I thought it was just the past and the present

069

Mr. Wu Ge retired last year, and arranged for his sons and close students to go out.His power left the mouth, and most of the vacant positions were occupied by the disciples of Mr. Liu Ge.

Now the two in the cabinet, Wangge boss pretends to be deaf and dumb as a decoration most of the time, which is why he has the nickname Sleepy Pavilion boss.Of course, the only one who holds the power is Elder Liu Ge.However, Empress Sun's power has been severely curbed, and the Sun family is still shrinking their heads, and the power of their relatives is almost zero.

Today's court is almost the same as Liu Ge's Yiyantang.

"Your Majesty, Mr. Wangge is drunk..." the Minister of Hubu next to Mr. Wange said in a mosquito-like voice. In fact, he didn't need to say it, anyone could see it.Sleepy Ge Lao is indeed worthy of being called Sleepy Ge Lao, and now Wang Ge is lying on his table, sleeping loudly, and his beard is blowing out by himself.

Liu Ge took a look and said: "Your Majesty is young and not good at learning, so I don't know that the affairs of this world, even the legal principles, are nothing more than human feelings. If you have to fasten laws and regulations in everything, wouldn't it be an act of tyranny? gone?"

"Huh? Then according to what Liu Ge said, if your son of the Liu family is hung up at the door to blow the air, wouldn't Master Liao not be punished?" Xiao Qi blinked his eyes, looking genuinely curious.

What the little emperor said...was a threat?

All the ministers looked at me and I looked at you, all "eyebrowing" and "exchanging glances".This little majesty is really getting stronger and stronger.Could it be that what happened to Master Sun's youngest son was not an accident?

"Master Liao is an upright official, there is nothing he should be punished for!"

It used to be that legal principles were nothing more than human feelings, which meant that Liao Zheng was still at fault, but now there is no punishment at all, and Liao Zheng is completely just.

Liao Zheng kept wiping his sweat away. It's not easy to be the Governor of Kaiyang Mansion, and it's getting worse and worse.

"Since Mr. Liu Ge said it, so be it." Xiao Qi sat down and picked up the tea bowl to drink tea.

"Your Majesty is getting older and has more contact with the government. You should never listen to the villain's slander and practice evil tricks!"

"Well, I get it. I'm only old now, and Mr. Liu Ge is highly respected. Naturally, I will listen to whatever Mr. Liu Ge says." Xiao Qi continued to drink tea, speaking smoothly, but his eyes couldn't even look at it. I didn't look at Mr. Liu Ge.

All the ministers lowered their heads, only Wang Gelao's snoring sounded rhythmically.

Mr. Liu Ge wanted to teach Xiao Qi a few more words, but Xiao Qi had already picked up the chopsticks to pick up the vegetables. If he said below that the emperor ate it casually, he would be ashamed of himself. In the end, Mr. Liu could only Say: "Your Majesty is sensible." Sit back.

As soon as the palace banquet was over, all the ministers ran as fast as they could, and only a few ministers who had good friends and traveled the same way gathered together to discuss.

"I'm still thinking about visiting friends in two days. It seems that I should stay at home these days."

"You think His Majesty's words today... can't be? That's His Majesty after all."

"Mr. Sun has already been hung for midnight, what do you think you can't do?"

"I don't know who taught His Majesty, but at such a young age, he behaves like a rascal."

"You only saw His Majesty's scoundrel?"

"Or else?"

"How old is Your Majesty, tell me... Where did His Majesty get the manpower?"

"This... hiss..." The other person gasped, and his face turned greener as he thought about it.

Except for a few festivals such as the Lantern Festival and the Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival in the capital, there is a curfew. After nightfall, the gates of all major streets and alleys will be locked and guarded and patrolled by soldiers and horses.Sun Jing, the servant, lives in Wuding Street where officials gather. Not only are there patrolling soldiers and horses patrolling the city, but there are also guards from various households guarding the night. How can it be so easy to hang a person in the middle of the night?

