Imajo was quickly sent back to the Funing Temple. When Miao Shuyi rushed with me to apologize, he had already woken up, surrounded by the imperial doctors brought by Zhang Maoze, and the queen was also in the palace.

At that time, the queen personally filled a bowl of soup and medicine and sent it to him, and was trying to persuade him to drink, but he raised his hand to block it, the medicine bowl was overturned, and the medicine juice splashed the queen's body.

"I'm not sick!" He said irritated and impatiently.

The queen was silent, and did not care about changing clothes for the time being, and only signaled the insiders to remove the decoction first.

Miao Shuyi stepped forward tremblingly and bowed down to the surrogate girl to ask for her guilt. Jinshang glanced at her and replied with only two words: "That's it." Look at me again and ask, "Did you tell Huirou about me?" ”

I thought he was referring to fainting outside the Yifeng Pavilion, so I replied, "After the official family left, the princess lay down again to rest. The minister wanted to wait for the princess to wake up and tell her about it, and then she would definitely come over and ask the official family for her guilt. ”

Jin Shang shook his head and said, "Let her have a good life, don't tell her." ”

In the days that followed, Jin Shang still refused to take the medicine, and his complexion and spirit became worse and worse.

Not long after, the New Year is here. According to the usual practice, if an inauspicious event occurs in the DPRK and China, the era name must be changed the following year. "Zhihe" now seems to be an ominous year name, changed to two years, starting with Zhang Guifei Xu, and ending with the current disobedience, therefore, this new year, and a new era name - Jiayou.

But the name of the new year did not immediately bring good luck to the emperor, and his illness tended to worsen after the new year.

On the first day of the first year of Jiayou, today go to the Imperial Daqing Palace, and watch the big court. After the hundred officials were lined up, the chamberlain rolled up the bead curtain in front of the throne and let the ministers meet the emperor, but now he was dizzy at this time, and the crown was on the side and fell to the side. The spectators were shocked, and the attendants on the left and right hurriedly lowered the curtains and pinched the Venerable Master with their fingers before he woke up. After rolling the curtains again, and after hurriedly saluting, the eunuchs helped him back to the dormitory.

After the New Year, the Khitan envoy resigned, and the imperial court gave a banquet in the Zichen Hall as usual. And when the envoy entered the court, he suddenly shouted: "Summoning the envoys to ascend to the palace, I will almost not see them!" Then he spoke incoherently, and the ministers knew that the disease had attacked, so they immediately helped him into the forbidden, and the ministers issued an edict to the Khitan envoy in the name of the present, saying that there was too much alcohol in the palace on the eve and that he could not come to the banquet in person today.

From that day on, he was haunted on the sickbed and could not look at the court. At the request of Zaizhi, the officials of the second government went to the small hall of the inner east gate closest to the forbidden middle to live, and every morning, they saw the present side there.

The princess is not in a good situation either. She was still on a semi-hunger strike, and Han and I could only coax her to drink a little porridge when she was in a daze, and after a long time, she also looked like she was seriously ill. Miao Shuyi invited the imperial doctor to come and prescribed a few doses of medicine, but the princess would rather die than drink, either crying or falling asleep all day long, without any radiance.

I was at a loss and suddenly thought of Mr. Zhang's acupuncture on Qiuhe. Although the princess was in a different situation from Qiuhe at that time, acupuncture may also be able to restore a little spirit for her, and Mr. Zhang has been in the Imperial Pharmacy for many years, and his medical skills should be very skillful, so it is always good to ask him for advice.

But for two days in a row, I searched several times, from the Imperial Medicine Institute to the Funing Palace, but I didn't see Mr. Zhang. Later, I felt strange and asked the whereabouts of Mr. Zhang, a little yellow door in the Imperial Medicine Academy, he didn't know me, looked at me very vigilantly, and asked, "Are you Shi Duzhi's subordinate?" ”

Shi Duzhi refers to Shi Quanbin, Zhang Guifei's confidant back then, after the death of Guifei, he was now moved to the deputy governor.

Although I have known Mr. Zhang for many years, we don't have much contact in private if there is no major event on weekdays, so not everyone under his eunuchs may know me. Faced with this little yellow door's question, I shook my head in denial and told him: "I am Liang Huaiji." ”

"Oh, it turned out to be Liang Gaopin, I know you." He was relieved all of a sudden, and told me with a smile: "Mr. Zhang is out of the palace." ”

I asked, "Where to go?" ”

He replied, "I don't know." He will come back before the palace gates close, and you will come back then. ”

I came back at dusk, and sure enough, I waited for Mr. Zhang. His eyes were bloodshot, probably from the fatigue of his recent travel.

When he saw me, he took me into his chamber where he was doing his official business and asked, "Is it the princess's business?" ”

I bowed my head and described the princess's situation to him, and asked him if he could do acupuncture, and he said, "The princess has a heart disease, and acupuncture is not very effective...... You go back and tell her that she will definitely have a chance to see Cao Ping again, so get better now. Eat more, and you'll recover naturally. ”

"This ...... Is it a lie to her? I asked, confused.

He smiled faintly: "It's not a lie to her." They won't get their way, but there will definitely be a chance to see each other again. ”

Seeing that he had no intention of explaining in detail, I didn't ask any more questions, but I couldn't help but express my curiosity about the reason why he left the palace: "Is it related to the condition of the husband who left the palace?" ”

He was silent for a long time, and finally revealed something to me: "I went to see the Thirteenth Regiment Lian and Fu Xianggong. ”

The current prime ministers are two ministers who were previously exiled, Fu Bi and Wen Yanbo.

Half a year ago, Prime Minister Chen Zhizhong was impeached by the imperial history, first talking about his permission to overstep the rules to pursue Wen Cheng, and then accusing him of conniving at his concubine to beat his maidservant to death, "entering without loyalty and diligence, and retreating without a family festival", and some people even said that he had an affair with his daughter. I don't know whether this appalling thing is true or not, but the combination of various reasons finally led to Chen Zhizhong's resignation.

At that time, almost everyone thought that they would take this opportunity to promote Wang Gongchen. Because he proposed to posthumously register Wen Cheng, he was promoted to the third secretary of the current office, as the previous official said when he impeached Zhang Yaozuo, the position of the third department is only one step away from the second government.

But now he made an unexpected decision, announcing that Fu Bi and Wen Yanbo would be the prime minister, and Wang Gongchen would be the envoy of the Xuanhui North Court and sentenced to merge the state.

Fu Bi has long had a good name, if you don't mention the lantern brocade, Wen Yanbo is also a good minister, so the scholars and doctors heard the news and celebrated in the court.

Now I have heard Mr. Zhang mention the thirteenth regiment and the rich minister, I can already guess the reason: the queen and the ministers must consider the matter of the prince, and the identity of the prince of the thirteenth regiment has not been established, and there are changes from day to day, and the prime minister must be supported to ascend the throne. Therefore, Mr. Zhang rushed around for days, probably to report the news to the queen, and asked Fu Bi to agree to the 13th regiment to practice the throne in the future, and at the same time let the 13th regiment practice prepare for the throne.

"Is this what the queen meant?" I asked tentatively.

"Both the rich minister and the queen have this intention." Mr. Zhang said, paused, and said: "Actually, if you can decide for yourself now, it will only be the result." ”