Emperor Wanlong, wearing a black and yellow dragon robe, sat on the edge of the imperial concubine's couch, with one arm bent on his knees, leaning forward, looking down at the Queen Mother Han who was kneeling on the ground.
Under the dim light of the oil lamp, the Queen Mother Han lowered her head slightly, her lips trembled, and she was about to cry without tears. Suddenly she raised her head to look at the emperor, their eyes collided, and when she saw the emperor's sharp eyes, she lowered her head as if she had been hit hard and collapsed there.
"A vicious woman is a regicide!"
Emperor Zhao Tian's words were like a whip hitting the woman's body, inspiring her. She raised her head, her eyes full of prayer, as if she had a thousand words to say, but Zhao Tian waved his hand: "Stop talking, I don't want to hear anything."
Zhao Tian stood up, sighed and said: "A gentleman should stick to his roots, and the Tao is born from his roots. Filial piety to his brothers (brothers) is the foundation of benevolence. I strongly advocate Confucianism, and the most important thing is 'filial piety, brotherhood, loyalty, trust, propriety, justice, integrity and shame'. Since the founding of the Liang Dynasty, I have
There is no precedent for an emperor to kill a queen mother. So I will not kill you."
"Thank you, Emperor, for showing mercy! Thank you, Emperor, for showing mercy!" The Empress Dowager Han kowtowed while lying on the ground.
Zhao Tian narrowed his eyes: "But from now on, you have to know what you should say and what you shouldn't say."
"Countless! Countless!" Queen Mother Han said quickly: "I killed Emperor Tiande! I deserve to die! The whole family deserves to die!"
Zhao Tian sneered, nodded and said: "Every two months, you pretend to be crazy and shout these words in front of the eunuchs and maids. Don't worry, I won't take the crazy words seriously. I will still do it because of you.
I am crazy, and I am extra filial to you. But I want to remind you not to play tricks with me."
Empress Dowager Han opened her mouth to cry loudly, tears streaming down her face, but she did not dare to cry out. Her asthmatic breathing vibrated in the hall: "I have no shame to beg Your Majesty again. But there is one thing, if Your Majesty does not agree, it will make me miserable.
Death. In consideration of our long-standing acquaintance, I beg your Majesty to let Meng'er go (Feng Wang Zhao Meng). He is still young, he doesn't know anything, everything is my idea! Your Majesty, please have mercy!"
"Easy to say, easy to say, Meng Di is still a child, how can I argue with him."
Later, Prince Feng's family died tragically, so I won't go into details here.
As for the tragedy of King Feng, perhaps Zhao Tian had already thought about it when he said these words.
Zhao Tian was shrewd since he was a child, and he had a photographic memory of reading. He recited all the Confucian and Legalist classics at the age of eight, and defeated the emperor in chess at the age of nine. Emperor Tiande loved him very much and established his status as the prince early. But after he was twelve years old, he discovered that
He has some addictions.
He especially loves to play, and his play is different from normal people. If he only plays Cuju, polo, raises birds, fights crickets, etc., Emperor Tiande will not take it seriously. This kid loves to play with women, even to the extent of playing with the prince.
At home, Emperor Tiande felt that the problem was serious.
King Xiang was the brother of Emperor Tiande. The person Emperor Tiande trusted the most was King Xiang, and the then prince Zhao Tian had his daughter-in-law. So Emperor Tiande felt that the prince was naughty and naughty.
Discard it.
"From now on, I will ask Xun Duoyu and Sun Buwu to serve you."
Zhao Tian brought two little eunuchs. These two little eunuchs were really not very good-looking. They were dry, thin and ugly, and their eyes were distracted. They seemed to have lost their souls. They stood together like a pair of little devils.
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However, everyone who knows them knows that these two people have extremely high martial arts skills, not inferior to Huang Dingtian or Lu Changxiao. Huang Dingtian was the "guardian" that Su Ping saw playing with the three swordsmen that day, while Lu Changxiao was good at light skills and hidden weapons.
, stay with the prince.
The four of them are all apprentices of the demon monk of Daxiangguo Temple.
In fact, the demon monk has a total of eight apprentices, known as the Eight Great Vajras. These martial arts disciples were selected from hundreds of thousands of people. And all of this was arranged by Zhao Tian when he became the prince.
Xunduoyu is his nickname. Because he speaks so little, people even thought he was mute, so he was given this nickname. But it was useless to take this nickname, he still didn't say a word.
Sun Buwu, on the other hand, looks like a demented child. He has extremely high understanding of internal skills, but he can't learn anything except internal skills. He can't use chopsticks to eat and has to grab it with his hands, so he is called "Buwu". This is When people fight, they don't have any moves, they just rely on the king's eight punches. If he gets a punch in his turn, his helmet will be flattened and his skull will be broken.
"Your Majesty, the eighteen newly recruited maids have been brought to you. They are all girls with big eyes according to your Majesty's instructions."
The young eunuch Lu Shi, holding a fly whisk in his arms, led eighteen big-eyed maids to the Changqiu Palace, and said to the emperor with a smile.
"Hey, what are you talking about? Why did I ask for this?" Zhao Tian lowered his voice: "Don't let Zhao Bao hear this."
"I understand, I understand."
Lu Shi discovered that Emperor Zhao Tian was a little afraid of Tang Zhao, and even wanted to hide these beautiful maids in Changqiu Palace, nominally to serve the Queen Mother.
This is something new. Lu Shi has served the prince since he was a child, and he has never seen the prince afraid of any woman.
After finishing these tasks, the emperor came to Anning Palace, which was the residence of the seventh lady Tang Zhao. Tang Zhao was just waiting for the national mourning to be over before she would be made queen.
