How many buildings are in the mist

When she reached the stairs of the palace gate, she sent someone up first, telling the guards above not to salute, and never to reveal the fact that she was upstairs.Then he and Cui Xuanji walked up the tower together.Find a blind spot of Lu Mao on the ground at a high place, and stare fixedly at Lu Mao who is screaming loudly.

When she was a child, in Zhu Shihan's class, Zhu Shihan told her how the benevolent emperors of the past dynasties governed the country.She asked Zhu Shihan a question: Is a benevolent gentleman necessarily a gentleman?Zhu Shihan said that the best benevolent monarch is a gentleman, but not every benevolent monarch is, because not every emperor can do it.It is not easy to be benevolent.She asked again, but the emperor should be an example for all the people. If the virtues cannot be like that of a gentleman, how can the subjects be convinced of the emperor?Zhu Shihan said that this is indeed the case, but the emperor's governance of the country does not depend entirely on the admiration of the people for the emperor, but also on the strength of his subjects.To govern the country, the emperor must learn to guide and utilize the abilities of his subjects, and learn to know people well.

Now that she has grown up and matured, she knows that Zhu Shihan is just talking about him.Did not answer her question.The answer to her question should be: the emperor is the son of heaven, and he is also a human being. No one is perfect, so not everyone can be a gentleman, and a gentleman may not be a good emperor if he is a gentleman.Likewise, there are many kinds of good emperors, and not all of them have to be gentlemen.Zhu Shihan would run away from things that he could not explain. He always hoped to cultivate himself into a person who faithfully believed in Confucianism like himself, a benevolent monarch he expected, and a benevolent gentleman created by himself.What he thinks is, through himself, to realize his dream of governing the world with Confucianism.

It's like betting on yourself.

This made her hate him a little bit.

After taking office, she gradually understood that she didn't want to and couldn't be a benevolent monarch at all.What she wants to be is a hero, but the reality requires her to be an emperor who is manipulated by the family and shares power with the family, she is not willing.She wants to get her things back bit by bit.

Lu Hao protested loudly below, raising his arms from time to time, and the scholars who followed him responded.Seeing Lu Mao's happy face, she couldn't help shaking her head.She set up a trap for him, and he really got into the cage.But only when the tiger in the cage is struggling the most can she tell others that it is a dangerous tiger.So she told Cui Xuanji to send someone to watch Lu Mao and record every word he said every day.

Three days later, the ruling and opposition parties were still watching, and some of the three factions always procrastinated the discussion.Cui Yi had no choice but to wait for these people to humiliate themselves.And Feng Zihuan went up to the tower to see Lu Mao regularly every day.There was still one day before the government and the opposition came to a conclusion. Standing on the tower, she heard Lu Mao from below scolding her for being rebellious, for losing her ambition to recover the Central Plains, for being obsessed with pleasure and unwilling to make progress. He didn't have any offspring with Xianbei's concubine, and then wantonly insulted all the northern minorities headed by Xianbei, confused black and white, cursed, and even started to scold Cui Xuanji for sexing the king and messing up the harem.

"He is crazy." She said to Cui Xuanji, "What do you think?"

The strong wind above the city tower blew Cui Xuanji's hair, which actually added a touch of softness to her, which made Feng Zihuan's heart move. "I heard that dogs occasionally suffer from madness. They salivate and bite when they see living things. The owner is no exception. It can be said that they have completely lost their minds. Probably Lu Boji is about the same."

Feng Zihuan laughed when he heard the words: "In the early years, I remember that when the Central Plains were in chaos, the late emperor went south, and was assisted by Lu Fan, a famous minister of the Lu family. Now that Lu Fan has gone, will the Lu family be wiped out? "Cui Xuanji couldn't answer, she asked again: "They are all famous families, why are the children of your Cui Xie family different from them?"

