box of hearts

Chapter 30 Suo Nanzhi (11)
At the triumphant celebration banquet, everyone was in a drunken dream: How did a cripple repel the unparalleled Mongolian iron cavalry?It wasn't until the cripple showed even more frightening political skills that the government and the opposition woke up like a dream.In just a few years, the third prince Qi She, who was once thought to have no hope of turning over, has become the auxiliary political uncle, and cooperated with the Western Queen Mother Xihe to divide up half of the country that originally belonged to the royal family of the foreign relatives and the Eastern Queen Mother.The Western Party and the Eastern Party are now evenly matched.

For this reason, the Empress Dowager Zhan Xihe was able to enjoy her youthful body to the fullest in her widowed life, in the empress dowager's bedroom full of ancestral instructions.She moaned softly, her fingers gradually pinched the phoenix curtain tightly.

The golden toad stove at the foot of the bed exhausted all the cigarettes, and it was past noon.

"Pooh!"

The sun slanted into the side hall of Ciqing Palace, and there was a resounding spat from inside the hall.I saw the Eastern Empress Dowager Wang's high forehead and pointed nose, phoenix-eyed sandalwood mouth, and a lot of sorrow and hatred locked between her two thin eyebrows. She twisted a pair of emerald jade pendants under her ears with her fingers painted vermilion, " Today are the two empress dowagers, but they were not the two empress dowagers back then. When the first emperor was here, I was in the central palace. Although the prince was born in the west, it was just a "virtuous concubine". Every morning and evening, I want her to be there The outer hall of Kunning Palace knelt and waited for a quarter of an hour before allowing her to enter. But now people come to Ciqing Palace as if they are visiting, and they can do whatever they like, isn't it because the regent has been behind her all these years?"— —Ah no, mostly "body".Thinking of this unspeakable dirty thing, Wang's face became more and more contemptuous.

There was also a male guest sitting on the lower chair, who looked about forty years old, with a beautiful beard and chest.This is the elder brother of the Wang family, Wang Zhenghao, the longest among the three brothers of the Wang family, who is the second assistant of the cabinet.Seeing that the younger sister was really angry, he quickly apologized and said with a smile: "As my younger sister said, you are originally the main palace, and the west is only more expensive than mother and son. No matter what happens after the Holy Mother, the Empress Dowager can't surpass your mother, Empress Dowager."

The Wang family was full of resentment, thinking that she had a noble family and a peerless appearance, and that she should have married the best man in the world to be a couple in the world, but for the sake of the family, she was forced to be crowned "Queen". Robbing her husband in the house, and being a widow for generations to come.And the only joy in widowhood, the aphrodisiac called power, is now shared with others.She is the noblest woman in the world, with the noblest unhappiness in the world.Thinking of this, Mrs. Wang couldn't help but glared at her eldest brother, "Two months ago, De Wang Qifen was labeled as 'corrupt and overreaching' and hanged himself. Dozens of his wife's children were also convicted today, isn't it? Putting officials into exile means beheading the West City, killing them all, and leaving no one behind. The regent has also removed the last enemy in the clan, and then he should deal with our royal family wholeheartedly. At the beginning, you coaxed me to say nicely, What is the rule of the court, saying that one is the same, now the emperor is born in the west, and the regent is also with a vine in the west, in two years, I am afraid that I, the 'East Queen Mother', will have to rely on others."

Wang Zhenghao waved his hands again and again, "Your sister, don't worry, the regent's father and I have countermeasures."

"You have to have countermeasures, and let the lame man grow up step by step to today?"

"Although the lame three's flaws are hard to find, the people under him—" Wang Zhenghao pretended to be unreasonable, took out a booklet and handed it over, "Back then, the lame three made an exception and promoted Fang Kaiyin to be the commander of the Zhenfu Division. Just because of his ruthless intentions, no matter who is in his hands, after a torture to extract a confession, he can say what he wants to say. In the past few years, Cripple San has been fighting dissidents and ousting dissidents, and Fang Kaiyin's number one hero is Fang Kaiyin. Although reconnaissance and surveillance is Fang's old profession, but we praying mantis catches cicadas, and the oriole is behind. Sister, look, here are his ten major crimes clearly listed, and the evidence for each of them is solid. As long as Fang is overthrown, he will open the seal. Cripple San is like missing an arm, and he will definitely be very angry. At that time, you will come forward and issue an order, and find a name to get Zhen Fusi back from Cripple San, and it will be much easier to seize his military power. gone."

Mrs. Wang first praised, but then she was full of doubts, "It can be for no reason, there must be a reason?"

Wang Zhenghao was in a strategizing manner, stroking his beard lightly, "This matter let the fourth brother take the lead. The North Koreans paid tribute this time with 15 servants and 15 female envoys. We have already let the news out that the fourth brother They kept the two privately, and even withheld part of the gold and silver. Lame San has been looking for an opportunity to dismiss the fourth brother, the servant of the household department. Once he finds out the crime of decapitation such as intercepting tribute, is there any reason to let it go? He will definitely instruct Fang Kaiyin to participate in the impeachment of the fourth younger brother, and he may even directly arrest and put him in prison. Fang Kaiyin and the fourth younger brother formed a relationship last year because of the incident of welcoming the Buddha's bones, which is well known. After a thorough investigation, the fourth younger brother Naturally, he is innocent, and we can immediately bite back and say that Fang Kaiyin is a false accusation, and then use this as an introduction to point out all his other crimes. In order to protect himself, the lame three must have Fang Kaiyin Push it out. You want to punish our Wang family, but in the end you get rid of your own people, let's just wait and see the cripple three 'lose his wife and lose his army'!"

