The Reborn Lao Tzu Is the Emperor

Chapter 2065 Reason argument
It's just that things didn't develop in the direction Xu Fuxing hoped for.

After more than ten minutes, the sound of the piano in the house had just fallen, and Cao Zhenmai also appeared at the door very quickly.Although she is beautiful, she still has a delicate and immature expression on her small face, biting her lip lightly, her eyes seem to be filled with tears, and there is some resentment.But looking at it again, it seems that there is great joy in the depths.

Xu Fuxing didn't look deeply, but only saw the tears in those bright eyes, sighed softly, and said, "Go back..."

"Ugh……"

The way out of the palace is very quiet, the palace pavilions are indistinct, and the empty large square is only hung with lanterns, and there are almost no people. It makes people feel as if there is a long distance to go to the palace gate.

In fact, there is indeed a long distance from Zhao Dongting's bedroom to the main entrance of the palace, even though the palace in Changsha was built in a hurry.After all, the palace is the palace, and it has undergone two expansions since then.

Xu Fuxing sighed deeply again, looked up at the few lanterns that seemed to be hanging beside the palace gate far away, and said to Cao Zhenmai: "Girl, forget it..."

"Ok?"

Cao Zhenmai, who kept his head down all the time, raised his head and said in a daze, "Grandpa, what did you say?"

At this moment, there was a sweet smile on his face.

Xu Fuxing was puzzled, "You...you are?"

Cao Zhenzhen said: "What's the matter?"

Xu Fuxing couldn't laugh or cry: "Why are you crying and laughing at the same time, what did the emperor tell you?"

Cao Zhenzhen bit his lips again, and said: "I have expressed my heart to the emperor. The emperor first said that he has no intention of accepting another concubine, and then said... after two years. Grandpa, you said that the emperor is What's the meaning?"

Xu Fuxing finally understood why Cao Zhenmai had tears in his eyes when he first came out of the room, and now he laughed again, because his feelings hadn't eased back then.

Looking at the deep anticipation in Cao Zhenzhen's bright eyes, he really didn't know what to say.

The authorities were confused by the onlookers, and he felt that Zhao Dongting would change his words later and say that he would wait for two years, just because he didn't want to hurt Cao Zhenzhen's heart too much!
If the emperor really has any thoughts about the girl, there is no need to wait until two years later.The emperor didn't have many concubines in the first place, even if he married again now, no one would say anything, on the contrary, there should be countless people who would be happy to see her success.

But if this is said to the girl, wouldn't this girl whose heart is already wrapped around the emperor be broken again?
Xu Fuxing, who was on crutches, had one foot deep and the other shallow, and continued walking outside the palace without saying a word.

Cao Zhenzhen was stunned for a little doubt, and then hurriedly followed, holding Xu Fuxing's arm.The grandfather and grandson drifted away like this.

……

New Year's Day.

The ministers in Changsha followed the usual practice and entered the palace very early in the morning.In addition to paying New Year's greetings to Zhao Dongting, it is more important to follow Zhao Dongting to the Temple of Heaven and the Temple of Earth to worship heaven, earth and the ancestral temple.

"Long live the emperor, long live, long live... I wish the emperor great blessings, long life and boundless life..."

Hundreds of ministers and relatives of the emperor who were at the top of the Song Dynasty were led by State Minister Lu Xiufu into the hall, divided into several rows, and just stood still before saluting to Zhao Dongting.

Zhao Dongting sat upright on the dragon chair, "All lovers are welcome..."

Then he said a few words about the auspiciousness of the new year and the efforts of all the ministers to make persistent efforts, and after about ten minutes, he led everyone to the direction of the Temple of Heaven.

Almost all the people present were familiar faces, but this year, Li Guozhang, who was the president of the Royal Disaster Relief Foundation, did not appear in the crowd.Only Zhang Guozhang Le and Zhang Guozhang Jun were there.

This caused some whispering voices in the crowd to never stop.

They are all the most powerful figures in the Song Dynasty, and they all live in Changsha City. In fact, their circle is only that big.Anything that goes wrong can be known almost quickly.

Although Li Guozhang's matter is still in a state of "catching wind and shadows" until now, and the emperor has never expressed his position on this, but there is a problem with Li Guozhang's royal family disaster relief foundation, and it may be cleaned by the emperor. It's been around for a while.

In the past few days, Li Guozhang has been "under house arrest" by the Military Intelligence Department, and the figure has never left his mansion, which makes these similar words even more surging.

But this time, Li Guozhang didn't even show up for major ritual events such as offering sacrifices to heaven and earth, and the ancestral temple. It seems that Li Guozhang's downfall is only a matter of time.Even if it doesn't fall, I'm afraid it will be bad luck.

If the emperor had no evidence, he would never let Li Guozhang not even attend such important events.After all, the head of the country is also the most noble person among his relatives, isn't he?
"Alas, recently I have heard that there are serious problems within the Royal Family Disaster Relief Fund, which caused Long Yan to be furious. Now it seems to be true. I didn't expect that Li Guozhang didn't look too bold before, but now he... well……"

"I think it's probably true."

"Li Guozhang directly served as the president of the foundation, maybe because he couldn't stand the temptation. For us, although some of us made it to the top, most of them came up step by step, and the temptations we faced also followed. Our status changes accordingly. However, even so, when I ask myself, sometimes I have a heartbeat, and I have asked myself in the mirror at night. If Li Guozhang really has something, I don’t think it’s really strange.”

"..."

These words were all heard by Zhao Dongting, who was already in the pseudo-extreme state at the front.

He first vaguely heard the words "Foundation", and then gathered his internal energy to hear the words clearly.

What the minister said about "temptation" made him stunned.Li Guozhang will come to this point, maybe he really has a responsibility that cannot be shirked?

In fact, Zhao Dongting paid a lot of attention to these matters in terms of his courtiers. Even for people like Zhong Jian and Li Goudan, he actually sharpened their temperament and abilities on purpose, not to mention Zhang Polu and Zhang Tingen.As for Li Guozhang and others, he had never done this before.

One is out of trust in the royal relatives like Li Guozhang, and the other is that they don't take the foundation too seriously, so they naturally don't think deeply about the possible problems that may arise with the foundation.

In such a big Song Dynasty, there are countless government offices and departments, and Zhao Dongting really can't do everything.

But an oversight is an oversight...

By the time the sacrifice was over, it was almost noon.

Zhao Dongting took all the ministers to the palace again, and was going to host a banquet in the square in front of the main hall to entertain the ministers.This is now the norm.

But on the way, Zhao Dongting finally ordered Zhang Polu: "Polu, go and bring Li Guozhang to the palace, no matter what happens in the future, he should have a place in today's banquet."

Although Zhang Polu was a little surprised that Zhao Dongting would suddenly change his mind, he still took orders and went quickly.

(End of this chapter)