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In the winter of the ninth year of Qianyuan, the war between Song and Xia was defeated, and the admonition court presented a picture of refugees in the court hall to show the public, and Yu Shitai accused the left minister of the current dynasty for counting his faults and asked the emperor to dismiss him, which made the civil officials who were originally neutral in the court turn against each other. , Even the right minister Lu Wei, who had never expressed his position, asked the emperor to cease the war and negotiate a peace.

Under pressure, the emperor had no choice but to agree to negotiate peace with Xixia, and under the struggle between Yushitai and Jianyuan, he dismissed Fang Zhiyan and demoted him from the capital. At the same time, he demoted the minister who co-chaired the reform. He served as the magistrate of Chengdu, moved Lu Wei to be Shangshu Zuopushe, Shangshu Zuochengzhangde was Shangshu Youpushe, and Zhongshu Shilang worshiped as Youxiang. At the insistence of the emperor, he only stopped the new law and did not abolish it.

After the court meeting was over, the emperor met with dozens of ministers one after another. He didn't get a drop of water for a whole day, and he didn't return to Funing Hall until sunset.

The emperor stepped down from his shoulders and walked into the Funing Hall in a daze, Xiao Youqing just walked out of the house, and saw sweat on his forehead in the cold weather of the National People's Congress, he hurriedly approached worriedly: "Officials?"

The emperor took two steps forward and then fell down, "Officials!" Xiao Youqing helped the man kneel on the ground, and found that the sweat on his forehead was as cold as ice.

Xiao Youqing shouted angrily at the palace servants in the palace: "What are you doing in a daze, why don't you go to Xuan Tai Physician!" Then he picked him up by the waist and approached the cabinet and gently placed him on the bed.

Taking off the court boots, he found that his hands and feet were extremely cold. Xiao Youqing frowned and calmed himself down to feel his pulse. After taking the pulse for a while, he found that the emperor's pulse was weak, so he hurriedly called Qi Liu into the cabinet to question: " What happened in the hall?"

Qi Liu lowered his head, "The old ministers headed by Zhang De took advantage of the defeat to besiege Fang Xiang, the admonition court presented a map of refugees, and Yu Shitai accused Fang Xiang of most of the faults in the government in the court and asked His Majesty to dismiss him. Lian has never expressed his opinion. Lu Xiang also stood opposite this time, His Majesty had no choice but to cease the war and withdraw troops to negotiate a peace with Xixia, and then retreated to the court, His Majesty was blocked in the Chuigong Palace, and the ministers still refused to let go of the refugees, so His Majesty had no choice but to stop the law Come to appease the ministers."

"Saint, Doctor Sun has arrived."

Sun Hongda took the medical box from his subordinate with a sigh of relief, "His Royal Highness."

"Physician Sun doesn't need to be too polite."

Qi Liu and the other palace members withdrew from the cabinet, closed the door and stood quietly in the outer room. Sun Hongda gently opened the emperor's eyes to take a look, and waited until his breath calmed down before he began to feel his pulse.

"The qi in the viscera and meridians in the official family is disordered, and the ups and downs of qi in the body are not balanced, resulting in qi deficiency and qi stagnation. The syndrome of qi stagnation is that the body's qi cannot flow smoothly, so it will feel oppressed and weak in lifting. , the official family is... deficiency of liver qi."

"My mother said that all rising qi comes out of the liver. The four qi of a person's vitality, family qi, nutrition qi, and defense qi all depend on the growth of the liver to function. However, the liver qi should not be due to insufficient yang qi or age. Does high body decline cause liver yang and liver qi to decline by itself?"

Sun Hongda stretched out his hand, "Please forgive me for offending the body."

"Let me do it," Xiao Youqing sat down uneasy, "What does Doctor Sun want to do?"

Sun Hongda pointed to his tongue.

Xiao Youqing followed his words and gently pinched the emperor's jaw to pry open his lips and teeth, "Your Highness just took the pulse, the pulse of the official's pulse is weak, and there are tooth marks on the tongue, and what His Highness said just now is exactly what the doctor said. Remember, Your Majesty is suffering from emotional failure, stagnation of liver qi, and long-term worrying, chronic illness consumes qi, secretly consumes the yin and blood of the liver, and damages the yang qi of the liver.

Sun Hongda took out a silver needle and put it on the candle to bake, and quickly and lightly pricked it on both sides of the emperor's forehead. If there is no life, the branches and leaves will wither."

