Xie Xiang

The sky is high and the air is clear, the sun hangs high, and the front of the Xuanshi Hall looks extraordinarily spacious.

Liu Zao hurriedly greeted her outside the palace, the Empress Dowager was climbing up the steps, behind her were countless palace people, all of them guarding her with lowered eyebrows, she walked in the front, and when she saw Liu Zao greeted her personally, there was a hint of a smile on her face.

Liu Zao waited for her to walk to the high platform, and then calmly raised his sleeves: "I pay my respects to the Empress Dowager."

The Empress Dowager smiled and said, "The Emperor is free."

Liu Zao didn't know why she came here, turned sideways, and made a respectful petition: "Please enter the palace, the Queen Mother."

The queen mother nodded and stepped forward.Liu Zao followed behind her.

Entering the hall, everyone takes off their shoes and only wears socks.

Because the hall is dark, no matter day or night, lights are lit.The Xuanshi Hall is the place where government affairs are handled and foreign ministers are summoned. The bronze lamps used in the hall are not so lifelike.

The Empress Dowager entered the palace, looked around, and her eyes fell on the royal case.She stopped, looked back slightly, and when Liu Zao came to her side, she said: "Your Majesty has already worked hard on the papers on the first day of his ascension, which is too self-denying."

Liu Zao stood up with his hands solemnly: "I am stupid and unfamiliar with everything. To make a living for the common people in the world, I should be diligent and restrain myself."

Her words were sincere, but in fact she just said some big words to prevaricate.The Empress Dowager gave her a sideways look and said, "If Prime Minister Xie asked you, would you answer the same question?"

Liu Zao was at a loss, what does this have to do with Xie?

The queen mother went forward and sat down behind the imperial case.Chunhe personally took the seat and placed it beside the case.The emperor walked over and sat down on the table.The queen mother came suddenly, and she also wanted to know why the queen mother came.

There were only five people in the hall, apart from Chunhe, there were two eunuchs standing on both sides of the hall, one on the left and one on the right.The palace people brought by the Queen Mother all stood outside the palace and never entered.

The bamboo slips were spread out on the table. The queen mother read a few lines and shook her head: "Laozi". , Don’t seize the people. It’s just that in the reign of Emperor Wu, it ran counter to what Emperor Xiaowu needed. This set was put on the shelf, and I don’t think that your majesty also likes what the ancient sages said, and rule by bowing down.”

Liu Zao blushed, she read this scroll because it was on the table, she didn't think so much, she didn't even know that Emperor Wen and Emperor Jing ruled the world with the art of Huang Lao.

"Why did Huang Lao's technique run counter to what Emperor Wu wanted?" Liu Zao asked humbly.

She seems to be a child who has just entered school, whenever she doesn't understand something, she will ask, and anyone she meets will be regarded as a teacher by her.

The Empress Dowager came here today, not to talk to her about how Emperor Wu governed the country: "Emperor Wu loves to make troubles, from the middle of the court, to the prefectures, and then to Dawan, Khotan, Baiyue, the Huns, he made him toss all over. Mr. You, come to lecture on the history of the country with His Majesty."

Hearing that there will be a teacher, Liu Zao's eyes lit up: "Who will be my teacher?"

The little emperor was eager to learn, and the queen mother replied: "I will discuss it with my ministers."

When Liu Zao heard this, he didn't ask any more questions, but he couldn't help looking forward to it.She doesn't know anything, how to govern the world, how to control the courtiers, and even how many countries and counties the Han has. Naturally, she hopes that someone can be a good teacher and guide her to be a real emperor.

The ministers are already discussing, and she thinks that she will be able to have a good teacher to teach her soon.

Liu Zao was overjoyed, and asked the Queen Mother again: "The Queen Mother has something to do, so I just have to be summoned. Why do you come here in person?"

"There is nothing else to do. I heard that His Majesty was sick in the morning, and I was worried about it, so I came to see it." The queen mother said while looking at the book case, and said slightly reproachfully, "Since you are sick, you should rest in peace. Why bother."

Her tone was friendly, Liu Zao was not used to it, but she couldn't help thinking, why is the queen mother so close?On the face is a smile, the smile is quite shy, and said: "Thank you, Queen Mother, for your concern."

The Empress Dowager smiled, but her words suddenly changed, and she said: "I heard that after the Great Court, His Majesty was pale and lying in bed with abdominal pain. Mr. Xie went straight into the palace to visit the bed without notifying him. It is very inappropriate to thank Mr. , it’s just that she is concerned about the Eucharist and is impatient for a while, I hope His Majesty will not be offended.”

