In the stunned eyes of the emperor and Wen Tiren, Sun Ge Lao really did what he said, arched his hand towards the emperor, Shi Shiran turned around, and walked towards the outside of the Heart Cultivation Palace.

It wasn't until the figure disappeared at the door of the Palace of Cultivating Hearts that the emperor woke up, and then he was furious, trembling and pointing at the empty hall door, jumping to his feet and scolding: "He, what does he mean by this?" Xu Liang doesn't sell my face, and he dares to give me a face?! I! I'm the emperor!! ”

Wen Tiren added fuel to the fire: "Your Majesty is angry!" The upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked, Xu Liang is so unruly at a young age, this is all the stinky problem that these old ministers are used to! ”

Emperor Chongzhen gritted his teeth and shouted: "There will be a point, I will put a brake on this unhealthy wind!" ”

"The emperor is wise!"

Wen Tiren faced the emperor's anger, and he should have been drinking, even Wang Chengen, who had been standing aside silently, couldn't stand it anymore, looked at Chongzhen's face, and carefully reminded him: "Your Majesty, if you don't send someone to stop Sun Ge Lao, Sun Ge Lao should go out of the palace gate." ”

Emperor Chongzhen was stunned when he heard this, and hesitated for a while.

Wen Tiren hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, Sun Ge is far away in Liaodong, and he doesn't know the situation in Shaanxi, and when he enters the palace, there must be no good countermeasures." After that, he glanced at Wang Chengen meaningfully, and motioned to the prince to help, but Wang Chengen stood with his head down, looking at his nose and his nose and heart.

Wen Tiren couldn't help but hate in his heart.

Emperor Chongzhen pondered for a while before he said helplessly to Wang Chengen: "Go and call that old thing back." ”

Wen Tiren was stunned.

Chongzhen looked at him, waved his hand and said, "Wen Aiqing, you go back first." ”

Wen Tiren looked at Chongzhen with hurt eyes, and the emperor waved his hand apologetically.

Wen Tiren was helpless, so he had to frustratedly step by step out of the Heart Cultivation Palace, walked to the outside of the door, and saw Wang Chengen leading Sun Ge Lao to the palace at a glance.

Wen Tiren said to Wang Chengen with a smile: "Father-in-law is so fast, he will pick up Sun Ge so quickly." ”

Wang Chengen lowered his eyelids and said indifferently: "Elder Wen Ge said and laughed, Elder Sun Ge is outside the Heart Cultivation Palace, and our family will see him as soon as we go out." ”

Only then did Wen Tiren know that he dared to love Sun Ge and expected that Emperor Chongzhen would summon him back, so he waited outside the Heart Cultivation Palace. Thinking about it like this, Wen Tiren is as uncomfortable as a cat scratching his heart and liver.

Elder Sun Ge glanced at Wen Tiren with disdain, snorted lightly, and followed Wang Chengen into the Heart Cultivation Palace.

Wen Tiren trembled with anger, and secretly vowed that one day, he would trample these people who were against him under his feet!

In the Palace of Nourishing the Heart, Emperor Chongzhen patiently listened to Sun Ge Lao's method of dealing with Xu Liang in Shaanxi, and couldn't help but be silent for a long time, and after a long time, he asked suspiciously: "Ge Lao, Xu Liang is very well guarded, and even Dongchang and Jinyiwei's team in Shaanxi have been uprooted by him, can your method work?" ”

Sun Ge Lao Chengzhu was in his chest, and said confidently: "There is one person in the hands of the old minister, which is enough to gain Xu Liang's trust. ”

Emperor Chongzhen became interested, and asked the probe, "Who?" ”

Elder Sun Ge looked left and right, came to Emperor Chongzhen's side, and whispered a name.

