See wise thoughts and continue the front line

At this moment, Zhu Qizhen was sitting in the bedroom with Tan Yunxian having breakfast, when suddenly he heard Ding Xiang outside the house say: "Long live Lord, Li Shilang just said that General Li has come from the capital!"

"Which General Li? How did he know that I was in Xitang?" Zhu Qi asked with a frown.

Ding Xiang, the maidservant standing outside the door, replied respectfully: "If you go back to Lord Long Live, this General Li is none other than Li Zongbing! He said that he came here to ask for an order at the invitation of Mr. Ge."

"Please order?" The two words were said by Zhu Qizhen and Tan Yunxian in unison.The two of them suddenly felt amused, looked at each other and smiled, but only in an instant, they both suppressed their consonant smiles.

Zhu Qizhen patted her hand on the table and looked at her suspiciously.

"Why are you looking at me like that? Don't you suspect it's me..."

Tan Yunxian pouted as he spoke, his eyes were red.Muttering in her mouth: "How many years have I been the emperor, my suspicions are getting better! Now even I..." She lowered her head aggrievedly, with tears rolling in her eyes, sucking the wings of her nose. Let's go to see Zhu Qizhen again.

Hearing this, seeing this, why is Zhu Qizhen not distressed?He smiled frankly, put down the chopsticks in his hand, put his arms around Tan Yunxian, who was lying sideways and bowed his head aggrieved, into his arms, put his chin against her shoulder, tilted his head and kissed her face softly. Di coaxed and said: "Where are you going? It's been more than ten years since we met. When did I doubt you? I'm surprised. How did Yu Dongyang know that I came to Xitang? What's the purpose of his invitation?"

The corner of Tan Yunxian's mouth curled up, and he quickly stopped his smile, turned his face and raised his eyebrows to look at Zhu Qizhen, and said lightly: "Please ask him in the main hall, don't you know?"

Letting her go, Zhu Qizhen looked at the table of food in silence for a long time, thinking.Suddenly, he

As if thinking of something, he gradually narrowed his eyes, and a chilling murderous look flashed across his eyes.He lightly smashed the table and said decisively: "You can't go to the main hall!"

"You, you..." Tan Yunxian frowned and looked at him in confusion.

Zhu Qizhen ignored her, but said in a low voice: "Ding Xiang, ask Li San to come in and talk!"

Ding Xiang answered "Yes" and opened the door, and invited Li San in casual clothes, and after Li San stepped into the door, she closed the double carved door from the outside.

"See Your Majesty, Empress." Li San bowed to them respectfully.

Zhu Qizhen raised his hand, motioning for him to excuse himself.Seeing Li San straighten up, he asked straightforwardly: "You are entrusted by Dongyang to come to Xitang to ask me for an order, why?"

Folding hands together, Li Sandao said, "My Majesty, it has something to do with Wang Ying! Two days ago, Cao Jixiang went to visit Mr. Taige and said that since His Majesty's private visit, everything that happened was quite strange. Therefore, Cao Jixiang suspected that there was Wang Ying in Dongchang. He was worried that the murder of Chen Xiang would happen again, which would interfere with his plan to get rid of Wang Ying, so he had to discuss with Elder Yu Ge and ask his ministers to come to Xitang to ask for orders."

"Hehe, this Cao Jixiang really has something on his mind!" Zhu Qizhen said with a sneer.

"Your Majesty, no matter what Cao Jixiang's plan is, I think this is the best time to get rid of Wang Ying. Your Majesty, please forgive me for asking, do you still remember Zhou Qiang?"

Li San's words successfully evoked Zhu Qizhen's memories of the past.Wala shared weal and woe for a year, and during the six years of being under house arrest after returning to Beijing, he formed a deep brotherhood with these ordinary but great soldiers.After he reset, he rewarded them heavily.Yuan Bin became the commander of Jinyiwei, and a soldier of Li Santong was promoted to the commander-in-chief.Not only that, Zhu Qizhen conferred titles for his dead brothers, such as Zhou Qiang mentioned by Li San.

Zhou Qiang has been gone for ten years, mentioning him again will inevitably make Zhu Qizhen feel sad and heartbroken.He sighed and asked, "Remember, how could I forget him? Zhou Qiang gave his life in order to allow me to return to Beijing. In your opinion, what is the connection between Zhou Qiang and Wang Ying's case?"