She knew that Cui Xuanji also found it harsh to hear the insults from below.As the one who has been scolded the most, she is both happy and sad.The sadness is because she thinks of her mother, Feng Zhao, who, on the surface, seems to know people and be good at all kinds of things back then.Now I just did a small thing, even though it was intentional, it can still attract such fierce criticism.The imperial power is so weak, and there are very few people who support him to strengthen the imperial power.Even if Xianzhi is still there, she will persuade herself that there is no need to do so.

"Perhaps our two families, although we have strict upbringing, have never been constrained by the rise and fall of our family." Cui Xuanji said.

If she really thought so, instead of pretending to stay by her side, she could still consider her one of her only allies.

"Xuan Ji, I asked you to send someone to record Lu Hao's words, but did you record them all?"

"It's all there, in duplicate, and copied the next day."

"Okay, now you go to pass on my oral instructions, admonishing the doctor Lu Mao, making dissolute remarks, slandering the court, disrespecting court rituals, recruiting disciples, trying to do something wrong {52}, arrest by the Habayashi Army and transfer to the custody of the court lieutenant condemn."

"Respect."

"Then, after sending Lu Mao to Dali Temple, you remember to take a team of people and guard outside Taicheng. If the Lu family comes to punish them, no matter if there are only a few or the whole family, they will not be allowed."

"Yes."

Cui Xuanji went.But she stayed on the tower and watched, and suddenly felt that Cui Xuanji's demeanor of arresting people was not charming.

Lu Mao protested for several days, and there were quite a few people who followed him at the beginning; gradually he found that the emperor ignored him at all, and Lu Hao became more and more arrogant, and left some.There was a group of people in the imperial court who originally supported Lu Mao, and they kept delaying the discussion with the attitude of not being afraid of big troubles and pushing Lu Mao out in the worst case, and the fluke mentality that they might be able to compete with the emperor in the court.Unexpectedly, the emperor cut the mess with a sharp knife today.Cui Xuanji escorted people to Tingwei, and asked someone to copy Lu Mao's wild words in front of Tingwei. Tingwei felt ashamed when he saw those words, especially when Lu Mao scolded Cui Xuanji for sex, he felt trembling , saw something that shouldn't be seen.Glancing at Lord Habayashi Nakaro, his expression is serious.But Lu Mao was still scolding, and now he stopped scolding "Israel is the king", and changed to "faint king's minions".Ting Wei couldn't stand it anymore, he scolded his subordinates: "Hurry up and push it down!"

When the copying was finished, Cui Xuanji left the transcript of Lu Mao's protests from the previous few days, and said that he would please copy a few more copies and send them to the three provinces {53}.He also asked if there was any progress in the previous case of assassinating the emperor. Ting Weidao really had no clues, no progress, and wanted to ask Cui Xuanji to speak kindly in front of the emperor, but Cui Xuanji just said goodbye and left.

Now the faction that supported Lu Mao could no longer stand on his side.

The next day, Feng Zihuan still quit the court, allowing Lu Mao's nonsense to ferment outside.On the first day of the restoration of the court, let's not discuss this matter first, and deal with all the important affairs of the court first-someone wants to mention it, she immediately said that it is a trivial matter to put it later, let's discuss the major issues first.Until the end, she asked loudly, did everyone read Lu Mao's remarks?The following is silent.She deliberately asked the one who wanted to stir up discussions from the beginning, did Ai Qing read it?The old man with the goatee had nothing but to say.How does Ai Qing feel?The minister feels disobedient and should be punished for a felony!Among the courtiers, several ministers who were close to the Lu family immediately cast contempt and resentment at this fence-sitting faction.Feng Zihuan saw it, smiled and said: "As an admonisher, it is Lu Mao's duty to speak out, but insulting the court and I, as well as other officials, is fine. Even though he is a high-ranking official, he cannot escape punishment. But I thought it was due diligence, but the language was too aggressive and disrespectful; the order was dismissed, and he was not allowed to be hired within five years. He was sent home and asked the elders of the family to discipline him strictly. What do you think?"

