Unparalleled Concubine

Queen Xie spoke slowly.

"If Marquis Li is free, you might as well take the prince for a walk on the streets of Yonglefang tomorrow."

Sixty to seventy percent of the dignitaries in the capital live in Yongle Fang. Walking around Yongle Fang can indeed express their attitude clearly.

Now that he has the military power in his hands, those people don't care about his face, they also care about the face of the right battalion of the Forbidden Army, so they won't have any extravagant thoughts.

Li Xin didn't hesitate too much, he glanced at Xie Jing behind the queen, and then said in a deep voice: "My lady, I will accept this matter."

"It's just that in the future, empress, don't scare people with the matter of His Majesty, just now..."

Before Li Xin could finish his sentence, Xiao Huai, the purple-clothed eunuch, ran in scramblingly, and he knelt down in front of Empress Xie with a "plop".

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty is awake, and wants to see you and the Crown Prince..."

Chapter 827

When the Empress heard the words, she didn't care much, and immediately left to go to the emperor's bedroom. Before leaving, she turned her head to look at Li Xin, her voice was a little sad.

"Master Li, will you go with me?"

Li Xin nodded silently, stood up and said, "The empress will go first, and the minister will arrive later."

Empress Xie carried her long skirt and left the side hall with small steps, while Li Xin stood there for a while before stepping away and walking towards the emperor's bedroom.

When he reached the door of the emperor's bedroom, Empress Xie had already gone in. Lord Jing'an closed his eyes, let out a long breath, and waited at the door of the bedroom with his hands down.

After a long time, there was no movement in the bedroom.

Then, a group of gray-bearded old men also appeared at the door of the emperor's bedroom. They first glanced at Li Xin, and then stood beside Li Xin quietly waiting with sad faces.

They are the five prime ministers of Shangshutai.

The Zaifu of Shangshutai today is very different from the Zaifu of ten years ago. When the emperor first succeeded to the throne ten years ago, most of the ministers of Shangshutai were former ministers of the Chengde Dynasty, such as Huanchu and Zhangqu. The ministers of the Chengde Dynasty either died of illness or died of old age. Among the five ministers of the Chengde Dynasty, only Zhongshu Ling Gongyang Shu was still at the Shangshutai, and the other four had already changed.

In the ten years of the Taikang Dynasty, Li Xin existed as an isolated official in a sense. Except for Chen Guogong's mansion, he basically did not interact with any other officials, whether they were civil servants or military generals. He knows every one of these ministers, but he is not familiar with any of them.

Although Li Xin can be regarded as a high-ranking and powerful person in the Taikang Dynasty, but after a closer look, he may have a high status, but in terms of weight, these five prime ministers who are in power are the real powerful people, because from a certain In this sense, Shangshutai was separated from the emperor.

As for Li Xin, the authority is only in the army, at most he is a Minister of the Ministry of War, and if he is a serious Minister of the Ministry of War, he will be restrained by these five old men.

In the end, he was still an old minister of the Chengde Dynasty. The Zhongshu ordered Gong Yangshu to go over the crowd, walk up to Li Xin, and slightly cupped his hands: "Mr. Li."

Li Xin glanced at the old man, bowed his hands and returned the salute: "Zhongshu Ling is very polite."

In terms of official rank, Li Xin is a bit higher than these five old men, but in terms of power, he is much inferior, and Gong Yangshu has a very high seniority in the court, so he can be regarded as Li Xin's elder.

The Zhongshu Ling glanced at the bedroom and sighed slightly.

"Master Li arrived first, do you know what happened?"

Ten years ago, that is, in the 18th year of Chengde, the five ministers of Shangshutai were also called into the palace like now, except that the emperor at that time lived in Changle Palace, and the emperor now lives in Weiyang Palace.

Now that the scene reappeared, this Zhongshuling had a very bad premonition in his heart.

Li Xin looked around and found that six ministers were also arriving one after another, among which the two ministers from the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Officials had already arrived. He glanced at Gongyang Shu and asked silently, "Excuse me, Zhongshuling, who are you?" Called into the palace?"

