Reincarnation of the powerful minister

The prince couldn't answer.

The ending sound was still trembling in the hall. This screaming question seemed to consume all the energy of Su Yan, who had not slept all night, and he leaned back on the back of the chair tiredly.

There was a brief silence, and the hall was silent, only the slight sound of broken pieces of porcelain falling on the masonry floor from the flesh and blood removed.

After Shen Qi treated the wound on Su Yan's hand, she sprinkled the hemostatic powder.Zhu Helin tore another strip of clean cloth from his inner garment and bandaged it up for him.

Su Yan breathed out a long breath, and said in a low voice: "I lost my temper... Now is not the time to care about personal relationships. Please leave immediately and return to Beijing. If you are late, you may face irreversible consequences."

Zhu Helin felt very uncomfortable, thinking of his father, who may be critically ill and whose condition is unknown; thinking of the secret plots in the deep palace and the turbulent court hall; thinking of the fighting and scrambling around the supreme dragon chair; thinking of the wind and rain, the darkness and darkness The future - his own, Da Ming's.

He didn't know what he could do, but one thing was very clear - he couldn't die, Su Yan couldn't die, those who supported him, supported him, and entrusted his wealth and life to him, couldn't die!

"I want to go back to Beijing, let's go immediately!" Zhu Helin announced decisively, "Run day and night, hurry back in the shortest time!"

He said to Su Yan: "Qinghe, follow me!"

Su Yan said: "I am the left servant of the Ministry of Rites in Nanjing. If I leave my post without following the order..."

He hesitated a little, and his other good hand was held.

"You often say it yourself, you should act in a hurry." Shen Qi half squatted in front of him, holding the back of his hand, "However, the decision is up to you. If you don't leave, I will stay here with you. Anyway, Xiaoling The army outside is enough to escort the prince back to Beijing."

Su Yan looked down at his hands, the nails were full of dried blood, which proved that he had just gone through the battle, couldn't help his nose sore, and turned his palms to hold him tightly.

"...I'll go back to Beijing too." Su Yan made up his mind, "At this point, our fate has been tied to the crown prince. If something happens to the crown prince, we will not be able to escape unscathed. Therefore, we must live together, and we must die. Die together."

No matter how heavy Zhu Helin's heart was, he couldn't help snorting, and muttered: "Who wants to die with him... No, it's us who will be fine. As for him, love is as far away as possible!"

It's all this time, why can't we still abandon our prejudices and work together to tide over the difficulties!Su Yan sighed helplessly, and said, "Commander Mei, please come in. The four of us discussed the fastest route back to Beijing."

Mei Changxi entered the hall with a map.Spread the map on the table, and four people gather around the table to look at it and discuss it.

"The fastest way is to go to Caohe."

"There is a problem. The river has swelled due to heavy rain for days, and the risk of shipwreck has greatly increased."

"There are three thousand Xiaoling Guards, and there are not enough tank boats, so there is no time to deploy them."

"Take the road, prepare dry food, try not to bring luggage, and travel eight hundred miles every day! Mei Tsai, can your people do it?"

"Okay! My soldiers plowed the field and returned to the plowed field, but they didn't relax their training at all!"

"One more thing. Although those Qingzhou troops were killed by me, there is no guarantee that they will not have more backup. They will chase and intercept us along the way. We must always be vigilant and prepare for battle."

"Yes! Caohe is going too. It's best to divide the troops into several groups and use the suspect army to cover the main army." Su Yan doesn't like to put all eggs in one basket, "Young master is also, the key is to prepare a few more sets of prince's robes." Moment may be used to escape the shell of the golden cicada."

"Look here, I am familiar with this place, there is a shortcut..."

In the Palace of Compassion and Ning, the Empress Dowager held two imperial edicts and fell into a long pondering.

The emperor almost fell into a coma for six or seven hours every day. When he woke up, he had a splitting headache but still managed to endure it. Even an old doctor like Chen Shiyu, who was used to life and death, couldn't bear it, and would rather him continue to sleep.

