When Li Rong heard Pei Wenxuan's name, she looked back subconsciously, and then saw Pei Wenxuan fall straight back. The official behind him supported him and panicked, "Mr. Pei?"
The hall became chaotic for a while, Li Rong saw this, stabilized her mind, hurried to Pei Wenxuan's side, and summoned the imperial doctor at the same time.
She squatted down, looked at it carefully for a moment, and after confirming the situation, she got up and said to Li Ming: "Report to the emperor, the concubine has passed out now, the son-in-law will take the concubine to the side hall to rest first, and I hope the emperor's permission."
"Hurry up and see what's going on," Li Ming frowned, "Don't make trouble."
Li Rong respectfully saluted, and then let someone carry Pei Wenxuan out of the main hall and placed them in the back of the side hall. Li Rong raised her eyes quickly: "How?"
"Reporting to Your Highness," the imperial doctor replied in an orderly manner, "The concubine has been exhausted for days and worried too much, and her mind has been damaged. It is enough to take a few more days of recuperation."
Li Rong nodded, and she almost guessed it. It's not easy for Pei Wenxuan to be a cow and a horse during the day and a sentimental temperament at night.
She responded and said, "Is there anything else you need to pay attention to?"
The imperial doctor hesitated for a moment, and when he saw that there was no one around, he thought: "The matter of yin and yang still need not be too taboo, like water..."
"Okay."
Li Rong knew what he was going to say, so she raised her hand and interrupted him directly: "But what else?"
"Sleep more and eat more," the imperial doctor knew that Li Rong wanted to shoot him down now, so he could only bite the bullet and said succinctly, "If you want to relax, it's good to go outside and relax more."
Li Rong nodded, she probably understood, she waved her hand, let the imperial doctor go down first, and let someone cook the medicine, and instructed Jinglan to go to the dark line in the palace to ask about Concubine Rou's movement last night, and wait in the room. After there was no one else, she sat down next to Pei Wenxuan and looked at him carefully.
He seems to be thinner in this life than he was at this age in the last life, but it's no wonder that he didn't think much of it after marrying her at this age in the last life. To be honest in front of his concubine, it is just for a bit of self-esteem that he works hard.
But now she and he both have a sword hanging over their heads that fell from nowhere. Less than a year after they opened their eyes and were reborn, he has already taken a firm seat in the censor's desk. It is the Pei Yushi that no one knows, and no one does not give up a few points.
Now that he has even reached the eighth level, it is even more shocking.
It was obvious that Pei Wenxuan's current qualifications could not sit in the position of Minister of Officials.
Su Rongqing was able to be the Minister of Punishment, that is because Su Rongqing participated in politics in the court at the age of 12. At the age of 14, he was a fifth-grade admonishing doctor. At the age of 17, he has served as the Minister of Punishment. No one dared to say "unworthy" in the minister of punishment.
But what about Pei Wenxuan
The fourteen-year-old Egret Academy leader graduated, recommended to the next spring, the first in the written examination and the palace examination, and the new champion of the new department who rode through Huajing. He entered the court at the age of fifteen, and was originally scheduled to be a member of the five-rank middle school, but before he took office, Pei Lizhi went. He could only go back to Luzhou to observe filial piety for three years. When he came back after three years, his second uncle arranged for him to become a nine-rank sesame officer in the Ministry of Punishment. After a year, she was remembered by her father, fished out from the Ministry of Punishment and became her consort. .
The design of the Yang family gave him the opportunity to become a censor of the censorship. From the Qin case to the establishment of the censorship division to the present, on the one hand, he stayed on the censor's desk to cooperate with her. When he was not at the censor's desk, she lost one. On the other hand, it was also Li Ming who deliberately restrained his promotion speed, verbally saying that he wanted to wait for a suitable position and give him a direct promotion, but what Li Ming really meant...
Who knows
Li Rong was thinking about Pei Wenxuan's entry into the list of ministers of the Ministry of Personnel.
She suddenly remembered what Pei Wenxuan had said to her before.
He told her, Your Highness, we are different people.
She never felt that way in the past, but when she thought about it today, she suddenly felt that compared to Pei Wenxuan, Su Rongqing's journey was really smooth.
Su Rongqing has the protection of his father and brother, even if his father and brother are gone, he will have his uncle to help him with the family tradition of his family's century-old heritage.
