Chapter 52: A Gentleman Has a Way
Changqiu Palace, Feixiang Palace.
Emperor Wanlong, who was wearing a Xuanhuang dragon robe, sat on the edge of the chaise longue, bent his knee with one arm, leaned forward, and looked down at the Empress Dowager Han who was kneeling on the ground.
Under the dim light of the oil lamp, Empress Dowager Han lowered her head slightly, her lips trembled, and she wanted to cry without tears. Suddenly, she looked up at the emperor, her eyes collided, and when she saw the emperor's sharp eyes, she lowered her head as if she had been hit hard, and collapsed there.
"Vicious woman, thief of kings!"
Emperor Zhao Tian's words were like a whip on a woman's body, making her excited, she raised her head, her eyes were full of pleading, as if she had a thousand words to say, but she saw Zhao Tian wave her hand: "Don't say it, I don't want to hear anything." ”
Zhao Tian stood up, sighed and said, "A gentleman is a gentleman, and he is born on the ground." Filial piety (悌) is also the foundation of benevolence. I strongly advocate Confucianism, and most importantly, 'filial piety, loyalty, courtesy, righteousness, and honesty'. Since the founding of the Great Liang Dynasty, there has never been a precedent for an emperor to kill the empress dowager. So I'm not going to kill you. ”
"Thank you Emperor for your kindness! Thank you Emperor for your kindness! Empress Dowager Han lay on the ground and kowtowed.
Zhao Tian narrowed his eyes: "But from now on, what to say and what not to say, you have to know in your heart." ”
"There are a few! There are a few! Empress Dowager Han said quickly: "I killed Emperor Tiande!" I'm damned! The whole family should be damned! ”
Zhao Tian sneered, nodded and said, "Every month or two, you pretend to be crazy once." Shout these words in front of the eunuchs and palace maids. Don't worry, I won't take my crazy words seriously. I will honor you especially because you are insane. But I warn you, don't play tricks with me. ”
Empress Dowager Han opened her mouth and cried, tears flowing, but she didn't dare to cry out loud. The sound of asthmatic breathing reverberated in the main hall: "I don't have the face to beg Your Majesty again." But there is one thing, if Your Majesty does not agree, it will make my life worse than death. Reading on the love of many years of acquaintance, please let your majesty let go of Meng'er (Zhao Meng, the king of Xu), he is still young, he doesn't know anything, everything is my idea! Your Majesty, be gracious! ”
"It's easy to say, it's easy to say, Mengdi is still a child, how can I deal with him."
Later, King Xu's family died very miserably, so I won't repeat it.
And the tragedy of King Yu may have been thought about since Zhao Tian said this.
Zhao Tianqi was shrewd since he was a child, never forgot to read, recited Confucian classics at the age of eight, and won the emperor in chess at the age of nine. Emperor Tiande loved him very much and established his status as the crown prince early. But after the age of twelve, he found that he had some fetishes.
He is very fun-loving, and he doesn't play much like a normal person. If he just juju, polo, raising birds, fighting crickets or something, Emperor Tiande would not go to his heart. This kid loves to play with women, and even plays with the prince's house, and Emperor Tiande feels that the problem is serious.
King Xiang is the brother of Emperor Tiande, and the person that Emperor Tiande believes in the most is King Xiang, and Zhao Tian, the crown prince at that time, got King Xiang's daughter-in-law. Therefore, Emperor Tiande felt that the prince was stubborn and should be abolished.
"From now on, I will let Xun Duoyu and Sun Buwu serve you."
Zhao Tian brought two little eunuchs, these two little eunuchs really didn't look very good, dry, thin and ugly, and their eyes were sloppy, as if they had lost their souls, standing together, like a pair of little ghosts.
However, those who know them know that these two people's martial arts are extremely high, and they are not under Huang Dingtian and Lu Changxiao. Huang Dingtian was the "guardian" that Su Bei saw that day, playing with the three swordsmen, and Lu Changxiao was good at light skills and hidden weapons, and he accompanied the prince.
The four of them are all apprentices of the demon monks of the Great Xiangguo Temple.
In fact, the demon monk has a total of eight apprentices, known as the Eight King Kongs. And these seedlings of martial arts training were selected from hundreds of thousands of people. And all of this was arranged by Zhao Tian when he was the prince.
Looking for many languages is his number. It was because he said so little that he even thought he was a mute at one point, so he was given this number. But it was useless to take this number, he still didn't say a word.
And Sun Buwu looks like a demented child. He has a very high understanding of internal strength, but in addition to internal strength, he can't learn anything, and he can't use chopsticks to eat, but has to grasp it with his hands, so he is called "unenlightened". This person fights, there are no moves, it all relies on Wang Ba's fist. If he was given a punch, the iron helmet would be smashed and the skull would be shattered.
"Your Majesty, the eighteen newly recruited palace maids have been brought to you. It's all according to His Majesty's orders, it's a big-eyed girl. ”
The little eunuch Lu Shi embraced the dust in his arms, led eighteen big-eyed palace maids to Changqiu Palace, and said to the emperor with a smile.
"Well, what nonsense are you talking about, why did I ask for this?" Zhao Tian lowered his voice: "Don't let Zhaobao hear this." ”
"Understood, minion understood."
Lu Shi found that Emperor Zhao Tian was a little afraid of Tang Zhao, and even wanted to hide these beautiful palace maids in Changqiu Palace, nominally serving the Queen Mother.
This is a new thing, Lu Shi has served the prince since he was a child, and he has never seen that the prince is afraid of any woman.
