again: "Besides, since the prince is the future monarch, he should go to the people more to observe the people's feelings." ”

"The concubines also understand this truth, but the prince went to the scene of the earthquake after all." Queen Jingzhuang still had tears in her eyes.

Nature is so destructive...... Empress Jingzhuang didn't dare to think about it.

The emperor sighed helplessly, and said in a voice that was softer than before: "King Pei was fifteen years old when he accompanied me to conquer the northern frontier, and in those two years, he completely ignored his own life and death, and suffered countless hardships and injuries during this period. Because of this, his prestige in the eyes of the people of Northern Xinjiang is even higher than mine. You don't want people to say that the crown prince's prestige among the people is not as high as that of King Pei, do you? ”

Since the emperor has said this, Queen Jingzhuang didn't dare to insist anymore, so she had to nod to the emperor with uneasiness.

Seeing the queen nodding, the emperor smiled, patted the queen on the shoulder and said: "The ancients said: The earth should not be moved, but now the earth is moving, which means that the yin and yang in the world are out of balance and the monarch's virtue is at a loss, so I will take this earthquake as a warning from heaven to me." In addition to providing relief to the victims, exempting them from rent and taxes, and paying pensions, I will also wear plain clothes, avoid the main hall, and go to the Huangji Gate to manage the government for half a month, in order to ask for God's forgiveness and not increase the calamity to the people. ”

After hearing this, Queen Jingzhuang suddenly felt ashamed and ashamed, and hurriedly knelt down to the emperor to ask for guilt.

The emperor pulled her up, hugged her slender waist and said, "I don't blame you. The crown prince is also my son, and I don't want anything to happen to him just like you. With that, he kissed the side of Queen Jingzhuang's face.

Empress Jingzhuang snuggled into his arms with a red face and didn't say anything more.

Back then, there was another person who loved her to death, but she finally chose him - the current king of the kingdom of Yu, because she could see it at that time - this person has a world mind and a lofty pattern, and can achieve great things, and this person's love for her is equally deep, and he loves her more rationally than that person.

More than 20 years later, she still has no regrets about her choice.

Thinking of this, Empress Jingzhuang raised her eyes to look at him, looked at his handsome face although there were traces of time, and said softly: "Our child, he is so smart and steady, he will definitely come back safely." ”

The emperor looked down at her beautiful and affectionate eyes and said, "Hmm." He reached out to hold her chin and kissed her red lips slowly.

After returning from the emperor, Empress Jingzhuang couldn't help but send someone to send a few boxes of snacks and medicine to the prince. She knew that the prince would have to leave early to-morrow, and that it was late at night, and although she was eager to see him, she could not bear to disturb his rest.

After leaving the palace, Feng Hong, the secretary of the ministry, and Bai Zekui, the secretary of the Dali Temple, tacitly came to a box on the second floor of the Guixiang Tavern in the western suburbs of the south of the city.

In the box, Fang Wendong, the left attendant of the ministry, had been waiting there for a long time.

The three of them sat down and chatted quietly while drinking.

"During the time I was not in the capital, I had to worry about the affairs of the ministry." Feng Hong, the secretary of the ministry, said to Fang Wendong.

"You're welcome, this is what you should do." Fang Wendong said with a smile, and personally filled the wine glass for him.

"Half a year has passed, and no one has brought up that case again, right?" Feng Hong asked Bai Zekui, the secretary of Dali Temple.

Bai Zekui said in a low voice: "No." ”

Half a year ago, Bu Xun was dissatisfied with Feng Hong, Fang Wendong, and Bai Zekui because of his political differences, and was jointly slandered by them and demoted to Liangzhou as the prefect.

But what they never expected was that Bu Xun was assassinated on the way to Liangzhou.

Their original intention was just to get in the way because they didn't want him to stay in the capital, but they didn't think about killing him. So when the news of Bu Xun's family being killed reached the capital, they were shocked and frightened, because it was obvious that they were the first suspects that others thought of.

After learning the news, the emperor immediately announced that several of them went to the palace to investigate.

They denied it, but they spoke loudly.

The emperor sent someone to investigate the matter.

However, the team investigated for two whole months without results, and finally the emperor had to order the case to be shelved.

But Feng Hong, Fang Wendong and Bai Zekui knew that as long as the truth of this matter was not found out for a day, they still couldn't get rid of the identity of the suspect.

However, because Bu Xun is more upright and lacks harmony, he did offend many high-ranking officials when he was an official in the capital. Under the slander of these high-ranking officials, the emperor's impression of him is not very good.

Because of this, the emperor didn't pay much attention to this matter.

So the three of them slowly calmed down later.

They know that because of the lack of evidence, the truth may be difficult to find. And the loss of Hu Guo is nothing at all, not to mention that after the incident, no one came out to cry out for Buxun. So as the days went by, people rarely talked about it again.

"It's best if no one talks about it anymore." Feng Hong said.

In order to achieve the goal of demoting Bu Xun from the capital, they forged a lot of data, and those data could not be found by outsiders, otherwise, even if they were not involved in the assassination case, they would not be able to escape the punishment of defamation.

"By the way, who will kill him?" Fang Wendong frowned.

The other two looked at each other and shook their heads.

They don't know either.

There are still a lot of people who have offended Bu Xun in the capital.

But they are so ruthless that they want to kill the whole family, and they really can't think of any of them.

Bu Xun is an honest official, so find a way to let the emperor demote him from the capital, as for his life?

"Could it be for personal reasons?" Fang Wendong's eyes suddenly lit up.

Feng Hong and Bai Zekui's eyes also lit up.

Oh, why didn't they think of this layer before?

"I hope it's a private matter." Bai Zekui said.

Then they don't have to worry about the black gauze hat on their heads.

The three of them smiled and raised their glasses to touch, and after drinking the glass, they got up and left together.

It's late at night.