After a whole morning of contemplation and meditation, the emperor was determined to change the situation of his grandfather and father in controlling the situation of the two dynasties, and restore the imperial family's former status in the harem. Since everything that the mother concubine had carefully arranged for him a few years ago has now come to naught with Yang Tang'er's death, and the Zhang family has also become an anti-party that was arrested and eliminated by the imperial court, then as the successor of the Li family's imperial power and blood Yin, in the face of the rare power vacuum left by the party after many years of bloody struggle after the two dynasties, what reason is there not to take advantage of the situation to regain control of everything that should have belonged to the royal family in his own hands. The appointment of parents and children to Tibet was only the first step in the emperor's huge plan.

The emperor's reign was short, and although he had not yet established a prince, he was the best candidate for the crown prince both inside and outside the court. Now the emperor actually used the future crown prince as an envoy to Tibet, which obviously placed high hopes on this envoy to Tibet, which Li Jinzhong did not expect.

Jing Yuncong because his daughter is in the harem, and the emperor has a friendship with Weng son-in-law, thinking more thoughtfully than others, he saw that the emperor was going to send the emperor's eldest son to envoy Tubo, so he pondered and asked: "This dynasty has several times to surrender the princess to marry a foreign domain, but because most of its daughters are not the emperor's Yin, and the daughter of the clan is crowned with the title of princess, the Turks, Tibet, etc. do not pay much attention, and the results are also uneven. This time, the emperor sent King Mu to envoy to Tibet, but I don't know which princess wants to surrender? ”

Liu Yi also echoed: "Now that the prince is sent to propose marriage, the person who will rise and fall at sunrise must not be the daughter of an ordinary clan, and the minister knows that there are only two princesses under His Majesty's knees, Xueqing and Ruyi, both of whom are only young, I wonder if the emperor has a suitable candidate in his heart?" ”

The emperor looked at Li Jinzhong and said to Jing and Liu: "The Duke of Jin is offering this good plan. If you want to kill two birds with one stone and relieve the crisis of the imperial court, all the descendants of the royal family should do their best to serve. Bound. Although my daughter is young, I still have a sister to be sent to me, and I have heard that the current reigning Chide Zampu of Tibet is the same as me, and I can take this opportunity to make an appointment with him as a brother. Xie Liangchen, after the meeting, he went to the Nannei Concubine to announce his will, and my sister Princess Changning was the eldest princess of Changning, and she chose to go out to Tibet. ”

The eldest son of the emperor was appointed as an envoy. Surrendering the eldest princess, these obviously will not come from the emperor's momentary thoughts. Li Jinzhong suddenly realized at this moment: everything in the Yanying Conference convened by the emperor was under his personal control. He is just a pawn used by the emperor to deal with the remnants of the Zhang family.

His so-called scheming plan for the emperor had actually thought of it a long time ago, and the reason why he wanted to say it himself through his mouth was just to sell him a false credit for his advice and coax him to honestly contribute to the emperor.

Moment. Li Jinzhong's mind quickly flashed over all the actions of the emperor when he had not yet ascended to the pole: using the marshal's military order to transfer Jingyun Cong back to Beijing, taking the initiative to resign after the Wang poisoning case, instigating Shang Jing to find someone to blame, and successfully plotting against Lai Xing'er under the strict surveillance of Furong. invited Liu Yi in time to exonerate himself and return to the capital single-handedly two months ago...... This is clearly a very assertive and decisive master, but he has repeatedly hidden his true thoughts and dressed himself as a coward, if he hadn't formed a blood feud with the Zhang family, and he had no way to retreat, he really wanted to emulate Liu Yi and just be an idle guest, it would always be like now. was quietly put on a charcoal frame by the emperor without knowing it.

Jing Yuncong, Liu Yi and others heard that the emperor wanted to marry his sister to Tibet, although they were unexpected. However, he also felt the sincerity and determination of the emperor to repair the foreign vassals, and said "long live" in unison to express his approval.

