"Minister Yang Yuanqing see the Queen Mother!"

In the Purple Jade Hall of Jinyang Palace, Yang Yuanqing respectfully saluted Empress Xiao, Empress Xiao was a little sick today, and seemed very tired, only because it was Yang Yuanqing who came to see her, she came forward to meet her.

"The king of Chu doesn't have to be polite."

Empress Xiao's voice was soft, "Is there anything wrong with the King of Chu coming to see the Mourning family?" ”

"The Empress Dowager Qiyu, because the minister killed the court officials without permission, was impeached by the imperial history, Ziwei Pavilion has approved the impeachment order, the minister specially came to ask the Queen Mother for guilt, please ask the Queen Mother to make a decree and punish the minister!"

"What!"

Empress Xiao was half-leaning on the soft couch, Yang Yuanqing's words suddenly shocked her to sit up, her eyes widened, and she looked at Yang Yuanqing in disbelief, "What is the King of Chu talking about?" ”

Yang Yuanqing took out the impeachment order of Ziwei Pavilion and presented it to Empress Xiao with both hands, a palace maid stepped forward and transferred the impeachment order to Empress Xiao, Empress Xiao opened the impeachment warrant, looked at it briefly, and seemed to understand a little, the King of Chu impeached himself and put on a posture of acceptance.

Empress Xiao sighed secretly, her husband, the first emperor Yang Guang never refused to accept advice, even if he made a gesture, he refused, but as long as he was willing to listen to the minister's advice, he would not die and be hastily buried in Yangzhou.

"The mourning family understands, I don't know what His Highness needs the mourning family to do?"

Of course, Yang Yuanqing couldn't teach Empress Xiao what to do, he believed that Empress Xiao would understand what to do in his heart, so he saluted again, "Qi Yu Empress Dowager, the minister is willing to accept any punishment from the Empress Dowager." ”

Seeing that Yang Yuanqing refused to say it explicitly, Empress Xiao had to nod, "The mourning family understands, let the mourning family consider it!" ”

"The Queen Mother Feng is unwell, the minister doesn't dare to disturb more, please pay attention to the Queen Mother's recuperation, and the minister will leave!"

Yang Yuanqing saluted, then said goodbye and left, and Empress Xiao sat for a while. I felt very tired. He helped the palace maid back to the inner palace to rest.

Empress Xiao returned to her dormitory, sat on a soft couch, and a palace maid brought her a bowl of medicine. "Queen Mother, just fried medicine, drink it while it's hot!"

Empress Xiao thought about how to punish Yang Yuanqing in her heart. Of course she won't make trouble for herself, Yang Yuanqing is just pretending, she can only punish it indiscriminately, but even if it is insignificant, it makes her feel very difficult.

Empress Xiao only felt a headache and couldn't think about anything anymore, so she had to put the impeachment order aside and take the medicine bowl. A palace maid said at the door: "Queen Mother, His Royal Highness the King of Jinling has come to visit." ”

"Let him in!"

The king of Jinling is the former emperor's eldest grandson, Yang Qi, who arrived in Taiyuan. Naturally, the emperor's position will not be his turn. Yang Yuanqing originally wanted Yang Yu to make him the king of Yu, but Empress Xiao resolutely refused. Empress Xiao insisted on making him the king of leisure.

But Yang Yuanqing felt that it was inappropriate, King Xiaoyao was a little joking, and finally adopted Ziwei Pavilion's opinion and changed the title to King Jinling, Jinling County was later Changzhou area, then Yang Qi's mother's hometown was actually the king of the county, so as to avoid being the king at the same level as Yang Yuanqing.

But even if he is the king of Jinling, he is also an idle king, and he has nothing to do every day, Yang Qi is bored in his heart, so he indulges in wine, numbs himself with wine and women, and escapes from reality.

Back then, Yang Yuanqing promised the crown prince Yang Zhao that he would give his three sons a safe life, and he did it, but their identities were a little difficult to settle.

