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Chapter 10 The Son of Heaven
Funing Hall.

Emperor Zhao Xu, who was ill in bed, had woken up.

He was so weak that his face was as pale as paper.

Fortunately, Sun Qi, an old imperial physician who was specially recalled, served the officials of the Song Dynasty for three generations.

He has a full understanding of Zhao Xu's physical condition.

Therefore, after being served by the pharmacist, after feeding the decoction prescribed by Sun Qi, his complexion looked better and he recovered a little bit of vitality.

After feeling better, Zhao Xu tried hard to speak, but the brain tissue after the stroke, especially the brain tissue related to language, had been necrotic.

Therefore, his lips opened and closed, but he could only make a vague sound of babbling.

Zhao Xu wanted to reach out and ask the people around him for paper and ink to write on, but he couldn't even use his hands, and he couldn't even lift his wrist joints.

It is no longer possible to convey his will to the people around him by dipping his hands in ink and writing like at the beginning of the month.

But he refused to give up.

Don't even want to admit this fact.

Still working hard, wanting to work hard.

During his 19 years in power, he never wanted to give up his power for a day.

As long as he is alive, he will desperately grasp the power in his hands!

Empress Dowager Gao and Empress Xiang saw the state of the official family.

Tears fell down in big drops.

"Official family..." Empress Xiang walked to the emperor's sick bed, opened the Buddhist scriptures in her hand, and then asked someone to help the official family, hugged her husband gently, and showed him the Buddhist scriptures: "Look, this is the prayer Buddhist scriptures that Brother Six copied for you..."

Zhao Xu, who was seriously ill, finally used his body a little after reading the words on the Buddhist scriptures. He raised his eyelids, tried to open his eyes wide, and looked at the Buddhist scriptures.

Look at the above, the correct pavilion texts.

Then, Zhao Xu took a deep look at the queen.

In his opinion, this sutra must have been copied by the queen in the name of the sixth brother.

Knowing a son is better than a father, although the sixth brother's character is considered good among his peers.

But it is never so neat and tidy, nor can it be written so well.

And why did Queen Xiang do this?
The doubts in Zhao Xu's heart immediately arose.

Do you think I can't recover?

So, the queen couldn't wait to hint and urge herself to set up a reserve?

Just like the father 19 years ago?
Zhao Xu remembered what happened 19 years ago.

The first emperor who was sick in bed was the same as he is now, unable to speak or walk, but better than him, at least he could write and command the government through words.

Zhao Xu remembered clearly when he went to visit.

The first emperor didn't give him a good face, and even showed obvious alienation.

The reason is……

At that time, there were already ministers who asked for a reserve!

Therefore, when Zhao Xu left Funing Palace, the expression on his face was very ugly.

This made the then Prime Minister Han Qi see it.

Han Qi then pulled Zhao Xu to a private place, and said to him, "May the great dynasty never leave the government's side!"

Zhao Xu remembered it very carefully. At that time, he nodded and said: "This is the duty of being a son of man!"

But Han Qi shook his head and told him: "That's not the case!" Then Han Qi looked at him with deep meaning.

At that time, Zhao Xu immediately understood the deep meaning of Han Qi's look.

From then on, he stayed in Funing Palace and never left day and night.

Even so, when the first emperor was dying, after repeated requests from Han Qi and Wen Yanbo, when he finally agreed to establish a reserve, something went wrong.

At that time, Wen Yanbo took a pen and paper and asked the late emperor to write to confirm the holy will.

For the first time, the first emperor wrote: Make the king the crown prince.

But the first emperor had three sons, all of whom were crowned kings, and all of them could be honored as great kings.

Han Qi, who was watching from the side, had no choice but to ask Shang to clarify.

The first emperor was helpless, and commented: Ying Wangxu.

I thought that this is the end of the matter, but who would have thought that when Han Qiwen Yanbo announced the Hanlin scholar Zhang Fangping to the imperial court according to the system, and drafted the establishment of the book, something went wrong again.

When the first emperor wrote for confirmation, he only wrote: Tomorrow, the system will be lowered, and a certain person will be established as the crown prince.

However, the name of the prince was not written clearly, and Zhang Fangping couldn't recognize it at all.

In desperation, Han Qi had no choice but to bite the bullet and continue to go up, and only then did he get the clear holy will: Li Ying Wang and Da Wang are crown princes.

This is the final decision on Li Chu!
At that time, Zhao Xu was in front of the imperial court and witnessed everything with his own eyes.

He could clearly see the late emperor's unwillingness and struggle.

I also heard Han Qi and Wen Yanbo whispering when they left the palace gate.

"Did you see what the official family looked like just now? Life has come to this point, even father and son are like this?!"

"This is the case with national affairs, there is no way!"

Thinking of this, Zhao Xu laughed at himself inwardly.

"I am the same as the late emperor!"

But in front of power, where are the father and son?
Thinking about it this way, the dissatisfaction in Zhao Xu's heart disappeared.

Of course, he was still uncomfortable in his heart.

Having been king for 19 years, the arbitrary officials of Qiankun will never voluntarily give up their power until the moment of death, until the moment of dying.

This is human nature!
Alienated human nature after being swallowed by power!
At this time, outside the curtain, came the voice of Zhang Maoze, who was known inside.

