It was already the sixth day of the Lunar New Year when Han Yunxi and the others returned to the Yunning Palace.
They arrived at night, and Long Feiye went to the imperial study before he had time to rest, and squeezed a lot of memorials for him to deal with.
Neither Han Yunxi nor Rui'er knew when Long Feiye returned to his bedroom. Anyway, when the mother and son woke up the next day, Long Feiye was not there.
Han Yunxi has long been used to his busyness, and this situation is not his busiest time. When he was at his busiest, they were in the first house together, and she and Rui'er could not see him for two or three days.
Han Yunxi walked out the door, looked at the palace, and couldn't help but think of when she lived in Prince Qin's mansion, Long Feiye seemed to be very busy at that time, and she often didn't see anyone for several days. After finally seeing her, he asked her for trouble with a cold face.
Yunning County is a temporary capital, and it is also the busiest place in Yunkong Continent today. The inner city of Yunning is populated by princes, nobles, ministers of civil and military affairs, and powerful families, while the outer city is populated by ordinary people.
The noble ladies and ladies in the inner city organized banquets of various names, recited poems, wrote poems, enjoyed flowers and wrote lyrics. At almost every banquet, there will be interesting things, and scandals will be spread and become jokes.
If there are only two kinds of people who are invited to every banquet, one is the most popular and the other is the least popular.
When Han Yunxi was in Tianning Imperial Capital, she was the most unpopular one. Almost everyone wanted to see her jokes. Now, she has become a woman that no one dares to invite.
Everyone dare not invite her, she is happy to be at leisure, staying in the palace to play with her baby Rui is one of the great joys in life!
On the first day Tang left Yunning, he took Ning Jing and Xiao Tangtang to the temple fair in the outer city.
Han Yunxi didn't go with her, she was waiting, waiting for the ten old ladies to make trouble.
Before she returned to the palace, she was sure that all the ten empty red envelopes had been delivered to the old ladies. She also specifically asked a maidservant and an eunuch who handled it.
The maid sent the red envelopes to the Yunning Palace, and the eunuchs took over and arranged to distribute them.
When the maid tapped the number of red envelopes, she noticed that there were ten red envelopes without silver notes, and when the eunuchs went to the mansions to distribute red envelopes, they also noticed the ten empty red envelopes. However, neither of these two dared to speak too much! Everyone thought the Empress Dowager did it on purpose.
What could Han Yunxi blame them for
Han Yunxi originally thought that as soon as she returned to the palace, those old ladies would come to her.
But the days passed, and it was of no use that there was still a little movement in this matter.
If other people receive empty red envelopes, they are basically panicked and dare not speak up. They will only nervously try to figure out the queen's intentions and reflect on whether they have offended the queen.
However, those ten ladies are different!
It's strange that they didn't take this opportunity to show Han Yunxi a good look!
However, after Han Yunxi waited for two days, the ladies did not move at all. Han Yunxi was puzzled and became more and more cautious.
She didn't take the initiative to mention this matter, and waited quietly, watching the changes.
The ninth day of the Lunar New Year is approaching, and the ninth day of the Lunar New Year is Xuanyuan Rui's first birthday, the first birthday in his life.
Long Feiye originally planned to hold a big birthday party, and the invitations were sent out. But who knows, in the few days after he returned to the palace, bad news came from Bei Li one after another.
Beili, an avalanche!
Originally, the disaster did not ease. After the beginning of spring, as the weather warmed up, several small-scale avalanches occurred, killing and injuring many herdsmen. I don’t know what man-made rumors said that the emperor would abandon Beili due to a disaster. The entire Northern Calendar can be described as shrouded in a pessimistic atmosphere.
On the night of the eighth day, Tang Li and Ning Jing rushed back from the outer city.
Tang Li rushed directly to Long Feiye's study room, leaned on the table and asked, "Brother, tomorrow is Rui'er's birthday party, what are you going to do?"
Northern calendar avalanche, the country is in trouble, the people are in trouble, if we hold a grand feast in a festive manner, how many people will be criticized? Not to mention Long Feiye and Han Yunxi, even Xiao Rui'er who doesn't understand anything will probably be condemned.
Long Feiye raised his head from a pile of memorials, and asked seriously, "Did you invite your father?"
"Brother, I'm asking you something serious! The common people in the outer city are discussing that the herdsmen in Northern Li can't afford to eat, but you want to spend extravagantly holding a birthday party for the crown prince. Brother, those people can't find a chance to catch the crown prince. , don't hurt Rui'er!" Tang Li said solemnly.
Tang Li knew that Baili Yuanlong was fighting openly and secretly with his father, but he didn't know much about the current situation, nor did he understand it thoroughly.
He didn't pay attention to this matter at first, and prepared a very special gift for Rui'er, but when he was visiting the temple fair in the outer city, he heard all kinds of rumors and rumors, so angry that he rushed back directly, caring about everything no more.
Tranquility dragged Xiao Tangtang to chase after her. Seeing Tang Li being so presumptuous, she was about to speak when Han Yunxi, who was sitting beside her, stopped her.
It is also a kind of luck for Long Feiye to have a younger brother like Tang Li who dares to rush here to take a table with Long Feiye!
When fighting for the country, everyone is sincerely loyal, and when it comes to defending the country, those who compete for fame and fortune are also fighting for it sincerely.
One moment and another moment, otherwise, the three characters "Shoujiangshan" would not be so difficult to write.
As the head of the Tang Sect, Tang Li is not in the circle of interests, but Han Yunxi knows that Tang Li will never change!
"What can you do?" Long Feiye asked seriously.