Many people thought of this, so within two days after the palace banquet, the threshold of Song Baojun's house, the commander of the patrolling soldier Ma Si, was almost leveled.

Another one was sent away in a blink of an eye, and as soon as Song Baojun's staff came out, they saw this Dong Weng sitting in the hall with his face blue and purple.

"My lord, are you looking for news again?" The staff made a cup of tea for Song Baojun.

"More than that..." Song Baojun drank the tea in one gulp, and let out a long breath, "What did you say to me, 'Don't seek refuge with Your Majesty'?"

"Crack!" Song Baojun threw the teacup to the ground.

"What kind of bastard are you talking about?! My Song family has been an official of the imperial court for generations! Is it wrong for me to be an official of His Majesty?! Besides, if I am not an official of His Majesty, who will I be an official of? His Liu family What?! What are you talking about, there are treacherous villains around His Majesty? Pooh!"

"Shh! My lord, be careful! Be careful!"

"Oh!" After venting, Song Baojun suddenly lost his breath and sat back on his chair, "What's more, I didn't do this at all."

This is what Song Baojun told those who came to inquire, but some people believed it, some didn't believe it, and some didn't want to believe it.

——The emperor has a mysterious power that comes and goes without a trace in his hands, that is an extremely terrifying thing.

On the fifth day of the first lunar month, the second person who was hanged for most of the night appeared.It is Liu Gelao's second grandson!

This Mr. Liu is also a person with a bad reputation, but Mr. Liu Ge's family education is quite strict. He didn't cause anyone's life. Everyone looked at Mr. Liu Ge's face, so they talked about it behind his back. , then take it easy.

Now all the ministers were blown up, and the gatherings of groups of all sizes continued.

Everyone had the same idea, "Your Majesty is too much! It is not the actions of a wise king to raise dead soldiers and commit murder!"

As for whether this Young Master Liu and the previous Young Master Sun deserve it... Even if they deserve to be punished, they should use proper means, not like His Majesty!

In the palace, Empress Sun also learned about the situation outside the palace through the married woman who entered the palace. She was so happy that she woke up from her dream.These wives will enter the palace to deliver such news, this is to let her, the Queen Mother, also put pressure on them!For the past two years, she has listened to the government behind a curtain just for a good name, Xiao Qi didn't take her seriously, and the courtiers almost ignored her.

But as long as she puts pressure on Xiao Qi together with the imperial court and succeeds, then she will be able to regain power!

For Guangde's three-year bride's court meeting, Empress Sun also looks forward to it every day and every month.Seeing that after sleeping and waking up, it will be the day of the court meeting. After the grandson, she... started to have diarrhea in the middle of the night. I can't stand on my two legs, and I have to hurry to continue after walking a few steps.

Sitting on the Gong barrel, Empress Sun shed bitter tears~

Oops~~ She is really too unfortunate~

Xiao Qi had already made his way to court, he waved his hand at the ministers, and said: "My mother suddenly felt unwell last night, probably because I ate too much good food during the Chinese New Year, and she drank more than a dozen bubbles in one night, and now it's all gone. If you can’t get out of bed, let’s go up like this first.”

All the ministers: "..."

This... you are the emperor, and you are too careless with your words.

More importantly, it can also be seen from the words of this His Majesty that although he is young,... the inner palace is already under his control, right?Empress Sun is not an old lady from a small family, so how could she be so worthless that she would eat too much and get upset?This is clearly the little emperor's trick.

Although he knew that the relationship between mother and son was not deep, after all, he would give his mother a sap when he came to the throne at the age of five.Even if someone instigated that matter behind his back, it was Xiao Qi himself who did it.

Including Mr. Liu Ge, many veterans thought in their hearts that they should have seen who this majesty was at the beginning, but unfortunately they didn't think much about it at that time, but now they have made him more and more wings.Then today's matter must achieve the goal, otherwise... Wait a few more years, he is in his teens, and he is really a lawless and incompetent demon king.For the sake of the land of Great Xia, and for the sake of the common people, they must let the emperor learn to be good, and change their bad habits!

