faint [rebirth]

Once Xiao Junye left, it took half a year.

Until April of the first year of Chengning, Xiao Junye did not come back.

Xiao Wuchen had already secured the throne at this time.

When he first came to the throne, the matter of cutting the vassals could only be put on hold for the time being. However, he had to take back the vassal lands of the Yuan King, the Shu King, and the four kings who partnered with them in an attempt to force the palace.Therefore, the emperor must go on this trip, and he can only go.

Although the original thirteen vassal kings, the uncle himself gave up his status as a vassal king and the vassal land, the six kings including Yuan Wang and Shu Wang were forced to seize the palace, and the vassal land was taken away, so there are still six vassal kings left.

But before Emperor Chengguang died, he issued an imperial decree, making the imperial concubine Shen the queen, and the eighth prince the vassal. Today, there are only seven vassals left.

Five kings with the same surname and two kings with different surnames.

Even so, Xiao Wuchen took back a lot of feudal land after all, and there are only seven feudal kings left to fight against in the future, including the eighth prince Xiao Wutan who is still a child, and those few princes. The feudal lord who exchanged the proton and the son, so the situation Xiao Wuchen will face will be much better.

Especially after he formally ascended the throne, he began to formally recuperate, reduce taxes, gradually withdraw the right to operate salt and iron, and set up another supervisory post in the imperial court, who can replace the emperor to go to various places for inspection and supervision, and strictly investigate corrupt officials and so on.

Xiao Wuchen was forced to obtain the throne, so although the officials didn't mention it, they knew about it, so Xiao Wuchen's government orders were well-understood. Although the interests of some local officials were compromised, it was uncertain whether they would dare to disobey this. The tempered Xindi had no choice but to compromise temporarily.

Xiao Wuchen didn't encounter difficulties in political affairs, but because his body was not too much, and he missed the emperor's uncle in his heart, his body was tired and he thought too much, so he had a good time in winter. No small illness.

Fortunately, his body has indeed recovered in the past few years. Although he was sick, he recovered quickly.

It's just that, Xiao Wuchen really felt that he couldn't continue to be busy like this, otherwise he would be in trouble if he couldn't wait for the emperor's uncle to come back.

So he thought for a long time, and finally decided to change the imperial court system - in his previous life, under the encouragement of his good aunt and emperor's younger brother, he tried his best to be a good emperor, doing everything by himself, and often made himself miserable , I have to take medicine as a meal almost every day.

Although his good aunt and emperor's brother cried in front of him every day, crying for his pity and hard work, but in the end, he still needed him to comfort them and promise that he would never let the power go.

But at that time, he had already started to target the emperor's uncle and restrain his power, but even so, the emperor's uncle was still thinking of him in everything at that time, and he didn't even know where to find someone to hold that person's power. The article said that he wanted him to reform the system, divide the power of the prime minister into three, and set up six more departments under the prime minister, and ordered the establishment of a supervisory office. The supervisors, like the emperor's private soldiers, only listen to the emperor's orders, etc...

It's a pity that Xiao Wuchen felt that Xiao Junye was too unreliable at that time, so although he thought this suggestion was excellent, he just left that person and that person's article, and did not immediately agree to this matter, only thinking about waiting for Xiao Junye After tidying up, let's think about restructuring.

But he guessed the beginning, obviously not the ending.

He didn't have a chance to seriously consider the matter of restructuring, and he was killed by his aunt and Xiao Wutan immediately after his uncle drank the poisonous wine.

Thinking of these, Xiao Wuchen's eyes darkened slightly.

Speaking of which, the two people who killed him in the previous life are still alive now. Although they don't have the splendor and connivance of his previous life, but because of the edict of Emperor Chengguang, the current Empress Dowager and King An are still alive. The royal family is also quite proud.

Especially Xiao Wuchen deliberately ignored them, so after the empress dowager kept testing him, she mistakenly thought that he was focused on political affairs and didn't care about the affairs of the harem, so she simply gathered back all the power in the harem.Even because of Xiao Junye's previous selfishness, the concubines in the harem have not yet moved to the palace of the toffees, and the empress dowager naturally has not moved either - once she is far away, how can she control the entire harem?

And the toffees also dislike the toffee palace where the toffees live together, so since the sage did not say anything, they just turned a blind eye and pretended that they accidentally forgot about it. He didn't move out from the luxurious palace, but still lived leisurely in the harem.

And the empress dowager became more and more excessive. A hundred days after the death of the first emperor, she began to hold banquets in the palace one after another, inviting the wives and noble daughters of the family to enter the palace-of course, although she was pretending to choose the harem for the emperor In name, but in reality, only she knows what it is.

Xiao Wuchen let him go for a few months, except that he almost never met with the Empress Dowager, and never did much. The Empress Dowager almost thought that Xiao Wuchen had already forgotten what she had done back then.

