Spring is held on the 9th, 12th and 15th of February of the lunar calendar every year, and is divided into three sessions of three days each.

Recently, the most talked about in the early dynasty is the spring festival, and the selection of officials and other major and minor matters need to be tried to draw up a list and ask the emperor to decide. Fight for the head of the people like Qiu Xu, and finally the emperor said something, what is the use of you saying to fight, this time the eldest prince and the second prince do not have a sacred heart, and they will not fight for one or two because of the spring Xu, that is not to show their own ability but to find pure discomfort.

In the early morning of this day, the ministers of the court and the central government whispered about the constitution of the Spring Festival, and they did not see the emperor coming, and after waiting for a long time to have a cup of tea, the emperor was still missing, and suddenly some ministers wondered, according to the usual hour, the emperor should have arrived, what happened?

Really asked the ministers to give the material right, the emperor's side of the manager Li came to announce the decree, today is not early, without waiting for the ministers below to ask the reason, Li Desheng will explain that the emperor is not feeling well, there is something important to play, just hand over the excerpt.

"Why did the emperor get sick, it was too sudden." Some of the ministers had not yet been able to turn the corner, and their faces were puzzled.

A minister asked Li Desheng, "What kind of illness does the emperor have, whether he is strict or not, can he summon the imperial doctor to go for consultation?" A series of questions are said directly, regardless of whether the person being asked can answer them or not.

"I have already announced that the imperial doctor will go, and I am afraid that it will take a while to clarify the condition." Li Desheng replied: "Please go back to the house first, the emperor will be fine in his prime." ”

Seeing that there was nothing to ask, the ministers had to leave the palace with a stomach full of surprise, and whispered two sentences about the emperor's illness on the road from time to time.

Most of the ministers thought that the emperor was occasionally feeling cold, which was not a big deal, and he would see well after a few payments of medicine, who would have expected that the early dynasty on the second day would not see the emperor's face, and the same would be true on the third day. This frightened many ministers, and they were sick for three days in a row. It's terrible, how can the wind chill be so strict, the emperor didn't have the wind chill before, and it was not the same as the court. The batch of folds did not fall as well.

The courtiers and officials couldn't help but wonder what kind of illness the emperor had so strictly, and some courtiers kept an eye on it, and did not directly ask the chief eunuch Li Desheng next to the emperor, but went to the imperial hospital to see which imperial doctor had recently seen the emperor, and he could also inquire about one or two.

It's a pity that although the method is good, it is destined to be in vain, and all the doctors up and down the hospital are tight-lipped and will not tell you a word as long as it involves the emperor's condition. This made some ministers have a bad premonition in their hearts, and the emperor's illness was so strict that the people in the entire hospital were not allowed to leak half of their children.

The development of the matter was beyond everyone's expectations, I thought it was a trivial matter, but I thought that more than half of the doctors in the Tai Hospital were summoned to go for consultation, how do you know this? Smart people have their own solutions, don't you want to say it? Then start from elsewhere, there are many means to avoid people's ears and ears in the palace, and how can such a group of big living people appear in the palace without attracting the attention of others, as long as you ask the palace maid, you can know how many imperial doctors are in the Longhua Hall of the emperor's bedroom today, and you can roughly deduce some things.

The ministers are anxious to know the real situation, even if it is the emperor's current situation, there must be news. It's too torturous to do this.

It was only said that the emperor was sick, and then there was no follow-up, but if there was an impermeable wall in this big palace, it was soon reported that the emperor was not suffering from wind and cold but poisoning, and for a while, both the harem and the previous dynasty were panicked, and they sent people to inquire about the real situation.

"Mother." Layue hurried into the house from outside. Panting and panicked, he said: "The maid and maid have inquired, the emperor is indeed sick, and it is still uncertain whether it is poisoned, but the slave maid saw that at least six imperial doctors were summoned into the Longhua Palace." ”

Concubine Chen was in a trance at first glance, and knocked over the tea cup on the table. The tea flowed on the table and was not noticed.

"Mother." Layue didn't care about cleaning up the table, and when she saw Concubine Chen, she couldn't feel at ease.

The first thing that came to Concubine Chen's mind when she heard the four words of the emperor was poisoning, and she was very sure that this poison was the kind she had given at the beginning.

But why didn't the effect show until today, Concubine Chen thought that the effect of the medicine had failed, so she would be so anxious that she would be confused, lest the matter be revealed and there would be no possibility of getting closer.

