Reincarnation of the powerful minister

Su Yan could see the bright lights in the Hall of Mental Cultivation from a distance, and it really didn't go out all night.

When he went up the steps, he saw Lan Xi standing under the eaves with his back to the palace door, seeming to be thinking about something secretly, shaking the dust whisk in his hand uneasily.

He called "Eunuch Lan" twice before the other party came to his senses, with a habitual smile on his face: "The nephew came just in time, the emperor ordered before, if you come back tonight, you can go in directly without passing through. "

The relationship between Su Yan and Lan Xi has always been delicate:

There is a little bit of incense, but there is only a little bit. The so-called "uncle" and "nephew" are more of a routine to get closer when necessary.

There are some things that are wrong, because Su Yan clearly understands that this eunuch is an egoist, let alone put him on the dragon bed in order to please the emperor, even if he helps him sometimes, it is entirely for his own sake interest considerations.

This plastic uncle and nephew love is well known to both parties, so use it if you can.When there is no real conflict of interest, no one will take the lead in tearing their faces.

Reaching out to not hit the smiling face, Su Yan also smiled and said: "Uncle Lao Shi is here. I wonder if the young master is still in the hall?"

Lan Xi said: "Master just returned to the East Palace."

Su Yan asked: "It's been two hours before the young master left? Are father and son talking so much?"

"Hey, there, I didn't even say ten words, and I was not allowed to leave, so I was detained." Lan Xi sighed, "When the young master left just now, his face was all black. Our family sent him out. After entering the gate of the palace, I stood here wondering what the situation was."

Maybe it was because the prince was young and impulsive, afraid that he would also rush to Wei's house to join in the fun, which would be dangerous and not conducive to the situation, Su Yan guessed so.

He cupped his hands towards Lan Xi: "The little nephew went inside and returned to life."

Lan Xi half-jokingly said: "Then our family won't be hated, and we will be kicked out anyway."

Su Yan suspected that this guy was teasing him about his ambiguous relationship with the emperor, so he pretended not to understand, and walked into the palace gate with a calm expression.

Emperor Jinglong was not in the hall.The waiter stepped forward and said: "The emperor has gone to the lotus pond to enjoy the scenery, Mr. Su, please come with your slaves."

Su Yan was a little strange: it's only the end of February, not to mention the lotus, the lotus leaves haven't even emerged yet, what kind of scenery is this in the middle of the night?

Strange as it is, I walked through the winding corridors and arrived at the pavilion by the lotus pond.

The night breeze was cool, and the emperor was indeed sitting at the round table in the pavilion, looking through the golden book and iron coupon in Mr. He's box under the bright four-pillar lantern.

There are two young servants standing outside the pavilion.When Su Yan walked over, he vaguely felt that these two people looked familiar, so before he had time to think about it, he made a face-to-face salute.

The emperor motioned for him to sit at the round table, and waved his finger at the two servants outside the pavilion.The servants retreated a little further, but not too far away. It was a distance where one could hear some voices and couldn't hear the specific words when listening carefully.

"...found it?" The emperor looked at Su Yan's expression.

Regret appeared in Su Yan's eyes: "They were found and caught, but it's a pity that one died and one escaped."

He detailed what happened tonight.

After hearing this, the emperor said in a deep voice, "Wolf ambition!"

"Mr. He was found in the private chamber of the Marquis of Feng'an, and he was also a retainer of the Marquis of Xian'an; the leader of the Seven Killing camp failed to assassinate the prince tonight, fled into the Marquis' mansion, and was finally caught at the entrance of the tunnel dug privately by Wei's family.

"Starting from Wan Xin's testimony, all the witnesses and physical evidence can be gathered to form a complete chain of evidence. The charges of the two princes colluding with cults and Jianghu assassins and murdering the East Palace cannot be escaped. I ask the emperor to make a painful decision. Take Wei Yan and Wei Jun to blame, so as to rectify the law of the country." Su Yan cupped his hands.

The emperor pondered for a moment, then suddenly asked: "Has Prince Yu also entered the palace?"

Su Yan was slightly startled, nodded and said, "Yes."

"Going to the Compassionate Ning Palace in the middle of the night, he expected that the empress would not be able to sleep." The emperor meant something.

Su Yan hesitated for a moment, and said tentatively: "I know that the queen mother has a close relationship with the Wei family, but the state owns the law. Besides, the prince is also her own grandson. If the flesh on the back of this hand is hurt, it will hurt..."

A mocking sneer flashed across the emperor's eyes.He seems to have been brewing for a long time, and it seems that he just made up his mind at this moment: "Pass my order to Teng Xiangwei, take Wei Yan and Wei Jun, and send them to the imperial prison. Command Beizhen Fusi, and take all of them Check out all the crimes committed!"

