Tyrant Reborn

Although I thought that Xue Qing must have malicious intentions when he said this, but on the face I looked at him calmly, even pretending to be half-hearted and asked curiously: "That Nanjun military adviser you are talking about?"

Xue Qing looked at me after hearing this, with a look of uncertainty on his face, then nodded solemnly and said: "Yes."

"What is the grand master saying?" After thinking about it, I pursed my lips and said, to be honest, I really don't know what Xue Qinglai is trying to say.

Xue Qing seemed to think about it for a while, and then said respectfully: "Your Majesty, I recognize that humble minister. In fact, he is also a distant relative of our Xue family. He came to Beijing for the exam a few years ago, and left the capital without passing the exam. I am home everywhere, but I don’t know why I went to Nanjun and became the national teacher there.”

Hearing Xue Qing's words, my heart moved slightly, and then I pretended to be surprised and said: "It turns out that this person is from the Grand Master's family."

Xue Qing nodded and said with a serious face: "Your Majesty, even though it is so, it has been a few years since he left Xue's family. He was considered upright at the beginning, but I don't know how he behaved in Nanjun in the past few years. He was promoted to work as a guard in this palace... I always feel that something is wrong, I think it's better to send someone to Nanjun to understand his character, and then make a plan... And I heard that this person just He offended the emperor when he came here, and now he is in front of the emperor, wouldn't it annoy the emperor even more? It's better to get rid of him first."

Hearing Xue Qing's words, I thought for a while, frowned and said: "Actually, I didn't care about that much at first, it was just that it was a little unpleasant to see his slow movements at the beginning, and I didn't think about it, but since it's the Grand Master's family For the sake of the grand master, I didn’t care too much about his rudeness before the emperor. As for the servants in the palace, let’s put it here first. After all, he is the person next to Prince Yu, so I can’t say I want it. Come here, and send him back after two days, wouldn't that be disrespectful to Prince Yu?"

After listening to my words, Xue Qing relaxed a little, then looked at me and said: "The emperor is wise, it's because I'm not thoughtful enough."

After hearing this, I laughed, everyone likes something nice to hear, and I am no exception, so I looked at Xue Qing and said: "There is no need to be too polite, Grand Master, let's just let this matter go, Grand Master today Now that I'm here, I have one more thing to say, the Queen Mother and Concubine Ru are about to return from Xishan. When they come back, you and Xue Xun will go to the palace to meet and greet. It happens to be approaching the end of the new year. This year is a special year, so let's prepare well. Come on, I want to celebrate."

Xue Qing looked at me and hurriedly bowed: "My minister complies with the order, thank you Lord for your kindness."

I hummed and said: "Let's get down, does the Grand Master have other things to play?"

Xue Qing said: "The minister is gone, and the minister is resigning."

I nodded and said, "Then go down."

After Xue Qing saluted, he took three steps back before turning around and leaving. After he left, I squinted slightly to look at his back, then lowered my eyes and said with a bit of annoyance: "Yuanbao, take the folder on the case table and get it." Submit to the Thai Palace for approval."

Yuan Bao hummed first, then (⊙o⊙) ah?

Because of his strange voice, I couldn't help but look up, and when I saw his dumbfounded expression, I frowned first, and then I couldn't help but laugh out loud: "Yuan Bao, what's your expression?"

Yuan Bao put away that face that made people laugh, and then looked at me and said, "Long Live Lord, let the servants talk too much. Since ancient times, the harem has not been allowed to interfere in politics. If the emperor takes the booklet to the queen, it will be known to others. The Queen's is gone."

After hearing this, I was a little displeased and said: "Who dares to say that the empress is wrong? At the beginning, I took the notes to Rufei for correction, and Rufei even read it for me. How come no one said that it was wrong? Now It’s not allowed when you get to the queen? Who has the courage to speak nonsense, I’ll cut off his head.”

After hearing my angry words, Yuan Bao quickly knelt down and said, "Lord Long Live, calm down, this servant deserves to die."

Seeing his ashen expression, I frowned and sighed fiercely, but finally sat down and didn't take the folder to Zhuo Wenjing.

After all, I can not be famous, but Zhuo Wenjing can't, Zhuo Wenjing is not Xue Ruyu, he certainly doesn't want to leave a bad reputation in history.

