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Chapter 231
Concubine Ding'an had already raised herself, and there was a precedent for her adoptive mother to be promoted to empress dowager.Concubine Ding'an took the opportunity to raise her objection to the conquest, but Xiao Yi refused to agree.In the end, in the midst of opposition from inside and outside, Jinshang insisted on respecting the noble concubine Ding'an, who had been the noble concubine for more than [-] years, as the empress dowager.The hasty decree caused public opinion to be fierce, and the empress dowager herself was unwilling to be extravagant. In the end, everything in the ceremony was simplified, and the team who ordered the wife to enter the palace to salute seemed a little listless.

Shen Jiangdong was injured at home, but there were many objections.There was nothing wrong with the guard, and Jiang Feng didn't go to the guard much. Every day, he observed how Shen Jiangdong and his writing guts rummaged through the old scriptures and compiled them into heavenly scriptures that said they were fluent and very fluent, but others were not fluent at all.

This day, Jiang Feng had something to go to Hubenwei to meet other generals of the Jingwei. In the afternoon, Shen Jiangdong read some letters from old friends, and decided to meet Jinshang in the palace.

Xiao Yi lives in the Ninghua Palace, and there are more and more memorials. Xiao Yi tries his best to turn them into paper grasshoppers, paper toads, paper kings and paper rabbits.

After the things made by His Majesty were divided up by the children, Xiao Yi's craftsmanship continued to improve. Rats, oxen and tigers would be folded, and gradually became the twelve zodiac signs that could be threaded.

There was Si Qing, who watched the excitement and didn't think it was a big deal, and said: "String them together, make a curtain, hang them on the door of the cabinet, and piss them off."

Xiao Yi: ...

It's a pity that the remaining memorials are still piled all over the floor, making Siqing's small study nowhere to go.

Siqing was next door to the small study, wearing a large plain coat, staring in a daze in front of the window, only listening to the melodies next door pouring pile after pile.Xiao Yi threw it around like a hydrangea, and Siqing gradually became impatient, and ordered to throw out all the remaining memorials.

The next day the palace people were busy moving the memorials, Siqing thought it was too noisy, and wanted to go to Yining Palace to meet the Empress Dowager, Xiao Yiwu babbled to himself, "Let's discuss it, it won't hinder you by putting it here..." Siqing had already led the Ling Zhen walked away.

At this time, the palace servants reported to the courtiers to seek an audience in the Maode Hall, Xiao Yi listened and went from the Ninghua Hall to the Maode Hall.

Xiao Yi met the courtiers face to face, and because of the unsatisfactory war in eastern Guangdong, he was furious in Maode Hall.Shen Jiangdong was helped into the front yard of Maode Hall, and he said carefully: "Your Majesty is angry, and no one will be allowed in."

Shen Jiangdong said: "Please tell me the nobleman."

He Shun wondered: "This..." He didn't dare to go in either.

Shen Jiangdong had no choice but to look at Heshun with a questioning look, and Heshun nodded.Shen Jiangdong took a deep breath, pushed the door open and said, "Your Majesty, minister..."

Before he finished speaking, a book of memorials flew over, brushing past Shen Jiangdong's temples.Shen Jiangdong was already lame when he fell off his horse in the first month of the lunar year, and he had to be supported by his servant to walk. This time he was so frightened that he and the servant who supported him dodged at the same time, and almost fell to the ground.

Xiao Yi turned sideways and saw that Shen Jiangdong was almost knocked down, and hurriedly said: "Why is Yuanxi here?" Seeing that Shen Jiangdong needed someone to help him move, Xiao Yi asked him to sit down and said, "You are not so quick, what's the matter?" I have to come here today to talk about something." He said and put his hands up to help.

Shen Jiangdong said: "Chen..." Before he finished speaking, the door was pushed open again, and Xiao Yi said angrily, "Who is it?!"

The skirt, which has been woven with silver patterns for many years, crossed the threshold and stopped again. Si Qing, who was invited by the servant to persuade Xiao Yi, looked at Xiao Yi who was supporting Shen Jiangdong's arm, and said, "It seems that the concubine came at a bad time."