"Related!" Li San said these two words neatly.

Zhu Qizhen frowned, and said "um" with a raised voice, wishing to watch him carefully.

"Your Majesty, this matter can be traced back to ten years ago. At that time, Zhou Qiang and others were ordered by Queen Qian to go to Mobei to meet His Majesty when they were intercepted and killed by robbers. They were sent by Wang Ying!"

"This, I also thought of this at the time! Wang Ying and Queen Mother Sun are relatives, so they naturally agree with each other. They hit it off and wanted to abolish me and let King Yi sit on the throne. If I die in Wala, it will be just for them to do what they want. King Yi is cowardly, even if he appoints him, he is only instigated by others."

Zhu Qizhen said this in a serious way, as if until now, he still believed that sending people to Mobei to assassinate him back then had nothing to do with Zhu Qiyu.

Li San is a military commander, although he has strategies in mind, he only focuses on battles.The mind of fighting is much simpler than that of the civil servants who are in the middle of the political arena.At this time, hearing what Zhu Qizhen said, he would naturally think that His Majesty the Emperor did not know the truth.He has always been loyal to the emperor and does not want to hide anything from him.Therefore, he cupped his hands and said: "Actually, it was not the Queen Mother Sun who hindered His Majesty from returning to Beijing, but Wang Guogong and King Yan! Ever since the Tumu Fort change and Zhu Qiyu ascended the throne, Wang Ying and the Queen Mother Sun have broken up. To put it bluntly Well, back then Wang Ying saw that His Majesty was rebellious and quite assertive, and it was not good for him to take power, so she wanted to support King Yi, who was betrothed to his daughter, as emperor to replace His Majesty."

"In this way, he is the head of the country, and he has a right to control the government! King Yi's birth mother came from a humble background, and the mother and son are in the same line. They are both cowardly and cowardly. They are better controlled than the Queen Mother Sun and Your Majesty. It is difficult to support the king, and the only way is to rely on the power of the Empress Dowager Sun! Therefore, the relationship between His Majesty and the Empress Dowager Sun has been provoked at every turn, causing the mother and son of the Majesty to be at odds..."

"Once the goal is achieved, he will kill the donkey. He conspired with King Zhu Qiyu, sent people to Mobei to assassinate His Majesty, and blamed all their activities that were not conducive to His Majesty on the Empress Dowager Sun. For this crime alone, It is enough to destroy Wang Ying's nine clans! What's more, in the past ten years, Wang Ying has formed a clique in the court for personal gain, selling officials and nobles. Now he is holding the queen hostage and plotting to kill the king!"

Zhu Qizhen waved his hands, and said with a calm expression: "I already knew about the immoral things Wang Ying did! As for Qi Yu, who has been dead for so many years, I abolished his emperor title and expelled him. Leaving the imperial mausoleum is already the greatest punishment for him. Enough! I have to forgive and forgive others, why should I care about the dead anymore. Li San, I understand your intentions, and I also accept your love .The one who will be executed this time is Wang Ying! Put him in prison first, and after I go back, he will be punished by Ling Chi."

"Your Majesty is wise!" Li San clasped his fists and sighed sincerely.

Thinking about the past, how many things did Zhu Qiyu do to the emperor because he was jealous of the current emperor?The first one is to prevent people from going to Oala to rescue His Majesty, connivance Wang Guogong sent people to assassinate, and wants His Majesty to die in Oara.Secondly, Lai was on the throne and refused to return it, but he thought that he was the orthodox, and that he was the emperor with gusto, and he didn't feel guilty at all!

At that time, as soon as His Majesty and Dr. Tan returned to Beijing, he couldn't wait to seize the throne of His Majesty and his beloved woman by holding the little prince hostage.Not only that, but in the name of "not allowing anyone to disturb the Supreme Emperor's "Qingxiu", he practiced house arrest and abuse. In order to prevent His Majesty from communicating with courtiers, he actually put lead on the lock, and ordered people to cut down the Nangong for His Majesty to enjoy the cool. trees, reducing the daily expenses of the Nangong Palace... It caused the Supreme Emperor at that time, and today's His Majesty has become a problem of food and clothing. Doctor Tan has to sell jewelry for money to subsidize the Supreme Emperor. Every pile, piece by piece, if you change Being other emperors, Zhu Qiyu will not end well. Only the current emperor is so soft-hearted, he thinks of everything for others, but rarely thinks of himself...

