life in a hurry

The imperial envoy made a mighty southern tour, and Chen Feiqing couldn't stand it for a long time, so he followed him quickly. This was another laughing stock among the people.

But then, Baiguan couldn't laugh anymore.

The emperor said that he would also go south.

For the vast majority of civil and military officials in this dynasty, although the emperor has always been weak, they are really convinced, because the emperor is almost made according to the mold of Ming emperors throughout the ages, except for the ambiguity with Chen Feiqing that is really not right , nothing else--this is not a big deal for the king of a country, after all, he is still very restrained, he has not done anything out of the ordinary, and he can still turn a blind eye.

However, now, Your Majesty, he...

Kneeling on the ground in the early court, and coming down to court, a bunch of humerus important ministers came in the imperial study room, crowded together and refused to leave, back and forth to persuade the emperor to put the dragon body as the most important thing and the country and the country as the most important thing.

The emperor said: "I went south to recuperate."

Almost no one believed it.

"Your Majesty, it's a long journey to the south, and the horses and horses all the way are exhausted. I'm afraid it will do more damage to the dragon's body."

"What's more, if there are thieves laying an ambush on the way, what should we do?"

"Your Majesty, please think twice before acting."

"emperor……"

The emperor gently explained again and again: "It was after repeated considerations by the imperial doctor that he advised me to go south to recuperate."

"What is his intention! The emperor must not believe the words of the thief!"

"Your Majesty, this is a big deal!"

Finally, when it was time to ask for pulse and take medicine, the emperor had a chance to catch his breath.

All the ministers retreated outside the hall, still unwilling to leave easily, and waited quietly.

The emperor took two mouthfuls of medicine, sighed, and ordered: "Xiao Hai, go and tell the adults that it's boring today, so don't take care of your body. I can't run away secretly, let them go to delay. Huadian eats some food and rests for a while, and I also want to rest for a while."

Xiao Hai then went outside to deliver the oral order, and all the officials looked around, and gradually they all went to Yanhua Hall.

Only then did the emperor finish the medicine, put down the bowl, and did not speak for a long time.The medicine is getting sweeter and sweeter, and the taste of the medicine is almost gone, but this is not a good thing to be happy about, it just means that the illness is getting worse, so the medicine is prescribed more and more heavily, and Bai Qiancao is put in it. more and more honey.

Bai Qiancao asked for his pulse, but sat there without moving, staring at him.

The emperor didn't care about it, he just regarded it as a doctor's usual way of seeing, hearing and asking, and said with a smile: "Isn't it more true to see it after removing the makeup on the face?"

Bai Qiancao said slowly: "I read it in the morning. I just suddenly knew why you refused to go south. You already knew they would not let you go."

The emperor sighed: "You don't have to criticize them in your heart, everyone performs their own duties, you are a doctor, just want to cure the sick, they are court officials, just want to maintain the stability of the country, they are all doing their duty."

Bai Qiancao said: "You have already said that you are here to treat illnesses."

The emperor looked at him for a while, and suddenly laughed: "Interlacing lines is indeed like a mountain. Qiancao, what do you think I am?"

Bai Qiancao frowned slightly, puzzled.

"I am the emperor, but the emperor is not me. If my brothers are still alive, maybe the emperor is one of them who is more decent than me." The emperor said, "The officials are not my officials, they belong to the country and the country. Baiguan, to tell you something that you may find embarrassing, my life and death have nothing to do with them. If my life and death did not involve the safety of the country, they would not care too much about my health, at least not as much as they care about them What can I eat tomorrow."

Bai Qiancao looked at him in surprise.

"When I go south, it is unknown whether it will be cured or not. However, once the emperor is gone in the capital, it will be like people without a door god at the door, and people's hearts will be unstable. Or if something goes wrong on the way. , the capital will be in chaos immediately. Naturally, I have not been the only emperor from the capital since ancient times, but it is true that most of them did not end well. Sui Yangdi and Tang Minghuang are all listed in the history books, and all the officials will inevitably think of the worst. What's more, I'm worse than the two of them. I'm already weak and have no heirs. I don't have a prince, and I don't even have a brother. If there are three problems with me, the world will be in chaos."

The emperor smiled and said, "So I will never blame them, and you shouldn't think that way either."

Bai Qiancao frowned and said, "But if you can't cure it..." He didn't want to continue.

The emperor said: "As I said, this is something that doctors will think about. When doctors really have nothing to do, they will try their best to treat dead horses as live horse doctors. But for the officials, they only need the most cautious method and benefit from it." The one with the biggest and least disadvantages. No one can say exactly how I will go south, but no matter how you look at this matter, you will feel that it is safer for me to stay in the capital. For officials who do not want to seek rebellion , safety is the most important thing.”

Bai Qiancao thought again and again, and said, "I regret now that I persuaded you to go south. You knew this would happen. If you really wanted to choose, you would naturally choose the same safe method as Baiguan. But you didn't, and you definitely didn't You are a fool, so you don't want to go south to recuperate at all, you want to go—"

Bai Qiancao stopped abruptly, and looked at him in disbelief, "You planned to go south from the beginning, and you lied to me on purpose?"

The emperor smiled and said: "It is true that you are thinking too much. I can deceive anyone, but I will not deceive the doctor. This is not good. If you are not a crazy person, you will not seek death, but only survive. I feel that I should not look like that kind of person. This time I am going south, I will die and survive, do you believe it?"

Bai Qiancao was silent for a long time, before she said: "There are also many people who only hope that Liang Yi can live well."

The emperor said helplessly: "Don't call me by my first name directly."

