Life is so clear, it can be regarded as the highest realm, Pu Rong added a little respect to the man, and said: "The predecessors are in love with the country, so that I feel in the bottom of my heart." With this map of the Great Hungarian Xiguan, this is a sea of swords and fires, and there is nothing to be afraid of. Tomorrow morning, I will be on the road below. If I return to Changjun one day, I will come back to visit Mr. ”

The middle-aged man's eyes were a little moist, and he held Pu Rong's hand tightly and said: "At that time, if Pu envoy passes by here, don't forget to go to my father's tomb to tell you the news of the Empty Moon Branch and the Great Hungarian Xiguan. ”

I don't know when the spring light rises quietly, bathing in the vast body of the plateau, looking back, the top of the bright moon mountain, there is light like day, and the whole mountain top is shrouded in strange light. Pu Rong grabbed the horse's head and sighed: "The place where the immortals live." ”

……

As soon as the grand farewell ceremony was over, Shi Wei hurriedly entered the Taihe Palace.

This person, who usually spoke woodenly, did not show mountain dew, and had never even entered Huo Wu's sight, was sitting opposite the Empress Dowager, carefully answering the old man's question.

"How is the emperor doing?"

"Empress Dowager, the emperor has been doing well lately!"

"I didn't ask you this, the mourning family said, what have they been busy with lately?"

"The emperor just sent Pu Rong away, and now he is going to the east of the city again."

"Isn't it just a messenger? Do you still need to work as a king? The spring is cold, and it's not the day of the spring outing, what are you doing in the east of the city? ”

"This ...... Minister......"

"What the hell is he doing?"

"The minister just heard that the emperor went to the construction site of the hall, and the emperor said that he would hold a ceremony there when the princes were making the pilgrimage!"

"The Great Canon? What is this grandson thinking? The Empress Dowager's face became more and more ugly.

Huo Wu became more and more self-conscious and unwilling to accept control, which made the Empress Dowager depressed when she thought about it. When she meditates alone, she can never forget the days when Emperor Gang was alive. At that time, although she was in the palace, she didn't know anything about the big and small things in the court? The emperor will always tell her everything when he asks for peace, and as long as she is slightly dissatisfied, the emperor will immediately change his decision.

But now, she vaguely felt that this confidence and glory were fading away, and although Ann continued as usual every five days, she received less and less news from Huo Wu. And the time he spends around is getting shorter and shorter, and he always copes with it. She was very worried about what kind of future it would be to hand over the country to him, if the imperial court fell into a crisis because of this, she would come to the Nine Springs in the future, and she would not have the face to meet her ancestors and ancestors.

She concluded from experience that everything that happened to Huo Wu was because he had gathered a group of troubled Confucian scholars around him.

"What have they been up to lately?" She couldn't help but raise her voice.

"The Empress Dowager refers to ......"

She became a little impatient and exclaimed, "Who else?" You can compare to a mourning family, and you will be relieved. ”

How could Shi Wei not see that the Empress Dowager was dissatisfied with herself? Since the death of Emperor Gang, the Shi family has been on the verge of state affairs, although their father and son are famous Huang Lao's scholars in Chang County, but the Huang Lao's learning they believe in has been increasingly snubbed by the emperor.

Two thousand stones is just a false name, and the emperor never thought of giving him a real position. When Emperor Gang was alive, he would personally go to the house to consult his father whenever he encountered a major event. But since the first year of Emperor Wu, this kind of courtesy no longer exists, and both he and his father feel threatened, which makes them understand more and more that only by relying closely on the Empress Dowager can they not overthrow the clan in the emperor's reform.

Now, looking at the Empress Dowager with a sad face, Shi Wei's heart was full of shame, and said: "It's all the ministers who don't do things well. ”

"That's it! Your father was much better than you when he was younger, and it's really not as good as it used to be! The Empress Dowager shook her head helplessly, "I don't know what's going on when my head falls off." ”

"Ahh The minister remembered something. ”

"Say it! Remembered something? ”

"That's what happened." Shi Wei swallowed his spit and said, "The minister looks at that Wang Juan is sanctimonious, in fact, he is also a mercenary person, and recently from the words of some ministers, the minister heard that his clansmen took advantage of the emperor's implementation of the 'limited people's famous land' opportunity to privately seize the people's land. The minister also heard that it was this Wang Juan who played the emperor, and asked the emperor not to play everything to the emperor and the queen mother to know. ”

This Wang Juan who should be cut with a thousand cuts! The Empress Dowager scolded in her heart, but she said Yamaguchi's words very calmly: "I heard! Heard! How do you hear about it? Wang Juan is now an important minister of the imperial court, how can you just rely on hearing about it? Aren't you afraid of being falsely accused? ”

Shi Wei understood that the Empress Dowager not only wanted news, but also incriminating evidence. However, these two things were very troublesome to do, but he did not dare to ask deeply. He understands the complexity of the palace struggle, and for the empress dowager, what she wants is the result of "eliminating the villains around the emperor".

"The matter of privately occupying the land was handed over to Wang Juan's hometown, and the king should have gone to investigate. It's just that in the latter matter, the minister has to go through some troubles, hoping that the Empress Dowager will give her some time. ”

After Shi Wei finished speaking, he retired from the Empress Dowager. As soon as he returned to the mansion, his brother Shi Qing came back from sword practice in the back garden, and as soon as he met, he asked, "What did the Empress Dowager say?" ”

"The Empress Dowager reproaches us for not believing in those unfounded things, and if we don't do it well, we will be blamed."

"What does she mean by that?"

