National Division

In the winter of the sixth year of Zhengye, there was heavy snow in the south.

If it is snowing, it is actually nothing. If it is in the northeast, it is common for the snow to be several feet thick, but it is not the case when it falls in the south.People in the south rarely even see snow, so how could they experience such natural disasters?The houses collapsed under the snow, the victims had no shelter, the fields were covered with snow, and the hungry people had no food to eat. The southeast coastal area was especially serious, and there was a sudden chaos.

"Your Majesty, disaster victims are everywhere now. When the next spring is green and yellow, I'm afraid they will become refugees. For the present plan, someone needs to go to clear the snow and provide relief, but there is a shortage of manpower and rice. Please send me some food." Mi into the southeast."

"Your Majesty, it is difficult to transport grain and rice for thousands of miles, not to mention that the roads are full of refugees, I am afraid they will be robbed..."

"Your Majesty, the southeast garrison has plenty of food and grass, so they can be transferred to help the victims first..."

"Your Majesty, no! How can the military rations be misappropriated?"

"It's inconvenient to transport grain and rice, why not use local materials? After all, to appease the people..."

The hall was chaotic and noisy, Qi Jun sat on it, glanced down a few times, his face sank like water: "Enough! If you quarrel like this, will the disaster in the southeast be solved?"

"Your Majesty—" the new minister of the Ministry of War said, "The transportation of food and rice is indeed a problem, but in the winter when there is no use of soldiers, in my opinion, it is better to send troops from various places to escort food and rice for disaster relief. No matter how rich the refugees are, they are no match for the sergeants. "

Qi Jun glanced at Meng Shangshu, met his eyes, and nodded slightly: "Your words are justified. There is a disaster in the southeast, so we have to help. The decree is to first transfer the southeast garrison to store food for disaster relief, and all regions will immediately send food and grass to the southeast for disaster relief."

Now that the emperor's decree has been made, the following is naturally the matter of the Ministry of War and Accounts. Unfortunately, there are still people who refuse to shut up: "Your Majesty, the climate in the southeast is warm, why there is a sudden snowstorm, I think it is necessary to investigate."

Qi Jun glanced at the speaker: "Zhou Yushi, this is a natural disaster, where do we go to investigate? Could it be that you want me to make a crime against myself?" What kind of earthquakes, droughts, floods, etc. For natural disasters, the emperor would issue an imperial edict as a rule, saying that it was his own lack of virtue that caused the disaster to come from heaven.

Zhou Yushi was taken aback, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, I have absolutely no such intentions! Since your Majesty took the throne, who knows who doesn't know what to wear and what to eat? What I mean is that this kind of snow disaster, I'm afraid someone will cause trouble!"

Qi Jun raised his eyebrows: "This is a natural disaster, who can control it?" But his heart tightened, only he and Zhibai knew that this was not a natural disaster, but a man-made disaster.

Zhou Yushi said sternly: "It's not because of the villain's heart, it's just that the snowstorm came too strangely, it's hard to guarantee that it's not caused by monsters."

Qi Jun didn't want to hear him being entangled in this matter, so he said coldly: "Although the censor can hear about things, he can't deceive the public with false rumors. At this moment, disaster relief is the most important thing, and Zhou Yushi should stop talking nonsense. "He has planned for several years to defeat Ye's family in one fell swoop, so he has no intention of talking about monsters with a censor.

Zhou Yushi refused to give up: "When I was young, I also learned the art of stargazing. I watched the stars a few days ago and saw a bright star next to the emperor's star, but the emperor's star was dim. I'm afraid that not only the snow disaster in the southeast is related to this demon star, but even the emperor—will be suppressed by this demon star, it's really ominous!"

"Nonsense!" Qi Jun was annoyed.He has already detained the sons of the principal and deputy envoys of the Qin Tianjian in the capital, yet someone still dares to bring up the matter of the demon star, "Come on, Zhou Huan is bewitching the crowd with his demonic words, dragging down the imperial staff for twenty!"

