Today's capital is full of turmoil and treachery, and as the three elders, they can't help but feel foggy, let alone others. Among the residents of the capital, how many people can compare their connections and status to the three elders? At such a special moment, even if you get the news with the dignity of the queen, you will inevitably be one step slower than the elders.

"Is there such a thing?" At this time, it was already twilight, the Kunning Palace was brightly lit, a plain white arrangement, the queen sat in front of the hall, heard the news, and couldn't help but feel refreshed, showing a sense of relief. "Finally, King Xiang has not been confused to the end, and he can still get lost."

She and the three elders have the same opinion, as soon as King Xiang goes, it is like drawing a salary from the bottom of the kettle, and the queen mother is no longer insisting on her own opinions, and she lacks talents. Unless she really makes up her mind to kill the bolt and help King Xiang ascend to the throne, it will be difficult to make any waves. After all, she is still her own grandson, but it is hard to imagine that the old man would go crazy to this point.

Having said that, the queen did not take it lightly, and when she came back from Chang'an Palace, she picked up Yuanyuan from the princess, and sent Ah Huang to Jingci Immortal Master, and now the only few remaining masters in the harem are living in Kunning Palace. Yuanyuan, Diandian and Zhuang'er, the three of them had dinner just now and went back to rest. Today's funeral, the queen didn't let the bolt out, although it was said that he was young and afraid of being frightened. But the wariness of Qingning Palace is also obvious.

In the life of Emperor Daxing, he may owe something to anyone, but only for his children is generally not bad, but the situation behind him has changed sharply, and there are no relatives involved in the small funeral and the big funeral, only the queen is alone, and even Xu Xun was persuaded to stop it, so as not to show up and make waves again. Xu Xun thought about this, and also sighed a little, and he couldn't cheer up the news of King Xiang's departure from Beijing.

"It's all about tomorrow." She rubbed her eyebrows, a little tired, "The cabinet should send the news to Qingning Palace overnight." After thinking about it for a night, the old lady should have made up her mind that if she wants to compromise, of course, the sooner the better, but she doesn't want to compromise......"

The queen glanced in the direction of the inner courtyard, nodded as well, and said solemnly, "I have already summoned loyal and brave chamberlains to guard the palace, and with Feng En here, there shouldn't be any moths." ”

Now that the ownership of the throne is unknown, the emperor's jade seal has lost its role, and whether the queen mother's seal or the queen's seal is effective, it depends on the individual's distinction. Unless there is a guard who does something stupid to storm the harem, otherwise, the person who has the martial arts attendant will have the safety of the harem. After Feng En fell to Zhu'er's side, Kunning Palace was already as stable as Mount Tai, and even had the strength to impact Qingning Palace. Of course, this can only be true, and at the same time stimulate the emotions of the queen mother, and it is a joke that makes everyone in the world look at the harem, because neither the queen nor Xu Xun is unwise for this, but just mobilized some martial arts attendants to guard the periphery of Kunning Palace.

"Hurry up and watch the day...... The palace gate has already been lowered a thousand taels. Xu Xun's gaze was a little deep, "The city gate should also be locked, the night ban has begun, and tonight, there will be no major changes." ”

If you talk about the village, of course, it is made at sunrise and sunset, as soon as the sun sets, there are few people walking outside, and it is similar in small towns, although there is no night ban, but at night, except for a few special places, otherwise most residents will not waste lamp oil, and Taiban also goes to bed early. As for the capital, every year except for half a month before and after the Lantern Festival, the night ban system is strictly observed, a watch at three o'clock in the drum tower and the dusk drum sounds, the intersection of the road is blocked on the fence, to pass freely, unless it is a privileged class, until the five watches and three o'clock tower rings the morning bell, the fence is removed and opened, and everyone can travel freely.

