Emperor Phoenix Policy: Feng Qingtian

Chapter 438

When Na Cai, Ask Name, Na Ji, and Na Zheng completed the four steps, it was late October, Feng Jin was more than eight months pregnant, and Wu Ming issued the official decree, before dawn the next day, Start morning morning.

The civil and military officials were not used to it at first, but they soon got used to it when they saw that Wuming handled the important affairs of the court in a smooth manner, much more than the queen.

However, the two have different ways of handling things. Wuming likes to be straightforward. If a minister disagrees with what he wants to do, he will stare at you with cold eyes, until your legs are limp and weak, and finally he has to agree. , if he still disagrees, he will simply ignore the opposing opinions and do whatever he wants, even the civil and military officials have nothing to do with him.

And the queen likes to twist and turn, persuade you by beating around the bush, or use both soft and hard methods, forcing you to voluntarily surrender.

Gradually, the ministers discovered that although Wuming's way of handling things was too straightforward, it was extremely effective. Moreover, he conquered the battlefield with a fierce aura of iron and blood on his body, and the rules he promulgated were very effective. No one dared to confront him. , was afraid of offending the emperor, and was cut off by a sword in the neck.

The emperor is not as easy-talking as the empress. Before doing anything, he will talk to you nicely to persuade you.

The relationship between Wuming and the ministers, from the very beginning where there were countless jokes, gradually became harmonious and entered into a good situation of great harmony between the monarch and the ministers.

And the northern border, two thousand miles away, is not so harmonious.

The person who rescued the queen mother was indeed Zhong Mo. After rescuing the queen mother, Zhong Mo took the queen mother to the northern border non-stop and hid the queen mother in his other courtyard. People are suspicious. Second, Beijiang is where the Zhong family army is located, and it is his base camp. If anything happens, Beijiang is the safest.

When the news of the emperor spread across the country and reached northern Xinjiang, the queen mother smashed the teacup on the spot and shouted angrily, "The emperor is fighting with the Ai family!"

Aunt Su Lan's face was yellow, and she said with a smile, "The Queen Mother calms down, the future will be long, the most important thing for the Queen Mother is to take care of herself."

These days, she traveled thousands of miles with the queen mother, and she had to serve the queen carefully, so her spirit was very poor.

After escaping from Tianci Temple, the queen mother's temper became very bad, and she would get angry at every turn, and Su Lan was also affected.

"Where's Zhong Mo? Why didn't he come today?"

The Empress Dowager's tone was a little unhappy, Su Lan raised her 12 points of caution, and explained, "The general is in the barracks, and he said he won't be here tonight, and he wants to drink with some confidant generals."

"drink wine?"

The Empress Dowager raised her eyebrows, her eyes flashed with an unknown light, "Send that jar of ten-mile incense."

"Yes."

Just as Su Lan was about to step back, she thought of something and asked again, "Does the Empress Dowager have anything to say to the general?"

"No need to say anything."

The queen mother added softly, and the expression on her face became somewhat nostalgic, "He understands everything when he sees the wine."

After Su Lan left with the wine, the Queen Mother sat in the room for a while, and then went to the small courtyard where Shen Wenqing was imprisoned.

Shen Wenqing was practicing calligraphy, and when she saw the Empress Dowager coming in, she didn't raise her head or pause her hands.

The queen mother glanced at the elegant running script on the rice paper, and said with a slight smile, "Mr. Shen can write well, but it's a pity that he doesn't have a good life and good luck."

Shen Wenqing's hand froze, he slowly put the pen on the pen holder, and looked at the queen mother, "The queen mother has something to say, so why beat around the bush?"

"The emperor has issued an official decree to announce the matter to the world. This matter is settled. Shen Wenqing, do you regret it?"

A trace of loneliness flashed across Shen Wenqing's face, but his tone was light, "This is His Majesty's will, I have nothing to regret or regret."

"You are just too soft and weak, indecisive. If you had cooperated with the Ai family in the beginning, the Ai family would have helped you to the position of imperial husband."