The little emperor blushed immediately, and hurriedly said: "I understand." If the queen mother didn't mention it, she would not have realized that it was very inappropriate for Xie Xiang to go straight to the bed.

The Empress Dowager showed a look of relief, and continued: "Xie Xiang is the late emperor's arm, and he was very relied on by the late emperor. I can rest assured that she is assisting you."

Liu Zao doesn't understand here.She was taught by Taichang and the etiquette officer. In the past two months, she has learned a bit of the style of being a monarch, and she has become a little more outgoing. She still doesn't know anything about the specifics.

The late emperor relied on Xie Yi, she had heard Hu Ao mention it, but no one had ever told her how much he relied on Xie Yi.

Liu Zao nodded to show his understanding.

The Empress Dowager stood up, she seemed to be here just to explain the inappropriateness of thanking the Prime Minister, and asked the new king to rely heavily on thanking the Prime Minister.Liu Zao got up to see them off, but he was a little surprised, when did the Empress Dowager and Prime Minister Xie get better?A few days ago, they had a disagreement about where she lived.

The Empress Dowager walked slowly to the front of the hall, saw Liu Zao seeing her off, and said to her, "There is no need to send her off."

Seeing that Liu Zao had already arrived outside the hall, it was really not easy to send him off, so he raised his sleeves and saluted: "Queen Mother, please go slowly."

The queen mother nodded, and stretched out her hand to straighten the wrinkled clothes on her shoulders.Liu Zao almost couldn't help backing away, but luckily she stopped.

"Your Majesty is ill. You should be the prophet to see me. How can you ask Mr. Xie first? Although Mr. Xie is a capable minister, he is a foreign minister after all. Your Majesty and I are close relatives, and there is nothing that cannot be said. I know that Your Majesty has something for me. Confused, I think someone said something that caused His Majesty to misunderstand. It doesn't matter, as time passes, you can always see through people's hearts."

The words of fist and fist are very touching.Liu Zao, however, engraved her words into her mind every single word, carefully smacking the meaning of her words.

"I am already the empress dowager, so I have nothing to ask for. Why do I come to harm you? Your majesty..." The empress dowager looked at the emperor, sighed, stopped talking, and walked away.

Liu Zao raised his sleeves and bowed down until the Empress Dowager stepped down from the high platform. Fang straightened up, looked at the back of the Empress Dowager, and frowned, not knowing what he was thinking.

After all, it was already autumn, the autumn wind was blowing up, and the coolness soaked into the body, Liu Zao felt a little pain in his abdomen, and a little stuffy.Several eunuchs rushed over with dozens of bamboo slips in their hands.When I got to the high platform, I realized that the emperor was here, and I quickly knelt down to salute.

Liu Zao lowered his gaze and landed on them, slightly bent his lips, and said, "Excuse me."

Chun He was behind her, seeing her voice, Fang stepped forward and said, "It's windy outside, Your Majesty, let's go into the palace."

Liu Zao nodded and walked back to the hall.

Re-entering the palace, but not as optimistic and positive as when I came here just now.

She couldn't help but look at the hall.

The main hall is paved with floors, and when entering the hall, people take off their shoes at the door and enter with cloth socks, so there is a maid serving in front of the door.The main hall is spacious enough to accommodate a hundred people, and the two rows of pillars support the hall beams, which is very magnificent.Looking at those pillars, Liu Zao thought of a story she heard when she was young, about Jing Ke's assassination of King Qin.

When Jing Ke entered Qin, he saw him with a dagger. Seeing that something was wrong, the King of Qin raised the case and ran around the pillars to avoid Jing Ke's pursuit.

King Qin's main hall should be as wide and magnificent as the Xuan room, with so many pillars, only then can the two of them chase and run in the hall.

Liu Zao walked to the imperial case and sat down, and immediately had a clear view of the situation in the hall.Only then did she feel strange.The house she used to live in was very small, far less solemn than the Xuanshi Hall, much less gorgeous than the Chengming Hall.

Liu Zao breathed a sigh of relief, pulled himself together, and thought about the meaning of what the Empress Dowager said just now.

The Empress Dowager seemed to come here to explain the inappropriateness of Xie Xiang, but before she left, those words seemed to be sad because of the estrangement between them.

Liu Zao didn't really believe it. She was indeed the queen mother, but she might not have nothing more to ask for.If she wanted nothing but the position of Empress Dowager, why would she conspire with Prime Minister Xie to abolish King Changyi?The king of Changyi is in power, and she is also the queen mother.

What surprised Liu Zao even more was that the Empress Dowager lived separately from her in the Second Palace, but what happened in Weiyang Palace was clear to the Empress Dowager in Changle Palace in just one morning.