The Ninety-Five

Lian'er walked slowly along the sandwich road outside Yongxiang, this is a shortcut from Chongyang Gate to Chunhui Palace, people outside here rarely walk, only those who are familiar with the roads in the palace will choose this side. And he is a bold person who is not afraid to invite the unjust souls in Yongxiang. The girl of Wanning back then, and now the girl Lian'er, since she entered the palace at the age of six, has always been a person who has behaved properly, has not done anything wrong, and is not afraid of ghosts knocking on the door. When she was in the palace, she often took this road, and it was also a shortcut from Chunhui Palace to the south study.

Although she is not afraid of the so-called unjust souls, but every time she walks here, she is very depressed, after all, there are countless people who have died unjustly in Yongxiang throughout the dynasties, even if there is no grievance, all her life in this cold palace is unknown, and there are thousands of women who have buried their youth and life. Behind the Supreme Imperial Power of the Ninth Five-Year Plan, there are many ordinary people's lives, blood and tears.

She originally thought that she would spend her whole life in the palace, like many sisters, in obscurity in this palace. Although she is a celebrity around the Queen Mother, once the Queen Mother goes west, she generally has only two ways out, one is to live a wooden life in the palace like most palace maids, or encounter amnesty, and when she is old, she can be allowed to leave the palace, or become a monk and guard the Green Lantern Ancient Buddha. One is to be favored by the emperor and involved in the endless competition between you and me, once involved, you will not rest until death. The former at least had a quiet day, and she even thought about getting the Queen Mother's special order to leave the palace to practice medicine in the future.

The fate of people is sometimes difficult to say, when Yixiang chased her, everyone thought it was a disaster, but Yixiang a sword for her to exchange for a new life, so that she was able to get out of this cannibalistic and indifferent world, in the Kansai Tang Gate in the company of grandma and Xiao Jiu spent a few warm years, and now has her own husband and home. Although she has returned here for the sake of these people who have given her warmth, for the sake of her husband, but at least she once had, and there are no regrets in this life.

She didn't know why the Queen Mother summoned her today, since her grandmother disappeared, she came to the palace every three days to greet the Queen Mother, talk to her, and analyze the situation in front of her. She walked out of the mezzanine and unexpectedly saw Gonggong Hu waiting for her here.

"Miss Ning, the Queen Mother asked the slave family to wait for you here, let's go to the Yanghe Palace, the Queen Mother is already over there." This surprised her, the Yanghe Palace is where the emperor is, since she returned to the capital, she has never seen the emperor, even when she was in the palace, she rarely saw the current emperor, but on duty in the queen mother's palace, when the emperor occasionally came to ask for peace, she tried to avoid it, she didn't like the emperor's eyes to look at people. She felt that when the emperor wanted to execute her because of the big fight between Yixiang and Yiyi, the emperor didn't know who Zhou Wanning was, and he wouldn't remember what she was like. In the palace, as long as something happens, it's the fault of the subordinates.

The emperor has always had poor political performance, although the queen mother tried her best to guide him to correct him, but it did not have much effect, but made him even more away from the queen mother. The imperial court has become too logistical in government affairs, and the emperor enjoys the pleasures of sound and lust in a quiet corner, and often acts recklessly, and all judgments of likes and dislikes are based on his mood and preferences, and there is no reason at all. It's just that I recently heard the queen mother say that the emperor who knew that he was poisoned had changed a lot, and I don't know if this is really the case.

In the Yanghe Palace, the emperor and the queen mother sat side by side, and they didn't look poisoned on the surface. Lian'er can still judge from the sound of his voice that the poison is not light.

"This is that girl," the Queen Mother's tone was very relaxed, "Fortunately, you just let her go to Woyunguan to become a monk."

Although she bowed her head slightly, the emperor was still amazed. He remembered this girl very well, yes, when she was still a young girl. Although she often deliberately avoided him, he still quietly paid attention to her, naturally because she resembled Yan's stunning face. It's just that neither the queen mother nor the girl knows. They thought she was well hidden in his harem. At that time, she was young and did not have the grace of her mother.

Let her go to Woyunguan, his original intention was to keep her away from his wolf children. As a father, he is not as ignorant of his sons as his mother thinks. On the contrary, he knew very well that his sons were still very much like him in some ways. Even if Yiyi was brought up by his mother, he was quietly happy in his heart, and he still inherited his father in terms of his taste for women. The queen mother has failed in this regard, and she still doesn't know it.

But he won't tell the queen the truth, never will. The queen mother wants to control him for a day, and he has to deal with her for a day. But alas, this girl has grown up, she is married, and now she is a woman.

But maybe it's because of getting married that the figure is more attractive. The Yan Yuqian he saw back then was still a boudoir lady, unmarried, pure, and not enough. This married daughter is even better and more flavorful than her mother back then. I don't know if Yan Yuqian was so coveted after she got married. If it weren't for the Queen Mother here, he would have liked...

