Summer wraps autumn, water keeps wind

It has been snowing heavily for several days, and the capital city is covered in silver, a world of ice, snow and glass, and the pines and cypresses are straight, which really makes people feel refreshed.Today, the snow is clear and the sky is clear, and the airflow gently exhaled by people has turned into small white beads and condensed into a ball, reflecting the sun more and more dazzlingly.

The canonization ceremony of Liufuzhengwang has passed, and he is the serious politically speaking prince. He held a hand stove of blue mandarin bird, and wore a white velvet deer feather cloak, and stepped on the snow to Zichen Hall to pay his respects.

The servant outside gave a sound, Liu Fu lifted the thick brocade curtain and went in, said with a smile: "It's so warm." He gave Du Pin the stove to let him go down, and hurried to the stove to warm up.Liu Fu rubbed his face and said, "It's colder than when it's snowing, it's going to freeze people."

Bi Xin closed the booklet, got down from the chair, smiled and took off the cloak for Liu Fu himself, then hung it aside and said: "Now that you're here, go after lunch, back and forth, covered in snow again, When you turn back and catch the wind and cold, you feel bitter after taking medicine."

"Good brother, is there another basketful of words waiting for me?" Liu Fu smiled.

It was only this time that I could see clearly that she was wearing a newly delivered blue satin gown with silver and dragon plating, a dark velvet trimmed and embroidered jacket, and a hair crown inlaid with silver and inlaid with gold and thin dragon patterns. Wearing a plum blossom pendant, the extravagance does not conceal the beauty.The soft "crackling" sound of the red bamboo charcoal in the stove made me feel even more warm.

The two held hands and talked on the couch, Liu Fu asked each other: "Brother Huang, can you decide how to deal with those people?"

Bi Xin turned his jade finger, nodded and said: "I have made up my mind, exiled them to Lingnan, and demoted their clansmen. I don't want to see these people again in my life."

Liu Fu breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Brother Huang is kind and didn't kill them, and I'm afraid that Brother Huang will kill them in a moment of anger, but it will fulfill their reputation."

He knew that Liu Fu was kind-hearted, so he came to test his tone, and he even had a sense of proportion in his words, and said: "Father told me that killing people is not the best way, and I spared their lives because I want them to think about it."

The two were talking, and Li He had something to report outside.Bi Xin called him in, Li He kowtowed and said, "Tong Zhiben killed himself by biting his tongue last night." Bi Xin looked at each other again, and his heart sank.The emperor waved his hand and said, "Send his body back to his hometown."

Xueluo was silent, the glory of prosperity and the desolation of decline were in the same place.

In the Yonghe Palace, the specially planted cherry blossoms and peach blossoms are now only bare branches covered with snowflakes, waiting to bloom next spring.Qin Huan went to the plum garden to cut some winter plums and put them in bottles in the temple.Wanzhao wore a treasure-inlaid jacket with a douluoni and a bucket of beads, which was only awarded by the emperor, and a Hetian jade bracelet, and sat on the couch reading a book.

It stands to reason that she doesn't have to go to Jingfangxuan to study anymore, but she loves these, so she goes there to attend lectures in her free time, and then borrows some books to read at the bookstore. The Xiejingzhai in Qingyang also has many strange books, and I don't know how she gets them came in.

Qin Huan trimmed the flower branches and said: "This time, my lord is really valued by the emperor. Those ignorant ministers made trouble, and the minister of officials was demoted. The emperor loves it."

Wan Zhao stopped turning the pages of the book, and said, "The emperor really wants to punish the family, but those who are disobedient will be punished. As long as the Liu family works diligently for the emperor, nothing will happen. Father understands this truth, and I feel at ease." She turned around and said: "Appreciating something is also considered a favor, but it is not a relationship between husband and wife after all."

Qin Huan said: "Your Majesty's words are wrong. You are both your Majesty and husband and wife?" Wan Zhao just smiled and said, "What kind of husband and wife are concubines? You don't have to ask any more. Don't be ashamed and panic." Qin Huan blushed and didn't answer.

The Empress Dowager closed the folder, Xinxin smiled and said, "He finally agreed."

It turned out that the emperor wanted to rectify the aristocratic family, and the families of all aristocratic families were in a panic, afraid that they would be like the Tong family, and they were all thinking of ways to please the emperor.Although there is a queen mother in the Zheng family's palace, the queen mother is not the emperor's biological mother, so she cannot be perfect.For the sake of the family, the empress dowager's cousin finally became ruthless, and asked to send his beloved daughter to the palace to serve the emperor as a concubine.

Someone outside sang: "The emperor is here." Following the sound, the emperor entered the hall to greet him.The queen mother nodded and excused him from the ceremony.The emperor wore a dark blue tapestry eight-ball Pegasus leather gown with a bamboo leaf pendant, which was very homely.

The emperor said hello to An, and then asked the reason why the queen mother asked him to come.The Empress Dowager was not in a hurry, she just asked him: "Now that the palace has chosen a few concubines, are they still in line with the emperor's wishes?"

The emperor replied sincerely: "Everything is fine."

The queen mother glanced at him and said: "There are only a few concubines in the emperor's harem. Except for Concubine Ning who is in a high position, the emperor still cares about it. The rest are not high-ranking and indifferent. It seems that they don't know how to serve."

The emperor only replied: "The sons and ministers are busy with government affairs and have no time to take care of the harem. Let the mother worry about it."

