In June, Daliang won a great victory in a decisive battle with the Western Rong, which almost indicated that the court had completed the strategic goal of expanding the west. It also indicated that the imperial power had been further consolidated.

For a long time to come, Daliang will enter the stage of recuperation with the people.

Just as the war in the northwest was a great victory and the whole country was celebrating, the emperor in the deep palace suddenly issued an order without any warning. This order was like a drop of water rolling into hot oil, almost instantly blowing up the civil officials from all over the court and the country.

For five consecutive days, the civil officials in the court gathered in front of Daliang Gate to ask for the order, kneeling to ask the emperor to take back his order.

In the Qinzheng Hall, the emperor glanced at the thick stack of ministers' requests, and asked: "How many civil officials are crying in front of Daliang Gate today?"

Xu Shiheng replied: "Most of them are."

"Who is the leader?"

"Ma He, the Minister of Rites, brought together a group of editors of the Hanlin Academy."

The emperor nodded and flipped over the request that Ma He had submitted alone, and swept across the ten lines at a glance.

"Ma Hesu can make an article. This article is full of articles, and Dian Moxun quotes classics and classics. It is a deep and profound meaning that makes people feel deafening. I wish I could ask myself to ask myself, the disaster of the destruction of the country is approaching." He looked away and said indifferently, "What a pity, no matter how good the article is, it is just a big talk."

Xu Shiheng was silently lying on his head.

The emperor glanced at him and said, "Your advice that day was good. Without the beautiful etiquette that civil officials praised, Wen Yunting was much more honest, so it would be difficult for me to make things difficult for me. Otherwise, in this kind of scene, they would have to push him out to take the lead."

At this moment, there was a palace servant outside the hall, and Gao Ruyuan, the chief assistant of the cabinet, asked for a visit.

The Lord looked out of the hall and told someone to announce his visit.

Gao Ruyuan quickly tidied up his official hat and entered the hall with a haggard face.

"The Lord, I have already conveyed the will of the Lord, but the ministers still did not retreat. The Minister Ma and other court officials said that since ancient times, there has been a saying that "the war is dead, and the civil is dead, and the advice is dead." If the emperor cannot ask the emperor to take back the will, they would rather die than retreat."

"What a great advice from the dead, they said it well." The emperor sighed, "This is to give me the reputation of a foolish and insane king. I have to give me advice from death. It is true that in their eyes, I can compare with the Jie and Zhou of Xia."

"The Master of the Concubines, and Mr. Ma and his friends were just angry for a moment and dared not have such intentions. For five consecutive days, some old ministers could not hold on to faint. The public opinion was angry, which was not conducive to the stability of the country and the country. I beg the Master of the Concubines to give some comfort, temporarily calm the public opinion, and avoid the situation of enlargement."

Gao Ruyuan begged with a bitter face, full of exhaustion.

Since Wen Yuanfu stepped down and was pushed to this position, he has lost half of his life in this position in the past six years. As Yuanfu, he has the responsibility to regulate the relationship between the Master and the officials and maintain the order of the Liang Dynasty. However, over the years, the relationship between the Master and the civil servant has not heated up much. From time to time, there will be some conflicts between the two parties due to political views, which requires him to constantly mediate.

In the past, I could barely deal with it, but this time it was different. The emperor suddenly gave him a big one. This was just trying to send half of his life away.

The emperor's move to refute the case of the imperial concubine was to make him feel turbulent again after the case of the imperial concubine that year. This time, the mediation was difficult than the sky. If one side was not satisfied, he would be neither person. If the two sides collapsed, then if he had Gao Ruyuan, he would be a sinner for the ages.

"Please? I am not pacifying them enough? Can I issue a self-criticism to worship my ancestors and tell the world?"

Listening to the lukewarm words of the man on the imperial throne, Gao Ruyuan would smile bitterly, "It's not necessary that the emperor did this. When I first came to Daliang Gate, I heard that a "Letter to the Imperial Concubine" had just been circulated from Wenyuan Pavilion."

After a few breaths of quiet in the hall, the emperor's deep laughter came.

"Okay, the next one should be "Announcement to the Imperial Concubine". Perhaps there is another "Announcement to the Imperial Concubine" waiting for me. Gao Yuanfu, please go and pass on the message and ask them if the twelve gentlemen in the ninth year of Yuanping was not enough to show their reputation, and they need to add the twenty-four gentlemen in the 16th year of Yuanping."