But what about Pei Wenxuan
His father is gone, he is gone. There is no so-called family inheritance, nor so-called family tradition, only his second uncle is thinking about how to plot against his orphans and widowed mothers, forcing the fifteen-year-old him to go back to observe filial piety, and defrauding his mother from his property and dismissing his retainers. .
too difficult.
Li Rong reached out and held Pei Wenxuan's hand. Pei Wenxuan's eyelashes trembled slightly. He opened his eyes and saw Li Rong looking down at their hands.
"Your Highness..."
Pei Wenxuan spoke in a hoarse voice. Li Rong raised her head and saw that Pei Wenxuan was awake. She smiled: "Awake? Do you want to drink water?"
After Li Rong asked, she stretched out her hand to get some water and handed it to Pei Wenxuan's lips. Pei Wenxuan took a sip of water from her hand, paused for a moment, and said anxiously, "Your Highness, did you hear the follow-up list?"
"It's okay, I'll just go to the official department to get it in a while."
"His Royal Highness," Pei Wenxuan frowned, "I know you're doing it for my own good, but you've even passed the eighth level..."
"What I've set for you is the master of the exam."
Li Rong interrupted him and explained directly, "I didn't do the minister of the Ministry of Personnel."
When Pei Wenxuan heard this, he was stunned. After a while, he said coldly, "How did Your Highness handle this?"
"You know, I found Liu Hangchun, he is in charge of the promotion of officials below the fifth rank. I gave him a heavy gift and threatened him. If he doesn't put you in the position of the master of the test, I will ask him to supervise Chase. He didn't have clean hands, so he came down."
Pei Wenxuan nodded and said only: "And then?"
"This time, in the military salary case, the Ministry of Officials has lost a servant and a foreign member, which must be made up in this transfer, so I found another relationship and put the original master of the examination into the position of the foreign member. I have vacated the position of the director of the examination. Your qualifications are excellent in this transfer list. As long as they do not deliberately embarrass you, it is natural for you to enter the personnel department. The position of the director of the examination has been vacated. Liu Hangchun and related I have also taken care of the decision-making staff, and it stands to reason that a sixth-rank official is not a big problem."
Li Rong analyzed it, and Pei Wenxuan was silent.
After thinking for a while, Pei Wenxuan confirmed it again: "Have you never contacted anyone who can decide the position of an official above the fifth rank?"
"No." Li Rong affirmed, "Your qualifications are rising too fast now, and I'm afraid Your Majesty will be suspicious."
Pei Wenxuan was silent, and Li Rong poured tea for Pei Wenxuan: "Now it is certain that someone is trying to harm you. But I don't understand, if it is harming you, it would be fine if you just don't enter the official department, why so much expense Zhou Zhang, push you to the position of the minister of officials?"
Pei Wenxuan lowered his eyes, and Li Rong said slowly, "They're not afraid of self-defeating, they really made you pretend to be the minister of officials?"
"The bigger the bet, the bigger the reward after winning." Pei Wenxuan pondered and said in a low voice, "It seems that the people behind this want more than just me not getting promoted."
"Then what do they want?"
Li Rong turned to look at Pei Wenxuan, Pei Wenxuan laughed softly, raised his eyes to meet Li Rong's eyes, like a fox, and said, "It depends, who shoots."
"Who do you think took the shot?"
Li Rong frowned, she already had a rough candidate in mind, but she still needed to verify it, but listening to Pei Wenxuan's meaning, it seemed that there was more than one candidate in his heart.
Pei Wenxuan smiled and didn't reply. He leaned against the head of the bed, closed his eyes, and rested: "I'll know who it is when the news from all parties comes back tonight."
Li Rong didn't speak, she stared at Pei Wenxuan, even under such adversity, Pei Wenxuan did not get angry at all, on the contrary, he had a calm sense of meeting his opponent, the whole person leaned gently on the bedside, as if listening to the wind and rain. Leisurely.
He was tossing and turning last night, and when something happened, he settled down.
I am not afraid of something happening, I am afraid of not knowing what happened.
Now that the other party makes a move, Pei Wenxuan has a bottom line in his heart, but he doesn't panic.
Seeing that he was calm, Li Rong knew that he had a certainty in his heart, so she paused for a moment, then hesitantly said, "I didn't handle this matter well."
Hearing her words, Pei Wenxuan was a little surprised. He opened his eyes and saw Li Rong lowered his head and lowered his eyes, making a serious promise: "I will be responsible, you don't have to worry."
