"Ladies and gentlemen, please rest assured, it's just a minor illness. Today's accumulated business will be disposed of tomorrow's heal. ”

After the ministers had saluted, the Queen Mother spoke slowly with a short sentence by sentence.

"Please also ask Your Majesty to recuperate with peace of mind." Wang Anshi said in a deep voice, "There is no need to worry about foreign affairs, the general affairs can be entrusted to the ministers and others as usual, and the military affairs, if they are not urgent, will not be too late to deal with them when His Majesty recovers." ”

"That's it."

Han Jiang followed closely and said, "Your Majesty's body is closely related to the hundred officials, the three armies and the people, only when Your Majesty's body is healthy, our courtiers can feel at ease." ”

"I know it. When Xiang Gong said so, I was relieved. ”

"The Queen Mother rest assured, we should work together to calm the government and the opposition." Zhang Dian also said.

"Hmm."

Hearing the statement of the leaders of the two governments and the head of civil and military affairs, she nodded to the Queen Mother, her eyes were half-closed, and a few words of dialogue had already made her use up all her strength.

Seeing all this in his eyes, Han Gang secretly sighed and persuaded, "Please also ask Your Majesty to go and rest first." ”

The Queen Mother raised her eyelids, and her eyes, which had dimmed due to illness, stared at Han Gang, "Okay." ”

"Regarding the matter of the palace guards, please also ask Your Majesty to show me." Seeing that the Queen Mother was about to leave, Zhang Dian hurriedly said.

The Queen Mother shook her head, "A few ministers are coming to discuss." ”

After that, he was helped into the inner hall by a group of palace people.

The little emperor also followed behind him and left the outer hall together, just a glance back when he was leaving, which made Han Gang's heart sink.

The look on Zhao Xu's face was completely indifferent, and he couldn't see the slightest worry.

Sending the Queen Mother away, Wang Anshi turned his head and said to the two mansions: "The Queen Mother is so ill, we should work together to deal with the situation." ”

"That's how it should be."

"Pingzhang, please rest assured."

Han Jiang and Zeng Xiaokuan said successively.

Zhang Dian and Zhang Qi also nodded one after another.

"Yukun, what do you think of the Queen Mother's condition?" Wang Anshi turned around and asked Han Gang.

Han Gang glanced at Wang Anshi quietly, shook his head and said, "I have to ask a few medical officers to answer, Han Gang has no way to know, and he doesn't dare to say anything." ”

Wang Anshi frowned, but it was useless to stare at Han Gang, so he turned his head and beckoned Yang Jian next to him, "Go inside and invite Liu Zuoxiang." If he treats the Queen Mother now, he will invite one of the other medical officers to come out. ”

Yang Jian invited out Liu Zuoxiang, the medical officer who led the treatment of the Queen Mother.

Wang Anshi ignored his salute and asked coldly, "How is the Queen Mother's condition?"

Liu Zuoxiang opened his mouth to answer, but was interrupted by Wang Anshi, "Don't say those words that go around the corner." Whether you can get rid of the sin or not is not on your lips. Let's talk about your diagnosis, what is the Queen Mother's disease? ”

It is the habit of the healer not to explain the condition too clearly, and to say some terms covered by clouds and mountains and fog, so that he can get rid of the crime when the condition changes, just like the prescriptions prescribed by doctors in later generations, which are always like heavenly books and ghost drawings. But Wang Anshi, who was quick-tempered, directly blocked it and didn't give Liu Zuoxiang the slightest chance to cheat.

Liu Zuoxiang opened his mouth and stammered, and after being stunned for a moment, his gaze turned to Han Gang's body.

Han Gang nodded, "Just say it!" ”

"It should be a cold from the outside."

Liu Zuoxiang's answer almost made people jump.

"That's it!?" Zhang Duan asked sharply.

"Also, I'm too tired from state affairs." Liu Zuoxiang hurriedly replied.

Before coming, the Zai Fu were prepared for the worst, and after hearing and seeing the Queen Mother, they were still worried in their hearts, afraid of what kind of serious illness it was, but they didn't expect that the medical officer who treated the Queen Mother would say that it was just cold and tired.

