Chapter 19: The Altar of the Shangqing Dynasty (I)
"Your Majesty, I think the daughter of the Xi family is suitable to be the queen." Ruan Dianfu stepped out of the column to speak, ignoring the black face of Xi Ye behind him, and said loudly.
"There's no rush in this matter, I'll talk about it when the Xi family's daughter meets me." Liu Yu's face was not obvious, and his words left a little leeway, and the courtiers who supported the establishment couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they saw this, their repeated requests were rejected, and in serious cases, they were even pulled out and killed, and Liu Yu warned that Hugh was talking nonsense, and his queen could only be Jiang Jiangui, the granddaughter of Changshi.
But that Jiang Jiangui has died in the battle of Jiankang, the country can not be left without a day, for the needs of the royal family to spread branches and stabilize politics, they have to risk death many times.
After the end of the early dynasty, a minister surnamed Wang, who was close to Ruan Tenant on weekdays, followed Ruan Tenant's footsteps and whispered while people were not paying attention, "My lord, after the emperor came into power in recent years, you have rarely decided things for him, but I see the big things involving the queen's position today, but I see it strangely, my lord, can you tell me why it is the daughter of the Xi family?" ”
"I don't know how many forces in the court do you think?" Ruan Dianfu raised his eyebrows and asked instead of answering.
"It is roughly divided into three forces, the hawk faction led by the adult is used by the emperor, and the Qing faction led by the Xi family and the dog faction composed of other neutral officials who do not stand in line are free." The man weighed his words and answered carefully.
"Not bad." Nguyen nodded in approval.
"Then what do you think of the Xi family?" Nguyen then asked.
"The Xi family is high and powerful, and it is not something that can be easily shaken." He shook his head slightly.
The Xi family not only almost monopolized the salt merchant trade of the entire dynasty, but also the rich rival country, but also the high-ranking family that lasted for several generations, and the Song Ming Emperor even personally invited the head of the Xi family to sit on the dragon and guide the country.
"That's nature. But the marriage is imminent, who has said that the power of the Xi family cannot be used by the emperor? Ruan Dianfu smiled mysteriously and spoke.
The person who was replaced as the royal brother understood the twists and turns, presumably the emperor also secretly acquiesced in this matter, and at this time, he was extremely glad that he was in the court and did not stand in line in a state of confusion.
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Liu Yu specially left Xi Ye for lunch, "Xi Aiqing, you have to taste this snowflake beef, the body of a yak from the snowy plateau, it is really hard to find." Liu Yu and Xi's father sat next to each other very closely, and he specially sandwiched a piece of tender beef in Xi's father's bowl.
"Your Majesty, you can't do it, you can't do it, the minister himself is here." Xi Ye suppressed the darkness in his eyes, knew how to be polite, and never arrogantly crossed half a point between the monarch and the minister.
Liu Yu put down the jade and took a leisurely breath, "Xi Aiqing, I think you have also heard the suggestions of others in the court today, I want to ask your opinion." ”
The atmosphere was faintly deadlocked, and Xi Ye replied, "Your Majesty, I don't know how the rumors came from that the little daughter of my family is carrying the life of a phoenix, and the minister is also investigating this matter thoroughly recently, and he vows to find out the mastermind behind the scenes." ”
He has long been optimistic about his son-in-law as Xiao Yan, the son of the Xiao family, Liu Yu is violent and paranoid by nature, how can he be willing to marry his beloved daughter into the high wall for half his life, and get involved in the filth of the court's open and secret fighting.
Liu Yu's eyes were gloomy, he withdrew the palace maids and eunuchs on both sides, gently turned the cup, and finally spoke after a while, "Uncle Xi, we don't have to be so polite and distant in front of our own people, Xi Hui is really a beautiful woman in the south, I will treat her well if I hand it over, you can rest assured." ”
Then he said, "The position of the Lord of the Six Palaces has been empty for so long, uncle, this is what I specially reserved for the Xi family." ”
When it came to this level, Xi Ye gritted his teeth and blew his beard in anger to stare at him, he didn't know that Liu Yu, a dull child, had become so brazen after opening his mind.
"Your Majesty is naturally right." Xi Ye responded, but he was thinking about how to get rid of Xi Hui's phoenix fate.
