Emperor Phoenix Policy: Feng Qingtian

Chapter 25 Conspiracy
At night, the lanterns crackled, the incense burner burned, and a wisp of incense rose up.

Feng Jin lazily leaned on the beauty's couch, half-closed her eyes, while the green clothes were changing the dressing for the wound on her hand.

Wang Quan stood aside, talking about matters in the palace in a low voice.

"Your Majesty, do you want to clean up those spies?"

Feng Jin raised her eyelids, "Who do they belong to?"

"Most of them belong to Prime Minister Pei, and Lord Qi, Lord Tang, and Lord Li also have them."

Feng Jin slowly opened her eyes. The light in her eyes was unfathomable. She curled the corners of her lips and said with a half-smile, "There are four assistant ministers."

Master Qi, Qi Laohu, is the Secretary of the Household Department, Tang Master Tang Zhongde is the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, Lord Li and Li Yi are the Minister of the Ministry of War, and Pei Xiu is the four ministers appointed by the late emperor before his death.

For a long time, among the four people, Pei Xiu was the head, and Tang Zhongde and Li Yi were his right and left hands. The old fox Qi smiled at everyone on the surface, but he was soft and hard in secret. It's a pity that old fox Qi is not a vegetarian, so he made his household department like an iron bucket, which is invulnerable to water and fire.

Even so, as Pei Xiu became more and more powerful, under the siege, the old fox Qi was struggling extremely hard. If Feng Jin hadn't come, perhaps within a year, the household department would be breached, and the Qi family would disappear in smoke.

"Your Majesty, do you want to clean up all these restless things?"

"Of course it needs to be cleaned up, but," Feng Jin curled her lips, revealing a faint smile, her deep eyes glanced at Wang Quan's face, "When the water is clear, there will be no fish."

Wang Quan was stunned, and then understood the queen's plan. The harem was the same as the previous dynasty, it was impossible to be clean, there was always something so dirty.

Actions must be made, and the queen's posture must be displayed, otherwise those people will think that the queen is weak and can be bullied.

However, if the pressure is too tight and the movements are too big, it is easy to force the opponent to jump over the wall. Besides, after all the spies are cleared, those people will send new ones.

So, clear a part, keep a part, knock the mountain and shake the tiger!
He will send someone to keep an eye on those sneaky things left behind.

In the next few days, there were occasional turmoil in the palace, and some court ladies and eunuchs disappeared inexplicably. Everyone knew that this was the newly appointed Director Wang who was helping Her Majesty clean up the harem, and people were panicked.

Just when someone could barely sit still, the turmoil stopped without warning, so fast that people couldn't react.

In Xiangfu's study room, Pei Xiu sat in a chair with a gloomy expression and her long eyebrows furrowed.

Tang Zhongde, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and Li Yi, Minister of the Ministry of War, stood at the bottom, one left and one right. The two looked at each other. Tang Zhongde walked forward step by step, and said with a smile, "The palace is calm, and our people have not been completely cleaned up. , this is a good thing, why is Xiangye still frowning?"

"Good thing?"

Pei Xiu sneered, and gently tapped the armrest of the chair with his knuckle fingers. There was no sound in the study, only the slight tapping sound, knocking on the hearts of Tang Zhongde and Li Yi one after another.

"The people raised by the truth shouldn't be so smart! This is the second time, kill one and keep the other. The last time I killed the red jade of the truth, and kept the autumn spirit of Qi's old fox, and conquered the Qi family. This time, Some of the spies in the palace died and some remained, this is the best way to balance, we can’t get in, we can’t retreat, we can’t get off, you still think it’s a good thing?”

Tang Zhongde smiled awkwardly, not daring to say more.

Pei Xiu glanced at him coldly, with a gloomy face, shook his head and said, "No, Your Majesty shouldn't be such a person, no one has ever taught her these things."

Tang Zhongde thought for a while and said, "This time, maybe it was Wang Quan's idea."

When Wang Quan was mentioned, Pei Xiu's face became even uglier, "That old thing, he should have been killed in the first place! It will be settled once and for all! If he hadn't mastered the secrets of the palace..."

Pei Xiu suddenly realized what he said, and shut up immediately.

Tang Zhongde thought for a moment, secret?What secret?
It seems that Xiangye didn't kill Wang Quan at the beginning because he wanted to get the secrets in Wang Quan's stomach, right?What is the secret that makes Xiangye so nervous?
Before the death of the late emperor, many things happened in the palace. When the late emperor first fell ill, he did not think of Li Fengjin as the empress dowager. At that time, the late emperor had a prince who was two years younger than Fengjin, and Fengjin was the queen of the palace. The birth is different, this prince is a concubine born to a concubine.

The first emperor once thought of making the prince the crown prince, but one day the prince climbed up the rockery for fun, fell down, and died on the spot. Because of this incident, the first emperor became more seriously ill, and he couldn't afford it. After only three months, he passed away. collapsed.

It's strange to say that since the empress ascended the throne, the empress dowager went to the royal Qingcheng Temple to devote herself to the Buddha. Since then, she has never entered the palace, and the empress dowager is useless.

Tang Zhongde couldn't figure it out after much deliberation, and suddenly felt two unfathomable gazes on him. Tang Zhongde's heart froze, and he quickly restrained his wandering thoughts, and didn't dare to think about it.

Pei Xiu withdrew his gaze gloomyly, took a scroll from the bookshelf next to it, and called the housekeeper Pei Zhong in, "Send it to the palace, and personally deliver it to His Majesty!"