Wang is the youngest daughter in the family, and she is closest to the fourth brother Wang Zhengxun, who is similar in age, so she can't help but feel entangled, "Is it too risky to use the fourth brother as bait?"

Wang Zhenghao still smiled confidently, "The bait is not fresh, how can we attract big fish? I heard that just now, Fang Kaiyin has gone to the regent's place excitedly, and it seems that he has bitten the bait."

Mrs. Wang was about to answer, but suddenly raised her voice and asked, "Who?"

"Slave Wu Ran." Behind the large ivory screen, a young eunuch walked in, with a white face and red lips, and a very romantic appearance, "Master, the Queen Mother is coming."

As relatives of the first emperor of the current dynasty, the Wang family brothers never shy away from showing up in the Ciqing Palace, just like their opponent, the Regent, often secretly enters and leaves the Cining Palace.But these things are nothing more than making dumplings in a teapot-knowing it well, it is always indecent to encounter it on the bright side.

Therefore, Mrs. Wang snorted angrily, and scolded the eunuch, "She is your kind of queen mother!" Then she turned to Wang Zhenghao with a sullen face, and with a resentful look of "see it", she moved her chin Lifted to him, "Brother, go and avoid it for a while, I will send her away."

Wang Zhenghao disappeared behind the screen.After a while, I smelled a tangy fragrance, heard a pleasant "sister", and saw the Empress Dowager Xihe entering the room with a cheerful smile and various actions. Middle-aged and young woman, "I heard that my sister is not well, so my sister came here to say hello."

Wang gave Xihe's flirtatious look a serious look, and smiled indifferently, "It's nothing, it's because the villain cursed me, I'm in good health."

Xihe smiled sweetly, "Then sister can rest assured. Yuming, bring the things up."

A well-shaped court lady following behind her stepped forward lightly, holding a golden thread brocade box in her hand.Xi He lifted her clothes a little, and sat down beside the imperial couch, "Even though my sister is in good condition, I still need to take care of it. My sister brought two good old wild ginseng for her, which are the most nourishing."

"Then I would like to thank my sister." Wang waved her hand to be accepted, and looked up at Xi He deliberately, "My sister is well dressed today, and her hair is combed beautifully."

"Oh, there is a new eunuch in my palace. He can comb his hair and is smart. If my sister likes it, let him serve in Ciqing Palace."

"It's not good to steal people's beauty."

"Hey, I don't like to use eunuchs very much, but there are more court ladies who serve me personally."

"Yes, who doesn't know that Zhao Sheng is the only eunuch close to my sister?" Wang's pair of black beads flashed with a beaded black jade hairpin in his hair, and he glanced sideways at a certain servant next to Xi He , raised his eyebrows and tails at him, "Most eunuchs in the palace received that knife before they were ten years old, but Zhao Sheng didn't enter the palace until he was in his twenties. He was a boxer before entering the palace, and he seems to be quite good at it." , I went to Beijing to find this way only because I owed gambling debts in my hometown. Compared with ordinary eunuchs, I am physically stronger, but after all, it is neither male nor female, so I can only nest in these six palaces, and those What's the use compared to fighting on the battlefield?"

That Zhao Sheng was dressed in a eunuch's knee-pleated men's suit, he was of medium build, but his shoulders and arms were protruding and strong.He stood motionless on the ground and listened, but his hands were clenched silently, and the clothes on his upper arms fluctuated, as if a living thing was crawling in and out of his flesh.

Xihe's face had already turned red, which was an obvious mockery of her personal relationship with her uncle Qi She.She smiled very reluctantly, "My sister doesn't quite understand what my sister said."

Wang opened her face and looked sideways at a large cabinet with thin hooks and square corners in the room, and her voice was full of hooks and horns: "My younger sister is the most intelligent person in the world. She couldn't even read the words on the booklet a few years ago. Now that the words are well established, all the affairs of the state will be adjudicated by singing and making peace with the emperor's uncle, the regent, what other sister do you not understand?"

Xi He's face became more and more ugly, "Sister was joking, a woman's family is a woman's family after all, and the state's affairs don't all depend on the public discussion between the regent and the cabinet ministers?"

"Some people don't want to 'public discussion', but it's a pity that it won't work." Wang ignored the other side, just slapped the hand wearing the rice beaded birthday gold armor set on the tea table, and ordered loudly, "Wu Ran, put on a cigarette." .”

Eunuch Wu Ran stepped forward and knelt down to fill the hookah for the Queen Mother.The smoke bubbles that flowed like water began to boil quietly, and in the deep palace of a woman, the green parrot faced the red rose[8].

10.
The former dynasty that belongs to the men is also like the tip of a needle.

In front of a table stacked with memorials, a man named Fang Kaiyin stood with his hands down.

(End of this chapter)