After the rebirth, I became the darling of the tyrant

Since Xiao Tingshen defended Gu Chen in public, the hearts of the people in the court gradually fluctuated.

First, several veteran ministers submitted papers one after another, either saying that they were too old and frail to take on the important responsibilities of the court, and requested to be appointed; or they felt unwell recently and asked Xiao Tingshen for leave.

Then there was an official living in Shenjing who asked his family members to leave Shenjing. One day, Gu Chen ran into a family member of an official, carrying a large bag and leading the family, saying that he was going back to his hometown for a while.

Some people even secretly wrote a letter and sent someone to hand over Shenjing—after capturing Qi Qian, Gu Chen withdrew the closure of Shenjing, but the Jingying was still in charge of Shenjing's defense after all. When patrolling the gate of the city every day, Gu Chen would always see one or two people going out of town to deliver letters.

On a normal day, Xiao Tingshen would have been furious and ordered to wipe out these people, but this time he didn't say anything, instead he turned a blind eye and let the officials of the court under his nose All kinds of demons.But he himself is devoted to the front line. Apart from the booklets, the front-line military newspapers are the ones he reads most every day.

Gu Chen didn't understand why these officials did this, so he talked about this issue during a discussion with Jiang Chong.Jiang Chong wiped the sweat off his head and listened to Gu Chen finish speaking. He first stared at Gu Chen and laughed twice, and then showed the gossip look he showed when he was catching Qi Qian before.

"Because of you."

"I?"

"I heard that when the discussion was held in the study that day, Mr. Cai questioned the information you sent out. His Majesty didn't even hesitate at that time, and directly asked Mr. Cai to kowtow until his forehead bled." Jiang Chong wiped the bow in his hand and picked up a piece of paper. Root Feather Arrow put on the bowstring and posed towards the target, "Many people think that His Majesty is arbitrary, and they trust you too much."

Gu Chen was stunned: "How could..."

"Where is it?"

With a soft bang, Jiang Chong played an empty string.He continued to adjust the bow in his hand, and said with a smile, "You really don't think His Majesty favors you?" He turned his head to look at Gu Chen, and said jokingly, "I'm not frank, Mr. Gu."

Gu Chen: "..."

He stared at Jiang Chong for a while, then stepped forward suddenly, snatched the bow from his hand, and then set the arrow and drew the bow in one go, only to hear a whizzing sound and the feather arrow flew out like lightning, hitting the bull's-eye.

Holding the bow, he turned around and looked at Jiang Chong. Jiang Chong shrank his neck immediately: "Okay, okay, you are just classmates, Your Majesty has not favored you too much, so don't use me as a target..."

Gu Chen lowered his head and looked at the bow in his hand for a while, then suddenly said, "You really think so?"

"what?"

"Your Majesty... Your Majesty..." Gu Chen's ears were obviously red, and the word "favor" could not be said, but Jiang Chong was still a rough man, completely unaware of Gu Chen's embarrassment, and asked : "What? Your Majesty, what?"

"...Your Majesty trusts me."

"That's right." Jiang Chong said, "That's not trust, that's 'favor'. And it's not just me, many people think so... hey, where are you going?"

Before he finished speaking, Gu Chen put down the longbow in his hand, turned around and walked outside the school grounds.Hearing Jiang Chong yelling behind him, "Why are you going? If you are angry, I will just apologize to you."He turned his head and gestured "It's okay" to Jiang Chong, and said, "I want to go to the palace."

"What are you doing in the palace? Hey, you said you would compete with me, you can't let go with just one arrow, you're cheating!"

However, Gu Chen just waved his hand and quickened his pace across the school grounds—although it was still early, and it was not even morning time, he did have something to ask Xiao Tingshen... He wanted to talk to Xiao Tingshen about his "favor" .