The decoction has been changed from promoting blood circulation and dredging collaterals to aiding sleep and analgesia, and acupuncture and moxibustion have also been discontinued.Sometimes Chen Shiyu even felt that his various treatments were useless, and it was his own extremely tenacious willpower and extremely firm belief that kept the emperor going.

The Empress Dowager was disheartened and seemed to have accepted the fact that she was about to lose a son.But in the cold ashes, a secret, eager, and contradictory light ignited faintly, entangled in her heart like a fiery snake.

——So she rejected Chen Shiyu's request to try a craniotomy.

"I want you to make sure everything is safe. If you can't, how can you cut the body of the emperor's dragon? Don't kill your life instead!" said the Queen Mother.

Chen Shiyu couldn't be sure.He wasn't even [-]% sure.But you can't say to the Queen Mother that "a dead horse is treated as a living horse doctor", and you can only give up in the end.

——So she intercepted the imperial edict written by the emperor when he was sober and sent to the cabinet.

The Empress Dowager lowered her head and stared at the line "Eldest son, Crown Prince He Lin, benevolent, filial, intelligent, virtuous and natural, suitable to be the emperor" on the edict, her fingernails almost pierced the silk brocade.

She was alone in the hall, and the palace people were kicked out, even Qiong Gu was not allowed to come in.The queen mother is hesitating, struggling, and making the most difficult choice in her life.

Until she heard a child's voice from the gate of the hall:

"Grandma, I can recognize many characters and read poems! The teachers all praised me for reading well, so I recited it to Grandma——

"It is because of thousands of mountains and inks from the bottom of the sea that we have reached the Ming Dynasty in Zhongtian. Persevere in this ambition to achieve eternal ambition, and win all battles to achieve peace."

No one dared to stop the second prince.Zhu Hezhao walked into the hall while reciting poems. He was a small person, wearing a dragon robe and a jade crown, and he walked with restraint.

The Empress Dowager put down the imperial edict, beckoned him over, and asked, "Who taught you to recite this poem?"

"Ms. Jiao. But I couldn't memorize it at that time. I can recite it now, but Mr. Jiao is gone." Zhu Hezhao said.

The queen mother asked softly, "Do you know whose poem this is?"

Zhu Hezhao shook his head.

"This is a poem co-written by emperors of two generations. The first two sentences, 'A thousand mountains and ink from the bottom of the sea, only to reach the Ming Dynasty in the sky', come from Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin. After he finished the first two sentences, he couldn't write anymore. No one dared to answer it, saying that the emperor came from the paper. It was not until 400 years later that I, the Emperor Taizu, answered the following two sentences, "Persisting in this ambition will lead to eternal ambition, and a hundred battles will lead to peace". Son, do you know the meaning of this verse?"

"Teacher Jiao seems to have said that... it means to be a good emperor?"

The queen mother smiled, stroking his immature and intelligent eyebrows and eyes: "Yes, that's what it means. Zhao'er, please thank your teacher Jiao who has been demoted!"

Zhu Hezhao thought for a while, and made a dignified bow towards the gate of the palace.

The queen mother got up, walked to the side of the charcoal basin, and threw the two copies of the imperial edict into the flames without hesitation.

"Aunt Qiong!" she called out loudly.

Aunt Qiong stepped into the hall quickly: "What orders does the Empress Dowager have?"

"Go and call Lan Xi and ask him to bring the jade seal. If he has any objections, he will be killed on the spot, and someone else will be the palm print eunuch." The Queen Mother's tone revealed blood.

Qiong Gu's heart trembled, she lowered her head and said, "Yes."

"After the new edict is written, don't send it to the cabinet, so as not to have long nights and dreams. Wait until... before the big line."

The word "Daxing" made Aunt Qiong's legs weak, so she could only bow down more deeply: "Yes."

