Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1561 Life is like a play
In Yikun Palace, the bedroom of Imperial Concubine Zheng was filled with a faint fragrance, which was formed by mixing medicinal fragrance and sandalwood.

Concubine Zheng, dressed in winter clothes, lay obliquely on the bed. Her left foot was exposed, wrapped in fine white gauze, and even the part that was not wrapped looked a little swollen.

"How did you do things? If it wasn't for the negligence of your waiters, how could the imperial concubine fall down in her own palace!" Zhu Yijun glanced unkindly at the group of eunuchs and court ladies who were kneeling down in front of him, and his glaring look seemed to be eager to give orders Just drag them all out and stick them to death.

No one dared to answer, all of them could only kneel motionless, and the only thing they could do was to bow their heads deeply.

"Liu Cheng!" Since no one answered, the emperor simply called out his name directly: "You are serving in Yikun Palace today, tell me what happened at that time!"

"Going back to the emperor, the maidservant was indeed there." Liu Cheng also seemed to be trembling, and said in a small way: "The empress originally wanted to walk in the yard, and the servant girl and others wanted to follow her closely, but the empress told me to be quiet for a while. Therefore, the servants and others have to stay a little farther away, who knows when the empress descends the steps—"

"Your Majesty, you don't have to blame them. It's because I was in a trance for a while, and when I stepped down the steps, I missed it. It has nothing to do with them."

Concubine Zheng Huang interrupted Liu Cheng's words, and said softly to the emperor: "There is nothing serious about it... but Liu Cheng, who has been serving the emperor and concubine for so many years, is so ignorant of the importance of it. It's really worth hitting the emperor to disturb the emperor's meal and lunch break."

Liu Cheng quickly took over the conversation, kowtowed hard on the ground and said: "Yes, the imperial concubine taught me the lesson, it was the servant who was reckless. The servant... was also frightened at the time, and was distracted for a while, and disturbed the emperor's cleanliness. The servant should be beaten , should be beaten, please punish the emperor!"

Zhu Yijun ignored Liu Cheng, and just asked Concubine Zheng Huanggui: "Did you step on the ground in a trance for a while? You, you, why are you so careless? Look, they are so swollen, does it hurt?"

Imperial Concubine Zheng pursed her lips into a smile, shook her head lightly, and said: "I was naughty when I was young, and I wanted to catch him one summer. I even climbed and fell from a tree. At that time, no one cared about my concubine like the emperor. , I didn’t even dare to let my parents know, so I can only pretend that it doesn’t hurt. Now that the emperor cares about it, even if my feet really hurt a little, I still don’t feel pain in my heart.”

The emperor was about to reply, but he heard Liu Cheng still kowtowing his head "dong dong dong", he turned his head and took a look, and said, "Okay, since the fall of the imperial concubine was not your fault, I will not pursue it. You get up—you get up too, except for Pang Bao, the rest go outside and wait."

Liu Cheng quickly got up, Zhu Yijun glanced at him, saw that his forehead was flushed, and said, "I'll go get some medicine later."

"Yes, servant girl, thank you for your grace." Liu Cheng said, but he immediately stepped aside and stood with his hands down.

Except for Pang Bao who stood up and retreated side by side with Liu Cheng, the others retreated cautiously.

The emperor pulled a chair by himself and sat down beside Concubine Zheng. While looking down at her foot injury, he said, "Have you ever caught a cicada? I think I had this idea when I was a child. Only It's a pity, no one around me dares to let me climb a tree, even if it is pragmatic, I only agree to let him climb the tree, catch it and show it to me."

"Yeah?" Concubine Zheng asked in surprise, "The emperor and Gao Situ did this kind of thing back then? Hee hee, would a literati like Gao Situ also climb trees?"

"Then you can underestimate him. He has been in good health since he was young, and he is tall. Climbing trees is just a piece of cake." Zhu Yijun raised his head, as if remembering something, and said with emotion: "I did it with him at that time. I did a lot of outrageous things, not only climbing trees and catching cicadas, but also rafting in the North Sea, shooting targets at the Ordnance Bureau, etc. According to the ministers of the foreign court, these things are very dangerous, and I can’t go there.”

Concubine Zheng Huang seemed to be curious about the baby, and asked: "Then how did you get there in the end, didn't you also go secretly?"

"How can I do that? At the time when I was rafting in the North Sea and shooting targets at the Ordnance Bureau, I was already the emperor, but I hadn't officially taken over the government yet. How could it be so easy to hide my whereabouts?" Zhu Yijun shook his head and sighed: " It was because I came up with an idea, then negotiated with the Empress Dowagers of the Two Palaces and Mr. Gao pragmatically, and tried every means to persuade them, and then the trip was made."