The court staff of the previous dynasty could kill people, but since Qi Jun ascended the throne, the court staff used thorns, which could not kill people, but the significance of punishment has not diminished in the slightest.Zhou Huan struggled and shouted: "Your Majesty, the ministers are all loyal, Your Majesty! If the monster is not eliminated, there will be endless troubles!"

Qi Jun waved his hand: "Drag and fight! Retreat!"

At this moment, the Empress Dowager was dumbfounded at the paper man presented by Concubine Xian: "This is, it really was found under the corridor of the Observatory?"

"Yes." Concubine Xian's heart was pounding wildly, "Queen Dowager, the national teacher can't be kept! The emperor is bewitched by him, if you don't kill him, I'm afraid..." She must urge the queen mother to do it before the emperor goes down, otherwise Once Qi Jun comes back, everything will be over.

"This, this——" the queen mother was a little vacillating, "Why did the national teacher suppress the emperor to have no heirs?" Knowing that Bai had entered the capital, it seemed that he had never done anything harmful to Qi Jun.

"If the emperor has an heir, why would he need a national teacher!" Concubine Xian was dying of anxiety, "Queen Dowager, what Qin Tianjian said is true, Queen Dowager, you know it!"

The Queen Mother kept her mouth shut.During the few years when Ma Mingzi gained power, Qin Tianjian was silent as if he was dead. Although they never came out to oppose Ma Mingzi, they never agreed with him. real.

"Empress Dowager!" Concubine Xian's voice changed a little in anxiety, "If the emperor sees the national teacher again, he will definitely be deceived again!"

The queen mother looked at the paper figurine and smiled wryly, "Is this true or not?"

"Empress Dowager—" Concubine Xian swallowed her breath and clenched her fists, "It's true that the emperor has no heirs! It's also true that there was a sudden snowstorm in the south."

The queen mother closed her eyes: "Forget it. If there is any retribution, Aijia will follow. Come, go to the stargazing platform, take away the country—the demon way, and give poisoned wine!" King Ping and King Jin both have sons, but Qi Jun is still not there.

Concubine Xian let out a long breath, and fell limply on the ground: "Queen Dowager, you should stop the emperor from going to the observatory..."

"Just say that Ai's family is sick, please come over as soon as the emperor comes down."

Qi Jun really planned to go to the observatory, but he heard that the queen mother was ill, so he had to come to Renshou Palace first: "The queen mother is not feeling well, can I ask the imperial doctor to check the pulse?"

"Oh, I just said a few words about being depressed and overwhelmed." The queen mother sighed, "The emperor also knows that it is not the emperor's heirs that the Ai family is worried about..."

Qi Jun himself was also annoyed, and frowned: "It's useless to worry about these things, mother, don't worry too much." He always felt restless after going to court today, and just wanted to go to the observatory to meet Zhibai , but was called to Renshou Palace. Seeing that the Empress Dowager looked fine and didn't seem to be suffering from any serious illness, she wanted to get up and leave, "My son still has something to do—"

How dare the queen mother let him go now.The middleman who went to give the poisoned wine left not long ago, and now Zhibai probably hasn't been drunk yet.

"I heard that today you hit the imperial staff of the court officials? This court staff should not be moved lightly."

"Bewitching words to confuse people, how can we not punish them." Qi Jun felt more and more restless at the moment, as if something was about to happen, "If the mother is fine, the son will leave first."

"Your Majesty!" Seeing that she couldn't stop her, the Empress Dowager had no choice but to tell the truth, "Are you going to the Star Observatory? Don't you really care about Qin Tianjian's words? Don't you really want an heir?"

Qi Jun immediately became vigilant: "What does mother mean by this? What did mother do to Zhibai?"

The Empress Dowager made up her mind even more when she heard this "knowledge": "Your Majesty, the national teacher cannot stay! Qin Tianjian is definitely not lying, the emperor must put the heirs of the country as the most important thing!"

Qi Jun stood up awkwardly: "Queen Mother, the national teacher saved the life of the Queen Mother, extinguished the fire in the Zhaoming Palace, facilitated the great victory in the Northwest, and assisted me in ascending the throne. Has the Queen Mother forgotten all of this?"

