Lin Jiabiyu

Wei Xiang's face didn't fluctuate at all, and he didn't even move his brows. He just glanced at Gu Changwen coldly, and then took it back unhurriedly, with a calm expression on his face.

The smile on Chen Hongzheng's face froze for a moment, then calmly suppressed the smile, and looked at Gu Changwen expressionlessly.

Everyone in the hall kept a moment of silence in a tacit understanding.

Emperor Cheng Ming's face was cloudy and sunny, making it difficult to see the expression clearly.The gloom and hostility between the brows are getting stronger and stronger, and the servant Su Wen's back feels chills just watching him.

"Gu Xiang thinks I'm useless?" Emperor Cheng Ming's voice was not loud, but there was a breathless depression.

Everyone in the hall held their breath and concentrated, with different thoughts, but they all held back and did not speak.

Gu Changwen buried his head even lower, almost touching his chest, but he just stood on the hall without moving.There was a trace of earnestness in the voice: "I am terrified! The Holy One is a virtuous and holy man, and he will be blessed for thousands of years..."

Emperor Cheng Ming stared at Gu Changwen's head, with a slight smile on his face, and a hint of impatience and sternness in his eyes.

After staring at it for a long while, Emperor Cheng Ming suddenly closed his eyes, raised his hand and rubbed his brows, as if tired, leaned back on the dragon chair, and sighed wearily: "You don't need to listen to these nonsense. Everyone thinks I am old, so foolish!"

The faces of the officials in the court hall changed slightly, Wei Xiang and Chen Hongzheng stood up first, and saluted: "The ministers are afraid!"

Immediately afterwards, all the people in the hall knelt on the ground in unison, lowered their heads and lowered their eyes, and pleaded guilty in unison.

Emperor Cheng Ming glanced at the courtiers who were kneeling neatly below, and the irony in his eyes grew stronger.His eyes suddenly sharpened, and he raised his hand, and slapped it on the dragon chair, his voice was obviously displeased: "Everything I say now makes the whole court panic, and all the officials are threatening! This is my Courtiers, good! Really good!"

"Your Majesty, calm down." Chen Hongzheng pondered for a moment, then stood up with a bow, and said in a panicked voice, "I have neglected my duties. Please punish me, Your Majesty."

When Gu Changwen heard the words, a sneer crossed his face, and when he was about to speak, he heard Emperor Cheng Ming's tone be extremely unkind and said: "Didn't Prime Minister Gu ask me to appoint a crown prince, tell me, why do I want a crown prince? Who do I want to set up? Give it to me." List one, two, three! If it makes sense, I will approve it!" Then he said coldly to the ministers: "You all discuss it too, and after discussing it, come up with a charter tomorrow morning!"

As soon as the words fell, Emperor Cheng Ming had already walked away.Following the servant's voice of "Retreat", there was a rustling sound of clothes rubbing against each other in the hall.

The courtiers stood up one after another, looking at each other.But they didn't say much.

Wei Xiang put his hands in his sleeves, as if nothing happened.He took a step forward and walked out of the hall very calmly.

A group of courtiers exchanged glances with each other and followed.

Gu Changwen's face was tense and his complexion was extremely ugly. He left the hall together with several adults of the Gu family, followed by a group of people behind him.

Chen Hong stared blankly at Gu Changwen's back, before frowning for a long time to glance at the members of the Chen family.Then he also left the hall.

As soon as the Chen family's carriage drove out of the Forbidden Palace, Chen Hongzheng's face collapsed.Anger surfaced on his face, he gritted his teeth and cursed: "That old fox Gu Changwen!"

"Fourth brother calm down first," Chen Hongkuan hurriedly handed over a cup of hot tea when he saw this, his face was tense, his eyes were gloomy, and he persuaded with a serious expression, "The important thing now is not Gu Changwen's sudden invitation to appoint a prince, but the words of the Holy Majesty." Did Fourth Brother pay attention? Since the twelfth lunar month last year, His Majesty’s complexion has been getting worse day by day... It’s too soon to be crowned prince.”

Chen Hongzheng hummed, and frowned. After a moment of silence, he looked at Chen Hongkuan and said: "Your Majesty has been unclear about his intentions all these years. At this time, the most important thing is not to make His Majesty unhappy, and the rest will be discussed separately."

Chen Hongkuan and Chen Hongsheng both frowned and nodded in agreement.

Chen Hongzheng took a sip of tea, poured down the remaining anger in his throat, lowered his eyes and stared at the teacup in his hand, paused, and then instructed Chen Hongkuan in a low voice: "Third Prince, Sixth Brother, go and pass me a teacup." We should not act rashly in this matter."

Chen Hongkuan nodded and agreed with a serious expression.

On the other side, in the Gu family's carriage, Gu Changwen's face was no longer tense as before, but he sipped his tea almost calmly, twisted his beard and said in a low voice to the two masters of the Gu family: "Your Majesty has not been well, today Since my son agreed to this, he must have expected it in his heart, maybe he already has a candidate."

The third master, Gu Changzhou, frowned slightly, and there was an unknown light in his eyes. "The elder brother said about the crown prince. We, the Gu family, are on the same boat as the eldest prince. Since the Holy Majesty has agreed to this, the eldest prince has a slightly better chance of winning."

"Oh, not necessarily," the second master Gu Changqi tugged at his beard in melancholy and irritability, and shook his head with worried eyes, "Your Majesty, I never like courtiers to be too independent, even for the princes. Where is the will of God? side, it’s really not sure.”

Gu Changwen nodded, the expression on his face changed, then he frowned, and hummed in a somewhat unclear tone: "Wei Xiang still looks calm today."

King Xining and Lu Junzhao stood in the hall like sculptures from the beginning to the end, without saying a word.

