marquis of jingan

Chapter 364 Absurd Choice Method (Two Chapters in One)

Yang Fuli.

Pei Langzhong stood in front of the old Xiangguo with his hands down, his face gloomy, and he didn't say a word.

In the old Xiangguo's hand, he held the Dibao just published by the Dibao Division, and read it word by word. After reading it carefully, the old Xiangguo put the Dibao aside, and then looked up at Pei Yuan. , sighed helplessly.

"What to do while standing, talk while sitting."

Pei Langzhong's face was ugly, he stood where he was, his face livid: "Men, after today, the student's reputation will be completely ruined!"

"The bad is already broken."

Yang Jingzong looked calm and breezy, he sat on his chair, looked at the mansion newspaper in his hand, and sighed silently: "When the mansion newspaper department was first built, the old man didn't put it Looking at it, now it seems that this thing is really powerful."

"The reputation of a bad guy is only in the palm of your hand."

Speaking of this, the old Xiangguo suddenly smiled: "The young man of Ganquan Academy can't be an eighth-rank official in the Dibao Division all his life. He will always come out of the Dibao Division in the future. Now he can use the mansion to report bad people. In the future, others can use the mansion report to ruin his reputation."

Pei Yuan was a little anxious, he gritted his teeth and said, "Men, a Shen Yi, how dare you act like this? If it wasn't for the palace's instruction..."

"Okay, don't say any more."

Yang Jingzong frowned slightly and interrupted him.

The old Xiangguo looked at Pei Yuan and said lightly: "Remember, there is no instruction from the palace."

Pei Yuan knew he had made a mistake, so he didn't continue.

In the concept of loyalty to the emperor, the emperor is a very special existence.

This existence must be holy, infallible, and cannot be regarded as an enemy.

If the emperor is not wise, he was deceived by the traitors. If the emperor made a mistake, it was the traitors around him who did it.

If the emperor targeted a certain courtier, the courtier should not feel that the emperor wants to be his enemy, but should pass this matter on to the people around the emperor.

For example, the matter of Di Baosi.

Everyone in the imperial court knew that Di Baosi was the mouthpiece of the emperor, and it was for the emperor to say some things that the emperor was inconvenient to say.

But those who were attacked by Di Baosi couldn't think so. These people could only put these things against themselves on Shen Yi.

Unless, it is against the emperor.

Of course, under the current situation, if you can't get along with Shen Yi, you are actually against the emperor indirectly, but no matter what people like Yang Jingzong and Pei Yuan think in their hearts, they still can't connect anything with the emperor.

Otherwise, it is very likely that taboos will be violated and things will happen.

"It's out."

Yang Jingzong looked up at his students, and after being silent for a while, he said, "Fortunately, it's just two women, the most rumors are that people will treat it as a romantic affair..."

"you…"

Old Xiangguo sighed: "You resign."

"Avoid the limelight."

Pei Langzhong made a bitter face, lowered his head and said: "Men, the student also knows that he can resign at this time to avoid the limelight, but His Majesty clearly dislikes the student. After the student resigns, I'm afraid there will be no day of recovery in this life..."

"Not necessarily."

Old Xiangguo stood up and stretched himself.

"This old man has told you many times that your majesty's current thoughts are all due to youthful spirit. The same is true of the former emperor. This year in Lianghuai, I have suffered a small loss in the war between Chen and Beiqi. Wait a few years, your majesty If you suffer a few more losses, you will fully understand the situation, and then..."

The old man looked down at himself, with a free and easy smile: "At this age, the old man must have no hope of working for the court anymore, and you, Bozhi, and Fengde and the others will take over the mantle of being a teacher, especially you Pei Hiroshi..."

Old Xiangguo's eyes were gentle: "You are proficient in Hu dialect, you are very familiar with the Northern Qi Dynasty, and you know many people in Yandu. In the future, the court will still have many uses for you."

Pei Yuanchang sighed and could only nod silently.

"Student...understood."