At the beginning of this night ban, unless there is a great disaster or emergency, no one will summon people into the palace. Otherwise, what will be aroused is the panic and talk of the whole city, there are so many people living in the capital, casually arouse a panic, I am afraid that there will be hundreds of people who trample to death, if someone takes advantage of the situation to set fire to the house, I am afraid that it will be a big disaster to show my eyes. This kind of thing is extremely common at this time, and the queen and others often heard about it when they were in the people, and when they heard it, they nodded and said, "Yes, let's rest early, and wait for tomorrow." ”

With that, he said goodbye to Xu Xun, parted and went to their respective bedrooms. Kunning Palace occupies a vast area, and there are three more masters, and it can be completely arranged.

Xu Xun returned to his house and saw Mama Qian, Qi Yangniang and Han Nushi, who were watching the two children sitting together and writing, and said, "At this moment, don't you forget your homework?" ”

Dian Dian turned his face and said, "Mu Mu said, it's cold, we can't keep the spirit, so I copied some Buddhist scriptures for my father in the house and prayed for blessings, which is the same." ”

Although she is young and stubborn and willful, she is not a dull person, and she already knows what death is as early as summer, and she also knows that malaria kills people, so she and Zhuang'er have to hide in the house for fear of infection. The news of the emperor's death was quickly accepted, the child was sincere by nature, once he knew that his father had left him and could not come back, he was sad and weeping with sadness in the first few days, and it was much better these days, although he didn't say daxiao, but his lips had occasionally smiled. At this time, he said that he wanted to copy the scriptures for his father, and he was faintly solemn, as if he could really send some thoughts because of this.

Xu Xun sighed in his heart, touched her head, and said, "Then you write well, go and rest when you are tired, and don't force it." ”

As he spoke, he looked at the handwriting of the two children, who could only barely say that it was neat, and said, "Don't compare Zhuang'er with your sister, you are young and slow to write, so it doesn't matter if you write less." ”

After all, Zhuang'er is two years younger than his sister, and now he has a little difficulty holding the pen, copying the scriptures is sincere, and the font size must be the same, on a cold day, the tip of his nose is sweating, and when he heard Xu Xun's words, he nodded and relaxed. Seeing this, Xu Xun also sighed secretly in his heart: Plant melons and get melons, plant beans and get beans, the sadness shown by his father's death and Zhuang'er, I am afraid that most of them follow the trend, I really want to say that there is something too deep in my heart, but there is no. I don't know if the emperor's most important bolt can feel a little sad for his death at this time.

Since she arrived at Kunning Palace, she wanted to take her children to sleep together, and she didn't want the two children to sleep with her adoptive mother, but she didn't want to sleep with Xu Xun, which made her feel a little relieved and a little reluctant. Several times, I want to teach the children some principles of life, but I don't know where to start, and I am afraid that the children will notice the abnormality.

Others don't say it, just say Zhuang'er, that's a good hand at finding out the news, at such a moment when people's hearts are fluctuating, Xu Xun is really not sure that he can hide them, and if he knows about it in advance, he is afraid that the children will panic and make a storm, or even plant the seeds of hatred for the queen mother and queen in his heart. - In this world, if you want to embarrass your elders, you will have to add countless troubles to your own life, even if she can't escape death, she doesn't want her children to complain about their elders, and she will plant layers of worries for her future life.

On this night, except for a few children, I am afraid that no one could sleep well at all. Xu Xun slept until midnight, got up again, read and read the letter he had written to the two children, and added many more words. Before she knew it, the sky was already white, she glanced at the window, sighed softly, sealed the letter again, got up and freshened up, and went to breakfast.

After breakfast, the children went to copy the scriptures again. Xu Xun and the queen sat opposite each other, silent to each other, and the atmosphere in the room was as dull as a summer afternoon when a thunderstorm was about to fall. I don't know how long I waited, but suddenly someone ran to me and said, "Niangniang! There is movement in the Qianqing Palace! ”

Between the Qianqing Palace and the Kunning Palace, there is only a square apart, which is a bit windy, of course, it is easy to find. The queen perked up, "What! ”

"Somebody went in and sprinkled the arrangement." The palace maid hurriedly reported it.

