Chapter 23: A Game Within a Game
"Shechen! She Chen...... Yes, you also married the princess of the Southern Dynasty, and if you force me to abdicate, he will kick you out and do what I didn't do! Xie Songzhao, did you win? Emperor Chengde was frantically holding the table, and the tea was overflowing.
Xie Songzhao sneered: "My Majesty, you are so naΓ―ve, do you want to guess...... Who married a princess from the Southern Dynasty? β
The smile on Emperor Chengde's face froze, he stared at Xie Songzhao and shook his head lightly in disbelief, and muttered, "Impossible...... I personally decree ......"
Xie Songzhao said: "The minister did receive the order, but why did you give an order to Xuan Pingbo first, the minister naturally can't snatch love with a sword~"
Emperor Chengde sat down and laughed at himself: "What kind of emperor am I?" A beautiful concubine can't be kept, her own emperor can't be kept, and in the end, no one dares to disobey my yang! β
The emperors of the Zhou State have always had their own emperor titles, and the future generations of Gong Che Yan are also called emperor names, not nicknames. There are only two people who have changed their names in the middle way, the first one is because of the lack of morality and harsh politics that almost caused a peasant uprising, and he was forced to change the emperor's name to express his reform, and he also left a letter of repentance for his sins.
Xie Song bowed his head and said: "It's really a wretch, so what's the point of you continuing to be the emperor?" β
Emperor Chengde looked at him and said, "One day, the prince will always be the prince." β
Xie Songzhao nodded in agreement and said, "Yes." However, the so-called road is one foot high and the magic is one foot high, Your Majesty should see your nephew and daughter-in-law first, and the bride is already waiting outside the palace. β
Wen Nanqi walked outside the barren and grassy palace under the leadership of the chamberlain, and his heart was shocked, he didn't believe that Emperor Chengde would meet Junping here, someone must have taken the opportunity to kill Junping, fortunately he followed.
The two of them gasped when they saw the black-brown blood stains in the main hall, can there be an emperor in this ghostly place?!
Wen Nanqi touched the soft sword he was about to put on and was ready to kill the inner servant in front of him at any time, but when he arrived at the side hall, he really saw Emperor Chengde, he stared at the door, and saw Wen Nanqi holding Jun Ping and his eyes were about to split, covering his heart with both hands, and vomiting a mouthful of blood.
Xie Song stood up and said, "Nanqi, Your Majesty is in a trance today and can't meet you." Then he said to the waiter, "Go and invite the queen to come." β
Wen Nanqi looked at Emperor Chengde who fell on the Luohan bed, pursed his lips and struggled for a moment and said, "Then please tell Your Majesty that Nanqi will come to ask for peace another day." β
Jun Ping nodded lightly at Xie Songzhao when he turned around, Xie Songzhao hooked his lips and sat down with a smile, as if he was having a good conversation with Emperor Chengde.
Xie Songzhao said: "Your Majesty is distressed about the military talisman? β
Emperor Chengde trembled, his teeth clattered against each other, and he couldn't say a word.
Xie Songzhao didn't need him to answer, and continued to say to himself: "Your Majesty, rest assured, the minister will not kill the king." The minister is just here to accompany you to talk about the past, if it is too late today, the minister should also leave. β
Emperor Chengde got up and accidentally rolled to the ground, the door just opened, he closed his eyes, ready to listen to the queen's ridicule, but it was a pair of warm and firm hands that helped him up, and he fixed his eyes to see that it was Gu Mingchao.
Gu Mingchao lowered his head and said: "Your Majesty, he has been watching me closely recently, and the palace is also controlled by the queen, and the minister is really ......."
Emperor Chengde took a sip of warm tea, the fishy sweetness in his throat was suppressed, and he spoke: "I know. He's out of the palace, you're ......"