Shen Wenqing sneered, with a mocking voice.

The Empress Dowager's face changed suddenly, "Are you laughing at Ai Jia?"

"I don't dare, but if the queen mother can fight against your majesty, how can she be put under house arrest by the queen mother in Tianci Temple?"

The queen mother snorted coldly, "The Ai family escaped anyway!"

"Yeah, I escaped and fled to the northern border. I didn't even dare to show my face. Like a bereaved dog, the queen mother said that the minister was weak. Isn't the queen mother still weak when facing her majesty? Within three or two moves, she was caught Your Majesty has rushed to the icy and snowy northern border!"

The Empress Dowager's face was so gloomy that she dripped water, and she sneered in a hurry, "Shen Wenqing, what do you know? The Ai family is just avoiding the edge temporarily. If the Ai family can help the emperor to the throne, he can pull her down!"

Shen Wenqing smiled mockingly, with an expression of disbelief on her face, the Empress Dowager's face was very ugly, and she said sharply, "Shen Wenqing, I advise you and the Jiangnan gentry to submit to the Ai family as soon as possible, and the Ai family will give you the Shen family and the entire Jiangnan gentry a great favor." Prosperity and wealth, if you refuse to follow any longer, don’t blame the Ai family for being ruthless, let’s take you, Shen Wenqing, as a sacrificial flag first!”

Shen Wenqing's face turned pale, she pursed her lips, but said nothing.

Seeing him like this, the Empress Dowager snorted disdainfully in her heart, she was indeed a useless literati, she was frightened by a few words, no wonder the emperor looked down on him.

However, despite the disdain in her heart, the Empress Dowager still showed a gentle smile, "You don't have to be afraid, as long as you surrender with the Jiangnan nobles, the Ai family will not treat you badly."

Shen Wenqing hesitated before saying, "Even if the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River surrendered to the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother dares to say that she can win Her Majesty? After all, Her Majesty now completely controls the power in the court, and no one can shake her authority..."

"Those so-called powers are false, military power is real!"

Shen Wenqing's expression changed, "What military power?"

The Empress Dowager's complexion changed, she knew she had made a mistake, but since Shen Wenqing heard about it, she didn't intend to hide it anymore, "If you don't believe the Ai family, you don't know that the person who rescued the Ai family was Zhong Mo. understood."

Shen Wenqing's heart moved, but she said calmly, "So what if it was him? He only rescued the Queen Mother because of her kindness in the past. I don't believe that he will betray the Great Zhou for the Queen Mother." .”

The queen mother glanced at Shen Wenqing and said disdainfully, "Ignorant child, what do you know?"

Shen Wenqing still wanted to test a few more words, but the queen mother had already become vigilant, stopped talking, turned and went out.

Looking at the empty doorway, Shen Wenqing felt a turmoil in his heart. Judging from the Queen Mother's tone and demeanor, the Queen Mother was very sure of instigating Zhong Mo's rebellion.

The Empress Dowager is not a random person, Zhong Mo has one hundred thousand Zhong family troops in his hands, if Zhong Mo betrays Da Zhou, Da Zhou will be in dire straits again.

How to do?
Shen Wenqing was anxious like an ant on a hot pot, how should he pass the news to the hidden guard?
Ever since they came to the northern border, Zhong Mo's people had surrounded the other courtyard with iron walls and employed many experts to guard it. The dark guards couldn't get close to the other courtyard at all, let alone communicate with him.

Just when Shen Wenqing was in a state of desperation, a beautiful and exquisite maid came in with a tea tray, "My lord, this is your soothing soup, drink it and rest."

The so-called Anshen Decoction contained drowsy drugs, which made Shen Wenqing drowsy every time.

Shen Wenqing stared at the servant girl intently, his eyes were always as gentle as water, looking gentle and affectionate, the maidservant's cheeks were flushed by him, and she asked shyly, "My lord has been staring at the servant girl, there is something dirty on the servant girl's face."

