Gu Yanzhong looked at the expression on Zeng Bu's face, and his heart was more confident than just now.

He added: "I don't know if adults have ever heard such a saying, sometimes you keep thinking that you are moving towards your goal, but in fact you are unconsciously getting farther and farther away from what you want!" ”

Gu Yanzhong observed the expression on Zeng Bu's face as he spoke, not daring to relax a little.

"Take another 10,000 steps back and say, even if Yan Shisanniang can pass the news of the court to Lord Zeng in time. Adults are still in a passive position, why don't adults turn passive into active? ”

Zeng Bu's brows furrowed tightly, then relaxed, and asked in a low voice but sternly: "After saying so much, what do you have in mind, you might as well tell me in detail?" ”

Gu Yanzhong watched the skin on Zeng Bu's face slowly loosen, and then said tentatively: "My lord, have you ever thought about being the emperor's lord?" ”

"What?" Zeng Bu was taken aback and scolded angrily, "You are so bold, you dare to rebel? ”

Gu Yanzhong hurriedly knelt down and said, "My lord, how dare the villain let the villain rebel, even if the adult gives the villain a hundred dares and a hundred lives, the villain will not dare to rebel!" ”

"And what do you mean by that?" Zeng Bu's expression was visibly tense again.

"I want to tell my lord, instead of letting Yan Sanniang guess the emperor's thoughts, it is better to let the emperor tell you what he thinks."

"Huh?" Zeng Bu looked at Gu Yanzhong, a little stunned.

"Adult, the little one knows what not to say!"

"Speak whatever you want, and I will forgive you for your innocence."

"My lord, think about it, if you are the emperor, are you willing to be controlled by others, or are you willing to have a heart-to-heart relationship with others?"

"Heart-to-heart? How to be heart-to-heart. ”

"First of all, we have to guess what the emperor thinks, what he is most worried about, and what he cares about the most?"

"Huh." Zeng Bu sneered again, "I have been with the emperor for decades, and I can't accurately judge what the emperor likes and dislikes?" You are a white-faced scholar who has never even seen the emperor, can you know what the emperor likes? ”

Zeng Bu said and glanced at Gu Yanzhong.

Gu Yanzhong looked at Zeng Bu's eyes when he looked at him, and he read four words: self-righteousness!

Gu Yanzhong smiled indifferently, and the big stone in his heart was put forward. He secretly scolded in his heart: Nonsense, Lao Tzu has read thousands of years more books than you, and of course he knows a lot more things than you. A lot of things in the historical materials have been written clearly, and I still need to guess.

He looked at Zeng Bu and said, "My lord, you can first listen to what the villain says is reasonable, if it is reasonable, you can listen to it, if not, it is not too late for you to deal with it at that time." ”

Gu Yanzhong said, whispering something in Zeng Bu's ear?

Zeng Bu looked at Gu Yanzhong with a look of surprise and scolded angrily: "What are you talking about, are you joking with the old man's life?" ”

"My lord, I'm not sure that the emperor will reuse you with this method, but this method is at least much better than other methods. If Yan Shisanniang is 30% sure that she can win the emperor's favor, I am 80% sure that the emperor will re-examine you with this method! ”

Zeng Bu looked at Gu Yanzhong with a puzzled face, and shook his head gently.

Gu Yanzhong smiled and said, "My lord, you think, the most important thing in the palace is beautiful women. The most lacking thing is fine clothes and food, and the most lacking is love and love! ”

The muscles on Zeng Bu's face slowly relaxed, and suddenly he seemed to understand something.

Gu Yanzhong continued: "My lord, how did the emperor come here when he was young. ”

At that time, Song Shenzong was seriously ill, and his youngest son, Zhao Maid, the king of Yan'an County, was only 9 years old, while the two half-brothers were in the prime of life, Yongwang Zhao Hao was 36 years old, and Cao Wang Zhao Hao was 30 years old.

