The next day, the Empress Dowager Liu E recruited the official's family to go to the Baoci Hall for questioning, but saw that Zhao Zhenguan was clean and had a serious expression, and he did not always show the weakness he always showed on weekdays, so he looked at him differently.

Empress Dowager Liu E sat in front of an endgame and carefully considered it, she glanced up at the official family, then looked down at the chess game, and said lightly: "The official family is here?" Sit down and help me look at this game. ”

Zhao Zhen thought that seeing the Queen Mother would definitely be a lesson, and prepared a lot of reasons and explanations, but he didn't want the Empress Dowager Liu to mention yesterday's events without mentioning it.

Zhao Zhen had to sit down, although his eyes were looking at the chess game, he was thinking about his own affairs.

The Queen Mother urged, and Zhao Zhen took a step forward with Baizi.

After dozens of steps, Zhao Zhen saw that he was a mortal game, and said helplessly to the Empress Dowager Liu: "The eldest lady has superb chess skills, and the sons are willing to bow to the wind!" ”

"How do you give up before the endgame?" Liu E raised her eyes and looked at Zhao Zhen again.

Zhao Zhen lowered his head and said, "But ......"

"How about a change?" As she spoke, Liu E took the white son in Zhao Zhen's hand, and after thinking about it, she had another son.

In Liu E's hands, Bai Zi, who was about to die in anger, actually came back to life, so that a way to save Zhao from Wei broke through the siege and walked out of a hope of survival, which made Zhao Zhen admire.

"Big lady......" Zhao Zhen showed an expression of surprise and approval.

Liu E stared at Zhao Zhen for a while and said, "The official family is absent-minded! ”

Liu E's tone was not stern, but his eyes were very sharp, and he saw Zhao Zhen like a man's back, and he unconsciously beat his eyelids.

Liu E said: "Where there are brave people in the world, they will not be shocked when they come, and they will not be angry for no reason." As an emperor, you shouldn't be frightened and discouraged just for trivial things! ”

Zhao Zhen gritted his teeth, lowered his head and said, "The eldest lady has taught her a lesson!" It's Erchen's fault. ”

Liu E said: "Do you know what you are doing wrong? ”

"Erchen didn't listen to the teachings of the eldest lady, he was self-righteous, acted rashly, used his mantis arm as a car, and didn't measure his own strength."

"The official family is still too young. I didn't start playing chess until I was in my twenties, and now I've been playing chess for half my life, and I've finally learned something. Chess is like life, and only when you are an official can you play a good game of chess with these chess pieces in your hand, know how to balance and restrict, and know how to make trade-offs and persistence, can you play a good game of chess that will be peaceful for all generations. ”

Zhao Zhen bowed his head and listened.

"Ding Wei has served in two dynasties, and he has his own ability, and his relationship between the court and the court is intertwined, how can he be able to move it overnight? The official family should not use Wang Qinruo to shake this big tree without authorization, so that Wang Qinruo will lose the chess piece and make Ding Wei lose his checks and balances. ”

"The eldest lady taught. However, Ding Wei has surpassed his duty as a minister, and I am afraid that he will climb to the head of the eldest lady in the future. Zhao Zhen held a cold mica chess piece in his hand and said calmly and purposefully.

"Huh." Liu E laughed dryly, "The official family should not forget the balance and constraints, trade-offs and persistence I just said, if he really wants to dominate the family, someone will have to pull out his nail!" ”

Zhao Zhen looked up at Liu E and nodded.

No, Empress Dowager Liu changed her words and asked, "The official family likes Ye Pei's child?" ”

Zhao Zhen didn't expect Liu E to suddenly ask, his eyes rolled, but he still admitted: "Yes, Erchen likes her." ”

"The official family should not let these children's private affairs become your weakness, let alone expose their weakness so easily. You will have many ladies in the future, and your love for Ye Pei will be as light as white water at that time. ”

Zhao Zhen said firmly: "No! People say that love is stronger than gold, and true love will not fade with the passage of time. ”

"Love is stronger than gold?" Liu E smiled faintly, hiding a trace of contempt, "Is the official family willing to give up the throne for Ye Pei?" ”

As soon as these words came out, Zhao Zhen was stunned.

It was the hardest thing he could face and the least he wanted to face, and it was too difficult for him to choose. He wants both, he wants both beauty and the country, but what if it backfires?

If this problem of life is faced with him one day, how will he choose? The most difficult thing for a person to face is his own heart, he can lie to anyone, but he can't deceive himself.

Zhao Zhen has always thought that he loves Ye Pei to the point of madness, and when Liu E suddenly asked, he couldn't blurt out his answer!

His heart panicked, how much did he love Ye Pei? Is it what you always thought it would be?

He hesitates, he weighs, he thinks, he can't answer!

Along the way, it was not easy for him, how could he choose so easily and give up so easily?

As an emperor, he will not give up his rights, and as a man, he will not give up what he loves.

How will you choose? He had a sigh in his heart - he only hated this body and didn't have it!

Liu E's first reaction when she saw Zhao Zhen's truth, she didn't ask anything, didn't wait for the other party to explain, and then said: "I know, I will consider this matter in the future!" The officials should step aside. ”

Zhao Zhen suddenly felt a sense of loss in his eyes, and said: "Erchen hopes that the eldest lady will be fulfilled!" ”

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Three days later, the official decreed that Wang Junyi would win glory for the country in the Juju contest with the Uighurs, and give him the rank of Jinshi and the first doctor, and the official praised the good doctor, and rewarded a beautiful Uighur beauty.

Many of the other members of the Keju team were also rewarded, and those Uighur beauties were also rewarded by Zhao Zhen one by one.

