Zhao Nanxing said: "My brother is reasonable, in addition to Wang Yongguang of the Ministry of War and Huang Kezhang of the Ministry of Industry, the six books are all older, and Huang Kezhang is also disliked by the emperor. ”

Han Yi said: "The canal itself is a mess, and the transportation attached to the canal is even more rotten, and Huang Kezhang is also unlucky." ”

Ye Xianggao said: "Didn't the emperor say that he likes capable people on the one hand, and obedient people on the other?" Don't go against the emperor for this while, with the emperor's trust in Yang Wenru and Zuo Gongzhi and other brothers, I believe that most of the six departments will be mastered by my Donglin Academy. ”

Han Yi said: "Since ancient times, emperors don't like their subordinates to form a party, and in the past two years, Wei Biao and others have been attacking the people of my Donglin Academy as the Donglin Party, will the emperor be suspicious?" ”

Zhao Nanxing said: "We are the Donglin Party, but we are not the township party and the party of friends, we are a party that takes the safety of the country and society as our own responsibility, and we are not afraid of people talking about long and short things." ”

Yang Lian said at this time: "The emperor knows that someone calls the people of my academy the Donglin Party, and he has no suspicion or dislike, on the contrary, he praises our proposition. ”

Ye Xianggao said, "How do you know? What did the emperor say? ”

Yang Lian said: "The emperor once spoke to the two hundred pre-election officials, quoting the couplet in front of my Donglin Academy: 'The sound of the wind and rain, the sound of reading, the sound of the family, the country, the world, everything is concerned. 'The emperor asked all officials to learn from the spirit of the people of Donglin who took the rise and fall of the world as their own responsibility. ”

Zhao Nanxing said: "The emperor really said that? Does he not scruple at all? ”

Zuo Guangdou said at this time: "I thought that the emperor didn't disdain scruples at all, just as Brother Wen Ru said, the emperor despised all systems and all people. Wei Gelding can easily defeat us, and the emperor can easily defeat Wei Eunuch, so it doesn't take much for the emperor to defeat us. ”

Zhao Nanxing said: "Yes, he is the emperor. I sometimes wonder if the power of this emperor is too great for the country? ”

Ye Xianggao said: "It's a good thing to meet Ming monarchs like Tang Taizong and Song Taizu, and it's a bad thing to meet a faint monarch like Emperor Yang of Sui." ”

Yang Lian said: "As far as the current emperor is concerned, he does not care about the courtiers to form a party not only because he is an emperor with absolute power, but also because many things he does are beneficial to the people of the world, it can be said that the people of the world are his supporters, no matter which party has to stand with him, there is no other choice." ”

Since it was a winter holiday, Apocalypse also had time not to think about those troubles. During the day, I couldn't resist the queen's request and the queen went around a big turn in the Taiye Pool and Jingshan, and called the imperial dining room to prepare a pot of mutton to Kunning Palace in the evening, and ate mutton with the queen in Kunning Palace. The queen called for a charcoal stove with a silver basin on it, in which the chopped mutton was boiling with soup, and the fragrance filled the whole room, and the smell of it would whet people's appetite. Looking at the queen's slightly pink smiling face because she drank some wine, Tianqi couldn't help but sigh in her heart, and she always reminded herself that she needed to keep a calm heart, and at this time she also made a slight wave. Apocalypse knows that people have inseparable feelings for their children, so they have always dared not approach other women, for fear that they will not be able to let go when they leave, and if they go back and miss their children, they will not be able to visit their relatives or anything. As for the queen, Apocalypse tried her best to restrain herself from having any particularly deep feelings, and when the time came, it would pass as soon as she gritted her teeth, but now looking at the smiling queen, Apocalypse's heart had a strange change. People have feelings, the two have lived together for so long, every look and every smile of the queen is constantly hitting the defense line in his heart, although he keeps telling himself that this is a game not to take it seriously, but how can it not be true if it can be seen and touched with flesh and blood? Apocalypse really suspects that one day he will be reluctant to leave.

