Chapter 100: Confession
The Queen Mother looked straight at Ji Yuan, and there was silence in the hall for a while. Su Yu worked hard to reduce his own existence
Ji Yuan looked at the Queen Mother, thinking of the days when she taught herself, the Queen Mother looked at Ji Yuan's eyebrows and eyes that resembled the first emperor, and both of them had complicated hearts.
When the first emperor died, Emperor Xining ascended the throne for only a few years, the throne was unstable, and the Great Xia suffered from the enemy on his back and fell into a two-front battle.
There are many military spending, taxes are harsh, there are countless young and strong men in the army, every family values filial piety, and the cries of old and weak women and children resounded throughout the capital. The people were miserable.
It was the most difficult years since the founding of Great Xia.
The first queen had a difficult birth, tossed all night, and desperately gave birth to Ji Yuan.
The moment Ji Yuan was born, colorful auspicious clouds shrouded the capital, and the people were all there, bless Daxia.
Sure enough, when the baby's cry sounded, an urgent messenger came to report that Great Xia had won great victories in two major battlefields, and thus the war was over. Cheers resounded throughout the capital.
The sadness in Emperor Xining's heart because of the queen's bloody death was diluted a little, and he immediately named Ji Yuan the crown prince.
The bell on the top of Kaiyuan Temple made an exception for this family and national event, and rang a full twelve times at dusk.
The Queen Mother can still remember how gorgeous and shocking the auspicious clouds were that day.
Born with a vision, Ji Yuan was recognized as an extraordinary person.
The Queen Mother took over Ji Yuan, who was still a baby, and was soft and soft, looking at his dark and shining eyes, thinking of the entrustment of the first emperor, she secretly swore in her heart that she must devote her life to learning and make Ji Yuan a generation of Ming Jun whose merits are enough to shine in the annals of history.
There is no need to mention this hard work, just looking at Ji Yuan's respect for the Queen Mother in many things, it is enough to know a thing or two.
Ji Yuan has admiration for the Queen Mother. When I first entered the court, I also asked for a lot of advice.
The Queen Mother also defends Ji Yuan everywhere, and the policies implemented by Ji Yuan in Lingnan are also a group of dissatisfied ministers that the Queen Mother has pressed.
In recent years, the only difference between grandparents and grandchildren is on marriage.
The Queen Mother rubbed the smooth chair, she had some doubts for the first time, according to the idea of the first emperor, is it really wrong to take such a step?
"Su Yu, you should also go to see the queen."
Su Yu suddenly called her name for some reason, but she also wanted to avoid this war-burning scene quickly, and smiled lightly, "The Queen Mother is." ”
Mama Song personally took Su Yu out of the main hall, and the palace maids and eunuchs rushed out, leaving space for the most noble pair of grandchildren in the world to be alone.
As soon as the door closed, the air seemed to stand still.
It's quiet, so quiet that you can hear a needle falling, and if a needle falls off this time, it won't be so depressing.
The man pursed his lips and knelt down straight, "Grandmother." ”
"Grandmother asked you, do you really like that girl so much that you would rather disobey me than marry her as the crown princess?"
"Yes." Crisp and clean.
"If your grandmother allows you, if you become emperor and take her as a concubine, are you willing?" The Queen Mother closed her eyes and relaxed slightly.
"I don't want to."
Ji Yuan asked rhetorically, "Grandmother, grandson want to know, why can't you marry Miss Huo?" ”
"Do you remember what your grandmother once taught you, if you are an emperor......
The Queen Mother is not finished yet, Ji Yuan quickly answered, "Too deep love, too heavy people, are all burdens." The grandmother taught the grandson not to forget for a moment. ”
"Since you haven't forgotten, why are you so confused?"
"At that time, my grandmother was only, if the emperor favored any concubine too much, it would be easy to attract the dictatorship of foreign relatives, cause chaos to the dynasty, and it would be difficult to recover." Ji Yuan said word by word, and his voice was clear.
"If Huo Xiang tells the old man to return to his hometown, there is no one in the Huo family, and there is no one in the side branch to enter the court as an official, wouldn't it be impossible to eliminate the trouble of this foreign relative?"
"How can a queen without the support of her family be the master of these six palaces?" The Queen Mother sneered, "The first queen was born in the Qi family, and your maternal grandfather was also your father's teacher. ”
"Today's queen Xu, the Xu family has a deep heritage, and the old lady Xu is also full of peach and plum."
