15. The Emperor's Choice
At this moment, the emperor sent an imperial envoy to repel Gao Yue and happened to arrive in Bianzhou. However, he only saw the original royal family member Li Qi dressed in a bright clothes, but returned to the detention area. He knew that matters in Huainan and Jiangdong had settled. He had no choice but to patrol for a long time and return to the capital.
During this period, it was snowing in Guanzhong. It was heavy snow. The snow was more than 20 meters in the capital. The weather was very strange: winter thunder mixed with hail, which fell down after the snow, destroying many trees and fields, and many livestock were frozen to death. Officials in the capital, all the people of the city, the children of the city guards, and the children of the temple's powerful subordinates, together with tens of thousands of people, are now in great difficulty.
The prime minister was all expelled by the emperor, and the rice and grain transported from the canal could not be delivered. The emperor himself discussed disaster relief measures with Mr. Xiao Pei, specifically taking out the internal treasury money and buying the rice, and then letting the ships transport Chen rice from Taiyuan Cang and Heyin Cang. It is even rumored that the emperor had a grand plan to conquer Huainan.
But in the palace gates of the Daming Palace, many people in the forbidden area knew that all of this was just the emperor's imagination:
The emperor spent all day with the clerks of the Secretariat in the group, oral and imperial writing, and then a mess, and could not be uploaded smoothly. The structure was always in the category of sketches;
When you lay off an institution and use it to manipulate it, it will be completely futile. Where will you attach if you don’t have any hair?
In the cold weather, the emperor is like a bird flying around only within the iron walls on all sides.
Unknown news came one after another. Not only were there snow disasters in Guanzhong, but there was also earthquake in Qishan, Fengxiang, and the large pagoda of Famen Temple also cracked. The blue-gray earth air splashed out, frightening residents within a radius of hundreds of miles.
Now not only Si Tianjian issued an alarm, but Sima Chengzhen also came to see the emperor in person and solemnly said, no matter what, your Majesty, you should also make an official explanation and remedy for this.
After the depression recovered, the emperor walked around the Penglai Pavilion Water Pavilion in the palace after his body was slightly recovered. At this time, the waterfall had already turned into static ice edges. The entire lake panel was formed, and a frost-colored corpses of stiff birds that were frozen to death were scattered on the ground and on the lake ice, which was shocking.
It is said that the low-level palace maids living in the wild fox are frozen to death and are carried out every day, which is very pitiful.
"Your Majesty, Huainan and Jiangdong, the ship carrying the order to support rice has arrived at Weikou." When Daying envoy Huo Zhongtang came to the snow and bowed to tell the emperor about the news...
The emperor snorted, but the fingers in his sleeves were pinching them tightly, almost bleeding, and his heart was mixed.
Huo Zhongtang paused and whispered to the emperor: "There are still many Huaiyang merchant ships carrying rice, grain, cotton cloth and silk, and they went directly into the Dongshi release pond to dump them. The capital of Jingzhong was crazy about it."
The emperor then asked about the price, and Huo replied that Duke Gao Wei explained in advance that those who would not raise the price will be simple, and the officials in the capital, all the lustful people and the people were saved.
In the snow, the emperor's face turned red and he didn't say a word.
Finally, Huo Zhongtang thought about it and told the emperor that Li Qi was defeated and detained. Gao Wei Duke put him and his wife and children in shackles and nailed them to the boat. Li Qi's concubines were released from the mansion and were entrusted to the person themselves. Now the ship carrying Li Qi was probably crossing the Dayang Bridge and could arrive in the capital in three or five days.
"I know this."
Back in the bathroom, Shangqing served tea in front of the emperor.
The emperor looked at the tea leaves floating in the cup and asked Shangqing in a hoarse voice, "Is it a new tea?"
Shangqing lowered his head, "Huoshan Huangya from Huainan came with the Weiyang boat, and the price was peaceful, so I bought a lot."
The emperor drank the tea, which was mellow and sweet, with a slightly refreshing bitterness.
It seemed like Gao Yue gave him the taste.
"Have you been thinking hard about why Dou Shen ended in such a situation?" the emperor suddenly asked.
Shangqing was so scared that he shrank his neck, lowered his body, and said tremblingly: "Former Prime Minister Dou violated the court. I was in the deep boudoir and really didn't know the truth. Fortunately, I was lucky to be in disguise. Now I can serve Your Majesty on the left and right. If I were in heaven, how could I talk about the past?"
"It's okay to tell you." The emperor's tone was plain, "Dou Shen is not Gao Yue's opponent, he is the loser, it's that simple. What I thought before was that I could rely on Mr. Xiao Pei to protect my inner treasury and my power. I have tried my best, but I can't make it back! The choice I faced before was to stay Lu Jiu or Xiao Pei... Now I am facing is to stay Xiao Pei or senior high school."
Before the words were finished, Shangqing started crying.
"In the third year of high school, he was unhappy about me continuing to set up a township army, and he was not happy about me credit. He was not happy, so he insisted on asking me to be unhappy... So..." The emperor also lowered his head, then shook it, full of bitterness, as if he was mocking himself, "I understand, if I sit happily in the future, I will have to be happy in the third year of high school."
Speaking of this, the emperor's tears also slid down silently.
Whether it is the Supreme Lord of the Nine Five, the God of Sect, or the Imperial Guard, these seemingly brilliant and scorching powers are actually just a fiction.
Now the emperor is not worried about Gao Yue coveting his position, because Gao Yue doesn't care at all.
The clerk Hua Huan knelt outside the hall. He told the emperor that Jiang Gongfu was not in the capital, and seemed to have followed the alchemist to seek immortality and ask questions.
The emperor had no choice but to think of him as he had a Jiang Gongfu, so he asked him to find him, wanting to be the prime minister.
However, after Jiang Gongfu was demoted to the prince's concubine, he lived in the capital for a long time without any trouble. His mother passed away again. In the end, he had no worries. He threw down his seal and seal in the clothes and went to travel to famous mountains and rivers without knowing it. Now he has found it, but there is no news.
When the emperor heard this news, he was stunned for a while.
The next day, Pei Yanling met the emperor alone in the Golden Palace.
Pei Yanling also knew the news that Li Qi was defeated and captured. He instinctively felt that the situation had turned around and became passive again under a great situation!
However, Pei Yanling is a rebellious person after all, and he still has to fight to fight.
But I didn't expect that he was the one who was trapped in the end to fight.
After Lu Zhi was demoted, Pei Yanling discussed with Li Qiyun and Li Shi to arrest Zhang Zhong, a subordinate of Jingzhao Yin Li Chong who was advancing and retreating with Lu Zhi, and tortured him severely. Zhang Zhong could not stand it and could only give in and say that he had accepted the orders of his superior Li Chong and had corruption of millions of dollars.
At this moment, Pei Yanling handed Zhang Zhong's confession to the emperor, "Zhang Zhong also confessed that Li Chong's wife and Lu Zhi's wife were very close, so he sent several cars full of gold and silk to bribe Lu Zhi's wife, and the other party also took it down."
After hearing this, the emperor asked Pei Yanling, "Lu Zhi's wife accepted bribes, do Lu Zhi himself know?"
"How can a husband and wife break up? But Lu Zhi is deeply involved in this matter and cannot be ruled away from the blame."
But after Pei Yanling finished speaking, the emperor did not respond for a long time.
The sound of leaking in the hall suddenly came out, and Pei Yanling understood something in his heart. The gray-black thing filled his eyes...
Chapter completed!