The emperor is reborn, the cute queen is upgraded

Chapter 74 The Queen's Scheming Part 2
Madam Huang of Funing Palace?The old aunt next to the Queen Mother!
"Ask her to come here." Si Luoyun sat upright and raised her jaw slightly.

Liao Mu'er's heart ached, because of herself, the empress and the empress dowager had a rift, which made her a little uneasy.

Nanny Huang was led by the servants to the outside of the pavilion, and bowed to Empress Si.

"Ma'am, please get up." Si Luoyun said gently. "But what does the queen mother want to order?"

Huang Nai's attitude was respectful, and she bowed even more than usual, "Going back to the empress, the old lady doesn't have any orders. It's just that a palace official went to Funing Palace to report that it was Xu Meiren who was outside Jinyuan. I bumped into the Empress Empress, and I was punished by you to kneel outside the Jin Garden. The old lady was afraid that Xu Meiren would be shameless, which would make the empress gasp, so she sent her slaves to visit."

After Madam Huang finished speaking, there was silence all around.

This is why beauty Xu is special in the harem!Empress Dowager Xu will not sit idly by if she changes anything!
As soon as the empress punished Xu Meiren for kneeling, someone ran to report on the back foot, and the empress dowager immediately sent her cronies to ask the empress!
Madam Huang's tone was respectful, and her words also expressed the empress dowager's concern for the empress, but who could ignore the "beauty Xu" she specially mentioned?

Liao Mu'er was anxious, and wanted to stand up and speak for Queen Si, but Chun Xiao stretched out her hand to hold her back!
Si Luoyun looked at Nanny Huang and smiled faintly, "Mother Lao is worried, I haven't moved my fetus."

Answer finished!

Huang Momo hung her head and waited for a while, only to realize that Empress Si had no intention of continuing!
Really!The point of the empress dowager sending you here is not to see if the empress has moved her tires!If you say no...then there is a problem!

Huang Momo smiled embarrassingly, and said: "It's a blessing that the empress and the dragon's heir are safe. Why did beauty Xu offend the empress and was punished to kneel..."

"Is Huang Momo questioning this palace?" Si Luoyun put away her smile, and the temperature of her voice dropped, "This palace is the master of the harem, so there is a reason for punishing concubines! Or... To punish a concubine, it is appropriate to send someone to report to the queen mother?"

"I don't dare to question the Queen Mother! Please forgive me!" Huang Momo panicked and blessed her lower body, "It's just that the old lady heard the report from the palace man and felt very sad for Xu Meiren's assault on the Empress, so she ordered the servant girl to ask the reason. Let’s go back and teach Xu Meiren a lesson!”

"Oh." Si Luoyun responded lightly, "So that's the case. Didn't the palace man who went to Funing Palace report the whole story? I really don't know which slave is useless! Send such a person back to the servant Save it, it’s almost enough to arrange to wash the night incense barrel.”

"..." Huang Momo saw sweat on her forehead!

Of course the palace man who secretly ran to report the incident told the story from beginning to end!Huang Momo asked this question only to let Empress Si speak out for herself, and when the time came, she would bring out the relationship between Empress Dowager Xu and Meiren Xu to plead for love, and then asked the queen to forgive Xu Meiren from kneeling for an hour, or Cut some time!Otherwise, Xu Meiren would be unable to walk for a few days after kneeling on the gravel ground for an hour!It wouldn't be beautiful if it left a mark on the knee!
However, Empress Si did not speak according to common sense!You say east, she goes south, you say heaven, she says thunder!What can I do if I'm sorry?
Nanny Huang was dripping with cold sweat, thinking about how to intercede for Beauty Xu, when another servant came running from Jinyuan to the side door of the imperial study.

"I report to the Empress, the discussion between the emperor and the cabinet lords is over! Your lords have come out of the imperial study!" Ding said.

Si Luoyun's eyes lit up, but seeing that Nanny Huang was still there, she suppressed her excitement again.

"I just punished Xu Meiren for her indiscreet words and deeds, and alarmed the queen mother. It is really my fault." Si Luoyun sighed softly, "Forget it, I ordered Xu Meiren to go back to Deyi Palace to retrieve the " "Women's Training" and "Women's Commandments" are copied [-] times each as punishment."