Zhu Qizhen stood up from the round stool in front of the dining table, walked inside the pear blossom wood arch, and at the table next to the window, spread out a roll of paper, and quickly wrote down an imperial edict with a pen.After drying the ink, he rolled it up and handed it to Li San. He ordered: "Take this imperial edict to the cabinet for drafting, order Yuan Bin, Yu Dongyang and Shi Heng to lead the Imperial Army to raid the Wang Mansion! The edict will be read by Cao Jixiang!"

"I obey the order." Li San took the draft of the edict with both hands, and said respectfully.

He turned his face for a moment, and finally saw the appearance of the new queen clearly.Yes, that's right, it's Dr. Tan, Mrs. Tan!She and His Majesty have a deep and affectionate relationship, and it should have been a long time ago that the lovers will finally get married.

So far, he still remembers that when he was captured in Wala, Tan Yunxian hoped that everyone would trust and rely on His Majesty.Zhou Qiang asked her disdainfully, "Hmph, can you die for him?" ’ She told everyone very firmly, ‘I can! 'When the brothers were persuaded by her words and said that they would swear to follow the emperor to the death, there was a grateful smile on her beautiful face.

At that time, Li San was thinking, how could this be a doctor or a courtier's feelings for the emperor?This is obviously a woman, a wife is grateful for everyone's willingness to follow her husband's performance!He thought that Dr. Tan probably fell in love with His Majesty since then, maybe even earlier.

In the seventh year of Jingtai, the plague that came to Beijing, thanks to the current emperor and empress, one presides over the overall situation, distributes the command in a balanced manner, and the other leads the medical women to treat the common people overnight. The common people were saved, the city of Beijing was saved, and the Ming Dynasty was saved.

Although, at that time, in terms of status, they were still uncles and sisters-in-law, the emperor and concubines.However, the tacit understanding of their cooperation with each other is unparalleled.Standing together is a pair made in heaven, a pair of loving couples.He saw all this.

Empress Qian is nothing but a kind, gentle, virtuous and virtuous woman!It is reasonable for His Majesty the Emperor not to want to treat her badly, after all, a husband and wife can be kind for a hundred days.

But what about Zhu Qiyu?Whether as an emperor or as a man, he is despised!He is not worthy to be the emperor of Ming Dynasty, let alone Doctor Tan!

In this world, only His Majesty is Doctor Tan's beloved...

Now, seeing that His Majesty the Emperor and Dr. Tan have finally become a legitimate couple, Li San is happy for them.He looked at Tan Yunxian, grinned innocently, and turned to look at Zhu Qizhen: "Your Majesty, you and Dr. Tan are finally together. I congratulate you two on your happy marriage for a hundred years!"

"That's right, from now on, Yunxian will be both Daming's empress and Doctor Tan!" Zhu Qizhen said with a smile.

Li San gave a "hmm" in doubt, thought for a while, oh!Your Majesty is saying that even if she returns to the palace, the queen can go to the imperial pharmacy to do her favorite career and train more medical girls like in the past.

The three went to the rules of respect and inferiority, and after chatting and laughing like old friends for a while, Zhu Qizhen called in Ding Xiang who was guarding outside the door, turned his face and said: "Li San, help me first." Take the cloves and send the empty plates, bowls and chopsticks on the table to the kitchen before leaving."

"Qi Zhen..." Hearing his words, Tan Yunxian couldn't help but laugh.However, when she caught a glimpse of Li San dressed in rough hemp and short brown, without any appearance of a military general of the imperial court, she suddenly realized that Zhu Qizhen's brain that she secretly admired was not ordinary people's.

Li San and Ding Xiang naturally understood Zhu Qizhen's meaning, took their orders with a smile and went out.

Tan Yunxian turned his face and glanced out of the window, then turned his face again, looked at Zhu Qizhen with a smile on his face, and said with a smile: "You really figured it out! Haha, Li San also has a tacit understanding with you, actually wearing..."

