Lu Ze turned to look, the queen mother took off the cape and hat she was wearing, and said softly, "Aze, it's me."
Seeing that the two had already met, Furong saluted and took the palace servants to a distance to wait for orders.
The empress dowager took off the heavy empress dowager's clothes and put on the crisp and tender girl's Luo skirt, just like the day she and the original body first met.
It's just that she is getting older, and she is no longer as innocent as she used to be, her eyes are full of tiredness, and there are tiny wrinkles at the corners of her eyes.
While Lu Ze was looking at the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother was also looking at Lu Ze.
She was looking forward to Lu Ze's excitement and surprise when she saw her, but she didn't, her calm eyes seemed like she was just a stranger.
And his eyes are still sharp, but clear.
Before, his eyes were not like this, they were full of greed.
Lu Ze asked slowly, "You call me Aze now, what should I call you?"
The queen mother was slightly startled, "Today, I'm just your Lu'er."
The Queen Mother looked at Lu Ze looking forward to it, but Lu Ze obviously disappointed her. Lu Ze said, "Queen Mother, do you need this king to do anything when you leave the palace this time?"
"Aze?" The queen mother looked at him in disbelief, "how can you say such cruel words? How can I want to be in today's situation? If possible, I don't care about the position of the empress dowager of Lao Shizi. , I just want to go back in time and enjoy the flowers on a boat cruise with you."
Lu Ze's hands trembled behind his back. The words were so numb that he got goosebumps.
Lu Ze said: "The Queen Mother..."
"Call me Lu'er."
Lu Ze took a deep breath, "Queen Mother, what are you trying to say? This king has a lot of official business to deal with, so I'm afraid I can't chat with the Queen Mother."
The queen mother bit her red lips, "Aze, the emperor... He is my son. I love you, and I love him, and you love me, don't you? Please let him go for me."
"Does the queen mother want me not to fight with the emperor and capture it without my hands?"
"I just want you all to be safe."
"Ah!"
Does the so-called safety of all mean that the original body was finally raided and destroyed
Lu Ze said indifferently: "Queen Mother, the power struggle between nobles is a power struggle, please don't mix it with love."
Tears fell from the Queen Mother's eyes, and big drops fell to the ground. Her heart was aching. She did not expect that the man who loved her unconditionally would be so severely corrupted by power.
The Queen Mother murmured, "Isn't the love between you and me less than your desire?"
Yes, chickens and ducks talk about it in vain.
Lu Ze took a deep breath again and suppressed the depression in his chest, "The Queen Mother, don't do what you want to others, can you persuade your son to give up while persuading me to give up power?"
"I... he is the emperor... "
"It was his father's victory in the power struggle, not his."
Lu Ze said: "This is an iron-blooded war, a war of death between nobles. It has nothing to do with the poor or love. If the queen mother cannot understand, the king will not force it. The queen mother has a noble status, and the market is very small. For the safety of the queen mother, please return to the palace as soon as possible."
The queen mother stared deeply at Lu Ze, her eyes were red and her tears were dry.
In the past, as long as she cried, this man would promise him everything he felt distressed.
Not anymore.
The queen mother took out the sachet and put it in Lu Ze's hand, "Aze, this is the sachet I promised to embroider for you when you were sixteen years old when you set out on the expedition. It's been almost twenty years, and the gift is light and heavy. "
After all, the queen mother turned and left.
Lu Ze looked at the sachet in his hand, it was indeed twenty years old, and it was old.
In fact, not only the original body did not understand, but Lu Ze also did not understand.
Yuan Shi and the Queen Mother only met after Yuan Shi returned to Beijing. According to the original novel, the Queen Mother and Yuan Shi were each other's first love.
Later, the original body went on an expedition, and the empress dowager was favored by the late emperor and included in the harem.
The two have known each other for a year in total.
In the original novel, Zhong Yuanshen is a very emotionally indifferent and alienated person. Can he meet people less than ten times in a year so deeply
In the next 20 years, the original body led the army to fight, was born to death, married and had children, and there was very little contact between the two.
The original evaluation of himself is in place, a hero in troubled times, a hero in prosperous times.
