Last winter, he fell ill in bed. After hearing the news, the emperor ordered the palace medical officer to come for diagnosis and treatment. The medical officer said that after this cold winter, there might be a turn for the better.
The emperor was silent for a long time after knowing this.
Huang Chunhui survived the cold winter of the sixth year of Yongde, but collapsed again in the early autumn of the seventh year of Yongde.
The emperor, who was busy with the Western Expedition, put down what he was doing and took several children out of the palace.
He Lianguang asked Li Laoer curiously, "Is that Huang Chunhui very powerful?"
King De didn't know, so he asked the prince.
"He once protected Aye back then." The prince had some memories. After joining politics later, he became even more familiar with Huang Chunhui's significance to the emperor.
Without Huang Chunhui, the emperor would not have a good situation in northern Xinjiang.
It was under Huang Chunhui's protection that the emperor could develop and be promoted unscrupulously. Subsequently, Huang Chunhui pushed him to the level of Deputy Envoy of Northern Xinjiang.
When he arrived at Huang's house, Huang Lu greeted him. When the emperor saw that he was haggard, he asked, "Is this wrong?"
"The medical officer said I'm afraid it will be in the next few days."
Huang Lu didn't cry... The entire Huang family has been preparing for this in the past few years. And last year, they had all kinds of worries. But this time, at this time, there was a sense of numbness that the day had finally arrived.
The emperor sighed and took the children to the back.
The emperor took his children out of the palace for a visit. This was a special case... the only one since he ascended the throne.
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"Huang Chunhui is going."
Zhou Qin sat in the house, watching the sunshine shining lonely in the courtyard, and a cat squatting at the door and taking a nap.
"Yes." The steward said, "His Majesty took Prince De Wang and He Lianguang to visit the Huang family."
"Huang Chunhui is a smart man." Zhou Qin's beard has turned mostly gray, and the old dog in the birdcage has been replaced twice. "After returning to Chang'an, no matter what the emperor said, he refused to come out again, and he even declined the emperor's invitation to his children and grandchildren.
The more he behaves like this, the more guilty the emperor will feel. Once he is gone, the rise of the Huang family will be unstoppable."
The steward heard some dissatisfaction and did not dare to continue.
Logically speaking, when the emperor ascends the throne, as the father-in-law, the Zhou family should follow suit and rise to prominence.
But after the emperor ascended the throne, he only awarded Zhou Qin and Zhou Zun titles as usual. As for power... I'm sorry, but Zhou Zun's reputation in Zhongshu is still the same.
However, it has become a dream for the Zhou family's children to get ahead in this way.
In the imperial examination in the second year of Yongde, all the Zhou family's descendants were wiped out. They wanted to become officials through the back door, but before the emperor could open his mouth, the queen blocked him.
——Relatives should keep a low profile.
There was a lot of resentment within the Zhou family about this, and everyone was complaining that the queen's elbow was turned outward. But the queen asked people to spread the word...
——I turn my elbow inward, how about making Zhou become the second Yingchuan Yang?
Those people couldn't help but shudder when they thought about the fate of the Yang family in Yingchuan.
The Yang family of Yingchuan was the first time in the emperor's life that he had done anything to exterminate his family. It had never happened before, nor would it happen after.
It is said that the emperor said privately that he did not like such violent methods, but he must set a rule for future generations: a gentleman will be killed after five generations. If you want to be rich for a long time, it is no problem, use your ability to exchange for it. Through plunder and robbery
The wealth and wealth gained through various resources must be curbed.
Anyone who wants to imitate the Yang family will look at their fate!
The emperor is cruel and ruthless... This is the evaluation of the rich and powerful, and these words have a strong smell of blood.
Everyone inside the Zhou family was half frightened.
Zhou Qin was naturally not frightened, but he became more and more taciturn.
"As Huang Chunhui sets in the west, I seem to see that the Zhou family is following in his footsteps. The emperor's will to weaken the great clan cannot be shaken, and whoever shakes him will be his mortal enemy. If I can't succeed, neither can the queen. I originally wanted the prince... but I know that if the Zhou family dares to show any signs of using the prince, the emperor will take action without hesitation. He is cruel and can do it!"
Zhou Zun, who was outside the door, sighed and came in, "Aye, what do you want from these things?"
"How could you not want to?" Zhou Qin coughed dryly, "Tell me, when he shamelessly came to ask for marriage, I was ready to beat him up. But I didn't expect that Aning would insist on having his own way. I just thought to myself, and keep going. , will only force Aning away. So there will be such a grandson-in-law. Now that I think about it, if it were not for him..."
Aye is getting old... Zhou Zun whispered: "If Aning hadn't been the queen, the Zhou family would have ended up worse than the Wang family."
But now, although his influence in the officialdom has been gradually weakened, his status is quite transcendent.
"That's right, I'm just unwilling to give in." Zhou Qin asked, "Wang's life hasn't improved yet?"
Zhou Zun shook his head, "At the Ministry of Industry, Jia Ren teamed up with Taiping to find two large iron mines in the north, which are convenient and easy to mine, and the ore is better. I don't know where Jia Ren learned the method, and he kept the price of iron very low." Low. Wang's cost is high, and it only takes half a year to complain..."
"The emperor is going to completely bring the aristocratic family back to its original shape!" Zhou Qin said dissatisfied.
