181 - The first step in politics
"Bastard!" Murong Lin was furious.
"The emperor forgives his sins!" Chu Xianrou knelt down with a "bang".
"Get up, I'm not talking about you. When they say that you are a misfortune to the country, don't they say that I am the faint king? Murong Lin patted the head of the bed angrily.
"The emperor is Mingjun!" Chu Qianrou blurted out.
Murong Lin was relieved: "Concubine Ai don't have the same knowledge as them, how can they know that Concubine Ai is good, they are either jealous or gang up for their son." is not like Ai Concubine, who is single-mindedly just for me. β
"The emperor is the husband of the concubine, and of course the concubine must serve the emperor wholeheartedly. Your Majesty, you dissipate your anger, the dragon body matters! It's all bad for concubines, concubines pester the emperor all day long, and it's right for ladies to dislike concubines. It was the concubine's broken mouth, and she couldn't stand any grievances, which made the emperor angry. β
Murong Lin stroked her hair: "Alas, it would be nice if they were half as sensible as you." Don't be sad, when I'm well, I'll make decisions for you. β
Chu Qianrou shook her head and said: "The concubine doesn't want the emperor to be the master of the concubine, as long as the emperor gets better quickly." β
Murong Lin lay down for five days before he recovered, and seeing Chu Qianrou waiting by his side day and night, he was even more fond of this Rou concubine, staying in Yuxiu Palace all day long and refusing to leave, and even ordered someone to move the song over.
Chu Qianrou kept driving him out, repeatedly emphasizing that the emperor wanted to be wet with rain and dew, and it would be enough to visit Yuxiu Palace once a month in the future. It wasn't until Murong Lin got angry that she smiled and helped him sit down.
Seeing the twists and turns of the mountain, Murong Lin's head became bigger, and he called, "Concubine Ai, come and read it to me." β
"Your Majesty......" Chu Xian said coquettishly, "You are going to embarrass your concubines again!" β
Murong Lin hugged her and said, "You, everything is fine, but you are too cautious." Only God knows about this matter, you know what I know, what are you afraid of. As soon as I recover from a serious illness, I have to watch so many twists and turns, aren't you afraid that I will fall ill again? β
Chu Qianrou hesitated for a long time, bit her lip and said, "That's only this time, not for example." β
"Good!"
"Also, the emperor will ask Gonggong Li to move these folds back tomorrow, otherwise the concubines will be trained by the queen again!"
"Okay, I told Li Chunhui not to send me any more twists and turns in the future, but you have to help me finish reading these."
"Your Majesty, you are punishing your concubines!" Chu Qianrou pouted.
Murong Lin said with a smile: "How can it be, Concubine Ai is here to share my worries, when you finish reading, I will take you to the treasury, and you can pick a favorite thing yourself." β
"Okay then." Chu Qianrou took a book and read it. But she is very well-behaved, she just reads, does nothing else, doesn't say a word, and doesn't express any opinions. Murong Lin listened to her read it, and after thinking for a while, he said, "Yes." β
Chu Qianrou put the red pen in his hand, and he reluctantly approved it, and proposed: "Aifei, I'll come, you help me write." β
Chu Qianrou shook her head when she heard this: "No!" Concubines don't imitate the emperor's handwriting. If it is seen that it is written by the concubine, not only will the concubine be criticized, but it will also affect the emperor's wisdom. β
"Concubine Ai is reasonable," Murong Lin said helplessly, "It seems that I can't be lazy if I want to." β
"The impeachment of the military department's Shangshu Chu Sui goddaughter has no way, and Concubine Rou monopolizes Jun'en, destroys the harmony of the harem, and violates the ancestral teachings. The emperor ...... "Chu Qianrou didn't comply," "This is impeaching my father, it is clearly impeaching the concubines, and I don't read this piece of concubines!" The concubine didn't do anything, and even the father was impeached, so the emperor should go to other mothers more in the future! β
If she is still indifferent at this time and does not express any opinions, the emperor will suspect her intentions, she is playing an innocent role, not the forbearant role.
Sure enough, Murong Lin was angry, maybe he was pretending. "This Sun Mao is really full, and he doesn't watch so many things in the court, but he just runs to take care of the affairs of my harem!"
Chu Qianrou sat down on the side and said angrily: "Anyway, the concubines don't dare to read the song to the emperor!" Your Majesty, you better let Gonggong Li send these twists and turns back to Zichen Palace, the emperor doesn't have to come here often! β
Murong Lin said with a smile: "Concubine Ai, your trick is not clever." β
"Why did the emperor say this?" Chu Qianrou forcibly suppressed the shock in her heart and asked tentatively.
"If it were you, I would not only have to read the folds, but also review the folds on my behalf." Murong Lin explained, "This Sun Mao will not impeach you for no reason, someone must have instigated it." If they do tricks behind their backs, not only will they not succeed, but you will be more favored, and it is estimated that the people behind the scenes will be angry. β
"That's right, it's still the emperor's wisdom!" Chu Qianrou happily sat down in front of the desk and lifted the Zhu pen, "The concubine will ghostwrite for the emperor." Your Majesty, what do you say about this twist? β
"Just four words: a bunch of nonsense!"
"Good!" Chu Qianrou wrote it stroke by stroke, and also drew a big turtle at the end, which was used to vent his dissatisfaction, which made Murong Lin laugh.
Chu Qianrou also laughed, this time she did it from the bottom of her heart, just now she almost thought that she was exposed, and the emperor saw through her trick.