Only Li Jinzhong was thinking about his mind alone, standing aside in a daze, the emperor looked at it in his eyes, mistakenly thinking that he thought that his punishment of Lin Shu was not heavy enough and was sullen, so he said in an aggravated tone: "Today, I convened all the ministers to come to the Yanying meeting, originally because there was an assassin in the palace last night, but now after the advice of Jinggong, Mr. Liu and the Duke of Jin, the leader of the remnants of the Zhang family, Zhang Liang, has absconded in Tuboluo, and resting the war in the south is what I want to do, so I take the words of the Duke of Jin and want to do things that are reconciled with my relatives, so as to collect the merit of killing two birds with one stone." Reconciled with Tubo and relatives, the origin of the discussion originated in the Jing Palace, therefore, the envoy of the King of Mu, the eldest princess surrendered, all specific matters have to be bothered by the Jin State Residence in the overall control, the three major and the ten kings' mansions are no matter how big or small, from today, all must be reported to the Jin State after the Gong If there is no objection from the Qing Dynasty, the meeting will be here today, and the Duke of Jin will wait for a while, and the rest of the people can disperse. ”

When only Li Jinzhong, Wu Bi, and Xie Liangchen were left in the main hall, the emperor stood up from the dragon throne, walked down the jade steps, came to Li Jinzhong, took his hand and said: "The Duke of Jin has the merit of rebuilding in the current dynasty, and among the courtiers of the Manchu Dynasty, I only believe that the Duke of Jin can live up to my trust and destroy the remnants of the Zhang family as soon as possible. I hope the public will encourage him. ”

Li Jinzhong looked at the affectionate face in front of him, but what he felt was a chill behind his spine: two years ago, he thought he had made the right bet, took the initiative to throw himself to the side of the prince at that time, and launched a desperate battle with Empress Zhang, and luckily won the victory with the secret support of the emperor, and won the high-ranking official Houlu, but now in the face of this new monarch who was supported to the throne by himself, he not only did not feel a trace of ease and calmness, but often felt panic and uneasy.

In order to dispel this fear and anxiety in his heart, he can only continue to grab more and greater power from the emperor's hands to fill the emptiness and anxiety in his heart. Now listening to the emperor's warm encouragement, Li Jinzhong instinctively made a wrong reaction, he grabbed the emperor's hand, and pleaded: "The old minister is treated like this by the emperor, and the only way to repay him with death is to do his best." Now at the time of the replacement of the old and new palace people, in order to prevent the small people from taking advantage of the gap to regenerate trouble, I implore His Majesty to send 500 Yulin soldiers to be placed under the command of the old minister for night patrol. ”

The emperor's hands clenched by Li Jinzhong trembled slightly, and he turned his head to Wu Bi and said, "The Duke of Jin is reasonable, so let's transfer five hundred people from the general." ”

Wu Bi snorted, which was considered an answer.

The emperor gently withdrew his hand and continued to say to Li Jinzhong: "I left the Duke of Jin alone and there is still one matter to discuss. King Mu sent an envoy to Tibet, and it was indispensable to have a Chinese envoy with him, which was in line with the etiquette, but at present, the palace was restless, and there was a shortage of capable people in the province of internal servants. Jin Guogong has always been familiar with him, and he knows that he used to be just confused, saying the wrong thing, and doing the wrong thing, so he doesn't think he will have any objections. ”

Li Jinzhong was keenly aware that the emperor was mixing sand with the province of internal service, but first, Shang Jing was an old eunuch who had served the emperor for many years, and the emperor was obviously discussing with him, but in fact he was just informing him, and secondly, he was ordered to preside over the inspection of the East Palace, and he had tortured Shang Jing in the cell of the prosecutor's office, and forced him to confess that the main messenger who was looking for someone to blame was the prince himself.

Out of such concerns, Li Jinzhong had no choice but to respond to the emperor's wishes: "Shang Jing is an old messenger, and he is a suitable candidate to send an envoy to a foreign vassal with King Mu." The only thing the old minister was worried about was that he had been punished with hard labor for the past two years, and he didn't know if his body could withstand the hard work of the long journey. ”

Seeing that he did not mention Shang Jing's bad deeds in the past and obstructed him, the emperor was still interested, and he was very happy, and instructed Xie Liangchen: "You accompany the Duke of Jin to Zhongshu Province to convene all the subordinates to announce the decree, and lead them to meet the new Zhongshu Order." (To be continued.) )