How did the Michong Emperor succeed in eating chicken?

They already knew it, and they were all insinuating in their hearts that he was really an idiot who only knew how to have fun.

The regent reminded the little emperor: "Your Majesty, it's time to start."

The little emperor quickly put down his hand, coughed lightly, and whispered to the eunuch, "That, big companion."

The chief eunuch understood, and immediately stood up straight facing all the officials: "Go up to court!"

The courtiers below knelt down and shouted: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live!" But the voice was uneven and not loud.

The little emperor didn't care about this, and he still had a good temper: "All my loves, let's live in peace."

Throughout the early dynasty, the little emperor didn't say a few words at all, and the whole process was almost done by the regent's decisions on those ministers.The little emperor didn't know how to solve the matters they raised, so he simply shut up and handed over the power to the regent.

After the early court, the little emperor and the regent left first, leaving those ministers and workers in the hall.

The ministers of the old school got together and told each other what they thought was wrong with the little emperor. They should let the little emperor choose a concubine as soon as possible and have more dragon heirs.

The ministers of the new school stood aside, watching the old ministers whispering coldly.

The neutral ministers only care about how to assist the little emperor so that he can take power as soon as possible.

The right minister, the head of the old school, did not participate in the discussions of the other ministers of the old school. He looked at the dragon chair in front of him, and an idea slowly rose from his heart.

The little emperor sat on the chariot and was shaken into a drowsy state.He didn't sleep almost all night last night, and he didn't feel sleepy when he stayed up late, but after the morning, he felt sleepy, and he didn't want to do anything, he just wanted to sleep.

He hesitated for a long time sitting on the chair in the imperial study, and then looked at the regent who was reviewing the memorial at the table over there. He was still embarrassed to say that he wanted to sleep, so he asked the eunuch to make a pot of strong tea for himself, and held on Focus on reading the book that Xie Shoufu sent him to read yesterday afternoon.

After flipping through a few pages, the little emperor barely knew what was said in the book at the beginning, then he could distinguish what each word was, and finally couldn't even distinguish the words.He was so sleepy that he couldn't help nodding and almost fell off the dragon chair.

In order to keep himself awake, he decided to talk to the regent about the northwest.

Yu Guang, the regent, saw that the little emperor was sleepy, and he wanted to say that if he was really sleepy, he should go to rest and rest, and he didn't need to push himself, since he didn't do anything here anyway.Unexpectedly, he suddenly heard the little emperor calling him: "Prince Regent."

"What is your majesty calling for?" The regent looked up at the little emperor.

"I want to talk to you about one thing." The little emperor put his arms on the desk and said with his face in his hands.

The regent put down the memorial in his hand: "Please speak, Your Majesty."

The little emperor said: "I want you to clean up the northwest."

"Northwest?" The Regent was a little puzzled, "Why does Your Majesty suddenly want to regulate the Northwest?"

The little emperor didn't answer his question, but instead asked him: "Has the Regent been to the Northwest?"

The regent replied: "I was in the north before, and I have been in the capital in recent years. I have never been to the northwest."

The little emperor said: "I have been there."

Without waiting for the regent to speak, the little emperor continued: "I saw vegetarian meals on corpses in the northwest, I saw the people living in dire straits, and I saw my officials in Dayuan bowing their knees to the people of the Western Regions."

There was no trace of anger in the little emperor's tone, he was calm as if he was stating something inconsequential like the nice weather today, but the regent felt the little emperor's anger inexplicably.

He has always been aware that Dayuan is now at the end of its strength. Although the first emperor cannot be said to be insane, he is not a wise emperor. live forever.He is also aware of the fact that local officials do nothing while they are in office.But he didn't expect that Northwest officials would bow down to people from the Western Regions.

He didn't doubt the little emperor's words, because the little emperor didn't need to lie.Even if he wanted to take the opportunity to get rid of some officials, he wouldn't use such an easily debunked charge.

The Regent said seriously, "Can Your Majesty elaborate?"

The little emperor sighed, and said: "I just learned from the people at that time that local officials often ordered grain shops to hand over grain, which caused a huge increase in local grain prices. The people have no money, so they have to pay taxes and pay taxes. I want to buy food. But after paying the tax, the remaining money can’t even afford a week’s worth of rice for a family of three. There are rich people in silk and satin who give out porridge. I think the porridge is rice soup with a few grains of rice , is no different from white water. But if you don’t drink this porridge, you won’t have anything else to eat. Some people have already started to eat bark. The harvested food was handed over to the people of the Western Regions by local officials.”

"When did His Majesty go to Suzhou?"

"Three months ago. I just returned to the capital the day before the late emperor passed away. It was April when I arrived in Suzhou."

"Does the emperor know how long Suzhou has been like this?"

The little emperor thought for a while and said, "The people say it has been two years."

