Queen's Development

Chapter 149
At this time, the sky had just dawned, the sky was dark blue and blue, dotted with a few stars, the eastern sky had already turned pale, and the cold air permeated the sky.

At this time, the gate of the palace had not yet opened, and the ministers who had arrived earlier gathered in small groups to talk.

Lin Jia walked up to Han Li, smiled and saluted, "The student has seen the teacher!"

Han Li received the gift sent by Lin Jia last night, but he hadn't seen him in person yet. He was very happy to see him now, and said, "Ajia, you have missed a lot of homework, and you have to start tomorrow morning. Attend class!"

Seeing the joy in the teacher's eyes, Lin Jia replied "yes" respectfully.

Not far away, Prime Minister Yu Yizhou and Hubu Shangshu Han Chaozong were standing side by side, talking to several officials who came forward to talk.

While they were talking, they quietly looked at Lin Jia who was chatting with Han Li, and found that Lin Jia had changed a lot now. Although she still had long phoenix eyes and a tall figure, her body seemed to be stronger than before. , looks more and more beautiful.

Seeing Lin Jia like this, Yu Yizhou and Han Chaozong were very satisfied. They looked at each other and smiled, and both had thoughts in their hearts - if Lin Jia could be promoted to a higher level and her position was more stable, she could be engaged!

Yu Yizhou and Han Chaozong have been good friends and confidants since they were teenagers, and they are also firm political allies. Zhou's daughter can be the crown princess, while Han Chaozong's daughter can be the crown prince Liangdi.

Of course, these words are not enough for outsiders, the two just looked at each other and smiled, everything was kept silent.

The bells and drums for the court had already sounded, the gates of the palace were all opened, and the palace gates were wide open, and the officials who came to attend the temporary court meeting filed in in order.

After the court meeting began, many ministers of civil and military affairs, Lin Jia, who had just returned from the imperial edict, found that his skin was as white as jade, his eyebrows were strong and his eyes were clear, and his complexion was not bad, not as sick as last spring.

Han Qing stood in the ranks of civil servants, with a smile on Lin Jia's eyes, there was no wave in his eyes, but there was already a wave of waves in his heart - how can he kill Lin Jia?

He looked away and looked at Emperor Yongtai who was sitting on the throne, and found that Emperor Yongtai had been looking at Lin Jia with joy in his eyes.

This fact made Han Qing even more vigilant. He lowered his eyes and silently thought of a way to hit him with one blow.

Lin Jiali stood in the ranks of generals, silently thinking about what he would say when he went to Yutang Hall after the court was over.

Now the former privy envoy Wang Yizhen has retired, and Princess Li's elder brother Li Qingze has been transferred to Beijing to serve as the privy envoy.

Lin Jia's 14 troops were stationed in the suburbs of Beijing, and the defense of the capital was already in his hands. However, Lin Jia was not satisfied. He had to get the post of deputy privy envoy before Li Qingze took office, so as to compete with Li Qingze.

Emperor Yongtai sat down on the throne, looked down condescendingly, looking for Lin Jia's figure.

At a glance, he saw Lin Jiali standing in the ranks of generals, with his head lowered as if he was thinking about something.

Seeing Lin Jia, Emperor Yongtai was very happy.

In fact, Lin Jia had already visited Yutang Hall yesterday afternoon, but Emperor Yongtai was still very happy to see Lin Jia at this time.

Looking at Lin Jia's handsome and tall figure, Emperor Yongtai couldn't help smiling, feeling a kind of joy in his heart that "my family has a newborn son": Ajia really looks like when I was young!

After the court meeting ended, Lin Jia was slowly leaving with the crowd when he saw the eunuch Ding Gonggong trotting over, holding him back with a smile on his face: "My lord, Your Majesty announces you to go to Yutang Hall!"

Lin Jia said "Oh" and followed Eunuch Ding.

The ministers looked back and found that Emperor Yongtai was standing in front of him, looking at Lin Jia with eyes almost identical to those of Lin Jia.

Seeing this, the ministers have different thoughts, some are jealous of Lin Jia being favored, some understand that Emperor Yongtai's preferred heir is Lin Jia, some start planning how to curry favor with Lin Jia, and some people have heightened their vigilance, thinking about how to bring down Lin Jia... …

Everyone had different thoughts and slowly retreated.

After returning to Yutang Hall, Emperor Yongtai knew that Lin Jia probably didn't have much breakfast, so he ordered Eunuch Ding: "Ding Dang, ask someone to prepare a few of Ajia's favorite breakfasts!"

Ding Dang smiled and answered "yes" and stepped back, ready to watch people prepare breakfast in person.

After the breakfast was delivered, although Emperor Yongtai was not hungry, he still ate some with Lin Jia.