Pei Zhong took the scroll and stepped back.

Tang Zhongde glanced at the scroll curiously, and asked, "Is it an ancient painting bought by Master Xiang? Your Majesty remembers that His Majesty doesn't like antique calligraphy and painting!"

"It's the portrait of the third brother Pei Yu."

Pei Yu is the concubine of Pei Xiu's second uncle, and his biological mother is just a servant girl, with a low status in the mansion, a weak temperament and easy to handle, and a beautiful appearance.

Tang Zhongde immediately understood Pei Xiu's intentions, and with a turbulent wave in his heart, he said with a stiff face, "Congratulations, Mr. Xiang, it seems that Pei's residence is going to have a royal husband."

Pei Xiu smiled without saying a word, turned his deep eyes on Tang Zhongde's stiff face twice, and suddenly mentioned Tang Zhongde's most proud son, Tang Qinghe.

"Qinghe is already twenty, and it's time for Zhongde to marry him, otherwise, he will always think about things he shouldn't."

Pei Xiu pointedly said that there were bean-sized beads of sweat on Tang Zhongde's forehead. He shook his hands and wiped off the sweat with his sleeves, tried to squeeze out a stiff smile, and said respectfully, "What Xiangye said is very true."

Pei Xiu glanced at Li Yi, "I heard that the Li family has a daughter who is twenty-eight years old. According to the facts, it might as well be a good thing. The two families should be in-laws, right?"

Tang Zhongde swayed and almost fainted.

Not to mention that the daughter of the Li family was born by an aunt, she looks as rough as a man, and has a fierce temper. She fights and kills every day. How can she be worthy of his Qinghe?
It seems that this is Xiangye's resentment that His Majesty has taken a fancy to Qinghe!
Tang Zhongde hated it in his heart, but there was a flattering smile on his face, "Master Li's daughter is of course a good one, and it is an honor for me to marry Master Li, but for this matter, I have to talk to my husband first. Please discuss it with me, after all, Qinghe was raised by the old lady since he was a child, so his marriage will naturally be decided by the old lady."

Tang Zhongde pushed his mother, Mrs. Tang, out. Pei Xiu didn't understand what he meant, so he smiled and didn't say anything else. He didn't want to push Tang Zhongde too hard. He was just beating Tang Zhongde to let the Tang family settle down. They can imagine!

When he left the prime minister's mansion, Tang Zhongde's legs were weak. If the servants hadn't supported him, he might have fallen headfirst from the steps.

Li Yi glanced at him disdainfully, "You are a scholar who is useless! Mr. Tang doesn't like the daughter of our Li family, and our Li family doesn't like the men of your Tang family. Weak and weak Scholar! What do you say that Tang Qinghe is one of the four sons of the capital, handsome and elegant, with a literary talent, in my opinion, he would faint even if he killed a chicken?"

Tang Zhongde was so angry that his teeth were almost crushed. I haven't said that the concubine born by your aunt is so ugly. How dare you think about our eldest son?You Li family still despise Lao Tzu's son?
Angry in his heart, Tang Zhongde always had a smile on his face, "Lord Li misunderstood, Miss Li is beautiful and gentle, virtuous and virtuous, men who have never married in the capital are all vying to marry, it is a dog who is not good enough for Miss Li."

Beautiful and gentle, virtuous and virtuous, they vie for marriage.

These few words were like a few slaps on Li Yi's face, Li Yi's dark face turned into a liver color, he gave Tang Zhongde a hard look, jumped on the horse, flicked the whip, and walked from Tang Zhongde's side walk away.

Li Yi's horse was so fierce that it almost knocked Tang Zhongde down. After Tang Zhongde stood still in embarrassment, he gave Li Yi's back a harsh blow.

When the dark guard told Feng Jin what happened at the gate of Xiangfu, Feng Jin was admiring the portrait of Pei Yu sent by Pei Zhonggang.

"The appearance is not bad, and I heard that the temperament is also gentle and considerate."

Feng Jin commented with a smile, Wuming frowned, "Your Majesty is not angry?"

"What's there to be angry about?"

Feng Jin casually put the scroll aside, with a calm expression.

"The dark guard found out that this Pei Yu is weak and sick, and he can't even have sex."

Feng Jin cast a slanting glance at Wuming, "Why? I'm so nameless, why do you want me to favor other men?"

"Of course my subordinates don't want to. It's just that Pei Xiu sent Pei Yu's portrait. It's clear that he wants Pei Yu to be the emperor's husband. A husband who can't even have a wife, let alone let His Majesty give birth to an heir. The Pei family wants to do it. what?"

Feng Jin curled his lips into a smile, and his eyes turned cold, "What else can I do? One is a puppet, the other is a shield!"

Nameless frowned, "This subordinate doesn't understand."

"One, Pei Yu's status is low, weak and easy to handle, Pei Xiu can manipulate him at will, two, Pei Yu can't have intercourse, and outsiders don't know about it, and, such things as intercourse, Pei Yu can't, Pei Xiu can."

Wuming's face sank, "Your Majesty means that Pei Xiu wants His Majesty to conceive his heir, and then give birth to him under Pei Yu's name, so that he doesn't have to enter the palace to become the emperor's husband and lose his authority , can also get the prince and princess who have his blood, kill two birds with one stone! If in the future..."

The smile on Feng Jin's lips was so intense that it made people feel cold all over her body. She coldly accepted Wuming's words, "If I don't behave well in the future, he will kill me and help the prince ascend the throne. At that time, The whole country is his!"

(End of this chapter)