Reincarnation of the powerful minister

(The last chapter, Chapter 220, still can’t be unlocked after review. I have tried my best to edit the text, but it still doesn’t work. I can only trouble you to go to my Weibo @天天天天欣谢 to see. In order not to affect the experience if the plot is not smooth, thank you.)

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Queen Mother?The disheveled two people on the throne were startled.

The Empress Dowager likes to be quiet, and often lives in the Palace of Compassion and Ning, and doesn't move around very often. At most, she invites some monks and Taoist priests to the palace to preach.Occasionally he would go to the Hall of Mental Cultivation, but this was the first time he came to the Royal Study Room of the Outer Court, and he came so quickly that he didn't even say hello.

Emperor Jinglong kissed Su Yan's forehead apologetically, and immediately got up to straighten his clothes and crown, and said in a low voice, "I'm going out to deal with it, you should put on your clothes first, and the future will be long."

Su Yan floated ashore from the cooling tide, too embarrassed to say a word, jumped off the dragon chair with a flushed face, picked up the trousers on the floor and quickly put them on, and hurriedly put on the mid laner.

Outside the hall, the Empress Dowager's voice faintly came through the door: "...the emperor is left alone in the hall, and you slaves are hiding outside, what's the reason?"

Amidst the unclear explanations of the palace people, the Empress Dowager raised her voice in displeasure: "No matter how important the political affairs are, the emperor can't be left alone to serve him. Open the door of the palace, I have something to ask the emperor...Who dares to stop you?"

Lan Xi still wanted to procrastinate, but was "invited" aside by the two palace servants behind the empress dowager. Before the palace door opened, he only had time to shout: "The empress dowager is here—"

The door opened, and a figure walked in against the light, and the palace people behind them closed the palace door again.

Poor Su Yan just put on the middle single, and didn't even have time to tie the belt, let alone hide in the apse. In a hurry, he wrapped the official robe in a black gauze hat, hugged it in his arms, and went under the imperial case.

The space under the imperial case is quite spacious, more than enough to accommodate one person, and the three sides facing the outside are covered with a hanging table curtain with thorns and dragon patterns, so that the emperor's legs will not be seen by the courtiers after the emperor is seated, so as to maintain his dignity.

After Su Yan got in, he suddenly found that his belt was still hanging on the corner of the table. He quickly reached out and grabbed the hanging end, and pulled it in like peeling the skin of a snake.

Emperor Jinglong leaned over to look at him, his expression was a bit indescribable.Su Yan mouthed and said: "It's too late to avoid it, please block it for me."

With a thin smile on the corner of the emperor's mouth, he moved forward as far as he could, shaking the hem of the wide dragon robe, covering his head so that he could not be seen easily from the outside.

At this moment, the queen mother walked to the screen at the door of the study. The emperor saw that the place was in a mess and it was too late to clean it up, so he picked up the cinnabar inkstone that had been dumped by the desk, and threw it on the ground, pretending to be angry: "I said don't bother me, let me be alone and clean." , but you are making all kinds of noise outside, are you trying to resist the order?"

"It's me." The figure of the queen mother turned from behind the screen, followed by two personal maids.

Emperor Jinglong showed a look of surprise, stood up, and saluted: "It turns out that the mother is coming, and the mother is Wan'an."

The Empress Dowager looked at the mess around the imperial case, with notebooks, pens and inkstones scattered all over the floor. On the one hand, she suspected that the emperor's temperament would not cause such a big temper; It happened as she expected.

"Emperor, no matter how difficult the political affairs are, it is not worth getting angry. Take care of the dragon body."

"Thank you for the teaching of the mother, the son knows."

The Empress Dowager nodded to ask him to sit down, and she herself picked up the armchair under Zhang Yu's case and sat down, winking at the two court ladies.The palace lady understood, she stepped back silently, and pretended to make tea to check whether there were people hiding in the corners of the hall.

And Lan Xi also quietly opened the door of the palace and slipped in. After receiving the signal from the emperor's eyes, she hurried to the imperial case to pack up all the things on the ground.He glanced around the study room out of the corner of his eye, but he couldn't see Su Yan. He was muttering in his heart when he suddenly realized that there was a corner of crimson fabric on the sole of his shoe, which was different in color from the crimson dragon robe worn by the emperor. Below—

The emperor coughed, and shook the hem of the dragon robe out twice, Lan Xi hurriedly stepped back half a step, and the corner of the crimson fabric shrank into the bottom of the table.

The queen mother took a sip of tea and put down the cup.The emperor said: "The queen mother has something to tell her son, and send someone to pass on a message, so why bother to work hard?"

"I can't talk about the order, but I just heard some rumors and wanted to ask the emperor for proof. I saw the stone pillar erected in the court just now, and it seems that the evidence is conclusive."

