In fact, Cai Wei knew in her heart that these ministers were giving her a horse, just like the new young housewife in the family to preside over the feed, and the housekeepers who had accumulated years at the bottom made some similar little tricks to try to control the housewife, just to let her, the queen of governance, understand how important their ministers are to this court, and ask her to respect them for three points in the future and obey them.

Before Qin Fei left, he wanted to use some unusual means, so that those ministers could really obey the queen after he left, but he was stopped by Cai Wei. Because she knew that if she really wanted to sit in the court and ban her, she couldn't rely on Qin Fei to settle everything for her, and if she wanted to make the ministers below convince her and obey her, she had to rely on her own real skills and powerful means.

Zou Qing smiled and asked, "Then I don't know how the incomparably intelligent queen mother plans to crack their childish little tricks?" ”

Cai Weiwan smiled, "To deal with the children who are clamoring for candy, it is natural to reward them with a piece of candy to eat!" ”

She turned to Xiangcheng and said, "A few of you go to the imperial pharmacy to get some precious medicinal herbs and supplements, and then pick out some silk and satin, head and face jewelry, etc., and give those ministers who are pretending to be sick to determine the thickness according to their grades, and send them to their mansions one by one." ”

Loquat opened his mouth wide and said, "Girl, you really want to reward them with a piece of candy to eat, isn't this tantamount to a compromise with them?" ”

Basho also shouted: "Yes, girl, didn't Your Majesty leave you a holy decree before leaving?" If the ministers don't listen to you, you can take out the decree and dismiss them!" ”

Cai Wei smiled: "What's the use of me taking off their black gauze hats, I have to choose another newcomer, it's not that no one will work for me for a while." In fact, these ministers have talents and abilities, and as court officials, they can be regarded as loyal to their duties, but it is a pity that they attach too much importance to the difference between men and women, and they have contempt for our women in their hearts. ”

"They are just playing a little temper, and they haven't really done anything dereliction of duty, how good is it, they will directly dismiss other people's officials, if I really do this, they will be even more said by them to be a demon girl who is a troublemaker. Besides, this courtier is sick, as the mother of the country, I should order someone to visit the sick and condole, this is everything to pay attention to the first salute and then the soldier! ”

"But what if we do our courtesy, and they still don't know how to appreciate it?" Orange asked.

"Your girl doesn't expect to send anything to make them submit to me, the queen of governance." Cai Wei smiled.

"What do you mean—?" Wu Juan couldn't help but ask after listening to it for a long time.

Cai Wei said: "I gave these things, that is, those ministers did not have the intention of temptation, and Yili also ordered his wife to come to the palace to thank me, the mother of the country." It's too troublesome to meet one by one, so it's better to let those ladies go to Changchun Garden to drink tea with me in half a month! ”

Fifteen days later, the family members of the officials who had been given a bunch of things by the queen mother due to illness really gathered in the Changchun Garden. Originally, there were only more than 20 ladies to thank them, but because the palace people sent by the queen's mother deliberately mentioned them, these ladies followed the queen's orders and brought their daughters-in-law and daughters in to ask the queen for peace.

The wife of Zhu Tianlin, the secretary of the ministry, sat under a begonia tree with two daughters-in-law and a daughter, like many ladies present, looking dignified and calm on her face, but in fact, she was somewhat ringing gongs and drums in her heart. Can she, as a wife, still know what her husband's so-called "sick in bed" is? She also persuaded him at the time, don't be so different from the emperor and queen, and was scolded for "a woman's opinion", and said that they were helping the court to "clean up the source".

At that time, the Wu family didn't dare to say anything on his face, but he snorted fiercely in his heart, these big men like to put a high-sounding rhetoric on themselves, what is "the original source", don't they just want to take care of the queen's mother, don't they want the queen to monopolize the power, they can't share any power? This kind of small means of manipulating people, it was not uncommon for her to fight with a few concubines for the right to feed in the Zhu Mansion, and all kinds of tricks were much more beautiful than her own master's hand.

Besides, the Wu family is not as disapprehensive as her lord of the family. Over the years, whenever these official wives get together, the one who talks the most is the queen mother who favors the harem. They are not like those men who attribute the queen's sole favor to the word beauty, they have been married for a long time, and the longer they spend with men, the more they understand that if this woman wants to be able to hold the man's heart for a long time, he will be born to eat grains and think about the six flavors of a flower heart firmly tied to you, where can you rely on beauty alone?

No matter how good the skin is, it is shocking at first glance, and after a long time, if there is no inner show, it will still be thrown aside by men. I heard that this queen has been a husband and wife with Her Majesty for eight or nine years, even if she is born beautifully, it is not fresh, not to mention that she lost her daughter due to childbirth before, and she was sick in bed for so long, and she was even more disgraced when she thought about it, but Her Majesty Xià never gave up on her, and still only tied her eyes to her alone, and didn't look at other women, which can be seen! This queen's mind and methods are really unusual, she is a very smart woman!

They also heard that many of the ideas in the court were put forward by this queen mother, which shows that people will not only accept the king's heart, but also play the affairs of the court. Their worries were naturally ridiculed by the officials and lords, especially when almost all of them took leave, and the queen ordered someone to give them medicine and rewards on the same day, which made them feel unhappy, and felt that they only had to pretend to be sick for a few more days, and the queen had to obediently distribute the power in her hands to them.

