There are now two queen mothers in the Ming Dynasty, among which the Empress Dowager Rensheng lives in Ciqing Palace, and the Empress Dowager Cisheng lives in Cining Palace. The two palaces are one east and one west, Ciqing Palace is in the east, and Cining Palace is in the west, so some people also call the Empress Dowager Rensheng as the Empress Dowager of the East, and the Empress Dowager of Cisheng as the Empress Dowager of the West.

However, the Western Empress Dowager of the Ming Dynasty is still quite different from the Western Empress Dowager of the Tatar Qing Dynasty, and the least two points are that she neither listens to politics nor takes the initiative to intervene in national affairs.

Today, however, it may be an extremely rare exception.

Because His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, His Majesty Zhu Yijun, after summoning Gao Shishi, was called to Cining Palace by Empress Dowager Li again, and this time the questions asked already involved some government affairs.

"Ling Yunyi, this guy is so bold" Empress Dowager Li did not sit upright, but walked around quickly, and said sharply, "A newly promoted military department secretary, before he arrived, he staged a big drama of arson and murder in the Beijing division and at the feet of the Son of Heaven, and the mourning family has really gained knowledge, and even Kunqu does not have such a powerful role"

Since the queen mother was standing, Zhu Yijun naturally didn't dare to sit down, and stood honestly with her hands down, and even because of the queen mother's harsh words, she was so frightened that she even lowered her head, and she didn't dare to take a breath.

There were two other girls standing beside him, the third princess Zhu Yao'e and the fourth princess Zhu Yaoyuan.

The two princesses are wearing woven gold gauze through-shoulder persimmon-shaped phoenix shirts, with woven gold as phoenix cloud shoulders on the shoulder sleeves and hooked lotus patterns inside.

The lower is equipped with a makeup gauze python skirt, which is a pleated long skirt made of five materials, with a peach-colored dark flower yarn edge at the waist, a dark flower diameter yarn, and a dark flower with a tangled chrysanthemum and camellia pattern. Woven skirts and skirts with gold makeup. The skirt and skirt are on the front and back of the dragon, and there are nine dragons, and they are decorated with Xiangfeng, peony, camellia, chrysanthemum, lotus, plum blossom, seawater river cliff and other ornaments.

It is said that it is a dragon pattern, but in fact, according to the regulations, this is one of the variants of python robe women's clothing, so it is called a python skirt.

There is no difference in the shape of the two of them, but there is a difference in the color selection, the background color of the third princess Zhu Yao'e's top is dark green, the background color of the python skirt is grass green, the background color of the fourth princess Zhu Yaoyuan is the background color of the rain is azure, and the background color of the python skirt is lake blue. Presumably, the third princess is still green, and the fourth princess is blue.

The emperor punished the station, and the two princesses accompanied the punishment, and this treatment was also enjoyed by the queen mother of the two palaces.

However, judging from Empress Dowager Li's current demeanor, she has no feeling for this enjoyment, and the only feeling she has now is probably anger.

"Emperor, you heard what your two royal sisters said just now, although Ling Yunyi didn't know that the two of them were in the temple at the time, they could force a person who went to Beijing to take the exam, and he was not allowed to take shelter from the rain, which is always contrary to my Ming Dynasty's national policy of preferential treatment of scholars, not to mention that he is the secretary of the military department, and he actually committed murder, which is not consistent with the policy of employing people in the country."

Zhu Yijun dared to have any objections, and nodded again and again.

Empress Dowager Li asked, "In that case, what are you going to do?"