Chongzhen was deeply suspicious, "This person has a lot to do with Xu Liang, and the elder is sure to control this person?" ”

Sun Ge Lao said: "The emperor is generous, there is already a gap between this person and Xu Liang, and this person is ambitious and talented, as long as the emperor cooperates with the old minister, the old minister will definitely be able to firmly grasp this person in his hands." ”

"Hmm." The emperor thought about it for a while, and said reluctantly: "Pavilion Elder, it is not difficult to show grace to Xu Liang for the time being. Now Xu Liang's wife Feng Suqin lives in the Dongjiang Courtyard, this woman has a good relationship with the imperial sister-in-law, and I will issue an order tomorrow to seal Feng Suqin as a four-grade lady and enter the palace to accompany the imperial sister-in-law. It's just that this matter of posthumously sealing the King of Qin is a big matter, and I have to let me think about it. ”

When Sun Ge heard this, he said sincerely: "Your Majesty, you have to do a full set of acts, compare it with the secret in the hands of Xu Liang, and posthumously seal a dead King of Qin, for the court, it is nothing more than adding an extra holy decree." Moreover, now that the old King Qin is dead, the prince of Qin will inherit the throne in the near future, and the emperor posthumously crowned the prince and his father, and I believe that after the prince of Qin succeeds to the throne, he will be more loyal to the court. This is a double win. ”

"However, the fact of encroaching on the cities of the vassal countries will damage the prestige of the country after all." The emperor was worried about the tunnel.

Sun Ge Lao was very disapproving, and waved his hand and said: "Your Majesty, the old minister thinks that the spread of this matter will not only not damage the prestige of my Ming Dynasty, but can deter many foreign clans. ”

"Hmm!" The emperor thought for a long time, and finally Sun Ge Lao's strategy moved him, imagining that once he mastered the core secrets of the Liang army in the future, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army would be greatly improved, and the situation in Jiubian and Liaodong would also be greatly improved in the future.

The emperor finally agreed to Sun Gelao's proposal, and immediately discussed it with Sun Gelao carefully and finalized the details of some of the strategies.

At the end of June of the fifth year of Chongzhen, the sun was shining. In the Dongjiang Annex, Feng Suqin cleaned up early in the morning and waited in the front yard of the Annex. While waiting for the arrival of Empress Yi'an Feng in the palace, Feng Suqin asked Yahuan Rou'er behind her more than once: "Rou'er, are all arrangements outside the city in place?" ”

Rou'er chuckled: "Madame rest assured, the shopkeeper of Yan Qi arranged it three days ago, let's pick up Zhang Niangniang here, out of the inner city, once you enter the White Horse Temple to avoid the eyeliner of Jinyiwei and Dongchang, the Qingyi Wei arranged by the shopkeeper Yan will lead Mrs. to go from the small door of the temple, take a carriage out of the city, first to Tongzhou, then take a boat to go to sea, to the boundary of Shandong and then transfer to the carriage, and then all the way to the west, if it goes well, it will be in Shaanxi after ten days. ”

Feng Suqin listened, her heart relaxed slightly, and then she thought of using Queen Zhang Yan of Yi'an, and she felt a little unbearable in her heart, and sighed: "It's just this time, but I want to use Zhang Niangniang, alas, Niangniang regards me as a sister, and now I want to use her identity, I really can't help her." ”

Rou'er persuaded: "Madam, this is also a matter of no way. The lord wrote from Shaanxi, and you have also seen that the relationship between the court and the lord is so tense at the moment, and it is really dangerous for the lady to stay in the Dongjiang Courtyard. It's better to return to Shaanxi as soon as possible and reunite with the master. ”

Feng Suqin thought about it and sighed: "Yes, I have to be sorry for Zhang Niangniang." The two waited in the courtyard for a while, and Feng Suqin asked uneasily: "From Shandong to Shaanxi, the road is far away, there will be no accidents, right?" ”

Rou'er chuckled, "Madame, don't worry. On the way from Shandong to Shaanxi, there are people and horses arranged by Ge Qiaoge's shopkeeper to escort them along the way, unless we meet a large army, otherwise, no one dares to fight our idea. ”

Feng Suqin nodded, thinking about the journey to escape from Beijing and return to Shaanxi for a while, and after thinking for a while, she finally had no doubts, and she was a lot more relieved at the moment.

