Gu Xining reported all of Zuo Sanxiang's plan and the banquet with Kabuki on the building boat to the emperor, and only waited for the emperor's order.

In Gu Xining's opinion, the emperor must restrict Zuo Sanxiang from such nonsense, at least send someone to apply for punishment.

"Well, the left three are doing a good job! Gu Xining, you quickly go and check the grain and rice shop in Bianzhou according to what Zuo Sanxiang said, and then I will send someone to check the official warehouse, let's start to beat the grass, drive the snake out, and let Zuo Sanxiang catch the snake! ”

Gu Xining raised his head in surprise, "Your Majesty, people have already prepared, if we go to investigate like this, I'm afraid we will have little effect!" ”

"The results are very small, at least there are results, even if it is to let those who are greedy for the country's money and food stabilize first. Only when they think they are safe will they let down their vigilance and will not incite the workers and people to confront the imperial court. Do you understand? ”

Gu Xining always felt that Zuo Sanxiang's practice of killing people at every turn was strange if he didn't provoke a popular uprising.

"Your Majesty is far-sighted, but Lord Zuo threatens to kill people at every turn, and his subordinates are afraid that the scene will not be able to be controlled at that time!"

The emperor smiled meaningfully, "The three connected to the left, the imperial court feudal officials said to kill, and thousands of elites said to kill them, what scene do you think he can't control?" Even if there is really a big mess, it is not impossible for the court to deal with him again to calm down the people's anger! ”

Gu Xining shuddered, although he was not optimistic about the future of Zuo Sanxiang, but it was still scary to say such words from the emperor's mouth.

When the emperor was employing people, he had already thought of all the ways to retreat, and this time the matter was done, and the credit was the king of Jin, and if it was done badly, it was the three ministers of Zuo who killed innocents indiscriminately and aroused public anger.

The ministers of the court are just pawns of the emperor, and he Gu Xining is not a pawn.

"Subordinates understood! This will take people to Bianzhou! ”

"Wait, I ask you, what kind of person do you think Zuo Sanxiang is? I want to hear the truth, and it's okay for you to speak up! ”

Gu Xining hesitated for a moment, "In the eyes of his subordinates, this person is bold, ruthless, greedy for wine and lustful, and looks down on people, and has a bad problem!" If I have such a friend, it would be a shame on me! However, I have to admire this man, because he has real skills! If my personal morality could be better, maybe I would choose to be friends with him! ”

"Very good, impartial, public is public and private is private, do you want to know what I think of this person?"

The emperor asked Gu Xining a question, but Gu Xining was worried that it would be bad to know too much, and the emperor would not share his thoughts with others under normal circumstances.

"Today, I will face you and the two of you, don't worry too much, I am the Son of Heaven, and in your opinion, I can only be unpredictable. I play the role of Emperor every day, and from this position, I am no longer a father, a husband, or a friend! Just alone! ”

The emperor claimed to be alone, but Gu Xining was wondering where he had said the wrong thing today, which would make the emperor feel so emotional.

"Your Majesty will teach your subordinates!" Gu Xining responded, thinking that after listening to the emperor's truth today, he might have to stay away from the capital in the future.

"In your position, it's impossible not to be careless. In fact, what I want to say is not a shocking secret, I just think that living like Zuo Sanxiang is not in vain in the world! Don't stick to etiquette, don't be bound by morality, scold if you want to scold, beat people if you want to beat people, drink wine and eat color, this is a real man! And I, as well as you people, may not want to be the same as Zuo Sanxiang in their hearts, but because of etiquette and morality and other people's discussions, they have to suppress themselves! When I was young, I just wanted to be a general with my martial arts to serve the battlefield, but I had to provoke the Great Liang Jiangshan later. When he was a prince, he still had many friends around him, but when he became an emperor, he didn't have a single friend. For more than 10 years, you have been one of the few people who have listened to me! ”

Gu Xining immediately knelt down and said, "Subordinates are terrified,"

Before Gu Xining could finish speaking, the emperor smiled, "Look at you, you have too many thoughts, this is not an unsightly thing, I am just talking to you." Forget it, I see that you are extremely uncomfortable here, you go on an errand! Try your best to find out something, and this credit can't be taken by the left three ministers! ”

Gu Xi

After Ning bent down and withdrew, the emperor called Zhao Agui, "Agui, go, go to Pei Guifei to have a look!" ”

"Your Majesty, why did you think of Concubine Pei today?"