The emperor lowered his eyelids and played with the green lotus jade pendant in his sleeve, "Could it be that the rumor that the empress is referring to happened just this morning about the Justice and Charity Bureau, and it spread to the Palace of Compassion and Ning so quickly?"

Of course, the queen mother couldn't say it directly. Concubine Wei came to her crying for justice with the child in her arms.But even if there was no such incident, she would never ignore it after she knew about it. In addition, when Concubine Wei spoke, she pointed the messenger behind the scenes to the prince.The Empress Dowager had always favored her little grandson, but now she became more and more suspicious that the Prince was too narrow-minded and unable to tolerate others, so she used such tricks to destroy people's foundations, without any regard for brotherhood.

The Empress Dowager herself has two sons, and the two of them don't get along very well, which makes her attach great importance to brotherhood. If the matter of the stone pillar was really done by the Prince, it would be a violation of her taboo.

"Don't worry about how I know, tell me first, how do you plan to deal with this matter?"

The emperor replied: "Mother, don't worry, my son will solve this matter properly."

The queen mother did not get a satisfactory answer, so she got up suddenly and walked step by step to the imperial chair where the emperor was sitting.

Su Yan huddled under the imperial case, and when he heard the footsteps of the queen mother approaching, he felt more and more uneasy—he didn't even have time to put on the outer robe, and his body was still half-drawn under the emperor's robe. What should be the explanation?I'm afraid that he won't even be given a chance to explain, so he was dragged out to show the public.

Nervously, he couldn't help squeezing into the depths of the emperor's robe. In the darkness, the tip of his nose seemed to have touched something soft and not hard. At the same time, he smelled a familiar masculine scent from the fragrance of lavender.

He was stunned, and with the hot air from his nose, the thing swelled up again, and it was right against his lips through the cloth.

Su Yan suddenly reacted, and lowered his head as much as possible in embarrassment, all he wanted was to hope that the Queen Mother would leave as soon as possible after showing off her prestige.

The emperor tightly squeezed the jade pendant in his sleeve, his breath was short of breath, and a faint flush appeared on his cheeks.

The Empress Dowager didn't pay attention to the slight changes in his expression because she was preoccupied. She walked to the throne and stopped, and said harshly: "The Emperor has been doting on the Crown Prince for 15 years, is he going to continue now? He is already tyrannical at this age. I can't tolerate my younger brother, and when the power is in my hands in the future, wouldn't it be a disaster for Xiao Qiang!"

The emperor's breath was a little disordered, and he managed to speak smoothly: "The queen mother is... a little worried, He Lin... not."

The Queen Mother said: "He is not like you! I have always felt that he is not like you, no matter his appearance or temperament. He looks a bit like his mother, but his temperament is his own. How you treat your younger brother depends on your mother all these years. In your eyes, no matter how dissatisfied Cheng'er is, the queen mother will stand by your side and never say a word. Because the queen mother knows that you will never harm him."

While she was speaking, the emperor gradually relaxed his strength, and sighed softly: "But the fourth brother doesn't believe me. I imprisoned him for ten years and destroyed his most important freedom and ambition to fight on the battlefield. He resents me, and also Within reason."

"—You took the blame for me, the empress mother knew it well." The empress dowager's tone softened, and she reached out to caress the emperor's fist on the imperial case.The emperor's fist tightened, as if he wanted to retract it, but he relaxed again.The Queen Mother went on to say, "Back then Datong was about to rebel. I was afraid that Cheng'er would be hijacked by the army and do something stupid, and I was also worried that you would suspect him, guard against him, and even punish him. That's why I pretended to be sick and asked you to call him back to serve the sick."

The emperor was silent for a moment, and said: "I still remember what my mother said at that time. I have remembered it for more than ten years."

The queen mother nodded: "Yes, I said - I don't want a dead prince and general who will go down in history, I only want a living son.

"Cheng'er was 12 years old and followed the late emperor to go to Mobei. In the past six years, he has gone through countless battles and survived several times. Every scar on his body is like a sharp knife on my heart. A good swimmer drowns in Water, from ancient times to the present, how can there be a general who has won all his life? The general died in a hundred battles, and the body of the horse leather was still there. How many times have I woke up from a nightmare, sweating, as if every side of him was the last. This kind of torture, I really It was unbearable, so I took the opportunity of mutiny in the army and asked you to call him back."

The emperor shook his head slightly: "If I hadn't been worried about the military power in his hands, I wouldn't have firmly locked him in the capital, so I can't say that I took the blame for my mother, but I deserve it."

The queen mother patted the back of his hand in relief: "Although Cheng'er has resentment in his heart, he is still a person who understands the general situation and the important situation. You are safe and sound, which is what the queen mother is most happy to see. But what about the prince? Younger brother Even if he is babbling, he is eager to get rid of it quickly, such a tyrannical temperament and narrow-mindedness are not the virtues of a man--Emperor, you should think about it carefully."

