Your Majesty, please draw the card

The emperor wanted to make up a family banquet, and when Empress Dowager Cao received the order, she was both surprised and worried.

Since the emperor was assassinated, the defense in the palace has become increasingly strict. Even if she is the emperor's own grandmother, she can only get some news from Mi Tuan every few days.First it was said that the emperor was seriously injured, and later it was said that the emperor had been poisoned. Now there are rumors outside that the emperor has gone mad, so how could she not be frightened.

"What's the matter with Xi'er? Some people say that he... is crazy?" Empress Dowager Cao firmly grasped the arm of Mi Tuan who came to deliver the decree, completely ignoring etiquette, and her originally graceful and luxurious appearance seemed a bit ferocious.

"I report to Mr. Pingyuan, great news! The emperor's poison has been cured, and the emperor's dragon body is safe!" Mi Tuan is also very excited, seeing the emperor "dying" every day, he is really afraid that one day he wakes up and hears the emperor's death news.Suddenly seeing that the emperor could walk on the ground today, he was so excited that he jumped three feet high.

Empress Dowager Cao let out a long breath, shaking her whole body: "It's really great, God has eyes, God has eyes..." She thought about it, and was a little worried: "Xi'er is just right. At one o'clock, a family banquet is going to be held, is that okay?"

Mi Tuan also showed some doubts on his face, and said in a hesitant tone: "It is said that it is because King Hengyang has arrived, and the emperor wants everyone to get together as soon as he is happy."

Empress Dowager Cao couldn't help frowning: "What's the matter with King Hengyang? Could it be that King Hengyang still has some unreasonable thoughts?"

Before hearing that the emperor seemed to intend to pass the throne to King Hengyang, Empress Dowager Cao smashed a jade ruyi on the spot.His grandson suffered a crime, but King Hengyang came to take advantage of the scene, how could people not hate him?When she heard that the emperor was looking forward to seeing the unknown King of Hengyang, Empress Dowager Cao became very angry.

Mi Tuan smiled awkwardly, not daring to say that Empress Dowager Cao wanted to go wrong, so he could only laugh and say, "This slave doesn't know, and King Hengyang probably doesn't have the guts either."

"Hmph! Forgive him for not daring! Speaking of which, whoever cured the emperor's poison should really be rewarded."

"Uh... It is said that it is a genius doctor named Zhou Yu, and the slave didn't see it either."

"Zhou Yu..." Empress Dowager Cao secretly remembered this name, which made a certain governor sneezed loudly.

In the evening, Lord Pingyuan entered the palace with a high profile, and the ministers also got the news that the emperor would celebrate the New Year with the people in the harem tonight.

Could it be that the emperor recovered?The ministers did not dare to believe the news easily, but more or less they all began to have small calculations in their hearts.Many people began to say that the emperor looked like a man of great fortune, how could he be hurt by the younger generation.And those who proposed to establish a reserve were also anxious, for fear of being settled by the emperor after autumn.This is exactly what Liu Xi hoped for.He didn't want to clean up the officialdom with a thunderbolt, but he wanted to create panic and suspicion in everyone's hearts, so that some people could show their feet.

On the first day of the new year, the emperor's family banquet.In order to show the reunion of the family, the emperor specially arranged a round table instead of the usual separate wine table.The Empress Dowager sat on his left, the Empress Dowager sat on his right, the Empress Dowager Cao sat on the other side of the Empress Dowager, and the King of Hengyang Liu Duan sat on the other side of the Empress Dowager.As for those concubines and the like, naturally they have no right to sit on an equal footing with them.

"For the first glass of wine, I will respect my grandmother first. A few days ago, I was ill, and my grandmother went to the court to listen to the government. I feel uneasy and grateful. I should thank my grandmother for this glass of wine." The emperor raised his hand. The wine cup smiled slightly at the Empress Dowager.

The empress dowager was very embarrassed.After all, she attended the court meeting to ensure the status of the royal family in case something happened. To the emperor, it was an out-and-out stabbing in the back.But seeing the emperor's earnest tone of thanks, not like irony, she immediately felt better, and felt that what she did was really for the sake of Da Yan.In her impression, the emperor has always been a good and filial child. Although he is closer to the empress dowager, he always respects her very much.

Since the emperor is still willing to call himself grandmother at this time, he is not as cunning and treacherous as his younger brother said, right?

When the Empress Dowager thought of this, the expression on her face suddenly became more kind.She looked at the emperor with a smile and said: "Ai's family is also a last resort. When your father was in power, Ai's family also listened to the government for him. It's all for our sake! Your majesty, don't think about it."

"Of course, it's too late for me to be grateful to my grandmother! It's just that I have worked hard for my grandmother. And Prime Minister Wang, during my illness, Prime Minister Wang worked diligently to take care of the government. I thought about giving Prime Minister Wang a second-level title in a few days, which can be regarded as a show My heart."

Liu Xi appeased the Empress Dowager, then raised her wine glass to toast the Empress Dowager.This time he played the emotional card, saying that he missed the Empress Dowager's tea very much during his serious illness, and now that he is in good health, he must report to the Empress Dowager every day.

Zhao Yingrong drank the wine in the glass with a smile, and there was a smile in her beautiful eyes, which made the emperor think that the empress dowager seemed to know everything.The emperor was vigilant in his heart, and secretly thought that fortunately he had to deal with the empress dowager first, and there was no possibility of reconciliation with the empress dowager, otherwise it would be hard to say who would win the battle against such a strange woman.

