Spring dyed pear blossoms

Outside the imperial study room, Xiao Mubai frowned when he saw Meng Qiucheng. At this moment, Shao Tong also came out of the imperial study room, so he hurriedly pulled Meng Qiucheng aside and whispered, "Master Meng, the emperor is Bei Jiang The matter of my lord was worrying, and I was in a very unhappy mood. My lord's matter, the lower officials have also heard about it. But the emperor still showed some kindness to his lord, and his lord listened to his advice, the whole week belongs to the emperor, and the emperor wants If the minister dies, the minister has no choice but to die. Don't be angry with the emperor."

Meng Qiu was sad and angry in his heart, but Shao Tong didn't know the reason, and it was out of good intentions, so he cupped his hands and said sincerely, "Thank you, Mr. Shao."

Seeing him like this, Shao Tong sighed, "When I was imprisoned in the sky prison by my mentor, I thought I might die. But in the end, the lower official escaped by luck and was rewarded. Although the current emperor's style of acting is too He is ruthless, but the emperor is a good emperor. What the emperor thinks of is the peace of the Great Zhou, and the people's living and working in peace and contentment. And what the people want is nothing more than that. For the sake of the Great Zhou, the emperor has to think about everything, and it will leave hidden dangers."

Although Shao Tong's words were meant to be persuasive, but after deep thinking, he expressed his meaning very straightforwardly.The implication is to tell Meng Qiucheng that the emperor regards her as a hidden danger, so he is afraid of her.

Meng Qiucheng nodded, and gave him another salute gratefully, "Meng Qiucheng will remember Master Shao's words."

"Master Meng, please forgive me for saying one more thing. It is Lord Meng who made the official understand a truth. What you hear may not be true, and what you see may not be true. Master Meng is a good official."

good official?Meng Qiucheng couldn't help but curled his lips into a smile, and then stepped into the imperial study.

Shao Tong looked at him and shook his head again, Xiao Mubai at the side leaned forward and asked doubtfully, "Master Shao is clean and honest, why do you get so close to such a person?"

Shao Tong turned his head to look at Xiao Mubai, "Commander Xiao doesn't understand him, but when you really understand him, you will know whether he is good or bad."

Xiao Mubai sneered with disdain, "Master Shao may have been deceived by this man's rhetoric. In Chang'an City, no one knows that Meng Qiucheng is greedy for money and lustful. The people hate him so much that the emperor really wants to get rid of him." He can be regarded as eliminating one harm for the people, and he will definitely be respected in the future."

Shao Tong smiled and turned around without saying a word, and walked out of the palace.He muttered to himself, "In the world, how many people have long-sighted eyes, and how many people have short-sighted eyes. How many people can distinguish good from bad, and true from false? But they are all ordinary people!"

Xiao Mubai kindly reminded him, seeing Shaotong's attitude, he immediately snorted coldly.

Although Shao Tong is loyal, he is too pedantic.In this imperial court, without the support of Zhang Shuli's influence, he would fall into his own pedantry sooner or later.

Meng Qiucheng, who entered the royal study, looked up at the person sitting on the right seat. The bright yellow dragon robe was stitched by an embroiderer with gold thread.Wearing it on the body, a sense of majesty arises spontaneously.

Meng Qiucheng's gaze never moved away, he stared straight at the high-ranking person, and he never knelt down to salute, and only said, "My humble minister kowtows to the emperor!"

Wei Yuanqi looked up at Meng Qiucheng, already feeling displeased, "It seems that I have indulged you too much, Master Meng can't even kneel down to salute?" The oppression between words was unbearable.

Meng Qiucheng frowned slightly, threw off his robe, and knelt on the ground, "The emperor is respectful, and the minister is humble. Even if the emperor wants the minister to die, the minister dare not refuse. So the emperor, the minister has a question."

Wei Yuanqi guessed what she wanted to ask, so he interrupted, "Now that you have deceived the emperor and committed crimes, you are not grateful if I don't kill you? You still want to question me for the sake of those mobs? Meng Qiucheng, you are really getting bolder. It’s getting bigger, I think you don’t want your head anymore.”