Emmm... These courtiers are really great people.

Xiao Qi looked at the exchange of glances among the ministers, and Chen Tingyu, the official censor, stood up first: "Your Majesty, I heard that hanging Sun Ping outside his door late at night, and hanging Liu Feili outside his door are all... Your Majesty?"

"En." Xiao Qi responded.

Chen Tingyu, who was waiting for Xiao Qi's reply below, was dull for a while before realizing what Xiao Qi answered: "Your Majesty, you are..."

"Well, I admit it. I don't like those two dandies, but I know that I can't punish them according to the law, so I will punish them slightly."

"..." I didn't expect Xiao Qi to recognize him so quickly, all the officials were a little confused, they thought it would take a verbal battle to persuade and educate Xiao Qi well.

"Your Majesty also knows that those two people are just a little stubborn. His Majesty's actions not only made them seriously ill, but also how can they face the world after this incident? Don't they want to force people to die? Your Majesty... ..."

His Majesty cried...

His Majesty, whom all the ministers thought was very gloomy for so many years, sat on the throne, crying loudly, shrugging his shoulders while crying, sniffing: "I, I know I was wrong, then, then I will come to the door to apologize to them personally, okay? I, I shouldn't punish them just because I know they are bastards. I don't have that qualification, I don't have that power. I, I just apologize to them!"

Xiao Qi immediately stood up from the throne and walked down.

The minds of the ministers are in a mess, have they achieved their goal?After all, His Majesty admitted his mistake.But... why does Yazi feel that something is not right?Really let His Majesty just go out all the way to admit his mistakes to Sun Jiazi and Liu Jiasun?

"Your Majesty is right!" Seeing Xiao Qi approaching, Old Liu Ge quickly bent over to admit his mistake, "I...it was my fault! I shouldn't spoil my grandson so much that I let him develop a playful temperament , Your Majesty taught me the right thing!"

Although he didn't turn his head back, there was a thorn in the back of Mr. Liu Ge now. I don't know how many people are staring at him.

—What did His Majesty do?Isn't it just a lesson to a few dudes?Just because of this, His Majesty is forced to cry and apologize to the dude, one of whom is Liu Gelao's own grandson, what do you want to do? !

As long as he was a little slower just now, believe it or not, some "loyal" people would jump out and beat him up immediately?

As for what was discussed before, saying that His Majesty should hand over his private staff, and promise to study obediently and obediently in the future... Compared to the possible benefits of removing him from power, it is just a drop in the bucket.

After Liu Ge finished speaking, he felt that his back was soaked. He thought he was high and powerful, which was true, but was he considered a powerful minister?He doesn't count at all!His power comes from the fact that he is an elder, he has some students, he is higher than others, but that's all.

He can teach the emperor, but he must also stand on the moral high ground, otherwise he will be courting death.

"I'm not wrong?" Xiao Qi blinked his eyes, and two of his tears were blinked away by him, how pitiful and pure he was.

"Yes, Your Majesty is right." Elder Liu Ge hurriedly added, "I... I should shut myself up and think about my mistakes..."

"That's unnecessary. Now that there are so many state affairs, and I still need Elder Liu Ge to assist me, I will give Elder Ge...a fine of three months."

"..." Old Liu Ge looked at the smiling Xiao Qi. If he agreed, it would be equivalent to affirming that Xiao Qi had the power to punish the old cabinet ministers, but he didn't recognize it... Forget it, there is really no need to talk to the emperor. Arm wrestling, after all, no matter how young he is, he is orthodox, "Yes, thank you, Your Majesty."

Xiao Qi started to laugh with tears in his eyes, and then he was like a kid who knew something happy, and asked one by one among the civil and military ministers: "I did the right thing, really I was right?"

Old Liu Ge bowed his head to admit it, so what can the rest of them do?Even Mr. Wang Ge, who had become a habit of pretending to sleep, nodded affirmatively to Xiao Qi.