With Lin Jia, he didn't want to abide by the rules of "eating without talking". He picked up the golden cake, separated it with a porcelain knife, spread some sauce on it, put a piece of choy sum that could be eaten raw, and added some The roasted venison was handed over to Lin Jia—Lin Jia was a picky eater since he was a child, and he had received a letter from Jiang at that time, so he knew it clearly—and said: "Ajia, you must have a good breakfast. That’s how you get the energy to work!”

Lin Jia actually had no appetite, but the emperor had a gift that he couldn't refuse, so he took it and started eating slowly.

He was very elegant when eating, Emperor Yongtai looked at it for a while, then thought of the Jiang family who had passed away long ago, feeling inexplicably sad in his heart.

Lin Jia found that Emperor Yongtai was looking at him, so he looked back.

When he found that Emperor Yongtai's eyes were wet, Lin Jia couldn't help but blinked. His eyelashes were thick and long, which made the twinkling phoenix eyes clearer.

He took out the cleansing veil that Yuzhi had prepared for him from his sleeve pocket, and handed it to Emperor Yongtai.

Seeing this, Emperor Yongtai took the veil handed over by Lin Jia without hesitation, wiped his eyes, and said, "Ajia, you have worked so hard to travel back and forth this time, take good care of yourself these few days, I Start thinking about your marriage...how about holding a flower party for you in the palace, inviting all the noble ladies in the capital, and you choose your wife yourself?"

He was talking, but he was sighing in his heart: My Ajia was born so well, even if the main wife is not beautiful enough, I still have to choose a few beautiful concubines, so that I can be named Liangdi in the future...

Lin Jia heard this, and said after a long while: "Uncle Huang, I am not in good health yet, I will take care of him for another year, and we can talk about marriage after the coronation ceremony!"

When Emperor Yongtai heard this, he immediately became nervous: "Is it uncomfortable there? I declare that the imperial doctor will come over!"

Lin Jia couldn't help laughing, and said: "Mr. Liu, the famous doctor in my family, didn't I tell Uncle Huang? It's enough to have him!"

Emperor Yongtai felt that what Lin Jia said was reasonable, so he stopped mentioning the matter and asked Lin Jia, "When will your uncle come to Beijing?"

Before Lin Jia entered Beijing, Emperor Yongtai transferred Lin Jia's eldest uncle Jiang Shulin to Liaozhou, a military town on the border between the Northeast and Liao Kingdom, as the governor. His maternal grandfather Jiang Yuntian and second uncle Jiang Shuzhen also took the whole family to Liaozhou.

The purpose of Emperor Yongtai's doing this was to cultivate Jiang Shulin's power and make Jiang Shulin Lin Jia's strong backing.

Now that Lin Jia's power is growing, Emperor Yongtai has issued an order to transfer Jiang Shulin to Beijing, preparing to let Jiang Shulin take up the post of minister of the Ministry of War, so as to support Lin Jia.

Lin Jia took a sip of the milk soup, and then said: "Liaozhou is a long way from the capital, uncle will arrive in the capital in about a year or so!"

Seeing that Lin Jia liked to drink milk soup, Emperor Yongtai smiled and looked at it.

After breakfast for a while, seeing that the sun was shining today, Emperor Yongtai took Lin Jia out for a walk.

Eunuch Ding followed behind with two trusted eunuchs.

Walking to the edge of Yiqing Lake, seeing the eunuchs following from afar, Lin Jia asked Emperor Yongtai, "Li Qingze is going to be the privy envoy?"

Emperor Yongtai nodded, and said: "The Li family is now united with the Zhu family in the northwest..."

He knew that Lin Jianeng could understand, so he didn't say much.

Lin Jia thought for a while, and said confidently: "Uncle Huang, then let me be the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, and I will restrain him!"

Emperor Yongtai smiled instead of anger, and looked at Lin Jia with a smile: "Li Qingze is old and cunning, I'm afraid you can't beat him!"

Lin Jia laughed.

He bent down to pick up a white pebble and threw it into Yiqing Lake.

Seeing the snow-white splashes, Lin Jia looked at Emperor Zheng'an with bright eyes: "Uncle Emperor, you have entrusted me with the right to guard the capital. No matter how thoughtful Li Qingze is, I have soldiers! It's reasonable for a scholar to meet soldiers." I can't tell. No matter how thoughtful he is, I don't care, just be simple and rude!"

Seeing that Lin Jia was triumphant and obviously very childish, Emperor Yongtai couldn't help laughing, and said: "Let me think again!"

Lin Jia let out a "hmm", looked up at Emperor Yongtai, and said with great interest: "Uncle Huang, walk with me along Yiqing Lake for two laps!"

Yuzhi has been forcing him to take a walk for the past few years. Lin Jia found that proper walking is very useful for strengthening his physique, so now he really loves walking and plans to urge Emperor Yongtai to take a walk.

Emperor Yongtai knew that Lin Jia wanted him to move more, so he readily agreed and took Lin Jia for a walk along Yiqing Lake.

Seeing that it was almost noon, Emperor Yongtai took Lin Jia back to Yutang Palace and ordered someone to come over to Empress Xuan.

