Meng Bufan shook his head, "What a coincidence, Meng Mou promised my mother that I will go back to the house early today and accompany her for lunch at the old man's house." After a pause, he looked at Wen Shengyi's face with flickering eyes, "Master Wen , Now that there is a national funeral, it is not suitable to drink alcohol. Mr. Wen, please be careful, don't let those old censors catch the pigtails."
Meng Bufan's words made Wen Shengyi's handsome face blush.
He was careless and negligent. How could officials be invited to drink in the country's new funeral
"It's Shengyi who didn't think carefully!" Wen Shengyi quickly admitted his mistake, facing Meng Bufan, the most mysterious young master of the Meng family who has entered an official position, he didn't dare to neglect at all, so he changed his words and said: "That Shengyi Yi asked Mr. Meng to have a cup of weak tea?"
Meng Bufan raised his lips slightly, but he couldn't see a single bit of thought in his face and eyes.
"I'm afraid Mr. Wen is too happy? Now that the country is mourning, how can I have the time to drink tea?" Meng Bufan walked down the steps with brisk steps, and his voice continued to float out, "I have to get up tomorrow." Crying early, Mr. Wen should do something else."
Wen Shengyi's face flushed slightly after touching a nail that was neither soft nor hard on Meng Bufan's side.
At this moment, Elder Wen finally broke away from the crowd, seeing Yao'er standing there motionless, he hurriedly stepped forward and dragged him down the steps.
"What's wrong with Yi'er?" Old Man Wen asked in a low voice as he walked.
Wen Shengyi said in a low voice: "Just now my son went to talk to Mr. Meng. He was trying to test him, but he took advantage of him and taunted him."
Wen Shengyi smiled wryly. It was true that he hadn't thought about it just now and went up rashly to test Meng Bufan's attitude towards the Wen family. It's normal to be stabbed a few times.
Old Man Wen frowned when he heard the words, and said coldly: "Haven't you understood yet? The Meng family is for Princess Tiangui!"
Wen Shengyi turned his head to look at his father, frowned and asked suspiciously: "My son sees that the Meng family and Princess Ruoshui are getting close. Today, Princess Guida overwhelmed Princess Ruoshui. Look at the situation today. On the important day, if Princess Ruoshui didn't go to court, wouldn't she have a quarrel with Princess Tiangui? Logically, the Meng family should stand by Princess Ruoshui's side!"
Therefore, after thinking about it, Wen Shengyi decided to go up and test Meng Bufan.
Old man Wen couldn't figure it out either.
What he was thinking in his heart was that Princess Ruoshui must have known that the late emperor had ordered Lin Fufu to be conferred on her as Princess Tiangui to overwhelm her, so he found an excuse not to come to court today.
But if this is the case, then the Meng family should be on the side of Princess Ruoshui at this time!
"I don't blame you for testing Meng Bufan. Although that man is young, his behavior is more elusive than his father, Prime Minister Meng. Forget it, you should avoid provoking him in the future." Old Man Wen warned.
Wen Shengyi hurriedly bowed his head to accept the order.
Mr. Wen remembered that his nephew had finally become the emperor, and he couldn't help but feel happy, "Don't worry too, Princess Tiangui is your first cousin after all! As long as you coax her well, let her talk more and more from time to time. Walking around with Princess Tiangui will be of great benefit to our Wen family and the new emperor!"
Wen Shengyi nodded hurriedly.
Old Man Wen lowered his voice again and said: "For our Wen family, instead of continuing to look at Princess Ruoshui's face, we should coax Princess Tiangui well! Do you understand?"
Wen Shengyi's face turned serious, he bowed his head and said, "My son understands, it's just..."
Seeing him hesitating, Mr. Wen frowned, stared at this little boy, and asked, "Just what?"
Wen Shengyi also lowered his voice, leaned closer to Old Man Wen and said, "Elder Sister has news from the palace that she is very dissatisfied with Princess Tiangui and wants us to..."
"Just talking!" Old Man Wen immediately gave Wen Shengyi a sideways glance, looked around, and then lowered his voice and said displeasedly: "She sees it as a woman, and you also see it as a woman?"
Wen Shengyi didn't dare to speak out.
He also felt that the elder sister was getting more and more hostile now, but she was still the elder sister whom he respected so much!
"Yi'er! My father warns you not to act according to your elder sister's unconsidered ideas! Her current status is no better than before. After the fifth prince ascends the throne, she will be the queen mother, and she must take good care of herself every step of the way in the future. , Think about it carefully, this is also for the sake of His Majesty the new emperor!" Old Master Wen warned Wen Shengyi, for fear that the youngest son who loved and loved the eldest daughter since childhood would follow the eldest daughter's will.
