King Li's concubine Liu Wu touched the coffin and was martyred in the Hanyuan Hall in public, which made the originally confusing matter suddenly become a certainty. Because of the rebellion, King Li seized the prince's title and was buried with the county king ceremony. The concubine Niangniang remembered the concubine Liu Wu and fell in love, and was posthumously presented as the king of Zhenping County, and was buried in the tomb of the king of Li County.

Three days later, the crown prince ascended the throne in front of the Ling, respected the first emperor as Xianzong, and changed the Yuan to Changqing.

Mother Guo Guifei, who is respected as the queen mother, still lives in Daming Palace, and listens to the government and assists in the government. Guo Zhu became the secretary of the Criminal Department, and even Guo Jun, who should not be responsible for reasoning as a concubine, was relocated to Taifu.

At this time, the Guo family was in the limelight for a while.

But from the day the two brothers of the Guo family appointed the holy decree down, the voices of opposition have not stopped.

One of the hardest working is Wang Ge Lao of the household department.

This Wang Ge Lao's opposition attitude is not only extremely strong, but also sounds exceptionally reasonable.

Above the court, Wang Ge Lao held an ivory wat in his hand and stood up extremely seriously, Li Heng on the dragon chair couldn't help but start frowning, he could almost recite this Wang Ge Lao's words.

As expected, Wang Ge didn't even glance at the Empress Dowager Guo behind the bead curtain, and opened his mouth and said, "Your Majesty, the minister has a plan to play!" Since the opening of Hongmeng, there was the rebellion of Wang Mang of the Western Han Dynasty and the usurpation of the Wu Zhou Dynasty, although it did not follow the example of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to leave his son and mother, but ......"

"But the calamity of relatives must be strictly eradicated, the Guo family has a queen mother in the dynasty to listen to the government, and there are fertile fields and countless shops in the field, and now the Guo family is sealed, which makes the relatives powerful and powerful, which is not a good policy. Elder Wang Ge, what are you going to say? ”

Before Wang Ge Lao finished speaking, Li Heng had already interrupted his words, learned his tone, and said all the words he had said.

In fact, not only Li Heng, but most of the people in Zichen Hall were already able to memorize this passage, after all, they had to listen to it once or twice a day. Even if it is all those few sentences over and over again, the strength of Wang Ge Lao lies in the fact that he insists on repeating the same content to His Majesty the Emperor every day with a kind of persistence that is different from ordinary people, and as long as it is not adopted for a day, he will not give up for a day.

When Li Heng said this, although he could imitate Wang Ge Lao's serious and deep voice, he had a lazy attitude, which made it sound extremely funny. There were already people in the hall who covered their mouths and almost laughed, but this scene was really not suitable for laughing.

Several successive righteous remarks were put aside, and even this young majesty still had such an attitude, and Wang Ge Lao's already long face was now longer and a little darker.

But that's exactly what he wants to say. Wang Ge Lao was choked and swallowed his saliva, "Yes, that's what the minister wants to say." ”

Li Heng waved his hand, "I know what you want to say, so let's step back first." ”

Knowing that it is naturally not possible, Wang Ge Lao was not satisfied, knelt down and knocked his head three times: "Your Majesty, the words of the minister, the words of loyalty are contrary to the ear, I hope Your Majesty will think twice!" ”

Li Heng helplessly held his forehead: "How can I think twice?" When the first emperor was there, he also ordered me to discuss something with the queen mother. Guo Shangshu and Taifu are both my right-hand men, the so-called meritocracy, is it because they are relatives, can't they share my worries? ”

Wang Ge Lao still admonished himself: "Your Majesty! The minister is not greedy for life and afraid of death, even if His Majesty wants to cut off the minister's head because of this, the minister must also say that if he can't prevent it, it will be too late to wait until it really becomes a catastrophe! ”

Of course, he is not afraid of death, otherwise he would not say such things in front of Taihe and the Guo family. And the Queen Mother will not kill him, if he is really dead, and whether he is right or not, at least this reputation of being upright and not afraid of power is gained.

Nian Yun didn't want to fulfill him.

However, this Wang Ge Lao is really a little troublesome, according to his bitter advice, some courtiers in the court really feel that it makes sense, and even slowly begin to support him.

Moreover, his identity is also somewhat special. Because, Wang Jinxiang, who was forced to cut himself by the Yeting Palace because of a conspiracy to hurt Princess Taihe, is the eldest daughter of Wang Ge Lao.

The Wang family has produced several generations of queens, and they were born in the Xianzong dynasty, so that the Guo family is the only one, and the Wang family is stunned that they have not even been able to stabilize a low-level concubine. finally had a decent girl, who originally thought that she could be a concubine for Li Heng, but she knew that she would come out like this again, but she only got a small Zhaoxun and almost failed.

Whether it is public or private, the Wang family and the Guo family, the beams, can be regarded as concluded.

This Wang Ge Lao has a reputation for being upright, if he is also playing yin behind his back like his own unsuccessful daughter, Nianyun is not afraid of him. But he was so upright and so upright to oppose the Guo family, but Nianyun was a little jealous.

If you don't deal with him, it's really an eyesore. But if you really want to deal with him, no matter what reason you find, it seems that you are bullying others. Now that His Majesty has just ascended the throne, the society is unstable, and the status of the Guo family is also very delicate, so it will be very unfavorable if something happens because of this.

