After the land and water conference, as soon as the intention of the Dongying envoys to occupy the islands in the East China Sea was verified, the DPRK and China debated endlessly on whether to send troops to attack the Japanese state as a punishment, and the opinions were mainly divided into two groups.

A group of people believe that the cross-sea expedition of the Dongying Island country is unfavorable, and it is best to send envoys to the Japanese country to denounce and question them, and if the other party admits his mistake and is sincere, there is no need to mobilize the people.

A group of people thought that the Ashikaga Shogun, the ruler of the Wa Kingdom, had the ambition of the wolf son and dared to covet the territory of our dynasty, and if he did not raise troops to conscript, it would not be enough to deter the Zhou State.

The two sides insisted on their own opinions and did not give in to each other, and Emperor Zhaoqing hesitated, and it was half a month after the end of the land and water conference, and there was still no statute for this matter.

There is such a hot topic at present, as the murder case of Taishi Shuyuan, which also occurred during the water and land conference, few people pay attention to it.

Xue Rui has been investigating silently these days, no one is urging him, and the whole case seems to have made no progress, but in fact, only he knows what Xue Rui has found.

Xue Rui, the young secretary of the Wupin Dali Temple, is young and shallow, although he has handled several big cases, but there is not much to talk about in the court, he will not join in this excitement, standing among the ministers of Zuo Lie, cold-eyed and arguing between the two sides.

As several princes moved out of the palace as adults, the factions in the court and China became increasingly distinct, and the six ministries were integrated, although they were jointly controlled by Yin Tianhou and Xue Lingnan, but they were also clearly divided - Yin Tianhou had three times as the chief examiner of the imperial examination in Zhaoqing for more than ten years, and during the reign of the first emperor, he was born from the Ministry of Officials, and concurrently served as the secretary of the Ministry of Officials. It is a situation where the current officials, households, and workers are all his protégés.

The right prime minister Xue Lingnan was born as a soldier, Zhaoqing was already a military meritorious person in the early years, and he stayed in the position of the secretary of the military department for ten years, and the military department and the criminal department were all his leaders.

The Ministry of Rites is subject to the Si Tianjian everywhere because of its authority.

Among the six departments, the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of War are the first, the Ministry of Household is secondary, the Ministry of Punishment and the Ministry of Rites are all Qingshui Yamen, and the Ministry of Industry is a fertile land, but it does not have much real power.

Emperor Zhaoqing's surviving sons. The fourth prince, Li Si, was deprived of his title and expelled from Beijing. The eighth prince Liu Yu is incompetent and mediocre, and the eleventh prince was also thrown to the Shengyun Temple a while ago, and there are still twelve, fifteen, and sixteen little princes, not without support. It's just too young to be old.

Queen Reyes has no children. In the absence of an elder. Liu Hao, the seventh prince who was loved by Emperor Zhaoqing, and the backer of the Yin family, was the first candidate for the East Palace by default.

Compare it to. The Nine Emperor Sons, who were sent to Longhu Mountain for self-cultivation since he was a child, seem to be more than weak, but he has Xue Lingnan's grandfather, and he may not be without the strength to fight in the future.

Si Tianjian was mentioned by Zhu Muzhao with one hand, saying that it is not an exaggeration, Zhu Muzhao is deeply trusted by Emperor Zhaoqing, and the Zhu family has not had a woman enter the palace as a concubine for many years, which can be regarded as a centrist.

The Earl's Mansion has lost its glory in recent years, but the Rui family's connections in the capital cannot be underestimated, this kind of network is not based on fame, to put it explicitly, but on nepotism.

Rui Pleiades this uncle did a real job, Emperor Zhaoqing took back his military power, he was not idle, the current queen is the sister of his mother, the old lady of the Yasukuni Mansion is his aunt, his eldest daughter married Si Tianjian Ren Shaojian, his second daughter became the daughter-in-law of Guo Huai'an, the secretary of Dali Temple, his third daughter was assigned to marry the prince of Jun'an who guarded Yunnan, and there was still a younger daughter to be in the boudoir, which was originally going to marry the Xue family.

These are only direct families, and the girls from the rest of the side branches can't be counted.

It's hard for Rui Yu to operate like this, blame only for Queen Rui's bad luck, she gave birth to no one, failed to keep her son-in-law, and let the Earl's Mansion envelop a network, but there is nowhere to put it.