Gu Ming said: "He didn't leave the palace, he was still in the queen's palace, and the prince was also there." β
Emperor Chengde said: "I have nothing to promise you, what else are you going to do?" β
Gu Mingchao said eagerly: "Your Majesty! Why bother saying such discouraged words! I just passed by the Guards Division and heard Tan Zuowei, the forbidden army, say that His Majesty is suffering, and the courtiers are powerless. After speaking, he cried and pounded the table. β
Emperor Chengde's eyes lit up with a glimmer of light, and Gu Mingchao continued: "Your Majesty, the minister doesn't ask for much, just a house to live in, to be accompanied by a wife, and children and grandchildren to be around his knees." Your Majesty, the minister has already brought Tan Zuowei over. β
"Quick! Call him... Hurry up and invite Tan Zuowei in! β
Tan Guan came in by mistake and bowed, calling His Majesty in his mouth, the dignified seven-foot man was crying in pain, but Emperor Chengde was much more comfortable in his heart.
"Aiqing, are you willing to help me regain control of the country?"
Tan Guanxuan said sonorously: "Even if the minister is broken, he will renew the whole day for His Majesty!" β
"Good! Great! Great! β
Gu Mingchao knelt at the feet of Emperor Chengde and said, "The minister is willing to pull the rebellious ministers and thieves into the urn!" Your Majesty's great cause! β
Tan Guanqiao and Gu Mingchao glanced at each other, and everything was silent.
It was the Night Queen who came to bring him medicine, and he wiped the corners of his mouth and said, "Queen, I have felt a lot better recently, and I want to hold a spring banquet in the Fufeng Palace." β
The queen turned her back to him, her face was full of sarcasm, and she said lightly: "Okay, the concubine will do it, I don't know when Your Majesty will do it?" β
Emperor Chengde was planning the day, and the queen suddenly said: "Since Your Majesty is in good health, can you go to see Yun Yu Pavilion the day after tomorrow?" β
Emperor Chengde's eyes lit up and said, "It's just right!" I may not have seen Yun Yu in a long time. I'm going to give her more dowry......"
The queen stood in the shadows, her eyes full of sadness.
Looking south of the river.
Over and over again, the crowd was deducing the events of the day after tomorrow.
Dou Siyuan said: "At that time, I will denounce the crimes of Emperor Chengde, and I will not kill the ministers since ancient times." β
Xie Songzhao said: "No, Cangyue, no, this is too dangerous, at this time, it is the king who is defeated, what if he is defeated?" β
Dou Siyuan said: "No one justifies this trip, we are the rebellious ministers and thieves who have been stinking for thousands of years!" Songzhao, who else can in this matter but me? As a relative, you are suspected of disrupting the government in this trip! β
Jiang Ning said: "The troops we can call on in Yandu are all outside the palace, and they are government soldiers, so they can't enter the palace, and the only people we can rely on in the palace are the prince and the queen." β
Lin Huchen pointed to the long road to greet his relatives and said, "They only have one chance to do it, they will only choose to be in the palace." ...... then"
Lin Meng said: "Song takes care of the prince and the queen, the princess of Yunwan has a few tours, and Jiang Ning and Cangyue are in one place." β
Xie Songzhao said: "If it is so scattered, if Tan Guan mistakenly turns against the water......"
Gu Mingchao said: "Why is he rebelling? β
Xie Songzhao said: "No, it's not against the water, but neutral, if we have the upper hand, he will kill the king; If we are exhausted, he will remove the traitors. β
Gu Mingchao muttered, "No matter how you look at it, we are all at a disadvantage." β
Dou Siyuan said: "It's because we worry too much, so we are hindered." β
Lin Meng knew that for this group of young men, no one could give up, they were all relatives.
Yaohua Palace.
