Guo Pu, a veteran of the Three Dynasties and Gu Mingfu, walked in the palace, walking in a hurry, his face sinking like water.

Guo Pu is sixty and nine this year, and he is already seventy years old, although his health is quite good, but as a rule, he has also reached the age of old age.

So he has already been on two beggar bones this year, but after the emperor asked the queen mother of the two palaces, he did not approve it twice, but gently persuaded and tried his best to keep it, and even gave a big red silk python suit.

This is not counting, the Empress Dowager Rensheng gave Guo Pulong ten boxes of crisps to be more generous, gave a golden turtle, a golden crane, and a picture of a hundred longevity.

The Empress Dowager Cisheng also sent a message to Guo Pu alone, saying, "After the emperor's wedding, the mourning family can't see it every day, but rely on Yuanfu to take care of it, Yuanfu was ordered by the first emperor, how can you bear to resign, and Bi Bi should do your best to participate in the assistance, and don't insist on resigning." ”

If Gao Gong sat firmly in the auxiliary back then, it mainly relied on the prestige inertia brought from the Longqing era to the Wanli era, as well as the last sentence of "If you don't decide anything, just ask Mr. Gao" before Longqing's death. So the reason why Guo Pu's auxiliary position is still stable, in addition to being the "last assistant minister" and Gao Shishi's strong support in the Gao party, the rest depends on the strong support of the queen mother of the two palaces.

The queen mother of the two palaces does not have any talent for governance, but they have the same advantage, that is, they are extremely insistent on the ancestral system, it seems that in their opinion, governing the country must first look at the cabinet, and the cabinet must first look at Yuanfu, so for Guo Pu, the old Yuanfu, they have always relied on it.

Guo Pu sometimes even wonders if the first emperor has made any explanations, because this idea is very similar to the idea when the first emperor used a high arch to govern the government, it doesn't matter if I can't do it, Yuan Fu is fine, I listen to Yuan Fu.

However, the fact that I was born today is too tricky, and I am afraid that something big will happen.

You must know that since the fifth year of Wanli's emperor's wedding, the queen mother of the two palaces has not directly met the courtiers of the foreign court for three years, to a certain extent, it should be regarded as a transitional period The emperor has no pro-government, but because he has been married, the queen mother of the two palaces began to slowly treat him as an adult.

But this is also a dangerous period, the stage where the Empress Dowager of the Two Palaces conducts a final investigation of the emperor. If this period passes safely and smoothly, the emperor will officially govern at some point, and from then on he will truly reign over the world, but if there is a major mistake in this period, it is not impossible for the empress dowager of the two palaces to severely punish the emperor.

Moreover, if there is an extreme situation, and the empress dowager of the two palaces can reach an agreement, they may even seek the support of the outer court to set up a new monarch, King Lu is also the son of the first emperor, and because he is not yet an adult, he is now in the palace, and I heard that the Empress Dowager Li is very fond of him.

The possibility of such an extreme situation as the establishment of another new monarch is of course very small, but Guo Pu, as Gu Mingfu, has to consider whether he can persuade himself if the situation is so serious

Such a big thing must not be done by the empress dowager of the two palaces by talking to herself, at least it must be supported by important ministers, and she and Zhang Siwei will definitely not support it, there is no doubt about it, but what about Shen Shixing and Yu Youding

Even Xu Guo can't completely rule out the possibility, although he is a protégé of Gao Gong, but he is a native of Nanzhili, and he is actually greatly influenced by psychology.

If the empress dowager of the two palaces wants to set up a new monarch, and she and Zhang Siwei oppose it, then there will be a situation, once Shen Shixing, Yu Youding and Xu Guo support the two palaces, and this matter is finally done, the cabinet will inevitably be shaken, and most of them and Zhang Siwei will go to the throne, and the position left is the three of them

At that time, Shen Shixing can take over as an assistant, and the rest of the Ding position will be promoted to the second assistant, and Xu Guo will also follow.

Under such temptation, it is difficult to say where they stand.