In fact, recalling the day when Cai Min questioned him and Xiao Tingshen stood by him without hesitation, Gu Chen was really moved and happy in his heart.Moved by Xiao Tingshen without even the slightest hesitation, he never thought of doubting him; glad that Xiao Tingshen attaches great importance to the relationship between them, and sincerely defends him.

...But because of Xiao Tingshen's protection of him at the time, the hearts of the court were fluctuating. Many people probably had the same thoughts as Cai Min, thinking that Gu Chen sent false information, that Gu Chen was collaborating with the enemy, and that Shen Jing would soon be killed. I can't keep it.

Gu Chen pretended to be a demon concubine who harmed the country and the people and seduced the king's heart.

He sighed, feeling that he didn't expect things to develop like this.But after all, you can't sit idly by like this, otherwise, the hearts of the people will be scattered before the battle is over.All the ministers are panicked and have no intention of doing things... How can the court still function?

While thinking this way, he ran out from the school grounds, got on a horse, and headed towards the palace.Then he quickly walked through the long palace road, entered the Ganquan Palace, and saw the eunuch Wei Dequan at the door of the study.

"Master Gu."

"Eunuch Wei."

The two nodded to each other as usual, and Gu Chen asked, "Is Your Majesty there?"

"Your Majesty is in the study. Master Gu has something to do with His Majesty?"

Gu Chen nodded: "Please inform Eunuch Wei."

Before Wei Dequan opened his mouth to speak, there was a sudden commotion outside the palace, and the sound of small footsteps coming from far and near, was quickly running towards Ganquan Palace.Immediately afterwards, a postman rushed into the palace, carrying a slender bamboo tube on his back-this is the usual way of delivering front-line military reports.

Wei Dequan turned his gaze to him: "But the frontline military newspaper?"

"Exactly, exactly!" The postman was out of breath, and untied the bamboo tube from his back and handed it to Wei Dequan, "Great victory! General Yan attacked the rebel camp on the eve of the fourth day and led his army to defeat the rebels. Great victory!" Total victory!"

The study door was suddenly opened, and Xiao Tingshen came out.There were blue-black shadows under his eyes, and blue stubble appeared on his chin. It was obvious that he stayed up late last night.When he came out, he saw Gu Chen at first glance, and his eyes stayed on him for a moment, and then he turned to the postman: "Bring the military newspaper."

Wei Dequan on the side bowed and handed the bamboo tube to him, Xiao Tingshen unplugged it and took out a roll of silk cloth, unfolded it, glanced at it, then folded it casually, and threw it to Wei Dequan.

"Yan Sheng moved very quickly, it is not in vain that I value him highly."

Counting from the day when Gu Chen caught the traitor, it has only been about four days now.Yan Sheng was indeed lightning fast. In such a short period of time, he not only defended Xiangping, but also attacked from inside and outside with Jiyang reinforcements, beating Wang Yongke to the ground and fleeing.

Xiao Tingshen turned to the postman: "Wang Yongke ran away?"

"Yes." The postman lowered his head and replied, "Wang Yongke led the remnants of the defeated generals and fled. General Yan has already led people to chase him."

"How are the casualties?"

"It's okay." The man said, "the rebel army totaled 15, annihilating 5 people, and the rest surrendered. When Wang Yongke fled, there were only a thousand people left around him. We injured more than [-] people and died a total of [-] people." More than [-] people, with a total of more than [-] casualties."

He paused, and continued to report: "After the general Yan captured Jiyang, he searched Wang Yongke's residence there, and confiscated a total of more than 2 taels of gold and silver, as well as more than 200 servants, several houses, and forcibly occupied. The land, etc... General Yan has transported the confiscated items back to Beijing, dismissed the servants, returned the seized land, and sealed the house together, waiting for His Majesty to dispose of it."

Xiao Ting nodded deeply, and then suddenly remembered something: "Do you have correspondence and other things?"

"Yes." The man bowed, "All of them were sealed up and transported back to Beijing. Now they are outside Ganquan Palace."