The Empress Dowager put her heart on hold: "The national teacher has made great achievements in the past, but the heirs are the most important thing!"

"Zhibai even invited Lu and Shu for me, how could he harm my heirs?"

"Bring up that paper man." The Queen Mother stared at Qi Jun, "Your Majesty, now that the world has been settled, there is no place for national teachers and heroes. If the Emperor has another heir, why would he care about him? Besides— —Now that everyone says he is a monster, isn't the emperor afraid? If the people think that the emperor has raised a monster in his palace, then, will the whole world still respect the emperor? "

The last sentence was said in Qi Jun's heart, and he couldn't help being silent.The queen mother strikes while the iron is hot: "Your Majesty, the national teacher is too capable, and he is fine now. If there is something he doesn't like in the future, how can we prevent him from doing something wrong?"

These words are really heartbreaking words, the so-called "If you are not of my race, your heart must be different", no saint can refute it.The queen mother thought that she would impress Qi Jun by saying this, but unexpectedly, Qi Jun heard the clue: "The queen mother said 'it's okay now'? If it's 'it's okay now', where did this paper figure come from?"

The queen mother was speechless and unable to answer, seeing Qi Jun's gloomy face, she couldn't take care of it for a while, so she had to sell Concubine Xian: "Concubine Xian found it from under the corridor of the observatory."

Qi Jun sneered: "Can she enter the star observatory?" Not to mention Concubine Xian, even when the queen was not grounded, she couldn't find the star observatory.

Seeing that he was about to leave in a huff, the Empress Dowager couldn't help being anxious, and stretched out her hand to grab him: "Your Majesty! If you keep him, you'll be like a tiger by the couch!" In fact, when Concubine Xian brought this paper figurine, she also I know eighty-nine out of ten it is a false testimony, but Concubine Xian's painful statement has entered her heart—Qi Jun is too close to know it, saying that he does not believe in Buddhism as much as Emperor Jing'an, But even Emperor Jing'an back then was not as close to Zhen Mingzi as Qi Jun is now.

It's nothing more than the two people's private affairs, so Wen's change from Zhaorong to fullness because of Zhibai's bad words?It is said that it is a big taboo to be favored by the harem alone, but this knows that Bai Biren is favored by any concubine!The most important thing is that his true nature is too great, as long as he puts his mind to it, who can guard against it?

Qi Jun couldn't help but stop.At this moment, the snow disaster in the south has been completed, as long as he takes this opportunity to take down the Ye family, the country can be stabilized, and he still has decades to pacify Siyi.But at this moment, Zhibai is almost overwhelmingly criticized by the court. If you want to defend Zhibai, you have to spend countless efforts and energy for nothing...

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, you have to think clearly, what is wrong with you, Aijia will bear it, you, just sit down for a while." The Queen Mother tightly grabbed Qi Jun's sleeves, "Those gods and ghosts are not the right way after all. Don't you hate the late emperor's belief in Buddhism?"

"Does the emperor believe me...then I also believe the emperor." A familiar voice suddenly sounded in his ear, Qi Jun trembled, and suddenly pulled his sleeve out of the queen mother's hand: "I promised him, the emperor Jin Mouth, you are not joking!"

Seeing him striding out, the queen mother knew that his success was on the brink of failure, so she yelled: "What about the heir?"

Qi Jun paused, then walked away again: "If you are destined to have no children, then that's fine."

The observatory was noisy like never before, Qi Jun didn't even sit in the imperial chariot, and asked someone to lead a horse to go straight to the observatory, and the palace people were so shocked that they couldn't avoid it all the way.It wasn't until he rushed into the Star Observation Terrace Garden and heard the chaos inside that he felt a little relieved—it must have not been successful, if he had died, he should be quiet now, but it has dragged on for so long What will happen?I have already called the imperial doctor to rush over, but I don't know if it will be too late?

What if it's too late?Qi Jun rode his horse straight to the steps of the palace gate, feeling a twinge of pain in his heart.If it's too late, it's his hesitation just now!

