When Qi Yu turned his head and told this to Empress Zhou, Empress Zhou, who had been dazed in her own palace, suddenly lifted her spirits, and excitedly grabbed Qi Yu's hand:
"Did he really say that? Yu'er, you didn't lie to me?"
Qi Yu's chubby hand hurt from being scratched, and while struggling, he nodded frantically: "Of course it's true, that's what Brother Huang said."
Until being released by Queen Zhou, he was still a little scared.
But Queen Zhou ignored him.
Upon hearing the news, she had already asked the maids to dress up and headed straight to the emperor's bedroom.
Qi Yu didn't understand what the prince's words meant, but Queen Zhou understood. Since the emperor is about to wake up, doesn't that mean that the prince has no intention of harming him
She was relieved all of a sudden, and she no longer had to hesitate and struggle between the father and son. A beautiful smile suddenly bloomed on that sad face.
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In the emperor's bedroom, Yuan Buwei's conversation with Xiao Zhi was not concealed, and it was clearly heard by the emperor.
He was frightened and angry, but he couldn't move, he couldn't even open his eyelids, and he wanted to vomit blood!
Until the two left, the emperor was still frightened and uneasy, his consciousness was dangling back and forth in the darkness, but he couldn't find a way out like a headless chicken.
In fact, the prince's abnormal behavior during this period has long made the emperor speculate that his poisoning and coma may have something to do with the prince.
But the emperor has been deluding himself and forcibly ignoring this terrible guess.
Only in this way can he convince himself that he still has a chance to wake up again, instead of being directly killed by the prince who has evil intentions for no apparent reason.
But now, he couldn't even deceive himself and others.
"No, no, how is it possible? How could the prince have such deep thoughts?" Thinking of the changes in the prince over the past few days, the emperor had a bad guess, "Could it be that he has the same origin as me... no No, no, don't scare yourself! How can there be two traversers in the same world by such a coincidence!"
Forcibly calming down his thoughts, the emperor tried his best to analyze: "... Maybe this is his true face. He used to be just acting on purpose to paralyze me."
After all, in that period of history without the intervention of an outsider like him, this seemingly indifferent and harmless prince is really deep-minded and ruthless!
With a certain mind, the emperor calmed down again.
It is indeed a generation of emperors who have left their names in the original history! It was clear that he had already guarded against him in every possible way, but unexpectedly, he still fell into this person's trick...
A strong unwillingness rushed to his heart, but the emperor could only lie on the bed, his consciousness sank in the darkness, unable to do anything.
His life and death are already in the hands of the prince alone.
Fortunately, the ten-year imperial career was not in vain after all, the emperor kept forcing himself to calm down.
After all, this era is different from the era he once lived in. In the eyes of these ancients, killing the father with a son and killing the king with a minister is almost a heinous crime!
Combining the precedents seen in history books in the past, after the emperor calmed down, he secretly speculated that his final outcome was probably to be forcibly abdicated by the crown prince, put under house arrest, and become the overlord.
The more he thought about it, the more he felt it made sense, and the emperor breathed a sigh of relief. As long as the other party doesn't kill him right away, with his knowledge far surpassing these ancients, there may still be a chance...
Although he comforted himself in this way, the emperor did not dare to guarantee how the prince would be chosen.
As time passed, the more his consciousness was trapped in this vast and invisible darkness, the more despair he felt in his heart, and he doubted his own judgment.
I don't know how long it has passed, and suddenly there is a light sound beside the bed. Immediately afterwards, Queen Zhou's voice rang in his ears, weeping with joy.
"Your Majesty..."
"Great, Your Majesty is saved..."
"Sure enough, I knew Xuan'er wouldn't be so ruthless, he's not that kind of person..."
"I just hope that His Majesty will wake up and stop being so hostile to Xuan'er. If you really don't like it, just seal him away..."
She was incoherent and babbled, but she finally got the point of what she said.
In the past, the voice was a bit annoying, but now it pulled the emperor's consciousness back from the edge of darkness, giving hope to his almost desperate heart, and bursting out with infinite joy.
... yeah, this is really... great!
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Knowing from the Queen's mouth that he still has at most half a month's "sentence", the emperor in the small black room suddenly had hope, and began to count the days day by day, looking forward to the day when he would be "released from prison" like never before.
