Yanjing did many things in the palace, and Chu Tingxiu met many people outside the palace.
Many people in the court were dissatisfied with being "oppressed" by him as a warrior. From time to time, people would join him in the court hall. In fact, his usual life was not very good, and the soldiers of the Zhenbei Army who stayed with him in the capital were also unhappy.
As soon as he left the palace, he went to the military camp outside the city to meet his soldiers.
"General, when can we go back?" Chu Tingxiu's adjutant asked Chu Tingxiu.
Most of them were born and raised in the North, and their family members are also in the North, and they have always been thinking about wanting to go back.
"I'll make arrangements for you, and you will go back to visit relatives in batches." Chu Tingxiu thought about it.
He originally wanted them to pick up his family, but thinking that he was entangled with the emperor, and he didn't know what would happen in the future, he didn't dare to make such a decision.
Chu Tingxiu's adjutant knew nothing and was very happy.
There are only a few thousand soldiers and horses left in the capital by Chu Tingxiu, but they are all elites among the elites.
He stayed in the barracks for a while and rode home.
When we got back to Chu's house, it was already afternoon.
Chu Tingxiu stopped at the door, looked at the door of the house, and was a little afraid to go in.
His grandfather was an orphan. Many years ago, Emperor Taizu gave his grandfather a roast chicken, and he let his grandfather follow Emperor Taizu to conquer the world.
During the war, his grandfather had several women and gave birth to several children, but only his father survived, and his father only had two children, one was him and the other was his sister.
When he found out that he liked men before, he felt ashamed of the ancestors of the Chu family.
Now it feels even more so.
He is already with His Majesty. If this matter is known, he will probably bear the infamy of the ages and become a fortune.
If His Majesty bores him one day, he will not end well, and the family may also be implicated by him.
What's more, his sister Tinglan also likes Yan Jingze.
Chu Ting corrected his entanglement and saw his sister.
Chu Tinglan didn't sleep last night. Although she rested for a while this morning, she immediately got up and waited when she heard that her brother was out of the palace. She didn't want Chu Tingxiu to go to the military camp, but it took a long time to come back.
Because she was so anxious, Chu Tinglan couldn't help but get angry in her heart, but when she saw Chu Tingxiu, she still made a delicate and weak look: "Brother, you are finally back."
"Yeah." Chu Tingxiu responded, ashamed once again flooded into his heart.
"Brother, you didn't return last night, I'm very worried." Chu Tinglan looked at Chu Tingxiu worriedly.
Chu Tinglan and Chu Tingxiu, the elder brother, have no deep feelings for each other.
Her mother was a young lady from an aristocratic family, and she had a childhood sweetheart, but the late emperor issued an imperial decree to confer her mother's marriage to her father, who had died of his first wife.
Her mother was forced to marry Beidi, where she lived for three years and gave birth to her.
She was very weak when she was born, and her mother finally found an excuse to take her back to Beijing to live, and they never went to the Northland again.
As far as she can remember, she has only seen her father once, and she and her brother met for the first time a year and a half ago.
Now she pays so much attention to her brother just because she wants to do something for her beloved.
Three years ago, when her brother was fighting around outside, one of the Zhou family's dudes stared at her, and in order to win over her brother, the Empress Dowager wanted to marry her to that dude.
That bastard's fat head and big ears are annoying, of course she doesn't want it. She doesn't want the Lantern Festival. She and her close friend went out to the lantern festival, but she was deceived by her close friend to that bastard's boat, and was almost insulted.
It was King Ping who saved him.
At that time, the Empress Dowager was still there, and King Ping could not protect himself, but he still tried his best to deal with her so that she would not have to marry that dude.
Her heart fell on King Ping.
King Ping and Jinshang are both sons of the previous emperor, and King Ping is far better than Jinshang, but Jinshang was the last emperor, and Jinshang is not pleasing to King Ping because of his excellence...
Knowing that King Ping wanted to get her brother's support, she volunteered to help King Ping, but unfortunately her brother just wanted to take power alone, and was unwilling to take care of King Ping, and even targeted King Ping in the court.
Her brother even wanted to marry her to Jingami.
Her mother has passed away and she can't make decisions about her marriage. She can only listen to her elder brother... She thought, since her elder brother wants her to marry Jinshang, then she will get married! She even thought that if she could kill Jinshang, in the end this world would belong to King Ping!
"I'm fine." Chu Tingxiu said.
"Big brother, you were injured when you returned late, this time..." Chu Tinglan didn't seem to be comforted.
Chu Tingxiu felt even more guilty.
"Did your majesty do something?" Chu Tinglan asked.
Chu Tingxiu said: "Your Majesty did nothing. Tinglan, think about your marriage, and tell me if there is someone you like."
Chu Tingxiu said this before, and now I mention it again... Chu Tinglan said: "Big brother, don't you want me to marry your majesty?" Said he liked His Majesty.
"When did I think about it?" Chu Tingxiu was taken aback. From the very beginning, he never thought about marrying His Majesty and his sister, but everyone around him suggested so, and his sister also liked His Majesty, so he could only recognize it.
Chu Tinglan didn't know why Chu Tingxiu changed her decision. She was a little anxious, but she couldn't help but said: "Then what if I want to marry King Ping?"
Chu Tingxiu frowned: "Ping Wang is not a good match."