"Stop the wrath of the Lord."

Gao Ruyuan was shocked and really annoyed this tough-witted emperor, afraid that he could really do the blood-stained Daliangmen.

"Go and ask. I will ask again. Refute the old case to slap their civil servants in the face. If not refute the truth, it is slap my face. Is it because their civil servants’ face? Isn’t it? Or is it that the so-called maintenance of the rules and decent rules of the Daliang royal family just verbally? Send these two questions to immediately answer the question." The emperor glanced at the hall, "In addition, it is said that Ma Helai, the Minister of Rites, knelt in front of the Qinzheng Hall."

The situation was serious. As soon as Gao Ruyuan left the hall, he hurriedly jogged to get into the sedan chair and hurriedly asked him to carry the sedan chair to Daliangmen.

Along the way, he was worried and exhausted, and at the same time he secretly scolded Ma Ge Lao in his heart. After Wen Yuanfu stepped down, anyone knew that Yuanfu's position in this cabinet was a hot potato, which was not easy to do. Ma Ge Lao did not want to take on this hot potato, so he used his prestige to give him the position.

These six years have really caused him a lot.

When he arrived at Daliang Gate, although Gao Ruyuan modified the emperor's words and then modified them, the crowd was still very angry.

The most exciting thing is the editors who compiled the history of this dynasty. The emperor insisted on re-revising historical facts. In their opinion, this was a great distrust and insult to them, and it was even more uncomfortable than killing them.

"Please tell the emperor that as historians, we compiled historical facts in this dynasty, and every word recorded in the book is verified and documented, and we have no selfish intentions! If the emperor insists on distorting historical facts and insisting on doing their own thing, then we are not afraid to be the twenty-four gentlemen, to make the world clear and defend the dignity of the historians by death!"

Gao Ruyuan left with a gray face, and then returned with a look of disdain.

What I brought back was a sentence from the Lord - "In the 16th year of Yuanping, there were no twenty-four gentlemen, only twenty-four flatterers."

Some editor was so straight that he was so angry that he was so angry that he died.

Several old ministers with bad tempers surrounded Gao Ruyuan and pointed at his nose and scolded him, calling him inaction, and only being versatile and having a good time in doing things, and acting like a lucky person.

Gao Ruyuan couldn't say anything about his suffering, and he just hated that he couldn't give up.

This confrontation between the monarch and his subjects lasted from June to July.

During this period, the court discussions were all closed, but the civil officials still came to Daliangmen on time every day, and of course they would kneel down in different shifts. Otherwise, the people would kneel for a month, and they would have to kneel down.

If there is any impact, it must be that the official duties of the Silijian and Wenyuan Pavilion have become more and more heavy. Every day, they have to select important matters from the sea-like inscriptions and present them to the imperial court.

By mid-to-late July, the arrogance of the civil officials was a little weak, half of which came from the cold treatment of the emperor during these days, and half of which came from the commencement of the capital every six years was about to begin.

This Beijing Inspection is a large-scale assessment, targeting all officials in Beijing and governors from all over the country. Once the Beijing Inspection assessment results are inferior, officials of any official position will be demoted or removed.

If there is a civil servant, he can't sit still. His mentality of kneeling to invite him to Daliang Gate is often so firm, and he also has a tendency to ease his attitude towards Gao Ruyuan, who is fairly mediating. After all, the chief official who has always been the chief minister of the cabinet.

The previous dynasty was at a critical moment when the monarch and ministers played against each other, and something big happened in the harem at this time.

Lan Cairen started.

It was probably because she was worried about the six months after being confined, and she couldn't keep up with the food and clothing cost, so she started this baby in advance. She had been pregnant for about eight months.

There are people saying that they will not live in life, so her harem is paying attention to her. I am afraid that only she knows what she thinks in her heart.

"The Empress went to Yonghe Palace, and the two concubines with the imperial heirs were accompanied by them, and a few concubines who were joining in the fun followed."

When Madam Yu boiled brown sugar water, she talked about the situation at this time of Yonghe Palace.