"Your Majesty, don't go in, Your Majesty!" An inner eunuch rushed out to stop Qi Jun, "There is a snake inside! There is a giant snake!"

Qi Jun didn't listen to what he said at all, and grabbed his collar and lifted it up: "Where is the national teacher?"

"Ah? National teacher?" The inner eunuch was confused, "No, I didn't see...the snake came out..."

When they entered the observatory with poisoned wine, they were still arrogant, and first announced an imperial decree: "... born as a demon star, to confuse the king, now I will give you a glass of poisoned wine, and I will die in the observatory."

Who knew that after the national teacher finished listening, the first sentence was to ask: "Is this the emperor's order?"

This is not easy to say.This is of course the Queen Mother's decree, but these eunuchs are all human sperm. If it is the Queen Mother's decree, it is very likely that the national teacher will not obey the decree, so he said vaguely: "This is the imperial decree." , Of course it was ordered by the emperor.

It's a pity that the national teacher didn't buy it!Hearing what they said, he actually smiled: "It's a lie."

The inner eunuch was almost choked to death by him, and it took him a long time to react, raised his eyebrows and said: "Does the national teacher want to resist the order?"

Zhibai didn't care about him at all: "The emperor would not issue such an order."

The inner eunuch thought that the national teacher was really smart, but the queen mother has something to say, if she refuses to commit suicide, she can force her to drink, as long as she winks, a few middle-aged people will force her up after drinking.Anyway, it's nothing more than a little Taoist priest, even if he really lives five or six hundred years old, he can't beat four hands with two fists.Unexpectedly, after walking up a few steps, the national teacher shook something in his hand, and there was a whistling sound of wind blowing towards his face, a giant silver snake jumped out from nowhere, and immediately entangled him The two middlemen walking at the end.

This sudden surprise, a cowardly person rolled his eyes and turned away. Needless to say, the two who were entangled struggled with bites and bites, but the snake was as thick as a human arm, entangled them tightly Yes, as soon as it is tightened a little, the hoop becomes airtight.The few remaining people turned around and wanted to escape, and saw little snakes crawling underground, crawling out from nowhere, there were a hundred and ten of them, and there was almost no place to stay, their legs went limp in fright.It was the inner eunuch who delivered the decree who stood at the end just now, stomped and jumped to death more than a dozen snakes, and finally ran out, bumping into Qi Jun head-on.

"Snake?" Qi Jun breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that the poisonous wine hadn't been poured, and then he heard that there was a snake. How good is it to know white?Pulling out the Zhanlu sword that he carried with him, he rushed in, and the inner prison couldn't stop him.

As soon as Qi Jun stepped into the inner hall, he saw white and wriggling little snakes all over the ground. Several middle-aged people jumped up and down among the snakes, screaming like pigs waiting to be slaughtered.There was a big snake in the middle, and the two middle-aged people who were coiled had already passed out, and there was a smell of urine in the inner hall, obviously someone was so frightened that he lost control of himself.

"Zhi—" Qi Jun just yelled a word, and saw Zhibai poking his head out from behind the big snake with a smile, "The emperor is here?"

"What are you—snake!" Qi Jun stomped his feet, almost not knowing what he was talking about.

"Snake—" Zhibai grinned and blew on the ground. Everyone felt a flash of white light in front of their eyes, and all the big and small snakes disappeared. The ground was covered with scraps of paper, and a piece of rice paper was torn out in the middle. Tiao'er looks like a snake at first glance.

"This—" Qi Jun also stared, "You made this?"

"It's just a blindfold." Zhibai threw the shredded paper in his hand, "Is the emperor really going to execute me?"

"Listen to their nonsense!" Qi Jun kicked a middle-aged man who was unconscious on the ground, walked over and hugged Zhibai, "I'm scared to death, I don't think it's too late to save you."

Zhibai looked up at him: "The emperor is not afraid?"

"What are you afraid of?" Qi Jun hugged him fiercely, "I am late, fortunately you can protect yourself."

The suspicion in Zhibai's eyes finally dissipated, and he wrapped his arms around his neck: "I knew the emperor would come..."