Liu Maolin is an old minister who has been in Suiyang since the old emperor.

At that time, there was a text and a martial art in Sui Yang, the text was Liu Maolin, and the martial was the king of the eight sages.

The two complemented each other, helped the old emperor, and once revived Sui Yang.

After the death of the old emperor, the throne was passed to the first emperor, that is, the empress's own brother, who thought that the new emperor would be like the old emperor, diligent in government and government, and develop Suiyang more prosperous.

But who knows, the new emperor is a king who is addicted to fun, and he doesn't ask about political affairs all day long, and he is stuck in the rouge pile of the harem, and he is extravagant.

As a result, he succeeded to the throne for less than a year, and died violently on the woman's belly because of an overdose of Wushi San.

Because the new emperor had no queen, and there was no designated successor before his death, Sui Yang was simply chaotic at that time.

When the new emperor was there, the Qingzhou Party, which only knew the flattery and plumpness, turned around and wanted to welcome Zhao Sui, the king of Guangling, as the emperor.

During the reign of the new emperor, the Qingzhou Party was good at figuring out the will, and was regarded by the new emperor as his own family, but all those who were born in Qingzhou were in high positions.

Even if you, Liu Maolin, are the patriarchs of the old emperor's period, you can't stop the general trend from going.

At this critical juncture, the Eight Sages King, who was guarding the frontier, led his elite and thunder fire iron cavalry to quickly return to Daxing City, and together with Wuhou Lu Gongyou, he shocked the Qingzhou Party. is even more forceful to override public opinion, and put Zhao Ningbing, that is, the sister of the former emperor and the current empress, on the throne.

Because of this, the attitude of the Qingzhou Party towards the empress is disrespectful and disobedient.

In fact, to be honest, Liu Maolin's attitude towards the empress was not very good at the beginning, a woman was in power, which was unprecedented in history, not to mention that the empress was less than eighteen when she ascended the throne, Liu Maolin had no bottom in his heart at all.

But after the empress came to power, a series of actions made Liu Maolin have to look sideways.

Although it has been two years now, Liu Maolin vaguely remembers the corresponding measures made by the seventeen-year-old empress after she ascended the dragon throne.

There are no less than 1,000 people in the new queen's palace, and Zhao Ningbing took the throne, and a holy decree sent all these noble concubines back to their hometowns.

Several of them had instigated the new emperor to frame Zhongliang, and they had colluded with the Qingzhou Party behind their backs, and they were all executed by the empress.

In addition, from the Imperial City Guards and the Yulin Army, 3,000 young and strong officers loyal to the imperial court and the Son of Heaven were selected as internal guards to guard the palace day and night.

In response to this, Zhao Ningbing immediately set up a secret guard after ascending the throne and handed it over to Zhao Liwen, who destroyed the intelligence network that hit Suiyang at the sticky pole.

In the past two years, the secret guard and the sticky pole have fought many wars without gunpowder.

Moreover, although the empress and the former emperor were born to the same mother, their attitudes towards government affairs are simply very different.

For two years, the empress lived in the imperial study every day, resting every day, but for an hour or two, she put almost all her attention on state affairs, and after two years of remediation, Sui Yang was finally restored to the level before the emperor ascended the throne.

In this regard, it is much stronger than the previous emperor who only served in the early dynasty once after ascending the throne.

Moreover, in order to suppress the Qingzhou Party in the DPRK, the empress even restrained them by promoting the Jiangdong Party, although this move was difficult to achieve results for a while, but the Qingzhou Party was not as powerful and arrogant as the emperor was in the first place.

In front of the candlelight, Liu Maolin looked down and thought, stunned.

I didn't pay attention, I was burned to my eyebrows by the fire, I woke up in a hurry, and hurriedly called someone to bring it over to the mirror to see, the gray eyebrows had already gone halfway, and the old man was distressed at that time.

"Master, someone has come to the palace."

At this moment, the butler came from outside and arched his hand.

When Liu Maolin heard this, he hurriedly stood up: "Where are the people?" ”

The housekeeper was about to speak, when Mulan walked in, came to him, saluted, and said, "Mulan has seen Liu Lao Xiangguo." ”

Liu Maolin also hurriedly returned the salute: "In the year of the old wind and candle, how dare Mulan lead such a big gift." ”

Mulan smiled, handed over the food box in her hand, and said, "Your Majesty heard that the old Xiangguo was occasionally infected with the cold, so he specially sent his ministers to deliver medicine. ”

Liu Maolin hurriedly took it in his hand, took it in his hand and opened it to take a look, and saw a blank piece of paper lying inside, so he was stunned.

Mulan looked at him and didn't speak.

