The predecessor who was scumbag by me was the emperor

Zhao Zhang did not go to the imperial study to deal with government affairs after retiring from the court. He knew that he would face even greater trouble today, which was his mother.

"The Empress Dowager is here..."

Zhao Zhang stopped and saw a long line of people coming from the other end of the corridor, and the one at the head dressed up was his mother, Empress Dowager Pu!

Carefully observe her expression, anxious with anger, it seems that a nephew died, her mood will not get better in the short term.

"The mother is safe and healthy." Zhao Zhang saluted.

Empress Dowager Pu is only in her early forties this year. She is well maintained and has a noble temperament, but her cold face all the year round makes her seem unapproachable.

"I heard that Pu Guogong was furious at the emperor this morning? He is your grandfather. He is very old. Don't you even have the minimum respect?" The queen mother reprimanded her.

Zhao Zhang has gotten used to her attitude towards him. He used to be her most beloved youngest son, but after the death of the prince, she forced all hopes on him, and the intimacy of the past disappeared instantly.

When he was in charge at the beginning, the Queen Mother even insisted on listening to the government behind the curtain. Later, a group of old officials knelt in the Palace of Compassion and Ning to stop her and made her give up this idea. I don't want my wife anymore.

"What did the queen mother hear? You only heard about my attack on Pu Guogong, but do you know how much trouble Pu Kunpeng has caused me when he went out this time? Corruption and bribery, disregard for human life, and taking away wives and daughters are all serious crimes of beheading." , I trust him to let him patrol the border on my behalf, but is that how he does things? You always say that I don’t give him a chance, I don’t give him real power, but I did, but what happened?” Zhao Zhang’s eyes were red with anger, The maids and eunuchs on both sides knelt down in unison.

The Empress Dowager Pu took a deep breath, and her tone was gentler, "Peng'er is at fault, but he is your cousin after all, your grandfather lost his son in middle age, just such a direct grandson, a white-haired man gave a black-haired man, How did he bear such a blow?"

Zhao Zhang wanted to say, which of the men and women killed by Pu Kunpeng had no parents or relatives?Which of them is not a white-haired person to send a black-haired person?He is so expensive, should others deserve to die?

But Zhao Zhang knew that the Queen Mother would not help relatives, otherwise he would not have allowed Pu Kunpeng to become lawless.

He sighed, "Pu's family still has bastards, although they are not as expensive as the first sons, but I see that Kun Yi Kundu and they are also good, at most, when this matter subsides in a few years, I will arrange something for them to do. What does the queen mother think?"

Empress Dowager Pu clasped her hands, glared at the emperor, and asked, "What about Peng'er? Did he just die for no reason?"

Zhao Zhang's eyes were deep, and he said in a bad tone: "What does the queen mother think? He is a sinner. If he dies, I will not pursue it. It is already based on the face of you and my grandfather. Do I need to order a reward?"

Empress Dowager Pu suggested: "Then make him a first-class Duke, then make Brother Tim the eldest son, and convict Commander Du of Shaanxi Province and Deputy Commander of the Imperial Forest Army for ineffective protection."

"Impossible!" Zhao Zhang said without doubt: "I will not agree to anyone else except the position of the son of the world! I still have official duties, so I will not send the queen mother away."

"you……"

Zhao Zhang turned and left, strolled around the imperial garden, met two concubines, and fled away under their ecstatic gazes.

Although he didn't like the concubines in the harem, he also knew that he was sorry for them and let them be locked up in the harem as widows at a very young age.

After entering the imperial study, Zhao Zhang had just sat down when he heard the announcement from Director Du, "Your Majesty, Concubine Ning is here, and she said she must see you, otherwise she will stay outside the door and will not leave."

Zhao Zhang rubbed his brows, he knew that after killing Pu Kunpeng, there would be a series of troubles, if it wasn't for Shen Jia, he originally planned to take a more gentle way to deal with this family.

"Let her in." Zhao Zhang knew that he couldn't escape from this side, but he didn't have the patience he had when dealing with Concubine Ning.

Concubine Ning rushed in, knelt on the ground and cried, "Your Majesty, you must be making decisions for your elder concubine, he died too unjustly."

Zhao Zhang asked with a dark face, "Where is his wrongdoing?"

Concubine Ning paused for a moment, she didn't know how to answer, in her opinion, the dignified Duke Pu Guo died outside in a daze, it must be planned by someone, if he really died on the bed, or died in the hands of the woman he snatched , then do you want the Pu family's reputation?

Concubine Ning cleared her mind, Lihua said rainingly: "Your Majesty, brother is patrolling the border for you. No matter what, he represents your face. If he died like this, wouldn't it be a blow to your face?"

"I didn't let him go out to bully men and women, embezzle and accept bribes. If you want to say slap in the face, Pu Kunpeng would have already humiliated me!"

"But your majesty, he is also your cousin!"

"I have no shortage of brothers." The emperor said coldly, back then, he could even kill his own brothers, so what is a cousin?

Concubine Ning's heart became cold when she heard what he said. Thinking about how he treated her indifferently in the past few years, she said indiscriminately: "Your Majesty, have you been dissatisfied with the Pu family for a long time? The concubine knows it, because The Empress Dowager is forcing you to marry me, you can't resist, although in the end the concubine only got the concubine position, but you must be dissatisfied, and your brother is ignorant, you have long wanted to punish him, now that he is dead, you Maybe I have to praise you for being dead. In the past few years, I have also seen clearly that you are not suffering from a hidden disease, but that you have something to belong to. Someone who can make you worry about but can't be brought into the palace must be something you can't ask for. Yes, hehe, I'm sorry that I still care about other concubines on weekdays, but I don't know that our enemy is not in the palace at all..."

