The ministers begged me to ascend the throne

Chapter 237
At four o'clock, the palace gate opened on time, and the ministers standing at the gate entered the palace one by one.

Those who supported the prince's party walked while mocking those who supported the prince's party.

During this period of time, because Concubine Ying was favored and Concubine Rong fell out of favor, and because he was reprimanded by the emperor before acting as the king, the arrogance of the ministers of the acting king's party was no longer as arrogant as before.

Many ministers who supported the acting king were very worried about the current situation. They were worried that Concubine Rong would really fall out of favor completely.Concubine Ying has been in the palace for a month or two. During this time, the emperor basically stayed in Changle Palace and never visited the palaces of other concubines.Not to mention Concubine Rong, even the Zhaoyang Palace of Empress Xie, the emperor did not go.

The emperor seldom went to Zhaoyang Palace on weekdays, only on the first and fifteenth day of each month.However, after Concubine Ying entered the palace, the emperor seemed to have forgotten about going to Zhaoyang Palace on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar new year, which made Empress Xie jealous and angry.

Today, the emperor only loves Concubine Ying.

Zhen Guogong was very satisfied with the result.He believed that after a while, Concubine Rong would fall out of favor completely, and so would the king of the era.

Xuan Ping Hou looked at the high-spirited Duke Zhen, gritted his teeth in hatred.

He said bitterly in his heart: No, Concubine Ying must be removed, otherwise Concubine Rong Gui and Dai Wang will...

Before the morning court started, the ministers first went to the side hall next to Chengguang hall to rest.

People from the Prince's Party started to argue with those from the Daiwang Party.This time, the members of the prince's party directly mocked the king for not being able to give birth to a child, and even insinuated whether the king had killed too many people and suffered retribution, so he could not have a child.

Since that time at the celebration banquet, Dai Wang has been questioned and made a lot of jokes.This matter was also taken as an after-dinner chat by the people in the capital.

In the past six months, not only the ministers were concerned about the issue of the king's heirs, but even the common people were very concerned.However, until now, there has been no good news from Daiwangfu.

The original news that the acting king could not be done swept through the capital again, which made the acting king very angry.

In the past six months, Dai Wang himself was very anxious.Seeing that there was no news about the stomachs of the Dai Wangfei and the concubine, he specially invited a folk doctor.

The miraculous folk doctor carefully took the pulse of the Dai Wang, the Dai Wang Concubine, and the concubines, saying that there was nothing wrong with their bodies. As for why they were not pregnant for so long, it could only be said that their fate had not yet arrived.

In order to be able to conceive, the Dai Wangfei secretly asked for folk remedies for having a child, and took a lot of them, but it didn't work for a long time.She also deliberately worshiped all the temples and Taoist temples in the capital, and invited Songzi Guanyin, but it was still useless.

Concubine Rong Gui in the palace was also worried. Her son had not had any heirs for a long time, and was laughed at by the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty and the common people. No one could accept this.

Dai Wang was originally angry because Concubine Rong fell out of favor, and he was reprimanded, but now the situation has worsened, and he was told not to do it, and he became "sick" directly.

During this time, Dai Wang did not go to court.

Dai Wang is a martial arts student, and he has been fighting outside all year round. His body is very healthy.It wasn't really sick this time, but it was true that he was unhappy.

He was too lazy to go to court and was laughed at by the ministers.Simply claiming to be sick, recuperating in the mansion, and thinking about how to have a baby by the way.Of course, the main reason was that he was having a temper tantrum with the emperor.

Dai Wang asked for leave due to illness and refused to go to court. After the emperor learned about it, he specially asked Sun Kui to take the imperial physician to Dai Wang's mansion to visit Dai Wang for him.

The imperial physician said that there was no major problem with Dai Wang, but that depression caused poor sleep and poor appetite.Dai Wang needs to relax so that his body can be healthy.

Let Dai Wang relax, it is very difficult for Dai Wang, after all, he has too many bad things recently.Since the imperial doctor said that he needs to meditate and recuperate, then he will just stay in the mansion to recuperate and not go anywhere.

The emperor didn't know that Dai Wang was losing his temper with him, and he also knew that Dai Wang wanted to arouse his concern through his illness.

"The acting king still didn't come to court today?" The emperor finished drinking tea, put down the teacup in his hand, and wiped his mouth with a towel.