Finally hearing the movement outside the door, Feng Suqin and Rou'er walked out of the gate of the courtyard, ready to greet the upcoming Empress Zhang Yan of Yi'an.

When I got out of the gate, I saw a yellow-clothed eunuch holding something in his hand, followed by two little eunuchs and several palace guards, and then behind was the carriage of Empress Yi'an Zhang Yan.

Feng Suqin only thought that these three eunuchs were also Zhang Niangniang's entourage, and she didn't care, and went straight to the direction of the carriage, but unexpectedly, the yellow-clothed eunuch actually blocked in front of Feng Suqin, swept the dust, and said in a deep voice: "This is the wife of Lord Xu, the governor of Shaanxi, Feng?" ”

Feng Suqin was slightly stunned, nodded and said, "I am." ”

The eunuch smiled, and unfolded the object in his hand, Huang Chengcheng's was actually a holy decree: "Xu Feng's order!" ”

Feng Suqin and Rou'er were stunned, stood for a while, and only after the eunuch's repeated signals did Feng Suqin kneel down blankly.

"Fengtian carrier, the emperor's edict said: Shaanxi governor Xu Liang's wife, Feng, virtuous and intelligent......"

The eunuch's neutral voice was subdued, which sounded a little beautiful, and then heard Feng Suqin's ears, which was tantamount to a thunderclap: in the blink of an eye, Feng Suqin couldn't believe that he had become the emperor's fourth-grade lady! It's just, what is this accompanying Ciqing Palace? !

Rou'er's eyes widened, and the guards of the Dongjiang Courtyard were also a little dazed.

Until the eunuch said it for the third time: "Congratulations to Mrs. Xu!" ”

Feng Suqin came to her senses, and the eunuch smiled embarrassedly, and the mind of the eldest lady of the Xu Mansion could play a role, and she said to Rou'er, who was staring at Rou'er behind her, "Rou'er." ”

Rou'er reflected, stepped forward and handed the eunuch a silver ingot full of ten taels, and immediately made the eunuch smile happily, and hurriedly said: "Thank you, madam." With that, with a wave of his hand, he ordered someone to pass over the dress of the four-rank lady and some of the emperor's rewards.

Feng Suqin ordered someone to accept it.

At this time, Empress Yi'an Zhang Yan stepped down from the carriage, came to Feng Suqin's side with a smile, took Feng Suqin's hand and said: "Sister Feng, originally today's mourning family planned to accompany you to the White Horse Temple for incense, but the emperor suddenly issued a holy decree and sealed my sister as a decree. When the mourning family was about to leave the palace, Emperor Zhou instructed the mourning family to take his sister into the palace together. ”

Although Feng Suqin was surprised in her heart, she also forced herself to deal with it at this time, and said with a forced smile: "The emperor's grace is mighty, I should go to the palace to thank Tian's grace." ”

Zhang Yan said with a smile: "The emperor just issued a holy decree, but the female officials in the court have always been taken care of by Queen Zhou, and my sister went to the palace with the mourning family to thank Queen Zhou." ”

Feng Suqin was helpless, thinking about how to shirk, so she said: "Then the lady will wait for a while, wait for Suqin to change into the imperial dress, and then order someone to prepare the carriage ......."

Zhang Yan chuckled, shook her head and said, "Don't be so troublesome, now that my sister has been ordained, she can sit in the same carriage with the mourning family." As for the edict dress, it's not too late to change it when you get to the Ciqing Palace of the mourning family. Saying that, Zhang Yan clapped her hands happily and said: "The holy decree also said that in the future, my sister will live in Ciqing Palace to accompany her, speaking of which, we have known each other for so long, and the mourning family has not taken you to take a good look at Ciqing Palace, today we will take a closer look, my sister fell in love with that room, and the mourning family can be the master and give it to you." ”

