Chapter 18 The Monarch Asks the Right Question

"Father, Father!" a girl in palace clothes shouted and jumped into the Heart Cultivation Palace.

Waiting for Zhou Yi, Zhao Shining looked at the twists and turns anxiously, and was quite bored with the battle situation in Baiyue County in the south. This military academy really deserves to die, and it dares to ignore the affairs of the empire for its own selfish interests.

Seeing this girl, he gently rubbed the corners of his eyebrows, and a doting smile appeared on the corners of his mouth. He put down the piece in his hand, smiled at her and said, "Is there something wrong with my Princess Anning?"

"Giggles, father, the queen mother asked me to take a look, why hasn't my father returned to the palace for dinner!" With a playful smile, Princess An Ning jumped into Zhao Shining's arms in a few steps, grabbed her father's arm and was about to pull him to get up and go back to the palace.

"Okay, okay, good Anning! Father and Emperor are going to see the minister today! Go back to dinner later! An Ning will go back first, so that your mother doesn't have to wait. Zhao Shining said softly, and couldn't help but feel a little sorry for the queen in his heart, and he actually forgot to send someone to inform her not to go to dinner.

Speaking of which, this Zhao Shining is indeed wonderful, as an emperor, he has only married one queen in his life, and there are no other concubines in the harem. It's not that the queen is jealous, on the contrary, this queen has a gentle personality, virtuous and virtuous, and can be called a generation of virtuous queens. She also persuaded the emperor to accept a concubine, but this Zhao Shining was in love with her and resolutely refused to accept a concubine.

Husband and wife respect each other like guests, get up and lie together, day and night. But this also indirectly leads to his thin heirs, only one son and one daughter.

"Hmph, which minister is so arrogant that he even has to postpone dinner in order to wait for him!" Hearing this, An Ning was suddenly unhappy, reprimanded in a coquettish voice, and slowly excluded the ministers in his heart.

"Hehe, it's the peerless warrior that your imperial brother said, Zhou Yi!" Zhao Shining said with a smile, when Zhao Mu returned to Beijing, he was full of praise for Zhou Yi, but this daughter was so happy that her eyes lit up when she heard it. Now for a dinner, it is actually arranged, if you know that it is Zhou Yi, I don't know what her expression is!

Sure enough, An Ning covered her mouth, her half-bent eyes suddenly widened, and then she said excitedly: "Zhou Yi! He's in Beijing! Oh, I have to clean up!"

"Haha, little girls worship big heroes, it has always been like this, it seems that my princess An Ning is also like this!" Ignoring the sound of her father laughing behind her, An Ning hurriedly ran out.

After a while, Zhou Yi came to the door of the Heart Cultivation Hall under the leadership of the little chamberlain.

"Your Majesty, Zhou Yi has arrived!" a chamberlain hurriedly entered the door to report.

"Xuan!" Zhao Shining raised his head and said, waiting with some expectation and some puzzlement in his heart for this peerless national warrior in Zhao Mu's mouth.

"Long live my emperor!" Zhou Yi knelt down to greet him after entering the hall.

An old man's slightly sharp voice sounded: "Bachelor Zhou, please get up, since Aiqing is a scholar of the Holy Dao University, there is no need to kneel down when you see you in the future!"

Hearing this, he thanked him again, stood up and carefully looked at the old man in a dragon robe sitting on the stage, with a sickly face and pale sideburns, which made people feel a sense of twilight and imminence.

"Zhou Yi, this is the first time I've seen you, but it's not the first time I've heard of you! You're very good!" Zhao Shining suddenly said such a clueless sentence, making Zhou Yi unable to figure out what he wanted to express.

Seeing his dazed expression, Zhao Shining got up and walked to the seat under the stage and sat down.

"The eldest prince and the emperor Lesheng once said to me, you Zhou Yi is a peerless national warrior! Therefore, I am full of expectations for you, and first crossed the court and appointed you as the eight pacification envoys. You are also worthy of my trust, quelled the rebellion of the second division of Yueyun, incorporated the elite of the half-elves, and captured more than 40,000 elves in one fell swoop. Later, he assisted the great prince in the southern expedition, thwarted the conspiracy of the military academy, won consecutive battles, and achieved fruitful results, and protected the eldest prince in the siege and interception of the Hicks army.

Such a great feat, unmatched in the entire empire, is indeed a peerless national warrior. Therefore, after the murder of Huangfu Lesheng, I tried my best to override the public opinion and let you temporarily act as the commander of the Seventh and Ninth Legions. However, why did you give up the two major armies to enter the court, don't you know that those two legions are the foundation of the royal family in the border army! Don't you know the great trust that the Great Prince and I have placed in you! In this case, how can you be worthy of the title of Peerless Warrior!"

Zhao Shining calmly told his past slowly, showing his concern. But the more I thought about what happened to Meng Hongye and the two just now, the more I couldn't calm down in my heart, and when I said it, I almost pointed at Zhou Yi's nose and scolded him for being ungrateful.

Zhou Yi stood up, bowed and saluted, and did not get up until he finished all his words, then raised his head and said: "Your Majesty and the great prince have kindness to Zhou Yi, Zhou Yi remembers!

Zhao Shining didn't say a word, just stared at him with burning eyes, to see how he could explain the matter of giving up military power!

The two legions can't change the hidden dangers within the empire at all, and the hidden dangers of the empire lie in the fact that the Holy Academy is above the imperial power, that the Academy of Literature controls the imperial court, and that the Academy of Martial Arts controls the imperial army!" When he came, he had already thought about how to deal with it in his heart. Therefore, in the face of Zhao Shining's coercion, Zhou Yi said slowly without a trace of discoloration on his face.