Xiao Ting said deeply: "I'm going to the morning court, send these things to the Zichen Palace."

He motioned to Gu Chen to go with him, and Wei Dequan interjected at the right time: "Your Majesty hasn't had breakfast—"

"I won't eat."

Wei Dequan immediately glanced at Gu Chen imperceptibly, Gu Chen understood and sighed: "Your Majesty, let's go after breakfast."

"...Then you and I will eat together."

"minister……"

Gu Chen wanted to refuse, but he saw Wei Dequan's action at a glance: he stood behind Xiao Tingshen, and waved his hand gently at Gu Chen.

Gu Chen: "..."

The sentence "I have eaten it" was swallowed back by him in a strange way.

After eating breakfast with Xiao Tingshen again, Gu Chen felt that he could drink porridge for the next two days.

But at least Xiao Tingshen ate something with his company, so he didn't go to court on an empty stomach.

When going to Zichen Palace, Xiao Tingshen wanted to hold Gu Chen's hand, but Gu Chen refused politely - he didn't want to be regarded as Xiao Tingshen's favorite concubine, and the feeling of being a favorite was already a disaster.

When Xiao Tingshen and Xiao Tingshen stepped into the Zichen Palace, many ministers had already arrived, including Cai Min who had not dealt with Gu Chen very much.Gu Chen walked back to his seat and stood up, Xiao Tingshen sat down on the dragon chair directly in front of him, and everyone saluted.

"You must have heard about the great victory in Xiangping." Xiao Ting said in a deep voice, "General Yan attacked the rebel camp four days ago and cooperated with the Jiyang defenders in a pincer attack, causing the rebels to retreat. Today, "He said shaking the military newspaper in his hand, "The victory report has been sent to my desk."

As soon as the words fell, everyone had different expressions - some were relieved, some were surprised, some were worried, and some turned pale as paper.

Especially Cai Min.

At that time in the study, the servant of the official department who questioned Gu Chen outrightly, when Xiao Tingshen's voice just fell, his face turned red and then white, then turned from white to blue, and finally settled on the white and turquoise, it was like opening a dyeing workshop .He quietly cast an inconspicuous glance at Gu Chen, his expression turned extremely ugly.

Xiao Tingshen's eyes were heavy, he stared at the group of courtiers below for a while, and then said in a calm voice: "Bring the things up."

Two young eunuchs carried a wooden box to the court.The ministers all probed to see the box, discussing what was inside the box.Soon, the box was carried in front of Xiao Tingshen, Xiao Tingshen raised his hand, and lifted the lid on it.

Then he reached in, rummaged for a while, and brought out a letter.

The letter looked unremarkable, some officials were wondering, suddenly someone rolled his eyes, and fell straight backwards.

"Master Yuan, Master Yuan!"

The people around hurriedly supported him, pinched him and slapped his cheek, the minister woke up slowly.However, as soon as his eyes fell on the letter, he immediately collapsed on the ground, his lips trembling, and intermittently uttered some unclear syllables.

Xiao Ting didn't even look at him, still holding the letter in his hand, and said coldly: "I think you must be very curious about what this is."

He paused, looking around at everyone's faces: "While General Yan was fighting bloody battles on the front line, some of you wrote letters to the traitors."

Before he finished speaking, Cai Min on Gu Chen's left hand trembled uncontrollably.His face was pale, and bead-sized beads of sweat trickled down his cheeks and rolled into his clothes drop by drop.After a while, his back was soaked with sweat.

Gu Chen looked over at him, and saw that the official minister who was still filled with righteous indignation was fighting in two arms, his whole body was shaking like a sieve, and he had to hold on so that he didn't collapse on the ground like Master Yuan over there.Also at this moment, Xiao Tingshen's sharp knife-like eyes shot at him, and fell directly on him.

Cai Min lowered his head under this huge coercion for a while, but finally couldn't hold on anymore, his legs gave way and he knelt on the ground.