What are you thinking about?How to teach the prince, or how to consider the country, the queen mother did not say clearly.

But the emperor heard the implication, and fell silent again.

Su Yan, who was under the imperial case, also understood that the empress dowager's dissatisfaction with the prince had accumulated to a considerable extent. Even if the second prince was just a young child with unknown talent and temperament, it could not affect the shift of her inner balance.

In addition, there was one more thing that surprised him - the reason why King Yu refused to let him lead the army, apart from the emperor's unavoidable vigilance, was more because of the empress dowager's love for her son!

Because of this, King Yu always resented his elder brother, but he didn't know that there was another person behind it.

As for the Queen Mother, she has seen King Yu criticize and provoke the Emperor many times in the past ten years, and watched King Yu search for flowers and ask willows to spend his days wandering, but she has never said a word to explain. Do you think that since it is a son, it is only natural for the one to take responsibility for the mother and the other to make the mother get what she wants?

When drinking with King Yu, Su Yan once heard him casually mentioning that he had always felt that the queen mother favored the emperor's elder brother, but for some reason, the emperor's brother felt that the mother's empress favored him.Because of this, the two brothers had a lot of arguments when they were young.

But judging from the current situation, even Su Yan is a little confused - who is the Queen Mother's real beloved?

Perhaps this kind of "love" is the greatest power a mother can control her children.

Su Yan remained silent, his mood suddenly became depressed, and he didn't know who it was for.

The emperor finally spoke: "I will consider it carefully. The queen mother has worked hard, so go back to the palace to rest earlier."

Knowing that her son is calm and never promises casually, the queen mother was half relieved, and before leaving, she said: "The stone pillar outside the palace looks evil, it's not a good thing, I'll have someone smash it to pieces Throw it into the river, and then invite two masters to do it to eliminate the miasma of evil atmosphere in this palace."

Su Yan laughed at himself: In the Empress Dowager's mind, "a bit of evil" and "not a good thing", in addition to the prince, probably also included him who insisted on fighting against the Wei family.

Finally, when the queen mother left, Su Yan heard Lan Xigong send her out of the palace gate, took the opportunity to sneak out from under the imperial case, took a few breaths, and whispered to the emperor: "I am extremely rude, I am so ashamed, I have no face. Seeing the king, I will go back and reflect on myself."

The emperor stood up, took the official uniform from his hand, shook the folds, and put it on his shoulders: "It's because I didn't hold back, and I almost got you involved. Just in case the queen mother really found out and made a fuss, I would be harmless, but your reputation will be ruined." , I am afraid that from now on, I will bear the infamy of being a seductress, and I will have no hope of official career in this life."

Su Yan quickly put on his clothes and tied his laces, his sense of shame gradually faded with the wrapped cloth, and said earnestly: "The emperor's care, I thank you for accepting it. The personal affairs of the minister are not worth mentioning. The pillar outside, together with the implicated A series of follow-ups and inside stories are the tricky things—I wonder if the emperor knows it well?"

The emperor stared at him and asked, "Do you believe me or not?"

Su Yan thought for a while and replied seriously: "I believe."

The emperor smiled: "Then continue to believe."

He stretched out his hand to take a few strands of Su Yan's fallen hair, carefully stuffed them into the crown, and hung the jade seal back on Su Yan's neck, placing it against the flesh, and then whispered in his ear: "You offer I like the sheet music very much, and I wanted to reward you with a red jade flute, but it's a pity that the mother came at an inappropriate time. Well, let's talk about it next time."

Su Yan suspected that the emperor had something to say, and worried that he had misunderstood, so he replied with a smile: "I don't know how to play the flute, and the emperor gave me such a valuable musical instrument. It's a waste of money."

"You can learn if you can't. I can teach you." The emperor sniffed his temples lightly, as if smelling the faint fragrance in the evening wind that disturbed people's hearts, and reminded him before he left, "Remember, don't put my name Wipe it off."

Su Yan thought of the cinnabar mark on the heels of his legs, and was very embarrassed: "I can't let the minister carefully cover it every time I take a bath, can I?"

The emperor smiled slightly: "Don't worry, it won't take long, and I will wipe it off myself."

Personally... rub off?Su Yan shuddered, not daring to think deeply, and bowed to leave.

After leaving the imperial study room, he hesitated whether to go to the East Palace to visit Zhu Helin who had been reprimanded.Moreover, the matter of Shi Zhu's prophecy must be properly resolved. He also wanted to ask the prince what plan he had in mind, but he was also worried that he was in the vortex now, and if he went there, he would bring trouble to the other party.Presumably the crown prince also needs time to digest today's events, so he should go home first, send a message to Fu Bao later, and then arrange a time and place to meet.

Today is February [-]th, the Longevity Festival with twists and turns.

After resting for three days, at the court meeting on February [-], he was going to take the initiative to attack the part of his opponent that showed his face.