Empress Zhang hurriedly said: "The emperor is slow, Wei Zhongxian is now colluding in and out of the palace, Tian Ergeng and Xu Xianchun of Jinyiwei are his henchmen, the palm print eunuch Wang Tiqian is his best friend, and he himself is the governor of Dongchang, and there are eunuchs in the palace who are in charge of internal exercises, the emperor went to check him with great fanfare, and the concubines were afraid that he would jump off the wall in a hurry." ”

Tianqi nodded and said: "This has to be guarded against, the others are nothing, this brocade guard and the eunuch have to think of a way." ”

So the two discussed carefully for a while, and when they were discussing, they heard Wei Zhongxian say outside: "Your Majesty, Mrs. Fengsheng has come to see you." ”

Apocalypse said, "Come in." ”

I saw that the nurse of the Apocalypse, the Ke family, who was named the Lady of Fengsheng, walked in with Wei Zhongxian, and greeted the Apocalypse and the queen, so she showed concern and asked long and short questions, and scolded the eunuchs who followed from time to time for not taking good care of the emperor. Listening to her turn over and talk over and over again, just a few words and nothing new, Tianqi felt a little funny, knowing that this woman was invited by Wei Zhongxian to stir up the situation, so he looked tired and said: "I just took the medicine, and I heard the queen talk about the palace chores for a while, and now I'm a little tired." The queen is the lord of the six palaces, and all the big and small affairs in the palace can be managed, if you can't get busy, you can ask Mrs. Fengsheng to help, don't always bother me with small things, Wei Zhongxian left the two of you to step down. ”

After the queen and the Hakka clan went out, Tianqi said to Wei Zhongxian: "Look at it, I have lost my spirit after saying a few words. ”

Wei Zhongxian was about to speak, but Tan Jing came back, saying that he had sent someone to inform the cabinet, the six ministries, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate three days later. Tianqi pondered for a moment and said, "I am not in good health, so I decided to let King Xin come to assist in government affairs, and Tan Jing personally went on another trip and asked King Xin to come with me when the time comes." ”

Tan Jing listened to Wei Zhongxian's advice before he could reply: "The emperor thinks twice, the emperor's dragon body is only temporarily unsafe, and the spirit of the dragon horse will be restored in two days, there is really no need to do more, besides, the king is just fifteen, and I am afraid that he will not be able to handle government affairs well." ”

Tianqi nodded and said, "You are right, I am afraid that King Xin is too young to be competent, and I have to summon King Rui, King Hui and King Gui in the capital to assist King Xin." In this way, King Rui, King Hui, and King Gui are my elders, and you will personally go to ask for your attention on my behalf, and say that there is something important to announce to me in three days. ”

Wei Zhongxian was in a hurry, and was about to advise again, when Tianqi said with a little displeasure: "I have made up my mind, don't say more, Taizu has strictly forbidden the internal servants to interfere in politics, you have already committed a taboo like this, if the imperial history knows about you, it will be difficult for me to protect it." ”

Hearing Tianqi say this, Wei Zhongxian had no choice but to stop talking, Tianqi smiled and said: "I can talk to you since I was a child, you have been doing things very hard for so many years, I trust you very much, you can rest assured, no matter who will say anything to you, as long as you are not guilty of rebellion, I will save it." ”

Wei Zhongxian had to smile and thank him and go out to inform people.

The apocalypse asked Tan Jing to help him up, approved a piece of clothes, and then walked to the table, wrote a few lines of words on a piece of paper, sealed it, handed it to Tan Jing, and then said: "You go and inform the queen of the letter, go to the British Mansion by the way, and personally hand over this letter to the British Duke Zhang Weiying, if the fourth person knows about this letter, I will keep the position of the palm seal of the commander of the East Factory and the celebrant in the future, and if the fourth person knows, your whole family will be copied!" ”

Tan Jing hurriedly knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, don't worry, the servants will never dare to let others know." ”

Apocalypse nodded with satisfaction and said, "Go ahead." ”

It is said that Wei Zhongxian informed King Rui, King Hui and King Gui as a last resort, and when he returned to his home outside the palace, he always felt that something was wrong, and he couldn't figure it out after thinking about it, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that his brain was not enough. Ordinary elderly people will ask their sons if they have difficult questions, Wei Zhongxian is a eunuch, he has no biological son but has a godson, so he called the housekeeper and asked him to inform his two most powerful godsons, Cui Chengxiu and Gu Bingqian, although Gu Bingqian's son is more than ten years older than him.

