National Division

The case of fraud in the examination room has added a lot of turmoil to the new dynasty.Qi Jun's subordinates were merciless, and found out that three of the examiners leaked the exam questions, five took bribes to get the candidates to be on the list, and the other two did not disclose the questions. Those who moved were demoted to three levels and sent to remote places to be county magistrates; Zheng Mingshi and others were deprived of their fame and fame, and they were not allowed to be officials for life, and all those who had official positions in their families were removed. Take another exam in autumn.This made a lot of noise, and people were talking about it in the streets and alleys.

"This group of people is so bold that they even dare to falsify the imperial examination." Qi Jun felt resentful when he thought of this incident, wishing to kill all the people involved, but the court was so complicated that he really didn't dare to involve too much for a while.

"The real can't be fake, the fake can't be real." Zhibai pushed him a cup of tea, "Go down and get rid of the anger."

Qi Jun took it over to see that it was lotus heart tea, and after taking a sip, he remembered: "Thanks to you again this time." If it weren't for Zhibai's thought of looking at the literary style, the palace test is just a theory, I'm afraid it will really let that Zheng Mingshi of the embroidered pillow slipped past.If this is the case, the embarrassment of the new emperor will be minor, and this Kornko will be in vain.

"Now in this court, there are many people who don't want me to succeed..." After all, the atmosphere in the observatory is more relaxed, Qi Jun still couldn't hold back.Since he came to the throne, it has been difficult to implement government orders. If he wants to cultivate his own power, there are people who have cheated on Enke. Now he has killed a group of people, but how can they kill them all?And it is bound to not be able to suppress all of them. It is still necessary to suppress a batch and use a batch, so that they can be differentiated.But how to use it made him embarrassed.Give these people high officials and generous salaries?Most of these people already have official positions and family property.Let them hold important positions?I'm afraid of raising tigers.It was only at this time that Qi Jun finally understood why there were so many entanglements in the harem of the emperors of all dynasties. It is true that the harem cannot be completely separated from the previous dynasty.

"It's still time for the draft."

"Draft show?" Zhibai was writing on the sidelines boredly, when he heard this, he turned his head and looked at him suspiciously, "Isn't Xiu Jieyu already pregnant?"

Qi Jun laughed: "Are you really drafting the harem just to extend the number of heirs? But I have never seen the monarchs of the past dynasties get a hundred sons like King Wen. On the contrary, there are many people who lost their heirs because of the strife in the harem."

"Then why does His Majesty still want to draft?" Zhibai couldn't figure it out.

"In order to throw a bait for those people." Qi Jun leaned towards him slightly, and whispered, "There are many people who are prosperous today and lose their official positions tomorrow. It's still hopeful, but the gentleman's luster is still in the fifth generation, how can they make the family prosper for a long time? Naturally, they want to make meritorious deeds. And what is the most important achievement? Conglong."

Zhibai was confused: "Conglong?"

"It is to support the king." Qi Jun commented lightly, "Just like the officials who followed Ye's party in the past, what they thought was the merit of the dragon. Now they may still be looking at King Ping, but if they Does your daughter have an heir in the palace? Do you think it is better for them to choose King Ping, or their own blood?"

Zhibai rolled his eyes and finally realized: "Your Majesty asked them to abandon King Ping and fight among themselves?"

Qi Jun smiled slightly: "That's right." His expression was slightly gloomy again, "It's just that it's not fair enough..." Of course there was a fight in the court outside, but the women in the harem were also fighting, and there were inevitably innocent people among them. The more innocent ones are probably those heirs.

Zhibai scratched his head, didn't know what to say, and said after a while: "If you are destined to be with His Majesty, you will always be reincarnated."

Qi Jun patted his head, smiled wryly and said: "You seem to have a firmer heart than me. Well, I have to lose some morals, and I can't let these people form a unity in the court. It's difficult for these people to form a unity in the court. Although the northwest side can After several years of Pingding, Dongdi is just about to move, and the Ye family is entrenched in the southeast, and King Ping is in the middle of Shu... If you still sit and discuss the Tao when you are surrounded by enemies, I am afraid that this discussion will not last for a few years."

He raised his spirits and began to think again: "Then Su Rui is a talent, not only has knowledge, but also has some means, I think, he can be used. On the other side of Shandong, someone should be sent to have a look."