Seeing that it was Siqing, Xiao Yi hurriedly wanted to speak, so he took half a step forward, and Siqing slammed the door shut.

Xiao Yi stood there in a daze, Shen Jiangdong was about to speak, Xiao Yi turned around and said: "If it's to persuade me not to leave Beijing, don't talk about it!"

Shen Jiangdong laughed, "Before I opened my mouth, Your Majesty blocked all my words."

"Are you as mean-spirited as they are?" Xiao Yi said, "Yuanxi, don't you understand that Huxiang can't be taken down again and again, and it will be too expensive to go on like this. Han Shouchen's superiority, it's a bit of a thing! The battle in Eastern Guangdong, Almost broke the morale of the imperial court!"

He was so angry that he paced back and forth, shaking his eight-treasure silk jacket, changing his previous cold and solemn image, like a pheasant in a hurry.Shen Jiangdong felt that Xiao Yi and Siqing had been together for a long time, not as cold and lonely as before, more and more like Siqing who was blown by the wind and blown away by the wind.

Shen Jiangdong sighed and said: "Your Majesty, I recommend a person. This person has gone through the sea, and the terrain is dangerous, the military reserves are full and shrinking, and the generals and officials can be as clear as a candle..."

Before he finished speaking, He Shun came in again and said cautiously: "Miss Liang is here."

Xiao Yi thought that Siqing had something to do, and said, "Let her in."

With a few bangs, the four hall doors opened, and eight servants in appropriate uniforms, led by Ling Zhen, lowered the boxes they were carrying to salute.The sound startled Shen Jiangdong and almost left his seat and fell down. Ling Zhen smiled and said: "Reporting to Your Majesty, your memorials have been sorted out by category." She stretched out her sleeves, bowed again, and led people away.

Xiao Yi was helpless, "At least move in..."

The empress dowager was very worried when she heard that Xiao Yi was angry during the day, and she decided to ask Siqing to visit Xiao Yi at Maode Hall at night.The attendants all retreated far away, seeing Siqing approaching seemed to be pardoned.

Siqing entered the palace alone, and saw piles of memorials against Xiao Yi going to the front line were piled up into battlements by Xiao Yi, and the colorful cloth balls of her youngest child Xiao Huan were being held by Xiao Yi in his hand, aiming at " As soon as the battlements were lost, the memorials were dumped one after another, Xiao Yi smiled.

Siqing clapped her hands and said, "Why don't you play with your son on such a fun thing? You even snatch his ball!" After she finished speaking, she picked up the ball and threw it at another pile of "battlements". The cat next to it jumped away, It made Siqing laugh too.

Xiao Yi was helpless, "Look, how much good paper and ink was wasted by writing such nonsense? What a sin."

Because the voices of opposition were too loud and the memorials were too many, the imperial capital was actually "Luoyang paper expensive".Before the preparations for the Empress's Thousand Autumn Festival began, the long-ill Wang Qiang took the lead in going to the palace to persuade him, but now he would not accept it, so Li Yuanzhen retreated and proposed a compromise method-the decisive battle with the Dingnan Fan in Hunan, Jiangxi, and Guangxi, separated from the imperial capital It's too far away and it's inconvenient to command, so today it's not necessary to go to Jinling to supervise the battle.Li Yuanzhen himself was one of the officials who agreed to move the capital to Jinling, so his proposal naturally paved the way for moving the capital.

The next day, Jinshang accepted Li Yuanzhen's proposal, and all the ministers took a step back. They did not go to the conquest in person, but went to Jinling to supervise the battle and led troops south to prepare for emergencies.

The thorny problem finally eased, and the officials and Concubine Ding'an were relieved.But the headache that caused Xiao Yi has not been resolved, because Si Qing still insists on going with her.The two couldn't agree, this time Xiao Yi was determined not to let go.

