I smashed the emperor's daughter

Chapter 9 Dilemma
After retrieving the treasure seal, the little emperor ordered Jing Yunhai to lead his followers back to the palace first, while he had lunch in Chuxiu Palace, and then chatted with his mother for more than an hour before thinking of going back to Qianqing Palace.

In the afternoon of early autumn, the sky was bright and the air was clear; the little emperor was walking on the masonry floor among the red walls and yellow tiles, feeling the seal in his hand, which was two fingers square in the bottom and more than an inch high, and finally he felt more confident in his heart .

Then she turned her head slightly and said to her back:
"Thanks to your dexterity, I got back the seal without hurting the relationship between mother and child with the queen mother; tell me, what reward do you want?"

Li Yuntang was the only one who followed the emperor. From his words, he heard that the emperor was quite satisfied, and he was also very happy in his heart, but his mouth was very humble:
"The emperor praised it absurdly. If the emperor hadn't understood the meaning of the servant and then cooperated, how could this matter have gone so smoothly. The servant would not dare to covet the merits of heaven."

"In the future, if no one is around, you don't need to call yourself a 'servant'."

After saying this, the little emperor stopped and waited for Li Yuntang behind him to walk side by side. He deliberately glanced at his neck and asked with concern:
"By the way, you were injured by that person from Chengqian Palace. How is your injury?"

"My lord, I'm fine, hiss."

Li Yuntang's wound is not deep, and it will scab over in a couple of hours, but he knows that he must not only be able to do things, but also be able to perform, so he pretended to affect the wound, so that the emperor will be more concerned about him .

Seeing this situation, the little emperor first took a look around, and when he saw no one around, he turned around and approached; ordered Li Yuntang not to move around, stretched out his jade fingers to open the collar of his tunic shirt, and carefully inspected the wound .

In this way, Li Yuntang was squeezed against the wall by the little emperor, feeling the hot air exhaled from her small and straight Qiong nose, his eyes gradually began to glance uncontrollably:

Black and bright hair, velvet-like willow-leaf eyebrows, almond eyes are lively and energetic, and the skin is like a hard-boiled egg that has been peeled off its shell.

"I didn't notice it before, I never thought that the little emperor is actually a beauty, but compared to the Empress Dowager Yi'an, she is still much younger."

Li Yuntang was distracted when something suddenly fell from his body, which caught the little emperor's attention.

The little emperor looked down and saw that it was the finger guard thrown away by the Empress Dowager Yi'an. His face immediately changed color, and he reprimanded:
"Yuntang, how could you—"

Li Yuntang's heart tightened. If the little emperor knew that he was not right about the queen mother, he would either feel that he had insulted the royal family's reputation, or he would feel jealous. In short, there would be no good end.
What followed was surprising:

"—Thinking about seeking revenge on Queen Mother Yi'an, now that one is strong and the other is weak, acting impulsively is tantamount to flying moths to the flame!

Besides, she is my aunt, even if you are sure of success, I will bear the infamy of killing my mother and be accused by thousands of people.

The pros and cons, I hope you understand. "

The little emperor seemed to take the fact that he hid the armor set as a sign that he remembered the revenge of the Empress Dowager Yi'an!
Li Yuntang was worried that he couldn't explain it, so he buried his head in deep thought, and after a long silence, he opened his mouth and replied:

"The whole family is killed, and the situation is difficult for myself.
But I assure the emperor, as long as I stay in the palace for one day, I will never have any thoughts of revenge! "

After getting the promise, the little emperor felt that the atmosphere was a bit dignified. She wanted to divert Li Yuntang's attention, so she tilted her head and asked:
"Just now you have been secretly looking at me for a long time; how do you think it looks good?"

Although he didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in the little emperor's gourd, Li Yuntang answered the question with the only specified answer without hesitation:
"nice."

"Really?" Li Yu turned his face slightly, raised his eyebrows, and revealed a sly smile, "Better than the few maids in my palace who often hang around you?"

"Compared with the emperor, those maids are like fireflies competing with the sun and the moon..."

The little emperor's expression turned serious, and his tone became a bit hostile: "So, do you admit that there are many court ladies who are often by your side?"

???

When did this little emperor's routine become so deep!
The emperor's mind is really hard to fathom.

