Empress Chu

"There are three people who will be promoted to General Wei, Xie Yanlai—"

Hearing the first name reported, Chu Zhao behind the curtain clenched his teacup tightly, his eyebrows and eyes surprised, General Wei, yes, Uncle Zhong said, in fact, what Xie Yanlai did this year is the position of General Wei.

Luocheng, handed over to him.

Uncle Zhong said reluctantly that he did a good job.

It's time for him to be justified.

That's why he was specially asked to come to the capital this time.

Chu Zhao smiled as he listened to the official finish reading the names of the remaining two people, and then Deng Yi's voice sounded.

"The other two can, Xie Yanlai, no."

Chu Zhao's smile froze immediately, and he almost stretched out his hand to lift the curtain, but he held back anyway, Taifu really—don't care too much about his identity.

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The officials recommended were also not happy, and directly said what Chu Zhao wanted to say.

"My lord, is it because of the identity of Captain Xie?"

"Teacher thinks that we are flattering ourselves?"

"Teacher, please take a look. This is Captain Xie's achievements in the past two years. He was born to death, scarred and killed thousands of Xiliang thieves."

"You don't avoid relatives when you are worthy, and you don't avoid suspicion when you raise relatives. Is it because Captain Xie is a descendant of the Xie family, can you only do meritorious service without rewarding it?"

Some officials questioned, and some officials refuted.

"Who is it that flatters others?" "What is Xie Yanlai's identity? He doesn't cultivate his personal virtues!" "With merit? Does he only have merit?"

"Does the people in your military department have bad eyesight?" "How many times in the past two years has Xie Yanlai disobeyed orders and acted recklessly?" "He is domineering in the army, stealing merit from others, and even led his troops to attack his comrades!"

There was a lot of noise in the hall, and Chu Zhao, who was sitting behind the curtain, sighed, and she had a good talk with the Taifu in a while, no one in this world is perfect.

In fact, she was going to tell Tai Tu about this last night.

Deng Yi's voice resounded in the hall, "Shut up!"

When the Taifu spoke, the censors also scolded, and the hall fell silent.

"You guys think too much." Deng Yi looked at the opposing officials, "Of course Captain Xie can be rewarded for his meritorious service, but this reward is too much, General Wei—"

He shook his head.

"He's not good enough."

Chu Zhao pursed his lips behind the curtain, who is enough if he is not enough?Military exploits are listed.

The official outside the curtain also said this. This is a military general with a simple and straightforward personality, and he called out to the master: "I know that you people are very thoughtful in everything you do, and you have to think about everything thoroughly. But we are not so particular about marching and fighting. He is brave and good at fighting, so he is qualified to sit in this position. I don't think people can see his background. My old Dong swears here that if he has selfish intentions, he will be struck with thunder."

The faces of some officials are very ugly. If they object to such a vulgar person, they are selfish. Will they be struck by thunder?

"presumptuous!"

"What presumptuousness? Is what Master Dong said wrong? It's easy for you to speak up, but do you know how difficult it is to fight ahead?"

"Xie Yanlai is not qualified, who is qualified?"

There was an instant quarrel in the hall, and Deng Yi yelled loudly again.

"Since you say that, the Grand Tutor really thinks that there is someone who is more qualified." He was also not angry, looking at the angry general, "It's just that this person may be seen as a person and cannot be reused."

Master Dong frowned: "Who?"

Deng Yi said: "Marquis of the Left Wing Army, Liang Qiang."

Liang Qiang?Mr. Dong seemed to have an impression of this name. He wanted to say something, but a voice spoke before him.

"no!"

This is a female voice, the voice is not as loud as the officials, but it resounds throughout the court at this moment.

The officials subconsciously looked forward to the dragon chair—afterwards.

The hanging curtain was lifted, and the girl in the queen's court dress stood up.

There was no sound at all, and everyone seemed to be stunned.

Standing by the dragon chair, Chu Zhao didn't look down on the officials of the Manchu Dynasty, but only looked at Deng Yi who was closest to him.

"No." She said again.

Chapter 23 opening

Chu Zhao didn't expect that he would lift the curtain on the court hall and walk out.

She knew that there were almost no queens who could go to court, and she sat in the court hall only when she accompanied the emperor.

The emperor is not qualified to speak, let alone she sitting behind the emperor.

This is beyond the bounds.

