Rebirth after waste

Chapter 133

Gu Yunxian knew that the palace people who went to the hot spring palace with her were more or less confused about the situation between her and the emperor.They probably thought that the two of them were in harmony before they were sealed off, why they fell out suddenly overnight, and it was so weird to even meet each other.

These people naturally included Liu Shanggong, A Ci and Cai Jia.

Gu Yunxian originally thought about explaining to them, but after thinking about it, she didn't know where to start.As soon as the matter between her and the emperor got to the bottom of it, she ran in the direction of strange power and chaos, and she might scare others if she said it.

She didn't say it, but it didn't mean others didn't ask.Three months after they moved to Mushan, during the Lantern Festival, Liu Shanggong saw her happy, so he asked her implicitly and tactfully if His Majesty had done something that made her unhappy.She was feeding Ah Huan minced meat at the time, and she smiled slightly after hearing that, "No. It's because he has some demands on me, and I can't do them."

Liu Shanggong didn't understand, and she didn't continue to explain.

They don't understand, it's enough for her to understand.The reason why she and the emperor could not continue to be together was not that she hated him or could not forgive him, but that she could no longer trust him or fall in love with him.

If he hadn't remembered the events of the previous life, she could still pretend that nothing had happened, and live with him peacefully and lovingly. By that time, it might still be a good story that the empress would raise the eyebrows of the empress.But the emperor remembered.He knew the past, and saw through all her disguises.It's useless for her to pretend in front of him, he won't believe it.

That being the case, there was no need for her to lie to him again.

Now, he has thought about his previous life with her.She didn't know how deep his feelings for her were, but she also understood that at least at this moment he loved her and cared about her.He hoped that she would return his feelings, that she would truly love him as well as she did before.

But she can't.

Her heart for him had long since cooled down and been lost.

Like a stone falling into the lake, even if she rowed a boat to fish out everything from the bottom of the lake, she couldn't tell which one was hers.

She can't give him what he wants, and she can't lie to him with her pretended affection. The two of them continue to get together just to torture each other, it's better to separate.

Letting her come to Maoshan is really the best choice.

The sun and the moon in the mountains have no length, she lives here, so she doesn't need to worry about these things.Apart from taking care of Ah Huan every day, her only pastime is playing the piano, reading books, and copying Buddhist scriptures.Sometimes when I look up by chance and see the luxuriant mountains in the distance and the colorful fallen flowers nearby, I can't help showing a smile.

This kind of tranquility was really what she had been looking forward to for many years before finally having it.

Her time is stagnant, but other people's time is flowing fast.Gu Yunxian didn't know before that children grow up so fast.It was as if Ah Huan was still a baby lying in swaddling clothes yesterday, but today he was able to jump up and down and cause trouble for her.

Everyone in the hot spring palace has a consensus, that is, the younger the little prince grows up, the more he resembles his father.Especially his black eyes, when he looks at you intently, it can make you jump, thinking you saw His Majesty.

Not only his appearance, but also his temperament is exactly the same as His Majesty's.Tired, playful, and bold, he wanted to climb the roof of the hot spring palace, which scared the palace servants who served him to the point of crying.

But it is such a worry-free child, but Gu Yunxian can't blame him at all.Because every time, as long as she turned cold and ignored him, he would come up pitifully, kept saying nice things, and begged Aunt for forgiveness in a childish voice.

They lived outside, and they didn't strictly abide by the rules in many aspects, so he didn't call her Queen Mother, but Grandma, just like ordinary people.

Gu Yunxian was so tortured by him that he couldn't help it, even if he got angry for a while.

Sometimes she also wonders if it's not good for him to make such a fuss.Fortunately, Liu Shanggong's words dispelled her worries in time, "Your Majesty, don't worry, I see that your Highness is very intelligent, even though he has a temper. Now he is still young, so it's okay to play tricks. When he is old enough, he will officially leave the pavilion to study. , I have my master to teach him." After a pause, he added, "My servant sees His Majesty's nonsense, it's exactly the same as His Majesty's childhood."