Sun Kui had just gone to the side hall of Chengguang Hall to deliver tea to the ministers, so he naturally noticed who was there.

"No."

Hearing this, the emperor frowned slightly, and immediately said with some distaste: "I really haven't made any progress at all."

Sun Kui lowered his head, not daring to speak.

The emperor sneered and said, "He is throwing a fit with me."

Sun Kui saw that the emperor was angry, and said cautiously, "Your Majesty, His Royal Highness also wants you to care about him."

The emperor slammed the handkerchief on the dining table, causing Sun Kui and Sun Doudou to tremble in fright, and then they knelt on the ground.

"He is so arrogant because of being favored." The emperor stood up and said with a cold face, "He has not learned other skills, but he has learned to be proud of being favored. I am really disappointed." A little British concubine Concubine Rong and Dai Wang were stumped, and so far, they have not come up with a strong counterattack, which disappointed the emperor very much.

Sun Kui and Sun Doudou knelt on the ground, not daring to say a word.

The emperor said with a soft sigh, "Xuan Pinghou is still no match for Duke Zhen." He walked up to Sun Kui, kicked Sun Kui's ass, "What are you doing lying on your stomach? go toward."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Sun Kui got up quickly and followed behind the emperor.

"They all say that the second child looks like me, but how can he look like me with his bear appearance?" The emperor became more angry as he thought about it, "I'm not so stupid."

Sun Kui hurriedly said flatteringly, "His Tenth Highness resembles you the most."

When the emperor heard this, he squinted at Sun Kui: "You can speak."

Sun Kui's heart was tense just now when he was watched by the emperor, but now hearing what the emperor said, he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

"The servant girl is telling the truth."

"I didn't expect my second son to be so stupid." The emperor was depressed, "The prince is also stupid. You said that I am so smart, how could I have so many stupid sons?"

Sun Kui couldn't respond well to this sentence, so he could only say: "Your Majesty, each of the nine sons born to a dragon is different."

"I have so many sons, but only two are smart. Do you think I should laugh or cry?" The emperor said of the two smart sons, one is the fourth prince, and the other is naturally Zhao Yao.

"Your Majesty, if all of your Highnesses are smart, shouldn't you be worried again?"

"You are right. If everyone is too smart, I will have a headache." The emperor frowned slightly and said, "My second child is so stupid, what should I do?"

Sun Kui comforted the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, maybe His Royal Highness will understand soon."

The emperor's tone was a bit strange: "Then I really look forward to it."

In his heart, Sun Kui silently sympathized with Dai Wang.

At this time, the ministers were already in the main hall of Chengguang Hall. When they saw the emperor walking in, they hurriedly knelt down to salute.

"See the emperor, long live the emperor, long live the emperor."

The emperor raised his hand: "Get up."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

The emperor leaned on the armrest of the dragon chair on the right, listening to the ministers playing boredly.

At the beginning of the morning court, the matters reported by the ministers were not big things, but small things.

After a while, the ministers will start playing big things.

During this period of time, there was nothing particularly important between the DPRK and China.It's not a big deal, but a good thing.

However, something happened last month.

Jiangnan was almost submerged by floods last month. Fortunately, the governor of Yangzhou began to reinforce and heighten the rivers and clear the silt in the rivers as early as a few months ago, which saved the entire Jiangnan from flooding.

At the beginning of spring, the rain in the south of the Yangtze River kept falling, and the water level of various rivers rose a lot at that time.After the summer, there will be heavy rains in the south of the Yangtze River every three days.Last month, for a whole month, the heavy rain did not stop. If the embankment had not been strengthened and raised in advance, the entire south of the Yangtze River would have been completely submerged by floods.

Fortunately, the torrential rain in the south of the Yangtze River has finally stopped since this month.If it continues to rain heavily like last month, I'm afraid the reinforced and heightened dams will not be able to withstand it.

Although Jiangnan was spared the flood this time, the continuous torrential rain still destroyed many rice fields.Fortunately, there was no accident in the rice warehouse in Jiangnan, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous.

Only Jiangnan had an accident this year.The northwest, which is often dry in previous years, has surprisingly received a lot of rain this year, but it is not as dry as in previous years.However, the absence of drought this year does not mean that there will be no drought next year.The emperor had previously decreed that reservoirs should be built everywhere.