Zhao Agui was very curious, five years ago, the emperor never summoned any concubines to sleep, and after retiring from the dynasty, he stayed in the Wuji Hall of alchemy.

"Stupid people talk a lot, go and command your apprentices and grandchildren to fight the front station!"

"Slaves obey!"

Zhao Agui smiled and ran forward and shouted, "A few of you, go to Pei Guifei to spread the emperor's message, and the saint will drive!" ”

"A eunuch, this official is also very good! It's like a county official! ”

The Emperor quipped as he paced behind his back.

The four eunuchs who went to Pei Guifei to spread the word made Pei Guifei very surprised.

"This Yunhua Hall of Changle Palace is about to be abandoned, are you here to find the palace to be happy?"

The four eunuchs knelt down breathlessly and pointed outside the palace gate, "The slave listened so really, the saint is really coming!" Even if the minions have 10,000 heads, they don't dare to deceive the concubine! ”

Concubine Pei glanced in the direction outside the palace gate and sighed, "Okay, get up, and by the way, help arrange the inside of this Yunhua Palace!" ”

said that it was an arrangement, in fact, it was to look around the palace a few times and then call the eunuchs and palace maids in Yunhua Hall to the palace gate, all the furnishings and objects are to be wiped by the palace maids every day, in fact, what is really to be arranged is the atmosphere.

The emperor finally came once, and he couldn't be deserted, and when the twenty-one palace maids and eunuchs followed Pei Guifei to kneel at the door, Zhao Agui had already opened the way.

"The emperor is driving the Yunhua Hall of Changle Palace!"

The last three words of this voice dragged on for an extremely long time, and the concubines of the other eight halls of Changle Palace also heard it.

When the emperor's shoulder appeared, Pei Guifei's slender voice sounded, "Concubines welcome Your Majesty's holy drive!" Your Majesty is blessed with peace and happiness, and you will live forever! ”

The emperor waved his hand on his shoulder and smiled, "Pei Guifei, please hurry up, everyone get up, I came here today because I heard that Pei Guifei's lily and sour jujube soup here is doing well, so I made a special trip to taste it!" ”

Pei Guifei was stunned for a moment and then Xie En got up, this lily sour jujube soup was the first time she had heard of it, but what the emperor said could only be right.

Zhao Agui came forward to give Zhao Hua, the eunuch who was in charge of the meal in Yunhua Palace, a few words, and Zhao Hua took four people down to work.

In the past five years, except for the annual Chinese New Year's Eve banquet and the wedding of the King of Jin, Concubine Pei and the emperor sat together, the rest of the time was spent in Yunhua Hall to pass the time.

Looking at the somewhat old emperor in front of her, Pei Guifei didn't know what to say, after all, the emperor was only three years younger than her father.

"Concubine Pei, can King Jin come to Yunhua Hall to bid you farewell before leaving?"

It was the emperor who broke the embarrassing dullness and asked about King Jin.

When it came to King Jin, a light flashed in Pei Guifei's eyes, "Back to Your Majesty, when Du'er resigned, the concubine personally stewed ginseng soup for him, Du'er was very filial, and His Majesty handed him such a heavy responsibility, and the concubine was grateful!" ”

"Why didn't Concubine Pei say that I sent Du'er a drudgery to offend people? This errand is very dangerous! ”

"The harem is not allowed to interfere in politics, and the errands sent by the emperor are all the emperor's grace and trust!"

Pei Guifei replied very depressedly, the emperor always likes to pick things out, and then see how the other party responds.

"Concubine Pei is very measured, I like this very much! Since Pei Guifei has followed me for more than 20 years, she has never returned to her mother's house in Hedong! ”

Concubine Pei Guifei was very curious, the emperor suddenly talked about returning to her mother's house, was he testing her, or did he have other purposes.

"The concubine has received the grace of the saint and entered the palace, and this Yunhua Hall is home!"

The emperor took Pei Guifei's hand, "I've been getting old lately, and there are many things, it's not the same time before!" There are some things that you can't do if you don't bring them up and don't arrange them! Du'er is very hard to run errands outside, if Pei Guifei puts on a big honor guard at this time and goes back to Hedong, at least those relatives of the Pei family can also help Du'er in secret! ”

Only then did Pei Guifei understand that the emperor suddenly mentioned the matter of returning to her parents' house, which had a purpose.

"Your Majesty has good intentions, the concubine understands, and the concubine will start to prepare!"