Although there is an empress dowager in the inner palace, Siqing has been secretly controlling the capital defense for several years, and the military guards in the Ming Dynasty have also been reorganized and rebuilt by the central palace.If Shen Jiangdong is in good health, perhaps King Duan and Shen Jiangdong can stay in the Imperial Capital.Now Duan Wang has been ill for a long time, and Shen Jiang Dong Xining has been ill since returning to Beijing for 22 years. If Si Qing drives south again, in case of changes in the imperial capital, the new empress dowager and the young Donggong may not be able to resist.

Siqing also had a small calculation in her heart, the crown prince was not born by her, Xiao Yixi went to send the mausoleum, she stayed in the imperial capital and suffered two big losses in a row, and almost died the year before last.If she is driving, just follow, don't worry about everything.Another point is that she controls Jingfang, and the Fujunwei is powerful. After the Fujunwei formed the Jiangnan Division, she was also afraid that Xiao Yi would suspect that she had too much power.Moreover, her "father" brother was involved in the Yu Yunhe case and the Yasukuni case. She had a ready-made handle. Xiao Yi's attitude was vague, and she herself was often disturbed.

Xiao Yi let go of the change of his personal conquest to go to Jinling to supervise the war. At first, the court was relieved, but because Siqing still refused to stay in the imperial capital, the two were very anxious behind the scenes, and they almost asked Fu Linchuan to come back from Tonghe to dissuade him. , now everyone knows that Fu Linchuan's words are the most effective in front of Siqing.

Seeing that Xiao Yi still refused to let go, Siqing was afraid that he would really move out of Fu Linchuan and let Fu Linchuan stir in again.Here Xiao Yi also coaxed her: "Tomorrow will be a complete victory, and I will send someone to pick you up to Liudu. Let's patrol Jiangzuo, and also go to see the place where you grew up."

Siqing had no choice, so she didn't insist any more, and only said to Xiao Yi: "Before, Ye Xiufeng learned Uncle Fu's secret from Du Sizhong, and was afraid that he would hurt himself, so he pretended that I restrained my parents when I was young, so I was in Weiyang with a Hu Lan grew up with a family surnamed Lan. This family surnamed Lan was the home of my mother’s wet nurse. Later, the wet nurse passed away. His family took the principal from the Ye family to do jade carving business next to Xijianlong Temple in Weiyang City. But in the year I returned to Beijing, the head of this family died suddenly, and I don’t know if it was silenced by the Ye family. I have been feeling uncomfortable for so many years. If you pass by Weiyang and have a gap, send someone Let's go see how his house is. I thought about asking sister Xuan Bin to go and see, but I felt that I couldn't open my mouth. I can't be ashamed to tell anyone about the bad things about the Ye family. I told the Shen family, It’s even more embarrassing.”

Xiao Yi agreed.

Siqing promised to stay in Beijing, and the rest is personnel transfer.

Shen Jiangdong suffered from injuries and illnesses, so he naturally stayed in Beijing, and the Lord in Beijing also took him as the leader.In view of the previous turmoil in the imperial capital, Jiang Feng of the military guard did not move, and was responsible for liaising with the Jingwei Jiangnan Division in the middle of the capital.Xiao Yi took away Prince Duan's son, Xiao Jun, with the intention of worrying about King Duan.However, Prince Duan didn't want to stay in Beijing to meet the new concubine, but he was more than happy to drive to Liudu.

According to the previous practice, the cabinet left Fan Ziran with the title of Taibao, and Li Yuanzhen accompanied him.The last time Fan Ziran was afraid of showing off, so he pushed the middle palace. Siqing was almost scolded to death because of her injustice.Xiao Yi learned his lesson this time, saying that the Empress Dowager is old, the Crown Prince is young, King Duan and Duke Jia are sick, and the cabinet has to contact Liudu Xingyuan and deal with a myriad of affairs. The queen is respected.The reason was so high-sounding that people couldn't fault it, but it left room for the Queen of the Palace to handle things.

