Reincarnation of the powerful minister

All the ministers looked at each other in blank dismay: You are right...it seems so reasonable, but it makes people speechless?

Even if Su Yan and King Yu did have an affair, so what?In the past ten years, how many lovers has King Yu had, and which one has dampened his ambition and affected him to lead troops to fight?King Yu is brave, since he was able to lead the Jingbei army to successive victories, why couldn't he repel the Beimo army that besieged the capital?Speaking of which, Su Ge, who advocated for King Yu to return to the battlefield, must have contributed a lot.

Su Yan added as if adding fuel to the fire: "The king of Yu didn't award the gold medal, he was angry with the court. Who told his subordinate Hua Ling to blame him when he lost in battle? A handwritten letter in my own name, attached to the cabinet's transfer order, you can see if he gives me Su some face, and see if he accepts the call."

What you said...is so shameless!

Everyone looked sideways, and the old man Su Ge on the steps seemed to be proud rather than ashamed.The chief assistant, Yang Ting, looked at him with an indescribable expression on his face.

Zhu Xian shouted angrily: "Traitor! You let such a shameless traitor control the government? Where is the justice of the national law? Where is the integrity?"

Su Yan immediately ordered: "It's against the law to roar at the court. Come here, shut up the mouth of this thief pretending to be the clan!"

The Jin Yiwei outside the hall door moved upon hearing the sound, quickly entered the hall, and roughly pressed Zhu Xian to the ground, not only strangled his mouth with cloth strips, but also tied his hands behind his back.

Some courtiers objected: "Whether Zhu Xian pretends to be the son of the king has not yet been publicly judged, and Mr. Su Ge's move is too arbitrary—"

Su Yan was not annoyed, and said with a smile: "So I tied it up before he got lost, so as to prevent him from escaping. Don't worry, gentlemen, I, Su Qinghe, have a solid foundation in what I do, and I respect everyone's opinions very much. , will never make any speeches."

Now even Yang Ting couldn't listen anymore, and said solemnly: "Lord Su is so arrogant, I'm afraid he is not a good minister. I have no objection to making King Yu the acting heir, but you, Su Qinghe, should also reflect on yourself. Is it contrary to what you said about 'never forget your original intention'?"

Su Yan put his hands into his sleeves, looked straight at Yang Ting, and said slowly, "Master, have you forgotten—what did Master tell you when he left Beijing?"

Yang Ting's heart shuddered.The weak but firm voice of former Chief Assistant Li Chengfeng seemed to echo in his ears again...

Of course Su Yan didn't know what Yang Ting and Li Chengfeng talked about privately.But before Li Chengfeng became an official, he met him. At that time, the old man was slurred after suffering a stroke, and he still expressed his deep hopes for him.Su Yan guessed that Li Chengfeng probably also explained to Yang Ting, not only about the court and the king, but perhaps also his disciple who had high hopes.

Sure enough, Yang Ting revealed a look of guilt.His suspicion and distrust of Su Yan did not arise for no reason, but it also failed the teacher's great trust back then-"Qinghe is a thousand-mile horse in my family, you must treat him well, guide him, and make him grow up to be able to take on the responsibility as soon as possible." big responsibility".

Su Yan asked him the second sentence: "Uncle, tell me, what is the image of a good minister? Is it a gentleman written on his face, just like the fake prince showed to you before he was exposed? To evaluate a person In terms of gains and losses, should we focus on his style, or on his final contributions and achievements?"

Yang Ting was silent for a long time, and finally sighed: "I'll wait and see the aftermath, you can do it yourself."

After Yang Shoufu was settled, Su Yan raised his head and glanced at the ministers again: "My lords, do you know why Yang Shoufu thought that I must know the whereabouts of Sheng Jia?"

Obviously this question does not need to be answered, and the officials are waiting for his answer.

Su Yan didn't hold back, and continued: "Because, as he thought, I was the last person to see Sheng Jia."

The words were not exhaustive, but it was enough for the courtiers to diverge their thinking—when the emperor "disappeared", Su Yan was by his side?Did the emperor entrust him with something to make him so confident? Is it a will or an oral order?If we insist on disagreeing with him, will we fall into a situation like the late emperor did when he indulged some officials to make wrong bets and finally wiped out all of them?

