Sometimes the palace is sunny

Chapter 4 "The Law of Heaven"

As the setting sun sets, the sycamore tree with green leaves casts a long shadow in the Chaohua Garden, extending all the way to the wall.

Under the porch, the four eunuchs that Emperor Zhaode was used to were lined up, guarding the closed palace door.

His Majesty has not spoken for a whole day.

The short and capable four mice looked at the round-eyed three cats, and the three cats looked at the tallest and most heroic two dogs, and finally the three of them looked at the leader chicken.

Yiji didn't move, and his heart was already panicked.

He has been by his side since His Majesty was a prince. His Majesty is moody and never hides his temper.

For so many years, there were only two times when I held my temper and didn't lose my temper. Those two times were both major events of heaven and earth.

this time……

Yiji shrank his neck, thinking about it, he felt that a gust of autumn wind had blown through his bones.

"water."

Suddenly there was a human voice in the hall, and all the eunuchs shook. Er Gou jumped out and brought the silver kettle for boiling water, and then handed it to a chicken.

Yiji looked around, and everyone else looked at him, his eyebrows and eyes were full of blood and flesh, he was outnumbered, and he gently pushed open the door of the palace with a pot in his hand.

The hall was a little stuffy, the young Emperor Zhaode was sitting on the couch, a pile of booklets were thrown on the ground.

Yiji came to the couch with a silver pot and poured water into the teacup.

The best quality Jianning purple bamboo shoots should be ready for the emperor to take at any time. They are all soaked in a pot, and then discarded after being warmed up. In the daily light of this item, Chaohuayuan will use up a whole piece of good tea catty.

Smelling the aroma of tea, His Majesty raised his eyes.

"Bring a brazier and burn it all."

"Yes!"

Yiji hurriedly ordered to go down, turned around, and saw His Majesty put down the teacup.

He quickly refilled the water.

"My lord, the fish here in Xiyuan is getting fatter. You always like the fish cooked by Sanmao. Would you like to let him eat more?"

The emperor didn't speak, just looked at the excerpts that were thrown into the brazier.

Yiji took a step back, even holding his breath.

After a while, the eunuch, who made the entire palace tremble when he moved his feet, knelt down on the ground trembling.

"My lord! If you have that kind of anger, you can piss it off on your servant! The servant is just a chicken slave who plucks its hair and peels off its skin. It's up to the emperor to please you. Don't get angry with yourself!"

Shen Shiqing saw that all the notebooks she had practiced in calligraphy were burned, and when she regained her senses, she saw a group of people kneeling from inside the hall to outside the hall.

At that moment, she slightly raised her eyebrows.

So, this is what it's like to be an emperor?
Chaohua Garden is just a corner of the other palace in Xiyuan, but because it is next to the elephant garden with elephants, peacocks, tigers and leopards, it is quite loved by Emperor Zhaode. Every time he comes to Xiyuan, he almost lives Here, and therefore, Chaohua Garden is also called "Royal Elephant Garden".

Compared with the orderliness in the imperial city, the courtyards of Xiyuan are formed according to the trend of mountains and rivers, which are exquisite and natural. You can go straight up to Tashan along the stone road.

Several cabinet ministers walked among them, but they didn't care to appreciate the lush greenery and pleasant autumn wind along the way.

"Calculate, the person who captured Chen Shouzhang will arrive in Dengzhou in two days, right?"

Chen Shouzhang, Tongzhi of Dengzhou, said that the emperor abolished the horse administration and reduced the garrison, causing Longyan to be furious and hurt the dragon's body.

The memorial was sent to the cabinet, and several of them had circulated it. Everyone knew that the reason for spending money in gold and silver in the Northwest these years was because His Majesty wanted to start another war.

But the ministers of the DPRK and China don't think so.

To use soldiers for a while requires raising soldiers for thousands of days, which costs money every day, and every day uses people's fat and people's ointment to support hundreds of thousands of troops in the Northwest.

Where does the money come from?

