The ministers begged me to ascend the throne

"Your Majesty, didn't the Empress say that the Huns will come to our Great Zhou in a few days, and she doesn't want to hold a Qianqiu banquet to distract you at this time." Sun Kui didn't think that Empress Xie dared to play tricks at this time , "The slave feels that the empress is not playing tricks, but wants to be in front of you..."

Speaking of this, Sun Kui paused, and then said with a bright light in his eyes: "The Empress wants to gain favor in front of you." The word [to gain favor] was learned from Zhao Yao. "Besides, the Empress does not dare to play tricks in front of you."

"That's right." The emperor didn't think that Empress Xie dared to play tricks in front of him at this time.Pretending to be virtuous in front of him is in line with Queen Xie's temperament.

Sun Kui looked at the soup on the imperial table, hesitated and reminded the emperor: "Your Majesty, the soup sent by the Empress is going to be cold."

The emperor didn't even look at the bowl of soup specially brought by the empress, he raised his eyes to Sun Kui and said, "I've given it to you."

Sun Kui had already guessed that this would be the result, and quickly thanked the emperor, "Thank you, Your Majesty."

The emperor waved his hand and signaled Sun Kui to bring the soup down.

Sun Kui took the soup out and waved to Sun Doudou.

The master and apprentice turned around and went to the apse of Chengguang Hall, where they sat on the stone steps and drank the soup sent by the empress.

"Master, I didn't say that every time the empress gave the emperor soup, she didn't make it herself. What did she do with it?" There was only Sun Kui here, and Sun Doudou naturally dared to say anything.He complained unceremoniously, "The empress really has no sincerity at all, how can she please the emperor like her?"

Sun Kui finished drinking the soup in the spoon before he said: "The Empress is the daughter of the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion. She has been dressed in fine clothes and food since she was a child, and her ten fingers don't touch Yangchun water. How can she make soup?"

"But Concubine De and the others will make some food. Every time they send the snacks to the emperor, they make them with their own hands." Sun Doudou said while drinking the soup, "Which empress in this palace didn't make the food for the emperor herself , only the empress is not."

"The empress didn't say that she made it herself, and the emperor doesn't care about it." After finishing the soup, Sun Kui took out a handkerchief from his sleeve and wiped his mouth, "What do you care about?"

"I'm just wondering." Sun Doudou picked up the soup, raised his head and gulped down the rest of the soup, and immediately took out a handkerchief from his sleeve to wipe his mouth.

He almost wiped his mouth with his sleeve just now, but thinking that it would leave oil stains, he quickly took out the handkerchief from his sleeve.

"Master, do you think the empress really likes the emperor?"

"No one in this palace likes the emperor, and the empress is no exception."

"Then how could the Empress..." Sun Doudou got stuck at this point, not knowing what to say for a moment.He thought for a while and said, "I always feel that the empress is putting on airs. She obviously likes the emperor, but she doesn't want to condescend to dip her fingers in the sun for the emperor."

Sun Kui thought about it and felt that what the apprentice said was right.

"It seems to be the case."

"Master, I always feel that the empress takes her status as the eldest lady of the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion too seriously." Sun Doudou looked around to make sure there was no one else, but she still cautiously lowered her voice and said, "There are still , I always feel that the empress is also putting on airs in front of the emperor, and the empress thinks that her status is more noble than the emperor."

"Nobler than the emperor?" Sun Kui had a horrified look on his face when he heard this, "What nonsense are you talking about?"

"Master, I'm not talking nonsense, I think the empress thinks so. After all, the Xie family has been a powerful family for hundreds of years, and the emperor..." Sun Doudou didn't dare to continue.

Sun Kui gave Sun Doudou a hard look, and poked his forehead with his hand.

"Boy, you don't want to live, do you?"

Sun Doudou hurriedly begged for mercy: "Master, that's not what I mean, but what I think the empress means. Don't you think so?"

Sun Kui stopped what he was doing, then frowned and thought about it carefully.

"Don't say it, it's really a bit..."

"That's right." Sun Doudou said proudly, "The empress is very proud, even more proud than the emperor, haven't you noticed?"

"I see that the empress is very virtuous in front of the emperor, but you said that the empress is not willing to condescend to make soup for the emperor, it is true."