"This... can you be persuaded?" Concubine Zheng Huang was very surprised: "I heard that during the Longqing period of Mumiao, the late emperor wanted to go to the Yu mansion to reminisce about the past, but he was pushed back by the outer court, which made the late emperor very angry. It's been a long time in my arms."

Zhu Yijun said with emotion: "Yes, there are some people in the outer court who are often so annoying. But you also know that pragmatic person, who is always eloquent. Almost as long as he is willing to agree to something, he can successfully persuade the Queen Mother and Mr. Gao. , It was really thanks to him that I was able to realize a lot of dreams... But looking back, he has worried a lot about it."

Imperial Concubine Zheng asked: "Since Gao Situ was able to convince the Empress Dowager and Mr. Gao, why did he say that he had put a lot of thought into it?"

"You don't understand this. It's one thing for him to be able to persuade, but because I'm here in person, I need a lot of preparations before and after, just in case."

Zhu Yijun seemed to be in high spirits, smiled and said: "Let's talk about boating in the North Sea. At that time, I was actually thinking that I and Yu Shi would go boating in the North Sea. I would also prepare a pot of good wine with less stamina and a few bottles on the boat. Plate small dishes, and then prepare pens, inks, papers and inkstones, and the two of them take advantage of the night to write poems while drinking wine..."

"Still at night?" Royal Concubine Zheng is really not comparable to ordinary concubines, she can interrupt the emperor's conversation at any time.

Zhu Yijun laughed: "Yes, my original plan was to take advantage of the moonlight to go boating, which is more interesting." After a pause, he sighed again: "It's a pity that it didn't work out in the end, and it was practical to go back and forth between the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces and Mr. Gao. After several days of discussion, the condition finally negotiated was to go during the day, and a large group of the most water-based Jinyiwei Dahan Generals were arranged to escort them.

At that time, there was not only a circle of people around the lake, but also a dozen accompanying boats.Pragmatism even sent someone to make a set of things called 'unsinkable clothes' in advance, and put them on the boat that I and he were on just in case. "

Concubine Zheng Huang opened her eyes wide and asked, "Isn't the clothes heavy? It sounds very powerful. What kind of treasure is that?"

"Haha, baby?" Zhu Yijun laughed loudly, and said, "I thought it was a baby when I heard him talk about it before, but when I got it in my hand, I realized it, hey, the clothes are actually made to look like a leather raft.

His 'non-sinking clothes' are covered with silk...I don't know what kind of sealed airbags they are made of. These airbags are not big, but they are very dense. They are lined up side by side, and the whole is made into a armor form.Wearing those clothes, even people who don't know how to swim can float on the water.In order to prove that this thing can ensure my safety, he even sent someone to wear it to demonstrate to Liang Gong and Mr. Gao. "

"It's amazing, what did the Empress Dowagers of the Two Palaces and Mr. Gao say?" Imperial Concubine Zheng looked quite happy, as if her feet didn't hurt anymore.

Zhu Yijun was very satisfied that he could divert his concubine's attention, and he was very cooperative and said: "The two palaces are fine. Not only are you relieved, but the Empress Dowager Rensheng also boasted that she is pragmatic and thoughtful. But Mr. Gao is not so easy to talk about, although he reluctantly agreed. Come down, but he reprimanded Pragmatism, saying that he was not doing his job properly and indulging in foreign things, and then ordered him to go back and copy Zhuzi's "The Doctrine of the Mean" ten times."

Concubine Zheng Huang was delighted to hear it, she covered her mouth and smiled, her eyes became a pair of crescent moons, she smiled and said: "Ah, it turns out that Gao Situ has suffered on behalf of the Lord since he was a child!"

Zhu Yijun was laughing at first, but when he heard this sentence, his face suddenly became stiff, and his smile gradually faded away.

Concubine Zheng Huang is usually able to change her attitude according to the change of the emperor's expression, but today she was a bit slow for some reason, as if she noticed the change in the emperor's expression a little later, and asked tentatively: "What's wrong with the emperor, is it a concubine? Did you make the emperor unhappy by saying the wrong thing?"

Zhu Yijun shook his head, put his hands on the armrests and stood up, pacing silently.Imperial Concubine Zheng glanced at Pang Bao and Liu Cheng, and they both nodded in a subtle way, then continued to lower their heads not to look at the emperor and imperial concubine, keeping their eyes in the corner of their eyes just enough to see the emperor's feet .

