Jiang Qing

"Your Majesty, when the chess game is over, don't be merciful." Bai Bingchen walked to his side, looked at Zhao Zhen seriously, put his hand on his shoulder, and said, "Your Majesty's shoulders are never just the life of one person." .”

"When His Majesty ascended the throne, I knew that there was no cure for the poisoning, and I made an agreement with Your Majesty. How could Your Majesty go back on his word?"

His voice is as gentle as ever, just like when Zhao Zhen first studied political affairs, no matter how complicated the problems and dilemmas, he was so humble and gentle, but with an unswerving attitude, he persuaded bit by bit Zhao Zhen allowed him to maintain a calm and stable heart when he was fighting for the reserve position.

But now that such words fell into his ears, he was convincing himself to kill him.

"But...Mei Shao is back, I thought..."

Zhao Zhen buried his face deeply in his hands, and the words he said were no longer in words.

"Using the death of the minister to lead out the people behind it is something that your majesty and the minister have discussed in the morning. It's just that your majesty agreed to the minister, but in private, he wanted to let Chongjin come back, rely on him to create turmoil, and let him go to the court for the minister. Die." Bai Bingchen's eyes wandered, revealing Zhao Zhen's thoughts little by little.

"But your majesty didn't expect that the minister would rather get rid of the poison than block your majesty's way, and your majesty didn't expect that he is the beloved of the minister. Because he is the beloved of the minister, your majesty will never attack him again. At this moment, His Majesty has really accepted the news that the subject will die, right?"

Zhao Zhen can't describe how there is such a gentle and cruel person like Bai Bingchen in this world. He can see through everything you want to do, and is willing to coax you and take care of your feelings, but he never puts this gentleness on himself For a moment, being gentle to others but being cruel to himself, this kind of tension split him apart, making it hard for people to see his true appearance.

Even, Zhao Zhen felt that the expression on Bai Bingchen's face when he said that he wanted to lock Mei Shao up was much more real than the milder him now.

"Really...is there no other way?"

What Zhao Zhen said while holding back his tears was asking Bai Bingchen, and even more so, himself.

As the king of a country, he is really useless, he can't get rid of the young people, and he can't protect the loyal people.But in this world, even an emperor like him can't think of other ways, and who can tell him how to go on this road.

"Your Majesty knows in his heart that Li Guo has a secret, a secret that will only be known after generations of emperors ascended the throne. At the beginning of the founding of the country, the 300-year lifespan of the Li country that the gentleman said was not groundless. Now it is at the 300-year mark, Your Majesty I know that the rise and fall of the Li country may really be determined by this."

At the beginning of the founding of the country, Mr. Li said that he could keep the country prosperous for 300 years. In fact, after the reign of Emperor Mu Lie, the country suffered from frequent natural disasters and visions.The next few Fudige cabinet ministers were not as grand and powerful as the ones selected earlier. Li Guo only looked tough on the outside, but was exhausted from generation to generation until it passed into the hands of Zhao Zhen.

And within three years of Zhao Zhen's ascension to the throne, strange flowers appeared out of solar terms, and words of great rebellion in Yishi's scriptures, all these were suppressed by Zhao Zhen, so they did not cause panic among the people and internal turmoil.

But it was this superficial peace that Zhao Zhen and Bai Bingchen worked hard to achieve.

Sometimes, Zhao Zhen even felt that he was not fighting with traitors inside and enemies outside, but was fighting for a chance with the legendary god and the illusory fate.

Zhao Zhen's suppressed voice gradually subsided, and he slowly raised his head, there were still tears in his reddish eyes, but his mood was much calmer.

"Sometimes, I really hope that the series of accidents and changes among the people are just coincidences, and it's just Bai Qing and Bai Qing's carelessness."