"Thank you, Empress, for your kindness." Nanny Huang said blessedly.

Knowing that the empress has something to do, Nanny Huang is still very winking!What's more, she also wants to take away the troublesome Xu Meiren as soon as possible!
After dismissing Nanny Huang, Si Luoyun ordered Ding to quickly stop Prime Minister Si and invite him to Jinyuan!

Jin Garden is close to the Emperor's Imperial Study Room and Tide Hall, and Prime Minister Si is the Queen's biological father, so meeting here is not too much.

Prime Minister Si was very important when the first emperor was in power. Apart from the fact that he did not form a party in the court, he also had the principle of "loyalty" to the emperor as an official, which made the first emperor like him!
Now the man sitting on the dragon chair is his "son-in-law", and Prime Minister Si is even more loyal!
It's just that recently, under the influence of the emperor's order to cut down the vassal, the atmosphere in the court is extremely restless!As the prime minister, even if he stood on the side of the emperor, it would be difficult for him to suppress the voice of opposition from most of the courtiers!

Faced with the opposition of most of his courtiers, the emperor was very calm and did not get angry because of it.Can answer and refute the questions raised by those who oppose and the reasons for objecting!
At the beginning, four of the six cabinet ministers also opposed the emperor's slashing of the vassal, but after a few days of court discussions, two of them have already stood on the list of support!
Today the emperor summoned Prime Minister Si and five other cabinet ministers to the imperial study to try harder to persuade the other two veteran ministers!

Above the court, as long as the cabinet ministers no longer object, the voices of opposition from other courtiers are of little significance!Because the cabinet ministers are the leaders of the major factions in the court!As for the vassals who refuse to accept it, they will suppress it by force!

Si Cheng was surprised by Dugu Ye's sophisticated governing methods!It is difficult for the first emperor to show such courage!
After leaving the imperial study, Prime Minister Si was walking with Minister of the Ministry of War while talking about his son Si Mingyuan, when a servant stopped in front of him to salute and block the way.

"Prime Minister Si, Shangshu Zhao." The maid said with a smile, "The empress asked Prime Minister Si to move to Jinyuan to talk."

Prime Minister Si was taken aback for a moment, and then he was ecstatic in his heart!

He was grey-headed and trying every means to meet Empress Si, to seek promotion for Siming Yuan, but he never thought that he would be able to meet today!It seems that Mrs. Zhao did say hello to the queen when she entered the palace, but he was wrong to blame his wife!

Zhao Shangshu smiled and said goodbye to Prime Minister Si, and Prime Minister Si followed the servant named Ding Qu to Jinyuan.

Arriving outside the small pavilion in the Jin Garden, Prime Minister Si saw the second daughter in luxurious clothes, Si Luoyun, the queen of the Great Yan Kingdom!

After performing the ceremony of the monarch and ministers, Si Luoyun waved her hand and ordered the palace servants to retreat, leaving only Chunxiao to serve.

"Prime Minister, please sit down." Si Luoyun motioned to the short pier beside the pavilion, asking Prime Minister Si to take a seat.

Prime Minister Si hesitated for a moment, but sat down as ordered.

Although they are father and daughter, they have never been close!Face-to-face nowadays, there is nothing to say, and I don't know how to start the conversation!

In the end, it was Si Luoyun who spoke first.

"Two months ago, when my mother came to visit me in the palace, she mentioned the matter of my brother-in-law and my brother-in-law." Si Luoyun said slowly, "What is the prime minister's plan?"

No nonsense, straight to the point!This is the best way for their father and daughter to communicate!
Prime Minister Si felt inexplicably nervous. The fingers of his hands on his knees were slightly bent, and his palms felt wet!

"Reporting to the empress, I believe that family affairs and state affairs should not be confused!" After a moment of silence, Prime Minister Si said in a deep voice.

Si Luoyun raised her eyebrows and said with a puzzled chuckle: "Oh? It turns out that the affairs of the two concubines in the prime minister's mansion can be distinguished from family affairs and state affairs. Then what are family affairs? What are state affairs?"