Zhu Yijun paced around for a while, then suddenly said, "Pang Bao, where did you go last night?"

The emperor's question was not loud, but in Pang Bao's ears, it sounded like a thunderclap on the ground, which made him almost kneel down and kowtow subconsciously.However, he held back and subconsciously glanced at Concubine Zheng Huanggui.

Unexpectedly, Concubine Zheng Huang was very calm. She glanced at the emperor first, and then nodded at Pang Bao.

Pang Bao immediately knelt down, knocked his head on the ground, and said: "Report to the emperor, this servant went to Gao Situ's mansion last night."

"What are you going to do?" Zhu Yijun asked.

Pang Bao bowed his head deeply and said, "Go...for help."

"Help?" Zhu Yijun lifted his chin slightly, and said calmly: "In the eyes of outsiders, he doesn't say that he is in danger now, at least he is too busy to take care of himself. If you go to him for help at this time, what kind of help are you asking for, and who needs help? ?”

"Slave, servant is..." Pang Bao hesitated and got up.

But Imperial Concubine Zheng suddenly opened her mouth and said, "Don't ask, Your Majesty, he is going to seek help from Chang Xun on behalf of my concubine."

Zhu Yijun didn't turn around, and said after a moment of silence: "You two go down."

"You two" of course refers to Pang Bao and Liu Cheng, so the two of them agreed and scrambled out, leaving only the emperor and imperial concubine in the room.

Zhu Yijun still didn't speak, and Imperial Concubine Zheng didn't speak, and the atmosphere suddenly became extremely quiet and strange.

I don't know how long it took, maybe the emperor who was often "foot-disordered" was tired from standing. He sighed, and sat back on the chair before the collapse of Concubine Zheng. Looking at the woman in front of him, he asked slowly: "Chang Xun is in any danger, and you need to send someone to ask for help?"

Concubine Zheng Huang also sighed, and said to the emperor with a wry smile: "The inner court and the outer court are all under the emperor's control, no one can escape the emperor's eyes with every move, does the emperor really not know Chang Xun's danger?"

The emperor did not answer this sentence, but asked instead: "I want to know how you asked for help, and I want to know how pragmatically you answered."

Concubine Zheng Huang glanced at the emperor and asked, "Does your majesty still remember the last time you asked my concubine to use 'Shangfu' to test Gao Situ?" Uncle kneeling three times begging for advice]
Zhu Yijun was silent for a moment, then said: "Remember, so what?"

It turns out that Liu Xin's analysis was correct last time. Zheng Guotai promised in the name of Zheng Huanggui that as long as Gao Yushi supports Zhu Changxun to become the crown prince, once Zhu Changxun inherits the throne in the future, he will call Gao Yushi "Shangfu". It was really Zhu Yijun's idea.

"Is Gao Situ's answer at that time not enough to satisfy the emperor?" Zheng Huanggui asked.

"Satisfied." Zhu Yijun replied: "But this time is different from the last time, what I want to know is something else."

"So, does the emperor know the answer now, and is he satisfied?"

Zhu Yijun frowned slightly, nodded and said, "I am generally satisfied."

"I heard that Elder Zhang Ge was impeached again this morning, and like Gao Situ, he was locked up behind closed doors?"

"Yes, so what?" Zhu Yijun frowned slightly, and asked, "You are starting to worry that Mr. Wang will take the opportunity to bring up the issue of rectifying the country, and since Chang Xun has no supporters in the court, I can only According to Mr. Wang and the others, make Chang Luo the crown prince?"

"Of course the emperor doesn't have to listen, but in this way, the emperor will definitely be annoyed by countless essays. Those people are quoting scriptures every word, even if it is the emperor, it's not easy to get them all to the end, right?"

Imperial Concubine Zheng sighed, and said softly: "Although Gao Situ doesn't support Chang Xun, judging from Guotai's report, he at least takes the emperor's wishes very seriously, and believes that Chang Luo cannot be established under the current situation. Prince, otherwise the country will not be truly stable.

Your Majesty, although I don't understand the affairs of the state and dare not interfere indiscriminately, a courtier like Gao Situ is better than... some people who don't care what the Emperor thinks at all, don't they? "

Zhu Yijun didn't answer, but his eyes became softer, and the lines of his face were not as tense as before.

Concubine Zheng Huang knew that these words had an effect, and said while the iron was hot: "I don't have much knowledge, but I just don't want the emperor to get into trouble. If Gao Situ can come out earlier and take care of things, I think Mr. Wangge and the others should be more careful. Even if there is any move, I have to go at Gao Situ, and Gao Situ... Judging from the previous situation, he is not afraid of them, isn't it good to have the best of both worlds?"