"Not a serious illness?" Su Song asked uneasily.

Liu Zuoxiang's voice was three points lower, "I haven't seen it yet,"

"It would be best if that were the case." Han Jiang sighed, a little relieved.

"Okay, Liu Zuoxiang, you can go inside to take care of the Queen Mother first."

Liu Zuoxiang promised and was about to go back, when he heard Wang Anshi say: "After you go in, call two more medical officers who are not doing anything to come out." ”

"Xiaguan understands."

Liu Zuoxiang arched his hand and entered the inner hall. In less than half an hour, two medical officers came to the outer hall.

"You've all treated the Queen Mother, right? What exactly is the disease? Wang Anshi asked.

After several interrogations, the Zai Fu finally confirmed the illness of the Queen Mother.

The situation of the Empress Dowager Xiang is indeed the external cold, and there are more factors of overwork - several imperial doctors lined up to check the pulse of the Empress Dowager and gave professional advice, in addition to prescribing medicine, it is to ask the Empress Dowager to recuperate.

"If it goes on like this, it's still indispensable." Zhang Duan sighed in a low voice.

Han Gang nodded silently.

Although it was not a serious illness, it also made Zaisuke break out in a cold sweat.

After all, the woman is frail and busy with court affairs, and the Queen Mother has too much responsibility, she doesn't know how to be lazy, and she has to look at everything one by one, and this is how the illness is tired.

If Empress Dowager Xiang entered the palace when Renzong, most likely she would not be so diligent.

It's a pity that she has only seen the two emperors Yingzong and her husband Xizong at close range. Yingzong was unable to go to court because of illness, and once he recovered, he was very diligent in government, and her husband was one of the most diligent among the sons of heaven since the founding of the country. With these two good examples in front of her, Empress Dowager Xiang didn't know that the job of Emperor Dao or acting emperor could actually be very easy.

When it comes to the number and frequency of dropping out, Emperor Renzong is overwhelming. If the Queen Mother can learn more and don't look at the court every day, the civil and military courtiers will have a very easy life, and she herself will be a little easier.

However, standing in the position of a courtier, who would dare to say anything to persuade the Queen Mother to neglect national affairs? As soon as he exited, he was a steady traitor.

"Come back and say hello later." Wang Anshi said.

"It's better to get up once a day, every time you go to Hajj, it's not good for your body."

After all, the Queen Mother is a woman. According to the etiquette system, when you see a foreign minister, you can't lie on the bed with a loud horn, you must change your clothes and get up - in Han Gang's opinion, it is pure tossing. Every time the courtier asked, he tossed once, two or three times a day, and it was originally just a minor illness, but it would also be a major illness.

"As Fang Cai Yukun said, the situation of the Queen Mother is indeed not suitable to ask too much, but it is definitely not a good choice to hand over the affairs of the guards to the eunuchs."

"Since it's inconvenient to even ask questions, how should we arrange the guards in the palace?" Zhang Dian asked rhetorically.

“……”

There was silence. No one gave a reasonable answer to Chapter's question.

If the Son of Heaven was sick, the Zaifu would have already entered the palace to stay in the guards, and there were just empty rooms in the Funing Hall to live in.

But now that the Queen Mother is seriously ill, it is really inconvenient - it is inconvenient to arrange it!

It was inconvenient for the courtiers to stay in the palace at night. If they were all bad old men like Han Jiang and Wang Anshi, it would be fine, and people like Han Gang would definitely be criticized if they stayed in the palace.

"Put the guards in advance." Zhang Qi said, "What about the Zhengdan ceremony?" What day is it today? ”

"It's business as usual."

"Please support the Queen Mother."

Han Jiang and Zhang Dian replied.

Immediately, someone was upset for the Queen Mother, and said to Shaoli that the Queen Mother had also worked hard for a long time, and she was tired and sick, and she had to force her to go to the court?