Soon, the news came in again -- there were voices in the palace, a guard of honor had been set up in the palace, and the ministers had entered the palace --

zuihou, as if it was heavenly, finally came from nine days away: "The old lady went in with the bolt!" ”

Unless the Queen Mother has practiced the peerless martial arts of 'killing one person in ten steps, leaving no line for a thousand miles', and wants to kill the ministers and bolts together in the Qianqing Palace, otherwise, this battle for the throne with protruding peaks and waves should come to an end completely. Once it is confirmed that Bolt is the heir of the emperor and has passed the enthronement ceremony, the Queen Mother will no longer be able to lock him up in Qingning Palace and cut off contact with the outside world, and the queen will naturally make all kinds of arrangements to ensure Bolt'er's health.

Xu Xun and the queen glanced at each other, and they both saw a hint of relaxation in each other's eyes. Xu Xun was also a little confused in her heart - this matter was finally over, she still pushed it and helped her eldest brother's child ascend to the throne, but whether this child was more suitable to be the king of a country than King Xiang was not even sure for herself. The future seemed to be hidden in a fog, and she had never felt so strongly as she did now: it was her every move that affected the course of the world.

It is true that without her, I am afraid that Wenchen would rather turn his face with the Queen Mother, make people rob the bolt, or even support the strong son, and it is impossible for King Xiang to ascend the throne. Xu Xun will not be naïve enough to think that she alone is in charge of the general trend of the world, and one sentence determines the rise and fall of the country, at most she can say that she has pushed a little bit and provided her own help in this general trend that is condensed by the world's scholars and represents the orthodoxy of the royal road. Without her, ninety percent of the candidates who will eventually ascend the throne may be the emperor's heirs, but the situation may be much more ugly than now, and many more people will die than now.

Wouldn't it be ideal to avoid a worse situation and push orthodoxy to the top? But Xu Xun still felt a sense of fear from the bottom of her heart, maybe it was the future, or maybe she had already done what she had done in the past, whether she participated or not, she still couldn't change the fact: according to common sense, Zhu'er must be the heir of the empire. Maintaining his supremacy is righteous and justifiable.

But who will decide whether the bolt - or the king of Xiang is suitable to be the lord of the world, and whether he has so much wisdom to deal with those complicated government affairs and see through these cunning ministers? If they don't have that ability, what will happen to the world?

At the end of the day, I don't know what kind of dialogue is going on in the Qianqing Palace, maybe after the dialogue is over, the Queen Mother can still retain enough authority to maintain her absolute rule in the harem, if so, Xu Xun is not surprised. Today, she no longer has the confidence to meddle in the government, however, if she just wants to keep the harem, the auxiliary ministers may not give this face. First, this is a family affair of the Son of Heaven, and the ministers dare not ask, and second, she is still the mother of Emperor Daxing after all...... After many years of daughter-in-law becoming a mother-in-law, the Queen Mother already has a very strong capital for her to squander. After returning from the Qianqing Palace, she will definitely deal with herself, the mastermind behind the scenes, Xu Xun knows very well: Even if the queen is able to protect her, how much can she protect her? As early as after she said this, she understood that her life was hanging by a thread and her life was slim.

said this incident not because of the queen, even if she was desperate at the time and wanted to commit suicide in advance to retain a little dignity, Xu Xun would not be moved by her because of this, and exchanged her life for her glory. - It's not so much that she was impressed by the queen, but that if the queen jumped down the well, she really wouldn't have a chance. The queen now has only two advantages in this palace, first: she will never be buried, and the queen mother cannot remove her under any reasonable pretext. Second, she is the mother of the bolt, and she has a legitimate name for raising the bolt, and she can confidently ask about the bolt's daily life.

