Chapter 297 – I, Xu Fenian, am here

Today’s Da Chu court meeting was sorrowful, which made many middle level officials who were not qualified to be among the great hall for the time being, a bit overwhelmed. Especially in the past in the temple as the three Song family did not show up, not only that, it is said that the Ministry of Ministers, the Ministry of Rites, including more than ten powerful ministers are sick to resign, is His Majesty the Emperor let the overnight suddenly in sole possession of the power of the Imperial Forestry Army Deputy Commander Qi Su, so that this depressed and disillusioned for a long time to lead the troops to the various mansions, go to invite all the Lords to participate in the court meeting today, so that this set of bigwigs from different camps of different hills This is why this group of great figures from different camps and different mountains came late and appeared together, attracting extra attention. About yesterday’s turmoil in the capital, most have heard, but after all, that pile of turmoil occurred in the Imperial City, and soon ordered the city under martial law, a lot of officials to get the gossip seems to be only a fragmentary claw, but there is no doubt that the Northern Liang feudal king is certainly tossed around, and the last sentence of the city can be heard of the brute declaration is not sure how many people shocked, how many people confused, how many people annoyed. Not to say others, just say today’s court meeting inside and outside the hall, say those younger Chu Junyan, who is not doubly sad and angry?

Waiting for all of them to cross into the hall, only to find that the eunuch in charge of the Secretary’s office has also changed a fresh face. And should be a little later to enter the hall of the emperor is early sitting on top of the dragon chair, cold eyes, for the first time let many subjects feel the majesty of the female emperor.

And such as the Ministry of Minister Yuan Shanhong such important ministers, as well as the row behind him slightly to the right of the Ministry of Rites Minister Guo Xi, actually subconsciously bowed his head, do not dare to face the young woman.

If it is in the past, almost all in the capital and can participate in the court of civil and military officials, quite a heart, regardless of the wind and rain, regardless of the heat or snow, without exception will be the daily court as a pleasing to the eyes of the pleasure, never regarded as the hard work of the road. The reason is very simple, their emperor of Chu, His Majesty, not only is a young woman in the prime of life, but also rouge evaluation of one of the four people of the absolute beauty. Looking at his majesty sitting in the dragon chair wearing a dragon robe, even a touch of the corner of the eye, will feel relaxed and happy, in the last year, the most powerful Chu, but also made a pile of elegant jokes, there is a young general in the Chu dynasty and the field of amazing, in the defeat of Yang Shen apricot Yan Zhenchun two generals away from the sun in the successive two wars, have made great achievements, in the following the general Xie Xiyuan into the capital to meet the holy, even in the imperial court! Symbolizing the question and answer between the ruler and the minister, his face was red, as if he was suffering from dementia, and he could not utter a single word, causing the hall to roar with laughter. If it is not sitting on the chair of the Secretary Sun Xiji quickly out of the voice to stop, I am afraid that the laughter can be carried out far away from the hall.

Today’s court meeting, no longer before the gentleman and ministers are suitable for the spring breeze and harmony, most of the hall position behind the officials are secretly craning their necks to measure sitting in the chair closed eyes resting on the Lord of the Central Minister, trying to see some clues from this for the official resume degree of thickness can be said to be the world’s old man’s face, but it’s a pity, the old man in addition to the body did not lean back slightly as in the past leaned against the back of the chair, but rather, try to sit upright! In addition to not leaning back slightly on the back of the chair like before, but trying his best to sit upright, he did not have any different expression. Compared to the many civil officials who are treading on thin ice, the courtroom has been sparse and scattered military officials are more calm, in the Da Chu officialdom smooth sailing He Taisheng has disappeared, the family is not without prying for news, and even went to the side of the mountain Song family to pay a visit to the door, but the door of the Song House is closed. Last night another hand in the military power of the vice commander also did not go home, but at least there is a bit of news from the Imperial City out, probably not to the loss of office in prison. In any case, the capital and the capital of the military and military officers, on the stage of the seat, counting the twenty or so, all of a sudden less two, naturally means that a lot of people can move forward along the trend, is a good thing.

Now when the official when bigger, even if one day in the future to change the person sitting in the dragon chair, Xichu’s official hat even if worthless, but ultimately changed into a talisman or a talisman of life-saving possibilities on the greater ah, or else for example, a Chinese cabbage rotten six department of the foreign affairs officer, who will be taken seriously? Really want to settle scores, the head of the official hat is not big enough, not high enough, that is to say that cut off on the cut off, people Lu Shengxiang Wu Chongxuan even completely without having to say hello to Tai’an City, Zhao room Prince of Heaven or the Ministry of Criminal Justice.

