In the early winter, snowflakes fell on the red-walled and green-tiled Yindu Palace, making the already quiet palace even more deserted.

In the main hall of the Purple Gold Palace, Xiao Tianzi was sleeping soundly on the delicate small bed beside the Empress Dowager Dong, who was dressed in a black gown, with a dignified and elegant demeanor, her hands folded on her knees, her eyes were as calm as a lake, and she glanced at the five people kneeling below.

The five people present were Hu Tongxun, Yu Gongming and his entourage, as auxiliary ministers, they never thought that Empress Dowager Dong would discuss the matter of the Son of Heaven with them today.

"Ladies and gentlemen, it has been three months since the death of the first emperor, and the situation of Dafeng in these three months must also be clear, the king of Guangnan raised troops, the people were panicked, in order to protect the territory and the people, the prime minister went to Suzhou, Jing border negotiations, life and death are unknown.

During this time, Benhou thought a lot, and what the current Dafeng needs is not a Son of Heaven who is waiting to be fed, but a Majesty who can stabilize the hearts of the people, so Benhou decided to let the Son of Heaven give the throne to the King of Guangnan. ”

After Empress Dowager Dong's words came out, the five of them raised their heads together, their faces full of astonishment.

As an old minister of the Three Dynasties, Meng Yan was even more weeping, and whined loudly, "The Queen Mother can't, the edict of the first emperor is here, and the six of us will swear to defend Your Majesty's throne, and the Queen Mother must not retreat at this time. ”

Yuan Haibei clenched his fists, and said with red eyes, "Queen Mother, if the prime minister can't let the king of Guangnan withdraw his troops on this trip, then the general will personally lead the army south, not destroy the traitors, and vow not to return to the dynasty." ”

Empress Dowager Dong smiled helplessly, shook her head and said, "We orphans and widows can't sit in the world, it's the queen who is sorry for the first emperor, sorry for Nanjin, sorry for the people of the world, this has nothing to do with you, this queen called you here, not to discuss the matter of the Zen position with you, but to inform." ”

"Queen Mother, the matter of the Zen position is not trivial, why don't you wait for the prime minister to come back and talk about it, and see what the prime minister's opinion is?" Che Ming next to him arched his hand and said.

"The prime minister works hard for the country, I don't want to trouble him anymore, after I go back today, you can go and do this, and the Ministry of Rites will draw up a Zen book to announce it to the world." Empress Dowager Dong said softly.

"The Queen Mother's ......"

Che Ming wanted to persuade the Empress Dowager Dong again, but the Empress Dowager Dong didn't give them a chance to speak, but gently stroked her forehead, shook her head and said, "The queen is a little tired, let's talk about it today, you go down, the matter of Zen concession will be handed over to you later." ”

Yu Gongming and Hu Tongxun didn't say a word from beginning to end, and when the five of them came out of the Purple Gold Palace, the sky was snowing.

Changsheng instructed a group of little princes to send the five adults back to the house, Hu Tongxun and Yu Gongming rejected Changsheng's kindness, and walked side by side on the palace corridor, one old and one young, walking side by side.

Hu Tongxun suddenly stopped and coughed violently, and Yu Gongming, who was next to him, hurriedly stepped forward to help him and gently patted Hu Tongxun's back.

After a long time, Hu Tongxun eased up, and the snow became heavier and heavier, and the official hats on both of their heads were piled with a thick layer of snow.

Hu Tongxun sighed and said, "Should you say that you can pinch and calculate, or that Your Majesty's destiny is so good, this throne is finally in the hands of the King of Guangnan." ”

Yu Gongming's face was not very good-looking, and he sighed, "I just asked Gonggong Zheng, in the morning, the Imperial Heavenly Supervisor Sikong Yanzhen came to the Purple Gold Palace. ”

Hu Tongxun was silent, staring at the snowy scene in front of him, unable to say a word for a long time.

"In fact, for the Queen Mother and Her Majesty, this is not a good choice, their orphans and widows want to fight with the king of Guangnan, can they fight? Do you know what the courtiers down there are saying these days?

said that after the first emperor left, this world will not be the world of the Gao family, but the world of the six of us, and Dafeng will be divided by us sooner or later.

Now in the entire Yin Capital, there are not many people who are really dead set on the edict of the first emperor, such a situation of internal and external troubles, what else can the Queen Mother and Her Majesty do in addition to Zen Rang? ”

After Yu Gongming finished speaking, Hu Tongxun coughed again.

After coughing violently, Hu Tongxun straightened his back and said with emotion, "Loyalty to the edict of the first emperor or to protect the Son of Heaven and the Queen Mother, this is like a fish and a bear's paw, you can't have both."

Yu Gongming, the old man admires your courage and temperament, if this world is really handed over to the king of Guangnan, have you ever thought that with the temperament of the Gongsun family, you will let go of the queen mother and their orphans and widows? Will there still be a place for them in this palace? ”

The snow was getting heavier and heavier, Yu Gongming gently patted the snowflakes on his body, and said with his eyebrows, "I, Yu Gongming, am willing to use my life as a guarantee to ensure that the Queen Mother and the Son of Heaven are safe and sound." ”

Hu Tongxun's eyes gradually turned red, and the old man's left hand grabbed Yu Gongming's right arm suddenly, clutching it tightly.

"You and I are sorry for the first emperor, let the queen mother make this choice, if Your Majesty makes a mistake, even if you and I go down to the Yellow Spring, we will not have the face to see the first emperor."

Yu Gongming bowed to Hu Tongxun, "Please rest assured, Master Hu, Gongming understands." ”

Hu Tongxun nodded heavily, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and sighed, "Let's go, go back, it's snowing heavily." ”

"I'll hold you, slow down."