"Well, there is."

The maid was just asking casually, but she didn't expect it to be true, so she quickly wiped her face.

"Let me do it."

Shen Wenqing said softly, and gently wiped the maidservant's chin with her soft and warm fingertips. After wiping for a while, she smiled slightly and said, "I was wrong. It turned out to be a beauty mole, not something dirty."

The servant girl's face turned red, Shen Wenqing didn't let go of the maidservant's fingers, but instead reached up to the maidservant's slender waist with the other hand, and grabbed her hard, the maidservant bumped into his chest with a bang, and her cheeks were blushing. , the voice was trembling too, "Young master, you can't..."

"No...then forget it, it's Wen Qing who is being abrupt."

Shen Wenqing let go immediately.

He let it go so simply, the maid could not help but feel lost.

"You step back, the night is getting dark, you should also rest, you must be tired after serving me all day."

Shen Wenqing lightly issued the order to evict the guest, but the maid did not leave.

Shen Wenqing pretended not to see the struggling look on her face, and calmly took the Anshen soup, just about to drink it, but gave up, put it on the table, and sighed faintly, "It's also my fault that I have already married a wife. If I can't give you the title of wife, how can I let you follow me and be a concubine?"

The maidservant's eyes lit up, and her face showed surprise. Shen Wenqing took all the changes in her expression into her eyes, sneered in her heart, but continued to show sadness and self-blame on her face, "Lingxiu, you step back, since I came You have been serving me with all your heart and soul. I am very grateful, but I can’t repay you. When you find a good husband and son-in-law, I will give you a valuable dowry.”

"It's just that I feel sad. You are such a good girl, but I can only watch from a distance, and I can't get close to you. My heart is about to break."

The more Shen Wenqing spoke, the brighter the servant girl's eyes became.

When it came to the end, Shen Wenqing's eyes turned red as soon as she said it, and the servant girl was obviously touched.

Since the time when she used the beauty trick to separate Li Qing and her confidant maid, this is the second time Shen Wenqing used this trick, and she used it more skillfully than the last time.

Soon, under Shen Wenqing's rhetoric and tenderness, the servant girl was defeated, and she fell into Shen Wenqing's arms half-pushed. Shen Wenqing desperately resisted the urge to push her away, picked her up, and walked to the bed... …

Shen Wenqing used a beauty trick, and someone on the other side used a beauty trick.

After the Queen Mother returned to her room, she first took a bath and changed her clothes carefully. She rubbed on her body the scented milk that made her skin more delicate and lustrous, and then carefully painted on her makeup. The delicate and crystal clear powder concealed the fine wrinkles at the corners of her eyes , making her face ten years younger all of a sudden.

She deliberately adjusted the lights in the room, so that under the soft light, her face became more youthful and delicate, like a peach blossom, it would not be an exaggeration to say that she was seventeen or eighteen years old.

After doing all this, she found a dress from the bottom of the closet.

That dress looked like it was seventeen or eighteen years old. It was worn by a newly married woman. The color was bright and the pattern was delicate, but it was more gorgeous and dignified, but the style was a bit old, as if it was more than 20 years ago. Popular styles.

The Queen Mother slowly took off her dress and put on this old dress. She looked at herself in the bronze mirror, she was charming, delicate and charming, no different from the person in her memory, the Queen Mother After watching for a while, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, revealing a charming and charming smile.

In just a moment, the corners of her mouth drooped, and she looked at the woman in the bronze mirror who suddenly looked younger in her twenties, her eyes were as cold as frost.

Soon, the coldness in her eyes faded, and the corners of her mouth lifted, revealing a smile that was determined to win, and she was desperate.

When Zhong Mo stepped into the room, he saw the empress dowager reclining on the beauty couch reading a book, her skin was as snowy as snow, her face was like a peach blossom, and her head was full of blue hair as a pillow behind her head.

At that moment, he saw the person he met at the beginning of the year, and couldn't help muttering, "Yun Lan, is that you?"

(End of this chapter)