The Book of Raising Children by Houmen

Chapter 60 The Wise Man (3)
Zhao Jing had already brewed a cup of tea at this time, and delivered it to Zhou Xu. Hearing this, she frowned slightly, and said with a smile, "Why is the emperor also upset about this matter? This servant just came from the empress dowager's place." When I came back, I was also upset about this matter!"

Zhou Xu took the teacup and was drinking tea with his head down. Hearing this, he raised his head and asked, "Why are these things still going to the queen mother? Isn't it enough to upset me?"

Zhao Jing looked at Zhou Xu's tightly knit brows, and said lightly: "Your Majesty, don't worry, the Empress Dowager has issued a decree to ask Jing Guogong's family to bury Miss Gu earlier, so that the deceased can be buried in peace. .”

When the emperor heard this, his eyes lit up immediately, and he put down the teacup in his hand and said, "Is this the Queen Mother's order? Then, what Marquis Wu An said is true, Miss Gu really..." Before Zhou Xu could finish his sentence, he stood up and said with his hands behind his back: "Mr. Jing Guo is too deceitful. He played around with his mother. He also participated in the Marquis of Wu'an's book, and asked Zhenge to remove him from the position of marshal and escort him back to Beijing. Investigate! But he is now a meritorious minister, how do you ask me to make such a decree?"

Great victory at the border, after the news of the victory came, the regent and Zhou Xu had already been drawing up rewards for Marquis Wu'an's triumphant return to Beijing. good?
Moreover, Marquis Wu'an was at the border as a marshal, and he was indeed not allowed to return to Beijing without the emperor's summons. This was indeed a felony.Although Zhou Xu knew that Mr. Jing Guogong was avenging his personal revenge, he couldn't reject his memorandum in front of all civil and military officials, which put Zhou Xu in a real dilemma.

"If you have meritorious service, you will be rewarded, and if you have demerit, you will be punished. The emperor doesn't have to make things difficult." Zhao Jing thought for a while, and then said: "Besides, it is true that Marquis Wu An returned to Beijing privately. If the emperor favors him because of his military exploits, I'm afraid he won't be able to Convince the public."

When Zhao Jing said this, she recalled the scene when she saw Marquis Wu An that day. As a military general, it was rare that he was not a burly man with a knife-cut look on his brows. He looked like an upright man. When he made up his mind to return to Beijing, he had already expected such a result.

"What Auntie said is that I was just angry and let Jing Guogong take advantage of this public revenge for nothing. As the king of a country, do I still have to act according to their faces?"

Zhou Xu raised his head, and the young man's face was already a bit aloof, and he suppressed his impatience, revealing a bit of maturity.

"Since punishment is a must, then the emperor might as well punish with a small punishment, let Marquis Wu An balance his merits and demerits, and make a bet on the mouths of all the ministers." Zhao Jing said, with a faint smile on her cheeks, leaning close to Zhou Xu. He whispered in his ear: "The Marquis of Wu'an is the marshal of the army. Naturally, there can be nothing wrong with it. If the Tartars take advantage of this opportunity to send troops rashly, our army will be leaderless, so... this servant has the courage to come up with an idea for the emperor. In order to clean up military discipline, let the lieutenants around Marquis Wu An take the punishment for him, what does the emperor think?"

"Good idea, why didn't I think of it!" Zhou Xu suddenly heard such good news, jumped up from the dragon chair happily and said, "Nothing can compare to Dayong's Sheji, so I decided so happily, I don't want to be like Jing Guogong and his group of people."

Seeing the emperor's happy face again, Zhao Jing breathed a sigh of relief. Normally, she wouldn't care about such nosy matters, but today she didn't know what happened, she talked too much.

Zhao Jing lowered her head, thought for a while, and said: "The emperor's holy ruling is that you don't need to listen to the one-sided words of the slaves, because the slaves have overstepped again."

Zhou Xu knew Zhao Jing's temperament. She never intervened in government affairs. Today, she pointed out to herself once from the sidelines, and she has committed a big taboo, so she hastily said: "Don't worry, this is the solution I came up with, and it has nothing to do with aunt. .”

Seeing that Zhou Xu's mind was spinning quickly, Zhao Jing nodded with a smile. After all, the days when she could get along with him like this are not long.

In the military camp thousands of miles away, Chang Geng ate twenty army sticks, and was lying in Xu Si'an's tent crying like a ghost, while the military doctor was on the side giving him medicine.

"Master Hou...why did you beat him like a slave when he was punished?" Although Chang Geng secretly rejoiced that he was punished for Xu Si'an, he still complained relentlessly.

"Didn't the emperor's imperial decree say it? Lord Hou is in command of the three armies, and your body cannot be injured, but the state has state laws, and the army has military regulations. If Lord Hou makes a mistake, he will naturally be punished. The emperor clearly distinguishes rewards and punishments."

The old military doctor was originally with the old Lord Hou, and he felt 1 distressed for Xu Si'an. He was sweating profusely when he heard that the little emperor had an imperial decree, but he didn't expect to worry about it for nothing. At this time, he looked at the queen Chang Geng With a stick injury on his back, he finally endured the joy of humming a little song and applied medicine for him.

(End of this chapter)