While talking, a little eunuch outside the palace reported that the Empress Dowager wanted to invite the emperor to have a meal together.

Since Ma Chuohu's incident, the emperor has not seen the queen mother for a long time, and he is not going to see him now: "Reporting to the queen mother, I still have a lot of things to do today, so I can't accompany her for dinner. Please ask Princess Ting to accompany her." " He asked again, "I invite Duke Huai to bring his son into the palace, are you here?"

"Already here, waiting outside the hall."

The emperor signaled Bai Qiancao to leave, and said, "Please come in."

Seeing the eldest son, the emperor smiled very gently: "There is no need for the family to be polite, Chun'er comes to my side."

He held the son in his arms, looked carefully, and said to King Huai: "Children are inevitably naughty, why punish them like this."

King Huai had no choice but to say: "I have never raised children before, so I don't know how to teach young children. This has worried the emperor. It's my fault."

The emperor smiled and said: "Your mother has taught you to be very sensible, and she is in good spirits now, why not let her take care of the child for you?"

Duke Huai forced a smile: "The emperor taught it right."

"When you came, you probably heard that I plan to go south."

Duke Huai said cautiously: "When I came here, I happened to meet all the ministers by chance, and I heard a sentence or two, nothing more."

"They don't let me go south, they are worried that if I leave, the capital will be in chaos."

King Huai looked down at the ground, and said in his mouth: "The emperor is the father of hundreds of officials and people, and the journey to the south is long, so it is natural to be frightened and worried about the body of the dragon."

The emperor smiled and said: "The dragon's body is fine, they are worried that there will be no such town house in the palace."

Duke Huai didn't know what he wanted to say, so he didn't answer.

The emperor said: "So after much deliberation, I might as well appoint Chun'er as the crown prince and let him guard the capital on my behalf."

Duke Huai looked up at him in shock, and it took him a while to come back to his senses: "Chen, Chen..."

"You heard right."

"M, absolutely not!" Seeing that the emperor's expression did not seem to be joking, Duke Huai was immediately dazed and flustered, "Your majesty, your majesty is at the peak of spring and autumn..."

The emperor waved his hand: "It can be seen that I have never lived through that time, so there is no need to say such a scene."

Duke Huai said again: "No matter what, it's absolutely impossible. Chun'er...he...he is stupid..."

"It's always smarter than you." The emperor lowered his head and asked the eldest son in his arms, "What do you think, Chun'er?"

The eldest son is still young, although he is precocious, he usually spends alone with his wet nurse at home and doesn't know much about human affairs, so he asked bluntly: "Then what about my father?"

After the rest, all the ministers went back to wait outside the palace, and after a while, they saw Duke Huai leaving with his son in fear and suspicion, and the emperor let the two prime ministers in.

"There's no need to be too polite, just sit down." The emperor watched the two of them sit firmly, and said, "I'm afraid I won't have any children anymore. Seeing that time is running out, I plan to adopt Prince Huai's son."

The disadvantage of left and right phases is to sit firmly, otherwise the soles of the feet will slip.At this moment, the expressions of the two were exactly the same: "Your Majesty, absolutely not!"

The emperor said: "It's nothing wrong, there was such a thing in the previous dynasty. You two are the most clear, but once I die, there will be no master in the court, and it will inevitably lead to disputes from all sides, and the world will be in chaos. You also know the most Well, it’s time to establish a reserve early, but it’s not convenient to say it if you dare not say it, so I will say it myself.”

The left minister sighed: "Your Majesty, this matter still needs to be discussed in the long run."

"I want to go south as soon as possible. If I don't finalize this matter and discuss it with you, then I really don't know when to discuss it."

The left and right looked at each other, and the right asked: "The emperor is for the matter of going south..."

The emperor didn't admit it, but he didn't deny it, he just said: "I heard that Jiangnan is beautiful, if you don't go and see it now, you won't have the chance again in the future."

The left and right ministers naturally didn't believe it, and asked impatiently: "Why does the emperor insist on going south? I don't understand."

The emperor smiled: "I have already said that I want to go to Jiangnan to take a look. Since I became the throne, I haven't even been out of the palace a few times, and I feel a little bored living there."

"I don't believe it."

"It's up to you whether you believe it or not." The emperor said, "I've made up my mind. I'm just telling you, not discussing with you."

The two immediately got up and knelt down: "Your Majesty, please think twice! Even if the crown prince is established, the son is still young. If the emperor leaves Beijing, it will inevitably cause panic, and foreign countries have already looked down on the Central Plains..."

The emperor cut off their words, and suddenly said: "I do this like a stubborn and stupid king."

The two hurriedly said: "This is not what I mean."

"No matter what you mean," the emperor said with a smile, "I really want to be naughty for a while before I die, so let me fool you. Tell those people outside, if anyone persuades me again, I will invite them to live in the prison." on."

Qin Zhengwen was the first to go to the Heavenly Prison, because he heard about this, he made three excuses in a row. The first one was restrained, the second one was barely restrained, and the third one was finally unable to overcome it. Long Yan was furious.

Huang Yushi is the second.

A lot of people went in one after another.

The emperor is really determined to go south, and the important ministers can't stop him.It's just that the matter of adopting Prince Huai's son was stopped in the end, so as to save the trip from getting more and more confusing.

Vaguely, some people suspected that the emperor was indeed seriously ill to the point of fainting.It is not in the history books of previous dynasties that there has never been a precedent for a ruler who suddenly changed his temperament drastically, and it is not a lie that the power of the sky is unpredictable.