Talking about this topic again will only make him more passive, Li Yuntang still pretended to be gloomy, and then changed the topic and got back to business:
"My lord, I seem to know why the Empress Dowager Yi'an gave the cabinet the right to vote."

This question instantly touched the little emperor's mind, and she immediately asked: "Tell me, what's going on?"

Li Yuntang did not answer directly, but instead asked: "The emperor thinks, under what circumstances, a person will distribute the power he has acquired to others."

Hearing this question, the little emperor frowned, and after pondering for a while, shook his head to express that he couldn't think of what happened.

Unexpected is right!

Li Yuntang didn't hold back any more, and continued: "No one is willing to part with the power that she has, unless she——

Can't hold it! "

"You mean..." The little emperor pursed his lips tightly, as if he had touched the key point.

"The Empress Dowager Yi'an's power in the foreign court is not as great as imagined," Li Yuntang took the words, and added: "The relationship between her and the courtiers is more likely to be cooperation than orders from above. "

"You mean that in the previous coup, the courtiers should have helped the Empress Dowager, rather than the Empress Dowager ordering them to obey?"

Li Yuntang nodded, expressing that this was exactly the case, and then analyzed to the emperor:
"Empress Dowager Yi'an comes from the lineage of Duke Gao of the Yu Kingdom, and is descended from nobles; nobles and civil servants have been in the same situation since the founding of the Han Dynasty; how could they be willing to obey the Queen Mother's order and launch a coup d'état?
But the reality is the opposite. The empress dowager who was born in a noble family united with the civil servants in the court and did a big thing. Why does the emperor think this is? "

Being asked this question, the little emperor froze in place, licked his dry lips, thought for a while, and then slowly said:
"When the world is prosperous, it is all for profit; when the world is crowded, it is all for profit.

There must be common interests between them, could it be——

Against the New Deal! "

Li Yuntang did not express his approval, but the expression on his face already showed his approval in his heart, and then he continued:
"The first emperor reigned for twenty years, and he could make arbitrary decisions in the court, and all the officials and bureaucrats dared not refuse to obey, so he was able to enforce the New Deal.

However, the reform of the imperial examination, the civil election, and the investigation of land and acres violated the interests of many officials and gentry. The former moved the ranks of civil servants, while the latter touched the foundation of the careers of courtiers and nobles.

They didn't dare to act presumptuously when the first emperor was there, but after the death of the first emperor, this group of people immediately targeted Minister Gu Ming who wanted to continue the former emperor's policy.

And the two empress dowagers had the last emperor's decree and the seal in their hands. With these two leading the way, they killed Minister Gu Ming, which can be said to be famous as teachers.

Now that the Minister Gu Ming has been wiped out of his family, the New Deal has no one to implement it, and it has turned into a rootless weed, which can be abolished at the flip of a finger!
And after the two sides lost their common enemy, the basis for cooperation also disappeared. They might prefer the emperor to the order of the queen mother.So in order to win over the cabinet ministers who are the heads of courtiers, the Empress Dowager practiced this method of decentralizing power and drinking poison to quench thirst! "

After listening to such a long statement about pros and cons, the little emperor digested it for a quarter of an hour before speaking again:
"Since they are not monolithic, can I disintegrate and disintegrate?"

"The emperor is wise, as the empress dowager is noble, she must not be liked by civil servants, and the emperor has the seal of "making treasures" in his hand, and she is old enough to be in charge of the government; just keep in touch with the ministers in secret, and show no innovation Intention, if things go on like this, they judged that the emperor is willing to maintain the status quo, and naturally some people advocate the new monarch's personal governance. It's just..."

Halfway through the talk, Li Yuntang showed embarrassment. Now it seems that the difficulty of the little emperor's own administration has been reduced, but the difficulty of another matter has increased geometrically:
"It's just that this reform policy can turn both the government and the people against each other. If the emperor wants to make innovations, enrich the country and strengthen the army, as I said before, it will be difficult..."

After the words stopped here, Li Yuntang fell into silence.

If innovation is carried out, it will inevitably attract opposition, and the power of the young emperor is far inferior to that of the old emperor. If the master is suspicious of the country, he may be in danger of subjugation; but if there is no innovation, he will die slowly. Greater humiliation.

In a dilemma, how to choose?
(End of this chapter)