Concubine Ning said a lot of things in one breath. She didn't dare to say them at first, but today she was stimulated by Zhao Zhang's attitude and blurted out. What is there to worry about?

"Presumptuous!" Zhao Zhang feels guilty towards the women in the harem, no matter whether they are willing to enter the palace or are forced to enter the palace, after entering the harem, they can only be widows in that square inch for the rest of their lives, Zhao Zhang It is impossible to remain indifferent, but that does not mean that they can freely express their dissatisfaction with themselves.

"Come here, send Concubine Ning back to the palace, be confined for three months, copy the palace rules a hundred times, and no one is allowed to visit her!"

Concubine Ning laughed wildly, "Cousin, I have liked you since I was a child, and I wanted to marry you wholeheartedly. Why did you change? Even if you lie to me."

Zhao Zhang turned his back to her, and didn't give her the desired reaction. He could indeed use sweet words to coax the concubines in the harem, and he could even be lucky with them, soaking in the rain and dew, or get a woman to come into the pepper room to be his special pet, but what's the point of these ?All he wanted from beginning to end was that person.

After dealing with Concubine Ning, Zhao Zhang finally calmed down and began to think about what to do next. It was easy to let Pu Kunpeng die, but it was difficult to liquidate the Pu family. He also had to consider the mood of his mother.

Although it is not without strong means, Zhao Zhang always softens his heart when dealing with his mother who gave birth to him.

Picking up a memorial, the content is to list the crimes of the Pu family. It seems that everyone has a tacit understanding and wants to take advantage of the death of the Pu family to wipe out the Pu family.

Abandoning the memorial, Zhao Zhang went to the bookshelf and picked up a historical book, sat by the window and read it. The more he read it, the more lonely he became, and he ordered loudly: "Come here, pass on the lectures of the Imperial Academy servants to accompany you in the palace."

Shen Jia didn't dare to delay after receiving the order, she sorted out the description and immediately entered the palace.

Walking all the way into the palace, the eunuchs in the palace walked very fast, Shen Jia strode to keep up, and after walking for a while, he was covered in sweat, so he couldn't complain.

Arriving outside the door of the imperial study room, Director Du was waiting at the door, and saw that Shen Jia seemed to have seen a savior, "Master Shen is here, the emperor is inside, you can go in quickly."

Shen Jia felt a little guilty, so she hurriedly asked in a low voice: "Director Du, what is the important matter of the emperor's call?"

"Our family doesn't know about it, but this morning, there was a lot of quarreling over Prince Pu's accidental death, and the Empress Dowager and Concubine Ning came to ask about it again. The emperor is probably a little upset."

Shen Jia entered the door with a heart, knelt in the middle of the hall without raising his head, saluted and greeted him, but did not hear a response for a long time, he raised his head slightly, wanting to see what Zhao Zhang was doing, but the dragon chair was empty, but the sound came from his ear A chuckle.

Shen Jia turned her head to look, and saw Zhao Zhang half lying on a beauty couch, the sunlight outside the window was just right, and his expression could not be seen clearly against the backlight, but being able to smile should mean that he was not in a bad mood.

He moved his knee and kowtowed to him again, scolding the etiquette system in his heart, and asked with a smile on his face when he raised his head, "Does the emperor want my minister to accompany you to read?" What Zhang was holding was an idle book, but just now he glanced at the desk and saw that there were piles of memorials, so he didn't know where he got the leisure to read the idle book.

"Although I said that I don't need to attend the palace every day for the lecturer, but it is still necessary to read for me occasionally to solve my doubts. Let's get down and read this book for me."

Shen Jia got up and walked over, took the book he handed over, glanced at it casually, and could see that it was an unofficial history, and it was about the romantic history of a certain emperor in the previous dynasty.

He stood aside with a book in his hand and began to read aloud. His voice was clear, his words were correct, and his figure was tall and straight. It was pleasing to the eye, and Zhao Zhang's disturbed mind gradually calmed down.

Shen Jia read more than a dozen pages. Out of the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of Zhao Zhang tilting his head and looking out the window. He didn't know where his mind had wandered, so he deliberately skipped over when he saw the blush, and only read the serious content.

After another quarter of an hour, Zhao Zhang came back to his senses, and asked indifferently: "You can't even read a book well, do you want to be an Imperial scholar?"

Shen Jia retorted: "I have learned Mandarin since I was a child, and my words are clear. Why can't I read it well?"

"Why didn't I read what I wanted to hear? Could it be that Mr. Shen deliberately fooled me?"

Shen Jia knelt down, after thinking for a while, she realized that what he was talking about was that she deliberately skipped those "wonderful" episodes, and slandered: "You old pervert!"Then he said righteously: "Reporting to the emperor, I don't want to fool the emperor, but feel that the content written is too obscene, and I'm afraid it will pollute the ears of the saint."

"Hmph, use your strong words to make sense, let's get back on your feet."

Shen Jia stood up, not knowing whether to continue reading, but after seeing Zhao Zhang stand up and walk back to the desk, he began to review the memorial without a single prompt.

Shen Jia could only keep up, thinking: I really use myself as a tonic, but being able to adjust the emperor's mood seems to be a matter of immeasurable merit.

The imperial study room was quiet, the emperor didn't like to be disturbed when he was reviewing the memorials, so the maids and eunuchs who served were all guarded outside the door. It's very harmonious to work and read a book.