Listening to the imperial physician's words, Xiao Youqing struggled inwardly, his eyes were full of helplessness and absent-mindedness, and immediately asked hesitantly: "Emperor Sun, tell me honestly, has the official family already had this disease?"

Sun Hongda lowered his head, "Your Highness, please forgive me..."

Xiao Youqing turned coldly, "Are you going to deceive the king?"

Sun Hongda retreated on his knees and said, "I dare not."

"Although I am not as proficient in medicine as my mother and Sun Taiyi, I still have a little knowledge of Qihuang."

Sun Hongda sighed: "Your Highness has just asked the words in the medical book, and you have the answer in your heart. If this is the case, why bother to embarrass the old minister."

"The officials won't let you tell?"

Sun Hongda lowered his head and remained silent.

"But she is only in her thirties."

"Officials have become sick from overwork, and they have worked a lot more than when the first emperor did. Dark fire will hurt the body the most. If this continues... Your Highness, please forgive me for the death penalty." Sun Hongda knocked his head on the ground, "It is not a long life."

Xiao Youqing sat on the couch in a daze, with her hands hanging down, the words of the imperial physician were like the sky falling, and people were almost out of breath.

"I implore Your Highness to persuade the officials more."

"Do you think I don't want to?" Xiao Youqing opened his wet red eyes, "Do you think I haven't persuaded you, I'm just an ordinary person, what can I do?" Her tone was full of helplessness and regret .

Xiao Youqing turned her head, "I pushed her up this chair myself."

"Daddy!" The boy and Princess Fuqing threw books from Zishan Hall and ran all the way to Funing Hall after hearing the news.

Princess Fuqing broke free from her brother's hand and pushed the door in without knocking, "Daddy."

"Princess, king of the county."

Sun Hongda got up from the ground, "There is nothing serious about the official, I just prescribe some prescriptions."

"Uncle Sun," Xiao Youqing looked up at Sun Hongda who was about to retreat, with pleading eyes, "I will leave Liu Lang's body to Uncle."

Sun Hongda turned his head in a daze, cupped his hands tremblingly and said, "I will definitely do my best."

Princess Fuqing ran to her father's bed and said in tears, "Daddy, what's wrong with you?"

The boy wiped away his tears, then went to his mother's knees and knelt down to appease him: "Mother, my lord, he will definitely get better."

After being in a coma for a while, the person gradually regained consciousness. When he opened his eyes, he saw the woman in front of the couch wiping her tears secretly, and then there was a small face crying with snot and tears. The emperor wriggled his pale lips and raised his hand to touch it. Touching her little head, "Daddy is fine."

Princess Fuqing flung herself into the emperor's arms, wiped away her tears and said, "Ruhua wants Daddy to accompany her to hunt, and Daddy hasn't taught Ruhua how to draw cats yet."

"Silly girl, daddy won't leave."

"Daddy has made Ruhua a big surprise." Princess Fuqing complained as she lay in her father's arms.

The emperor forced a smile at his daughter, then looked at the mother and son in front of the couch, and said weakly: "Don't worry, I won't leave a mess and leave."

The young man knelt and walked a few steps, "Sir, God has the virtue of being good at life, and will not take away the Holy Master easily, and will not leave a lonely child behind. Please take care of your body."

The emperor let out a breath of suffocation, and said slowly: "You go out, I still have something to talk to your mother."

Princess Fuqing was reluctant, and in the end followed her brother out after three steps.

"Sister." The emperor raised his hand with difficulty.

Xiao Youqing wiped away her tears, then bent down and held her outstretched hand, "I'm here."

"sorry."

Xiao Youqing shook his head, and immediately threw himself into her arms, the tears that were wiped away couldn't help flowing out, grabbed the quilt and complained, "You idiot, I don't need you to say this, and I don't accept it, you owe me Mine, how can I not return it?"

"Liu Lang is reluctant to part with his sister, so how could he leave first?" The emperor lightly stroked Xiao Youqing's back with his thumb, "Don't worry, sister, this matter won't overwhelm me."

"Is this called unbreakable?" Xiao Youqing climbed up from her body.

"I have given them a way out, but they insist on fighting against me. If so, don't blame me for disregarding the righteousness of the monarch and ministers." The emperor forced himself to sit up from the couch.

Seeing her like this, Xiao Youqing didn't dissuade her, she just helped her to sit up and asked: "Did the official say something like this?"

The emperor sighed, "From the very beginning, I never thought of putting reforms on winning or losing this war. No matter whether I win or lose, I will never stop."