Guo Pu's brows furrowed into Sichuan characters, thinking hard about these entanglements of interests, as well as the attitudes that the empress dowager of the two palaces might have, and at the same time worried about the emperor Guo Pu has also been responsible for teaching the emperor like Gao Gong in recent years, in a sense, he now also regards Zhu Yijun as a disciple.

But this disciple has a special identity, he is the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he caused such a big trouble, Guo Pu has to consider not only to protect him, but also to consider the next education to agree that the abolition of the emperor is not within Guo Pu's consideration, not to mention that once the emperor is abolished, the foundation laid by the Gao Party for many years is equivalent to being dug up, just saying that the abolition of the emperor will cause national turmoil, Guo Pu can not tolerate it at all.

Fortunately, although the cabinet is in the palace, it is far away from Cining Palace, and it has to be detoured in the past, so Guo Pu still has time to calculate the benefits and think about how to deal with it.

He suddenly thought of what he would do if Su Qing was still there

The emperor ignored the ancestral teachings, took the two princesses out of the palace privately, ran to the house of his subordinates, and put aside the left and right, and the four of them stayed alone in a small building for nearly three hours

Here's what it's doing

If this kind of thing is spread to the people, I don't know what kind of dirty appearance it will be arranged, and I am afraid that it will become the biggest scandal related to the princess since the founding of the Ming Dynasty two hundred years ago

Gao Pragmatism and Zhu Yijun are both Guo Pu's disciples, Guo Pu still has basic confidence in the character of the two of them, at least he definitely doesn't think that the emperor will really have any ugly things when he takes the two princesses to Gao Pragmatism, but the people have always liked to speculate about this kind of thing, and then spread it falsely, and in the end, the ghost knows what it will become.

After all, Empress Dowager Li is not politically sensitive enough, and the root of her anger is that the two princesses inexplicably have an admiration for someone after being taken out by Zhu Yijun, which is absolutely not allowed in the harem system set by Emperor Taizu.

But Guo Pu knew that the reputation of the two princesses could not be said to be irrelevant, but now the real big trouble is that Empress Dowager Li did not realize the key to the problem, she did not block the news, but publicly punished the emperor and the two princesses.

If the news that a little emperor who has not been in charge of the government and has been punished for violating the ancestral system spreads, once it is mishandled, it may cause a national shock

Under this question, what princess's reputation and what role Gao pragmatic played in it are all minor issues that are not worth mentioning

He Guo Pu is Gu Mingfu, the first thing to consider is the stability of the country, if the country is in turmoil because of this, how will he face the first emperor under Jiuquan in the future, and how will he face Gao Gong

Guo Pu, who was in a lawsuit, turned around a palace gate, and suddenly bumped into a person head-on, who hurriedly held Guo Pu up.

Guo Pu looked at it, but it was Huang Mengyu's nephew Liu Ping.

Liu Ping held Guo Pu and apologized again and again, Guo Pu knew that he and his uncle Huang Mengyu were important allies of Gao Shishi in the inner court, so he naturally would not be angry, and was about to say "It's okay" and leave, but Liu Ping took the opportunity to support him and whispered, "The factory governor has already learned about Fang Cai, and he has now rushed to Ciqing Palace to find Empress Dowager Chen, and at the same time sent someone out of the palace to inform Gao Yude of the news"

When Guo Pu heard this, he hurriedly thanked him, "There is a factory supervisor and Liu Gonggong, I don't know what else the factory supervisor has to explain."

Liu Ping first laughed loudly, "Guo Ge Lao is polite, it is our family who doesn't walk long and collided with Ge Lao, it should be our family to apologize." ”

Then he pretended to bow down and apologize, and immediately whispered: "The factory governor said that Gao Yude told him before returning to his hometown in the sixth year of Wanli that if something happened in the palace, as long as he adhered to one principle, as long as the emperor was fine, everything else was a trivial matter." Therefore, the factory supervisor asked our family to talk to you, and asked you to take care of the emperor for a while. ”

Guo Pu heard him say that Gao Pragmatic had an explanation with Huang Mengyu two years ago, he couldn't help but squint his eyes, nodded slowly, and said, "Thank you for the reminder, the old man knows." ”

Liu Ping smiled, bowed down and said, "Elder Ge is polite, you go slowly." ”