Hearing this, Pei Wenxuan laughed out loud, and Li Rong frowned and raised her eyes: "What are you laughing at?"
"His Royal Highness, the other party is secretive. Even if I were to handle this matter today, it would not be better than Your Highness. Why should Your Highness blame yourself?"
"If I could have been more careful..."
"What are you careful about?" Pei Wenxuan looked at her with a smile. "We have already done what we can do. After all, we are not God, we can predict everything. If they want to take the initiative, we can't stop them."
Li Rong didn't speak, she kept reviewing in her mind, if this matter could be repeated, where would she be able to deal with it in advance.
Seeing that she was annoyed, Pei Wenxuan sighed and shook his head, stretched out his hand to hug the person in his arms, and said with relief: "My Highness, don't be upset, you were sorry for me in the first place, and now you are not happy. If you want me to coax you, aren't you more sorry for me?"
Li Rong's body stiffened, Pei Wenxuan let go of her, raised her chin with his hand, and said with a smile, "Smile."
Li Rong smiled reluctantly, but Pei Wenxuan was still unhappy when he saw her, he thought for a while: "Still feel sorry for me?"
Li Rong didn't answer her, she restrained her emotions, got up and said, "If you're all right, go back first, inquire about the information from all over the place, and then..."
Before she could finish speaking, Li Rong was grabbed by Pei Wenxuan's hand, dragged her whole body back, and fell into his arms, and then he squeezed her chin and lowered his head to kiss her.
As soon as Li Rong earned a little, she felt that this person was driving straight in. Her heartbeat was a little faster. This is the side hall of the court used to house officials in special circumstances, and it is not in the princess's mansion.
Seems like nothing.
Even though she said that, Li Rong couldn't help but feel nervous. This nervousness made her almost forget her previous emotions, but soon, she even forgot her nervousness.
Pei Wenxuan felt her whole body relax, and he finally stopped, he hugged her, the two of them didn't say anything, Pei Wenxuan put his chin on her shoulder, and after a long time, he came back and became hoarse. The voice said slowly: "I know, you are a person who has a clear account, but Rongrong."
"It's a clear account, that's an ally, and I'm your husband."
Li Rong didn't speak, but Pei Wenxuan seemed to live in her heart, he seemed to know everything: "If you feel sorry for me," he picked her chin with his fingers: "Give me a few more kisses. ?"
Li Rong looked at him, with a smile on Pei Wenxuan's face, as if she really didn't care about this matter at all, Li Rong remained silent, and after looking at him for a long time, Pei Wenxuan thought she would not say anything, and was about to get up, just look Li Rong suddenly stretched out her hand and held his face, like a child, from forehead to cheek to nose to mouth, and kissed him fiercely a few times.
This kind of kissing made Pei Wenxuan laugh. After the last kiss, Li Rong stood up, looked at Pei Wenxuan and said, "I think you appreciate these few kisses. Since they sent you to the minister of officials today. In terms of position, I can't take their good intentions away."
"Don't lie down," Li Rong raised her hand and knocked on Pei Wenxuan's leg with a fan. "Get up, go home, find out what's going on, and see how I clean up them."
Pei Wenxuan pretended to be hurt by being beaten, and cried "Ouch", then stood up with his hips covered, and complained, "Your Highness, you hurt me."
Li Rong gave him a cold look: "I hit the leg."
Saying that, Li Rong raised her hand, and Pei Wenxuan looked down, "Your Highness?"
"Isn't it painful?" Li Rong was expressionless, "Just hold it if you can't walk."
"Thank you for your consideration, Your Highness." Pei Wenxuan didn't refuse at all, he reached out and grabbed Li Rong's hand, and Li Rong walked out.
The two walked out of the side hall, which happened to be the time of the court. Ministers came out of the hall one after another. Many people saw Pei Wenxuan and came up to congratulate Pei Wenxuan. Where did Pei Wenxuan receive these congratulations at this time
Now it's just a preliminary list, and it will only be finalized after no one raises objections in March, and then the transfer procedures will begin.
But now it is clear that someone has set up a pit, and it would be hell if no one raised any objections in the past three months.
So Pei Wenxuan just exchanged greetings and said humbly, "It's just a list now, and the lower officials have shallow qualifications, so I'm afraid they won't be able to take on big responsibilities."