This should be the Secretary Secretary of the seal eunuch out loud shouting “something to report”, but this should be the spring breeze of the big eunuchs face, no sign of opening.

Chu empress sat there, in the past always give people a slightly fidgety feeling of her, this moment looks extremely high above, like a king because of governing the world for many years and the accumulation of heavy power.

She directly opened the door and said, “Since I ascended the throne, I have heard you all say too many words, today you will listen to me without you having to say anything.”

Already, some people began to shrink their necks and swallow their saliva.

So much so that everyone forgot to kneel down in the great hall.

The minister of the Ministry of Revenue, Yuan Shanhong, who happened to be standing behind the Minister of Revenue, happened to see Lord Minister’s legs trembling because of his low convergence of vision. Is this the same Yuan Lianhua who was known as “the best talker in Jiangzuo”? Is this the same Minister of the Ministry of Justice who was always in the temple hall, and even dared to challenge Xie Xijian, the general of the front line?

The first woman emperor in the history of the Central Plains, Jiang Si looked down on the civil and military officials, a room full of high crowns and purple and yellow, beyond the gate, there were even some officials who kneeled down only to realize that they should have risen up in order to fit in with the group, their faces full of bewilderment looked into the hall, looked at her, and then quickly bowed down their heads under the line of her sight.

She said in a deep voice, “He Taisheng, Vice Commander of the Imperial Forest Army, is dead and executed, and Gu Sui, the former Vice Commander, has been reassigned as the Vice General of the Southern Army of the Gyeonggi.”

He Taisheng was dead.

Although the position of the courtroom in front of the important ministers and senior officials following the clues have been some speculation, but really heard the news is still full of surprise and fear, inevitably some of the rabbit dead fox sadness? Not how important the life and death of He Taisheng the reckless, but that means that the power of the Song family really collapsed in the Chu dynasty and the countryside.

Since even a family of three ministers of the Song valve are completely out of power, then this court who can “live a long life”, the most frightening thing is with the Song family has always been good friends of the Lord of the Central Secretary, seems to be no surprise, still did not open their eyes. Compared to the Song family is a little inferior to the Gu family, is still in the Chu territory deep-rooted behemoth, the original vice commander Gu Sui is now under the door of the province of the first eldest grandson of the right servant Gu Yang, but the Gu family is criticized by the Gu Sui’s elders, Gu’s family room in the second room, there are three have been in the Liyang career climb for many years, only in the Jiangnan Road side of the career is not good, and the restoration of the Western Chu, three official hat only sesame seed size of the Gu family! The three Gu family members were not willing to return to their roots, and even quickly wrote a letter of disassociation to the family, and under the auspices of Gu Yang himself, the three were removed from the family tree. At that time, many officials regarded the Gu family’s family scandal as a joke, and by the time the Liyang army came to encircle them on all four fronts, everyone came to a sudden realization.

Hearing that the eldest grandson of the eldest house had only been transferred to the position of vice general of the southern army of the capital, Gu Yang lowered his head so that he couldn’t read his expression.

But the young emperor’s words that immediately followed were no less than thunder in his ears.

“Song Wenfeng, Left Servant of Menxia Province, is to be given death.”

Gu Yang, who had just been relieved, was shocked, if the word “left” was changed to “right”? He was shocked at the same time had to ask himself, if really named himself to die, he Gu Yang how to do, the whole family how to do?

After looking at each other, there was a minister of the third rank who had a good reputation in the imperial court who stepped out of the queue, holding a jade tablet in his hand and bowing his head in a deep voice: “I dare to ask Your Majesty why Your Majesty gave Lord Song the death penalty! And I also ask, why is Lord Song’s death a crime?”

After two questions that bordered on impoliteness, this minister, who had been related to the Song Valve by marriage for several generations, simply raised his head and stared at His Majesty’s face as he continued to ask, “I have one last question, the late Emperor had given the Song family a Dan Shu Iron Coupon, openly promising that the Song family would be able to share the world with the Jiang Clan of Great Chu for generations to come!”

After this minister’s blatant defiance of the decree, almost all of the officials in the courtroom began nodding their heads vigorously, their indignation overflowing.

He took a step forward, not caring that he had just said “last question” and would soon have a fourth question, and said with great righteousness, “Dare I ask Your Majesty, is it possible that Your Majesty did not originate from the Jiang Clan of Da Chu? How else would you dare to go against the late Emperor? If my humble servant remembers correctly, with that dan shu iron ticket, the Song family’s children were able to be spared from death as many as four times!”

By this time, no one was paying attention to whether Zhongshu Ling Sun Xiji’s eyes were open or closed.