And the reason why I can't speak clearly is because no one dares to ask a heartbreaking sentence: Is the so-called disappearance a death?

In front of the enemy, who dares to stretch out his hand to uncover the cloth covering the deadly truth?Who can bear the responsibility of shaking the hearts of the army and the people?Even if there are tens of thousands of reasons to ask, they still have to wait until the entire city joins forces to repel the Northern Man.

The courtiers fell silent.Right now, let the emperor just "disappear" and let this cloth continue to cover it!

Su Qinghe wanted to make King Yu the heir apparent, so let's do it right away, it's an appropriate choice no matter what, isn't it.

"It seems that you don't have any objections to my proposal? If you have objections, you can raise them. I said that if you don't talk about it, you really don't. How about it? If you don't agree to appoint King Yu as the acting heir, please raise your hand... No hands raised, not a single one, great, unanimous vote in the democratic test."

Zhu Xian was guarded by Jin Yiwei, his hands were tied and he fell to the ground, with a cloth strip in his mouth, staring at the scene in front of him... What does it mean to monopolize power?What is covering the sky with one hand?Just look at Su Twelve on the steps, who is full of court and no one dares to challenge him!

The imperial edict and booklet have to be drafted separately, but it is not troublesome, the formula remains the same, just replace the name line in it.

Su Yan turned his head and told Fu Bao: "Prepare the pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and re-draft the seal in front of all the adults."

Fu Baonuo made a sound, and was about to go to the imperial case, when he suddenly heard a singing from outside the palace gate: "His Royal Highness King Ning is here—"

... King Ning?Isn't King Ning critically ill and bedridden?All the officials were shocked, even Su Yan was slightly surprised.

The restrained Zhu Xian was full of disbelief, and shook his head vigorously: Not to mention that King Ning was terminally ill, and he was afraid of dying at the next sentence. The condiments he added to his decoction were enough to make him fall asleep day and night. Can enter the palace?

But the facts exceeded everyone's expectations. King Ning, dressed in a formal prince's uniform, stepped up the stone steps in front of Fengtian Hall with the support of two attendants.

It is said that King Ning is the rightful owner of this canonization ceremony, but the one who was summoned and allowed to enter the palace was Prince Ning's son. The guards of the Yulin and Jinyi guards on the corridor were not sure whether to let King Ning enter the palace, so they moved in a row, silently blocked the palace door.

The way ahead was blocked, King Ning was not annoyed, he stood on the corridor outside the hall with his hands behind his back, waiting patiently.

In the hall, Su Yan was the first to come back to his senses, and said, "Please enter, Your Highness King Ning."

The courtiers retreated to the sides subconsciously, and looked at King Ning who walked slowly through the palace gate.But I saw that he was about thirty years old, tall and tall, with a handsome appearance, because his face was a little pale, his eyebrows were thin and thick, and his eyes were blue and misty, as if blended into celadon.This is a face that looks like smelling the fragrance of calligraphy and ink, but a red mole the size of a gravel under the eyelid adds a touch of softness to the gentle eyebrows.

Su Yan watched King Ning approaching step by step, and King Ning also looked past the ministers to him at the top of the imperial steps.The moment the two eyes met, each other's minds shook for a moment, as if there was a subtle induction in the dark, like magnets repelling each other with the same pole.

The sense of shock disappeared in a flash, as fast as an illusion.King Ning had already stood still in the hall, and he cupped his hands towards Su Yan, Yang Ting and the others: "All elders, all ministers of the six ministries, please be polite."

On behalf of the ministers, Yang Ting did not dare to speak repeatedly, and solemnly returned the gift, and asked: "I have heard for a long time that His Royal Highness King Ning is in poor health, and he has been bedridden all year round. Now I see it with my own eyes, but he is no different from ordinary people. I wonder if the doctor misdiagnosed him. , or is the rumor wrong?"

King Ning smiled gently: "The medical officer did not misdiagnose the patient at the beginning, and the rumors were half correct."

Yang Ting showed surprise: "How do you say?"

"You all know that this king has contracted tuberculosis since his weak crown, and has been sick for many years. He even alarmed the late emperor and sent the imperial physician to treat him several times. Although the imperial physician was unable to recover, this king still I am grateful to the late emperor.