"This is the reason why the empress doesn't like the emperor." Sun Doudou patted his thigh and said, "Our emperor is such a smart person. How can the empress's small thoughts escape the emperor's eyes."

"Is this the reason why the emperor doesn't like the empress?" Sun Kui felt that this was only one of the reasons.The reason why the emperor really doesn't like the empress is that the empress is not satisfied.

"It must be." Sun Doudou spoke more and more vigorously, but his voice was not loud, "The empress is very proud in her bones, and there is no gentleness and virtuousness in the former empress."

Sun Kui nodded in agreement and said, "The empress is indeed not as good as the former empress."

"The empress is not as good as the former queen in every way, and she still learns from the former queen in every way." Sun Doudou joked, "This is imitating others, isn't it?"

Sun Kui tapped Sun Doudou's head lightly with his whisk, and laughed and cursed: "Stinky boy, you are getting more and more courageous, how dare you laugh at the empress."

"Master, didn't I tell you this, and I didn't tell anyone else." Sun Doudou smiled flatteringly at Sun Kui, "Master, do you think what I said makes sense?"

"There is some truth to what you said." Sun Kui didn't realize this.

Sun Doudou shook her head, curled her lips and said, "It's impossible for someone like the empress to win the favor of the emperor forever."

"This is not something you and I can worry about." Sun Kui stood up, shook the whisk in his hand, and said to Sun Doudou with a serious face, "You can't tell the third person what you just said, Otherwise your little head will be gone."

"Master, I'm not a fool to say this to others." Sun Doudou said, stood up, and patted his buttocks.

"You are watching carefully."

"Master, didn't you let me see more on weekdays?" Sun Doudou approached Sun Kui and said in a low voice, "Master, I found that among so many empresses, only Empress Liang treated the emperor like an ordinary woman treats her husband. "

Sun Kui glanced sideways at Sun Doudou: "You kid, do you still know how ordinary women treat their husbands?"

"Master, what you said, I can't get married, can't you see it?" Sun Doudou said again, "Actually, Concubine Rong really likes the emperor."

"Concubine Rong grew up with the emperor, so she naturally likes the emperor the most." Sun Kui looked at Sun Doudou and asked, "Where are the other empresses?"

"Concubine De, Concubine Liang, and Concubine Shu like the emperor, but they don't like Concubine Rong as much." Sun Doudou said, "Concubine Li doesn't seem to like the emperor very much."

"Where is Concubine Ying?"

"Master, I can't understand Concubine Ying." Speaking of Concubine Ying, Sun Doudou frowned, with a look of fear on his face, "Concubine Ying is unfathomable."

"There are only two empresses in this palace who really like the emperor, one is Concubine Rong, and the other is Empress Concubine Liang." Sun Kui said, "They like the emperor, not the identity of the emperor. Other empresses like the emperor , because the emperor is the emperor."

Sun Doudou asked: "Master, what about Concubine Ying?"

Sun Kui said with a deep expression: "Concubine Ying is very smart and very self-aware."

Sun Doudou understood what Sun Kui meant, nodded obediently, and immediately patted his master's ass and said, "Master, you are still wise and wise."

"You still have to learn." Sun Kui kicked Sun Doudou's ass, "Go back and watch."

Sun Doudou, who was kicked in the ass, smiled brightly: "Yes, Master." After finishing speaking, he followed behind Sun Kui.

Sun Kui quietly returned to the imperial study room, while Sun Doudou stood obediently at the door of the imperial study room.

After a while, Sun Kui brought a cup of tea and handed it to the emperor with both hands.

"Your Majesty, drink a cup of tea and rest."

Hearing this, the emperor put down the cinnabar pen in his hand and took the teacup from Sun Kui.

"How does the soup from the queen taste?"

"Naturally it's delicious." Sun Kui said with a smile on his face, "Thank you, my servant, for the reward from the emperor. Otherwise, how could my servant drink such a good soup."

Hearing what Sun Kui said, the emperor took the tea cover and shook his face twice.

"Smooter."

The water from the tea lid splashed onto Sun Kui's face, but it wasn't hot.

"Your majesty, you are wrong. What the slaves are not flattering, but dragon's fart."

The emperor snorted softly and said, "You old boy is getting more and more slippery."