She looked at Deng Yi, and could clearly see that Deng Yi's face sank in an instant.

But how could she not speak?

She rescued Xiao Yu with her own hands, begged the late emperor for the position of empress with her own eyes, saw Xiao Xun's father and son trapped, and bid farewell to his father in person, stripping away the nightmare of that life bit by bit. Just put it down, who would have thought that sitting in the court hall would hear the words heard in that life again.

That life was heard in the harem.

Xiao Xun came back from court, and said to her with a smile, "A rising star in the frontier army, he is extremely brave. He never retreated after being cut off in the arm, and he just led the soldiers and horses to wipe out the Fu army."

She was also very happy, of course not because of being honored, she was happy because Xiao Xun was happy, so she was very happy to continue this topic, and asked who this person was: "Since he is so brave, His Majesty is short of people, so he should use them."

"Reuse, of course." Xiao Xun said to her, and stretched out his hand to pinch her cheeks, his eyes were smiling and his dimples were deep, "This man Liang Qiang, I will make him General Wei, I hope he can inherit your father's reputation , please ask General Zhong to take care of him more, now that the frontier county is unstable, thanks to the rebellion of the bandits, General Zhong is also distracted at both ends."

At that time, two beauties had just entered the palace. Xiao Xun said that they were the daughters of an aristocratic family, and the country was unstable. He needed to appease the aristocratic family, but he had no choice but to accept it. Xiao Xun, who was alone with her, was separated, and she hadn't seen Xiao Xun's smiling face for four or five days.

Fascinated by the smiling face, she nodded, "I'll tell Uncle Zhong now, it's easier for Uncle Zhong to have a helper."

It was easy, it was easy, and finally died easily.

Xiao Xun did not become emperor in this life, and the Xie family did not rebel, why did she still hear this sentence?

Sitting behind the curtain, she was struck by a thunderbolt, and she had to speak out to stop it.

"Empress!" Deng Yi shouted, "How can you talk about court affairs indiscriminately!"

The officials in the palace also woke up, there was a buzz of discussion, and they looked at Chu Zhao in surprise. Xiao Yu also stood up at the same time. Although he didn't know what to say, he stood beside Chu Zhao.

Now that you have opened your mouth, you can't go back, Chu Zhao said: "Master Taifu, I am not discussing the affairs of the court indiscriminately, but talking about the frontier army. I am qualified to talk about the frontier army."

Yes, this queen is different from the previous queens. Empress Chu led the frontier army to fight against Xiliang. At that time, the commander Chu Yu died, and Empress Chu took over the military power. They still regard her as a coach.

"Your Majesty's intentions, I will understand." An official took the initiative to resolve the stalemate between the Tai Tuo and the Empress, "This is a big matter—"

"Because the matter is so important, I have no choice but to speak." Chu Zhao interrupted him, "Teacher, please listen to me. At this time, it is really inappropriate to transfer generals, so we should be cautious."

Deng Yi looked at her: "I don't know which one is the prudence that the empress is talking about? Did you ask Feng Xie Yan to be the general of the guard, or did you propose Liang Qiang as the general of the guard?"

These words caused murmurs to resound in the hall again, and the look on the Queen's face became complicated.

Earlier when the Ministry of War said to invite Xie Yan to be the General of the Guard, the Queen did not come out to object, until the Taifu said that Liang Qiang should be named the General of the Guard——

Does the empress mean that Xie Yan is more likely to be named general?

This is not surprising, the queen also had to ask Xie Yan to call her uncle, her own family.

Chu Zhao sighed inwardly, it was no wonder that Deng Yi made an attack, and suddenly came out to speak in the court without saying hello, and what he said was still against him, which was also an attack on him.

"The position of General Wei is of great importance, so we must be cautious." She looked at Deng Yi and said, "If it is said that Xie Yanlai has endless personal virtues, Liang Qiang is not perfect."

Deng Yi nodded: "Yes, I was talking to Master Dong just now." He looked into the hall, "Liang Qiang's background is indeed not good, he joined the army as a criminal."

There were officials beside Mr. Dong who whispered about Liang Qiang to him. Mr. Dong looked hesitant. If this is the case, he really misunderstood Deng Yi, so he saluted Deng Yi: "Your official is rude."

"But Ben Taifu is still willing to make him General Wei, so I don't see people's background, and I have no selfishness." Deng Yi continued, responding to the questioning of the previous court officials, when he said the last sentence, he looked at Chu. Zhao, with a warning look in his eyes.