Seeing that Tianqi was looking at herself in a daze, the queen's face couldn't help but turn even redder, and she asked softly, "Your Majesty, what are you looking at?" Could it be that there is something wrong with the concubine today? ”

was asked by the queen like this, Tianqi suddenly came back to his senses, and said casually: "I am admiring the queen's beautiful appearance, and the queen is very good-looking today." ”

The queen pursed her lips and smiled: "The women here are all good-looking today, are the two palace maids standing by the door good-looking when the emperor watches?" ”

Tianqi turned his head to look over, and saw two palace maids about sixteen or seventeen years old standing at the door, who could see that they were all carefully dressed. Apocalypse said casually: "It's the good years of youth, and they are all beautiful." ”

The queen took a glass of wine, sat down next to Apocalypse, brought the wine to Apocalypse's mouth, and said, "Your Majesty, please drink this glass of wine." ”

Apocalypse stretched out a hand around the queen's waist, took the cup in his lips and tilted his neck to drink.

The queen leaned on Tianqi's chest and asked, "Your Majesty, is the wine delicious?" ”

Apocalypse said, "It's delicious." ”

The queen asked again: "Your Majesty, is the concubine good-looking?" ”

Apocalypse said, "It's good-looking." ”

The queen asked, "Where is it beautiful?" ”

Apocalypse looked down at the queen's eyes and said, "Your eyes, your face, your nose are all beautiful." ”

The queen straightened up and asked, "Are the two handmaidens I carefully selected beautiful?" ”

Apocalypse said: "You can't simply say it's beautiful, it's very, very beautiful." ”

The queen asked softly: "Is it okay for the concubines to let them take turns to sleep with the emperor?" ”

As soon as Apocalypse said yes, he reacted immediately, and hurriedly said, "It's good, but I'm very busy these days, so let's talk about it when I'm free." ”

The queen sighed and sandwiched a piece of mutton for Tianqi, watched Tianqi eat it and asked, "What is the emperor busy with this time?" ”

Tianqi said: "Didn't you tell me last time that the old queen mother asked you to remind me of the marriage to King Xin next year?" I will find someone to choose a site to start construction the next day, and tomorrow I will find someone to ask how it has been repaired, and strive to build it as soon as possible, and you will be responsible for the selection of people, and you will send someone to keep an eye on it. ”

The queen said: "There have already been eunuchs who have gone down to choose, and the concubine means to choose a woman from seventy or eighty families first, since the old queen mother cares about the end and let the old queen mother see it in person, the emperor, do you think this is good?" ”

Apocalypse said, "Good. Seeing that the queen was a little depressed, she immediately asked, "What's wrong with the queen?" What's on your mind? ”

The queen said: "The emperor is so concerned about his brother's affairs, why doesn't he care about himself?" ”

Apocalypse said, "I don't understand what the Empress is talking about. ”

The queen said: "The concubines don't understand why the emperor doesn't like the woman who is happy to say goodbye now, but she only knows that the emperor was not like this before." ”

Tianqi hugged the queen tightly and chuckled and said, "Actually, I'm not unmoved, but this kind of thing has to be familiar with each other first, isn't it?" Besides, today is not empty, I only think about the queen tonight. ”

On the morning of the next day, Tianqi came to the Yangxin Hall on the side of the Qianqing Palace and asked Tan Jing to bring the other five Shangshu and the Imperial History of the Imperial Procuratorate in addition to the Military Department and Ye Xianggao and Han Yi in the Government Affairs Yuan to discuss matters. In October, the apocalypse asked someone to clean up the warm pavilion to the east of the Heart Cultivation Palace, and when it was not cold here, the window could be opened to see the winter sun. The rooms facing east of the Qianqing Palace are mostly the dormitory, and it is impolite to receive the courtiers, so in the winter, the Apocalypse uses the Yangxin Hall as a place to discuss matters with the ministers.

Soon after Tan Jing left, the celebrant Wang Tiqian came in, and after coming in, he stood next to the Apocalypse chair with his body bowed and did not speak. Apocalypse glanced at him and asked, "How are they doing this time?" ”

Wang Tiqian said: "Yang Gongchun has not been out of the palace without permission this month, and the eunuchs around him have been out of the palace twenty-three times, of which twenty-two times are on the orders of the emperor, and only once is a person named Xiao Lizi who went out to do private affairs for Yang Gongchun. ”

Apocalypse said, "What's the matter?" Did you find out who you met? ”

Wang Tiqian said: "It is a blind old man, according to the person who inquired about it, he came back and said that Yang Gongchun was the only uncle, Yang Gongchun hired two people to take care of it, and Xiao Lizi sent silver over." The minion specially sent someone to his hometown to investigate whether it was true, and there was no problem with the hired person. ”

The Apocalypse said, "It is for your own good that I have called you to monitor each other, lest you make a big mistake by accident. ”