How could he be so wise and wise except for the queen mother, his IQ was completely lost when he was related to the queen mother, and he would only do things that only harem women would do, such as poisoning, assassinating, slandering, adultery, etc. for the male and female protagonists
Lu Ze felt that this could only be attributed to the needs of the plot.
Lu Ze shook his head and continued to walk.
On the other side, Lu Yue changed into a woman's dress and Ah Jin was at the night market.
Suddenly, the carriage was running wild in the downtown area. Lu Yue just became interested in martial arts. He threw the red lantern in his hand to A Jin, and flew up, chasing after the crazy horse.
Then jumped into the carriage, ready to take the reins.
Suddenly, a masked man also flew down on the carriage. He said, "Why are you a woman so powerful? I'll come."
Lu Yue: "..."
It's really getting in the way!
Lu Yue kicked the masked man's ass while he was unprepared, kicking him down alive.
The man just landed on the steamed buns booth, his butt was sitting on the stove, and he was screaming.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!" Several men dressed in plain clothes rushed up and quickly put out the fire.
At this time, Lu Yue had already controlled the carriage, and just happened to hear the emperor's voice, but now she has something more in her heart.
I really have no interest in the emperor.
Lu Yue stopped the carriage and waited for a while before Ah Jin caught up.
In the candlelight, Lu Yue smiled like a flower, looking at A Jin as if asking for credit, "A Jin, am I amazing?"
A Jin said coldly, "The county owner's daughter cannot take such risks in the future."
Like a basin of cold water pouring down, the smile on Lu Yue's face faded, "Ajin, you are really disappointing. I have studied diligently for so long, so why not praise me."
A Jin took out the wound medicine he had prepared with him, grabbed Lu Yue's hand, and slowly rubbed the delicate ointment on the wound on his palm, "The county master's light work has improved a lot."
How does it feel to be praised by a master who is stricter than your father
Lu Yue felt so refreshed, and was happy for several days in a row.
The gate of Beicheng guarded the prison camp, and two soldiers came in with a thin boy and threw it in casually before leaving.
The boy was thin and small, and looked about thirteen or fourteen years old. He was dirty and had whiplash wounds on his body.
Lu Lu has been here for almost a month, and he has gradually become accustomed to the life here and has begun to give up on himself.
He seems to have been abandoned by his father.
That's why he was left here to be tortured and ignored.
The people here are all hard-working people, everyone is afraid of being beaten, and no one will make trouble in the middle of the night and annoy the guards.
The boy lay on his stomach for a while and stood up by himself, found a place to squat down by himself, spit two saliva and wiped it on the wound as treatment.
Seeing that the boy was pitiful, Lu Lu came to him quietly, took out half a black steamed bun from his pocket and handed it to him quietly.
The boy glanced at Lu Lu and was sure there was no malicious intent. He took out the steamed bun and stuffed it in his mouth. Soon half of the steamed bun was gone. The boy said, "My name is A Jiang."
"My name is Lu Lu."
The boy shook his head, obviously not knowing those two words.
It was only then that Lu Lu remembered that few civilians were literate, so he said, "You can call me Alu, which is the same as Lu on the side of the road."
A Jiang nodded.
The next day, Lu Lu and Ajiang were assigned to work together, and the two soldiers next to them chatted.
"Have you heard? The daughter of Yu Shilang's family has set a date for entering the palace, in half a month."
"Half a month later, it will be an auspicious day! Marry the emperor, and the Yu family will become a relative of the emperor."
"What kind of imperial relatives, I heard that the Empress Dowager doesn't want to see the little daughter of the Yu family, but the emperor opened his mouth in public, and Jinkou Yuyan had to accept her. The Ministry of Rites did not prepare for the wedding at all. Don't talk about concubine concubine, the imperial decree only said that a beauty was sealed, only seven rank."
"That would be a shame."
The woman he loves has been humiliated and will be married in half a month.
Lu Lu was in a trance for a while, and the guard swung his whip over. Seeing that it was about to hit him in the face, Ajiang slammed his head against him, knocking over the guard.