"The empress dowager, the saint, the chief executives have handed over the letter under the inner east gate, please come in and look inside and ask the saint!"

Empress Dowager Gao and Empress Xiang glanced at each other.

Then, Queen Xiang and the female officer in charge of medicine put down the official house again.

Then, Empress Dowager Gao said to Zhao Xu: "Officials, the old man and the queen should stay away from the palace first, and come to visit the officials after the ministers are questioned!"

Zhao Xu nodded.

So, Queen Xiang bid farewell to her husband, and followed Empress Dowager Gao to retreat to the side hall behind the East Pavilion of Funing Hall.

Huang Song ruled the world together with the scholar-bureaucrats.

As the other half of the masters of the world, the scholar-bureaucrats kept their eyes wide open, vigilant and strictly guarded against all foreign relatives, internal ministers, and military officials who dared to interfere in state affairs.

Find one and hit one!
Never tolerate!

On this point, the old party and the new party agree!
During the Zhiping period, the emperor and the empress were at odds, and the Merciful Sage once listened to the government behind a curtain. What happened?
The prime ministers, Han Qi and Wen Yanbo, used an unprecedentedly tough attitude to force Cisheng to withdraw the curtain and return to power.

Empress Dowager Gao and Empress Xiang both experienced this incident.

Especially Empress Dowager Gao, she clearly saw how the prime ministers led all the officials to force Cisheng back to Baoci Palace.

Empress dowager, queen, want to hang the curtain?Can!
Follow the story!
什么 故事？
Zhang Xian hangs the curtain and raises the story of Renmiao!

Otherwise, the world will strike together!
Therefore, since the founding of the Song Dynasty, there has never been such a thing as a powerful foreign relative, powerful internal ministers, and domineering military officials.

Civil servants and scholar-bureaucrats tamed all these domineering and arrogant forces of the Han and Tang Dynasties.

With the illustrious military exploits made by the minister Qin Han, the civil servants still couldn't make him nod and give him the title of Jiedushi.

With the military general Di Qing's achievements, he is still unable to protect his beloved general in front of civil servants.

Except for Empress Zhang Xian and Mingsu, who is a special exception, no one has ever been able to take power away from the emperor for so many years since the founding of the Song Dynasty.

However, Zhang Xianming was able to hold great power, relying on the emperor Youchong, who could not control politics, so in the name of his mother, he listened to the government behind the curtain, replacing the young emperor, and exercising the monarchy.

Therefore, as the Dangren Temple gradually grew, the voices from inside and outside the government and the public demanding that Zhang Xian withdraw the curtain and return to the government could not be suppressed.

When Empress Dowager Gao walked to the door of the side hall, she suddenly turned her head and asked the queen, "I heard that the five daughters of the emperor fell ill with a high fever last night. Thanks to the edict issued by the empress and the Secretary of the Imperial City, Liu Weijian, the internal minister, was on call outside the imperial concubine's pavilion. This allowed the imperial physician Qian Yi to enter the palace as soon as possible to administer medicine for the princess?"

"This bride is invited by the sixth brother, and I have to change it as a last resort!" Empress Xiang hurriedly pleaded guilty to Empress Dowager Gao: "I was negligent for a while, and I didn't ask the empress for an order, but it is the bride's sin!"

Negligence?
Empress Dowager Gao didn't quite believe it!
However, the Xiang's family to the empress, the Gao family to which Empress Dowager Gao belonged, and the Cao family to the late Ci Shengguang who presented Empress Cao have been friends and married each other for generations since the Zhenmiao.

Otherwise, Cisheng would not have chosen the queen.

Therefore, Empress Dowager Gao did not care about this matter.

She just wanted an attitude towards the queen.

Therefore, Empress Dowager Gao lifted her up and said to the queen, "This matter, the queen did the right thing!"

"Now that the official family is sick, old and old, and other big and small affairs, the prince and princess can only rely on the queen to take care of them!"

"In the future, if there are similar incidents, the empress will have the power to occupy the sixth palace and punish herself. There is no need to ask the old man for orders anymore!"

The alarm bell in Queen Xiang's heart suddenly rang.

As a queen, she knows very well that there is never free food in this world.

Now, Empress Dowager Gao has given her the right to take charge of the affairs of the Sixth Palace.

Use the power of the Six Palaces in exchange for her not interfering in foreign affairs?
If it is the past, Queen Xiang probably doesn't even want the name of Quan She Liu Gong.

but now……

Thinking of Sixth Brother, when he hugged himself yesterday.

Like a mother leopard protecting her cub, Queen Xiang raised her head and faced her aunt.

"Zouzhi empress..." Xiang Huang replied neither soft nor hard: "Is there such a thing as a girl in the hall and a wife in charge?"

"The bride now only thinks about praying for the blessings of the gods and Buddhas, the official family will recover soon, and the sixth brother will grow up healthy..."

"Besides this, there is nothing else to think about!"

Empress Dowager Gao looked at Empress Xiang in front of her, and at the expression of the daughter of the Xiang family, she finally sighed: "In this case, the empress will take care of Sixth Brother!"

"The bride obeys her mother's will!"

(End of this chapter)