Liu Maolin's expression changed very richly and complicatedly, and after a long time, he woke up, rushed to the direction of the palace, and bowed deeply: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your grace." ”

Mulan smiled: "Nachen will go back first." ”

"Commander Mulan is slow." Liu Maolin shouted.

Mulan turned around.

Liu Maolin looked back at his room and saw a jade statue of paperweight on the table, which looked like a thin dog.

After thinking about it at that time, he picked it up and gave it to Mulan, and said: "I am tired of Mulan going back to give this thing to Your Majesty, and the paperweight that I have seen Your Majesty many times has been ruined." ”

Mulan took it in her hand, clenched her fists and said, "Write it down." ”

As soon as he spoke, before leaving, Mulan turned to Liu Maolin and said, "Old Xiangguo stays." ”

Liu Maolin nodded and watched Mulan go out.

After the people left, Liu Maolin hurriedly asked the housekeeper to close the door, and the housekeeper here closed the door, and Liu Maolin's sweat came down, plopped, and sat on the ground, and the box containing the white paper also fell to the ground.

The butler hurried over to help him, and at the same time asked what had happened.

Liu Maolin raised his head, looked blankly at the housekeeper who had followed him for decades, shook his head and waved his hands speechlessly, just pointing to the box sent by Mulan.

The housekeeper took a look, picked it up in front of him, opened it, saw that it was a blank piece of paper, and was stunned, and asked, "Old, master, this, what does this mean?" ”

Liu Maolin took a deep breath: "Liu Fu, don't you know, Your Majesty has begun to suspect my lord, and those gifts from King Guangling this morning should not be accepted." ”

The housekeeper was shocked: "Then the master will go back now." ”

Liu Maolin waved his hand and sighed: "Don't say goodbye, send it back now, it makes Your Majesty even more suspicious." ”

The housekeeper hissed, "Then what should we do?" ”

Liu Maolin sighed: "What should I do or what should I do, don't think about it, don't worry about it, just act like this hasn't happened, go, go to Tonghetang, and get some medicine for the master." ”

"Holo."

As he spoke, he turned around and left, and stopped after two steps: "Master, what kind of medicine do you take?" ”

"Whatever, as long as it's not poison." Liu Maolin said.

Liu Fu nodded and went directly.

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In the imperial study of the palace, the empress played with the fine dog paperweight brought back by Mulan, took it in her hand and smiled, tried to press it, and saw that the effect was good, so she nodded with satisfaction: "Liu Xiangguo gave you this paperweight, didn't say anything else?" ”

Mulan stood with her hands down: "Back to Your Majesty, Liu Xiangguo really didn't say it." ”

The empress hummed, pinched her chin and nodded: "Okay, what Liu Xiangguo means, I know, you go down first." ”

Mulan nodded, turned around and went out, only to walk outside the imperial study, and suddenly shouted: "Who!! ”

The empress looked up when she heard the sound.

I saw that Mulan was pulling Wang Xiaolai's clothes and appeared in sight.

"Your Majesty, this guy who looks like Yu Lin Lang was sneaking outside the imperial study just now."

Wang Xiaolai retorted: "I didn't." ”

The empress smiled happily: "Mulan, let him go first." ”

Mulan honestly let go.

The empress beckoned to Wang Xiaolai: "Little Laizi, come here." ”

Mulan was stunned, little Laizi? Could it be that this person is Wang Xiaolai, as Lord Narcissus often says? It doesn't look like it's a big hit, but it's quite obscene.

Wang Xiaolai took a few steps to him and nodded: "Your Majesty." ”

The empress looked at Wang Xiaolai and raised her chin to the side: "Sit down." ”

Wang Xiaolai replied yes, and obediently sat at the bottom of the empress dragon's bookcase, and her well-behaved appearance made the empress can't help but want to laugh.

"What, what's the matter with me?" The Empress asked.

Wang Xiaolai nodded.

The empress said: "It's just right, I have something to say to you." ”

"Your Majesty, you say."

The empress took a sip of tea, and asked casually, "I heard that Shu Jiuchai, who was with you, went to Neiwei Liutun?" ”

This sentence made Wang Xiao's back sweat.

What's wrong? This empress is too strong, how can she know everything.

When he bragged about his mouth, saying that the empress was a little girl, should he be known.

At that time, she peeked at the empress, and the empress smiled very meaningfully, which frightened Wang Xiaolai's heart, coughed dryly, and said, "Your Majesty, I came to talk about this." ”

The empress hugged her arms: "Say, what is the matter with letting such a lazy person as you come to the imperial study with your colleagues at the expense of changing guards?" ”

Wang Xiaolai was stunned: "This Your Majesty also knows?" ”

The empress pursed her lips: "The internal guards patrol and guard every day, all of them have to pass through my eyes, what is the matter?" ”

Wang Xiaolai lowered his head and said the matter in a twist...