Jinghong Tower

Chapter 53 Toast You

"Are you Lao Fan's grandson?" He Ran poured a glass of wine and handed it to Lao Fan. Someone who could brew such a fine wine deserves a toast from her.

Lao Fan rubbed his hands. The girl in front of him was so young that he was embarrassed to sit across from her.

But he still took the glass of wine. He vaguely remembered that every time Master He came over, he would toast his grandfather first like this. Before his death, his grandfather said: "I, Old Fan, have not lost anything in my life. I have never drank anything." The boss poured the wine himself."

"I, I am also Lao Fan now." Lao Fan suddenly felt a surge of passion in his heart. The girl in front of him didn't know who he was, but no matter who she was, she remembered his grandfather and knew him. It shows that Master He has not forgotten them!
  They are just small people, but the great leader remembers them!
  Lao Fan drank it all in one gulp. Good wine, really good wine!

He Ran also drank the wine in the glass: "It still has the same old taste, good wine!"

Under the influence of alcohol, Lao Fan boldly asked: "Girl, what do you call me?"

He Ran smiled: "Call me Master He, or Miss He."

Lao Fan grinned. This girl is really a descendant of the He family.

"Hey, He Da is in charge!"

Lao Fan didn't know when Master He left. He drank too much and was knocked down by his home-brewed wine.

Fang Yi, who was sent by the imperial court to negotiate, almost fell into the hands of King Jin before he could reach Pingshan Guards. Fang Yi narrowly escaped death and took advantage of the internal strife among King Jin's men to flee to the army for help. He also broke his tailbone. Negotiations were a negotiation. Not only that, Fang Yi's youngest son Fang Wuyou was kidnapped by the King of Jin, and his life or death is uncertain.

Before Fang Yi returned to the capital, Mrs. Fang handed a sign to the palace and asked to see the Empress Dowager, crying so hard that her heart broke.

The emperor values ​​the eldest son, and the people love the youngest son.

Mrs. Fang gave birth to Wuyou when she was in her thirties, and she loved her so much. Mrs. Fang endured her grief in front of the Empress Dowager, but when she got up, she fainted. The imperial doctor was called, and she was finally carried back to Fang's house.

This incident quickly spread throughout the capital. Master Fang of the Metropolitan Procuratorate was seriously injured. Mrs. Fang walked into the palace and came out lying down. Young Master Fang was captured by the King of Jin, and he did not know whether he was alive or dead.

Almost in the blink of an eye, the Fang family became the most unlucky family in the capital. Master Fang's achievements were mentioned, and everyone suddenly realized that Fang Yi was not hateful. Although he impeached this and that, he dared to accuse even the emperor. This is not abominable. This is clearly an upright and selfless lonely and pure minister. He asks for orders for the people and makes corrupt officials sleep and eat uneasily. He is the parents of the people and the pillar of the country.

Even Fang Wuyou has become a good boy in the eyes of his elders.

Although Fang Wuyou is a little arrogant, who among the noble sons in the capital is not arrogant? The Fang family has a very strict upbringing. Although Fang Wuyou is the youngest son, he has never been in any serious trouble. Compared with the debt collectors in his own family, Fang Wuyou is not a good boy, and there are no good children in the capital.

The emperor never expected that when he sent Fang Yi for peace talks, he would cause so many troubles. Some people even said that Fang Yi was framed. Isn't this talking about him? It means that he is a majestic emperor but has no tolerance for others and deliberately lets Fang Yi die.

The emperor was furious. He felt that Fang Yi, a civil servant, could escape from the hands of King Jin. There must be something wrong with this. Maybe Fang Yi was King Jin's man.

During the court meeting, he talked about this matter in a cryptic manner, but he suddenly discovered that several pavilion elders looked at him with faint disdain.

Three years after taking the throne, this was the first time he saw this kind of look, strange yet familiar, just like the way those people looked at him a long, long time ago.

But he is the emperor now. Why do these elders still look at him like this? Is he wrong?

Does Fang Yi have no problem?

How could he escape as a scholar?
  He wanted to say more, but the first assistant coughed dryly and brought up another topic.

What he just said was ignored by no one. The elders are looking down upon him!

As if the emperor was struck by lightning, these people still believed the King of Jin's appeal to Min.

They believed it, they looked down upon him, and they did not openly rebel like King Jin now, just because they had not seen the real evidence that he was not a descendant of the Zhou family.

The emperor didn't know how he got back to the palace. He was restless. King Jin said that he had witnesses and physical evidence. Once he put those evidences in front of people, would these court elders, the civil and military officials of the dynasty, unite to force him? Abdicated?

No, no!

He wants to get rid of these people before they dare to openly oppose him!

The imperial grandmother said that he is the emperor, and he will use the power of the emperor to make everyone surrender!

At the court meeting the next day, the emperor looked at his chief assistant: "Since Fang Aiqing is seriously injured, let Aiqing go to negotiate peace."

When the emperor came to the throne, the Empress Dowager listened to the government behind the curtain. On the first day, before she could sit firmly behind the curtain, she was almost sprayed with shame by Fang Yi and his censor, as well as a group of gray-haired veterans. Being able to perform fainting in public, of course, the cabinet contributed to the situation and took great credit. From then on, the Empress Dowager never went to court again.

In the past three years, all the emperor's decisions were made after cabinet discussions. Now the emperor actually proposed that the chief minister should replace Fang Yi for peace talks. Several ministers in the cabinet unanimously looked at the emperor's head.

Such a bastard suggestion must have been intentional. It looked like retaliation.

Nowadays, the life and death of the dynasty, no, the life and death of the emperor is the throne of the emperor, not the dynasty. The king of Jin is surnamed Zhou. He inherits the rule, and the dynasty is still surnamed Zhou. Maybe this is the orthodoxy.

So at such a critical juncture, the emperor still has the leisure to retaliate?

Before the chief minister could respond, several cabinet elders said that peace talks were not necessary and the top priority was to fight.

The Chief Assistant smiled slightly: "Just beating is not enough. According to my opinion, Your Majesty should follow the example of Taizu Taizong and lead the expedition in person, while the Emperor guards the country's gates. Your Majesty, use your emperor's power to make the King of Jin surrender, and you will make all the people surrender. Respect, Jiuyi surrender, and history will last forever!"

It's not enough for you to harm Fang Yi, you want to trick me? dream!

The emperor was stunned, and the imperial commander went to the expedition in person? Let him lead the expedition in person?

No, he won't go, he has no martial arts skills, he is afraid of riding a horse, he is only fifteen years old, he has not got married yet, his good life has just begun, and he doesn't want to die yet!

He Ran heard about the contents of the court meeting when she returned to the capital. She laughed so hard that she burst into tears.

Xiaochizi, look at the mess you left behind. If passed down to future generations, they might think it was unofficial history.

"Jinxiu, how are Zhou Dong's daughters doing?"

Zhou Dong was the eldest son of Zhou Chi and the former prince who was posthumously named King Zhao.

When he died, he had no children, but he had three daughters, one of whom was the daughter of a princess.

(End of this chapter)