Therefore, whether it is Xue Lingnan or Yin Tianhou, who is kind on the surface, but no matter how filthy he is in private, no one will take the initiative to find Rui Yu's unhappiness, for fear that his Earl's Mansion will not be able to stand on the other party's side for a while, it is not a joke.

For example, now, it is obviously Xue Xiang's faction who insists on directly sending troops to attack the Japanese State, and most of the people who think that envoys should be sent to denounce it first are Yin Xiang's people, and the people who are fighting at both ends are Rui Xiang's relatives and friends.

Zhu Muzhao was silent, and Si Tianjian didn't talk much.

Several princes stood in front of the civil and military officials, and the prince of Xiang led by a python robe lazily drooped his eyelids, looking like he had nothing to do with himself.

In the corner, Emperor Zhaoqing rubbed the bridge of his nose, his face was tired, and he ended today's argument with one sentence - "All the ministers are reasonable, wait for me to think about it, and make a decision tomorrow, and retire from the dynasty." ”

After worshipping the ancestors this year, Emperor Zhaoqing fell ill, and after he got better, his spirit was not as good as before, and the courtiers knew it one by one, and it was strange to say that he had no ideas.

"Retreat from the dynasty-" The eunuch of Bingli shouted, and the civil and military officials bowed down, and said in the first place:

"Long live Your Majesty, long live, long live."

Then waited for the corner of Emperor Zhaoqing's clothes to disappear from view, and the ministers waited for half a moment before they all went outward, not the day of the new year, there were only one hundred and ten people at the court meeting, and the first to go were those noble ministers, Xue Rui did not follow behind Yin Xiang like Yin Yuanrong, but waited for people to go, and then took a step.

I didn't want to go out of the hall, and as soon as I came down the Nine Dragon Steps, I was stopped.

"Xue Shaoqing, stay here."

Xue Rui turned his head to look, and saw Ren Qiming send a subordinate who was accosting him and walked towards him, his heart moved, and he wondered what he was doing.

"Young Eunuch." Xue Rui arched his hand and gave a slight salute.

"How is the investigation of the homicide case in Taishi Shuyuan last month, and is there any progress?" Ren Qiming asked himself.

Xue Rui sighed lightly, "Xia Guan is ashamed, and he has not been able to find out the origin of the murderer so far." ”

Ren Qiming said: "There have been deaths in the academy one after another, which has made the students there panic, and this matter has Lord Lao Xue's extra energy, so it is better to find out the real culprit as soon as possible." ”

Hearing what he said, if Xue Rui didn't know about breaking his life, he would think that Ren Qiming was just concerned about the safety of the students in Taishi Academy.

"Lord Ren, rest assured, I will not slack off."

Ren Qiming nodded, turned around and left, Xue Rui stayed in place for a while. It wasn't until someone came up to talk to them that they left with them

Today is Xue Guifei's turn to sleep, after the dispersal of the court, Emperor Zhaoqing did not change his court clothes, walked around the imperial garden for half a circle, and did not wait for dark, he drove directly to Zhongcui Palace.

On the way, he didn't send Xiaohuangmen to go to the front to go to the newspaper, so Emperor Zhaoqing stepped into the palace with this foot, and Xue Guifei was still sitting by the window cutting flower branches, a pot of wood hibiscus that bloomed just right. The pink flowers and leaves are covered with silver dew. But it's not as gorgeous as half of her side face.

Hearing the footsteps, she turned her head and was stunned, and suddenly smiled like a flower, and she couldn't even wear her shoes. Set aside the pliers. When you get off the bed, you have to crouch down and salute. There is a bit of coquettishness in his mouth:

"Your Majesty has not been passed down by anyone, and the concubines have not changed their clothes."

If these two sentences are replaced by any concubine in the palace, Emperor Zhaoqing will probably turn his face. thought that the other party was disrespectful, so he threw off his sleeves and left on the spot, but in front of the woman in front of him, he always had a little tenderness and guilt that he couldn't dissolve, how could he be unhappy.

"Ai Concubine get up quickly," Emperor Zhaoqing stepped forward to help Xue Guifei without pretending to be someone else's hand, pulled her to sit down on the couch, and said with a pleasant face: "I didn't intend to come to your side." ”

looked up and down at the honey-colored single clothes on her body, and the muscles and bones exposed by the collar and cuffs were like crystal snow, but he frowned, and said to the palace maids kneeling below: "It's cold, I don't know how to add a few more clothes to your master, just sit at the window and blow the wind, if you are sick, I can't spare you." ”

frightened the palace maids who were waiting in front of them to bury their heads in confession.