As soon as the queen went, the queen mother could immediately execute her Xu Xun, and only Jingci Immortal Master remained in the palace...... At that point, what else can you expect the immortal master to do for the bolt?

She didn't know if King Xiang could be a good emperor, just as she didn't know if Zhu'er could handle this difficult burden, but at that moment, instinct replaced reason, and she blurted out a word, and there was no possibility of taking it back, she was really 'doing what she wanted', and made a decision for herself with her heart.

Maybe it's because I haven't thought about it that I'm so uneasy at this time, and I ask myself repeatedly, even if reason has answered repeatedly: no one can see through the future, and no one can assert who is the more haode heir, but the more he thinks about it, the more panicked Xu Xun becomes. She had never considered this matter before, and only felt that it was natural and natural, but at this time she couldn't help but ask, if even a person like her, who could see Zhu'er from time to time and knew him well, could not be sure whether he was worthy of the position of emperor. So, can these ministers be so sure?

The answer, of course, is no, the only intersection between them is that he has been worshiped by them, and he has been taught by two or three Hanlin, what do these ministers know about him? Most people don't even know what he looks like. Anyone with a brain can think of this, they are defending Gangchang, orthodoxy, and the iron rule that the eldest son of the emperor must ascend the throne as the emperor.

As for the character and ability of the man who ascended the throne of God, they did not seem to care. Xu Xun didn't know if this was her own conjecture, or if she had a well-founded speculation, but she thought that if she was not suitable, or even perverse, everyone who was on the throne at this moment would not feel guilty in their hearts, because it was their business to maintain orthodoxy and ascend the throne, and what kind of person the emperor was was another matter, the emperor was competent, well, the national fortune was prosperous, and the emperor was incompetent, that is, the days were exhausted and the qi was declining - but they would still serve this unqualified heir emperor loyally, Just like when the city of Jianshu was destroyed and the palace was burned, how many people committed suicide with their own lives, and used their lives to sing a good story for future generations and achieve the reputation of loyalty...... No one would want to shake the reign of the emperor and depose him, this is understandable, the deposition of the lord is extremely ominous to the country, she even understands the so-called virtue of their martyrdom, she just doesn't understand, these ministers never seem to hesitate when making a choice, and never seem to consider the question that the emperor may not be suitable to be an emperor at all? They're just...... It's just that he seems to be very firm in his belief that the emperor's son is born to be a good emperor.

What a credulous judgment, what a frivolous conviction, what an absurd reasoning?

She thought that she had seen through many things, had tasted the samadhi of the world, and had seen what kind of life the palace concubines who were extremely envied by the legend behind these lives of fine clothes and food, but until today, she really put her hand into the inheritance of the big thing, and really began to think about it, Xu Xun was shocked to find that she used to think that she was high, that her status was unbreakable, and that she was the queen mother and emperor who were the winners no matter how she tossed - the representative of the imperial power, the object of the ten thousand people looking up, After all, it is just an empty dream under the prosperity, this imperial city, this country, like a lonely boat floating on the sea, swinging, helpless, don't look at the flowers at this time, cooking oil with fire, lively to the extreme, turn your head to a wave, maybe it is an empty!

In the past, when I read history and watched the rise and fall of dynasties and the change of rivers and mountains, I only felt that it was a fight between loyalty and treachery, and luck fluctuated. No matter how strong the dynasty is, there are some hidden dangers buried from the founding of the country, the Western Han Dynasty died in relatives, since Lu Pheasant, the Eastern Han Dynasty died in Haoqiang, since the failure of Dutian, once the fortune reaches the end, the luck can no longer suppress the sorrow, and the dynasty will turn from prosperity to decline to extinction...... Now Xu Xun knows how naïve he thinks, he originally thought that the dynasty has only been more than 50 years since Taizu has been now, and he is still walking on the road of Xiangshang, and only now does he know that every generation is equivalent to a big gamble, and it is even more worrying, how much burden does this throne mean? After serving in the Qianqing Palace for many years, she can be regarded as understanding this point - if it is not a dragon and phoenix among people, she does not believe that it can sit in peace.

