Being a father for the first time, and finding the tenderness on his wife's knee that he hadn't seen for a long time, Fan Xian slept extremely peacefully, and didn't wake up until the sun was high. The moment he woke up, there was still a pleasant smile on the corner of his lips.
Opening his eyes, he found that Wan'er was no longer by his side. He guessed that he should go to see his daughter. He couldn't help touching his head and smiling, thinking that he is also a father now. When he does things and thinks about problems, he always has to It would be better to be more secure. Thinking like this, I put aside the death disputes in the capital in the past few days, and my mood, which had been gloomy for a long time, became somewhat cheerful.
It's just that the sky was bright, urging him to return to the sinister world. Fan Xian sighed, washed up casually under the service of the maid, put on his official uniform, and entered the flower hall, refusing to eat seriously, holding a bowl The bird's nest porridge went into the east wing, looked at her sleeping daughter, joked with Wan'er Sisi while eating, then went to greet her father, Liu Shi, and left for the palace.
The streets of Kyoto were still filled with a murderous atmosphere, but since His Majesty returned to the capital unharmed, the mood of the people in Kyoto was much more stable, and the number of pedestrians on the street gradually increased. Fan Xian watched this scene through the horse window, feeling slightly at ease in his heart.
Walking through the palace gate, through the long corridor, and came to the Imperial Study Room, as expected, he saw the hard-working Emperor wearing a single coat and reading the memorial. Fan Xian was slightly startled, and after saluting, he stood up and remained silent. Si stood aside, peeking at the emperor's expression from the corner of his eye.
After looking at it, he was taken aback, because he found an elusive smile on the corner of His Majesty's lips, which naturally revealed a sense of relief, not at all like the lonely look of yesterday after the father and son of the Tian family killed each other . Fan Xian was a little confused, thinking to himself that he was a little happy because he had just given birth to a baby girl, and where did the emperor's happiness come from
Thinking of this, Fan Xian admired Dean Chen who was summoned into the palace last night. Probably only that old cripple could make His Majesty so happy, as if he had forgotten the tragedies that happened one after another.
The emperor put down the memorial, raised his head, looked at Fan Xian and said gently, "There is no court meeting today, why did you come to the palace so early?"
Kyoto is preliminarily determined, the officials of the six ministries are locked up and escaped, the wounded and the dead are still under military control. The main force is the Imperial Army, and the Kyoto Prefecture is the shop to maintain the general order in Kyoto. Naturally, there is no way According to the old routine, the Great Court Meeting was held. But Fan Xian felt a little strange, thinking to himself that the situation is so tense now, and there are so many things to deal with in the palace. Even if the emperor wants to strip himself of his job of supervising the country immediately, as a close minister, he has to go to the palace to share his worries. , Don't you dare to live a small life in the house behind closed doors
He responded in a small way: "The rebel army is about to fall, but there are still some uncertainties in various places. After thinking about it carefully, I am afraid that His Majesty will have an explanation, so I rushed into the palace."
The emperor smiled and said: "I just gave birth to a girl, and I didn't say to stay in the mansion for a while. Is it possible that I am really busy?"
Fan Xian laughed, knowing that it must be Chen Pingping who told His Majesty last night, and said: "After the value is paid, just go back to the house and hug more."
"You are not a minister of Zhongshu under the door. When did I rank you?" The emperor glared at him and said, "You are so careless after giving birth to a child. How can you look like a father."
Fan Xian was taken aback for a moment, and only then did he understand what His Majesty meant. It seemed that he was going to let him go home to take care of his baby. This was what he had hoped for, but after hearing the emperor's harsh rebuttal, he felt a little depressed. , slandering secretly, when it comes to being a father, although it is the first time for me, I think I must be much better than the emperor, and I don’t want to see what will happen to Chengqian and the second child...
Thinking of the two brothers, and immediately thinking of Chengqian waiting to die in the East Palace, but he had just given birth to a daughter, the expression on his face became weird, his lips moved slightly, not knowing how to respond to the emperor's words.
I don't know if the emperor saw something strange from his expression, and his face changed slightly, but he didn't explain the follow-up of the conspiracy, and said lightly: "You don't need to wait in the palace today, you go back first On the first day of being a father, you have to put your heart into it..." After a pause, the emperor suddenly tilted his head, thinking he was thinking about something, and after a while he said slowly: "Tomorrow, I will let Miss Chen carry the child into the palace for me to see. .”
Fan Xian hurriedly thanked him, and saw that this man's mood had turned bad again, so he got the order and quickly left the imperial study. As soon as he left the imperial study room, he was stopped by eunuch Yao, who probably got the news that Fan's residence was happy, and he kept congratulating him respectfully. Fan Xian didn't have time to chat with this father-in-law, so he handed over a red envelope, but suddenly thought of something, Then he lowered his voice and asked the arrested eunuchs and maids in the palace, as well as the master guards in the inner court, how to deal with them.
