Nongmen Shenjue

Due to changes in Beijing, Mu Qingyan and Wen Jixue left the mountain temple and went to the capital.

The four divided into two groups. Wen Jixue brought Gao Tian, ​​Mu Qingyan and Jiao Li along to avoid attracting attention.Even so, Mu Qingyan acted in a low-key manner. After entering the city, he found a restaurant and ordered Jiao Li to invite Chen Shiliu.

After all, the Chen family is in the officialdom, and his father is a first-rank official, so the information is more flexible and accurate.

The martial law in the city seems to be over, but the atmosphere is not relaxed.That's all for the outer city, but the inner city, especially the area around the palace gate, was rarely visited by people, and the ministers and royal families who came in and out also looked solemn, and the banquets in the city also decreased sharply.

The first imperial decree issued by the emperor after waking up: Jin Feng Su Junwang as Prince Su, and handle military and government affairs together with Xian Junwang and four auxiliary ministers.

In addition, two more officials were promoted, one was Prince Su's father-in-law and the other was Prince Su's uncle.Undoubtedly, this is all to increase the bargaining chip for Prince Su, especially if his talent is not obvious, and his ranking is neither young nor old, but he is one step ahead of the princes and brothers to be named prince.

The emperor put Prince Su on the fire and roasted him.

It's Jin Feng and promotion, which seems to be a favor, but it may not be a blessing in reality, and it may become a sharpening stone for a certain prince.Because the emperor has been critically ill for two or three times, this time is especially dangerous. He really values ​​Prince Su, and he can directly determine the status of the heir, but he just doesn't.

But fortune and misfortune are not all bad things.

After all, Prince Su was the first to win the title of prince, surpassing all the princes, and he was able to manage military affairs and government affairs with the king of Xianjun, so he already had real power.As long as he handles it well, he can soar into the sky and truly become the crown prince, or even the new emperor.

Everyone couldn't figure out the emperor's mind, and who was the heir apparent in his eyes.

The always prudent Prince Xian seemed normal, but in fact secretly hated and was very worried.Because he suddenly realized that, as a virtuous man, and the eldest son in existence, he might not be in the consideration of the emperor at all.This feeling is unclear, but he just has this premonition.

When Mu Qingyan saw Chen Shiliu, he mainly wanted to ask about the emperor.

Of course, Chen Shiliu may not know, the matter is of great importance, and even if Father Chen knew, he would not easily confide in him.

After the tea was continued, Chen Shiliu arrived.

"Brother Mu, when did you arrive in the capital?" Chen Shiliu was surprised and delighted when he received the news, and after thinking about it for a while, he felt strange.

"Naturally, I had something to do, but I didn't expect it. I preferred to catch up with the accident in the capital, so I was delayed outside the city for a few days." Mu Qingyan said simply.

"What happened this time is really dangerous. I thought..." Chen Shiliu only said half a sentence, and pointed to the top of his head with his hand, keeping it secret.Thinking about it, many people thought similar to Chen Shiliu, thinking that the emperor would not be able to survive this time, but who knew that he had finally woken up.

"How is the situation in the palace?"

"It's definitely not good. I don't know the details, and my father won't let me ask. I just see that the emperor doesn't show up, and he has arranged for the assistant ministers to know. If it doesn't work out, it will be..." Even in the private room, Chen Shiliu He also lowered his voice subconsciously: "Nowadays, every family is guarding their doors and reducing entertainment, not to mention what they are planning, but just talking about the king of the Xian County. But this time is different, Prince Su has been promoted, and the two princes are in charge. I don’t know if one is covering for the other, or it’s all smoke. After all, compared to Prince Su, King Xianjun is the most anxious that."

The same is true.

Prince Su is really low-key, or not taken seriously.

There are too many sons of the emperor. There are more than a dozen of them who opened their mansions as adults alone. The most active and powerful ones are the older Xianjun kings. His mother was up and down in the palace, and Prince Su was up and down outside the palace, probably in a similar situation and similar age to King Yijun, but the two had a good relationship and avoided the disputes of the princes.

This kind of "leisure" county king is naturally ignored by the ministers.

But this time, although everyone was caught off guard, even if Prince Su lost the throne, there was no loss, and the gains were already great.Just take precautions, if he fails to ascend the throne, he may become a thorn in the eyes of the new emperor.

Chen Shiliu said with emotion: "I really hope that King Sujun will succeed."

"how?"

Chen Shiliu smiled and said, "Brother Mu, you don't know that Zhai Junyang has a good relationship with him, because Zhai Junyang is the heir of Prince Zhongjing's mansion, and his status is sensitive, the two of them don't want to be troublesome, and they don't move around much on the surface. It was also once I ran into him by accident. Yes. Zhai Junyang and I are also friends, maybe we can get rich."

The news came as a surprise.

Zhai Junyang was originally a member of the royal family, he was Prince Su's cousin, and they must have had contacts on New Year's Day and other occasions, so no one noticed how good their relationship was.On the bright side, the two people's temperaments don't seem to get along well, so it's really unexpected that the two met in private.

Chen Shiliu must have been bored at home for a long time. When he met Mu Qingyan, he had a lot to say.

Big and small matters in Beijing, where they are mentioned, where they are mentioned.

The private room was facing the street, and the two were sitting by the window. Chen Shiliu suddenly saw someone walking on the street, and said with a smile, "Wei Xiaosan. It's so strange that you don't want to walk the birds!"

Mu Qingyan raised his eyes to look outside, and sure enough, he saw Wei Yangyu walking on the side of the street, without carrying the bird cage, stopping and going, looking around, looking bored.

"It's not easy for him either. Now that something happened in the palace, their family is also embarrassed." Chen Shiliu said.