Chu Tingxiu had a bad impression of King Ping. He could feel that King Ping had a power in his hands, and these people were not good to Yanjing. More importantly, although King Ping did not marry a concubine, he already had a concubine.
Chu Tinglan lowered his head and stopped talking.
Chu Tingxiu said again: "Tinglan, think about it... If you want, it's okay to recruit a child." In the north, it is not uncommon for women to recruit husbands, and it is not uncommon for women to set up their own businesses and feel comfortable.
Chu Tinglan was so angry that she laughed. What kind of person could she find? Her brother just can't see her well!
Chu Tinglan left angrily.
Chu Tingxiu stood there, not knowing why.
At night, Chu Tingxiu wanted to enter the palace, but he did not go after thinking about it.
He spends the night in the palace every day, which is not good for His Majesty's reputation.
Chu Tingxiu didn't enter the palace, so Yan Jingze prepared a table of dishes, and in the end he could only enjoy the meal alone.
Waiting for tomorrow, he will make Chu Tingxiu look good!
There is an early morning on the second day.
Yan Jing sat on the dragon chair and kept staring at Chu Tingxiu.
Chu Tingxiu was very uncomfortable being stared at.
The political affairs discussed were similar, and even the matters discussed the day before yesterday were brought out by the ministers for discussion. In the end, Chu Tingxiu cut the mess and set the charter.
Then... the courtiers began to talk about the aftermath.
Before Chu Tingxiu mentioned this matter, he either said nothing, or persuaded a few words after many people mentioned it.
But today...
As soon as someone brought it up, Chu Tingxiu said: "Your Majesty is still young, and there is no urgency in the future."
As soon as Chu Tingxiu's words came out, everyone was stunned.
Your Majesty is still young? Where is he young? !
Your Majesty is twenty one! Unless the family is poor and cannot afford a wife or wants to be filial, men of this age are basically married!
When His Majesty was on the 14th or 15th year, someone had already mentioned that he wanted him to stand up as an empress, but it was the Empress Dowager who stopped him and failed. As a result, now that the Empress Dowager was not there, Chu Tingxiu stopped him again
Many ministers in the court glared at Chu Tingxiu.
Chu Tingxiu didn't care about them, and immediately said: "The establishment of an empress is a major event, and it cannot be easily decided!" He had not been with His Majesty before, and for His Majesty's sake, he naturally hoped that His Majesty would establish the empress. Now it is different.
As long as His Majesty doesn't change his mind, he will try his best to stop it.
If His Majesty changes his mind one day and wants to stand up again... At that time, he will be dealt with on the charge of "stopping His Majesty from letting His Majesty stand up", and he will have nothing to say.
It's your own path after all.
He just wanted these days to be a little happier.
"General Chu, why do you want your Majesty to stand behind you!" Someone looked at Chu Tingxiu angrily.
Yan Jing was already elated when Chu Tingxiu spoke, and felt that Chu Tingxiu was a little stupid.
Yan Jing quickly gestured to Wang Zhong with his eyes.
Wang Zhong went to signal to others again.
Those ministers didn't pay attention to Yan Jingze's eyes. At this moment, whether it was the emperor's party, the king's party, or the party of the empress dowager, they were all staring at Chu Tingxiu and analyzing what Chu Tingxiu meant.
Chu Tingxiu stood there without saying a word.
Just at this moment, a little eunuch ran in, knelt on the ground, and said with a crying voice: "Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager... collapsed."
Yan Jing quickly stood up and said sadly, "Grandmother..."
His figure swayed, and then he was supported by someone, and sat down again, only covering his face with his sleeves, so that no one could see that there was no sad expression on his face.
Everyone knows that he and the Empress Dowager have a deep hatred, but in this era, filial piety is important, and he has to act, which is quite boring...
Just as Yan Jing was thinking about this, he heard King Ping cry out, "Grandmother..."
Yan Jingze: "..." This person can act better than him.
The unfortunate Empress Dowager was actually gone in the morning.
This mourner was specially arranged by Yan Jingze. He originally wanted people to report the mourning in the early dynasty, and then keep filial piety as a matter of course. For the time being, the matter of raising the post was not mentioned. Really unexpected.
And now, no one really said anything about the aftermath.
The death of the Great Empress Dowager was so sudden that it even made many ministers who had watched the Great Empress Dowager's beauty for decades feel unreal, but they felt that it should be the case - the Great Empress Dowager was not young.
No matter what the Empress Dowager did before, she was the Empress Dowager. Now that she is dead, even the emperor has to keep her spirit alive. At the same time, all the officials have to get busy and hold funerals for her.
In these matters, Yan Jing used the excuse of being heartbroken and physically unwell, and did not participate at all.
He also called Chu Tingxiu: "You are so stupid, you said that in the court today... Look, you were scolded!"
Chu Tingxiu did not speak.
"Now that the Empress Dowager is dead, I plan to keep my filial piety for three years. In these three years, I don't have to pay attention to those who made me stand up. After three years, I will see if there is anyone else who dares not listen to me."
In the previous dynasties, there were emperors who did not go to court for ten years, and emperors robbed other people's wives into the palace, and still took good care of the emperor.
As long as he kills King Ping, the unstable element, and secures the throne, he will not believe that others dare to question him.