As soon as the reservoir was dug in the northwest, it began to rain.Nowadays, a lot of water is stored in reservoirs all over the Northwest, and the people feel a lot more at ease when they see it.

After talking about the matters in Jiangnan and Northwest, Grand Master Liu mentioned that several countries near southern Xinjiang wanted to come to Dazhou to celebrate the Longevity Festival.

The emperor's birthday is the tenth day of November, two months before his birthday.If Annan, Johor, Luzon and other countries are agreed to come to congratulate them, they can start now.

"Since they want to come to congratulate, let them come." The emperor looked at the prince and ordered, "I will leave this matter to you."

The prince was overjoyed: "Yes, father."

The emperor explained: "Don't lose the national prestige of the Great Zhou when entertaining them."

The prince looked a little excited and said: "Father, don't worry, my son will definitely handle this matter well."

The emperor nodded lightly and said nothing more.

He Xiang came out and said something, and soon the morning court was over.

After leaving the court, Marquis Xuan Ping hurried to Dai Wangfu.

If the king is acting on behalf of the king today, the errands of entertaining Annan and several countries will be acting on the king's behalf.

Xuan Pinghou thinks so, because the emperor purposely glanced at the place where the Dai Wang was before instructing the Crown Prince. Unfortunately, the Dai Wang did not go to court today, so the Emperor had no choice but to entrust such an important matter to the Crown Prince.

It has been more than [-] years since the establishment of the Great Zhou Dynasty. This is the first time that countries such as Annan and Johor have officially come to the Great Zhou Dynasty to congratulate them.Therefore, it is very important to entertain envoys from countries such as Annan and Johor to congratulate them.

If this matter is done successfully, it will definitely be rewarded by the emperor.It will also be respected by countries such as Annan and Johor, and maybe they will also receive their "filial piety".

This matter, in He Lianfang's house.

Zhao Yao just had a battle with him on the sand table, and without any surprises, he lost a complete defeat.

In the battle against He Lianfang, Zhao Yao never won, only losing for a long time or a short time each time.

After replaying, Zhao Yao finally figured out the strategy He Lianfang used just now.

He Lianfang asked Zhao Yao to rest for a while, while the master and apprentice drank tea and chatted,

Ever since I knew that Zhao Yao likes to eat snacks, every time he comes, the house will prepare snacks for him.

"What do you think of the current situation in the court?" He Lianfang put down the teacup in his hand, looked at Zhao Yao who was eating snacks, and asked suddenly.

Hearing He Lianfang's question, Zhao Yao couldn't help but pause when he picked up a piece of snack, and immediately put down the snack he just picked up.

"Second uncle, what do you want to ask?"

"If you were acting king, how would you deal with the current situation?" He Lianfang asked in great detail this time.

Zhao Yao thought for a while and said, "Go to court honestly, and do things honestly."

He Lianfang asked again: "What do you think of the trick of calling the king sick?"

"It's not that good." Zhao Yao said with disdain on his face, "Dai Wang is taking pride in being favored."

Seeing Zhao Yao see so clearly, He Lianfang was not surprised, but was a little surprised.

"Your father loves Dai Wang very much. The trick of calling Dai Wang sick may be useful to your father."

"If it's useful, Dai Wang won't go to the court until now." In front of He Lianfang, Zhao Yao didn't hide himself anymore, "Dai Wang has claimed to be sick for several days, and the father sent Sun Kui to visit once. , and there will be no more after that, which shows that the father is dissatisfied with the claim of illness on behalf of the king."

"You said just now that if you were acting king, you would go to court honestly and do things honestly, what else?"

"Doing things well is better than anything else." Zhao Yao said seriously, "What the Daiwang has to do is to be steady. His trick of calling sick is really too low-level." Dai Wang is also sick, this mother and son are really... They can be favored not because of their brains, but because the father wants to pamper them on purpose.

"Do you think Dai Wang can turn the situation of Concubine Rong from falling out of favor by doing nothing?"

"Second Uncle, you are wrong, Concubine Rong has not fallen out of favor." Zhao Yao said with a smile, "If Concubine Rong really fell out of favor, it would not be the current situation."

"Since Concubine Ying entered the palace, didn't your father neglect Concubine Rong?"

