Father is on top, I was wrong

The prime minister's mansion is usually very quiet, but today there is more Xiao Gui, and he quarreled with Lu Jiawen Bo if they disagreed, which rarely added some noise.

After the meal, Xiao Gui followed Wen Wujue into the study, and said with a playful smile, "Father Xiang, I want to ask you a question."

When Wen Wujue saw his cheap look, he felt that it was not a good thing.

He walked around to the case and asked, "What?"

There was a book table about half a zhang wide between Xiao Gui and him.

He held back his smile, coughed lightly, and said maliciously: "When will Xiangfu... be able to marry me?"

"..."

Wen Wujue turned cold immediately, picked up the heavy paperweight on the desk, and threw it at him.

"You've got to measure up, don't you?"

Xiao Gui had been prepared for a long time, like a nimble wolf dog, he quickly dodged to the right, and instantly circled to his father's side.

As soon as he clasped Wen Wujue's waist with his hand, he laughed softly, "Don't be angry, Father Xiang, I'll just ask casually."

Wen Wujue subconsciously raised his palm to pat it, but he grabbed it and squeezed it vigorously.

His head lowered, and he was about to kiss him.

Wen Wujue struggled between the square inches, but he suddenly stopped halfway, their faces were at a fist-sized distance, and their eyes met.

Xiao Gui suddenly said, "Father Xiang, what did Liu Xuan do to you?"

Wen Wujue was stunned for a moment, before he could react, he opened his mouth and said, "No."

As soon as the words came out of his mouth, he sensed something was wrong and almost bit off his tongue.

It was too late to think about how Xiao Gui realized that Liu Xuan was not good for him, but this question was obviously a pitfall.

The normal answer should be to feel very strange, "What else can Liu Xuan do to me?"

Instead of saying "no" for 300 taels of silver here, it seems very guilty.

There was a moment of condensation around, so quiet that only the sound of each other's breathing could be heard.

Xiao Gui's expression suddenly changed, and his brows turned slightly gloomy.

Wen Wujue suddenly realized that he knew him very well now, and even knew how to provoke him first, and when he was emotionally unstable, he would open his mouth to ask, and he would come out as soon as he tried.

And he found, sadly, that he seemed to have taught him this himself.

After a while, Xiao Gui said in a dark voice, "Liu Xuan, what did you do to Xiangfu?"

In an instant, Wen Wujue's mind turned quickly, and he organized a set of rhetoric.

"That day on the empty mountain, he stuffed a note into my sleeve, and he wanted to cooperate with me to kill the emperor."

He said it in confidence, as if it really happened.

"But I ignored him. He thought I didn't see it, and wanted to remind me that there was a note on me."

Xiao Gui stared at his face for a long time, "Really?"

Wen Wujue let him watch, and after he calmed down, his expression was a little quieter than that of Gujing.

"If the subject is disloyal to the emperor, the emperor will be decapitated by now."

Even if he thought his words were flawless, Xiao Gui still had doubts on his face. He seemed to have no flaws at first, but no matter how he thought about it, he felt a little inappropriate.

He grabbed his father's shoulder and bit the back of Bai Shengsheng viciously, "Father, don't lie to me!"

Wen Wujue gasped in pain, scolding the dog emperor in his heart, he really belongs to a dog.

After chewing carefully for a long time, Xiao Gui gradually stopped and sighed: "When will Xiangfu accept me?"

Teenagers are not satisfied, once they taste the sweetness, they will want more.

Wen Wujue felt that he was almost unable to deal with him.

He sighed, his heart softened by three points, and suddenly he remembered something, and suddenly hardened by seven points.

He blurted out a time limit, "Two years."

Xiao Gui almost jumped up, "Father Xiang wants to suffocate me to death?"

Wen Wujue spread out his hands with a serious face, "Because you are still young, maybe in two years, you will get tired of seeing my temples grow frost."

"How is it possible?" Xiao Gui sneered, "Father Xiang is not here yet."

"It's hard to say." He accused him unceremoniously, "After all, the emperor doesn't care about government affairs, and let his ministers handle everything. If you work too hard and age prematurely, doesn't the emperor know?"

Xiao Gui choked up for a moment, but was speechless.

After a while, he said: "After that, I will come."

"Really?" Wen Wujue blinked.

Xiao Gui thought of the densely packed words on the pile of notebooks, and suddenly felt a headache.

But the words had already been spoken, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and say, "Really."

Wen Wujue smiled, and took a notebook from the desk casually, "This is the notebook handed over by Gao Shenxian, which counts the military granary storage in several states in the northern border, and the granary locations of Wang Xue and several big families in the north. Please advise how to arrange the next military ration dispatch."

Xiao Gui frowned, "Why do you need to know where Wang Xue's granary is?"

"The emperor will not naively think that once there is a war, the food in the treasury can support it?"