Prime Minister Si took a deep breath, sat sideways and said respectfully: "I think it's my family's business that my wife, Mrs. Zhao, wants to change the name of the concubine Mingzhen into the name of the concubine! However, he is concerned about the important affairs of the country and serves the imperial court wholeheartedly! It is difficult to show great ambitions because of being teased by fortune and not being in the imperial ranks! Finding good ministers for the emperor and Dayan is a state affair."

What a national and family matter!
Si Luoyun was about to applaud for Prime Minister Si's brazen and sanctimonious remarks!

"I've been taught." Si Luoyun said with a mocking smile on her lips and lowered her eyes.

Prime Minister Si's body trembled, suppressing the irritability and uneasiness that surged up in his heart!
"I dare not." Prime Minister Si stood up and said.

That's right!Every time he faced this second daughter, he would have such inexplicable emotions!
Children should act like children!Even if it's like the third daughter, Si Luofu, who loves to play tricks and pretend to be sick to win her attention, she is still a kind of childlike loveliness!

Prime Minister Si had hardly seen Si Luoyun before the age of five or six, so the relationship between father and daughter was not deep.Anyway, the daughter just wants to learn from the wives and concubines what a boudoir girl should learn, and doesn't need too much attention from his father like a son!
Therefore, even when the six-year-old Si Luoyun started to walk around the mansion and often appeared in front of Prime Minister Si, he didn't pay much attention to her.Moreover, Si Luoyun has been very strange since she was a child!Unlike other children who love to talk and ask questions, but often stare at one place in a daze!
When she looks at someone, those serious and calm eyes will make people panic!It was as if she had seen through her heart!Si Jianchang doesn't like this daughter!

Si Luoyun looked at her father, whose temples were frost-colored, but what she thought of was her elder brother Si Mingyao!

The eldest brother looks very much like his father!The contours, edges and corners of the face seemed to be carved from Prime Minister Si's face!Only those eyes are like mother Zhao's!
Did father feel sad when he lost his outstanding elder brother?How sad is it?

It can't be said that Si Cheng doesn't value his son-in-law enough!The teachers and schools my eldest brother hired when he was a child were all carefully selected by his father!But Si Luoyun still doesn't want to see Aunt Ning proud!I don't want to see the second brother rely on the merits that the elder brother bought with his life, and have a bright future!
It doesn't matter if she is narrow-minded!It doesn't matter if she doesn't care about her family's selfishness!Si Luoyun doesn't want to force and embarrass herself!I don't even want to see my mother being sad and disappointed again and again!
Mother was right!If the second elder brother is really a practical talent, Wai Fang can also rely on his own political achievements and his father's help to climb to the top position little by little!
"But..." Si Luoyun spoke again, her tone restored to dignity, "Father, you know that I have always stood by my mother."

Si Luoyun abandons the unkind court titles and calls herself "I"!At the same time, he also called Prime Minister Si "Father"!
Prime Minister Si's heart sank!He was not happy with Queen Si's friendly way of speaking.

"But I also hope that the Si family will prosper, and it is also appropriate to help the second brother." Si Luoyun continued, "As my father said, between family affairs and state affairs, state affairs are naturally more important! However, since ancient times, the importance of ministers governing the country has been measured. When he was only a child, he learned how to run a family. People who don’t know how to solve family affairs, how can they talk about governing the country? My mother just wanted to adopt Ming Zhen to be raised under her name, and my father had to think about such a small matter for a long time. Puzzled!"

Prime Minister Si, with sweat on his temples, bowed his head to listen to his daughter's lecture!Now that his status is different, he dare not show his father's profile!
"It's better for father to open the ancestral hall first, record Mingzhen under mother's name, and change it to a son-in-law. After the ceremony is completed, I will mention the matter of my second brother to the emperor." Si Luoyun began to talk about conditions with Prime Minister Si, and at the same time Forgot to remind this eccentric father, "If father has a better candidate in mind, he doesn't need to listen to these gossips from this palace, just ask that person for help! How the second elder brother's official career will depend on his fortune. "

(End of this chapter)