Gu Yunxian propped his chin, looking at the child sitting not far away who was playing the piano carelessly, with complicated eyes.

Maybe it's because they've been separated for a long time, or because every day in the mountains is so long, many of her impressions of that person have faded.She couldn't remember how he was affectionate with her in the past, and naturally she couldn't remember how he failed her earlier.

She felt that she had only been out for a few years, but she seemed to have lived a new life, and her whole person was completely new.

In fact, in the past few years, she and the emperor have not never met.She was not exiled from the palace, but came out to recuperate with great fanfare. Naturally, the emperor would not ignore her.

His attitude towards her is very intriguing, neither too partial nor too indifferent, and he is very measured.Rewards will be sent every year, and if the countries in the Western Regions donate any treasures, they will pick out the best ones for her, but the amount of these rewards is strictly controlled within a reasonable range, so that people will not feel How different he is to her, but how an ordinary emperor treats a queen he still likes.

She knew that his attitude was to better protect him.If she kept touching the emperor's heart outside the palace, those dark forces would definitely move around again, but if he completely ignored her, she would be just as dangerous.

Everything is in his careful planning.

Gu Yunxian has been out of the palace for four years, and the emperor has visited her three times. The first time was during the Mid-Autumn Festival two years after she left the palace, and the next two times were in March in Yangchun.During these short meetings, the two didn't talk much, but Ah Huan got closer to him a lot.

When he came here for the first time, Ah Huan was still very strange to him, he huddled by the door and watched him warily.He put down the teacup in his hand with a smile, raised his eyebrows and said, "Which family's young gentleman is it, why is he so timid like a little mouse?"

Although Ah Huan didn't quite understand what he meant, he also knew that it was not a good thing to say that people are mice, so he immediately rushed in front of him with a puffed up face.

The emperor obviously came prepared. Seeing this, he lowered his head and examined him carefully for a while, then nodded approvingly, "I was wrong, Mr. Xiao Lang is not a mouse, but a warrior!"

"Who are you?" Ah Huan said stiffly.

"I," he knelt down and held his small shoulders, "I am your father."

"Father?" Ah Huan frowned and said these two words, "What is that?"

He was taken aback when he heard this answer, and then he remembered that Ah Huan had lived on the mountain for a long time, and only Gu Yunxian and the palace servants who served him had contacted him. I am afraid that no one would tell him about those complicated relationships.

"Well, what do you usually call her?" He pointed to Gu Yunxian and decided to choose a simple and easy-to-understand path.

"Mother!" Ah Huan replied as a matter of course.

"Then do you know what Aunt means?"

Ah Huan frowned again, thought for a while and hesitated and said, "He is... the one who gives Ah Huan snacks every day?"

The emperor laughed.

Seeing him smiling, Ah Huan became nervous, "Did I say something wrong?"

"That's right, you're right." He reached out and tapped his forehead, "Father, like grandma, is the one who gives you something to eat."

"Oh, that's it!" Ah Huan suddenly realized, "Then, father, what did you bring me?"

He shook his head, took the white jade plate on the side, and handed it to him, "Tonight, of course I'm going to eat palace cakes..."

Ah Huan looked at the delicate and lovely palace cakes on the plate, and his eyes widened in joy.

Gu Yunxian saw that he almost bought Ah Huan's heart with lightning speed, and he was not surprised while being funny.

She always knew that as long as he was willing to work hard to please someone, he would be able to do it.For example, my former self, Jing Fushu, and those courtiers who were loyal to him were all impressed by his kind and natural attitude.

The moon was very round that night, and the moonlight shone on the trees and grass of the Hot Spring Palace, as if covered with a layer of silver frost.The three of them ate palace cakes together.While eating, the emperor kept hugging Ah Huan on his lap, whispering all kinds of whispers to him, and later even carried him to the court, where he sat and told him the story of Altair and Vega.