"Your Majesty, what this servant and servant say is the truth." Sun Kui's expression seemed extremely sincere.

"Okay, I don't know if you are sincere or not," the emperor didn't put down the tea cup in his hand after drinking the tea, but played with the tea lid.

Sun Kui saw that the emperor didn't speak suddenly, with a thoughtful expression on his face, he asked carefully, "Your Majesty, what's wrong with you?"

"I'm thinking about what to do with Lao Qi."

"What happened to His Royal Highness King Jing?"

"It's not good for Lao Qi to be a vagrant all the time." The emperor tapped the teacup with the tea lid, making a crisp sound.

"Your Majesty, isn't His Royal Highness King Jing in poor health?"

The emperor sneered: "Do you believe this kind of nonsense?"

Sun Kui: "..." Your Majesty, at least you should give His Royal Highness King Jing some face.

"Who can be fooled by the little things in the hearts of the queen and Lao Qi." Not to mention him, even the ministers can't be fooled. "The queen has been married to me for more than ten years. Although there is no merit, but there is hard work. I have to reward her well."

Sun Kui didn't believe what the emperor said.He intuitively felt that the emperor was planning something.

"I will become the queen."

When Sun Kui heard this, his eyes widened in an instant, and he asked with a look of astonishment, "Your Majesty, how are you going to make the empress happy?" After speaking, Sun Kui silently thanked the empress in his heart.

"Arrange an important official position for Lao Qi." The emperor picked up the tea lid and twirled it at his fingertips, "I think about what kind of official position would be better for Lao Qi."

Sun Kui stood aside and did not speak.

After thinking for a while, the emperor said, "Let Lao Qi be the minister."

Sun Kui: "!!!!!!" Your majesty, you are really generous.

"Grandson." The emperor liked to call Sun Kui "grandson", of course he did it on purpose. "Go and talk to Lao Qi and ask him to be a minister tomorrow."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"By the way, tell him, let him do well, and don't let me down." The emperor specifically confessed, "And tell him, I have high hopes for him."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

After receiving the order, Sun Kui withdrew and called Sun Doudou over.

Sun Doudou opened his mouth in surprise after hearing Sun Kui's words: "Master, this..."

Sun Kui stared at Sun Doudou warningly: "Don't ask if you shouldn't."

Sun Doudou immediately understood, and said obediently, "I'm going to King Jing's Mansion now."

Sun Kui sighed in his heart: Your majesty, this move of yours is really cruel.

Soon, Empress Xie learned that King Jing had been appointed by the emperor to serve as a minister, and she was naturally very pleasantly surprised.

Jiang Chuan was also happy for Empress Xie and King Jing: "Your Majesty, this is the Minister's Order."

Although Shang Shuling is only a fourth-rank official, he is incomparable with Taiwei, Situ, and Sikong, but Shang Shuling is very important.The position is light but the weight is heavy, and it is the order of the Minister.

Empress Xie never dreamed that the emperor would arrange for King Jing to be the minister: "It must be my palace who told the emperor not to hold the Qianqiu Banquet. The emperor knows that this palace is virtuous, so I asked my son to be the minister."

"It must be so. Madam, you go to the emperor first, and later the emperor will ask His Highness to make the Ministerial Order." Jiang Chuan said with a smile, "Madam, if your Highness has made the Ministerial Order, we will be able to get the support of many high-ranking ministers in the future. .”

"That's right." Empress Xie's face turned red from being too excited, "It's really great."

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty has appointed Your Highness as Minister of State, which means that His Majesty still values ​​our Highness very much." Jiang Chuan suddenly thought of something, with a shocked expression on his face, "Your Majesty, you said that His Majesty attaches so much importance to His Highness, is it His Majesty... "She didn't dare to continue, but she pointed in the direction of the East Palace.

Empress Xie understood what Jiang Chuan meant, and immediately her heart beat violently.

"It must be like this, the emperor wants to train Xiaoqi."

"Your Majesty, that's definitely the case." Jiang Chuan said seriously, "In the past two years, the emperor seems to have become more and more dissatisfied with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. Rebuke the prince."

"Your Majesty, this servant feels that the emperor is giving our Highness a chance. If our Highness does well, the Emperor might really let our Highness be the crown prince." The more Jiang Chuan thought about it, the more he felt it was so.