"I also hope so. The illusory things shouldn't exist in the world, but if they are true, we have no other way but to completely destroy the source of this miracle, and destroy the entire Fudi Pavilion, including the minister." Bai Bingchen Qingqian With a smile, he comforted: "However, whether it is real monsters or ghosts, or someone pretending to be a ghost, we will soon know. This time when I returned to the capital, I met an old man who sued Benzhou for invading the land, and Zhang Xiang seems to be inextricably linked. relation."

"Bai Qing means that Zhang Xianghui is the person behind the Anxiang Pavilion?" Zhao Zhen seemed to see hope, and his decadent look faded a bit.

"Whether it is true or not, you can find out at once." Bai Bingchen tapped his finger lightly and landed on a memorial in front of Zhao Zhen's case, saying: "This chess move has been buried for three years, and now it can be used by Your Majesty."

"I implore Your Majesty to issue an order to order the Minister of Industry and the Minister of Households to jointly handle the water transportation along the river this autumn."

In the past, when taxes were collected in autumn, the tax on water transport along the river would be collected by a servant from the Ministry of Households or the Ministry of Industry. Now, Bai Bingchen asked him to send two ministers, both of whom were Zhang Jiudai. confidant.

"If the person behind it is really Zhang Xiang, he will definitely not agree with you to transfer his two confidantes away after you return to the capital. When you were not in the capital, he tried his best to suppress your subordinates. Don't you know that you are doing this to take advantage of it?" He doesn't have enough subordinates to suppress his power?" Zhao Zhen glanced at the name pointed at by Bai Bingchen, and he knew it.

"I will let him feel at ease to send the two ministers abroad." Bai Bingchen's mouth raised a smile that was inevitable, "I won't stay in Pingdu for long."

"Are you going to give up the power in the capital?" Zhao Zhen was a little surprised by his choice.

"The power in the capital has been stalemate for a long time, and it has been difficult to distinguish between top and bottom. Maybe in other places, we can win a little life. Besides, Zhang Xiang now feels that his ministers are weak, so it might as well make him feel that my power is even weaker, which is convenient. He didn't have any fear when he started."

"Bai Qing means..."

"If you want to take it, you must give it first. Since he wants this monstrous power, then I will grant his wish." Bai Bingchen's eyes burst out with a trace of ruthlessness, and he smiled faintly, as if It was mocking Zhang Jiudai.

Zhao Zhen smiled wryly, and said: "Actually, you have already planned everything out, just waiting for me to speak, but it seems that I...forget it, how can I persuade you, where are you going?"

"Northern Yanzhou." Bai Bingchen told him everything he had been thinking about for a long time, "Your Majesty remembers letting a group of palace servants go out when he first took the throne."

"Yes." Mentioning this past incident, Zhao Zhen's expression could not hide the fluctuation, "Since what happened to Zijin, I have released a group of old people who have been in the palace for a long time."

When the first emperor left, the last person he saw was Bai Bingchen, and it was he who read out the last edict.It's just that King Jing got the news in advance, betrayed Pingdu, and took away half of the officials in the court. .

King Jing led troops to garrison outside the city of Pingdu. The army oppressed and the court was chaotic. Zhao Zhen took care and entrusted his younger sister Zhao Jingning to the care of Taoist Qingxuan of Luofengzhai, but found that Bai Zijin was missing.

Immediately, King Jing sent Bai Zijin's ornaments, and threatened him to tear up the edict, give up the imperial city, and knelt down to welcome King Jing to the throne.

At the critical juncture, it was Bai Bingchen who persuaded Zhao Zhen. After talking with the envoy sent by King Jing, and planning for Zhao Zhen's funeral, he followed the envoy into King Jing's tent to inquire about Bai Zijin's whereabouts and delay time.

Unexpectedly, Bai Bingchen had only been in King Jing's tent for a day, and Bai Zijin returned to Pingdu with the head of the leader of the rebel army.

It turned out that when King Jing rebelled from Pingdu, one of the troops stationed in Pingdu wanted to open the city gate from the inside. After being discovered by Bai Zijin, he led the defense army in the palace to chase them out. Annihilation before.

