Chapter 179: The Winner
As soon as these words came out, Cheng Guogong's face changed greatly, and he looked at his always well-behaved granddaughter in disbelief. However, he was afraid that the other ministers would see something, so he had to desperately calm down and remain silent.
Li Wei was not too surprised, but the courtiers had already begun to talk about it. Cheng Diansi's current position in Kyoto is not low, and many people are blushing at this position, she just said that she was leaving, and after most people were surprised, they began to think about who could replace her.
"This matter, after the next dynasty, Cheng Diansi and I will talk about it alone."
Cheng Diansi answered, and after going down, he directly avoided Cheng Guogong's gaze and followed Li Wei's footsteps to Chongming Palace.
Cheng Guogong's protΓ©gΓ© approached in the court and wanted to ask him what was going on, but Cheng Guogong glanced at him coldly and didn't speak, did he want to say that he hadn't been notified by his granddaughter? What exactly does Dandan want to do? How can such a master who has stepped down from expatriate come forward directly in the court?
Li Wei also asked her the same, "You could have submitted the excerpt to me earlier to inform me about this matter, so that it would be convenient for your Cheng family to arrange a replacement candidate." But I don't seem to know anything about Cheng Guogong when I see it today? β
Cheng Dandan said, "Dandan didn't expect that His Majesty would reward him directly, so he had to exchange it with His Majesty in person; In addition, Dandan does not need to prepare for the Cheng family, but hopes to prepare for His Majesty. β
Li Wei's eyes lit up, "What you say, how did I hear such a little bit of rebellious family flavor?" β
"Majesty?" Cheng Dandan sighed that this majesty was really direct.
"The military power in your hands is not small, if I take it back. Will your grandfather let you go? β
"Therefore, Wechen hopes that His Majesty will agree to let Wechen go to Northern Xinjiang." Now she is also struggling in the Cheng family, on the one hand, because of the trust given by His Majesty, and on the other hand, because of the pressure given by the family, if she wants to escape from this qiΔ, going to Northern Xinjiang is the best result.
Moreover, the person she wants to see is already in northern Xinjiang.
"I will naturally agree to you about this. Cui Yan was also in northern Xinjiang, and the regent sent him to northern Xinjiang. I somehow felt indebted to him. It's okay if you go. It's just that the conditions in the north are hard, and I'm afraid that it will be too difficult for you to go as a girl. β
"This is not difficult, Weichen who is more difficult than the northern Xinjiang has experienced it." Now that Her Majesty had relented and agreed to her, she already felt fearless. As long as I can see him.
Li Wei smiled faintly. Compared to being able to take back power. She prefers to have a lover who will eventually become a family, and if she has both, she will naturally be even more happy to see it happen.
"Also. Please be careful of the Qi family's recent movements, it is not clear what Dandan they are preparing, but it is definitely not a good thing for Your Majesty. β
Li Wei looked sideways: "There is a reminder from Lao Dandan, I will pay attention." β
Cheng Dandan knelt on the ground the next moment, "Weichen knows that His Majesty and Lord Regent must have also noticed it, and His Royal Highness the Seventeenth has also reminded Dandan many times, so Dandan is willing to hand over all power and stay away from the imperial capital." Dandan also implored His Majesty here, if the Cheng family goes the wrong way and commits an unforgivable sin, I hope that His Majesty can open the net and spare my mother and my father, my mother is just a woman's family, and she doesn't know anything about military politics; And my father has always stopped in southern Xinjiang and is loyal to the imperial court. β
"I will deal with these things impartially. I know who is right and who is wrong, and I don't like such a crime as a joint sitting, Dandan can rest assured that I will not be angry with any innocent person. β
"Your Majesty." Dandan got up, seemed to remember something, and said, "Your Majesty, there have been many rumors outside the palace in the past two days, which are about the life of Lord Regent, and there are rumors that Lord Regent is likely to be from Xiyu Kingdom. β
"I also know this, if I can, I can also burn the fire of young Dandanga, and when it is prosperous enough, I will take action."
Dandan naturally didn't know what Li Wei's plan was, but she was willing to obey the king's order.
"I, I hope you can get what you want in the northern Xinjiang, and you will not be separated from each other."
Cheng Dandan lowered his eyes, and his expression was a little more grateful, "Your Majesty XiΓ Jiyan." In this way, the minister also hopes that His Majesty can stay with the regent for the rest of his life. β
stayed together for a lifetime, and the two looked forward to it at the same time.
After Cheng Dandan left, her power was directly taken over by the Ministry of War, and of course, the manpower was directly assigned by the regent.
