After Liu Sheng responded, Tianzi Qi, who was sitting on the imperial couch, was silent for half a long time.

In this half-burnt incense time, Liu Sheng obviously didn't know what Tianzi Qi was thinking.

But what Liu Sheng can be sure of is that these things that even he can think of are impossible to think of by the Son of Heaven.

Therefore, in this short silence, Tianzi Qi should not be thinking about whether Liu Sheng's words make sense.

Ruling out this possibility, Liu Sheng faintly guessed in his heart: Tianzi Qi should be secretly evaluating in his heart based on his answers, reactions, and his response to Zhou Yafu in Beiying today······

"Even if it's not 'excellent', it's at least qualified, right?"

Just as Liu Sheng was secretly thinking that even if he couldn't be regarded as the 'most' by the Son of Heaven, he could at least get a 'no comment' evaluation, the Son of Heaven, who finally came back from his thoughts, also gave an answer in a timely manner.

"I see."

"You don't care about these things."

"—I warned you before to hide from some prime ministers;"

"Today, I will emphasize to you again: you don't care about anything related to the prime minister."

···

"I said before that the matter of money will be discussed when the food business is over;"

"Now that the price of food has been stabilized, we can start preparing for the money."

"Hmmm······"

"—don't rush it."

"There is no urgency about money."

"After I go back, I will think about it myself, and then make two more trips to Shaofu;"

"If you have a clear idea, write down the measures and ideas, and then come to me with the song."

As soon as Tianzi Qi's words fell, Liu Sheng hurriedly got up and bowed to Tianzi Qi.

And from Tianziqi's attitude, it is not difficult for Liu Sheng to see that for his performance in Beiying today, when he faced Zhou Yafu in Beiying, Tianziqi's evaluation results are indeed 'no comment'.

For this result, Liu Sheng secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but he couldn't help but feel a little lost.

But what Liu Sheng didn't know was that the Son of Heaven's assessment of the prince was not exactly the same as the place where the court audited.

-- The court audits the counties and counties, which are divided into two types: the most and the palace, and the 'no comment' sandwiched in the middle, that is, neither good nor bad.

In the feudal era, the Son of Heaven's evaluation of the prince often had only two results;

Temple, and 'no comment'.

For the prince of the feudal era, not being taught as a 'palace' by the Son of Heaven is already the best result.

As for the 'most', it will never appear in the evaluation report of the Son of Heaven and the crown prince······

"If you don't comment, you won't comment;"

"At least it's better than being scolded."

As if he comforted himself, Liu Sheng straightened up and calmly bowed his hand to the Son of Heaven.

"There is one more thing that needs to be shown by my father."

As soon as these words came out, he saw the Son of Heaven Qi Wener smile, then lowered his head with a smile, and looked at the bamboo slip in front of him again.

While checking it, he said casually: "Since in your eyes, 'Cousin Dou Ying' and 'Wei Qihou Dou Ying' can't coexist~"

"Hmmm······"

"Let's go back first."

"Tomorrow, I will go to Changle in person and discuss with my mother······"

Finally, after saying one more word, Tianzi Qi cheered up and put all his attention on the bamboo slips in front of him.

But after Liu Sheng bowed and left, after only three or five breaths, Tianzi Qi quietly raised his head again;

Squinting the corners of his eyes slightly, he felt it behind him, then took a deep breath, and immediately lay down on the couch full of exhaustion.

At the same time, the eunuch Ling Chuntuo, who was standing on the side of the imperial couch, also walked to the palace by himself and sent all the palace people back.

In the end, Chuntuo simply did not return to the royal couch, but only stood in the temple gate, without saying a word······

"Zhou Yafu, make it difficult for me to do it······"

"Originally, I thought that it would be enough to remove the military power;"

"But now it seems that I have to unload people's heads······"

In an inexplicable tone, saying that this was enough to make anyone in the world frightened, Tianzi Qi let out another long sigh and quietly closed his eyes.

And behind the royal couch where the Son of Heaven was lying flat, the familiar voice sounded at the right time, which made the depression in the heart of the Son of Heaven dissipate a little.

"The minister has already checked."

