Chapter 526 Ministerial Power and Imperial Power
Wei Su two families each for their own masters, the war of words, Jia Mu Palace, Lu He Hao leisurely woke up.
“Your Excellency is awake?” Wang, who was guarding the couch side, noticed that, revealing a happy look, busy to the table poured a warm ginseng tea and handed it to him, whispering, “Sir don’t worry, this tea was sent by the Empress I think she would never dare to let you have an accident in the palace, otherwise the charge of the Imperial Empress murdering people to vent her anger would be finalized! ”
Lu Hehao nodded at his words, and after sipping two mouthfuls of tea, he recovered some of his spirit and said with a low smile, “I think when Imperial Sisterinlaw instructed someone to take care of us here, her face must have looked very good!”
Wang pursed her lips and said, “Your Excellency is very skillful, although the Empress is shrewd, she can’t help but be led by the nose by you, which is naturally not good in her heart! But then again, it’s not bad, but still have to do according to your meaning?”
“You can’t underestimate imperial sisterinlaw!” Lu Hehao rolled over and sat up he said he was assassinated, in fact, Zhu Chunyang had not learned martial arts, and his stature was not tall, although at that time he took a dagger in his hand, he did not call Lu Hehao to suffer any great loss, but it was just a flesh wound.
Now the Empress Su, Queen Wei and these people have already left, no need to pretend, naturally not to cover up, after getting up, took Wang’s hand over the robe to put on neatly, light laugh, “Just because she to this time still hold down the sex. Because she can still hold her temper at this time, she wants to keep me in the palace, with this, it’s too much to win over my incompetent elder brother!”
After such a joke, he restrained his features and asked, “What is the situation now?”
“Just now the empress dowager and the empress mother have come over to see you, argued a time, then perhaps is concerned about today’s meeting, not long before and after leaving.” Wang’s see him ask about the main thing, do not dare to slow down, also positive face answer, “As for the court side, slave girl incompetent, but have not heard any news, only know so far has not been dispersed.”
Lu Hehao nodded and said, ”In the past, we were able to cultivate a few eyes in the palace, but only because the Empress was not suspicious of me. During this period of time, the empress has suffered a great loss in my hands, if you still don’t know to find out those people to eradicate, that is really too stupid! Now you can’t find out the news is normal, if you can still be wellinformed, on the contrary, there must be oddities!”
Wang listened to his relaxed demeanor, seemingly not worried about his current situation, and couldn’t help but test the waters, “Gongzi, unknown to the Empress Dowager’s side?”
“I forced the death of the Dai Guo Imperial Aunt, and exposed King Qing’s biological father, the Imperial Grandmother, she can be said to hate me to the bone, wishing for my early death, how could she be kind to me?” Lu He Hao said with a smile, “So it’s just like I thought, no matter how hard I reasoned with her, she still refused my request!”
Wang could not help but freeze, she thought that Lu Hehao is still calm and relaxed because of the promise of the Empress Dowager, then united with some cards on the side of the old lady Duanmu, such as Shen and Liu families, good planning, may not not have the possibility of a fight for the throne.
The Empress Dowager rejected him she knew that even if Mrs. Duanmu, including the Shen and Liu families, were still willing to support Lu Hehao, but without the Empress Dowager’s cooperation, Mrs. Duanmu’s faction simply did not have a high level of support ah!
The Yan Marquis of Jian Xubai is barely high up, but the wife of Jian Xubai, Song Yixiao, has only been pitched by Lu Hohao, and he will be willing to help Lu Hohao mediate in the court.
Moreover, now that Old Lady Duanmu’s goal of taking revenge on Emperor Xianjia and the Empress Dowager has been achieved, it is not known whether she will help Lu Hehao next.
After all, that old lady was not a kind and cozy elder, and would not be able to turn her face away!
Then Lu Hehao’s bottom from where in the end, actually until now are very relaxed?
Wang served him for decades, master and servant together for a long time, longer than Queen Cui, the biological mother and Lu Hehao with the time is still long, thought to Lu Hehao is very understanding.
But this time, Wang’s also not sure, their own master in the end what is thinking?
However, Lu Hehao also did not give her the intention of explaining, only smiled and said, “In fact, the court side, do not have to inquire also know what’s going on, is nothing more than the battle of WeiSu stop! It is Gu Shao who makes people curious, I heard this morning that the one who had been speaking to His Majesty yesterday was actually Wei Xi, not him? Well, when you think about it, it’s not surprisingafter all, Gu Shao was entrusted by the late emperor to do his best for His Majesty, and now that His Majesty has done such an unfilial act, how can Gu Shao not alienate himself from him?”