"You are right, the emperor is training Xiao Qi, and he is also testing Xiao Qi." Empress Xie clenched her hands into fists suddenly, "If Xiao Qi does well, the emperor will be very happy, and the emperor will become more and more happy next time." If Xiao Qi is reused, then the emperor will definitely abolish the crown prince and replace him with Xiao Qi."

"Your Majesty, as long as our Highness performs better than the Crown Prince, our Highness is very likely to replace the Crown Prince."

"You go out of the palace to find Xiaoqi immediately..." At this point, Empress Xie suddenly waved her hand, "Xiaoqi should enter the palace to thank you later, you go to the gate of the imperial study and wait for him."

"Yes, ma'am."

King Jing's reaction was the same as Queen Xie's. He also felt that the emperor was testing him to see if he had the ability to be a good minister.If he does a good job as a minister, the emperor will reuse him and train him, and he will definitely become a prince by then.

In the past, he was the one who wrongly blamed his father, thinking that his father didn't like him and didn't value him.

Now it seems that the father likes him and attaches great importance to him.

He must perform well and never disappoint his father.

King Jing entered the palace with a heart full of gratitude to see the emperor to thank him.

The emperor encouraged King Jing, which made King Jing feel even more excited.

King Jing very solemnly stated to the emperor that he must do his best to be a minister and never let the emperor down.

The emperor said that he believed that he would not let him down!

King Jing walked out of the imperial study, feeling full of energy all over his body.Seeing Jiang Chuan waiting for him, he immediately followed him to Zhaoyang Palace.

At this time, Duke Zhen was not only unhappy when he learned that King Jing had been appointed Minister of State, but also had a heavy expression on his face.

The eldest son of Zhen Guogong's mansion also had a solemn expression: "Father, is the emperor trying to provoke us to thank the family?"

Zhen Guogong sighed deeply and said: "I have expected that the emperor will do this."

"Father, Auntie has always wanted us to support His Royal Highness King Jing, and now His Highness King Jing has been arranged by the emperor to be a minister, Auntie..." The eldest son of the Duke of Zhen said with a worried face, "Auntie will definitely force you to do so again. We support His Royal Highness King Jing."

"The emperor just knew that your aunt wanted His Royal Highness King Jing to be the crown prince, that's why he came up with this trick." For his own sister, Duke Zhen felt helpless.

"Father, if we don't support His Highness King Jing, my aunt will hate us to death." The eldest son of the Duke of Zhen said with a headache, "With my aunt's temperament, I don't know what she will do."

"I will have a good talk with her." Duke Zhen knew in his heart that unless he supported His Royal Highness King Jing, no matter what he said, Empress Xie would not listen.However, he still hoped that Empress Xie would listen to his words and not hold back the Duke of Zhen's mansion and the entire Xie family.

"I hope my aunt can listen to you." The prince of Zhen Guogong's mansion suddenly gritted his teeth and said, "The emperor's move is really cruel."

"If it were me, I would do the same." Lord Zhen didn't think there was anything wrong with the emperor's doing so, "If you want to blame it, blame your aunt and they are not of one mind with us."

"Father, my aunt only thinks about her and His Royal Highness King Jing, never for the entire Xie family." Although my aunt is the first daughter of the Xie family, her heart and wisdom are not as good as the eldest aunt of the concubine.

"Your grandparents spoiled her." Lord Zhen Guo once said to old Lord Zhen Guo that he should not spoil his little sister too much, or he would spoil her. You should be pampered. "The biggest shortcoming of your sister-in-law is that she is self-righteous, and she is far behind your elder sister-in-law."

"Father, what if my aunt doesn't listen to you?"

Lord Zhen narrowed his eyes slightly, and a sharp light flashed across his eyes.

"I'm responsible for the entire Xie family, and I can't ruin the Xie family because of her."

Hearing Zhen Guogong's words, the prince understood his father's attitude.

"You have to remember that nothing and no one is as important as our Xie family." Duke Zhen's expression was very serious, and his tone was also very stern, "We can't let the Xie family be destroyed in our hands, understand?"

The eldest son of the Duke of Zhen's mansion shuddered, and a serious look appeared on his face: "Understood!"

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