Old Xiangguo patted Pei Yuan on the shoulder and said with a smile, "You should take a rest for a while..."

"If you are really unwilling, there is actually another way, which is worth trying, but although this way is useful, it may annoy our young Majesty."

Pei Yuan's eyes lit up, and he quickly lowered his head: "Please guide me, my mentor."

"You enter the palace now to see the Empress Dowager."

Hearing this sentence, Pei Yuan shrank his neck, and said with a bitter face: "The student should write a letter to resign, even if he begs to move the Queen Mother, he will definitely be hated by His Majesty..."

Yang Xiangguo chuckled: "That's the reason why the old man didn't let you go, but the Empress Dowager should be informed about this..."

………………

In the morning, Pei Yuan was complaining to Yang Jingzong in the prime minister's mansion, and in the afternoon, the Empress Dowager of Kunde Palace sent someone to invite His Majesty the Emperor to her bedroom.

Empress Dowager Sun is 34 years old this year. She married into the palace at the age of sixteen or seventeen. She has not done any rough work in the past 20 years. In addition, she pays attention to maintenance on weekdays. She still looks like a young man at the moment. Women in their 20s in the city are no different.

Of course, after the late emperor left, the Empress Dowager Sun has been in charge of the palace for seven or eight years, and she can also give some decisive opinions on matters outside the palace, so although she looks young at the moment, there is a natural feeling between her brows. Prestige.

She is not only the emperor's aunt, but also the emperor's biological mother, so even if the emperor is in front of her, she is honest and does not dare to offend her in the slightest.

The little emperor sat obediently opposite his mother, holding a wooden box in his hand, handing it in front of his mother, with a smile on his face: "Mother, this is the sachet I asked you for when I went to Jiming Temple two days ago. The presiding officer has personally consecrated it, and it can cure diseases and ward off evil spirits."

"You put it on."

Empress Dowager Sun took a look at the sachet, then looked at her son thoughtfully, and said softly: "The emperor has been going to Jiming Temple very frequently these past few months. Could it be that you are using the opportunity to go to Jiming Temple?" The reason, went to play outside the palace?"

In her eyes, the emperor was still a child.

His Majesty the Emperor quickly lowered his head and said, "Queen Mother, my son is sincerely going to pray for you, and I dare not lie to you."

Empress Dowager Sun didn't look at her son, but turned to look at Eunuch Gao, and said calmly, "Gao Ming?"

Eunuch Gao knelt down on the ground with a plop, touching his head to the ground.

"Your Majesty, this servant can testify that His Majesty did go to Jiming Temple and sincerely offered incense and prayed for His Majesty..."

Empress Dowager Sun looked around and did not speak.

The emperor's master and servant, in front of the empress dowager, dare not show their pride.

After a while, the Empress Dowager took the initiative to change the topic: "Forget it, for the sake of your filial piety, I won't mention your leaving the palace."

After saying this, the empress dowager took a mansion newspaper from the maid at the side and put it in front of the emperor. She stared at the emperor with a soft tone: "After you took charge, the empress mother never took care of the affairs of the outer court. ,is not it?"

His Majesty the Emperor felt a little guilty, and quickly bowed his head: "Yes, Empress Mother..."

"The mother is a woman, and she has no interest in court affairs. If your father and emperor hadn't died young, mother would not have paid attention to any political affairs these years."

"Fortunately, after walking on thin ice for several years, I finally handed over the entire ancestral foundation to you. The emperor, you have been in power for the past two years, and finally nothing major happened, but this time, it is indeed your fault. .”

The emperor felt a little guilty.

"Empress, what did the child do wrong? Please ask the empress to say clearly that the child must correct..."

Empress Dowager Sun looked at her son, and said silently: "Pei Yuan from the Ministry of Rites was originally the minister of the Ministry of Rites. After being demoted by you, he still worked conscientiously for the court. This time when he was an envoy to Northern Qi, he not only persuaded the people of Qi to retreat , and formed a friendship between Qin and Jin..."