Wen Yin scooped sugar water and took a sip, saying, "Since the Queen lifted her confinement last month, I see that she has become much quieter than before."

"It's not just that. Now I'm dressing simple and I don't even have makeup on. People look much thinner and weaker. From this, it seems that the confinement in these three months has caused her a lot of blow."

"She might have wanted to open something after being hit." Wen Yin looked out of the hall, "I'm afraid she's not just going to take charge when she's going to Yonghe Palace."

"The Empress is saying..."

"Lan Cairen is a low position and is not enough to raise the imperial heir. Unless she can jump to the position of concubine, of course, this possibility is extremely low."

Wen Yin took the bowl and drank the remaining sugar water, and then said, "And the Central Palace, there is no son."

It seems that the queen has figured it out and no longer wants to have sex with her parents and children, so she can only settle for the second best and adopt the royal heir to raise it.

The prince born to Ruolan is born this time, and the prince will be recorded in the name of the central palace in the future, and he will be the legitimate son.

The eldest son and the legitimate son are afraid that there will be another battle in the future harem.

But, what's up to her?

When Wenyin finished washing and lay down, Madam Yu stood in front of the couch and repeatedly tidied up the bedding, obviously feeling uneasy.

Wen Yin looked inside and outside the bed, and Fang comforted softly, "It's not accurate every month. There will always be a day or two later, and it should be coming tomorrow."

Madam Yu said a few words in a row, "I will definitely come."

Standing up straight, she went to tidy up the bed tent that had been put down. After a while, she couldn't help asking: "How about I go and make a bowl of brown sugar water?"

Wen Yin was about to say no, but at this moment, Nian Xia's voice suddenly rang out: "Empress, Empress, send someone to invite you to Yonghe Palace to take charge."

Wen Yin was shocked and sat up from the couch.

She looked at Madam Yu, and both of them conveyed a message - Lan Cairen is afraid that it will be bad.

Only for this reason can the queen ask the concubines in the palace to testify to avoid suspicion.

In Yonghe Palace, the Empress, Concubine Xian and Concubine Zhuang sat clearly.

Both sides looked bad, as if they had experienced an unpleasant dispute just now.

The delivery room and the outer room are separated by a thick felt curtain, which can separate the pictures inside, but cannot separate the smell of blood and painful screams from inside.

Seeing Wen Yin come in, all the concubines except the queen stood up to greet each other and gave up their first position.

Wen Yin took off her thin cloak and handed it to the nanny, looked around at the people outside, and then glanced at the delivery room where screams were endless.

"What's the situation with Lan Cairen now?" She walked to the position where the concubine gave up and sat down, and asked, "Can you ask for an imperial doctor?"

Concubine Xian replied: "Lan Cairen is difficult to give birth, and the child's foot is coming down first. The imperial doctor came to take his pulse and prescribed a prescription and put it in medicine. However, there is no good way for this situation. It can only be seen by Lan Cairen's own luck."

As soon as Concubine Xian finished speaking, the queen suddenly interrupted: "What's your own luck? To put it bluntly, some people are waiting to drag it. It's better to wait for Na Lan to be unable to stand it. It's better to have a corpse and two lives."

"I can't understand what the Empress said." Concubine Zhuang asked, unwilling to be outdone, "Is there any good way for the Empress?"

I was not angry about the concubine's contradicting the queen. It seemed that during the three months of confinement, I was mentally prepared for my loss of prestige.

The queen said without saying a word, "In this case, you must always give up one insurance."

Concubine Zhuang immediately asked, "Oh? Then who should I protect whom?"

Concubine Xian said: "The two empresses should decide this kind of thing. According to the concubines, the empress should send someone to Yichangyuan to inform the empresses of the two empresses, and the empress dowager and the others will make an idea."

"From the palace to Yichang Garden, one round trip will take at least one whole day. In this situation, Concubine Xian, can you be sure that she can delay it until after tomorrow afternoon?"

"Then... there is no good idea other than that. After all, life is at stake, who dares to be specialized?" Concubine Xian looked compassionate and helpless.

The queen glanced at Concubine Xian and looked in the direction of Concubine again.

"Concubine, Lan Cairen is imminent. What do you think should be handled?"

At this point, Wen Yin had completely understood what the focus of the dispute between the two sides was.
To be continued...