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"Father, why are you so worried, if you don't tell your daughter, maybe your daughter can solve it for you." Xi Hui put a cup of hot tea on Xi Ye's bookcase, and locked himself in the study as soon as he got home, the head of the clear stream who was over one hundred and a half years old, Lord Xi completely lost his manners at the moment, and the anxious pacing was about to run to her yard, Xi Hui chuckled and rushed over to relieve his sorrows.
"Daughter, I want to ask you, if you don't marry Xiao Yan, marry into the palace wall, and fulfill your phoenix life, are you willing?" He was such a beloved daughter, and after thinking about it for a while, Xi Ye still decided to ask Xi Hui's opinion.
The entire Xi family is almost shrouded in clouds, which is obviously a driving force behind the scenes, making it difficult for the Xi family to ride a tiger. But no one knows whether the emperor Liu Yu or other courtiers is known for a while, the young son of heaven? Xi Hui's phoenix eyes flowed, and after a while, he roughly understood the reason, "Father, you should know, how could this phoenix fate appear out of thin air?" Presumably, the Son of Heaven also knows it. "What was born for a long time and the night suddenly brightened, the sky fell from the crape myrtle star, and the auspicious omen, once he sat on the throne of the queen, he would definitely save the royal family from the dire situation, and the rumors became more and more outrageous.
Over the years, the status has been in full swing, and countless pairs of eyes, including the royal family, have been staring at it, but now the situation is unstable, the government and the opposition are turbulent, and the theory of phoenix fate is obviously prepared.
She paused, "Father, this matter must not be agreed, the daughter does not want to be trapped by the palace wall for the rest of her life, she only wants to enter the ordinary Qingliu family, be a housewife, make her own decisions, and grow old with her husband." However, there is a plan to solve the siege at this time. Xi Huimei's eyes wrinkled slightly, thought for a while, and leaned in front of Xi Ye to whisper a few words. After hearing this, Xi Ye couldn't help but applaud and praise Xi Hui for his cleverness.
A few days later, the Xi family sent a post to all the dignitaries and nobles in the capital, to hold a banquet of flowers. There are many people in the court who are clear-eyed, and they all know that the Xi family may become a relative of the emperor, and they all bring gifts and enjoy the light, and the guests are full.
In this Hundred Flowers Banquet, although those noble ladies and grandmothers had already been told by the head of the family to be cautious in their words and deeds, a shocking news broke out on the spot, Xi Hui, the daughter of the Xi family, was suddenly infected with a vicious disease of smallpox, and her face in the past was now bleeding pus and blood, and it seemed that she could not see people at all.
The cause of the incident was that a guest was in a hurry to find the thatched house and got lost, and accidentally knocked over the handmaiden's palm when asking for directions. After the guests were curious and asked repeatedly, the maidservant told the truth of the matter.
There was an uproar, smallpox is a contagious disease, and the Xi family even dared to hold a banquet, even though Xi Ye personally went out to repeatedly assure everyone that Xi Hui had been isolated in other side rooms and would not infect others, the guests still left the banquet for various reasons, although some of the reputation was damaged, but Xi Hui's marriage was preserved.
It didn't take long for the news that Xi Hui, the daughter of the Xi family, who was about to become the queen, was suffering from a vicious illness spread throughout the capital.
When Liu Yu heard the news, he was in the study to review the recital, and he was so angry that he lost his demeanor, and suddenly threw the recital in his hand about the promotion of Xi Ye to the ground.
"Come on, let me investigate this matter thoroughly, I want to have a good life to see if this Xi family's daughter is really sick." Liu Yu's face was gloomy, and there was emotion in his eyes that ordinary people couldn't read.
Liu Yu's personal eunuch was ordered to visit the Xi family with a gift, and saw that the beautiful woman in the past was covered with a white veil, weakly lingering on the sickbed, the smell of medicine in the house was overflowing, and the breeze blew the white yarn and fell inadvertently, revealing a pitted face, and the father-in-law suddenly knew in his heart that this daughter of the Xi family was really sick.
Not long after, a courtier handed out an excerpt in the court, saying that the daughter of the Xi family could not be the mother of the country after this experience, and Xi Ye also stood up in a timely manner and refused to give marriage, apologetically saying that Xi Hui is blessed and shallow after all, and he can't afford to consume such a vast imperial grace.
