Huaiyu is slightly cool

In the Qingfeng Pavilion in the imperial garden of the palace, today's son Wu Mingtai was looking at the chess game on the table.

Zhou Huai stood outside the pavilion with all the guards and maids. Although there were many people, they were all respectful and quiet.Although Zhou Huai, who was standing at the front, also had a respectful and obedient face, his eyes were wandering around the people and things around him, and his mind was also rapidly thinking about the abnormal sudden summoning by the emperor, and the fact that she came without speaking to the other party. s reason.

Since half a month ago, Zhongshu ordered Xiao Yi to be punished by the three clans for the crime of treason. His father's clan, mother clan, wife clan, plus attendants and slaves, implicated more than [-] people, except those under ten years old. His children were made slaves and exiled thousands of miles away, and the rest were beheaded by the Meridian Gate, and none of them were spared.

This Xiao family is completely over, the old lady is lying in bed in a royal manner, but there is not much shock in the court, but new troubles have come again.

Only thirty years after the establishment of the Jing Dynasty, the founding emperor Wu Yunhao reformed the system of Sangong and Jiuqing, which had been passed down for thousands of years, into the system of three provinces and six ministries. Unfortunately, the founding emperor Wu Yunhao died young, although the imperial edict appointed four The assistant minister assists the ten-year-old prince in handling the government affairs.But unexpectedly, because of the disagreement among the four ministers, Xiao Yi and Chen Zijue among them invited the old lady, the emperor, who was resting in the Liangzhou palace, to return to the court to be regent.The first to suffer were the other two assistant ministers. It is also conceivable that what happened later, must have emptied the imperial power of the young emperor, and became the old lady, the emperor, Xiao Yi and Chen Zijue to manage the government together. In this way, the system of three provinces and six ministries was almost Existing in name only, although there are three provinces, Zhongshuling Xiao Yi, one of the three provinces, overwhelms the other two provinces to become the head of the hundred officials. Those who rebel against others perish, worthy of the name, one person is below ten thousand, but he has done a lot of good things for the common people, which is quite popular, so the people still call him Prime Minister Xiao in private according to the old system.

It's just that with the passage of time, the old lady and the emperor gradually became old and frail. Seeing that the imperial power was about to fall, the conflict between the monarch and his ministers naturally intensified.

The demise of the Xiao family this time is just a long-term accumulation of conflicts, which were artificially intensified and exploded.Wu Mingtai directly convicted the Xiao family of treason, and even dispatched the imperial army to arrest people in the court. After only three days of interrogation, he even arrested and beheaded all the courtiers who handed over the papers to Prime Minister Xiao to beg for mercy. The three families of the Xiao family.When the emperor was really angry, the corpses floated for thousands of miles, and all the ministers were frightened and dumbfounded. They all speculated that the emperor's sudden tyranny was because the old lady was running out of time for the emperor. liquidated.Among the hundred officials, there are some joys and some worries, but most of them are worried. After all, in the past 28 years, the old lady has actually been in power, and Taiping can be said to be the reign of the old lady.

Now that the Xiao family is gone, who should take the vacant seat?Who wouldn't want to give Qingyun a chance to reach the pinnacle of power?The left and right servants who were supposed to be added were both sent to prison for strict investigation due to their close relationship with the Xiao family. As a result, Chen Shangshu of the Ministry of Internal History and the guards of the Menxia Province began to compete for power.

The Chen family is an old power, the accumulation of power and talents is not comparable to the Wei family, the upstart after the founding of the country, but the Wei family has produced one concubine and one queen since the founding of the country.One side runs the imperial court, and the other side is dignitaries in the harem. They are barely evenly matched, and the competition between them is not only the party members of the two parties, but also represents who will win the upper hand between the old and new forces.

It was rumored that the founding emperor Wu Yunhao had no intention of changing the official system in the court at first, but later he had to abolish the system of three lords and nine ministers in a hurry, and changed the system of three provinces and six ministries. .