It's like a person who keeps rolling the dice, expecting each hand to roll a six...... In addition to the founding ancestor, so far it has been thrown four times, the first time is a little roll, the remaining three are lucky, and the throws can be regarded as six points, but what about the future? No matter how lucky a gambler is, what are the chances of throwing a leopard continuously?

Now it seems that the defeat of the dynasty may happen at any time, and no one knows how many points will be rolled next, but there are only three things to do, and three have been rolled in a row, and the probability of the fourth leopard throwing again seems to be very small. It seems that his talent is limited, and he doesn't know what the result of his education will be, although King Xiang has a good name, but he has never been exposed to practice, how can he prove that he has the talent to govern? Let him take the throne, it is better to let Shoufu change his surname and return to his ancestors, join the royal family and then ascend the throne, then he can be regarded as somewhat sure.

-- However, as far as we can see, the person who threw this handful is not the bolt, but the one who listened to the government in his place before he grew up, and I don't know whether this one is the queen mother or the queen.

Looking at the queen who was still a little anxious, Xu Xun shook his head secretly. The queen is a little talented, and it cannot be said that she is indecisive, and even many of her personality traits are very suitable for participating in politics, but suitable does not mean that she is suitable. In the harem of the national dynasty, except for the queen mother, no one has experience in participating in politics, that is, the queen mother, how can she be said to know the disadvantages of those officialdom? The queen is okay to manage the housekeeper in this big place in the palace, but if she is pushed to the political arena and the queen mother is watching, I am afraid that she will not behave satisfactorily. The entire harem includes her Xu Xun herself, and no one is qualified to go to the front desk and play tricks with those old treacherous and cunning ministers who can sometimes manipulate the emperor and play games almost on an equal footing.

But before the bolt grows up, whether it is the old queen mother or the inexperienced queen - no matter who is chosen to listen to the government, this person can only be stubborn.

Thinking of this, Xu Xun even had a hint of laughter, which was indebted. She stared at the door almost in a trance, waiting for the final, definitive news. Now, everyone is inside, but what is said inside is still a secret.

I don't know how long it took, but finally a person ran in with tears in his eyes, and knelt down beside the queen as soon as he entered the door.

"Yu Niangniang, the old lady just let the prince sit on the throne," the palace maid had red eyes, and her heart was obviously extremely excited, she looked up at the queen, and every word burst out extremely loudly. "Referring to the crown prince and saying, 'This new son of heaven is also!' ”

With her words, a low cry suddenly sounded, Mama Zhou's tears rippled, her face flushed, and she stepped forward and kowtowed, "Niangniang, old slave, old slave congratulations-"

"What's there to be happy about!" Although the queen almost softened, her expression was still serious, and she drank Mama Zhou, "What about the surviving?" ”

In a word, Mama Zhou's untimely performance was immediately suppressed, and the queen looked at the palace people, and couldn't wait to ask, "Have you ever heard of it—have you ever heard that who is listening to the government?" ”

The palace people were stunned for a moment, and she naturally replied, "When the slaves and maids withdrew, the adults were still paying respects......

"Why don't you inquire yet!" Mama Zhou is indeed worthy of being the queen's confidant, she got up with a bone, and hurriedly stepped forward to give a majestic order, the little palace maid kowtowed, turned around and ran out.

As soon as she left, the queen finally couldn't help the excitement in her heart, stood up and paced back and forth in the room, the meaning of apprehension was already beyond words, Xu Xun sat on the side and watched, and she could understand her mood at this time. ――If you think about it according to Sun's own thoughts, it seems that she has gone through the bad luck of this life, and it seems that today, it is time to operate, right?

This time, it was half an hour, but this time it was a small chamberlain who came to report, "Back to Niangniang, Bachelor Sanyang asked the old lady to listen to the government and weigh the system in the dynasty-"