Chongming Tower is the tallest building in the Imperial Palace, with a total of five floors, and is a tower-like building that sits on a five-level pedestal with stairs on all four sides of the pedestal, leading to different places. The four corners of the platform are supported by six large red pillars, and when you look up, each floor has a heavy eaves gable-style roof, and the eaves are made of red bricks and tiles, and the five sacred beasts are neatly carved on them. Each floor surrounds the building with a large terrace from which you can see the whole view of the palace. At sunset, the sun's afterglow slanted through the heavy roof and cast a golden-red glow on the table on the highest terrace.

At this moment, Xia Zimo was at the highest point of Chongming Building, with a desk in front of him, with white rice paper on it, and he was holding a brush in his hand, writing calligraphy in a flowing manner. His words are atmospheric and powerful, the pauses and turns of each stroke are very smooth, he is very relaxed and casual when he swings the pen, but the words written are like carefully carved, without the slightest perfunctory. The afterglow of the setting sun pierced a thin golden thread between his hand and the rice paper, and the transparent halo wandered on the tips of his slender fingers, which was very beautiful.

"Brother Huang, I heard that you ordered all the brothels in the capital to be sealed." Xia Ziyan came down from the stairs to the terrace and asked.

"Well, it's sealed." Xia Zimo said calmly, and after writing a word, he raised his eyes to look at Xia Ziyan and asked, "Didn't I let you think about it behind closed doors in the house?" How did it come out? ”

"Huh? Oh......" Xia Ziyan remembered that he was still a grounded person, and smiled awkwardly and said: "Haha, I was so shocked to hear this news that I forgot about it for a while, but since I came out, don't let me be grounded, brother." I know it's wrong, I won't take Luo Xue to that kind of place in the future."

"The brothels in the capital have been sealed, and there is nowhere to go if you want to take him." Xia Zimo said.

"That's it, so I don't have to be grounded." Xia Ziyan said in a timely manner, "But I heard that the matter of sealing the brothel this time was brought up by Luo Xue?" ”

"Hmm." Xia Zimo replied that at this time, he had already put down the brush in his hand and stood on the terrace looking down at the scenery of the palace, because it was summer, the trees were luxuriant, and the whole palace looked lush and vibrant.

"Did you tell him about that?" Xia Ziyan asked.

"No, he wanted to do it himself."

"Strange? How could he suddenly remember to do these things? ”

"It is said to be for the national economy and people's livelihood."

"The national economy and people's livelihood? What is that? ”

"It feels like the country and the people."

Xia Ziyan looked incredulous, and asked: "It's incredible that a person who shouts every day to resign would seize a brothel for these reasons." ”

"I think it's incredible, too." Xia Zimo remembered Qiu Luoxue's performance in the court again, and the corners of his mouth unconsciously hooked up a smile.

"But that's fine, there is a lack of an excuse to seal Fengyue Tower, so it's just right, the name is true and won't be suspected." Xia Ziyan said, "However, once Luo Xue falls into the middle of the court, I'm afraid it will be difficult to get out of it." ”

"If this is the fate of the descendants of the Qiu clan, it can only be like this." Xia Zimo said.

"Master Jiang, what do you say this new prime minister wants to do? first wanted to resign, and now he cares about the people, so it's really incomprehensible. ”

Several ministers who were slightly older in age and official positions got together to talk about the changes in the court in recent days, and the topic was naturally Qiu Luoxue. These people are flattering to Qiu Luoxue on the surface, but there are many who are not convinced behind the scenes. Although seniority is not very important in the court, there are also some people who rely on the old and sell the old.

"No matter what he wants to do, we just do our part, and the rest is up to Your Majesty." Master Jiang is an old and cunning person, no one can be offended, and he never reveals his thoughts to outsiders. However, he is also a very smooth person, the interests in the officialdom are very clear, and the relationship with the minister is also very good, and many people take him as the leader.

"Even so, is Master Jiang really willing for him to occupy the position of prime minister? A fledgling person who doesn't understand anything, but occupies a high position, is Master Jiang really willing to be below him? "The person who is speaking now is Lord Wei, the one who argued with Qiu Luoxue above the court.

"The Qiu family has been the prime minister for generations, this is the iron law of Great Qin, unless the country changes hands, you know this." Jiang Shilian said.

"Even so, this Qiu family has stayed in the phase for long enough." Another adult said, with words in his words, and the deep meaning in them inevitably made people dig deeper.

"Although Lord Qiu is young, he is also the queen of the Xiangmen, so it shouldn't be too bad. Although you are not convinced in your hearts, you are helpless, but in the future, you should do your part, and do not displease the Sacred Heart. Haven't you seen that our emperor attaches great importance to this prime minister? Jiang Shilian said again.

"Hmph, how can you not see it." Lord Wei said with a look of resentment, "First asked the hundred officials to prevent him from resigning, and then cut the title of Marquis Lu for him, and this time the matter of sealing the brothel was also obedient to him." Above this court, I am afraid that there will be no room for us to speak in the future. ”

After he said this, everyone was sullen, and they didn't know what new strategy would be brewed among them to deal with Qiu Luoxue.

