"She's verifying your sincerity!"

In the Weiyang Palace, the Queen Mother whispered to persuade the new emperor.

Even if the new emperor followed the advice of his lord and was willing to be a good baby in front of the empress dowager, the new emperor did not expect that it would be so difficult to be an obedient grandson.

In just two days, Taizhu Dou followed the will of the Empress Dowager and launched an extremely fierce attack on the Confucian faction in the court, and even directly reprimanded Zhao Juan, Wang Zang and others, and collected evidence for the new emperor to attack the two top Confucians.

The Empress Dowager did not directly suppress and capture Zhao Juan and Wang Zang, but handed over the matter to the new emperor.

This is to force the new emperor to be ruthless against Confucianism, and it is also the new emperor's vote.

Whether to choose the dying old and seriously ill Empress Dowager, or choose the Confucianism who constantly installed Confucian students into the imperial court system, the new emperor needs to make a final choice.

"You think about it," the Queen Mother said, "but don't think about delaying time, the longer it drags on, the worse it will be!" ”

"Got it!"

"Your uncle said that either you will take advantage of your illness and bear the name of rebellion from now on, or you will gamble your life to see if the Empress Dowager will cut off your wings step by step or borrow the strength of the sect, and finally let you abdicate and replace!"

The Empress Dowager mentioned the reason for the new emperor's difficult choice.

It was not that the new emperor was reluctant to give up Confucianism, but after giving up Confucianism, what did he use to leverage his strength.

The Empress Dowager can force him to cut off the two important ministers of Confucianism today, and tomorrow she can force him to cut off the others, and finally get the new emperor without any basis.

This is far heavier than the price of bowing his head that the new emperor thought before, and even so heavy that the new emperor could not bear it.

If you throw it into the Anle Palace, it almost means gambling your life.

But if he doesn't throw himself into Anle Palace, his guarding Anle Palace late at night will look like a joke, which further makes the Empress Dowager evaluate it as unattainable.

And the possibility of his rebellion has been greatly reduced after that night, at least Li Guang will not take it seriously anymore, as for the feasibility of winning over Confucianism to target Anle Palace, this kind of thing is too low, far from the new emperor arranged it, there is a high probability that he will be suppressed on charges of great rebellion and other crimes.

The Queen Mother seems to mention two paths, but none of them are easy to take.

Obviously, the Empress Dowager was lying in the Anle Palace, but the new emperor felt that he was the fish waiting to be slaughtered on the chopping board.

He has fallen into a dead end, seemingly having a choice but in fact no choice, whether it is to the left or to the right.

"Queen Mother, I know!"

Seeing the worried Queen Mother leave, the new emperor looked at everything in the Weiyang Palace.

This is the center of power in the Han Dynasty, but he is not the point of the center of power.

One mountain cannot accommodate two tigers, and one dynasty cannot tolerate two voices.

There is only one person between him and the Empress Dowager who can call the shots.

Xintiq undoubtedly lacks an advantage at the moment.

If Li Guang, the chief of the guard of Weiyang Palace, did not rebel with him, the new emperor could only rebel with a few small eunuchs.

The first choice of the corresponding field worm is not possible at all.

But the second option was difficult for the new emperor to accept.

He used the highest etiquette of the chariot and the chariot, the bundle and the silk to seek talent, but in just half a year, he had to exclude the school from the court.

This is undoubtedly a big joke in the world, and it will also make the prestige brought by the new emperor when he ascended the throne be wiped out.

And this will also mess up all of Emperor Jing's Confucian arrangements beyond control.

What's more serious is that the new emperor no longer has the strength to fight, but if he follows the meaning of Anle Palace to attack Confucianism, the ministers of the court and the central government will inevitably fall to the empress dowager, and from then on he will be reduced to a mascot placed on the dragon chair.

"That old man's words are on paper after all, and it is difficult to use them in practice, and if I continue to do this, I will become a puppet, even if I do things as the Empress Dowager wants, she will not look down on my talents and talents!"

The choice is difficult, and the consequences of the choice are also difficult for Xindi to bear.

No matter how he chooses, he is a loser.

"I should have been the master of the Han Dynasty, and I should have supreme luck, why did I end up like this......"

The new emperor sat in the empty Weiyang Palace, and his head was as difficult to find a place as the empty palace.

He was stunned for a long time, and it wasn't until the little eunuchs asked there again and again that the new emperor came back to his senses.

"What's the matter?" Xindi asked.

"Your Majesty, there are a few great Confucians outside Sima Gate who ask to see them, and the leader said that he is holding the Confucian Holy Order, saying that he can face the saint!"

"The great Confucian who holds the Confucian Holy Order, that should be Kong Zhong, the heir of the Kong family, what is he doing in the palace?"

Confucianism is inclusive, not only is the cultivation diverse, the factions are extremely complicated, the descendants of the Confucian saints are not the masters of Confucianism, but these descendants are respected by the major Confucian factions because of the blood of the Confucian saints, and they have survived peacefully to this day.

This has to be said to be an extremely wonderful school model, even if the dynasty changes and the school falls, the Confucian family is still alive and well, and is respected by various schools of Confucianism.

Even the Confucian family belongs to the nominal sect masters of the major Confucian schools, even if it is in name only, but the other party does have this qualification.

Xindi was in a bad mood and didn't want to see anyone at the moment.

But for Kong Zhong, who held Kong Sheng's order, he still had to take into account the nominal sect master.

"Xuan ...... Let's go out of the temple to greet you! ”

The new emperor just wanted to summon Kong Zhong and the others to meet him, but he only thought about it for two seconds and got up.

His etiquette towards Shen Peigong and the great Confucian scholars was extremely high, and if Confucianism, the nominal sect of Confucianism, came with the Confucian Holy Order, he was only summoned casually, which would undoubtedly make people criticize.

And his current situation is not good, and he almost has a sense of sympathy with Kong Zhong.

This made the new emperor personally go out of the palace to greet him, and the little eunuch shouted again and again.

The new emperor had traveled no more than five hundred meters, and then he had already seen five gnomes trotting in a row and being led by the eunuchs.

The dwarf at the front was holding a black token, and his face was full of anxiety, which made the new emperor sigh when he saw it.

It is rumored that the height of the Confucian saint is nine feet and six inches, but the new emperor did not expect that the height of the descendants of the Kong family has directly shrunk by half.

"You are Kong ......"

As the little eunuch said, 'Your Majesty has arrived', the new emperor also spoke.

But before he finished speaking, he saw that Kong Zhong, who was the leader, knelt down with Kong Shengling, and the four dwarfs behind him also knelt down in unison.

"You don't have to bow down like this," the new emperor stepped forward to help.

"Your Majesty, we deserve to die for our crimes, and we shouldn't let those three demons dig your ancestral grave" Kong Zhong held the order and begged for mercy loudly: "We are not good at what we do, but we didn't expect Zhao Juan and Wang Zang to know about our little ability, and let us go to garrison Yangling, which was invaded by the strong enemy, they should have sent Zhou Ba, Xia Kuan and others to ......"

Kong Zhong knelt on the ground, and loudly counted the names of Zhao Juan, the imperial historian, and Wang Zang, who was ordered by Lang Zhongling, and some of the content even involved the two of them illegally collecting money to gather Confucian students.

This made Xindi's eyes narrow slightly.

It was only now that he had finally figured out how to deal with Confucianism without triggering a backlash from the Toucheng school.