Zhu Yijun hesitated slightly, and said, "If the minister wants to deal with this matter directly, I am afraid it will be easy to make people distracted, and then the focus of attention will be shifted from Ling Yunyi's murder to why the two royal sisters appeared in the temple, although there is nothing unspeakable, but the so-called rumors are always false, and the more they are spread, the more ridiculous they become, so in the opinion of the ministers, it is better to wait for the cabinet or Kedao to take the initiative to discuss and impeach." ”

"Will anyone be impeached" Empress Dowager Li put away her anger and asked expressionlessly, "I heard that this Ling Yunyi is a protégé of Xu Jie, and he is the same year as Zhang Juzheng, Yin Shidan, Yin Zhengmao and others, and he is also a senior minister in the court." Moreover, he was able to serve as the Great Sima this time, and I heard that it was not unusual for him to be the main one. ”

Zhu Yijun didn't think about it so much, and when he heard the queen mother say this, he couldn't help but hesitate a little, secretly thinking that I would let the pragmatic do it, but Zhang Siwei is a pragmatic uncle, I don't know if he can do it, don't find someone to go to the sparse when the time comes, he can only write a sparse essay by himself, then it will not be easy to do, he has resigned now, just a lifter, even if it is Xie Yuan, he has no right to hand the sparse text into the palace.

Seeing Zhu Yijun's hesitant face, Empress Dowager Li frowned, and asked, "Emperor, do you have something to hide from the mourning family?"

Zhu Yijun was taken aback, and hurriedly said, "How dare Erchen deceive his mother, it's just that Erchen just hinted at Gao Pragmatic in this matter, but at that time, Erchen forgot that he had resigned, and I don't know if he can arrange this matter well." ”

Hearing this, Empress Dowager Li couldn't help but sneer, waved her hand and said, "Then you can rest assured, this kid is pragmatic, this kid must have this ability." ”

"The Queen Mother." Zhu Yijun breathed a sigh of relief: "Then I hope he won't disappoint the queen mother and sons." ”

Empress Dowager Li snorted, and didn't dwell on this matter anymore, but waved her hand, "It's not early, the emperor will go back and rest first, and you don't want to go to Kunning Palace when you are in the middle palace." ”

Zhu Yijun's face fell, but he still responded honestly.

As soon as the emperor left, Empress Dowager Li sat back, looked at her two daughters, and suddenly said, "You usually listen to your imperial brother praise Gao pragmatism, but now I see me, how do you feel?"

The two princesses glanced at each other, and the third princess, Zhu Yao'e, said, "My daughter thinks it's not bad, at that time, Lingyunyi's family had already entered the courtyard, and Gao Shishi refused to escape alone, and ran into the Daxiong Treasure Hall to escape with the two of us." ”

"There's still some baggage." Empress Dowager Li nodded, and asked again, "Did he know your identity at that time?"

The two princesses shook their heads together, "I definitely don't know." ”

When Empress Dowager Li saw that the two of them spoke in unison, she couldn't help but wonder, "Why are you so sure?"

The two girls glanced at each other, and they were a little flustered, and they refused to speak.

Empress Dowager Li's face slowly became stern, her eyes wandered around the faces of the two of them a few times, and she suddenly asked in a cold voice, "Why don't you speak, what's the matter?"

The two princesses were so frightened that they immediately knelt down, but it was their sister Zhu Yao'e who spoke first, "Go back, after returning to your mother, because after Gao Pragmatic broke in, he grabbed us, took our hands and ran out, if he knew our identity, he would definitely not dare." ”

"Smack"

Empress Dowager Li slapped the table angrily, "He also grabbed your hand, why didn't you say it just now?"

"Daughter, daughter doesn't dare." Zhu Yao'e trembled with fright, tears rolling in her eyes.

The fourth princess, Zhu Yaoyuan, even flattened her mouth and wanted to cry.

It turned out that although the Empress Dowager Li was strict with Zhu Yijun, this strictness was usually only available to Zhu Yijun alone, and she was a loving mother to Zhu Yijun, the king of Lu, and her three daughters, so she suddenly became angry with her two daughters, and the two princesses were a little frightened and at a loss.

When Empress Dowager Li saw it, she was also a little distressed, and secretly said that in the end, it was not the fault of the two of them, it was only Gao Pragmatic, even if you didn't know their identities, but you could always see the two little girls, and it was not okay to run over and grab their hands, this matter categorically can't be just settled