"Let the two countries live in peace."

Speaking of this, Empress Dowager Sun looked at the emperor and sighed slightly: "Son, how long have you been in power? In the past few years, you need stability the most. When you really grow up and can be arbitrary in the court, You don't care about what kind of mother you want to be, but now, Pei Yuan has won at least a few years of safe life for the court..."

"You still let the Di Baosi write these things out, isn't it a bit of a river and a bridge?"

Only then did the little emperor understand that his mother was angry about Pei Yuan.

He was silent for a while, then lowered his eyebrows and said: "Mother, if this Pei Yuan really quits Qi soldiers with a single word, my ministers will naturally reward him well, but the conditions he negotiated with the Qi people are the ones I gave to Qi." The number of people is 10 taels of silver, tens of thousands of pieces of silk and silk cloth each, and a young woman will be sent there."

"It's called a betrothal gift, but it's actually a tribute!"

The emperor let out a foul breath: "This bad breath, I can't swallow it."

"If you can't swallow it, you can go to the people of Qi to settle accounts. What kind of hero is it to trouble the envoys?"

The empress dowager glanced at the emperor, and said calmly: "Besides, who doesn't want to give some dowry to marry a daughter-in-law? The Zhao family in the Northern Qi Dynasty agreed with the idea of ​​dowry. If the royal families of the two countries get married, it seems that our Li family is stingy if they give less. "

"If the emperor is unwilling to pay this dowry gift, the mother can pay it from her own money, and the queen mother can afford the money for the son to marry a daughter-in-law."

Sitting in front of his mother, the emperor was silent for a while, then bowed his head and said, "Yes, what mother taught me."

"You say yes."

Empress Dowager Sun took her son's hand and sighed, "I don't know how angry I am, maybe after I go back, I will smash some things again, right?"

"My son doesn't dare."

The emperor lowered his head slightly and said: "After the minister returns, he will immediately ask the Di Bao Si to clarify the matter, and stop making trouble for Pei Yuan. In a few days, he will be promoted to be the servant of the Ministry of Rites..."

Empress Dowager Sun shook her head again.

She looked at her son, and said slowly: "Emperor, let me teach you one more time for my mother."

"You are the emperor, you are the Ninth Five-Year Lord."

With a calm face, she said slowly: "You have Tian Xian in your mouth, and your words are golden."

"What you say and what you do, no matter whether it is right or wrong, as long as the words are spoken and the things are implemented, it is right, and no one will say that you are wrong."

"No one dares to say that you are wrong."

"Only in this way can you maintain the majesty of the Ninth Five-Year Supreme and become the emperor of Dachen."

"As for Pei Yuan's matter, since you want to touch him, you can do it. There is no need to remedy it. If you really want to remedy it, it will be inferior."

Empress Dowager Sun earnestly taught: "It's just that you have to think carefully before doing things in the future."

"A real dragon sees its head but doesn't see its tail, so it is a real dragon."

"If people can see everything clearly, others won't be afraid of you."

His Majesty the Emperor got up, bowed his head respectfully and saluted: "I understand."

"Ah."

Empress Dowager Sun beckoned to the maid again, and the maid immediately handed over a few name stickers, all of which had portraits drawn on them, all of them were women.

Lines of small characters were written next to the portraits of these women, probably introducing the origins of these women.

The queen mother handed these name stickers in front of the emperor with a calm expression, and said: "These four women were carefully selected by the queen mother over several months. The queen mother has seen it for you."

"Before you were asked to choose by yourself, you kept refusing to meet, but now you can't shirk."

"You take these four name stickers back and choose by yourself, and give your mother an answer within three days."

Empress Dowager Sun spoke softly, but with an unquestionable tone: "If you can't choose after three days, Empress Mother will choose for you."

This is to choose a queen for the emperor.

