National Beauty

Central Palace.

Emperor Xuande said that he would come here to eat at night, but when it was getting dark, there was no movement in the Chongzheng Hall. Empress Li looked at the brother Sheng, who had already called out for Xiaodu Gua twice, and ordered the maid to take the brother Sheng's first. Dinner is served. Brother Sheng heard it, his eyes lit up and he couldn't help swallowing. He was already hungry, but he didn't dare to tell the emperor's grandmother.

At this time, Brother Sheng missed his mother in particular at home, but Brother Sheng secretly moved his finger, and it would be three more days before Heavenly Father would take him back to the palace.

Brother Sheng misses his mother and brother...

The maids came in with the food, Brother Sheng didn't want to temporarily, and obediently moved to the red sandalwood low table with the emperor's grandmother. Emperor Li was holding a porcelain bowl at the back, and he was blowing a spoonful of spoonfuls to feed the baby boy himself. Brother Sheng didn't like to let the emperor grandmother feed him, but his mother had asked him to listen to the emperor's grandmother.

Halfway through, Emperor Xuande came over. Empress Li knew that the emperor didn’t pay attention to pomp in private, so she continued to sit on the warm couch with the bowl and jokingly said to Emperor Xuande: “It’s the emperor who is late, but don’t blame us. Waiting for you."

Emperor Xuande looked at the young and beautiful queen, then looked at the fat grandson with the head and the brain, and said with a smile: "No blame or blame, just leave me a meal."

"Grandfather Emperor, sit down." Brother Sheng pointed to the opposite, sensible and authentic.

Emperor Xuande took off his boots and went to the couch. The empress was already affectionate, and now many grandchildren have more interesting things to talk about, and the atmosphere at the dinner table is more relaxed. Emperor Xuande is in a good mood. When the nursing mother takes away Brother Sheng, he chats with Empress Li and talks about family affairs. The little queen was pressed into the tent.

Emperor Xuande was fifty years old and he was very old. Some things were unavoidable. Fortunately, some capable Taoist priests were raised in the palace, and the medicine was given to Emperor Xuande. Emperor Xuande's government has been in trouble in the past two years, and he can't use it several times a month. Now he dotes on the queen, and Emperor Xuande took one beforehand, and Longwei exhibited.

After the matter was over, the emperor hugged and fell asleep, hugged and separated naturally.

In the dead of night, Queen Li was suddenly awakened by a low reprimand. She did not move and listened to her. She heard the man next to her murmur a few words vaguely. "Big Brother" and "Nephew" were faintly discernible. The dream was over soon, the man's breathing became calm again, but Empress Li couldn't sleep anymore.

Since the king of Wu'an County committed suicide last year, rumors among the people have spread, and the emperor has often dreamed. Empress Li didn't know what the emperor said in the dream with the late emperor, emperor and son, but the emperor was also a human, so no matter how difficult it is, the emperor would not feel at ease if his nephew died because of him? What's more, the emperor knows best how the emperor's throne was obtained from the emperor Gaozu.

The mood is complicated, and it took a long time for Queen Li to go to sleep.

Emperor Xuande slept peacefully in the middle of the night, and got up the next day as usual, practiced health-preserving boxing for a quarter of an hour, and went to court after washing. After 1 year, there was no change in the frontier Liao, and there was no major event in the court for the time being. After the court was dismissed, Emperor Xuande moved to Chongzheng Hall to review the memorial sent by Zhongshu Province. After reviewing one by one, Emperor Xuande went to pick up new ones, his gaze fell on the name of the presenting official, and Emperor Xuande's eyes changed.

Zhao Pu, an ambassador to the three cities of Heyang, Jiedu.

Emperor Xuande frowned subconsciously.

Zhao Pu is the confidant of his elder brother Gaozu Emperor. He was valued by his elder brother because of his resourcefulness, and he had the same surname as them, and the relationship was even closer. When his elder brother fought the country, Zhao Pu followed his elder brother to the north and south to conquer Wu Kingdom. It happened that the queen mother was seriously ill and the elder brother couldn’t get away, so he asked Zhao Pu to take care of the queen mother. He simply regarded Zhao Pu as a godson.