When Zhibai listened to Qi Jun talk about political affairs, it was basically the same as when Qi Jun listened to him talk about scriptures.Seeing his bored expression, Qi Jun couldn't help laughing, and reached out to touch his face: "Why don't you say you want to practice dual cultivation these days?"

Zhibai drooped his head: "Building a tower on the sand, the foundation is not stable and rushing forward, I'm afraid it will lead to catastrophe. If it happens again, I can't expect His Majesty to stop me again." He said regretfully , while looking at Qi Jun with eyes like a greedy cat.He didn't expect Qi Jun and his vitality to be so compatible and complementary. The effect of dual cultivation was unexpected. Looking at Qi Jun now, it was like seeing a cornucopia in front of his eyes but he couldn't reach out to take it. He couldn't tell. The hundred claws scratching the heart.

Looking at his expression, Qi Jun was really funny and annoyed, raised his hand and gave him another shudder: "What kind of eyes are you looking at me with?"

Zhibai rolled onto his lap, and said with a smile, "If not... just double cultivation once?"

Qi Jun stared at him, and was considering whether to drag him down to beat the board for a while, when he heard the busy and fast footsteps outside, he couldn't help frowning: "What's the matter?" The footsteps belonged to Feng En, if nothing serious, He would never walk around the observatory like this.

"Your Majesty!" Feng En's face turned pale, "Xiu Jieyu——Xiu Jieyu is by the lotus pond..."

"What's wrong?" Qi Jun stood up with a cry.Seeing Feng En's behavior, it's probably because of something wrong with Wenxiu's womb.

Feng En knelt down with a plop: "Xiu Jieyu was pushed into the lotus pond by the empress! Although she has been sent back to Liuxiang Palace now, but——meeting Hong..."

When Qi Jun rushed to the Liuxiang Hall in three steps and two steps, the inside was already in chaos. Jun glanced at it, and there was a basin of bright red water inside, which made his head buzz.

Zhibai followed him, but calmly grabbed his arm: "Your Majesty, calm down."

Qi Jun leaned against him to calm himself down for a while, and somehow he felt calmer, so he stepped in.As soon as he stepped through the door, he saw Zhao Yue sitting there anxiously twisting a handkerchief, as if sitting on needle felt. When he saw him coming in, he immediately stood up and said, "Your Majesty, I am not a concubine." She pushed it! She was the one who disrespected my concubine, and this concubine slapped her in anger, and she jumped into the lotus pond by herself!"

Veins burst out of Qi Jun's forehead: "How is Wenxiu?"

Zhao Yue opened her mouth and murmured, "The imperial doctor hasn't come yet..."

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, help!" Wenxiu screamed sharply from behind the screen, "The Emperor rescued the concubine's child, the empress is so cruel!" Body, desperately stretched out his hand to Qi Jun, the deer shimmering slightly in the palm.

Qi Jun watched the pots of blood passing by, and probably knew in his heart that Wenxiu would not be able to keep this baby. Seeing that her face was pale, her clothes were still wet, and there was even a piece of water from the lotus pond on her sleeves. Wisps of water grass felt a little pain in her heart, she took a few steps forward and held her hand: "The imperial doctor will be here soon..."

Wenxiu almost rolled into his arms, crying bitterly: "It's all the concubine's fault, the empress punishes the concubine to kneel, the concubine shouldn't refuse to kneel for fear of being wronged by the child in her belly, otherwise, the empress would not It was all the fault of the concubine that she got so angry that she accidentally pushed the concubine into the pool..."

"You're talking nonsense!" Zhao Yue kept listening with ears pricked up, and immediately yelled, "I just slapped you, but didn't push you. It's clear that you fell down by yourself, and you did it on purpose!"

"Your Majesty—" Wen Xiu held Qi Jun's hand tightly, and curled up her body in pain, "The concubine's stomach hurts...why did the concubine jump into the pool, don't you want this child?"

Zhao Yue was at a loss for words.If this child is born to be the eldest son of the emperor, although he is not born in the middle palace, his status is not comparable to that of ordinary princes. Unless Wenxiu is crazy, he will never want his mother to be more expensive than his son.As for the crime of mutilating the emperor's heir, even if she is the queen, she can't bear it, but she really just wants to slap Wenxiu because she refuses to be punished by her to kneel down!No matter how stupid she is, she will not openly deal with pregnant concubines.