"You really don't understand." Zhu Yijun sighed, and said, "I'm not in a hurry to let the pragmatism come out, I just want to see how big some people's appetites are... Heh, one official secretary is not enough, and I need another one." In the senior position of the pavilion, some people really want to be satisfied with being pragmatic."

The emperor's answer obviously exceeded Zheng Huanggui's expectations, and in fact completely exceeded her political understanding, so she wondered: "Where did the emperor come from?"

However, Zhu Yijun waved his hand, and said in a disinterested manner: "For Pragmatism, I already know what he wants, and I can give it to him. However, I also told him that there are some things he shouldn't touch. , presumably with his intelligence, these things have already been figured out.

It's you, alas... You'd better talk about these "businesses" less and pragmatically, don't you know his ability to do business?Right now he is giving me face, he has no ill intentions towards you, he is just borrowing your strength.

If he is unhappy one day, he really has some bad intentions, although he may not come at you, but he will probably make an example of others, talk about Pang Bao, Liu Cheng and others, it is Cathay... I am afraid it is rare Save it. "

Imperial Concubine Zheng was so startled that she couldn't speak for a moment, and after a while she said: "This concubine really can't understand what the emperor said."

"I don't understand what?" Zhu Yijun smiled wryly, "I don't understand why he would be so kind to you and Chang Xun? I still don't understand why when he wants to scare the chickens to scare the monkeys, maybe even I can't keep your baby." chicken?"

Concubine Zheng Huang was speechless, she really had both of these "can't figure it out".

Zhu Yijun glanced at her, shook his head and said, "Since you know that he doesn't support Chang Xun, you should know that once... once the queen really has a son, he will definitely choose to support him. The relationship changes.

As for killing chickens to scare monkeys and so on, you see, in the past few years, whether in officialdom or on the battlefield, as long as you make a move, how can you make a mistake?If he didn't make a move, it would be fine, and if he made a move, it would be thunderous, upright and impeccable.As for me, I don't necessarily know when he will make a move, nor can I abandon him for no reason.Therefore, once that time comes, at most he can only save the life of the chicken he wants to kill——Zhang Jing of Sixiang Xiaoling, Feng Bao of Xiaoling Wei, who grows vegetables, are all lessons from the past. "

Concubine Zheng Huang was so nervous that she got goosebumps, sat up straight, and said: "Then I won't contact Gao Situ again after I die?"

"Not good." Zhu Yijun shook his head and said, "I just told you not to negotiate business with him, because no one in this world can gain the upper hand when negotiating business with him. You just need to show your kindness, trust, and favor." Just do it to him, never make any demands on him—don’t make any demands.”

"Why is this?" Concubine Zheng Huanggui was secretly displeased, and thought: Then I went to grandma's house at a loss?

"Because he is the most intelligent person in the world, and there must be a smart way to deal with intelligent people." Zhu Yijun grabbed the right hand of Zheng Huanggui Concubine, patted it lightly, and said: "Believe me, the only weakness of being pragmatic is his Love and righteousness."

"Well then, the concubine will listen to the emperor." Concubine Zheng Huanggui reluctantly agreed, but asked curiously: "But since the emperor said so, why did he force him to release even the officials this time?" gone?"

"Has the Tianguan been replaced by a member of the Mind School, no?" Zhu Yijun smiled, waved his hand and said, "Mr. Shen said yesterday that the Tianguan of the Ministry of Officials is related to the stability of the world, and asked me to call the court earlier. I only replied with three words: Got it."

Concubine Zheng Huang suddenly realized: "The emperor is deliberately delaying, waiting for...someone to jump out?"

"Originally, but now that you are making such a fuss, if I continue to wait, I'm afraid I will doubt my intentions pragmatically, so I have to close this net in advance."

Concubine Zheng's face turned red, she bowed her head and muttered as if admitting her mistake: "The emperor didn't tell this concubine first, how could I know that the emperor has so many plans..."

Zhu Yijun glanced at Imperial Concubine Zheng, suddenly laughed, and said dotingly: "It's a good thing not to know. Although I know pragmatically that I am acting, and I also know that he is acting, but fortunately, he and I have known each other for nearly two years. For ten years, we all know that the other party has no malicious intentions, this time it is just to show each other the bottom line.

As for you, hehe, it's not all bad for you to make such a fuss.At least in the eyes of some people, this time things have become very real... This is a bit interesting, and I am also looking forward to what the next drama will be like. "
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