"I thought I could just drag on and live until the end of my life, but the heavens showed mercy and allowed me to meet a real person three years ago and receive a cure for immortality. I took the medicine according to the prescription. Recently, my condition has improved a lot, and I can almost be regarded as cured." .”

All the ministers were amazed when they heard the words, some lamented that King Ning Hongfu was able to cure terminal illnesses, and some were very interested in the "true man" he mentioned.Xie Shiyan immediately asked: "I don't know which real person can have such miraculous medical skills, and what does he look like?"

King Ning replied: "It is a female crown wearing a seven-star Taoist robe. She looks young and elegant, her speech and behavior are unexpected, and her temperament is refined and not like people in the world."

The more Su Yan listened, the more he felt that something was wrong.Pulmonary tuberculosis, a troublesome chronic disease, is considered incurable with the current level of medical treatment, and it would be impossible to heal so completely without specific medicines.If the female Taoist priest who gave him the prescription was real, what kind of character was she? Even her demeanor felt vaguely familiar...

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed through Su Yan's mind, and Su Yan suddenly realized—couldn't he be a fellow who also traveled through time?

A young and elegant female Taoist priest, her speech and behavior are different from the people of the time... Could it be the Princess Yu who cruelly abandoned her husband and son in order to practice the golden alchemy way? !

If they were really seniors, these sisters not only took the cultivation script, but also traveled through the original body with the golden finger?How could she be so lucky!Suddenly, Su Yan felt overwhelmed by comparisons with others, and the feeling of being overwhelmed by comparisons of goods.

He really wanted to ask King Ning, on which mountain did he meet this female Taoist priest, but when his eyes touched the red mole on the other side's eyes again, he suddenly woke up as if he had broken free from some kind of magic trick.

In addition to the illusory female Taoist priest who cannot be proved, there is also a possibility that is closer to the truth-King Ning may not have had tuberculosis at all!

The whites of his eyes looked blue, a symptom of iron-deficiency anemia.The hands are slender and beautiful, but the ends of the fingers are slightly swollen, which seems to be the tissue hyperplasia caused by chronic hypoxia... He may have had some lung diseases, which are not serious, but he has been declaring that he has tuberculosis, so that he can repeatedly cut his hands. The emperor is assured of him.Back then when the emperor sent the imperial physician to investigate, he did not know what method he used to successfully fake the symptoms of tuberculosis and remove himself from the suspicion of instigating Feng Qu to commit crimes, which also made Shen Qi's denunciation come to nothing and was instead The emperor was suspicious and guarded, so he had to join the player's camp in the end.

If this is the truth, then the miraculously cured His Highness King Ning, who is terminally ill, has a close relationship with the mastermind behind the scenes, or is the player himself!

I want to turn Su Xiaojing, a chess piece that almost won the game, into a useless piece. The purpose is to force out the hand that is playing chess. Now the opponent just jumps out by itself?

Su Yan's heart was beating his chest rapidly and fiercely. He took a deep breath, calmed down slowly, and said calmly, "His Royal Highness Ning Wang has a deep fortune, and it is really enviable to be taught by a real person. It just so happens There is also an important case of pretending to be a clan, because it involves the son, His Highness needs to distinguish it together."

"It turned out to be exposed by you," King Ning sighed with guilt on his face, "This king entered the palace today precisely for this matter." He looked around at the ministers, and finally his eyes fell on the man who was gagged. , Zhu Xian who turned to him for help with "uuuuuuuuuu" had sad and angry eyes.

"This king was shocked to hear the truth today, and found out that he was deceived by a daring and cunning person. He raised this white-eyed wolf by his side as his elder brother and son. He accidentally followed his way and almost lost his life!"

King Ning's words were thrilling, and all the officials were dumbfounded and puzzled.Yang Ting hurriedly asked: "What's going on?"

King Ning let out a long sigh: "I brought a witness with me on this trip, let her tell you all!"

Several palace guards escorted an old woman dressed as a nanny into the hall, the woman knelt down with a "plop", she didn't dare to lift her head, and only apologized desperately.

Mama Fan? !Zhu Xian's eyes widened, struggling to rush over, but was tightly held by Jin Yiwei behind him.

"Fan Shi, this is the Golden Luan Hall, and all the court officials are present. As a witness, you dare to tell a half lie, and you will be punished according to the law. Do you understand?" King Ning looked down at her.

