Birth, old age, sickness and death, even if you are an emperor, you can't stop the impermanence of life.

The father and son, who had just yelled fiercely in the imperial study, had calmed down, and His Majesty the Emperor on the throne reached out and wiped his face without any image, not knowing whether it was tears or snot that would be wiped away before he came out.

If the king is not secret, he will lose his minister, if he is not secret, he will lose his body, and if he is not secret, he will be harmful!

Because his own health is also related to the society of the country, except for his eldest son, Xiao Rui has never shown his mental strength to others in order to be safe.

Since Xiao Ze was fifteen, sixteen or seventeen years old, Xiao Rui has open-mindedly transferred most of the military and political power in his hands to his eldest son, and stubbornly resisted the rumors that his grandfather Jing Guogong was going to pass on the Xiao family to his great-eldest grandson Xiao Ze. And after Jing Chao was established, he relied on the crown prince who was immediately canonized, and even revealed in front of some ministers that he wanted to abdicate and become the emperor after three or two years.

Xiao Rui never thought that if he sat on the throne alone, he would really live long live, long live, long live.

When he was a teenager, he experienced several life-threatening injuries and illnesses, and he trampled his body with indulgence, and later worked hard to compete for the world...... Several trustworthy doctors have told Xiao Rui that if he wants to live a long life, he will have to pay extra attention to calm his mind and maintain his health, so he knew the destiny of heaven and began to calculate it seriously, and he can count the days when he can completely let go of the government.

Although his hair is not white, and he can't bear to cherish it, the eldest son suddenly told him that he might die earlier than Lao Tzu.

"If the son-in-law is not there that day when the Tianxiang Rebellion is gone, which younger brother does the father want to choose to inherit the throne?" , The young prince, who was not at all inconsiderate of his father's psychology, still stubbornly changed his assumption and asked again.

Perhaps because he has been meditating and thinking too much in recent months, Xiao Ze often feels like Zhuang Sheng dreams of a butterfly that he once died before Jing Chaoli, although his intuition is absurd, but it also makes him curious.

Xiao Rui turned his head awkwardly. Knocking on the table unconsciously, like an old farmer who was losing his temper at the soil in the field, he muttered angrily in his mouth: "I didn't think about it! I don't want to think about it either! ”

"But what my father wants to decide will definitely not be Han'er, who is only four years old." , Xiao Ze immediately smiled when he heard this.

Knowing his father is no better than his son, Xiao Rui did not directly answer that he would appoint his eldest son Xiao Han as the emperor's grandson, which shows that His Majesty the Emperor is still a little sober. will not let the second generation of the Jing Dynasty have a young master who cannot really take the helm because of private abolition.

"Xiao Jimin! What do you want so much to do! He actually said it in front of those people! In the laughter of his son, Xiao Rui angrily slammed down the table, stared at him with wide eyes and scolded: "It's just a little illness that shouts dead and alive!" I've already asked people to find Xu Ne! Maybe in the next few days, he will return to Luojing! ”

"Father, are you sure? In June, Xu Ne reported that he had followed Nanzhao's remnants to Jiangnan, and then he had been cut off. ”

"I asked the Dark Guard to find it! Lao Tzu still has an army of 120,000 in Jiangnan. Plough the ground a few times, and you can always dig out the thief and Taoist! ”

"I've read the Dark Guard Letter. It is very likely that Xu Ne will be led to Nanzhao by those people. What if he can't return within the year, and if he dies at the hands of someone else? Xiao Zeyun said with a smile, "Erchen's proposal to his father to think more is just to seek peace of mind, after all, it is not a good thing for his son's life and body to be out of control." ”

"It's still a year away! Don't you all say that the Gu poison on your body can't kill people at all! ”

"Back then, Wuzong of the Chen Dynasty was full of ambition to patrol the border, and he didn't expect that he would die in Daidi, and Emperor Taiye wanted to drive Jianyang, how could he have thought that he would die on the ship? Even if you are the Son of Heaven. God may not have given a hint in times of crisis, nor would he secretly leave a moment for the benefits. ”

Xiao Hong took a few steps forward. knelt down and lay down on the bright yellow dragon robe, and whispered, "Dad! On that day, the sky was fragrant, and the Xiao family was lucky. But if the child has an accident, there is still a hidden danger of causing trouble. Now the older brothers are outside. Think about who you would like to come back first if you lost your son. ”

Xiao Rui's eyes flashed with a cold light.

Prompted. He suddenly felt that Xiao Ze's concerns were also somewhat reasonable. He understood that the imperial power was actually all about deceiving outsiders, and in the final analysis, their Xiao family's father and son were just people who fought for their lives with the sky and won the battle. If you are a human being, it is difficult to keep that you will lose, and the worst thing is to lose to the ethereal providence.

All things are foreseen. To avoid the internal friction of several sons and the scourge of the country, although it is cruel to determine the succession order in advance, it can still reduce some unnecessary troubles to a certain extent.

"You also deliberately threw out your words vaguely today, trying to see the minister's reaction?" , Xiao Rui reached out and lifted his eldest son's shoulders and asked in a deep voice.

"The Xiao family has not yet sat down, so no matter who the successor is, they need pure ministers who can really take care of the overall situation. If it's not the right person, we'll squeeze it out again! Xiao Ze raised his eyebrows lightly, completely devoid of the decadent pathos of Fang Cai.

"Alas......", Xiao Rui stroked his son's cheek with a long sigh, and said very firmly: "Xiao Jimin, you will definitely get better!" Lao Tzu's dragon chair was originally fought for my son. ”

"Actually, they can do better than their son......"