For those huge and complex families with deep roots and leaves, they are so powerful that they can even take the initiative to choose an emperor who can form an alliance of interests with them.Such aristocratic families often have a history of hundreds of years. They stand firm through wind, frost, rain and snow, and always fight for their own interests. They will not take the initiative to support the emergence and rise of those new powers unless they have to. They will even suppress the ambitious ones. Heroes, despite the fact that no matter who wins, they can always share the fruits of victory afterwards, their status is detached, and they despise the upstarts.And the founding emperor Wu Yunhao also hated their self-importance, so after the initial establishment of the world, he already regarded those old power families as greedy and fierce wolves, threatening and restraining his rule, and sealed off the old subordinates. A group of upstarts came out as checks and balances.

And the two Chen and Xiao families who helped Wu Yunhao take the capital after they had just defected and surrendered, saw that Wu Yunhao had sealed off the old subordinates of the Conglong Zhigong. Although the negotiated conditions and titles were given, most of the family's children were assigned to irrelevant idle jobs, and they were often bullied and suppressed by the upstarts.

At that time, the Wei family who was the most popular was the rich and powerful family. Because they had sponsored Wu Yunhao to raise troops and made their daughter a favorite concubine, they were arrogant, and they were naturally incompatible with the powerful families who looked down on merchants.

The second is the Fang family who has a brotherhood with Wu Yunhao. As a military general, it seems that they are born at odds with civil servants, and military generals seem to be more hands-on than talking.Later, for the addition of martial arts examinations, they even directly fought against the civil officials. The consequence was that the selected martial arts champions were not recognized and accepted by the civil officials for a long time to come.

Also, like them, the Zhou family, former court officials, just because they saved the life of Wu Yunhao who was under siege, in their eyes, they are just a speculative gambler, and they can get a lot of benefits, which is enviable Jealous and hate.

After discovering that the situation was unfavorable, the Xiao and Chen families resolutely put aside their old grievances and began a short-term cooperation.After all, one of these two families is from the prime minister's family, and the other is a doctor of imperial history and a professional householder of the emperor's teacher. The two old foxes, who have experienced ups and downs in officialdom, joined hands to teach the think tanks of Wei, Fang, and Zhou Zhou's family a few times of practical strategy lessons in officialdom. It's just that the teaching result of this real material is disastrous.

Under Xiao and Chen's unscrupulous frenzied exchange and even cleansing, the children of Wei, Fang and Zhou's family and the students and officials attached to them were almost wiped out.At that time, the world was initially settled, and everyone in the court was in danger for a while. In the end, after most of the substitute officials were affected, Wu Yunhao had to give in and compromise, but as compensation, he granted the founding government of the Three Kingdoms, and Chen Xiaoer In order to ease the relationship between the monarch and his ministers, the family agreed to make the daughter of the Wei family the crown princess, who is now Queen Wei.This exchange of old and new benefits from the change of dynasty has only come to a halt here.

But now, the situation has been broken again, and the old and new enmity between the new rich and powerful will be provoked again.

Standing outside the pavilion, Zhou Huai was a little absent-minded. He looked at the sun in the sky for a while, and guessed how long it would be until lunch time. He was really bored, so he squinted his eyes and peeked a few times at the hesitant emperor. But pouted.Although knowing a son is like a father, as a father and daughter who were close in previous lives, Zhou Huai still knew her father quite well. But when they met, they recognized each other immediately.Therefore, for the two people who are both modern people, it is too easy to solve this problem. According to the well-known 5000-year history of China, all you need to do is to change the original prime minister into a prime minister for all three provinces. .Zhou Huai felt that it was impossible for Wu Mingtai not to understand something that even he knew.Obviously, Wu Mingtai is worried about other things now.

Zhou Huai was thinking about something, and was lost in silence, so when Wu Mingtai called out several times, she said "ah" with a blank face.

Wu Mingtai glanced at her with some dissatisfaction, not getting angry, and then pointed to the Go endgame in front of him and asked Zhou Huaiyu indifferently: "Come here, see if you can break it?"