"I asked the queen, and she said: The Tang Dynasty cannot have a state within a state."
"I understand, that is to say, within the Tang Dynasty, there is no force that can compete with the central government. And the members of my family are this force. They will either be destroyed or weakened."
"yes."
The father and son smiled bitterly at each other.
"What will happen to the Tang Dynasty in the future?" Zhou Qin asked.
"In the future...not to mention the future, I missed lunch at noon the day before yesterday, so I went out for a walk to find some food. While eating the buns, I listened to the diners and the shopkeeper discussing the current situation..."
"What did they say?" Zhou Qin's eyes became brighter.
"Thousands of years have passed, but today is the real prosperous age."
The look in Zhou Qin's eyes disappeared.
"When those people mentioned the emperor, they all said that this is the emperor of the ages, a confirmed king of the ages. No one has been able to match him before, and it is estimated that there will be no emperor who can surpass him in the future."
"I...that's all!"
Zhou Qin was slumped, but Zhou Zun was startled, "Aye, are you trying some tricks?"
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"After His Majesty ascended the throne, Zhou Qin secretly sent people to gather some properties in various places, from all walks of life. He also sent people to the far north and gathered more than a thousand savages for training. However, all this is under my control In Jin Yiwei's sight."
Li Fei is still charming, and as time goes by, she becomes more graceful.
The emperor put down the memorial, with a hint of understanding between his brows, "The empress's grandfather was best at hibernation, quietly accumulating strength in hibernation. When the false emperor wanted to touch the Zhou family, he immediately released those secret powers. It came out and shocked Chang'an. Now he still wants to do something like this..."
"Are we going to cut off those forces?" Li Fei asked.
"No offense." The emperor said: "He is getting older. The last time the queen came back from her mother's home, she told me that Zhou Qin is probably not a few years old. He is obsessed. He will look back... You have someone tell the father-in-law, Just say, it’s too cold in the far north. If you’re old, don’t go there!”
This is knocking!
"That's right." Just as Concubine Li was about to go out, the emperor stopped her and said, "Tell the abbot that this will not happen again!"
Concubine Li looked at the emperor lowering his head and continuing to review the memorials. She thought to herself, if the emperor has reached this point, can he no longer be unreasonable?
When she walked out of the hall, she saw Wang Laoer who was eating dried meat and bragging to He Lianguang about his deeds back then.
"...It was only because of me that your Majesty escaped..."
Wang Laoer is definitely a strange existence in the palace.
In terms of trust, he was in charge of the emperor's imperial guards, the Qianniu Guard. In terms of intimacy, he could enter the emperor's harem and eat and drink.
Moreover, he would often be off duty, so the emperor should have replaced him, but the emperor just assigned him a deputy with a strong sense of responsibility and continued to let him go freely.
The outside world said that the emperor was too kind to Wang Laoer, but He Lianyan knew that this was the emperor remembering the friendship of the past.
She walked over, knelt down, looked at Wang Laoer at the foot of the steps and asked, "Lao Er, are you off duty again?"
The post of General Qianniuwei is not here.
Wang Laoer said plausibly: "I am closer to Your Majesty, so that it is easier for me to protect you."
Full of nonsense... He Lianyan smiled and said, "Aren't you afraid that the friendship between you and His Majesty will be exhausted?"
Wang Laoer said:
"Friendship can never be exhausted. Friendship is lost by oneself."
He Lianyan felt that her mind was suddenly clear.
The friendship between the Zhou family and the emperor is very deep. If the Zhou family stays on its own terms, it will not be said that it will lead to great success, but its continued wealth and honor will be guaranteed.
Just like Wang Laoer, as long as his heart is good...yes, it is his heart.
Wang Laoer always acts as he pleases and stays true to his heart.
What is his true intention?
It was a feeling of friendship towards the emperor, so even if he made a mistake, the emperor would just laugh and scold him a few words, and then personally wipe his ass.
As for Zhou, especially Zhou Qin, what is his original intention for doing this?
It is unwilling to be lonely.
It's ambitious!
If the emperor could still tolerate him in this way, it was not a sign of affection, but of indecision.
She looked at Wang Laoer and felt that although she had known him for many years, she had never seen through this fool.
Zhou Qin fell ill that night. After hearing the news, the queen left the palace and returned to her parents' home the next day.
"Aweng, how do you think Zhou will be satisfied?"
the queen asked.
Zhou Qin was lying on the bed in silence.
"Could it be that you have to ask Zitai to give up the throne before you give up?" The queen said harshly.
"Aning!" Zhou Zun frowned.
"Aye, isn't it enough that the Zhou family's status is respected now? You have to gain a family power that can compete with the emperor in order to be satisfied?"
These words immediately revealed Zhou Qin's thoughts.
"When that time comes, the Zhou family will definitely not be satisfied, just like Yang Songcheng." The queen warned: "I don't know about others. What the emperor hates most is greedy people. If he can show mercy to Aweng, that's just to see
In terms of the old friendship, it can’t withstand such abandonment!”
The queen returned to the palace to find the emperor and told her family's reaction.
"Aweng's people were taken over by Aye and will be dismissed one by one. Aweng will no longer be in charge..."
"Aning." The emperor held her hand and said: "Whether it is the Zhou family or the Wang family, I will not abandon the remaining wealthy families to my children and grandchildren, let alone give them a chance to revive. I will destroy them.