The regent's heart was shocked, and the court had not received any relevant memorials for two full years.And the imperial court never sent anyone to inspect the northwest.Probably in the eyes of the Chinese and military officials, the Western Regions are still the Western Regions that succumb to the deterrence of the great abyss and dare not invade.Although he has been guarding against the Western Regions all the time, he never thought that it was officials at all levels in the Northwest who were colluding to deceive the upper and lower and open the door for the people of the Western Regions.

The regent already had some calculations in his mind, so he stopped asking the little emperor, and only said: "I will try my best to find out about this matter."

Seeing his answer, the little emperor felt relieved, and added, "The generals and garrisons in the northwest also check." Then he took a sip of strong tea and continued to read the book.

Three minutes later, the regent felt that the surroundings were a little strangely quiet, and when he looked up, the little emperor had already fallen asleep lying on the desk.The book was placed under the head of the little emperor, and the saliva flowed down the corner of his mouth onto the book.

Regent:……

He looked at the pouting mouth of the little emperor who was being squeezed, couldn't help but walked over and squeezed it with his hands, and then let go after the little emperor grunted in dissatisfaction.

He stood next to the little emperor for a while, then called the eunuch and asked him to get the little emperor to sleep on the couch in the imperial study.

It was almost three o'clock when the little emperor woke up, and it was almost time for him to have dinner.The little emperor came out of the inner room rubbing his eyes, and saw the regent sitting in front of the case reading the memorial.Thinking that I didn't do anything other than go to the morning court, and others would work and sleep by themselves, I felt a little bit sorry.

The regent turned his head when he heard the movement, and saw the little emperor who was blushing in sleep, and gently hooked the corners of his mouth: "Your Majesty is awake?"

The little emperor gave an embarrassing hum, and then said to him: "Dinner will be served soon. The regent might as well stay in the palace and finish his dinner before returning home."

The Regent agreed.

When Ming Yi received the Prince Regent at the gate of the palace, he found that his prince seemed to be in a good mood today, with a slight upward curve on the corner of his mouth.

Mingyi said, "My lord, you are in a good mood today."

The regent nodded.

He couldn't help laughing when he thought of the little emperor who ate his mouth full of sesame seeds for dinner just now.Thinking of the little emperor who was drooling in sleep and his soft lips, he felt even better.He is exhausted on weekdays and often feels irritable.But staying with the little emperor these two days, he felt a lot more relaxed.

Then he thought that the little emperor was the person he should be wary of, and immediately put away his smile, blaming himself for letting his guard down on the person he should be wary of.

The next day, the regent woke up half an hour earlier than usual, asked his maid to clean his face, found a new tiara to wear, and prepared to go to the morning court.

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Regent: I think the emperor wants to mess with me, so I have to beware of him.But he is so cute, and I unconsciously stop being wary of him, what to do, I am so entangled...

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5. Chapter 5

As he sat at the table for breakfast, the Regent suddenly wondered why he had to get up so early to mess around with the things he had always cared about the least.

After breakfast, he went back to his bedroom and took a look at the half-new tiara that he had been wearing before, and attributed this behavior to the fact that the previous tiara was old, and he wanted to replace it with a new one.Then he took a firm step and got on the carriage entering the palace.

The little emperor was not a person who liked to get up early. When he was an idle prince, he would sleep until the sun was high before getting up.Now that I am an emperor, I have to get up early every day.He was able to get up on the first and second day because he couldn't sleep well because of something in his heart, so he woke up easily.But last night, he had nothing to worry about and slept deeply, so he resisted getting up early today.The eunuch called him for a long time before he opened his eyes in a daze.

The eyes are opened, but the consciousness is still not clear.The moment the big eunuch turned around and took the dragon robe, the little emperor fell into a deep sleep again.Before falling asleep again, he was still thinking that the regent must take over the throne as soon as possible.

The final result was that the little emperor was late for the court, and all the civil and military officials waited for him in the hall for half a quarter of an hour.

The regent listened to the little emperor's heavy panting and the occasional whispers from below, waited for the little emperor's breathing to calm down, and then coughed twice.

All the officials discussing below fell silent instantly.

After all the officials had finished playing the matter, the regent called out: "Marquis Wuchang."

Marquis Wuchang hurriedly came out: "The minister is here." Marquis Wuchang is the commander-in-chief of the Northwest Garrison, and he will return to Beijing this month to report on his duties. When it comes to the situation in the Northwest, he is the only one who knows the best in the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty.

The Regent asked: "What is the current situation in the Northwest?"

The Marquis of Wuchang thumped in his heart. He didn't know why the regent suddenly asked about Northwest.He lowered his head and replied: "Return to Your Highness, everything is fine in the northwest."

The regent nodded and didn't ask any more questions.

The eunuch sees that no one speaks anymore