"Admiration for your man?" Zhu Qizhen stretched out his hand, pinched her face lovingly, and smiled triumphantly.Tan Yunxian nodded firmly, and smiled sincerely: "I admire it!"

Zhu Qizhen put one hand on Tan Yunxian's shoulder, and said with a smile: "This time, Cao Jixiang asked your adoptive father to help me, so he has good eyesight! But, that's because he doesn't trust Xu Youzhen and Shi Heng at all. As a last resort, he knew that no matter Xu Youzhen or Shi Heng, even if he wanted to bring down Wang Ying as much as he did, he would negotiate conditions with him. That way, even if the matter was successful, those two would not let it go A chance to grab him! He knows Shi Heng's greed!"

Nodding his head, Tan Yunxian smiled deeply and said, "Yes, the adoptive father is upright and upright, and he is a clean and honest official. Together with the adoptive father to defeat Wang Ying, it will not only give him a good reputation of assisting His Majesty in eradicating traitors with virtuous ministers, You won’t have the trouble of being blackmailed by corrupt officials afterwards, so why not do it?”

Zhu Qizhen chuckled and said, "That's what you said!"

"Wang Ying, he won't... Chen Xiang's death was caused by him, so you are not afraid of Li Sanye..."

"Don't be afraid! He is different from Chen Xiang! Chen Xiang is an eunuch. Although he is a son of Dongchang, he doesn't know martial arts. Anyone can get rid of him. Li San is a veteran general! Besides, Wang Guogong would never have dreamed that Cao Jixiang would go to Yu Dongyang to conspire to punish him!"

When he said this, Zhu Qizhen's smile lines were deep, and he was slightly vicissitudes, but his handsome face was full of confidence. Tan Yunxian also laughed when he saw it, tilted his head, and said with a smile: "So , you don't worry at all that Li San will encounter a tragedy like Chen Xiang's!"

Zhu Qizhen nodded with an "um".

Tan Yunxian tilted his head and asked with a half-smile: "Your Majesty won't blame your concubine for meddling in politics, will you?"

Listen, Zhu Qizhen raised his lips and smiled indifferently, raised his face to look at her, and said with an indifferent expression: Are you also meddling in politics?Tch, don't think highly of yourself Tan Yunxian!Even if you get involved in politics, I won't blame you.You are not one more woman who wants to be involved in politics in ancient and modern times! "

Looking at his appearance and hearing his words, Tan Yunxian felt a warm current of emotion in his heart, he couldn't help but "chi" smile, and stared at Zhu Qizhen contentedly.

Li San pretended to be a servant of the post house, helped Ding Xiang pack the dishes and went to the kitchen, took an express train that day, took the edict drafted by Zhu Qizhen to Hangzhou, and returned to Beijing smoothly by water.

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The capital, Wang Guogong's official residence located on the north shore of Shichahai, was extremely lively and crowded with guests.The sedan chairs, carriages and mounts on which the guests were riding filled the entire alley.

People outside the wall can hear the opera stage built privately by Wang Guogong's mansion, the actors babbling and singing, clanging and clanging their big spears.All the officials and wives watching the opera under the stage applauded from time to time, clapped their hands cracklingly, and threw the money from their sachets like sprinkles of wedding candy.

Inside the wall is one of Wang Guogong's official residences in the capital, and it is the only residence where light can be seen.The other two, one is in Wuhuaili Street outside Xizhimen, a very delicate two-story villa.The other one is located in Bodhi Township, Huairou County.The concealment of the two private houses is one of the best.Not to mention the two sets of private houses, just say that the current official residence located in Shichahai, which can see the light, has been repaired by Wang Guogong to a decent level, which is enough to imagine the luxury index of the private house.

"Wang Guogong, what do you think of the singing in this play? I paid a lot of money to invite famous actors from the capital to sing this specially for your birthday!"

The person who said this was a middle-aged official who was sitting on the same table as Wang Ying.About 35 or [-] years old, looking at the patch on his official uniform, he knew that he was a Zhongshusheren from the seventh rank. The dark blue patch had a white elephant embroidered on it, and the white elephant was surrounded by white cirrus clouds.Wearing a black gauze hat on the head.With a persimmon face, squinted eyes, and a mole the size of a sesame seed on his distilled nose, when he said this, his upside-down eyebrows trembled excitedly, like a clown in a drama.