In the end, what they couldn't decide on was the deployment of Jingwei.According to Si Qing's thinking, since Jiang Feng is in Beijing this time, and the military guards of the government have everything in place, to be on the safe side, Cheng Yingzhou and Sun Chengfu, the two generals of the Jingwei, should go south with today.Beijing only needs to choose two commanders from Huben and the standard guards to stay in Beijing.

However, Xiao Yi was terrified of the last turmoil in the imperial capital, and insisted that Cheng Yingzhou and the commanders of the bannermen stay.

Siqing felt that there were still Shen Jiangdong and his wife in Beijing, and they were making a big fuss today.Xiao Yi felt that because Jiang Feng was in the military guard of the government, and Shen Jiangdong was ill and too avoiding suspicion, and Cheng and Sun had enough prestige, so one of them had to be kept.In the end, Li Yuanzhen and others also proposed to keep Cheng Yingzhou for the sake of Beijing defense.So today, Cheng Yingzhou is still staying in the imperial capital, and Sun Chengfu, Huben, and the bannermen are accompanying them to the south.

Due to the rush of the schedule and the need to ensure security along the way, Fujunwei and Jinwu Zuowei took the lead to connect with Jiangnan Division in Shandong.Drawing on the lesson of losing contact with the Xingyuan last time, the Jiangnan Division set up sentry pigeon houses in several cities that did not have a Xingyuan from south to north, and the military guards from north to south, and sent elite pigeons to train pigeons in advance to ensure that the two nearby Sentinels deliver messages as quickly as possible.

Because there is already Xingyuan in Dezhou, the two parties chose to dock in Daming. Fu Junwei is responsible for the north of Daming, and Jiangnan Division is responsible for the south of Daming.On the side of the imperial capital, Wei Yuan Lingbo of the government army went to the daimyo to take over, while in Jinling, Xu Huaimin, the secretary of the south of the Yangtze River, went to the daimyo in person to deploy.

Xiao Yi is about to leave Beijing, and things are complicated.Siqing lived in Ninghua Palace for a while, when Xiao Yi was about to leave, Xiao Yi came to Zhanyun Tower behind Ninghua Palace and said, "Come with me."

"Where are you going with me?" Siqing was annoyed, "Would you like to go to Jinling with you?"

Xiao Yi smiled, and then took out the silk to signal Qing to cover his eyes.Siqing said, "Why? Want to kidnap me?"

Xiao Yi's eyes were full of smiles, his gentleness and tranquility made Si Qing unable to refuse.He took her hand to ride in the car, took her hand to get off the car, and finally held her in his arms.

Siqing put her arms around Xiao Yi's neck, "I calculated the distance and direction. I got off the bus just now at the entrance of the East Long Causeway of Xiyuan Huxin Island. Now you should be carrying me to the island and walking towards Qiongyu. What, Do you want to throw me off Qiongyu? I am very good at swimming, if you dare to murder me, I will grab your collar and not let go, and we will see who is more embarrassed."

Xiao Yi smiled and said: "You are so heavy, I am already very tired and don't want to talk."

"Where am I heavy?" Siqing has always been as slender as a bamboo pole, and she creaked her hands, "Where am I heavy? Where is it heavy? Where is it heavy?!"

Xiao Yi giggled and said, "Don't make trouble, if I really let go, you'll fall down."

He carried her up to Qiongyu's high place, and then opened the window, only to see the moonlight splashing on the ground like water, and in the middle of the moon, she looks like she just came out of the bath.

Siqing couldn't help saying, "It's really beautiful."

Xiao Yi took out a firework from his sleeve and ignited it. The moment the firework rose, large and small lanterns around the Taiye Pool lit up one after another. There were big fish and dragon lanterns, small fish lanterns, rabbit lanterns, phoenix bird lanterns, The crab lamp illuminates the Taiye Pool, reflecting the full moon in the water.

Xiao Yi said softly: "When your birthday is over, I will go to Jinling. You always talk about the lantern festival by the lake in front of your house when you were young. I wonder if that is the case?"

Siqing felt an indescribable joy, thinking that she would also be moved by this beautifully prepared scene.She nodded happily, "Let's go to the lake to see, shall we?"

(End of this chapter)