When I got her to Woyunguan, I just wanted her to stay away from her mother and wait for her to become an adult, but I didn't expect that Yixiang's stupid child would be self-defeating. And his current physical strength, I am afraid that he can only think about it, while sighing in his heart, he has to pretend to be polite at the first sight: "Alas, fortunately, thanks to the queen mother, otherwise the child would not know how many mistakes he would make in this life, so it is no wonder that Yixiang has always refused to let go." ”

Chen Bihua thought that her son had really improved a lot after his illness, and how to say that he was an elder, so he didn't think much about it: "It's all over, just treat her and Xinjie well in the future." ”

"Of course, of course." The emperor smiled kindly: "Since I have returned to Beijing, I often come into the palace to sit down, look at the Queen Mother, and look at me." ”

Chen Bihua frowned slightly, a little weird, but couldn't say why.

I heard the emperor continue: "Miss Wanning, I recruited you today because the Queen Mother praised you for your wisdom and loyalty. The situation in this palace, you may already know something, I feel ashamed, I have been in power for more than ten years, which has added a lot of burden to the old man and the government of the queen mother. I've been feeling so tired lately that I probably won't be able to survive this fall. After my death, this country will depend on Yiyi. But what the queen mother and I are worried about is whether Yiyi will be able to grasp this government.

Six years ago, by chance, I found out about the problems of the gold bureau, but there were too many of them, and many of them were accumulated because of my laziness and negligence. It's hard to return, freezing three feet is not a day's cold, I can't move them anymore. So far, I don't know how many official gold bars are wrapped in lead in the vault. I don't dare to investigate, if it is not properly deployed, not only will the lost gold not be recovered, but it will also make the entire court know that the treasury is empty.

It stands to reason that the gold bureau from sand panning to smelting is strictly supervised, and the gold from the gold bureau to the vault is also strictly inspected and recorded. Someone who can do all of these things is obviously not an ordinary person. I'm afraid that I won't be able to find out who is behind the scenes, but I will control it. So I did it in a very simple way, sending out my cronies' guards to monitor the metallurgical works of the various gold bureaus, and to track everything that came out, and many of them were lost gold.

The guards then disguised themselves as bandits, looted the lost gold, and built another vault. The gold is there, and as long as the deficit in the vault is not revealed, it will always be in the vault outside. In the event of a crisis, you can take out the gold stored outside for later use. Abandoning the state system and using the way of private ownership is indeed something that cannot be explained in the court. Everybody thinks I'm a, and if that's the case, let you keep thinking so. At that time, I wanted to build a luxurious dungeon for my death, and then build a new vault in it. However, the construction of the Imperial Tomb began in the second year of my reign, and it is impossible to change it, but since I am a promiscuous emperor, it is possible to build a separate courtyard. So I've expanded the annexes in a number of places, and I've actually built underground vaults in some of the annexes.

This matter was found out by Lin Jianrong three years ago, and I know from many clues that he is related to gold thieves, and my concubine Li has always been involved. Everyone wonders why I have favored Concubine De alone in the past two or three years, but the reason is very simple, because she looks innocent on the surface and has nothing to do with the forces around me. That's why I decided to put them to death. In order for Xinjie to take over the position of General Yutai, the head of the Pingluan Pavilion, I had to tell him the facts, talk to him all night, and tell him all the right and wrong things I did for this vault. I could see that he didn't agree with it at first, so I asked the Queen Mother to come forward and help me convince him. And I left this mess and the crisis of the government to Yiyi, if there is no capable person to help him, he will not be able to clean it up just by relying on his mother. At that time, not only Yiyi itself will not be protected, but what I am afraid of is that the situation in the Great Zhou Dynasty will be turbulent, and foreign people will peep, and there will be a disaster of destroying the country.

Xinjie is a man who keeps his promises, and since he promised me, he will be loyal to his duty and do his best. I also know that he is a tight-lipped person, in order to retain Chen Cheng, he had to tell him the cause of Lin Jianrong's death, and specially came to ask for my permission to let Chen Cheng know part of the truth, so I believe that Xinjie didn't tell you these things, right? ”

"No, it's just that the day before yesterday, Chen Cheng sent me a colleague on duty to see me, and later chatted with Xinyang, only to know that Chen Cheng was originally with Lord Lin, and later almost committed suicide because he misunderstood the cause of Lord Lin's death. But neither Xinyang nor anyone else knew how Chen Cheng finally untied the knot and stayed in Pingluan Pavilion. ”

"Yes, it was my negligence that caused many ministers to misunderstand, and many virtuous ministers were misplaced."

Misplaced, Wan Ning snorted coldly in her heart, The Zhou family and the Yan family in Jiangnan have no quarrel with the world, just to pursue medical skills and music, and they don't know who they provoked, and the disaster of annihilation is just a mistake in the emperor's view. When Wan Ning was in the palace, she often witnessed the queen mother's anger, tears and sorrow for the emperor, and she didn't know if it wasn't for the emperor knowing that his time was running out, he would be as humble and blamed himself as he is today. Or still, as in the past, uninhibited, self-righteous and self-righteous.