Chang Anqing

Chapter 67 Graphs
When Li Sui accompanied Baoying back to Chaoyang Courtyard to talk for a while, and when he returned to his Wuzhu Garden, it was already sunset. At this moment, he was walking in the lane outside Wuzhu Garden. Come, some branches and flowers and leaves of the osmanthus tree in the short wall stretched to the wall, and the beige gilded flower grains scattered on the roof of the wall fell on the eaves of the wall, fell on the clothes of pedestrians, and covered the stone bricks in the road.

At this moment, the setting sun is lazily falling in the sky. When looking up, the blood-red sunset glow is like an ink painting, as if the fairy's cinnabar pen fell into the pool, and the sky is smudged from dark to light.

Li Sui rarely eased her eyebrows and walked to the corridor outside the house, where she sat on the railing and looked at the light sunset in the sky.

"Master, it's getting colder at night, I'm afraid I'll catch a cold sitting here."

Hearing Yu Nu's words, Li Sui shook his head leisurely and said, "It's okay, just sit for a while."

Speaking of which, it had been a long time since she had stopped quietly and admired the scenery.

After thinking about it for a long time, it seemed that it was too long ago, and even she couldn't remember it.

When she married Yang Yan in her previous life, she tried her best to be filial in front of Yang Chongyuan and her aunt, tried her best to win the hearts of Yang Yan in the mansion, and often went to the banquets of those noble ladies. As usual, it is necessary to find ways to make friends with people, but also to repay those who are hypocritical and hide the needle in the cotton.

Yang Yan was later able to inherit the position of the heir, the crown prince, and the throne as the emperor, which was inseparable from the support of the Li family, as well as her efforts.

She thought that when Yang Yan ascended to the throne, she could breathe a sigh of relief, and she would no longer have to worry so much. However, she never thought that because Yang Yan was too kind, although he had a heart, he was unable to suppress those old and important officials who fought with Yang Chongyuan. It was in such a restrained situation that Yang Yan, who trusted her so much, gradually handed over the authority to her, intending to let her decide national affairs together.

At first, the courtiers were quite critical, but at that time, Yang Yan just told her about the court, and occasionally listened to her advice, so even if one by one made a fuss in the court, Yang Yan reconciled it. , it's okay.It was not until later that Yang Yanyan invited many celebrities and literati to join him in the Hongwen Museum. He drank and composed poems every day. After listening to songs and composing music, Yang Yan was like a fish in the water. .

It was also at that time that, in order to save time and effort, Yang Yan called her to the Ganlu Palace, where the concubines were not allowed to stay for a long time, and authorized her to read the memorials in front of the royal family.As soon as this matter came out, the old officials above the court immediately attacked and criticized them. Later, they even jointly signed a letter and kowtowed in front of the court until they bleed to put pressure on Yang Yan. .

However, what everyone did not expect was that it was precisely because of the persecution of the ministers that Yang Yan could clearly see the essence, and saw that even as the emperor, he was still constrained by those who found the country. Both angry and afraid, he fell ill and was unable to write for a while.

At that time, the princes under Yang Yan's knees were all too young to be in charge of political affairs, so even if those ministers were reluctant, they could not resist Yang Yan's determination to push her above the court, and let her assist him and handle state affairs on his behalf.

Since then, Yang Yan has privately agreed with her suggestion and reached a consensus with her to promote capable officials and generals from the poor family, step by step to replace those old officials of aristocratic families who pride themselves on their achievements, and is determined to sweep away the old style of the court, and will no The upper power is really in the hands of the emperor.

Therefore, since the day she was regent, she began to cultivate her own cronies in the court by means of seemingly mild but actually powerful means, and then used coercion and inducement to induce the seemingly indestructible old party's party to disintegrate, and then divided and ruled little by little until In the end, when her cronies occupied half of the court, those old officials of the aristocratic family were like grasshoppers in the autumn.

At that time, the old officials of the aristocratic family scolded her as the Empress Lv of the dynasty, saying that she had a cruel face and heart, bewitched the emperor, and framed the hero with an iron fist.

But I don't know that these are all acquiesced or supported by Yang Yan.

However, although she and Yang Yan are husband and wife, they are also monarchs and ministers.When the common enemy disappeared and Yang Yan was in power, he gradually developed more and more suspicion and even jealousy of her because of others' bullying.

It was also because of this that Yang Yan gradually drifted away from their original intentions, and began to reuse the family and suppress the poor family, but those important officials from the poor family were all her and Yang Yan's original aspirations, her hard work, and the integrity of the people's hearts. Good official, how can she see that all this is in vain.

At the same time, she also understands very well that once Yang Yan is allowed to do so, she will fall into desperation step by step, because she is fashionable and suspicious by Yang Yan, could it be that after those poor courtiers were dismissed and demoted, she would be able to gain Yang Yan's trust ?

The answer is undoubtedly no.