Wang Ying looked at the man, squinted her triangular eyes, stroked the gray beard under her jaw with one hand, and patted the fleshy hand of the Zhongshushe surnamed Li with her right hand, and said triumphantly to him: " That really cost Li Sheren a lot of money, Wang is here to thank you for your kindness! Don't worry, I will reciprocate and say good things to your majesty when I have the opportunity! As long as your majesty has a good impression of you, don't worry about it. Will the position of Minister of the Ministry of Officials be lost?"

"Hehe, this promotion is the second most important thing. The purpose of spending this money today is to honor your old man. Listen, how does this singing sound?"

What Li Sheren said was so true that it couldn't be more false!Wang Ying is not a fool either, she can't hear how hypocritical these words are.Unfortunately, he just loves to listen!Into his ears, he smiled until his eyes narrowed, his mouth grinned like a piece of yellowed watermelon teeth, and the smile lines at the corners of his eyes were as deep as ravines, very three-dimensional.

"This Li Sheren's mouth is really tsk tsk... This is the first time Chen has seen this kind of flattery! I admire it!" Sitting opposite Li Sheren, Chen Yuanguang, the Minister of Rites who was sitting with him, shook his shoulders, He had a strange expression on his handsome and elegant face, and his words were extremely sarcastic.

Hearing these words, Wang Ying listened to Li Sheren's flattering words like that, and the bright smile on her face immediately turned into darkness, the corners of her mouth twitched unnaturally, and she asked in a low voice, very dissatisfied. He asked, "What do you mean by Chen Shangshu's words?"

"Hey!" Li Sheren, who was sitting on Wang Ying's left, jumped up from his chair, cocked his neck like a fighting cock, stared at his eyes that could not be opened at all, and howled aggressively at Chen Yuanguang : "Yes, yes you, what are you, what do you mean you...Chen Yuanguang, don't forget what day it is today, don't come if you don't want to come. Since you are here, but you say such a meaningless..."

Before he could utter a word of "talk", an official leaning over to watch the excitement grabbed the conversation and stuck it in his throat: "Li Sheren, if I remember correctly, Chen Shangshu's official position is higher than yours. Don’t you pay a lot? He’s a second-rank official of the imperial court, what about you? You’re only a seventh-rank servant!” The man said, rubbing his thumb and index finger together in front of him, his handsome face showing contempt He sneered mockingly and said, "What right do you have to yell at Chen Shangshu? You're called an offender!"

"Yeah, yeah..." The people present echoed in a mixed voice.

Suddenly hearing a "pop", everyone's eyes moved to today's protagonist - Wang Ying.He patted the table heavily, cast a sidelong glance at Li Sheren, and said coldly: "Li Sheren, do you still want to be promoted? For the sake of our friendship for many years, I still want to Find an opportunity to say a few words of kindness to His Majesty, and promote you to be Minister of the Ministry of Officials, so that you can rise to the top! It's good for you to commit crimes in front of so many people! You, what a stupid pig!"

After hearing Wang Ying's words of hating iron but not steel, Li Sheren felt that his guts were going to regret it.However, the words spoken are like water poured out, which can never be taken back no matter what.After all, he spent a lot of money and wanted to curry favor with Wang Ying's powerful cabinet veteran on his 60th birthday, so that he could be promoted.This is great...all in vain.

At this moment, the steward of Wang's mansion quickly shuttled from all the seats, walked to the main table, bowed his body and reported to his master: "Master, Duke Zhong and Mr. Yu Ge have come and said that there is For important matters, ask the younger one to invite the master to discuss with Furui Hall in the front hall!"

Stroking her beard, Wang Ying squinted her triangular eyes, turning her conspiratorial mind, speculating suspiciously.Shi Heng, Yu Dongyang... As far as I know, these two people are not the same in the court. Why did they come together with a companion for the first time?Could it be...

Thinking about it made my brain convulse for a while, and Wang Guogong, who was usually cunning and savvy, and knew the way of officialdom, couldn't think of the reason for this.He flicked Maochang's sleeves in frustration, lowered his head and said sullenly: "Let's go, let me go to the front hall with the old man to have a look!"

The housekeeper answered "Yes" and hurried away behind Wang Ying...