"The sooner the better! Well, I've given you permission to use the Queen's guard of honor! ”

Several palace maids were secretly happy on the side, but Pei Guifei had a solemn face, without the status of the queen, she now had to use the queen's guard of honor, if the king of Jin could not inherit the throne in the future, the prince might not pursue this matter after he ascended the throne.

"The concubines belong to the concubines, and they should understand the rules and abide by the etiquette system, and the concubines still use the honor guard of the concubine!"

"I will make a decree, charter! You don't have to worry! "The emperor's intention is very resolute

Pei Guifei had to agree, the emperor once again counted her and her clansmen, and it was naturally extremely beautiful to go home with the queen's honor guard, and the Pei family and some people who stood in line with the king of Jin would also think that Pei Guifei had the hope of being promoted to the queen, and the king of Jin had the hope of becoming the prince.

Hope is a dose of poison, which makes people obsessed, and makes people think of ways to deceive themselves into desperating for hope.

But Pei Guifei knew in her heart that the crown prince was on par with the king of Jin, and the king of Jin did not have an obvious advantage, and it was recently rumored that the king of Jin was called an inspector, but in fact, he drank and tricked all day long.

Thinking of this, Concubine Pei couldn't help but ask, "Your Majesty, the concubine heard that Mr. Wen Qianwen, the chief of the Jin Palace, did not accompany him, and there was no Confucian like Mr. Wen by his side, and the concubine was afraid that the King of Jin would have a gaffe in etiquette!" ”

This sentence is extremely ingenious, the son does not teach the fault of the father, and the teacher is lazy if he does not teach strictly.

Zuo Sanxiang's "good name" was famous all over the world more than ten years ago, if it wasn't for Zuo Sanxiang who saved the young King of Jin, King Jin pestered Pei Guifei to ask Zuo Sanxiang to be a master, Pei Guifei refused to let Zuo Sanxiang enter the Jin Palace.

The emperor giggled, "Du'er has been gentle and elegant in the palace all day long, and she has been suppressed for a long time, I don't want my son to be a hypocrite!" It doesn't hurt for young people to have some pleasure once in a while, and after the experience, they don't have extreme cravings. If it is held back for a long time, I am afraid that the backlash in this regard will be more serious in the future. Of course, mothers always want their sons to follow the rules! Wen Qian is more than upright, but he can't do things. I sent Zuo Sanxiang and Liu Jingchuan to assist Du'er, but I didn't want Du'er to become a nerd, take a look at how this Zuo Sanxiang does things, learn to be flexible! ”

"The concubine is just worried that His Majesty and Du'er's reputation will be damaged, you must know that those scholars don't see it that way!"

"Reader?" The emperor mentioned these three words with contempt

"When I fought the world, the one who sacrificed his life to take righteousness was the scholar, and now he is criticizing the government and slandering the minister all day long, that is not called a scholar, that is called a mad dog!"

"Your Majesty, the concubine went to see if the lily sour jujube soup was ready, the concubine had to try the taste first!"

The emperor waved his arm lightly, "Go ahead, of course you can't make the lily sour jujube soup!" I believe in you! ”

Gu Xining rushed to Bianzhou in disguise before the team of King Jin, Gu Xining found a few farmers who farmed in the team, consulted for several days about planting and harvesting corn and weighing, and pretended to be a merchant who came to buy grain.

However, Gu Xining's cart was stopped outside Bianzhou City, and in order to facilitate entering the city, Gu Xining directly sent his men to get dozens of official receipts and rice coupons from the Xiao family.

Unexpectedly, he couldn't get in with the official documents and rice coupons, and the little official at the city gate who was in charge of transporting grain told Gu Xining that these official documents and rice coupons did not clearly indicate which grain store to go to to transport grain, and it was useless.

Gu Xining realized his carelessness at this time, and after giving the little official five hundred money, the little official smiled, "I know that you are a person from the imperial court, but your method is really too bad, ordinary merchants are often a few people who share an official document and rice coupons, you can get good, you can take out several at once." Don't talk about those people in the food store, even my little minion knows that it's too fake, you, better find another way! ”

Only then did Gu Xining realize why Zuo Sanxiang would say that he wanted to kill people and set fires, all aspects of this grain business had already been tightly matched, and outsiders couldn't squeeze in without the Xiao family's nod.

Now a small official can see that he is a member of the imperial court, let alone other people, whether it is a secret visit now, I am afraid that he has already been targeted.

It was really a foot tall and a foot high, so Gu Xining had to send out dozens of grain trucks and take his subordinates into the city in batches.