Chapter 34: Checks and Balances

Xiao Chenyu knew that Dong Ji was angry at the moment, and of course he knew what he was angry about.

As the Son of Heaven, he should have had a lot of concerns, but he left the palace alone without making a sound today, not to mention the guards in the palace, even Fusheng, he didn't take it with him, in Dong Ji's opinion, this is nonsense.

In fact, when Dong Ji really calms down, he will also think that there must be a secret guard by his side, protecting him in secret, even if he leaves the palace, there will be no accidents, as for the palace, he is bound to arrange it properly, how can it be so easy to ask Cining Palace to take his handle or shortcomings?

However, in a moment of anger, Dong Ji couldn't care about these things for the time being.

"Outside the palace, there are not so many false courtesies, right?" Xiao Chenyu clasped his hands around his chest and looked at Dong Ji with a smile, "When you were in the palace, you always said that what etiquette should not be abolished, and I felt that what you said was right, so I let you go, went out of the palace, and saw you in the General's Mansion, and you were still so polite?" Why are you angry, I know it all in my heart, and it's all for my sake, what is there to blame? ”

Dong Jichang breathed a sigh of relief and sat down to the side: "Your Majesty, why did you come out of the palace?" ”

"There are some things that I want to walk around and listen to." Xiao Chenyu rubbed his eyebrows, "The Bai family is already useless, but they can't move their family at the moment, for a long time, the pattern between the DPRK and China has been stable, in fact, the Bai family is indispensable to do this fulcrum." Although now this fulcrum has begun to favor Cining Palace, but if it moves rashly, this game of chess will all be dispersed, and I want to take a walk outside to listen to how the Bai family behaves in Beijing. and the Queen Mother......"

When he talked about the Queen Mother, a pain flashed in his eyes that was almost invisible, and he immediately stopped his voice.

The pain that flashed by did not escape Dong Ji's eyes.

After so many years, the emperor's feelings for the Queen Mother are still complicated......

People say that the heavenly family is ruthless, there is no father and son in front of the throne, and fratricidal things are even more common.

Not to mention how they intersected privately in Su Ri, just say that the Queen Mother is there, which is enough to see.

The queen mother is not the emperor's biological mother, the emperor's biological mother had a difficult birth, and as soon as the emperor landed, the first emperor handed him over to the queen mother to raise.

In the first few years, the queen mother did not have her own son, and she was okay with the emperor, after all, she was the emperor's favorite child, and she was a son-in-law, in the final analysis, the queen mother did not dare to slack off, and when she herself had no heirs, all her hopes could only be pinned on the emperor.

It's just a pity that the queen mother became pregnant and gave birth to a son for the first emperor, and it was only three or four years ago - the emperor was only four years old at that time, and he should have enjoyed the age of his mother's love, but because of the birth of the abolished king, he was deprived of such rights.

Since then, all the efforts of the Queen Mother have been put on the abolished king, and the emperor is not as good as day by day.

When the emperor and the abolished king are growing up, and the queen mother is also a successor, the first emperor has never hidden the importance of the emperor.

Dong Ji still remembers that when the emperor was sixteen years old, the first emperor Xingtai Taishan asked the emperor to stay in the court to supervise the country, and the abolished king at that time had not yet been able to join the ministry council.

For this, the queen mother alienated and snubbed the emperor for half a year, and it was not until the end of the year that she was willing to say a few words to the emperor.

The first emperor saw these things in his eyes, but because of this, he treated the king more and more coldly.

Dong Ji often thought later, in the heart of the first emperor, he should hope that the queen mother would retreat in the face of difficulties, and not excessively promote the abolished king, he was unwilling to let the abolished king get ahead, that is, he clearly warned the queen mother that the emperor was the most worthy child in his heart, and the abolished king should not even think about it.

However, the first emperor used the wrong method and the wrong mind, or the queen mother still couldn't understand the intention of the first emperor after decades of being a husband and wife.

In short, when the first emperor was seriously ill and could not take care of the government, the queen mother began to wantonly encircle the important ministers in the court, hoping that one day, they could be used by the abolished king, and the first emperor died, the queen mother ignored the edict of the first emperor, and really wanted to abolish the king's throne.

Later, the abolished king was defeated, and his head was in a different place - in fact, the emperor's heart, the hatred that had been hidden for more than ten years, was not completely broken out until that moment - on the day when the abolished king was divided by five horses, almost all the important ministers in the court were present, and they were sentenced together with the emperor.

After the death of the abolished king, the queen mother counted all the faults on the emperor's head, and to this day, she still feels that it was the emperor who took away everything that should have belonged to the abolished king - the favor of the first emperor, the dragon chair under the emperor, these, in the eyes of the queen mother, have always been abolished kings.

Their mother and son have never been predators, but have been violated.

Such a person, Dong Ji originally thought that the emperor should hate her deeply and hate her to the core.

However, today, when the emperor was sitting in his small study, when he mentioned the queen mother, the pain that flashed in his eyes suddenly made Dong Ji realize that maybe in the emperor's heart, he was also struggling.

Even though the Queen Mother has all kinds of nos, but after all, she raised him, maybe in this process, the Queen Mother didn't give him much love and pity, but she lost her mother since she was a child, and before she was four years old, the Queen Mother was the same as his own mother.