The second son, Yang Tong, abandoned the world and became a monk in Jinyun Temple, and then followed the host south to Tiantai Mountain, worshiped Master Zhang'an, the fifth ancestor of Tiantai Sect, as his teacher, and devoted himself to learning Buddhism.

Although the third son Yang Yu is the emperor, he loves to study and learn, and he is intoxicated with the vast sea of books and classics every day.

Only the eldest grandson Yang Qi has great ambitions, and he can't forget the Great Sui Dynasty laid down by the emperor's grandfather and great-grandfather, and is bent on reviving the Great Sui Society, but seeing that Yang Yuanqing's Sui Dynasty is a foregone conclusion, he is depressed in his heart, but it is difficult to dispel it, so he has to use the wine to drown his sorrows and indulge in balsam wine.

Yang Qi walked into the imperial grandmother's bedroom and bowed down, "My grandson greets my grandmother and wishes my grandmother good health!" ”

Empress Xiao saw that the eldest grandson's footsteps were floating, his eyes and face were swollen, and at first glance it was a manifestation of excessive wine, exactly the same as the second son Yang Hui back then, she sighed secretly in her heart, and said seriously: "Grandmother is just a little sick, and she will be fine after two days of recuperation, but you are seriously ill, Qi'er, if you continue to indulge in wine like this, how can your father's spirit in the sky be at ease?" ”

Yang Qi was silent, and said for a while: "Sun Er knows that he is wrong. ”

His sentence of 'knowing that he was wrong', Empress Xiao didn't know how many times he heard it, and it had become a perfunctory, but Empress Xiao also knew that if he didn't give his grandson wine and women, he would be even more resentful in his heart, and he might not do anything.

Empress Xiao was also annoyed in his heart, why couldn't he be like his brother, looking for a sustenance, being an ordinary person, if he had to have the world in his heart, he had no soldiers and no power, who would work for him?

Empress Xiao had no choice but to be out of sight and out of mind, so she waved her hand and said, "Thank you for coming to say hello, you can go!" ”

"The grandson is leaving."

Yang Qi turned around and was about to leave, but his eyes fell on the impeachment order on the table, which was actually also a book, but it was sealed with a red sleeve, so it was called an impeachment order.

Yang Qi was very familiar with this format, and he was stunned, how could there be an impeachment warrant in his grandmother's room, could it be the impeachment of Yang Yuanqing that was rumored outside?

"Grandmother...... Over here...... How can there be an impeachment warrant? Yang Qi asked hesitantly.

"This is Ziwei Pavilion's impeachment of the King of Chu for overstepping his power, and the King of Chu pleaded guilty to the Mourning family, this matter is a headache for the Mourning family!"

Yang Qi's heart warmed up, and he couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart and said, "Grandmother, it's better to let your grandson share your grandmother's worries." ”

"Do you have any plans?" Empress Xiao picked up the impeachment warrant from the table and asked him wearily.

Yang Qi said nervously: "Sun Er's suggestion...... You can move the government without moving the army, retain military power, and remove the king of Chu...... Shang Shuling's position. ”

"Nonsense!"

'Bang! With a bang, Empress Xiao slapped the table and scolded him angrily: "I'm not confused to this extent, if you want to die, you can die, I still want to live." ”

Yang Qi was so frightened that he hurriedly saluted, "Grandson just made a suggestion, grandmother don't be angry." ”

"Humph!" Empress Xiao snorted heavily, "Do you think I don't understand your mind? You think you can take the opportunity to cut Yang Yuanqing's main power, you are so stupid, too naïve, you have forgotten whose world this is! ”

Yang Qi lowered his head, gritted his teeth for a while, and said, "This is the world of my Great Sui!" ”

Empress Xiao saw that he was obsessed, and her heart was even more annoyed, "Why don't you say that this is the world of the Great Zhou, why don't you say that this is the world of the Great Wei, why don't you say that this is the world of the Great Han, the Sui Dynasty has already perished, do you know!" ”

"I don't know!"