Now the queen in the palace is surnamed Wei, she is only a little princess and has no prince.In such a situation, the empress only needs to sit firmly in the harem. Anyway, no matter who succeeds in the future, she will have to regard her as the mother empress dowager.However, this does not mean that the Wei family will be safe and sound. Their family not only has a queen, but also the residence of the Duke, so it is inevitable to win them over.

For things like standing in line, you may have to gain wealth and power from the achievements of the dragon, or you may lose the whole family once you fall.

In the situation of the Wei family, there is no need to walk a tightrope, but if the one who has been wooed becomes a problem, but the Wei family rejects the "new emperor", one can imagine the situation in the future.

Chen Shiliu said again: "Then Dingguo is cunning. The queen prayed for the emperor in the Buddhist hall in the palace, and he also built a Buddhist hall at home. The old lady of the Duke and his wife prayed diligently every day, and thanked guests behind closed doors. When his family did this, other families followed suit one after another, which made it difficult for some people to come to the door and saved a lot of trouble." Finally, he said: "My family is also like this, and my wife will follow the old lady into the Buddhist hall sooner or later."

Mu Qingyan suddenly asked: "Does the imperial doctor who treats the emperor leave the palace and return home?"

"No." Chen Shiliu shook his head.

"It seems really bad."

Chen Shiliu was not surprised at all: "A life of seventy is rare since ancient times, and it is already a rare longevity. But, I can't say for sure. I heard from my brother, about seventeen or eighteen years ago, that person also A serious illness is quite dangerous, and even a vision in the sky is said to be an omen, but in the end the danger is turned away."

As if thinking of something, Chen Shiliu deliberately moved his seat and sat next to Mu Qingyan, with a mysterious expression on his face in a low voice: "I don't believe in things like gods and ghosts, but the old news that my elder brother told is quite Evil nature. Just like what I said just now, the emperor had a serious illness back then, and now it’s not good now and then. Consultation, it was also a thrill, and there was a vision in the sky at night, it is said that the sky is full of red light..."

"The sky is full of red light?" Mu Qingyan knew that he was talking about some kind of celestial phenomenon, but it was too general.

"Yes. I also asked carefully. My elder brother was only 13 years old that year, but he still remembers this incident. The sky was filled with red light at night. It took nine days for it to disappear, and it once caused the price of rice in Beijing to rise, causing people to panic."

The new emperor Mu Qingyan pondered: Red light?Could it be the aurora?Solar storm?

What kind of astronomical phenomenon is actually irrelevant, but the impact it brings is not small.

Chen Shiliu was not lying when he said that rice prices were rising and people were panicking.The ancients were in awe of many astronomical phenomena that they could not explain, so they made them myths.For example, the red light in the sky was regarded as an ominous omen by the ancients, but what kind of ominousness it is...

He realized that Chen Shiliu hadn't finished speaking because of his interruption just now.

"What did Qin Tianjian say?" Mu Qingyan's heart twitched, thinking of what Chen Shiliu had said before, as if he had grasped something.

Chen Shiliu curled his lips: "The gods of Qin Tianjian! They said that the red light is an ominous omen, either the country will be destroyed or the king will perish. Of course, the emperor was fine in the end, but the death of the Empress Yuan also complied with them. statement."

In ancient times, seeing a vision in the sky, saying something foreshadowed something, and it didn't happen immediately.For example, if it heralds the collapse of the country, it will be fulfilled within 50 years.There are also various dangerous celestial phenomena, such as "Yinghuo Shouxin", which is more feared by the emperor. It is said that when it appears, it will herald the disaster of the country. How can it be considered the disaster of the kingdom?Naturally, the emperor of a country died!Because the timeline for appreciating disasters has been relaxed, looking at the emperors who encountered such celestial phenomena throughout history, accidents really happened.

Although the emperor is old, he is the emperor of ninety-five years, and he is in power over the world. The older he gets, the more he fears death.

What if you don't want to die?blame!

The emperor is different from ordinary people, and no amount of ordinary people can replace the emperor.Either the prime minister of the court, one person above ten thousand people; or the queen of the middle palace, the mother of a country.Choose a good person for the dead, and then hold a big funeral for him, the whole country will mourn, the more grand the better.

Of course, there have been emperors in history who encountered this kind of thing and tried to avoid disasters by first dismissing the prime minister or reducing the queen's treatment.

Mu Qingyan was puzzled by the problem earlier, but because of Chen Shiliu's unintentional words, it suddenly became clear.

In the year when the vision appeared in the sky, Mu Qingyan was still young, only two years old.In less than half a year, Empress Yuan passed away, and then the Yan family withdrew from the capital, and was ambushed and murdered on the way home.

At first, the Yan family felt that the cause of Empress Yuan's death was strange. Maybe it was because of witnessing the celestial phenomena, and combined with the fact that the emperor was critically ill, they made guesses about it.It's just that there is no evidence, the palace only said that the queen died of illness, and because of the Yan family's shock and worry, the Yan family is a foreign relative, so how can they question the Tian family.

Especially if it really involves the emperor, it is even more taboo.

For the sake of the Yan family, no matter how suspicious they are, they dare not say anything.

After the death of Empress Yuan, the Yan family voluntarily resigned from office and returned to their hometown, perhaps not only to avoid disaster, but also because they were disheartened.

The emperor's anticlimactic treatment of the Yan family being ambushed and killed was probably due to the matter of the Empress Yuan, who did not want the Yan family to appear again, and would remind him of what he had done from time to time.His favorite favor for Princess Fuhui is due to guilt and double compensation, and he doesn't like to hear that the harem is promoted, and he is also guilty.

So, how much did he do regarding the death of the Empress Yuan?