Although the real settling of accounts after autumn should be a matter after the situation has settled down, the handling in the palace has always been much faster than outside the palace. Even if it hasn't been done yet, His Majesty the Emperor should have drawn up the regulations. Fan Xian was a little worried. At this opportunity, I asked the eunuchs close to His Majesty.
Worried in his heart, he didn't show a trace of anxiety on his face, and asked as calmly as possible, only pretending to be the concern that the supervisor of the country should have. Eunuch Yao knew the identity of this young adult, and knew more about the power of the other party in the future, so he naturally wouldn't be overwhelmed, and chose some important ones to deal with.
Fan Xian originally wanted to ask about the situation in the East Palace, but after thinking about it carefully, he shut up.
After saying goodbye to Eunuch Yao, he was a little dazed and couldn't recover for a while. What shocked him was that His Majesty the Emperor treated these eunuchs and guards so leniently, not at all as he had imagined. Let alone Hong Zhu, the chief eunuch who apparently did nothing on the surface, was Hanguang. The nuns in the palace, the newly promoted eunuchs in the East Palace, and the maids in the Guangxin Palace basically did not kill a few. Most of them saved their lives, but they were just going to drive a group of people out of the palace.
Fan Xian shook his head and walked outside the palace, wondering if the sun came out from the west today? How did His Majesty suddenly become such a gentle person? Suddenly, his heart moved, he thought of the dark face of the emperor last night, and then thought of the gentle conversation between His Majesty and himself earlier, he couldn't help guessing, could it be that after being greatly stimulated, he finally figured out something, and began to think about it for himself and the Li family. Future generations accumulate blessings
The fact is not far from his guess. The emperor is not a person who kills indiscriminately, let alone a person who is easy to kill. He just has a firm and stern temperament and does not shy away from killing people. Like those servants in the palace, they just obeyed the Queen Mother's order, and had nothing to do with treason, and the emperor didn't care about cutting grass and rooting out... In addition, the prince and the second prince's attitude of fighting with death caused the emperor's mentality to become a little subtle The change.
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On the second day, Fan Xian and Lin Wan'er carried the little girl into the palace. For the first time, the emperor showed the kindness that an elder should have in front of them. He held the baby girl carefully for a long time, feeling extremely emotional good. It's just that when the emperor stroked the baby girl's eyebrows with his fingers, Fan Xian was really a little frightened. In the Hanguang Palace, he knew how powerful the emperor's fingers were.
But the emperor seemed to like this girl very much, especially the girl's eyebrows and eyes. Looking at this scene, Fan Xian murmured in his heart, guessing that His Majesty began to remember some traces of the year again
Just as he was thinking about it, the emperor asked him to carry the child to the palaces to show to the ladies, and left Wan'er behind. Fan Xian was slightly taken aback, and left without saying anything. Now that there is no mistress in the palace, the reward for dismissing the children can't be explained for a while, so it will be left to deal with later. It's just that when Ning Cairen was holding the baby, he asked for a nanny and wet nurse to be sent to the palace, but Fan Xian resolutely refused, which made Ning Cairen and his concubine Yigui a little puzzled.
This was originally a happy event, but there are too many dead people in the palace recently, so it is impossible to be happy. The prince Li Chengping's body injury is still not healed, but he is struggling to hug him, and he is calling for his sister one by one.
The corners of Fan Xian's lips curled up slightly, thinking that this kid was really precocious, but this generation seemed a little outrageously wrong, somehow, he thought of his sister and Sizhe who were far away in Northern Qi, the incident involving the Three Kingdoms, Ku He They must die, and I don't know if the two of them will have any problems over there.
After not staying for long, Fan Xian retreated with the child in his arms, went into the imperial study to pick up his wife, bid farewell to His Majesty and returned home. The Emperor agreed after a moment of thought, and said that the matter of giving the name would be delayed. Fan Xian knew that His Majesty the Emperor was busy dealing with the government affairs after the conspiracy these days, so he didn't expect him to remember these little things, so he was a little surprised.
After leaving the palace, Fan Xian didn't ask Wan'er what His Majesty left her to say, but looking at his wife's red and swollen eyes, he knew in his heart that the conversation between uncle and niece was undoubtedly related to the Eldest Princess. The deaths of those two were related.
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In the next month, under the emperor's forceful gathering, the six ministries, three courts and three divisions of the imperial court gradually returned to the right track, and all the remnants of the rebel army scattered in the four fields were wiped out. The capital returned to calm, and the atmosphere of this rebellion gradually faded away.
