Gu Qiang's attention was attracted by these words. The speaker was a very pedantic veteran. When Shen Qianshan and Huang Hao came back from the battlefield and Shen Zhongbai rewarded them happily, this veteran had already begun to show his behavior. He felt a certain degree of dissatisfaction, perhaps because of his superiority and self-esteem as a civil servant, so he looked down on these people who wielded swords, and he didn't know what ability Feng Yao had to rise to the top in one step, and directly took the position of general. .
Anyone who is interested will definitely find that Shen Zhongbai has frequently summoned Feng Yao recently. Half of the people present know that Shen Zhongbai must have something important to hand over to Feng Yao recently. His recent changes have made him a little uneasy. At this time, Military generals may be more useful to this country than this pedantic old minister. Now we have to see which way Shen Zhongbai is looking, whether it is for this pedantic old minister or for this rising military general.
Shen Zhongbai was not in a hurry to express his attitude. On the contrary, he felt that there was something good to watch today. This Feng Yao came back from the battlefield. He gave him a large reward because of his talent. If it were based on his background alone, this general would be It is true that there is no foundation or background in the court, but this old minister seems to be an honest official, which has never been done before. Why is Feng Yao suddenly targeted at the matter of forming cliques
Gu Qiang didn't understand what happened, and in the presence of so many ministers, he must not say too much, otherwise he would become their next target.
But this makes Shen Zhongbai a little curious, how will Feng Yao face this old civil servant next
I have long disliked this old civil servant, but after all, he is a founding minister. Both the late emperor and his father have already said that they must treat this old man well, so he has never done anything to her, but if If he went too far at one time, it would be absolutely impossible for him to keep him here.
Lou Mingyue was different from his father. When faced with such things, he couldn't ignore himself like his father, so he still chose to stand up. After all, these things started from him.
"What your lord is saying is unreasonable. The emperor is dealing with my affairs. Whose opinion do you want to ask? Isn't it the emperor's own wish? When did Bei'an Kingdom become a minister who wants to control the emperor's wishes? Does the emperor want to Whose opinion should I listen to? Do I need the permission of this lord?"
The civil servant did not expect that Lou Mingyue, who had already turned the page, would suddenly stand up to speak for Feng Yao. He looked a little surprised and thought for a while, "Prince Leping is quite nosy. People who haven’t settled their own affairs yet have the heart to care about other people’s affairs?”
"What's wrong with this? General Feng and I hit it off like old friends. As soon as we met, we felt like we had known each other for many years. Originally, this incident also started because of me. So what if I say a few words to him now? ? And now, I don’t want to speak for General Feng, but I want to excuse your Excellency.”
"After the Lord said those words just now, the Emperor did not blame you. It is entirely because the Lord is older now, or perhaps had some achievements in the past, so he is not as knowledgeable as the Lord. If it were someone else, wouldn't the Lord think that Will there be such a good result?"
Shen Zhongbai didn't expect this level. When he heard this, he felt that Lou Mingyue's mind was moving too fast. He couldn't help but nodded. His nod actually shocked the old minister. He had just It is true that there is some speculation about the holy intention, but maybe he has done such things too often, and has never considered the consequences. After all, he is the founding minister and a veteran of three dynasties. Shen Zhongbai will more or less give himself this. To save face, I didn’t expect that Shen Zhongbai would express his appreciation for what others said today. Could it be that he really went too far
"Your Majesty, I don't mean this. I just want to give your Majesty some advice. I definitely don't mean to speculate on the Holy Will."
"It doesn't matter." Shen Zhongbai waved his hand. This is not the first time this old man has done this. He relies on himself as a veteran of three dynasties and has always been arrogant, so he has always been tolerant of him, but He didn't expect that Lou Mingyue would help him get rid of this tone today.
"I have already said that this Prince of Leping County is definitely not an embroidery pillow. He has real talents. If you have no other problems, please leave early. I have other things to deal with. .”
Did Shen Zhongbai originally want to take over the Leping County Prince? He was brought to Kyoto to let the officials in the court understand their current status. Of course, it was also to find out what kind of person the newly appointed Prince of Leping County was. However, he did not expect to meet these people in the study today. Minister, something like that happened before.