The old man sitting on the chair had his dry hands gripping the edge of the chair, breathing hard.

Emperor Jiang Si of Da Chu was not the slightest bit flustered and seemed to be smiling, “The Dan Shu Tie Bills given by the late emperor? Of course I remember that, but you all probably don’t remember that the Great Ancestor once said that as long as one commits the great crime of treason, they will all be executed!”

After a moment of consternation, the minister laughed out loud, looking around, crazy, “Ridiculous, ridiculous, three hundred and twenty years of Chu’s long history, never been given the Danshu iron coupon and the death of the courtiers, do not think that my generation is so lucky to meet such a precedent-setting His Majesty the Emperor!”

Just see this to style elegant known in the world of Hanlin scholar, suddenly high up that piece of jade tablet, hard smashed in the hall floor, suddenly fell to pieces.

Its sound was like a dragon and phoenix wailing.

The Hanlin scholar who scared almost everyone with a shudder said aloud, “This kind of subject, don’t do it!”

Then just as he turned to leave the hall, the old Imperial Master Sun Xiji, who was already at the end of his life, slapped the edge of his chair and shouted angrily, “What is the behavior! Li Changji, even if you want to hang up your seal and resign, you should wait until the end of the court meeting before you can leave the great hall, or else you will go straight to the imperial prison dungeon by yourself! There is no need for the Ministry of Justice to interrogate you!”

Hanlin scholar froze on the spot, heaved a cold snort, although pleasantly unafraid, but in the end did not walk out of the great hall, but strutted back to the courtiers class.

With Li Changji do head out, always believe in hiding a knife in the sleeve but must face a peaceful civil and military officials, only feel each waist straightened a few points. That young woman emperor inexplicable heartlessness, also began to be a bit like a self-indulgent joke.

Yes, the dynasty of civil and military, behind so many regardless of the rise and fall of the world dynasty are spring breeze blowing again, as long as we have the same breath, is not really afraid of you a young woman without the support of Cao Changqing? And look at the situation, the old master of her crazy initiatives, just in patience, not support.

Jiang Si glanced at the bachelor of Hanlin Academy who was like a general who won a hundred victories in the battlefield, and sneered, “Li Changji, I heard that you claimed that you don’t even need to look at the ancient and modern articles, but only determine the merits and demerits at the end of your nose?”

In Li Changji annoyed to be born to refute the time, there is an original Li Changji is the most defamatory questioning the peer literary world of the Qingliu celebrities, under the province of Cheng Wenyu, the right loose riding standing minister unexpectedly out of the class, even the jade tablet is no longer held up, one-handed carry, laughed and said: “Your honor’s poems, my Chu scholars, although not all unanimous disagreement, but your majesty has known that even the Li Yang’s Song family Your Majesty, do you know that even the Song family in Liyang, the old master, has also personally commented that ‘the writing is like the fierce generals in the sand, fierce battles, and also like the cool officials in the case, the investigation to the end, from the strict but not lenient, although a little biased in the righteousness, but can be said to be extremely strong! Your Majesty, Li Li, the official governing skills high and low and do not go to say, but this article well ……”

Cheng Wenyu although did not say the last half sentence, but the implication has been very clear, Li Changji’s knowledge of the article, by no means you Jiang Si can comment on.

More intriguing does not lie in this point of the readers are commonplace cynicism, of course, a temple courtiers face the king and its cynicism, history is certainly no lack of iron bone of the people, but certainly not much, Cheng Wenyu this feat, or very worthy of praise praise, perhaps later to be immortalized for generations to come by the historians of the book. In addition, in fact, can really chew is Cheng Wen Yu for the literary world rivals of righteousness, which shows and not to mention the other officials, not to mention the attachment of the Song family that carve the sky tree Li Changji is no longer alone, Cheng Wen Yu behind the two major clans, were forced to pull the Song family that should have been sunk into the Guangling River boat, which is not what is the icing on the cake, but the immensely sturdy to help the dark room light ah.

With Cheng Wenyu’s appearance, there are many unclean and fearful officials, the corners of their mouths spread a heartfelt smile.

Soon there is a back row of officials followed by the column, but neither Li Changji’s bold and dry clouds, nor Cheng Wenyu’s high winds, he just trembling with fear and His Majesty the emperor advised, after all, the Song family is the Chu three hundred years of pillar, the two countries are in full swing war, this time the crime of the Song family, it will be cold the heart of the frontline soldiers.

Jiang Si was indifferent.

Sun Xi Ji turned his head to look at the young emperor, there is pity and prayer.