Thinking about it this way, I suddenly felt that what Yuan Bao said just now was reasonable. If he hadn't stopped me from playing, I would definitely have caused Zhuo Wenjing a lot of trouble.

I took another look at Yuan Bao kneeling on the ground, and said, "Forget it, get up. Take the almond pastry that was just delivered from the imperial dining room on the table and eat it. It's still hot."

Yuan Bao listened to Xie En's face full of emotion, then got up and hugged the pastry in his arms, he laughed twice, seeing his dumbfounded face, I also pursed my lips and smiled.

After Yuan Bao went out, Peixiu waited on me to read the scriptures and grind the ink for me. He was very meticulous and never moved his eyebrows. I glanced at him without saying a word, and looked at the scriptures carefully.

I paused when I saw the ceremonial booklet asking implicitly about this year's show girls. This show girl is selected every two years. At this time in previous years, most of the show girls have already entered the palace. The queen mother is testing the character of others. , and this year the queen mother is not in the palace, and I was so focused on Zhuo Wenjing's body that I forgot about it for a while, and now I saw the excerpt and suddenly remembered that it should be a draft girl.

After looking at the book and thinking for a while, I wrote a sentence on it with a Chinese ink pen according to the rules.I didn't think about anything else, I just felt that except for Zhuo Wenjing, the color of the harem was a bit old, and it was time for a new look.

After putting down the notebook, I was in a good mood, and I asked Peixiu to send the notebook to the Ministry of Rites.

Sitting on the dragon chair, I thought of Zhuo Wenjing, and felt a little guilty for some reason. Then I thought, this draft girl is a traditional rule, which emperor can only look at one person in his life, and at most he can only love him the most in his life. up.

Thinking about it this way, thinking about it, I felt more at ease, and then the more I thought about it, the more I felt that I was doing the right thing, and then I felt that drafting girls was a matter of righteousness for the emperor, and there was no need to feel guilty.

After I felt happy, I thought to myself, in a few days, most of the beautiful girls from all over the world will come to the capital one after another, and it happens that the queen mother is also returning to Beijing, so I can be busy with this matter and don't have to keep paying attention to Zhuo Wenjing .

In this way, I feel even more that drafting girls can kill two birds with one stone.

But even so, when I was resting at Zhuo Wenjing's place that night, I didn't tell him about it. What I thought was, anyway, Zhuo Wenjing would know about a newcomer in the palace after a few days, so why should I do anything extra Tell him ahead of time...

After two days of this life, the women selected by the capital first entered the palace, and the older generation of experienced palace maids trained all aspects of etiquette. After being checked by the Ministry of Rites, I also put this matter behind me, Xiu Nu The most beautiful time should be years ago. At that time, the most beautiful people in the whole country will appear in front of my eyes. If I see the ones that are pleasing to the eye and I like, I just seal two nobles and beauties. As for the matter of raising her status as a concubine Let's look at character in the future, I don't want another Xue Ruyu and Zhuo Wenjing to compete for something in the future.

I think it is very good for me to think so, so that I have never paid attention to Zhuo Wenjing's emotions.Maybe it's not that I don't pay attention deep down in my heart, but that I don't want to or dare not pay attention.

The weather was fine that day, I was correcting paperwork in the imperial study, Zhuo Lun came to return the details of the household department, then stood there silent, I saw that his face was not very good, so I said: "Prime Minister, do you have something to say? But what did you find?"

Zhuo Lun glanced at me and frowned, then looked around, lowered his eyes and said nothing, I was stunned for a moment, looked at Yuan Bao and said: "You all go down, Yuan Bao is guarding the door, no one is allowed to approach the Imperial Study Room Half a step, otherwise it will be dealt with by law."

Yuan Bao said yes, and then hurriedly led the crowd away. After seeing Yuan Bao watching the door, I looked at Zhuo Lun and said, "Prime Minister, please speak directly."

Zhuo Lun looked at me, stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, please forgive me for being rude." After finishing speaking, he walked up to me, opened a ledger of the household department, pointed to one of the items and said, "Your Majesty, please see here."

Seeing how mysterious he was, I hurriedly picked up the account book and looked at the place he pointed to. It was written that a total of 100 million taels of silver was spent for the construction of the Queen's Temple.