The fire this time is not a trivial matter. Although Gu Suran's suspicion has been cleared and these ministers can no longer take advantage of this matter, the fire is not a trivial matter. After all, the royal family's face is taken into consideration. It is impossible for him to end things like this.
What's more, there are still many important things preserved in the ancestral hall. Who knows that Gu Suran didn't go in for those things this time
Shen Zhongbai is also the emperor after all, and he doesn't want to see his ministers quarreling in the study, let alone over such boring things. He just wants to end their quarrel quickly, and not to quarrel in front of him. stop.
"Why did you show up at the ancestral hall that day?" After Shen Zhongbai dismissed the ministers, he turned to ask Gu Qiang. After all, Gu Qiang would not have appeared in that place if he had nothing else to do. Don't say it was him. Well, even if I have nothing to do, I will never show up there.
It was because of Feng Yao's sudden words that he completely believed that this matter was definitely not done by Gu Su Ran. When the ancestral hall was on fire, if Feng Yao hadn't reacted faster, I'm afraid Gu Su Ran would have really done it. He would be burned to death there. Even if he really wanted to play hard to get and perform a painful trick, he wouldn't be stupid enough not to leave himself a way to survive, right
"I entered the palace early this morning and wanted to find the princess, but the princess had made an appointment with the Taifu in advance and needed to go to the Taifu. The princess asked me to take a look around first and will come over when she comes back. They were looking for me, so I walked to a quiet place with people, so I walked to the long street over there. There were few people there, so I walked in that direction..."
What Gu Qiang said was indeed correct. The situation that day was indeed like this. Even Shen Siyin could testify for him. Shen Zhongbai had no way to refute this point anyway, and there was no evidence to prove that he deliberately walked to that place. place to go.
"So you were just wandering around and you happened to see the ancestral hall? Why did you go to such a remote place?" Although Shen Zhongbai knew that he might not be the one who set the fire, he would not believe Gu Qiang's words so easily. However, So far, there are indeed no loopholes in his words. I just confirmed with Si Yin that he was indeed allowed to walk around casually, but it was so far that no normal person would go to that place, right
"When I was walking on the long street, I met one of the emperor's concubines, who seemed to be the daughter of Prime Minister Gu. There seemed to be some disputes between us. After the argument with the concubine, the grassroots felt a little bad, so they walked along the street. I kept walking along that road, but I didn’t expect to stumble into the ancestral hall.”
"Did you and Gu Zhiyao have a dispute?" Shen Zhongbai turned his head and asked the young eunuch beside him, "Why didn't you tell me about this when I went to the ancestral hall before?"
When I saw a fire over there and hurried over there, I saw that many of the little eunuchs who came to put out the fire were indeed people from Gu Zhiyao's palace. I didn't think much about it at the time, I just thought it might be Because the ancestral hall and Gu Zhiyao's palace are relatively close, this matter may have something to do with Gu Zhiyao.
But could it be that because of such a small dispute, Gu Zhiyao was bold enough to set fire to the Huang family ancestral hall
Although Gu Zhiyao is usually domineering, he is not so ungrateful, right? If you really dare to do anything in the ancestral hall, it will definitely not be just a matter of killing the Nine Clan.
"Your Majesty, we were all in a hurry when we came and went. We only understood the general situation. We didn't know that the consort had a conflict with the empress on the long street."
Gu Qiang used this trick well. Shen Qianshan stood beside him and nodded. Gu Qiang is quite smart. If you transfer all the suspicion to others, relatively speaking, you will be freed. The suspicion surrounding Gu Qiang is that Gu Qiang may not know it yet, but Shen Zhongbai now almost knows that she is a girl.
Now Gu Qiang, in Shen Zhongbai's eyes, is actually a complete liar. If he hadn't still had room to take advantage of her, Shen Zhongbai would have killed him long ago.
"Your Majesty, the people thought, this matter was probably not reported by the Empress on purpose. It was just that it happened suddenly. Not long after I walked into the ancestral hall, a fire broke out outside. I had no chance at all. , I didn’t even have time to escape. If it was really me who set the fire, I would only have to light the curtain at the door."