Since the closure of the brothel, the news of Qiu Luoxue's preference for male style has sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and has become the talk of the people in the capital after dinner. What's even more terrifying is that in order to curry favor with her, low-level officials in the court began to search for beautiful men in various places and send them to the Prime Minister's Mansion.

"Childe, someone has sent some men over." Allure replied.

Qiu Luoxue was furious when she heard this, slapped the table angrily, and yelled: "Come on, beat them out for me, and if someone sends men over in the future, they will all be sent out for me." ”

Not only that, but even Xia Zimo, who was in the palace, knew about it, because everyone was so miraculous that he really believed it, and he had a headache for a long time. After thinking about it for a few days, I finally found a method that he thought would work.

On this day, he called Xia Ziyan to the palace.

"Come, Ziyan, come over and take a look at these." As soon as Xia Ziyan arrived in the palace, before he had time to say goodbye, Xia Zimo couldn't wait to say to him.

Xia Ziyan was surprised by his recent behavior, so he followed him to see it, and found that he asked the palace maid and eunuch to take a lot of portraits and stand on the side, and all of them were portraits of women.

"Brother Huang, what are you doing here?" Xia Ziyan asked.

"Let's take a look first, what do you think of these women?" Xia Zimo said.

Xia Ziyan looked at his strange behavior, and then looked at the portraits of those women, most of these faces had been seen, they were the young ladies of the prince's minister's family, and he had some conclusions in his heart, and asked, "You don't want to choose a concubine for me, do you?" ”

Xia Zimo glanced at him and said, "Aren't there enough concubines in your house?" The women of the whole Daqin are almost finished being collected by you, and you are still thinking about choosing a concubine. ”

When he said this, Xia Ziyan was a little embarrassed and said, "Then if you don't choose a concubine for me, why do you let me watch this?" Ah, I see, it's the imperial brother, you have to choose a concubine. ”

"Not me. It is a lady who wants to choose a wife with both ability and political integrity for the prime minister. Xia Zimo said.

"This ...... Why did the demon suddenly choose Mrs. Luo Xue? ”

"What else can it be, it's not like you haven't heard of this gossip in the capital. I thought about it, it was because he was still unmarried that this kind of rumor appeared, and when he got married, the rumor would be self-defeating. ”

"However, this kind of thing must be agreed by Luo Xue, and he will definitely not agree to do this." Xia Ziyan said, the expression on his face was a little embarrassed, he was thinking about how to dissuade his imperial brother's terrible idea.

"Why not? He won't ...... It won't really be a good man, right? Xia Zimo asked in shock.

"No, no, it's not, it's just...... It's just Luo Xue, he is actually not very old, and it is very restricted to get married so early, so let him be free for a few more years. ”

Xia Zimo listened to Xia Ziyan's unexcused excuses, and looked at him with a lot of inquiry, this expression made Xia Ziyan feel furious and very uncomfortable.

"The Emperor...... Brother Huang, why are you looking at me like this? ”

"Are you thinking about marrying the prime minister until now?" Xia Zimo asked.

Well?! This question made Xia Ziyan speechless to the end, what happened to his imperial brother recently? How do you always have these whimsical opinions. He wants to marry Qiu Luoxue, how is it possible? Why do you still suspect his sexuality?

"Brother Huang, I'm not good at men, I like women, and I'm a beautiful woman, after so many years, don't you know? How obvious I am. ”

"But when you were a child, when you first saw the prime minister, you said that you wanted to marry him, and you also begged your father to give you a marriage, and your father and the first prime minister were worried about this matter."

"That was when I was a kid, I was young and ignorant." Xia Ziyan explained, "Hey, it's not because of Luo Xue, why would a big man marry such a feminine name, I must have mistaken him for a girl at the time, well, that's right, it was a misunderstanding." ”

"The prime minister changed his name to Qiu Luoxue when he was five years old, and the first time you met was at his first birthday banquet. The name was changed because he was in poor health when he was a child and could barely survive, and then there was a major event that changed the name for him, and it is strange to say that after he changed his name, he was really good. ”

"That's right...... Even if it's not because of the name, it's because it's too young, a child, the gender is not obvious, and it's normal for me to be mistaken. But I really don't like him now, I really don't like him. Xia Ziyan said very sincerely.

"If you don't like it, as a member of the royal family, you have to shoulder the heavy responsibility of passing on the royal family. As for him, as the only bloodline of the Qiu family, he also has to shoulder the responsibility of continuing the incense for the Qiu family, so you must not be together, do you understand? Xia Zimo made a careful arrangement.

Even so, since this idea appeared, he was still very uneasy, so after Xia Ziyan left, he decided to talk to Qiu Luoxue for a deep time. Alas~ It's not easy to be the emperor, not only to deal with state affairs, but also to care about their sexual orientation, it's really difficult!