"Also, send someone to watch Prince Yu, and not allow him to leave the palace. The reason... Didn't he say that he is busy accepting the side concubine recently, and spreading his branches and leaves? Then carefully select the beauties and talents in the mansion, and don't come out everywhere. rock."

"Yes."

The queen mother thought for a while, and then asked: "Is there any news from the Qingzhou Army?"

"Not yet. Even if it is successful, it will take half a month for the news to reach Beijing."

The Empress Dowager said: "I hope that the son of the Zhang family will be more knowledgeable, take the decree of the abolished prince, go to Lingnan honestly, and live the rest of his life in peace. After all, he is bleeding half of the blood, and I don't want to kill it all."

Aunt Qiong said: "The Empress Dowager is merciful."

The Empress Dowager did not waver at this moment, and when she turned around, she saw that Zhu Hezhao was still there, listening in a daze, so she asked with a smile, "What did Zhao'er understand?"

Zhu Hezhao thought for a while, then shook his head: "I don't understand."

"It's okay if you don't understand, grandma will help you. You sit in front, and grandma will sit behind you to cheer you up, okay?"

Of course Zhu Hezhao liked her company, so he nodded and said, "Okay."

The Queen Mother laughed.

Before Qionggu got up to leave, she thought of one thing and reported again: "There is a military matter, the two elders in the cabinet couldn't make up their minds, so they came to ask the emperor what he wanted, but they were stopped by the servants outside the Hall of Mental Cultivation, and they were temporarily persuaded to leave. gone."

"What military affairs?" asked the Queen Mother.

"Tatars and Oirats have been fighting more and more recently. Tatars were killed because the Taishi Tuohuotai conspired to rebel, and no one could resist the Oarat army. Therefore, the mother of the Tatar Khan King sent a messenger to ask for help. Said What……"

Qionggu recalled: "Oh, he said that he would join hands with us to fight against the Oirat 'Holy Khan' Altan. Don't let it become bigger blindly, otherwise it will become a disaster for the Great Ming."

The Queen Mother sneered and said, "Tartar? They harass our Daming border every year, and now they have the face to talk about forming an alliance? Send the messenger back to me and say, 'Daming can't help the internal affairs of the various tribes in the Northern Desert'!"

Aunt Qiong hesitated: "Do you want to...ask the emperor after he wakes up? After all, the emperor has always been the emperor—"

The queen mother slapped the table hard, and said angrily: "The emperor is so ill now, you still want to bother him with government affairs? Isn't 'Alliance with Wala, fight against Tatars' always the emperor's strategy for dealing with Beimo? Is there anything wrong with making a decision based on the emperor's established strategy?"

Aunt Qiong pleaded guilty on her knees, repeatedly saying she didn't dare, secretly hating herself for talking too much and crossing the line.

She went to the Supervisor of Ceremonies to summon Lan Xi, and told him to bring the jade seal to the Palace of Compassion and Ning, and to convey the Queen Mother's refusal to the Tatars' request for help to the cabinet in the form of "Zhu Zhu's ghostwriting", and it must be said that it was the emperor's. mean.

Because the queen mother didn't want to be known by the courtiers, the emperor was no longer able to govern, and now she was the one who really made up her mind.

When Lan Xi heard this, she was surprised and said: "However, when our family was serving the emperor to approve the memorials a while ago, he once heard the emperor said that he wanted to join forces with the Tatar's 'Lioness Ke Dun'——"

Aunt Qiong interrupted him: "Eunuch Lan! Do you mean that the Queen Mother is stupid and made a wrong decision? Or is it that the Emperor is stupid and changes the order?"

Under the eaves, Lan Xiren had no choice but to bow his head, repeatedly pleading guilty, "Don't dare".

Qionggu eased her tone and said: "The emperor is wise, and the queen mother is also wise. Military and state affairs are decided by wise people, so what do you have to do with us slaves? Talk too much to make trouble!"