Half a month later, the results of the interrogation of Wang Qinruo, the governor of the political council, came out, and he was arrested and imprisoned on more than 10 charges of framing his superiors, framing him, sowing discord, embezzlement for himself, blaming others, and perverting the law for bribes.

On the second day, Wang Junyi wore an official uniform and asked to see the official's family. Entering the Qinzheng Palace, Wang Junyi knelt down on his knees respectfully, asked for the official hat, put it on the ground with another post, and kowtowed.

Zhao Zhen asked, "Why is Dr. Zanshan like this?" ”

Wang Junyi said with a calm face: "Weichen is here to ask for his father's guilt. His father, Wang Qinruo, deserved to be imprisoned for his heinous crimes, but he was pitiful for his old age and infirmity, and it was difficult for him to bear the pain of prison.

Weichen implored the official family to see that he had been an official for many years, diligent and sincere, and was also sincere to the official family, and he had been the master of the East Palace. ”

Wang Junyi kowtowed, pointed to the two things on the ground, and said, "I am willing to resign and serve my father at home to apologize."

This post is the "Retirement Sticker" of the official family and the Queen Mother when the minister's father left, the minister knows that his fortune is low, and he has no chance with the county lord, and the minister asks the Queen Mother to withdraw the marriage decree. ”

Zhao Zhen nodded and said to Wang Junyi: "Wang Qing's family is filial, I know." Stand down. ”

Wang Junyi kowtowed respectfully again and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty!" ”

Three days later, the official Zhao Zhen discussed with the Queen Mother, and then issued a decree that Wang Qinruo would know Hangzhou because of his crimes, and his sons Wang Changyi and Wang Junyi would be dismissed, and they would go out of Beijing on the day they were sick with their father.

It's a pity that Wang Qinruo died in Zhongli County, Haozhou, on the way out of Zhizhi.

Wang Junyi did not return to Beijing and only buried his father locally.

The official Zhao Zhen made a special order to bury him, and posthumously presented the "Taishi" and "Zhongshu Order", nicknamed "Wenmu".

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Although Zhao Zhen knew that Empress Dowager Liu was kind to him, he promised to marry Ye Pei to him.

But he didn't expect that after the court discussed the establishment of the official family, it was Guo Furong, the granddaughter of Guo Chong, the envoy of the Pinglu Festival, who was selected.

Wang Qinruo's previous incident had already tormented Zhao Zhen to the point of pain, and as soon as the incident came out, Zhao Zhen's already weak body immediately couldn't support it.

The imperial physician Liu Congen asked for the pulse of the official family every day, and after taking the decoction for a month, it did not get better but became heavier, and he couldn't even get out of bed, let alone go to the court.

Liu Congen said to the Queen Mother Liu E: "The body of the official family, the disease enters from the spleen and stomach, gathers in the heart and blood, above the belly, under the ointment, it cannot be attacked, it cannot be reached, and the medicine cannot be reached." I'm afraid the support is only a few months away. ”

Empress Dowager Liu was shocked, she didn't know that the official family had reached this point, and the matter had to be dragged down. Although she didn't want Zhao Zhen to seize power and pro-government, she didn't want him to die so early after many years of mother and son.

His own affairs have not been properly prepared, and it seems that many of these things must be prepared before the death of the official family, or the ministers of the court and the central government will be unstable, and the situation will be difficult to control at that time.

The illness of the official family, not only the uneasy heart of Empress Dowager Liu, but also Ding Wei and other courtiers also had their own thoughts, and began to be eager to try, showing unbeatable ambitions.

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On the other hand, as soon as the Uighur eldest son, Yusupu, returned to the Duting Xiyi, he began to thoroughly investigate the "inner ghosts" who had attacked him during the Keju competition. These dozen Keju team members and the twenty guards he brought from his visit to the Song Kingdom were all cronies he had personally selected, how could there still be internal ghosts, which made him very angry.

Yu Supu followed the vine and found out a bigger conspiracy. It turned out that his half-brother Arhan had been staying in the Song Kingdom, and he had been courting Song officials in order to compete with him for the throne, and even befriended Zhao Yunxi, the eldest son of the Eight Kings.

The apprentice of Uyi Gulda, the number one master under Arhan, is the inner ghost next to Yusupu, Siri Ahong.

Yusupu had the fierce and unrelenting temperament of his father, Khan Ujie Khan, and he immediately sent his guards to arrest Arkhan and kill Uyi Gulda and Siri Akhun on the spot.

Arkhand was brought back to the Uighurs, where he was placed under house arrest by the eldest brother until his death.

Yu Supu also wrote a secret letter to Ye Pei, asking her to pay attention to Zhao Yunxi, and Ye Pei was grateful for Yu Supu's kindness.

But Zhao Zhen is seriously ill, and Ye Pei has no intention of paying attention to Zhao Yunxi, and Zhao Yunxi has bad intentions, and Ye Pei and the official family have long known about it.

Zhao Yunxi originally conspired with Arhan, Zhao Yunxi helped Arhan seize the throne, and the Uighurs sent troops to the Song State to help Zhao Yunxi seize the throne.

As soon as Arhan fell, Zhao Yunxi lost a foreign aid, and he suddenly felt regret in his heart.

But Zhao Yunxi was already cunning, he smelled that Li Deming, who was named the king of Xia by the Great Song Dynasty, had a heart of disobedience, and his son Li Yuanhao married Princess Xingping of the Liao State as his wife, and he had a great intention of uniting the Liao State to invade the Song Dynasty, so he sent someone to make friends with Li Yuanhao.

Soon, Li Yuanhao replied that if Zhao Yunxi had a way to get rid of or transfer Cao Wei, the general stationed on the Song-Xia border, he agreed to borrow 8,000 troops to participate in the rebellion with Zhao Yunxi.