Feng Suqin's eyes widened, and she was stunned for a long time before she asked weakly: "Niangniang, what does the holy decree say, what does it mean to accompany the Ciqing Palace?" ”

Zhang Yan chuckled: "Naturally, it's literal, and I'm reading in Ciqing Palace." ”

"Accompaniment...... Who to accompany? ”

Zhang Yanjiao smiled again and again, stroked her palms and said: "These things, the mourning family hasn't had time to talk to my sister in detail. That's the case, the mourning family and Empress Zhou opened a academy in Ciqing Palace, which specially taught the young palace ladies in the palace to read and write, well, sometimes several ladies and ladies of the noble family will also come into the palace and play with them for a while. Originally, the mourning family and Queen Zhou knew that their sister was talented, and they wanted to suggest it to the emperor, but the emperor actually thought of it in advance. Oh, in this way, the mourning family and my sister can meet every day. ”

Feng Suqin sighed in her heart: What kind of accompaniment, it is clearly to accompany the Empress Yi'an and Empress Zhou in front of her, as well as the noble ladies of Jingshi! It's just that once you live in Ciqing Palace, it will be extremely difficult to escape from the capital again.

Zhang Yan looked at Feng Suqin's face was wrong, and couldn't help but pause, and asked, "What, sister, you don't seem to be happy?" ”

When Feng Suqin heard this, she cheered up and chuckled at Zhang Yan: "What's the matter, I just didn't expect His Majesty to send me this good errand, I'm just a little surprised." ”

When Zhang Yan heard this, she laughed a few times, then pulled Feng Suqin into her carriage and said, "Let's go, the mourning family will take you to see the academy." ”

Before Feng Suqin got into the carriage, she threw Yahuan Rou'er a look.

Yahuan Rou'er saw that Empress Yi'an and the eunuch were gone, so she called someone to hurriedly deliver the news to the White Horse Temple, and sent someone to notify the Imperial History of the Imperial Zodiac Zhou of the Imperial Procuratorate.

A few days later, the news returned to the governor of Shaanxi, and Xu Liang learned that Feng Suqin not only failed to escape, but was also dragged into Ciqing Palace, and it was rare to find a chance to escape again, so he couldn't help but be stunned for a long time. Immediately, the letter from Huang Daozhou, the imperial historian of the Imperial Court of the Imperial Procuratorate, and the letter from Yan Qi, the head of the Jingshi Tsing Yi Guard, arrived almost at the same time.

Xu Liang read the letters of the two, and for a while he didn't understand what Emperor Chongzhen was doing.

After another four or five days, a holy decree was sent directly to the governor's yamen: in view of the outstanding political achievements of Qi Chu, the prefect of Xi'an, in the prefect's office, he was promoted to the political envoy of the right cloth of Shaanxi, and together with the political envoy of the left and right of Shaanxi Province, He Zhun, finally made up the number of political envoys of the left and right of Shaanxi Province.

However, this was not what surprised Xu Liang, the surprise was behind, and the candidate to replace Qi Chu was soon announced, but it was Xu Liang's eldest brother, Xu Jiang, who was assigned to Liaodong soon after he was a junior high school.

However, Xu Liang was not directly appointed as the prefect of Xi'an, but as the governor of Xi'an, the official of the fifth grade. However, the prefect of Xi'an Prefecture has been vacant, as long as the candidates for the prefect of Xi'an are not filled, Xu Jiang will be the serious deputy leader.

Xu Liang immediately called Luo Baiguan, Tietou, Wang Qinian and other henchmen into the study, looking at this holy decree and pondering the hidden inside with great effort.

Wang Qinian scratched his head and said incomprehensibly: "My lord, in just half a month, the court not only gave his wife the title of the fourth grade, but also promoted your eldest brother Xu Jiang unusually. ”

Xu Liang also scratched his head, "The official also wonders, it stands to reason that the emperor can't wait to punish me Xu Liang Jiu clan, and he will definitely not show favor in such a disguised way, I smell it, how can there be a smell of conspiracy?" (To be continued.) )