Su Yan received the order immediately.Then he asked worriedly: "The queen mother, the emperor plans to..."

The emperor smiled at him.Seeing this slight smile, Su Yan suddenly felt that there was nothing to worry about - with the emperor around, no matter how big the disturbance was, the sky would not fall down.

"Tomorrow morning, you should ask for leave first. The excuse to the outside world... is that you were injured by the escort when the leader of the Seven Killing Camp assassinated the crown prince tonight."

...Escort?Su Yan recalled for a while, it seemed that Zhu Helin was protecting him, after all, he was the only one among the hundreds of people on both sides who didn't know martial arts.As for the injury, it's not worth mentioning. Does it count as a scratch on the lip?

The emperor seemed to have heard his internal complaints, glanced at his lips that were beginning to scab, and added: "—internal injuries."

Su Yan smiled: "That's right, I was swept to the chest by the assassin's palm and suffered internal injuries. I can't move for at least a day or two."

He also thought of the fact that the crown prince was assassinated again in the Yishan Bureau and nearly died, and then the Second Marquis of the Wei family was besieged overnight, arrested and imprisoned.This wave followed another wave, and it was bound to cause an uproar in the court, and he, Su Yan, was the one standing on the cusp of the storm.

Su Yan, who has seen the sturdy painting style of the Great Ming Dynasty Hall, can fully imagine what kind of scene of demons dancing in the court tomorrow.The reason why the emperor asked him to pretend that he couldn't go to court was to avoid the initial wave of east-west, north-south wind, and wait until the wind subsided a little before coming forward, which had the effect of finalizing the decision.

"I have another question. It's about the harem, 'I don't dare to ask..." Su Yan looked at the emperor, leaned forward across the stone table, and suddenly lowered his voice in the second half of the sentence, not serious, but enough Intimate, "but 'I' want to ask."

This question seemed to be expected by the emperor.He also lowered his voice, and leaned forward slightly, turning the intimacy of knowing each other into a kind of tacit flirting between secret lovers: "Qinghe just ask, 'I' will tell the truth."

Su Yan suppressed the sweetness in his heart, with a serious expression: "Will you go to Yongning Palace in the future?"

The emperor replied: "Yongning Palace will be a cold palace from now on, and no noble concubine will live there anymore."

Concubine Wei secretly communicated with other men, not to mention whether this green hat is real or not, according to the palace rules, just being unfaithful to the emperor is enough to get a choice between poisonous wine and white silk combo.But Concubine Wei gave birth to a prince after all, and the mother is more expensive than the son, and the prince is still breastfeeding, so the crime should be reduced by reason and reason, lowering the status and being thrown into the cold palace is a very merciful treatment.

Su Yan didn't ask for severe punishment any further, it's definitely not his style to kill all women.As long as Wei Yan and Wei Jun are dealt with, even if the Wei family is completely down, a concubine who is living in a cold palace will not be able to make any waves.

Seeing that he didn't continue to ask, the emperor seemed to be quite acceptable, but he felt a little dissatisfied in his heart - dissatisfied and dissatisfied.So he said: "If you don't go to Yongning Palace, there are other palaces, are you willing?"

Su Yan endured the smell of lemons in his heart, and answered with "a deep understanding of righteousness": "The harem is the emperor's responsibility, and it is also one of the rigid indicators for the stability of the court and the political situation... Uh, in short, even if it is just a decoration, Sangong Liu Courts also need to exist.”

After filtering this slightly weird cliché, I found that the focus was on the word "decoration" - I still minded it, but I was wearing the skin of a serious courtier, and the acid juice oozing from the inside might not be good Can slip cabbage.The emperor couldn't help but chuckled: "The harem is indeed a decoration, but I still love the former court only."

Su Yan pretended not to understand, and said, "I have another question."

"Just ask."

"What does the emperor plan to do with this golden book iron certificate?"

The emperor knew that he was also asking about the past between Taizu and the Vacuum Sect, so he shortened the long story: "When the Emperor Taizu was in trouble, Wen Xiang, who was the leader of the Vacuum Sect at the time, came to seek refuge, and there were indeed many people in the army who believed in religion. , regarded the tyrannical Yuan Dynasty as the darkness that must be broken, so they regarded Taizu as the 'King of Light'. Under the banner of 'Brightness Shines', they absorbed more volunteers and were able to grow stronger.

"This is because when fighting for supremacy in troubled times, the teachings of the Vacuum Sect coincide with the chaotic situation, and the key lies in the word 'struggle' - the fight between Buddha and demon, the fight between light and darkness, my power and Fight with each other's strength."

