[Qing Chuan] Mu Emperor's Grace

Commander Mingrui's army returned to the capital with a peace treaty. According to the custom, the army would present prisoners of war to the emperor at the Meridian Gate in triumph.

However, this time, He Shen released all the prisoners of war back to Myanmar, and also redeemed the captured soldiers of the Qing army.

When Mingrui and his party arrived outside the Meridian Gate, Minister of the Ministry of War Yiletu was already waiting.He took the peace treaty from Mingrui, climbed to the gate of the Morning Gate, and presented the peace treaty to the emperor.

It was only then that He Shen saw that Hongli was sitting on the gate tower. Under the sunlight, his bright yellow dragon robe was particularly eye-catching.

Hongli has been searching for the figure of He Shen among the three rows of kneeling soldiers, and finally locked his eyes on the far left of the row.Obviously from rebirth to the present, the number of times the two have met can be counted on the fingers, but He Shen's every move, even the posture of kneeling, seems to have been repeated in Hongli's mind thousands of times.Even if they are far apart at this moment, they can still be recognized at a glance.

Hongli took over the peace treaty presented on the Yilt map, carefully looked at the terms of the peace treaty, and his eyes stopped for a long time on the construction of a commercial road in southern Yunnan, his brows slightly frowned.

"Where's Mingrui?"

"The general led all the soldiers to kneel outside the door to greet Yujia."

Hongli turned back and went down the gate tower, and walked towards the three rows of kneeling soldiers.He stretched out his hand to support Mingrui, looked at the scars on his face that hadn't faded, and said repeatedly: "Okay, okay, you are indeed our Baturu of Manchuria."

Mingrui blushed, and lowered his head like a young man who had made a mistake: "The slave has failed the emperor's entrustment and failed to capture Ava, please punish him."

"Although Awa was not captured in this battle, it deterred Myanmar and kept the peace of the border. Not only will I not punish, but I will also reward you, Hai Lancha, and all the generals who have made great achievements." Hongli said in a mood. laughed very well.

Hongli helped the kneeling generals up one by one, but when he reached He Shen, there was no movement.

He Shen held an object wrapped in yellow cloth in his hand, and knelt down obediently.Hongli looked down at him condescendingly, he hadn't seen him for ten months, He Shen had lost a lot of weight, and the official uniform that used to fit seemed to be hanging on his body now.

"This peace treaty is your masterpiece?" The emperor's deep voice could not hear any emotion.

"If you return to the emperor, the peace treaty must be agreed by the slave." He Shen replied with his head bowed.

"Who gave you the authority to build the commercial roads in southern Yunnan?" Hongli didn't cry out, and let He Shen kneel in full view.

"When I invited you to go to Yunnan, I asked the emperor for the right to do things cheaply."

"I told you to act cheaply in a critical moment, who told you to make a claim on the peace treaty between the two countries?" Hongli's cold voice was especially abrupt in the silence.

"The trade route in southern Yunnan? It took so much effort for Mingrui's army to drive the Burmese out of the customs during the war against Burma. Fortunately, you started doing business with the Burmese with a peace treaty. He Shen, how powerful you are, Hurry up and invite the Burmese bandits to Iron Wall Pass!"

"Your Majesty, the Burmese refugees on the Yunnan-Guizhou border keep making troubles and provocations because they have no livelihood. Building commercial roads in southern Yunnan and allowing them to earn money through private trade, so that they can eat and clothe themselves, naturally there will be no more troubles." And Shen was not intimidated by Hongli's harsh words, but still argued hard.

"Silver, silver, you only have silver in your eyes. I think you have gone into the eyes of money, and you have even forgotten the ancestors' teachings such as agriculture is the foundation and business is the end." He Shen's words are like a switch, evoking After seeing some unpleasant memories of Hongli, the jaw-dropping list of house raids in Hefu from his previous life seemed to appear in front of Hongli again.

He Shen didn't realize that Hongli was suppressing his anger. He even felt that Hongli was extremely stubborn today, arguing loudly: "Dare to ask the emperor, if you want to get things done, there is no need for any of these things. Silver? Building roads and bridges, longevity in the palace, Qianqiu Festival, tours to the east and south, and even the supreme dragon robe that you wear, the emperor, isn’t it made of silver..."

Before he finished speaking, there was a loud voice in his ear: "He Shen, do you really think I dare not touch you?"

He Shen trembled when he heard the words, looked at the furious emperor as if he had just woken up from a dream, and murmured: "Emperor... Your Majesty..."

