Just as Li Sishen stepped on the road to the epidemic area, the invisible smoke of gunpowder in the court was still filling.

The sixth prince Li Sishen received the edict to return to the palace for a long time, and it has been a while, which provides a dispute of words and tongues for some good officials. In the court, headed by Dong Shangshu, he was the first to stand up and make a statement to the emperor on this ground.

"Your Majesty, it has been many days since the sixth prince received the edict to return to the palace, and the prince has not been seen for such a long time. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty. Since the six princes received the edict, they should return on the prescribed date. ”

Then other officials of his faction also chimed in, believing that this was inappropriate, and that a prince who was in foster care should return to the palace as promised when he received the edict, instead of leaving the emperor or everyone to wait and worry or worry. After the Dong faction official said these words, someone immediately refuted it.

Dong Shangshu looked at it, it turned out to be Prime Minister Han Cheng, and he saw him standing aside with a wat board with a calm expressionless face. When Prime Minister Han heard this, he said to the ministers that although the six princes were fostered, they were also young people dancing elephants, and he had his own thoughts, and he didn't really intend to delay the time to return to the palace, maybe he was entangled in something and couldn't leave for a while.

When the Dong faction officials heard this, they sneered disapprovingly. said that even according to what Prime Minister Han Cheng said, the six princes could entrust someone to send a letter to the palace to tell the truth, which would save everyone from worrying, but the six princes did not do it.

"Prime Minister Han, how should you explain it?"

Hearing this, Prime Minister Han Cheng chuckled in his heart, he understood that today's court dispute started with Dong Shangshu, and the officials of the Dong faction kept asking questions, just to let the six princes show up and return to the palace quickly. But from beginning to end, the emperor has not said a word, and the officials of the Dong faction are pressing forward step by step, is there any hidden meaning in this? Thinking of this, Prime Minister Han Cheng narrowed his eyes, and his hand in the cuffs under the official robe slightly clenched the wat board. And Dong Shangshu looked at Prime Minister Han Cheng, who couldn't say it for a while, snorted coldly in his heart, and didn't continue to ask in front of the emperor.

As soon as the early dynasty came, Prime Minister Han Cheng was stopped by his father-in-law beside the emperor. When I asked my father-in-law what else was going on, my father-in-law only said that the emperor had an invitation and followed him to the imperial study. After the next court, Dong Shangshu and other officials were about to leave the palace, and inadvertently saw Prime Minister Han Cheng following the father-in-law beside the emperor to the direction of the side hall. Seeing this scene, the corners of Dong Shangshu's mouth rose slightly, and he turned around and left the palace with other officials.

"Lord Shangshu, it was the first time that Lord Han showed a hint of embarrassment on his face just now, and I didn't expect that our Prime Minister Han would be like this. ”

"Yes, the Prime Minister was forced by us in the court step by step and couldn't answer, I'm afraid I will have to change my official uniform again when I go back, right?"

"You underestimate the adult, he is not as fragile as you think, and he will not be helpless by this stumbling block. ”

The officials who followed him next to him heard Dong Shangshu's words, but they only echoed them.

When he came to the imperial study, the emperor saw that it was Prime Minister Han Cheng and invited him to sit down, so that he no longer had to stand like the court. The emperor and Prime Minister Han Cheng chatted a few words about the scene that happened in the early dynasty.

When the emperor talked about why the officials of the Dong faction would force the six princes to return to the palace step by step, and Han Cheng knew what the reason was, when he heard this, Han Cheng Xiang was alarmed in his heart, and a thought suddenly appeared in his mind. Prime Minister Han Cheng said that the six princes have reached the year of dancing elephants, and there are still five princes in the palace. They don't want to borrow the six princes to return to the palace and cause a competition for the storage position, and when the time comes, they will select powerful princes from among them to promote them to the top position, so as to keep the status of the gate lord clan undiminished. Hearing what Prime Minister Han Cheng said, the emperor said that he really saw it clearly, but he didn't expect to be so impatient. Although he is in middle age, his body has not yet reached the point of early abdication. And that group of people have already thought like this, which is really disappointing. When Prime Minister Han heard the emperor's words, he remained silent. After a while, I only heard the emperor say again.

"Han Aiqing, would you like to accompany me to watch a play and play a game of chess?"

"Your Majesty, do you want to ......?"

"Dacheng is now suffering from internal and external troubles, and the clan of the gate lord does not hesitate to trample on the imperial power for the sake ......of its own status;

"There is also the gradual detachment and rise of the southwestern alien race, and there is no small country in the south of the East Island ready to move. ”

"yes, we've had to plan for that. ”

"They want to make us embattled, Your Majesty...... This play, this game of chess, might as well be a pair with them. ”

Prime Minister Han Cheng got up and bowed slightly, and when he saw Prime Minister Han like this, the emperor also smiled and helped him up.

The smoke of gunpowder in the court did not make the Chu family and the Jin family miss it, and those things were quickly known to them.

"It seems that the Dong family is also a vicious wolf, and the six princes have not returned to the palace for a long time, but let them play on the topic in the court. ”

"Son, what do you think their Dong family is thinking?"

"Dancing with wolves, what else will you do besides grabbing the meat in your mouth?"

Grab the meat from your mouth...... Thinking of this, Mrs. Guicheng, who was sitting in the mansion, suddenly raised her head and looked at Chu Boyi in front of her.

"It seems that the trees want to be quiet and the wind does not stop. Mother, the plantain leaves outside are hanging with water droplets, and it's about to rain. It's a day when you say it's changing, and it's really like a child!"

"Hey, it's going to change the sky, but after the rain, the sun is going to come out after the sun. ”

Hearing his mother say this, Chu Boyi stood up and turned his back to his hands, puffed up his chest and looked at the dark clouds in the sky in the distance.