Chapter 7: The Faint Monarch and the Traitor

"Although the concubine is mediocre in learning, she also has the heart to share worries between the official family and the queen mother, so she will come first to offer ugliness and be the one who throws bricks and leads the jade."

As the words fell, a graceful beauty walked onto the high platform with a smile.

Since Zhou Huizong succeeded to the throne, he spared no effort to collect beauties from all over the world, and the beauties in Yanfu Palace alone exceeded 5,000, and they were fortunate for ten years a day.

However, Zhou Huizong has long been tired of these 'vulgar fans', and the corner of his eyes has never left the peerless Empress Dowager Liu.

And as the level of poetry is getting higher and higher, there are fewer and fewer concubines who dare to go on stage.

When the four concubines of the harem group of Zhou Huizong made a poem each, Empress Zheng smiled confidently at Empress Dowager Liu: "Since the Empress Dowager hasn't thought about it yet, the concubines will also sacrifice their ugliness first!" ”

"A few times the flowers served the piano sound, and the red wall of the silver man looked into the distance. Last night's stars and tonight's moon, for whom is the midnight exposed? ”

After groaning, Empress Zheng looked at Zhou Huizong affectionately.

"Good poetry! Good poetry! What a wonderful poem! ”

"The queen really deserves to be the first virtuous queen of my Great Zhou Dynasty! This poem is enough to deserve to be the leader of the day! ”

Zhou Huizong praised loudly, remembering all the past, and looking at Empress Zheng's gaze, he couldn't help but soften a little.

"It's just that the poems are wonderful, and what is even more rare is the queen's affection for the official family, which is really touching when I hear it!"

"yes, it's a wonderful poem!"

The beauties of the harem immediately chirped and patted their ass.

Wang Guifei and Wei Guifei looked at Empress Zheng depressedly and suspiciously, suspecting that Empress Zheng had found a gunman.

Empress Zheng's face was full of pride, and she said to Zhou Huizong with a smile: "Thank you for the praise of the officials!" However, the Queen Mother has not yet written poems, so why don't we listen to the Queen Mother's masterpieces that have been read for many years, and then make a decision? Otherwise, wouldn't it be fair? ”

"Haha...... Good! Listen to the Queen! ”

"I also want to see what the Queen Mother's results will be after years of hard study!"

Zhou Huizong nodded and laughed, looked at the Queen Mother with the playful gaze of a hunter staring at the prey, and said, "The Queen Mother, please, I will listen!" ”

"Queen Mother, please!"

"The concubines and others are also listening!"

Empress Zheng and the four concubines all knew Zhou Huizong's unconcealable dirty thoughts, and they were all hostile to the Queen Mother, full of ridicule.

"Alas!"

"Why is that?"

The two gray-bearded old men shook their heads for a while.

A small number of ministers loyal to Zhezong and the Empress Dowager sweated on their foreheads, secretly anxious for the Empress Dowager.

The other eighty or ninety percent of the ministers all showed amusement on their faces, and even Yang Chun saw their whispered conversation through the lip language he had learned in his previous life:

"Let a demon queen who tired the first emperor to death on her belly compose a poem? Isn't that embarrassing? ”

"That's it! In order to 'sympathize' the queen mother, the official family and the queen are really well-intentioned! Hehe......"

“……”

Just when everyone was gloating and waiting to see a good show, the Queen Mother said with a flat face: "The mourning family is very grateful for the compassion between the official family and the queen. But the salt tea division is related to the livelihood of thousands of people in Chong'en Palace, and it is really impossible for the mourning family to feel at ease if they don't watch it personally.

Yes, I can only fight for ugliness! ”

"Fight?"

What are you fighting for?

Can you still beat the champion with your poetry?

Empress Zheng sneered and shook her head.

Zhou Huizong even smiled at the Empress Dowager Liu with a playful smile: "Since the Empress Dowager is full of confidence, then please, as long as the Empress Dowager can make a masterpiece comparable to the Empress, I will count you as the winner!" ”

"Thank you, official!"

