Pei Gonggui

Pei Jun, who knew all the cause and effect in his previous life, almost suspected that something was wrong with his ears.

——Jiang Yue?The moment he heard the word "Jiang Yue", all the steps he was about to take stopped in place for a moment.

——Why would Taiping want Jiang Yuelai to get married?He clearly remembered that the concubine married Jiang Zhan in the end!He is clear about the beginning, the process and the end of everything, because he is the one who fiddles with the tide in this vortex: he is the one who leads the votes, he is the one who organizes the wedding banquet, even the posthumous seal and burial of the future He also signed and sealed the Queen's etiquette affairs one by one.But now, this established road has undergone such a reversal, which is very likely to prevent this princess who was supposed to become a queen and finally slept peacefully in the imperial mausoleum from entering the Chongning Palace. The fate of the clan and the country are completely different.

At the same time, in the short interval between the words of the second prince of Taiping Qiu Yuanzhi and the uproar of the audience, Jiang Yue, who was sitting beside Pei Jun, let out a muffled choke, put down the teacup, and immediately covered his lips, frowned and raised his eyebrows. As soon as he raised his head, he immediately met the eyes of a hundred or so eyes in the hall who were all looking at him.There were already boiling voices in his ears, and there were many Jiaona and sisters-in-law talking softly, describing the desolate scene of this young emperor's uncle who led troops everywhere but was young and had no wife and children. Upon hearing this, Prince Tai patted his forearm and said happily, "Hey! Old Qi, this is quite a coincidence!"

——But this is not just a matter of coincidence.

Amidst the laughing and shoving of the surrounding emperors and nephews, Jiang Yue immediately looked at the second prince Qiu Yuanzhi who was at the table with the Taiping envoys, and then frowned at Cai Yan, who was among the nine cabinet members at the next table , but the former still has a bright smile between his brows that are two points similar to his, and the latter is still described as a long-term closed-eyed repose-the difference is that there is a fine lock between the old Asakawa's brows, and Cai on the side Yang lowered his head and asked something in a low voice beside him.

Jiang Yue pursed the corners of his lips, lowered his eyes for a moment to think, and then turned his head to look at Pei Jun.

Pei Jun was taken aback for a moment, and before he could shake his hands and say, "I have nothing to do with this", the young emperor Jiang Zhan gave a suspicious voice from the hall: "Oh? I thought that your country originally belonged to our royal family. I chose a marriage partner, but I didn't think about it... The second prince came to share my worries with the emperor's uncles first. The Jin emperor's uncle is on the march all year round, and this marriage is indeed burdened by state affairs. I haven't found a suitable candidate, if it's your princess..."

"Your brother looks good!" The young princes at the table with their nephews and nephews immediately laughed, and taking advantage of this year's banquet, they didn't care too much about etiquette, so they only said to Jiang Zhan: "If Uncle Jin can finally be overjoyed , Brother Huang, you don’t need to worry about uncles and nephews anymore, so you can quickly establish a queen?”

When the uncles at this table heard it, they also sighed "extremely": "Looking at it this way, the new year will have double happiness!"

The uncles and nephews of the Tian family joked with each other like this, almost counting the auspicious days in March, but at this time, an old and humble laugh came from the cabinet table , slowly said: "But in February this year, there will be a spring opening, and the Ministry of Rites is required to prepare for the wedding in March... I'm afraid it's too hasty, and I'm afraid it will take April and May." The voice coughed twice, and continued after he was calmed down: "However, if the date of marriage is to be counted... it will be a blink of an eye. As long as Prince Jin nods on the marriage, our cabinet will immediately decide It is proposed that after the votes are passed at the court meeting, the Honglu Temple will be able to hand over the rituals to the Taiping Kingdom..."

This sentence may not be very majestic and sonorous, but it undoubtedly brought the jokes of the Tian family's uncle and nephew back to the solemn and solemn court affairs in an instant, and warned everyone that this marriage is not only about the Jiang family and the Taiping Qiuyuan family. It is related to the state affairs and people's livelihood of both sides, and the joints of all choices are placed on Jin Wang Jiang Yue, which makes the atmosphere that was originally a little lively because of the royal family's jokes condense for a while.

Everyone looked at Jiang Yue again, as if waiting for him to "nod" as he said before.The king of Thailand beside him even tugged on his sleeve, obviously silently reminding him how rich the dowry Taiping can bring to the court, so that he must not be impulsive.

Jiang Yue turned his head to look at Cai Yan who was sitting behind Pei Jun, and saw that Cai Yan, who had just finished speaking at this time, had closed his eyes and opened his eyes, but still only respectfully looked down at the glass of wine on the table in front of him. Jiu—the eyes are very clear, but it seems that no one is looking at him, and he doesn't care who is looking at him, as if he just said a few ordinary words of advice from his courtiers, while the two neighboring Zhangs next to him Ling and Taifu Xue looked at each other, but they frowned and did not speak.