This incident further strengthened the emperor's determination to eradicate Wang's relatives.Wang Ting may not know that King Zhongshan will take the risk to assassinate him, but in any case, there is no doubt that the Wang family wants to stabilize their position in the constant alternation of the throne.Liu Xi can tolerate ambitious people, but he must not tolerate such ambitions on the premise of harming Da Yan's interests!

Wang Ting has been in charge of the treasury for nearly 20 years, and Dayan is getting poorer day by day. How could he not be responsible for this?What Bao Zheng found out was shocking.Wang Ting himself is not greedy for money, but his two sons are extremely greedy, wishing to exchange all the country's money in other pockets.Wang Ting still has the biggest problem. With his "efforts", one-third of the country's taxes cannot be collected, because those taxes belong to the scholar-bureaucrats and their clansmen!He is creating a privileged class, and people in this entire class regard him as the vane, call him a teacher, and say that he is a great sage in the world.Liu Xi has never seen anyone more shameless than Wang Ting for being generous to the country so openly!

"Today's third cup of wine, I want to respect the uncle who came from afar. The uncle guards the country for me, so that my people have clothes to wear and food to eat. I should respect you for your hard work!" Liu Xi said solemnly. I paid respects to King Hengyang, and then my face suddenly turned cold, "Unfortunately, I have not only a virtuous king like the emperor, but also an evil king who dominates the fish and meat people!"

The emperor's face was full of anger, and his little face was flushed, as if he couldn't breathe.When Empress Dowager Cao saw this, her heart ached and she said angrily, "Who made Xi'er angry, just kill him."

Only then did the emperor catch his breath deliberately, and snorted coldly: "It's too late. The King of Zhongshan, Liu Jing, has acted against the law and harmed the peace of heaven. He has now committed suicide. I will never tolerate such a person! I have decreed that the son of the King of Zhongshan and related people All of them were demoted to common people, and his brother-in-law, General Huwei Li Botong, who recruited civilian daughters for him, has also been dismissed from the military and escorted to Beijing for trial. I wonder what grandma thinks?"

"This..." The Empress Dowager didn't know anything about King Zhongshan's assassination. She felt that King Zhongshan died strangely, but she couldn't figure out how King Zhongshan offended the emperor, so that the emperor even killed his son. The mother's family did not let go.But everyone is dead, just a vassal, and he can't make any tricks.Maybe King Zhongshan really aroused public anger, so that some people reported it to the emperor. It is really not a pity for such a person to die.The empress dowager thought of all the rifts she had with Concubine Li in the past, and she immediately lost her affection for King Zhongshan, and she also agreed with this matter, and cared about the emperor's body together with the empress dowager Cao.

The emperor quickly assured: "I'm fine, I'm worried about my grandma."

At this time, Empress Dowager Cao suddenly thought of someone: "I heard that your body was healed by a folk god named Zhou Yu?"

Liu Xi nodded: "It is because of taking Zhou Lang's elixir that I can sit here." What he said is not a lie, without Zhou Yu's life-sustaining pill, it is impossible for him to open the natal card.

The empress dowager at the side couldn't help but wondered: "Zhou Lang? This doctor Zhou is very young?"

"Yes, that's my male god!"

A table of people suddenly fell silent.

Liu Xi rubbed his chin, and felt that his habit of saying wrong things easily when he was happy was quite bad.He determined to explain a few words: "The male god means that Zhou Lang is like a male god in my heart."

It was the empress dowager Zhao Yingrong who was the first to react, she covered her mouth and said with a smile: "The gods are gods! There are male gods and female gods, this is the first time Aijia has heard of it. If there is a chance, Aijia really wants to meet this God."

Liu Xi complained in his heart, don't be so active, Queen Mother, Zhou Gongjin likes Xiao Qiao, but it has nothing to do with you.

Empress Dowager Cao echoed: "That's right, why don't you invite this male god over here, so that you can reward him heavily."

Liu Xi suddenly had one head and two big ones.

It's over, it's over, it was just a joke, how did it arouse the interest of the three highest-ranking women in the Great Yan Dynasty?Do women really take gossip as their spiritual food?If Zhou Yu finds out about this, I wonder if his loyalty index will be reduced to a gray heart shape, and he will give me a "reward" instead?

Liu Xi cleared his throat and pretended to be regretful: "My male god has already left. Zhou Lang is like a wild crane in the clouds, and I can't find him. He doesn't care about rewards at all, but because he has a fate with me, he can't find him." Will enter the palace to save me."

After finally telling a lie to dissuade the whole table from wanting to see Zhou Yu, Liu Xi wiped off his sweat, chatted with the three high-ranking women for a while, and then went back to the palaces.

Tonight is destined to be a night full of news, and it is estimated that soon someone will know that the emperor has recovered, and suddenly deal with King Zhongshan.There must be someone spying on this matter secretly, and it's time for those ghosts and monsters hiding in the dark to come out and move around.

Liu Xi returned to Weiyang Palace with a little complacency, but Zhao Yun said in surprise the moment he entered the palace: "Great Governor?"

"Male god?!" Liu Xi opened his mouth wide, pointing at Zhou Yu who was standing with his back to him, three words suddenly popped into his head.

Today's newspaper.