Dong Ji pursed his lips slightly: "Your Majesty, do you have any patience?" ”

One sentence made Xiao Chenyu stunned.

Is he really unbearable? Probably not.

The abolished king and he grew up together, both raised under the knees of the queen mother, and were the two closest brothers in this palace, but when the abolished king failed, he did not hesitate to order the five horses of the abolished king to be divided, and didn't he take care of the queen mother at that time?

Xiao Chenyu shook his head calmly, and then said no: "That can't be called unbearable, it's just that every time I think of the Queen Mother, I will always be a little dazed." ”

"Dazed?"

He said yes and raised his eyes to look at Dong Ji: "My biological mother has not taken care of me for a day, and as soon as I was born, she let go." In the eyes of the Queen Mother, I am her son, but is it really because I am not the piece of meat that fell from her stomach, and in the years that followed, she treated me like this? I have never understood why she was able to ignore her father's edict and help the abolished king Xingbing to rise up, she is not even afraid of the dissatisfaction of her clansmen, let alone the history of the coming days, and she will criticize her. Dong Ji, is all this just because I am not her own child? ”

Xiao Chenyu said and smiled bitterly: "I always feel that between me and her, it is like a deep feud in the sea of blood, she regards me as an enemy, so she hates me like this, and she dares to risk the disapproval of the world, so I always feel at a loss." ”

Because he didn't know where the Queen Mother's hatred came from, but he desperately wanted to find out, so in the past few years, he had also tried to investigate clearly, but to no avail.

However, between him and the Queen Mother, since the death of the abolished king, it is difficult to maintain even the peace on the surface, so he can't go to Cining Palace to ask the Queen Mother for anything.

Xiao Chenyu pressed his temple: "Don't you know?" ”

He asked without a head, and Dong Ji was stunned: "What does the emperor mean?" ”

"Zhu Xinshan."

When this name came out of Xiao Chenyu's mouth, Dong Ji's face sank: "The minister knows." ”

"So you see, if the Queen Mother didn't hate me so much, how could she still want to pull Zhu Xinshan to rebel against me now?" Xiao Chenyu sneered, "Zhu Xinshan has great military merits, and she holds half of the military power of the imperial court, she wanted to win over Zhu Xinshan for the abolished king, but at that time, Zhu Xinshan led the troops to garrison the border, and he didn't know much about the affairs of the court, so he failed to become the helper of the abolished king." After many years, Zhu Xinshan turned to the Queen Mother. ”

This great general, the real military merits, in the past when the emperor was still there, there was a royal historian who impeached him, relying on his military merits, not to put the officials of the imperial court in his eyes, even when he was stationed at the border, he did not put the local officials in his eyes, it was simply a king's law.

At that time, although the first emperor could not talk about emphasizing literature over military force, since the previous dynasties, the status of civil officials was higher than that of military attachΓ©s, and the defense was also that military generals supported their own troops, and no one could control them.

But when Zhu Xinshan was stationed at the border, he actually asked the local assassin to lead the horse for him, and this matter later made a lot of noise, and those officials jumped to their feet and asked the emperor to give a heavy responsibility.

"The first emperor valued him back then, and trusted him, even if most of the imperial history of the court was excerpted, the first emperor did not blame him heavily, but only punished him for a year, punished him for a small punishment, and warned him not to make an example, and the matter was revealed without mentioning it." Xiao Chenyu sneered, "He's good, but now he's turning around, helping the Queen Mother, and trying to rebel against me, it's really wolf-hearted!" ”

It's not that he's wolf-hearted.

When it comes to this, Dong Ji is also a little difficult to say, in the final analysis, it is because the emperor attaches too much importance to the Dong family......

After all, this involves their family, and he can't say too much, so he just hesitated for a moment and coughed dryly: "After the emperor ascended the throne, he valued his father and ministers, which fell in the eyes of General Zhu, so naturally it would not work." There have been no wars in these years, but three years ago, didn't the emperor still send him to the border to garrison for half a year? In fact, the emperor values him, but I'm afraid that this general doesn't think so in his heart. ”

"Rewards, punishments, honors and disgraces are all the emperor's grace, he has been an official in the court for so many years, has he even forgotten this little truth?" Xiao Chenyu's face was gloomy to the extreme, and the ice slag under his eyes was shattered, "To put it bluntly, he is pretentious, and he always feels that no one can surpass him if he has military merits." What I raised your family for, doesn't he know anything in his heart? ”

Xiao Chenyu took a deep breath and paused for a moment before he said the rest of the words: "To put it bluntly, I'm not afraid that you will eat your heart, the so-called imperial power is nothing more than the word checks and balances above the court." Zhu Xinshan has a great reputation, and his prestige in the army is too high, and the first emperor relied on him at that time, so he did not move him. If he is a sensible person, if he takes a step back, he can also achieve the sea and the sky, and I will always think about half of his life on the battlefield, and I will not blindly embarrass him and can't get along with him. But Dong Ji, take a look, what did our general do? "Please remember that the fake queen doctor of the world latest chapter chapter 34 checks and balances website: