Let me eat a soft meal

In the early morning of the next day, several military generals headed by General Wang claimed that they were ill and would not go to court. General Chen Sanping impeached General Wang for despising the king's law and messing up the harem, saying that Concubine Yue had an affair with her, and King Zhao Ye Yi was the son of Feng Zijian, and conspired to rebel.

The emperor was furious, and he sent Li Tai'an, the commander of the imperial guards, to lead his troops to surround the palace of the general, and arrested Feng Zijian and his subordinate Huang Mang and others. Self-danger, but for seven days, no one confessed.

……

Three days after Chen Sanping falsely accused Feng Zijian, Ye Xuan had already grasped the exact evidence of Chen Sanping's collusion with the enemy, and at the same time found out that the third princess was behind it. Tai'an secretly went to search the Chenwang Mansion, and the last news he got was that the entire Chenwang Mansion was empty.

The entire girder could act like this under Ye Xuan's nose, except for Feng Zijian who didn't think otherwise.

At that time, Feng Zijian was still in the jail of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, but he had actually led a group of light cavalry to Beirong, intending to make a surprise attack. Those elite soldiers were ordered by Ye Xuan himself, and they were all good frontline fighters.

The only thing Ye Xuan could find out was the Shoukang Palace. Li Suian didn't leave, probably because he knew that he was being watched. He used to hide in the dormitory as a transparent person. Recently, he dressed solemnly, and then regularly Appear in the Anning Garden at a fixed point, walk around and then go back.

When Ye Xuan stepped into the Shoukang Palace, Li Suian, dressed in a gorgeous palace attire, lowered his eyes and sat in the main hall, burning incense and cooking tea, neither sad nor happy.

"Is the concubine having a distinguished guest?" Ye Xuan said, flipped up his robe and sat opposite Li Suian involuntarily.

Li Suian didn't raise his head, and he cooked tea in a smooth manner, and his neat movements of opening and closing always carried some familiar shadows.

Li Suian quickly cooked a pot, poured out two cups, pushed one of them to Ye Xuan, and said softly, "Your Majesty is my honored guest."

Ye Xuan picked up the tea and looked at her inquiringly.

The world said that Concubine Yue and Concubine Liang looked similar, so even the Seventh Prince and Ninth Prince who were born of different mothers looked like brothers.

Even though they were all in the palace, Ye Xuan didn't see the noble concubine Yue very many times, and he didn't see Li Ji as many times.

The first time I saw Concubine Yue was when she entered the palace, her eyes were downcast with a compassionate temperament, her food, clothing, housing and transportation seemed to be picked out from a model of aristocratic women in Beijing, she looked like a female Bodhisattva who has no desires and no desires , with that kind of aura mixed, she does look a little bit like Concubine Liang.So there are always people who think that she is a person with a heart, but in the end they are made miserable by her methods.

Later, Ye Xuan met several times at the palace banquet from a distance, and every time he saw her, he felt that the similarity between Yue Guifei and Liang Concubine became smaller.

What impressed me the most was the glimpse of him and Xie Yushu when he and Xie Yushu hurriedly left Qianyuan Palace during the plague seven or eight years ago. She changed into plain clothes with a wink.

Concubine Yue is dressed in plain clothes, but in fact the slender jade fingers under her sleeves are freshly dyed bright red Kodan. She walks unhurriedly towards the Qianyuan Palace, as if she is not going to serve a sick person, but to take a walk, from beginning to end His expressions were all calm.

Ye Xuan felt at that time that Concubine Yue didn't love the first emperor at all, and she might even hate him, wishing that he would drive the crane to immortality as soon as possible.

Seeing each other again now, Ye Xuan suddenly discovered that Li Suian, who had a clean face, was actually not at all like his mother. Her appearance was not Xiaojiabiyu, but she was as gorgeous as Li Ji, the eighth prince's mother and concubine.

Probably because she seldom expresses herself, she is over forty years old, but there are almost no wrinkles on her face. Apart from the pale complexion that has not seen the sun all year round, she looks like a beautiful woman in her 25s.

Ye Xuan thought about it carefully, and found that the faces in his memory were always similar, but there were subtle differences.

"No wonder." Compared with the blood insect control, it seems that the disguise technique is not so unusual.

Ye Xuan didn't inquire any further, she took a sip of tea, and finally knew the reason for the familiarity of Li Suian's movements.

"Green plum wine, not bad." He put the cup lightly.

Li Suian's expression remained unchanged, but his tone softened a lot, "Unfortunately, there is no snow water, green plums are too astringent, and the sour taste of the boiled wine overwhelms the taste of the wine."

"Maybe, we can add some goat's milk." Ye Xuan had drunk a lot of dairy products made by Li Ji before, including milk tea and milk wine, and they tasted good.

Li Suian nodded thoughtfully.

After a while, she looked up at Ye Xuan, "Why does Your Majesty want me?"

Ye Xuan tilted his head and smiled, "Just now the concubine said that I was a distinguished guest, and she specially burned incense and cooked tea, but now she asks me why I came?"

Li Suian had his own words, "I burn incense and cook tea here every day. If it was a few days ago, I would know why you came, but today, I am not sure. Is it because of Feng Zijian that your Majesty came to look for me, or—— Princess?"

Ye Xuan took a good look at her and asked instead of answering, "It depends on who my aunt takes orders from. I will come here for whomever you do things for."

Li Suian was stunned for a moment when he heard the name "Aunt", and couldn't help smiling when he heard it later, "It really is the Feng family, who are insidious and cunning from the same line."

"Thank you, aunt, for your compliment." Ye Xuan didn't feel that there was anything wrong with this statement.

Li Suian said, "Don't call me that, I don't like it."

She paused for a moment before admitting that she generally said, "If I am a 'fine worker', if I want to survive, I can do things for anyone."

Ye Xuan raised his eyebrows, understood what she meant, and also understood why Feng Zijian and Concubine Xian cooperated in the end.

"In terms of scheming, I'm not as good as him." Ye Xuan finally admitted that Feng Zijian is a cunning and cunning man, he used all means to use himself as a bait, and he didn't hesitate to use such a roundabout method to change everyone's life.

But if Ye Xuan didn't figure it out a little bit, or simply separated from him and only wanted him to die, then Feng Zijian's body is completely cold now.

Ye Xuan thinks that he is a selfish person and cannot do this.

He put away his thoughts and said to Li Suian, "Prosperity, wealth, power and status, I can give you whatever you want."

Li Suian saw the truth in it at a glance, "The glory and wealth are besieged in this Shoukang Palace, and they are under surveillance all day long? The position of power is that you abdicate to Yi'er, and I am named the Queen Mother, and then we, mother and child, are involved. Live a puppet's life under the domination of the puppet?"

Ye Xuan looked at her without saying a word.

Li Suian closed his eyes, took two steps back, knelt down with a firm expression, and said, "The criminal Li Suian wants to report."

……

On the eighth day after the incident involving the chaos in the harem by King General Wang, Dali Temple received a secret report and retrieved the files of the Ministry of Households, and found out that the concubine of Yue, Li Suian, was not the daughter of Li Xian, Minister of the Ministry of Industry.

During the interrogation by the emperor, the former empress Li and the sixth princess Ye Ling made confessions. The evidence is solid. Li Xian's crime is unforgivable. Dozens of officials were implicated.

The abolished former empress Li was relegated to common people and put under confinement in Putuo Temple; Yue concubine Li Suian seized the title of concubine and was ordered to leave Beijing immediately to guard the imperial tomb and never enter Beijing; Let them guard the imperial tomb together.

……

There was a low-key carriage parked in front of Xuanwu Gate. Ye Yi sat on the carriage with a rather impatient expression, and the nine rings in his hands collided and made noises from time to time.

Suddenly, a sigh came from the carriage, "Yi'er, forget it, let's go."

Ye Yi paused his hands, pursed his lips, and became stubborn. He slapped Jiu Lianhuan on the carriage and jumped out of the carriage, "I'll go find him."