What was deplored was that she shouldn’t have suddenly given such strong medicine to Da Chu, a seriously ill patient. Prayer is to hope that she can not act out of anger, a country’s king, governance, can be sheepishly needle wrist feminine, can be added to the crime why not say, can deliberately cultivate the party in the dynasty in order to balance, and even can be privately feel that the water can carry the boat can also cover the boat is a sentence of bullshit words, but can not allow themselves to become a real “loner! “, can not become a public enemy of the civil and military, after all, the flood, the boat with the people, precisely those in the hall of the yellow and purple Secretary, if you sit in the Dragon Chair, in the end is trapped in the “boat of people are enemies of the country” situation, then it is really going to change the dynasty ah!

Sun Xi Ji lips trembling, the old man has been unable to speak loudly, can only seem to murmur in a low voice repeated: “Your Majesty think twice, Your Majesty think twice ah ……”.

Jiang Si said expressionlessly, “Oh? That old Song family member who was so late in life said that? I have not heard of it, I only heard Cao Changqing say that you Li Changji is only full of paper craftsmanship, half a catty or two of talent and Qing Yi Qi are lacking.”

Li Changji and Cheng Wenyu, the two literary heroes who call the shots in Chu, were struck by lightning at the same time, and did not know how to answer.

Cao Changqing.

He has always been the most supreme position in Chu, from the time he was ordered to enter the palace to become a chess waiter, it is the most proud person in Western Chu, Li Mi lost to him on the chessboard, Ye Bai Kui laughed and said that my Chu sands can be free of me if I have you, and was known as the omniscient master of miscellaneous knowledge, Tang Jiahe, but also said that I don’t know things, then ask Cao Changqing.

When the mountains and rivers of Chu were intact, this was the case. After Chu became the Western Chu, it was even more so.

Suddenly, Song Jingde, the vice general of the forbidden army of the capital city of Da Chu, who was born from a powerful warlord, seemed to be talking to himself as if he was not speaking softly, and he said.

“In a time of danger, may I ask where is Cao Changqing?”

The unnoticed Sun Xiji heard these words and leaned dismally on the back of his chair, the old man closed his eyes and his breath was thin.

Full of civil and military officials, those public ministers and important officials are all sneering, those officials whose positions are backward are silenced.

Jiang Si wanted to speak but could not, she was full of anger but could not say.

She suddenly walked off the dragon chair, walked to the chair, squatted down, gently hold the old man even trembling are so feeble dry palms.

Sun Xi Ji could no longer speak, trying his best to open his eyes, his eyes only had the pity and kindness of an elder looking at the younger generation in the family.

She wanted to speak.

Wanted to say sorry.

But the old man used the last of his essence and shook his head slightly.

The old man seemed to be trying to say to her with a smile, you’ve done a good job already, don’t feel guilty, don’t feel guilty.

In the former years had been the orthodoxy of the Central Plains of the Great Chu Dynasty, this slowly closed eyes of the old man, twenty years of age depending on the ambition, merit and honor for sixty years, everything has been speechless.

After the old man closed his eyes, the old man spots and no meat of the dry palm, as if pushing the woman emperor, as if wanting to push her out, out of this miasma of the temple, out of the far, far to the northwest of the plug.

Full of civil and military personnel, after seeing this scene, one heart complex.

There was a soft cough that gently sounded above everyone’s head.

Except for the emperor Jiang Si who violently got up and looked up, everyone did not notice it.

She saw a young man who was originally lying asleep on the beam, sitting up and smiling at her.

Originally, even if all the people in the boat were enemy nations, she didn’t feel much aggrieved, and she wasn’t afraid that they would figure out what to do, but for some reason, after seeing him, she felt that she had been wronged by the heavens.

She knew that she was unreasonable, in fact, it was never she was much, much more unreasonable than him.

But she just wanted to be in front of him, to let him know that she was aggrieved.

She liked him, so she didn’t want to reason with him.

He liked her, so he had to reason with her.

There was no reasoning with reasoning like that.

She shed tears, but then reddened her face, a little shy, lowering her head wasn’t enough, she had to turn her head, not daring to look at him.

In the next moment, everyone froze as if they were dumbfounded at the same time.

It wasn’t because of His Majesty the Emperor’s odd behavior.

Rather, it was a young man wearing a battle sword on his waist who floated down from the top of his head next to the Emperor of Da Chu, one of his hands gently placed on her head, one of his hands gently pressed the hilt of the sword, and facing all of them, facing the civil and military officials of Da Chu inside and outside of the great hall, he smiled and said, “If Changqing Cao isn’t here, I, Xu Fengyen, am here.”