The elder brother ascended the throne and named Zhao Pu as prime minister and his younger brother as Jing Zhaoyin. Before the elder brother calmed down the world, several monarchs in the Central Plains followed a rule. The prince of Jing Zhaoyin was equivalent to the quasi-prince. Once the monarch died, the prince could just ascend the throne. The elder brother deliberately passed on the throne to him, but Zhao Pu insisted on the throne and should be passed down from father to son. He repeatedly asked his elder brother to withdraw his Jing Zhaoyin.

The elder brother did not obey, but then he was shaken, until Zhao Pu was exposed for power for personal gain and selling timber. His elder was furious, and he deposed Zhao Pu as prime minister and transferred Zhao Pu out of the capital and demoted him to Heyang Three City Jiedu. His Jing Zhaoyin was barely stable, and finally ascended the throne smoothly without any danger.

If Zhao Pu does not remove the prime minister, the man sitting in the dragon chair today may not be him.

Emperor Xuande naturally disliked Zhao Pu for such grievances, but Emperor Xuande was also curious about why Zhao Pu, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly played for a while, hesitated for a moment, Emperor Xuande slowly opened the memorial. There are a lot of handwriting on the memorial. First of all, he cared about his dragon body. Emperor Xuande smiled ironically, but saw the following words...

Emperor Xuande had been on the fire for half a year, and finally extinguished it from the bottom of his heart.

The memorial handed by Zhao Pu in early February. In early March, Emperor Xuande praised Zhao Pu for his achievements in the three cities of Heyang, and then decreed that Zhao Pu was appointed as the Prince Shaobao and stayed in Beijing for the court’s request. Participate in the daily morning session. As soon as this remark came out, the ministers of civil and military affairs were surprised, and then he was more surprised.

Zhao Pu was the founding father and veteran of the two dynasties. Looking at the entire Great Zhou, no official can compare to Zhao Pu when it comes to the merits of the Great Zhou, and Zhao Pu has the talent of the world, if Zhao Pu is in Beijing, he will stare at him, The emperor will certainly not make the blunder of the hasty Northern Expedition. After all, Zhao Pu's prestige lies there. If there is an admonition, the emperor will have to listen.

However, the officials also knew the grudge between the emperor and Zhao Pu. According to reason, the emperor should continue to snub Zhao Pu. Why did he suddenly transfer his rival back to the capital?

They didn't understand. The Prime Minister Xu Wei didn't understand. He was in a cold sweat just hearing the words "Zhao Pu stayed in Beijing, please." When Zhao Pu was expelled from the capital by the Emperor Gaozu, he and the emperor had a lot of energy, so Zhao Pu fell, and the emperor gave him the position of prime minister. After careful calculation, what Zhao Pu hates most is him and the emperor. . Now that Zhao Pu is coming back, with Zhao Pu's means, he will surely be able to make a comeback, then Zhao Pu dare not retaliate against the emperor, and treat him...

Feeling the peeping of other courtiers or sympathizing or gloating, Xu Wei tried to stay calm, but in his heart he hoped that Zhao Pu could not stand up.

However, on the third day of his return to the capital, Zhao Pu, who had white hair on his temples, returned to the capital. At the palace banquet organized for him by Emperor Xuande, in the presence of prime minister Xu Wei, clerk Cao Yu and other important ministers, he held wine bottles and expressed emotion to Emperor Xuande. Said: "The emperor, before the death of the empress dowager and the immortal, the ministers and the high ancestors were sent to listen to the decree. The queen dowager was most worried about the inheritance of the emperor of the Great Zhou. She personally ordered the emperor to pass on the throne to you when the emperor's limit was approaching. I agree with the Queen Mother’s edict, so I have repeatedly advised Gaozu to withdraw your Jing Zhaoyin. Now it seems that fortunately, Gaozu never listened to the words of the minister. Otherwise, why would the minister witness the unification of the Central Plains in the peaceful and prosperous age?"