Dayong has been fighting with the northern barbarians since the founding of the country, winning and losing. When they win, they only take back some land, but when they lose, they really shake the foundation of the country.Since the new emperor ascended the throne, it is of course a good thing that he can wipe out the weakness of the northern barbarian tribes for several generations and restore the national prestige, but there must be a degree in everything.

In the eyes of these ministers, it is a good time for the people to recuperate and recuperate by fighting so far that the northern barbarians dare not invade for five or ten years, and the money from the household department should be used in other places, such as the water conservancy of the Yellow River, Fujian and Zhejiang provinces. tidal bank.

This time Chen Shouzhang's memorial was a pathfinding stone for them. They also thought that His Majesty would be furious, but they didn't expect to hurt the dragon's body.

I wanted to make the young His Majesty on the throne hurt, but I didn't want him to really bleed.

No one spoke along the way, and when they arrived at Chaohua Garden, they saw the officials waiting for an audience waiting in front of the door, unable to enter.

His Majesty does not go to court, these officials who have just entered Beijing or are about to leave Beijing can only wait here.

There was silence in front of the gate of the palace. Several cabinet ministers looked around and found that there were no eunuchs who had vaguely remembered their faces before. Thinking of the turmoil in the inner court two days ago, they couldn't help being silent.

His Majesty's attack is fierce this time, so Chen Shouzhang is afraid that it will be more or less ominous.

"My minister Li Congyuan."

"Minister Yang Zhai."

"My minister Liu Kangyong."

"I have heard that His Majesty's holy body is slightly ill, so I came here to visit..."

The news that the three cabinet ministers arrived at Chaohua Garden hand in hand, chickens, dogs, cats and mice, and the eunuchs knew about it as early as when they entered Xiyuan. Emperor Zhaode, one chicken nodded, and two dogs walked out quietly.

"Secretary Supervisor Bingbi Ergou has met several elders. The emperor has been angry all day long, and he is only willing to say a few words at this time. Do these elders have any good news?"

good news?This year, the weather is good, except in June when Huaibei area is a bit waterlogged, the harvest is bumper everywhere, and the warehouses are full. Such good news happens every day, and it may not make His Majesty look good.

What's more, one of the many angers His Majesty was angry with was that the officials opposed His Majesty's construction of the Xiyuan, and because of the tax, it made His Majesty think about it?

Seeing that the cabinet members were silent, Ergou sighed softly: "To tell the truth to the elders, His Majesty only said less than ten sentences today, and in a few days, Chen Shouzhang will be escorted to Beijing .”

The implication is that if they can't let their Majesty calm down, then they can only let Chen Shouzhang's blood and life to vent the anger of His Majesty.

Everyone looked at Li Congyuan, who was resourceful and decisive, and also served as a prince's junior teacher to His Majesty. Ever since the former Chief Assistant Liu Shen was dismissed by Emperor Zhaode and returned home, he has been vaguely headed the cabinet.

Li Congyuan thought about it, but shook his head.

Everyone sighed silently.

"Have you thought about asking the empress from the palace to accompany you?"

Ergou smiled wryly: "We have discussed it several times, but no one dared to speak to the emperor... The matter of the emperor's injury is still hidden from the harem."

After a while, Sanmao also came out with stacks of memorials.

"These are the papers that the emperor has personally approved."

Three cats put the word "in person" very seriously.

Looking at the two stacks of two-foot-high folded papers, the ministers were rather horrified.

I haven't seen you for a day, how can your majesty work so hard?

Could it be that the reason why His Majesty is silent is that he has already poured out his anger on these memorials?

Several cabinet ministers saw it, but they didn't dare to pick it up.

In this, this, these memorials, how many "kills" written by the imperial pen and Zhu Zhu are hidden?
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In the hall, Shen Shiqing, wearing the skin of Emperor Zhaode, finally put down his pen.

Throughout the day, she read countless memorials, some new and some old. First, she was familiar with the courtiers and current affairs, and second, she imitated Emperor Zhaode's Zhu Zhu to imitate his demeanor.