"Go to the inner court, Eunuch Xiao."

Gongyang Shu is over 70 years old, he said with some difficulty: "Eunuch Xiao just sent someone to the Shangshutai, and asked me to wait at the gate of Weiyang Palace. I don't know what happened exactly."

The Eunuch Xiao he was talking about was naturally not Xiao Huai, but Xiao Zheng, the eunuch and eunuch.

Li Xin nodded, then glanced at Gongyang Shu.

"I was also invited to the palace by Eunuch Xiao, not too long before Zhong Shuling, let's wait here together."

The Eunuch Xiao he was talking about was not the same person as the Eunuch Xiao that Gongyang Shu was talking about.

Gongyang Shu glanced at Li Xin, then nodded helplessly, turned around and returned to his seat, closed his eyes and rested.

Gradually, there were more and more people at the gate of Weiyang Palace. In addition to Liubu Shangshu and other big Jiuqings, there were also six servants, and Xiao Jiuqing, etc., all arrived at the gate of Weiyang Palace, standing outside the palace gate with their hands down.

As Li Xin was Minister of the Ministry of War, when the officials of the Ministry of War arrived, they naturally all stood behind him. Ye Lin, who was the servant of the Ministry of War, stood near Li Xin's left and quietly lowered his voice.

"Chang'an, what happened...?"

Ye Lin is different from Li Xin. Li Xin is holding a post in the Ministry of War just for fun, not really wanting to work in the Ministry of War. But Ye Lin is different. Mansion, but after all, he was born in the Ye family, and this background made him unlikely to be in charge of the army.

As a military general, if he can't command the army, he can only work in the yamen of the Ministry of War. Therefore, Ye Lin, the servant of the Ministry of War, is a serious servant. He has to go to the yamen of the Ministry of War every day. It's all about not begging for food.

Li Xin didn't change his face, and said in a deep voice: "I don't know either."

Having said that, he paused.

"However, judging from the current situation, His Majesty should have summoned the ministers..."

Ye Lin's expression changed.

"So fast……"

Li Xin looked in the direction of Weiyang Palace and sighed a long time.

"Yeah, too fast."

In this way, it didn't take long before all the officials above the third grade in the capital arrived. They waited at the gate of Weiyang Palace for about an hour, and the sky became completely dark. At this time, it was still snowing outside, and the palace gate had eaves There can't be too many people standing in the place, so many officials outside now have snow-white hair and clothes.

Finally, Xiao Zheng, the great eunuch dressed in red, appeared in front of everyone, his face was heavy, and after looking around at the officials at the gate of the hall, he bowed slightly.

"Your Majesty, please enter the palace."

After speaking, he turned and walked in.

Several Zaifu looked at each other, and then took the lead to walk in.

At this time, the patriarch of the Zhong family, Zhong Xuantong, and the general Hou Jingde, the general of the Zuoying Army of the Forbidden Army, who had already arrived at the scene, also exchanged glances with each other, and then walked into the Weiyang Palace.

Li Xin had no expression on his face, with his hands in his sleeves, he led the officials of the Ministry of War and walked towards Weiyang Palace.

The officials were brought into the main hall of Weiyang Palace, and they stood in their usual positions. Li Xin stood in the position of Minister of the Ministry of War, expressionless.

Xiao Zheng, who was dressed in red, first glanced at Li Xin, and then led the five prime ministers from Shangshutai to the Emperor's bedroom in the back hall of Weiyang Palace.

This is an inevitable thing. If the emperor has a funeral, then all the next things about the succession of the throne will actually have to be taken care of by several ministers, including the emperor's funeral and the various etiquette rules of the new emperor's succession. And the people from the Ministry of Rites came forward to make arrangements.

Therefore, at this time, several prime ministers are definitely going to meet the king.

As for the other people present, that is to say, to be a witness, they basically couldn't see the emperor.