The Six Palaces of Favorites: The Black-bellied Emperor's Cold Concubine

Chapter 1007 Birthday (63)
Seeing Xiao Jue leaving in a depressed mood, the Empress Dowager closed her eyes slightly, and said in an endlessly sad tone: "Don't blame the emperor's grandmother for being cold, the kinship of the Tian family is too weak to stand the test. As princes, you There is a dignity that ordinary people can't match, so naturally you have to bear the sadness that ordinary people can't understand, God is fair, and no one can be so happy in this world."

The emperor stood up slowly and said: "I never seek pleasure, as long as Chen'er is here, no matter how hard I work, I feel it is worth it. She is my bottom line, please forgive me, I have too many regrets in my life, and I must never lose her again." gone."

"The imperial grandmother is not as ruthless as you think. Xiao Jue and you are the lifeblood of the imperial grandmother. I will never allow the two of you to have a rift over anything." As if feeling a little ashamed of him, the empress dowager sighed : "I just want to tell Xiao Jue that the girl's life is in the hands of the emperor's grandmother. If he dares to disagree, the ancestor will be the first to sacrifice his beloved to the flag."

The emperor's eyebrows twitched a few times without words, and then he heard the empress dowager say earnestly: "Don't you want him to lead troops to suppress the rebellion? How can the emperor's grandmother not beat him before leaving? You must see clearly his sincerity , can you hand over the hundreds of thousands of troops to him, can't you?"

Xiao Jun's heart twitched violently, he really did not expect that the Empress Dowager would even worry about Xiao Jue, "Imperial Grandmother, I... I believe in him, if he really has such thoughts, Chen'er will never forgive him, as long as she is here, Xiao Jue will never have a different heart, I firmly believe in this."

The Empress Dowager took a sip of tea from the teacup, her expression was much more relaxed than before, and she seemed a little tired and said: "It's a good thing that you believe in him, at least it proves that the bond between you brothers is strong, don't blame the emperor's grandmother Xin, after all, isn’t all of this for you, why is it for you!”

Xiao Jun took a breath of cool air, her heart sank, her cold eyes filled with unspeakable emotions, "Old Ancestor, are you willing to sacrifice me and Xiao Jue for the sake of Dagan? Do you only have Dagan in your heart?" ?”

The empress dowager was silent for a moment, and did not answer the emperor's words directly, but said euphemistically: "The sky will not fall if there is one less prince in the great cadre, and the throne will always be replaced. Jiangshan, otherwise not only the imperial court would be in chaos, but the world would also be in chaos. The people would be devastated and displaced, and the royal family would also be bloodbathed. The corpses lying on the battlefield for thousands of miles would flow into rivers of blood. The ancestors never wanted to see such a scene again, so Jun'er , the imperial grandmother really hopes that you can sit firmly in this world and create a peaceful and prosperous world for future generations, do you understand the painstaking efforts of the old ancestors?"

"It's not that I don't understand, it's just that I can't be like a soulless walking dead, living numbly for the people of the world." In the emperor's words, there was no intention of giving in at all, and he would never compromise on this matter.

The empress dowager smiled bitterly, unwilling to entangle this topic, he understood everything, and his attitude was still the same, so what is the need to say more?

After thinking for a while, the Empress Dowager asked: "Since you plan to hand over the power of commanding the imperial guards to Xiao Jue for the time being, then Wei Zheng doesn't have to stay."

Xiao Jun was slightly taken aback, and asked, "Is the imperial grandmother thinking the same way?"

The Empress Dowager sneered and said, "After the death of the crown prince, the emperor's grandmother asked your father to appoint Wei Zheng as the commander of the imperial guards, because he saw that this man was ambitious and unprincipled. Take control. Don't worry, the old ancestor told you that under the command of the Imperial Guard, six of the ten deputy commanders are the emperor's grandmother, and two of them were left to you by your father. You can use it with confidence. Further down, those officers with slightly lower ranks, hmph, were all subordinates who fought with the emperor's grandmother in the past. They were single-handedly picked up by the emperor's grandmother. Who do you think they are loyal to? Let’s not talk about it, let’s talk about Concubine Ning’s father, General Ning, who is now the head coach of Beijiang. He was just a small general under my command. You don’t have to ask anyone , if you don't really want to do something, the people of the Qin and Lin families will have no choice but to die. The reason why the ancestors tolerated them for so many years is because they know they can't get out of my palm!"

The emperor was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth from ear to ear. He only knew that every year on the ancestor's birthday, the generals from all over the world and many of his subordinates would send gifts. People who used it back then.

At that time, the Empress Dowager was a subjugated princess of a border country. In order to seek asylum, she brought her own country into the Xiao Dynasty at that time. The imperial power is generally in the hands of the ancestors.

However, what Xiao Jun didn't expect was that after several decades, Emperor Taizu passed away, and the military power of Daqian was already firmly in the hands of the ancestors.

The emperor was shocked and said: "Grandmother, you are the empress of Daqian. In that case, why didn't you tell me earlier so that I can rest assured?"

"The old ancestors wanted to sharpen you. If you don't sharpen you, you won't be able to make a weapon. If you don't go through those hardships, you won't understand the difficulty of being a monarch. You will underestimate the enemy, and you will not understand what imperial power means to the emperor. This imperial guard The army holds the lifeblood of the royal family, how can it be handed over to someone who doesn't trust it?"

After a pause, the Empress Dowager said gently: "Grandmother knows that you have been aggrieved as an emperor in the past few years, but your heart is tempered in this way. You must first learn to endure before you can become stronger. The knife is honed. It will become sharper and sharper. The process is painful, but it is a precious knife when it is sharpened. To be an emperor, you have to suffer that others cannot. Only then will I be willing to listen to your orders."

Xiao Jun was heartbroken when she heard that, and walking back and forth in the room, she suddenly remembered something, and asked, "Grandmother, Wei Zheng has a tiger talisman in his hand."

The Empress Dowager snorted lightly: "What is a tiger talisman? Isn't it just a lump of iron? What's wrong? The tiger talisman in Wei Zheng's hand is useless. I dare say he took his cronies with him to the suburbs of Beijing. The camp can't get out, only the phoenix seal of the ancestors is the real seal to order the [-] imperial guards!"

The emperor's shock at this moment can no longer be described in words. The tiger talisman has always been a symbol of royal military power and a credential for dispatching troops, but the ancestors didn't need it at all. That is to say, if there is a fight, he, the emperor, may not have so many people working for him.

(End of this chapter)