Emperor Zhaode acted indulgently, and his memorials to ministers were also extremely casual, mostly just punctuated, occasionally a few important things were written, and his Zhu Zhu was also very... informal.

After watching a few red "rolling", Shen Shiqing can only say to herself that she has learned some of the essence anyway.

Taking another look at the memorial she had just finished approving, Shen Shiqing sighed softly in her heart.

Fortunately, the world is still peaceful now, and she temporarily became the Taiping Emperor in this body, and she was still an arrogant and unruly Emperor Taiping.

The soul-shifting incident shocked the world. When she opened her eyes in the morning, she was startled by the strange curtain in front of her. When she realized that she had turned into a tall man, she felt that she had a strange dream.Fortunately, the seven years in Anningbo's mansion polished her temperament to be calm and peaceful, and she didn't lose her composure and scream even when she panicked.

Hearing a slight noise outside, she closed her eyes in the tent and pretended to be asleep. After listening to a few people whispering at the throat, she realized that she had become an emperor, or an emperor who was in a rage.

Simply, she took advantage of this and stayed alone for a long time pretending that the remaining anger was still there.

When she was alone, she copied the emperor's handwriting while thinking about how to live.

The eunuch next to the emperor takes care of the emperor's daily life every day, and must know all the trivial things around the emperor. She is afraid that something will happen to her, so she dare not even say a word.

She is the only daughter in the family, and her father, who is well-versed in ancient and modern times, wished he could teach his daughter all his skills. Before she was married, Shen Shiqing could rely on knowing the movements of the court. Fortunately, even though she was imprisoned for seven years, It's not like she can't even understand the memorial.

With the ability to read memorials and imitate other people's handwriting, Shen Shiqing felt at ease and began to think about other things.

In the first step, she had the courage to let the eunuchs come in to serve her. Seeing the trembling looks of these eunuchs, she suddenly realized that it might be much easier to play an emperor than she imagined.

Because she is an "emperor".

She is the emperor, so she doesn't need to look at other people's faces, others have to look at her emotions and act.

She kept silent, because others wanted to be trembling.

If she speaks a little, others have to laugh and flatter her.

She's the emperor, so she doesn't have to worry too much about how she behaves differently from "the old days".

"As long as I act casually and don't behave like a woman, even if it's different from before, who dares to question whether His Majesty is not His Majesty?" Another glance at the word "roll" on Zhu Zhu's batch is exactly the same as that of Emperor Zhaode, Shen Shiqing thought in her heart ask yourself.

Of course the eunuchs in this palace dare not.

As for the outside of the palace... Shen Shiqing is planning to give it a try.

"Who else is waiting outside?"

Hearing His Majesty's sudden speech, a chicken waiting beside him quickly said:

"Several Cabinet Scholars wanted to visit the Emperor, but they didn't leave until the time of Shen Shi. Now only Yao Qian, the censor, is outside."

While speaking, Yiji carefully looked at His Majesty's face.

Yao Qian, the supervisory censor, was the one who took the lead in opposing His Majesty's renovation of Xiyuan this time.

Shen Shiqing didn't speak.

The palace fell silent again.

I don't even know what His Majesty means. Is this to see you?Still missing?

After a few breaths, he heard His Majesty say in a flat tone: "Do you want me to wait for him?"

The three cats standing outside immediately told Yao Qian to come in.

The post of supervisory censor only has seven ranks. In terms of rank alone, Yanjing, where the rich and powerful are everywhere, is a small official who can hit two people with a brick, but they can supervise and advise from the emperor to the hundred officials.

The first emperor was extremely lenient to these speech officials during his reign. During his 13 years in office, he did not repair the palace or raise miscellaneous taxes. This also made the seven-rank speech officials a force that should not be underestimated in the court.

It's a pity that it was not the former prince who was also good at accepting advice, but Emperor Zhaode who took over the throne. His attitude towards the supervisory censor has always been "you say what you want, and I make my own."

It has been five years since Yao Qian was transferred from the Hanlin Academy to the Censor Supervisor. For the past five years, he has taken it as his duty to admonish His Majesty every day. Today, he is also here for this purpose.