The Queen Mother asked him rhetorically, "If it weren't for Queen Xu's childlessness, if it weren't for the Qi family, the Xu family, and even the Gao family, the mother of the Mourning family, would have poured resources into you alone." Is the position of the prince today really as stable as you are today? ”
"Grandfathers and grandmothers supported each other, raised their eyebrows, and loved each other to the point of whiteness, which was cited as a good story by the subordinates. Why are grandparents okay but grandchildren can't? ”
"The first emperor is the most different from you." Now that she is here, the Queen Mother is not afraid to tear open the royal fig leaf and show it to Ji Yuan.
"The first place in the heart of the first emperor is always the country." The Queen Mother smiled bitterly.
"That year, the elder brother of the mourning family committed an accident, and he was caught in the wrong place, and the city was full of storms, and everyone knew it." The Queen Mother remembered that the emperor's resolute eyebrows and eyes that day were still vivid.
"The mourning family didn't care about their face, at that time, they were still pregnant with your father, and knelt in front of the Qianqing Palace for an afternoon, and he refused to see this side."
"The first emperor was cold and mourned for two months, two months, and he couldn't see each other."
"This is the real emperor, not to make exceptions for selfishness, not to be swayed by distracting thoughts." The Queen Mother said with admiration in her tone, "He is ruthless to everyone, including himself, only in this way can he create a prosperous world." ”
"The first emperor once instructed the mourning family to cultivate the best heir to sit on the dragon chair." The Queen Mother leaned forward slightly, "The mourning family doesn't want the biggest failure in your life to be in the word of love." I don't want the rivers and mountains of Great Xia to be at risk, because of who is at risk. ”
Ji Yuan's back was straight, like a pine and cypress in the cold wind.
"Grandmother thinks, what is the prosperous age? Is it a prosperous era without corrupt officials in the court? My grandmother taught me to read, and it said, "No man has only his own relatives, nor only his sons." So that the old have the end, the strong have use, the young have growth, the widows, widows, lonely and the sick have all been raised", is it a prosperous age to just do this? ”
The Queen Mother smiled, "Naturally, it doesn't count." If a great king stays at the art of mastering people, he has only learned the art, not the way of the upper ranks. ”
"I was born a crown prince, and my grandmother always told me that I was born to be an emperor." Today, Ji Yuan's words are also very straightforward, and there are no twists and turns.
"Over the years, my grandson has been thinking about how to be a good emperor. Is it really like a grandmother, can't the emperor be emotional? ”
Ji Yuan looked directly at the Queen Mother's disapproving eyes, and asked rhetorically, "If I can abandon my wife, I can also abandon her, if I disregard family affection because I was born in the royal family." How can I understand the pain of the separation of the wives and the destruction of the families? If I, as an emperor, am arrogant and lascivious, how can I realize the hardships of the people "facing the loess and turning their backs"? ”
He paused slightly, as if he had made some kind of determination, "Grandmother, grandson has been thinking about it for a long time, but he still doesn't want to be a ruthless emperor.
"If the emperor is ruthless, why are the people innocent? Do they really need a cold-blooded, ruthless, and brutal monarch? Ji Yuan confessed his heart, "My grandson went to Lingnan not for personal gain, but for whether the people could live and work in peace and contentment, and whether Daxia could have more fertile soil." Sun Er arrested corrupt officials today because he didn't want anyone to loot the people's fat and ointment again. ”
When he was like this, the sun shone on him through the door frame, and the Queen Mother suddenly seemed to have seen the first emperor when she was young, and at that time, that man still had a hot heart.
didn't get to the end, Jun's heart was as deep as the sea, and he couldn't understand it. seems to have been in love all his life, but the king and her are still separated after all.
"My grandson is the first time to be a prince, and if he ascends the throne in the future, he may not be able to look up to his grandfather for the rest of his life. But please rest assured that my grandmother was born at home in this life, and she was entrusted by the people of Limin, so she didn't dare to slack off. Ji Yuan's oath hit the Queen Mother's heart like a hammer.
"My grandson is also afraid that if I make a mistake, my people will be in deep trouble, but my grandson is also afraid that the person he loves will be far away from him, and he will not see each other in the world.
Grandmother, how can Xia Cangsheng compare with my wife? The monarch is also a husband. ”
"I don't know, fortunately, or unfortunately." The Queen Mother muttered.
Whether the gentle king is fortunate or unlucky, the Queen Mother doesn't know.
The dust filled the air in front of the Queen Mother's eyes, and she was in a trance.
If she had started all over again in this life, she still hoped that the first emperor would still be the husband who painted her thrush at the beginning, rather than the king of Xiarao.
It's hard to settle, it's hard to settle, she has never occupied that man's complete heart.