"Your Majesty—" Wenxiu raised her pale face, "Mrs. Taiping Hou entered the palace a few days ago and once told the empress that she should not let the concubine have a son before she gave birth to the eldest son!"

"You—" Zhao Yue's face was so pale that he couldn't see it, "You, you spout blood!"

"Your Majesty—" Wenxiu didn't look at her, "It's a crime for a concubine to die, because she was afraid that the empress would not tolerate the concubine, so she entrusted the palace servants who had made friends with her to inquire about the empress's affairs, thinking about how to please her, who knows Who knows, I just heard this... these days the concubines are hiding from the empress, who knows why the empress came to the lotus pond beside Liuxiang Hall..."

The lotus pond is indeed very close to the Liuxiang Hall. At this time, the lotus leaves are just a small bunch, and there is no good scenery, and most people will not come here.

Zhao Yue could not refute.She was going to the garden today to see the early-blooming peonies, but how did she hear about Wenxiu, and why didn't she suppress her jealousy and want to trouble Wenxiu?She was dizzy and couldn't figure it out no matter how much she thought about it, so she could only say repeatedly: "The concubine didn't push her, she didn't push her." She meant it, but, after all, she didn't think of a way to do it.

"Your Majesty, the imperial doctor is here!"

Zhao Yue's murmur was interrupted by the voice of the little man, Doctor Fang ran in panting with the medicine box in his arms, saluted quickly to Qi Jun and Zhao Yue, and then went to check Wenxiu's pulse, but after a while, he The expression on his face became a little embarrassed.Qi Jun said in a deep voice: "What's the matter? Can this baby be saved?"

Doctor Fang's lips moved twice, but he couldn't speak.Wenxiu stared at him closely: "Doctor Fang, you were the one who diagnosed my happy pulse a few days ago, please help me keep this child!"

Doctor Fang opened his mouth and closed it again.Seeing him like this, Wenxiu closed her eyes and fell on the pillow, startled the maid next to her to go up and shout.

The hall was in chaos, Qi Jun shook hands, turned his head and glanced at Zhao Yue: "Send the queen back to Zichen Hall!" She is the queen, even if she wants to deal with her, she can't be here.

"Wait!" The queen mother's angry voice came from the door, "This poisonous woman dares to murder the emperor's heir, how can she be worthy of being a queen!" She walked in quickly holding Shaoyao's hand, and first stared at Imperial Physician Fang, " Doctor Fang, is it really impossible to keep this baby?"

Doctor Fang looked left and right, but he still didn't say a word.The Empress Dowager was furious, pointing at Zhao Yue just as she was about to speak, when she suddenly heard someone whispering softly beside her: "Doctor Fang, Xiu Jieyu is really a miscarriage?"

The person who speaks is Zhibai.Ordinarily, outsiders are not allowed to enter the inner hall, but he has a special status. He helped Qi Jun's arm just now, and unexpectedly followed him in. Because he was standing far away from the door, no one paid attention to him for a while.The Empress Dowager listened to his words and thought there was hope, so she hurriedly said: "Is there a way for the national teacher to keep this child?"

Zhibai shook his head, still looking at Imperial Physician Fang: "Is Xiu Jieyu having a miscarriage, or is she not pregnant at all?"

As if a thunder had been thrown down with a bang, all the people in the hall were stunned, only Wenxiu who had fainted on the pillow suddenly trembled, and suddenly opened his eyes: "National teacher, why did the national teacher say this!" She Stretching out his hand, Lu Shu on his palm kicked his front legs lively under the light, "This is a spiritual creature borrowed by the national teacher!"

Qi Jun stared at Imperial Physician Fang: "Answer the words of the national teacher!" Zhibai never talks nonsense.

Imperial doctor Fang seemed to have relieved a heavy burden, and fell to his knees with a plop: "Your Majesty, the pulse condition of Jieyu was diagnosed by my minister a few days ago, and it was indeed a slippery pulse. It can be said, it can only be said that the minister was confused and misdiagnosed the fetus, Xiu Jieyu is not pregnant."

"What?" Even the Queen Mother was dumbfounded, "Why, why, is she a fake pregnancy?"