She couldn't guess how much love Yang Yan still had for her as a husband and wife, and she couldn't bet on whether Yang Yan could protect her for this and her son's safe death.

So, it's a dead end that can't be solved.

She was destined to run the opposite way with Yang Yan.

There is no doubt that Yang Yan has finally become the shade tree of the aristocratic family, and she has become the side of the poor family.

From the moment her father Li Zhang passed away due to overwork, the aristocratic family headed by the Li and Yang families gradually separated from her and fell to Yang Yan's side.And the conflict between her and Yang Yan became more and more acute.

Sometimes Li Sui thinks that even if the remaining aristocratic families turned to Yang Che and forced her to jump off the tower, she would not complain.

Because in this world, no one wants to be the fish on the chopping board and let them be slaughtered.

Therefore, in this struggle, the aristocratic family is not wrong, and the poor family is not wrong.

But she never regretted it.

Because the world thinks that she is in such a confrontation with the family because she favors Han Yuanting, who was born in a poor family, but only her father knows, Yuanting knows, she knows that she is for her descendants, the Yang family, and the court. is the world.

She knows very well that in the past century of changes, the family has long lost its original ambition to expand its territory, and its loyalty to the monarch and patriotism. After generations of ancestral shadows, the children of the family or those who are vegetarians have stepped on the poor people. On the corpse of the corpse, he talked about the benevolence of Confucius and Mencius, but it was a picture of the wine and meat of the Zhu family, and the road had frozen bones.Or use power to seek personal gain, the party is united to fight against differences, trying to restrain the emperor, and be a nameless official.

If such a family continues to be in power, I am afraid that if the Yang family can last until the next generation of emperors, how many years of suffering the people will suffer.

So she did everything she could for this, until she sacrificed her life in the end, and no one in this world understood her, her husband Yang Yan didn't understand, her best friend Yang Che didn't understand, even her own son didn't understand. I didn't understand half of it.

Everyone else said that the Son of Heaven is the supreme loner, but she verified this sentence with personal experience.

Because even she, who has never sat on the throne of the emperor, can still feel the coldness to the bones.

But even so, her original intention has been through two lives, and it has never changed and will not change.

"The county master—"

In the quiet and gentle wind, Nian Nu was standing under the porch for some time. At this moment, he only saw his master sitting on the railing, looking up at the sunset in the sky. The bright red afterglow fell on the girl's tender eyes, and the print was soft. The light and shadow, and the master of his own family seems to have fallen into a god, and his face is still so quiet and beautiful.

Li Sui immediately retracted his thoughts when he heard the sound, turned his head to see Niannu, and he knew it. He stretched out his hand to be lifted up by Yunu, and said calmly, "Have you found it?"

"Yes."

Nodding, Nian Nu came forward and whispered quietly to Li Sui's temple: "County Master, there has been nothing wrong with Madam Cao these days, but the servant heard from the maid in Madam Cao's courtyard that Cao Cao has After Madam's niece visited the mansion, Madam Cao frequently mentioned the fact that Lord Dalang had reached his age and not yet married when the Taiwei went to her house."

Hearing Niannu's words, Li Sui narrowed her eyes slightly, and then said sideways, "Have you checked Cao's niece?"

The voice fell, Nian Nu nodded silently, and then whispered: "The servant found that Mrs. Cao's niece had a chance encounter with the Rong'an County Lord in our mansion when she went out to buy jewelry, and the two seemed to be walking together for a long time. I just returned, and it was on the second day that Madam Cao's niece came to the Taiwei Mansion."

Rong'an County Lord——

It's her again.

Previously, she bought the maid of Tonglan Gao Courtyard and added dirty things to Yang Yan's incense burner, which caused her aunt to be furious, and she was responsible for driving Jiuge away.

Now she is the one who pushes Cao's family to plan for Yang Jin, intending to marry her for profit.

"Keep an eye on the people around Rong'an County Lord."

Hearing Li Sui's order, Nian Nu raised her eyes slightly, only to see Li Sui's eyes dark and deep, and she said, "Especially her confidants."

Having said this, there is no need for Li Sui to say any more, Niannu already understands the meaning.

This command was not because Li Sui looked down on the county lord Rong'an, but she knew very well that the county lord Rong'an seemed to be powerful, but in fact he was very stern and easily instigated by others.

In her mind, there are calculations, but calculations like this are not her style.

Now one plan after another, one link after another, all are related to the county owner of Rong'an. With such a plan, I am afraid that the mouth and eyes of others have already been around the county owner of Rong'an. Just know.

At this moment, Li Sui also gradually felt that she seemed to be getting closer and closer to the person behind the scenes.

"As for the Cao Clan, Yang Jin, and continue to ask people in and out of the house to keep an eye on them, and there must be no slack—"

This time, it's okay if she doesn't make a move. Once she makes a move, she will definitely pull everyone out and let them dry.

(End of this chapter)