Xiao Gui: "..."

"Let's go back and read the scriptures. The palace has detailed records of the local chronicles of various places in the northern border. The emperor also took this opportunity to find out. From a closer look, the stable supply of food and grass in the rear can be beneficial to the front. The emperor also knows that, The late emperor once defeated Beiyan in the northern border, but he had no food and grass, and was unable to meet him on the way back to the army, so he was chased and beaten by Beiyan, and the victory turned into a defeat."

Wen Wujue sighed, and continued: "From a distance, the treasury is empty and the aristocratic family is rich, the roads are frozen to death, and the rich wine and meat stink, all of which are signs of the country's decline."

Xiao Gui was silent for a moment, then he saw the worries lingering in the corners of his father's eyes and brows, he was depressed and helpless.

After a long while, he put the booklet in his arms, and rubbed Wen Wujue for a long time, until the evening when the twilight came together, he rode his horse back to the palace.

Wen Wujue stood under the corridor and stopped for a long time.

Looking up, you can see the towering turrets in the imperial city, the bright yellow and dark halo in the dark night, like a dim emperor star, with a bleak future.

As the dew deepened, the candlelight in the prime minister's study was faint.

The folders on the desk are stacked high and neatly.

The pen, ink, paper and inkstone on the table were all put away, empty, as if no one had ever used it.

Wen Bo pushed the door in with a huge burden on his back, "Prime Minister, everything has been arranged, and the letter has been sent out, Lu Jia personally sent it."

Wen Wujue took out a black-bottomed gold box from under the bed, rubbed it for a moment, put it on the desk, put it together with the prime minister's seal, and pressed a piece of rice paper underneath.

He sighed silently, "Let's go."

Xiao Gui, goodbye.

·

Xiao Gui stayed all night in the Library Pavilion of the Imperial Academy.

He dug out all the local chronicles of the northern border revised in recent years. Fortunately, these records are concise and concise, without obscure poems. Although he has not read thousands of books, he has traveled thousands of miles to understand the northern border. The locals still know each other very well, so it seems that there is no pressure.

On the contrary, Li Ling, with an old bone that was about to break, climbed up and down with a ladder all night, squinting his presbyopia to find a book, exhausted.

It wasn't until the light of day faded that the monarch and his ministers each occupied a corner and fell asleep on the desk for a while.

But only for a while.

The two were awakened by the knock on the door of Zangshu Pavilion.

Xu Ding's urgent voice came from outside the hall, "Your Majesty! Hurry up for [-] miles!"

Xiao Gui was still sleepy at first, but when he heard about military affairs, he suddenly woke up.

Li Ling also hastily opened the door of the hall, the bright light pierced the eyes of both of them.

"what happened?"

"The Northern Territory is in a hurry. Beiyan started to attack half a month ago, and it has taken down seven or eight cities in a row. It seems that it should be allied with the neighboring tribes."

Xiao Gui gritted his molars, "These bastards are unbeatable!"

He took the robe belt handed over by the little eunuch beside him, walked out, and asked, "Where is Xiangfu?"

Xu Ding paused, "Haven't notified the Prime Minister, the Emperor is going to discuss matters together now?"

"Let's go."

The two hurriedly rode their horses to the Prime Minister's Mansion.

In the past, only the side door was open to the prime minister's mansion, but today the middle door is wide open. There are a lot of officials standing in the front hall and courtyard, except the servants of the prime minister's mansion.

Xiao Gui was stunned for a moment, "Are you all here?"

All the courtiers looked different and did not dare to speak out.

Xiao Gui also ignored them, walked towards the study while raising his legs, usually when there were urgent matters, they would discuss matters in the prime minister's study.

Unexpectedly, when he stepped into the study, it was empty.

It was really empty, there were no books on the bookshelves, no pens, inks, papers and inkstones on the desk, and the ink washing porcelain vat placed aside was clean and bottomless.

The tiger charm and the prime minister's seal are neatly placed on the case.

Xiao Gui's face was condensed, and he suppressed the uneasiness in his heart, and pulled out the rice paper under the paperweight stone.

Impressively written on it: long-term illness is difficult to heal, beg for the bones back, don't read it.

... Tang Yu and others hurried over, but saw Xiao Gui holding the piece of paper in his hand, his face was terribly gloomy.

If the little emperor in the past was extremely stubborn, the current Xiao Gui made Tang Yu faintly feel that he had the momentum of a tyrant.

He flinched a bit, and said tremblingly: "The prime minister has resigned from office, the emperor need not be too sad. I am a talented person in Daliang, although it is difficult to find someone as talented as the prime minister, I expected someone like this , there should be some."

Other officials also responded.

"Yes! Your Majesty, don't be too sad."

"A talented person is rare, but it's not impossible."

