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Chapter 196

The sky gradually became brighter.

As long as there is this ray of light at the beginning, it seems that the darkness will be dispelled, and it will only take a short time for the light to come.

The red morning glow suddenly blooms from the east, bringing the joy of a new day.

Jiang Jinxiu sat with the lamp lit all night.

A night of anxiety, a night of anticipation, a night of anxiety, and a night of loss.

Taking a bath, dressing up, preparing everything meticulously, just waiting for Fengluan Chunen's car to pick him up.

The sleeping nurse is very meticulous and gentle. In addition to teaching the common things about serving the bed that make people blush, she also told her that it is an extremely honorable treatment to be carefully prepared by a dedicated person from the afternoon, which symbolizes the importance of the emperor.

She comforted herself that Prince Jin was the emperor's younger brother, and he might not be allowed to come back because he was happy to stay in Prince Jin's mansion.

Not forgetting yourself on purpose.But why can't you send someone to tell me, so as not to wait so bitterly.

At daybreak, Jiang Jinxiu finally couldn't bear the sadness and grievance of the night. After yawning a few times, she lay down on the bed and cried.

Qing'er accompanied her by the side, patted her on the back lightly, and comforted her in a warm voice:

"My lord, your majesty is temporarily staying at the Prince Jin's Mansion, and I will make up for it when I come back today. Others just carried it away, but my lord is taking a bath with flowers and plants, rubbing her body with essential oils, dressing her body specially, and even her clothes are specially smoked." It smells good. The emperor is so caring for the young master, please don't cry."

It sounded like this, Jiang Jinxiu knew that the emperor was kind to her, but she still burst into tears.

She couldn't tell why, she just felt wronged and sad.

"My lord, my servant has gone to inquire about it. The emperor just came back to the palace in the morning, and now he is going to court. Don't be sad, my lord, you will hurt your body." Xiao Luozi came in from the outside and said respectfully.

"Qing'er, please wait for me to freshen up, Xiao Luozi, please go for a run and do Tai Chi first, and I'll come over to read poetry in a while. My sister will be back in a few days. We have to do well, and we can't let my sister down." Jiang Jinxiu covered her hands chest, said sobbingly.

Crying with her own Xizi temperament made everyone around her feel pain.

There is no need to study deliberately.

"Okay, okay, don't cry," Qing'er said with a smile, "My lord, you haven't slept all night, why don't you ask the queen for a vacation, why don't you sleep at home first?"

Jiang Jinxiu shook her head, and said with red eyes: "I didn't serve the bed last night, because I didn't sleep all night and asked for leave, I would be laughed at. And I promised the empress that I will never be late from now on."

"It can also be said that you are not feeling well." Qing'er said with a smile, she is not used to her master being so aggressive, "Forget it, since the young master has decided to go, let's go to freshen up. Today we also want to be beautiful."

You must know that on the afternoon of the first day of the young master's induction training, he simply skipped class for a nap.

At this time, almost no news was heard in the palace, and everyone thought that today they would go to greet the queen normally.

After a while, a little eunuch came to inform that today's invitation was cancelled.

After receiving the temporary holiday notice from her unit, Jiang Jinxiu naturally stopped embarrassing herself and quickly washed up and lay down.

After some comfort from Qing'er, she felt that it was no big deal.Anyway, Concubine Hui was at bedtime yesterday, so the emperor had something to do and left halfway.

Your Majesty, he is very busy with all kinds of affairs.

Thinking of this, Jiang Jinxiu soon fell into a sweet dreamland.

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Today, the morning meeting was held at five o'clock as usual, which really surprised almost all the courtiers.

What happened last night, almost all the high-level officials attended King Jin's wedding banquet, and all the middle-level officials heard the gossip outside the Meridian Gate, so they all knew about the big event that happened last night.

The emperor first announced several imperial edicts:

The first item, in recognition of the queen's life-saving escort, made the father of the queen Xie Kewei the Duke of the Protectorate, and granted the ten counties he guarded as hereditary fiefdoms.

