"Yes." Chen Pingping respectfully complied.
"Those two female assassins are really under Sigu Jianmen?"
"yes."
The emperor suddenly frowned and asked: "Wouldn't Si Gu Jian really want to kill Fan's son for revenge?"
Chen Pingping replied respectfully: "A generation of grandmasters always put on airs. Right now, they are still cultivating in the Dongyi Sword Pit. As long as Fan Xian doesn't go to Dongyi City, it will be fine, and this matter is also being dealt with by the minister."
"Understood, I haven't finished talking about those things the night before yesterday, so let's continue today." The emperor closed his eyes half-closed and rested, and asked, "It took me a long time to return to Beijing. The comments of the subjects of the world. I know that you are making a petty temper and are not satisfied with the arrangement for him."
Chen Pingping gently rubbed the nails of her right ring finger, she didn't know whether she was nervous or excited, but her wrinkled face was still very calm: "After this incident, the Prime Minister probably will hold grudges, although he will believe that Si Gu Jian made the move. , I will always think that my son died because of Fan's son, this marriage...let's forget it."
The emperor said quietly: "It's okay, Prince Jing has already entered the palace, I don't know why, he likes that little guy very much, don't think he doesn't care about things, but if he really wants to protect himself, no one in the court would dare to move again, As for Lin Ruofu, he is a smart person, after Lin Gong's death, who should he trust, twenty years later, there must be a really smarter decision."
"Prince Jing?" Chen Pingping was a little surprised.
"Of course he didn't recognize it, so I don't know where his relationship with that little guy came from." The emperor sighed: "Maybe everything is fate."
It seemed that this sentence involved some years of pain, and the emperor and minister fell silent in a very tacit understanding at the same time.
Chen Pingping suddenly said: "I opposed it four years ago. Today, I still oppose this marriage."
The emperor opened his eyes and looked at him, and said: "You are younger than me, but after all these years of hard work, you have aged a lot, and you should take care of less things in the future. How can you worry about these little guys' affairs?" .”
Chen Pingping responded with a smile: "When this matter is over, I will retire."
"whats the matter?"
"Your Majesty, about that child."
The emperor's tone became lighter: "In order to leave his mother's things to him, I made many detours, pretended to feel sorry for Chen'er, made her the princess, and let this property be used as a dowry. Then I asked the queen mother to point out Marriage, it is justifiable to let him get these things. I have worked hard with good intentions, maybe you still have some dissatisfaction. "
"I don't dare." Chen Pingping knew that His Majesty had implemented a lot of means to allow Fan Xian to regain the Ye family, and he said seriously: "It's just that I always think that if I go someday, the supervisor will How to deal with the courtyard. It is really dangerous if the courtyard is handed over to an outsider."
Different from the inheritance of imperial power, the Overwatch Council is a somewhat deformed existence. It all depends on Emperor Qing's supreme trust in Chen Pingping, and on Chen Pingping's supreme loyalty to the emperor. If Chen Pingping dies, no matter who takes over the Overwatch Council , are very likely to have an unimaginable and terrible impact on the Qing Dynasty's court situation. If it is handed over to the courtiers, there may be a powerful official who threatens the royal family; if it is handed over to the prince, it is possible to create an overly powerful prince and affect the succession of the throne.
The emperor closed his eyes again, as if thinking about something: "Do you think I should hand over the courtyard to him?"
"Yes, since that child is not an outsider, he will naturally not threaten the palace. However, his background is destined to prevent him from participating in the struggle of the emperor's family, so he is the most able to remain neutral." Chen Pingping replied slowly.
The emperor seemed to be a little moved: "Let's wait for me to think about it. You are a good general, and you will have ten or twenty years to live. Don't worry too much about this matter."
"Yes." Seeing that today's goal had been achieved, Chen Pingping bowed respectfully and withdrew. A maid from a distance had seen her and came to support her, and walked to the road outside the palace.
The emperor stood up, closed his eyes for a long time, and suddenly opened his eyes to see the wheelchair going out of the palace. He had never doubted Chen Pingping's loyalty to him, but he had always had some doubts, why this old dog would be so obsessed with that woman, and would do anything to Fight for all the power that can be obtained for that child—Thinking of that child, a trace of tenderness suddenly flashed across the face of the Supreme Being, thinking that he hadn't seen him since he came to Beijing, and he had to go and see sometime.
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The court lady pushed the wheelchair out of the inner palace, a guard took it, and then slowly pushed it in the outer palace, and then at the gate of the official, someone from the Overwatch Council picked it up, helped Mr. Chen into the carriage, and the carriage drove forward on Zhuque Avenue Marching, crushing the stone road, making a rhythmic sound of pedaling, but it has not been out of the inner city for a long time.