"In the past, there was never any contact or friendship between the Marquis of Tiao and the King of Linjiang, and they never even met a few times."

"——Before the Wu Chu Rebellion, Tiao Hou was still a lieutenant, and he was in charge of the Northern Army's jailer;"

"Because of this, King Linjiang has always been very taboo about his dealings with Zhou Yafu, and even if he encounters them on the road, he will deliberately avoid them."

"Zhou Yafu has never had dealings with the King of Linjiang, the King of Hejian, the King of Changshan, and the Li family."

"Your Majesty's previous worries should be dispelled······"

The man in black's low, peaceful tone only caused Tianzi Qi's originally frowning brows to loosen slightly.

After a while, I saw the Son of Heaven exhale, and shook his head with a wry smile inexplicably.

"Dismissed?"

"Even if it's dispelled······"

···

"If the situation is really what I guessed, then I should be annoyed."

"That's not the case, and I really should turn my worries into joys and stop worrying about it."

"But at this moment, I hope that my worries are right······"

"—at least then I don't have to worry about it anymore;"

"Don't feel guilty about Zhou Yafu for the future······"

The obscure words only caused the figure in black to stagnate for a moment, and then he saw Tianzi Qi smiling and turning sideways, looking directly at the man in black.

"What I'm worried about is not that Zhou Yafu made these moves because of Rong;"

"If Zhou Yafu really did this for Rongcai, I would be happier."

"-If that's the case, at least I don't have to worry about it anymore: What crime should I use to punish Zhou Yafu's crime?"

"But now, I have learned from you: what Zhou Yafu did has nothing to do with Rong."

"It's really hard to do······"

was slightly embarrassed by the Son of Heaven, and stared at it with tired and distressed eyes, and the man in black hurriedly lowered his head;

After hearing the words of the Son of Heaven, the man in black secretly thought for a moment, but raised his head a little more.

"The minister thinks that His Majesty does not need to be distressed about this."

"—No matter why Zhou Yafu did this, as long as he did, it was not right;"

"If a courtier does something wrong, His Majesty should punish him."

···

"It is true that Zhou Yafu did this not because of his personal relationship with the King of Linjiang, nor did he get some promises from the King of Linjiang that he should not have."

"But no matter what Zhou Yafu thinks in his heart, just looking at what he is doing, after all, he wants His Majesty to establish a long-term - that is, to establish the King of Linjiang."

"So, the minister thinks ······"

"Well, the minister thinks: whether Zhou Yafu has received some 'promises' from the mouth of the king of Linjiang is only ······ in the mind of His Majesty."

"—Only if His Majesty says no, is it really not;"

"But if Your Majesty says yes, then there must be ······"

After a meaningful remark, the man in black lowered his head again and remained silent.

On the royal couch, Tianzi Qi glanced deeply at the man in black, and frowned and thought for a long time;

In the end, he let out a long sigh.

"It's not that far."

"Rong, after all, he is still my bloodline heir, the eldest brother of that little bastard."

"If you can stay, try to save your life······"

Speaking with embarrassment, Tianzi Qi turned over again, flattened down again, and closed his eyes again.

The long silence also means a long period of thought, and the mixed thoughts of the Son of Heaven.

Zhou Yafu's increasingly unacceptable move has obviously broken through the bottom line of Tianziqi;

But as for how to deal with Zhou Yafu, or how to deal with these bad things, Tianzi Qi was quite hesitant······

"Hmmm······"

"Waste the ······"

"Child-······"

"Standing Chief?"

Lying peacefully on the couch, gently closing his eyes, he murmured a few times;

When the last word 'Lichang' was uttered, Tianzi Qi quietly opened his eyes again, and he was already thinking about it.

"So, what Zhou Yafu did was just to force me to take back my life and change to Lirong?"

"Then on the other hand: as long as Rong is completely unable to become the prince, Zhou Yafu will be able to understand my intentions, and he will be able to retreat despite difficulties?"

seemed to ask the man in black, and it seemed that he asked himself two questions in succession, only to provoke the man in black Mu Mu nodded;

I saw that the Son of Heaven frowned slightly, and finally thought about it for a while, and finally sat up from the couch.

"In that case······

"Well, let's mourn."