"Father's neglect of Concubine Rong was not because Concubine Ying entered the palace, but because Concubine Rong had blatantly sent someone to assassinate Concubine Ying before." Zhao Yao said seriously, "No matter how favored Concubine Rong is, she can't send someone in broad daylight. Assassinating Concubine Ying is not only provoking my father, but also provoking the laws of Great Zhou." It seems that the appearance of Concubine Ying completely made Concubine Rong lose her mind, which is why Concubine Rong did such a stupid thing.

"Father is not in the cold, I'm afraid Concubine Rong will do more arrogant and domineering things in the future." In the past, when Concubine Rong did some arrogant things, Father always turned a blind eye. Law of the week.However, Concubine Rong violated the laws of the Great Zhou this time, and the emperor could no longer tolerate her.

"In a month or two, Father will no longer neglect Concubine Rong. Of course, the premise is that Concubine Rong will not do bad things again." A gesture of admitting his mistake, so that the emperor will not neglect her for a long time.

"Do you think Concubine Rong has fallen out of favor?" He Lianfang asked with great interest, "You don't think Concubine Ying can replace Concubine Rong?"

"Why can Concubine Ying replace Concubine Rong, because she has a face exactly like Si Youying's?" Zhao Yao sneered, "The reason why the father agreed with Concubine Ying to enter the palace is to let the king and the prince Fight harder."

When He Lianfang heard this, a gleam flashed in his eyes.

"Why do you think so?"

Zhao Yao smiled and said, "Isn't this an obvious thing?" He said, propping his face with his right hand, "Father is not a fool. He doesn't know what is going on in the court. Most of the ministers in the court support the prince and the prince. Dai Wang, the two of them have great influence in the court, and the father has been using the Dai Wang to check and balance the Crown Prince for balance, and he is also using the Prince to check and balance the Dai Wang."

He Lianfang said: "In the case of Concubine Ying, it is obvious that the Crown Prince and Lord Zhen Guo are superior in skill, and the Dai Wang and Xuan Ping Hou lost."

"If Dai Wang doesn't call him sick, they won't lose to the crown prince and Zhen Guogong." Zhao Yao said, with a disgusted expression on his face, "I don't know whether the idea of ​​calling sick is Dai Wang's own idea or Xuan Ping's. Hou came out."

"Xuan Pinghou is not the opponent of Zhen Guogong." He Lianfang said, "Xuan Pinghou's methods are far from Zhen Guogong's."

"Xuan Ping Hou is naturally not the opponent of Zhen Guo Gong, but Xuan Ping Hou has an advantage that Zhen Guo Gong does not have, that is, Xuan Ping Hou's mansion is not a family, and he is the cousin of the father." Zhao Yao continued, "And Duke Zhen has always been feared by his father."

It is normal for Marquis Xuanping to be inferior to Duke Zhen.Duke Zhen is the legitimate son of the Xie family, a top aristocratic family, and he received education from the family since he was a child.In terms of playing tricks and intrigues, who can play the old family.

Xuan Ping Hou was born as a farmer, let alone studying since he was a child, he couldn't even eat enough.The Xuanpinghou brothers and sisters did not start to read and write until they arrived at the Zhao family.

"Then what do you think will happen next?" Xiao Shi is really too smart.He obviously didn't go to the court, but he just heard about what happened in the court, so he could see the situation in the court clearly.

"If the acting king continues to pretend to be sick, the father will really be disappointed in him." Zhao Yao guessed, "The father should follow the wishes of the crown prince and Duke Zhen, continue to dote on Concubine Ying and neglect Concubine Rong. "

"What if Dai Wang continues to pretend to be sick?"

"Then the royal father should let the Wang family take the lead." Zhao Yao said, "In the current court, apart from the Xuanpinghou's mansion, only the Wang family can compete with the Zhenguo mansion. Also, the Wang family has always wanted to take the Xie family. Become the head of a powerful family."

"However, even if the acting king no longer pretends to be sick, the father will let the Wang family stand out."

He Lianfang asked: "If it were you, what would you do?"

"Second uncle, are you asking me what I would do if I were the father?"

He Lianfang nodded slightly: "Well, if you were the emperor, what would you do?"

Zhao Yao didn't think about this question.Now being asked by He Lianfang, he was slightly taken aback, and immediately said: "I will let the dog of the family bite the dog."

He Lianfang asked playfully, "How can a dog eat a dog?"

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