Not only Jiang Yue saw the words and deeds of these people, but Pei Jun also saw them, which made him suddenly feel: the strangeness of this marriage may have something to do with the votes of the New Deal.

Because in this life compared with his previous life, his return to the sun is the biggest variable in state affairs, nothing more than the change of votes - if he still holds the votes with the six departments as in the previous life, then even if the previous life's King Jin followed him to hold the votes Yes, and he will never be the only one who disagrees with the New Deal; but in this life, Jiang Yue suffered because of his rebellion against Pei Jun, and became the only one in the New Deal votes who did not vote, that is, did not support the New Deal measures A prince with real power and military power not only reshuffled the situation of the party members in the court, but also re-divided the power in the eyes of other countries. policy, it is very likely to change the choice of political alliance.For the Taiping Kingdom, the two items inherent in the New Deal, "supplementing border defense" and "controlling maritime merchants", will undoubtedly definitely damage their maritime trade and land transportation. Most of them are in the border military defense and the officials of Beijing-China censorship pass. Therefore, the current Taiping sees that the King of Jin dares to hold the ticket, and happens to have the sphere of influence they need. Naturally, he only needs to unite with Jiang Yue to get what he needs. That's enough, and what's even more coincidental is that Jiang Yue still has the blood of their own country on his body, and he has a rift with the cabinet in the court, and he is afraid of the young emperor. In this way, choosing Jiang Yue as a marriage partner can also intensify the forces of all parties in the court. The estrangement and suspicion of the emperor weakened the cohesion of the monarchs and ministers in the court, and even weakened the national strength, which was more conducive to the Taiping Kingdom to obtain a powerful position in diplomatic relations.

In short, they wanted Jiang Yuelai more urgently to be the candidate for this marriage.Thinking about it now, Pei Jun only felt that he was a human being in the reincarnation, and actually found a beautiful daughter-in-law for Jiang Yue, the prince of Jin who had beaten an old bachelor all his life in his previous life. After thinking through all the layers of conspiracy, he looked down at this moment, but heard that Jiang Yue had already let out a long breath, returned to his usual smile, and spoke unhurriedly:

"I have been cared for by the emperor alone, and I have been worried by the royal family for several years. Now I am lucky to have the ability to remarry with my mother's cousin. I am sincerely happy and comforted... However, this matter is just like Cai Taishi said. It is a family matter, and it is also a State affairs, so... it is better to submit to the cabinet for discussion, the emperor to make a decision, and then to be discussed by hundreds of officials, so that there is a 'law'."

Jiang Yue's move was procrastination.From now on, the imperial court will seal and seal the box and not conduct business, and the cabinet or votes will have to wait until the middle of the first month of the first year to open the seal and open the box before proceeding. If you embarrass yourself, you won't be able to refuse on the spot, embarrassing the entire royal family and the Taiping royal family.

But when it came to this, it was time to end, but at this time Jiang Yue smiled slightly, and asked in front of all the royal relatives and officials:

"Master Zhang, do you think so?"

Zhang Ling of the west seat of the cabinet heard the words and looked at Taifu Xue again, and replied: "I think what the prince of Jin said is very true."

With such a short question, Jiang Yue used the word "fadu" to drag Zhang Ling, a great legalist scholar, into the water. As long as Zhang Ling said "yes", the Yushitai and Taichang Temple under Zhang Ling's jurisdiction would be destroyed. They will also stick to the imperial court's due procedures for diplomatic affairs, and will not easily allow Tianjia's privilege to agree to the marriage. On this point, Pei Jun believes that since Zhang Ling has always followed the law Starting from the consideration of others, the word "yes" will inevitably be answered in the end.

He had to think that Jiang Yue's strategy was really one step forward.

But the strangest thing is that at the very beginning of this matter, the one who inspired Jiang Yue to make such a leap was the chief assistant of Cai's party members who used to spread the word "traitorous king and traitor" in the court—— Taishi Cai Yan.

This is interesting, why does the Cai family want to get into this muddy water?Is it just to prevent Jiang Yue from gaining power?So did this help Jiang Yue, or did they help themselves?The corners of Pei Jun's lips curled into a playful smile, and he glanced at Jiang Yue again amidst the resurgence of discussions around him, bid farewell, turned around and returned to the table of Six Departments, and set up a future party with Yan Yuliang and others , It is tacitly to discuss the vote on the matter of marriage.