He waited for the guard with red eyes like a wolf. The guard fell hard, and when he stood up, he kicked Ajiang out of blood with a single kick, and the whip quickly fell a dozen times.
"Stop fighting!" Lu Lu rushed over, but Ajiang insisted on protecting him.
After more than 20 whippings, the guards were tired, so the two of them were spared.
Lu Lu was protected by A Jiang, but he only scratched a little on his face, and the rest was not hurt.
"Why?" Lu Lu asked, they only met yesterday.
A Jiang said stupidly, "Steamed buns."
Lu Lu's eyes were hot, and he was speechless for a while.
In the evening, Ajiang woke up at night, and when he came back, he seemed to have something on his back. He walked over to Lu Lu and stuffed it into him.
"What's this?"
"Life."
Lu Lu took a peek at it by the moonlight. It was a broken bowl, sharpened like a dagger.
A Jiang wants to escape!
Ajiang brought back the broken bowl, and Lu Lu kept watching him. He felt that Ajiang must be trying to escape secretly when no one was there.
Unfortunately not.
A Jiang just sat at the door in a daze, often in a daze.
A few days later at noon, Ajiangla Lu Lu led the steamed buns to eat where the broken bowls were hidden, and then began to be in a daze again.
Lu Lu has become accustomed to Ajiang's daze, and his heart is depressed and panicked. These days, he chats with Ajiang every day and tells his anguish. Anyway, Ajiang can't understand it, let alone tell others. He believes in Ajiang, so there is nothing scruples.
Lu Lu habitually asked Ajiang, "Ajiang, I know that every prosperous one will be prosperous and the other will be lost, but I still can't get past the hurdle in my heart. Confucius taught that the emperor should be the highest, how can you disobey the emperor?"
A Jiang's eyes suddenly moved, and he looked at Lu Lu in confusion and stupidity, "A Lu, what is your Majesty?"
"You don't know what the emperor is?" A possibility flashed in Lu Lu's mind, a very terrifying possibility, "Then do you know who the emperor is today?"
A Jiang shook his head.
"Where's the Regent?"
A Jiang shook his head
"Where's Jing Zhaoyin?"
A Jiang continued to shake his head.
This time, Lu Lu was stunned, so ordinary people don't know who is ruling them at all
Lu Lu didn't believe in evil, and continued to ask. Except for the nobles who were guilty, no one really knew.
Lu Lu sat in a daze where Ajiang was in a daze.
Suddenly A Jiang said suddenly: "The emperor is the one who wants to marry a concubine."
Lu Lu: "..."
So under the capital, do ordinary people only know gossip
Soon the gongs and drums rang, and Ajiang pulled Lulu, "Work."
Soon, near dusk, everyone's spirits were exhausted, so were the soldiers, and the guards in custody were also tired and began to neglect their duties.
Ajiang touched Lu Lu, and Lu Lu noticed that Ajiang was hiding a broken bowl.
A Jiang's eyes firmly led Lu Lu to approach the only guard on the east side step by step, piercing the guard's neck without even a single cry.
Immediately afterwards, Ajiangla Lulu ran desperately.
Lu Lu didn't know anything, and after a while Lu Lu heard the curses of the soldiers.
Then the white feather arrow whizzed past his ear.
Then A Jiang suddenly hugged him from behind, and then the two fell into the moat, rolling and crawling.
When Lu Lu woke up, he had already been dragged to the shore by Ajiang. Ajiang was hit by three arrows in the back and passed out. He struggled to climb to Ajiang's side, remembering that Ajiang suddenly hugged him from behind, and tears rained down. It was to protect him that he was hurt.
does it worth
Just for half a bun!
There is no need to take him with him when he runs away!
The arrow was inserted very deep, and if it was not pulled well, it might really kill Ajiang.
Lu Lu carried Ajiang on his back and hid him, and then hurried to the city.
In front of the Prince Regent's mansion, Lu Lu knocked on the door exhausted, and the servant shouted when he saw it, "The prince is back, the prince is back!"
Lu Lu desperately grabbed the sleeve of a servant boy, "Don't mind me, go to Shilipo outside the city, under the third locust tree!"