The ministers Cai Qu and Xing Shu also had the intention of establishing two kings, and they wanted to achieve their goals through Gao Gonghua, the nephew of the Empress Dowager Gao, and Gao Gongji.

Xing Shu invited the two to his mansion in the name of enjoying the flowers, and told them that Shenzong's illness had no power to return to heaven, and the king of Yan'an was young, and the king of Yong and Cao were very virtuous, and they might become the heirs to the throne.

Gao Gonghui was shocked and made it clear that Xing Shu wanted to frame their whole family, and hurriedly left Xing's mansion with Gao Gongji.

Cai Qu and Xing Shu saw that the conspiracy was difficult to succeed, so they decided to support Zhao Fu in order to win the merit of the strategy, and took the opportunity to get rid of Wang Qi, who had a conflict with Cai Qu.

When Cai did go to visit Shenzong with Wang Jue, he asked Wang Jue what he thought about the matter of the prince, but secretly sent Cai Jing, the prefect of Kaifeng, to lead the killers to ambush him in the shadows, and as long as Wang Jue had the slightest objection, he would kill him.

Wang Jue was timid and afraid of things, and was a well-known "prime minister of the three decrees" (he went to the palace to perform a matter called "taking the holy decree", and after the emperor's ruling, he called "receiving the holy decree", and conveying the will was "having received the holy decree"). Seeing Cai indeed asking, Wang Jue replied slowly: "The emperor has a son." The implication is to set up a Zhao maid. Wang Jue was very assertive this time, but Cai really couldn't, so he had to publicize it everywhere, saying that he had made great contributions, but he accused the Empress Dowager Gao and Wang Jue of abolishing Zhao Maid.

Not only did the ministers of the DPRK and China have other plans, but Zhao Hao and Zhao Hao are also extremely concerned about the election of the crown prince. They often went to the palace to visit Shenzong's condition, and after seeing Shenzong, Zhao Hao went straight to the Empress Dowager Gao, trying to find out or talk about something. Shenzong could only "look at it angrily", and seemed to be aware of his younger brothers' intentions.

Shenzong was terminally ill, and Zhao Hao even asked to stay by Shenzong's side to serve the sick. Seeing that the two princes had ill intentions, Empress Dowager Gao ordered someone to close the palace gate and forbid the two kings to enter and leave the Shenzong dormitory, in fact, to make them break their minds. At the same time, he accelerated the pace of establishing Zhao as the prince, and secretly asked someone to secretly make a royal robe worn by a 10-year-old child in case of emergency.

In March of this year, when the ministers came to the audience, the Empress Dowager Gao praised the prince Zhao Maid in public for his stable personality, smart and clever, since Shenzong's illness, he has been hand-copying Buddhist scriptures, praying for Shenzong's blessings, quite filial, and also passed the Buddhist scriptures copied by Zhao Maid to the ministers.

The ministers congratulated together, and the Empress Dowager Gao immediately ordered someone to take out Zhao Maid, read out the edict of Shenzong, and set Zhao Maid as the crown prince and changed his name to Zhao Xu, and the dispute between the crown prince finally calmed down.

Shenzong died, and the crown prince Zhao Xu ascended the throne and changed to Yuan Yuanyou. Since then, the Empress Dowager Gao has listened to the government and held great power.

When Zhezong ascended the throne, he was only 10 years old, and the Empress Dowager Gao was in power.

Empress Dowager Gao has repeatedly said that she is very quiet, and she is helpless to listen to politics, but she does not relax the power in her hands at all.

During the period of Empress Dowager Gao's curtain, she and several ministers handled military affairs, and the young Zhezong had almost no say in court politics. The ministers also thought that Zhezong was young and depended on the Empress Dowager Gao for everything.

In the court, Zhezong's throne is opposite to the seat of the Empress Dowager Gao, and the ministers have always performed to the Empress Dowager, turning their backs to Zhezong, and not turning around to report to Zhezong, so that Zhezong said when talking about the curtain that he could only look at the buttocks and backs of officials in the court.

