After I was reborn, I became Mrs. Chief Assistant

Chapter 156
The emperor opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but in the end he sighed, shook his head and said, "It's okay."

He has been sitting in this position all these years, working hard to manage state affairs, but he has not achieved much.Nothing is achieved, how can we talk about the word "hard work".

But after Qi Changfeng resigned, his life was much more difficult, but it was true.

He occasionally proposed to build a Buddhist temple on a whim, and most of such proposals would be rejected by Xie Jie, and those who agreed with his proposal would change their words in the end because they could not resist Xie Jie's oppression.Looking around the government and the public, all the officials have a faint posture of looking forward to Xie Jie, and all the people also admire his glory.In such a huge dynasty, he, the lord of the country, seems to have become a real loner.

Without Qi Changfeng, he often felt a sense of helplessness and helplessness, and often looked around at a loss when he was alone.

But this time, when he wanted to move Gu Chengrui, he actually wanted to test Xie Jie's attitude, to see if he still took himself, the emperor, seriously.But in the end, instead of Xie Jie, he waited for Qi Changfeng.

The only thing that makes him happy is that Qi Changfeng is still the same as he was 20 years ago, always putting himself in his shoes, so he dared to risk his suspicion and embarrassment by speaking out.

"Teacher thought, how about I use Gu Chengrui to lure the snake out of the hole?" The emperor sighed and said seriously.

He also thought before that maybe someone in the DPRK made a big fuss about Gu Chengrui because of party disputes, but the snipe and the clam fight and the fisherman benefits, he is always happy to see the result, and he doesn't even mind adding a Huo, but he didn't expect that besides Xie Jie, there would be someone who would dare to be so bold and plot against him!
Qi Changfeng smiled and said, "Good."

Qi Changfeng didn't stay in the palace for too long. Although the emperor intended to keep him, he could see clearly that the emperor was no longer in his old temperament.

As for a king whose temperament he is already unpredictable, it is better to stay far away.

On this day, after several consecutive days of heavy rain in summer, Kyoto finally had a rare sunny day.The sky is deep and clear blue, and the white clouds are as soft as cotton wool, floating shallowly on the glazed blue sky, and the sky light falls on the continuous mountains and rivers of Kyoto.

On this day, the old emperor entered the palace to meet the king, and left the palace before noon, and then the king issued an edict to announce the first assistant Xie Jie to enter the palace.

No one knows whether the sunny day in Kyoto is a short-lived flash in the pan or whether it will be clear for a long time since then, just as no one knows what the emperor and the king said.

Xie Jie cleaned up his clothes, and the person who went to the palace gate to greet him was Fang Ruyi, the head servant as usual.

"Your Majesty Qi has left not long ago. Your Majesty summoned you at this time. It should be Mr. Qi who said something to him. Mr. Wanwang should be careful." Fang Ruyi held a whisk in her hand, walked beside Xie Jie without squinting, and said softly at the same time.

Xie Jie thanked him, and silently followed him through the long palace road.The vermilion palace walls, the green tiles glowing with golden light, and the flourishing thousands of flowers and trees passed by his side one after another like a fleeting image.

Fang Ruyi didn't stop until she reached the Imperial Study Room, with her usual flattering smile on her face: "Master Xie, please."

Xie Jie knocked on the door, and walked in slowly after getting the emperor's affirmative answer, and saluted the king above Danqi sternly.

Not long after the emperor sent the teacher away, his mind was full of the old and loving expression and eyes of the teacher, as well as the man's gray beard and hair, his stooped back, and his thin body.

He is too old, but the student is in the prime of life, he has a strong body, a shrewd mind, and a wise eye.

But there are still people younger than him. When he is as old as the teacher, too old to hold a sword and draw a bow, the minister in front of him has only reached his current age, more experienced, more decisive, and...more With scheming and means.

The emperor suddenly felt a surge of fear from the bottom of his heart.He had never realized so clearly that he was so afraid of aging and what happened after aging.

"emperor?"

Seeing that the emperor was in a daze, Xie Jie slightly accentuated his tone, and called again, until he cast a questioning look, Xie Jie asked: "I don't know why the emperor summoned the humble minister?"

The emperor's eyes were a little erratic again.He thought of the conversation he had with the teacher not long ago. His fear of Gu Chengrui was due to his both military and popular support, and Xie Jie on the other.

Gu Chengrui belongs to Xie Jie.

Although it seems that Gu Chengrui is not classified under anyone's influence, but he is very sure of this.He was still young, not to the point of being old and inept, and he couldn't hide the big and small things from his eyes.

And he was afraid of Xie Jie, not only his wrist and heart, but also his youth.

The emperor, who was in his prime, realized this again.

Most of the old courtiers tend to be conservative, so unless they can't bear it, they are not willing to cause turmoil in the court, but the young courtiers are different. Compared with the former, they are new to the official career, determined to forge ahead, full of longing and enthusiasm.Therefore, whether it is to carry out reforms, to purge officials, or even... to usurp the throne, the main force is mostly concentrated among young people.

He is not a very good emperor, not even competent, so he needs to rely on a prestigious courtier to be his right-hand man and the executor of his will.But at the same time, he was deeply worried about the prestige and youth of this courtier.

He withdrew his fluttering thoughts in a complicated mood, and said: "I want to discuss Gu Chengrui's matter with you. You must have heard of the many rumors in the government and the public recently."

Xie Jie lowered his eyebrows and said yes.

"I suspect that someone has directed their attention to the border military camps. That's why they made a fake show. They issued several edicts to urge Gu Chengrui to return to Beijing, but he always disobeyed the emperor's order. I don't know if Aiqing has any good ideas?"

He dismissed what he had done these days with a sentence of "fake show is real", and his intention was to tell Xie Jie: I have no doubts about Gu Chengrui, and I have no doubts about you. Don't worry about me, and solve it for me quickly. Business is what matters.

There was a mocking smile on Xie Jie's lips, but his tone was still respectful: "My Majesty, I think that General Gu is guarding the border and cannot return to Beijing. But we can use a trick to lure out the people behind this."

"Tell me."

"Since the person behind this wants General Gu to return to the capital, we might as well follow his wishes and make General Gu disappear in the barracks..."

Three days later, "Gu Chengrui" left the border barracks, and on the day he left, there was an extra soldier in the barracks.

(End of this chapter)