After thinking about it, Su Yan came to his senses: "When the dynasty is established and the situation gradually stabilizes, the development of production and the protection of people's livelihood should be the top priority. But the Vacuum Sect still wants to 'struggle'?"

The emperor said: "Wen Xiang asked the Taizu to bestow Vacuum Religion as the state religion, so that everyone in the country will believe in it. Anyone who does not believe in it will be a heretic."

When the situation could not provide the soil for "struggle", the struggle shifted from political power to the field of spiritual belief.What Wen Xiang wants to unify is not the country, but the thoughts of people.He believes that only an extremely firm and fanatical belief can make an empire impregnable, and everyone is indestructible from body to will.

Su Yan is good at drawing inferences from one fact, if you give him a pool of water, he can spread into a vast ocean, and immediately thought of the two sides of this double-edged sword from "struggle"——

Revolution and unrest.

He said with emotion: "Emperor Taizu didn't want to build a country where politics and religion were united like Beicheng once did, so the two had conflicts in ideology. When the conflict between the two sides became more and more acute, only the death of one side can make the difference." It was completely resolved, so Taizu finally reneged on his original promise and attacked Wen Xiang."

The emperor nodded: "Actually, when Emperor Taizu made the attack, he might not have felt ashamed in his heart. But he is an emperor, and the country and the country are the most important things. This shame cannot be revealed, or even allowed to arise. So Emperor Taizu suppressed it even harder. , Using the method of 'nine kills and ten deaths', the number of times the gold book iron coupons were saved from death was cancelled, Wen Xiang was finally killed, and the Vacuum Sect was banned."

Su Yan sighed: "This is the man who can rule the world in troubled times."

Emperor Jing Long stared at him suddenly, with strange eyes: "It seems that you admire such an emperor even more?"

...Here we come, here we come, the long-lost "Jinglong style" delivery proposition!But Su Yan didn't panic this time, and even wanted to laugh a little.He coughed a few times, whetted the appetite of the other party, and then answered slowly: "The Emperor Taizu has made great achievements, everyone admires him, and my minister is no exception."

Seeing the emperor's face getting darker, Su Yan couldn't hold back the corners of his mouth, and suddenly changed the subject: "But if you can choose the master, I still want to choose an emperor like the emperor."

"Why?"

"Because... it's more humane."

"Human touch?" The simplicity and down-to-earth of this answer, unlike Su Yan's daily style, surprised the emperor a little.

Isn't it, that is the taste of love?Su Yan's brain twitched, he ran away, and such an unscrupulous thing came out, which made him very shocked.He said with a dry smile: "The minister's words are not expressive, the emperor forgives the crime."

Emperor Jinglong sternly said: "Compared with Emperor Taizu, do you think I lack courage and iron-blooded wrists, and I am not cruel enough?"

No, no, thank you for not being cruel enough, otherwise I—and my two concubines and my concubine, the small tree on the grave would already be as graceful as a cover!Su Yan hurriedly followed the hair: "The emperor is so good. If he is more lenient, he will be too gentle, and if he is more severe, he will be too cruel. It is just right! This minister admires the emperor."

The emperor's face was still stern, but he couldn't help but smile in his eyes, shook his head and said, "It's a lie."

"Really! It's more real than pearls!"

The emperor asked back: "There is 'Yang', but what about 'Mu'?"

Admiration is admiration, and admiration is love. Su Yan couldn't help but reflect on himself, and felt that he and the emperor had not been able to break through that line. Maybe it was because admiration was greater than admiration.

The fire of love is a poisonous flame that burns reason. Once it starts a prairie fire, it will disregard life and death, disregard honor and disgrace, regardless of the sky, the earth, the blue sky and the yellow spring, just want to live together.But he has a lot of worries—a lot of worries for others and himself, and in the final analysis, he still doesn't love enough, dare not love.

I haven't fallen into the deep pit of unrequited love between monarchs and ministers, so that my reason still exists, and there is still room for self-help-this conclusion made Su Yan feel relieved, but at the same time fell into an unspeakable loss.

This loss is not sharp, but it is like being in drizzle, soaking all limbs and bones.

"Qinghe, hurry up, don't make me wait too long." The words are still in my ears, once I think of it, it is a dull pain in my heart, how can I remain indifferent?

The more Su Yan wanted to clarify his thoughts, the more confused his mind became. Finally, he forced a smile: "A word is a word, so don't insist on words."

The emperor sighed softly, and suddenly raised his hand and threw the golden book and iron coupon far into the lotus pond, splashing a large ball of water.