Every day, he is repeating the continuous cycle of "from full of hope to gradual disappointment, and then full of hope again, looking forward to the early arrival of the next day".
It is not an exaggeration to say that such days are like years.
Compared with it, it is like a fish in water to not do anything.
The reorganized Imperial City Division was operating at high speed day by day, acting as his eyes and ears, presenting many things that would not be mentioned in the ministers' memorials to him.
The original body, Qi Xuan, has been in the army for many years, perhaps to avoid suspicion, he has never been deeply involved in the political affairs of the DPRK and China, and only knows some superficial things.
Originally, after reading the memorials of the ministers, the palace report of the imperial court, and some tax data that are not disclosed to the public, combined with the information submitted by the Imperial City Secretary, he immediately understood the situation of the entire Beili.
This huge Beili looks like a flower on the surface, and not long ago, the Jiehu people were driven out of the Central Plains in embarrassment. Even the emperor was almost blown into the master of a generation of ZTE, as if he had already created a prosperous era of ZTE.
But this is not the case.
If the world is divided into north and south halves with the Changhe River as the boundary, the northern Central Plains has been ruled by the Jiehu people for many years, and almost all their strength has been squeezed out.
Jiehu people are arrogant by nature, they only know how to plunder with horses, and they are not good at production and management. After occupying the land of the Central Plains, even if they imitated the founding of the Central Plains Dynasty and named it Dayan, they did not really change the barbarian habits in their bones.
After many years of rule, the northern land has long been ruined by them. A large number of people were displaced and had to be slaves. Even the once powerful landlords were mercilessly taken away by the Jiehu nobles... What they did was equivalent to a group of robbers swaggering into other people's homes. Destroyed again.
Even if the Central Plains were regained, what Bei Li took over would be a complete mess.
As for the fat land in the south, the problem is also not small.
The south is already prosperous, and most of the tax revenue from the national treasury comes from it, which can be called the pocketbook of the entire North Li. However, there are many local landlords and wealthy merchants, and there are many aristocratic families in the south of the Yangtze River. They are inextricably linked with officials and gentry from the south, forming an unshakable force.
From the very beginning when the imperial family went south, in order to gain a firm foothold as soon as possible and gain the support of the southern forces, the emperor made many promises to those southern landlords and noble families; after that, in order to raise military expenses and counterattack northward, he continued to compromise with the southern families. , released too much power that shouldn't be given. And once this power is delegated, it will be very difficult to take it back.
In today's south, nobles, aristocratic families, landlords, and gentry, the forces of all parties are already intertwined, and there is a tendency to be too big to lose.
The court is the epitome of the whole world. After clarifying these situations, those government affairs that are too complicated in the eyes of ordinary people, and the conflicts and frictions between civil and military officials in the court, are clearly seen in the eyes of Yuan Buwei.
The nobles and courtiers who were born in the north had long been taken away by the Jiehu people. After following the emperor all the way south, they had to compete with the southern forces for their own interests, and tried their best to snatch food from the southern population.
And what they have been squeezed out in the south for many years is to regain the Central Plains and return to their homeland.
Therefore, these people are the most determined main fighters in the DPRK.
For this reason, even the playboys who used to fight chickens and lackeys have changed their old style and joined the army.
Over the past ten years, these honored ministers who were born in the North have become the most unshakable force in the military.
As for the south, it's just the opposite.
In the south, singing and dancing was the scene of peace and prosperity, and a group of gentry and aristocratic families had an unbelievably happy life every day. As a result, the emperor brought a group of northerners to the south. The land that should have belonged to them was taken away by the northerners, and a large amount of local interests were divided up by the northerners. What good are they
In this way, those Jiangnan aristocratic families are naturally more inclined to peace. In their view, they only need to give some money every year to appease those Jiehu people.
— Could it be that those barbarians and immoral people could still live in the Central Plains for a long time and steal the artifacts of the country? It's just a momentary pleasure. When its power declines, it will be easy to regain the Central Plains.
The conflict between these two factions has been going on for a long time. Even now that the Central Plains has been recovered and the source of the conflict has disappeared, the relationship between them has not eased.
—Although there is no battle between the main battle and the main peace, there are still more conflicts of interests in the court.