After leaving the palace, Lu Junzhao followed the queen of Xining and got into the carriage. Before the king of Xining raised his eyebrows and reprimanded him, he said with a sullen face and a cold voice: "This matter needs to be further troubled, and it is best to burn it to the west mountain." Let's go to camp!"

The raised brows of King Xining fell, and he reluctantly sat back to make room for Lu Junzhao. Then he leaned back in the carriage and let out a relaxed and cheerful expression, but he didn't answer Lu Junzhao's words. .

Lu Junzhao gave King Xining a cold look, turned around and got out of the carriage, took the whip from the servant, got on the horse himself, and galloped away.

Early the next morning, the king of Xining asked for sick leave. No one bothered to delve into the matter. Anyway, the king of Xining asked for sick leave not once or twice when he encountered such a thing.

The three chief assistants sorted out the papers of the crowd, and read out the most important ones one by one. Then, as if they had discussed it, they took a step back calmly, and waited for Emperor Cheng Ming to speak.

Emperor Cheng Ming's complexion was not very good-looking.Pale with a trace of forbearable anger. "Discuss everything!"

After the edict came out, the courtiers in the hall were silent for a moment, and then someone came forward to make a statement, and after a while, someone else stepped forward to speak.

It was completely different from the silence of the previous day, but in the time of a cup of tea, all the gentle ministers in the court were talking to each other, arguing fiercely, and each of them was blushing.But no one wants to let it go.

After arguing until the end of Chen Shi, Emperor Cheng Ming's face was obviously displeased, and his eyes darkened little by little. Gu Changwen and Chen Hongzheng hurriedly stood up and answered.

The courtiers who had been arguing before stopped suddenly and looked at Emperor Cheng Ming and the two prime ministers in the main hall.

Wang Chengren stood in the corner without saying a word, but his brows were tightly furrowed.Obviously extremely impatient with such things.From the corner of the eye, he caught a glimpse of Wei Xiang who was calm and calm, showing no emotion on his face. Wang Chengren's heart skipped a beat, and his eyes subconsciously moved over, paying attention to Wei Xiang's movements calmly.

"Such an argument is like a shrew swearing at the street. How decent is it!" Cheng Mingdi's chest rose and fell, and his eyes were burning with anger.Obviously extremely angry, he raised his hand and pointed at Gu Changwen and Chen Hongzheng standing in the hall, and reprimanded in a stern and cold tone, "Type all the papers back, and write again!"

Gu Changwen and Chen Hongzheng answered with a straight face. "The Holy One calm down."

Emperor Cheng Ming took a breath, suppressed the strangeness in his throat, and looked up at the courtiers in the hall.His face gradually calmed down, and his eyes moved to Gu Changwen.The voice was tired and calm and asked: "Gu Xiang has read several papers. I vaguely heard someone say that the fourth prince is not married, is it bad?" The last two words, the tone is obviously a bit cold.

Gu Changwen turned several times in his heart, but his face was full of panic, he hurriedly lowered his eyebrows and bent down, and replied, "My lord, please tell me. It was the marriage of the fourth prince that was mentioned by the doctor of the Ministry of Rites." Gu Changwen paused, and then explained One sentence, "I don't think Mr. Wen has the intention to say that the fourth prince is not good. I also ask the Holy Lord to enlighten me..."

As soon as these words came out, the complexions of the Second Prince and the Minister of Rites Zhongliang changed.

Before Wen Liang came out to argue, Emperor Cheng Ming waved his hand and interrupted Gu Changwen impatiently. "The fourth child is also grown up. His mother and concubine died early, and no one helped him. It was also my negligence. I couldn't bear it, so I simply chose a wife for him today."

The officials were stunned for a moment, and then their thoughts turned quickly again.

Gu Changwen bowed his waist, his heart skipped a beat, his intuition was wrong, but he could only respond with a smile: "The fourth prince is blessed with the kind father's heart of the Holy One."

Emperor Cheng Ming finally had a smile on his face, but there was some coldness and sternness hidden deep in his eyes, he ignored Gu Changwen's words, instead turned his gaze to Wei Xiang with a calm face, and said with a soft smile: "I I remember that there is a little granddaughter in Wei Xiang's mansion, last year's Mid-Autumn Festival, I met that little girl at Concubine Xian's place, and she is worthy of the fourth child. Can Wei Xiang be willing?"

Wei Xiang didn't bat an eyelid, stepped forward and cupped his hands and said, "Old minister, I'll let His Majesty make arrangements."

As soon as these words came out, the whole court was dead silent again.

The news that Emperor Chengming bestowed marriage to the fourth prince and the granddaughter of Wei Xiang's first relative spread to the Xining Palace in a blink of an eye. The Xining King was writing on the newly installed desk in the study room. When he heard the news, his hands moved a little faster. After writing the word "good", the dragon snake twirled his beard and raised his eyebrows triumphantly.

Concubine Wei Xian is the adoptive mother of the eldest prince.Previously, everyone thought that even if the Wei family did not know what to do to help the eldest prince, they would definitely be happy to see the success of the eldest prince's enthronement.But now the Wei family suddenly had a fourth prince as grandson-in-law, and Xiang Wei personally accepted it. It is clear at a glance which is more important between the grandson-in-law of the direct relative and the tasteless eldest prince.

At the same time, in the Ye family's mansion, the elder Ye Shengnan also secretly found out the news that Ye Shengying probably brought three thousand elite soldiers back to Beijing. At this moment, his face was ashen, and he suddenly violently kicked on the desk in the study. The pen, ink, paper and inkstone on the table rolled down in an instant, leaving the floor in a mess.

Ye Shengnan stared at the ink flowing everywhere on the ground, his eyes darkened a little, then turned around and left the study with a sullen face, and went to the main courtyard to find the old man Ye Tianming. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.)

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