The whispered conversation between the two of them was interrupted by a message from the waiter who had returned from the door.

The edict sent out for the minister to officially transcribe was sent back, Xiao Rui regretfully opened the gold box, and Xiao Ze took out the imperial seal and stamped it on the holy decree.

Xiao Ze followed the gaze of His Majesty the Emperor, looked down, raised the imperial treasure in his hand and said with a smile: "Father, relax your mind, maybe they will find the news of that one in Jiangnan, and it will be transmitted to Luojing in the next two days!" The father has to think about the title he wants to bestow on the meritorious person first. ”

At the beginning, Emperor Taiye's southern tour brought the seal of the Son of Heaven appointed by the Central Plains Dynasty to Jiangnan, and it is said that it is now in the hands of Concubine Zhang. Although the Xiao family's father and son privately felt that there was no difference between that one and the one they made at home, in order to take care of the emotions of the government and the opposition, one of the first tasks of the southbound army was to get the missing jade seal back to Luojing.

Before the army set off, Emperor Jing had told his second son Xiao Tan that if the soldiers in the army found the jade seal from the Jianyang Palace, they would be rewarded regardless of their origin.

Xiao Rui naturally thought of the past when he heard this, laughed heartily, swept away the depression of Fang Cai with a wave of his big hand, and responded more cheerfully: "Even if it is those sons and daughters of the Jianyang Small Imperial Court, if someone sacrifices that broken stone, it will be a hereditary title!" ”

It won't hurt the Xiao family's fundamental gift, in fact, there is nothing to worry about at all.

Since Chen Ding has been dismissed, it is natural to break some rules that the world is accustomed to. Xiao Ze lowered his head, read the holy decree on the case again, and sent it out.

The edict of Liu Hongmei, the chief general of Yun Jinfan, set off from the capital to the south, and Zhou Manyun, who heard the letter in the Yanwang Mansion, was immediately stunned.

The father and son of the Xiao family in this life are completely beyond her understanding, and they are simply "ridiculous" to be unacceptable.

"Now, if Hongmei comes to Beijing, she has to call the princess Niangniang to be her aunt?" , praying that Mother Xiao stroked her forehead with her hand, and she also looked incredulous.

Ming Zhao the world, Yun Jinfan was included in the Jing Dynasty Caoyun Water Army, and the main general Liu Hongmei led the transfer envoy, and was the fourth product. also added a third-grade title of the county lord of Qingyuan, and thousands of households. But the most absurd thing is that the holy decree says that because the daughter of the Liu family is humble and docile, the emperor Tegarn was accepted by the crown prince Xiao Ze as a righteous daughter.

The title of the county lord is compared to the origin of the prince's concubine.

Zhou Manyun was stunned at first, but in the end, he leaned on the side of the couch and stroked his bulging belly with his hands, and his eyes were full of mixed tastes, unable to speak.

Perhaps, there are other intentions for Hongmei's gift in military and political affairs, and her inclusion in the royal family has also weakened the world's rejection of female soldiers. But from the perspective of solving Xiao Hong's unwarranted situation, the prince's acceptance of his daughter can be said to be a simple draw.

Whatever possibility is or will be for the two people who are now in the south have been choked. Although the men of the Xiao royal family are very lustful, they will still try their best to restrain themselves from being incestuous and unusual, and when the sky was in turmoil before, Xiao Ze and all the brothers took the incident in the Great Ci'en Temple as an important danger like a collapse, which is evident.

What's more, it is also bright in the world, which makes Hongmei a generation late.

"It's okay, it's okay!" , Xiao Man, who didn't know what was going on, turned her mind around, and comforted Man Yundao, who she thought was worried about Hongmei: "In the past, in Jiangnan, I also heard that there were old servants of the master's family who were accepted as righteous sons and daughters, and some of the children were even older than their own children. Born from a cheap and noble background, it is also right to be pressed. Speaking of which, after all, Hongmei was born in the Zhou family and had children, if she really followed the princess and her mother, and her sisters were commensurate, she would not be happy to touch His Majesty the Emperor. ”

"That's the same thing!" , Zhou Manyun, who didn't think it was like this, followed Xiaoman's words and spoke accordingly.

It can't be for me, right?

Man Yun, who has always been very self-aware, couldn't help but want to crook a little, and then secretly spat on himself and pouted disdainfully.

Then, Princess Yan, who suddenly had an extra niece out of thin air, bent her eyebrows and giggled, "Catch Ming'er, after this is born in the belly, I will call him 'sister' to come to Beijing to help take the child to play!" ”

"That's it!" , Seeing that Man Yun swept away the gloom and was happy, Xiao Man breathed a sigh of relief and told the joke of the eldest niece and girl even more presumptuously.

A piece of paper sealed the edict, and the whole city was in an uproar.

Most of the eyes of the court and the opposition were suspicious of the female general, and some smart-minded people began to wonder if they also wanted to raise a girl who played with guns and sticks.

However, the fifteen ministers who had initially participated in the discussion of the Imperial Study had skipped this fresh topic under the inquiries of outsiders. They have more troubles to think about, and they don't care about this trivial matter.

In just two days, the fifteen ministers had been clearly divided.

There are those who immediately express to the emperor that they will obey the holy will in the future, and there are those who pretend not to understand the words and only persuade the emperor to invite a famous folk doctor for the crown prince......

Duke Wei Xu Shida asked to see Empress Xu for the first time, and after leaving the palace, he looked in a trance, and returned to the Duke of Weiguo's mansion and closed his door. (To be continued......)