“Also not only Gu Shao, the late emperor has ruled the world for twenty years or so, he is known as a wise and capable ruler, how many old ministers are pleased with him.”
“He has been dead for less than three years, and even if the tea is cold, there is still a warmth in the air!”
“Especially when His Majesty is mediocre and incompetent, and has made no progress since he ascended the throne, and the old ministers look down on him, then the more they miss the late Emperor!”
“This time, with this matter of King Qing, it’s enough to make most of the old ministers centrifuged against him the Crown Prince wants to take advantage of the Crown Prince’s position to take advantage of the situation to ascend the throne, but it’s not easy!”
“Of course it’s easy for the Su family to pull down the Crown Prince, but it’s tough to push King Su to power, who told him that he can only call out the late Emperor’s royal uncle now?”
Wang was listening and subconsciously said, “So they are sniping at each other, I don’t know if they will finally push for the Duke?”
“This is impossible.” Lu Hehao smiled and shook his head, saying, “If I had stayed the way I was before with no ambition and no ability, they would be more than willing to help me to the throne as a puppet! But now, they would rather elect the King of Shu!”
Speaking here, the irony at the corner of his mouth deepened, and he said, “This group of courtiers, all the time saying that they hope that the emperor will be wise and capable, comparable to Yao, Shun, Yu and Tang, these ancient wise rulers, but in fact, their favorite emperor is actually Emperor Huizong, who indulged in beauty and did not ask about politics, and did not make trouble except for spending all day long in his harem, delegating power to his ministers! In this way, they hold the power while deploring the king’s degeneration, which is exactly both fame and fortune!”
“Back then, after the late emperor came to power, he was as inspiring and diligent as they wanted him to be, but what happened?”
“Those ministers who held great power in the Huizong dynasty, don’t they regret it?”
“What did the late emperor do to slaughter his hands and feet after ascending the throne?”
“Some say that it is because the late emperor’s royal body was in poor health, and he was afraid that the crown prince was young and his uncles were strong and unfavorable to the crown prince; others say that it is because the imperial aunt of the Daikoku Kingdom intends to be regent, and is stirring up trouble; still others say that the late emperor had suffered too much indignity at the hands of his estranged siblings before he ascended to the throne, and that this is settling scores.”
Lu Hehao sneered, “In fact, although all three of these sayings are correct, they are still missing one point: collecting power!”
“His Majesty Emperor Huizong had not been on the throne for long when he favored Noble Consort Shentu and Lady Zhenyuan, and since then he has slacked off on court affairs, leading to ganging up and mountaintopping in the court!”
“And then, in order to seize the crown, Noble Consort Shentu and Lady Zhenyuan bribed and colluded with courtiers and clansmen, further weakening the emperor’s power!”
“The late Emperor was so wise and valiant that even though he was chronically ill, how could he be willing to follow Emperor Huizong’s example of being a monarch with no real name?”
“So, although not all of the late Emperor’s halfbrothers and sisters have bullied the late Emperor, who asked them to either wield power or marry into high families? How can the late emperor feel at ease?”
“Had it not been for that massacre, would the old things who were in charge and used to being powerful during Emperor Huizong’s time have been willing to hand over their power so obediently and return to their hometowns to retire?”
“You should know that those people are all veteran ministers from the founding of the country, what battles have they not seen before? It’s just delusional to try to hold them by ordinary means!”
“The late emperor was in poor health at the time in my opinion, those old things would have liked to see the late emperor die as soon as possible, leaving the young crown prince for them to crush and roll as they pleased!”
“The late emperor was wise, how could he not see what they were thinking?”
“That’s why I hit him hard in the end, it was my uncles and aunts who were too stupid, knowing that the late Emperor was able to ascend to the throne under Huizong’s favoritism towards Noble Consort Shentu and Lady Zhenyuan, so he was not an idle person; and knowing that the late Emperor’s body was not in good health, and he was not willing or able to fight the long battle, but they still hesitated to wait and see and didn’t know how to surrender their power in time. know how to surrender power in time and bow down to be a human being!”
“Who will the late emperor kill if not them?”
“After killing them can also deter the ministers, so that they know the rules of doing things in the Hianjia dynasty such a onearrow, several carving plan, the late emperor, really worthy of the king who has the right to do it!”