"What if you don't recuperate at this time, what should you do if you fall into the root of the disease?" Han Gang asked.

"But if it doesn't support it now, what should I do if Liao goes south? What should I say about someone plotting rebellion? ”

"If anyone is stupid enough to see this as an opportunity to rebel, he has his own sword and axe and white silk for him. Now that the Queen Mother is sick, the New Year's Day ceremony must be suspended. ”

The Zhengdan ceremony was suspended because of the illness of the Queen Mother, and the envoys of Liao and other countries did not need to come to the palace to cooperate with the monarchs and ministers of the Great Song Dynasty to perform a drama of all nations coming to the court.

Whether the Zhengdan envoy of the Liao State can go to the palace or not, there are many people inside and outside the court and the opposition before the Chinese New Year, and most of them hold one end, and then they argue. But as soon as the Queen Mother fell ill, there was no controversy.

As for Xiao Xi, who was on the opposite side of Baigou, he naturally asked him to go home. It is impossible for the Great Song Dynasty to accept an envoy sent by a traitor.

It's just that the Zhengdan Dynasty will drop out of the dynasty, which is of course a good thing for the vast majority of Beijing officials. Most of the low-level officials, most of the time in the Great Dynasty Meeting, are all standing in the square in front of the palace and the ventilation at the door of the Daqing Palace, at the end of the day, it is as hard as the Yellow River carp caught in winter, and it can be used as a drumstick.

Han Gang insisted so much, and no one objected to his opinion, it was indeed a good life to recuperate. Holding a ceremony at this time will only make the Queen Mother's illness a little heavier.

Han Gang actually thought about it for a while, in the event of such an accident, what other cards could Lu Huiqing play? And what kind of trouble will the Queen Mother's illness bring to the already chaotic court?

No matter who issued the order, it was also placed in the court, and the affairs of the Queen Mother were definitely far more important than the war against Liao.

Han Gang clearly realized this, and also knew that someone was secretly watching.

The Queen Mother is not very old and is usually healthy. For well-known reasons, the most dangerous threshold for women is unlikely to come away. But in this era, thirty years old is not the age to sit back and relax.

Although no detailed census has been conducted, according to what Han Gang saw and heard in the place where Han Gang was an official, the average life expectancy of the subjects of the Great Song Dynasty was barely more than 40 years old, which is still the result of excluding the death of young children before the age of six or seven.

In the palace, there are many concubines who died in their thirties. From this point of view, the Empress Dowager Xiang really has to pay attention to her physical health.

If anything happens to the Queen Mother, it must be Concubine Zhu who succeeds the Queen Mother, and then listens to the government.

That's one of the things that makes people feel uneasy.

No Zaisuke wants to see the little emperor's biological mother in power. This not only means that all the credit for the Queen Mother in the past has come to naught, but also gives it a chance

There are still many courtiers who want to abolish the little emperor in their hearts.

An emperor who killed his father, if it weren't for the hard support of the Zaifu, which normal Confucian student would be willing to bow to such an emperor?

Xiang Xiang has been listening to the Empress Dowager for more than a year, and Zhang Dian is quite satisfied with her performance. And Concubine Zhu is the queen mother, which is likely to give the little emperor the opportunity to be in power.

Find a name, replace this emperor, and choose another clan to ascend to the throne.

If it weren't for Han Gang's insistence, there wouldn't be a few people in the DPRK who would be in line with him.

The son who killed his father because of an accident in the Spring and Autumn Period, even though he was not blamed by the Spring and Autumn Period, he still did not become the monarch of Xu Guoguo. He must be held accountable for the wrongdoings he has done. In the eyes of some courtiers, the abdication of the Son of Heaven is the best way to take responsibility.

But if the Son of Heaven is abolished according to his own will, this is no different from Yelu Yisin. And not to mention the factor of inadequacy.

Han Gang Zhilu said, this time there will be no courtiers who will take the initiative to let the little emperor abdicate, even if Zhao Xu is a real murderer, but how to do it, there are still concerns in the court, and there are still many people who remember the old feelings of Emperor Xizong.