The dinner was quite sumptuous, but Han Ruzi felt that it was not as delicious as the rice porridge and pickles at breakfast, and Zhang Youcai, who was serving on the side, also felt the same way: "I didn't feel anything when I ate it, and now my nose is full of the taste of that time, it's really strange." ”

After dinner, Han Ruzi returned to the study, the bedroom in the main room was still being cleaned up, and he still had to live here temporarily.

There are several wooden boxes in the room, which are full of pen, ink, paper, inkstones, fans, ornaments and other small objects, but there are no books, and it seems that I will have to buy them myself in the future.

Zhang Youcai came in and lit a candle and asked, "Master, do you really need me to serve?" ”

Han Ruzi shook his head, he liked to stay alone in the study.

Not long after nightfall, Cai Xinghai came back, and he was not idle all day, he had been running outside, and finally brought back vital information.

"Tomorrow at dusk, Mrs. Ti Hou will leave the palace from the Penglai Gate in the north, go to Huashi Lane, Buddha Lane and Shuying Lane, and enter Cui's house through the back door." Cai Xinghai exhaled, "It's really too much, Madame was once the queen, even if she is deposed, she is qualified to leave the palace in a bright and bright way and enter the house through the main gate." ”

Han Ruzi sympathized with Cui Xiaojun, and even took her to the Tired Hou Mansion.

Yang Feng's mind was never on Mrs. Tired Hou, and asked, "Is there any news about the establishment of the emperor?" ”

Cai Xinghai sighed, "The Queen Mother left the King of the East China Sea in Cishun Palace, and Jing Yao, the supervisor of the Central Division, has been frequently going back and forth between the Inner Palace and the Southern Army these days, and it seems that she wants to establish the King of the East China Sea." ”

"The King of the East China Sea can also be regarded as wishing." Han Ruzi was still a little jealous in his heart, and he felt even more uncomfortable at the thought that he might have to bow down to the king of the East China Sea in the future.

Yang Bong sat on a box. I thought about it for a while. said: "It may not be the king of the East China Sea." ”

Cai Xinghai knew that Yang Feng was a smart person. But he believed the news he heard even more, "It has spread outside, saying that it is Cui Taifu who is in charge of the Southern Army, and requires the Queen Mother to make his nephew the emperor, otherwise the capital will be washed in blood." When I was in the Northern Army, the soldiers there were panicked, and they didn't know when they would go to war. ”

"But you can still bring a group of people into the city, which shows that the Northern Army is not ready for war at all." Yang Feng said.

Cai Xinghai scratched his head. "There's no way, the northern army is scattered, how many years have it been like this, even if the queen mother wants to confront the southern army, she won't use them. Also, I heard that many ministers went to curry favor with Mrs. Cui, and if they couldn't enter the camp of the Southern Army, they went to Cui's house in the city to deliver stickers and gifts, and there had been a lot of traffic in front of Cui's house for several months. ”

Yang Feng smiled and said nothing, and Cai Xinghai chatted for a while and retired.

Yang Feng stood up, "What do you think?" ”

"I know too little information. There is no way to judge. ”

"Knowing too much information is not necessarily a good thing, and you have to learn to see the subtleties."

Han Ruzi thought for a while. "Last night you made me think about one thing: how can you express yourself clearly."

"Well, you have the answer?"

"Not yet, I'm thinking about the opposite question: as the supreme, how can I understand the true thoughts of the courtiers, this is the biggest dilemma of the Queen Mother at the moment."

Yang Feng nodded, "Put yourself in your shoes, this is the key to seeing the subtleties, please continue to speak." ”

"The Empress Dowager dragged on for five months before I abdicated, during which rumors abounded, as Cai Xinghai said, many ministers threw themselves to the Cui family - perhaps this is the Empress Dowager's means of understanding the true thoughts of her courtiers, watching their deeds, not just listening to their words."

Yang Feng was noncommittal, and raised his hand to signal Tihou to continue.