After finishing all this, the emperor came to the Anning Palace, which was the bedroom of the seventh lady Tang Zhao. And Tang Zhao just waited for the end of the national funeral to be made queen.
"Zhaobao, did you sleep?"
"The concubine has slept."
"Yo, Zhao Bao is so powerful, he can still talk when he sleeps."
It is worth mentioning that men are called ministers in front of the emperor, and women are called concubines in front of the emperor (except for relatives with specific titles such as the queen mother), and there is no such thing as "concubines". Even the empress has to call herself a concubine in front of the emperor. Except on formal occasions, the emperor usually does not use the word "I" instead of "I".
The emperor broke into the house and exercised his muscles on the couch with Tang Zhao, but he couldn't sleep, so he sat down in front of the desk and looked through the folds.
This is his new rule, not to send the recital to the imperial study, but to the palace of tranquility. He was still training Tang Zhao and helping him review the recitals.
Looking through the room, I saw the "County Lord Candidate List" submitted by the Tang family, and when I looked at the scroll, the ninth Miss Tang Huan had eighteen people to recommend, while the sixth Miss Tang Mei only had six people to recommend it. Seeing this result, Zhao Tian smiled bitterly.
"This girl's popularity ......"
Zhao Tian shook his head, picked up his pen, and criticized: "I have heard that Miss Liuliu is upright, understands the rules and regulations, and is a model for Confucian women. ”
……
Last night, the bad handsome boy ran around the relationship, trying to get a rank for Mei Ran.
He does have a gate valve background, but his daughter-in-law does not have a high status in the Meng family, so he can only be cheeky to find his father-in-law. The old man took good care of him and promised to help him. But Honglu Temple was not short of children, and the old man handed him a letter and asked him to find the squire of the military department.
Finally, I got things done at the squire of the military department, and I just waited for the approval to be signed early tomorrow morning.
The next day, he came to the yamen of the criminal department early and waited for Su Bottle Mei Ran, in fact, Mei Ran lived in the mansion at the entrance of the criminal department, and the girl always got up very early, and ran into Tong Yin.
"Lord Squire is also embarrassed, after all, there are no women in the military department. Later, he arranged you to the military medical hall under the Xuanjia General Warehouse, saying that you were a rank military doctor. Tong Yin said with a wry smile.
Mei Ran smiled: "I don't care where you arrange me, in short, it's good to have a rank." ”
Tong Yin smiled ashamedly.
Mei Ran tilted her head: "You said you, why bother." Leave me in the wrong place, won't it be fine? Why, you also look down on women? ”
Tong Yin shrugged: "No way, there are no women in the entire military department." If I start this, what do you think of my colleagues? Then I'll be famous. ”
Mei Ran smiled indifferently.
Tong Yin didn't leave after speaking, and looked left and right: "Where is the Su bottle?" Not with you? ”
Mei Ran said: "He's lazy, he told me to come over early yesterday, and he never goes to work on time." ”
Tong was taken aback, pointed to the yamen of the criminal department and said, "Serving here, he dares to be late?" ”
Mei Ran smiled: "You don't know him, he is such a person." When he met Xue Shilang yesterday, he also said that he would not be on duty. ”
Tong Yin smiled bitterly: "In the end, it is the aunt of Miss Guogongfu, it's just different." ”
Mei Ran said: "It's not anyone's uncle's business, he is like this." ”
Tong Yin shook his head in disagreement, but he left without saying anything.
In fact, Su Bottle was not late today, but the two of them got up too early.
This morning, under the coordination of that outsider, Mei Ran was transferred to the subordinate relationship first. In the afternoon, these things were done. The nose is not a nose, the face is not a face, and he keeps muttering something in his mouth. It seems to say that this should have been done yesterday. It's only done now, and going to the squire will be criticized.
Su Bottle was too lazy to take care of him.
Huang Sanlang's case has been approved, and it was sent out of the palace last night. But Xue Shilang held the approval document and looked at it for a long time, and he always felt that something was wrong.
"It's not the emperor's word......"
Of course Xue Pang didn't know, it was Tang Zhao's approval. But Tang Zhao approved it without a problem. Tang Zhao demanded that such wrongful cases must be strictly investigated to the end and will not be tolerated.
It doesn't matter if it's the emperor's word or not, the key is that there is a large seal of the imperial study on it, as well as the guidance and seal of the province under the door.
Then Xue Pang picked up the pen, brushed and filled in a few paperwork, and handed it to Su Bottle: "Take this to Yongkang County and thoroughly investigate the case." ”
Su Bottle received the paperwork, and Xue Pang sat in the chair calmly and asked, "I ask you to do it quickly." If you don't do it fast enough, or if you can't do it, don't come to me. Go directly to the clerk to go through the formalities and go back to the county. ”
This Xue Shilang is simply a life-urging ghost.
Under the hands of such people, you must learn to be busy, otherwise you have to exhaust yourself to death. Moreover, even if you are tired and out of breath and do the most work, you may not reap the benefits. Because what determines whether a person is appreciated by his boss is not the size of the workload, but whether the work is done beautifully.
There is another saying that has to be said, the more things you do, the easier it is to make mistakes. On the contrary, people who do nothing are right.
Everyone seems to understand this truth, and they think that the leaders will know it in their hearts.
But looking around, those who made mistakes were punished, while those who drank tea and read the newspaper sat peacefully.
The obvious truth is the rules, not the "way".
To say that a person "has the way" is by no means to say how much truth he understands. It's useless, it's mostly used to educate people. People who talk big things all day long are mostly fools. Or, it's smart people who are taking advantage of big things to do things.