"Perhaps, I just forgot?" The Empress Dowager looked at Xiao Wutan who was playing outside the palace, and whispered to Mrs. Wei Yanghou beside him, "After all, he dealt with so many people who oppressed the palace at that time, but Only you didn’t do anything to your brother, did you?”

Mrs. Wei Yanghou actually couldn't figure out what the new emperor was thinking.If it was in the past, there was still a late emperor on top, no matter what their family did with the empress, the final outcome would be determined by the late emperor.But the first emperor had to worry about the new emperor who was still the crown prince at the time. In this way, Wei Yanghou's mansion could find a way to survive no matter what.

But now...

Mrs. Wei Yanghou felt headaches when she thought of the old lady who was closed at home.

The old lady used to put Wei Yanghou's mansion first. No matter what they did, the old lady punished and scolded them in the mansion no matter what, but in the end, she would go to help them solve the matter.

But now...

Mrs. Wei Yanghou paused in her heart, and smiled reluctantly: "Your Majesty, now you are in the most honorable position that all women in the world envy, and you have King An filial under your knees. Although the Emperor does not often come to you, you No matter what you want, what you want to do in this harem, the emperor will allow you to do it, and will not obstruct it at all. So, what else are you dissatisfied with?"

The empress dowager's face turned cold, and she froze for a moment, before she snorted coldly: "What is there to be dissatisfied with? Is the Ai family supposed to be satisfied? Since the Ai family is the most honorable woman in the world, then, Ai's head Who is the empress dowager? Is she the noble one, or the Aijia? The Aijia will be envied by everyone, but she still has the title of empress dowager. Why did the emperor refuse to bow down to the Aijia and call him his son? Aijia used to be It's a concubine, that's fine. A concubine is a concubine. The emperor looked down on the Ai family at that time, and had no intention of respecting the Ai family's aunt, so that's fine. But now, the Ai family is already a aunt, and there is an edict from the late emperor. , how can the emperor continue to be confused, and still intend to confuse things like this? Such things, Ai's family is a woman, so I can bear it, but my brother is a man, how can I bear it?"

The queen mother stared at Mrs. Wei Yanghou: "you know, my brother is now the emperor's own uncle and the only uncle. But how did the emperor treat him? Obviously, when the emperor succeeds to the throne, my brother should be crowned, but now, what did my brother get? Not only was he not granted a title, but he only received some rewards. The emperor immediately removed all other official positions from his elder brother, leaving only a vacant title. There are also several nephews who have reached the age when they should appoint officials. How did the emperor do it? What? They were actually asked to take part in the imperial examinations with those poor children? Isn’t the emperor trying to force the Marquis of Wei Yang’s mansion to have no more glory?”

Mrs. Wei Yanghou saw the anger on the Empress Dowager's face, and hurriedly knelt on the ground, not daring to speak.

She was really helpless.

At that time, Wei Yanghou's Mansion and the Queen Mother were tied to the same boat, and Wei Yanghou's Mansion was also quite ambitious, so they wanted to support King An to succeed to the throne and participated in the forced palace.

What they didn't expect was that the winner in the end was not King An, whom they worked so hard to follow, but the sickly Xiao Wuchen they had given up early on.

And they lost utterly.

Even with the imperial decree left by Emperor Chengguang, the queen mother became the queen mother as she wished, and King An survived, and even got an extremely rich fief, but if Xiao Wuchen didn't deliberately let them go, even if With the care of the Empress Dowager and King An, Wei Yanghou's mansion has already been ransacked and beheaded early like other people who participated in the coercion of the palace. How can there be any stability today?

It was rare for Wei Yanghou and Mrs. Wei Yanghou to wake up, knowing that Emperor Chengning would let them go at this moment, not because of the vain family affection or Emperor Chengning's face, but just because the old lady is still alive.Emperor Chengning worried that they would be the mother clan of Empress Chengning's mother after all, so he thought twice and let them go.

However, even though they survived, the titles of the Marquis Mansion were never deprived, but Emperor Chengning did not intend to give them other real powers and so on—after all, they were the ones who betrayed him, weren't they?

Wei Yanghou and his wife knew that it was thanks to the long-lived old lady and elder sister that they could save their lives, but they didn't even dare to think about other things.

Therefore, as soon as Mrs. Wei Yanghou heard what the queen mother said, she immediately knelt down on the ground and dared not speak.

She intends to persuade the queen mother not to covet things that do not belong to her, but after thinking about it carefully, Emperor Chengning has never come to visit the queen mother since he ascended the throne, let alone recognize the queen mother as the "aunt". The succession ceremony was also fooled by Emperor Chengning early in the morning. Now among the courtiers, who dares to mention this matter?Therefore, even if everyone calls the queen mother the queen mother, the queen mother also claims to be a family, but in fact, the queen mother has never even experienced the succession ceremony, and this queen mother... really has no confidence.