"What I am most afraid of is death, and what I am most worried about is that my head will fall off at any time. But today, I would rather not have this head." Meng Qiucheng knelt down as he said.

Wei Yuanqi was already furious, and he was trying to suppress his anger at the moment.Those people were indeed killed by him, but it was his fault, and he would not bear it.As the king of a country, if he is not cruel, how can he govern his subjects.Besides, if the king wants his ministers to die, the ministers have to die, let alone those people.

Wei Yuanqi raised his brows slightly, and said with dark eyes, "Meng Qiucheng, you disguise yourself as a man, sneak into the court, and corrupt Gangji. Shouldn't I punish you? If people know your identity, how can I save my face?" ?”

"Could it be that the emperor can kill people at will for the sake of face?" Meng Qiucheng raised his head and asked.

"The entire Great Zhou belongs to me. I can kill whoever I want? If I want to kill you, it's as easy as pie."

"Then this is not what Ming Jun did!"

"Meng Qiucheng!" Wei Yuanqi slapped the table with one hand, not even wanting to bear it.

Meng Qiucheng looked up at Wei Yuanqi, neither humble nor overbearing, examining his every move.

"Do you dare to question me? Are you really alive enough?" Wei Yuanqi asked.

"Your Majesty, back then the late emperor framed Zhongliang for his own selfishness, and cost more than 400 innocent lives. Does the emperor want to follow the example of the late emperor?"

Wei Yuanqi looked away from Meng Qiucheng and looked at a confidential letter on the table.This clearly records how his father used to consolidate the imperial power.Although he also felt that this method was too insidious, but the thrones of the emperors of all dynasties were not all made of bones.Sitting at such a height, there is no family relationship at all, only the difference between monarch and minister.But compared to his father's treatment of Deng Zhiqing, he has been extraordinarily merciful to Meng Qiucheng.

Seeing that Wei Yuanqi was silent, Meng Qiucheng kowtowed, "I ask the emperor to return the innocence of my father Deng Zhiqing, and the innocence of the more than 400 innocent lives who died unjustly."

Wei Yuanqi's eyes tightened. Back then, because of Deng Zhiqing's power in the court, his father was afraid of a coup and would remove him.Although Meng Qiucheng is no better than Deng Zhiqing now, his party members outside the court still make him uneasy.Fortunately, Meng Qiucheng is a woman.Such a strange woman is rare.Wei Yuanqi stared at Meng Qiucheng carefully, it would be a pity to kill such a person.

But for her pleading, he narrowed his eyes and replied in a cold voice, "I can't!"

He couldn't attribute these mistakes to his father, he couldn't let the world know that it was the royal family's fault, that the royal people killed so many innocent people in vain to consolidate the throne.He can't let everyone in the world think that their Wei family is cruel and heartless, and has lost the hearts of the people.

And these three simple words also made Meng Qiucheng completely awake.

Even if she has a great strategy, even if she can get into the imperial court step by step, but in the end, what she still can't change is the heart that has become cold under the imperial power.

"I can't tell the world that it was the late emperor's fault. But I won't kill you either. I can marry you. At that time, the name of General Deng's criminal minister will also be removed. This can be regarded as my extra grace to you. "

Meng Qiucheng looked at him with a sneer, "Is the emperor going to enter the harem as a concubine?"

"If you want the position of queen, it's okay."

"Then what about the current queen?"

"Naturally it's a waste queen."

What Wei Yuanqi said was simple, but Meng Qiucheng shook his head and smiled, "Your Majesty, the empress has just been established and has not done anything wrong. What reason and excuse will the emperor use to abolish the empress?"

"You don't have to worry about this. As long as I say that the queen is wrong, the queen is wrong. In the future, you can help me with peace of mind, so that the ministers in the court will not dare to say anything. At that time, I will pursue General Deng, and no one will dare to mention it again. And General Deng's previous rebellion. After a long time, everyone will forget it."

"What the emperor said is true, but what about those innocent people? What about the emperor?" Meng Qiucheng asked softly.

Wei Yuanqi's displeasure deepened, "I'm tolerant of you so much, don't push yourself too far."