Su Yan was slightly taken aback.The emperor said: "I am not the great ancestor. Although I don't know whether this is too tolerant or too weak, I really don't want to see you cry when you are wronged, and I don't want the light in your eyes to go out."

Su Yan was hit at the core of his defense by a single word, and instantly jumped 180 degrees repeatedly between "The Emperor knows me" and "The Emperor grasses me", and because he realized that he was not without love and desire for the king in front of him, the whole Everyone is a little stiff.

The emperor's expression was calm, but he couldn't help showing a bit of dispiritedness.The contrast brought about by the fragility that occasionally appeared on strong controllers caused Su Yan to suffer another critical blow.

He murmured: "Either...the minister or..." Whatever it is, he still couldn't say it.

Emperor: "I will not force you."

Su Yan: "No force, no force."

Emperor: "I'm waiting for you to speak out voluntarily."

Su Yan: "It's not good to wait too long... If you want to say voluntary... In fact, I have been voluntary since I was a child, donating money, paying X fees, and it's nothing if I get used to it..."

Emperor: "You are so frightened that you can't speak coherently. It's my fault."

Su Yan's tears were about to fall: "The emperor is very good, that's great, I don't deserve it... I just deserve a key."

The emperor: "Where do you want to get the key, the treasury or my private money? I thought you were not interested in managing finances, but you seemed to be more interested in the Ministry of Punishment and the Ministry of Industry. So you want to go to the Ministry of Households? Hey, yes It’s not impossible, let’s go back and discuss how to operate.”

Su Yan: "...I was wrong, I'd better shut up and work. Now I'm going out of the palace to pass the decree."

The emperor looked down at the tassels on the edge of the table, and curled the corners of his mouth calmly.

Su Yan wanted to resign and end the conversation that made him tranced, but because he got up too hastily, his thigh knocked against the edge of the table.While rubbing it with his hands, he subconsciously thought: Turning around, there is another big bruise.

The emperor stared at his thighs protected by the fabric, and said suddenly, "Is the seal still there?"

"Yes, yes."

Su Yan was covered in white sweat from fright, fearing that the other party would answer: "Take off your pants and let me check."

Fortunately, the emperor let him go at a critical moment—maybe it was a longer line, who knows, anyway, it’s only a matter of time—Su Yan was moved and left after saluting.

But the emperor suddenly raised his voice: "In addition to the decree just now, you go and pass on an oral order to Shen Qi, and give him a stern warning for me, and tell him that I will punish him for his ineffectiveness in doing things, so that he will commit the crime of running away. "

Su Yan's heart shuddered, not as frightened as when he was asked about the seal just now.Gaiyin suddenly recalled who the two familiar servants in front of the pavilion were—

He was the one who hid behind the screen door of the Hall of Mental Cultivation, listened to the emperor's persecution and reprimanded Shen Qi, and then got angry at him for being so stubborn that he insisted on using Shen Qi as a beast chain. Inside, servant A and servant B trembling while listening.

The emperor didn't blame them at that time and sent them away.

It stands to reason that the emperor doesn't like to use palace servants who are not well-behaved, but this time he stayed to order them around, and he didn't even order them to leave the garden just now, just waiting so not far or near.

Your Majesty, what does this mean?

Deliberately let them see and hear, but can't see clearly or hear clearly?

These two... is there something wrong?

Su Yan immediately became alert, and decided to climb up the pole to plead guilty and plead with the emperor for Shen Qi.

Sure enough, the emperor got angry, left the sentence "If you want to talk about your affair, you will be punished with him", and walked away.

Su Yan knelt outside the pavilion for a while, seeing that the emperor did not turn back, he got up and patted the dust on his knees.Of the two servants, one chased after the emperor, and the other with a small mole on the bridge of his nose kindly came over to help him up.

"Your Majesty Su, don't be too panic-stricken, the emperor is kind and will not punish you for a single disagreement." said the servant.

Su Yan's face was still a little pale: "I hope so. But on Shen Qi's side, I don't know if there is room for change... How should I address this father-in-law?"

The man said: "Your Excellency, just call your servant 'Yongnian'."

"Thank you, Eunuch Yongnian, for your comfort. I am leaving."

Yongnian touched the small mole on the bridge of his nose, and said with a smile: "Your Excellency, you are being polite. At the Hall of Mental Cultivation, Master Su also interceded for the two of us. This servant will remember it in his heart, so he wants to reciprocate."

Su Yan seemed to have something else in his mind, he cupped his hands in disbelief, and left.

As he walked, he thought: Whose person is this, Mr. He?Wei family?Queen Mother?still……