The old woman was so frightened that she trembled all over, she answered repeatedly: "Understand, understand!" Then she turned to Zhu Xian and said, "Brother Jing, I'm not an old woman, I deliberately lied to you. It's gone!"

Immediately afterwards, she explained the whole story in detail:

Back then, King Xin was accused of treason by the late Emperor, and his concubine, Liu Mei, was indeed pregnant, and was secretly sent out of the palace by Princess Xin, hoping to leave some blood for King Xin.At that time, in addition to a group of guards, there were several nuns and maids who took care of Mrs. Liu, and she was one of them.

After untold hardships to escape from the fiefdom, Liu Mei lost her fetal gas halfway, and gave birth to a live baby prematurely, but it was not the boy that the medical officer swore to when she diagnosed the fetus, but a girl.

Liu Mei was weak and comatose after giving birth, and the mother who delivered the baby was flustered. She was sad to believe that the king's bloodline was gone, and she was afraid that Mrs. Liu would not be able to bear the blow.He was also worried that if there was a chance to be rehabilitated or even restored in the future, these savior's meritorious servants only saved an insignificant little princess, and the bamboo basket was in vain.

So driven by emotion and interests, Madam Fan persuaded the two maidservants to make a bold decision to swap the house for a baby boy born to a fleeing woman who also stayed in a rural farmhouse and had just given birth for a few days. After Mrs. Liu woke up, she said that this was her newly born little prince.

The baby boy's biological mother was unwilling to exchange, so Mammy Fan bribed her with a lot of money.When people are in danger and have nowhere to go, they can even change their children to eat, not to mention changing their children to raise them. The other party finally agreed to the deal, took the money, and took the baby girl away.

After Liu Mei woke up, she had no doubts about Madam Fan's words. At the same time, she was also glad that she had given birth to a prince. She held on to the token given by Princess Xin and hoped that there would be a chance to turn around in the future.

After a few days of rest, they planned to continue their escape, looking for a secluded place to live in seclusion.Unexpectedly, one of the escorting guards had a different intention, and wanted to take Liu Mei and the newly born prince to ask for credit from Emperor Jinglong.As a result, the guards had internal strife, and during the scramble, Liu Mei, under the cover of Nunnery Fan and the maidservants, fled with the baby boy in her arms, but she didn't want to get lost just like that.

Afterwards, Nunnery Fan also tried hard to find Liu Mei, but she had no choice but to give up, relying on the skills she had cultivated in Prince Xin's Mansion, she went to other officials' homes to be a nurturing nun.

Thirteen years later, in a jewelry store in the capital, she found the token that Princess Xin gave to Liu Mei's mother and son - the gold longevity lock inlaid with five-color gemstones, and suspected that Liu Mei had fallen into the capital.After going through many twists and turns, they found out that Liu Mei had become ill from overwork and died of illness, leaving behind her son who was also resold by Ren Yazi, who happened to be bought by Su Yan.

Although King Xin has been dead for many years, there is almost no hope of reversing the case, but King Ning, who has a close relationship with King Xin, is still alive, and it is said that he is in poor health and has no heirs.So Mother Fan was greedy for rebirth, and wanted to find the baby boy Liu Mei raised, and lied that he was the son of King Xin, and encouraged him to seek refuge with King Ning so that he could take over King Ning's royal title and wealth in the future.And her mother Fan, as the greatest hero, can earn prosperity and wealth for generations with the backing of the golden mountain of King Ning.

That's why Su Xiaojing, a young servant of the Su family, inexplicably became Zhu Xian, the son of King Xin, and was adopted by King Ning as his son.

Hearing the whole incident, all the officials present gasped.

King Ning asked: "Then why did you suddenly surrender to this king when you found out with your conscience today?"

Sister Fan wept bitterly and said: "The old woman just wants to lean against the big tree to enjoy the shade, anyway, he is just an idle prince, and that's all he wants to cheat the prince's salary and farmland from the court, but he didn't think of taking a fleeing prostitute. The girl's bastard becomes the prince of the dynasty! This is going to be struck by lightning! The dog swallows the sun, it is God who is warning me. If I don't tell the truth, I will definitely go to the eighteenth level of hell after death. Do all the torture and torture, and you will never be reborn..." He kowtowed to the throne repeatedly until his head was bleeding, begging bitterly, "The emperor forgive the old woman! The first emperor and the emperors of all generations forgive the old woman! The old woman is convicted!"