The road to Dongcheng was very quiet, and it was already half dark at this time. The carriage turned obliquely and stopped at a secluded place. There was already another carriage waiting here. The officials of the Overwatch Council seemed unfamiliar with the guards beside the carriage, but they left the carriage tacitly at the same time and scattered around, forming a relatively concealed defensive circle.
The two carriages were very close to each other. At the same time, the people in the carriage opened the side curtains and looked at each other. It was Chen Pingping and Fan Xian's father, Mr. Fan Jian, the Minister of Rites. When Chen Pingping saw this upright face, she was very annoyed: "While I was not in Beijing, you coaxed His Majesty to find a good marriage for your son!"
Seeing that he was angry, Fan Jian was neither afraid nor nervous, and responded with a slight smile: "Four years ago, you ruined my business, and I'm just trying to find a way to make things right now."
Chen Pingping said coldly: "It's nothing to be proud of getting such a pile of bad money."
Fan Jian shook his head and said, "Money is the most important thing. Don't forget that when the yard was first built, if it wasn't for Xian'er's mother, you would have gone to drink the northwest wind."
"Now this internal treasury is no longer the same as the Ye family back then. If your Fan family takes over, I'm afraid it will be a disaster. The emperor forced the Lin family to admit an illegitimate daughter, just to let you and the prime minister live in peace, and at the same time, it is also for future considerations, otherwise In the future, people will know that the princess is marrying the prince, what is that saying." Chen Pingping sneered and said: "Listen to my persuasion, it is good for you and him to call off this marriage."
"You think I don't know what you're planning." Fan Jian frowned and said, "You always think that the eldest princess has something to do with what happened back then, but after all these years, you haven't found any evidence."
"It's not just for this reason." Chen Pingping said with a cold face: "Even if Your Majesty feels that you owe him, but think about it, if Your Majesty really listens to you and returns the Ye Family to him, what will happen to this yard? Your Majesty He is so talented, he will never allow anyone in the world to master these two powerful weapons at the same time, not even him."
Fan Jian frowned even tighter: "Since you know this, why do you want my son to be involved in these matters? Wouldn't it be better for him to be a rich man?"
"Is this how easy it is for a rich man?"
"With you and me in the capital, the eldest princess has also learned a lesson, and the next few years should be very stable."
Chen Pingping said coldly: "Don't forget, your... son was almost killed a month ago."
Fan Jian stared into his eyes: "This is my negligence, so it's not your problem. If you didn't get angry, there wouldn't be such disturbances in Beijing."
Chen Pingping said quietly: "If your son just died like this, why do we still need our hard work?"
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After a while of silence, Fan Jian said, "In this matter, I paid a far greater price than you, so if the two sides cannot make a choice, I hope you will respect my opinion." Chen Pingping thought for a while and agreed. The opponent's statement. The so-called non-speculative words were too much, Fan Jian put down the curtain coldly, and gave an order, and the two carriages parted ways.
The night is shrouded in the imperial city. In this thick ink-like background, some people gather for profit, some gather for ideas, and then often separate because of the same two words, just waiting for a certain day and a coincidence For the sake of coming together again. At the foot of the imperial city, beside the high vermilion palace wall, a sedan chair was slowly walking, followed by a few entourages in the distance. The imperial guards at the palace gate in the distance saw the sedan chair walking around the palace wall, but no one was there. Ask questions.
It was the prime minister's sedan chair, it was the prime minister's habit, whenever Qing was in trouble, he would always have people carry his sedan chair around the palace wall, some people said that he was in the strict silence People who despise the prime minister think that this eccentricity shows some kind of pathological fanaticism for power. In the second year of Qingli, the great river in the south was flooded, and the prime minister circled the palace wall many times in a sedan chair. On the second day, he wrote a booklet, which described in detail the division of labor and the process of the disaster relief. Powerful, but in terms of the most critical money expenditure, it is somewhat stretched, and the household department is somewhat difficult to support on its own. At this time, there are several large sums of overseas trade silver in the internal treasury, which provides a guarantee for the prime minister's plan. , Your Majesty is very happy.
People in the world often say that if a prime minister is a traitor, one can know it by looking at his mansion; if a prime minister is a capable minister, one can know it by looking at the world. But no matter whether it is adulterous or capable, in fact, at certain times, he will always return to the most primitive role, such as a father. Today, the Prime Minister walked around the palace wall to "scatter the sedan chair", and no one dared to disturb him. It was precisely because everyone knew that his second son had died, and His Excellency was in a bad mood.
The night was getting darker, and the red candle lanterns were lit in the palace, and the faint yellow light diffused from the high wall, but the side of the palace wall was still dark, and the sedan chair slowly walked to a certain place on the palace wall. Quietly, there was a lantern staggering in the distance, and when I got closer, I realized that it was also a sedan chair.