After finishing the worship, the queen couldn't wait to take me into the harem to rest, and I was indeed a little tired from the hurried journey for several days. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

This queen is really a great mother, although after she was included in the country, she even carried water and washed my feet herself, as if those slaves and maids would not take care of me enough!

When the queen took off my shoes and saw the numerous scars on my feet, she looked at me in amazement, and then rolled up my cuffs, only to find that my hands and arms were full of scars, which were left by the grass and gravel when I was crawling in the mountains!

The queen shed tears again in distress, and gently scrubbed me with a silk scarf dipped in water. She said as she was busy: "Son, you are really suffering, what have you been busy with these days, how can you have scars all over your body?"

As a ten-year-old child, I naturally can't be too mature, otherwise I may be questioned by her, after all, I am her own child, how can she not know what her own child is like!

I had no choice but to use the mentality of a child to tell her all about what happened to me in the valley and in Fangling, and all the important links in the province were omitted, so as not to make her suspicious.

But despite this, the queen still asked suspiciously: "It's strange, how can you know so many esoteric things, how complicated the gossip book is, few people in the court and the opposition understand it!"

I think the ancients believed in ghosts and gods, and were especially curious about some strange things, so why don't I take advantage of it and save her from asking questions?

So I said, "One day I went to a hill and met a white-haired old man! Later, he wanted to teach me a good way to govern the country, but I didn't ask for it because I thought the bamboo slips were too clumsy, and then he gave me a long sword, and I accepted it! This is the sword I brought back!"

The queen wiped my face with a silk scarf and said to me with a smile: "No wonder you always carry this sword in your hand, I wonder how you can hold a long sword for adults, it turned out to be given to you by a master!"

I continued, "And then the old man taught me many things, and Physiognomy was one of them!"

The queen was very happy after hearing this, and said with a smile: "My son is so lucky, he actually met the guidance of the immortals, it seems that my son will be able to do a lot in the future!"

As I expected, she was most receptive to such explanations, and soon she began to ask me about some things about my daily life outside!

In the evening, the queen wanted to talk to me more, so she left me to sleep with her!

Before going to bed, the two of us sat in the dormitory, eating grapes and talking.

Then I looked left and right, and then said to everyone, "There's nothing for you here, you all go down!

The slaves and maids saluted, turned around and left the dormitory together, and closed the door for us!

The queen took a sip of tea, put down the cup and asked, "My son is so cautious, what's the matter?"

I pleaded with Empress Meng and said, "Queen Mother, please allow your sons to enter the camp with General Meng!"

"Don't!", Empress Meng suddenly said with a straight face: "I want to sneak out and mess around again, and I will never allow you to leave the palace again!"

I was a little disappointed and said: "The queen mother is not trustworthy, and on the way back, she said that everything depends on me, and she can play as much as she wants, and she is not allowed to leave the palace!"

Empress Meng sighed after hearing this, and then said with a solemn expression: "Child, the queen mother is worried about your safety, and she is not forbidden to play! Besides, you have also said that you will not be having fun after you come back, and you will have to do the right thing! How can you not keep your word?"

I smiled and said: "How can you go to the barracks to play! Didn't the queen mother say that the court is now in charge of the court, how can we sit idly by! The power of the court must be returned to the hands of my Ying clan, the imperial brother is young and greedy for play and ignorance, and the sons and daughters have to share the worries of their brother, so they will go to the military camp first to establish prestige, so that he can grasp more military power for my royal family in the future!"

Empress Meng was shocked when she heard this, and asked me very excitedly: "Jue'er, do you really think so? Isn't it perfunctory to find an excuse to go out to play?"

I nodded and said: "Of course, Erchen has grown a lot in the past four months, and he is very sad about the death of the country, and he hates the Huns very much!

Empress Meng was very moved when she heard this, she nodded again and again and said: "Okay, good, good! My son is ambitious, I really thank that immortal for his guidance! If so, the queen mother will agree to let you go to General Meng's camp! This Mengjia army was originally our Ying clan's cronies' army, but it doesn't hurt my son to go, I will let Meng Jia arrange everything!"

I nodded, then frowned and asked, "Then the court must rely on the queen mother first, and you must not let ambitious people take advantage of it!"

Empress Meng smiled and said: "The affairs of the court are temporarily controlled by Prime Minister Wang, everything is under control, and there is no worry for the time being!"

I frowned and thought for a while, feeling that it was still a little unsafe, I thought and said: "But outsiders say that the power of Prime Minister Wang Cheng is inclined to the government and the opposition, and he is extremely cruel, and anyone who opposes him has not ended up well!

After a long time, she approached me and asked, "Son, what do you think the queen mother should be?"

I thought about it seriously for a while, and then asked tentatively: "Queen Mother, please tell the child truthfully, what do you think of Prime Minister Wang, do you really have affection for him?"

Empress Meng gave me an angry look, and said coldly: "The queen mother is innocent, don't listen to the slanderous rumors of outsiders! The queen mother is close to Wang Cheng, and that is limited to the number of summons! Wang Cheng is more greedy, and he is bent on getting Ba County and Hanzhong County, and he has mentioned this matter to the queen mother many times, but the queen mother has not answered! This person really has to be guarded against, but he is an old minister of the three dynasties, and he has the highest prestige in the court, and the queen mother has to rely on him to take care of many matters! If there is a perfect plan, the queen mother also wants to get rid of this person!"