His Majesty the Emperor is the same age as Shen Yi, and he is already 17 years old this year, and it will be the end of the year soon, and it will be full after the end of the year. He has not yet married at this age, and he can already be regarded as a "leftover man" among wealthy families.

Therefore, the one who is most anxious about this matter is the empress dowager.

For the Empress Dowager, this is one of her missions in life, a major mission that she must complete for herself, for the late emperor, and even for the ancestors of the Li family.

For this reason, the empress dowager has been picking a daughter-in-law for more than a year.

Now, there is only more than one month left before the auspicious day calculated by Qin Tianjian, and the empress dowager is about to give her son an ultimatum.

After the emperor took the name sticker, he held it in his hand and looked at it. There were three girls in total, all of whom were 16 years old.

One surnamed Yang, one surnamed Xu, another surnamed Liu, and the other surnamed Sun.

They are all women from a wealthy family in Jiankang City. Among them, this woman surnamed Yang is of the same clan as Yang Jingzong, and she is Yang Jingzong's grandniece.

The one surnamed Sun is the niece of Empress Sun's family.

Originally, with Queen Sun's current status, she could directly appoint her own niece to be the queen, but after all, she is no longer the Sun family, but Li's wife, so more often, she still has to replace the Li family and her own son. consider.

Therefore, Queen Mother Sun still gave the right to choose to her son.

After receiving these name stickers, His Majesty the Emperor bowed his head and said, "I obey."

After the mother and son spoke a few more words, His Majesty the Emperor left with these name stickers and returned to the Ganlu Hall.

After arriving at the Ganlu Palace, the emperor picked out the one with the surname Yang out of the four name stickers, crumpled it into waste paper, and threw it in a corner.

After throwing away the name stickers of the woman surnamed Yang, His Majesty the Emperor sat alone in the Ganlu Hall, looking at the three name stickers in his hand, lost in thought.

After an unknown period of time, His Majesty the Emperor came back to his senses, but still did not make a decision.

In the end, His Majesty the Emperor changed into plain clothes, put the three name stickers into his pocket, took the brass key, and said to Eunuch Gao, "I want to go out of the palace to relax."

Gao Ming looked embarrassed: "Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager seems to have noticed it."

The emperor frowned.

"I said, I want to go out of the palace to relax."

Eunuch Gao sighed, and could only lower his head and go down to make arrangements.

About half an hour later, His Majesty the Emperor appeared in Gu Hengbo's boudoir.

In the boudoir, Mrs. Gu was only wearing unlined clothing, holding a pipa in his arms, trembling his fingertips, and beautiful notes jumped out from his fingertips.

The emperor also took off his coat and put on his underwear.Sit back and enjoy.

…………

After about a stick of incense, the clouds and rain stopped.

Everyone Gu leaned half in the arms of the emperor, with a charming look in their eyebrows.

The emperor covered her eyes with a white scarf.

Then, he placed three pots in front of Gu Hengbo, and put an arrow without an arrow in Gu Hengbo's hand.

There is a name sticker in each of the three pots.

After the arrangement was finished, the young emperor untied the white cloth covering her eyes, and said with a soft smile, "There are three pots in front of you, just throw in any one, and you will be rewarded if you hit one."

Master Gu twisted his body in the emperor's arms, and said in a tired voice, "What reward?"

"After you make a shot, you will know it naturally."

Everyone Gu smiled and said hello, then sat up and started throwing pots.

At this moment, no one would have imagined that Da Chen Xin's position as queen would be in the hands of a prostitute.

And...in this almost joking way.

But sometimes, reality is often so absurd.

Everyone Gu stood up, holding the wooden arrow shaft in his hand, and took aim for a while.

She was born in a brothel, and she has played the game of throwing pots countless times.

After aiming slightly, she threw out the arrow shaft in her hand, and threw it lightly.

The arrow shaft accurately entered the pot on the left.

So...

Grand Chen Xin's candidate for queen.

It's settled.

　Be sure to order both, so these two chapters are big chapters, and there will be another chapter later...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)