Chapter 32: Giving Advice
"The concubine and His Majesty are husband and wife, and it is natural for them to come to see Your Majesty, and Your Majesty does not need to feel relieved. But..."Chi Xinian smiled at Yan Chujing, and then turned his gaze, and then looked at the food box on the table next to him, "Your Majesty, it seems that you don't need a concubine to send you snacks?" ”
"How?" Glancing at the side casually, Yan Chujing knew that Chi Xinian had misunderstood something, and he hurriedly explained, "This was prepared by me myself, and I originally wanted to send it to the queen when I was done with the court, but I didn't expect the queen to come over first." ”
As he spoke, he hurriedly got up and took a stool, and motioned for Chi Xinian to sit down beside him: "Since the queen and I have the same thoughts, why don't we sit down and eat together?"
"It just so happened that I was done with a busy trip, and I shared it with the queen, and I could chat with the queen."
"It's fine." Chi Xinian also happened to want to talk to Yan Chujing about his recent thoughts.
Since he was invited, she naturally would not refuse.
Both of them had the same thing in their hearts, and soon talked about Xue Xuan.
The topic was brought up by Yan Chujing, he pretended to inadvertently mention to Chi Xinian that he had grounded Concubine Xue Shu, and complained again: "This Xue family is really a big family that doesn't make people worry, this sister is messing around in the palace, and my brother is corrupt and seeking personal gain."
"There is also a father in his family who protects his shortcomings, and the evidence is clearly conclusive, but he still argues with me on the basis of reason, saying that my punishment is too heavy!"
In order to win over Chi Xinian, Yan Chujing secretly glanced at her and said: "Dajing has fought for six years, and it is when the treasury is empty, even those who serve the country have no money to subsidize, but he has made a corrupt thing at this time, which is really shameful!"
"If I don't punish him heavily, how can I explain to the people of the world?!"
"So Your Majesty has already made up your mind to punish Xue Xuan severely?" Chi Xinian bowed slightly, indicating that he understood what he meant.
But she frowned, and took the initiative to point out Yan Chujing's heart disease: "But the Xue family has been a prince for generations, and the ancestors have helped Taizu to open the country, under Xue Shangshu's desperate protection, Your Majesty wants to severely punish his son-in-law with a corruption case, I'm afraid it's not easy, right?" ”
"It's not easy." Yan Chujing lowered his eyes, sighed and pinched his eyebrows, "So I'm thinking about how to suppress Xue Shangshu's arrogance first."
"Xue Xuan himself is not difficult to deal with, as long as his father does not entangle a group of courtiers to confront me, it is only three levels, and it will be degraded."
"Your Majesty can't hold it down alone, why don't you just find someone to help you?" Chi Xinian was also a general in the DPRK and China in the past, and there are not many taboos about talking about major affairs in the DPRK and China with Yan Chujing at this moment.
After twisting a piece of pastry at random, she said freely: "In the past six years, Your Majesty has been able to steadily provide military salaries, food and grass for the soldiers fighting on the frontier.
"Although Xue Shangshu has a lot of power in his hands and his protégés are all over the government and the opposition, he may not be as powerful as you, is he really more powerful?"
"And..."Sensing that Yan Chujing was still in a difficult situation, she changed her mind again and said, "Building momentum doesn't work, we can also take another path." Such as... Xue Xuan didn't just accept benefits and embezzle a small amount of money, but was charged with a bigger crime? ”
"A bigger charge?" Yan Chujing frowned, "What does the queen mean, let me go to Xue Xuan's fault?"
"Not to mention how much evidence he can get on the spot, what if he really hasn't done anything worse? What about me? ”