If it were someone else, perhaps they would only guess that Emperor Chengning was out of anger and wanted to embarrass the empress dowager.But Mrs. Wei Yanghou knew from the beginning to the end what the queen mother had done to Emperor Chengning, and also knew that the two really had a deep hatred. If Emperor Chengning didn't deal with the queen mother now, he must feel that the timing is not right now. Chengning The emperor was just waiting for the right time to directly pull the queen mother into a situation where she could not turn over.

It's a pity that Mrs. Wei Yanghou knew these words well, so she didn't dare to say them at all.

At this moment, she hesitated for a while, and could only move out the old lady of Wei Yanghou and said: "If in the past, the concubine accepted the empress dowager, at most she would return to the mansion and be reprimanded by the old lady. But now, the old lady is old The concubine and the Marquis are afraid that once they agree to the matter of the empress, they will be pressed by the old lady when they return to the mansion, and the concubine will be forced to tell the truth under the embarrassment of the concubine, which will make the old lady sick I'm sorry, so, is it true that the concubine cannot be forgiven if she dies? Besides, the concubine is the daughter-in-law, and the concubine is the daughter of the old lady, so she definitely doesn't want the old lady to have a happy death, so..."

The queen mother was so angry that she wanted to kick her natal sister-in-law out of the palace directly.

Fortunately, she still had the last sliver of reason. After making her natal sister-in-law kneel for an hour, she let her close maid "properly" send off Mrs. Wei Yanghou.

After finishing these things, the Queen Mother went to coax King An to do his homework.

The pits on King An's face remained the same. Although his facial features were exquisite, few people were willing to look directly at him because of those pits. Even the birth mother, the Queen Mother, just smiled softly and did not look at his face.

Wang An lowered his head, looking very obedient and obedient, followed behind the queen mother, and then went to do his homework - since he knew that the queen mother failed to force the palace on his behalf, he no longer knew where his future was.However, no matter how bad it is, Brother Huang will let him live, won't he?No matter what, he was still young, still a child, and no matter how much Brother Huang hated his mother, he would let him live.

Xiao Wuchen obviously didn't know what Wang An was thinking.In his heart, he had already decided the same ending as the Queen Mother for King An.

He had just received a letter from the emperor's uncle, in which the emperor's uncle first told him about the situation of the battle.It is not difficult to take over the feudal land. After all, those feudal kings themselves made mistakes first, dared to force the palace, and put a lot of troops outside Luoyang City at that time, and they were already under Xiao Wuchen's command. Now those vassal kings can persist for more than half a year, but it is only because they joined forces to fight against Xiao Junye.

Now Xiao Junye has beaten those feudal lords to only one, and the delay in returning now is also due to other reasons, so the beginning of the letter is naturally a success story.

In the middle of the letter, Xiao Junye began to appreciate Xiao Wuchen's idea of ​​reforming the system - he always felt sorry for his Wuchen, and when he was in Luoyang, he could still share Xiao Wuchen's worries and take most of the government affairs on himself , Let Xiao Wuchen take good care of his body and do what he likes leisurely.

But now that he was fighting outside, he couldn't help Xiao Wuchen share his worries. Thinking about it, Xiao Wuchen must have had a hard time in the past half a year.

When Xiao Junye thought of this, he felt very distressed, so when Xiao Wuchen sent him a letter a few months ago, he had been looking for all kinds of talents in the south of the Yangtze River, and now he finally found a few talented scholars. After his letter, it will be sent to Xiao Wuchen's side soon.

After finishing this matter in the letter, and then opening another page, Xiao Wuchen saw the love words written to him by the emperor himself...

The emperor's uncle always looked strong and confident, and it was rare that after caring about him in the letter, he began to calculate the time when he could return to Luoyang rather sadly.Not only that, but Xiao Wuchen had to continue to send him portraits—of course, if Xiao Wuchen was too busy with government affairs, there was no need to do so.

Xiao Wuchen laughed, and finally counted the emperor's uncle's letters, there were ten pieces of paper in total, three of them were about business, and the remaining seven were about personal affairs, and at the end he really attached a poem, telling about the lovesickness. Affection.

Xiao Wuchen touched the poem, thought for a while, he didn't seem to have much time to draw, so he asked Ah Yao to find some red beans, and then asked Ah Ya to find a palace maid to embroider a peony On the veil, after writing a reply to the uncle, I stuffed the red beans and the veil into the envelope.

Acacia.

Xiao Wuchen stood in front of the window, looked at the blooming flowers outside the window with a slight smile, and thought in his heart, not only the emperor's uncle would be lovesick, but he would too.

I only hope that the emperor will return soon.

He touched the longevity lock on his neck, and Tao Hua's eyes were full of affection.

And in the south of the Yangtze River, Xiao Junye also held a longevity lock in his hand.

Then he groped the longevity lock with his hands a few times, and took out a map from it.

The treasure map in the mouth of the deposed prince.And the place where the treasure is hidden is in the south of the Yangtze River where he is staying now.

Xiao Junye's eyes dimmed, and he hesitated more and more in his heart.