Yang Qi raised his head suddenly, his eyes burst red, and the anger in his chest suddenly exploded, he pointed at Empress Xiao and roared: "The Sui Dynasty has fallen, so what are you?" You are the Queen Mother, whose Queen Mother is it? For the sake of glory and wealth, you knelt in front of Yang Yuanqing like a dog, acted for the tiger, and betrayed the Great Sui Sheji, don't you feel ashamed? ”

Empress Xiao was so angry that she trembled, her body shook, and she fainted to death all of a sudden, so frightened that the three palace maids held her and shouted: "Queen Mother!" Dowager! ”

Yang Qi stretched out his arms, looked up to the sky and shouted, "Heaven is dead, my Great Sui!" ”

He turned around and left Empress Xiao's bedroom in great pain, only a moment, Empress Xiao woke up, she looked to both sides, and asked in a low voice, "What about that beast!" ”

"Queen Mother, he went back to the palace."

Empress Xiao grabbed the three palace maids and begged in a low voice: "You promise me that the words he said just now must not be spread, otherwise we will all die without a place to die." ”

The three palace maids have followed Empress Xiao since childhood, and have followed her for at least twenty years, and there are only three of them in Empress Xiao's bedroom, and the three of them hurriedly nodded in agreement, "Don't worry, Queen Mother!" We all get it. ”

Empress Xiao sighed again, "I have to find a way to send this beast away, otherwise he will really kill me." ”

"But to send him away, you have to agree to the king of Chu."

Empress Xiao pondered for a moment, "I have a way to get the King of Chu to agree." ”

She asked the maid to help her sit up, and said to the maid, "Bring me my diamond bracelet." ”

Empress Xiao has always carried a treasure chest with her, from the time she was the queen with her, there are seventy-two pieces of jewelry, each piece is priceless, she said that the diamond bracelet is one of them, is the treasure of the queen since the two Jin Dynasty, inlaid with one hundred and eight diamonds, the largest of which is the size of a pigeon's egg, precious and abnormal.

After a while, the palace maid took the diamond bracelet with a vermilion lacquer plate, "Queen Mother!" Over here. ”

Empress Xiao gently stroked the dazzling diamond bracelet, and asked the palace maid to take an ivory box, put the bracelet into the box, and handed it to a palace maid, "I heard that Pei Hua gave birth to a son, and I sent this bracelet for me, as a congratulatory gift from me to the child." ”

The palace maid was shocked, the queen mother's seventy-two pieces of jewelry were the saints of the year, seventy-two has the meaning of perfection, she has never given it to anyone, not even the princess of Nanyang, and now she actually wants to send it out as a congratulatory gift, the palace maid hurriedly said: "The queen mother, the bracelet is sent away, and there are only seventy-one jewelry." ”

Empress Xiao is also reluctant, but no matter how precious the jewelry is, it is not as precious as her life, and the glory and wealth of her later years, she is not yet fifty years old this year, and if she is well maintained, she can live for thirty years.

But the fine maintenance of living in the harem can only be given to her by Yang Yuanqing, and now it is a troubled time, with her identity as the queen of the Great Sui, if it were not for Yang Yuanqing's protection, she would have been ruined by others.

Empress Xiao knew very well how important Yang Yuanqing was to her, just like her grandson said, she knelt in front of him like a dog, in fact, she was not wrong, if Yang Yuanqing was willing, it didn't hurt for her to even dedicate her body to him, just ......

Empress Xiao sighed, "Go ahead!" Give it to the princess of Chu. ”

The palace maid knew that the queen mother must have been thoughtful, so she nodded, took the ivory box and left, at this time Empress Xiao sat up again, and said to another palace maid: "Take pen and ink!" ”

The two palace maids moved to the small table, and took pen and ink, Xiao Hou spread out the impeachment order, pondered for a moment, and then wrote in the back: "Small crimes should not be punished heavily, you can be removed from the post of the prince of Chu, and the fine will be half a year to show warning!" ”

After writing, she put down her pen, took the treasure seal of the Queen Mother, and stamped the seal next to the instructions