Entering Chaohua Garden, while bypassing a few phoenix trees, taking advantage of no one's attention, Sanmao eunuch took a look at him and said in a low voice:

"Your Majesty is injured, so don't get angry. As a courtier, Yao Yushi probably knows better than our family how to make His Majesty take good care of the dragon's body."

Yao Qian, who never looked down on these eunuchs, let out a "hum", noncommittal.

"The censor and inspector Yao Qian please play, Your Majesty, as the king of a country, should take care of the dragon's body..."

Yiji, who stood aside and adjusted the cinnabar, felt cold in his heart.

This Yao Yushi!The emperor is already so angry, why can't he say something nice? !

Chaohua Garden does not have a lofty throne, but only a large desk in front of a few rows of Duobao Pavilion. The swords, swords, whips, bows and crossbows hung on the table, but the memorials stacked high on the case seemed a bit out of place.

Yao Qian finished talking about what he wanted to say, and just waited for His Majesty to lose his temper at him again like before.

His Majesty's anger is also a symbol of the invincibility of these officials.

But he waited for a long time, and the hall was as quiet as before.

After approving another memorial, the young emperor opened a new one, glanced at it, and directly drew a big cross on it with a cinnabar pen.

The memorial was casually thrown aside by His Majesty.

Yao Qian couldn't help swallowing his saliva.

Your Majesty, why are you still not angry?
He wanted to ask, but didn't dare.

The sound of water leaking from outside the window came in, and Yao Qian's heart skipped a beat before he realized that his back was drenched in sweat.

Stillness and silence are both invisible things, but the more invisible, the more pervasive.

Standing still, Yao Qian slightly raised his head to look at His Majesty.

Today's Majesty seems to be different from usual.

Yao Qian couldn't tell what was different about him.

In the hearts of these people, as the Lord of Dayong, His Majesty should follow the example of the late emperors by being open-minded, diligent in administration and prudent, simple and caring for the people, but His Majesty loves extravagance and fun, just like a crooked tree. Speaking of which, everyone felt that they should let His Majesty take the right path, and they were quite disrespectful to His Majesty.

That's private.

Even if they scolded His Majesty as a useless son when writing the memorial, His Majesty is still His Majesty.

Life and death are under control.

A faint fragrance lingered in the palace room, the eunuch was sorting out the memorials and grinding the cinnabar solemnly, the palace people coming and going were silent, and the water leaking outside the window occasionally made a sound, but it hit people's hearts every now and then.

The person in front of him who is reviewing the memorial is the current Holy Master, the Lord of the World.

In an instant, Yao Qian's heart was empty.

He was still holding a memorial to criticize the emperor for not valuing himself, but he felt that the words he thought had become frivolous and rude.

The water drops ding-dong.

The grinding sound is soft.

In the suffocating silence, he became more and more guilty.

He prided himself on being strong, and the autumn wind blowing in from the outside seemed to be able to take away anything from his body at this moment.

"Yao Yushi, Your Majesty is going to rest, you should also leave the palace."

"Yes!" Maybe half a lifetime later, Yao Qian was so excited by this sudden pardon, he quickly saluted, not even daring to lift his head, let alone mention his memorial and advice, in a panic Zhang withdrew from Chaohuayuan.

In the light that lit up behind him, the young "Emperor Zhaode" raised his head and glanced at his back.

Sure enough, an emperor who does nothing is enough to make people fearful.

"Your Majesty" raised his pen and wrote the word "Li" on the blank paper.

Shen Shiqing, twenty-two years old, was originally a useless woman in Ning Anbo's mansion who was about to go down, but on the first day she suddenly became Zhao De Emperor Zhao Surui, she had some experience
——Emperor, that is, the law of heaven.

　The heroine's script is "in-depth experience of how to be a dragon", "gradually learn how to be a dragon".

　　The hero's script is the heroine's counterattack...

　　Seems reasonable too.

　　Anyway, both sides are very cool.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)