Tang Li thought for a long time before replying, "The birthday party has been cancelled, let's pass it to Rui'er in private!"
The reason why there are so many rumors outside is precisely because tomorrow is the ninth day of the lunar new year, and Long Feiye has not released the news of the cancellation of the birthday party for a long time.
Tranquility couldn't bear it, and went forward to salute, "Your Majesty, I privately thought that the birthday party would be cancelled, and all the expenses of the party would be donated to the disaster victims in the name of the crown prince. In this way, all ministers will have to follow suit."
The first birthday banquet was canceled at this time. Firstly, it seemed insincere, and secondly, it seemed that the emperor and empress were afraid of those rumormongers.
However, in the current situation, the birthday party had to be cancelled, so Tranquility thought of this method as a way to make up for it.
Long Feiye raised his eyebrows and looked at Tang Li, "In my opinion, the Tang Sect will still be managed by your wife in the future, so I can rest assured."
In front of Tang Li and his group, Long Feiye had always been arrogant and never called himself "Zhen".
Tang Li is proud that Tranquility can come up with this method, as long as Tranquility is willing, he can unsuspectingly hand over the affairs of the Tang Sect to Tranquility.
It's a pity that the Tang Sect is still not completely up to his word, and his father still controls the Tang Sect's Presbyterian Council!
Tang Li sat aside and muttered, "She and I are both fleeing, so what about the Tang Sect?"
Long Feiye casually dropped two copies of the booklet.
Tang Li caught it and immediately beamed with joy.
Of these two copies, one is from the Ministry of War and the other is from the Ministry of Industry. The Ministry of War came to complain that the first batch of weapons to be handed over after the spring of the Tang Sect had not been moved, and the Ministry of Industry came to sue Tang Zijin, blaming Tang Zijin for returning to the Tang Sect in the last month of the lunar year and not returning to the imperial capital until now, because Tang Zijin was absent, The construction of the imperial capital was delayed for several days.
The Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War all pointed their finger at the Tang Sect, but after these two copies, how many more copies would there be, and how many people coveted the Tang Sect. Let's just say that these two copies are enough for Long Feiye to force Tang Zijin into a fight.
Tang Zijin must still be busy with the Tang Sect's weapons at the moment. Tranquility has always been in charge of that weapon, because it was a second-hand remodel, which involved a lot of things, Tang Zijin didn't know, and it was very difficult for him to take over. .
As for the imperial capital, the construction of the imperial city had to be supervised by Tang Zijin himself. Without Tang Zijin, the construction of the imperial palace would basically not progress.
Tang Zijin is now one person who can't do two things, and he has no skills to separate himself!
Tang Li carefully read the two papers, and said earnestly, "Brother, it's time to test my father!"
If Tang Zijin knew that Tang Li said such a sentence, he would probably be so angry that he would not recognize him as his son.
However, the fact is true, and the time to test Tang Zijin has come.
Now, there are only two paths before Tang Zijin.
The first is to make a compromise with Tang Li and Tranquility, get the couple back, let Tranquility continue to be in charge of the weapons, and he will return to the construction site of the imperial capital as soon as possible.
The second is to find someone else to take over the military affairs of the Tang Sect.
Of course, Tang Zijin knew that many people in the court were staring at the fat job of Bingxi, and the Tang Sect had made many enemies because of it. If he was willing to give up the profits and find someone to take over Bingxi's affairs, it would definitely attract a lot of attention to the Tang Sect. Collaborators, allies, and possibly even calling themselves a major party.
In fact, if Tang Zijin extended an olive branch to the southern army, many people in the southern army would very likely put Baili Yuanlong aside and cooperate with Tangmen.
Tang Zijin, what choice would he make
On the one hand, it is to accept Tranquility and make the Tang Sect unstoppable; on the other hand, it is to accept foreign aid and form a clique for personal gain. I have to say, this choice was very difficult for Tang Zijin!
However, it is precisely such a difficult choice that can test Tang Zijin's sincerity.
Tranquility's expression became serious, and Tang Li, a heartless thing, was still smiling.
Han Yunxi opened her mouth, "Tang Li, whether you and Ning Jing will go back is the Tang Sect's housework, and the matter of weapons and weapons is a major matter of the court. Now it can be regarded as a mix of housework and court affairs. What about these two documents? Use it, make up your own mind!"
"Just do what you want!" Tang Li didn't hesitate, he restrained his smile and said seriously, "Sister-in-law, I also want to know if my father...will become the second Baili Yuanlong."
Long Feiye was waiting, so he said this.
He didn't deal with the matter publicly, but ordered two memorials to be sent directly to the Tang Sect for Tang Zijin to read.
Tang Zijin is a smart person, as soon as he saw the memorial, he knew it was time to make a choice.
Han Yunxi asked jokingly, "Tang Li, Ning Jing, this year's birthday party has been cancelled, so will you still give Rui'er a gift?"
"Of course! I've already prepared it! Tomorrow, let's celebrate Rui'er's birthday." Tang Lichao said with a smile to Rui'er, who was sitting on the side flipping through the book, "Prince, you will definitely like this gift from tomorrow!"
Rui'er glanced back, didn't react much, and buried her head in the book again. He can't read, but he just likes to read those words.
"Tomorrow's birthday party will not be cancelled. The birthday party will be as usual, and the gifts will still be accepted!" Han Yunxi said with a smile, "This is my son's first birthday, so I just want to make a special event to see what those people can do to us !"
As soon as these words came out, Tang Li and Ning Jing were both shocked.
The empress is so capricious? really good