"Sir, let's ask the doctor first."
"No!" Lu Lu insisted through gritted teeth, "Go to Shilipo with me now."
If A Jiang is not brought back, he will never treat him!
Ajiang was picked up, and Lu Lu lived with him in the same room to take care of him, during which Lu Ze also came to visit.
Lu Ze looked at Lu Lu, who was skinny and skinny, and said with a smile, "Fleeing back?"
Lu Lu was shocked, "Dad wanted to let me escape by myself early in the morning?"
Lu Ze patted him on the shoulder, "Take care of yourself, and when you have enough rest, tell me your thoughts in detail."
"Brother is back?"
With a confident and clear voice, Lu Key walked in from the door.
She was wearing a strong suit for martial arts, and before she had time to change her clothes, her hair was tied up high, and she looked energetic, like a phoenix reborn from ashes.
Lu Lu couldn't even recognize each other.
Lu Key glanced at the boy who was still in a coma on the bed, "Is this A Jiang who saved my brother?"
Lu Lu nodded, Lu Key smiled and said, "Brother, I begged my father to let A Jin teach me martial arts, and A Jiang will practice martial arts with us in the future."
Lu Lu also wanted to keep Ajiang by his side, but he still wanted to respect Ajiang's own thoughts, so he said, "I'll ask when he wakes up."
"He will definitely agree, after all, the opportunity is rare."
Lu Keycheng said with a heart in his chest.
A Jiang woke up after being in a coma for a day and a night, and as Lu Key said, he promised to stay and practice martial arts.
When Lu Lu came over, Lu Ze called Lu Lu into the study, and Lu Ze asked while reading, "Tell me what you think."
Lu Lu lowered his head and pondered for a long time, clenching his fists as if he had made up his mind, "Father, my son still has a lot of unknowns, but the son understands one thing. Without the Lu family, the son is nothing."
You can't lift your shoulders, you can't lift your hands, and you don't know anything about the folk.
Yes, something only nobles need.
If the aura of the nobles is deprived, what can he do in this world where nobles and commoners are clearly distinguished
Lu Lu said: "But, father, please believe in your son. My son loves Meier and wants to see her again."
The room was silent.
After a long time, Lu Ze said, "Go."
young love...
Yu Xuemei was sitting in the house with a sore body, her body was sore and sore, and she was panting three times after walking two steps.
And the person who poisoned it was none other than the father of her body.
After she woke up, she heard that the little emperor had issued an imperial decree to take her as a concubine, so she went to the little emperor on the spot to make a theory.
This attitude frightened the whole Yufu, how could anyone in this world go to the emperor's theory
Yu Shilang immediately ordered to give her soft muscle powder while she was injured, not only after the injection that day, but also to ensure her safe entry into the palace.
When Lu Lu came to see him, Yu Shilang was very embarrassed, but no matter how embarrassed he was, he didn't dare to stop the son of the regent. See.
After all the servants left, Yu Xuemei said anxiously, "Hurry up and take me away."
"You don't want to marry the emperor?" Lu Lu asked in surprise.
"My Yu Xuemei's man can only have one woman in my life, not even the emperor!"
Yu Xuemei raised her chin proudly, her strong self-confidence burning her eyes.
Lu Lu frowned slightly, "Where does your confidence come from?"
Yu Xuemei obviously didn't expect Lu Lu to ask such a question, and immediately said, "Strength."
"Your strength, or the strength of your family?" Lu Lu said: "The emperor has the world, if I take you away today, your family will be punished because of you, a family general who has been cultivated by several generations of painstaking efforts. It will perish completely, and you and I will be hunted down by the court forever."
Yu Xuemei frowned impatiently, "He won't."
The emperor would not blame the Yu family for her face.
Besides, she doesn't care about the family.
Lu Lu was helpless, "So does your confidence come from the emperor's intolerance and feelings for you?"
Originally, Lu Lu came here today because he had a lot to say, and then asked her if she ever had such a moment's heart for him.
But the topic went off the rails from the beginning, and now he felt it was unnecessary.
He suddenly remembered that what attracted him to Yu Xuemei at first was her uniqueness and unconventionality.