Then Xiao Qi returned to the throne, and just as the officials breathed a sigh of relief, they heard Xiao Qi say: "Although all the lovers say that I am right, but... I also know that I can't always do things like this. The deceitful means still have to follow the bright path. Therefore, I am going to establish a new guard, named Jinyiwei. The commander... let me supervise it first, and I will appoint hundreds of households at all levels within two days. When the time comes If there is anything wrong, I would like to ask the love ministers from the household department to help me describe it."

Unexpectedly, the emperor himself brought up this matter, but the change of the emperor's manpower from the dark to the bright is obviously not what the ministers want to see.However, if the legitimacy of this group of people is broken, I am afraid that the emperor will have to cry again.

Hubu Shangshu stood up and spoke: "Your Majesty, this Jinyiwei... I'm afraid there is something wrong. In recent years, there have been frequent floods, and the treasury is a little empty. Your new guard, I'm afraid there is something..."

"It's okay, I'll raise money from the internal treasury myself, and don't spend money from the national treasury."

"Your Majesty, the addition of a guard is a big deal, and the defense of Beijing and China will also be involved in changes. It's not just a few words, just add a few names." The Minister of the Ministry of War also stood up to object.

Xiao Qi raised his eyebrows, knowing that everyone was fooling him: "Since that's the case...then add people to Luan Yiwei."

Luan Yiwei is Xiao Qi's personal royal guard of honor, and his actual work is to display the flag for Xiao Qi when he travels.

But during his grandfather's time, he still went out for a tour of the palace.By the time of Xiao Qi's father, he lived in the capital and did not move his nest. Originally, the emperor had an autumn hunt every year, but since the first emperor fell ill until now, the autumn hunt has not been done.When Xiao Qi was walking in the inner palace, the guards of honor were all eunuchs, so Luan Yiwei basically didn't add much manpower over the years, and they all did the same job as imperial guards.

"..." The ministers knew that if they continued to refute, the emperor would always find a way to deal with it.

"What Your Majesty said is true, so let's do it this way." Elder Liu Ge stood up and settled the matter.

When he retired from the imperial court, there would naturally be old Liu Ge's cronies coming to inquire.

"Liu Xiang, is this the way your majesty is going to accept this matter?"

"Instead of continuing to let His Majesty keep his hands hidden in the dark, it is better to let His Majesty show people. We can't control Your Majesty, can't we also control a group of soldiers in Luan Yiwei?" Old Liu Ge smiled slightly, as if he was not there. Fengtian Temple lost face before.

"Liu Xiang is right."

"Liu Xiang, about your Majesty..."

Old Liu Ge shook his head: "Your Majesty...of course it is His Majesty, what else do you want?"

"How can we treat His Majesty? If you want to reason with Your Majesty, Your Majesty will say that we bully children, and we treat Your Majesty as a child, but His Majesty puts a hat on our faces with the emperor's legal principles, and we will go around and reason... Sigh ! Is the person next to His Majesty really that eunuch Wen Yougong?" An official sighed, and the rest shook their heads helplessly.

"Your Majesty, this is deceitful way, the sword is slanted, it is not the way of a king."

"That's what we say, but what can we do?"

In fact, there is still a way, which is to use force to suppress it!The problem is that Mr. Liu Ge hasn't reached that point yet.

When his family's party members are gone, the first thing Liu Ge will do is to gather all his children, no matter how much he loved in the past, as long as he has a bad reputation, he will be a big stick.

With Mr. Liu Ge at the head, a vigorous child control movement has sprung up in central Beijing.Even those who dote on their children the most and are unwilling to let go, they have to lock their own playboys at home.The law and order in the capital has changed, even though no one deliberately spread the news about the court, but the common people still know the reason for this change, Xiao Qi's reputation is naturally better.

Ordinary people are the most straightforward pragmatists in the world. They pick up the bowl to eat and put down the bowl to scold their mothers, but as long as someone can keep them holding the bowl, of course they will happily shut up.