The Empress Dowager glanced slightly at the emperor, and said slowly: "The emperor is still young, and he often stays in the Cheqiu Pavilion to discuss state affairs, so it is reasonable to not care about the affairs of the harem."

After the emperor heard this, in the warm spring-like Ci Ning Palace, cold sweat was faintly seeping from his back, he suppressed the horror in his heart, and went to listen to the Empress Dowager's words.

The empress dowager tightened the fox fur on her shoulders and said: "It's fine as a concubine, but the emperor is at this age, and the matter of becoming a queen can't be delayed any longer."

The emperor's heart tightened, and he hurriedly said: "Usually, when a queen is established, the main concubine is named the queen, and the sons and ministers have not yet married, and the queen is bound to get married, and the father died not long ago, and the national funeral is not yet over. It doesn't make sense."

The queen mother clapped the small table and said: "Then there is no need to get married, just seal the queen first, and make up after three years."

The emperor said curtly: "My ministers think that the position of empress is very important. You must be a person with both ability and virtue. You need to choose carefully. If you are in a hurry, it is not beautiful."

The Empress Dowager closed her eyes, handed the fold on the mahogany table to the emperor, without saying a word.The emperor naturally understood what the queen mother meant. Although he was wary of the queen mother, he couldn't completely refute her face.

The emperor closed the greeting book and said: "The daughter of the Zheng family is naturally good, and it will be the New Year's Eve in a month. Why not welcome her into the palace as a concubine next year when the spring is warm and the flowers are blooming."

The Empress Dowager raised her eyes and said, "That's fine too, if you become a concubine, you will be respected as Concubine Ning."

The emperor heard that the empress dowager thought her rank was low, and he didn't want to let the Zheng family enter the palace to increase the power of the empress dowager, but he reluctantly agreed to be the concubine, so he said: "I see that Concubine Ning has managed the affairs of the palace well, and so has her father. To strive for success is to take her dignity into consideration. And no matter how good Ms. Zheng is, after all, young lady needs experience, let her first enter the palace as a concubine to serve the queen mother, and she will have a chance to be promoted in the future." After hearing this, the queen mother knew that the emperor's heart had already been set. If you decide, you have to agree.

On a snowy night, a man wearing a cloak opened the door and entered the room.

I only heard the man say something: "Your Excellency is a good means, and the gods don't know it."

The people in the room sat at the table, saw him coming, got up and saluted, and said: "I hope the adults will cultivate it."

It turned out that the person who entered the room was none other than Sun Panjin, a cabinet scholar, and the person in the room was Lu Chuan, the head of the school affairs office.Lu Chuan asked Sun Panjin to sit down, poured tea himself, and then sat with him.

Lu Chuan said: "My lord speculates on the holy will, these people cannot be kept."

Sun Panjin sat upright, took a sip of tea, and said: "We are just doing things for His Majesty, and if His Majesty wants to do something that can't be done, naturally we ministers will do our best."

Lu Chuan said yes again and again, and said, "Then according to your lord's words, what should we do with the rest?"

Sun Panjin's voice was cold, and he said: "The road to exile is very difficult, and the elders are naturally weak and weak." Lu Chuan stood up and clasped his fists: "Yes!"

It is the easiest thing to let a person die in the school office without anyone noticing.As long as you enter the school office, no matter who you are, whether you have any evidence or not, you will be tortured every day.

Legend has it that if you are subjected to a criminal law every day, the school affairs office will not bring you another punishment for more than three months.Moreover, there are many ways in the school office to make you suffer from extreme pain, but you will not die. You can only survive and die amidst the screams every day.

The school government did not dare to torture those important officials, so they insulted and threatened them every day.That day, Tong Zhi was humiliated and wanted to bite his tongue to kill himself, but how could it be so easy to just die?If the tongue is broken, you will die. Where is the torture of pulling out the tongue?He bit off his tongue, blood flowed all over the floor, and the severed tongue spit out far away, the school office stuffed a big ball of rags into his mouth to stop the blood from flowing out, and the blood rushing out of the wound was again The severe pain of choking the airway into the lungs is far more painful than death, and the psychological fear and boundless despair are even more unbearable.

No matter how painful Tong Zhi was, he couldn't die for a while.Sun Panjin got the news early, and wanted to take this opportunity to finish him off, only to kill Lu Chuan, the head of the school affairs office.So that night, Lu Chuan sent the school office to fill a sack with loess one person high, and press it on Tong Zhi himself, who was unconscious in prison.As long as one night, people will die without anyone noticing, and no fatal trauma will be found during the autopsy. In the end, you can report how he died. Anyway, there is no clue.

Soon after, the emperor sent those ministers from the school office to the capital in the cold and snow. On the way, he met a group of robbers who robbed and killed all the exiled ministers.The emperor was furious, and soon those robbers were executed, and this was the end.

However, there was unprecedented peace and tranquility in the imperial court, and even the words of the officials’ memorials were eased a lot. Packed them up.Most of the Xiehemen case involved high-ranking ministers in the court, and the officials were only minor officials of the sixth and seventh ranks, so it was supposed to have nothing to do with them, but they insisted on going to the court to interfere with the matter, making it a mess.In fact, the emperor didn't plan to deal with the officials, but used this incident to beat them, let them know who is the master of the world, and put in more useful words instead of trying to gain fame.