Liu Yu waved his sleeves, and he had no choice but to retract his will, he had his own ideas, and with this reason, if the stalemate continued, once Xi Ye united with the courtiers to persecute him, it would be an even more embarrassing situation.
Ruan Dianfu, who was standing below, was indeed as clear as Spiegel, Liu Yu didn't know, but he knew that the minister who stood up first was not Xi Ye's men.
After the dispersal of the dynasty, everyone faced Xi Ye and expressed their regrets, and secretly there were those who were not angry, and at this moment they were happily thinking that their daughters would also have a chance to be sent to the palace, if they could give birth to a son and a half daughter, it would be regarded as changing the lintel.
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The blue mountains are clustered, and the white clouds swim in the sky. Shangqing Sect Discussion Hall, in the hall made of white fluorite, thirteen huge pillars support the tall palace dome, only the shark silk decoration, but there is a glass-like brilliance circulation.
The Dao Conference was approaching, and almost all the heads of the important Xiuzhen sects had gathered here to discuss the details.
Lu Xiujing, the head of the Shangqing Sect, was as tall as a pine, sitting in the middle, glanced around, and said indifferently, "Colleagues, after years of exploration, I finally found the trace of the magic bead. The voice was not slow, but it was all over the corner of the hall.
"Where, where? Lu Xiujing, can't you finish it in one breath? The way you talk the most, it's like hanging on to my life every time. Sun Buji, the head of the Lingbao Sect of the Chubby Pavilion Soap Mountain, shouted, his body weighed more than three hundred catties, and the folds on his face were piled up, squeezing his eyes into a thin slit.
"Dead fatty, you can't wait for my master to speak first, and you don't dare to jump in front of my master without looking at what you look like." Sun Youyue held a grass in his mouth, stood aside with a sword in his hand, his eyes were disdainful, and he opened his mouth to laugh at Sun Buer and defend Lu Xiujing.
Sun Bu'er hated being called a dead fat man the most in his life, and he jumped to his feet angrily when he heard this, "Sun Youyue, if you call me a dead fat man again, you will die, be careful that I tell your master what happened when you went out with me in the Netherworld and Hell last time." As he spoke, the sound of a string of magic weapons colliding on his body clanged.
When Sun Youyue saw him mention the past, his face turned pale, and he hurriedly made a shut up gesture to signal Sun Buji not to talk nonsense, and then scolded secretly, old thing, noisy to death.
Sun Fuji hobby collects all kinds of treasures, and has a quirk after collecting, not like everyone else to use the magic weapon of storage to store, but on his own body, every time he goes out far away, he must be hunted down by others.
Although he was fat, he was extremely agile and dexterous, and he occasionally threw out one or two low-level magic weapons to confuse the enemy, so he often dodged the attacks of others and stayed away.
"That's enough, you two don't talk poorly, the noise hurts my ears." The person who opened his mouth was Dugu Yuyun, the head of the Shushan Immortal Sword Sect.
Dugu Yuyun's long hair is better than snow, simply tied up, his long eyebrows are like willows, his body is like a jade tree, his cold and arrogant eyes seem to have no focus, and his body is filled with an arrogant momentum.
As soon as he spoke, Sun Youyue and Sun Buer quickly silenced, Dugu Yuyun's swordsmanship was outstanding, he was the same as his sword, a sword frost and cold fourteen states, where to speak, even if it was a friend, it was difficult to escape being cut by him, Sun Youyue and Sun Buer were usually not serious, and they were really afraid of him after being targeted by the other party many times.
"The orb was found in the Misty Swamp." The hall was silent for a while, and Lu Xiujing said.
A female voice suddenly sounded, "Misty swamp? After 36 years, is it time to reopen? The person who spoke had frost condensed between his eyebrows, and he didn't smile, it was Han Yingxue, the head of Qingcheng Mountain.
Lu Xiu bowed his head, and then said: "Fellow Daoists, now the misty swamp in the southwest of Zhongzhou is about to reopen after thirty-six years, and the ancient battlefield in it will also be revealed to the world. ”
Lu Xiujing sighed and continued, "The magic bead must not fall into the hands of the Northern Xiuzhen family, otherwise the world will be in chaos." ”
Everyone looked serious and nodded in understanding.