I smiled and said: "This is very good! My Yongguo is poor and sparsely populated, and there are very few talented people, so we can use it! If we are forced to do so, we must not kill capable ministers indiscriminately, this is the cornerstone of our Yongguo, and we must not destroy the city wall!"

After hearing this, Empress Meng frowned and pondered, then nodded, and praised again and again: "The emperor is wise, and what he said is very reasonable! The queen mother is a woman, and her knowledge is limited, so she should discuss everything with the emperor in the future!"

I nodded, and then asked Empress Meng, "Queen Mother, who else is available in the court besides Prime Minister Wang Cheng and General Meng Jia?"

Empress Meng smiled and said, "My Great Yong Country is the country of the Win Clan, and the hundred officials of the Chinese Dynasty are all my Win Clan's courtiers, all of them are available, why did the emperor ask like this?"

I smiled and said: "People's hearts hide their selfish intentions, this is the inertia of the court, whether they are loyal or traitorous, they must first distinguish the truth from the false, and then they can choose to be loyal and use it!"

Empress Meng nodded after hearing this, and then sighed and said: "The queen mother is weak and has not been able to win over her cronies! Those who are truly loyal to my Ying clan are the only ones among the generals! But Meng Jia has been stationed in Yongzhou all the year round to protect my Ying clan's court, and he can't leave the capital to make meritorious contributions! There is no one available among the generals, and most of the generals are the cronies of the emperor's uncle and Wang Cheng, and the rest of the people are also wise enough to protect themselves and dare not move around! Among the ministers, Wang Cheng cannot be trusted, and can only be entrusted with state affairs, but cannot be relied on!"

I was shocked and asked, "There are more than 100 civil servants, and the queen mother, except for Wang Cheng, there is really no one available?

Empress Meng sighed and said: "It's not all, the prime minister Wang Cheng is the most powerful among the ministers, and the hundred officials are afraid of his power and dare not speak! The emperor's uncle is not small among the ministers, and the two of them often quarrel with each other above the court, and the rest of the people dare not speak! Only Zuo Yushi Xiaoqing is more upright, not the person of the emperor's uncle and the prime minister Wang!"

I hurriedly asked, "In this way, what is the character of this person?"

Empress Meng glanced at me, shook her head and said, "This person can't be relied on!"

I asked suspiciously: "Since Zuo Yushi is more upright, and he is not the emperor's uncle and the prime minister, why can't he rely on it?"

Empress Meng sighed and said: "After the death of the old Xiao Xiang, the first emperor remembered his outstanding merits and granted him the post of imperial historian in the future, and Xiao Qing took up the post of imperial historian in the future! Xiao Qing is a female streamer, still young, just over twenty! The female official above the court is the only one, she is quite beautiful, she has no achievements among the hundred officials, and she is often ridiculed and ridiculed! Her prestige is very low, and she is only in charge of some trivial matters, and she has no power in the court, and she is never respected, so it is difficult to make a difference!"

After listening to it, I was overjoyed and said happily: "This is very good, without power and power, and without participating in factional disputes, it can be used by my winning clan!"

Empress Meng looked at me in confusion and asked incomprehensibly: "But she is weak and powerless, and she has no power in the court, what can she do?"

I smiled and said, "The queen mother is wrong! Although the powerful ministers above the court are in charge, this court is still my Ying clan's court, and whoever has the right and who has no power can be ruled by the saint!"

Empress Meng smiled slightly after hearing this, but asked not very understandingly: "But the emperor, why do you want to cultivate a powerless Xiao Qing, what is the reason for this?"

I explained: "If Zuo Yushi's character is credible, it is worthy of my Ying's good life and cultivation, and some rights can be appropriately assigned to her, Zuo Yushi will be grateful, and will definitely be more loyal to my Ying's family!

Empress Meng thought for a while and nodded: "Well, the queen mother understands! It is precisely because she has no power and no power that it is convenient to use her power to entrap her, and she will be used by me in the future!"

Although Empress Meng's words sounded a little awkward, it was almost like that, I nodded and said, "Yes, Queen Mother!"

Empress Meng smiled and said: "Listening to the emperor's words, the queen mother's cottage was suddenly opened, and she knew this strategy for selecting and employing people!"

I continued to ask, "May I ask the queen mother, where do the major counties of my Yongguo belong now?"

Empress Meng replied: "Your imperial uncle Ying Tianci is in charge of Shu County and the land of the Southwest Yi Clan, which was given by the emperor during his lifetime! The other counties are in charge of the county guards, but these people are all close associates of the imperial uncle and Prime Minister Wang! Among them, Baima and Hanzhong County are the people of the imperial uncle, and Ba County is the person of the prime minister Wang!"

I frowned and asked, "What about the territory of my Ying royal family?

Empress Meng sighed and said: "The territory of Yongzhou is the sphere of influence of Prime Minister Wang, and my royal family does not have an inch of fiefdom in his hands, but on the surface he has all the land of Yongguo!"

...... , I'm a little speechless about this, what kind of country is this, the emperor doesn't have an inch of land in his hands, all the land, all the official positions, almost all the army, all of them have been divided up by the emperor's uncle and Prime Minister Wang, isn't this emperor Nima a puppet?

I finally understood why Empress Meng wept and sighed all day long, it turned out that the imperial power of the Ying clan had reached a precarious point, and with such a chaotic government, the decline of this mediocre country was also reasonable!