If Li Wei is an ordinary woman, she feels that she may become best friends with Cheng Diansi, and she even wants to keep her in the palace to accompany her, and she can talk about her heart in her spare time, but unfortunately, now with this identity, who would dare to be best friends with the emperor? She didn't dare to let anyone lie around herself, except for Guan Qianyi.
Thinking of Guan Qianyi, Li Wei smiled, she had been poisoned for many days, but she had too little time to talk and sleep with him, cough, yes, when it came to sleeping, she wanted to think very much, but now Mama Bi watched it closely, saying that there were too many foreign envoys now, so she didn't let the two continue to mess around like this.
Therefore, she had to guard the empty hall alone for a while.
As her birthday is approaching, the content of the excerpts is mostly about holding a banquet in the palace and choosing a male attendant, although the prince has collected most of the excerpts he has seen, but some of them are still sent directly to her.
She thought that there were still ten days left, and refused to read any other excerpts on the grounds that the rumors in Kyoto were rampant, stipulating that the rumors must be resolved first. Of course, when discussing this matter in the court, Li Wei didn't want him to be harshly criticized in the court, so he gave a reason for Guan Qianyi to go out on errands.
The non-regent party asked weakly under Li Wei's coercive gaze: "The specific situation of this rumor also needs to be investigated, so that we can know whether the rumor is true, if it is not true, we also need to come up with decent evidence." β
"yes."
"Your Majesty, now there is a picture of "Drinking Together" outside the palace, and the characters on the painting are clearly the former emperor and the regent, and Qi Taishi and Cheng Guogong were also present at that time, and they clearly knew that the person on the painting was the proton of the Xiyu Kingdom back then!"
Li Wei glanced at Mrs. Qi and Cheng Guogong lightly, "Mrs. Qi and Cheng Guogong really recognize them?" β
Qi Taishi said, "When I received the envoy from Xi Yu on the inner side of the palace, there was indeed such a scene, as for whether the old minister denied whether the young man in the painting was Lord Regent. The old minister didn't dare to guarantee it, because more than ten years had passed, and the memory was a little far away, and the old minister had forgotten it. β
Immediately, someone from the Taishi Party chimed in, "Didn't you say that the young man's appearance is very familiar, Taishi?" And the boy has nine points of resemblance to Lord Regent. β
The prince's party immediately objected, "What kind of evidence is this?" Any person can also draw the appearance of the prince more than ten years ago with the current appearance of the prince. β
Taishi Dang also choked back, "The scene of drinking together can be made up by everyone?" β
The prince's party is on fire, "There were also envoys from the Xiyu Kingdom who participated in the banquet back then, and the scene was naturally known." Moreover, there may be people from our Beichen secretly revealing the news now. Someone throws out a big knife, and you will only grab it in your hand and swing it vigorously. People might just watch you kill your own people and steal fun! β
Li Wei coughed. The noise stopped, "Why didn't Cheng Guogong reply?" β
Lao Chen felt that this matter needed to be carefully investigated to find loopholes in the rumors. Find our own words to refute. That's how to fight back. β
Li Wei was still expressionless. But now the rumor has been spread for three days, and the people are so angry that they have thrown rotten eggs at the city gates. Cheng Guogong didn't want to sue SΓΉ I, you only found out about this rumor today, right? If you found out two days ago, why haven't you come up with a way to stop it? β
Cheng Guogong bowed his head, "Back to Your Majesty, the old minister has indeed thought of a way, and at the same time issued an order, spreading the matter of the king of Zongcheng and the man competing for the male son of the Scarlet Fragrance Building, wanting to suppress the rumors about the Lord Regent, but someone released the picture of "Drinking Together", the person who drew the picture is fluent, and he can't find anyone, and the rumors are more and more uncontrollable. β
Li Wei knew that the four great families were already at odds with Guan Qianyi, so naturally they would not really help Guan Qianyi say good things. It's just that the Cheng and Qi families are really bold, and they thought that they specially sent people to increase publicity in Kyoto, would she not know? I'm afraid I didn't expect that there would be someone in Beichen Kingdom who would be willing to help them expand the incident, right?
What's damn is that at this time, Cheng Guogong and Taishi Qi actually found all kinds of ways to deal with the rumors for her, and really fooled her for a fool?
Li Wei was tired, irritable and irritable, and waved her hand sullenly to retreat.
The courtiers were silent, and they didn't dare to use other folds such as choosing male servants to find her.
Back in Chongming Palace, Li Wei looked at the piles of folds, and her mood became even more irritable.
"Brother Lu Xiao, you go back first, and I'll deal with it tomorrow."
Lu Xiao nodded, "Your Majesty is probably tired, maybe you can go out for a walk." β
Li Wei's eyes lit up, "Yes, you can sneak out for a while, where can you go?" β
"Your Majesty, Weichen knows that there is a good place to go." Lu Xiao immediately put away the things on the table and looked at her calmly.