Wen Shengyi frowned when he heard the words, and said in a low voice: "Father, don't worry! Eldest sister is not such a reckless temper! She was just worried that the former emperor gave too much power to Princess Jiahe. It's easy to control. But now, the last emperor's will canonized her as the eldest princess of Tiangui, and the eldest sister's worries have been fulfilled... "
Old Man Wen interrupted him with a cold snort, "As long as it's not Princess Ruoshui who is a scheming and powerful person who knows how to govern the country, it will be fine! What I worry about my father most is Princess Ruoshui!"
Wen Shengyi heard the words in a low voice, but he was a little worried in his heart.
Ever since he married Lin Fang, Lin Fang told him everything about Lin Fufu that he had never told him before... He couldn't even think about such a powerful woman.
However, his father kept a low profile all his life, but every time when he reminded him to be careful of Lin Fufu, he changed the subject with disdain, which made him very embarrassed.
Therefore, in private, he told his eldest sister about the important things about Lin Fufu's past.
But the eldest sister believed him.
It was also because of him that the eldest sister was becoming more and more jealous of that girl Lin Fufu.
"Don't think about unnecessary things. Father can still handle the affairs in the court. The most important thing for you now is to let Lin Fang go to Tiangui's eldest princess's mansion to be diligent. Also, you should also make good friends with those The honorable children of the capital." Old Man Wen sneered, "They used to look down on our Wen family, but everything will change from now on, they must be thinking of ways to curry favor with you now!"
Wen Shengyi replied in a low voice again, and the father and son went back home in a sedan chair and one on a horse.
After Lin Fufu went to the Empress Dowager's Palace, he also went back to the Eldest Princess' Mansion.
The eldest princess was already sitting in the flower hall waiting for her.
After hearing Lin Fufu's detailed account of what happened in the hall today, Princess Ruoshui sneered again and again.
"He must have written these two posthumous calls early in the morning. This is like his style." Princess Ruoshui's eyes were cold, and she still had no intention of forgiving the dead emperor.
Lin Fufu also nodded when he heard the words, "It is true that the emperor's uncle wrote the last call early in the morning and sent it to the empress dowager for safekeeping. In addition to these two canonized last call, there are several last call, one of which is the canonized aunt's One is to confer the concubine as empress dowager, the other is to confer concubine concubine as empress dowager, and the next few are to be conferred by former court officials."
It is undeniable that His Majesty the Emperor thought very carefully and made very thorough arrangements before he died.
Of course, the only purpose is to keep the young emperor growing up safely until he can govern himself.
As for the others, to put it bluntly, they were all serving the little emperor.
It's just that he didn't expect someone to expose what he did to Princess Ruoshui before, forcing Princess Ruoshui to betray him a few days before his death...
Princess Ruoshui didn't dare to be interested in other canonized wills, but she was very concerned about those canonized officials' wills.
"Do you know which adults are all canonized?" Princess Ruoshui looked at Lin Fufu, her eyebrows were tightened, and it should be the ones she was thinking of.
Lin Fufu nodded, "The empress dowager gave me all the late emperor's last call. I read it in advance. The first official to be canonized is Meng Bufan. He was exceptionally promoted to be Minister of the Ministry of Officials!"
"What?" Princess Ruoshui frowned even more when she heard that Meng Bufan was unexpectedly promoted to Minister of the Ministry of Officials by the former emperor, "He actually ceased to be Minister of the Ministry of Officials?"
Lin Fufu nodded, took a sip of tea, and then said in a low voice: "I was very surprised, so I asked Feng Wei to check the original Minister of the Ministry of Officials. I didn't expect him to be from King Ning's faction, but he was very secretive. Deep, we didn’t know it before!”
When Princess Ruoshui heard the words, she finally breathed out clearly, and said with a cold snort: "So! He has been living in the palace in poor health. Since he still knows those secrets, I still underestimate him! "
Lin Fufu didn't answer, and then told him, "The second is the edict to enshrine Mr. Wen and Wen Shengyi. Mr. Wen is the minister of the Ministry of Rites, and Wen Shengyi is the right servant of the Ministry of War."
At the beginning, Lin Fufu and Princess Ruoshui thought that her emperor's uncle couldn't touch six books, but they didn't expect him to touch several books in a row.
"Heh! The Minister of Rites has also been taken down by him. There are quite a lot of disturbances in the court." Princess Ruoshui touched the corner of her lips expressionlessly, and then analyzed, "But this palace understands that he is doing this. I want to give some real power to Xiao Wu's family, after all, if Xiao Wu's family has no real power at all, that's not good."
After a pause, his tone became sarcasm again, "Thinking of him, he wants to give the Wen family some real power, and also to prevent the Wen family from becoming the monopoly of relatives in the climate...it must be very nerve-wracking."