"——Summoning the King of Hejian and the King of Changshan into the dynasty and going to his mother's funeral."

"As for the king of Linjiang, he does not have to and is not allowed to enter the court."

"You can only cry fifteen times in the morning and evening, and cry for fifteen days."

"When the fifteenth day has passed, you shall not wear mourning clothes again;"

"Even within fifteen days, no one except the king of Linjiang is allowed to cry or mourn in the palace."

With a firm expression, the sorrowful look on Tianzi Qi's face had already dissipated most of it, and the brows that were dark and cloudy were also loosened.

sat up, put his legs down again, turned his back to the man in black, and muttered to himself before he was too late: "The next prime minister, I have to pick ······ carefully"

"It's only been a few years since the throne?"

"-It's been less than four years, and this is the second."

"Hey ······"

There was a bit of a grumbling, but it didn't attract the attention of the man in black.

At this moment, the man in black was reminiscing about the previous sentence of 'mourning' from the Son of Heaven, and the corners of his forehead couldn't help but break out in cold sweat!

In just a moment, the man in black was already coming to his senses, but he still tried his best to calm down, raised his head slightly in shock, and said tentatively: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty······"

"The minister doesn't seem to have heard of Kurihime······"

"Uh, could it be that in the past few days, the minister was busy with other things, and he didn't receive any news?"

pretended to be puzzled, but his tone was obviously a little frightened, which only caused Tianzi Qi to turn his head sideways with a smile;

glanced at the man in black behind him with the corner of his eye, laughed inexplicably, continued to look down at the bamboo slip, and said casually: "What?" ”

"Is it possible, do you want me to go there myself?"

"—just do it;"

"It's not the first time······

As soon as Tianzi Qi's words came out, Rao was already vaguely guessing Tianziqi's intentions, and the man in black couldn't help but sink his heart.

But in the end, the man in black still took several deep breaths in a voice as faint as possible from an angle that Tianzi Qi couldn't see;

After several deep breaths in a row, the black-clothed man finally calmed down and bowed silently to the back of Tianzi Qi.

"Minister, obey the ······"

"It's just that now, Li Ji lives in Changle Palace;"

"Your Majesty may have to ······ with the Queen Mother in advance about this matter."

"-Well, I know it."

"—just let it go."

Tianzi Qi said indifferently, but the man in black took another deep breath before he pressed the horror in his heart.

Just when the man in black was going to leave quietly, go back to do a good job of psychological construction, and then explain the things that Tianziqi explained, or the person 'done', Tianziqi rarely turned back;

With one leg hanging down from the couch and one leg resting on the couch, he sat sideways looking at the man in black behind the couch.

"Fang Cai, you should have heard what that bastard said, right?"

"What do you think?"

"-The prince I have chosen, can there be a king?"

"What will happen if this temple and society are entrusted to this son?"

asked without warning, only to provoke the man in black to freeze on the spot, and after reacting, he quickly knelt down again!

"Minister······

"Minister·········

Trembling and even saying several 'ministers', he never came up with a reason, and the man in black simply buried his head deep and prostrated himself behind the royal couch.

Previously, the Son of Heaven explained that the man in black was 'mourning', which made the man in black a little frightened, and it took a lot of strength to barely calm down.

At this moment, Tianzi Qi asked such a question again, which made the man in black unable to maintain his composure anymore, and he couldn't even say it from his mouth with the attitude of refusing to answer the question.

Seeing the man in black react like this, Tianzi Qi turned his body a little more indifferently, and raised his hand to the man in black with a big grin.

"Hi~"

"Anyway, he is also the Jiuqing of the dynasty, and he is the Marquis of the Golden Seal and Purple Ribbon;"

"-Still kneeling in front of me, what kind of body is it?"

"Get up, get up and speak."

said lightly, helping the man in black to stand up slightly, Tianzi Qi smiled at the man in black with a relaxed smile and raised his head.

"Tell me."

"-My Prime Minister Zhou, but I'm already forcing me to set up another prince~"

"The same family surnamed Zhou, your guts are much smaller than the prime minister?"

"Huh?"