When Zhezong was 17 years old, Empress Dowager Gao should have returned to power, but she still actively listened to politics. At this time, the ministers still played the Queen Mother in advance, and they must listen to the Queen Mother's words when they have a proclamation, and they do not persuade the Queen Mother to remove the curtain.

"My lord, think about it from another angle, if you are the emperor, what do you hope for most?"

Gu Yanzhong paused again as he spoke, and said, "Now Zhang Dian hopes that the emperor will eradicate the remnants of Sima Guang and others, and the emperor has already reprimanded him. And if you approach the emperor again in a different identity now, how will the emperor see you? ”

"A different identity? What identity. Zeng Bu looked at him, his eyes narrowed.

"My lord, you also have a son, what do you think?"

"Presumptuous!" Zeng Bu was not too angry, and said with some anger.

"My lord, it's not for you to be the emperor's father, but for you to talk to the emperor like a father."

Gu Yanzhong explained: "My lord, although he needs love, he is an unusual person, he is the master of this world, he cares about the world, and he also needs a loyal minister!" ”

"Your Excellency, do you remember that the emperor once named Guan Yu as the King of Manifest Spirits. What is a martyrdom and a great deed? It is said that the meritorious deeds are well-known and the conduct is upright. Back then, Guan Yu passed five passes and killed six generals, why, for the word 'righteousness', but also for a 'loyalty'. ”

"I understand what you mean, be a loyal servant with my father's care." Zeng Bu probably had a score in his heart, and he paused again as he spoke, "However, this is said again, so what should I say to the emperor?" ”

"Of course, I want to talk about some of the topics that the emperor is most concerned about."

"It's all said and done at this point, you don't want to sell it anymore!" Zenbula said in a long voice.

"The emperor's main concern at the moment is the Western Xia issue, and you can talk to the emperor about the Western Xia issue." Gu Yanzhong continued.

"Yes, Xixia! A few days ago, the emperor also summoned his ministers to discuss this matter, but there was no good countermeasure. ”

"If I'm not mistaken, Jialu Village has been retrieved at the beginning of last year, and we can build Shenquan Village twenty miles northwest of Jialu Village. It was convenient for our army to capture Western Xia in one fell swoop. ”

"Good, good, good!" Zeng Bu patted the armrest of the chair and stood up suddenly, his eyes shining with gold.

He said with an anxious look on his face again, and said hesitantly: "However, even if you talk about these problems, the emperor doesn't necessarily have to come to the mansion. I have to find a more reasonable reason, and this reason is that the emperor must come to my house to do it. I invited the emperor to come to the house to see the treasures, at that time it was because I wanted the emperor to come to the house, Yan Sanniang danced, avoiding Zhang Dan's eyes and ears, and now ......"

Zeng Bu said, his eyes glaring at Gu Yanzhong.

Gu Yanzhong did not escape Zeng Bu's eyes, and said secretly in his heart: Yan Sanniang is a treasure in my eyes, but she is not necessarily a treasure in the eyes of the emperor.

Zeng Bu didn't speak, the whole room was silent, even the sound of breathing could be heard.

Gu Yanzhong didn't know what to say. The treasure was taken by himself, and this military strategy cannot be considered a treasure, what else, what else?

Gu Yanzhong gently patted his head and thought: Damn, I really want Zhuge Liang's head, Sun Wukong's hair, and Harry Potter's ......

Thinking of this, his eyes rolled, and he said with some excitement: "Then we will invite the emperor to have a meal, the first meal in the world!" Is this a treasure? ”

"The first meal in the world?" Zeng Bu repeated it suspiciously, looked at Gu Yanzhong in disbelief, and asked again, "What is the first meal in the world." ”

"Well, when the time comes, the adults will know, and the adults will just eat."