"Nonsense, nonsense!" Wenxiu sat up excitedly, "Doctor Fang, you were the one who diagnosed my happy pulse, why did you say that I was never pregnant at this time? Could it be that you and the queen belonged to the same party? Teacher, you are not an imperial doctor, how can you know if I am pregnant or not? Could it be that the national teacher still blamed me for being negligent, and why did you want to force me to death at this time?"

Zhibai shrugged his shoulders and let her cry, until Wenxiu had nothing to say, and then said slowly: "Of course I am not an imperial doctor, and I don't know much about happy pulse, but the things I drew by myself know ——Xiu Jieyu, why is Lu Shu in your hands? Didn't you say at the time that you were going to wear this thing for His Majesty?"

Wenxiu couldn't prevent him from asking this question, she was stunned for a moment, and then said: "It was the talented man who hurt me, he accidentally stained the picture with blood when he took out the silk, and this Lu Shu was burned in the palm of my hand, I didn't intend to monopolize it." What."

Zhibai sighed: "If you had said earlier that you wanted to brand this on your hand, I would have drawn a female one for you."

"What?" Wenxiu was stunned for a moment, "What about male and female? Is there a distinction between male and female?"

"Everything has yin and yang, and deer and Shu are naturally divided into male and female." Zhibai tapped the little thing on Wenxiu's palm from a distance, "It was supposed to be worn by His Majesty, so I naturally want to draw a male deer and Shu. Although this thing is suitable The descendants, however, are males who are suitable for husbands and females who are suitable for wives. If you brand a male deer on your palm—not only will it not help you conceive, but even your constitution will change from yin to yang, and you will not be able to reproduce. "

After saying these words, the whole hall was shocked.Wenxiu stared at Xiaolu Shu on her palm in shock, unable to utter a word.Zhao Yue survived the desperation, raised her head and was about to speak, but was forced back by Qi Jun's livid face.Qi Jun raised his eyes and looked at Imperial Physician Fang: "Since you are infertile, why did you find a happy pulse in the consultation a few days ago?"

Doctor Fang had been kneeling on the ground, bowed his head at this time and said: "It's a humble minister with little knowledge. There is a kind of false pregnancy syndrome, which is a woman's hope that she will be pregnant, and her pulse will change accordingly, and there will even be menstrual flow. Postponement, nausea and soreness and other signs of pregnancy, some serious ones, and even a real bulge in the abdomen. Although Weichen has seen such a case in medical books, he has never seen it. Now that I think about it, Jieyu was a fake pregnancy that day The disease is just incompetent and has not been diagnosed, please forgive me."

The queen mother stretched out her hand and pointed at Wenxiu, but was unable to speak for a long time.Qi Jun closed his eyes slightly, and said in a deep voice, "Send the Empress Dowager back to Shouchang Palace, and Imperial Physician Fang will go to check the Empress Dowager's pulse. If the Empress Dowager has any discomfort, both crimes will be punished."

The Empress Dowager was so disappointed that she couldn't speak, she was helped by Shao Yao to the walking chariot and left.Zhao Yue finally cheered up and said excitedly: "Your Majesty, now the truth is revealed, Wenxiu is not pregnant at all, she must have found out that she was not pregnant, so she deliberately came to frame my concubine!"

Qi Jun stared at her deeply: "Why did you go to the lotus pond? Didn't you deliberately provoke the concubine when she saw her concubine was pregnant? That's what you do when the queen's mother honors the world and rules the six palaces? Even the emperor's heir doesn't know how to cherish it?" , You are still not enough to be a human being, let alone a queen! Come here, send the queen back to Zichen Palace, if nothing happens, the queen can read scriptures in the palace and cultivate her temperament."

After sending Zhao Yue away, Qi Jun didn't say anything, he didn't even look at Wenxiu on the couch, he pulled Zhibai away.There was a dead silence in the empty Liuxiang Hall, and after a while, Wenxiu let out a shrill cry, and stretched out her hand to grab the little deer Shu in her palm.But the strange thing is that the piece of skin on which the deer was branded looks soft, but it is extremely tough. Although she scratched the surrounding skin until it was dripping with blood, she couldn't remove the deer.Wenxiu frantically grabbed the candle next to her to burn her palm, a scorching smell permeated the air, and in the candlelight, the little deer Shu firmly stuck to her palm, raised its head and moved livelyly towards her. move your ears...