Gu Yunxian stood at the gate of the palace and looked at the father and son, remembering that when he was a child, he heard the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl told by his mother, and couldn't help but sigh that this person really wanted to steal her job every time he came.

During those days when he lived in the hot spring palace, her attitude towards him was very natural, and she didn't deliberately alienate him.This kind of behavior is not only because she doesn't want to make more troubles, but also because she understands that although he looks normal, he is under tremendous pressure in his heart.

In the second year after Gu Yunxian left the palace, in July of the sixth year of Yongjia, Jiang Kui, the former Minister of Officials, retired and returned home. The emperor appointed Cui Shuo as the new Minister of Officials, and then officially announced the implementation of the New Deal two months later.

The content of the decree mainly has three parts, namely institutional reform, tax reform and military reform.

The New Deal abolished a large number of useless institutions and officials, re-measured the national land, and changed the taxation method.The army focused on implementing the "Baojia Law". The government organized the villagers of each village, and ten families were organized into one Baojia.Baoding usually farms, trains troops in his spare time, and joins the army to fight in wartime.This method not only strengthens the control of the people, but also reduces military expenditures, which is very suitable for the current situation where the national treasury is empty.

As soon as the New Deal came out, the government and the opposition were in turmoil, and various forces competed for it, causing chaos for a while.

Gu Yunxian heard these things from the palace people. Although the hot spring palace is hidden in the mountains, there are still people in charge of traveling between Yudu and Maoshan to buy various ingredients and utensils. These people may have heard a lot along the way. matter.

Gu Yunxian listened to the east and the west, and then combined with his own analysis, he managed to sort things out.In her opinion, the emperor has been preparing for this new deal for at least three years.During this period of time, he placed his cronies in all the key yamen in the three provinces and six departments.So now that the decree came out, although it also encountered many resistances, it has always gained the upper hand.

In the process of implementing the New Deal, one person was more eye-catching than the emperor, and that was Cui Shuo.

Cui Shuo, who is now a member of the third rank, is not the kind of Confucian scholar who Gu Yunxian thought he could only talk on paper. His various methods are no less than those veterans who have been in the ups and downs of their careers for many years.

As far as Gu Yunxian knows, Cui Shuo has made many insightful people in the court during the past two years as a member of Zhongshushe.Those people and he belonged neither to the Southern Party nor to the Northern Party. They formed their own faction. Because they supported His Majesty's implementation of the New Deal, they were collectively referred to as the New Political Party by the outside world.

Your Majesty and the new political party, the northern party and the upper southern party, confront each other, each with a unique strategy, bent on defeating each other.

After more than half a year of seesaw like this, the situation finally changed dramatically.The Northern Party, which was originally opposed to the New Deal, suddenly changed its attitude, and instead stood on the side of the New Deal, leaving the Southern Party to fight alone.

Everyone was caught off guard by this turn of events, and when they were still wondering, they heard the news that Xu Qinghua, the leader of the Northern Party and left minister, was talking with Cui Shuo about poetry and painting, and having a drink together in snow.So everyone instantly realized that this Cui Shuo was Xu Qinghua's best friend!
What's more, some with good memories recalled the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet in the fourth year of Yongjia, when Cui Shuo played a song with Empress Gu, who was still a noble concubine at that time, which attracted Xu Qinghua's admiration.It's normal for these two people to have similar interests and political views, so they get closer!

But what everyone didn't know, and what Gu Yunxian didn't know, was that these were just superficial phenomena. Xu Qinghua was the emperor's confidant long before he was appointed as the left minister.Now the show is just because the emperor doesn't want people to think that he deliberately forced Zhou Shitao away, so he deliberately led everyone to think that Cui Shuo had recruited Xu Qinghua for him.

Gu Yunxian lived in a hot spring palace like a fairyland outside the world, imagining the bloody storm in Yudu, and couldn't help but rejoice that he escaped all this early.

The feelings for that person in my heart became more complicated.

(End of this chapter)