Hongli's eyes were red, like a wild beast out of control, and he said sharply, "You want to be like Qian Feng as an arguing minister, and I will make it possible for you! Here, He Shen is good at making opinions, speaking rudely, and disobeying the emperor. Be an example to others."

The guards on both sides stepped forward and put He Shen on the torture bench.The thing that was originally held by He Shen fell to the ground, the yellow cloth spread out, and a rotten head was exposed.Some timid civil servants present couldn't help retching.

"This is..." Hongli stared at the head and hesitated.

After waiting for a long time, he did not hear He Shen's reply.Ming Rui saw that He Shen had lost his mind and was staring blankly at a certain place, as if he hadn't heard the emperor's words at all.Quickly replied: "Return to the emperor, this is the head of the criminal minister Erden. Erden delayed the military plane and almost caused a big mistake. Mr. He... ordered beheading and replacing the general, which saved the minister's life."

Hongli was taken aback for a moment, and looked at He Shen with a complicated expression.The eyebrows and eyes are obviously still familiar, but Hongli feels that there is something different.In the past, He Shen was shrewd and mellow, he was obedient and obedient to him, and he would never do such sharp-edged things as beheading generals.Today's Heshen looks round and transparent, but inside he has sharp edges and corners.

Hongli sighed softly: "Heshen, I will give you a chance to promise not to start building the commercial road again, and to put aside all the preparations for the southern Yunnan commercial road, and I will spare you the punishment."

He Shen knew the power of the Wumen court rod. During the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty, the licentious Emperor Zhengde once used the court rod on officials who came to admonish him.More than a dozen officials were directly killed with sticks, and the rest were lucky enough to survive, but they were also scarred.

He only felt his hands and feet were cold, his heart was blank, and he spat out the word "no" with trembling lips.

Hongli looked at He Shen's bloodless face in disbelief, gritted his teeth and said word by word: "Are you sure?"

He Shen was restrained by the guards and couldn't move, but suddenly raised his face, stared at Hongli seriously and said: "If the strategy of trade is neglected, there will be endless troubles on the sidelines. Your Majesty, think twice."

"Stubborn, execute!" Hongli turned his head away, and stopped looking at He Shen's face.He was afraid that if he took another look at that haggard face, he would soften his heart.

He Shen closed his eyes resignedly, and let the guards tie his arms on the bench with sackcloth, and his ankles on both sides were firmly bound by the guards.

A guard took the mace and was about to strike, when Hongli saw the spikes on the stick out of the corner of his eye, his heart trembled, and he yelled coldly: "Change the wooden board."

Standing behind Hongli, Wu Shulai could see the emperor's expression clearly, as shrewd as he was, he would care about it in an instant.When the execution guards looked over, he opened his toes into a big horoscope and made a "light" mouth shape.

The guard had a clue in his mind, he raised the board high, but then lowered it gently.Even so, He Shen let out a muffled groan when the nanmu board hit him. If he hadn't bitten the wooden stick in his mouth, he might have screamed on the spot.

When the severe pain came, He Shen only felt that his mind was in chaos: modern memories mixed with the encounters since his rebirth, flashed frame by frame like a revolving lantern.

Xu Shi's guards beat Wu Shulai lightly after hearing Wu Shulai's words.After thirty sticks passed, He Shen still struggled and said, "Your Majesty, the trade route cannot be abandoned."

Hongli couldn't believe his ears. He stared at the angry man on the torture bench with red eyes, choking all the harsh words in his throat.

The guards stepped forward to report, but Hongli was so angry that he walked away.He Shen endured the pain in his body, and opened his eyelids with great effort.It wasn't until the bright yellow figure could no longer be seen that his tense nerves relaxed and he slumped on the stool.

A good triumphant ceremony ends with a court stick.The emperor left, and all the ministers watched this scene, and they lost all intention of being company, and dispersed in twos and threes.

Mingrui passed by He Shen's side, looked at the blood stains on his official uniform, shook his head and sighed: "My lord, let's do it for ourselves." After finishing speaking, he left with everyone.

After the surrounding area became quiet, He Shen opened his eyes again, never thinking that there was someone standing beside him: "You...why are you still here..."

Hai Lancha curled her lips, and said impatiently: "Go out with your back, the guards are gone. You are so injured, can't you crawl back by yourself?" Arms on his shoulders.He was originally a careless rough guy, but he moved with He Shen on his back with extra care, carefully avoiding the wound, and only took a step after making sure that there was no hindrance.