Concubine Chen was happy and worried, she wasn't sure if it was what she thought, she couldn't be too anxious, I was afraid that she would have to discuss this matter with her father to see if there were any further plans over there, and it would be better to combine the inside and outside.

Chen Yanzhi and Mu Rong were not less surprised than Concubine Chen, at first they thought that the emperor was deliberately sick, as for the reason is still unclear, after a few days of delay, seeing that the situation has not improved, but also worsened, they immediately sent people to investigate the truth and reality, and gradually thought of going with Concubine Chen.

"Is that really working?" Mu Rong couldn't figure it out, there was no abnormality for a few months, could it be that his father's body was different from others, so he would delay the onset of the drug?

"I don't know." Chen Yanzhi also looked worried, he couldn't find out at all, and there was no way to check, now in Longhua Palace, in addition to the imperial doctor, only the emperor's henchman Li Desheng can enter and exit, and there are forbidden troops guarding the palace, Longhua Hall is now impregnable, and others don't want to get close to the palace door, even if it is ten steps away.

If you can't get the news of the emperor's illness, you can only roughly sell it, who knows if this is a trap or real, Chen Yanzhi hopes that the emperor's body can collapse, so that the matter of canonizing the prince can be put on the agenda, and some ministers must be more concerned than themselves.

"Now I don't know if my father is sober or not, is our plan going to change?" Mu Rong was not worried about the emperor's illness, but his big plan.

"You mean now?" Chen Yanzhi's eyes narrowed, covering the dark light that flashed under his eyes.

"If the father is ill, then the body is the prince and the son should be filial piety in front of the father's bed." At that time, there will be a chance to get close to the emperor, and there will be an excellent time to be able to do it.

"Without a holy decree, the courtiers will not agree to the new emperor to succeed to the throne." Mu Rong's idea is wonderful, but he ignores one point, and Chen Yanzhi has to remind him extraordinarily, "If the name is not right, it is impossible to sit on the throne with just these few words." ”

"It's hard to say the holy decree." Mu Rong didn't care much about it, his eyes showed a little essence, and he looked like he was in his chest.

"You want to forge a holy decree!" Chen Yan saw through Mu Rong's careful thinking at a glance, and I have to say that Mu Rong's courage is not ordinary. I can even think of this.

"Don't forget that the emperor still has a loyal Gonggong Li by his side." Chen Yanzhi also secretly intervened in the palace, knowing who in the palace was not high but was most favored by the emperor, among which Gonggong Li was one of the most powerful henchmen around the emperor.

"What is there to fear from an old eunuch." Mu Rong looked completely unimpressed, "A slave can do whatever he wants." He's a minion who can be bigger than my master. "It's a joke.

Chen Yanzhi felt that Mu Rong was too conceited, Li Desheng could go from a little eunuch to the position of the chief manager, and there would be no shortage of means, and it was definitely not easy to be valued by the emperor and put him by his side, he felt that it was necessary to take down this Li Gonggong if he wanted to succeed, maybe Li Gonggong knew about the holy decree.

Chen Yan had many calculations in his heart, but he didn't say anything to remind the second prince, in his opinion, the second prince had already been overwhelmed by victory, and instead of hard persuasion, it was better to think of a way. Anyway, when the time comes, pay more attention and there will probably be no problems.

"Then should we let go of our previous plan to disrupt the border gates?" Mu Rong now has a better plan, so he is unwilling to seek the near and far.

Seeing Mu Rong's anxious face, Chen Yanzhi snorted coldly in his heart, in the end, he didn't think about some things at all, he only thought about his imperfect plan. But his face was unfathomable: "Things are undecided, we can't act hastily, we need to prepare with both hands, I have already let people do it at the border gate, and there is no reason to chase it back." "You always have to keep one hand, and if you can't make a plan, you can have another plan, right?

"That's fine." Since everyone has been sent out, there is no need to send people to recover it, and it may attract the attention of others if they come and go. If it can't be done now, and the border is just making up for it, we are not afraid that there is no way out.

The study was quiet for a while, and the two of them were thinking about their own affairs without making a sound.

After a while, Chen Yanzhi remembered something and said, "We are thinking of a good direction, an inference that is favorable to us." But I don't know if the emperor's illness is really as you and I expected, or ......" He has his concerns, be careful to make the ship of ten thousand years, he doesn't want to plant it like this, but he has to lose his life before the big thing happens. It's not worth it.

"Father must be sick, I'm sure of that." Mu Rong said in a firm tone: "Spring is just around the corner, it is impossible for my father to give up the good time for temporary talents, what is the benefit of pretending to be sick for my father?" This is the most food for thought.