Those who want to beg for love can't intercede, and those who want to throw their nephew in prison for a while can't disobey Shangyi.Cui Yi secretly smiled in her heart.After leaving the court, she told Lu Mao's uncle that she would pick him up in the afternoon, get in the car as soon as he came out, and send him back to Wu County immediately, it would be a disaster to stay in Jiankang for more than one day.Sure enough, when Lu Hao was picked up from the prison, his uncle covered his mouth and escorted him all the way to Wu County.

When Cui Xuanji returned to the palace at night, she wasn't supposed to be on duty, she just felt uneasy, and wanted to use her position to come back and see Feng Zihuan.Before approaching the bedroom, I heard the sound of the piano.She stood outside the palace gate and listened for a while, feeling the melody was leisurely, although it was a combination of those few tones, but in the random changes of the rhythm, it could be heard that the piano player was in a very good mood, maybe a little bit drunk.

When the sound of the zither ended, Feng Zihuan asked loudly in the hall: "Who is outside?" Cui Xuanji had no choice but to say that it was him, "Then come in."

"Your Majesty is in a good mood."

"In the future, if you want to enter the palace when you are not on duty, I will allow you not to use official clothes. I have never seen your own clothes." She didn't even ask why Cui Xuanji was here, "You like the song just now ?”

"It's very chic, I like it very much."

Feng Zihuan laughed, "It's not chic, it's just that I was slightly drunk. It was a song I made after drinking when I was young. Thanks to Zizhang, I recorded it for me on the spot. She still laughed at me, so I can only do this kind of music." Songs, elegant music, I can't do it."

"The king of Nankang was able to write the score on the spot, he really is a master."

"I see, a person's time is limited." She leaned back on her black-bottomed red-rimmed bag again, holding a wine glass in one hand, which can be called a non-slutty sitting posture-she knew it herself, and also thought that if Zhu Shihan When I was alive, seeing her like this, I must say that this is not the etiquette for a king to meet his courtiers—"You, Zizhang, you don't need to worry about political affairs. You have more than enough time to learn literature and martial arts, and to be proficient in an instrument. And I Most of the time is taken up by government affairs. This is the case after my mother ordered me to supervise the country for fifteen years. If I were given more time, I could play the piano as well as Zizhang. Don’t stand, sit down, in the future It's only for you and me, just come in and sit down, don't let me come here to approve you every time, it's a waste of time."

Cui Xuanji didn't know whether he should take these words seriously, or should he treat them as drunken words? "Thank you, Your Majesty. The last time I saw His Majesty hunting, he could shoot an arrow through a wood with a bow. Your Majesty's force is truly admirable."

"This is a magical skill passed down by my family. Zizhang also knows it, but his cultivation is not as deep as mine. Otherwise, why do you think I am never afraid of assassination? I never think that anyone can kill me with a sword." Feng Zihuan said He actually took the writing brush on the case and flicked it with his backhand. The writing brush immediately broke through the wall, leaving a hole, and a group of Habayashi female soldiers who suddenly became nervous outside.

Feng Zihuan laughed out loud, Cui Xuanji had no choice but to get up and go out to appease him.Of course she knew that this family had inherited martial arts, and also knew that its supernatural powers were so vast that they could allow women to breed offspring.A hundred years ago, if the Feng family hadn't used their abilities to keep the country, they would never have become orthodox.

Back in the palace, Feng Zihuan was still smiling, looking at Cui Xuanji with blurred eyes and said: "Xuan Ji, I remember you said that you are good at playing the flute {54}?"

"Yes."

Feng Zihuan immediately sent someone to fetch a handful. "It's been a long night, and it's really lonely and boring for me to play the piano by myself. Why don't you play a song for me?" Before Cui Xuanji could speak, Feng Zihuan immediately added, "Don't worry, I won't give it to you." For any reward, you are entertaining friends with art, not Li Yannian who has turned into entertaining you with entertainment!" After finishing speaking, he laughed again.