"Yi'er!" Li Suian was taken aback, and hurriedly pulled the curtain of the car to stop him.

Unexpectedly, there was another person outside who was also shocked.

Pei Sheng had only a half-knowledge of the situation in the DPRK and China. He only saw a few letters from his elder brothers who had been transferred to different corners of the country mentioned that the border was not peaceful recently. His father and his grandfather chatted at the dinner table, guessing the current situation, If there is a war at the border, who will be sent there.

In the end, the number one candidate was actually Li Taian.

Pei Cheng was shocked at the time, and couldn't help but said, "He is just a commander of the imperial guards, responsible for protecting the emperor personally, how could he go to war!"

But his father told him, you melon skin, Li Taian fought more battles than you ate bird food, people and partners are called black and white at the border, fierce!

Pei Cheng's dream at night was that Li Tai'an was ordered to go to the battlefield by imperial decree, but he went there alone, and came back with only a cold corpse, leaving him alone in the capital, and was forced to be a widow by Ye Xuan. Pei Cheng's eyes were red, and when he woke up, just as Tai'an was changing shifts, he touched the bed and wanted to hug him, but he slapped him on the head.

The next day, Pei Cheng was still angry. He heard that there was a new theater troupe coming to Zhuque Street. ", seeing Pei Sheng's liver hurt so much that he almost became a monk in a fit of anger.

In the end, he heard that Putuo Temple was very spiritual, so he went to ask for a peace talisman, fought for a long time, and awkwardly planned to enter the palace to give to Tai'an, but Ye Yi, who suddenly jumped off the carriage at the door, shook his hands in fright.

Pei Cheng didn't see who it was, and was so angry that he wanted to scold him, so he was pulled over, "It's just in time!"

"I don't believe that Li Tai'an still hasn't come after holding you hostage." Ye Yi snorted coldly.

Pei Sheng: "..."

……

There was a lot of excitement at the gate of the palace. When Ye Xuan turned out from the secret passage, Xie Yushu leaned back on the chair and fell asleep. He opened his eyes when he heard the movement, "Zixuan, why are you here?"

He sat up in some pleasant surprise, the exhaustion between his brows and eyes disappeared, but Ye Xuan felt a little distressed, pushed him back to the chair, stretched out his hand to help him massage the acupuncture points, and said, "It seems that the cabinet system you mentioned earlier is the time It's on the agenda."

To be precise, the cabinet system was proposed by Jiang He. He originally intended to complain about the pros and cons of state power checks and balances in various states, and he extended it casually, but Xie Yushu listened to him.

He privately thinks that the power of the prime minister is indeed too great since the Great Liang Dynasty has extended to the present for a hundred years. The top is able to supervise the country and the bottom to control all the officials. It is simply another name for the regent. , Although after the centralization of power, the enforcement strength has increased, but it is not uncommon to deceive the upper and lower to collect money and so on.

Xie Yushu is an official who was sent from central Beijing to the state capital and then transferred back from the state capital. He has served in various positions. When he was the young minister of Dali Temple, he also presided over the cases he handled. , and finally attributed it to Dali Siqing, his boss.

There are also the rebellion of King Yu and King Qi, all of whom were instigated by the officials of the six ministries.The officials of the six ministries have too much power, and only the prime minister suppresses them, but it is not difficult to manipulate the entire deployment if they have the heart to manage it. Even the officials of the six ministries themselves are not in the minority, forming cliques for personal gain, deceiving each other, and reporting information.

It was precisely because of this reason that Li Xianneng played tricks on Li Suian's identity, and it took so many years for the incident to come to light.

Xie Yushu had already drawn up a plan for the reform, abolishing the system of prime ministers and re-establishing a cabinet. The cabinet consisted mainly of the left and right chiefs and assistants. Three or four assistant ministers were ordered to take orders directly from the emperor.

