Beautiful step by step

Chapter 190

"Ah Mao means you are optimistic about King Duan?"

In the Jiangnan garden, which is so exquisite that it looks like heaven and earth, Yan Heng looked firmly at Wei Wei who was admiring the flowers in front of the window.She is wearing a high-waisted silk silk dress today, with fine patterns embroidered in darker colors on the light yellow lining.The pattern penetrates the translucent gauze, and the stars are like fireflies in the forest after nightfall.

The high-waisted gauze skirt concealed her growing belly. At first glance, she looked exactly the same as before she was pregnant.Not only did her charm remain undiminished, but she even added just the right amount of plumpness and rosiness to her pregnant face, like peach blossoms in March, making people unable to move their eyes away.

Embarrassed by his scorching gaze, Wei Wei looked away from the window, where the nearest servant was standing by the garden gate.Slightly relieved, she looked at Yan Heng beside her again.To talk about the benefits of high-strength martial arts, in addition to making achievements, being healthy all year round, and having more happiness in bed, there is also a point that there is good hearing and eyesight, and ordinary people can't listen to the corner.

However, she still lowered her voice and said: "According to common sense, King Wu and King Wei have the support of hundreds of civil and military officials, and they have practiced in six departments after adulthood. They think they are more suitable candidates, and most people think so. But they forgot , the emperor on the dragon chair is not an ordinary emperor. The emperor has been on the throne for 40 years, his military spirit is stable, and his leadership is arbitrary. Even if he is old and doesn't have a reason to bring him, but whoever is in power, how can he allow others to sleep soundly under the couch?"

Wei Wei's opinion is just a bystander, she is not like a girl born and raised in the feudal era, who has deep respect and fear for imperial power, etiquette and other things.

But hearing these words, Yan Heng's heart was different. Ah Mao was born with a delicate heart. Although she was in the back house, she often saw it more clearly than he who was in the former court and experienced the turmoil in the officialdom.

Despite all the emotions in his heart, with his military general style of saying less and doing more, he couldn't say too many compliments, so he just nodded and said: "What Ah Mao said makes sense."

This is listening. Although he has always respected her opinion since they got married, Wei Wei still couldn't help feeling emotional at this moment.Winning the heir is a major event related to the luck of the entire family.Don't say that he is now a third-rank official in frontiers, even if he is a seventh-rank sesame official, he would not let the woman in the back house intervene in such important matters.

Thinking of this, she still explained one or two things: "I have also discussed with Ah Heng before, if the person who came this time is King Wu or King Wei, we will give some credit. Firstly, we will ease the relationship with these people, and secondly, we will give less credit. Ah Heng can also do less punching. However, the heavens did not fulfill the wishes of the people, and I did not expect that the emperor sent King Duan."

After a pause, she looked tenderly at the stalwart husband-in-law in front of her with a pair of watery eyes: "Although I am a little sorry to see King Duan, I am more secretly happy. With his own intelligence, Ah Heng has worked tirelessly Why give up the credit earned here to outsiders, and he is still such an irresistible outsider."

Yan Heng understood her distress under the warmth.Ah Mao was connected with him, until he suffered from being embezzled by Shangfeng for his military merits.

Leaning over to wrap her in his arms, he lifted her with a little force, and the two of them sat down on the large armchair. He said slowly: "A man who tolerates what others can't tolerate can become a great weapon. King Wu and King Wei are powerful. Now that anyone in the court is carelessly flattering, it is only natural for Ah Mao to think like that before.

It's just that everyone is like this, if we do this, we will inevitably be lost in the crowd. I am afraid that the benefits of the two kings will be reaped, and we will not be soft-hearted when it is time to do it.That being the case, it is better to treat it with a normal heart from the beginning.As an official and a person as frank and frank as his great-grandfather, even if the time comes, even if the treacherous craftsmen are mean, they will not be able to find the slightest guilt. "

Wei Wei suddenly realized, stroked her abdomen and smiled regretfully, and said, "It's because I was too concerned about gains and losses, and got into a dead end. Ever since I was pregnant, I can't help but think about it."

"Every time Ah Mao thinks, there is something extraordinary about it. As a husband, I hope you will think more about it."

Yan Heng stroked her black and shiny hair, thinking that at the dinner party yesterday, King Duan teased him, saying that his reputation as iron and blood resounded throughout Da Viet, and it had the effect of stopping a child from crying.Presumably his reputation is now darker than her black hair.Fortunately, he married such a strange woman, she doesn't care about these things, and now there is a common flesh and blood of the two in her belly.

Flesh and blood, just thinking of this word makes his heart tremble, and he can't help but work harder, climb up a little bit, so that she and their children will be prosperous and admirable for a lifetime.

It doesn't matter if your reputation is black, just take advantage of it to do something.

Capital
Letters asking for help from the south of the Yangtze River floated into Wuwangfu and Weiwangfu like snowflakes, and brought along a piece of rare and rare treasures, which piled up in the warehouse into mountains of gold and silver.As soon as the Kumen opened, the precious light soared to the sky, and it was like an enlarged and enlarged version of the recently popular colorful ruby ​​bonsai in Beijing.

However, the two phoenix sons and grandsons have no time to pay attention to these things now, and their eyes are all focused on Duan Wang.This unobtrusive emperor's younger brother has made such great achievements in the Jiangnan Anti-Japanese War.I don't know what kind of shit luck he had, he even recruited the water bandits who have been ravaging Jiangnan for many years, and even organized them into the Jiangnan Navy.

The Jiangnan navy, to put it bluntly, is another new army of the court, but it is self-evident who this new army listens to.