After the familiar officials said hello, Li Rong helped Pei Wenxuan out of the square. As soon as she arrived at the palace gate, she saw Su Rongqing who was also about to leave.
Su Rongqing noticed that the two were coming with support, so he looked over. When Pei Wenxuan saw Su Rongqing looking over, he quickly leaned over Li Rong, Li Rong frowned, raised his eyes and said, "What's wrong with you? Are you disabled? ?"
"Ah," Pei Wenxuan raised his hand to cover his forehead, "I'm dizzy."
"Dizzy again?" Li Rong was a little nervous, and Pei Wenxuan lowered his head: "Let's go, let's go home."
Su Rongqing stood on the carriage in the distance and looked at the two people who were leaning against each other. After a long time, he lifted the curtain and got into the carriage.
Li Rong and Pei Wenxuan returned to the Princess Mansion. Li Rong asked someone to find Liu Chunhang in advance. As soon as the two returned to the mansion, they saw that Liu Chunhang was already waiting in the lobby. When Li Rong came in, he knelt down and hurriedly said, "Your Highness. ."
"Just kneeling like that?"
Li Rong laughed: "You also know what you did?"
Liu Chunhang didn't dare to answer. Li Rong and Pei Wenxuan sat down together. Looking at Liu Hangchun kneeling on the ground, Li Rong picked up the cup and said slowly, "What did you do, tell me."
The position of the Minister of Officials was much higher than that of Liu Chunhang. This matter should have nothing to do with Liu Chunhang, but he knelt down after calling someone over, and Li Rong knew what he must have done.
Liu Chunhang knelt down in front of Li Rong tremblingly, with cold sweat on his forehead, and said anxiously, "Your Highness, someone took the transfer list of the five-rank and above personnel to the lower official last night, and asked the lower official to change the name of Lord Pei from the examination. The meritorious work was withdrawn. Wei Chen did not dare to go against His Highness's will, but the other party said that it was for the good of the concubine. Wei Chen thought that if the concubine could serve as the minister of the Ministry of Personnel, it would definitely be better than being the chief of the examination of merit. Plus five The list above will be submitted to the sage in advance. The sage first saw that the concubine is a candidate for the minister of the Ministry of Personnel, and then looked at the list drawn up by the official. I am afraid that he will think that the official is not doing things well, so…”
"You deleted the name of the concubine from the master of the examination."
Li Rong smiled lightly: "It's a good thing, the concubine has become the minister of the Ministry of Personnel, what are you doing so afraid of?"
Liu Chunhang didn't dare to answer, Li Rong lowered her head and fiddled with the tea bowl, and said slowly, "Who is looking for you, and what did they say?"
"The person who is looking for me is His Royal Highness Hua Le."
Hearing the name, Li Rong stopped, and Liu Chunhang dared to speak with difficulty: "His Royal Highness Hua Le said that Concubine Rou wants a person to be in charge of the examination and let me arrange it. The lower officials dare not respond. Your Majesty, she informed His Highness Hua Le that the master of the examination had been decided. She asked me who I was, and the subordinate informed His Highness Hua Le, and His Highness Hua Le informed Wei Chen that the consort had been designated as the Minister of Officials. "
"Xiaguan actually knows that something is wrong," Liu Chunhang was trembling all over, "but since the concubine has already been designated as the minister of the Ministry of Personnel, it is useless to keep the concubine, and let the concubine appear on both lists at the same time. Strange thing. So the lower official just followed the arrangement of His Royal Highness Hua Le…”
"The person who arranged her."
Pei Wenxuan's voice sounded, and Liu Chunhang said anxiously: "No, no, the concubine has wronged Xiaguan. Although Xiaguan deleted the name of the concubine, he just filled in the original name. The relationship between Her Royal Highness Hua Le and the princess is under the leadership of Xiaguan. The official is clear, the princess has the supervisory department in hand, and I borrow ten courage from the lower official, and the lower official does not dare to help Her Royal Highness Hua Le and the princess to do it."
"So, you deleted the concubine's name."
"Yes," Liu Chunhang said in a hurry, "Xiaguan only did this thing. Today I heard that the concubine fainted in the courtroom. Ministers have rumored that the concubine was too pleasantly surprised, but Xiaguan knew it in his heart. If you do something wrong, please forgive His Highness, and the concubine forgives!"
Liu Chunhang hurriedly kowtowed, Li Rong sighed, waved her hand, and said helplessly, "Get up, you should step back first."