Hu Tongxun walked in the snow, slowly closed his eyes, and felt the feeling of snowflakes hitting his face, it was cold, but at this moment, his heart was colder than the snow.

The two rickety figures gradually disappeared into the snow curtain of the palace, and the distant backs became more and more blurred.

At this time, Hu Tongxun didn't know that this would be the last time he would meet Yu Gongming, and it would also be the last time he would come to the palace.

After returning to the house, Hu Tongxun suddenly fell ill, and he couldn't afford to fall ill, and ten days later, he died in the house at the age of 67, nicknamed Wenzhen.

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[The catastrophe of the heavens, the emperor of Daxing collapsed in the inner room, the heaven and the earth mourned together, and the legend was lonely. Pity the boy, dying, wailing forever, and the mood is broken. Yang Wei is poisonous, revenge is revenge, and the shadows are hanging from each other, and they don't know where to start.

Gaoling, the king of Guangnan, died in the future, helped the danger and saved the drowning, and inherited the great cause of the sky in the south of the Yangtze River. Rectify the rate of Yixia, shelter the gangsters, protect the bow, and the king is Lai. Virtue and creation, merit and merit, Zhaoshu returns to the heart, the number of Si is there, and he is a minister, and he violates the mandate of heaven. To the king of this generation, and to the generation, the heavens are abolished, how can it be so! Relying on the sage of the ancients, to punish the four murderers.

Fortunately, it is worth the grace of the new, and it is pre-filled with three ke. It is advisable to follow the previous canon, tend to the honorific number, if relieved, feel both Thai and nostalgic. Fake hands are real people, so as to eliminate ugliness and rebellion, help many people, and know what I mean. There is still a division, and all performances are not allowed to be heard. 】

A Zen edict fell from the sky, and when the Empress Dowager Dong read this edict in front of the Manchu Dynasty civil and military, the government and the opposition were in an uproar.

Except for Yu Gongming and others, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty couldn't believe that the Queen Mother would choose the path of Zen, some old ministers directly cried, and the young officials also bowed their heads and remained silent.

Empress Dowager Dong's tears slipped from the corners of her eyes in an instant, and Nan Jin in her arms stared at her mother's, the corners of her mouth curled up, and she laughed.

Children are the most carefree, Empress Dong hugged Nan Jin tightly, and said softly: "Nan Jin, have you seen the courtiers below?" Some of them are crying, some are laughing, some are crying, some are crying that their official titles are not guaranteed, some are crying that their future is bleak, but no one is crying for the loneliness and bitterness.

People who laugh, some people laugh that they are about to be added to the ranks, some people laugh that they are about to be rich, but no one laughs at the fact that you can escape from this right and wrong occasion; But after today, you will never have to see these hypocritical readers again, no more. ”

Yu Gongming bowed heavily to the Queen Mother, and the moment he bowed his head, tears fell on the bluestone bricks of the Taihe Palace, and there was no sound.

After the Zen throne, Gao Nanjin proclaimed himself King Peng Yi and temporarily lived in Yindu as the orphan of the first emperor.

……

Xiangzhou, Dunhuang City.

Ning Xiaochuan, who had just received the news from Feihong that his second brother Ning Feng had entered the military camp of the King of Guangnan, was discussing with his eldest brother Ning He how to rescue Ning Feng, when suddenly a news of the Zen position from Yin Du made the two of them stunned at the same time.

In the state pastor's mansion, all the officials with heads and faces in Xiangzhou came here, Qian Gui looked at the Zen edict on the Feihong intelligence in his hand, and said after a long time:

"This is also the Queen Mother's helpless move, if Wei Zhengol is still there, then the Praetorian Guard will be far stronger than now, at that time, there are Yu Gongming and Wei Zhengol, plus Meng Yan and others, the Queen Mother will never propose the Zen position."

Ning He said in a deep voice, "After Chan let go, the world will be free from soldiers, maybe this is the real purpose of Chan let the edict." ”

The minister was silent, and after a long time, Ning Xiaochuan raised his head and said, "In the end, the king of Guangnan has picked up the leak in this world, but the king of Guangnan is brave and unscrupulous, and he is so happy that he does not understand the art of the emperor and does not understand the etiquette of the temple." If it is the emperor, I am afraid that Dafeng will still be in chaos. ”

Cao Anmin got up and said, "If the king of Guangnan can continue to appoint the ministers of the new policy and let Yu Gongming and others assist in the government, then it is another story." ”

"But will the king of Guangnan really let the second prince and Yu Gongming stay in Yindu? Don't forget, they were the emperor's ministers. Qian Gui frowned and said.

Ning Xiaochuan said categorically, "Yes, the Gongsun family is not a fool, no matter how you say this throne, it is also obtained by Chan, if they can't wait to show their ambitions as soon as they take the throne, then the people of the world will never let them go."

Moreover, there is also a Gongsun Changfeng in Gongsun's family, and that Gongsun Changfeng is not a treacherous person with a small heart, on the contrary, I think that he will persuade the King of Guangnan to keep his second brother and Yu Gongming at all costs, because he knows that only by keeping them can he stabilize everything now, including the position of the Son of Heaven of the King of Guangnan. ”

Ning He echoed on the side, "Leave the situation in Yindu to them, as long as the Central Plains is not chaotic, I believe that the second brother will have a way to deal with all this."

Nowadays, we can't reach the whip, no matter how much we talk about it, it's better to do our part, stabilize the border, front-line intelligence, these days there are changes in Beiban and Xiqiang, most of them have the intention of taking advantage of the fire to rob. ”

Everyone nodded, and Ning Xiaochuan also frowned, "It seems that our Xiangzhou army has a battle to fight." ”