After walking like this for a while, Hai Lancha suddenly said: "Why are you bothering, is the Laoshizi trade route really so important? It's worth you to hurt yourself like this?"

He Shen lay on his back, heard his question in a daze, and smiled weakly: "With trade routes, the people on the border can trade. As long as you get what you need and earn a living, who would want to be a refugee bandit? War can cure the symptoms, but not the root cause. If the trade route cannot be opened, the battle will be in vain, and the appointment will be in vain.”

He Shen's voice was very soft, and Hai Lancha seemed to understand, and asked again: "But the emperor forbids it, isn't your suffering all in vain?"

He Shen laughed softly when he heard the words, and said "Ouch" when he touched the wound for a while, and said after recovering: "If I obey the emperor's wishes today, the board will be spared, but this trade road cannot be repaired." Yes. After being beaten and still ignorant of current affairs, the emperor probably won’t want to see me in a short time. As long as he doesn’t think about it, the business road can be repaired. When he thinks about it again, maybe the road will be repaired , anyway, the money does not come out of the treasury. Then... how do you say that word... cold war, yes, cold war."

Hai Lancha was silent and didn't speak any more along the way.

That night, when He Shen was half asleep, unable to sleep due to the pain, Hongli had a dream: In the dream, the scorching sun was in the sky, He Shen was lying on the torture bench, and he was still looking at him stubbornly while being tortured.When he met those eyes full of pain, he suddenly saw a trace of bright red slipping from the corner of He Shen's mouth, dripping on the ground to form a shocking pool of blood.

"Zhi Zhai!" Hongli exclaimed, and opened his eyes suddenly.It was pitch black, and Queen Ulanara was also awakened.

She ordered people to light the palace lanterns, and seeing Hongli's forehead dripping with cold sweat, she hurriedly took a handkerchief to wipe it off, but Hongli raised his hand to block it.

"I think there are still some scriptures I haven't finished reading... you should go to bed first." Ulanara was stunned for a moment, and Hongli had finished dressing and went elsewhere.

Ulanara twisted the handkerchief in his hand, raised his hand and slapped Xia Lan who came in to serve him: "Clumsy slave, get out."

Qiu Ju, who was replaced, combed Ulanara's hair tremblingly.The beautiful woman looked at herself in the bronze mirror, and suddenly screamed: "Trash, all of them are trash, a bunch of trash." She lifted the bronze mirror on the table and smashed it hard on the ground.The fragments of the bronze mirror hurt Qiu Ju's hand, but Qiu Ju didn't dare to make a sound.She knew Ulanara's frightening appearance when she was furious.

After smashing all the things that could be smashed on the dressing table, Ulanara finally calmed down, stared blankly at the debris on the ground, and said in a sad voice: "If it weren't for the first and tenth day of the lunar month Five, the emperor is afraid that I will forget about this palace."

Qiu Ju knelt on the ground and summoned up her courage to whisper softly: "Your Majesty, the emperor is busy with government affairs, and it has been a long time since he visited the harem. On the first and fifteenth day of every month, the emperor will come to see your empress, which shows that the emperor still thinks about your empress. .”

Ulanara sneered and said, "What do you know, it was all for the Queen Mother to see. Since the serious illness in Qianlong's 20th year, even if he came, he never touched me..."

She was sad for a moment, and actually said the secret in her heart.When she came back to her senses, she looked at Qiu Ju with a sinister gaze.

"Qiu Ju, for the sake of being a master and a servant, I will treat your family well. Don't blame me for being cruel. Who told you to hear things you shouldn't listen to? Find a good family in the next life."

Qiu Ju was so frightened that her face was ashen, she cried and cried: "Ma'am, please forgive me. The slave didn't hear anything. Please, please forgive me."

Ulanara helped Fuxin's curly hair, raised her eyebrows and said, "In this world, only the dead will shut up forever." After speaking, he suddenly said loudly: "Come here, let this not grow long." Drag out the servant with eyes, and kill him with a stick! Xiao Shengzi, come in."

When Xiao Shengzi came in, he had a face-to-face meeting with Qiu Ju who had been dragged out, and immediately lowered his head, trembling.

Ulanara glanced at him, and said in a cold voice: "Go to the respect room to find out who in the small characters in the harem is called Zhizhai. I'd like to see which foxy son is so capable, so that the emperor Haunted by my soul."

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