The Son of Heaven spoke softly, and there was a relaxed smile on his face, which made the man in black straighten up uneasily;

Before he had time to straighten his waist, and when he heard Tianziqi's words that seemed to be ridiculous, but there was also a faint meaning, the man in black had to smile stiffly and arch his hand.

"The minister's 'guts' are indeed not as good as those of the marquis."

"The feudal state of the minister is not a princely state."

"The surname of Zhou, the minister, has nothing to do with the Marquis of Tiao - the minister is a native of Rencheng, Dongping County, and the Marquis of Tiao's ancestral home is Feng County, Pei County, and grew up in Chang'an since childhood."

"The ministers and the marquis are traced back to the three generations of their ancestors, and they have never had any ······ to do with each other."

Seeing the effort of the man in black in three or two sentences, he began to clear up the relationship between himself and Prime Minister Zhou Yafu, and Tianziqi couldn't help but smile.

Although he nodded with satisfaction in his heart, he waved his hand with a nonchalant face: "Hi~"

"I didn't say anything about you······"

"Look at what scares you."

With a smile, Tianzi Qi leaned forward with his upper body, reached out and pulled the wrist of the man in black, and sat down on the inside of the couch.

"I'm not asking Lang Zhongling."

"Instead, I'm asking you as an old friend and close friend for many years: How about this prince I chose?"

"-If that's the case, you don't want to answer~"

"After that, I won't treat you as a friend······

Pretending to have a slightly regretful look, Tianzi Qi's scrutinizing gaze was also quietly locked on the man in black—especially on the worried face.

On the inside of the couch, the man in black who only dared to 'hang' half of his buttocks on the couch heard Tianziqi's words that seemed to be sincere, but he fell into a burst of extreme entanglement.

Be friends?

Be friends with the Son of Heaven?

- The man in black really wanted to say to Tianzi Qi: Thank you, Your Majesty!

Your Majesty Xie doesn't treat me as a friend!

But under the deep gaze of Tianzi Qi, the words that the man in black rushed to his lips were swallowed back into his stomach as they were······

"Your Majesty;"

"The matter of the appointment of the prince is not something that foreign ministers can criticize, and it is not even something that anyone other than the Queen Mother and His Majesty can easily comment on."

"——Emperor Xiaowen of the First Taizong Emperor except for the slander order, he only allowed the ignorant people to talk about state affairs at will."

"Now, regardless of the dignity of the monarch and the courtiers, the Marquis actually relied on his own merits, as well as the entrustment of the first emperor to the Marquis, to point fingers at the establishment of the prince;"

"This is a shocking thing."

···

"As Your Majesty just said: The same surname is Zhou, and the minister is the commander of Langzhong, but he doesn't even have one-tenth of the tiaohou's courage."

"The courage of the marquis is so big that he can point fingers at the prince and the prince, and the courage of the ministers is so small that His Majesty will never dare to say two, or even think about two."

"-The prince's personality, the minister will never dare to evaluate;"

"But this is His Majesty's evaluation of the minister, and the minister does not dare not evaluate it completely······"

"Hmmm······"

"I have to say the last sentence······"

"The minister vaguely feels: Your Highness seems to be becoming more and more like Your Majesty recently?"

Cautiously raised his head, looked at the face of Tianzi Qi, and said this shallow word of restraint extremely carefully, but the man in black still didn't dare to blink his eyes;

looked at Tianzi Qi without squinting, as if he was afraid of missing any trace of change in expression on Tianzi Qi's face.

After the man in black gave an answer, Tianzi Qi was slightly stunned;

After thinking for a moment, he shook his head and sighed and turned around and sat in front of the imperial case.

lowered his head, looked at the bamboo slip in front of him, and said what he had said to Liu Sheng before to the man in black again.

"I see."

···

"Go ahead."

"Kurihime's business, do it beautifully."

"—I'm nothing;"

"Just don't let the little bastard get some unnecessary stigma because of this incident······"

It's better to feel a little better in the afternoon.,Let's change it today.,Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow according to the physical condition.,See if it's tomorrow to recover 2 more or the day after tomorrow.。

The day after tomorrow at the latest, return to normal 2 shifts.

Thank you for your understanding.

(End of chapter)