Lan Xi sighed: "I'm usually the one who persuades others. Now that the emperor is in such a situation... Alas, I was anxious and lost my sense of proportion. Aunt Qiong was right, we wait for slaves and only serve as slaves. Just follow orders."

Aunt Qiong nodded in satisfaction.

The route was determined, and the necessary supplies were quickly prepared. Under the escort of three thousand Xiaoling guards and five hundred Jin Yi guards, the prince embarked on the journey back to Beijing, traveling day and night.

There's a little trouble before we go.

Su Yan injured his right hand and could not hold the rein to control the horse, so he had to ride with others.

Zhu Helin was the first to say: "Let's take a ride with my master, my master is very good at equestrian skills."

Su Yan shook his head and was about to decline, when Mei Changxi said seriously: "No. The young master is the most important thing in this trip. One ride with two people will not only consume horsepower, but also affect the flexibility. In case of temporary changes, it will slow down the young master. Master's escape speed. I'm sorry Mei can't agree."

What he said made sense, although Zhu Helin felt very upset, he couldn't refute it.

Shen Qi said: "Qing He will ride with me, and I will protect him well."

Zhu Helin was even more unhappy now, and squinted at him: "Three thousand and five hundred people, you are the only one who has the ability? I think Mei Zai is better than you, or—"

Mei Changxi hastily interrupted: "Master, it's inconvenient for Mei to lead the whole guard, let alone riding with others."

Zhu Helin looked around resentfully, wanting to find someone who is capable but not ugly.

Su Yan couldn't bear it anymore, and pointed to his nose: "Is there anyone asking me what I want? I can't decide who I want to ride with?"

All three turned their eyes to him.

Zhu Helin: Look at me!

Shen Qi: Look at me!

Mei Changxi: Don't look at me!

With a straight face, Su Yan grabbed the rein with one hand and climbed onto the horse's back——

It's Shen Qi's horse.

With a green face, Zhu Helin gritted his teeth and muttered to Shen Qi: "I'll take care of you when I return to Beijing!" Turning on his horse, he galloped away with a whip.

Mei Changxi led the team to follow closely.

The five hundred brocade clothes guards that Shen Qi brought were broken.

Riding the horse, the strong wind hit his face, Su Yan leaned back in Shen Qi's arms amidst the bumps.

Shen Qi held the reins with one hand, and wrapped his arms around his waist with the other.

"One year and seven months..." Su Yan murmured, "Since last spring, when I left Beijing to go to Shaanxi, we haven't seen each other for a whole year and seven months."

Shen Qi's arms around his waist tightened tightly, forcibly suppressing the burning hunger - this hunger did not come from the stomach, but the projection of the hollowness in the soul that could not be appeased and comforted for a long time, on the body.

I was so hungry that I couldn't even say the word miss, and I didn't want to ask Su Yan if I miss, I just wanted to run to the ends of the earth, stop in a wild place, fuck him hard, fuck him to death .

He lowered his head sideways, grabbed Su Yan's neck from behind like a wolf, and breathed hot and urgently.

Su Yan's breathing also became rapid, and he felt something behind him against his tailbone, rubbing up and down as the horse's back bumped.

The whip was hung on the side of the saddle, Shen Qi reached into the skirt of her fellow passenger with her free hand, and held the other whip on the saddle.

Su Yan's whole body was hot and trembling, and his toes were tightly hooked into the stirrup.

"Qilang...I'm very worried, especially after you went to Henan," he said intermittently, panting in the wind, "the more worried I am, the more I can't see you in my dreams... For more than a year, you have appeared in my dreams The number of times in the..."

Shen Qi couldn't help biting his neck, and asked in a deep voice: "The few times you dreamed about me, what did you dream about?"

Long-lost tears welled up in his eyes, and Su Yan said: "Dreams of being with you are sometimes as short as a dream, and sometimes as long as a lifetime."