"Your Majesty, the timing is just right." Elder Wang Ge, who also followed the crowd and taught his own children a lesson, did not want to continue to doze off this time. Facing the colleague who came to ask for advice, he sighed with emotion. "If it's another three or two months later, that one...will be able to stand firmly, and it will be a foregone conclusion by then that the powerful ministers will be in power. If your majesty wants to be in charge, it will only depend on who can outlive the other, but now , I'm afraid that one will honestly shrink back for three to five years."

Of course, this "that one" refers to Mr. Liu Ge.

In fact, Mr. Wang Ge wanted to sue at the beginning, but Mr. Wu Ge was much older than him, so naturally there must be a first-come-first-served basis.But once Wu Ge left, he couldn't leave at all.After all, it is impossible for the ministers to allow only one Ge Lao, and Liu Ge Lao can't let him go for his own reputation.Wang Ge has no choice but to be a sleepy official.

But his sleepiness did not mean that he really completely ignored the changes in the court. He knew that Liu Ge Lao had already planned to push Chen Tingyu, the imperial historian, into the cabinet at the beginning of this year.Once Chen Tingyu came in, the overall situation was settled.Wang Ge always wanted to leave at that time, but who would have thought that the emperor, who had been honest for so long, would suddenly jump out and do something big.

This important event is very clear to tell everyone - your father is still your father!Even if he is underage and not in charge, he is still his father!

"The eunuch Wen Yougong...is really a smart man."

"You still think that there is someone behind His Majesty, and that person is Wen Yougong?" Old Wang Ge sighed.

"This...could it be the grandson?"

Wang Ge waved his hand: "God wants to revive my great summer, a real dragon descends from heaven."

Wang Ge is seventy years old this year. In this era, most of the elderly at this age have two kinds of differences, one is superstitious, and the other is that they don't believe in anything.Wang Ge was always the latter, he never mentioned any ghosts and gods, but today he said that he went up to the sky and fell from the sky, and everyone present was stunned.

"The king's meaning, could it be that... no one instructed His Majesty, but His Majesty did it by himself? Is this a little too unbelievable?"

It is not uncommon to see child prodigies, but most of those child prodigies are "gods" in poetry, arithmetic and other skills, and their talents are stronger than humans.But what did the emperor do?It's political struggle and dealing with people. Some people may be better at this than others, but those who can really play well are people of a certain age, because to light up political skills requires long-term accumulation of experience.

Xiao Qi took action at the right time many times, whether it was a big or small matter, but it was all about affecting the political situation and strengthening himself.It's hard to imagine that a child is born knowing it!

"I should have thought about it a long time ago." Wang Ge waved his hand, "If someone taught me, then His Majesty would have to memorize how many words to respond to, but you see this time and time again, His Majesty and courtiers deal with it freely, and if you want to be stable, sit like a mountain If you want to move, you will move like a rabbit, if you want to cry, you will burst into tears, and if you want to laugh, you will be happy. Can you see his blunt changes? Has your majesty ever thought of words?"

Everyone looked at each other with cold sweat.

With such an emperor, they didn't feel happy, they felt...horrible.

"Prince Wang, what shall we do?"

Wang Ge glanced at these colleagues: "Everyone... are you used to being officials without His Majesty's control? But we... are the officials of the Xiao Family Emperor."

"This……"

Everyone understands this, and people always say that these days.But before that, the elders in the pavilion were in charge, and everyone could discuss everything, and no matter how big a mistake they made, they could find acquaintances to accommodate them.Just like how Liu Ge said at the palace banquet that day, the governor of Kaiyang Mansion, is a haircut nothing more than human favor?The biggest punishment for the ministers is to be demoted three grades in a row, and thrown to a remote place to become an official, but if they have money, face, and a way, they can always come back.

The temperament of the ministers has long been raised.

The strength of the emperor represents the appearance of a person who will kill them, the officials are not reconciled.

They are ministers, but they are no longer used to being ministers.

"Shu Shu Shu Shuo Shu has no food for me. Sigh..." Mr. Wang Ge tapped his finger on the tea table, and said a few words silently, "You should get used to it. Otherwise, what do you want to do? Rebellion? We have been relaxed for several years, it's time to tighten up."