Chapter 245: The Queen Mother of the Curtain
The five human states are centered on Jingzhou, and the eight counties of Jingzhou are centered on Zhongjing County.
The core of Zhongjing County is Zhongjing City, and the core of Zhongjing City is the Dading Palace, which symbolizes the sky and the earth.
The palace is divided into front and back. In addition to the daily cleaning of the palace servants in the front palace, there are still busy every day, and there are few court officials coming for ten days and half a month, let alone any court meetings. It is a rare thing that has not been held for a year.
On the contrary, the harem, which had always been so pure and even a little lonely in the past few hundred years, has become lively now. In addition to the nominal prefect of Zhongjing County, the nominal prefect must go to the harem to the harem every day, and the powerful officials of the counties in Jingzhou are also visited from time to time, especially the palace called Changle, which no longer looks like the Queen Mother's bedroom, but is like a miniature palace like a temple. Whether it is the old court officials who are still in Zhongjing City or the newly-appointed powerful people, or the officials of the counties in Jingzhou, as long as there is something to enter the palace, it must be this Changle Palace.
Therefore, in order to facilitate the visits of various officials without losing etiquette, the front hall of Changle Palace was emptied, with tables, chairs, screens and a bead curtain, which became the place where the Empress Dowager heard and discussed politics.
Early this morning, Changle Palace gathered all the court officials in Zhongjing who are still worthy of holy families. A group of old and young people gathered together for a long time and left one after another until noon at sunset.
When there was no one in the front hall, the listless young man who had been hunched in the upper golden throne stood up slowly. His back was straight, his sword-browed eyebrows and eagle eyes, and his eyes seemed to be radiating when he was not dozing off. He stretched out his hand and casually smoothed the bright yellow robe on his body. He turned his head to look at the woman opposite the bead curtain behind the throne and said, "Mother, why do you need to discuss that kind of thing with these mobs? What result can they come up with?"
The woman behind the pearl curtain was a noble lady of all manners. She had her cheeks, her eyes were big and bright, and her lips were small, neither thick nor thin. Her facial features were placed in the temple and were much worse than the statues of the sacrifices, not to mention that the clouds were shining with flowers, golden steps, green and golden birds scratched their heads, jade pearls, emerald pearls, emeralds, full of wealth and preciousness.
Hearing the words of the young man, the noble lady did not smile or be angry but shook her head gently and slowly, "There is no simple thing for these people. On the surface, they are not allowed to do business. Who doesn't have one or two channels behind the scenes that directly lead to the prefects of the prefects of each prefect? Just like Zhao Yu, who presented the new prefect of Li County this time, just because he was the Changcheng under the clerk of the Dianke, it would be fine when the big tripod was first established. Now, how can he really promote the alliance between Li County and Yongchang and Anyang counties? Especially..."
Her tone paused slightly, and then her mood became a little complicated, "Especially the Lijun among them is still the Lijun like that today..."
"So even if they all have tricks behind their backs, now..." The young man seemed to be afraid for no reason when he said this. He couldn't help but lift the pearl curtain and put it next to the noble lady and lowered his voice, "Although the Nine Cauldrons have lost the Nation of Cauldrons, the National Master has left because of this, the Child is still a legitimate king of Dading? Although it is probably not easy to recruit the hosts of each county to come to the capital according to his mother's words, but if this is the case, he will take advantage of the disaster of foreign barbarians to fight against each county and promote the alliance of each county to resist the French. If the results are achieved, wouldn't the Child be the throne of the king? As long as the clerk is just right, everything can be discussed in the long run. At most, the spokesperson of the 32 counties and princes will be invited back to the court again. When the 32 families' remarks sounded again, the Child is much better than now as a centrally reconciled king!"
The noble lady looked at the young man's energetic appearance without much joy. She frowned slightly and said, "Dao'er, after leaving this Changle Palace, you should be more cautious in your words and deeds. Although your grandfather's people now have control over the inside and outside the palace,... they are always guarding against others. The city of Zhongjing is different from the past. There are countless people staring at this place in the world and even in all directions. You..."
"I know, mother," the young man interrupted the noble lady's words, and his face no longer had the previous glory, but he was not very depressed. "What do my mother thinks about this now?"
The noble lady pondered for a moment and spoke slowly, and still had a steady voice. "Although the new prefect of Li County is young, he cannot be taken lightly. This person did this as soon as he ascended the throne. He was probably even better than Jiang Liushi of Jincheng County. However,... Li County is a remote county after all, and he has to fight against the two southwest barbarians at the same time. He has no power to have more ambitions in a short period of time. So you are right. Li County reported this time that the so-called alliance in the capital city is supported, and we must support it with great fanfare, and divide the will of the Southern Xinjiang Alliance into thirty-two ways. The person who sent the orders of the Southern Xinjiang Alliance will be announced to the people every time he arrives at a city along the way. Let the people know that you, the communist ruler of the world, still care about the safety of the people, and the righteous people will still be in Zhongjing City."
"From the memorial submitted by Zhao Yu, Lijun, Yongchang and Anyang counties have actually formed an alliance, but they just have to use the order of Zhongjing City to make it legitimate. If we follow what my mother said, we would not "promote" but "proclaim" this alliance. Isn't it going to give the three counties the alliance to fight against the barbarians..." He looked at the noble lady hesitantly and said, "Mother, will this anger those prefects too much..."
"What if it's just three remote counties that really angered them?" The lady's lips curled slightly, as if she was sneering, "What's more, they were trying to borrow the righteousness of the royal family in Zhongjing City. Why are they allowed to borrow our power and not let us borrow their power? Don't worry, you have to watch it. Now the Southern Yi is heading north. Whether you are leading the alliance or sending orders to form an alliance in the will of the world, their alliance must be formed, but how much can the people in the world understand the meaning? Eight out of ten will only feel that the authority of the royal family is more prosperous than before in the new emperor era."
"And not only can we use this Southern Xinjiang Alliance to let the people of the world know that the royal family protects the people of the people against foreign barbarians. If there is a victory in the Southern Xinjiang War, His Majesty the Emperor can also reward the meritorious soldiers and pass the orders to the world in the same way." The noble lady narrowed her beautiful eyes slightly, then slowly closed, covering up the cold light in it. "In this way, not only will the Emperor be a capable lord who has made great contributions to the people of the world in the hearts of all people in the world be able to create hidden dangers of internal and external disagreement for those border counties. The reward of the title and fief given by His Majesty himself, are those prefectural prefects willing to really reward those meritorious soldiers?"
"It's wrong whether they award or not," the noble lady's voice was ethereal and unreal, but it fell into the ears of young people, but it seemed like thunder. "This is a good show we want to show the princes in the world... Let them know..."
"The cauldron has not died...!!!"
Chapter completed!