On the other hand, Fan Xian resigned from the position of supervisor of the state early in the morning, and returned His Majesty's Xingxie on the night when Yujia returned to the capital. Although he said his resignation, no one regards him as the supervisor of the state anymore, but who knows Whether the mistakes made in these small places will lead to catastrophe in the future, one day later, one day more risk.
He still returned to serve as the commissioner of the Overwatch Council and the transfer envoy of the internal treasury, and he no longer had to pay attention to the problems in the government. The government has its own two academicians leading a group of civil servants to take care of it, and the military has its own Privy Council to take care of it, which has nothing to do with him. In this way, apart from Yan Bingyun's occasional visits to the government to report errands, and Jiangnan's Su Wenmao and Xia Qifei delivering reports to the hospital on time, there was nothing he needed to care about.
It's just that there are some episodes in it, such as how Young Master Xiaoyan survived, Fan Xian didn't ask a single word, and now he doesn't even want to go to the Overwatch Council, let alone ask those annoying questions. On the contrary, Xia Qifei wrote in a letter saying that the old man Ming in Jiangnan had hanged himself to death after learning the news of the Eldest Princess' defeat, which greatly moved Fan Xian.
Ming Qingda finally died. Thinking of fighting with this old man in the south of the Yangtze River for a long time and dying like this unexpectedly, Fan Xian couldn't help feeling a bit at a loss, thinking that when the old man hanged himself, maybe he really used the one he gave him. The white scarf for him.
Maybe it was because he was tired from the series of events in the capital, or maybe it was because of old wounds that were still lingering. Fan Xian really fell ill. The small building is unified, regardless of the wind from the southeast and northwest outside the building, you can enjoy the family relationship, so happy.
The capital gradually calmed down, and those officials who survived began to return to the usual years of drilling and camping after making up their minds. Everyone knows that during this month, Mr. Fan, who has made great contributions to suppressing the rebellion, seldom enters the palace. He just holds the child at home, so he can't help but feel a little puzzled. But then the news gradually came from the palace, it was said that His Majesty the Emperor loved the little girl of Master Xiao Fan's family very much, and it was His Majesty's favor that Master Xiao Fan rested for a month.
So everyone knows what to do.
The Empress Dowager had a new funeral, and the capital was full of whites. According to the etiquette, entertainment and entertainment were stopped, and the restaurant would be closed for a month. There is joy in the Fan Mansion, so of course we can't make a big deal out of it. No one dares to hang a red lantern at the door, so we can't see the joy, but every day at dusk, some officials sneak into the Fan Manor, leave gifts, and leave without saying a word .
Fan's father and son accepted the gifts in muffled voices, but they didn't bother to pay attention to the matters entrusted by those officials. They knew why those officials would take the risk of giving gifts in such a serious and tense time. After the suppression of the rebellion, a large number of officials who usually followed the prince, the second prince, and the eldest princess were taken down, and they were all locked in the prison of the Overwatch Council. And some officials who were not firm enough in the affairs of the capital were kicked out of the government office by the emperor with a stroke of a pen. The entire six ministries, plus Dongshan Road and Jiangnan Road in the east, suddenly vacated hundreds of seats.
Cats love fish, dogs love feces, and of course officials love official positions the most. These hundreds of positions have made their eyes red, so there are too many scruples. There are too many changes in the palace, and many old people have lost their connections. However, most of them had nothing to do with the Dingzhou Army, and no one dared to give gifts to the cold-faced prince. It just so happened that Mrs. Fan's birthday daughter gave them a great opportunity to give gifts, so naturally they couldn't miss it.
One month later, Kyoto was finally settled. Regarding the vacant positions in various ministries, temples, courtyards, and Dongnan Erli, the Secretary of the Ministry of Education drew up a list, and filled in many of the alternate officials from Chunweili that year. He is a good and capable person. The officials whose names were written were overjoyed, thinking that the gifts they gave to Fan's residence had made a difference, and those who were not selected were secretly annoyed, because the family had too little money, Master Fan really didn't like it.
On that day, Fan Xian hugged the child, lowered his head and teased the little girl's tender red lips, and said to his father, "I didn't say a word."
Fan Shangshu took a sip of physalis, said with a smile: "I'm about to resign soon, who will be patient to go into the palace and talk about it?"
"Little flower, little flower..." Fan Xian smiled at his father, and then lowered his head to coax the child. He hugged the girl every day for a month, and he really fell in love with her more and more.
Fan Shangshu glanced at him, and suddenly said: "Although His Majesty ordered you to rest and recuperate, you have taken care of him for a month, yet you haven't been to the office of the Overwatch Council for a day... What are you hiding?"
Fan Jian was shocked, afraid that his father would see his thoughts, and said with a smile: "Hide when you can, after marrying Wan'er, except for the time when Xuankong Temple was injured, I haven't lived such a leisure life. "
When mentioning the Hanging Temple, the corners of his lips trembled slightly, but his father didn't notice.
