The time for the palace gate to be locked had arrived, and the courtiers gathered at Jinshui Bridge had to retreat to the palace gate to wait. Many people craned their heads to look at the slowly closing vermilion lacquer gate.

Many people don't know that Cui Zhenyi is on duty today and can rest in the class room.

In order to prevent an emergency, one Cabinet member per night must be on duty in the shift room. It's Cui Zhenyi's turn tonight. Therefore, he can continue to stay in the palace after the palace gate is locked, and go to the class room to rest after discussing all the details with Zhou Heng and Cui Keyin.

Seeing that the night was shrouded and there was darkness in his eyes, Bo Zhong, the secretary of Dali Temple, suddenly said "Huh" and said, "What about Tang Ge Lao?" ”

Everyone squeezed Cui Zhenyi and forced him to enter the palace to ask Cui Keyin to persuade Zhou Heng not to drive in person, but they didn't know when Tang Tianzheng would leave quietly.

Everyone carried lanterns and shone each other around, Tang Tianzheng was indeed not here. He is the first assistant, how can he not unite the masses and stand on their side as fellow courtiers at such an important moment?

Many people were dissatisfied, and Zhou Quan jumped up directly, saying: "Tang Ge is old to please the emperor, the first rat is treacherous and cunning at both ends......"

It's rare for the emperor to take the initiative to stir up trouble, so there is such a good opportunity, how can he not seize the opportunity to perform well? Zhou Quan intends to take this opportunity to leave a name in history. Since he heard that Zhou Heng was going to drive the expedition in person, he was like a chicken blood, full of fighting spirit, at this time the palace door was locked, and he couldn't find the maotou, just Tang Tianzheng didn't say goodbye, he immediately turned the gun and bombarded Tang Tianzheng, anyway, he was absent. Besides, the dignified first assistant will not be able to deal with a seven-grade imperial history, and he will not be humiliated by his identity. So. He won.

He talked for a long time, and suddenly saw his colleagues rushing towards the gate of the palace, and many people took the lanterns in the hands of his entourage, held them high, and shone them on the guards standing next to the gate of the vermilion palace.

Gu Wei was holding a note in his hand, on which a few sentences were written.

Someone read out the words on the note: "Colleagues, go back first, and discuss it tomorrow." ”

"What does that mean?" Wei Ce, who is also the imperial history, shouted, how can he make Zhou Quan beautiful in front of others, he finally seized the opportunity, and immediately used the topic to play: "What does Cui Ge Lao want to do?" The emperor drove the expedition in person. What is the benefit of Empress Yu. What are the benefits of Elder Yu Cui Ge? Could it be that the queen is looking forward to the emperor's departure from Beijing? ”

Why did the empress look forward to the emperor leaving Beijing? Because the emperor left Beijing and entrusted the government to the queen, then the queen could be autocratic. The queen is from the Cui family. She's in power. Cui Zhenyi can cover the sky with one hand.

All of them were human spirits. He didn't say anything, but everyone understood the meaning of his words. For a while, there was a dead silence in front of the palace gate.

"You can't speculate like that." Bo Zhong was unwilling to violate his conscience, hesitated for a moment, and then said on the matter: "Or the queen dissuades you, and the emperor refuses to listen?" ”

The emperor is not an assertive lord, the queen says east to east, west to west.

Wei Ce sneered: "What are you talking about, Lord Bo? There are no concubines in the queen/palace, only the queen! ”

Bo Zhong shut up. Zhou Heng refused to be drafted since he ascended the throne, refused to accept a concubine, and guarded a queen every day, if you want to say that the queen's pillow wind did not work on the emperor, who would believe it?

The main master who was discussed didn't care what the courtiers said, let alone whether they gathered at the palace gate or left. At this time, the candlelight in Anhua Palace was bright, Zhou Heng and Cui Zhenyi finished talking, Cui Keyin ordered to pass the meal, and prepared a family banquet for Cui Zhenyi to drink.

Cui Zhenyi needs to be on duty, he doesn't dare to touch the wine, but he eats a lot of dishes, and when he talks about Jiang, he just shook his head and said: "I advised her to rest in the house, but she didn't listen, so she had to enter the palace." Alas, it caused the mother to worry about her arrow wounds. ”

It's hard to say whether he wants to take advantage of Cui Keyin's soft-heartedness, and for the sake of Jiang's arrow wound, he promised her to blow the wind in front of Zhou Heng. Jiang himself didn't think like this, no one thought that Cui Keyin was determined and resolutely refused to see him.

Cui Keyin said: "The news of the emperor's personal expedition cannot be disclosed in advance, otherwise, the eldest aunt will not have to drag her injured body and ask to see her in the rain." Lu Ying didn't listen to any persuasion, but fortunately there was no big problem, otherwise I really didn't know what to do. ”

Sometimes, Lu Ying can represent her, such as in the matter of persuading the Jiang family, Lu Ying can be said to represent her. It's just that Jiang is too stubborn.

Cui Zhenyi put down his chopsticks and got up to apologize, and said, "The minister went home and taught her a good lesson." ”

"Uncle must not do this. The eldest aunt is also for this family, for the eldest uncle. Cui Keyin said, personally giving him vegetables.

After the banquet, Cui Zhenyi went back to the class room to rest.

Cui Keyin and Zhou Heng discussed: "We are about to leave Beijing, and the marriage between the imperial sister and Roujia must be advanced." ”

When the princess gets married, the emperor and the empress are not in the capital, and they can't be married, what will it look like? The princess who marries out like this is not taken seriously by her husband's family.

Zhou Heng nodded and said, "You look at it." ”

The couple talked for a while, Zhou Heng instructed Huanxi to take the fold, and handled government affairs in Anhua Palace, Cui Keyin played with Lele for a while, and asked the nurse to take him to sleep, and he read a book on the side.

The next day, Zhou Heng didn't have to go to court, he had a rare lazy sleep, and didn't get up until dawn.

Cui Zhenyi in the class room doesn't have this blessing. As soon as the palace door opened, the courtiers waiting outside rushed in and dragged him out of bed.

Speaking of which, there are really a lot of conscientious courtiers, who actually waited outside the palace gate all night until the palace gate opened, and rushed in to find Cui Zhenyi to ask for news.

Cui Zhenyi wiped his face, glanced at the ministers, and said, "Colleagues, please allow this official to freshen up and change clothes, and then go to the palace to discuss." ”

If there is no urgency, the elders on duty can sleep well, and there are beds, quilts, and cabinets for storing personal belongings. After all, there are only a few people who have entered the cabinet, and those people take turns to rest here.

Those who can be radical enough to wait outside the palace gate for a night are mostly imperial historians with a strong sense of responsibility, among which Zhou Quan and Wei Ce are still the leading figures. Cui Zhenyi is a cabinet elder, how could he tell these hated imperial historians about the secrets discussed with the emperor? The reason why he said that he was willing to talk about this when he went back to the office of the cabinet scholars was to discuss the emperor's ideas with Tang Tianzheng's cabinets and win their support.

Zhou Quan waited anxiously, his tone was stiffer, and said, "What can't Master Cui say here?" ”

Cui Zhenyi said in his heart: "What do you have to talk to you?" He pretended not to hear it, and freshened up under the service of his attendants.

When he returned to the palace, Tang Tianzheng, Gu Wei and others were already waiting there, Cui Zhenyi coughed and said Zhou Heng's plan for the expedition.

At this time, the cabinet realized one thing, yesterday they were all against it, but they forgot to listen to the young emperor's thoughts, no wonder he allowed the ministers to quarrel, but remained silent. (To be continued.) )