He was warning her not to have selfish intentions, Chu Zhao moved his mouth, and held back a not-so-pleasant sentence, if such a sentence came out, it would really hurt the friendship between her and Deng Yi.

But she didn't say it, she didn't want to hurt the peace, it didn't mean that others didn't want to, and there was a scoff in the hall.

"Mr. Dong, don't rush to be abrupt." An official lowered his hands and smiled, "Master Taifu doesn't care about Liang Qiang's background, but it doesn't mean that he has no selfishness, but this selfishness is not with Liang Qiang, but with Xie—— on the captain."

He separated and lengthened the characters Xie and Xiaowei.

Everyone in the hall instantly understood what was meant, and there was a buzzing discussion again. Most people knew about Liang Siqing's old events, and some people didn't know—the prince's rebellion, the death of the first emperor, and the death of the new eunuch. In the country, Xie Yanfang entered the court, several rounds of purges of newcomers and replacement of old ones.

Discussions that were known for a while, inquiries that were not known, including the fact that Mr. Dong was ignorant, and they were dragged to talk about it.

In a word, Mrs. Xie and Mrs. Liang have enmity, but Mr. Taifu and Mrs. Xie are not in harmony, so Mrs. Xie will naturally be suppressed by Mrs. Xie, and he is willing to award Mrs. Liang.

The hall was noisy, mixed with the sneer of officials.

"Yesterday, it was said that Liang Qiang came to visit, and the Taifu specially went home to meet him."

"I don't know how many cars the Tai Tuo brought into the mansion yesterday?"

"Stop talking nonsense, did you go to the Tai Tuo's residence, or did you know so clearly?"

The courtroom became chaotic, the discussion turned into a loud noise, and the louder the louder the louder——

"Silence!" a female voice scolded.

At the same time, a child's voice "Quiet!"

The censors, who are used to chaos, have sharp eyes and ears, and immediately noticed that the empress was talking to the emperor. Although the emperor hardly spoke, he was the master of the court after all. When he spoke——

"Silence!" Gathered to the front, but it was not the Taifu who was looking at, but the girl and the little emperor beside her.

Chu Zhao didn't wait for everyone to speak, and directly ordered, "Today's court meeting is here!"

The court officials didn't move, and their eyes shifted from her to Deng Yi's place. Whether the court meeting ended or not was up to the Taifu to decide.

Queen—

Deng Yi looked at Chu Zhao and asked, "Your Majesty, are you sure you want to disperse like this? The matter is not over yet."

Chu Zhaodao: "I have said that this matter should be cautious, and we will discuss it after detailed inspection and comparison. Now there is no result for such arguing, and it will hurt the harmony."

With the last sentence, he looked at Deng Yi with pleading eyes.

Deng Yi looked at her and said: "Your Majesty, you are worrying too much. You should know that after listening to the government for so long, there is no kindness in court, so there is no such thing as hurting kindness."

But after saying this, he turned his head.

"Disperse."

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The officials poured out of the hall like a tide and scattered in front of the hall.

The exhaustion after the downfall disappeared, and the officials either had deep brows or twinkling eyes, or walked fast, or walked slowly thinking.

Although today's court meeting is very short, it is unprecedentedly shocking.

"The seal of General Wei is actually not a big deal."

"Nonsense, who cares about that, don't talk about General Wei, the general's reward is nothing."

"It was the queen who spoke."

"To be precise, who is the queen speaking for?"

Accompanied by the news of the discussion, they also dispersed outside the imperial city.

Chu Zhao didn't care about what would happen in the outside world. After the court was over, she asked Xiao Yu to go back to class first and come to find Deng Yi by herself.

Deng Yi was surrounded by several trusted officials and walked towards Taifu Hall.

"Teacher." Chu Zhao called after him.

Deng Yi stopped, turned his head and looked at Chu Zhao who was walking quickly.

"Teacher, I have something to tell you." Chu Zhao said, and then passed Deng Yi and entered the hall first, "The others wait a moment."

Officials, you look at me, I look at you, and then look at Deng Yi.

Deng Yi waved at them, and stepped into the hall by himself. The officials were hesitating whether to retreat. The maid who followed the queen slammed the door, and two more guards stood by the door, looking at them with serious eyes.