"You're right." Chen Yanzhi sighed lightly: "Anyway, it's not an excellent time to start now, and wait a few days to see, especially pay attention to the eldest prince's side, as long as there is a clue that he wants to enter the palace to face the saint, we can do it." "Don't let people think that the two princes are not well-intentioned.

"I understand this." Mu Rong doesn't want to be this rafter yet, maybe the eldest prince is waiting for him to lose his breath.

In the Prime Minister's Mansion, Ouyang Ye stared at the landscape paintings spread out on the table and was distracted, and Ouyang Lin didn't even notice when he entered the house.

"Daddy." Ouyang Lin called softly, pulling back Ouyang Ye's distant thoughts.

"You are here to take care of the emperor?" Ouyang Ye asked an obvious question, and as soon as the words came out, the whole person was stunned, and then he returned to his usual state

"Yes, everybody's talking about it, and there's a lot of speculation that makes it hard to tell the truth from the fake." Ouyang Lin heard the clouds and mountains for a while, and he couldn't sort out his thoughts, so he returned to the mansion to ask his father.

"It's useless to listen to it from the outside." Ouyang Ye didn't want his son to be misled by those rumors outside, which swayed his judgment.

"There is no news about the emperor's illness so far, the crown prince has not been established, and the entire court is crumbling, I am just worried that the emperor has a case, and we have no intention of supporting the new lord......" Ouyang Lin is afraid that the new emperor will have prejudices against the Ouyang family when he ascends the throne.

"Who sued you for the new emperor's accession to the throne!" Ouyang Ye looked at his son with fierce eyes.

"Everybody talks about it in private." Ouyang Lin was surprised that his father would be angry because of this sentence.

"Do you believe those unsubstantiated things?" If that were the case, Ouyang Ye felt that his son was too disappointed in him.

"How so." Ouyang Lin is not stupid, what he said before he said it was nothing more than wanting to turn around and ask his father what he meant, which prince he was optimistic about, and he should make plans early.

"You're still inexperienced." Ouyang Ye sighed and reprimanded: "You can't just look at things on the surface, now that the emperor is sick, it is rumored that the emperor will be ill, don't you know that there is no news about some things, which does not mean that it is the worst outcome." ”

Ouyang Lin used to show his strengths in the local area, and the people or things he came into contact with after returning to Beijing were not very complicated, so there was not a half-star difference between him and those old foxes in the court, this kind of thing is not good to teach directly by word and deed, and he had to start from actual examples in order to see through the surface and go straight to the inside, for the disappointment expressed by his father, he felt that he did not meet his father's requirements, and he would definitely pay more attention to tempering in the future, and he would not let his father lose face again.

"What about the three princes? There is news. Ouyang Ye didn't reprimand his son again, and instead asked about irrelevant matters.

"The Third Prince?" Ouyang Lin was stunned by the question for a moment, and only after reacting afterwards did he say: "He was not exiled by the emperor, what does my father have of the third prince?" ”

"The third prince is still the same?" Ouyang Ye didn't answer his son's words first, and repeatedly asked about the current movements of the third prince.

"Yes, it's the same as before." Ouyang Lin paid attention to this suspicious third prince.

"That's right." Ouyang Ye dropped such a sentence, without explaining too much, he just understood it in his heart.

Ouyang Lin wanted to ask the reason, but when he saw that his father didn't have the intention to continue, he stopped talking.

Ouyang Ye saw that Ouyang Lin had nothing else to ask, so he sent him back and stayed in the study to think about things.

The third prince Mu Jinming is like his own eyes to the emperor, although he has not appointed the crown prince, he is fifty percent sure that he believes that the emperor intends to set up the three princes as the prince, as for now, there is no indication that the emperor is paving the way for the three princes in the future, and there may be other things involved.

Now that the emperor has claimed that he is infected with the disease, it is debatable whether this disease is true or not, at least Ouyang Ye believes that even if the emperor is sick, it should not be so strict. The three princes are not the best proof, the three princes are not in a hurry to enter the palace but are the same as usual, which can explain a qiē.

In this case, Ouyang Ye didn't have to worry about anything else, doing what he had to do would benefit more than those who were eager to stand in line.

Ouyang Ye has his own calculations, these things will not be all said to Ouyang Lin, it is not the right time, exposing too much will cause the emperor's suspicion, he will not do what a fool does, it is right to watch the fire from the other side.