In fact, he hid in the mansion for a month and refused to go to the Overwatch Council for one reason - he was very afraid of meeting Chen Pingping. If he really met Chen Pingping, he was afraid that he would not be able to resist asking him something and confirming something. Although the old cripple still chooses to be silent and separate out of love for himself, but when the old and the young really meet, how should they get along with each other? Many emperors and fathers didn't see things clearly, but Fan Xian gradually saw them clearly, but the more clearly he saw, the colder and more worried he felt.
After a few days of leisure, the autumn in Kyoto became stronger and cooler, the capital became more and more stable, and the palace became more and more peaceful. Most of the eunuchs and maids survived. , to continue their service. Eunuch Dai, who had been reinstated, secretly spread the word that some of the people Mr. Fan asked were alive and some were dead. Thinking about how I was in those days...
Asking some people's names was actually just a cover, and Fan Xian just wanted to finally confirm Hong Zhu's disposition, but another piece of news that Eunuch Dai said made his expression freeze.
An imperial edict will be invented in the palace tomorrow.
Fan Xian knew very well what the Ming Zhao said. His Majesty's purpose of offering sacrifices to heaven was to abolish the Crown Prince, and this Ming Zhao was finally issued. It only proved that the one in the East Palace had... maybe that one had already left. For many days, but no one knew, Fan Xian drank his tea with his head down, without saying a word. There was no sadness on his face, and the calmness made one's heart palpitate.
Lin Wan'er looked at his expression from the side, knowing what this guy was thinking about, she asked cautiously: "What's wrong?"
"I will enter the palace tomorrow." Fan Xian said softly to her, "I have something to report to Your Majesty."
Lin Wan'er looked at him worriedly.
Fan Xian comforted, "It's nothing serious, I just promised someone something."
There are a total of more than 340 officials in Kyoto involved in the conspiracy. Including their subordinates, cronies and family members, His Majesty has arrested a total of 4,000 people this time. It was also full of people, and in the end even the Western Academy of Taixue was vacated to detain criminals.
According to Qing law, even if there is an extrajudicial favor for those who conspire against the Nine Clans, they will lose two or three thousand heads.
Fan Xian smiled wryly and shook his head, thinking that if it was him back then, maybe these two or three thousand heads would fall off, what does it have to do with him? It's just... living to this day, I have already understood some truths, at least what I promised to others must be done.
And judging from this month's situation, His Majesty's behavior is becoming more and more gentle. Fan Xian is somewhat sure that at least those women, children and children should be able to live a few more lives. Not to mention whether they will accumulate blessings, but to say that the prince surrendered. , At least let the soldiers of the Qing Kingdom live a few thousand more, this thought, Fan Xian must pay back.
Early in the morning of the second day, Fan Xian tidied up his official uniform, turned around and picked up a piece of cloth and put it in his arms. On this piece of cloth was the imprint of the red feet that Fan Xiaohua had stepped on during the full moon. Everyone felt that Fan Xian's behavior was a bit strange, but they didn't expect that he just missed the customs many years ago... and taking this piece of cloth today is naturally preparing to attack the emperor's heart.
After getting ready, he got into the carriage, only to see the familiar person across the street looking at him with a smile. Fan Xian looked down at his black official uniform of the Overwatch Council, then at the pure white clothes on the man, and said in a deep voice, "If you don't go, then you won't go, even if you pretend to be white and impermanent to pull me every day, I will still don't go."
Yan Bingyun walked over, with a slight smile on his indifferent face, and said: "This is what the dean meant. As a subordinate, of course I have to bother you every day... Are you going to enter the palace? Since you can enter Palace, naturally you have to go back to the courtyard to handle the affairs of the courtyard, and you won’t have to wait for the dean to go to the palace to ask for orders.”
Fan Xian spat on the ground, suddenly thinking about entering the palace today, frowned, and whispered something in Yan Bingyun's ear. Yan Bingyun looked at him slightly, thinking that the traitors could be punished if everyone got them, and this matter was done according to Qing Law, His Majesty was not implicated, so why did Mr. Ti Si enter the palace to remonstrate
He looked at Fan Xian like he was looking at a monster, shook his head and said, "There are no random arrests in the courtyard, and those people have never been wronged. This subordinate is puzzled, when did your lord's heart become so gentle."
In the eyes of these cronies or friends, under Fan Xian's gentle face, there was always a stern and cruel heart hidden, so Bingyun was very puzzled and frowned. Fan Xian felt a little uncomfortable when he saw him, and said with a slight sigh: "After you and the girl from the Shen family have a child... you will probably understand." Support the author, support genuine!)