Cui Xuanji also laughed.In fact, she wanted to say, whatever is fine, she doesn't mind.

"What kind of music does Your Majesty want to hear?" Cui Xuanji took the bamboo flute hidden in the palace, played it up and down, tried playing it a few times, and was very satisfied, "You can play whatever you want." Cui Xuanji blew it A distant and desolate song, when she played it, she could not see the emperor, nor pavilions, towers and pavilions, only the mountains and rivers under the moon {55} stretching to the endless horizon.After a song, she realized that Feng Zihuan had been looking at her, "Does Your Majesty like it?"

"I like it. It's just..." Feng Zihuan put down his wine glass and looked away, "You are young, why are you playing such a desolate tune?"

Unexpectedly, Cui Xuanji blushed, "I just like it too. There is no particular reason."

Feng Zihuan felt that he had asked a meaningless question, so he looked at Cui Xuanji and smiled awkwardly, "Yes, everyone has their own personality and...preferences. There are too many impetuous people in the world. Yes, that's fine." Cui Xuanji didn't know how to answer the words, he just lowered his head to admire Xiao's body to avoid Feng Zihuan's gaze.Although Feng Zihuan drank three cups of wine, she was not drunk, the slight numbness and relaxation were not enough to erode her rationality, but only expanded her senses, she continued: "I have been taught that as an emperor, one should know people and do things well. Even if all the talents in the world are owned by me, this must be the case. In fact, on the contrary, knowing people and appointing them well means not being too picky. I must use all kinds of people well. If I can choose, I hope they are all like you people."

"Your Majesty appreciates it."

"You are always like this, Guo Qian, so similar to Cui Yi! Whose daughter are you!" After speaking, both of them laughed.

"So—" Feng Zihuan tilted his neck back, looked up at the sky, as if thinking of something extraordinary, Cui Xuanji saw that she was silent, looked up, Feng Zihuan just put his head down, and Cui Xuanji was four Eyes met, "Xuan Ji, do you have someone you like? If you do, I need to know who it is, and then tell that person, and let you work by my side for a few years first."

Cui Xuanji blushed, hating why the candlelight in the palace was so bright tonight!

"No, no, don't worry, Your Majesty."

"really?"

"His Majesty!"

Feng Zihuan laughed narrowly, he was happy, he couldn't hear Cui Xuanji's heart beating like thunder. "I'm kidding you, don't mind."

Cui Xuanji lowered his head and said in his heart that I don't care, I really hope that I have the qualifications to care.But she didn't dare to say it, and she couldn't say it. Now that her heart was still beating, she was afraid that Feng Zihuan would ask some questions like "what does your ideal person look like", so she really didn't know how to answer it.

Fortunately, Feng Zihuan let her go soon.She stood outside the palace watching for a while before leaving.Even if he knew that Feng Zihuan might be able to hear his footsteps, so what?She is bold and timid.

The author has something to say:

{52}In real history, Cao Cao convicted Kong Rong of crimes ranging from "slandering the court" to "desire to commit crimes".

{53}Three provinces and six ministries are a system that has been developed for a long time since the Western Han Dynasty.Among them, Shangshu Province was formed in the Eastern Han Dynasty (known as Shangshutai at the time), Zhongshu Province and Menxia Province were formed in the Three Kingdoms, with the purpose of dividing and limiting the power of Shangshu Province.

{54}Note that before the Han Dynasty, any wind instrument played horizontally or vertically could be called a flute.Flute music only appeared in the Jin Dynasty ("Jin Shu·Volume 81" Wang Huizhi saw Huan Yi), so the real historical evolution was in the Wei and Jin Dynasties.In this article, Xiao refers to the perforated wind instrument played vertically that we know today, while Di is the perforated wind instrument played horizontally.Does not involve more subtle "a few holes" problem.

{55}It is recommended to eat with Teacher Chen Yue's "Guan Shanyue".Although it is impossible in time and space to be this song.