"Oh!?Then what do you mean?" did not accuse Zhou Yi of being arrogant, and Zhao Shining became very interested when he heard this. His words were heart-wrenching, and he didn't care about the emperor's face at all, nor did he care about the strength of the Holy Academy.

"Your Majesty, and sit widely, Zhou Yi will face the king this time, and tell the truth about the reason. Zhou Yi was ready to start as soon as he gave up his hand. Zhao Shining stretched out his hand to stop, turned back to Wang Banban and said: "Serve tea to Master Zhou, retreat left and right, and those who dare to approach the 100-meter hall of the Heart Cultivation Hall without authorization will be killed!"

"Obey!" Wang Banban looked at Zhou Yi deeply, offered him a cup of tea and bowed down, and only the two monarchs and ministers were left in the entire Heart Cultivation Palace.

"Say it, I'll listen!" The surroundings quieted down, and Zhao Shining motioned for Zhou Yi to continue.

Seeing that he is an emperor, he still needs to be so careful. In addition to the shame of his reckless words just now, there is only deep sorrow for him.

"Your Majesty, the minister just said that the harm of the empire is that no one in the Holy Courtyard can control it, and the tail is too big to fall!"

"Well, what you said is true, and I am deeply disturbed. That's why I want to capture these two legions, but why do you say that these two legions are useless?" Zhou Yi said, of course Zhao Shining knew, and everyone in the world should know. So there is nothing new, the key is that he wants to know if there is any way! The praise of the eldest prince and the emperor Lesheng made him full of expectations for Zhou Yi, the so-called peerless national warrior.

"Hehe, Your Majesty is in the game, so I can't see it clearly. The minister wants to say that these two legions are fundamentally insignificant, as long as they do not fall into the hands of the military academy, rather than remain in the hands of the royal family, it is better to hand them over to other holy courtyards that are rivals with the military academy. If it weren't for the worries of His Majesty, it would be better for the ministers to give all their opinions to the Bunyuan, so as to strengthen the power of the Bunyuan in the army, and let them eat dogs, wouldn't it be more useful, so as not to let the eyes of the Holy Court stay on the royal family. Zhou Yi said with a smile, in fact, this hand is to use the strategy of razing to control the army, and use the hand of the Academy of Literature to contain the Academy of War in the army.

After hearing this, Zhao Shining really fell into deep thought, gradually came to his senses, and then said: "It is indeed a clever plan, in this way, the contradiction between the Holy Court and the royal family will be minimized, and they will have their own infighting." Now that he has discussed with Meng Hongye, the Ninth Legion cannot be handed over for the time being, lest he become suspicious!"

"Your Majesty, indeed, since this is the case, it will be wrong and wrong, let His Royal Highness the Great Prince temporarily act as the commander of the Ninth Legion! Wait until the war in the south subsides, or when the Great Prince returns to Beijing, and then trade the Ninth Legion with the Academy. At that time, presumably Meng Zhangyuan would accept it!" Sure enough, he was worthy of being an old politician who had been a monarch for many years, and as soon as he heard his words, he instantly understood, and Zhou Yi immediately added.

"Then what are your considerations for entering the court? I see that Jiang Lifu has plans to hand over the head of the Rite Courtyard to you!" This matter can be regarded as untying a knot in his heart, and then asked another question. This Zhou Yi is the next head of the Rite Academy, which can already be heard from Jiang Lifu's words, and Meng Hongye must also agree with this matter, otherwise he will not make a name for him with great fanfare. If so, then Zhou Yi can be of the same mind as the royal family!

"Your Majesty, do you know the cause of the death of Teacher Huangfu?" did not answer his question, if he didn't ask this knot in his heart, he would definitely not tell him the answer in his heart, even if he was the emperor.

"Well, I know!" Zhao Shining was stunned for a moment, then stood up and walked to the throne, looking at the plaque hanging above him for a long time, and then said in a deep voice.

Then he turned around, and Zhou Yi quickly got up when he saw it, it turned out that he was now in tears, with a sad face.

"Do you know! I am the emperor, known as the king of the world, but even when my own henchmen and important ministers are killed, I don't dare to ask the murderer with confidence! This emperor is really a wretch!"

"Your Majesty, that murderer also attacked me!" Zhou Yi also said in a deep voice.

"Ah?!How dare Xianyu Wende do this!" Shocked, Zhao Shining said the name of the murderer.

"He's dead, dead at my hands! It can be regarded as avenging the teacher, but I can't do anything about the military academy behind him!" This news shocked Zhao Shining, the university scholar killed the great master, how could this be possible!

At the beginning, under the persecution of Zhu Chenghe, the holy son of the military academy, I was separated from my relatives, but fortunately I was rescued by the emperor to the empire. After that, this Zhu Chengsi assassinated me again, and fortunately Jiang Zhangyuan escaped by chance. At Manchuan Pass, Gong Hao and Zheng Taihong withdrew their troops without authorization, putting me and His Royal Highness the Great Prince in the midst of the encirclement of the elven army. It was only then that I heard that Xian Yu Wende had killed Huangfu Teacher, and this time I was ambushed by him outside Luojing City. If it weren't for the coincidence, I'm afraid the bones would be cold at this time!

Your Majesty, this kind of hatred, how can I give up with the military academy! So after meeting Jiang Zhangyuan today, I decided to enter the court!" These causes and consequences were revealed, even Zhao Shining heard of it for the first time, and when he thought of the danger, his back was already covered with a layer of cold sweat.

"Zhou Yi, I am the foundation of the royal family, and I can't bring Xian Yuwende to justice, I wanted to have the opportunity to kill him again in the future to comfort the spirit of the emperor Fu Lesheng in the sky! I didn't expect you to kill him first, I am really happy in my heart!" Zhao Shining relieved himself, and a rare smile appeared on his face.