"The prime minister has been working hard for the past few years, and his health is really not good, otherwise he would not resign."

……

"To shut up!"

Xiao Gui cursed, then walked out without looking back, and went straight to the door.

He got on the horse neatly, and as soon as he pushed the reins, he had already galloped for several miles.

Xu Ding had no choice but to chase out with his horse.

Galloping through the street, knocking over many peddlers along the way, Tang Yu, who was following behind the two, was caught by the peddlers because he fell too late, so he had to pay for the damage one by one. In a blink of an eye, the two horses in front disappeared .

After leaving the city, they ran wildly along the official road, and the rapid sound of horseshoes echoed in the empty mountains outside the city.

There was a three-way intersection ahead, and Xu Ding shouted from behind, "Your Majesty! Stop quickly! Your Majesty!"

"Call-"

Xu Ding's horse was stopped at the intersection, but he saw that Xiao Gui didn't care, and ran wildly in one direction like a headless chicken. After chasing for more than ten miles, he found no trace, turned back, and went in another direction .

Xu Ding had no choice but to follow him closely.

However, the two of them ran back and forth on the three roads for nearly a hundred miles, running from early morning to the middle of the sun, but they didn't see a single person, and instead tired the two of them into dogs.

"Emperor, Your Majesty, the northern border is urgent, and we can't delay it any longer."

Xu Ding was so tired that he couldn't speak properly, his mouth was dry, and he waited for a while before continuing: "If the prime minister knows, he won't obey."

Xiao Gui didn't speak, his whole body seemed to have been drained of all his strength, without any expression.

Xu Ding didn't know when the emperor attached so much importance to Wen Wujue, he never thought that his reaction would be so big.

"Your Majesty, we must dispatch troops and dispatch supplies as soon as possible. This time, I am afraid it will be a tough battle."

Seeing his reaction, Xu Ding continued: "The military situation is too fast this time, and it may be too late to transfer troops from various places. The general thinks that we should first allocate [-] forbidden troops from the capital, and then go through the Mingjiang waterway, and then mobilize troops from various places. The army supplements the defenders of the capital."

"Da da da."

The impatient horses were spinning in place, but the two of them were extremely quiet.

Xu Ding talked for a long time, but Xiao Gui didn't respond at all.

He searched his brains, and wanted to continue to say something, but he saw Xiao Gui suddenly raised his head, his eyes were cold, and his voice did not fluctuate at all, "I have transferred [-] imperial troops, will the capital be handed over to others?"

Xu Ding: "..."

"Your Majesty, the northern border is more urgent, and the capital can be mobilized from surrounding areas..."

Xiao Guidao: "You ask yourself, is it too late?"

He rode his horse and circled around Xu Ding, staring at him sharply, almost staring at his body from front to back.

"Xu Ding, you have guarded the capital for more than ten years, you don't even understand such a simple truth?"

Xiao Gui paused for a while, the air between the two was a little strangely quiet.

"Father Xiang left, you were the first to know about it, otherwise you wouldn't have gone to the palace to report to me if something happened in the northern border."

His tone was extremely firm and cold, "It's also a lie that the northern border is in an emergency."

"Father Xiang is going to eradicate the family. If he doesn't leave, the family will not dare to move, right?"

Xu Ding was silent for a moment.

Then he slowly revealed a smile, a little relieved, "The emperor guessed it right, and he really lived up to the prime minister's teachings."

The next moment, Xiao Gui dragged him off his horse and punched him in the face.

"I have always trusted you! You actually kept it from me!"

Xu Ding fell to the ground with a dull pain in his back, but he didn't fight back, he just raised his arm to block it.

No wonder the emperor was angry, even in the past, when he had a bad relationship with Wen Wujue, only Xu Ding was close to him.

It is better to say that you are a confidant than a monarch.

But now, he had to follow Wen Wujue to hide it from him.

Xiao Gui's fist was like a violent thunder, wrapped in anger, the punch was in place.

"Your Majesty! The minister didn't hide it on purpose. The prime minister has been poisoned for a long time. I'm afraid he won't be able to live for a long time, so he has to go!"

"If the prime minister really falls ill in the court, the family will be even more unscrupulous. At that time, the emperor will be in a passive position, and it will be even more difficult to deal with it!"

"Besides, the prime minister is now in a hurry to build momentum in the northern border. The emperor can take away all the soldiers and horses in the capital to seize the opportunity!"

Xiao Gui's fist stopped.

Enduring the pain on his face, Xu Ding continued: "Abandon Bianjing, use the Ming River as a natural moat, confront the north and the south, seize the family's northern farmland and granaries, and rely on these grains to fight against the family. This is the last strategy that the prime minister gave to the emperor."

The author has something to say: I saw many friends asking about the poison in the father, I actually wrote the answer in the previous article, you have to read carefully.

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