Domineering Daming

Sun Chuanting rubbed his temples and said, "Okay, I understand."

Looking at Sun Chuanting's exhausted state, Bao Liyou thought that they were optimistic back then.I thought it would be easy to take over the government that Bi Ziyan had been in charge of for many years, but the pressure now is enough to crush them to pieces, far from being as easy as expected.

Bao Liyou retreated silently, looking at the seemingly endless snow, he sighed softly in his heart.

Wang Qiaonian's resignation this time may open a hole in the cabinet, and the next target of a surging wave of attacks will be Sun Chuanting.

"what can we do about it?"

Bao Liyou stood in front of the hall, wrapped in clothes, facing the cold wind, talking softly to himself.

"what can we do about it?"

This sentence resounds in many places.Even some low-level officials can feel that something big is about to happen to the court.

If Sun Chuanting really leaves sadly, what will the court do?Even if Bi Ziyan came back, he might not be able to clean up the current mess, right?

When everyone was thinking about who could clean up this mess, they couldn't help but miss Zhu Xu.

With him in the capital, there are people who will take care of big things. He has the ability to control the situation and not collapse.As long as he is there, the situation will always be stable no matter how big the storm is over the years.

Sun Chuanting, after all, is just a cabinet minister, and he is the target of everyone's face and frontal attack.

"Your Majesty, it's time, why haven't you returned to Beijing?"

That night, I don't know how many people looked at the direction of Nanzhili and muttered to themselves.While feeling uneasy in my heart, I was quietly waiting for the storm after Wang Qiaonian resigned tomorrow.

Chapter 1425 The Empress Returns to the Palace

Everyone in the cabinet stayed up all night until dawn, and no one slept.

In the early morning of the next day, the scribes and others prepared breakfast. According to the usual practice, the elders had to eat together and discuss some matters briefly.

Holding the steamed bun, Sun Chuanting looked at Wang Qiaonian's vacant seat, frowning deeply, expressionless.

Fu Changzong, King Jing and the others were as sinking as water, and they didn't even make a sound when they drank the soup.

If Wang Qiaonian resigns and leaves, the fragility of the cabinet will be exposed to the entire Ming Dynasty, and the waves outside will become even more overwhelming. Sun Chuanting, the left assistant, will lose his barrier and be shaken directly.

This storm is about to start today.

Not only them, the six ministers, except for the Minister of Rites Shen Xun, the other five also gathered in the Ministry of Officials by coincidence. Zhao Han, Zhang Bingwen, Fang Kongxuan and others were equally dignified, unable to say a word for a long time.

The strange atmosphere of the imperial court affected the entire capital. It seemed as if a storm was coming, and the whole capital felt as if it was about to freeze.

The noisy atmosphere outside the Forbidden City also temporarily stopped, and everyone was waiting for a certain moment, quietly.

Imperial Palace, inner court.

Empress Dowager Zhang stared at Yongning in front of her, picked up her chopsticks angrily, and wanted to hit her on the head, but this girl was already 16 years old, and she was as tall as her. Just stay in the palace honestly, if you dare to take a step, I will break your leg!"

Little Yongning never cared about the threats from her mother since she was a child, and with Zhu Xu's overt or covert help, she could always escape easily.

But now that her uncle is not here, she can only poke her mouth, poke at the rice with chopsticks, and groan.

Empress Dowager Zhang was very dissatisfied with Xiao Yongning's going to the cabinet to make trouble. The relationship between the outer court and the palace has always been a delicate one. As a former empress, her status is quite sensitive. Now some people are making a fuss about their mother and daughter, and she is even more low-key.

Seeing the little girl's disapproval, Empress Dowager Zhang couldn't express her anger.

At this time, the already slim Li Xiangjun came in, looked at Yongning, came to the side of Empress Dowager Zhang, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager and several other empresses have returned to the palace."

Empress Dowager Zhang's complexion changed slightly, and said: "Why are they returning to the palace at this time, aren't they Jingdezhen?"

Li Xiangjun said in a low voice: "Miss Li is back, the emperor is not."

Empress Dowager Zhang turned her head to look at Li Xiangjun with a surprised and puzzled look on her face.

Li Xiangjun blinked and said, "Xiangjun doesn't know either."

Empress Dowager Zhang frowned, looking puzzled and worried.

What is puzzling is why Zhang Yun and others went to Beijing to return to the palace at this time, the sky was snowing heavily, the cold was bitter, and Bumbutai was still pregnant.

Li Jieyu was with Zhu Xu in Shenlong Mansion, why did Zhu Xu not come back when she came back?

Now there is a lot of turmoil in the outer court, and the sound of the collapse of the pavilion is like a wave. Everyone is in danger. If something goes wrong, the harem will be burned. What are they doing when they come back?

Empress Dowager Zhang had a headache, she got up and said, "Let's go to Kunning Palace."

Before Li Xiangjun could agree, Empress Dowager Zhang glared at Xiao Yongning again, and said, "Just wait for me!"

Xiao Yongning pursed his mouth and lowered his head to pick up the rice, but his eyes were bright.

When the empresses came back, so did the little guys, and she had some fun.

In addition to the few who came back, there is actually another empress in the palace, that is the former Emperor Mingzheng, Xingzi, who lived in Yonghe Palace and was named Concubine Shu.

Xingzi, his son, mother and daughter entered the capital of the Ming Dynasty, entered the Forbidden City, and lived in this huge palace for a long time, but apart from the previous canonization and the empress dowager, they have never seen anyone else.

It was snowing heavily outside, and the charcoal stove inside the palace was burning, making it as warm as spring.

Hezi was combing Xingzi's hair, looked at her beautiful daughter in the mirror, and sighed softly: "Xingzi, don't think too much, living here is no different from living in Edo, you can still have a clean life."

Xingzi was still wearing a kimono. At the age of 17, she was in her prime, smiling like a flower on her pretty face, and said softly, "I know."

Hezi put her hair in a bun, looked outside, and said: "This Ming Dynasty is not as peaceful as our Japanese country..."

They have lived here for nearly two months, and even though few people care about them, the wind and rain outside still blow into their ears.

"Let's not worry about it." Xingzi said softly.

Kazuko nodded silently, they were no longer in Wa Kingdom, and the battle between the shogunate and the royal family that had made them struggle for more than ten years was completely over and had nothing to do with them.

Xingzi looked in the mirror and blinked.

She often thinks about the Wa country, wondering what is going on, after all, she is also considered the king of subjugation.

But more recently, she was thinking about the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, her husband, the struggle between the Ming Dynasty and the opposition is more terrifying than the Japanese kingdom, can he hold it down?

As time passed, the snow gradually stopped, but there was still a gust of cold wind covering the capital, the chill was piercing, everyone huddled in the house, but opened the windows, staring at the palace, at the cabinet, and at the Wang Mansion.

Wang Mansion's carriage had been prepared long ago, and once the carriage drove out, it meant the real start of the storm.

Some people are looking forward to it, some are eager to wait, some are in unbearable pain, some are watching with cold eyes, they are all waiting quietly.

Suffering, the difference is the mood.

Sun Chuanting and the others had breakfast and did not enter the classroom. They stood at the entrance of the main hall, looking in the direction of the gate, and waited for Wang Qiaonian's family to come to deliver the letter of resignation.