Before leaving the capital, Bai Zijin deliberately left his token with the palace man close to him, and asked him to tell Zhao Zhen about the matter. Who knew that the palace man was King Jing's eyeliner, so he turned around and tried to trick Zhao Zhen into letting him go. throne.

Knowing that Bai Bingchen had entered the tiger's mouth, Bai Zijin, who had not yet removed his armor, was about to lead the army to rescue him, but was stopped by Zhao Zhen.

Bai Bingchen entered the camp not only to find out Bai Zijin's whereabouts, but also to try to delay the time so that Zhao Zhen could ascend the throne smoothly.

Before leaving, Bai Bingchen had already invited Uncle Qinyuan to identify the imperial decree. After confirmation, Zhao Zhen should immediately receive the decree to ascend the throne, stabilize the situation in the capital, and at the same time spread the mansion to report to the military lords who are waiting around, asking them to come and protect him in the name of orthodoxy Qin Wang.

Although the enthronement ceremony was kept simple, the queen Bai Zijin was indeed indispensable. If she rushed out to save people at this time, the enthronement ceremony could not proceed smoothly.

Under these two difficult situations, Zhao Zhen suppressed Bai Zijin who was about to leave the palace, and under her resentful and regretful eyes, escorted her to the position of the middle palace.

Afterwards, Bai Bingchen drank poisonous wine in King Jing's tent, which crippled his legs, and there was an unbreakable gap between Zhao Zhen and Bai Zijin.

"At that time, both Your Majesty and the ministers were concerned with serving the inner servants. They felt that during the late Emperor's period, Ding Tao frequently entered and left the inner palace, and there must have been a lot of eyeliners left by him in the palace, and this was indeed proved in the case of King Jing. .” Bai Bingchen frowned in thought, and said slowly: “But I missed one thing by mistake.”

"After the Cangshan incident, the emperor knew that there was an old branch of the Mei family on the northern border, but because of his reputation, he wanted Mei Shao to be in command, but he only gave him the verbal order to mobilize the military power in the northern region, and asked him to conquer the two sides of the first rat. Jiang Guo, in fact, wanted to punish him and the former Mei family in Beidi for the crime of deceiving the emperor. The minister said that the border military power in Beidi should be returned to Zhenbeihou, and he elected the Meng family of the former emperor's mother's family as the hou, so as to cover up the matter past."

"Yanzhou Meng's family..." Zhao Zhen thought about it: "The Empress Dowager's ancestral home is Yanzhou, and the Meng family has been generals for generations. Wouldn't Bai Qing feel that they were related to this matter?"

He was obviously a bit hesitant, the late emperor didn't like him, even the situation in the palace with Zhao Jingning was difficult, but the Empress Dowager Meng really liked him as a junior, it's a pity that she left early, Zhao Zhen didn't have time to enjoy more family affection , and was beaten into a cold heart again.

Relying on this warmth alone, Zhao Zhen did not do anything to the Meng family after he ascended the throne. At this moment, he did not want the Meng family to really be a part of this dirty matter.

"Your Majesty, don't you always ask me what the late emperor said to me before he died? Taking this opportunity, if you go to Yanbei, you may be able to get the true meaning of what the late emperor said before he died."

Zhao Zhen was silent for a moment, then slightly nodded in agreement.

The last person the late emperor saw was Bai Bingchen. Over the years, no matter how Zhao Zhen asked him about the last words of the late emperor, he never said anything.

Obviously there was something hidden behind the late emperor's last words, but Bai Bingchen hadn't figured it out yet, and he had a temperament that would never open his mouth until he found out the matter. Sometimes, Zhao Zhen didn't know what to say that he was afraid that the incident would be ambiguous. Will it cause inconvenience to others, or he simply doesn't have anyone he can trust with all his heart.

"What about Mei Shao? Is he staying in Pingdu?" Zhao Zhen asked: "You said earlier that you wanted to find a job for him, so you must have already thought about it?"