Yun Wan looked at the red candle and said, "Luoting, look, this red candle burns to the end, and I am going to marry the wife of the Lin family." β
Luo Ting combed her long hair that reached the ground, and said softly: "Why do you need to worry about the princess, the left and right horses and Xie Shizi are close, and the prince will hurt you when she is young, and she will never repeat the mistakes of Princess Linchuan." β
Princess Linchuan is the sister of Emperor Chongming, she was abused and beaten to the point of disability after marriage, Emperor Chongming didn't care whether she lived or died for the rights of her husband's family, and finally the three-foot white silk hung at the door of the house.
Yun Wan said: "In the past, there was lawlessness, but now it is elsewhere... How dare you, my father can't count on it, he was thinking of marrying me off to Qiuzi. Brother Huang, where do I dare to expect too much, I will be a monarch and a minister in the future. β
Luoting heard it sadly, the little princess was born in heaven, where she would be completely unconscious, so she could only comfort: "The queen mother will definitely not abandon you, you have to think about the good in everything." β
Yun Wan shook his head and said, "Don't say this in the future." Born in heaven, they are all chess pieces. β
Gyeongin Palace.
Emperor Chengde clutched the brocade quilt tightly, and his eyes firmly grasped the jumping red candle. It's coming, it's coming, and the days of being at the mercy of others are coming to an end! His eyes were so bright that he could use the lights and candles as lanterns, and the brocade was already wet with sweat when he was holding it.
Xuanping Bo Mansion.
Wen Nanqi put a big coat on Jun Ping, who was admiring the moon under the corridor, and said softly: "It's useless to think too much, Madame might as well rest earlier." β
Jun Ping turned his head to look at him and sighed: "If the husband is a member, what is the matter with Xie Songzhao." β
Wen Nanqi said: "On the road of political affairs, I can't compare to Xie Songzhao, the teacher commented on him back then, and his future is immeasurable." I'm only suitable for idle clouds and wild cranes. β
Jun Ping folded the pear blossom, blew lightly, and said, "But you can see through it." β
Wen Nanqi took the flower and said: "If people have a plan, there will be flaws." It's not about the layout, it's about seeing whose flaws are more fatal. I'm on the outside, so naturally everything is nothing. β
Jun Ping suddenly sneered and said, "I'm really afraid that one day you will see through the red dust and become a monk." β
Wen Nanqi shook his head and said with a smile: "It is precisely because I have seen through the red dust that I am more in love with the fireworks in the world." β
Jun Ping stroked his forehead and said, "Nanqi, who am I, do you know?" β
Wen Nanqi held her hand and said, "Liang Yuan, my wife, Mrs. Xuan Pingbo." β
Jun Ping said stubbornly: "Why not Jun Ping? β
Wen Nanqi led her back and said slowly: "Madam, I said it on the wedding night, and I don't know what happened." β
Jun Ping looked at their shadows on the ground that kept changing positions, and said softly in his heart, You can not be punished, but I will not cut off the past......
Looking south of the river.
Xie Songzhao finally sent everyone away, stretched, and walked back with a yawn. saw Gu Mingchao still sitting in the courtyard, shaking his head with a teacup in his mouth.
Xie Songzhao thought to himself, what is this for? Rootless water?
He went over and took down his teacup and said, "Stunned? β
Gu Mingchao said: "I'm so tired......"
Xie Songzhao said with a smile: "If this trip fails, it is not tired, but fate hangs by a thread." β
Gu Mingchao said: "I know that Tan Guan's mistake is unreliable, why do you want to look for him?" β
Xie Songzhao asked people to change the pot of tea and said, "Can you still find someone who makes Emperor Chengde believe and will make a desperate bet?" Those who are brought together because of interests will eventually fight each other because of interests. After a pause, he said, "There is no perfect situation in this world, everything is traceable." What would you do if you were Tan Guan? β
Gu Mingchao didn't think about it and said: "The two sides are welcomed, but they will be more biased towards Emperor Chengde, you are a complete... Well... On the front, he can't add in. But Emperor Chengde is different, if he has meritorious service in saving the driver, then Emperor Chengde can rely on him in the future. It's a sure-fire deal! β