Xue Guifei gently shook Emperor Zhaoqing's arm, and said softly: "It's strange that the concubines are afraid of heat, and they are lazy to wear when they see the sun today, they don't listen, you come here now, but you want to stay here to eat here, and in the morning, I ordered the dining room to stew fresh deer tendons, which is just right to eat on this kind of day." ”

Two sentences were brought over, Emperor Zhaoqing diverted his attention, Xue Guifei made a look, Song Lan, the big palace maid, hurriedly took a few slaves and maids to quietly withdraw from the palace, secretly pinched a cold sweat, and then rejoiced-

The Kun Book for several months in a row is arranged according to the meaning of Qiwu Palace, although the day when the master sleeps for many days, it is either next to those delicate and lovely nouveau riche, or in front of the queen and the concubine, the two big heads, like this, they came to eat with the mother in broad daylight, and almost all of them are gone.

Fortunately, the newly appointed lady is biased towards our mother, otherwise the more these days pass, the more hopeless she will be.

Xue Guifei accompanied Emperor Zhaoqing to talk for a while, didn't talk about the government and didn't ask him about his worries, only picked up a few interesting things that happened in Zhongcui Palace and told him about them.

Emperor Zhaoqing saw that this flower was very well raised, and after careful questioning, he found that this jade tea with a rare color was actually cultivated by Xue Guifei herself since last year, and it was not until she raised it that she couldn't help but offer treasure in front of him, Emperor Zhaoqing appreciated this taste, so he asked her:

"It's good, why did you get these flowers and plants?"

Xue Guifei smiled, lowered her head and flicked the green leaves, with some memories in her eyes, and said lightly: "Your Majesty, can you still remember that the concubine was still in the boudoir in the past, and you once asked the eldest brother to give me a pot of flowers, which is a jade tea. ”

Then Meimei turned her eyes, looked at Emperor Zhaoqing, pointed to the pot of camellia between the two, and asked, "Look, the color of this flower is very similar to the one that was given to me at the beginning?" ”

Emperor Zhaoqing was a little trance-like, vaguely remembered such a thing, but he had long forgotten what color the flower was, seeing her reminiscing about the past, he couldn't help but think of when he was young, he felt guilty, and couldn't bear to brush her interest, so he just nodded:

"It's this color, you can't forget it."

He held it lovingly, and said, "Since I gave you one at the beginning, you might as well return it now, I like it, and take it back and put it on display." ”

Xue Guifei didn't have anything to do, so she happily sent him off, and said with a little distress: "Your Majesty must have made people look at it, and it will be one night if you can open it one more night." ”

Emperor Zhaoqing stretched out his hand and wiped it on her face, and quipped: "It's still reluctant, so let's do it, the flowers are carefully raised by you, I can't take them for nothing, what wishes do you have, you might as well put it forward at this time, I promised you, it was an exchange." ”

Xue Guifei shook her head and said, "Your Majesty treats your concubines well, and the concubines have nothing to ask for." ”

Emperor Zhaoqing didn't agree, he had to ask her to say a wish, and he fulfilled it for her.

The two pushed back and forth, seeing that Emperor Zhaoqing was about to run out of patience, Xue Guifei relieved her mouth at the right time, rubbed her head and thought for a while, and said to him:

"The emperor's wedding date is approaching, but Your Majesty knows that my nephew is already a weak crown, and the marriage has been delayed until now, and my brother and sister-in-law died early, and I can't ignore it as an aunt, so the concubine wants to ask you for a favor, and Concubine Rong will pick a good one for him, and choose which lady in the future, and ask Your Majesty to personally point out the marriage."

Emperor Zhaoqing didn't expect her to mention this, not for herself or for Liu Tan, but for Xue Rui.

There was some thought in his eyes, but he only thought for a moment, and when he saw the expectation on Xue Guifei's face, he agreed slowly: "I am attached to you." ”

"The concubine thanked Your Majesty."

Xue Guifei immediately stood up happily and thanked her, and sighed silently, this incident made her feel aggrieved for three years, and now the emperor opened her mouth, she no longer had to let the queen respond to her for the death of the tenth princess.

As for the young lady of the Narui family, heh, with his loyal and brave uncle as a treasure with eyeballs, she still can't look down on it. (To be continued......)