His family has lived in the south of the Yangtze River for generations, and Su Chengxiang, who is regarded as the head of civil servants, is the spokesperson launched by the South.
The original body, Qi Xuan, has made great military achievements over the years, and has been supported by the military, and has become a banner in the army.
"In other words, the emperor relies so heavily on Prime Minister Su, and even turns a blind eye to Su Mingyou's many evil deeds because of this. It's not purely out of trust in Prime Minister Su. Most likely, he should use this to check and balance the crown prince... "
Having read the history books of this world, I probably know that if I didn’t do it, the whole passage in the history books can be summed up. The so-called emperor’s art is nothing more than the word check and balance.
In this regard, the original noncommittal.
If the emperor is a savvy emperor, he can indeed control the government in his own hands if he uses the technique of checks and balances well. But the current emperor is clearly not the case.
He is like a nerd who reads without asking for a deep understanding, and only knows a little bit of superficiality and then uses it practically. He thought he had used the power of Su Cheng and other Jiangnan families to check and balance the growing military power, but in fact, many of the powers in his hands had been quietly corrupted. The Jiangnan family secretly wore the emperor's tiger skin and developed more and more prosperously.
The game between the emperor and the ministers is going on all the time, it just depends on who is better. He tried to use his courtiers, so why isn't the courtiers using the emperor
From this point of view, the people who are really close to the emperor can be roughly divided into two groups.
One group is the real confidants, that is, those people who were found out by Yuan Buwei during these days. These people are not close to the two factions of the north and the south, and they were picked up by the emperor alone. They usually do some dirty work for the emperor that is inconvenient to be revealed on the bright side, hidden in the dark.
As for the remaining group of people, headed by Prime Minister Su, although they seemed to be loyal to the emperor, they actually focused on the interests of the Jiangnan family.
The emperor may hint that they are suppressing the prince in the court, but when it comes to some dirty work, such as using disgraceful methods against the prince in private, the emperor will never rest assured to hand over such things that may leave a handle to them.
The former is not difficult to deal with. Without the biggest backer of the emperor, it was not justified to supervise the country, and with the hands of the emperor's holy decree, these people were sent to Zhao Prison and beheaded in a dignified manner.
And the latter...
For more than half a month in prison, Yuan did not do anything or devote himself to attacking the emperor's power. He handled a lot of government affairs every day.
Once there is a major event involving the interests of the Jiangnan family, the court will immediately become anxious, and it will not be possible to reach a consensus after a long time.
For example, in Yuan Buwei's hands, the memorial to open the sea ban, the householder Zuo Shilang who advocated this matter was only just presented, and was immediately condemned by a party headed by Prime Minister Su, as if the person who proposed this matter had sinister intentions. It's as if he wants to subvert Beili Jiangshan wholeheartedly!
They even moved out the emperor who was in a coma and the previous emperors, saying that the prince is only temporarily supervising the country and has no right to violate the ancestral system without authorization.
Of course, they still remembered that His Highness the Crown Prince had a manic buff attached to him. Although he hadn't had any attacks during this time, they didn't want to provoke the Crown Prince and cause both sides to lose. Therefore, they spoke in a very tactful tone.
This kind of thing happens again and again.
Yuan didn't sit on the throne, watching these people jumping up and down coldly, he had seen the power of the Jiangnan family.
Do whatever you want, bad things come first!
It's not because it didn't happen rashly.
In this case, even if he forcibly passed some will, it is estimated that these people can secretly obey and violate, causing all kinds of small stumbling blocks.
He didn't say anything, just smiled and let the Hubu Zuo Shilang, who was sprayed and couldn't find him, retreat back.
Seeing that the Prime Minister still wanted to take advantage of the victory to pursue him, he wanted to make an example of this man, so he just raised his eyelids and glanced at him, then smiled and asked:
"I want to open up the way of speaking to Lai. Although Cao Shilang's discussion is inappropriate, it is out of public interest. Could it be that the prime minister wants to teach Gu to block the way of speaking?"
Of course Prime Minister Su didn't dare to answer this question.
This is the right of these civil servants to speak up about the emperor's power. If he really dared to answer in the affirmative, he might not be able to walk a few steps out of the Taiji Hall after he went to court, and he would be chased by the censors and beaten to death on the spot with a wat board.