"This is the unfathomable depth of the Empress Dowager, everything can only be understood and cannot be explained."

"Is she still hesitating?"

"You still don't understand this, she wants me to wait for evidence."

"What evidence? Isn't that easy? ”

"Easy? They are now all important ministers of the three princes, and they are heavily guarded, how can they get evidence? ”

"What about this......" Shi Qing thought for a moment, patted his knee, and exclaimed, "There is!" ”

Shi Wei looked at Shi Qing in confusion and asked, "What's there!" Look at your surprise. ”

Shi Qing smiled, and then attached his brother's ear and said. Shi Wei asked suspiciously, "Can this work?" ”

"Why not? But it's going to take some time, and you'll see! Hey! Shi Qing smiled coldly.

"Do you want to tell your father about this?"

"Tell him what? My father was old-fashioned. After telling him, do you want the old man to ignore the case and watch us accuse each other? ”

Shi Wei marveled at the depth of Shi Qing's thoughts, but he had to admit that his words made sense. In his memory, his father was a very strict Huang Lao. Although he believed in Huang Lao's doctrine, his idea of joining the WTO was no worse than that of the virtuous people. As soon as he led the court clothes, in the eyes of his old man, it was the trust of the society and the emperor's heavenly grace.

Although his children and grandchildren were all small officials, whenever they met, he had to sit in front of him. His way of educating his children and grandchildren was also very peculiar, and it was rare for him to shout loudly in front of the public, and he would call them to the side room, and ask them to strip and flesh one by one, and think about them in front of the wall until they were corrected.

This almost mental and physical torture made the Shi family gain a reputation of filial piety in the court and the opposition, and won the respect of the empress dowager. In fact, in the eyes of the Shi Wei brothers, this is not only old-fashioned, but simply a kind of pedantic. As they grew older, they began to disdain their father's mannerisms, even seeing him as an obstacle in their careers.

Yes, my father pays a lot of attention to his character, but what is his character? In the imperial court, which minister who has risen to a high position is like him? Shi Wei looked at Shi Qing's figure that disappeared behind the rockery and thought in his heart.

He was also very worried about how sure Shi Qing's method was.

……

The vigorous and resolute restructuring of the imperial court, like the Qin-Han River under the city, was pushed forward in waves under the impetus of Li Wei, Zhao Yun, Huo Xin, Wang Juan and others.

First of all, the policy of returning land to the people was supported by the people, but it also aroused the dissatisfaction of the wealthy and nobles. Wang Juan was an active responder to this policy, and although the local monarchs he assisted were dissolute and arrogant, he still relied on his rich education and personality charm to persuade the local monarchs to return a part of the public land to the people. This was followed by the repetition of the Yuanma, which yielded encouraging results, and according to courtiers returning from Luoyang, Xiguan, Huo Yong's sons, fearing the majesty of the emperor, reduced the gardens that their father had expanded during his lifetime, and distributed the land to the surrounding people. Those garden horses, under the supervision of the Taiwei Mansion, were all concentrated in Changjun and used as war horses for training cavalry.

To Huo Wu's delight, among the horses sent by the kings, King Lu was the most. From this point of view, he praised Wang Xing's influence on King Lu. On the day of Wang Xing's 80th birthday, he also specially inscribed a plaque of "Shoubi Nanshan" for Hun Sen to send over.

The second is that the atmosphere of Confucianism has been formed in China, and those elders who expect their children and grandchildren to achieve great things have discarded Huang Laozhi's theory and invited Confucian scholars to teach their children.

"For politics such as Beichen, live in its place and the stars arch over" The sound of Langlang books has drifted from Changjun to every county. All this made the construction of a Confucian school an urgent and natural matter.

At the same time, the Daming Hall, a landmark of Confucianism, has stood majestically outside the Chaoyang Gate of Changjun before the rainy season arrives in July.

According to the old rules of the royal family, every year after the summer solstice, the emperor has to go to the Yongzhou Spring Palace outside Changjun to escape the summer, but Huo Wu made an exception in the second year of his ascension to the throne and did not move, but went to the Wanjun camp. After watching the cavalry drills, he was very pleased. Compared with the military parade last autumn, the army has a completely new look, especially the skills of long-distance running and archery, which are in no way inferior to the great generals of the Great Hungarian Xiguan.

Huo Wu felt that if this continued, the attack on the Great Hungarian West Pass was just around the corner.

The only regret for him is that there has been no news from Pu Rong's team so far. Every time at dusk, his heart will fly to the far west with thousands of clouds, looking at the sunset in the west, and calling Pu Rong's name in his heart......

Of course, every five days, he had to go to the Taihe Palace with his mother to ask the Empress Dowager for peace. He inevitably had to pick up some irrelevant things and ask the Empress Dowager for instructions. The Empress Dowager expressed her joy and pleasure at her grandson's greetings, and she always chose words of encouragement to liven up the atmosphere that only came once in five days. Under normal circumstances, the emperor will always go with the queen, and the old man will hold their hands and bless them with the love of husband and wife and the early birth of the prince.

Huo Wu gradually felt that the old man was not as paranoid and antique as he imagined. Only Li Tian vaguely felt that there seemed to be something hidden behind this calm atmosphere. Could it be that the Empress Dowager is really going to live for the rest of her life from now on? Is it really out of interest in government politics?

This kind of thing is not to be speculated on. She only kept reminding Huo Wu to be cautious and not negligent. But Huo Wu didn't see it that way, he was very optimistic, and even felt that his mother was a little worried, and he still concentrated on promoting his career as always.