"There are those who please the Cui family, and there are those who avoid the Cui family or even oppose the Cui family, so that the Queen Mother can see who among the ministers can stand on her side." Han Ruzi pondered, imagining that he was the queen mother and the emperor who held the power, and things slowly became clearer, "The queen mother will never establish the king of the East China Sea, the king of the East China Sea is different from me, he has the Cui family as a backer, and he will be the emperor, which will give the court a wrong message, so that the minister thinks that the Cui family is victorious and the queen mother is defeated, in that case, she will no longer have the possibility of turning over." ”

Yang Feng finally nodded, "That's exactly what I guessed. ”

The confusion in Han Ruzi's heart was not eliminated, but deepened, "Can't Mrs. Cui see such an obvious fact?" The longer he waits, the worse it will be for him, and those ministers, do they make the same mistakes? ”

Yang Feng smiled slightly, "How can things be so easy, the tired Hou only put himself in the shoes of the Queen Mother, and he has not thought about Mrs. Cui." ”

Han Ruzi thought for a while and sighed: "It's too difficult, the Cui family is deeply entrenched in the court, and Cui Taifu has regained the military power of the Southern Army, and the odds are quite high, especially the Queen Mother asked me to abdicate, which is tantamount to showing weakness to the Cui family." Even if the Queen Mother has a clever plan, she may not be able to succeed. No wonder some ministers will throw themselves to the Cui family. ”

"Therefore, it is not necessarily a good thing for the tired marquis to abdicate and stay away from strife."

Han Ruzi smiled, it was easy to abdicate but it was difficult to regain the position, he could only sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and he was addicted, "Then who will the Queen Mother appoint to be the emperor?" There are many descendants of the Han family, but the only sons of Emperor Huan are me and the king of the East China Sea, and I have appointed others as emperors, and her position as the queen mother is a bit unjustifiable. Could it be that she still wants to establish the king of the East China Sea, but she thinks of a way to deter the Cui family and the ministers? ”

"We'll probably know the results tomorrow night." Yang Feng didn't say his judgment, "The struggle between the Queen Mother and the Cui family is likely to last for a while, but tomorrow's battle is very important, and it is also very important for the tired marquis." ”

"If the king of the East China Sea is the emperor normally, the power of the Cui family will rise sharply, and the influence of the queen mother in the court will decline, and when the time comes, someone will kill me not to please the queen mother, but to please the Cui family and the king of the East China Sea."

"Rest, let's just talk about the general trend here, no need to draw conclusions, the emperor's technique is right and strange, the general trend is positive, you come and go back and forth is strange, the Queen Mother and Mrs. Cui may come up with strange moves to win, this is impossible to guess."

Han Ruzi couldn't stop his heart immediately, he sighed, his mind was still pondering, and seeing that Yang Feng had already walked to the door, he said: "The officials of the Ministry of Rites saw me like a tiger, did they know anything in advance?" ”

Yang Feng stopped, "The Queen Mother promoted Shangshu Yuan Jiuding of the Ministry of Rites half a year ago and introduced him into the Qinzheng Palace, it won't be for no reason." ”

"At that time, the palace change had not yet happened, could it be that the Queen Mother had already wanted me to abdicate? My mother just happened to talk about the Queen Mother's heart? ”

"Don't think too much, some things may never be answered, and some things will only be understood when you get to that position." Yang Feng pushed the door out, leaving a bunch of doubts for the tired marquis.

Han Ruzi stripped off by himself, blew out the candles, and lay on the bed for a long time unable to sleep.

"Cui Family ......" Thinking that the Cui family might marry several daughters to the king of the East China Sea as queens and concubines, Han Ruzi felt that it was incumbent on him to take his wife back.

But Yang Feng's relaxed attitude surprised Han Ruzi, did he think that the Cui family would definitely lose in the battle with the Queen Mother, so he didn't care about offending the Cui family?