I don't want to, Queen Zhou rewarded them one by one and then there was no movement, and she never sent anyone to inquire again, and even the ladies who wanted to enter the palace to thank them were politely refused, saying that they were afraid of delaying the ladies to take care of their sick bodies, and they really wanted them to recuperate in peace.

They could still hold it at the beginning, but the more they got to the back, the more they couldn't recuperate, and they sent someone to inquire quietly to find out that the queen mother who had piled up their piles of official duties and affairs ordered someone to present them, and they had finished reading them all in one day. They originally thought that their picker would pile up countless official affairs and no one would take care of them, and the situation that the affairs of the court could not run immediately did not appear at all, which was originally the most powerful bargaining chip they used to blackmail the queen, but seeing that it was completely useless at this time, they did all their work alone, where can they still be calm in their hearts?

But no matter how anxious you are, it is difficult to ride a tiger at the moment, and this disease has to continue to be pretended, and see how long the queen can survive so hard and hard to survive that week. These court officials always use such rhetoric to cheer themselves up when they meet in private, but in fact, everyone ordered their wives to hand over a sign to the palace again, wanting to take the opportunity of the insider's visit to the queen to explore the truth. At this time, it was easy for the queen to send a message, and invited the ladies and daughters-in-law to the palace to drink tea, and the ministers had nothing to say, so they quickly ordered people to prepare carriages and horses, and sent the ladies into the palace to find out the news for them.

In the Mingxiang Pavilion of Changchun Garden, all the ladies because they have something on their minds, and this is the palace, they neither dare nor have the intention to talk and laugh, except for a few words of greeting to the ladies and ladies who are familiar with each other, they all sit upright on the seats placed in the garden, waiting for the queen's phoenix drive.

They were ready to wait here for an hour or two before they could see the queen, but the queen didn't ride with them, and when it was time for Shen Zheng, they arrived on time.

Everyone hurriedly stepped forward one by one to pay respects, Cai Wei and each lady and lady exchanged a few words, and after everyone sat down, she gave refreshments, chatted with everyone casually and said: "Now that spring is just right, it is a good time to go out, but it's a pity that our girl's family is now the Shangsi Festival, and we can't go out to go out to visit the spring." When the Jinling Palace was rebuilt, His Majesty was afraid that I would be bored, so he deliberately circled a large area and built this Changchun Garden, which has both pavilions and pavilions, as well as some mountain scenery. ”

When those young ladies heard this, they were all a little excited, so they said goodbye to their mother for a while, and were led out of the Mingxiang Pavilion by a few palace people, and walked away in twos and threes wearing flowers and willows.

At this time, the ladies of the families could not care to see where their daughters had gone, and they all sat upright, looking at the queen above, knowing that the queen had taken away the little daughters who were ignorant of the world, and this was to tell them the women about business.

Sure enough, I listened to the queen and said: "I'm really sorry for the ladies, you handed me an excerpt as early as half a month ago and wanted to come to thank you, but it's a pity that this palace is busy with state affairs, and now it has fallen ill so many important ministers at once, and all the big and small political affairs have fallen on my shoulders alone. ”

Wu listened to Cai Wei's words, his mind turned a few times, and he looked at the other Mrs. Shangshu, and said with a smile: "This is all because my lord happened to be sick at this time, and he couldn't share his worries for Niangniang and His Majesty, so my lord repeatedly ordered me to enter the palace to apologize to Niangniang, and thank Niangniang, since taking the medicine given by Niangniang, my lord's illness has improved, and I am looking forward to healing sooner, so that I can return to the court to share my worries." ”

The other ladies saw that she had spoken beautifully, and hurriedly chimed in, waiting to see how the queen would reply to them.

Cai Wei took a sip of tea slowly, and said unhurriedly: "You have a heart, and sure enough, all of them are loyal and patriotic ministers. However, this disease comes like a mountain, and the disease goes like a thread, but you must not be in a hurry. I'd rather take a few more days to take care of my body thoroughly, rather than toss my body in a hurry to go to court. You go back to tell the princes, just rest assured that you are recuperating at home, I can't do these things in the court alone, and I will find some helpers to help me. I think my Daqin is full of talents, no matter where there is a lack of people, there are people who can be on top, and there will be no shortage of people who can't run! ”

What she said was an understatement and a casual matter, but in the ears of the ladies, a cold sweat broke out on the back. What does this mean? Is it to remove his master from his official position?

Another Shangshu lady Zhao couldn't help but say: "What Niangniang said is, in fact, my lord has not recovered after half a month of illness, and I am afraid that it will drag on for many days to see well. ”

Many ladies gave this Zhao a thumbs up in their hearts, which is true, retreating is really beautiful, but I don't know how the queen will answer this time.

Cai Wei's gaze swept over their faces one by one, and she said with a smile: "Your Majesty did leave me a holy decree before the Western Expedition, allowing me to appoint and dismiss an official. It's just that in my opinion, the courtiers have their own merits, that is, those who lack talent, even if they have no merit and hard work, have worked hard for my Great Qin Court for so many years, and now they are only sick for a few days, and they are exempted from other people's officials, which is too unkind. ”

"But I can't be busy with this government alone, so I have to invite all the ladies to come, I want to ask you to help me and discuss state affairs with me?"