Gu Bingqian is always a little old, but the current cabinet chief, the political sense is quite keen, as soon as he heard Wei Zhongxian's detailed story, he judged that the apocalypse no longer trusted Wei Zhongxian, he cleared his throat and said:

"The emperor has changed, and Taizu Tuomeng just said that he was determined to let his brother and a few uncles come out to help, indicating that he only trusts their surname Zhu now. Judging from the emperor's usual behavior, he is a very confused person, and it is likely that he was instigated by the queen to do this today. Now we must find a way to regain the emperor's trust, or at least delay it, so that no resolution can be formed against us at the court meeting in three days' time. ”

Cui Chengxiu turned out to be the imperial history, and he had just been reinstated shortly after being dismissed, so he liked to think more about things because he had planted his heels, he lowered his head and thought about it and said: "My idea is divided into three steps, didn't the emperor say that everyone from the Metropolitan Procuratorate should participate?" On the day of the court, he arranged for his own people in the Metropolitan Procuratorate to play the chapter one after another, the more big and small things, the better, and it is best to fight each other, the purpose is to drag people into trouble and delay time, this is one of them; Tomorrow, let Mrs. Fengsheng enter the palace to persuade the emperor, saying that the cabinet and the celebrant can assist the emperor in governing the government, and the prince has been assisting in the administration for a long time, and he is afraid that they will have different intentions, so that the emperor can withdraw his order, which is the second; In order to prevent accidents, on the day of the last dynasty, Tian Ergeng was asked to take his subordinates to guard the Qianqing Palace, and to send eunuchs to deter those who want to talk nonsense, which is the third. Our three-pronged approach shouldn't be a big deal. ”

When Wei Zhongxian heard this, he praised the two godsons again and again, and ordered them to be responsible for informing the people outside the palace, and he was responsible for notifying the palm seal eunuchs Wang Tiqian and the Hakka family.

But he said that Mrs. Fengsheng Keshi believed that she had breastfed the emperor before, and now she has a close relationship with the emperor, and even the queen is not in her eyes. Hearing Wei Zhongxian's serious words, he hurried to the Qianqing Palace early the next morning, ready to persuade the Apocalypse to take back his fate. As soon as I walked to the door of the dormitory where the Apocalypse was recuperating, I saw Tan Jing, the steward of the Qianqing Palace, standing at the door with an embarrassed expression, and a few palace maids standing next to him, who seemed to be the queen's maids. She asked Tan Jing: "Is the emperor awake or sleeping?" ”

Tan Jing whispered: "Hey, old lady, you didn't come at the right time, the emperor took two people to the front yard to run around the garden." ”

Keshi said: "Why did you get started? The emperor's illness is cured? ”

Tan Jing said: "The queen also came just now, and after saying a few words, the emperor was not happy, and he threw the curtain and said that he was going to run, and the queen was so embarrassed that she was about to cry." ”

Ke said: "What did the queen say to make the emperor unhappy? ”

Tan Jing said: "The slave stood far away and didn't listen to the truth, as if he was talking about something in the court, and the emperor said that the harem couldn't interfere in politics, and then he got angry." ”

At this moment, Tianqi came back with two little eunuchs wearing a thin shirt, and the three of them were sweating beads on their faces, and they couldn't stop panting in their mouths, and it seemed that they were tired after a run. Apocalypse glanced at Ke Shi and smiled and asked Ke Shi to sit, and went in by himself to let people change his clothes. After the Hakka family entered the house, he saw that the queen was also there, so he first saluted the queen, and then sat aside and waited for the apocalypse to come out, and by the way, he squinted his eyes and peeked at the queen's face, and saw that the queen really looked like she had been wronged, and couldn't help but be happy.

After a while, Apocalypse changed into a light white dress and came out, and his face was washed clean, and he couldn't tell that he was a patient at all. Tianqi called someone to pass the meal and invited the queen and the Hakka to eat together, Tianqi picked up a small long bao and took a bite and said: "The wet nurse came just in time, and I also happened to have something to say, my fall into the water this time is God's punishment for me to waste government affairs, this is what Taizu said in his dream, so I must be diligent in government affairs and do it myself, and what Taizu hates most is the harem and the inner servants, and I must follow Taizu's ancestral teachings." The queen is in charge of the affairs of the harem, and if she is too busy, the nurse will help her manage it, and the two of you must take the lead yourself, and don't talk about the affairs of the court in my ear. At first, the queen asked me to recall Yang Lian and Ye Xianggao, and I thought that no matter whether these people should be recalled or not, they should not be said from the mouths of the people in the harem. Maybe the attitude is not very good, don't be angry, but the harem is really bad, nurse, don't you say? ”

Hakka said while drinking porridge: "It should be like this, it should be like this." ”

After eating, the Ke family went to Wei Zhongxian to tell him what had happened, and when Wei Zhongxian heard it, he had to give up, and he felt powerless for no reason.