The second item is that Chen Zhanghan was not afraid of the powerful, and appointed Chen Zhanghan, the son of the right minister, as the seventh-rank supervisory censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, responsible for supervising and impeaching officials.He was appointed as the imperial envoy and set off to the local government to carry out the supervision of corruption of local officials.

The third item is to stabilize the country and provide comfort to the people. This year, the hardest-hit areas will be exempted from taxation and labor, and encourage the reclamation of wasteland and the restoration of agricultural production.

After announcing the imperial decree, it will enter the stage of court discussion.

Almost all the officials in the court were filled with righteous indignation, headed by Meng Xiang, who became the main combat faction, and severely reprimanded the Tatar envoys for their treasonous behavior, thinking that the dynasty itself and the Tatars are feuds, and it is a life-and-death relationship, so they should not seek peace .

He advocated the execution of Mengqibake as an example to others, and the queen's father and brother Zhenbeihou sent troops to attack the Tatars to avenge the queen and the skinning of the former merchants.

Meng Xiang had always been a tough main fighter when he was the first emperor, so it was not abrupt at this time.

Chen Xiang was a peacemaker when he was the first emperor. He advocated solving the internal problems of the country first, appeasing the hearts of the people, and developing the economy.Foreign exchanges and relations are mainly based on soft policies such as trade, intermarriage, and kinship.

So today the respective positions in the court are still the same.

Coupled with Li Beichen's instruction, Chen Xiang analyzed the strangeness of yesterday's assassination incident, and suggested that this may be a strategy by the Tatar side, which was to destroy the initially established cooperative relationship and provoke war while killing people with a knife. The pros and cons of going to war at this time.

It's just that today in the court hall, Chen Xiang talked loudly, but he became a lonely family and a widow, alone and weak.

Members of the party he leads on weekdays have collectively chosen to remain silent today.

Li Beichen took the opportunity to throw out the question of how to prepare military pay if he was going to fight for a long time.

To everyone's surprise, Meng Xiang offered to donate his years of family savings, 200 million taels of silver to support the army's conquest, in order to inherit the ambition of the late emperor.

He was honest and frank without hesitation, he had already heard the news spread by Murong Chi, Minister of the New Household Department, and understood that the emperor must have known that he was on the list of bribes.

Therefore, he took the initiative to confess and seek mitigation of guilt.

Meng Xiang said frankly and tearfully that over the years, he had indeed foolishly accepted bribes, including the former Minister of the Household Department, and took a lot of project benefits, and he deserved to die.

I beseech the emperor to be merciful, because the veterans of the two dynasties had no merit but hard work, and volunteered to donate their wealth, to spare the lives of his family, keep the house, and not sleep on the streets.

He felt deeply remorseful and ashamed, and he was willing to be punished and let himself be dealt with.

At the same time, he regretted his mistakes with heartache, and strongly appealed to other corrupt colleagues to donate the stolen money of these years in order to seek the emperor's forgiveness.

"It was the late emperor's lifelong ambition to drive out the barbarians and restore China. He fought and conquered many times in his life. I dare not ask your majesty for forgiveness for making such a big mistake. I only ask your majesty to adopt the words of my minister's madness and unite with each other so that the monarch and his ministers will reconcile and recover the north If you lose ground, stabilize the northern border, and show me the power of the gods, you will be willing to follow the ax and the axe."

It means that he only hopes to adopt his suggestion and attack Tatar for the sake of the long-term stability of the country. It doesn't matter whether he himself dies or not.

After finishing speaking, Meng Lian stopped sitting in the grand teacher's chair, took off his black gauze hat, and pleaded guilty.

All the courtiers present looked at each other in blank dismay, shocked, and Meng Xiang didn't give in at all before his voluntary surrender, which was too unexpected.

Yesterday, I thought that Murong Chi's new official took office three fires, but it was a fake news released by fraud.

Logically speaking, it's not conclusive evidence that is flung in the face, it's an individual who can deny it whenever he can. How can he rush to hand over the stolen money and plead guilty?

The emperor must have conclusive evidence, and he has caught Meng Xiang's handle.

Is it true that the rumored corruption and bribery accounts copied from the house were copied?
Everyone immediately faced the famous prisoner's dilemma problem: to confess or not to confess.

(End of this chapter)