"I don't care what you do, but you have to promise me to take good care of your body."

The emperor held Xiao Youqing's hand tightly and replied, "Okay."

Then he looked at the door of the cabinet, "Sister, help me call Dalang in, I have something to say to him."

"Ah."

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At the beginning of October in the ninth year of Qianyuan, the emperor became seriously ill and could not get up from his couch for several days. After the truce and peace talks, the imperial court sent troops to clean up and recover Xizhou and Lanzhou, and ordered Xiao Xianfu to take Cao Yun and the remains of the generals who died in battle. He was transported back, and the deputy commander Xiao Yunze was dismissed and escorted to the capital for interrogation.

Fang Zhiyan was relegated to the south as a magistrate after he was dismissed as prime minister. Before leaving office, he went to Funing Hall to say goodbye.

Qi Liu took the letter from Fang Zhiyan and handed it over to the emperor.

"I'm about to leave the capital. I don't know when I'll be able to see the king again. Please take care of the world and take care of your body."

The pale emperor leaned on the throne, "I have lost to Qing."

Fang Zhiyan knelt down with his forehead resting on the back of his hands, "Obey orders without brushing them off, lightly remonstrate without tiresomeness, if you are superior, you will be bright, and if you are inferior, you will be inferior. This is what your Majesty told me in the past, and I have kept it in mind for so many years. In this life, if you can meet two generations of Ming masters, and serve as loyal ministers to the death, it doesn't matter if you die."

"Doesn't Qing hate my partiality? Among so many people, you are only pushed to the forefront?"

"It is the greatest honor for a minister to gain the trust of the monarch."

"All the officials inside and outside the imperial court are all dependent and colluding with each other. Officials are greedy for power and position, and they are inexhaustible like weeds. Even if I have the world in my heart, what's the use of it?"

"Your Majesty is not afraid of popular customs, and went against the wind for the last wishes of our ancestors. I only regret that I didn't do my best to argue with those scholars."

"Fang Qing, don't worry, I will not let these profiteers stand in the court for a long time, and chill the hearts of the people with lofty ideals in the world."

"Your Majesty, I wish you all the best."

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A few days later, the emperor inspected the Genyue palace because of his ill health, and issued an edict ordering the king of Shouchun county to supervise the country. He ordered his mother to listen to the government behind the curtain on the grounds that the county king was young, and the left minister Lu Wei assisted the government. Zhang De objected, and the emperor summoned Zhang De to the cabinet because of his illness, so he stopped.

When the guard of honor of the Son of Heaven came out from the Chenhui Gate, the two sides of the imperial army cleared the way were crowded with people, and the emperor's complexion had almost recovered in the palm house of the Happy Chariot.

The little princess fell asleep beside the emperor, and Qi Liu whispered, "Xue Jin has already sent someone to bring him a message according to the official's order, but the county king is still young after all, and he has never learned how to deal with political affairs before. , do the officials just let the county king face it alone?"

"Still young?" The emperor propped himself up and sat up, "13 years old is not too young. When I was his age, I was out of the pavilion to build a mansion. Besides, there is still his mother."

Qi Liu was still very worried, "But...Uncle Guo is coming back soon, and the officials let the county king and the sage handle it..."

"You think I'm cruel?"

Qi Liu knelt down from his seat, bowed his head and said: "The villain dare not."

The emperor looked down at the light yellow robe on his body, "I also think I am cruel."

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In October of the ninth year of Qianyuan, the young man who was in charge of the country for the first time ordered the introspection to cancel the winter solstice state banquet in November and the birthday party after the winter solstice. , providing compensation to the relatives of the fallen soldiers, winning the hearts and minds of the people at the beginning of his youth, and also recognized by his ministers and workers.

"The guilty general, Xiao Yunze, is already on his way back to the capital. Dali Temple and the Ministry of Criminal Justice are waiting for trial. Please let your majesty show you how to convict him."

"Since the sinner is already on the way but has not yet arrived, the most urgent thing now should be the affairs of the people. If the government delays for one day, the refugees will suffer from hunger and cold for one more day. The government treasury has a surplus due to reforms. Since it is taken from the people, it should be used. As far as the people are concerned, what is wrong with the people who suffered from the war? The officials are benevolent and don’t want to see corpses littering the fields. This king is in power for the first time, and there are many things that he still doesn’t understand, so he has to rely on the help of his ministers and workers. .”

"Your Majesty is benevolent, and his heart is for the common people in the world. It is the blessing of all people. The officials and others must do their best to assist the King."