The cries echoed in the hall, and Zhu Xian stood stiffly amidst the cries, like a weathered and cracked stone statue.Suddenly, he broke away from the gag and shouted hysterically: "You are lying! You are talking nonsense! You were ordered by King Ning to harm me!"

King Ning looked at him with a sad face: "It is obvious that you intended to murder this king in order to replace him as the crown prince, and poured sweat medicine into the soup that this king took, so that this king fell asleep all the time on the way to Beijing. Today you Zhu Xian—— , it’s Su Xiaojing, if you accept the book on my behalf, the first thing you will do after you go back is probably to pour poison down my throat right?”

Zhu Xian was stunned, and murmured: "You know? You know everything... It was you who set up this trap for me and turned me into an outcast... It was you!"

All the ministers couldn't listen anymore, they all frowned and said in disgust: "How can there be such a wolf-hearted, mad villain!"

"Pretending to be the clan and murdering the prince is a heinous crime. According to the law, he should be punished by Ling Chi!"

Zhu Xian shook his head frantically, and hissed, "I didn't pretend to be! I am the son of King Xin, with the blood of Tianhuang nobles flowing in my body, I am Zhu Xian, the son of King Xin!"

Nunnery Fan stopped crying, and turned to look at him resentfully: "You are not of the blood of King Xin, you are just the son of a whore who was stolen by me. That bitch doesn't even know that the bastard in her belly She doesn't care who her father is, she only cares about money. If it wasn't for me, you would be either doing the lowest labor or being sold to a dirty elephant house How could you be able to stand on the floor tiles of the Golden Luan Hall in such fine clothes and jade crowns as you are now. Old lady, I was blinded by greed for a while, but you are a bad embryo brought out of the mother's womb—— Pooh!"

There seemed to be a thunderbolt in Zhu Xian's mind, which rumbled and chopped him into countless pieces, and burned him to charred black.His lips were trembling, his cheeks were trembling, and his jaw, shoulders, hands and feet... Finally, his whole body trembled violently like chaff.

"You nonsense! Nonsense...I was not born by a bitch...I am Zhu Xian, the surname is Zhu, the virtuous king...I can't have the most humble dirty blood in my body...Impossible! You are lying I, lied to the whole world! You, King Ning Zhu Tanluo, and you ministers, just want to eradicate the last blood of King Xin and take away the throne that should belong to me! I will never let you do what you want, haha Ha ha!"

Zhu Xian laughed wildly while trembling.

Yu Chezhi couldn't bear it anymore, and said sharply: "This villain is crazy! How dare he roar in the palace hall, defile the royal family, and slander the ministers. Come, cut off his tongue!"

Zhu Xian struggled desperately, burst out with astonishing strength, and broke free from the ropes that bound his hands.Like a drowning man trying to hug the last piece of driftwood, he rushed towards Su Yan on the steps, but before he got close, he was pushed down by Jin Yiwei.

He tried his best to raise his head, looked up at Su Yan from the bottom up, and in a trance, he turned back to the young servant chasing behind the master's house, his eyes were full of his adults—"My lord, master, I am Su Xiaojing! You Have you forgotten me, I am Xiaojing! My lord, please open the door and let me go back to the house, I still have to cook dinner for you!"

Su Yan looked down at him, his expression seemed sad but calm, "You are Su Xiaojing, but you can't come back. I, Su Qinghe, tend to soften my heart, but I will never soften my heart to those who betray me and betray me."

Zhu Xian wailed like a dying beast with nowhere to go: "Ah———"

The Jinyi guards dragged him down the imperial steps, his jaw hit the edge of the steps hard, his mouth was full of blood.His expression has become stiff, his eyes have become slack, and he has become a real lunatic. He can't cry or laugh, but swallows blood, and mumbles two words indistinctly: "I am Zhu Xian, It's not Su Xiaojing... I'm Su Xiaojing, not Zhu Xian..." Until he was dragged out of the hall, he completely disappeared after a scream.

Su Yan took a deep breath, took another deep breath, and looked at King Ning.

King Ning returned a gentle, tactful and courteous smile.

Great, really great.Su Yan thought extremely calmly, what else can I do, come on, I'll wait.