This imperial history Sun Mao is the protΓ©gΓ© of Yang Sheng, the head of the household, and the head of the household is the elder brother of the jade concubine. To say that this jade concubine is also powerful, although she is about to be forty, but before Chu Qianrou entered the palace, she was still the most favored one, although there are many newcomers in the palace every year, the emperor still has the most when he goes to her palace, and now she has been robbed of her favor by Chu Qianrou, and it is inevitable to hold a grudge.
However, few people know that Sun Mao has actually been co-opted by Murong Jing and secretly switched to Murong Jing's disciples, but he still followed Yang Sheng on the surface, secretly sent a lot of news to Murong Jing, and did a lot of things.
Although Chu Qianrou avoided it every time Murong Lin reviewed the folds, Murong Lin still liked to let her accompany her and let her study the ink on the side, and she would also study it at a distance and then send it to Murong Lin's case, and then take three steps back and keep it in order.
But her eyesight is excellent, even if she is separated by three steps, she can still see the content on the fold, and she can see Murong Lin's approval, so she quietly wrote it down, and then selected useful information to send to Murong Jing.
The first time Murong Jing received was a letter, someone invited him to the Drunken Immortal Building for dinner, he went to the appointment, but he didn't see anyone, only saw a cold roast chicken on the table, and decorated it with comfrey flowers.
This is not normal, Murong Jing got up and closed the door and window, and cut the chicken open, there were still a few unripe eggs inside, one of which was slightly whitish compared to the others. Murong Jing pinched the egg, and sure enough, he found the clue, and he used a little harder, and the wax pill disguised as an egg broke, and there was a paper ball inside. He hurriedly opened it, but it was blank.
Murong Jing was even more puzzled, no one would be so boring, using this method to rectify him, the gains outweighed the losses, what did the messenger want to say? Roast chicken, eggs, and white paper, what is the relationship between the three?
Suddenly, he shouted loudly: "Xiao Er, get a basin of cold water, uncle, I want to clean my hands!" With that, he hid the note, grabbed the chicken leg and took a bite, making his hand very oily.
Xiao Er quickly brought the water, and also gave a cloth towel to wipe his hands very intimately.
Murong Jing gave two copper plates as a reward, waved away Xiao Er, and immediately picked up a handkerchief to wipe his hands clean, and then put the note into the clean water. After a while, lilac handwriting appeared on the paper.
When his eyes swept over the comfrey flower just now, he suddenly remembered that when he and Chu Qianrou were in the villa of the other courtyard, he had accidentally discovered that the juice of this comfrey flower was difficult to wash off on the clothes, but when the clothes were roasted on the fire, the color disappeared immediately, and then the clothes were soaked in water, and the faint purple color appeared again.
After reading the news given by Chu Qianrou, he was taken aback, she actually gave him so many useful messages, and told him not to reply, one-way transmission, if there are any questions, wait until the time is ripe, find a suitable reason to sit together and talk about things openly.
Chu Qianrou's news was very timely, which not only allowed him to successfully dodge some attacks, but also made the emperor look at him with admiration, so that he gradually had more confidence to compete with the crown prince and the eighth prince. And he will also secretly do some actions to make Chu Qianrou more favored.
After Chu Qianrou was reprimanded by Concubine Yu, instead of asking Murong Jing to arrange someone to impeach Yang Sheng, she asked Murong Jing to let someone pretend to be Yang Sheng's person to impeach herself, so that the emperor would not only not suspect her, but would be even more distressed, and indirectly took Chu Sui out.
Sure enough, things were as Chu Qianrou expected, Murong Lin saw the impeachment twists, but instead of blaming her, he asked her to review the folds on her behalf, so that she could have more contact with the affairs of the imperial court, plus the news she learned from Mrs. Chu, Chu Qianrou was already very clear about the situation in the court.
In addition, from the emperor's reply, we can see the emperor's attitude towards some things, and understand what the emperor attaches the most importance to, so that Murong Jing can avoid the emperor's rebellion in time, put forward political opinions according to his preferences, and further get Murong Lin's attention.
However, she didn't forget to remind Murong Jing that the choice of some timing should be just right, if the emperor found out that every time Murong Jing had just approved a decision, he had a countermeasure, exposing the relationship between the two people, but he couldn't eat and walk around.
Chu Qianrou's review of the folds soon set off a storm in the court, and everyone knew that Concubine Rou was the most favored one in the harem, and she was more favored than any previous mother.
Often the movements of the harem are also closely related to the previous dynasty, so many officials secretly hinted to Chu Sui that they wanted to take refuge, and many women went to the palace to ask to see Concubine Rou, and Chu Qianrou was in the limelight for a while. Chu Sui was so angry that he begged to see his daughter, and after everyone in the palace retreated, he reprimanded Chu Qianrou.
Chu Xianrou said aggrievedly: "The emperor has to ask his daughter to read and ghostwrite for him, and if his daughter doesn't agree, it will be a protest." But the daughter only read and ghostwrote, and did not put forward any opinions, so she could not interfere in the government affairs. β
Chu Sui also knew the emperor's temperament, and seeing his daughter like this didn't look like he was lying, he said helplessly: "It's good that you understand the stakes, you have a clear conscience, but others may not think so, in short, since you are serving by the emperor's side, you must not only follow the rules yourself, but also persuade the emperor in a timely manner." β
"My daughter understands."
In order to convince Chu Sui that he was really not tempting the emperor to break the rules, Chu Qianrou fought hard and put forward many reasons for Murong Lin to move the recital back, and promised her that she would go to Zichen Palace every day to recite the recital for him.