"Zhaobao, have you slept?"
"I have fallen asleep."
"Hey, Zhao Bao is so powerful that he can still talk even when he's asleep."
It is worth mentioning that men call themselves concubines in front of the emperor, and women call themselves concubines in front of the emperor (except for relatives with specific titles such as the queen mother). There is no such thing as "concubine". Even the queen has to call herself concubine in front of the emperor. Except in formal occasions, the emperor usually does not use the word "I" instead of "I".
The emperor broke into the house and exercised his muscles with Tang Zhao on the couch. Tang Zhao couldn't sleep, so he sat in front of the case and read the memorial.
This was his new rule, not to send the memorial to the imperial study, but to the Anning Palace. He was still training Tang Zhao and helping him review the memorial.
While flipping through it, I saw the "Princess Princess Alternative List" submitted by the Tang family. When I opened it, I saw that the Ninth Miss Tang Huan was recommended by eighteen people, while the Sixth Miss Tang Mei was recommended by only six people. Seeing this result, Zhao Tian He gave a wry smile.
"This girl's popularity..."
Zhao Tian shook his head, picked up his pen, and commented: "I have heard for a long time that the Sixth Miss is upright, well-behaved, and a model of Confucian women. She is promoted to the second-grade Dacheng Princess. The title will be drafted by the Tang family and submitted to the Ministry of Rites for approval. .”
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Last night, the bad boy was running around trying to improve Mei Ran's character.
He did have a wealthy background, but his wife's status in the Meng family was not high, so he could only shamelessly go to his father-in-law. The father-in-law took good care of him and promised to help him. But there was no shortage of children in Honglu Temple, and the father-in-law wrote a letter Give him a letter and ask him to find the Minister of War.
Finally, the matter was settled with the Minister of War, and I was just waiting for his approval early tomorrow morning.
The next day, he came to the Yamen of the Punishment Department early to wait for Su Ping Mei Ran. In fact, Mei Ran lived in the mansion in front of the Punishment Department, and the girl always got up very early, so she met Tong Yin.
"The Minister is also in a dilemma. After all, there are no women in the Ministry of War. Later, he arranged for you to go to the military hospital under the Xuanjia General Warehouse, saying that you are a high-ranking military doctor." Tong Yin said with a wry smile.
Mei Ran smiled: "I don't care where you place me, as long as I have good character."
Tong Yin smiled ashamedly.
Mei Ran tilted her head: "You tell me, why did you come here? If you left me as a bad person, wouldn't this matter be over? Why, you also look down on women?"
Tong Yin shrugged: "There is no way, there are no women in the entire military department. If I start this, what do my colleagues think of me? Then I will become famous."
Mei Ran smiled indifferently.
Tong Yin didn't leave even after he finished speaking, and looked around: "Where's Su Ping? Not with you?"
Mei Ran said: "He is lazy. He told me to come here early yesterday, but he never goes to work on time."
Tong Yin was startled, pointed at the Penal Department Yamen and said: "He is working here, how dare he be late?"
Mei Ran smiled and said: "You don't know him, he is just such a person. When I met Mr. Xue yesterday, he also said that he did not work."
Tong Yin smiled bitterly: "After all, he is the uncle of the direct daughter of the Duke's Mansion, but it's just different."
Mei Ran said: "It's not someone's uncle's fault, he himself is like this."
Tong Yin shook his head in disapproval, but he left without saying anything.
In fact, Su Ping was not late today, it was just that the two of them got up too early.
This morning, under the coordination of the Yuanwailang, Mei Ran was first transferred to the subordinate relationship. In the afternoon, these things were completed. The Yuanwailang's nose was not the nose or the face, and he kept mumbling something. It seemed to say,
This matter should have been completed yesterday. If it is completed now, there is a high chance that I will be criticized when I go to the minister.
Su Ping was too lazy to pay attention to him.
Huang Sanlang's case has been approved, and it was sent from the palace last night. But Xue Shilang held up the approval document and looked at it for a long time, and he always felt that something was wrong.
"This is not the word of the emperor..."
Of course Xue Pang didn't know that it was Tang Zhao who approved it. But Tang Zhao approved it without any problem. Tang Zhao demanded that such wrongful cases must be investigated strictly and never tolerated.
It doesn’t matter whether it’s the emperor’s name or not. What’s important is that it has the imperial study’s seal on it, as well as the guidance and seal of the Menxia Province.
Then Xue Pang picked up the pen, filled out some paperwork, and handed it to Su Ping: "Take this and go to Yongkang County to thoroughly investigate the case."
Su Ping received the paperwork, and Xue Pang calmly sat in the chair and asked: "I ask you to do it quickly. If it can't be done quickly enough, or it can't be done, don't come to see me. Go directly to Yuanwailang to go through the formalities and go back to the county.
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This Minister Xue is simply a life-threatening ghost.
When working under such people, you have to learn to take some time off from the busy schedule, otherwise you will be exhausted. Moreover, even if you are out of breath and exhausted, you may not get any benefits even if you do the most work. Because it determines whether a person is hired or not.
What your boss appreciates is not the size of the workload, but whether things are done beautifully.
Another thing I have to say is that the more things you do, the easier it is to make mistakes. On the contrary, people who do nothing make mistakes.
Everyone seems to understand this principle and thinks that leaders will know it well.
But look around you, those who made mistakes were punished, but those who drank tea and read newspapers were sitting peacefully.
The obvious truth is the rules, not the "Tao".
To say that a person is "righteous" does not mean that he understands many great principles. Those things are useless and are mostly used to educate people. People who talk about great principles all day long are mostly fools. Or smart people are taking advantage of them.