"Where?"
"Youting Lake in the northern suburbs, only ten miles away, can be reached in an hour by horse-drawn carriage. If you don't know the way, Wechen-"
"I definitely know the road, don't bother Brother Lu!" Li Wei didn't wait for him to finish, and the person had already run out.
Lu Xiao was left standing in place in the hall, stunned, and sighed secretly, did she go to find Lord Regent? He looked at the excerpt in front of him, this was the arrangement he had cleared out about the day of His Majesty and Xu, but unfortunately His Majesty always seemed to be in no mood to deal with it, probably just trying to escape.
Li Wei asked Guan Qianyi to take her out for a walk, so she went to Youting Lake. The two of them sat in a small boat and gradually entered the center of the lake, and a captain at the stern of the boat helped the two of them quietly prop up the boat and gradually move slowly.
The water of Youting Lake is turquoise, although it is not big, but the water is very deep, and few tourists generally come here to see the scenery. Because on the surface, there is no good scenery. However, once you cross the two narrow rapids, you enter a different world.
"Lord Wang, the scenery here is so beautiful, the entire Beichen Kingdom is mine, but I don't have time to take a look." Li Wei watched the clear waves on the surface of the lake spread out in circles, and the green and deep colors turned into dark blue where the sun could not reach, reflecting the mist and green leaves on the shore, regardless of each other.
"Didn't you see it now? We'll always have time, this time it's a rafting trip to Lake Youting, and next time we'll be able to go to the most famous Wolf Peak and Guanri Waterfall. Guan Qianyi stood behind her, gently brushing her hair.
Li Wei turned around and hugged him, quietly not wanting to speak.
The boat gradually wandered inward, followed by a few guards at the stern, quietly following behind, not disturbing the two.
The two of them went ashore and walked inside, but they could vaguely hear someone chatting and singing.
Li Wei's ear power is not good enough, Guan Qianyi took her closer and listened, and the voices of those playing and singing were just like the singers in the Scarlet Fragrance Building, pulling the pipa and growing a very tragic song.
Li Wei couldn't understand the name of the song, but this group of scholars in long robes, about a dozen or so people gathered here to hold a banquet with flowing water, but their words were quite bold.
"Brother Shi's guess is probably wrong, where is the regent so easily defeated by a rumor now?" A scholar said.
"This rumor was like a small stream when it was small, but after three days, the stream merged into a big river, and I dare to guarantee that after tonight, the big river will become a big river, and the regent will definitely panic at that time."
Another scholar said, "Tut, don't think about it, whether this matter is strict or not, it depends on how Your Majesty looks at it." If the regent can still control the government, His Majesty will have to suppress the rumors, and if His Majesty feels that he no longer wants to be checked and balanced by others, he can take this opportunity to get the regent away directly and kill him. β
"Hmph, Your Majesty is not a fool, didn't you look at the actions at this tributary meeting? That calculation is better than that of the previous emperor, you say that His Majesty is likely to make this matter bigger? β
"Now this city is full of wind and rain, at the beginning it was said that the people of Xiyi were making trouble, but I think there are still a few major families mixed in to fuel the troubles, you don't want to think about it, the family has always been pedantic, and the regent has been at odds for many years, and now the emperor's new policy is not stable, the family must want to find a chance to come out or reassess the status of the family, this is really a great opportunity! If they can force the Lord Regent out of Beichen, or even just out of the capital, they will also benefit. β
"Brother Guo is right, we forgot about this stubble. Now the Guogong Mansion and Qi Taishi heard that there was also a fierce quarrel in the court, and His Majesty didn't seem to pay much attention to it. In my opinion, His Majesty doesn't attach as much importance to Qi Taishi as before. β
The scholar named Brother Guo said again, "Your Majesty's thoughts, I'm afraid none of you can guess for sure. This matter is so big, why didn't His Majesty say anything? Maybe I'm trying to figure out how to serve it in one pot. β
The rest of the scholars probably also knew Brother Guo's ability, so they asked him for solutions.
Brother Guo didn't postpone it, and said eloquently, "Although Your Majesty is a woman, you used to want to see if her jokes are now as you wish?" Didn't you? Her Majesty can be so valued by the first emperor, and she has her own merits. Guo Mou also said before that the first major thing to be solved when His Majesty ascended the throne must be the power of several major families and the weakening of the power of the regent. But now, His Majesty, who is at odds with the Regent, seems to have a closer and closer relationship with the Lord Regent, and several great families have been fighting for the past two years, and no one has been able to get any benefits from His Majesty, who is the biggest winner? β
The rest of the scholars nodded clearly, "The biggest winner is Your Majesty!" (To be continued.) )