Lin Fufu did not answer, and continued: "The Minister of the Ministry of Punishment has also been dismissed, and replaced by Qiu Daqin."
"Qiu Daqin will go further, this Palace has already expected it. It's just that he didn't expect him to value him so much. He directly killed the original Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment and replaced him with Qiu Daqin." Princess Ruoshui felt that her lips were interfering a little, and took it I took a sip of tea.
Lin Fufu spoke this time, and said with a smile, "Master Qiu is upright and selfless, and he has helped my aunt with so many beautiful and big cases. Now that the national treasury is getting richer, it is right for the late emperor to value him."
Princess Ruoshuichang nodded, and finally a smile appeared on her face, "That is, Qiu Daqin's promotion made me a little more at ease. The Ministry of Punishment has his leader, I think it is not bad. It is him, that person has no utilitarianism in it." .”
Lin Fufu understood what Princess Ruoshui said.
Whether it was Meng Bufan or the promotion of the Wen family father and son, the former emperor paved the way for the younger emperor.
Only Qiu Daqin, the first emperor saw his talent, promoted him with his posthumous summons before his death. Otherwise, with Qiu Daqin's age and personality, he might not be able to climb to the position of Minister of the Ministry of Justice in this life.
The mourning for the state of Wei does not need to be mourned for a long time, the longest mourning period is one year, and the relationship between children and husband and wife only needs to mourn for one year.
However, a relationship like Lin Fufu only needs to be in mourning for three months.
After the Seventh Seventh of the First Emperor, Lin Fufu asked Qin Tianjian to pick a good day for the new emperor to succeed to the throne, and held a ceremony for the succession of the new emperor.
When the day came, Lin Fufu originally arranged for the eunuch Chang Song to lead the little emperor to the throne, but the child was too young and cried out of fear.
Concubine Cheng, who had already been conferred the title of Empress Dowager, wanted to fall out of the curtain in a hurry, but was stopped by several eunuchs.
Seeing that the little emperor couldn't be coaxed well, Chang Song sweated anxiously, but the little emperor suddenly lost his temper and kicked him, crying and screaming not to go to the dragon chair in the Golden Temple.
They also called Chang Song a big villain and wanted to drive him away.
Not only Chang Song was embarrassed, but the courtiers were also very embarrassed.
Lin Fufu saw that Chang Song was so useless that he couldn't even coax a child, so his brows raised, and Chang Song shivered in fright.
It just so happened that the little emperor looked up and saw Lin Fufu glaring at Chang Song, as if he had found a backer, he immediately ran to Lin Fufu who was wearing a lot of make-up, put his arms around her legs, and said in a childish voice: "Jiahe Aunt Biao, Xiao Wu is afraid, can you go up with Xiao Wu?"
The little emperor thought that Lin Fufu was still the princess of Jiahe, and he still called Lin Fufu by this title, but when he said this, everyone was shocked.
The most anxious thing is that she is already the Empress Dowager's concubine. She hurriedly said from behind the door curtain: "Emperor! You must go up and climb up the dragon chair by yourself. How can you ask your cousin to accompany you up there? It's not suitable for etiquette." !"
Seeing that his mother who always loved him scolded him when he was most afraid, the little emperor became even more frightened.
The crowds of people kneeling in the lobby were silent and stiff like dummies. He was really scared.
"No, I want Jia and Aunt Biao to accompany me up, otherwise I won't go up!" The little emperor lost his temper. He is a child, how can he care about whether he is proper or not
Although Concubine Cheng taught him very meticulously and rigorously, and the little emperor promised to do well before that, and he had rehearsed it no less than a hundred times in Concubine Cheng's palace, but after all, most of the rehearsals were familiar faces, which were different from today .
The emperor lost his temper, who would dare to scold him except the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager
Even if Concubine Cheng wanted to scold her because she was anxious, she had to endure it.
Today is a good day for my son to enthroned as emperor, if the emperor is reprimanded by her queen mother in public, how can he stand up in front of the officials in the future
At this time, Qin Tianjian was solemnly reporting to Lin Fufu and the empress dowager: "Princess Tiangui is a thousand years old, empress dowager, this auspicious time must not be missed! If the auspicious time is missed, I am afraid that it will be very ominous... Please your majesty as soon as possible Take the throne!"
Seeing that Qin Tianjian was talking about this, all the ministers knelt down and begged in unison: "Please ascend the throne earlier, Your Majesty!"
They didn't speak a word before, but now the ministers spoke in unison again, the voice was like a bell, and once again the little emperor was terrified enough that he gritted his teeth until he hugged Lin Fufu's legs without letting go.
The Empress Dowager was so anxious that she said sternly: "In order not to miss the auspicious time for His Majesty's ascension to the throne, let the Ai family hug His Majesty!"