Chapter 55: Threats
"What conditions, the emperor said it doesn't matter." As long as Li Guanqi can agree to marry He Zhuguo's daughter and get the support of most of the generals, Li Zhuo can now agree to almost any condition of Li Guanqi.
"You go and persuade the Queen Mother to put Yue'er back, she, the secretary, is more convenient for me to use, and others really can't replace her." Li Guanqi said with a little embarrassment.
Li Zhuo lowered his head and thought for a while, it seems that there must be no confusion between the emperor and this Yue'er, but as long as Li Guanqi gets married, then this kind of thing like a palace maid will not become a handle for the courtiers to blame. Thinking about it, there would be no other harm in putting Yue'er back, so he nodded and said, "This is easy to do." The old minister will do it. ”
Looking at Li Zhuo's back as he gradually moved away, Li Guanqi smiled bitterly silently. Although he was the emperor of the Great Qian Dynasty, he could not do anything about his marriage, especially on the issue of choosing to canonize the empress.
Now that the throne is unstable, the support of Li Zhuo and He Zhuguo and other subordinates who hold military power is particularly important. After weighing the pros and cons, Li Guanqi had to choose He Bijun, the daughter of He Zhuguo, as the queen. Although this cup of love wine is relatively bitter, Li Guanqi still has to drink it helplessly.
After all, the Queen Mother was just a woman, and Li Zhuo didn't take much effort to persuade her to agree to let Yue'er go back to serve as the secretary of the Qinzheng Palace. This can be regarded as a small victory for Li Guanqi in the struggle after this round of elections.
In order not to let Zu Donglai Group have the opportunity to have extraneous branches, the next day, Li Guanqi invented an edict to announce to the world, and set He Bijun as the queen.
As a result, the palace and the palace were suddenly busy. The emperor's wedding ceremony needs to prepare a variety of items, and it is difficult to express in words the variety and quantity of the number of people used. Although the emperor decreed that everything should be simple, after all, this was the first emperor of the Great Qian Dynasty to hold a big wedding, so it was quite grand and luxurious.
"Your Majesty, this is the bride price set by the Ministry of Rites for the He family! Ten solid white horses, ten pairs of exquisite saddles, 100 tribute satins, 100 yarns, a set of gold tea sets, and two silver basins. Yang Bozheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, was holding the gift list and reporting to Li Guanqi.
"I don't understand this, you just need to do it." Li Guanqi said casually.
Seeing that the emperor did not raise any objections, Yang Bozheng bowed down and retreated, turned around and stood still, and shouted loudly: "Emperor Qianwei is in accordance with the decree of the Empress Dowager, and accepts He Bijun, the daughter of He Zhuguo, the first-class Marquis of Yasukuo, as the queen. The auspicious time has come! Leave! ”
As soon as Yang Bozheng's voice fell, the whip immediately sounded three times outside the hall, and Shao music was great.
The so-called lottery is that the emperor presents a bride price with the meaning of engagement to the queen's mother's family. When ordinary people get married, they have to send some food and clothing to the woman's family, not to mention the wedding of the son of heaven? Can it not be extraordinarily grand and extravagant?
Seeing that Zu Donglai was in the sound of drums, holding the festival and getting down to the middle level, leading the civil and military officials down the middle rank, leading the battle, the drums sounding in unison, and gradually moving away from Chengtianmen, Li Guanqi on the throne couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief: "This day is really difficult!" ”
He Ziming was standing next to Li Guanqi, and when he heard this, he couldn't hold back for a while, laughed out loud, and quickly covered his mouth.
But Li Guanqi had already found out, glared at He Ziming, and asked, "What are you laughing at?" ”
He Ziming hurriedly bowed down and said, "The minister doesn't dare to say it. ”
"You don't dare to say it, but you dare to laugh?" Li Guanqi scolded with a smile, "Hurry up, don't force me to cure you for the crime of dereliction of honor in front of the king." ”
He Ziming hesitated and said: "The minister saw the emperor's eagerness, and he couldn't help laughing for a while, so he laughed out loud, and hoped that the emperor would forgive the minister for the crime of misdemeanor in front of the king." ”
Li Guanqi sighed and said, "Do you think I feel tormented in order to get married sooner?" ”
"Isn't it?" He Ziming asked suspiciously.
Li Guanqi shook his head and said, "You don't understand my mind at all. If you are in a hurry for the big wedding, it is also a happy anxiety. But can you find a happy shadow on my face? ”
"This ......" He Ziming was stunned, not knowing how to answer.
Li Guanqi said as he slowly paced forward, "I really regret crossing over to become an emperor now. ”
"Crossing?" He Ziming had an incomprehensible expression on his face.
Li Guanqi pursed his lips and said, "I really regret being born in this emperor's family. Since I sat on this dragon chair, I haven't stopped acting for a moment, I can't help myself everywhere. ”
"The emperor doesn't understand this." Although He Ziming could hear the true meaning of Li Guanqi's words in a shadowy way, and was also moved by Li Guanqi to regard himself as his own, these words were not what a courtier should understand, so he had to pretend to be stupid.
Li Guanqi smiled lightly, did not debunk, but continued: "Yunjing (He Ziming's character), I didn't think much about it when I first ascended the throne, but in fact, I also have lofty ambitions, and I also want to build our Great Qian Dynasty into a very prosperous country, so that the people are rich and the country is strong, the people can live and work in peace and contentment, and the hundred officials can perform their duties. He didn't say this completely high-pitched, in a sense, if he could really achieve this, he, the emperor, would be able to eat, drink and be merry with peace of mind.
He Ziming followed behind Li Guanqi and said: "The prosperity of the people and the country is the ambition of the emperor and the wish of the ministers. ”
Li Guanqi sighed, gritted his teeth and said, "But since I ascended the throne, it has been several months, and I am still troubled every day about who to serve by my side and who to marry. ”
He Ziming lowered his head in shame and said: "The minister is a martial artist, but he also knows the phrase 'the king is worried about the humiliation of the minister, and the king humiliates the minister to death'. The minister can't relieve the emperor's worries, and he is really ashamed. ”
Li Guanqi smiled to himself and said, "I don't have any good way to swallow my anger now, how can I blame you." ”
He Ziming was silent for a long time and said, "The emperor is worried about the affairs of the ancestors? ”
Li Guanqi nodded and said, "Since I ascended the throne, as time goes by, I know more and more things, and my heart not only does not tend to be calm, but becomes more and more uneasy. It's not that I'm sensitive, it's not that I'm deliberately suspicious of ministers, but I can really feel the threat, the threat from Prime Minister Zu Donglai. ”