Yang Feng wanted to use twenty Xiao cavalry guards to directly connect Mrs. Tihou into the mansion, the plan was simple, but it was not easy to implement.

Early the next morning, when Zhang Youcai came to serve the tired marquis, he said: "It was really effective to go to the Ministry of Rites yesterday to make trouble, our house is full of officers and soldiers, and there must be hundreds of them from the street to the end of the street." ”

Not only that, but the governors and lieutenants sent by the Zongzheng Mansion also began to officially perform their duties, and they didn't care much about other things, but they were very strict about the people who entered and exited the Tired Hou Mansion, and their names, appearances, reasons, and times were all recorded in detail.

The Tired Hou Mansion is indeed safe, but it has also lost the freedom at the beginning, Han Ruzi feels that it is difficult for him to go out, let alone rob people halfway, and he can't help but feel a little anxious.

Yang Feng didn't have any urgency at all, he seemed to have simply forgotten today's major events, and had been entangled with two officials all morning, these two people were assigned by the imperial court, not only to serve the tired marquis, but also to be public monitors, Yang Feng was the head of the Hou mansion, although there was no grade, but he was in charge of more things.

In order to argue about the scope of responsibilities of both sides and whose status is higher, Yang Feng and the government officials launched a battle for every inch of land, and the other party did not show weakness, opening and closing the mouth This is the arrangement of the Zongzheng Mansion, which has been a practice for many years.

Seeing that noon had passed, Han Ruzi began to fidget, and Cai Xinghai ran in and out, constantly giving the tired Hou a look.

Soon after the afternoon, Cai Xinghai was expelled from the Hou Mansion, he was not on the list of designated eunuchs, and he was not an official slave, and he stayed in the mansion for too long to be unorthodox.

Yang Feng struggled, but finally gave in, and personally sent Cai Xinghai out of the mansion, along with the Du family's grandson, these two people are of unknown origin, and they can't stay in the mansion.

On the surface, Yang Feng lost more and less in a series of battles, but as the chief manager, he could manage fewer and fewer things, and he kept shaking his head and stomping his feet, looking very annoyed.

One hour in the afternoon, Yang Feng finally won a small victory, and obtained the consent of the government officials to hire a teacher for the tired marquis.

After a morning of fighting, the Fu Cheng and the Fu Wei were already exhausted, and they heard that the invited gentleman was Guo Cong, the master of the Tired Marquis in the palace, and reluctantly agreed, Guo Cong had been an official in the court for decades, and he was worthy of trust.

Yang Feng took advantage of the victory to pursue, and was about to invite the teacher, and it was the tired marquis who went to invite him personally, "You know the identity of Mr. Guo, a few months ago, he was rebellious and meritorious, and he was rewarded by the imperial court, if it weren't for his age, he resolutely refused to enter the court, and now he is at least a scholar......

The officials were already dazed, so they had to nod, but they demanded that the two officials, twenty cavalry guards, and the officers and soldiers sent by several major departments must follow, and they must no longer let the tired marquis ride alone to swagger through the city.

Yang Feng argued for a while and reluctantly accepted the conditions.

Han Ruzi traveled in a carriage, not the kind of canopy carriage with a ventilated face, but a closed carriage like a sedan chair, probably specially made for him, because after sitting in, he found that the sedan curtains on both sides were sewn up, and he couldn't look out, and people outside couldn't see him.

Seeing that it was not long before dusk, Han Ruzi felt that it was too late, Guo Cong was an old-fashioned gentleman who emphasized etiquette, and he had to spend a lot of time just to meet.

As a result, Guo Cong was not at home at all, perhaps because he wanted to stay away from the turmoil in the imperial court, the old man had already returned to his hometown in a month and returned to his hometown in Kanto.

Yang Feng was very regretful, but the two officials who came with him were very calm, obviously knowing that this trip would definitely be in vain.

Han Ruzi only had the word "admiration" for Yang Feng, and they finally squeezed out time to pick up Cui Xiaojun, but they didn't know how to get rid of the two officials.

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