15. The Emperor's Choice
At this moment, the envoy sent by the emperor to reclaim Gao Yue also happened to arrive in Bianzhou, but he only saw that the original Shaoqing Li Qi went in bright clothes, but he returned from dirty detention, and he knew that the dust had settled in Huainan and Jiangdong.
During this time, it has been snowing in Guanzhong, it is snowing heavily, and there is more than enough snow in Gyeonggi, and the weather is very strange: winter thunder mixed with hail, falling after the snow, many trees and fields are damaged, and many livestock are frozen to death.
The prime minister was all driven away by the emperor, and the rice and grain could not be delivered, so the emperor himself discussed disaster relief measures with Xiao Pei, specifically taking out the money from the inner treasury to make peace, and then letting the ships transfer Chen rice from Taiyuan Cang and Heyin Cang, and it was even rumored that the emperor had a grand plan to conquer Huainan.
But in the closed gate of Daming Palace, many attendants in the forbidden place know that all this is just the emperor's imagination:
The emperor was with the provincial scribes of the group all day long, dictating and writing, and then it was a mess, and it was impossible to upload and distribute it smoothly, and the construction was always tossed within the scope of sketches;
When you abolish an institution, it will be completely futile to use it and manipulate it.
In the cold weather, the emperor is like a bird flying around only within the iron walls on all sides.
Ominous news came one after another, not only did there be a snow disaster in Guanzhong, but also an earthquake in Fengxiang Qishan, and the big tower of Famen Temple was also cracked, and the blue-gray earth air sprayed outward, frightening the residents within a radius of hundreds of miles.
Now, not only Si Tianjian warned him, but finally even Sima Chengzhen personally came to see the emperor and solemnly said, no matter what, Your Majesty, you should also make an official explanation and remedy for this.
The depressed emperor, after the body recovered a little, strolled in the Penglai Pavilion in the palace, at this time the waterfall has already turned into a static ice edge, the entire lake panel is knotted, a frost color is killed, and the frozen stiff bird corpses are scattered on the ground and on the lake ice, which is shocking.
It is rumored that the low-level palace maids who live in the wild fox fall are carried out every day by freezing to death, which is very pitiful.
"Your Majesty, Huainan and Jiangdong, the ship carrying Zhizhi rice has arrived in Weikou." When Daying made Huo Zhongtang come to the snow and tell the emperor the news......
The emperor snorted, but the fingers in his sleeves were pinched so hard that he was almost bleeding, and his heart was full of mixed tastes.
Huo Zhongtang paused, and then whispered to the emperor: "There are also many Huaiyang merchant ships, carrying rice, cotton cloth and silk, directly into the Dongshi release pond to dump, and the capital is crazy about it. ”
The emperor then asked how the price was, and Huo replied that Gao Weigong had explained in advance, and that he would not raise the price arbitrarily, it was all an easy price, and the officials, people of all colors and people in the capital could be regarded as saved.
In the snow, the emperor's face was red and he didn't say a word.
In the end, Huo Zhongtang thought about it, and still told the emperor that Li Qi was defeated and detained, Gao Weigong put him and his wife and children in shackles, nailed to the boat, and Li Qi's concubines were all released from the mansion and assigned by themselves.
"I know about it."
After returning to the bath hall, Shangqing served tea in front of the emperor.
The emperor looked at the tea leaves floating in the cup, and asked Shangqing in a dumb voice, "Is it new tea?" ”
Shangqing lowered his head, "Huoshan Huangya in Huainan was sold with Weiyang's boat, and the price was peaceful, and the concubine bought a lot." ”
The emperor drank the tea, mellow, sweet, with a slight refreshing bitterness.
It's like the taste that Gao Yue gave him.
"Have you been thinking hard, why did Dou Shen end up in such a situation?" The emperor suddenly asked.
Frightened, Shangqing shrank his neck, lowered his body, and said in a trembling voice: "The former prime minister Dou Mou offended the court, and the concubine was in the deep boudoir, so I really don't know the truth, but fortunately, I was blessed by misfortune, and now I can serve His Majesty's tea soup on the left and right, if in the sky, what is the past?" ”
"It doesn't hurt to tell you." The emperor's tone was flat, "Dou Shen is not Gao Yue's opponent, he is a loser, it's as simple as that." What I thought before was that I could rely on Xiao Pei to keep my inner library and my power, I tried my best, but I didn't have the skills to return to heaven! In the past, I faced a choice of whether to stay with Lu Jiu or keep Xiao Pei...... Now I am facing the fact that I am still in the third year of high school. ”
Before the words were over, Shangqing began to cry.
"In the third year of high school, he was not happy that I continued to set up a town navy, and he was not happy with me and Xiao Pei. If he's not happy, he has to be unhappy...... So......" The emperor also lowered his head, and then swayed, full of bitterness, as if laughing at himself, "I understand, in the future, if I sit happily, I have to be happy in the third year of high school as the premise." ”
Speaking of this, the emperor's tears also slipped down silently.
Whether it is the Ninety-Five Supreme, the Divine Strategy, or the Divine Forbidden Army, most of these seemingly glamorous powers are actually just bubbles.
Now the emperor is actually not worried about Gao Yue coveting his position, just because Gao Yue doesn't care at all.
The scribe Hua Wan knelt outside the hall, and he told the emperor that Jiang Gongfu was not in the Jingshi, as if he had followed the Fang Shi to ask for immortals.
The previous emperor was really helpless, and once remembered that there was no other Jiang Gongfu, so he asked people to find him and wanted to reappoint him as the prime minister.
But after Jiang Gongfu was demoted to the prince's concubine, he lived in the capital for a long time without incident, and his mother died again, and finally he had nothing to worry about.
Hearing this, the emperor was stunned for a moment.
The next day, Pei Yanling met the emperor alone in the Jinluan Palace.
Pei Yanling also knew the news of Li Qi's defeat and capture, and he instinctively felt that the situation was reversed and passive under a good situation!
However, Pei Yanling is a rebellious delusion after all, and he still has to bite and fight.
It's just that I didn't expect that it was him who was still trapped in the end.
After Lu Zhen was demoted to the road, Pei Yanling discussed with Li Qiyun and Li Shi, and arrested Zhang Zhong, a subordinate of Jingzhao Yin Li Chong, who advanced and retreated with Lu Zhen, and tortured him.
At this moment, Pei Yanling handed Zhang Zhong's confession to the emperor, "Zhang Zhong also confessed that Li Chong's wife and Lu Zhen's wife had a very close past, so he had sent several cars full of gold silk to Lu Zhen's wife to bribe, and the other party also accepted it." ”
After the emperor listened, he asked Pei Yanling, "Lu Zhen's wife took bribes, does Lu Zhen himself know?" ”
"How can a husband and wife be severed? But Lu Zhen is deeply involved in this matter, and the culpability cannot be shirked. ”
But after Pei Yanling finished speaking, the emperor did not answer for a long time.
The sound in the hall leaked, Pei Yanling understood something in his heart, and something gray and black overflowed from his eyes......
The emperor's sigh came, "Little Pei, you seem to have said that as long as I want to, I am willing to dedicate my head to me, go down the Cao River, and go to Zhen'an Gaoyue, right?" ”