"The city garrison in the capital does not have a serious commander now, and Zheng Yuan will take the position of commander. It is better to let Chongjin take this position to practice and practice."

"Zheng Shangshu came to tell me about this two days ago, saying that when his son wins the martial arts exam this autumn, he will let Zheng Yuanling train for the leader of the garrison army." Zhao Zhen's eyes Slightly squinting, with a hint of calculating.

"Heh." Bai Bingchen sneered, "I haven't got the fame yet, but I'm asking for an official position first. It seems that Zhang Xiang's subordinates are very busy during my absence in Pingdu."

"Yeah." Zhao Zhen sighed helplessly, leaned lazily on the seat, and sighed: "Bai Qing is not in the capital, I am about to be annoyed to death by those bad old men, I want to breathe It's really useless to use the emperor's uncle as a shield in one breath."

Bai Bingchen chuckled, rolled up the cuffs that were about to hang down into the inkstone for him, and said with a smile, "Your Majesty, please be patient. When I come back from Yanzhou, Prime Minister Zhang's tail should be almost exposed."

Zhao Zhen suddenly remembered something, leaned over and asked in a low voice: "Does your sister know about you and that kid from the Mei family?"

Unexpectedly, Zhao Zhen suddenly became unserious, Bai Bingchen was stunned for a moment, and replied: "It should be...... I don't know."

"Is the Mei family boy interested in you?"

"..."

"No way." Zhao Zhen smiled mischievously, "Our Bai Qing has fallen in love with a lot of people in the girl's dream, but he is just a swordsman and gun. Why, how dare you look down on you?"

"Your Majesty, be careful, the Empress is also a wielder of knives and guns." Bai Bingchen choked him, and then added seriously: "In terms of appearance, it is true that he is more prosperous."

"Tsk." Zhao Zhen glanced at him contemptuously, and said silently: "If you had half the effort I did in chasing your sister back then, you wouldn't be able to just think about it here."

"Your Majesty is saying that he crawled on the wall of the White Mansion to spy on Sister's sword practice, and was beaten down by her dozens of times?" Bai Bingchen glanced back at him coolly.

Knowing that he couldn't say anything about him, Zhao Zhen was a little bored, and murmured: "He also has a good skin, maybe he likes delicate women? It's too late for us Bai Qing to learn embroidery now. What if he What I like is men, and those who can draw beauties like King Xie En may be able to catch his eyes, but our Bai Qing seems to only be able to draw some seals on paper, what should we do?"

It was rare for Zhao Zhen to grasp Bai Bingchen's weakness, and he seemed to be weighing the pros and cons for him regretfully, wishing that all the revenge he had beaten from the ruler in the past would be avenged at this moment, so he had no scruples, just kept talking nonsense, and didn't catch a glimpse of Bai Bingchen. Bai Bingchen's face gradually turned cold.

"Although King Xie En has been staying at Prince Sheng's mansion these days, Bai Qing thinks that Mei Shao is back, will King Xie En go out to meet him?"

This room, Zhao Zhen was still fanning the flames, not noticing that Bai Bingchen was slightly startled, as if he had caught some information, his eyes became more and more thoughtful.

Bai Bingchen actually didn't reply any more, he just saluted silently and was about to step back.

Seeing this, Zhao Zhen secretly felt that he had won, and as soon as he squinted his eyes and waved his hand, he saw Bai Bingchen pause, and said in a gentle voice that Zhao Zhen was very familiar with: "I remembered that when I entered the palace just now, there were many officials from all over the world outside. The memorial will be sent to His Majesty for review later by the servants."

"Also, the minister will send someone to inform the Empress that His Majesty is obsessed with political affairs tonight and needs to be served by the Central Palace."

The author says:

Zhao Zhen: The second most painful thing in the world is that the teacher who taught you comes back to give you homework

Me: What was the first painful thing?

Zhao Zhen: He wants your wife to watch you stay up late and do your homework