After waiting for the court, Li Heng accompanied the Empress Dowager Guo to eat a cup of tea in the Penglai Palace, and when he talked about the old Wang Ge, he couldn't help complaining: "I've been listening to the dead old man say the same thing for a decade or two. ”

It is enough for the dignified Ninety-Five to come up with a way to set a sack. A few little palace maids next to her wanted to laugh, but they didn't dare to laugh, so they had to turn their backs and bow their heads to do things.

Empress Dowager Guo picked up the teacup, took a sip, and said lightly: "So what, if he has the slightest injury, no matter who did it, it has to be doubled on the head of the mourning family." How simple it is, the mourning family has already sent someone to put him in a sack ten times! ”

Li Heng had a bitter face, "Then according to my mother, what should I do?" ”

To deal with this kind of hard bones, it is useless to reason in the court, it is better to draw salary from the bottom of the kettle and tell him to stop.

Empress Dowager Guo said: "Let's put up with him for a few more days, it won't take a few days, and he will stop." ”

Li Heng didn't believe it, but he didn't know his mother's methods, and if he thought about it, there should be a good way.

That Wang Ge Lao, that is, Wang Jinxiang's father, is actually in a somewhat embarrassing situation in the Wang family.

The patriarch of the Wang family is now the nephew of Empress Dezong Zhaode, that is, the long house of the Wang family. And the girl of the Wang family, who previously married into the East Palace as Zhaoxun, and has now moved into the Daming Palace and canonized as a talented person, is a concubine of the long house.

That Wang Ge is a three-room, although Wang Jinxiang and her mother are also concubines, but their backgrounds are not low, they expect this only daughter to have a good future with her reputation, otherwise, this concubine's daughter will still be a concubine in the future.

Speaking of which, Wang Jinxiang's life is not too bad, although she is a concubine, there is no concubine in the third room of the Wang family, and her eldest daughter is actually not cheap.

Since Wang Jinxiang was seven or eight years old, her family has tried every means to take her everywhere to behave, so by the time she was ten years old, the reputation of the first talented woman and the first beauty in the Wang family had already been beaten.

Before the accident, Wang Jinxiang had always been the pride of the third room of the Wang family, not to mention the second room, even the concubine of the long room was pressed by her, and even the big family with the three rooms of Wang Ge Lao raised their eyebrows. Especially Wang Jinxiang got close to the East Palace before, as if the crown princess was already in the bag, and he didn't take the long house in his eyes more and more.

Naturally, the long house has long looked at them unpleasantly. Later, Wang Jinxiang had an accident, although it was related to the reputation and interests of the Wang family, but Changfang was actually a little gloating. Especially in order to appease the Wang family, the first emperor specially let the concubine of the long house into the palace, and the Wang family was even more reluctant to stand up for Wang Jinxiang, so he handed over Wang Jinxiang without saying a word.

Wang Ge didn't dare to go against his brother, so his dissatisfaction was all transferred to Empress Dowager Guo and Princess Taihe, if it weren't for their mother and daughter, how could their family be like this, and their status plummeted?

To deal with this family, it is inconvenient for the Guo family to come forward in person, so they can only rely on the power of the royal family's room.

The next morning, the Empress Dowager Guo ordered Sishun to read out the edict, and the king of Jin was the king of beauty, and the elder brother of Wang Meiren was promoted from the Wupin Hall to the scholar of the fifth grade, plus a loose official position from the doctor of the Sipin Taizhong.

And on this day, Li Heng also showed great tolerance for Wang Ge Lao's repetition of Yan Qiang.

After the decree was announced, although the patriarch of the Wang family, who was the head of the household department, was completely unaware of this, and had to thank him with a confused face, the Empress Dowager Guo behind the bead curtain still glanced at him meaningfully, and the ministers couldn't help but silently sweat for Wang Ge Lao.

Could it be that Empress Dowager Guo has already wooed Wang Shilang?

Wang Shilang is the patriarch, if he has already stood in the camp of the Guo family, then what is the matter with Wang Ge Lao? Even his own brother couldn't convince him, is it really okay to stand on the same team with him?

Everyone has more or less heard some rumors about the disagreement between Wang Ge Lao and Wang Shilang, or is Wang Ge Lao only going to attack the Guo family and the Queen Mother because of personal grudges?

In Wang Gelao's opinion, things are becoming more and more confusing. Originally, he had already persuaded Wang Shilang to stand on the same front with him, but some time ago, although Wang Shilang said that he supported him, and the excerpt of the admonition was indeed handed over, but in the end, his attitude was not as resolute as his.

Now that the Queen Mother has given them so much grace to Changfang, could it be that Changfang has betrayed him behind his back and surrendered to the Queen Mother?

The real benefits have fallen on the head of the long house, if Wang Shilang said that he didn't know anything about it at this time, who would believe it!

The ministers didn't believe it, and Wang Ge Lao didn't believe it even more, when Wang Shilang kowtowed to thank him, Wang Ge Lao's face instantly turned as black as the bottom of the pot.

Empress Dowager Guo watched everyone's reaction with satisfaction behind the bead curtain, a wisp of a smile pulled up at the corner of her mouth, and whispered to Si Shun: "After the dynasty is dispersed, go to the treasury to pick up a few good things to send to Wang Shilang's wife, pick the valuable ones, don't give her a chance to refuse, put them down and leave." ”