The literati rebellion failed for three years, and in the final analysis it was the military power that supported the imperial power.Why was the father able to withstand the pressure to punish corruption? In just two and a half years, all the officials in the country were almost replaced.Could it be that those who are officials are stupid and don't know how to resist?It's not that they don't have military power in their hands.

Unexpectedly, the fourth brother would get such great benefits just by going to Duan Wang for a formality.Not to mention that the Jiangnan government soldiers and naval divisions are all under control, and even the father, Emperor Longyan Dayue, ordered him to preside over the Jiangnan imperial examinations.There are many talented people in the south of the Yangtze River, and the imperial examinations in the south of the Yangtze River accounted for half of the imperial examinations in Da Vietnam.

The Jiangnan imperial examination is no less important than the Enke presided over by the abolished prince two years ago.

Father, what does this mean?Does he prefer King Duan?At first glance, it seems that King Duan is obsessed with food and drink, and he doesn't care about the government. He went to the Ministry of Rites a few months ago and felt as if he was in mourning.But if you think about it deeply, Prince Duan's family is a family of historians that lasted for three dynasties.Even the concubine he is about to marry is a descendant of Wei Xiang's family whom his father respects very much.

Counting it down in detail, Duan Wang has no shortcomings in his whole body.

It is not uncommon for the mantis to catch the cicada and the oriole to be behind, but let alone that they have worked so hard to damage the reputation of the prince and finally let him fall, but in the end, such an unremarkable King Duan picked the peaches.

Thinking of the backs of the two kings sweating coldly, it was rare for the two to shake hands and make peace after the crown prince was abolished.After much discussion, they quickly came up with an idea and played together at the next morning.

"Corrupt officials are like rats. If you don't get rid of them, you can't get rid of the anger of the people and make things right. Just because of the previous Wu Liangyong case, the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice is already overcrowded, bustling with people, and there is no place to stand. It coincides with King Duan presiding over the imperial examination in the south of the Yangtze River. It is to choose the pillars for Dayue. I count the time when the imperial examinations are released, and it is almost the time of the autumn. If the king is not executed on the spot, the people in the south of the Yangtze River who have suffered for many years will be angry, and at the same time, they will wake up those who won the exams."

Sitting high on the dragon chair, Emperor Qinglong rubbed his somewhat sore eyes, looking at King Wu and King Wei in the front row below him, he felt blurred in front of his eyes.

The intentions of these two villains are really sinister, but Houxi is their brother, how can he bear such a reputation of being iron and blood.

However, the voices of civil and military officials from all over the court below made it difficult for him to speak.In particular, some people used his blank imperial decree as an argument, stating that by doing so, he had already acquiesced in Duan Wang's power of life and death.

This is his good servant!He is not dead yet, they have already found their next home one by one.Emperor Qinglong was infinitely thankful that he made up his mind to eradicate corruption that day. If not, how could the new emperor suppress these old fritters who rely on the old to sell the old after a hundred years have passed.Thinking of Emperor Qinglong's blood rushing up, his eyes became more and more blurred, and he collapsed on the imperial case.

Regardless of their father's dragon body, the hearts of the two kings were filled with horror.At first I thought it was just catching wind and shadows, but now the slight mention of the father's reaction was so strong, what he was really thinking about was King Duan?
In any case, Duan Wang's reputation must be ruined!
The Dai Viet Law stipulates that when the king is ill and unable to preside over the court council, the cabinet and the imperial clan can negotiate with each other on important matters in order to act cheaply.

The golden mountains and silver mountains accumulated in the palace will play a big role, and the flowing silver will be sent out. Soon the clan and the cabinet unanimously passed a decision: His Royal Highness Duan Wang will deal with the corruption in the south of the Yangtze River on the spot, and only the governor of Liangjiang, the chief villain, will be escorted. You can go to Beijing.

How could the Jiangnan officials have never imagined that the rare treasures they carefully selected and sent to the capital from years of searching for people's fat and people's anointing would become the last urging talisman.

When Emperor Qinglong woke up two days later, the imperial decree to seal the jade seal had already been dispatched to the south of the Yangtze River.Seeing Concubine Shu with heavy dark circles in front of the hospital bed and her whole body seemed to be much lighter, Emperor Qinglong couldn't help but feel guilty.

"My dear concubine, don't worry, I will order the secret guards to stop the order quickly, and I will never wrong you two."

Forced to cheer up, Concubine Shu stopped him uncharacteristically, knelt in front of the dragon bed and said: "The emperor's intentions are understood by both concubine and Houxi, but the emperor's affairs are related to the country, the imperial decree has been stamped with jade seals, and he hastily pursued it." Could it be that the order is changed from day to day. The matter has come to this point, I believe that Houxi will handle it properly, share the worries of his father, and ask the emperor to take back the order."

Emperor Qinglong quickly regained his senses, but his guilt towards Concubine Shu grew stronger.After seeing the princes who came to visit him with a normal face, he stayed in Yikun Palace that night, and at the same time brought over the box containing the Jade Seal of Chuanguo.

What he didn't know at this time was that Yan Heng, who was in the south of the Yangtze River, took the initiative to ask Duan Wang, willing to arrest corrupt officials for the court as a pawn.

Yan Heng's idea is very simple.He doesn't worry about having too many debts, and doesn't itch if he has too many lice. Anyway, his reputation is already so bad that it can't get any worse, so it doesn't matter if there is more blood on his hands.Furthermore, although other people may think that the punishment of corrupt officials is harmful to the peace, in his opinion, it is a great merit to save the people from the fire and water.

(End of this chapter)