Zhou Huai cautiously approached and looked at the chess game, and said with some uncertainty: "I seem to remember something, but I haven't played for a long time."

"Then try to solve it first." Wu Mingtai pointed the table with his index finger, and then signaled Zhou Huai to start.

"Oh." Zhou Huai responded, but sat down on the opposite side procrastinatingly. As a result, he was too small and couldn't see the table when he sat down. Standing on a stone bench and playing chess.

Wu Mingtai on the side was amused by her actions, and with a wave of the back of his hand, he sent away a bunch of guards and maids who didn't know if they saw her. Seeing that there was no one around, he sighed. He took a deep breath and said to Zhou Huai: "After living a lifetime, why are you still so clumsy?"

"But I'm only five years old now." Zhou Huai fought back without any pressure, moving on the chessboard with the black in his left hand and the white in the right.

"IQ is also five years old?" Wu Mingtai laughed at her.

Zhou Huai picked up the failed move just now and returned it to the chess box. After the chess game returned to its original state, he was a little worried, and he stopped talking and distracted, only concentrating on the chess game.

Wu Mingtai didn't intend to let her think quietly, and asked again like a chat: "I have lived in the palace for more than a month, how do you feel?"

"Food, beauty and beauty!" Zhou Huai replied casually without taking his eyes off the chess game.

Wu Mingtai glared at her after hearing this, but continued to ask patiently: "Is there nothing else?"

"Other? What do you mean?" Zhou Huai looked up at Wu Mingtai blankly, thinking about it, but still confused.

"Forget it, you'd better stay obediently in your Yuhua Palace recently, the palace is not peaceful, please pay more attention to yourself."

Hearing that Zhou Huai got off the stool, he sat down on the stool without wiping it. He looked at Wu Mingtai sadly and said, "What's the use of being careful? What can I do if you don't help me?" Zhou Huai said sadly, Looking at the flowers outside the pavilion with disappointment, he said sadly: "I heard that under every flower in this imperial garden, there are bones buried in vain."

Wu Mingtai looked at her, indifferent and didn't answer.Zhou Huai almost couldn't continue acting. After holding back for a long time, he lowered his eyes and sighed: "The peony flowers are covered with bones, and the peach blossoms are blood-stained red. Maybe next year's Qingming..."

Wu Mingtai supported his forehead, and raised his hand to stop Zhou Huai's performance: "Enough, you go to Huguo Temple to pray for the country, remember to help me see if Liangyue is better after you go, and you stay there to accompany her more. I will send a team The Imperial Forest Army is guarding the Huguo Temple, so you should leave as soon as possible, the sooner the better."

When Zhou Huai heard that he was going to the temple, he was a little reluctant. After a while, he asked, "Are you going to the temple to find the eldest princess? Why is she in the temple?"

"Send it there to recuperate. In spring, I was fluttering butterflies in the garden, slipped into the pool by accident, choked on a few mouthfuls of water, it wasn't a big deal, but since then I've been having nightmares and talking nonsense. It’s a repeated failure. Last month, two days before you lived in Yuhua Palace, Master Jingguan from Huguo Temple came into the palace to deliver Buddhist scriptures to the queen. Hearing this, he brought Liangyue to the temple. gone."

"Oh, how long am I going to stay there?"

"It depends on the situation." After Wu Mingtai finished speaking, he glanced at Zhou Huai again, got up and was about to leave, stopped after thinking about it, and looked at Zhou Huai carefully.Zhou Huai didn't know why, and stared back blankly, Wu Mingtai opened his mouth, wanted to say something but didn't say anything.

Zhou Huai was underestimated. He stood up and said, "Just speak up if you have something to say. I don't know what to do with you."

"The poem you read just now is to persuade people to quit adultery. Remember to read more when you have time." Wu Mingtai turned and left after finishing speaking, leaving Zhou Huai standing alone, speechless for a long time.