The Queen Mother bowed slightly, and then chanted in a tactful and melodious voice: "The twilight clouds are overflowing and cold, and the silver man turns the jade plate silently, this life and this night are not long, where will the bright moon look next year?" ”

"This?"

"How is that possible?"

"How can the Queen Mother make such an amazing work?"

Empress Zheng's beautiful eyes widened, and she was directly dumbfounded!

Zhou Huizong's jaw was dislocated, and he couldn't laugh anymore!

Everyone present was stunned!

"Huh!"

Seeing this, Empress Dowager Liu was in a very happy mood, and glanced at Yang Chun and smiled with satisfaction.

In an instant, the stars and the moon were dull, the group was discolored, Zhou Huizong and nearly 100 ministers showed obsession in their eyes, and Yang Chun, who bore the brunt of the attack, was even more crisp.

Xu Qingshan, who had white hair, did not squint, and praised with a twisted beard: "Good! A good sentence of 'This life and this night is not long, where to see the bright moon next year', it is simply the ups and downs of the world, joys and sorrows! ”

"With this sentence alone, this poem is enough to be famous through the ages!"

More than a dozen ministers were full of excitement and echoed loudly.

Cai Yuanchang, the left minister, shook his head and denied: "The old minister thinks that it is better to 'last night's stars and tonight's moon, for whom to reveal the middle of the night', and it is more sincere!"

Although the poems of the Queen Mother are also rare masterpieces, when this good night and festival celebrated by the whole world, it is inevitable that it is too sad and sad, and it is really not a scene! ”

"Yes, the ministers also think that the queen's poems are better, and she should be the leader today!"

Nearly 100 ministers echoed Cai Yuanchang in unison.

"Humph!"

"Isn't 'for whom is it deeply exposed' not sad and poignant? Why is Cai Xiang so biased? ”

Xu Qingshan was so angry that his beard straightened, and he glared at Cai Yuanchang and the ministers angrily and said: "As soon as the Queen Mother's poem comes out, it will definitely be sung all over the world, and it will be famous for thousands of years, you don't want to lose face, and you also want the official family to lose fame?" ”

"The old lady is right!"

"The official family has a word first, as long as the queen mother can make a masterpiece comparable to the queen, it will be considered a victory, do you want the official family to go back on her word?"

Several resolute-faced old adults spoke out angrily at the same time.

"This?"

Cai Yuanchang frowned deeply, and looked at Zhou Huizong on the high platform with a look of embarrassment with a face on his face.

Zhou Huizong's face was very ugly, and he had a sense of depression that was cocooned and self-restrained, and his eyes were cold and stared at Empress Zheng, who had a bad idea.

Empress Zheng's body trembled, and her face was full of panic.

Kindness?

Yang Chun looked surprised: "Empress Zheng is only about thirty years old, the flowers are blooming, and she is beautiful, except for the Empress Dowager Liu and the concubine Pei Guifei, who is silent and sick, no one can stand out from the crowd, a proper national flower-level peerless beauty, even if she doesn't give birth to a son, she won't be so frightened, right?" ’

Yang Chunzheng was secretly puzzled, the horse-faced old eunuch Ma Gonggong, who almost scratched his shoulder blades last time, stood up and said to Zhou Huizong, who was full of gloom: "Official, in order to force my Great Song Dynasty to return the territory that was invaded by Western Xia, the Liao State proposed to come to fight and make a contract, do you remember?" ”

"Why did Ma Daban suddenly mention this?"

Zhou Huizong's face was inexplicable.

Ma Gonggong Shi Li said with a smile: "Didn't you and the queen let the slaves and maids and others set up a recruitment hall to recruit talents from all over the world?" Students from all over the world have submitted poems and articles to the Zhaoxian Hall, among which one of the selected poems seems to be ...... Same! ”

"Huh~? And this kind of thing? ”

Zhou Huizong raised his eyebrows, and he was instantly happy.