After finishing speaking, Zhao Pu held up the wine bottle and utterly admired it.

Emperor Xuande stared at him in shock: "The Queen Mother, does the Queen Mother really have a will?"

Zhao Pu's face flushed, as if he was drunk, and stood up swayingly. While taking out the will from his arms, he staggered to the front of Emperor Xuande, then threw himself down on his knees, and said, "Queen Mother When he was alive, he treated Puqing with his mother and son, and gave his will to his ministers before his death, in order to prevent the emperor from breaking his oath, but the minister concealed this because of his own selfishness. The tired emperor was criticized by the people. The minister should die for the crime. Please the emperor to punish! "

Emperor Xuande was speechless for a while, and the ministers present were also shocked. Only the Prime Minister Xu Wei's heart sank to the bottom of his feet. What is the biggest heart disease after the emperor ascended the throne? It is because there is no edict on the position of the emperor Gaozu, brothers and last brothers, the name is not righteous, and now Zhao Pu, the old fox, has offered a copy of the queen mother's edict, which has solved the emperor’s confidential problems in one fell swoop. Can the emperor not reuse Zhao Pu?

As soon as his thoughts fell, he saw Emperor Xuande suddenly leave and helped Zhao Pu, who was kneeling there, with both hands. The monarch and minister who was once intolerant of water and fire suddenly became brothers of the same surname, a self-reported guilty, and a magnanimous expression of the past. It's all over, and from now on, I will count on virtuous officials to help him manage the country.

Zhao Pu is a virtuous minister, what is he?

Xu Wei's heart is ashamed.

King Qin's heart was also a little gray. Looking at the emperor brother and Zhao Pu not far away, he only felt that a sword suddenly fell from the sky and hung over his head. Before the emperor's accession to the throne, he did imply that in the future, his brothers would also be the same. King Qin floated for a few years, and it was not until the emperor's brother arranged his nephew to enter the Zhongshu Province to observe politics. The emperor said that back then, but he was just ascending to the throne to win him over, lest he take the lead in making troubles, and he was not really trying to pass on the throne to him.

After seeing it through, King Qin was not too disappointed. He just wanted to be the king of leisure. After the King of Wuan County committed suicide last year, King Qin couldn't wait to stay in his palace and never go out again. Today, Zhao Pu's so-called will be regarded as a solution to the worries of the emperor's brother, but at the same time it also put him on the frying pan! Thinking of the Wu'an County King who died because of the emperor's suspicion, King Qin secretly clenched his hand.

The eldest prince Chu, holding the wine bottle in his hand, glared at Zhao Pu a few times. He blamed this old miscellaneous hair. If he had taken out the queen mother’s will and made public, the father would not be suspected by the people, and the Northern Expedition defeated the army in chaos. At this time, the King of Wu'an would not be embraced by the generals as an emperor and then committed suicide... However, the King of Chu admired Zhao Pu's great achievements, and after a few glances, he stopped worrying about it.

The second prince Rui Wang looked down at the table and couldn't tell what it was like in his heart. Given the importance of his father's eldest brother, he probably has no chance. Now the throne will fall to the emperor's uncle. He can't get the throne if he doesn't become the eldest brother. He is a little bit happy. Uncle, always unwilling.

Guo Boyan saw the expressions of the three princes in his eyes, but he thought otherwise. After resting that night, he said to his wife: "Beijing is afraid of changes. Tomorrow you will take Brother Mao to the palace to remind you of An'an." When the Shou King is not there, I am afraid that there is no one who understands the daughter. Mother Cen and others will help her daughter to manage the palace at most, and she can't see through the court.

Lin had heard her husband talk about the grievances between Zhao Pu and the emperor and the prime minister Xu Wei. At this point, it was clear. Fortunately, the throne could not involve the son-in-law, so he didn't need to worry too much. A good night's sleep, and soon after breakfast the next day, Lin took Brother Mao to the next door to the Shou Palace.