Hearing this, Liu Chunhang breathed a sigh of relief. After he respectfully saluted, he was about to leave when he heard Li Rong whisper: "Since the matter has not been accomplished, send the money back. There will be shocks soon, Mr. Liu. I'm afraid I won't be able to run, if there is an accident, what should I say and what should not be said, Master Liu still needs to think clearly."
"Don't worry, Your Highness." Liu Chunhang understood what Li Rong meant, and he respectfully said, "Your Highness is very clear."
"Go."
After Li Rong finished speaking, Liu Chunhang withdrew.
After Liu Chunhang left, Li Rong raised her eyes and looked at Pei Wenxuan who was thinking about it: "Do you know what?"
After hearing this, Pei Wenxuan raised his eyes and chuckled, "Who do you think Your Highness is?"
"Now it seems that Concubine Rou must be involved, but what does she want to do?"
Li Rong pondered: "She is afraid that you and I will become more and more powerful, and I can understand how to help Chuan'er in the future. So she obstructed you from entering the Ministry of Personnel, and I can also understand. But now she makes you the Minister of Personnel, Picture what?"
"I've become an official minister, Your Highness thought, what will happen?"
Pei Wenxuan raised the chess piece and placed it lightly on the chessboard. Li Rong understood what would happen if Pei Wenxuan asked her to deduce it.
"The minister will not agree, and will jointly sign the letter, and you can't be."
Li Rong played the pawn: "What's the point?"
"What will your Majesty think about this?"
Pei Wenxuan continued to drop chess pieces, looking calm, Li Rong whispered: "I will think, you are too ambitious, and you want to go to the sky in one step."
"I was originally a sword of Your Majesty, and I completely relied on Your Majesty, but now I can directly arrange to be a servant of the Ministry of Personnel. How can I do it?"
"It's me," Li Rong put down the chess piece and looked cold, "I'll help you."
"His Royal Highness can so easily arrange for his husband to be in the sixth grade as a servant of the Ministry of Personnel. Where does the ability come from?"
"Either, rely on His Royal Highness," Li Rong held the chess piece and looked up at Pei Wenxuan, "Or, the power of the inspector can already deter the courtiers."
"Does your Highness still remember why Your Majesty allowed His Highness to set up an Inspectorate?"
"He wants to use my identity and ability to check and balance the family. I and the family's regime, he is a fisherman."
"In the last life, Concubine Rou was in charge of the Inspectorate, and Concubine Rou finally sent His Highness the Prince to prison. Does His Majesty have no such thoughts now?"
Pei Wenxuan smiled lightly: "He just handed the Inspector Division to His Highness, and wants to treat His Highness as a hen that hatches eggs. Once the eggs are hatched, the chicks must be handed over to others. One who can threaten the ministers , the inspector who seeks the sixth-rank official position for his husband, Your Majesty looks at it, you say, is this a hatched chick?"
Li Rong didn't speak. After a moment of silence, she threw the chess pieces into the chess box and stood up.
"I have to go to the palace."
Pei Wenxuan did not look up, stared at the chess game, and said indifferently: "His Royal Highness walk slowly."
Li Rong left immediately, and Pei Wenxuan rubbed the chess piece in his hand.
In fact, he didn't say anything.
All their considerations, all angles, and all decisions are based on the fact that they have already foreseen the future, so they in turn deduce what people are thinking now.
They know that the emperor is now wholeheartedly trying to balance the family and the imperial power, no matter the cost to the point where it can be scrapped. But in fact, everyone thought that Li Ming was just too fond of Concubine Rou. No one thought that Li Ming actually had the foundation of a heart-warming family.
Because the aristocratic family and Li Ming are inextricably linked, no one in the Shangguan family believed that Li Ming would actually want to cut off his uncle, cousin, wife, and even his son.
They know that the future imperial examination is very important, so they wholeheartedly want to be the master of examinations in charge of the imperial examination this year.
But now people don't know.
Whether it was Concubine Rou, the queen, the family, or the courtiers, they all didn't know what Li Ming really meant.
But now Concubine Rou has arranged for her own people to be the masters of the examination, and then proposed him as a servant of the Ministry of Personnel to stimulate Li Ming, trying to force Li Ming to suspect Li Rong and hand over the supervisory department to Concubine Rou.
Pei Wenxuan couldn't help laughing as he looked at the black and white chess game in front of him.
"interesting."
How many chess players are there behind this