And that strong self-confidence and arrogant attitude.
But when he clearly saw the cruelty under the imperial power, it would be too dazzling to look at this unsupported and inexplicable self-confidence.
Yu Xuemei felt that she had seen through Lu Lu. He was timid and fearful, and snorted coldly, "Since you are so cowardly, then I don't need your help! You go!"
Lu Lu took out a small square box from his cuff, and sighed in his heart, after all, this relationship is still his own self-love.
After Lu Lu left, Yu Xuemei opened the box. It was a gadget on the street. She vaguely remembered that it was something she gave away at first. It was not a good thing, so she just threw it away.
Lu Ze called Lu Key into the study, and when Lu Lu came back, he called in together.
The hand who has been leading soldiers all the year round tapped the table, and Lu Ze said, "The thirty-two counties in Kyushu, and the sixteen counties in four states are not within my control. Which ones do you two like?"
Lu Lu said, "Assign it to my father."
Lu Key also said, "I listen to my father."
"Then divide things from Sui County, and you each take half." Lu Ze's face was rigid and serious, without a trace of warmth, "You can call on the financial resources of the palace at any time."
"Yes, father." Lu Key Lu Lu said.
"Now tell me what you think." Lu Ze pointed to Lu Key, "First tell me how you plan to conquer these local forces."
Lu Key pondered for a moment, but she was not sure yet, and she had not practiced it. Even if she had deliberately learned about the characteristics of these places and the staff, she could not be sure.
She thought about it and said, "Water can carry a boat and capsize it. Father, I want to start with the common people, but I have no idea yet."
Lu Ze did not express his opinion. After all, Lu Key was a little girl who was ignorant of the world for more than ten years. Even if she made up for more than half a month of books, she could not expect her to learn power skills immediately. Lu Ze clicked Lu Lu again. .
"Father, through my son's observation in the past few days, it is true that the people are the water, and the king is the boat, but there is a premise that the boat can only be overturned in a troubled time. Now in a peaceful and prosperous world, although the people are not rich and noble, they are enough. There is no reason to force the people to rebel. The common people and the nobles are separated, so the common people are useless. Since my father wants to be in the throne, it is natural to get the support of the nobles and the nobles as quickly as possible."
Lu Lu said: "Then Yang Su is greedy for money, he can move his heart with money and silk, Wenliang is lustful, he can offer beauty, and do what he likes. But these are only superficial friendships, and the most fundamental thing is to establish common interests."
Lu Ze nodded.
Lu Lu continued: "The biggest interest of the so-called noble family is the development of the family, and the state and county officials are no exception, and they are deeply involved with the noble family. What we have to do is very simple, that is, to bind their interests to ours, For example, coal mines, water transportation, land mergers.”
"It won't cost you a month to repair the city wall." Lu Ze sighed, and turned his eyes on Lu Yue. It is good to have ambition, but he is afraid that ambition will engulf others.
Lu Ze said lightly, "You are brothers and sisters, you should love each other. Relax your horizons and look at the long-term. Don't ruin a century-old foundation because of temporary gains and losses. Go ahead, the two of you will discuss more in the future, Yue'er, more with you. Brother study."
"Yes, father."
As soon as the person left, 616 suddenly said: "Host, I finally know what you are doing with so many things."
Lu Ze tilted his head, "What did I do?"
616: "You're just lazy and think it's too much trouble to rebel, so you specially trained two helpers."
Lu Ze raised his eyebrows, "Isn't this okay?"
"Well, anyway, I can complete the task." 616 thought for a while and asked curiously, "But host, aren't you a rich second generation who buys and buys every day? Why do you understand the struggle for imperial power?"
"I am a rich and young family, and the same is true of a rich family." Lu Ze made a random excuse.
"Oh, oh, I understand, host." 616 instantly remembered the blood of countless giants and said with pity: "Host, you must have had a hard time before."
"Yeah, life is hard." Lu Ze wiped two drops of crocodile tears that didn't exist, "I still feel heartfelt sadness when I think of it."
Listening to Lu Ze's pitiful sigh, 616 made up his mind to protect Lu Ze well in the future!