The silk and bamboo orchestra gradually revived, and Pei Junyao saw that the envoys of the Taiping Kingdom finally made a toast at the prince's table, and the second prince Qiu Yuanzhi, who was the direct descendant of Jiang Yue's mother's family of the Taiping Kingdom, was Jiang Yue's uncle, the King of Taiping The son of Jiang Yue, that is, Jiang Yue's cousin.He was thinking that although Jiang Yue didn't immediately agree to the marriage, he also didn't immediately reject it. If the chronology vote is passed, when the king of Jin raises his flag to rebel in the future, there may be more mothers than in previous lives. With the help of the Taiping Kingdom, there will be great changes in the power struggle that he will participate in in his reincarnation—for example, will Jiang Yue raise his troops earlier?How will you raise your troops?Even... If Jiang Yueyue was big enough, would he include the Taiping government in his pocket?

Pei Jun took the glass of wine handed by Fang Mingjue, shook his head and put away his dark thoughts for the time being, and drank with his colleagues in various ministries. When the state banquet was over, he still saw that Jiang Yue was being pulled by the princes to accompany him. Two.

In this way, Pei Jun bowed to him again from a distance, and mouthed a sentence of New Year's blessings and longevity. Seeing that Jiang Yue also mouthed to him and nodded in return, he hooked up with Cui Yu and Yan Yuliang and left Feihua Hall.

For a moment, white snow fell all over the sky outside the hall, as if they had turned seventy or eighty and grayed their eyebrows and hair in an instant.

Yan Yuliang pinched Fang Mingjue's face and called: "Look at him! He's the least like an old man, he's still a weak child with a baby face, irritating or not!"

Fang Mingjue bent down laughing so hard that he picked up a lump of snow and threw it at him. Unexpectedly, after drinking too much alcohol, the lump fell on Pei Jun's back by mistake. He was so frightened that he yelled and waved his hands: "It's over, it's over, it's wrong, it's wrong, Da Xian'er You spare me...I didn't mean to smash you!"

"Then he's going to hit me!" Yan Yuliang pulled Pei Jun up two steps, and the two laughed loudly and stepped forward to hug Fang Mingjue with one hand and one foot. Fang Mingjue let Fang Mingjue yell, and threw him up amidst the belly laughs of his colleagues. With a click, it fell into the snowdrift swept out by the palace guards by the side of the palace road.Some members of the military department ran to dig him up again, and when they dug them up, they shouted, "I found a little radish! Come and pull out the radish!"

Fang Mingjue laughed and stomped them: "Go! You are only carrots, and I am also a ginseng!"

Now even his master Shen Laoshangshu, Jiang Lao and Cui Yu laughed.Everyone stepped forward to pull him up, and walked all the way outside the palace. They heard the palace people all the way to say good luck to them, and when they reached the gate of Yuanchen, the palace bell rang six times, loud and loud. It was so far away that it dragged on for a long time, and it hit my ears until my whole body seemed to be shaken by the long ringing that announced the year, as if I was rushing past the endless years that were being ushered in.

——New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Eve, year after year.

They walked past the plaque hung high by the Qingyun Supervisor outside the Yuanchen Gate, and the few people who were traveling with them are now officials sitting in the hall and ruling one side alone.The snow fell on their heads like the winter in the prison eight or nine years ago, but these former teenagers who played with the snow were able to ride on the official sedan chairs with various silk surfaces parked outside the prison. To the mansions with high gates and hanging plaques.

"Happy New Year!" "Happy Spring!"

They yelled at each other, and finally let this cold winter day have another ray of warmth besides the red light at the palace gate.

Pei Junyou got drunk and got into the sedan chair and returned to the mansion. As soon as he entered the mansion, he saw an array of gift boxes under the front corridor. One of the boxes was opened first, and inside it was a bunch of gorgeous brocades that Uncle Dong and Qian Haiqing were counting. , there were two wooden boxes on the table next to it, with a white paper seal on them, and Yangsa wrote four words: "Jiangling Flower Cake".

"Happy New Year, Happy New Year! This is Lao Cao's return to Beijing!" Pei Jun laughed softly, pointing to Uncle Dong with a little blush on his face: "Uncle Dong, tell all the servants in the family to receive the reward. I want to reward more than Prince Jin rewarded! More!"

"My lord has shown mercy! Happy Chinese New Year!" Uncle Dong smiled and went to the warehouse to get the silver after carrying six catties.After a while, the servants of the Zhongyihou's mansion gathered around Pei Jun to express their New Year greetings, and Liu Jin's mother even wiped away a couple of tears, asking Liu Jin to kowtow a few times to the Patriarch Pei Jun, thanking the Pei family. For many years of kindness.

Pei Jun laughed instead: "Come on, those who celebrate Chinese New Year don't cry anymore, just get up."

Liujin is a child, so naturally he laughed and got up with his little face to help him back to the house, and before serving him to wash and rest, he called out "Auspicious New Year, my lord", which made Pei Jun suddenly think before falling asleep holding the short knife ——

Maybe, maybe, this life will always be really different.