"I dare not. The emperor is the king of a country in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and he controls the life and death of the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty. In order to stabilize his own position, the emperor eradicates dissidents, which is beyond reproach. So for the first time, the emperor suspected that the minister was with King Yong, so he sent This time, the emperor was worried that the forces behind the minister would threaten you, so he secretly sent people from the dark guard camp to eradicate it. Coincidentally, today is my senior brother's wedding day, and what was originally a happy event has now become funeral.

More than a hundred people died, among them Xiao Guang was my father's subordinate, because he was implicated because of my father, he had no choice but to give up with a heart of serving the country.Xiao Guang was grateful for my father's kindness, and he spared no expense to help me in the deep abyss for my father.Xiao Guang and his wife died tragically under the knife of the dark guard camp, leaving only a young girl who has not grown up.The Xiao family is all innocent people, and they can't threaten the emperor at all.But because of me, I suffered such a disaster.Those who follow me are all loyal queens, they just want to avenge their ancestors, and they have no intention of rebelling.It was also because of me that I suffered such a disaster.Since then, the wife and children in the family have never had a reunion day.Dare I ask the emperor, don't you feel any guilt towards them? "

As soon as these words came out, Liu Xi sweated for her.Hastily brought tea to the table, "Your Majesty, calm down."

But how can Wei Yuanqi calm down at this time, this Meng Qiucheng clearly said that he is a fool, and took the opportunity to force him to reverse the case for Deng Zhiqing and others.This incident offended the royal family's Tianwei and the royal family's face.If he backed down, how would the world think of him.How should the historian write about him.

He has walked step by step to today, and has been forbearing.Now it seems that he is about to win the world, but Meng Qiucheng just let him admit his mistake to the world.

The bottom of Wei Yuanqi's heart was already welling up with anger and passion.

He is the king, the emperor of the Great Zhou, how could he bow his head to a woman?

At this moment, he could not wait to throw this Meng Qiucheng into pieces and throw them into the barren mountains to feed the wild dogs.

Both soft and hard have no effect on this person, Wei Yuanqi clenched his fist tightly in one hand, gritted his teeth and said viciously, "Are you really going to force me?"

Meng Qiucheng straightened his waist, folded his hands in front of his forehead, and said in a deep voice, "I only want justice!"

"Fairness? In this world, what do you think is fairness? Is it as simple as admitting mistakes when you make a mistake, or subjugating the law after killing someone? Is Dazhou's century-old foundation not worth a few humble lives? Do you know? Sitting on this dragon chair, I can't sleep well every day. I worry every day, worrying that one day I will ruin the foundation of my ancestors. I can see how many dirty things those seemingly loyal people have done behind their backs. It's clear. You only care about the justice of those thousands of people, but you care about the justice of the world?

If I bowed my head to you today and admitted my mistake to the people of the world, even if King Fucheng rebelled now, he would not lose the hearts of the people.You have obtained the justice you want, so what about the people in the world?If I kill innocent people indiscriminately, wouldn't that be King Fucheng? "

Meng Qiucheng knelt on the ground, his legs were a little numb.

King Fucheng is suspicious by nature, seemingly virtuous, but in fact he is vicious and vicious.His son, King Liang, was also not a good person. If King Fucheng was allowed to gain power, then the people of Da Zhou might live in even more misery.

She became a little confused, and what she had always believed in was becoming more and more uncertain now.

After Wei Yuanqi finished speaking, seeing Meng Qiucheng hesitated, he suddenly smiled coldly and leaned back slightly. "May I ask if the treacherous party in the court is not eliminated, and the foundation of the Great Zhou Dynasty is unstable, how will you give you justice?"

Meng Qiucheng looked at him, a hint of puzzlement flashed in his eyes, "Then if there are traitors aside, will the emperor give justice to those people?"

"Except for traitors, I will give you justice."

"Is this true?"

"You have no jokes!"

Meng Qiucheng took a deep breath, thought a lot in his heart, and asked after a while, "What does the emperor want me to do?"

Wei Yuanqi glanced at Liu Xi, and Liu Xi quickly handed the imperial decree on one side of the table to Meng Qiucheng.

"I will let King Liang lead the army to attack Beijiang, and you will supervise the army!"

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