“It’s just a pity that the late Emperor was good at everything, but chose a Crown Prince who was all sorts of indisputable!”
The competition between imperial power and ministerial power has been an unspoken rule since ancient times.
It’s just that there have always been few people who dared to say it.
Although Wang is Lu He Hao’s beloved, but because it is the identity of the breastfeeding mother rather than the strategist, it is also the first time to listen to him say these words, at the moment appalled, his heart is also a little heavy, “Prince usually do not like to talk a lot, especially at the juncture of the important things, but even more reticent. Now this kind of gushing, and even put this kind of words that can’t be told to outsiders also spoke out, but … but some out of shape!”
It can be seen that Lu Hehao Fang’s socalled unconcerned, the lightness of the clouds shown, only to be strong.
In his heart, he was far from the calm and certainty he seemed to be.
Although Wang is very loyal to Lu Hehao, not so much as to shake the idea of following, this will be more or less in the heart, some anxiety.
And at this time, outside the palace, Marquis Yan’s residence.
Bell was full of joy as she reported, “The palace gate just inquired about the news, at the court meeting, Shangshu Wei and Servant Qiu fought!”
“Mr. Qiu has always been a hot temperament. I didn’t realize that Minister Wei also has times when he’s not so calm?” Song Yixiao raised his eyebrows in surprise, she had never seen Wei Xi, but she had the impression that the current abbot was a typical man of letters, although good talent, but not enough momentum when he presided over the Imperial Historical Bureau, because of the mildness of his actions, not enough sharpness, the Imperial Historical Bureau should have been thunder and lightning, showing the majesty of the law, and make a mess of peace. Sisi Wenwen, really disappointing.
I didn’t expect Wei Xi to actually do something like fighting with his political opponents at the court meeting.
Unexpectedly, Song Yixiao couldn’t help but ask, “What was the result of the fight? Who won?”
“It’s Shangshu Wei!” Bell covered her mouth and snickered, “That Minister Qiu has a great reputation! Back in the day, with his status as a cousin, he didn’t give our Marquis a hard time! But when it came down to it, he couldn’t even defeat a weak and old minister like Minister Wei, and he was said to have had both of his eyes swollen, so it was really pathetic.”
She said that she was saying pity, but her tone was all gloating after all, everyone knew that Qiu Shuxia’s personal relationship with Jian Xu Bai was very bad.
“I didn’t expect this result.” Song Yixiao sniffed slightly related, Wei Xi will fight Qiu Shuxia in the court meeting, it is already very surprising, and then he also beat Qiu Shuxia, this is even more unexpected, after all, knowing these two people, anyone will feel that Qiu Shuxia beat Wei Xi without any pressure.
It seems to be quite a world.
However, the outcome of the fight between these two was not the point, Song Yixiao satisfied her curiosity and put it down, “They had a fight, what about the court meeting? Has it finished yet? What’s the constitution?”
Bell, however, shook her head, “Nope! Originally, after these two were pulled apart, someone suggested that they should disperse first. But several bosses said that this is a big matter and cannot be delayed. So we have to discuss it further, listening to the person who reported the news said, looking at the posture of most of the people in the court today, it is necessary to make a decision before the court is dismissed!”
It made sense, after all, Emperor Duanhua had lost a lot of face last night.
Such a scandal can not be covered, if the delay continues, the royal family face loss of small things, affecting the prestige of the court, it is a major event to shake the gods of the earth and grain!
This has a bearing on the interests of all those who live in the temple and on whether or not the multitudes of people in this great Rui world can continue to live and work in peace and contentment, and should not be taken lightly!
Bell was now very happy, “Grandma, it seems that His Majesty is definitely not well this time! Our house won’t have to worry about anything from now on this is truly a happy event!”
Sweeping Song Yixiao’s notyetrisen belly, she complimented in passing, “It’s clear that our little marquis is truly a lucky star!”
“Just saying so!” But Song Yi smiled in disbelief, “His Majesty is definitely finished, but can the new ruler be decided today?”
And the Marquis of Yan didn’t want it to be finalized today they were supporting King Su, and King Su hadn’t even arrived in the Imperial Capital as of yet!
The new king that this will set up, how can it be him?
Of course, even if Qiu Shuxia lost the fight today, Song Yixiao still believed that with the Su family’s background, there would be no problem dragging on for three to five days until King Su arrived.
What she was worried about now was also not the question of how to help this brotherinlaw ascend to the throne after King Su arrived.
Rather, after King Sukhbaatar ascended the throne.