Surrounded by all the court ladies and officials, Empress Zhu came to Yutang Hall in a chariot, and had lunch with Emperor Yongtai and Lin Jia.

After lunch, Empress Zhu and Emperor Yongtai sat in the Dong Nuan Pavilion and chatted.

Ever since Xie Yuchan told her that Han Qing's sweetheart was Lin Jia's concubine Yushi, Empress Zhu planned to meet this Yushi before thinking about how to kill her.

After chatting for a while, Empress Zhu said with a smile: "Ajia, I heard that you have a concubine named Yu who is very fond of you. I am also very curious!"

Emperor Yongtai had heard Lin Jia mention the concubine surnamed Yu earlier, saying that he was a savior and had been in trouble together, so he said with a smile: "Mr. Yu is Ajia's savior. Ajia is very good to Mr. Yu. A good boy who values ​​love and righteousness!"

Empress Zhu's smile deepened, but there was no smile in her eyes: 19 years old, are you still a child?Who has a 19-year-old?Your Majesty is really eccentric!

Anger was raging in her heart, but her face became more and more amiable: "Since he is someone Ajia likes, then bring him into the palace and let Bengong take a look!"

Lin Jia's smile was gentle and her eyes were clear: "Madam, what a coincidence, Mrs. Yu has been feeling unwell recently, and I'm afraid that she will overwhelm her with her illness... Let's do this, when she recovers, I will definitely bring her into the palace to kowtow to your mother! "

Seeing Lin Jia protecting Yu Shi so much, Empress Zhu wondered: Who is this evil Yu Shi? No matter whether it is Lin Jia or Han Qing, everyone is devoted to her... No, we must see each other!
When Lin Jia returned to the mansion, it was already evening.

He didn't go back to listen to Songyuan directly, but went to the study outside.

Hao Chunping, the treasurer of Yibao Building, was waiting in the guest room of the study with four of his cronies. Seeing Lin Jia's return, he hurriedly got up to greet her.

Lin Jia waved her hands and led Hao Chunping and the others into the study.

Ah Qing served Lin Jia and Hao Chunping tea, and then retreated respectfully, and stood guard with Ah Chi in the porch.

Lin Jia picked up the teacup and took a sip, then put down the teacup and looked at Hao Chunping: "I want to get something about Han Qing."

Hao Chunping smiled slightly: "My lord, are you the queen's favorite minister and the head of the House of Internal Affairs, Lord Han Qinghan?"

Lin Jia nodded.

Hao Chunping laughed, with a mysterious look on his face: "My lord, Yibaolou has already got the handle of Mr. Han!"

When Lin Jia heard this, her phoenix eyes looked over like lightning.

Seeing this, Hao Chunping hurried to the desk and said a few words in a low voice.

The more Lin Jia listened, the more surprised she became——Han Qing is Empress Zhu's lover!He knocked down two exactly at once!
He lowered his eyes, thought for a long time before looking at Hao Chunping: "Have you placed anyone in the palace?"

Hao Chunping said respectfully: "My lord, my subordinates always arrange people in the palace, but their status is a bit low... For example, in the Empress's Funing Palace, the people assigned by my subordinates are just a handy eunuch."

Lin Jia thought for a while, then looked at Hao Chunping with deep phoenix eyes: "I want to know the trajectory of Han Qing's meeting with Empress Zhu."

Hao Chunping thought for a while, and said, "My lord, please give this subordinate a month!"

Lin Jia said softly: "Okay!"

He added: "No matter how much time is spent and how much manpower is invested, I will bring Empress Zhu and Han Qing down!"

Hao Chunping looked excited, and the four cronies he brought were also a little moved - the future emperor wanted to treat them as cronies!
Thinking of this, Hao Chunping and his four cronies knelt down together: "Yibaolou is at the master's disposal!"

After Hao Chunping left, Lin Jia ordered someone to call Li Rui.

At this time, in Tingsongyuan, Yuzhi was still reading the mansion newspaper.

She had already turned to the recent mansion newspaper, and when she saw the decree for Xuan Linjia's uncle Jiang Shulin to enter the capital, she couldn't help being surprised and delighted. The surprise was that Jiang Shulin was announced by the emperor to enter the capital, but there was no mention of a new appointment; The most important thing is that with Jiang Shulin in the court, Lin Jia will get a lot of help.

Yuzhi was flipping through the mansion newspaper, when Han Lin walked over and handed a target mirror with a smile: "Auntie, Your Excellency will be back soon, would you like to see your makeup?"

Yuzhi took the target mirror and looked at it, and couldn't help laughing.

In the morning, in order to pretend to be sick in front of Sydney, so as not to meet Princess Li, she specially put a thin layer of violet powder on her lips to make herself look sick.

She had finished reading these mansion newspapers, and was about to think about it, so she stood up with a smile and said, "Let's go, I'll go wash and dress again!"

Han Lin agreed with a smile, and followed Yuzhi out.

(End of this chapter)