In addition to the cabinet, Xie Yushu also proposed to separate some powers from the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of War, and the Imperial Guard, and set up a special picket department to be responsible for the supervision of official assessment and case trial process, that is, the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

The Ministry of Punishment is responsible for the trial of the law, the Metropolitan Procuratorate is responsible for the supervision and records, and the Dali Temple is responsible for the review; when there is a major case, the three departments will try it together. After the judgment is issued, it will be sent to the cabinet for final trial. The cooperation of the six parts - in this way, it is reasonable for a whole system to contain each other.

It's just that such a reform will inevitably have an impact on the power of the six departments. The first-rank minister is likely to be downgraded from the first-rank or the second-rank. At that time, Xie Yushu, the person who presides over the reform, will definitely suffer the main impact.

Reformers in the past dynasties did not end well. Ye Xuan didn't want to mobilize the interests of the people so quickly. He originally planned to work slowly and gently. He first downgraded the six ministries, then established the capital inspection department, and finally established the cabinet chief assistant system accordingly. .

But seeing Xie Yushu's exhausted appearance, Ye Xuan overturned the thoughts in his heart, intending to speed up the process and at the same time come up with a method that would not expose Xie Yushu so easily.

There is a way... There is really one, and it just happens to take advantage of this incident.

"Yu Shu, you may not be the prime minister for the time being." Ye Xuan pressed Xie Yushu's shoulders, looked at his face nervously, and said in a low voice, considering the words, "I plan to take advantage of this matter to make use of it. Form a cabinet, let Chen Sanping enter the cabinet as the first assistant, and then find an excuse to drive him out."

Seeing him like this, Xie Yushu couldn't even pretend to be angry, leaned back with a smile, grabbed his hand, winked at him and said, "That's not right."

"I won't be the prime minister anymore. I have nowhere to vent my ambitions, so I have no choice but to be your queen."

"..." Ye Xuan looked down at him and didn't speak for a long time.

Xie Yushu gradually sat up straight and looked at him hesitantly, "Don't you agree?"

"No." Ye Xuan said quietly, "I suddenly feel that neither the cabinet nor the prime minister is necessary."

"That won't work," Xie Yushu vetoed, and said solemnly, "If I don't have an official position, I can only return to my hometown as a Jinshi. How sad my wife will be."

Ye Xuan raised his eyebrows, "Where is your wife from?"

Xie Yushu imitated his eyebrows, tilted her head to look at him, and tugged at his sleeve, "Aren't you?"

"No, they didn't go through the door."

"Before in Qianyuan Palace, we paid homage to heaven and earth and drank a cup of wine." Xie Yushu's eyes condemned, as if to say, "You scoundrel, why don't you admit it?"

Seeing this, Ye Xuan couldn't help but want to laugh, forced it down, and said nonsense, "That's the wedding between me and the empress, what does it have to do with Mrs. Xiangye?"

Xie Yushu hesitated: "...Then, shall we get married again?"

"Okay!" Ye Xuan responded immediately, and still said that the old god was still there, "According to the rules, the marriage letter should be issued first, the two families should discuss the engagement, choose a good and auspicious date, first issue the betrothal gift, and then return the dowry. Paying homage and sending it to the bridal chamber, picking handkerchiefs on the wedding scale, drinking henna wine, sprinkling longan, peanuts and red dates, and embroidering mandarin ducks into red waves, this is considered a ceremony."

Xie Yushu could tell from the front that he was translating her own words, but when she heard the back, her cheeks blushed and she glared at him, "You're playing hooligan!"

Ye Xuan couldn't help but bowed his head and kissed him at the end of his eyes, showing aggrieved expression, and asked in a hoarse voice, "Master Xiang is going to be a heartless person, isn't he going to give me a name?"

Xie Yushu endured and endured, and couldn't help laughing, "Yes, if I don't, His Majesty will not know how to play tricks on me."

As he spoke, he gently pushed Ye Xuan away, took out the letter paper from the drawer, spread it out, and studied the ink.

Ye Xuan understood something, and suddenly his chest was pounding, and he asked awkwardly after a long while, "What are you going to do?"

Xie Yushu sighed, and said with a pen, "What else can I do, of course I should write a letter to my father and ask him to pick a good day and auspicious day for me to come to propose marriage, ma'am."