I do know this Queen’s Temple, but it was built in Qingzhou, the birthplace of the Queen Mother. When the Queen Mother became the Queen Mother, someone there said that they saw a phoenix returning to its nest, so they asked for a temple to be built to honor the Queen Mother.

At that time, the queen mother was very happy when she heard it, and I naturally liked it too. The queen mother was in the palace and could not go back. It would be good to build a temple for people to commemorate.So I agreed.

This temple was built in the second year of my reign.It has been more than three years now, and this year the Ministry of Household Affairs handed over a report saying that the temple was in disrepair, and it cost 100 million. Although it is a bit much, but I think since it is needed for maintenance and has been reported, let alone the temple of the mother, it will cost more. There is nothing wrong with it, so I agreed.

Thinking of this, I closed the account book and said, "Prime Minister, is there something wrong here?"

Zhuo Lun looked at me and knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, please forgive me for my capital crime, so I dare to speak."

I paused and said, "Speak."

Then Zhuo Lun slowly opened his mouth and said: "Your Majesty, there is no Queen's Temple in Qingzhou."

I was taken aback for a moment, then got up full of anger and patted the desk a few times: "Presumptuous."

Zhuo Lun knelt and did not dare to say anything, I snorted coldly and said: "Zhuo Lun, do you know how rebellious it is to say such a thing?"

Zhuo Lun knelt on the ground and said: "My minister is guilty."

Seeing his longing for Ai Ai, I said impatiently: "Say, what's going on?"

Zhuo Lun looked up at me and said the matter again.

Zhuo Lun said that there used to be a Queen's Temple in Qingzhou, but it was only completely repaired in the first year. Later, people gradually stopped paying attention to it, and later, the Queen's Temple fell into disrepair Yes, until this year... the Ministry of Households allocated money, but still did not get any repairs.It has been there all the time, and it is almost becoming a place for sparrows.

"Everything I said is true, Your Majesty please check it out." Finally Zhuo Lun knelt on the ground and shouted.

I walked up and down in the imperial study room, and after walking around a few times, I suddenly stopped and looked at Zhuo Lun and said, "Prime Minister, you have been in the capital all the time and have never left the capital, how do you know that the one enshrining is not the queen mother, but A flock of chaffinches." When I said the last four words, I was almost gnashing my teeth.

Zhuo Lun's body trembled, and I snorted coldly: "Zhuo Lun, do you know the crime of deceiving the emperor?"

Then Zhuo Lun slowly raised his head to look at me and said: "Of course the old minister knows, it's just that the emperor doesn't go out of Beijing very often, but the second son of Weichen, Zhuo Ran, does go out often, and he passed by Qingzhou when he returned to Beijing this year, so he knows that there is a place like this Temple, so I went to worship, but after I went, I saw... I thought it wasn't the real Queen's Temple, so I didn't care... Until yesterday when I helped Weichen to check the account, he happened to look here and found something different, so he told Regarding this matter, I feel that the matter is of great importance, so I come here to report... Please forgive me, Your Majesty..."

After hearing what Zhuo Lun said, I suddenly sat on the dragon chair, my mind went blank, and after a long silence I said: "Send Zhuo Ran to investigate this matter, be careful not to let others know, hold this down first, and there will be evidence in the future I'm saying, don't let the wind leak, if the wind leaks, don't blame me for being merciless."

Zhuo Lun responded, and got up to leave. After he left, I sat there without saying a word. If what Zhuo Lun said was true, then I think that there may not be one or two people involved this time.

Thinking of this, I snorted coldly, these people are simply damned, really think that the emperor is far away, no one can do anything to them, or do you think that the emperor is too easy to talk to?

As soon as this incident happened, I naturally couldn't bear to see Zhezi anymore, so I got up and prepared money to visit Zhuo Wenjing, at least I felt better seeing him.

As soon as I walked to the Royal Garden, I heard a few laughing voices, because the voice was very clear and melodious, accompanied by jokes, I couldn't help but stop, Yuan Bao wanted to say something, I waved my hand to stop it, and walked slowly past the tall building. Before I could see who was making noise in the imperial garden, a blindfolded person bumped into my arms...